[Eug Wanker]

Stars Take a Shine to Apple

"She then proceeded to get pissed off at me personally because we didn't have any in stock," the associate said. "She said we have a special stock of iPods for people like her.... I hadn't seen any celebrities there up until then, so at first I was like, 'Oh wow, cool, Melanie Griffith.' But then she opened her mouth and used me as a doormat, and I was like, 'What the **** is this ****? Milk Money sucked.'"

[mitchell_pgh]

Jerk alert:

[paully dub]

Getting yelled at by the guy from Reading Rainbow would be the highlight of my day.

"Burton "began shouting at me to ask anyone in the store who he was, all the while telling me that he left his ID in the car and he didn't want to have to go get it," the associate said. "I finally caved in, only because I could see a vein pulsating in his forehead and I didn't want to be the one responsible for causing the blind dude from Star Trek to have a stroke."

With all the camera's in those stores, why didn't anyone film them?

[E's Lil Theorem]

"He [Fabrizio Moretti, drummer from the Strokes] came in once with a cast around his leg, on crutches. He was perusing the 17-inch PowerBook and asked me if I thought it was greedy of him to want that 17-inch even though he had just purchased the 15-inch PowerBook not a month earlier. I let him know that he had no reason to feel this way and that if he wanted to balance out the universe, he might want to consider giving me his 15-inch and therefore be able to buy the 17-inch with a clear conscience."

The associate said Moretti chuckled but told him he was probably going to give the month-old machine to his dad.

[RonnieoftheRose]

I buy my gear from The Apple Store @ The Grove. I saw Seal playing around with one of the Macs. He's much taller than he looks on the television...ahem, that was a dumb thing to say. Last week when I bought the new 12" I saw an actress, I don't know her name, she's blond, has a twin sister and was on a children's comedy series some years back that my sister used to watch. She wanted the 15" to go with her iPod. Both were ego free.

[E's Lil Theorem]

Originally posted by RonnieoftheRose:
... Last week when I bought the new 12" I saw an actress, I don't know her name, she's blond, has a twin sister and was on a children's comedy series some years back that my sister used to watch....

One of the Olsen twins?

[RonnieoftheRose]

No, not them. Taller, older.

[MacNStein]

Back when I worked at an Apple retailer, Mario Van Peebles walked in needing a battery for his Powerbook. He was a nice guy (though he was drunk off his ass).

[E's Lil Theorem]

Originally posted by RonnieoftheRose:
No, not them. Taller, older.

Hmm, the girls from "Sister, Sister?"

[Eriamjh]

Living in the Detroit area, I have never seen or met a "celebrity".

I would LOVE the opportunity to tell Levar Burton "I have no idea who you are." (even though I do) and treat him like, oh... a regular customer.

Anyone who lets their celebrity go to their heads needs to be taken DOWN! Money does not buy you respect.

[historylme]

Originally posted by E's Lil Theorem:
Hmm, the girls from "Sister, Sister?"

They both went to my highschool and I would occasionally see them. Cool girls, though I never talked to them and didn't really care for their show, but my younger sister loved them.

[E's Lil Theorem]

Originally posted by history1me:
They both went to my highschool and I would occasionally see them. Cool girls, though I never talked to them and didn't really care for their show, but my younger sister loved them.

I didn't know you were from the Valley. Good stuff. I didn't live there, but I went to Monroe High. IIRC, we used to kick Van Nuys High butt

[Sherwin]

"Burton "began shouting at me to ask anyone in the store who he was, all the while telling me that he left his ID in the car and he didn't want to have to go get it," the associate said. "I finally caved in, only because I could see a vein pulsating in his forehead and I didn't want to be the one responsible for causing the blind dude from Star Trek to have a stroke."

