Drop the name! Drop it now!
This isn’t the Sherri Talley Jones Smith, etc. kind of name-dropping designed to simplify the lives of women who just want to be who they were born to be. No, this is the kind where people (you know them) casually mention the name of a celebrity they “know” in an effort to seem more important. That kind can be annoying. It leaves you with a name-dropping gone bad sort of feeling.
If used creatively, the art of name-dropping can be very effective and entertaining. For instance, remember the 1988 vice presidential debate where Lloyd Bentsen said to Dan Quayle, “I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you’re no Jack Kennedy.” Another example of name-dropping gone good is what takes place in the newsroom. Subjects and people are artfully discussed with reckless abandon and very thoroughally, so as to ‘get the facts’. Yeah, we’re just doing our jobs.
With that in mind, who do you know? I’ll get us started. I went to school with Jane Spaulding Carter, the controversial mother of Aaron Carter and Nick Carter (Backstreet Boys). Her father was my English teacher and I had a crush on her brother. Just a crush. See, there are some people in the world I haven’t married. One less name for me to have to drop from the lineup. So, now you go. Drop that name!
December 19th, 2007 at 10:52 am
I once worked with Sherri Ann Talley Waggoner Allen Allen Talley Smith Jones. President Nixon once told her that she was a cute baby. Therefore, I am 1 degree away from President Nixon.
December 19th, 2007 at 12:17 pm
I was once roomates with one of the best counterfeiters of all time. His work is still displayed in Wahington as one of the top 12.
Oh, and I am also Sherri’s brother.
December 19th, 2007 at 4:34 pm
I’m married to Michael Moore…”THE” Michael Moore! Haaa!!
December 19th, 2007 at 4:39 pm
Oh and LindsAy is my “mama”. Don’t ask, you’re better off not knowing. Haaa!! Hi “mama”!
December 19th, 2007 at 5:58 pm
I once rode with George Foreman in his pickup truck on his farm in Marshall, Texas and helped him feed cattle. This was after his first retirement from boxing. I think it was 1978?
December 19th, 2007 at 7:24 pm
RT, that’s the year I was born (AKA-When you found your purpose in life!)
December 19th, 2007 at 7:25 pm
“Hi, Erin!”
December 19th, 2007 at 9:50 pm
RT: I was not born till the year after!
LindsAy I understand that YOU are the real reason Jim McCrery is retiring…you should be ashamed of yourself. I bet David Vitter would let you “work” for him!!
December 19th, 2007 at 10:26 pm
I ran into Randy Quaid at a K&B in New Orleans when he was on SNL, picked up Tony Dorsett from the Shreveport airport so he could make an appearance at Pat Tilley’s football camp at Southfield, sat next to Deion”Prime Time Sanders at a suite in the Superdome during a Saints game, met Eli Manning at Maximo’s in the FQ in N.O., interviewed Robert Parish for that esteemed publication the Conglomerate, worked with Bob Barker when he brought his Bob Barker’s Fun and Games show to Shreveport, asked out Olympic Bronxe Medalist Kathy Johnson ( she said no), and was thrown a single tootsie roll by Sherry Talley from a float she was riding in the Bossier Christmas parade. There are other names but I assured those ladies that I was a gentleman.
December 20th, 2007 at 11:32 am
Not that I am proud of this but I am a Talley. Jane Carter (Aaron and Nick Carter’s mom) and I would sit on the back of the bus before our basketball games of which we played and drink alcohol. My father actually gave me 300 little airplane bottle of alcohol of which Jane and I consumer lot of.
I am actually friends with the girl who the cooking spray PAM was named after. No joke.
I also met Aiden Quinn in his trahailer as he was filming “A Hand Maids Tale” in Durham
December 20th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
That explains why you were so good at basketball.
December 20th, 2007 at 2:02 pm
Suzie…is her name Pam?
December 20th, 2007 at 4:21 pm
i once saw goober pyle going up an escalator while i was going down the corresponding escalator in the k.c. airport. i yelled, ‘judy, judy, judy,’ to him. he was not amused. i met the man whom the George Foreman Grill was named after.
December 21st, 2007 at 9:48 am
And P.S.-Suzie, WHY were you in Aidan Quinn’s “trahailer”?!?!?
December 21st, 2007 at 10:47 am
Haaa!! The second assistant director actually asked me to be a hanmaid in the movie. Of which I said uhn “unh unh oh no you dint just ax me to be a handmaid..you better recognize!
Anyway walked around and the SA Director introduced me.
December 21st, 2007 at 12:18 pm
You get points for using the phrase “unh unh oh no you dint just ax me …”
I think someone is going to get an extra tube of Cortizone in their stocking this year from Santa!
December 21st, 2007 at 8:01 pm
The only famous people that I can remember encountering other than a few various politicians and NCAA coaches/athletes was Bradley Whitford & Jane Kaczmarek. They were at The Four Seasons where Heather and I got married in Maui. They congratulated us after the wedding.
