Your 15 minutes of fame?

Pekka · August 26, 2003, 04:41

Have you been in tv, papers etc?

I've been in papers when I was 6 or 7, with a big picture of me and my friend eating donuts and drinking juice after we won (my friend won, I came second) a local .. what you call them? You run with a map, try to find checkpoints and then run to finish? Anyway we won that and we were famous! Amongst our parents.. blah

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I've been with few of my friends in finnish movie, just for few seconds in... 91? I won't tell the name of the movie though

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What else.. oh yeah! I've been in the biggest finnish soap opera (salatut elämät) for few seconds as well, when they had episodes where two of the guys went to army, and I was in the army at the point and we were marching and some camera guys came and asked if they could get us on film a bit to show real marching, so.. I was in it!

... so my army career has been captured and showed on finnish soap opera

I was interviewed when I was 15 to local paper about hockey school I was in for a week that had few NHL instructors..

I think that's pretty much about it. How about you?

Ned · August 26, 2003, 04:45

I was on CBS Evening News in 1982. I have often been on local TV news, and have been quoted in national publications. When I was a kid, I was on a TV kid show.

Does this count?

Pekka · August 26, 2003, 04:47

Ned, Sure that counts! You're famous!

Why were you on CBS Evening News? Or in general in local news.. are you some kind of expert on some issue, and they want you to say your opinion or what?

Eli · August 26, 2003, 04:50

There is a picture of me as a baby in some Belorussian local newspaper.

Saras · August 26, 2003, 04:57

I'm quoted by our business daily 2-3 times a year.

Pekka · August 26, 2003, 05:01

Saras, really? Pretty cool. But you were some kind of economist, something to do with stocks? Any good tips? Any insider info? I need the money!

Eli, I bet you were naked in it.. or drooling

Paul Hanson · August 26, 2003, 05:54

I was photographed for the local paper when I was 5, winning the sack race at my school sports day. Christ knows why they didn't choose someone more photogenic.

FrustratedPoet · August 26, 2003, 06:19

I was interviewed on national TV for (funnily enough) almost exactly 15 minutes a few years ago. Well, that was my lot - a lifetime of obscurity awaits.

Pekka · August 26, 2003, 06:31

Hey guys tell us what was the thing about if you were on tv or interviewed...

Saras · August 26, 2003, 06:55

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Originally posted by Pekka
Saras, really? Pretty cool. But you were some kind of economist, something to do with stocks? Any good tips? Any insider info? I need the money!

Pekka · August 26, 2003, 06:57

Saras, *psst* I heard about this great new company.. Punisher Weapon Systems... I heard it's going to be the bomb! You should push it to clients a lot...

Saras · August 26, 2003, 07:00

BeBro · August 26, 2003, 07:33

I hadn´t those moments of fame yet. But i plan to publish a weird video showing me playing with a star wars light sabre....

Ned · August 26, 2003, 08:03

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Originally posted by Ned
I was on CBS Evening News in 1982. I have often been on local TV news, and have been quoted in national publications. When I was a kid, I was on a TV kid show.

Does this count?

In 1982, I was a lawyer representing a class of defendants in a class action. The issue was whether it was legal to have an attenna to receive HBO signals broadcast into the air, unscrambled. In my case, the judge threw the case out and chastised the GC of HBO. Later, Congress passed a law that broadcasters had to scramble their signals in order to acquire "exclusivity."

On other issues, I have been the leader of organizations and active in certain issues. I have been on Boards of this and Boards of that, etc. So I got quoted a lot.

Just a few weeks ago, a reporter was trying to get ahold of me to write a story. I declined to be interviewed.

Pekka · August 26, 2003, 08:06

Ned,

I never knew you were a lawyer and all kinds of stuff.. I thought you were 20+ student or something...
but hey you did have Vin Diesel avatar, so it's your own fault

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lightblue · August 26, 2003, 08:35

I have played in a number of nationally (Luxembourg

) televised basketball matches (cup finals, play off games) when I used to play basketball for Residence Walferdange. Was also a J16 and J17 Luxembourg national basketball team player.

Also was in the papers earlier for tennis and track and field.

Since coming to the UK the only papers i have been in is the University newspaper, once again for sport (basketball, and now rowing).

Stefu · August 26, 2003, 08:41

I might have spent some seconds on the screen - occassionally when the news did some piece about Finnish schools, they filmed in our school. Also, there's a yearly event in Joensuu, where all the kiddies in grades 1-6 go to a place called Laulurinne to sing a bunch of kiddy songs and it always rains - the news at 10 usually does a short piece about Laulurinne and they shortly show children singing there, incl, IIRC, me once.

