I’ll go first, to set the tone:

Tay Zonday of ‘Chocolate Rain’ fame used to follow me on Twitter. 💪

  • WibblyMcButternutz@lemmy.world
    40·
    17 days ago

    I ran in a 10km race and ended up taking a wrong turn. Everyone behind followed me. A small local newspaper interviewed me. I ended up in a quick tv segment and had a small write up in the paper.

    • Thaurin@lemmy.world
      7·
      16 days ago

      Hahaha, that happened to me as well, although nobody followed me. I ended up in the marathon race, for which I hadn’t trained, so after 30 km (!) I had to finally give up and ride back in shame in the car they had at that station together with the others that didn’t made it.

      I did run the marathon a few years later.

  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
    32·
    17 days ago

    The Daily Show flew out to my hometown for an investigative report on stolen Crimewatch signs.

    I still have mine.

  • Dhar@lemmy.ca
    29·
    16 days ago

    I worked with Linus Torvalds, met Carl Sagan, and caught a cold from Danny Elfman.

  • phanto@lemmy.ca
    25·
    16 days ago

    I encoded one of the very first mp3’s ever made, when it was still a “theoretical” model by Fraunhofer. I sung “I will survive” but in my very bad impression of William Shatner, accidentally posted it many years later on Napster, and found that copy following around many years after that on a torrent site. So, if you have a very old, very fake “Shatner” singing “I Will Survive”, it might be me.

  • DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world
    22·
    17 days ago

    I’ve made breakfast for LeBron James, Kevin Love and also Denzel Washington. I was the breakfast cook in a hotel they stayed at. LeBron was a dick, never even said thank you. Denzel and Kevin were some of the nicest humans I’ve ever met.

    • 2piradians@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      16 days ago

      No matter how many records James sets, Jordan will always be considered the greatest. Maybe it makes him sullen, but he should have worked on being more charismatic instead.

      • DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world
        3·
        16 days ago

        Whole heartedly agree with this. As an immigrant, back home, everyone knew Jordan, Michael Jackson and Mohammed Ali. I’ve even watched Ali’s fights on VHS tape (if that’s the correct term for the old video tapes) back in the 80s when I was a little kid. I did the same with Jordan’s games later on. I’ve listened to Jackson songs and danced (horribly) with them (to them?). In my country now, hardly anyone knows James, or any of the new generation.

  • Tedesche@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    16 days ago

    I have improved the lives of many people in small ways via my job as a therapist. The best part is that I know this for a fact by seeing the improvement over time. Therapy is, in some respects, about re-parenting people; the damage you help heal is intimate and permanent. You help people grow, literally. Very rewarding, again, in the long run.

    • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
      3·
      17 days ago

      I always tried to get pictures of my end screens so I could send them in. Never actually mailed one, I don’t think.

  • Tehhund@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    15 days ago

    ESPN sent some poor intern to film a goofy segment at my college before a big game. People had no idea why he and the cameraman were there and were kind of weirded out by it, so I went up to ask what was going on. I thought I might have to tell them to leave. He explained that they were just trying to film something goofy so I volunteered to help and got a bunch of students in on it. The segment was as dumb as you would expect, but good enough to fill time on the Cold Pizza morning show. ESPN mailed me a tape of the segment to say thanks.

    So I guess I was on national TV.