Whats your "claim to fame" ?

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Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 2:16 am

I have a few .........I'll start with these:

Dollar Brand (now Abdullah Ibrahim), slept on my couch
I played tennis alongside Jerry Rice
I got to hug Crashhoot.

Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 2:46 am

you forgot to mention that you went topless on the internet Wink

Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 3:54 am

Met Joe Paterno.

Met Maynard Ferguson, three separate occasions. One of them was at Blues Alley, in line for the men's room during a set break.

I've been recorded and televised numerous times, but always as part of a musical ensemble. I did get to perform a solo at the National Cathedral in Washington D.C. though, but that one wasn't recorded or televised. Sad

Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 9:47 am

lotta wrote:

Dollar Brand (now Abdullah Ibrahim), slept on my couch
I played tennis alongside Jerry Ri

Cool! Saw him live in Wynberg many years ago. Was great.

Baiting Guru Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Posts: 3193

Nude on the front and center pages of a national newspaper. I'm not saying which, why or when.

Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 12:26 pm

I have won the lottery in the Uk 15 times, Spain 3 times and Netherlands 8 times all in the space of two weeks.

Not only that, i have inherited from and know loads of nigerians who i am in business with up to the trillions of dollars.

That makes me the richest person in the world.

Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 12:29 pm

Thud, You're not Linda Lusardi by any chance? Wink

Baiting Guru Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Posts: 3193

^^^

Wrong gender.

Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 1:03 pm

^^^are you one of those guys who run naked onto the football lawn during a match?? Laughing

Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 2:41 pm

Lewis Black has been to my house for dinner and drinks.
I gave Franco Harris (retired Steeler running back) a couple of vicodins.
I broke both legs at once in a skiing incident
I've been shot in the ass with a deer rifle.

** SUSPENDED ** Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Posts: 135

I've been to each and every one of the 50 states in the US. Alaska and Hawaii are especially beautiful.

Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 4:04 pm

@Ziggyzap

I'm surprised Boy George knew what a c*nt was. There again, perhaps with a mug like that he doesn't look in the mirror that much.

Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 6:50 pm

Reprob8 wrote:

I've been shot in the ass with a deer rifle.

By a vice president?

Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 7:31 pm

Mike wrote:

Hekate wrote:

I used to go drinking ....Shane from The Pogues.

And you lived to tell the tale ? Shocked

Fair play to you!

It's part of the reason why I hardly ever drink any more! One of his favourite 'drinks' is a pint glass filled with either the 'white', or the 'brown' spirits on a gantry. After half a pint of that, I was numb from the neck down! So was he, which is why when he famously walked in front of a taxi, he bounced several times, but felt no pain! Shocked

I was going to list the boring politicians I've met, but you'd all be soooooo underwhelmed! I'm supposed to be going to the Royal Garden Party next year, but I'm already wavering about that!

I prefer my other claims to fame anyway - they are much cooler! Twisted Evil

I grew up with Jim Kerr from Simple Minds - we were great friends until primary school. Met up again in secondary school, but it was never the same!

Master of Master Baiters Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 669

Some of these might be a little bit obscure...

The year after the Detroit Tigers won the World Series for baseball back in the 1980s, I went to a Tigers game and afterwards got to shake Sparky Anderson's hand. Sparky was the manager of the team at the time.

When I was in high school I ran track. At our regional meet I spotted University of Michigan running back (at the time) Tyrone Wheatley in the bleachers and got him to autograph a $5 bill for me. He doesn't get much press anymore, but when he was playing at UofM he was pretty darned good.

After seeing the musician Matthew Sweet in concert I got to hang out on his tour bus for about ten minutes.

Every summer I get to help out a large Christian music festival and hang out with the musicians that play there. I think the most famous (at least among Christian music fans) one I've had a chance to hang with so far is Mac Powell from Third Day.

Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 8:42 pm

My great-uncle was awarded the Victoria Cross in the Great War. I've been to the place where he won it - as well as to Gallipoli and a host of other sites where the AIF fought.

I've spoken to a WWII submarine ace, though I only learned exactly who he was later.

i've also spoken to a woman who single-handedly salvaged part of Cambodian culture. Em Theay risked her life to preserve books and notes on the Royal Dance troupe during the time of the Khmer Rouge, and rebuilt the Dance Troupe thereafter.

On a lighter note - I once shot a colleague's jeans full of holes at a firing range, using two different automatic weapons.

Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 8:50 pm

yastreb wrote:

... I once shot a colleague's jeans full of holes ...

Is he recovering well? Wink

Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 11:15 pm

I've appeared in the national news (the newsclip was also aired in at least one neighbouring country).
I've been interviewed by the local newspaper.
In a multinational seminar (over 400 people from all around the world attended it) it was announced that I and a couple of friends of mine are allowed to drink only half of the usual amount to ensure that there's enough booze for everyone.

Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 11:44 pm

I have met and drank with countless footballers both English and Scottish, shagged a footballers wife in the bullseye.
Had a bit of banter with Andrew Bryniarski in december now this chap is a fcuking man mountain to those who dont know him he played zangief in street fighter the movie but has also done a fair bit of other stuff aswell.

Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 11:56 pm

The Example wrote:

shagged a footballers wife in the bullseye.

Wow....and you're actually willing to share that? Rolling Eyes

Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 1:08 am

I managed to stop Tony Blair in his tracks. I was at a Party conference and sitting right in the front row on the left hand side of the hall, so he would walk past me on the way out. He finished his speach, had the usual standing ovation from the crowd. I just sat there shaking my head. He was walking past shaking hands , saw me and he stopped, did a double take and then carried on.

Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 1:45 am

Benjamin_Franklin wrote:

Some of these might be a little bit obscure...
shake Sparky Anderson's hand.

Went to the same high school as Sparky sometime after Taft's presidency. Laughing

Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 3:39 am

I remembered another one: I once had a couple of classes with the rather colourful (to put it mildly) brother of Sarah McLachlan.

I also attended a Canadian Football League game with Hall of Famer Eric Upton. This will mean absolutely nothing to anybody here, rather like saying "I saw some guy at a supermarket once. He was wearing a shirt." Smile

Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 5:46 am

<br>I played the stunning xylophone solo at the end of Supertramp's 'Dreamer' single which reached No. 13 in the UK charts in 1975, and my sister was on Top Of The Pops with St Winifred's School choir who had a No.1 hit back in 1980 with 'No One Quite Like Grandma'. She wasn't in the group, she was in the audience.

Saw Alvin Stardust in my local once with his wife. They were in panto and hiring a house locally. Nice bloke. Kept himself to himself.

Also saw Roxanne from 'Pop Idol' singing in another local pub. That was before Simon Cowell got his grubby hands on her.

Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 7:37 am

kleindoofy wrote:

yastreb wrote:

... I once shot a colleague's jeans full of holes ...

Is he recovering well? Wink

He wore them to a party that very evening apparently, though he never did tell what people said about the holes.

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