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1. On my first trip to London, I bumped into Mel Brooks and Ann Bancroft at the Royal Observatory. The next day, I bumped into Jack Gilford in Harrod’s.

   My favorite college class was probably “The History of Rock and Roll,” although I also enjoyed “The History of Inner Asia Before the Mongol Conquest.”

   My company had a nice viewing party or three when my Jeopardy! shows aired.

   posted by Steven on 2-5-2010 at 12:13 pm

2. #4: ’010 (O-Ten) Stephen Colbert says it and I found myself saying it too.

   posted by Jill on 2-5-2010 at 12:19 pm

3. 1. never bumped into someone famous and probably wouldn’t notice if I did
   2. Film snalysis in high school, we watched tons of movies and critiqued them. Plus, I learned alot about the films and film-making.
   3. I went to a Lost party on Tues. when the last season started
   4. 2 thousand and ten

   posted by Hermoine on 2-5-2010 at 12:20 pm

4. 1- Wasn’t weird but the MOST memorable have been the David Sedaris shows I have gone to for the past 4 years straight.

   2- I’m completing my Masters right now and my career counseling class was THE best. Where else would you learn (from people who do this everyday), how to write a cover letter, negotiate salary etc.

   3- Nope

   4- Twenty ten

   posted by Pink Coat on 2-5-2010 at 12:20 pm

5. I delivered a pizza to Red Foxx many years ago.

   posted by TerryinDTW on 2-5-2010 at 12:24 pm

6. I’ve seen lots of celebrities when covering the Kentucky Derby, but the worst thing I saw was Taylor Dayne. She had on low-rise jeans, and while she sat at her table, it was obvious she had on no underwear. She had about 6 inches of butt crack hanging out. Ick.

   My favorite college class was Plagues and Peoples. It was all about how infectious disease affected history. I vaguely remember writing a term paper on cholera. Sounds gross, but it was really cool.

   posted by Lisa on 2-5-2010 at 12:25 pm

7. 1. I have a few: Saw Jurassic Park 3 right after Bruce Springstein, his wife and a bunch of kids. Saw Morray Povich at a local Best Buy. Last, not a real sighting yet, but my daughter is dating the son of an 80′s glam rock star.

   2. In college, Arthur and his knights – Evrything about King Arthur including Monty Pyton’s Holy Grail.

   3. I used to hold BIG Super Bowl Parties.. TV’s in every room including the bathroom. I’ve also help Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony Parties (maybe one this year too) with the official food of the Winter Olympics — Fondue!

   4. Twenty ten…. 1910 was Nineteen Ten , right?

   posted by NJ_Jen on 2-5-2010 at 12:27 pm

8. 1.I saw Michael Jordan at a Victoria Secret and I once shared an Elevator ride with Chris Chelios. I also got to cook food for Kirby Puckett. We kept the kitchen open late for him.

   3. We used to throw massive NFL draft parties, basically just a reason to party with friends. They were always big and messy.

   4. Maybe I’m an idiot but I say oh-ten

   posted by JFRANKO on 2-5-2010 at 12:31 pm

9. 1. Earl Holliman in a local mexican resturant, and he was a very gracious man.
   2.H.S.-History of the Civil War

   3.total eclipse of the moon

   4. two ten

   posted by MRMAC on 2-5-2010 at 12:34 pm

10. 1. When I was 18 I was at the Gurnee Mills Outlet Mall between Chicago and Milwaukee and I was in the Nike store. Suddenly I heard someone say Missy Elliott was in the store. I couldn’t believe it. I was such a fan of hers and had just bought her Suppa Duppa Fly album. She headed out of the store and I followed and said hi to her and Timbaland and she signed an autograph for me addressed to me personally. I was so excited. I can’t even put it into words.

    2. I would say Nutritional Science 101. I will never forget that class. I got an A in it and the professor always said: “The perfect food are legumes”.

    3. Last weekend I had some friends over to watch “The American Movie”.It’s an independent movie that came out several years ago about a guy from Milwaukee who is determined to make a movie called Northwestern. It is such a cult film to me. We laughed the entire movie. You gotta hand it to Mike in that movie, because he really is hysterical.

    4. I say two thousand ten.

    posted by Emma on 2-5-2010 at 12:44 pm

11. #1: My wife and I were having breakfast at Eureka, the European-style restaurant in the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, in 2000. I noticed she kept looking over my shoulder and finally said, “What?”

    “That guy really looks like Edward Norton,” she says.

    I casually glance over my shoulder.

    “That *is* Edward Norton!”

    The funny thing is, “Keeping the Faith” was the in-flight movie on our way to Japan.

    #4. We said “Two thousand nine,” so I say “Two thousand ten.” Nine years of inertia. Unless someone’s passionate about saying it that way. Then I switch to Twenty-Ten just to tweak them.

    posted by Seth on 2-5-2010 at 12:45 pm

12. 1. Went to pick up a friend at LAX and couldn’t help notice one guy walking out. The progression went like, “That guy’s really tall, he’s wearing two cowboy hats – that’s Chuck Connors.”

    2. Japanese

    3. I’ve gathered with other fans for the ArenaBowl

    4. Twenty ten

    posted by PartiallyDeflected on 2-5-2010 at 12:45 pm

13. 1. In 1979, I went to Studio 54 and saw a totally bombed David Brenner sitting on a couch.

    2. Favorite college course: “Engineering for Non-Engineers”. It was a non-mathematical review of engineering theories, in which we played with breadboards and learned how diodes worked and such. I took it because I was dating an Engineering major and needed to be able to understand his “language”!

    posted by Welmoed Sisson on 2-5-2010 at 12:47 pm

14. 1. I met John Waters at a guest lecture he was giving

    2. HERstory – early twentieth century women.

    3. In college we would have giant “Flavor of Love” viewing parties

    4. Twenty Ten and I hate myself for it.

    posted by Heather on 2-5-2010 at 12:50 pm

15. 1)I’m also from Philadelphia, and, though I haven’t seen Tony Danza yet, I did (quite literally) bump into Danny Bonaduce as I was leaving my apartment on South St. and he was making his way toward the “Pimp my Tee” shop.

    2)My freshman seminar on Utopian Worlds at Bryn Mawr College still stands out in my mind as one of the best.

    3)One of my friends held a large hotel room party for the Vice-Presidential Debates of 2008.

    4)Twenty-Ten

    posted by Megan on 2-5-2010 at 12:53 pm

16. 2. My favorite college class has to be The Politics of Bruce Springsteen. Followed closely by Fighting Words: History and Story.

    3. My friend and I have LOST parties. But I don’t think that that is so unusual.

    4. Twenty Ten

    posted by Kristine on 2-5-2010 at 12:53 pm

17. 3. My friends and I had a How I met your Mother party. We each played a member of the cast. And it was complete with laser tag, beer drinking, brunch and of course our Ted getting a tramp stamp tatoo (for the night anyway).

    posted by fesc42 on 2-5-2010 at 12:54 pm

18. 1. @ JFRANKO – I made a pizza for Frank Viola once just before he was traded to the Mets.

    But the weirdest was U of Minn baskeball players Townsend Orr and Voshon Lenard, who played 11 yrs in the NBA, at a TWolves game. They sat in front of us, rooting for the Pistons (they’re from MI), and when my buddy and I stood up to cheer and clap, Lenard would reach over his head w/ his left arm and play w/ Orr’s hair. Orr would turn to his right thinking my buddy was touching his head, and shoot him a dirty look. My buddy didn’t see it the first time, but he did the 2nd and played it cool. Lenard did it a third time and this time I pinned Lenard’s arm to his head so Orr could see. Lenard said “Why you gotta play me like that?” and I told him he went to the well too many times.

    2. Military History. I wanted to learn about the great battles and great generals of history. On the first day, the prof said “if you wanted to learn about the great generals, this class probably isn’t for you.” I stuck it out and it was better than what I had hoped it would be.

    4. I say “two-thousand ten”, but seeing the simplicity of “twenty ten” I’ll probably try to switch.

    posted by Big Jonny on 2-5-2010 at 12:54 pm

19. I met James Hetfield at club in San Francisco. He wanted to worship my boots. I didn’t know who he was until after we left – he looked vaguely familiar, but I thought he was just a clubber I’d seen around.

    We had a party for election day 2000.

    I say “ten” unless I’m referring to the whole thing, then I say “twenty-ten”.

    posted by Kiya on 2-5-2010 at 12:55 pm

20. 1. I used to play soccer and one of my favorite players of all time sat next to me at the Air Force/ Rapids charity game. It was the coolest thing of my young life, he took pictures with us and let us wear his sunglasses!

    2. It was my cultural anthropology class in college, I think everyone should take at least one! It’s so eye-opening, plus my prof was hilarious, like he would say something that was shocking to us and then he’d just grin at all of us.

    3. do TGIF parties count?

    4. def twenty-ten, everything else just sounds weird.

    posted by tess on 2-5-2010 at 12:55 pm

21. 1. I watched Kirstie Alley get thrown out of the Bella Union (Jacksonville, Oregon) in a drunken stupor. She was slapping waitress’ asses and yelling and complaining about everything.

    1b. I saw Tom Selek (Also in Jacksonville, Oregon) as the Farmer’s Market buying strawberries. He was haggling with the vendor because some of the strawberries were under-ripe. He asked me my opinion about the quality of the strawberries and I told him that I though a strawberry is good as long as its shiny and doesn’t have bird bites. He giggled and complimented me on my 1968 VW Bus.

    I’m not even joking. My Mom was there at the Bella Union, and my best friend Lea was sitting in the Bus waiting. Witnesses.

    posted by Kate on 2-5-2010 at 12:56 pm

22. I’m always playing “Celebrity Lookalike”, complete with heavy snickering with my buddies. One day we were walking down a street when I go, loudly: “Hey man, that looks like Ben Kingsley”, at which point, Ben Kingsley turns around and GLARES at me. I’ve seen a surprising amount of celebs when I worked at a movie theatre in Vancouver. My most recent celeb greet though, was, my daughter was the flower girl at a relative of Michael J. Fox’s wedding. I had just burst a blood vessel in my eye, and I’m standing there, hovering over him, with this gaping bloody eye, as he tells me how beautiful my daughter is (she’s a stunner) I can imagine him later telling Tracy Pollan, “That poor, beautiful child – having to put up with that gigantic crazed woman….”

    posted by Mare on 2-5-2010 at 12:57 pm

23. 1. The celebrity actually saw ME. I was in the catering tent at a concert and tried smoked salmon for the first time. I hated it and spit it out. Someone started laughing at me from 3 tables away. Mr Chesney in warmups and a baseball cap. I was mortified. I had no idea he was there.

    2. The History of Rock-n-Soul-it was the year Johnny Cash passed, so the whole semester was pretty much dedicated to him. OR Abnormal Psych.

