I met the lead singer of my pet junkie
I served him nacho's and french sticks, at my till at Work. Nice bloke. He was happy to get recognised, especially by the friend of the guy who called his band "the defintion of awesome" on his (now defunct) website.
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 12:27, Reply)

I once
trod upon the foot of Miniscule-Magician Paul Daniels. Lucky i didn't tred on his head, the rascal. I've also droppped a mini-scotch egg on the local Bishop (Not an inudendo)
(Craig [Est. 1985], Sun 27 Feb 2005, 12:09, Reply)

smells like teen heritage
one ancestor designed the precursor to the boneshaker and also traced heritage back to some welsh prince in the 1300s - prince of powis. both on mums side, dad's got nothing. doesn't make me royalty though - bastards
(5ifty0, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 12:09, Reply)

Flashmobbing
Not much, but I arranged Manchester's first flashmob event. Twas Britain's biggest ever, grabbing 600 silly plebs to jump around with umbrellas in the Printworks entertainment gaff. Made national news and I was even described in a Daily Express 2 page spread as "a mysterious internet figure known only as Wiggles".

Magic.
(Wiggles, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 11:41, Reply)

Beautiful Babs
I too have met Barbara Windsor - at a charity book launch. I asked someone if that was her son she was with, and they said, " no, I think that's her husband".

The band I was in at college supported The Cranberries (Irish indie pop merchants) on the first date of their first English tour. Their guitarist threw up profusely backstage, I recall.

I met the guy who played Benny from Crossroads. Twice (which seems unnecessary). Very nice, and bit posh...

Oh, and a very dull IT solution I came up with, was immediately stolen and tarted up by a private company who now sell it nationwide, not to mention BACK TO ME for teh money... Bastards. I could name and shame, but I might need them to give me a job one day. Heh heh heh.
(sags tupac-a-hats, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 11:33, Reply)

Got kissed by Bardot...
...not Brigitte, but the Aussie Spice Girl type band from Popstars. Was on offical type duties at a promo and got kissed by Tiffany (the one with the false boobs and cowbot hat) and Sophie Monk (the blonde Goddess). Kate the redhead was a bit of a grump, but she may have been having a bad day. My workmate did better actually getting offered a phone number of one of the girls. Tall handsome bastard that he is...
They look even better in the flesh than you would believe.
(emadex thinks the world will end on, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 11:31, Reply)

Reach into your Wallet / Purse and pull out a £5 note.
See that woman on there No, not the Queen the woman on the other side,Mrs Fry. Thats my brother in law's great - great - great-etc Auntie.
www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/newfive/images/bigback.jpg
( Terry Oblong There's nobody here but us chickens on, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 10:56, Reply)

Here in the Mall
I happened to have a leather motorcycle jacket I wanted to see on myself.  After looking for a mirror all over the place, I saw a camera with a TV and a sign saying, "Leave your ideas here!"  I thought to myself, "Now I can see what I look like in this thing!"

Instead, I saw a big red dot with a question.  "What accessories would you like to see on cars in the future?"  I looked in the camera and said, "LASER beams!"  Then with the biggest idiot grin I could muster, "Laser beams are KEWL!"

About 2 weeks later my friends are coming to me and saying, "I saw you on the TV last night!"  I got included in a commercial.  I got it on tape...
( CapnChkn I would rather be flying elephants., Sun 27 Feb 2005, 10:37, Reply)

Ballet...
Once played "King Rat" in a ballet show in primary school - yes the terrible terrible shame - i escaped a truly justifiable beating by half the guys in my class being my rat-minion-bitches. it has never been spoken of since.

Also saw garry glitter at hampden (yay)

and won a 10p fudge bar when i was 8 in a spelling competition - big self-confidence boost til marked a "no-hoper" by english teachers. i got an A and they never spoke to be again. bastards :)
(st3ve, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 10:33, Reply)

My Dad
is apparently one of the first people to have metal plating through the entirety (sp?) of his spine after battling with polio......and I got a kiss on the head from the late Princess Diana when i was a wee baby. Go me
(Gorbee, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 9:07, Reply)

jail time
Every man in my family except me has served at least 4 months in Doncaster Prison. I won't however. (I moved to Sheffield)
(lemmings, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 5:23, Reply)

If the country of Moldova still had a King/Queen
My Girlfriend would be in line for the throne.
(Quazie, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 3:48, Reply)

Crayola
When I was young, around 4 or 5 my parents sent me to one of those group day care places. Well crayola just happened to be using us as a test group for thier scented crayons. The news was there and everything. So the woman interviews me, and asks me what my crayon smells like, I respond bubblegum. My 2 seconds of fame.
(Quazie, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 3:45, Reply)

when I was 6 or 7
We were flying from Hong Kong back to Blighty. I had a bit of a tummy ache, mother thought nothing of it as I was being wheeled around the airport gleefully on a trolley by my sister. Turns out it was my appendix, calls for Doctors on the plane tanoy, discussions with the pilot regarding redirecting the flight to land early, although covered by BA insurance would cost millions. Scheduled stop in Bahrain, rushed to hospital & there for a week. Nurse comes up to me & asks if I like football - "err not really". Did I know who Pele was? "err not really". Cue the doors swinging open with a gaggle of photographers & some bloke with white teeth saying "I hope you get better soon" before handing me an autograph. "ta very much pal"

I now know who he is.