Harovan · August 26, 2003, 08:55

I've been mentioned in local papers several times in my youth as chess player, but nothing that would exceed 5-10 lines at a time. Once with a picture, a crappy one of course, where I sweep the boards clean of some drunkards, who challenged me in a simultanous game in a local festival. I was in our national chess monthly with 2 self composed chess problems, which were ranked in a hungarian problem tournament. All this has been 20 years or more ago, and nothing of the glory remained

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Eli · August 26, 2003, 08:57

I thought Ned is ~25 years old too.

Skanky Burns · August 26, 2003, 09:02

I was included in a tourism advertisement for Darling Harbour in Sydney, and occupied a whole second of that 30 second ad.

I have still yet to get my other 14 minutes and 59 seconds of fame.

Asher · August 26, 2003, 09:16

Um...was on a local TV show called The Buckshot Show three times when I was a wee lad.

Three years ago, I was in flyers for Eatons wearing swim trunks, hoodies, khakis, and jeans.

Ecthy · August 26, 2003, 09:35

never ever, anything

my name's sure been in local news for prizes in local maths competitions and graduating from school (all graduates are listed in newspaper), but never a pic or anything in TV

Eli · August 26, 2003, 09:58

Now that I think about it, I was on some local TV news twice.

Once when I was about 12 years old and we had this special class for gifted children once a week... So one night, hmm, I dont even remember what we were doing but there was a TV crew there and they showed us on the local news.
Another time, couple years ago, we were doing a maths exam in school and a TV crew was filming us in the class.

Pekka · August 26, 2003, 10:03

Eli, I think you misspelled the special class.. wasn't it for how should I put it.. I mean you are special and we love you but wasn't it for.. challenged children?

Rex Little · August 26, 2003, 10:05

In order of appearance:

1. I was on a local kids' show at about age 9. My three brothers and I were all dressed up in these native costumes my grandfather brought back from some South Pacific island country. Looked like pajamas.

2. In college (1969), a hundred or so demonstrators took over the Student Union to protest the Vietnam war. A group of a dozen students, including myself, marched on the Student Union carrying signs which made fun of the protestors. When a TV news crew came by, the others pushed me out front as their spokesman. My face was on the news that night, but I was so incoherent (not angry, just confused and making no sense) that the station didn't play the audio.

3. I don't know if they still do this, but TV and radio stations used to air editorials, after which they would invite those with opposing views to reply. I was part of a libertarian group which would often reply to the welfare-statist positions taken by Boston stations. I personally got to read four or five of my rebuttals on the air.

4. I was a contestant on a game show called Cross-Wits, which ran for two or three years in the late '70s. My celebrity teammates were Bernie Koppel (Doc on "Love Boat") and Della Reese (great singer, later on "Touched by an Angel"). The opposing celebs were Fred Grandy (Gopher on "Love Boat", later a congressman) and Rhonda Bates (very tall redhead with a huge smile, played opposite Don Rickles on the sitcom "CPO Sharkey"). In the bonus round Bernie and I had to solve a 10-word crossword puzzle in 60 seconds. I burned through 9 words in half the time, but couldn't get the last one. He nailed it for me with 2 seconds left.

KrazyHorse · August 26, 2003, 10:17

Chronologically, I have appeared in:

1) CFCF12 news (ten second clip) for being a smartass to the reporter when they came to visit our class during a presentation regarding safety and electrical devices

2) The Montreal Gazette (full page story including large photograph on the third page of the paper) for giving a lecture in trig to a precal class at Dawson College when 11

3) TVQ coverage of the St. Patrick's day parade of 1998 (a glimpse of me from behind and audio from me) for singing and fiddling with my friends Mike and Caspian

4) CFCF12 News (3 second sound bite) for postulating that Quebecers lead the most active sex life of all Canadians due to "their French heritage". I'm particularly proud of this one.

It's possible that there have been other occasions, but I don't currently recall them.

Ecthy · August 26, 2003, 10:31

Pekka, I want to be honest, you disturb me more and more with every new thread that you post.

Pekka · August 26, 2003, 10:34

Ecthelion, why?

monolith94 · August 26, 2003, 10:37

I was famous quite a while, but in a very small area.

KrazyHorse · August 26, 2003, 10:42

Oh, yeah. I was also in the McGill newspaper a few years back for mentoring a robotics team in the Canada FIRST competition.