Verne Burned! Don't Call Me Mini-Me!

Lesson of the day, courtesy of Verne Troyer -- respect my name!

TMZ spotted the pint-sized star of "Austin Powers" outside Crustacean last night, where very large Celtics player Paul Pierce had the nerve to call Troyer "Mini-Me." Big mistake!

Verne had to cut the 6' 6" Paul down to size, calling him out on his faux-pas, saying, "I could have come up and just said 'Hey, you play for the Celtics, what up?' No, your name is Paul, my name is Verne ... Next time, now you know."

Troyer then gave Pierce a low-five and was on his way.



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16. Hey What-the, after last season, yeah "you play for the celtics" is pretty derogatory.

Posted at 4:44PM on Jun 21st 2007 by Drea

17. We represent the Lollypop Guild, the Lollypop Guild, The Lollypop Guild And in the name of the Lollypop Guild We wish to welcome you to Munchkinland.

You know what that means "Vern" ?

Posted at 3:02PM on Jun 21st 2007 by Jimmy Phillips

18. Met Verne before years ago, he is so unhappy to be a "little person" that he is nasty to every one that he meets. He wasn't friendly or nice. He's a total jerk! Sorry mini me

Posted at 4:09PM on Jun 21st 2007 by Princess Alla Baba

19. Touche Vern! ;-)

Posted at 6:56PM on Jun 21st 2007 by Cathy in Alberta

20. "Mini-Me" is appropriate. I think we all know after the "Surreal Life," just how irritating Verne can be about the whole thing. That's all he'll ever be known for and needs to get over it!

Posted at 10:44AM on Jun 22nd 2007 by Meg

21. Go point #10.. People don't go up to other actors and call them by their character name. But, I don't think the dude did it to be mean.. So, why get all upset? The celtics dude did say something about getting drunk on MTV, though.. I thought that was the rude part.

Like everyone doesn't know it HAS to be embarrassing for him, why bring that up?

Posted at 11:21PM on Jun 21st 2007 by aubrey04

22. Toss the little retard.

Posted at 5:50AM on Jun 22nd 2007 by Paul

23. I hear Verne Troyer hits it off well with the ladies, even though he's half their size...I hope for his sake he has a few extra pairs of clothes he can leave them as souvenirs.

Posted at 10:49AM on Jun 23rd 2007 by Vincent

24. Hey, nuff respect for him. He may be like 2 feet tall, but he stood up for himself. You gotta respect that. I'm sure he's taken a lot of crap in his life for being a little person.

Posted at 12:58PM on Sep 11th 2007 by LAToya

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