    3. I once attended a party for the season Premier of Nip/Tuck

    4. Twenty-Ten

    posted by Jenner on 2-5-2010 at 12:57 pm

24. My celebrity run-in isn’t necessarily weird, but it is cool.

    During the summer of 1999, I worked as a front gate supervisor at Six Flags – St. Louis. That was the same year a water park opened inside the park. The lines to get into the water park were very, very long, and people often had to wait for up to two hours just to be let inside. At the time, the exit line used the same path as the entrance, divided only by stanchions and rope. Anyway, Yakov Smirnoff came up to visit the park with his kids one day. Because he was a celebrity, he got VIP treatment and access to the park. His park guide, an HR employee who rarely spent more than a couple minutes in the park, with guests, told me to bring him and his kids into the water park using the exit. I told them I couldn’t do that, because if the thousand or so people waiting to get into the water park in 90+ degree heat saw me giving special treatment to anyone (because we’d have to walk in front of them all) a riot would most likely break out. The HR person started to argue with me but Yakov cut in and said, “no, please, it’s okay — we should stand in line like everyone else. When I was a kid, I had to stand in line for bread. I want my kids to have some sort of an idea what that was like.”

    They stood in line for probably about an hour and a half, spent some time in the water park, and on his way out that evening, he found me and thanked me for not treating him and his family any differently.

    posted by Bob on 2-5-2010 at 1:04 pm

25. 2. Amazingly, I loved AP Economics in high school. I almost became an economics major because of it, but changed my mind and stuck with engineering instead. I think it was mostly my teacher. A good teacher can make all the difference.

    4. I say twenty-ten.

    posted by Sally on 2-5-2010 at 1:06 pm

26. 1. In LAX, Hubby and I saw Mario Batali and his family checking in. They all wear bright orange crocs, and the mom was trying to explain to her complaining kids “Sometimes we have to travel like normal people.” We giggled a bit.

    2. Rehabilitation Engineering: I got to make a soccer ball kicking wheelchair attachment for a girl with MS. The class was fun and rewarding.

    3. Last year for the Super Bowl, we played Settlers of Catan with the game on in the backgroud. We took a break to watch the puppy-kitten half time show on animal planet, though.

    4. two thousand ten slips out despite my best efforts, but I know I should say twenty ten. I’m sure I’ll make the switch by twenty twenty, but I doubt I’ll be able to suppress the Barbara Walters impression that year.

    posted by AGray on 2-5-2010 at 1:07 pm

27. 1. I rang up a woman at the gift store where I worked in Poughkeepsie NY. My boss was actually the one who assisted her so I didn’t really speak to her or even take a close look, although I did notice she had an unusual voice. It wasn’t until after she left that my boss told it was Sally Jesse Raphael. She bought a decorative flag, in case anyone was wondering.

    2.I took a class on the History of New York City, which required two separate walking tours of Manhattan. My professor seemed to know the obscure history of virtually every building. We brought along books of old NYC photos so we could compare old and new street views. Amazing class.

    posted by Mother Chat on 2-5-2010 at 1:07 pm

28. I can’t believe no one mentioned Sex Ed as their favorite college class. I took this while an undergrad at VT. Obviously I knew about sex, I just wanted the easy A (which it wasn’t, but an A regardless). I will never forget the lecturer showing us a horrible case of male genital warts and saying to the class, “now ladies, do not believe anyone who tells you this is a ‘French Tickler.’” Words to live by.

    posted by Joel on 2-5-2010 at 1:08 pm

29. 1.) I was in NYC one night with a friend of mine and were just walking around and I noticed Matt Damon going for a jog down the street. My friend was so excited that she chased after him and he took off sprinting. We also once walked through Rosie O’Donnell’s cavalcade as she was coming out of NBC. No one noticed the crowd until we bumped into her.
    2.) Film Appreciation in high school… I easily got an A because I supplied every movie we watched.
    3.) A few of us used to get together for ‘To Catch a Predator’ marathons.
    4.) Twenty ten… 1999 was ‘nineteen ninety nine’ not ‘nineteen hundred ninety nine’. Just easier.

    posted by Katie on 2-5-2010 at 1:08 pm

30. 1. While in Disneyworld with friends, we saw some famous ex-wrestler. I did not know who he was at the time, and now, 5 years later, I can’t even remember his name.

    2. U.S. Foreign Policy, 1776-1950. It was there I first read, “Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars”. I loved the discussions in that class.

    3. LOST parties every week for the past few years. Sadly, I’ve moved and have yet to find LOST fanatics here.

    4. Twenty-Ten

    posted by Keri on 2-5-2010 at 1:09 pm

31. #2 Favorite college course was “Rocks for Jocks” even though I was just fulfilling a general requirement. Normally science classes put me to sleep, but Rocks for Jocks was great!

    #4 I guess I usually say Two Thousand Ten, but how often do actually have to say it? Normally I just have to write it.

    posted by Lori on 2-5-2010 at 1:11 pm

32. 1) Vanilla Ice came to my garage sale. No joke!

    2) Abnormal Psychology was such an interesting class

    3) Sadly no exciting parties :o(

    4) Twenty Ten

    posted by Kevin on 2-5-2010 at 1:19 pm

33. I had an awesome, but a little weird, celebrity sighting once.

    I went to see Avenue Q in NYC with my parents several years ago. We’d gotten to the theater a bit late-still before the show, but too late to NOT have to wait in a long bathroom line. I noticed that several women were waiting in line outside the men’s room, using stalls as they became available, so I got gutsy and joined the line. The door was open but obviously nothing could be seen.

    A few minutes later, David Hasselhoff walks by and heads into the bathroom. Most of the women got excited, but no one bothered him. One woman behind me said, once he’d gone inside, “That just made my night!”

    And from the bathroom, we hear him say “It made mine too, ladies!”

    posted by Kate on 2-5-2010 at 1:20 pm

34. 1) -I saw Mandy Patinkin at FAO Schwarz. He was shopping with a child and I didn’t want to disturb him, so I walked away about 30 seconds before the group I was with walked up to him and had him say, “Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya…”

    -I rang up Kenny Loggins at the Santa Barbara Circuit City (RIP), and asked for his ID. He was very confused. I could almost hear him thinking, “but I’m KENNY LOGGINS.”

    -On Monday I met Jason Segel (How I Met Your Mother, Forgetting Sarah Marshall) at the Burbank airport. Nice guy.

    posted by Adam on 2-5-2010 at 1:20 pm

35. 1. Got hit on by Andy Dick at the 2000 X-Games. When he found out my friend and I were only 17 he said “come back next year!” I was surprised by the lack of sleaziness :)

    2. Favorite college class was either Age of the Dinosaurs (seriously, how did anyone NOT get an A?) and Human Sexuality taught by Dr. Beaver, a divorced marriage counselor.

    4. Tho-thousand ten

    posted by Leah on 2-5-2010 at 1:21 pm

36. I went into a convenience store in New Jersey, near where I lived at the time, and there were a bunch of kids in there screwing around. When they finally finished messing with the girl at the counter and I was able to make my purchase, she asked me if I knew who they were. I thought she was going to call the police or something, and when I told her I had no idea who they were, she told me they were the Wu-Tang Clan. Now I’m in my late 30′s at the time and I seriously thought they were a local gang. My wife set me straight when I told her about it when I got home. Now…fast forward about 8 years, I’m in a I Hop in Gurnee, IL, just outside the gate to Six Flags and there’s a very loud group of people screwing around in the back of the restaurant. After about 15 minutes they leave and the waitress is getting their autographs, you guessed it, the Wu-Tang Clan. To this day, I still wouldn’t recognize them, but I am seriously thinking they are stalking me.

    posted by Dave on 2-5-2010 at 1:29 pm

37. 4. It’s twenty-ten. For me, this is the only “right” sounding way of saying it. Think about it – in the last century we didn’t refer to years as “one-thousand nine-hundred ninety-nine” did we?

    posted by Jaclyn McKewan on 2-5-2010 at 1:29 pm

38. 1. Never saw any celebrities living in Arlington, VA or Charlotte, NC. My sister, who lives in LA, though, seems to run into Jeremy Piven all the time.
    2. Medical Ethics (a 400 level class) when I was a freshman at George Mason U in 1987. How they let me sign up I don’t remember, but I DID get an A.
    3. Not a big party, just 3 of us, but my college roommates & I were temporarily homeless and living in a pop-up trailer/camper in a public park in Greensboro, NC when Star Trek: The Next Generation ended. We rented a cheap hotel room (I think it was the Motel 29) with all the cash we could scrape together for the multi-hour marathon and then the series finale in May of 1994. It was TOTALLY worth it!!!

    posted by carey on 2-5-2010 at 1:32 pm

39. 1. My husband and I had just watched the second Harold and Kumar movie in Terre Haute, IN, and went to a local steakhouse for dinner. I looked over and swore I saw John Mellencamp come in. Turns out he was meeting some family for dinner (he still lives in the same small town he grew up in, or near it anyway). He even posed for pics with some girls headed to prom after dinner. Very cool.

    3. I’ve hosted a few Project Runway get togethers at my place.

    4. I was saying two thousand ten, but I might have been swayed by the twenty ten arguments here.

    posted by Jamie on 2-5-2010 at 1:33 pm

40. I was on a date, having a picnic at the park, when I noticed my companion kept glancing over my shoulder. I gave him a curious look.

    “That guy feeding the ducks looks awfully familiar…” said my date.

    I turned to look, and laughed, “That’s because he’s John Wayne Bobbit.”

    Priceless.

    I have taken a lot of fun courses in college. My last semester before transferring to another school, I decided to fill up on classes that just appealed to me. So, I took Co-ed Self Defense, Marriage & The Family, Deviant Behavior, Sex, Sexuality & Gender, and Policy and Organization. I managed to write my final paper for all those classes on the same subject (transgender issues). That was a lot of fun!

    My friends and I would regularly get together for huge Colbert Report parties during the presidential election. Yes, we’re THAT nerdy. <3

    Twenty ten.

    posted by Lisa on 2-5-2010 at 1:37 pm

41. 15 or so years ago I sold beer at the St. Paul Saints stadium. Bill Murray-who at the time was part owner (I think) strolled up to my table. I saw him coming and got pretty excited. I served him his Summit with this huge, stupid looking “oh my god” grin on my face. He said nothing, however, he must have had a horrible cold because he completely sniffled. It was the longest, snottiest-sounding inhales I have ever heard. He then digustingly coughed (one of those total phlemy sounding coughs), smiled, and walked away. It was something I would expect only from Bill Murray…

    posted by Sar on 2-5-2010 at 1:40 pm

42. 1. Meredith Vieira at the D.C. airport. She signed a very odd book- Devil in White City. She also complimented me on being a teacher and she’s much shorter than I thought! I also saw Richard Kind walking around in Times Square, I said hi, but he didn’t say anything back.

    2. Believe or not, I loved my History of the Balkans class because I literally knew nothing about that area and now I feel like an expert.

    3. I’d always attend Nip/Tuck parties at a frat house in college

    4. Twenty Ten fo sho

    posted by Courtney on 2-5-2010 at 1:41 pm

43. 1. A couple of years ago, Steven Paige from Barenaked Ladies was busted for drugs a block from my apartment, then he decided to buy the house next door, weird…

    Also, I’m from the town that the Boxing Hall of Fame is in, so I’ve met tons of random celebrities that acted as Grand Marshall (Grandpa Munster, Paulie Walnuts, Danny Aiello, Tony Orlando, etc.) plus almost every famous boxer (excluding Mike Tyson).

