Top ten tenuous claims to fame...
1. When I was 16 and working as a Saturday boy in Tescos I served Stephen Fry. He bought a ready meal lasagne, some bananas and got some change for the cigarette kiosk.

2. My dad plays on the postman pat theme tune - he is the bass player.

3. I once went out with a woman who was in Gong briefly in the late eighties after they were any good. She is credited on an album as airhead and said the line "I want a chocolate biscuit, you can't have one".

4. My mum went out with Dave Gilmour of Pink Floyd when they were both at school in Cambridge in about 1960. I used to see fizzling Sid Barret (also of Pink Floyd) wandered the streets of Cambridge dancing to the tunes in his head while I was growing up. Don't see him around any more :(

5. My room in University was the one previously occupied by Will Carling. The dissertation that he wrote for his degree was available in Durham University Library until people started checking it out just to laugh at the punctuation. You need special permission now.

6. Rory McGrath drinks in the Elm Tree pub in Cambridge. I took my friend there recently and he pissed Rory off by saying to him in a drunken manner "you're Rory McGrath!". I don't know why that pissed him off since he is Rory McGrath.

7. Three members of my girlfriend's family have almost run over Steven Hawking.

8. I have eaten cheese and biscuits round John Dankworth and Cleo Lane's house.

9. I once had a job selling programs and t-shirts for Des O'Connor outside his gigs. Des is a very nice man.

10. (This is the best one) Paul McCartney invited my Dad round to his house last year to play Elvis's double bass.
(dirtyhippy, Thu 24 Feb 2005, 14:47, Reply)