Also met Dave Prowse at Newcastle Station. "are you Dave Prowse?" "Yes" "How do you do?" - shook hands & that was it.

Was at school with the prince of Croatia - used to make him make us coffee as we were older & that is how it works.

Met Roy & HG at a dinner thing where I was the official photogrpaher. One was nice & chatty - the other was a bit cold.

My sister got chatted up by Simon Le Bon before he got fat. She turned him down.

Nearly got run over by Tony Adams in that London, massive range rover - I would have been munched if he hadn't stopped in time.

Met the Prodigy after their Jilted concert in Newcastle, they asked the birds we were with back to their hotel, they turned them down.

Met the Newcastle FC squad during the Keegan years doon the toon.

That's it, sorry for length.
(Baron Greenback Still in Sunny Singapore, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 3:37, Reply)

Hmm
The midwife that delivered my Dad was Paul McCartney's mum.
( kingofpork is the king of pork, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 3:32, Reply)

I once talked
to Gail Platt about how rubbish Adam Rickett is, she also molestged (filter)/ talked to my Aunt.

She smelled nice.

Gail that is.
( Flowers the little boy that santa claus forgot, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 3:04, Reply)

Return of the Ewok
I met Warwick Davies, the compact chap who played Wicket the ewok in Return of the Jedi and went on to play Willow in the film of the same name, at a charity gig at his parents pub about seven years ago.

I asked him if Val Kilmer was a cock when he worked with him on Willow or whether that was a recent thing. He said he'd gone to see him on the set of Batman Forever and he said that Val was under a lot of pressure a lot of the time these days.
(Fellmeister, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 2:41, Reply)

Er
was discussing this topic with me mum, and she reckons she is, so I am too, a very (I stress very) distant relative of the actress Flora Robson. My great-gran's 2nd cousin, I think. She (Flora, not great-gran) played the housekeeper in Wuthering Heights.
However, this info came to my mum via my nan, who was quite fond of the odd brandy or ten and not unknown to drop the occasional fib. She once claimed to have seen Kenneth Williams and Charles Hawtrey bumming in the ladies' loos of the Ritz in 1968. Not something you should say to your 9-year-old granddaughter, really. Ruined the rest of Carry on Camping for me.
( Fictional Emma, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 2:33, Reply)

the other night
i met Jodie marsh.
woo.
Yay.
Houpla.

i have a picture too!
( Sellers funkie not junkie, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 2:05, Reply)

James
James the lead singer for Jimmy Eat World bought me, my brother, and 2 other friends a beer in a local bar cause he was feeling generous.

My brother had a small speaking roll in a low budget independant film directed by Crispin Glover (George McFly in Back to the Future).

My aunt served a seafood sample to Leslie Nielsen (of Naked Gun fame)in a large wherehouse type grocery store.

My uncle played drums for Alice Cooper's high school band "The Spiders".
(Sofanda Peters, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 1:30, Reply)

Been on Top of the Pops
In 2 bands. Nothing like as glamorous as it looks. Best bit was meeting Babs Windsor in the alley round the back, while having a crafty fag, and her saying 'Alright, darling?'. Made my bloomin' day, that did.

And opening for Aerosmith at the last gig at the old Wembley Stadium. Our singer couldn't resist doing the Freddie Mercury thing, a la Live Aid. I thought 70,000 people would go 'Fuck off, you wanker!'. But 70,000 people went 'YES!!! COME ON!!!! WE'LL DO THE CALL AND RESPONSE THING!!!!!


I still thought he was a wanker.

Oh, and Joe Strummer came up to me backstage at T in the Park and, pointing to my authentic panama hat, said 'Nice weave, man.' I have to say, it is a nice hat.

Plus, me and my bandmates all managed a choreographed gob on Marilyn Manson's bass player at the one gig where our dressing room overlooked theirs on a particularly tortuous tour of Europe.

And my Granddad used to hang out with Pablo Picasso.

My dad once played an informal gig with Ginger Baker out of Cream on drums.

And my great grandma had to chuck that total pain in the arse Dylan Thomas out of her parties for being too pissed. She only stopped giving parties when the Rolling Stones started turning up...(!!!)

Oh, and I very nearly tripped Cherie Blair up as she sashayed towards the podium to give an award at a Help the Aged awards ceremony 2 years ago. Should have stuck my leg out a bit further. She was very nice about it.

And my Mum's got an MBE. Which is nice.
(redthing, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 1:18, Reply)

When I was 10....
I had a coke and played space invaders in a pub that Timothy Dalton's (By far the best 007) Mum and Dad owned.