    2. I was a Television, Radio and Film major in college, so I took a bunch of neat classes, my favorites being “Action and Violence in the Cinema – The Wild One – Resevoir Dogs” and “Television of the 80′s and 90′s – Hill Street Blues – The Sopranos.”

    3. I’ve never really held any odd viewing parties, but my friends and I did have kind of a party for the 4th season premiere of Alias a couple of years ago.

    4. I heard someone call it 20-X, and I kind of liked that!

    posted by Kristin on 2-5-2010 at 1:44 pm

44. 1. A few years ago, I was studying abroad and the group of us ran into Amy Smart in Oxford, England. I wouldn’t have realized/cared if one of my friends hadn’t happened to be a fan and spotted her from quite a distance away. She got a picture with her.

    4. I’ve been saying “two thousand _____” for the last 10 years, and I’m not going to stop now! :)

    posted by Robyn on 2-5-2010 at 1:45 pm

45. 1 – Due to my frequent visits to Comic-Con, I’ve met a few celebrities. The most memorable meeting I had, though, was when my brother and I were walking to our car, and someone tried to hock his CD to us. Politely I declined, then when my brother saw me snickering afterwards, explained that the guy was Corey Clark (the former American Idol contestant who claimed he slept with Paula Abdul).

    Another story was getting to meet Ray Park (Darth Maul)… when I was in line to actually meet Larry Hama (writer of the G.I. Joe comic book from the 1980s). Turned out they switched – not a bad tradeoff, I’d say!

    2 – In college, Mythology 101. I loved reading about Greek and Roman myths as a kid, and needless to say, I aced the class.

    3 – Not yet.

    4 – Twenty-ten.

    recaptcha: foreign bail

    posted by Steve from San Diego on 2-5-2010 at 1:48 pm

46. 1. I saw Lewis Black in a bathroom one time. LOL!

    posted by Dave on 2-5-2010 at 1:53 pm

47. When I was 6 or 7 we took a train from Albequerque, where I lived, to Michigan for my uncles wedding.

    On the way back I saw the dad from “Family Ties” on a payphone at the Albequerque trainstation while we waited for my dad to pick us up.

    That is literally the only time in my life I’ve seen a “celebrity” of any kind. Anywhere. Ever.

    - sean

    posted by Sean on 2-5-2010 at 2:11 pm

48. 1. I once asked Heather Matarazzo in NYC how to get to the Guggenheim. It was only after I walked away did I realize who it was.

    3. My friends and I used to have National Spelling Bee watching parties, which were also drinking games. (you know, every time a homeschooler spells correctly, take a drink, every time a kid with a crustache spells, take a drink. )

    posted by jen on 2-5-2010 at 2:11 pm

49. 1.) I was working with Habitat for Humanity a few years ago and we helped with the Jimmy and Roslyn Carter work project in Biloxi, MS. I ended up getting assigned to serving food in the mornings, so I served grits to the Carters. I also met Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood the same day.
    2.) I studied abroad in Florence, Italy. I had a class where we went to a different Renaissance palace or museum every week. It was awesome.

    posted by emwill on 2-5-2010 at 2:15 pm

50. 1. I saw Oprah jogging down the street in Avalon, NJ. She would stay there on the beach because her bf Stedman is from Whitesboro, a couple miles away. They have a family reunion every year (from what I’ve heard) and Oprah & Stedman always attend. I did get a picture with her!

    I’ve also seen Allen Iverson playing pool at the Philly Dave & Busters. My friend just kept exclaiming, that’s Allen Freakin’ Iverson. But she doesn’t even like the Sixers, so I thought it was really funny! (And this only happened in December, just after her re-joined the team).

    2. Sex Crimes. It was the most interesting class ever!

    3. My friends & I had a Spiceworld viewing party when the movie came out of DVD. We didn’t even like the Spice Girls, so there is no explanation as to why we even had the viewing party!

    4. Twenty-ten

    BTW: Kate, I love your David Hasselhoff story!

    posted by Mavis on 2-5-2010 at 2:18 pm

51. 1) I was taking a much needed snooze at the airport in Paris, when someone stepped on my foot. I woke up grumpy and was about to say something rude, when I saw Ray Charles standing over me. The words died on my lips. I think I even ended up saying sorry to him. Also, I saw Michael Jackson coming off a ride at Knox Berry Farm.

    2) My favorite college course was History. The teacher was a great lecturer and loved to dish on all the scandals throughout the ages.

    3) I went to a Twin Peaks series final party. There were a lot of mad people at the end of that one.

    4) I say Two-Thousand Ten.

    posted by Amy on 2-5-2010 at 2:19 pm

52. 1. A few years ago, I ended up catching a ride with a friend. Through a set of circumstances with a mutual friend, he was chosen to drive rockabilly queen Wanda Jackson to an event in town. I sat in the back seat, pretty starstruck. She mostly just pointed out stuff on the way and shared anecdotes about things.

    2. Museum Studies was my favorite class in college. It helped cement a lifelong appreciation of painting, sculpture and photography.

    3. I attended a Top Chef finale party a couple years ago.

    4. Two-thousand ten

    posted by Mr. C on 2-5-2010 at 2:21 pm

53. I snagged club tickets to a soccer game once through a friend. While waiting in line for halftime food, some guy started chatting me up about what I thought about the game so far. I gave him a pretty candid response, if I remember correctly.

    After getting my food and sitting down, I started cracking up laughing. Why? Because I realized that the random fan chatting me up in line was the team’s GM!

    I’m so completely ignorant of pop culture that I’d probably miss most celebrities anyway. I live near a football stadium, so we occasionally get NFL players at the store I work at (although I only recognize them after my coworkers remind me).

    My brother goes to Brown University, where he runs into Emma Watson regularly. His description is “she’s really tiny.”

    My favorite class, halfway into my college career, was soccer. It wasn’t a full 3-credit class (only 2), but our homework assignments consisted of watching soccer games and classes consisted of playing. I’m taking a class on criminalistics right now and homework sometimes consists of watching CSI episodes.

    My friends and I often have marathons of our favorite TV shows (Bones, NCIS and others) that end with us watching that night’s episode. Soccer parties are common with me too.

    I haven’t decided yet. Sometimes, I say Twenty-ten, sometimes two thousand ten. Most of the time, I say “two-thousand-nine” though.

    posted by Julia on 2-5-2010 at 2:22 pm

54. 1. In the mid-90s I was working as a receptionist in a private health clinic in London and looked up from the phone to see a woman with long red hair go rushing through the lobby that I swore was Duchess Sarah Ferguson. My co-worker confirmed it was indeed her. A few weeks later she came back and I actually spoke to her to tell her that her driver had gone to use the \loo\ and would be back shortly. She was friendly and smiled and went merrily along her way.
    Princess Diana also came in regularly, although I personly only saw her once or twice. She was much more reserved than Sarah. She would fly through the lobby as well (Royals need not check in with us peons in reception). Her appointments were always under a fake name of Julia something or other. When we saw the name Julia on the schedule and the office manager was running around like a chicken with her head cut off, we knew something was up.
    I also saw Tim Gunn sitting outside a Starbucks in Seattle last year. I was giddy at the site. I late met him at a booksigning and he wrote those immortal words \Make it Work! Carry On!\ in the cover (as I’m sure he wrote in every book he signed that day.)
    2. Bookmaking.
    3. Project Runway party. See why I was giddy at seeing Tim Gunn?
    4. I can’t decide. Some days I saw two-thousand ten. Some days I saw twenty-ten. I’m indecisive. I’m still missing the last decade where I could say \Aught-Nine.\ For example, \Back in the great blizzard of AUGHT-NINE we walked 12 miles to school, barefoot, uphill, both ways, blah, blah, blah….\

    posted by suse on 2-5-2010 at 2:28 pm

55. I once went to an “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” party where everyone had to dress up as a different version of the Charlie character. Hysterical.

    And “yay” for LOST parties!!

    posted by Laura on 2-5-2010 at 2:30 pm

56. 1) Not ME , but my aunt and uncle were in Belgium many years ago. They were registering at the desk, when another guest – GENE HACKMAN – entered.
    My uncle said to my aunt \ Look, Marge… Gene Hackman’s welcoming us to Belgium.\

    To which GH replied \Welcome to Belgium.\

    posted by Amy on 2-5-2010 at 2:34 pm

57. 1) Didn’t happen to me, but my parents were in NYC and happened to be right across the street when the Backstreet Boys left the stage door of a concert. They knew it had to be a famous group because of all the screaming girls (this was at the top of the Backstreet Boys’ popularity) but had to ask someone else who the guys were.

    2) My favorite class was probably Intermediate Dynamics – the prof was awesome, and ridiculously eccentric. That was my last class on Fridays, and I looked forward to it.

    3)In college, I used to host a “Casablanca” party around Valentine’s Day. It’s a movie, not tv – does that count?

    4) Twenty-ten.

    recaptcha: “otters escape” Those crafty otters…

    posted by Kristin on 2-5-2010 at 2:40 pm

58. 1)The musical I tour with was doing a stint at the Norsk Hostfest in Minot, ND. We stayed at the same hotel as the Oakridge Boys & ran into them quite often. Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons were also at the same hotel; and we had a lot of fun hanging out with them at the bar next door.
    2) AP European History…definatly tops anything I ever took in college (Thanks Mr. Schultz!)
    3) Heroes season premier or finale (when we were hoping it would still be good)
    4) I say twenty-ten, a couple people I work with say ought-ten, which I find funny

    posted by Mary on 2-5-2010 at 2:45 pm

59. 1) I went to a small post secondary school with Gillian Anderson’s brother, and met her at graduation in this small town in the mountains of New Mexico. She was very nice, and I hope I kept my cool… she was then set upon by a half dozen guys basically reacting like young girls seeing Twilight.

    2) Took a class in Darwinian Medicine in college. Great topic looking at the evolution of how and why we get sick.

    3) My friends and I occasionally gather to watch How I Met Your Mother and the Big Bang Theory.

    4) Twenty Ten. I like it.

    posted by Mark on 2-5-2010 at 2:47 pm

60. I delivered champagne to Pia Zadora, not once, but twice. Absolutely gorgeous, and very tiny. Also saw Carol Burnett at the grocery store in Sante Fe, doing her own shopping. I heard Gene Hackman shopped there also.
    We had a party to watch the Bucs lose their 27th in a row to New Orleans, that turned into a victory party.
    twenty-ten

    posted by Mark Dearborn on 2-5-2010 at 2:47 pm

61. Amy, I had a run in with Gene Hackman as well! This was in Mesa, AZ at a Country Inn and Suites of all places. It was weird to see him carrying his own bags. Maybe the lack of an entourage is the true sign of a star. Anyway, he was really nice and graciously agreed to have his picture taken with my dad.

    My other run in was not so pleasant. I was standing near my gate at National in DC and Al Sharpton ran into me. It was hard enough that it hurt my shoulder. Then he turned and glared at me like I had some nerve to stand where he was walking.

