money lending
for absolute tenuousness, you can't beat this (not really fame, but still a good story)

My dad works in the IT industry in the UK, and knows a bloke who works for Microsoft in this country. Anyway, big boss of Microsoft (that's Bill Gates to you and me) comes over for meetings and what-not with various big wigs, and gets a cab straight to their place from Heathrow. On getting out of said cab he realises he's got no dosh, and so my dad's mate lends him a tenner.

Don't know if he got it back, but quite nice to say you've lent the richest man in the world a tenner.....

Oh, and I've seen meself on telly quite a few times, usually at football matches. Liverpool v Ipswich Town FA Cup 5th round replay at Anfield springs to mind (early nineties), when i went with my brother and dad, who are both Ipswich fans (I being the sole member of the family with some sense). We were sat on the front row of the Anny Road end, just to the left of the goal. Anyway, Liverpool score in front of 7'000 odd Ipswich fans, and a small child is the only person to be seen leaping off his seat and celebrating. I then realised there were 7'000 angry farmers behind me, and sat down quite quickly...
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