Fictional characters I have met,

[cccasooner2]

I have two.

1. In 1959 I was on a trip for getting a number of new subscribers for the Minneapolis Star and Tribune. One day a couple of us kids were checking out the library in our area of habitude (Hennepin Ave. :) ). Outside the library was an older guy (35-50) that was sitting on the curb reading a book that I had used in school and had a delivery boy bag around his neck. Naturally recognizing a comrade in our occupation, we started talking to him. We noticed a weird way he was holding one foot (bent inward and cocked at an angle) and asked him what happened. He said he broke it one night when he was “going home” in an abandoned building without lights and that was just the way it healed. Ten years later, there was an identical character (but from NYC), Ratso Rizzo in Midnight Cowboy.

2. In the 1970-72 time period, on one of my trips to the Hollywood Park racetrack, I did a double take on a guy that was a spitting image of Mole Man/Face in the Dick Tracy cartoon. I swear the guy must have been the model for the cartoonist.

Anyone have similar stories?

[StoopTroup]

On the way to Oahu from LA. Sitting right with us on the middle row of the wide body aircraft we were on is the BEASTMASTER and his Wife. ( Marc Singer).

We got to talk with them a bit while on the 9 hour flight. They live in Hawaii because his Wife was born there. Got quite a few tips about how to enjoy our week there without having to pay 1st class for coach service while there. Thx to them, we saved quite a bit of money and was able to have tons of fun everyday we were there without having them escort us around.

I'll always be in debt to them. Very nice couple.

[Tulsa_Fireman]

I dressed up as Tony the Tiger once for cash and many boxes of Kellogg's cereal.

Everyone wanted me to say the "They're GRRRRRREAT!" tagline but mascots in costumes aren't supposed to talk. Instead, I did crappy impersonations of Tony the Tiger all day.

That was twenty times better than the assfest mascot gig of "Doc Blades", the retarded OKC Blazers dog.

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Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger

Fictional because no matter how good the movie was, the jerk he is in real life erases that colorful storytelling.

[Mazeppa]

Kansas City Star,
Got a letter just this mornin’ it was postmarked Omaha
It was typed and neatly written offerin’ me this better job
Better job at higher wages, expenses paid and a car
But I’m on TV here locally and I can’t quit, I’m a star

Hah-ha I come on TV grinnin,’ wearin’ pistols and a hat
It’s a kiddy show and I’m a hero of the younger set
I’m the number one attraction every supermarket parkin’ lot
I’m the king of Kansas City, no thanks, Omaha, thanks a lot

CHORUS:
Kansas City star, that’s what I are
Yodel-deedle ay-hee, you oughta see my car
I drive a big old Cadillac with wire wheels, got rhinestones on the spokes
I got credit down at the grocery store
And my barber tells me jokes
I’m the number one attraction every supermarket parkin’ lot
I’m the king of Kansas City, no thanks, Omaha, thanks a lot

[cleller]

Anyone remember "Whadaya Mean Dean" from the Joseph Wambaugh book The Choirboys?

There was a guy very much like him in the police academy many years ago. We used to call him "The Condor".

[nighttrain12]

Rumble. I did all the talking though.

[KantoSooner]

Long ago, I dated a girl who wore one of chipmunk suits at Tokyo Disneyland as her day job. Does that count?

And no, try as I might, I couldn't get her to bring the suit home for the weekend.

[SicEmBaylor]

I've been to the Lincoln Memorial.

[Tulsa_Fireman]

I peed on the Lincoln Memorial.

[SanJoaquinSooner]

http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1317/1414121876_61f3133b49_z.jpg

A few years ago, we were at the Manns Chinese Theater in LA. There's always several celebrity look-a-likes there to pose with tourists - working for tips.

There was a Captain Jack Sparrow who posed with my son and had the character down so well - if you didn't know better - you'd think it was Johnny Depp himself. My son was so star-struck by the guy, it made his entire vacation.

I tipped the guy 5 bucks and I can't recall anyone being more appreciative. Probably a starving unemployed actor living the hard knocks.

I just pulled this pic off the internet - probably not the same look-a-like.

[Chuck Bao]

Very interesting question, cccasooner2.

I've met more than several Richards. This is from the book "The Beach" written by Alex Garland and subsequently the same-named film starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Richard.


My name is Richard. So what else do you need to know? Stuff about my family, or where I'm from? None of that matters. Not once you cross the ocean and cut yourself loose, looking for something more beautiful, something more exciting and yes, I admit, something more dangerous. So after eighteen hours in the back of an airplane, three dumb movies, two plastic meals, six beers and absolutely no sleep, I finally touch down; in Bangkok.

Seriously, if you have to literally fly across an ocean to find yourself, well good luck and safe travels!