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Wycoff
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I've met and spoken with Pat Buchanan
I also have met Richard Simmons
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Rufus T. Firefly
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is one way of saying it, though I prefer "mensch"
Sep 2000
time: 07:23
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Two good ones:
1) After seeing the execreble movie Congo, I was posted to a Usenet board (probably rec.arts.movies) my "Top 10 Reasons Congo Sucked." One of the reasons was: "Bruce Campbell, who could have saved this mess, is killed off in the first few minutes." I later received an e-mail of thanks from -- yep -- Bruce Campbell.
2) I was out one night barhopping in Chicago with a few friends, and we found ourselves in the Old Town Ale House at about 3 am, getting ready to call in a night. Suddenly, in comes this guy, clearly pretty messed up, and my friend Rachel says, "Holy sh*t, it's John Cusack." Our little table then argues about whether or not it's really him, until finally Rachel and I approach him and Rachel says, "We think you're John Cusack, and, if you are, we think you need to drink with us." To which he replies, "Well, I am...so I willl!" So we bought Cusack a Guiness, impressed him by wanting to talk about 8 Men Out (which he loved making but hardly anyone had seen), and then bid him farewell as he rejoined his boozy, possibly-coked-up friends.
Bruce Cambell 
John Cusack
Random encounters with them
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Adrian Hon
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Living in Perplex City
Nov 2001
time: 05:23
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Had dinner with Matt Groening (pretty short dinner, to be fair). Had lunch with Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google. Saw Jeff Bezos in a Subway's. Sat next to Herbie Hancock and chatted with him. All of this happened over two days. Haven't had many celebrity encounters since...
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dojoboy
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Tansi (USA)
Nov 2001
time: 00:23
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Okay, this is no ****.
While serving as a US Peace Corps Volunteer in the Eastern Caribbean, I decided to go for a run on the beach with my dog, Hannah. I walked the mile or so from my home to where the path breaks off down a "dirt" road toward the beach.
Along the "dirt" road, there were several rental jeeps with HUGE camera lenses strewn inside of each one of them. As I neared the beach, I noticed a Nevisian minister whom I knew talking with several men. I paid little attention and went on with my run.
On my way back in, along the beach, Hannah, my dog, took off running for some people on up ahead. She is very friendly, but she looks vicious. I yelled ahead saying as much. When I reached the people, Hannah was jumping around with two young boys and a woman. Also, there were three men in suits around us. The boys loved Hannah. We chat aimlessly for a moment, then I head back home.
Once home, I change clothes and head for the capital, Charlestown, by foot. As I step out on the main road, the only road, a truck passes by with the woman and boys in the back. They all wave, as I do in return.
That night, while lyming at a local run shack, I learn that Princess Di is on the island. I'm dumbfounded! It never dawned on me during the exchange of conversation at the beach. Every clue was there, including the person herself. Later, I just figured she was grateful for a genuine moment in her life.
Well, that's my encounter with fame. 
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Boris Godunov
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Portland, OR
Aug 2001
time: 00:23
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Had a lot in NYC--celeb sightings happen routinely there, naturally. Such run-ins aren't worth going into detail, but included Johnny Cochran, Bernadette Peters, Monica Lewinsky, Bill Bradley, Ed Koch and many others
Probably my most extended brush with celebrities was when a good friend of mine invited me to the opening night of Bea Arthur's one-woman show (his bf was managing the theater). We had front row seats and then went to the after party at Sardi's. So I chatted with celebs like Rue McClanahan (who I also met when she hosted Faggot Fued at one of the gay bars  ), Valerie Harper, Phil Donahue, Rosie O'Donnell, Michelle Lee, Charles Bush, Nana Visitor and others.
I did have drinks with Danny Pintauro thanks to a mutual friend and attended his Halloween party one year in the West Village. I also had drinks with Gordon Jump, of all people, who came to see a show my roommate had produced because his daughter was in it. I also attended a party where Jerry O'Connell was present.
Now that I'm in Portland, looks like my days of celeb hobnobbing are over.
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Kontiki
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Canada
Aug 2001
time: 00:23
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I haven't had much significant contact with celebs (unless you count big time lawyers or coporate execs, but who does that?) but running into stars is reasonably common in Toronto. Off the top of my head: Lucy Lu, Rosario Dawson, Slash and Duff McKagan (formerly of G'n R, now Velvet Revolver), more NHL players than you can shake a stick at, Michael Douglas, Denzel Washington, and a whole bunch of Canadian celebs like Ron MacLean, Christine Cushing, Sarah Richardson and pretty much every VJ on Much Music.
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Solomwi
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Don King of the Apolyton HLA Movement
Dec 2002
time: 23:23
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I've shared a Hong Kong elevator with Jerry Brown, slurred an extremely drunken greeting to Coolio in Austin, had a beer with Charles Barkley on a few of occasions in the last year or so in various bars around Birmingham, sat amongst Jack Nicholson, Steven Spielberg, John Lithgow and John Havlicek at the 1996 gold medal basketball game, threw a football with Lewis Grizzard (see JohnT's OP disclaimer  ) on St. Simon's Island and had several other more normal encounters (such as talking to Bo Jackson for a few minutes at an Auburn bar).
One that stands out, though, is the night my brother, two friends and I went to Sammy's, a strip club in Birmingham. As we're enjoying a pitcher of beer and the show, one of my friends, a big wrestling fan, elbows me and says, "That's Kevin Nash!", then points toward the wall, where I see this huge guy crutching his way back to his table from the stage. Well, not being enough of a wrestling fan to realize how in awe I was supposed to be, and having a few beers in me at the time, I decide to go over and say hello. When I speak to him, he's as nice as can be, so I point back toward the friend that recognized him and make something up about him being too piss scared to say anything. Nash tells me to bring the whole table over, and actually invites us to sit down and shoot the breeze with him. We wound up talking to him through three or four rounds, one of which he bought. I've never seen a celebrity seem to actually enjoy talking to fans (well, at least one of us was a fan) as much as he did. It was pretty cool to me, but it absolutely made my friend's year.
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22-02-2005 04:15
ACK!
Im not imprrssed by famous people I didnt even speak to one of the folks I mentioned, who i was with did, except david robinson i was alone and hell i just had a baby 5 hours earlier i didnt care if he was the president of the us.
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