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I can’t actually remember if I’ve bumped into anybody famously beautiful — I’ve seen many renditions of “Wow, that’s the most beautiful human I’ve ever seen,” but it’s always some random non-famous person.

I have a friend who’s a semi-big deal in the poker world. He has received hugs from Jennifer Tilly and Shannon Elizabeth.
 
Unfortunately, this wasn't me - it was a buddy of mine. He was at a youth hockey tournament in metro Detroit, as was Elle Macpherson, whose son was playing. He got a picture with her, and said she was very nice about it.
Her son (stepson, technically) is a 2003-born who played for Belle Tire.

I coached a 2003-born team in my area and we saw that team at two tournaments in Toronto but alas, there was no sign of her.
 
Not at all a random brush because she was making a paid appearance, but I met Racquel Darrian at the now-shuttered House of Lancaster in Toronto.
 
For some inexplicable reason, Christie Brinkley was a guest of David Wells' at a Red Sox game in 2005. I sure hope they weren't dating. Anyway, he couldn't show her around that locker room fast enough. She was still stunning even at *goes to Wiki* 51 which holy **** she's 68 now, *******.

But the single-most beautiful woman I've ever seen in person is Eliza Dushku, also at a Red Sox game, in 2007. My goodness.
 
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I can’t actually remember if I’ve bumped into anybody famously beautiful — I’ve seen many renditions of “Wow, that’s the most beautiful human I’ve ever seen,” but it’s always some random non-famous person.

I have a friend who’s a semi-big deal in the poker world. He has received hugs from Jennifer Tilly and Shannon Elizabeth.

I briefly ran into Shannon Elizabeth years ago in Vegas at the WSOP.

Statuesque, and extremely cool for how famous she was at the time.
 
For some inexplicable reason, Christie Brinkley was a guest of David Wells' at a Red Sox game in 2005. I sure hope they weren't dating. Anyway, he couldn't show her around that locker room fast enough. She was still stunning even at *goes to Wiki* 51 which holy **** she's 68 now, *******.

But the single-most beautiful woman I've ever seen in person is Eliza Dushku, also at a Red Sox game, in 2007. My goodness.
Christie Brinkley's nephew played one season for the junior hockey team I worked for. Sadly she never made an appearance at one of our games.
 
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The AVN Festival?
Ha Ha. It was NATPE
 
I remember a comment from a crew member on "Baywatch." With all the spectacular women on that show, the guy said that they had the most trouble (read: were most distracted) when they shot at Huntington Beach. The locals stole the show from the stars.
 
A friend of mine from Spokane told me Rod Stewart's kid played junior hockey there and his mom, Rachel Hunter (Stacy's mom), would show up to games regularly. He said he most definitely had it going on.
I was behind her at the checkout one day at the Publix on Palm Beach and...she was definitely not what I was expecting. But then again, she was making a grocery store run so who could blame her?
 
I was behind her at the checkout one day at the Publix on Palm Beach and...she was definitely not what I was expecting. But then again, she was making a grocery store run so who could blame her?

"I couldn't believe my good fortune. I was a student at a large southern coastal university just looking to stock up for a storm when I met her at the Publix. She asked me about her melons. Soon, I was showing her my eggplant."
 
"I couldn't believe my good fortune. I was a student at a large southern coastal university just looking to stock up for a storm when I met her at the Publix. She asked me about her melons. Soon, I was showing her my eggplant."
"I always thought your letters were fake until this happened to me...."
 
I can’t actually remember if I’ve bumped into anybody famously beautiful — I’ve seen many renditions of “Wow, that’s the most beautiful human I’ve ever seen,” but it’s always some random non-famous person.

I have a friend who’s a semi-big deal in the poker world. He has received hugs from Jennifer Tilly and Shannon Elizabeth.

"A football salesman"
 
I can’t actually remember if I’ve bumped into anybody famously beautiful — I’ve seen many renditions of “Wow, that’s the most beautiful human I’ve ever seen,” but it’s always some random non-famous person.

Years ago, my then-elementary school daughter had a best friend and my wife met the friend's mom. Wife came home and said "she's the most beautiful woman I've ever seen." I'd never heard her say that before and haven't heard it since. When I finally met her, well, the wife was right. She was stunning and also the touchy-feely type, quick with a hug or a random touch. Just ... dangerous. And single.

A while later, the wife took a job up north and moved, and I stayed back to sell the house and let our daughter finish the calendar year at school. That included Halloween trick-or-treating with daughter, friend and the mom. The mom brought beer and insisted we stop at my house for more while we were out. By the end of the night we were both hammered but still had our moral compasses, though I sure had some thoughts of breaking mine.
 
My wife and I were in Cleveland during the Eastern Conference Finals during the LeBron era, walking to dinner. We went past the building where all the athletes live. There is a pack of incredibly attractive women in dresses standing in front of the building. I have no idea what the strategy was, but they had one. Women who just don’t show up on street corners in Ohio. From a distance, I’m wearing some loud douchey shirt that a 28-year old douchey Hermes would wear and my wife was wearing roughly what a personal assistant would be wearing. So from a city block away…maybe Johnny Manziel is walking this way. As we near the building, women start “posing.” As we get closer and it’s clear I am a regular five-digit earning loser, one of them starts to turn away and says “I thought he was somebody.”
Right in front of me.

It’s the single loudest laugh I’ve ever heard my wife produce.

It’s all been downhill from there, ego-wise.
 

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