The thread in which PHers reveal tenuous links to famous people.

[shakotan]

Blown2CV said:

russell_ram said:

My step mothers godson is Adam Clayton (of U2 bass fame). No, I haven't met him.

so you're step god brothers with the edge??

The Edge and Adam Clayton are related now?

[greggy50]

illmonkey said:

evenflow said:

My best mate at University (UCL in the mid/late 90s) was a fantastic, self-taught guitarist.
He went to audition for a uni band who were looking for a guitarist. The band loved him and offered him the gig on the spot. He slept on it but then turned them down as he didn't really like their style of music.
The band?

What is now Coldplay!

Wow, close call!

That's a good one!

I feel ill just reading that

[Blown2CV]

shakotan said:

Blown2CV said:

russell_ram said:

My step mothers godson is Adam Clayton (of U2 bass fame). No, I haven't met him.

so you're step god brothers with the edge??

The Edge and Adam Clayton are related now?

happy to expose my lack of U2 knowledge.

[Bullett]

That reminds me. I sat next to a chap at a Wedding who was a sports journalist, nice chap. Chatting as you do I mention I play Bass in a band. Oh, he says my best mate is a bass player, I was his best man. Nothing much more was said about it except the had a stag do in Scotland, hiring a castle. Turns out the band was Coldplay.

[monthefish]

Scousefella said:

....Suzi Quattro......

All customers of mine who pay me to attend their properties and empty their septic tanks/bio treatment units.

It's a sh*t job........................

I'm sure someone on her once said they'd "walk over hot coals just to throw stones at her poo"

[Spanglepants]

Sorry to go O/T (and lower the tone) but i always heard it as "I'd walk barefoot over broken glass just to use her s for toothpaste". Romantic, I know.
As you were.

monthefish said:

Scousefella said:

....Suzi Quattro......

All customers of mine who pay me to attend their properties and empty their septic tanks/bio treatment units.

It's a sh*t job........................

I'm sure someone on her once said they'd walk over hot coals just to throw stones at her poo"

[Spanglepants]

And to make up for that last post, I sat next to Shaw Taylor - if anyone remembers Police 5 from the 70s - on a bus going through Streatham, South London.

[HereBeMonsters]

Spanglepants said:

Sorry to go O/T (and lower the tone) but i always heard it as "I'd walk barefoot over broken glass just to use her s for toothpaste". Romantic, I know.
As you were.

monthefish said:

Scousefella said:

....Suzi Quattro......

All customers of mine who pay me to attend their properties and empty their septic tanks/bio treatment units.

It's a sh*t job........................

I'm sure someone on her once said they'd walk over hot coals just to throw stones at her poo"

"I'd drag myself by the balls over two thousand miles of broken glass and AIDS-infected medical waste just for a chance to catch one of her farts in a bag and huff it."

[Shaolin]

monthefish said:

I'm sure someone on her once said they'd "walk over hot coals just to throw stones at her poo"

I like this one best, short and ambiguous. Is it about hatred though not wishing to cause real harm or admiration? Either way it's pleasingly bizarre.

[ooo000ooo]

Steve_W said:

You want tenuous? My OH's stepmum's mother was the cousin of Pope John Paul II.

A friend of mine had a mobile phone wallet made from the same piece of leather as a pair of JP2's shoes.

[Swanny87]

I used to live in the same town as Jeremy Irons which coincidentally, is supposed to be the smallest town in the UK. I saw Alison Steadman waiting to get the tube at Highgate. Timothy Spall walked past the Italian restaurant we were in. I went to the same Uni as Jony Ive (Apple hardware VP of design).

[Blown2CV]

Shaolin said:

monthefish said:

I'm sure someone on her once said they'd "walk over hot coals just to throw stones at her poo"

I like this one best, short and ambiguous. Is it about hatred though not wishing to cause real harm or admiration? Either way it's pleasingly bizarre.

it's become a bit of an internet meme, that type of thing. Apologies for the Americanisms:

internet said:

I would swim up the Amazon with 45 pound dumbbells tied to my scrotum and Ellen Degeneres’ queef as my air supply if it meant I could eat a seafood dinner with her over skype on a dial up internet connection.

or

I would paint my scrotum to look like a mouse and dip it in a tank full of hungry Western Diamondback Rattlesnakes just to take a 5 minute nap on the floor of the same rest-stop bathroom her gay cousin had diarrhea in 14 years ago.

or

I would dive to the bottom of a pool filled with human feces and AIDS needles just to find a knife that I can use to cut the corneas out of my eyes only to lick the hairy sweaty taint of the guy that delivered pizza next door to a guy that knows another guy that walked past her on the sidewalk 5 years ago.

[V8mate]

Swanny87 said:

I used to live in the same town as Jeremy Irons which coincidentally, is supposed to be the smallest town in the UK.

Manningtree?

[PurpleTurtle]

Spanglepants said:

And to make up for that last post, I sat next to Shaw Taylor - if anyone remembers Police 5 from the 70s - on a bus going through Streatham, South London.

He'd undoubtedly have been pleased you were keeping 'em peeled!

[Swanny87]

V8mate said:

Swanny87 said:

I used to live in the same town as Jeremy Irons which coincidentally, is supposed to be the smallest town in the UK.

Manningtree?

No Watlington, Oxfordshire. I think it used to be a market town and it still has a town hall. I'm not sure about it's official status as a town though, moved away from there about 17 years ago.

[Captainawesome]

Jamaroquai has a house a few miles up the road and the guy who loves 3 houses up is mates with Richard Hammond.

Oh, and Chesney Hawkes (the one and only) has served me a pint of beer when we forced him to get behind the bar after he played a gig in a club I was working in.

[illmonkey]

Jaykay is fairly local to me too.

[mikees]

I met john craven today. Country file were filming in my village ( Cookham )

[wildcat45]

mikees said:

I met john craven today. Country file were filming in my village ( Cookham )

He was a mate of my Dad. That impressed me no end when I was 6.

[onyx39]

mikees said:

I met john craven today. Country file were filming in my village ( Cookham )

I was in the studio audience for a one off reboot of Multi Coloured Swap ship a few years back. He walked past the Mrs and I whilst we were waiting to take our seats in the studio audience.