Apple Store employee: "Hey everyone, who is this guy?"
Everyone in store: "Toby".
Burton: "I'm LeVar Burton, famous Star Trek actor".
Everyone in store: "No, your name is Toby".
Burton: "My name is LeVar Burton!"
Everyone in store: "Toby!"
Burton: "LeVar!"
Everyone: "Toby!"

{fade to next scene}

[historylme]

Originally posted by E's Lil Theorem:
I didn't know you were from the Valley. Good stuff. I didn't live there, but I went to Monroe High. IIRC, we used to kick Van Nuys High butt

Yeah us too. I went to Birmingham and we use to kick Monroe's ass too... well at least in Track and Cross crountry (Varsity Baby!). I think you guys were better at Football though... but then, I wasn't playing that sport.

Edit: If you weren't from teh valley, where? Over the hill in Down Town? I myself got bussed in from the hood.

[E's Lil Theorem]

Originally posted by history1me:
Yeah us too. I went to Birmingham and we use to kick Monroe's ass too... well at least in Track and Cross crountry. I think you guys were better at Football though.

Edit: If you weren't from teh valley, where? Over the hill in Down Town? I myself got bussed in from the hood.

Wait, I thought the twins went to Van Nuys, no? And I was talking about kicking butt in football. I think we were only so-so in all other sports.

Anyway, I used to commute from Hollywood to Monroe. Not glamorous Hollywood; the hood hollywood

[historylme]

no they went to Birmingham H.S. And yeah, Hollywood's hood is rough too. Good to know more made out!

[Thorin]

I went into the Apple Store on Regent Street in London (after spending a couple of hours looking for it on Oxford Street for some inexplicable reason - d'oh). I saw Jack Davenport and Mathew Horne in there. Jack Davenport was looking at some software, and then pulled out a 15" Ti from his rucksack, and started chatting with a member of staff about it. Mathew Horne was up at the genious bar getting arsey about having had to wait too long, although he just seemed to be complaining about it in a normal fashion rather than trying to use his (minor) celebrity to his advantage.

As a side note, the store was amazing! It was a Thursday afternoon, and it was pretty much packed. People were using all the computers, there was a very big queue at the tills, with people holding arms full of stuff, the genius bar was busy, and the theatre upstairs was doing a demo, that was pretty much full too. All in all I was very impressed .

[videian28]

Originally posted by Sherwin:
Apple Store employee: "Hey everyone, who is this guy?"
Everyone in store: "Toby".
Burton: "I'm LeVar Burton, famous Star Trek actor".
Everyone in store: "No, your name is Toby".
Burton: "My name is LeVar Burton!"
Everyone in store: "Toby!"
Burton: "LeVar!"
Everyone: "Toby!"

{fade to next scene}

you just made me spit on my screen while LMAO


damn you

[ASIMO]

Originally posted by mitchell_pgh:
Jerk alert:

But you don't have to take my word for it.®

[lavar78]

Originally posted by Sherwin:
Apple Store employee: "Hey everyone, who is this guy?"
Everyone in store: "Toby".
Burton: "I'm LeVar Burton, famous Star Trek actor".
Everyone in store: "No, your name is Toby".
Burton: "My name is LeVar Burton!"
Everyone in store: "Toby!"
Burton: "LeVar!"
Everyone: "Toby!"

{fade to next scene}

That's the funniest thing I've seen on here in quite a while. Sadly, it probably flew over most people's heads.

[historylme]

Originally posted by RonnieoftheRose:
Last week when I bought the new 12" I saw an actress, I don't know her name, she's blond, has a twin sister and was on a children's comedy series some years back that my sister used to watch. She wanted the 15" to go with her iPod. Both were ego free.

Okay, perhaps these two.



If not, then these.

Aha!

[lavar78]

These two?

[historylme]

I like these last two a lot more. Very nice.

Was the show called "Malibu high" or something like that... or "California Dreaming?"

[RonnieoftheRose]

Originally posted by lavar78:
These two?

Yes, it was one of them. Obviously I don't know which one because I don't know what their names are anyway.

