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Offline Tyler

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Have you ever felt like a celebrity?
« on: January 20, 2013, 10:01:05 PM »
The other night I was out with my business partner having a beer to discuss a business meeting that we had just had with a new client.  We had been in the saloon a while and were kind of sitting near the front door.  I looked up and saw two guys walking toward me with shaved heads and one of them asked if I was Tyler from SBG.  It turns out it was a member from a while back, Time2Shine.  He had asked to take a picture and we chatted a bit before him and his friend left.  It was funny, for a moment I felt like a celebrity...mostly because he asked for a picture and other people were trying to figure out why.

Have any of you had an experience that made you feel like a celebrity?
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Re: Have you ever felt like a celebrity?
« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2013, 10:07:05 PM »
Once, about 15 years ago when I was doing some volunteer work at the maritime museum in San Francisco.
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Re: Have you ever felt like a celebrity?
« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2013, 10:32:03 PM »
I've been told I look similar to Vin diesel, and also Jesse James of West Coast Choppers!
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Re: Have you ever felt like a celebrity?
« Reply #3 on: January 21, 2013, 05:25:10 AM »
Oh Hell no! People usually look at me and try to vacate the area immediately. I'm like the "anti-celebrity".
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Re: Have you ever felt like a celebrity?
« Reply #4 on: January 21, 2013, 08:43:53 AM »
Every now and again, someone will recognize me as the author of my books. No one's asked for photos though.
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Offline VoodooSyxx

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Re: Have you ever felt like a celebrity?
« Reply #5 on: January 21, 2013, 02:32:24 PM »
On occasion I suppose. At my favorite pub I generally get something like the Norm from Cheers reaction. Everyone there seems to know me from many many nights there doing stupid things with my friends.
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Re: Have you ever felt like a celebrity?
« Reply #6 on: January 21, 2013, 03:03:02 PM »
I used to get Matthew Brodrick when I had hair. I don't get any comments now.
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Re: Have you ever felt like a celebrity?
« Reply #7 on: January 21, 2013, 04:48:23 PM »
In the past (not recently), when I had some hair on occasion, I was more than once told I looked like Donald Sutherland.  I can't see it myself, but it did happen independently those times.
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Re: Have you ever felt like a celebrity?
« Reply #8 on: January 21, 2013, 11:17:45 PM »
Didn't he used to live in Seattle?

 I do get that feeling every once in awhile. I frequent some poultry forums and I have a unique user name (flyingmonkeypoop), everyone loves the name and I always post. I was at a show this past spring when I heard "Look! It's Mike the flyingmonkeypoop!" then I was surrounded by a few people all getting their pics taken with me and a couple folks offering to pay for my lunch, it was pretty awesome.
 Then, I had a few moments locally. I have a page on facebook that I made as part of an inside joke. It all started off when one of my old coworkers asked why I did something, I told them because "I do what I want!" which started it all. Now I have the Mike Friggin Baker page on facebook and a handful of tshirts out there with my pic and "I'm Mike friggin Baker" on the front and "...and I do what I want!" on the back. Anyway, in the Inlander which is a local paper that has the I saw you/You saw me section, there was someone that posted that they saw a guy wearing a Mike friggin Baker shirt that was clearly not me and they wanted to hang out. After that, I had tons of people 'like' my page and folks come into my store and request pics with me for no reason at all.
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Re: Have you ever felt like a celebrity?
« Reply #9 on: January 22, 2013, 11:48:25 AM »
It's an old picture of me, but a friend of mine now officially calls me Willie.

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Re: Have you ever felt like a celebrity?
« Reply #10 on: January 27, 2013, 11:13:21 AM »
Yeah. Especially when the local skinheads spot me... lol.
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