When I was a motorbike courier in London I nearly ran Linda McCartney over. Or I should say I crashed rather than hit the daft mare.
I got pissed with Andrew Titley at a mate's wedding last year.
I've stood in the same room as a working jet engine.
I've had a full on 10 page magazine cover feature on an internationally published Japanese Car Tuning Magazine.
Beaten a former world champ (Kevin Ashurst) off the next peg in a fishing match, was well chuffed with that.
Been told by Matt Lucas and his then alive "husband" to leave them alone while asking for his autograph in HMV, Time Square. Orrible fat bald little oik!
And erm know a girl who's played the pink oboe with ole robot dancer while his rather tasty missus was in LA with Beckhams bird shooting a tele programme.
My second cousin is Sam Salt who was the captain of HMS Sheffield in the falklands.
Slightly more cheerfully, I sort of know the daughter of Reg from welsh language enormo-soap Pobol y Cwm.
Been on the Lash with Brandon Block when he had a residency in Agia Napa in 2000.
Spilt Simon Le Bon's pint in a nightclub in Guernsey in the early 90's
Had a can of coke thrown at (to, but at sounds better) me by Morgan Freeman.
Had a drink with Richard Branson on his 2nd Island.
Natalie Imbruglia was at my birthday party a few weeks ago.
Got in the local rag a few years back after getting paid £28,500 for a weeks work whilst working as a labourer building a shopping centre in Inverness.
Office girl had put my hourly rate through as £591 instead of £5.91.
I gave most of it back.......
alex222 - MemberThe band I was in when I was 18 supported bad manners.
Bad Manners supported the band I was in when I was 30... 
Mum knew the Kennedys, she was sort of on the fringes. Swam with them when they visited Jamaica.
Married my dad, and whilst pregnant with me was an extra in Dr No, James Bond film. I've never received any royalties- nor spotted her in the film either.
We later moved to New York and on August 28, 1963 we went to Washington, to the Lincoln Memorial. I was there when Dr Martin Luther King gave what I believe to be one of the most powerful speaches of all time.
Learnt to walk on the Queen Mary, sailing to Southampton. Went on many of the Aldermaston marches, in the 60's. And again in the 80's.
My stepfather more or less synthesised cortisone.
Me and my bessie mate Justin are responsible for the salty vinegary 'fish and chips' crisp biscuit snack's name. Justin's dad worked in advertising and used to trial all sorts of stuff out on us. I seem to remember that 'chish and fips' was an alternative suggested.
Buggered up my ropework following a nasty dislocation at Tremadog, ending up with Jim Perrin untying more or less on the crux of the Itch slab. He wasn't very happy, and let me know about it.
Fell 600 feet in the Alps. Lived. Not a good day, but could have been a LOT worse.
Front cover of canoeing guide book. Pics of me in others too.
And then I had kids.
May you live in interesting times.
Oh yeah I've been on Romanian music tv DJing on a beach wearing a [i]keffiyah[/i] Yasser Arafat style 🙂
I also sometimes work with a guy who used to play keyboards in James. And my boss is that annoying one man band guy on the Mars Planets adverts in between episodes of Friends on E4.
I have a more tenuous one..... I used to be friends with the boy who is currently going out with Tim Kelletts daughter, the trumpet player from Simply Red (later formed a dance band called Olive too) and have blown his trumpet as well.........
I also have met the brother of the gamekeeper who's dad saw/went out with prince charles nanny when he was in high school.
beat that...
We were on the House Doctor 10 years ago (smelly dog house in South Leeds). Was interviewed on Stray FM for cycling to work (50miles) on Harrogate Car free day this year.
I beat Chipps in a downhill race.....
Mind you so did another 85 or so folk!
My wifes Dad was an original memeber of The Animals, when you hear house of the rising sun on the radio that's him playing, no royalties though 🙁
I threw up on Cliff Richard's breakfast table (I was 1 at the time...)
i know where rocketdog lives!
I was once phoned up at work by Johnny Dawes (the mad as a box o' frogs Sheffield climber feller). It was ever so slightly bizarre...
I once spoke to Peter Hook on the phone whilst Monaco were playing in the background.
I built the wheels Rob Warner rode to third place at Mont StAnne back in 95.
ive snogged Sarah Blackwood of 'Dubstar Fame'
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after a gig in southampton when i was in uni, i tried in vain to get her back to my stinking pit but she was having non of it. her excuse was they were leaving for th enext gig early in the morning.
i still cling to the sad memory of 'what could have been'.. 😉
also bought a pint for james dean bradfield (manics) in newport years ago, nice chap but i think i freaked him out when i started shouting manics lyrics at him, he never finished his pint
A guy who works near me, kinda developed Carbon Fiber.
I've fingered the Queen.
bigsi - Member
At college i dated a girl who had been out with one of the brothers from Bros.
The big sister of one of the first girls I snogged also went out with one of the brothers from Bros...
Snog, what a lovely word.
My great uncle kind of invented guerilla warfare and helped set up Israel. I like painting pictures and can now speak Swedish and nearly do wheelies.
Hmmm I feel outclassed some more from my past
Fought (wtf full contact) in the USA, HK & europe, toured for a few years in the 00's.
