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jasonv43
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11/18/2011 4:17pm
Since we know Ddavis from Vital. Can't we do some sort of 10 degrees of Kevin Bacon shit since he is pretty much friends with every celebrity / athlete you can think of?

Oh I did stand in line at a Starbucks in the Detroit airport behind Tito Ortiz and Jenna Jamison once.
11/19/2011 10:27am
Cooper was racing at a local track and they had a two lap mechanic/rider race for fun. I had let a friend of mine's son race my bike that day so I rode as the mechanic in a pair of shorts and smoked Cooper's first wife with enough of a lead for my friends son not to be overtaken by Cooper on the second lap. I also won the 1st annual Guy Cooper Invitational golf tourney (one shot from about 20 yards out onto a flatbed trailer with a flag on it. Chip shot onto the concrete and bounced up to rest within a foot of the flag.
TFS
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11/19/2011 10:45am Edited Date/Time 11/19/2011 10:46am
Apart from moto, I've seen some people in airports that everyone should know.

The tall actor that played Jaws in the James Bond movies lives in Coursegold, north of Fresno, and he got on a plane in Fresno I was on. They had to put him in the front row. The plane was delayed and he got impatient and stood up and went "Aaaarggghhhhh..." my cousin got married in Coursegold and I got there too late to get a seat, and I'm standing in the back, look behind me and it's Jaws.

I saw the boxing promoter Don King in Newark, fucker is tall.

In Houston Kareem Abdoul Jabar was waiting for a flight, and he looked uncomfortable because everyone was staring at him. I saw that tall Chinese basketball player going through security one time too, and Lyle Lovett in Houston-no one seemed to notice.

I got on a plane one time and that gay exercise guy Richard Simmons was in first class. He had both cabins cracking up by the time the flight was over.

Before the 98 season, I'm at the Osaka airport after world SX round 2 (Lusk's debut on the aluminum framed Hondas) and my ticket is an industry pass written for Tokyo. I'm trying to save money and avoid the price to take the bullet train and one more night in a hotel. If I can talk Northwest into letting me on, I can save one day and about $400.

I'm in line at the airport with Emig, and a cute Japanese chic that works for Northwest  comes over and can't believe Emig is in her line. She gets all excited, and I take a digi pic of her and Emig. She goes "if there is anything I can do for you, let me know.." I go "OK, my ticket is wrong, it says Tokyo.." she takes it to the boss and comes back with it marked in pencil for Osaka, so I'm on. Haha She also got an ass chewing for acting up in front of everyone because they are not supposed to show emotion like that in public, weird.
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11/19/2011 10:50am
TFS wrote:
Apart from moto, I've seen some people in airports that everyone should know. The tall actor that played Jaws in the James Bond movies lives in...
Apart from moto, I've seen some people in airports that everyone should know.

The tall actor that played Jaws in the James Bond movies lives in Coursegold, north of Fresno, and he got on a plane in Fresno I was on. They had to put him in the front row. The plane was delayed and he got impatient and stood up and went "Aaaarggghhhhh..." my cousin got married in Coursegold and I got there too late to get a seat, and I'm standing in the back, look behind me and it's Jaws.

I saw the boxing promoter Don King in Newark, fucker is tall.

In Houston Kareem Abdoul Jabar was waiting for a flight, and he looked uncomfortable because everyone was staring at him. I saw that tall Chinese basketball player going through security one time too, and Lyle Lovett in Houston-no one seemed to notice.

I got on a plane one time and that gay exercise guy Richard Simmons was in first class. He had both cabins cracking up by the time the flight was over.

Before the 98 season, I'm at the Osaka airport after world SX round 2 (Lusk's debut on the aluminum framed Hondas) and my ticket is an industry pass written for Tokyo. I'm trying to save money and avoid the price to take the bullet train and one more night in a hotel. If I can talk Northwest into letting me on, I can save one day and about $400.

I'm in line at the airport with Emig, and a cute Japanese chic that works for Northwest  comes over and can't believe Emig is in her line. She gets all excited, and I take a digi pic of her and Emig. She goes "if there is anything I can do for you, let me know.." I go "OK, my ticket is wrong, it says Tokyo.." she takes it to the boss and comes back with it marked in pencil for Osaka, so I'm on. Haha She also got an ass chewing for acting up in front of everyone because they are not supposed to show emotion like that in public, weird.
That's funny, I gave an ass chewing to a Japanese chick once, and she showed a lot of emotion too... wasn't really in public though so I didn't think much of it.

The Shop

11/19/2011 10:50am
Apart from moto...Alan Thicke from Growing Pains fame was on my flight to the Dominican Republic last week.

I flew to Dallas once with Gary Busey right in front of me.

I met Muhammed Ali in Chicago waiting for a flight.
ayearinmx
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11/19/2011 10:58am
when i was 18, i came to Cali and met Janine Lindemulder (RIP Danhalen).... do NOT google her at work.... i've also met Katie Price (Jordan) a few times...



also met a bunch of cool mx people, too numerous to mention
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11/19/2011 11:05am
I have met and raced against YOSHIHIDE FUKUDOME !!!
Shenzi
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11/19/2011 3:36pm
I work for a luxury safari company in Africa and got to take on safari, or sometimes only do the arrival briefing and departure debriefing for a few non-moto people like Martina Navratilova, Danny De Vito, Mr Tyson (of Tyson foods), Mrs. Clinton, Mrs McCain (husband wasn't there), my favorite one was doing the briefings for Joe Montana and his family, spent 5 days with Prince Charles and the boys (they were kids at the time) and even flew in the Challenger that took him to East Africa, crashed a plane with Jeff Skilling (of Enron fame), there were others, but I forgot.

