I once sat opposite Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall on a train.
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What's your most tenuous claim to fame?
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isn't there already a current thread like this ?
oh, I see
These are nearly all highly tenuous: http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/whats-your-best-claim-to-fame
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Jimmy Saville was in front of me at the till in my village shop a few months ago. He hadn't done his tracksuit top up and was being weird, so I went and loitered in the fruit and veg section until he'd gone off.
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geoffj - Member
I once sat opposite Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall on a train.
You failed. You failed miserably. All we wanted was HFW on STW and you failed. Now, go and sit in the corner and think about how you've let us all down.
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I once clashed oars with Steve Redgrave (that's not a euphemism!)
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i once sold uga twigamala (know idea if thats how you spell it) a pair of jeans.
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You failed. You failed miserably. All we wanted was HFW on STW and you failed. Now, go and sit in the corner and think about how you've let us all down.
What upsets me most about that is the fact that I failed to ask him if I should crack the bones when making stock from a chicken carcass!
well that and feeling like a stalker after surreptitiously taking his photograph.
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oops.
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I've met Jenson Button
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I once discussed LOOK pedals with the guy who played the butler in the Fresh Prince of Bel Air. Turns out he's a keen cyclist.
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This isn't my claim to fame but..
A few weeks ago, I visited Alcatraz. At the end of the tour, there's a shop, where you can buy t-shirts and books and stuff. The author of one of the books was there - Darwin Coon, a former inmate. We had a bit of a chat, and i asked if he met anyone famous when he was inside. He said he'd met Robert Stroud, the Birdman of Alcatraz, but not in Alcatraz, in another jail, Fort leavenworth IIRC. then he asked if I'd ever seen Escape from Alcatraz. I said yes, the one where Clint Eastwood tunnelled out using spoons, based on a true story..
"Well, son, I worked in the kitchens and I got them the spoons"Posted 2 years ago # -
So the answer was "No"
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I saw Tom Baker walking out of a Butchers. Waiting to see Pat Butcher walk into a Bakers
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LOL @ Drac
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I went to school with the neice of a GB athelete who won a silver medal in either the commenwealth games or olympics or summit.
Or I was in Hollyoaks as an Extra
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Lol @ geoffj - I remember that thread you started on the train with HFW, t'was funny.
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Lent some bacon to Jarvis Cocker whilst crabbing at walberswick this july- his kept falling off the crab line.
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i nearly delivered an exercise bike to Cheryl Crows house for Lance to use, but it was canceled last minute - same for Flavio Briatore
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I was scowled at by Germaine Greer, when walking through a London tube tunnel someplace.
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- I work with a guy whose uncle is in Judas Priest
- I got Jenny Powell's autograph years ago at Alton Towers
- I am being tattood on the 17th Nov by Joolz DenbyPosted 2 years ago # -
I sold Count Dracula aka the Snooker player Ray Reardon a Suit as I used to work in a shop in Bond St, I also sold Claire Grogans boyfriend a jumper, she helped choose it...I think he had a Happy Birthday
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When I was on Top Gear someone called Jeremy Clarkson kept getting his head in shot so you couldn't see me!
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Jannis Battersby of Coronation St(who was rather the worse for wear in the pub one sat afternoon) borrowed my mobile to ring her husband at home (over the road)!
She then proceeded to have an argument over the phone. Then gave me a fiver to cover the cost of the call!
Classy
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I went to school with James 'Mo Wax' Lavelle (but he was just a naughty boy back then) and also Ian McEwan's stepdaughter.
Oh, and Dennis Waterman chatted my mum up. She was delighted.
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I met the Queen last year when she knighted me at Buckingham Palace.
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Oh yeah, and my cousin was on Cheggers Plays Pop!
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Only joking.
Blimey Cheggers Plays Pop.That was quite a few years ago.Showing your age there mate. Posted 2 years ago # -
I used to live with someone who used to work with David Baker's wife.
That's pretty tenuous.
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@gsi man: Those were the days... Cheggers, Crackerjack, Blue Peter... Double maths homework. Maybe it wasn't all great, eh?
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JK has a house 3 miles away from my folks, keep seeing him in the pub, he's taller than you think.
Jack Bruce used to holiday near my home, saw him in the pub once.
Shared a plane to Corsica with some woman out of Corrie Farm.Posted 2 years ago # -
I sold Magnus Magnusson a half bottle of whisky and half of vodka about an hour before he started filming Mastermind at the Oxford Union.
Mrs Belgium sold Alan Shearer some DVDs when he was playing for Southampton, and Steve Claridge's wife used to cut Mrs B's mum's hair...Posted 2 years ago # -
I used to live next door to Sean Connery's brother.
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We were on hols a few years back and Tom OConner sat with a group of us.
By the end of the night we were so drunk that we would interrupt his cheesy gags by saying " I’ll name that tune in .." it was very funny at the time .. guess you had to be there
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I used to sit next the Helen baxendale most days on the train going to school, she was in the year below me ... If only i'd kept those kiddie love letters
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Once interviewed Joolz for a fanzine in Huddersfield! Long long time ago.
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