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Suzie, didn’t your kid’s run into Kevin Bacon on the elevator at the Grand Wailea in Maui. Seems like I remember them saying something funny to him but I can’t remember what.
December 22nd, 2007 at 5:23 pm
Cortizone explanation: Suzie was staying with me once and brushed her teeth with Cortisone. She claims it was an accident.
December 22nd, 2007 at 9:03 pm
Ok, I have met Terry Bradshaw (didn’t date him like Sher), Bob Newhart, Sugar Ray Leonard, Regis Philbin (twice), Spencer Christian (weatherman on GMA), Rita Moreno (the only person to win a grammy, tony and oscar i think), Jerry Van Dyke (asshole) and hot hot hottie Carter Osterhouse on HGTV.
December 22nd, 2007 at 9:18 pm
Mel, I thought you used to hang with Bobby Sherman.
December 22nd, 2007 at 11:38 pm
Wait a minute! If we are going to put down people we’ve ‘met’ I could go on for years!
December 22nd, 2007 at 11:39 pm
I could also open a category that stated…..”Celebrities I’ve Slept With!”
December 22nd, 2007 at 11:40 pm
I could also start a category that says…..”Politicians I’ve Slept With.”
December 22nd, 2007 at 11:40 pm
Then again I could start a category that is titled…..”The Millions That Have Rejected Me.”
December 23rd, 2007 at 12:36 am
1) Yeah, Mel. What happened to Bobby Sherman?
2) Two dinner dates doesn’t constitute dating, does it?
3) rt, you’re in charge of categories now.
December 26th, 2007 at 5:04 pm
My cousin is the young lady who made it big in the movie and Broadway Production “Miss Saigon”. Her name is Lea Solanga. She’s most noted for her role as the singing voice of Jasmine off of the Disney animated movie “Alladin”!
She once did a Christmas special with Pebo Bryson, therefore, I met him as well? LOL Maybe not exactly how that works.
Another one is simple. I used to coach one of the girls from Danity Kane. That’s the group made up of five women from MTV’s Making The Band 3.
December 26th, 2007 at 8:48 pm
Welcome, Will! What type of coaching for the girl in Danity Kane?
December 27th, 2007 at 4:37 pm
I never met Bobby Sherman Lindz but my true crush was Tom Jones. I had a poster of him in my bedroom.
Haven’t seen MTV’s Making the band 3 but I did enjoy Alladin.
December 27th, 2007 at 4:45 pm
Love is like candy on a shelf…
December 27th, 2007 at 8:12 pm
I coached her when she was a cheerleader at De La Salle High School in New Orleans. I was their “big bro” at WSA (Worldwide Spirit Association) Cheer Camp in Tall Timbers in the summer of 2000. That year, she also made all stars and got to perform at the Citrus Bowl Half Time for New Year’s 2001.
P.S. Yes I was a cheerleader! LOL
December 28th, 2007 at 4:55 pm
You have to fight fight fight maroon and white white white we are on the road road road to victory…. does that sound familiar?
December 28th, 2007 at 7:10 pm
Big M that sounds vaguely familiar. LOL However, do note, I only coached them at camp. They did bring a recording of their fight song for the home routine competition!
December 28th, 2007 at 8:11 pm
If anyone is interested, Dawn Richard, the girl I coached, her myspace is http://www.myspace.com/dawnrichard
January 2nd, 2008 at 10:02 am
I just remembered another one. Junior Seau, now playinig for the undefeated Patriots, was in Dickie Brennan’s eating. At that time he was with the Dolphins and they were playing the Saints.
I was with a group of guys and we had killed a few bottles of wine and one of them, a prominent Shreveporter who will remain nameless, started yelling Junior.
To Mr. Seau’s credit he did not respond and we all walked out intact.
January 2nd, 2008 at 10:03 am
Sherri, if you want to know who the guy yelling was I will tell you as I know you can protect a source.
January 2nd, 2008 at 3:34 pm
Big M, you can trust me. I’m a reporter.
January 2nd, 2008 at 10:24 pm
I was cleaning my desk today when a coworker asked if I’d clean his. I said, “What does it pay?” He said, “The same thing you’re making now.” Anyway, it made me think of my first job when I was 13. I was a maid in a resort hotel in Upstate NY. I cleaned rooms where Bill Cosby and Aretha Franklin stayed (not together). Aretha had candles and chocolates in her room and yes, I swiped a chocolate. I’ve since learned to be more R-E-S-P-E-C-T ful.
January 2nd, 2008 at 10:27 pm
I guess I almost knew Madonna. One of my college roommates went to the same high school that she did - but of course we were YEARS younger. But she had a picture of Madonna - who’s other name I can’t remember (see post under the name thread) - in her yearbook. Does that count?
January 3rd, 2008 at 2:44 pm
I rode in a limo that Madonna had ridden in? Does that count? I mean if we are counting cleaning the rooms people stayed in and going to the same school then where does it end? Now my list is going to get a whole lot longer. I’m sure David Lee Roth had to have been upstairs in Humphrees one of the nights I was there.