    I really enjoyed my comparative religion class in college. It was a small class and the instructor was very engaging. It was very enlightening, but also strengthened my own faith.

    I know twenty-ten is right, but two thousand ten still comes out by habit. I’m not good with change.

    posted by bev on 2-5-2010 at 2:53 pm

62. 1) I once saw Tre Cool and Billie Joe Armstrong from Green Day entering a movie theater just as I was exiting. This wouldn’t have been all that weird except that I live in Denver, where celebrity sightings aren’t all that common- but Green Day was playing the following night, so that’s why they were there. I was too shy to go up and say hi, but at the concert the next night you can bet I kicked myself the whole time for not going up to them and saying something.

    2)My favorite high school class was Spanish, but my favorite class of all time took place my senior year of college- History of Rock N’ Roll. We’d spend 2 hours every Tuesday afternoon listening to rock n’ roll music from its roots all the way up to present day (at the time), and discussing how different sociopolitical factors of the times influenced the music. It was HEAVEN!!

    3) Just the other night, on Feb. 2, my mom had a Groundhog Day party where we gathered and watched Groundhog Day with Bill Murray. It was so much fun I think a tradition was born!

    4) Twenty-ten. To me, that is the ONLY way to say this year. We had no choice to say “Two thousand nine,” since “twenty-oh-nine” sounds stupid, but saying “Two thousand ten” sets a bad precedent for the rest of the century. Imagine how dumb it would have sounded last century if we’d all said “Nineteen hundred eighty nine.” And anyone who says “oh-ten” doesn’t get to talk to me anymore. (Which might be reason enough to start saying it…)

    posted by FizzyGurrl on 2-5-2010 at 2:56 pm

63. 1) Um, I passed Jesse Jackson on campus my Senior year – he was there to give a speech or something – (it was during Sorority Recruitment and I was on the exec board for rush, so I was occupied with that). We didn’t really meet or anything, but it’s important to note he rolled up in a HUGE (purple?) bus, like a rock star. To each their own, I guess.

    2)In college I had a few fav classes including human sexuality, where I got to do a class presentation on Tantic Sex, and a Sophomore writing class where the prof brought in his Beatles records and let us hold them and do something with the covers – I can’t remember what exactly we did, but I remember listening to “Day Tripper” a few times and discussing the sexuality and how the build up of the music was very similar to a build up to a climax. I wish I remembered the actual lesson, but it was the COOLEST thing.
    3) Oh yeah, any time Oklahoma made a national bowl game, my brother and I would get together and celebrate/watch the game
    4) “twenty-ten” when I’m reading something to myself, as in “applying for Fall twenty-ten”, but January was “0-10″ as I started to write “09″ and changed it to “010″. Now I say “two thousand and ten – I guess it’s a hard habit to kick…”

    recaptcha: painting commons – how collegey!

    posted by OkieMelissa on 2-5-2010 at 2:56 pm

64. 1. Recently, I sat in front of Steve Yzerman at a Lady Gaga concert.
    2. In college, I took several unusual classes which ended up being my favorites: War and Film; Literature of Social Change; The Book in the 15th Century (in which we learned typesetting, bookbinding and calligraphy); and Youth Culture, Religion, and the Supernatural (in which we spent 1/3 of the semester watching Buffy, and the rest with Frankenstein and The Matrix). Those classes were fascinating, thought-provoking, and fun! War and Film was my favorite, if I had to pick one.

    posted by silver1881 on 2-5-2010 at 3:01 pm

65. 1 – I played on my high school golf team and one day my coached told me that another party was going to play through. I asked why since we were not holding anyone up on the course. She replied that the foursome included Mario Lemieux. Being that it was 1985 and Lemieux had just joined the Pittsburgh Penguins, I responded “Who the hell is Mario Lexieux?”

    2 – I took a class in forensics in college that was taught by a homicide detective. Most interesting class I ever took.

    4 – Twenty Ten.

    posted by Jules on 2-5-2010 at 3:05 pm

66. 1. I once taught a young (post Doogie Houser pre Legendary) Neil Patrick Harris in a stage makeup workshop at a theatre festival in New Mexico.
    4. Twenty-ten.

    posted by Rebecca on 2-5-2010 at 3:08 pm

67. 1. I have two — President Clinton and Chelsea at the Black Dog in Martha’s Vineyard, the weekend after Princess Diana died — Mrs. Clinton was in London at the funeral. Very weird — we were in the restaurant, there were snipers on the beach outside, black SUVs filled with SWAT teams out front, and we were just escorted in, no problem. However, when they left, 90% of the restaurant left, too — come to find out, they were all secret service agents, decked out in pastel polo shirts and khakis!
    The other one was I saw Rupert from the David Letterman show on the subway in NYC once.
    2. My favorite college class had to be American Literature I & II. Got to read all of my favorite classic books for credit, for once!
    3. How about a UFC fight on pay-per-view?
    4. two thousand ten

    posted by Jenny on 2-5-2010 at 3:10 pm

68. Just wondering if anyone else ever had the pleasure of taking “Relaxation Techniques” at the University of Wisconsin.

    posted by george on 2-5-2010 at 3:16 pm

69. Best college course would have to be Science of Beverages at RPI. It was a one credit once-a-week class. For the first hour, we’d learn about some type of beverage, say German wines. And then for the second hour, we’d sample them.

    posted by The Elk Mechanic on 2-5-2010 at 3:20 pm

70. 1. When I was working at a convenience store on the PA turnpike, Stone Cold Steve Austin stopped in to get some stuff. My manager was a raging WWF fan, but when I quietly and subtly pointed him out, she didn’t believe me shouting “That’s not Stone Cold!” She finally realized that it was when a bunch of kids asked for his autograph.

    I was somewhat impressed at how swiftly he got his chewing tobacco purchase out of sight the moment the kids entered the building.

    2. Script Writing in college. Culminated in staged readings a one-acts by all class participants. Some of those were brutally bad.

    3. Twin Peaks party to commemorate the release of the Gold Box.

    4. I use multiple variations depending on the environment, but enjoy calling it simply “The Year We Make Contact”

    posted by EMStoveken on 2-5-2010 at 3:25 pm

71. 1. I haven’t actually ever had a celebrity sighting, just a huge number of “near misses”.
    -Chris Martin (Coldplay)walked behind me as a was doing a favour for some tourists and taking a picture of them in Whistler.
    -Demi Moore & Aston Kutcher were seated 10 feet away from me at a bar in Vegas. I noticed an extraordinary number of security personnel but didn’t look past them until I heard people calling their names as they left
    -Fergie & Josh Duhamel got off the plane I was about to get on. I was facing the opposite direction in the waiting lounge and completely missed them go by.

    2. Favourite class would have to be geometry

    3. …can’t think of any

    4. Both

    posted by third_try on 2-5-2010 at 3:28 pm

72. I was 9 or 10 years old. My parents were convinced that I looked just like Jimmy Boyd, a young performer on a local television show. It being a much more innocent time, and my parents being equally as innocent, they dragged me down to the TV studio with the hopes of meeting him and getting our picture taken together. Not surprisingly, the young Mr. Boyd was not around, but they sent out a young ingenue that was just hanging around after a show. And that was how I got to meet Betty White. She was very pleasant and kind to a young kid and his parents.

    posted by Old Geezer on 2-5-2010 at 3:29 pm

73. 1. In 1981 I saw President Jimmy Carter at the Belleville Livestock Market, an Amish based produce and livstock market in PA. My sister was seven and he leaned down to speak with her and she told him that she was not allowed to talk to strangers. He and the secret service agents got a kick out of it. She still hates that story to today

    2. Civil War and Reconstruction or U.S. Military History. Worst: History of Germany, pre 1800.

    4. twenty 10, two thousand and ten, O-10, whatever my mood

    posted by smc on 2-5-2010 at 3:32 pm

74. 1. so i have worked at both an extremely popular mountain resort and a low key island resort, so there has been many a celeb siting. i usually dont say anything, but my favorite ones were:
    a) while selling tickets at the mountain resort, robert redford refused to give me his signature on a credit card reciept. i told him multiple times to sign it, until i told him it was just my job and he did.
    b) sold officer trudy dangle ski school tickets and worked on a ski lift where officer jim dangle rode. all within a week. btw they are from reno 911.
    c) mac from its always sunny was at my resort town several times and would party with the people who lived there. pretty epic.

    3. tequila tuesday for the tila tequila show on mtv

    posted by samantha on 2-5-2010 at 3:36 pm

75. I was working as a reporter at a local hometown paper and got assigned to cover the Jimmy Carter Habitat for Humanity Build. The Carter’s were there. They gathered all of us reporters around a table and we got a question and answer session with Carter. First, he had us all say our names and where we were from before we could ask a question. i told him who I was and what paper I worked for, and he said “I’ve read your paper and I like it very much.” Oh wow! What a compliment from a former president. Probably NOT true, but I’ll take it!

    I also used to work as a dental assistant in the hometown of Muhammad Ali (or very near there). He was a regular patient of ours and every time he would come in he would draw pictures on his patient file of the Ali vs. Frazier fight. I wish I would have saved one of those drawings!

    posted by kim on 2-5-2010 at 3:42 pm

76. When I was a teenager growing up in upstate NY James Earl Jones used to shop at the health food store I worked at. He’s really tall, and had a string of gorgeous redheaded assistants.

    Favorite college class: Death and Afterlife in the Biblical World. Where I learned all about ancient near eastern burial practices, and met my best friend.

    If Betty White hosts SNL you are all invited to my house for a watching party.

    Two thousand ten.

    posted by Antonina on 2-5-2010 at 3:44 pm

77. 1. Does it matter if the celebrity is D-list or lower? Jon Brennan, the “virgin cowboy” from The Real World LA is from my hometown. I found out recently that he leads worship at a megachurch there.

    2. Though the name is not interesting (Elements of Drama), my favorite course involved using the text of the play to put Hamlet on trial for murder and treason.

    3. On August 27, 2003 my roommates and I threw a party celebrating Mars’ extraordinarily close approach to earth. We served moon pies, Mars bars, and Faygo Moon Mist to drink. We also showed Spaceballs and Mars Attacks. To date, it is the best party we have ever hosted.

    4. Two thousand ten.

    posted by Lindsaur on 2-5-2010 at 3:52 pm

78. 1. We ran into Jack Warden at Arlington Cemetery. We we both looking through the same section to find family member/friends buried there.
    2. My favorite class was correction systems(I was a Criminal Justice major). The teacher was so much fun and he arraigned several guest lecturers that had some insane stories of convicted offenders.

    3. We always used to have a season finale party for Friends back in the day.

    4. twenty-ten all the way!

    posted by Tellula Blue on 2-5-2010 at 3:54 pm

79. 1 – A few years ago my boyfriend and I were stuck in traffic and a jerk behind us wouldn’t stop honking so my boyfriend decided to be extra slow and annoying. The guy speeds around us, stops his car to corner us against some taxis, and get out screaming for my boyfriend to get out of the car to fight. When we saw that it was Bender from The Breakfast Club we started laughing hysterically making him more pissed, but he just got back in his car and drove off.

    posted by Allie on 2-5-2010 at 3:55 pm

80. !. I waited on Joe Montana and his crew while in college. Very obnoxious–hit on every girl there and then headed across the street to try their luck with the college girls at the bar.