And at a similar age, I won a Prince Album on the local Radio Station 'Valley FM' I was so chuffed.
(tobias14483, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 0:05, Reply)

My stepfather
Invented the groovy cardboard iris opener thingy on j-cloth boxes and designed the flip-top cigarette packet (previously packets tore open at the top like foreign Marlbro sometimes still do.)
( NobbyNobody 21 years a b3tan, Sat 26 Feb 2005, 23:45, Reply)

-
My best friend wrote a book:
Hound Health Handbook
The Definitive Guide to Keeping Your Dog Happy, Healthy & Active (you can find it in amazon.com!)

and my other best friend's dad invented Honeycomb cereal for Post.
(TDub Nunc id vides, nunc ne vides on, Sat 26 Feb 2005, 23:39, Reply)

As I haven't got any claims to fame yet
other then being the only person among my anime-loving friends to have actually gone to Japan, these are about my relatives (they're not crappy, but they'll have to do):

My Grand-uncles (dad's mom's brothers) were in the army during WWII - one was in the US army and the other was in the Japanese army. As you can imagine, this cause a quite a bit of anxiety for their family but fortunately they were on opposite sides of the globe (Italy and I'm not sure where) and survived the war.

The grand-uncle in Japan was also the first foreign-born Japanese to become a Sumo wrestler, and as I recall he got pretty high up in the ranks before the war. In order to become a sumotori he had to get Japanese citizenship and when the war started he was drafted. Afterwards he ran an inn and raised bulldogs.

Their father (my great-grandfather; dad's mom's dad) was the subject of a History-Channel style documentary in Japan. The film crew interviewed all of my dad's family and they seemed keen on the fact that 1) no one younger then my Grandma spoke any Japanese and 2) so many of my cousins married non-Japanese people.

My Dad's dad (who died a few months before my birth) lived to the age of 103 or 106, which is pretty good considering he had skin cancer and lost his ear. When I was born my relatives say I bore a remarkable resemblence to him!

My cousin (you rock and thanks for the t-shirts!) goes by the hip-hop alias "Key Kool" and travels the world with his rap group (crew? I don't know the proper term) "Visionaries." His mom's father was a Buddhist minister and he discovered that "Linkin Park" rapper Mike Shinoda and his family used to go to that church for special occasions. He's also met 2Pac Shakur ("a pretty cool guy") and probably a load of other famous people that I simply haven't asked about.

Ummm, what else? My mom was born in an internment camp in Oregon; my dad worked with a singer from "The Fifth Dimention" ("The Age of Aquarius"); one of my dad's friends' friend or brother (I have no idea) used to sing with "The Temptations"; two of my art teachers have been featured in LA Times articles; my art teacher who could care less about comic books and graphic novels had Frank "Sin City" Miller as an art prof, and my mom's friend's daughter once tutored Leonardo DiCaprio in high school.

Apologies for length etc.
(Kitsune-chan I'm not a bunny I'm a grownup girl, Sat 26 Feb 2005, 23:23, Reply)

I'll proabably be killed for these
My dad, when at Aberdeen Uni in the 1970s was ae student member of the Labour Party. His crimes:
Signed Alistair Daring into the party. that is, he recruited the current Edinburgh Central MP and Transport Minister for England. Quite.
As an NUS delegate, proposed Charles Clarke as NUS president.

In my defenc, this all happened before I was born.
(Al__S is constantly suprised, Sat 26 Feb 2005, 23:13, Reply)

It'll Never Work
I was on CBBC's 'Deliberately-Crap Inventions' programme 'It'll Never Work' in...ooh...about 1994, with my invention, the 'Move-A-Loo'. A portable toilet in a tartan rucksack on telescopic poles.

It got to the final, and I went along to the awards ceremony at a greasy spoon in East London. Patrick Moore sat on it when it was exhibited in the Science Museum, and complained there was no toilet roll.

It lost, to a suitcase. But no ordinary suitcase - OH NO! - A SUITCASE ON WHEELS. WHEELS! SUITCASES ALREADY HAVE WHEELS. THEY /DO/ WORK.

Fuck's sake.
(mr chimp, Sat 26 Feb 2005, 22:47, Reply)

I once served...
.... Bob Carolgees fish'n chips at Edinburgh Game Fayre. I should have spat in em. At least I'd have had an excuse.

Larry Grayson also came in my Mum and Dad's pub once. Before he died. I didnt speak to him as I fear I may have told him to "shut that door" or summat.......
(Sull, Sat 26 Feb 2005, 22:41, Reply)

I ironed the table cloths and shirts for....
a film called 'The Browning Version'. starring Matthew Modine and Alberty Finney in 1993. I even spoke to Matthew Modine on set (he was the captain in mephis belle)... He like the Bedford Rascal i was in and wanted one for driving around New York...he was eating red jelly.

You'd of thought after that job I'd be set for life...
( AgeOwns Has just started Geocaching, Sat 26 Feb 2005, 21:48, Reply)

Trisha Goddard Show
About three weeks ago a friend and I travelled from Swansea Area South Wales, To elstree studios hertfordshire to be in the audience for the trisha goddard show and while Trisha was doing a little promo talk me and my mate were in full view of the camera, It was screened on wednesday jus gone and my nan taped it for me :D
( One More Fatty on the pile since, Sat 26 Feb 2005, 21:44, Reply)