Appeared in 'tae kwon do' magazine
Tried to pull Danni Minogue in Brighton in 98 (The zap club I think). Was escorted away.
going everywhere, totally un-noticed. 😉
My parents knew Giles the cartoonist from their sailing days and ihave been to a all night party at his house and i have about 12 signed giles annuals, whilst at the party i was looking at his xmas cards and there was one fron charles and di in they own handwriting not a print
ooooo.... went sailing with Nick Moloney and the missus asked him if he knew Ellen Macarthur. He didn't look impressed.
I went out with the sister of the guitarist from "London Beat"
i once filled paul gadd's (garry glitter) honda nsx up with petrol
Let's see... I went to Melanie Sykes birthday party, Robbie Williams was there(very fat) as well as Jamie Theaskston(tall).
Served Delia Smith champagne
Played rugby against the Croatian national side whilst representing Germany.
Watched Nil By Mouth with Ian Brown(well he sat in front of us)
I used to do that annoying aussie twun's garden that runs a papprazzi agency. Darren sumthink?
Used to live next door to Goldie and down the road from Vinnie Jones.
my wife worked with ted rogers' (dusty bin 321)nephew(who was a trolley collector) at Tescos.
She was also the model who got tripped up on the catwalk by Patsy in Abfab.
Save the best till last, Sly Stallone called her a moron!
Was at our sons pre-school AGM tonight and Jim Corr rolls in, he could have easily used one of the childrens seat soooo small he is.
Nothing can beat the night on QI when Alan Davies told the one about his mate who has a pube belonging to the Queen in a matchbox.
I built the wheels Rob Warner rode to third place at Mont StAnne back in 95.
If they had been tensioned & trued properly,pherhaps he would have won... 😉
When working at HMV in Derby in my early 20's we had Hugh Cornwell from The Stranglers visit for promotional duties. Upon arrival he was very rude to one of our female members of staff. I had the enviable task of popping round the corner to the local M&S to buy a selection of nibbles and sandwiches for our esteemed guest.
Upon my return the mini buffet was presented and smiles from the staff in abundance. Yet still the miserable prick continued to whinge. Enough was enough. Whilst he was out signing, I gobbed in his cobs.
Also whilst working for His Masters Voice I met Bruce Dickinson (miserable ****), Thunder, Moby and Stuart Adamson. Can I just say Mr Adamson was one of the lovliest blokes I have ever met. A true gentleman. RIP.
One of my mates met Bruce Dickinson at a fencing competition and thought he was well charming!
Another mate worked in HMV in oxford circus and says most of the celebrities he met in there were a bit unreasonable. Apart from Brian May who came in (just shopping) and tidied up the Queen section.
Tidied up the queen section. Really? That would of been hilarious to witness :lol:.
Feeble: Some of my software is helping fly satellites. Other bits are helping the Navy keep safe.
Strong: My mate's circus skills trainer has touched Angelina Jolie's bum (while filming Tomb Raider)!
Some classics here 🙂
My longest post ever, by far. Send it to 200!
The guy who headed up a company I worked for used to play bass when he was younger. His amp was way too powerful for him so he lent it to a mate, John Burnel. Who in time changed his name to Jean-Jacques Burnel and created probably the best bass sound ever...
My Mum taught Gary Sprake's kids (Leeds Utd and Wales goalie).
Served Ian Botham, Allan Lamb and Geoff Boycott and a few other cricketers when working at a pub in Headingley.
Thrown up in front of Eddie Waring when he was presenting prizes at a university beer promotion night where we had won a prize in a drinking competition.
Had tea in the kitchen at Worthy Farm with Michael & Jean Eavis - also took the Oxfam banner which is prominent on Glastonbury's Pyramid stage to the site.
Escorted Honor Blackman in a limo to a charity ball in Bath.
Also got range of people involved in charity events including Paddy Ashdown (top bloke), Jo Brand and Angus Deayton.
Cousin (very much older) was married to Laurens Van der Post (now dead) - who was Prince Charles' guru and godparent to Prince William .
Regulary sit in a sauna at the gym I go to with a member of Portishead.
Colonel Tim Hodgetts who runs the much-publicised unit for injured service personnel at Selly Oak hospital and who has transformed emergency battlefield medical practices went to my school and comes from the same village.
And the biggest missed opportunity was in my very first job declining the offer of going on a 10 day photo-shoot with two Page 3 girls and a couple of other models 😥
I had jiggy jiggy with the younger sister of a Miss World, well actually she came 2nd. No names, but she came 2nd in 1985, if anyone is that bothered to look it up.
Also, around the same time, at a house party I had a pr of sissors put to my neck by an angry younger brother of the Yorkshire Ripper. Very scary at the time. I was completely innocent, luckily a friend who knew him talked him down.
The two are not linked, other than by the town I grew up in.
A good friend of mine arrested Ken barlow in corrie, and later returned as JD last year in a couple of episodes, and has filmed one of the HSBC ads!
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In 1979, my best friend and I rented a garage and started building and selling custom bikes assembled on frames that another guy we knew built in his own garage.
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