    2. French Film and Anatomy (not the same class, although that would be awesome!)

    3. Not much of a partier–either as a host or guest, unfortunately.

    4. I find myself saying two thousand ten although twenty ten makes much more sense. I can’t imagine people a hundred years ago saying nineteen thousand ten.

    posted by Kate on 2-5-2010 at 3:59 pm

81. 1. I met Orlando Bloom when he came into the pet store I worked at and adopted a puppy.

    2. My favorite class in college was Sex and Symbolism in Classic Faerie Tales

    3. I had friends over to watch Planet Earth when it premiered on PBS (or was it BBC America?)

    4. Twenty-ten

    posted by Rosey on 2-5-2010 at 3:59 pm

82. 1. I was at O’Hare on my way to Australia and, when I was waiting in line at McD’s, I turned around and there was Screech, or Dustin Diamond, but I prefer Screech because he dislikes it so much. He made a really uncomfortable face, like, don’t talk to me, which was fine because I had zero interest in saying anything to him so I just gave him a weird look.

    2. My favorite college class is a toss up between Modern Japan (all about the culture) and Hitler and the Third Reich, which detailed Hitler’s life from a kid up until his ultimate demise.

    3. Unfortunately not :(

    4. It’s totally twenty ten. We didn’t say nineteen thousand ninety-nine, we said nineteen ninety-nine. :)

    posted by Becky on 2-5-2010 at 4:09 pm

83. A few months ago I was having dinner at a sushi restaurant with my boyfriend and Michael Ian Black walked in. I kept looking over at him as it soon became apparent that he was waiting for someone who never showed up. The entire time he was anxiously checking his cell phone and trying (unsuccessfully) to look nonchalant. He started to look pretty bummed out after about 45 minutes of waiting, so my bf and I discussed maybe going over there to cheer him up, but eventually decided it would probably just embarrass him.

    posted by Jess on 2-5-2010 at 4:11 pm

84. @Jason: Really fun topics this week! Any chance we could get a Monday follow up ranking the repeat celebrities by number of sightings? Jimmy Carter and Gene Hackman seem to pop up a lot.

    posted by Adam on 2-5-2010 at 4:12 pm

85. 1. I saw JFK Jr. in the bar at Big Sky, MT. It’s not really that weird, I guess, except that I was only 16 and wasn’t supposed to be in the bar–except that it was Montana, so no one really cared.

    2. I loved the “Music in Film & Television” class I took my sophomore year in college. Also “Museums and Monuments,” which I took during my semester abroad in London. Field trip class!

    4. Definitely “0-10″

    posted by MW on 2-5-2010 at 4:17 pm

86. 1. I lived and worked in the LA/Hollywood area for most of my life so it wasn’t that big a deal to see celebrities for me. But the weirdest encounter with a celeb was one I had in Canada. My wife and I were walking through the streets of Vancouver late one night and we encountered Halle Berry. We weren’t supposed to. Apparently, we had walked onto a live set without realizing it. Some security people must’ve been asleep or something. She was sitting on a motorcycle that was on the back of a truck (they were filming Catwoman). She had the most nervous smile when she looked our way, and understandably. What was really strange about it, though, was that no one yelled or anything like that. People just stared at us as we continued walking on by.

    2. Favorite college class was probably History of Rock n’ Roll, or Cannibalism and Literature. The professor for Cannibalism and Lit. was visiting from Germany and was fluent in German, Spanish, and French. English, however, wasn’t a strong suit. Whenever he found that he didn’t know how to say something in English, he’d say it in one of the other languages–there was at least one student for every language represented. I think he really liked my essay entitled “Narcissism Uber Alles”.

    3. The only time I ever got together with people to watch something on TV was when one of our co-workers was busted on “To Catch a Predator” (he had been a teacher). It still leaves me feeling pretty sad over the whole situation, though.

    4. Twenty ten

    posted by Tomas on 2-5-2010 at 4:18 pm

87. 1. Several years ago, I was at Comdex in Las Vegas with several colleagues. One of the booths we visited was for a company that was involved with computer imaging. We got a sales pitch from one of the company’s VPs, who happened to be Christopher Knight, aka, Peter Brady.

    2. My favorite class in college was History of Rock and Roll.

    posted by Jeff C. on 2-5-2010 at 4:23 pm

88. In college, I had lunch with Timothy Leary. He was on campus to give a speech and was invited to have lunch in our dorm with a bunch of “typical students”.

    Because of bad weather, we was rerouted to and airport 90 miles away and had to come the rest of the way by cab.

    After lunch, he did some Q&A before the host interrupted us to saY “We need to break this off so the Dr. Leary can get some rest before his talk. He’s had a really bad trip.”

    He was totally unaware of what he had said and couldn’t figure out why Leary and the rest of us totally cracked up.

    posted by Rance on 2-5-2010 at 4:25 pm

89. 1. Before a Jack’s Mannequin concert in New Orleans we saw Andrew Mcmahon (the lead singer) just hanging out outside the tour bus. He let us take a picture with him.

    2. Consumer Law in college. It was really interesting and I use the information I learned there all the time. Very practical stuff.

    3. We had a Jersey Shore Finale party. We ordered pizza, bronzed our faces and fist pumped the night away.

    4. twenty ten

    posted by Kai on 2-5-2010 at 4:41 pm

90. 1. When I was a kid, my dad always used to call me and my sister “Jackson” (reason unknown, suffice it to say that he did). I was at JFK airport with my parents, on line at a newsstand when my mom starts freaking out, and tells me that she thinks Jackson Browne is on line a few people in front of us. She then proceedes to try to get me to go say hi to him, which I absolutely refused. In the meanwhile, my sister had wandered off, and my dad called after her, “Hey, Jackson”, at which point Jackson Browne turned around, looking very confused. In a significantly less interesting and much shorter celebrity sighting, I once held the door for John Goodman, coming out of the Tulane University Athletics Center.

    2. I took an anthropology class entitled, “Bones, Bodies and Disease” all about how to see the effects of disease on the skeleton, along with other cultural practices that affected the skeleton. The professor had an amazing dry sense of humor. My favorite day was when he showed us a picture of about 25 skulls that had been unearthed as part of an excavation that had all been trepanned. There was a whole series of shots of these skulls from various angles.

    3. My college friends and I always used to get together to watch Friends. Later we replaced it with Grey’s Anatomy.

    4. Two-ten

    posted by Liz on 2-5-2010 at 4:43 pm

91. 1. I saw Ken Jennings at the NAQT Nationals in Chicago, which is the annual convention/national championship for high school quiz bowl nerds. The rest of my team didn’t even notice.

    posted by Cait on 2-5-2010 at 4:49 pm

92. 1. A friend and I were in Perkins restaurant near one of the college campuses. I’m always saying “he/she looks JUST like…”. This time, I glanced at a table filled with patrons. The person at the head of the table looked exactly like MC Hammer; so, that’s what I said…and then I looked closer and it really WAS MC Hammer.
    2. I’m weird – I liked all my college classes.
    3. Nope!
    4. Two-Thousand Ten

    posted by Programmher T on 2-5-2010 at 5:05 pm

93. 1. Hilary Clinton pushed me into a wall while I was touring a senate building in DC.
    2. I really enjoyed my major (English) capstone, themed: Postwar American Counterculture. All about the beats and their crazy antics
    3. no
    4. depends how dramatic I’m feeling. For example, Wing Fest Two Thousand Ten or Hey, look! it’s twenty ten!

    posted by Laura on 2-5-2010 at 5:25 pm

94. 1. When I was about 4, my mom brought me along to an Arabian Horse event in the Santa Ynez Valley in California. I was playing outside in a mud puddle, wearing my mom’s HUGE coat while my mom and a friend looked at horses nearby. A couple walked past me, smiled at me, and the husband said something to me like “Is that coat yours? It looks a little too big for you.” My mom heard him and called out “No, it’s her freezing mother’s!” The couple continued on, and my mom and her friend came over to me. They both seemed pretty excited, and asked me, “Do you know who that was?” It turns out, the nice man who smiled and talked to me was Patrick Swayze.

    Also, technically, I could count Zac Efron. We went to the same high school, and I was a senior when he was a freshman. Back then we just knew him as “that cute little kid that was in that one episode of Firefly.”

    3. Epic Poetry. We basically read all of the best classic poetry: The Illiad, The Odyssey, The Aeneid, Argonautica, and Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

    4. Twenty-Ten

    posted by Kathryn on 2-5-2010 at 5:27 pm

95. 2) I have a psychology degree so this is probably biased- but my favorite classes were Abnormal Psychology and Deviant Behavior- abnormal people and behavior just fasinate me!

    reCaptcha: anti- dinkey (lol)

    posted by Suz on 2-5-2010 at 5:29 pm

96. 1. Flew coach from Salt Lake City to LA with Henry Winkler in 1984. I had been told I looked like i could be his little brother and he agreed. He’s super cool.
    2. Had a Home and Family living class in High school. The teacher taught us all how to properly cut up a chicken. We only had two people slice there hands open…oh the 70′s, loved that class.
    4. In college we played “Hi Bob” this centered around The Bob Newhart Show and shots of any form of adult beverage. It was always a party.
    5 Its Twenty-Ten

    posted by Don on 2-5-2010 at 5:31 pm

97. 1. I was working for the Aspen Skiing Company. It was quite so I was surfing the web and I saw a guy come up and without looking he said he was there to pick up his pass. I asked him his last name and he said Jackson. I then asked him his first and he said Reggie. As a baseball fan I couldn’t believe I was talking to Mr. October. Extremly nice.

    2. Favorite class. “Storytelling”. For my final I read Green Eggs and Ham.

    3. In college we had a NAFTA vote party.

    4. It’s twenty-10

    posted by HansMoleman on 2-5-2010 at 5:52 pm

98. 1. I say Shooter McGavin while standing in line to get into a play on Broadway in NYC. Don’t know his real name, just the awesome character he played :)

    2. History of Pop Culture. It wasn’t my favorite class ever, but it was really interesting and we read some amazing books.

    3. In high school, we would have Dawson’s Creek viewing parties. I still love that show!

    4. Two Thousand Ten, Twenty Ten is weird

    posted by K on 2-5-2010 at 6:02 pm

99. I once saw Aaron Neville at the Mall of Florida. He was eating at the food court, surrounded by his family and bodyguards. I thought he looked familiar, but my friend reminded me of who he was. Nobody bothered him, though, so I thought that was nice. I’ve also seen Lewis Black, Kid Rock and Kellie Pickler at a USO Show. That was cool!

    I would also have to vote for “The History of Rock and Roll.” I learned a lot, including the Grateful Dead put me to sleep. Every single time one of their songs came on I passed out in class!