[lavar78]

Originally posted by history1me:
Was the show called "Malibu high" or something like that... or "California Dreaming?"

"Sweet Valley High"

The actresses are Brittany and Cynthia Daniel. The former was also on "Dawson's Creek."

[historylme]

I'm impressed. You really know your teen pop shows.

[olePigeon]

I can personally vouch for Sharon Stone and Sigorny Weaver as some of the nicest celebrities I've met.

[Mafia]

Originally posted by olePigeon:
I can personally vouch for Sharon Stone and Sigorny Weaver as some of the nicest celebrities I've met.

i had lunch with johnny depp once and he was suprisingly nice, because he seems kind of cold. but he was very humourous and kind.

[lavar78]

Originally posted by history1me:
I'm impressed. You really know your teen pop shows.

Heh. I've honestly never seen "Sweet Valley High," but I'll readily admit I watched The Creek. It's so ridiculously awful it's funny (for example, poor Joey couldn't afford to go to the college of her dreams because heaven forbid she get a loan like regular people -- luckily, Dawson inherited some money from a crotchety old guy and gave that to Joey... so he could lord it over her, naturally). Also, Dawson is probably the most despicable character in the history of television, so it was fun making fun of him. Hell, a pretty big website started out with that same premise.

[olePigeon]

Originally posted by lavar78:
Heh. I've honestly never seen "Sweet Valley High," but I'll readily admit I watched The Creek. It's so ridiculously awful it's funny (for example, poor Joey couldn't afford to go to the college of her dreams because heaven forbid she get a loan like regular people -- luckily, Dawson inherited some money from a crotchety old guy and gave that to Joey... so he could lord it over her, naturally). Also, Dawson is probably the most despicable character in the history of television, so it was fun making fun of him. Hell, a pretty big website started out with that same premise.

Was that the one were the rich girl had a submarine in the lake?

[hagheid]

Originally posted by lavar78:
That's the funniest thing I've seen on here in quite a while. Sadly, it probably flew over most people's heads.

I suppose that depends on just how big your head is?

[Sherwin]

Originally posted by hagheid:
I suppose that depends on just how big your head is?

That didn't make any sense at all.

[lavar78]

Originally posted by olePigeon:
Was that the one were the rich girl had a submarine in the lake?

No, but I think I need to see that show.

Originally posted by Sherwin:
That didn't make any sense at all.

I'm glad I wasn't the only one confused.

[hagheid]

Originally posted by Sherwin:
That didn't make any sense at all.

Er you're kidding no?

[Cody Dawg]

Are these the "twins" you were talking about?

[Sherwin]

Originally posted by hagheid:
Er you're kidding no?

No. Really, it didn't make any logical sense whatsoever.

[Sherwin]

Originally posted by Cody Dawg:
Are these the "twins" you were talking about?

Looks like "quads" to me.

[hagheid]

Originally posted by Sherwin:
No. Really, it didn't make any logical sense whatsoever.

O.K.

"Sadly, it probably flew over most people's heads."

I take the inference to mean that some herein are too dim to get the humour



"I suppose that depends on just how big your head is?"

A common expression over here (Scotland) to describe an individual who has a superior outlook would be to infer that he has a 'big' or swollen head.

As a small headed individual I failed to realise that the pun was localised!

[Ming]

Kevin Smith replies to this article:

------
"Found this article this morning...

http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125...ory_page_next1

Here's the passage that, obviously, bugged the **** out of me...

