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Inside jokes don't play very well, David.

Namedropping isn't very cool, either.

Oh please! Since when does not recognizing a celebrity count as namedropping? What's insider about that joke? [I added "unbeknownst to me" to the post after reading these two comments.]

Harsh.

David, I think you're too humble most of the time and you raise your readers's expectations.

People on my blog EXPECT me to be boastful...

Just kidding... sort of.

I wasn't boasting! The joke, which apparently doesn't work, was supposed to be that I was 2 feet from a famous person and I didn't recognize him! Hence the Mick Jagger analogy.

If I wanted to boast, I'd tell you about my long-term affair with Hillary Clinton. But, no, I'm way too modest and discreet to do that.

I was trying to make joke too. ;-P

Maybe we're both a bit tired from the busy week.

I wonder if George Soros told his friends... "I was sitting in a room full of people talking about open society who didn't even notice I was there..."

I thought as much.

I was going to respond to your first comment by saying that responding to your comment counts as name-dropping, but I figured that joke would go wrong also.

<joke>In the future, I will mark all jokes with an appropriate tag.</joke>

I find the situation even more amusing, as I work for Soros and managed not to notice him sitting next to me. Perhaps I need to spend slightly less time blogging conference sessions and more time looking at my neighbors to my left and right...