I have more faith in the concept of a divine ‘random B-list celebrity generator’-thingy than in any theist religion. It would probably just be an SQL database on an old 286 PC tied by dialup modem to the huge server farm dedicated to every human’s fate. Clotho would be a good DBA.
I bring this up because you never know who’s waiting for you on a given day. At a co-worker’s birthday party on Saturday, I met the most unexpected person. She falls nicely between obscurity and petty fame: anyone who watches enough TV has seen her image, but no one would mention her if they tried listing every character of every show they’ve encountered.
Remember Pearl Forrester? Not by name, you don’t. Remember ‘that recurring lady on Mystery Science Theater 3000‘? Yeah, I met her as we sat on plastic porch furniture drinking booze. Words can’t describe how surreal it is to meet someone so random in such a random fashion.