    My roommates and I threw a Thanksgiving feast the week before T-Day, so we could celebrate together and also watch the Turkey Day special of “Friends.” I had just had braces put on that morning, so I didn’t enjoy the food as much as I normally do…

    I think I use “twenty-ten” and “two-thousand-ten” equally.

    posted by Tamsyn on 2-5-2010 at 6:19 pm

100. 1. Michael Jackson was a patient at the hospital I worked at in Santa Maria, CA… only got a brief glimpse of him because his entourage held up white sheets to protect him from other patients’ prying eyes.

     Also met Keifer Sutherland while on a medical mission in Kenya. He and a friend were in the dining area, and because of all the violence in Kenya that year (2007), our group and his table were about the only guests there. Really, really nice guy!

     And sat next to Jack Nicholson at breakfast a few weeks ago at the Cliffs Restaurant in Shell Beach, CA. Pretty cool experience.. no one there bothered him.

     posted by D on 2-5-2010 at 6:22 pm

101. In 1994, Clint Eastwood, Meryl Streep and others were shooting Bridges of Madison County in Iowa- my hubby and I went to see “Ed Wood”, and Clint, Meryl, Clint’s son and some others were in the same theatre with us…they were very loud at the beginning, cheering when someone they know came up on the beginning credits, and people were starting to glare at them, so they settled down!

     posted by Gale on 2-5-2010 at 6:27 pm

102. -I used to work at a movie theatre and one day The Real Slim Shady showed up with a small entourage, rented out an entire auditorium and bought his own jar of jalepenos.
     -I took an english/history hybrid class. We started with 1900 and studied/wrote papers on each decade.
     -In highschool my friends and I had an American Idol Try-outs party.

     posted by Cecilee on 2-5-2010 at 6:33 pm

103. Bill Nye “The Science Guy” is a swing dancer. He goes out swing dancing at least once a week to various swing venues in Southern California, and you’d be surprised how many people don’t recognize him when he’s not wearing his bow tie. I got one of his business cards. His job title: “Research Engineer”, and of course on the back of the card is the periodic table! Science rules!

     posted by Morgan Day on 2-5-2010 at 6:35 pm

104. Last year my friends and I saw Ron Livingston at Maple Street Bookshop in New Orleans. We were waiting in line at a Dave Eggers book signing, and he was standing directly behind us. It was kind of awkward; the store was really crowded and we kept accidentally bumping into one another. But we tried to be really cool about it and not bother him… he seemed really nice though, one girl came up to him and they talked for a good five minutes.

     posted by Caroline on 2-5-2010 at 6:35 pm

105. 1. I rode in an outdoor elevator with Whoopie Goldberg, while she was filming Homer and Eddie. And played basketball at a club after the show with the Peppers.
     3. Not TV shows, but movies. John Waters Film Festival is the best.
     4. I spend a fair amount of time in Kindergarten, and they are saying two thousand ten. It seems to roll off the tongue faster. Twenty ten is so abrupt. Maybe when we get into the 20 teens, it will get easier to say it that way.

     posted by sara on 2-5-2010 at 7:20 pm

106. 1. Actually ran into Craig T. Nelson as we were both going through a deli door in NYC…Also – Tommy Lasorda sat in front of me at a spring training game in FL…

     2. Oceanography was engaging an interesting.

     3. Went to a Seinfeld finale party.

     4. I say the full “two thousand ten”

     posted by Susan R on 2-5-2010 at 7:32 pm

107. I don’t live anywhere near L.A., never have, but for some reason I keep running into celebrities:

     * Bummed a cigarette from Seth Rogan last year at SXSW….didn’t realize it was him until halfway into the conversation.

     * Took shots of bourbon with Johnny Knoxville in a bar in Baton Rouge, LA during the filming of The Dukes of Hazzard…..I outdrank him.

     * Got hit on by Master P’s little brother, CMurder, in a Walmart when I was 15…..something so wrong about the whole thing.

     * Shaq was just hanging outside my girls’ dorm freshman year (I DID go to LSU at the time he came back to finish his degree)

     * I work for SXSW every year as a photographer and last year, while working the red carpet for I LOVE YOU MAN’s premiere, I tripped over some camera cables and Paul Rudd laughed at me.

     * Working at Ruby Tuesday for 4 years during college, I served Ron Howard’s daughter (Bryce Howard), the band Filter (who we took out for pool and karaoke after closing), Mystikal, and I once bumped into Peppa from Salt N Peppa getting out of her limo on Canal St. in New Orleans. Best moment, though: Me and two friends running into a VERY hungover John Goodman during Mardi Gras in a Walgreens….he was loading up on aspirin and even took a pic with us.

     * I saw 20-10
     * Best class in school: The Study of Slang Words (high school)….we had an excuse to not use proper English and to occasionally spit out curse words.

     * Used to go to FRIEND’S parties, HEROES parties, and we occasionally have HORRIBLE 80s MOVIES parties. :P

     posted by Kim W. on 2-5-2010 at 8:20 pm

108. I remember seeing Charles Grodin about ten years ago in the Village Market in Wilton, CT. There are quite a few celebrities who live in SW CT, but what made this sighting memorable was the fact that he didn’t appear to be shopping…just walking around the aisles. If he wanted to be inconspicuous it probably didn’t help that he was dressed all in black (to include wearing sunglasses indoors). Very weird.

     posted by okinawadato on 2-5-2010 at 8:22 pm

109. Oh, forgot about sharing an elevator with Bill Clinton during the whole Hurricane Katrina mess in Louisiana. I worked for a law firm and he got in the elevator with me. While I oggled him, he shook his head and said NO. I asked, “Well, what is your name?” He said “William” and laughed. When I asked him why he was in the elevator (rude question), he said a lawyer friend of his from Arkansas worked in the building and he was visiting while in town. Then he gave me a big grin.

     Maybe it’s not the fact that I keep running into celebrities, but the fact that I watch too much TV and read too many celebrity blogs and can easily spot them. Lol.

     posted by Kim W. on 2-5-2010 at 8:24 pm

110. 1. Saw Johnny Rotten on a Saturday morning flight from New York to London. That isn’t too weird, except he was fully regaled in what appeared to be motoX gear.

     2. Democracy & Virtue: the reading list for that class was a wet dream: Protagoras, The Gorgias, Areopagitica, deTocqueville, Rousseau, Federalist, and on and on.

     3. We had a pretty big party after my father died, but I don’t think that’s what you’re looking for.

     4. Two thousand ten.
     3.

     posted by Jim on 2-5-2010 at 8:36 pm

111. Took a History of the Beatles class @ Indiana University. Also met John Mellencamp while in college @ an ice cream store. He had his kids and his amazingly beautiful wife with him. Was mellow and enjoyed himself.

     posted by bk on 2-5-2010 at 8:43 pm

112. 1. My friend and I physically ran into Steven Tyler as his posse was rushing him out of his trailer on a Boston street. He was definitely messed up on some kind of drugs. I’ve also taken Cameron Diaz’s trash when I was working as an usher at a movie theater. She smiled and told me to have a good night.

     2. Even though I do film and writing now, I still love the Physics class I took.

     3. In high school my friends and I got together for The Office etc. on NBC every Thurs

     4. I just avoid saying the year since I can’t decide

     posted by Bryan on 2-5-2010 at 8:56 pm

113. In 2003 I had just graduated college and was celebrating in Disney World with one of my college buddies. We were at the Wilderness Campgrounds hanging around waiting for our seating at the Hoop Dee Doo Review when my friend laugh and said, “Did you see that guy? He looked just like Vanilla Ice.” I hadn’t seen him. A few minutes later though he passed by again and I agreed that he did look just like him. When we were seated for dinner he was at the table next to us and by golly, it was Rob Van Winkle himself. He was there with his wife and two daughter (who were super cute) and he was just doing the family thing. Also found out later that he was staying in my hotel too.

     posted by Jen on 2-5-2010 at 9:09 pm

114. I was at an electronics conference, and I went into a small, private lounge to get a glass of wine. There was a band onstage, but I was focused on the wine at the end of the tunnel. As I walked right past the lead singer, I smiled and did a polite head nod, but kept walking.

     A few hours later, I realized I had blown off Billy Bob Thornton.

     posted by Sara on 2-5-2010 at 9:17 pm

115. 1. Back in 2000, when I worked in New Orleans at an art gallery Alan Iverson came in. I was very young and said anything that came to mind. He had his hair in a really wild braids and I walked up to him and said, “Excuse me sir, may I ask you a question? How did you find a job with your hair looking like that?” He was quite gracious with my barely 20 year old brashness. He stated simply, “Oh, I play basketball.” To which I brazenly replied, “Should I know who you are?” He said, “No, it’s okay, I don’t know who you are either.” This was the same year he won the All-Star MVP award. Later, co-workers nearly strangled me for failing to get his autograph.

     2. My favorite college course ever was Intro to Anthropolgy. The professor, Cristie Barron, was absolutley amazing. She brought in guest speakers, showed National Geographic and PBS videos (great for us nerdy types). For the week on sexuality, she brought in a male to female transexual, that she had met at an Old English dance class. It was a very interesting evening.

     4. Two thousand and ten.

     recaptcha : for chasm

     posted by Angela on 2-5-2010 at 9:26 pm

116. I am a pianist and I was hired to play a christmas party gig in Blackhawk, CA. The host was really nice and the whole family was there including a really scruffy guy. Scruffy man watched me play and said “you play really well.” I said “thank you, merry christmas” and went right on playing. On my way out, the host, Michael, asks me if I met Carlos. “Carlos?” I ask. “Yeah, Carlos Santana. He’s the guy with a beard- he’s my wife’s brother.” Scruffy man was Carlos Santa- and when he paid me compliment I said Merry Christmas.

     posted by Ashley on 2-5-2010 at 9:28 pm

117. 1. It’s a toss up between seeing Sally Jesse Raphael eat dinner at a Ruby Tuesdays in a mall in Connecticut or getting line jumped by a pajama clad Bill Clinton at a Starbucks in Westchester County, NY.

     2. Another toss up between tae kwon do and The African Novel

     3. Spring 2008, my housemates and I went all out for the American Gladiators finale. We had a deep fryer, endless supply of beer, the works…

     4. two thousand and ten

     posted by furiousk on 2-5-2010 at 9:34 pm

118. At a pool club/bar in my hometown, my sister and I ran into Barry Wiliiams (Greg Brady 4 those not in the know) who happened to be in town for a run at the local community theater. It was actually my 23rd birthday, and he sat with my sister and I at the bar and talked to us for about an hour. He bought me my first drink on my birthday. Nice enough guy, but TOTALLY hitting on me. I was married at the time, and I really never thought he was all that good-looking anyway…..this was 1993 in Bloomington, IL of all places.

     posted by andee on 2-5-2010 at 10:19 pm

119. 2. Some of my college classes are really exciting and fun to learn. The list includes: The Art of the Cinema (film watching), The History of Rock and Roll, Fascism and Nazism, and Gender Roles in Communication (discussion class on the differences between men and women). I love college.

     posted by Vicky on 2-5-2010 at 10:50 pm

120. -Victoria Gotti and sons at the Atlantis resort in the Bahamas…it was above 90 degrees and she was sitting by the pool in midcalf white socks, white cotton capris, and a white tank top. Also was not nice at all, although I did get a picture with the boys.
     -Pres. Carter on an airplane to Europe. He held up the plane for about 2 hours with the extra security precautions.
     -Yakov Smirnoff on a cruise…come to think of it he might have been a performer but not sure.
     -Frankie Muniz in the airport. Kid is tiny.

     posted by Jane on 2-5-2010 at 11:02 pm

121. 1) The Jonas Brothers live the town over from me and I saw them at the local grocery store buying mouthwash. interesting…
     4) Twenty Ten

     posted by Cara on 2-5-2010 at 11:15 pm

122. 1. Weirdest was definitely seeing Alicia Silverstone in a bathroom at LAX. She was crying and obviously very shaken by something. I wanted to help, but what could I do? Offer her my smelly ball cap as some weak disguise?