Director Kevin Smith is also a regular, but tends to head for the Genius Bar because his wife's PowerBook is on the blink. "He rarely has anything to say, but always looks pissed off when he is forced to wait at the bar just like everyone else," said the associate.

a) I don't tend to head to the Genius Bar. I've been to the Genius Bar exactly once, for - yes - Jen's PowerBook. Generally, I head straight to the item I'm looking for, pay, and leave (the one time I was at the Genius Bar, though, the guy who helped me out was great).

b) I rarely have anything to say... unless I'm spoken to. I mean, isn't that the way of the world? And whenever an associate has said something to me in that store, I've always then chatted them up. There was a sales associate there who I was always really chatty with, until she left. Even on that day - when I was waiting for some help with Jen's PowerBook - I chatted with two associates who stopped to talk to me. Both times, they ended the convo. The way I was raised, I'm a pretty polite mother****er - which is why this **** bugs me so much. I mean, if you're not a fan of my flicks, just say it; don't make up lies about me, and paint a portrait of some curmudgeon.

c) If I looked pissed, it's only because I don't burst into a room, a'la Robin ****ing Williams, trying to make everybody laugh. What the **** is this ****? Now, if you're not wearing a grin all the time, you're pissed?

d) As for waiting in line like everyone else, I didn't care. In fact, it afforded me the opportunity to sit in on a Mac Tutorial in their theater, where I learned how to navigate iDVD in the process. I was fine to wait, as I was chilling with my Miramax boy, Jon Gordon, and Jen was out in the Grove shopping. I'm not Affleck; I'm used to waiting in lines. Like I don't go to the grocery store or something? If I were the kinda guy to be pissed about waiting in lines, I'd never take the kid to Disneyland.

People can rank on the flicks I've made and whatnot all they want, but when someone misrepresents you and maligns your character, it just burns your ass, y'know? I'm always really courteous and polite to anyone in the work force, because I remember what it was like to make a per-hour wage and deal with the public. Christ, I'm a fifty percent tipper - even when the service sucks.

Apparently, someone on staff there feels I'm not a sunny enough personality to shop in the Grove Apple Store. So I guess I'll be taking all my Apple-oriented business down to the Santa Monica Apple Store instead. I'm just glad I read this today, as I'm picking up a new G4 Powerbook this week, and I'd rather give a store that hasn't attacked my character my dough."

[Cody Dawg]

OOOOOOOooooooh.

[Mafia]

Originally posted by Ming:
Kevin Smith replies to this article:

------
"Found this article this morning...

http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125...ory_page_next1

Here's the passage that, obviously, bugged the **** out of me...

Director Kevin Smith is also a regular, but tends to head for the Genius Bar because his wife's PowerBook is on the blink. "He rarely has anything to say, but always looks pissed off when he is forced to wait at the bar just like everyone else," said the associate.

a) I don't tend to head to the Genius Bar. I've been to the Genius Bar exactly once, for - yes - Jen's PowerBook. Generally, I head straight to the item I'm looking for, pay, and leave (the one time I was at the Genius Bar, though, the guy who helped me out was great).

b) I rarely have anything to say... unless I'm spoken to. I mean, isn't that the way of the world? And whenever an associate has said something to me in that store, I've always then chatted them up. There was a sales associate there who I was always really chatty with, until she left. Even on that day - when I was waiting for some help with Jen's PowerBook - I chatted with two associates who stopped to talk to me. Both times, they ended the convo. The way I was raised, I'm a pretty polite mother****er - which is why this **** bugs me so much. I mean, if you're not a fan of my flicks, just say it; don't make up lies about me, and paint a portrait of some curmudgeon.

c) If I looked pissed, it's only because I don't burst into a room, a'la Robin ****ing Williams, trying to make everybody laugh. What the **** is this ****? Now, if you're not wearing a grin all the time, you're pissed?

d) As for waiting in line like everyone else, I didn't care. In fact, it afforded me the opportunity to sit in on a Mac Tutorial in their theater, where I learned how to navigate iDVD in the process. I was fine to wait, as I was chilling with my Miramax boy, Jon Gordon, and Jen was out in the Grove shopping. I'm not Affleck; I'm used to waiting in lines. Like I don't go to the grocery store or something? If I were the kinda guy to be pissed about waiting in lines, I'd never take the kid to Disneyland.

