Another celebrity-wrangling story
In a previous life working as a studio manager for a certain broadcaster of some repute, one of my duties involved the booking-in and wrangling of celebrity guests.

There was minor excitement when celebrity paratrooper and spoon-bender Uri Geller came to visit. The interview went reasonably well – though the idea of bending cutlery on the radio is patently absurd – and I readied the studio for the next guest – a chef of some repute who might have taken a funny turn at the sight of all that abused kitchenware.

Alas, Mr Geller wasn't leaving. He had a small knot of office cleaners and assorted colleagues around him as he demonstrated his party trick, certainly not for the first time that day.

"See? The spoon is bending!" he said to coos of delight as I stood impatiently in the doorway, pointedly looking at my watch.

With time pressing, I confess to being a little curt with Mr Geller, and I might – conceivably – have referred to him as "a bit of a spacker".

On the way home from work that night, I wrote off my car; and in the following days I was struck down by food poisoning, and an antique clock bequeathed to me by my grandfather packed up and HAS NEVER WORKED SINCE.

Just thinking about this period of my life last week caused a young lady to drive into – and write off – yet another car, and the dishwasher's leaking all over the kitchen.

Uri: Please stop it. I'm sorry.
( Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 16:42, 2 replies)

But you just posted it on the internet....
for the love of god tell us where you live so we can start the evacuation before it's too late! (unless its Hull or Norfolk where it can only improve things...)
( Tedium Alduce me to interlow myself., Thu 8 Oct 2009, 17:55, closed)

Nah..
The guy's a fraud, you're just unlucky..

(look..)

..and again.

He's got a car covered in severely knackered cutlery - I often wonder if he bent them all himself.

I'd love to sneak a plastic spoon into his collection though, just for a laugh like...
(danniekavanagh did nothing constructive on, Sat 10 Oct 2009, 11:36, closed)