I was on the local TV news once - RTQ7 Rockhampton back in the 80s
Rushed home to see myself and missed most of it.

I knew a girl who met the Dalai Lama.

I graduated from the Queensland Institute of Technology in the same year as creationist whacko Ken Ham. I didn't know him then, at least I don't think so.

I sat beside the local parliamentarian's daughter at school. Very nice, too, she was. Her Dad later became Queensland police minister until forced to resign becuae he insisted on disciplining police who were caught on TV batoning a female demostrator on the head, by premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen. His replacement appointed a police commissioner who was tainted by suspectd corruption. The scandal broke in the late 80s with Bjelke-Petersen tried for taking bribes and narrowly avoiding jail time.

I bought a raffle ticket from the federal Minister for the Army, Bob Katter Senior at a Rugby League game in far-flung Cloncurry. Didn't win.

I collided with a different federal cabinet minister at Expo 88 in Brisbane as I walked around a corner.

A colleage and very good friend has worked as a research assistant for John Shine - he of the Shine-Dalgarno bacterial DNA sequence. Her sister was Deputy Usher of the Black Rod in the Australian Senate for a while.

Another colleague knew someone killed in the terrorist attacks on the hotel in Mumbai.

My mother knew William Lilley, suspected of the double rape and triple murder at Gatton at the end of the 19th century.

A long-time acquaintance has been Comptroller of the Royal Australian Mint.

I'm pretty certain I knew one of the sources for "The Hand That Signed the Paper" by Helen Darville, who posed as "Helen Demidenko" of Ukrainan roots, about Ukranian exterminatiion camp guards under the Nazi regime.
(Redemption blamed it on the Bossa Nova since, Fri 21 Sep 2012, 5:22, 2 replies)

I'm pretty sure we may have gone to the same rodeos when we were younger.

(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Fri 21 Sep 2012, 8:30, closed)

I recall going to one in Emerald in the 1950s but not since then.

(Redemption blamed it on the Bossa Nova since, Fri 21 Sep 2012, 13:32, closed)