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Jul 18, 2005, 4:05am

Have you ever had a celebrity encounter? If so state them, seems like a cool
topic!

Me, I met Bruce Willis while working at a theme park 2 summers ago, I gave
him and his kids a ride on the bumper boats lol.

And I saw Mark Fuhrman (OJ Simpson trial prosecutor) at a safeway store like
8-9 years ago shopping for something.

Jul 18, 2005, 5:49am

I didn't know this newsgroup was a base for girl magazines X_X

Apparently my cousin spoke to Vanessa of big brother
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Jul 18, 2005, 7:13am

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- Mark Randall
http://zetech.swehli.com

Jul 18, 2005, 9:46am

O-o YAY!

Ok, anywho...

2001 - Robbie Williams
2003early - Lenny Henry (Comedian)
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Ry
Blog: http://ryslifeagain.blogspot.com
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Jul 18, 2005, 10:12am

About 10 - 15 yrs ago, I managed a liquor store.
We're short-handed one day, so I'm working one of the cash registers, which
also means I have my back to the front windows.
This familiar looking guy comes up to my register and sets his purchases on
the counter.

Now, I live in a very small 'burb right outside of Chicago. One of those
towns were everybody pretty much knows everybody else. It's killing me that
I can't place this guy. From where do I know him?

He pays cash for his purchase and walks out the door. All my stock handlers
are looking out the front windows and yelling,
"WOW!!! Look at their bus!!"
"Their bus is in our parking lot!!!"
"How cool is THAT?"

I turn around, look out the window, my jaw drops and I smack myself on the
head.
The Moody Blues touring bus is parked right outside.
I had just sold a bottle of Cuervo Gold and a fresh lime to Justin Hayward.

D'OH >_<


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Jul 18, 2005, 11:57am

I spoke to David Bowie a few years back about Active Worlds. Expressed how
I thought it'd be a good business decision and tried to persuade him to
purchase a world, galaxy, uni ..... He decided to go to Worlds at
http://www.worlds.net/ . I think it was because of the naughty teens in
AW.

Jul 18, 2005, 4:22pm

Have you ever been to Worlds? I have. Chances are he joined up with them
because of their outstanding avs and the incredible mirror reflections. You
not only can change your av whenever or however you want, but you can use
that same av or choose from your OWN list of saved customized avs anytime
you wish and in any world you wish. I highly doubt it had ANYTHING to do
with "naughty teens" in AW as you put it. And also Worlds had streaming
media lonnnng before AW had it which made playing music videos MUCH easier,
not as laggy. AND I've been to Bowie's world in Worlds. There, the worlds
are free. You don't get as much land as in AW. Heck the worlds in Worlds
aren't much bigger than a large plot of land we can easily get in alpha
world. And building is much more complicated than in AW. But I'm sure all he
was concerned about was the more realistic avs there and the streaming
media/video/music that advertises his talents. By the way, he wasn't the
only celebrity to buy into Worlds. Aerosmith
(http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/5919238 were also big fans of
Worlds. So were Hanson and Britney Spears.
(http://www.worlds.com/news/prarchive.html)

I was a member in Worlds for a period of about 5 months a little over a year
ago. I asked numerous people when they last "chatted" with any celebs and
they told me it was years. Interesting thing about Worlds is that ANYBODY
can go there and pretend to be a celeb. Nobody will doubt the facade. You
can have numerous accounts/names there and unlike AW, your name does not
change automatically in people's contact lists. And like I mentioned, you
can customize yer av ANY way you like and save it and others and take them
with you when you teleport to other worlds. Everyone also gets a huge list
of every imaginable sequence (PG rated of course) there is, to use with any
av at any time.

Cons: Building is only relegated to a "World" which is very small in
comparison with a large plot of land in alpha world. The act of building
itself is very complicated. You need to dl the program needed to do it and
it takes a rocket scientist to figure it out on your own compared to AW.
True the avs ARE by far the best I've ever seen in a 3D VR program and
customizable too. Even the outfits are customizable with hundreds of
different textures and alot of different styles. Or your av can go nude, but
those textures suck for some reason compared with the ones I've seen in some
worlds in AW. However despite the incredible avs, and the mirrors, those are
the ONLY outstanding feature in Worlds. Most places are very laggy. Before
visiting another build you HAVE to dl a seperate file of
textures/objects/media otherwise it just doesn't render. Just going thru a
door requires a seperate dl. When visiting alot of worlds there it's VERY
laggy, especially GZ. You can't fly. You can "float" but only if you change
a setting for the altitude you want to be in. You can't just hit an arrow
key and go up or down. And alot of the "worlds" you get there are exact
duplicates of GZ or one of the main worlds there. They are prebuilt but you
can change SOME things. Weird thing is there is also some kind of time warp
thingie there too. You can be standing in your OWN version of GZ (your own
world) and STILL be surrounded by people who are in another GZ.

In other words, Bowie and Aerosmith are probably not there anymore. And AW
still has more bang for the buck. But it would be nice if Uncle ENZO would
improve the avs a bit more so we can catch up with Worlds' avs (which are
about 5 years old by the way). ^_^


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Jul 18, 2005, 4:36pm

The longest off-the-topic post in the world that :P

Jul 18, 2005, 5:15pm

OMG I saw Fredryk Phox in a chatroom once.

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Jul 18, 2005, 5:20pm

I was kidding about the teens. Does anyone have a sense a humore anymore?
*sighs* Worlds is horrible.

Jul 18, 2005, 5:38pm

I made a custom avatar, a pink flamingo, for Michale Nessmeth, from The
Monkeys, ( please excuse the spelling if I got the name wrong :) about 7 or
8 years ago here in AW. I didn't actually meet "him" because I was dealing
with his partner at the time, but I thought that was kind of cool :) Since
then he and his partner has moved on to their own AW Uni. I don't recall the
name of the uni since it's been so long ago tho. Are there any other celebs
in AW, I wonder?

Imagine

Jul 18, 2005, 7:03pm

Michael Nesmith
(trust me on this one)

I was a HUGE Monkees fan.
*turns red*

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Jul 18, 2005, 8:32pm

I was a big fan too, still am, but my spelling sucks anyway lol

Jul 19, 2005, 11:36am

yeah I guess I DID get a bit carried away! LOL! Sorry folks >_<


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Jul 20, 2005, 2:49am

wonder why he didnt ask for a monkey then LOL
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Jul 20, 2005, 5:38pm

LOL

That was because they had a world that had a tropic island theme. It was for
advertising stuff for a business they have outside AW. They needed a
flamingo for the island :)

Imagine

Jul 20, 2005, 11:24pm

I dated Martha Quinn (from the old MTV music show) when I attended college
in NY city. She went on to marry Bobby Brady from the Brady Bunch.
Pfft...her loss.......(whimper)

Oh yeah and Paul Tutle (Orange County Choppers) lives about 20 minutes from
me. We're not talking anymore.


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