an unusual fact about yourself?

axisus

Paul_C said:

I've also been in the congregation for Songs Of Praise (amazing how many extra people turned up that week).

I used to go to a church many years ago and I skipped the week that songs of praise showed up! Didn't want to be on TV!

skay

Alison Moyet has used our toilet. Is this really my only claim to fame? Lol :-D

suspiciousminds

I work with the grandson of the photographer who did the pics on the inner sleeves for the beatles White album.

Skipped

This is hard to believe, but I have never watched This Is Your Life, Bert Weedon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM2WAVdxwyM

ESBlonde

My great great great...+...grandfather on my mothers side was Pilatra De Rozier the first man to fly untethered in the montgofier brothers hot air balloon in 1783.

I once lent my marshall to Boz Burrell. He wanted to buy it once he tried it. As it happens it was in the venue of the recent East Anglian Gear fest but many years earlier.

I met several times and had lots of beers with Bill Nighy, nice bloke but he talks slowly/quirky in real life just like he acts (or maybe he doesn't act all quirky).

chillidoggy

bertie said:

chillidoggy said:

Was she a blow monkey

blonde "game show hostess" in "It doesnt have to be this way".................. tho the video was a few years prior to our meeting

Maybe I should have written "blow" thus. Never mind.

viz

Paul_C said:

Steve Rothery sat on my sofa once.

I've also been in the congregation for Songs Of Praise (amazing how many extra people turned up that week).

I had a gun pointed at me during a petrol station robbery and the front page of the local paper quoted my sarcastic reply to a stupid question.

Lol, go on?

Kebabkid

I was an extra in an 80's film called "Mary Millington's World Striptease Extravaganza". It was more a Miss.World format competition of porn stars from around the globe with Bernie Winters as the compere. Me and my friends were judges, crowd scene folks etc so no real..erm..participation. Funded and directed by David Sullivan, who was present, and filmed in some basement club in Green Park. Got paid £15 and I've never seen the damn thing!

bertie

chillidoggy said:

Maybe I should have written "blow" thus. Never mind.

not any more.................she's mrs bert

        

chillidoggy

LOL!

scrumhalf

Emp_Fab said:

Oh yeah ! - I forgot to mention, my cousin (mum's sister's daughter) is married to Terry Williams, the drummer from Dire Straits.

I used to have a chat with him and the other blokes from Man when they played the late, lamented Torrington in North Finchley. Top blokes, all of them.

IanSavage

Alright, if we're going to be all serious about this - I guitar tech'd for Mick Taylor (ex-Rolling Stone) at the IGF purely on the strength of the fact that I had a fairly well-stocked tool kit (steady...) and could tune a guitar under pressure. In the minutes up to doors opening I was sweating and swearing over a soldering iron repairing the bassist's (only!) instrument which had decided to go tits-up during soundcheck, whilst Mick himself was playing MY Strat which I'd bought along to check equipment with. 

On the subject of equipment (and guitar_slinger / Mark from the old place will roll his eyes at this, 'cos he was organising the whole crew), there had apparently been a total mission to get EXACTLY the type and vintage of Marshall something-or-other, Fender Twin, Boss chorus and Crybaby specified in Mick's rider during the day or two before. He turned up, I introduced myself as his tech and said that I'd set everything up just to get a sound out of it and if he told me exactly what he wanted I'd sort it; he responded along the lines of 'Don't give a shit, don't know what half of the knobs do anyway - sounds fine as it is' :-S

Oh, last thing that I remember from that gig - the IGF's house bassist had lent his combo for the show, a dog's-bollocks but not exactly imposing Eden combo. Taylor's significant other was/is (?) a stereotypical Scandinavian blonde, who tore a strip off me when she saw the bass rig ('he uses...BIG amp - this is no good, this is toy!'); as she was doing this the bassist finally got onstage, saw the combo and said 'an Eden, fucking nice one man' and shook my hand. The Scandinavian bit didn't say much after that

Oh, and Taylor actually used my Strat during the show because he hadn't bought enough guitars along to dedicate one to open E tuning, and he liked it B-) still got the signed scratchplate somewhere...

mudslide73

Lightning from Gladiators was in the year above me at school.

Kebabkid

Marc Bolan went to my school (Hillcroft in Tooting), but years before I was there.However,
Alan Knight, the former Portsmouth goalkeeper, attended when I was there. This leads me nicely to I had a trial for Chelsea as a goalkeeper when I was 12. I was the Wandsworth district goalkeeper so technically speaking, I was the best keeper for my age in the borough and thought I was in with a chance..er dream on! I didn't even get a look in/recall and you should've seen the size of the other 12 year olds and some were already shaving. Oh, and they were miles better than me!

AlexHunter

mudslide73 said:

Lightning from Gladiators was in the year above me at school.

Do you look back and wish it was Jet instead?

mudslide73

I suppose so but she didn't really stand out anyway. Still out of my league though...

thermionic

Naomi Watts went to my school. I can't honestly remember her (she was a year younger and left for Australia after about 18 months) but her brother was in my year, and a pretty good footballer.

the_jaffa

My second cousin, before his death , was James Hunt the F1 driver. I'm also fairly distantly related to Richard Stilgoe (definitely not as cool)

fretmeister

Tom Sharpe went to my school

I once ran through Euston station and ran straight into Nigel Havers. He was very polite about it.

At a charity auction for the nspcc I waved at a mate and accidentally bought a signed photo of Noel Edmonds. For £1

johnnyurq

I was very nearly run down by Jeremy Paxman at BBC White City many years ago.

He got a double barrelled flipping of the bird and a very loud you caant because I had right of way.