In moto, I met a few guys since Wink
OW38B
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11/19/2011 4:09pm Edited Date/Time 11/19/2011 4:51pm
Let's see,

I have been to Dennis Millers house a few times, Dennis is a cool dude.

Mary Hart & Burt Sugarman's house at the Big Horn country club.

Ron Burkle's house in La Costa, (estimated net worth of $3.2 billion in 2011) we got to talking a bit about politics and mentioned I thought Bill Clinton was a boob.......didn't know at the time Ron and Bill were pals. I think i have an FBI file now.

Jim Burrows house, produced Cheers, Will and Grace and others.

In the MX world, most of the older MXers at one time or another.

And new MXers these two cool cats:





And almost forgot Sal, cool as hell. Thanks GuyB for hooking me up for the event!

dv12.com
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11/19/2011 4:49pm
Briana Banks used to call my house at the butt crack of dawn to wake me up...
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11/19/2011 4:58pm
dv12.com wrote:
Briana Banks used to call my house at the butt crack of dawn to wake me up...
Dude, have you seen pics of her lately? Oh man, the before/after would make a good poster on saying NO to drugs.
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11/19/2011 5:05pm
dv12.com wrote:
Briana Banks used to call my house at the butt crack of dawn to wake me up...
Rizzo wrote:
Dude, have you seen pics of her lately? Oh man, the before/after would make a good poster on saying NO to drugs.
Danm.........the girl used to be just a sweetheart.
MxNate701
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11/19/2011 5:21pm
Regis wrote:
I just got to hang out with Dave Castillo for 9 weeks.
My wife and I sponsored Regis back in the day, blew that kid up, now he's huge. Oh yeah and the time MC helped Andy load my bike at Comp Park after I broke my shoulder, so much pain but so awesome, thanks MC!
Regis
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11/19/2011 7:13pm
Regis wrote:
I just got to hang out with Dave Castillo for 9 weeks.
MxNate701 wrote:
My wife and I sponsored Regis back in the day, blew that kid up, now he's huge. Oh yeah and the time MC helped Andy load...
My wife and I sponsored Regis back in the day, blew that kid up, now he's huge. Oh yeah and the time MC helped Andy load my bike at Comp Park after I broke my shoulder, so much pain but so awesome, thanks MC!
Haha! This is true!!!! Nate, if I remember correctly, the other thread i started about the best holeshots.... I was on your bike in Mammoth.

Smile .


Thanks brother, will never forget NJS
bobby397
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11/19/2011 7:56pm
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Rode practice with Kevin walker, Damon Bradshaw , Larry ward at a local race in 2000 or 2001. Raced broc helper and he lapped me and...
Rode practice with Kevin walker, Damon Bradshaw , Larry ward at a local race in 2000 or 2001. Raced broc helper and he lapped me and I never crashed once. Ryan mills stuffed me at a LL regional on the first lap taking me down. A younger James bubba Stewart passed me during a track walk at gatorback while he was walking his English bulldog. Had pastrana and whitmore come to my pits at LL'S to visit their friends ( the day family) from Maryland.
What track ? I got to ride practice with them at Parker Valley
Devils ridge, I believe it was the same race where damon re broke his leg during the first moto, first turn.
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11/19/2011 9:30pm
snuck into pro practice adelento golden state race 1989. got passed by bradshaw, ward, johnson, stanton, dymond, brooks,lechein, all the big wheels of the era. i wasnt havn fun. it scared me shitless and was a stupid move.me and my freind who was a pro drove 26 straight hrs from red deer alberta canada to hit that race. the amateurs raced the day before .,i was anxious to ride. hadnt ridden in two months. i was a mid pack intermediate in canada, i was way outa my league!!!!
mx_563
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11/20/2011 2:40am
I raced against a pretty famous industry insider and former pro (hint....he won four Manitoba titles and went out for practice with Stanton on a muddy day at the Millville 500cc National, now he just Twitters a lot). It was at the World Vets in 2007 and he was racing the NOVICE class. I gave him a bunch of shit and hate to beat a dead horse but I couldn't believe "Mr. 4 Manitoba Titles" signed up to race Novice. I hope other industry insiders are reading this and give him shit. Ha ha!!! Freaking Maffus!

Another one was when I was living in Germany in 2001 and drove to Belgium for the MXGP at Spa-Francorchamps. I was camping in the woods next to the track and saw a small group of people camping nearby with a US flag. I walked over and started talking to the dudes and realized 10 minutes into the conversation that I was talking with Trampas Parker, who was camping with his pals before racing the 500 class the following day. This was at the end of his career, during the dark 1-moto format days of the GPs. He was totally cool and I'll never forget that.

One more....interviewed for a job a A-stars once and had a one-on-one with Gabrielle Mazarollo. I was pretty intimidated.

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