Ranulph Fiennes... man of steel?
he may have got to the South Pole, climed Everest and suvived triple heart bypass surgery...

But Ranulph Fiennes was no match for Lady Scaramanga's dad when she was a nipper.

The story goes that she was in a push chair being pushed by her dad, on a slightly narrow path in their home town (a small Suffolk coastal town), when SIR Ranulph, and friends came bounding up the hill as if they were travesing the north face of the Eiger. They showed no sign of making any attempt to make way for a man and his daughter, and barged past, forcing them into the road, nearly toppling Lady S' pushcair under the wheels of an approaching car.

Lady S' dad does not suffer fools gladly.

he turns on his heels, pokes the national treasure in the back and proceeds to vent spleen of the 'Who the hell do you think you are?' variety, puncuated with some pre-watershed swearing.

This was over 20 years ago, but to this day, he still shouts and swears at the TV if his name is mentioned.
( Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Tue 13 Oct 2009, 12:18, Reply)