i played
rugby with neil back







i was 10, he came to our school.
( Sellers funkie not junkie, Sat 26 Feb 2005, 15:21, Reply)

the force is strong
good few years back, my grandpa played in a band doing weddings and stuff up near perth. One night the drummer was off ill so they got a young replacement . Just happened to be Ewan McGreggor as he lived in the same place my grandparents stay. went through some amount of skins as he kept using lightsabers instead of drum sticks. Could have been a clue that.
(Billy Sastard, Sat 26 Feb 2005, 15:07, Reply)

Wonderwall...
My ex guitar teacher Liam played bass on the Mike Flowers Xmas no.1 version
(tree hugger putting the "semen" in "basement"..., Sat 26 Feb 2005, 15:04, Reply)

I had my name read out on CBBC
(won't tell you how old I was at the time :p)
( Haku Orange Whip? Orange Whip? Three Orange Whips., Sat 26 Feb 2005, 14:40, Reply)

Oh yeah
Just remembered this one - not me but a guy in my band, he works in the studio where we practice, and he once had Peter Kay in doing the music for Max and Paddy. Here is photo evidence:



I have no idea why that tiny man in the background is sitting on the sofa, it's made of concrete leather and would probably give you bumgrapes.
(sporks, Sat 26 Feb 2005, 14:36, Reply)

well...
I used to be Helena Bonham Carter.

(true.)
(jennymnemonic, Sat 26 Feb 2005, 14:33, Reply)

Nice Chaps
I work with John Otway's brother in law (a chap lovingly referred to as El-Presidente) he's a very nice chap (i'm on about El-President not John Otway, not that John Otway isnt a nice chap either)

I've also served The Levellers pints of Guinness in a pub I used to work in! Now if someone hadnt have told me who they were I would never have known! such nice normal chaps they were.

And my cousing wrote a book about Jack The Ripper.

Impressed eh? no, thought not.
(Mandingo, Sat 26 Feb 2005, 14:21, Reply)

Oh, I don't know how I forgot this...
Know the song You're Gorgeous? My dad's mate was the keyboardist in the band that played it, Baby Bird.

We also know Boo Hewerdine.

And Rosalie Deighton, of the folk band "the Deighton family" (and who had a solo album out a few years ago).
( Reid got it going on like Donkey Kong, Sat 26 Feb 2005, 13:56, Reply)

not really fame, more morbid coincidence
11th september, 2001, I was travelling back from Boston after a job interview. I had booked an early morning flight; the flight that boarded on the departure gate two down from mine was UA flight 175, the one that nosedived into the south tower of the WTC.

So technically, I probably saw some real live terrorists that morning as I shopped for cheap duty-free :-/

Secondary to that, once the departure area had been evacuated I was standing in main concourse watching the news unfolding when I was grabbed by a US tv journalist and interviewed on the spot, on camera. Seriously wigged at this point, i kept on having bursts of hysterical giggles. I seriously doubt they ever used my interview.

(sorry for length and girth)
( Ishani, Sat 26 Feb 2005, 13:52, Reply)

My mum used to be the flatmate of
the chap who is now the professor of sociology at Aberdeen university.

Also, my dad once danced with Linda McCartney. If only he'd had a Stanley knife with him, he could've righted so many wrongs...

I like her sausages, though (Linda's, not my mum's... she can't cook).
( Bob Todd whee, Sat 26 Feb 2005, 13:42, Reply)

I did serve steak and chips to that ginger kid from Harry Potter,
but I suppose my real claim to fame is that I once went to school with a girl whose friends Dad died in that ferry disaster where the tail gate was left open.
(Just recline and let me service you, Sat 26 Feb 2005, 13:40, Reply)

will mean something to those who enjoy their music
I had lunch with the boys from Hybrid a few years ago. Just me, them and a plate of sandwiches. They were really nice people, too.

After lunch we went racing round the Hethel test-track in Lotus Exiges. Wheeee!
( Ishani, Sat 26 Feb 2005, 13:33, Reply)

Dear Deirdre
In an uber council club in Manchester I bagged off with girl who claimed to be the actual daughter of the large specticled Deirdre Barlow off Coronation Street.

About 3 months later Deirdre was on This Is Your Life and the girl was nowhere to be seen. She'd made it up! Quite an amusing thing to do really.
(Elmintrude has lumps of it round the back, Sat 26 Feb 2005, 13:28, Reply)

Bo Diddley
I once used the same portable toilet as Bo Diddley, and just after he had used it. We may as well have rubbed our arse cheeks together!
( b2 I'm not really here..., Sat 26 Feb 2005, 13:14, Reply)

Well, it's really an indirect claim to fame...
... but my father was involved in the invention of thermal vision and LCD (although his company refused to patent the latter one). Looking on google I can't seem to find any pages mentioning him but he certainly got an OBE for it. It's hanging in the hallway.
(Lupustheflyingdog, Sat 26 Feb 2005, 13:04, Reply)

My claim to fame is...
I interviewed Rod Hull the day before he fell from his Roof.

Was it wrong of me to have suggested he could get Channel 5 by wrapping tin foil round his aerial?

Errrr.. exit stage left.
(Dad Watches Porn "I like it when it's cold", Sat 26 Feb 2005, 12:58, Reply)

Where to begin?
I have sold many newspapers to Louis Walsh, including the weekend he signed up for X Factor. He wanted to see himself in the Red Tops, smug git.

I have sold The Art of Calligraphy magagazine, Marlboro Lights and Club Orange to Sinead O'Connor. She looked like a tramp.

I have stared at the fat one from Peep Show browsing magazines, wonderered if it was him, and what he was doing in Dublin, then his scary big dark eyes looked at me and I nearly shat myself. I think he was reading science or current affairs magazines. Not that funny.