People can rank on the flicks I've made and whatnot all they want, but when someone misrepresents you and maligns your character, it just burns your ass, y'know? I'm always really courteous and polite to anyone in the work force, because I remember what it was like to make a per-hour wage and deal with the public. Christ, I'm a fifty percent tipper - even when the service sucks.

Apparently, someone on staff there feels I'm not a sunny enough personality to shop in the Grove Apple Store. So I guess I'll be taking all my Apple-oriented business down to the Santa Monica Apple Store instead. I'm just glad I read this today, as I'm picking up a new G4 Powerbook this week, and I'd rather give a store that hasn't attacked my character my dough."

i agree with kevin smith here. everyone assumes he is rude because he doesn't stop and talk to everyone in the store. of course he may really be an asshole what do i know.

[Sherwin]

Originally posted by hagheid:
O.K.

"Sadly, it probably flew over most people's heads."

I take the inference to mean that some herein are too dim to get the humour

"I suppose that depends on just how big your head is?"

A common expression over here (Scotland) to describe an individual who has a superior outlook would be to infer that he has a 'big' or swollen head.

As a small headed individual I failed to realise that the pun was localised!

As one of your southern masters, I get the localised references.

But... If he was indeed of a superior outlook (which I don't think he was being - just a reference to the fact that if you'd never seen Roots you'd not get it) and he had got the resultant big head, it'd be much harder for it to fly over his head than that of a "small-headed-so-not-getting-it" person. Thus, it makes no sense - not to me anyways. Maybe I need more coffee.

[lavar78]

Originally posted by hagheid:
O.K.

"Sadly, it probably flew over most people's heads."

I take the inference to mean that some herein are too dim to get the humour



"I suppose that depends on just how big your head is?"

A common expression over here (Scotland) to describe an individual who has a superior outlook would be to infer that he has a 'big' or swollen head.

As a small headed individual I failed to realise that the pun was localised!

It's not localized. It means that over here (America) as well. The problem is that you inferred the wrong thing. I meant that it's sad that most people here probably have no idea what he's talking about (i.e., because they haven't seen Roots). Sorry that wasn't clear.

[hagheid]

Originally posted by lavar78:
It's not localized. It means that over here (America) as well. The problem is that you inferred the wrong thing. I meant that it's sad that most people here probably have no idea what he's talking about (i.e., because they haven't seen Roots). Sorry that wasn't clear.

O.K. You're spot on; count ME as one of the lucky ones who have missed this show!

[far200]

Next time an actress comes in bitching there is no ipods just tell them winona ryder stole the last one....... Just kidding.........

[RonnieoftheRose]

Stupid jokes aside. Does anyone here work in film or TV?

[Eug Wanker]

Kiefer Sutherland "thanks you like 40 times when you're helping him," said another

Those darn Canadians.

P.S. I believe Kevin Smith, but his response seems way too p!ssy. What gives?

[Sherwin]

Originally posted by Eug Wanker:
P.S. I believe Kevin Smith, but his response seems way too p!ssy. What gives?

He's perhaps been hanging out with Bennifer too much?

[KeriVit]

i went to school with adam sandler. didn't know him. don't know if he has a mac. i bet he has an iPod though.

[historylme]

Originally posted by Eug Wanker:
P.S. I believe Kevin Smith, but his response seems way too p!ssy. What gives?

Wouldn't you if someone got a cheap shot at you by referring to a characteristic that your on screen persona used. The article states that he never says much, as in silent bob... and top things, that he (imagine yourself in his shoes) looks annoyed at waiting in line. Like most of us LOVE to wait in freaking lines... yeah, who the hell wouldn't be annoyed. But the article implicitly makes it so that he is annoyed because he (Kevin) thinks he's too good to wait in line.

Granted, the writer of the article is using sensationalism or a variation of it, but if you were the person single out, I think you too would be upset. Perhaps I'm wrong, but I know I would be.