     2. South Africa Seminar the spring semester of my Freshman year was my favorite class. This was 1990, so our text books quickly became boring compared to the news. On February 2, South African president de Clerk declared that apartheid would end, and nine days later Nelson Mandela was released from prison. Our professor – known as being tough – once decided we should have class at a local bar rather than try to keep up with the changes.

     3. My husband’s birthday is June 6. On 06/06/06, we had a devil party.

     4. NOT o-ten! This makes me cranky. The other two I can live with. I’m still wishing people would refer to the last decade as The Aughts instead of the Two Thousands.

     posted by elizabutt on 2-5-2010 at 11:44 pm

123. Oops! My husband’s birthday was not televised.

     posted by elizabutt on 2-5-2010 at 11:47 pm

124. Apparently the grocery store around the block from my apartment is the local celeb hangout. A few years back, my pal and I were there, and he mentions “that guy looks like the fella from Ferris Bueller.” I start wondering why Matthew Broderick would be there, and he says, “The teacher, not Ferris.” It dawned on me that he meant Ben Stein, and that was when I remembered that he was in town for a lecture at a nearby university. So, we went on the hunt to find him, but he disappeared. Probably heard us talking about him. Not too long ago, I swore the woman walking around the produce section was Lauren Ambrose (Six Feet Under) – that or she has a twin.

     I loved American Cinema! Though always a movie fan, I was just really beginning to appreciate film as an art, and that class really broadened my viewing.

     The first few seasons of Survivor, my dad and my pal and I would always get together for the finale and reunion, sometimes for the premier, too. There is a talk amongst some friends of a Lost finale :( party.

     I usually say 2010, but sometimes I will say 2010. Just depends. Never 010. I must say, this is my fav response so far: <>

     posted by Holly on 2-5-2010 at 11:55 pm

125. 1. My side job is security for a guard gated community in the Southwest. Some residents are minor celebs. One resident, an NBA player, tried to communicate that he just saw a coyote with a cat in its mouth (not all that uncommon here), but apparently wasn’t well versed in the animal kingdom. He claimed it was a deer eating a cat.

     posted by B-Doc on 2-6-2010 at 12:39 am

126. 1. Two years ago, we were sitting on the beach in Hawaii, when we heard a man ask the woman next for her picture. They got into a bit of an argument, but the man finally left. We later figured out that the woman was Sarah Jessica Parker. That same trip, we also saw Grant Imahara (from Mythbusters) at a luau.

     2. My favorite high school class would have to be Orchestra.

     4. Two thousand ten!

     posted by Mai on 2-6-2010 at 12:41 am

127. 1. Jeremy Piven goes to my synagogue. I was walking out of Yom Kippur services when my mom points out to me “Oh my god, look, that’s Jeremy Piven with his mom!” And then we see that his mom, who was really old, had just wet her pants.

     posted by Leggy on 2-6-2010 at 12:46 am

128. 1. drew barrymore once came into the art gallery i worked at many years ago. i didn’t even recognize her until she spoke because she’s extremely tiny and was very unkempt. she had on these raggedy clothes, and looked (and smelled) like she hadn’t showered in a week.
     2. i didn’t take the class but back in college a girl in my drawing class was in a class called “islamic politics” that began in late august of 2001.
     3. i used to openly insult the girls at my old job who would make such a big deal about their “survivor” viewing parties. i could never get over how ridiculously fake that show is.
     4. i say two thousand ten. twenty-ten just sound weird.

     posted by cb on 2-6-2010 at 1:06 am

129. When I was about 12 my parents took my best friend and I to Las Vegas. We met Ed McMahon and he couldn’t be nicer. He gave us buttons that said, “Ed’s in Town” and, 35 years later I still have it.

     Film Study in H.S.: Foreshadowing, Irony, poetic license, Red Herring were all learned in that class.

     I’d have a party by my self the first few seasons of “Nip/Tuck” (last few years, not so much).

     2010 but as someone already said, when do you have to say it?

     This is my 2nd week here and I love this blog!

     posted by KirbyP on 2-6-2010 at 1:11 am

130. Twenty-Ten, I didn’t really answer.

     posted by KirbyP on 2-6-2010 at 1:12 am

131. I was working in a hotel in Knoxville, TN in 1985, and the ast of “Camelot” was in town featuring Richard Harris as Arthur. The show was in town in late October, and Halloween fell on a Saturday (I think). There was a costumed cast party going on in the bar that night, and I was privileged to have been the only person in the area when Mr. Harris stepped off of the elevator wearing a full clown costume (white face, red nose, blue hair, clown clothes, big shoes) looking like it had been done by a really good make-up artist. He was drunk. And he was singing in his full, rich voice at the top of his lungs the song from “Camelot”, “I Wonder What The King Is Doing Tonight”. It was a sight I will never forget. He saw me and smiled and kept sining down the hallway towards the cast party. I felt like I had seen an illusion. I won’t forget it.

     posted by Mike C. on 2-6-2010 at 1:36 am

132. 1) It’s not a sighting, but Anthony Daniels accidentally called my house once. Wrong number.
     4) Two-ten, actually.

     posted by RJ on 2-6-2010 at 1:37 am

133. I have two strange celeb run-ins (or near run-ins) that involve my siblings. My brother was working at a warehouse at an amusement park, driving a truck behind the scenes to make a delivery. Mark Wahlberg was hanging out where he was not supposed to be hanging out (he was at the park with NKOTB) when my brother almost hit him with the truck. Then a few years later my sister was driving around after a Smashing Pumpkins concert on her campus. Billy Corrigan was walking around in a cape and she almost hit him.

     posted by Maggy on 2-6-2010 at 3:07 am

134. Rob Reiner at the Fleetwood Diner in Ann Arbor–he was buying a t-shirt after finishing his breakfast and he asked me if I thought the XXXL would fit him. I said looked good to me and went back to my breakfast. The waitress came over later and said he was a good tipper!

     posted by A2Veeness on 2-6-2010 at 5:16 am

135. Oh, and twenty ten, definitely!

     posted by A2Veeness on 2-6-2010 at 5:17 am

136. NHL Linesman, Thor Nelson, gave me and my son a lift from the airport to our hotel in Edmonton when we went to see the Dallas Stars open a can of whoop on the Oilers – He was great, a perfect gentleman in every sense – wonderful guy and family man.

     Joan Jett at LaGuardia – great hair but a total beyatch to her handlers the entire time.

     Kevin Costner – sitting in a lounge surrounded by women fans – I walked by because I couldn’t have cared less, though I thought he was attractive. I took a seat at the bar, he looked over at me and nodded a hello. I nodded back. Yawn.

     I had drinks with Foo Fighters and Weezer in a hotel lobby in Grand Rapids, MI where they were performing at the local arena. Being there in my proper business suit after a sh!teous day at work, they assumed I wasn’t ‘hip’ enough to know who they were. Ended up talking hockey most of the night with one of the roadies and enjoying a couple of rounds before they left to go bowling. One guy thought I was hitting on him when I suggested we hang out and watch the game at the lounge. What an arse. Sheesh, I just wanted to watch hockey!

     A couple of Nobel winners (yawn) and a few other celebs on pass thru at airports. But those listed were most memorable.

     posted by BG on 2-6-2010 at 5:49 am

137. 1a. When I was an assistant manager at a Express in the north suburbs of Chicago back in 03, a guy walked in with his girlfriend. They walked the length of the store and were about to walk right back out, when I asked them if they needed help. He said he was looking for black women’s jeans. He was in a promising local band and needed tight jeans for when he was on stage. I fitted him and sold the jeans. We had a nice conversation. That man was Patrick Stump of Fall-out Boy. They got big two years later.

     1b. Relatedly, but not as weird, I now work at the Pin-Up Bowl a bar/bowling alley in St. Louis, and Pete Wentz shows up to bowl after their show here this past fall. Nice guy. He listened to my pete stump story.

     Two stories about Fall Out Boy and I’m not even a fan. Nice guys.

     1c. Back in ’06, James Iha of Smashing Pumpkins was at the Continental on Chicago’s west side. I, not being a fan of the smashing pumpkins, decided to be a total choad to him, and exclaimed to him, “Thanks for making it cool to be an asian man everywhere!” I then shook his hand, and then turned my back on him.

     2. Sculpture. Welding is fun. Fiberglass is fun. clay is fun.

     3. I lived with three girls and we had a project runway party for the second season opener. I made a large baked 5 cheese garlic macaroni and cheese complete with a cream reduction sauce. Craploads of fat and calories that gals in their twenties watching their weight while watching a fashion show shouldn’t be eating. It was gone in about 10 minutes.

     4. twenty ten.

     posted by Brian on 2-6-2010 at 8:12 am

138. 1. Weirdest celebrity encounter? I’d have to say when I was a groomsman in a wedding and the reception was being held in Miami Beach. There was a photo shoot going on and a bunch of high end models were there probably for a cosmetics line shoot. The wedding party photo shoot started tangling up with the models photo shoot and the groom and best man about punched some handlers when they restrained the bride from walking across where the models were working as the wedding party needed to get to where they were going. Either way, the wedding party got to walk right by Cindy Crawford and others (names fail me, but think the type of model from George Michael’s Freedom ’90 video), we were dressed in tuxedos and finery. A couple of the ladies in the party whipped out their own cameras. The models were nice, they saw that the whole thing was a pain for the wedding party, it was just the handlers who were jerks.

     Other encounters – got to shake Billy Joel’s hand and thank him for a great concert as he was checking out of the same hotel – he was doing the paperwork himself. He was very gracious.

     Wierd encounter inverse: I got mistaken for Val Kilmer in an airport once, but the guy needed to get new glasses.

     2. Anthropology – we got to go visit the Duke Lemur Center – that was cool. Failure Analysis – sort of a CSI for engineering – our professors gave us all the evidence from cases where they were expert witnesses and then asked us to conclude – was this negligence on the part of the design?

     3. TV event? Watched a national basketball championship with 3000 of my classmates, the party afterwards was tremendous (Duke ’91).