AND... my own Mum has been on 15 to 1 twice, getting knocked out in the first round both times. She's usually good at quizzes, just cracked under televisual pressure both times.

What an exciting list. My life is brill!
( George Blank my 2nd last sig was funny, Sat 26 Feb 2005, 12:15, Reply)

last night
unsung hero* filmed a music video in my student union. so if you see their music video on scuzz in the near future look out for the girl in the b3ta t-shirt!




*no i've never heard of them either
( eponymous Oh!, Sat 26 Feb 2005, 12:04, Reply)

(didn't think to take a look at his todger though)
On the last leg of hitching home to Inverness from Berkshire in the eighties I took a pee in the Kinross motorway services, standing next to David Bellamy.

He finished first and was on his way out - my pathetic conversational gambit: " ... Mr Bellamy?" was met with a low grumbling "Could be".

Well, I was still peeing, so fair enough.

Was well difficult resisting the urge to pull the old "say, aren't you ...?" routine and pee down his leg - but he's a large dude and could have swatted me like a fly. Still, regretted missing the chance when he drove past me in the rain 5 minutes later without so much as an apologetic shrug.

Once had Julian Cope in my lap too, but that's not really too difficult at his live solo shows, so doesn't really count.

And I inadvertantly irritated Tony (TS) Mc Phee with a conversational faux pas at a Groundhogs gig once, but none of you young 'uns will have a clue who I'm talking about . . .

Pardon length - and irrelevancies - ramble ends here-ish (gwapple me gwapenuts)
(kiki chunt now available in blank, Sat 26 Feb 2005, 11:58, Reply)

Im a star!!
I bumped into PJ Harvey in a lift once. I like to think it changed her life.

I've spoken to Mariella Frostrup, Janet Street-Porter, and...wait for it....Steven Berkoff A.K.A Victor Maitland!! Ahh..Mr Foley!
( Pass me the gun and ask me again reads like a cd, types like an 8-track, Sat 26 Feb 2005, 11:53, Reply)

My uncle invented the system on pumps that cuts the flow when your fuel tank is full (try it next time you fill up). This system is on nearly every fuel pump in the world and did he get any cash for it? No, because the stupid twat (genius as he was) forgot to patent it. Im guessing he missed out on a few thousand million quid on that invention.
( Terry Oblong There's nobody here but us chickens on, Sat 26 Feb 2005, 11:30, Reply)

Oooh
Well, not me (best i ever had was seeing Jim Bowen of Bullseye fame getting very drunk on a ferry to france) but a mate of mine's cousins drew the original artwork for all the "Where's Wally" books. mate has a couple of the original pictures framed and signed in his house.

I was dead impressed by that.
(mrcheese989, Sat 26 Feb 2005, 11:24, Reply)

woo!! Pretty much my first post
My dad is a professional golfer, he came 30th in the British Open ages ago. (Back in the Nick Faldo era of the early 90's)
And, I've just remembered that I have had my photo in various golfing magazines, even though I don't like golf.

One of my Cousins is Richard Johnson, the cricketer.

Another cousin used to play for a band called Drown.

My grandparents used to own a school called Quentin House, which they just sold for a rather nice sum of money :)

A mate of mine is the drummer for Retrograde Inversion and The Burning Virgins.

My dad is also mates with John Francomb the racing commentator, I have been personally invited up to the comentators box, I can go anytime.

Thats about it I think, oh and I reckon I should say some stuff about length, but can't be arsed.
(Buccaneer, Sat 26 Feb 2005, 11:14, Reply)

Another famous dentist
My dad's dentist is the brother of Trevor Rees Jones - the survivor from the Diana crash!!
(knife_of_justice, Sat 26 Feb 2005, 11:14, Reply)

John Denver's Ghost hates me
I used to be a security guard. One night I was acting as a bouncer for a party where John Denver (the famous, plane crashing, American Folk singer). He brought his children with him, and the bar manager insisted that I tell him that his children had to leave due to Canada's liquor laws. He of course insisted on speaking to the manager, who then told him that "Of course" his children could stay.
(coolchick365ca, Sat 26 Feb 2005, 11:12, Reply)

Roly Polys
My dad's godmother used to be one of the Roly Polys (Fat Midlands dancing troupe who used to appear on 3-2-1 and such shows.....)

This is because my grandmother used to be landlady of the Wolverhampton Civic Hall and this lady used to perform there, before she hit the big time (in more ways than one!!!)
(knife_of_justice, Sat 26 Feb 2005, 11:11, Reply)

and me mum
went to school with 'Warrior' from shit Tv series... Gladiators.
(Kayozz, Sat 26 Feb 2005, 11:06, Reply)

also...
Just remembered I gave one of the members of slipknot the 'V' sign at the Ozzfest gig... Was quite happy to see him return the signal.
It was the tall one with long black hair and wears a metal type mask...

I snogged the fit one from Kittie (who?) at the Ozzfest...

Got a bearhug off Dave (now dead) from Drowning Pool...

Shook hands with undersized, croaky vocalist Dani filth...

and nearly (so close) hit the lead singer of Lost Prophets with a well lobbed plastic water bottle... I think it damaged some of their equipment... so that's ok!
(Kayozz, Sat 26 Feb 2005, 11:03, Reply)

More?
Bumped into Johnny Vegas in my local Zoo bar... Spent the rest of the night trying to find out if a big guy next to Johnny Vegas was his body guard or not... I was extremely drunk and can't really remember... (didn't tell him to get fucked though)
(Kayozz, Sat 26 Feb 2005, 10:59, Reply)