Yesterday at work, this lady was explaining that she recently was on NPR explaining how she helped create spell check. She was saying that she hoped this was not her 15 minutes of fame (as Andy Warhol would say) and hoped to be remembered for something else. It got me thinking, have I had my 15 minutes of fame?
The only thing that I could think of was during the 3rd grade when I was interviewed by the Deseret News after my school group went to go hear President Regan speak at the American Legion Conference. The paper quoted me as saying that I thought President Regan was boring and that I would rather be in school than listen to the President. Now, I rally don't remember what I said (my BYU friends know that I sometimes have a hard time expressing my feelings and often make offensive remarks without realizing it), but I meant to say the American Legion speakers were boring instead. They published my remarks on the front page of the paper, with a caption that said; see if you can find the boy who would rather be in school than hear the President speak. Needless to say, I was not happy and it must have been a big shock in a very Republican state with a popular President. This was my first experience with the "liberal" media and might count as my 15 minutes of fame. I sure hope not.
Do you think your 15 minutes of fame has already happened? If so, what was it?
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probably the closest thing I've experienced was being one of the leads in my 2nd grade play "Spring" I was The Robin and sang a song called "La La La La It's Springtime Now." Surprisingly we never made it to broadway. Oh wait. The most famous I ever was was when my car accident at 16 made the front page of the local newspaper with my entire name and age printed. The driver's ed teacher hung it up in the classroom.
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