     4. Twenty Ten – I throw in with Arthur C.

     posted by Chris P. on 2-6-2010 at 10:05 am

139. I worked at the front desk of a hotel in Oklahoma City awhile back. There was some kind of tennis event going on where players from the US were playing against non-US players. Pete Sampras and Andy Roddick were staying at our hotel. Someone had dropped off packages for them both, and all the bellmen were busy, so my manager asked me to run the packages up. Went to Pete Sampras’ room first, he and his managers were total dicks to me! Then went to Andy Roddick’s room, he openned the door wearing nothing but a towl! Nice! I met Barbara Eden (I dream of Jeanie) while working there too, she is the NICEST lady ever! Also Aerosmith stayed there too (sans Steven Tyler) nice guys. They asked for suggestions on where to go for dinner, we gave suggestions on great places in Brick Town (downtown OKC) and they walked down there, no entourage!

     Met others too, but those are my fave stories.

     posted by Katina on 2-6-2010 at 10:42 am

140. I’m a news photographer, so I meet a lot of celebrities – some good, some bad. (George Clooney is charm personified!) I think my mmost memorable is when I was working the Ryder Cup Golf Tourney: I was rushing around a corner and ran smack into Barbara and H.W, Bush (post-presidency). H.W. was very kind and gentlemanly about tthe whole thing; but Barbara – geez! What a bitch! I found out later that it wasn’t just me or the curcumstances – she’s just nasty to everyone. Very memorable…

     posted by trish on 2-6-2010 at 12:10 pm

141. While it isn’t technically MY celebrity sighting, I was inside my mother’s belly when Michael Jackson knocked my father down coming off of Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride. That was still while Captain EO was playing at the magic kingdom.

     Favorite College Class? I’m only about half way through, but so far it’s been “Intro to American Pop Culture.” The final essay question on my midterm was about the use of irony in the Simpsons.

     My friends and I like to throw bad sci-fi movie parties on rainy days.

     I say either O-ten or twenty-ten.

     posted by Danielle on 2-6-2010 at 12:14 pm

142. I was stuck in traffic on a local bridge here in Clearwater, Florida. When I finally saw the accident it was Hulk Hogan’s daughter who crashed. Hulk was wearing his stupid bandana. I called a radio station to report it and they didn’t believe me.

     posted by Ben on 2-6-2010 at 12:35 pm

143. @Mike C re Richard Harris!

     Lucky man!

     posted by Amy on 2-6-2010 at 1:20 pm

144. Oh, yeah… I went on a pot run (go-between) for a musician (bass player/vocalist) once. To protect his privacy, I can’t divulge a name, but that was quite the odd celebrity run in. We’re now on a first name basis. :D

     posted by Lisa on 2-6-2010 at 1:28 pm

145. 1) When I was @ LAX and waiting for my family to finish up at the car rental, I walked over to a lady and started matter of factly chatting with her about how cute her baby was. She was really sweet, and later ended up getting into a rental car of her own.

     Later, my aunt (same one from my earlier post ‘Gene Hackman in Belgium) who’d been talking to this same woman earlier – and out of my sight – told my other family members that this was Sherry Stringfield, who had just come back to ER after having this baby.

     Later in stay, I MISSED Richard Lewis (but again my Aunt saw him) when we were at Virgin Records store waiting for a movie.

     Not in same LA trip, but another… could SWEAR Jeff Goldblum said hello to my brother at MOCA.

     In NC (WS), I’ve been in spitting distance of Neil Simon/Alan Alda/Brenda Vaccaro . I even saw Mark Linn Baker and Nathan Lane, the latter early on in his career). Also been directly behind Jerry Orbach at the Crosby Golf Tournament.

     posted by Amy on 2-6-2010 at 1:34 pm

146. Once crossed Richard Gere while I was strolling in Central Park. And he saw me! Didnt realize it quick enough though…but later also realized, that celebs actually look totally plain and normal.

     posted by KIm on 2-6-2010 at 3:25 pm

147. 1. Ran into Rudy Giuliani at Westminster Abby in 2002.
     2. STD’s and other plagues was my favorite class, we had to give presentations and there was an award at the end for most disgusting pictures.
     3. Never attended such a party.
     4. twenty ten

     posted by lainy on 2-6-2010 at 4:36 pm

148. 1. One night in Manhattan a few winters ago my brother and I were walking around the upper east side, and as we turned a corner I ran directly into a man and spilled my hot chocolate on him. I apologized profusely and looked up and realized “MICHAEL RICHARDS! KRAMER!” He didn’t acknowledge that I’d spilled anything and kept traipsing down Lexington with his hands clasped behind his back. I whisper yelled at my brother “do you know who that was! Michael Richards!… KRAMER!” So we turned around and caught up to him for verification.
     2. Sociology of Deviant Behavior
     3. Bi-weekly marathons of tivo’ed Jeopardy!
     4. I haven’t chosen a side yet, they both feel awkward so I avoid saying it at all if possible.

     posted by Anne on 2-6-2010 at 5:24 pm

149. My friend’s cousin is the woman who sang the voice of Pocahontas in the Disney movie. So, one day, my friends and I were all in her room in college, and Pocahontas walks in. It was pretty awesome.

     My favorite class was, so far, Korea: Past, Present, and Future. I have an unfortunate last name, it begins with “Z,” and being a freshman, I had the last registration time. I was locked out of all the classes that I wanted to take and was getting pretty upset. So, this one girl, who was there to help people out, said that I should look into East Asian Studies classes. I did, and I loved it.

     posted by Dan on 2-6-2010 at 5:35 pm

150. Was fortunate enough to see George Kennedy in baggage claim after sharing a flight from NY to Honolulu…ironically, the first time I saw the Concorde in person. (Needless to say, we shared it as in he in FC and me in steerage)
     Also have run into Barry Williams (cool guy) and Alyssa Milano at LAX on the same trip. Probably most fun encounter was riding with Michael Jordan during Bike Week in Daytona a couple of years ago. He owns a motorcycle racing team and visits about every year. He has a custom painted/polished Suzuki sportbike painted Carolina blue. Some friends have asked me if I knew it was him for sure. If you’ve ever seen a professional basketball player (the taller ones anyway) try to ride a stock-sized motorcycle, you’d understand how odd he looked; Saw knees and elbows for blocks after traffic split us up.

     ReCaptcha: aircraft theses

     posted by Craig on 2-6-2010 at 5:43 pm

151. 1. For my sixteenth birthday I invited all my besties to come see BSB with me. We were in the arena with my mom (Who’s a cute mom) when my mom grabbed my arm and said, “who’s that guy?” A large black guy on either side of this tall men with red hair. To this day, we swear it was Joey Fatone (of NSYNC) but why he was at a BSB concert or if he really was remains a mystery. Again, I was 16 so I could have been mid-hysteria and not seeing correctly.

     posted by PoGo on 2-6-2010 at 6:22 pm

152. 1. Once met Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood after one of their shows. I went totally fangirl on them and kinda embarrassed Colin.

     2. Short Stories and Novels. I had a great teacher.

     3. LOST parties.

     4. Twenty-ten.

     posted by grouchonacouch on 2-6-2010 at 9:42 pm

153. 1. I have gone to many sci-fi conventions throughout my life so I have met a few actors/actresses. The one that stands out is the accidental encounter with a Star Trek alum. I was 12 and with my mom at Tachycon 10. We were in this small banquet room. Being a curious person, I was sitting there wondering what was in the food containers on one side of the room. A few minutes later, I saw a man go over to them so I ran over assuming that he might know. I tapped the man on the shoulder and he turned around. Apparently I had just tapped Walter Koenig (Chekov). I immediately ran to my mom, mortified at what I had done. Soon after Checkov left. At a different convention (age 11 or 12), my mom pulled me out of the hotel swimming pool to get an autograph. I had to walk into the hotel bar to get Jerry Doyle (Garibaldi of Babylon 5) to sign a Garibaldi’s Pizza cup.

     2. I loved psychology, but right now my favorite class is feature writing (for the discussions and people in the class).

     posted by Laura on 2-6-2010 at 10:28 pm

154. 1. My friend got tickets to a ‘news’ program taping where Kevin Spacey was supposed to be one of the guests. Unfortunately it was at the same time as my Judicial Processes class, but because of my love for Mr. Spacey, I skipped it and went to the taping. We get there and find out that Mr. Spacey couldn’t make it but Fergie (as in Brit not BEP) will be on the show. So we sit through her stuff, and during one commercial break Kevin Spacey happens by to say hello, and apologizes to the audience for not being able to do the entire show (super nice guy, btw).

     Feeling a bit cheated, I get to Judicial Processes the next week and find out that during the class I had skipped the Prof. had given out tickets to a screening of The Life of David Gale, where he had done a Q&A with Spacey in front of a small group, my classmates included.

     Yes, Universe, I should not skip classes. Message received.

     Also, a friend and I spotted Alan Tudyk in Mel’s on Sunset, but it was pre-Firefly. A year later when it premiered we were retroactively ecstatic.

     2. High School – AP European History (the teacher would dress up in period clothes and was generally awesome) and AP US History (another amazing teacher, who quit two years later to join the FBI.)

     College – Children and Young Adult Literature (the class where I first heard of Harry Potter and where the president of the university came and read The Polar Express to us before winter break) and Civil Rights & Liberties which was not only an excellent class, with an excellent professor but basically put my life on course.

     Law School – Election Law as well as Law & Politics, which was basically a political science approach to legal matters, plus some game theory.

     3. We’ve had several, but the earliest one I recall was an Angel series finale. There were various themed foods. We’ll also do Christmas special viewings: HeMan and SheRa, Charlie Brown, Rudolph, and this past Christmas I saw the Star Wars Christmas Special for the first time. I’d always heard it was terrible, but I think it’s one of those things you have to experience for yourself.

     4. Haven’t decided or needed to vocalize the year yet. But I wish I had the balls to commit to saying MMX.

     posted by Carrie on 2-7-2010 at 6:27 am

155. 1. Well, I saw Beyonce once at a Houston Astros game, and technically, the most surreal celebrity encounter I had was when I met the entire cast of the hit show Glee on national televeision… and ran into Gabriella Sibey and Pauletta Patton (from Precious) backstage. (The link in my name is the video of the whole thing)
     2. The most interesting class I’ve taken wasn’t in high school but a class I took at band camp. It was history of rock and roll. We had actually discussed Michael Jackson’s career just hours before he died.
     3. Harry Potter premieres and my Tyra Banks episode.
     4. Twenty tem.

     posted by Jen on 2-7-2010 at 12:43 pm

156. 1. While at swim meet, met Kate from Jon and Kate
     4. One O :)

     posted by Kevin on 2-8-2010 at 3:21 pm

157. 1) I met Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top once after a concert in the area. They were loading all of the equipment when I asked if I could have his autograph. Being as I was only 11 at the time, he was so impressed by how polite I was that he proceeded to have his crew unload each of his guitar cases until he found a pick that he had played with. I still have the pick and autograph framed with the ticket stub. Really cool experience for an 11 year old!

     posted by dr on 2-10-2010 at 5:26 pm

158. 3: My friends and I had a big party when we finished all five seasons of Queer as Folk. We totally bonded throughout the shows and now call ourselves the Q.A.F. fam.

     4: two thousand and ten…20-10 sounds weird to me….

     :o)

     posted by Lindsey on 2-15-2010 at 6:17 pm

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