Orbitz pulled the same trick on us, I think with United. When you get to the airport for the first leg, ask the gate agent to give you seat assignments for the next flight. It's worth a try.
Don't kill anyone if you don't have to. We're here to make a deal.
Mal ,'Serenity'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Dana - Dec 31, 2009 5:30:35 pm PST #28525 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Liese S. - Dec 31, 2009 5:31:32 pm PST #28526 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Hee! Is it the same shield that keeps it perfect weather almost every time?
Kinda oddly, that was me and Eric Idle.
I woulda been the same way. I mean, seriously, it's Eric Idle!
§ ita § - Dec 31, 2009 5:35:45 pm PST #28527 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I mean, seriously, it's Eric Idle!
I just wouldn't have predicted my particular epic cool!fail. I still swear I could handle myself around any of the other Pythons--at least to walk out of the room at a measured pace. At the same event, though in a year previous, one of the guys we were hanging with got a chance to talk to Roseanne, and apparently all he told her was that his girlfriend was pregnant. Because it was the most important thing on his mind aside from getting to meet one of his comedy idols.
quester - Dec 31, 2009 5:35:52 pm PST #28528 of 30001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Skippy McSkipperson here:
Happy New Year, Buffistas!
See you on the other side!
Jesse - Dec 31, 2009 5:38:46 pm PST #28529 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I'm the worst with famous people. Luckily, I don't meet them that often!
DavidS - Dec 31, 2009 5:40:51 pm PST #28530 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I've met a lot of comic book legends without losing my cool, but I totally geeked when I met the drummer from X.
Jesse - Dec 31, 2009 5:42:19 pm PST #28531 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The upside (for my self-esteem) is that my worst reaction is to seem like I have no idea who the person is, or what they have done.
tommyrot - Dec 31, 2009 5:43:22 pm PST #28532 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I met Robyn Hitchcock once. I said, "Is that marker permanent?" (referring to the marker he was using to autograph t-shirts.) He didn't know.
That was all I could think to say. That, or ask him what his lyric "If I was man enough I'd come on your stump" meant, but I wasn't man enough....
§ ita § - Dec 31, 2009 5:45:27 pm PST #28533 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm anywhere from calm to minorly obnoxious (ask the black standup comedians that play Montreal's comedy festival--sometimes it's in jest, sometimes it's deathly serious disdain, coughSINBADcough) NORMALLY. But Eric freaking Idle? I bolted. If I lose the ability to either calmly say I think you're hot shit, or to decline to say anything at all, I need to vacate the premises.
Okay, I think I'm packed. That was anti-climactic.
sarameg - Dec 31, 2009 5:46:21 pm PST #28534 of 30001
Liese, I'm chalking up my crappy health (cramps and headcold) on the eve of the new year to getting it out of the way for 2010. May it be so for you & D too!
I suspect I'm having the thai coconut chicken soup for breakfast. With springrolls. And then swim and shopping and Up in the Air. I really want to see this movie.
When I have met famous people, I've usually assumed they are people I work with, since they look familiar (and all have been in city, so fairish assumption.) Which is funny, and means I am not a fannish dork, just a clueless one.