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

[Sheets Tabuer]

soxboy said:

RammyMP said:

Gail Tilsley off Corrie was on our train to London last night' she looked at me as if I should know who she was, the wife had to tell me.

...it was in First Class obviously!

I once lived opposite the football club she was/ is president of.

I once watched a film where she was sitting in a basket of a BMX bike which lifted off the ground and flew over a small town to avoid the authorities.

[SeldomSeenKid]

Sheets Tabuer said:

I once watched a film where she was sitting in a basket of a BMX bike which lifted off the ground and flew over a small town to avoid the authorities.

[RammyMP]

Walked past Boris Becker this afternoon, he was sat outside a bar in Mayfair smoking a tab. He's scuffed the matt black wrap on the back of his Merc SLS.

[Mr Gearchange]

SeldomSeenKid said:

Sheets Tabuer said:

I once watched a film where she was sitting in a basket of a BMX bike which lifted off the ground and flew over a small town to avoid the authorities.

[berlintaxi]

RammyMP said:

Walked past Boris Becker this afternoon, he was sat outside a bar in Mayfair smoking a tab. He's scuffed the matt black wrap on the back of his Merc SLS.

He won't care it'll be a freebie.

[Buster73]

northwest monkey said:

Hercules?

If so, that is very cool indeed

It was Hercules and the owners name was Andy.

Apparently Back at the airport going home , Andy walked through the check in queues carrying a large mast wearing his trunks and a cowboy hat .

Nobody said a dickie bird.

[onyx39]

a friend of mine used to work for Sky TV and once stood in the smoking shelter at work and had a chat with David Soul who was also smoking at the time.

[PurpleTurtle]

I had a slash (and mid-slash chat about Spurs' prospects that season) with Dave out of Chas 'N' Dave at a curry house in Bracknell.

I had gone to se them do a turn there, they hadn't just randomly turned up. All you can eat curry buffet plus Chas 'N' Dave ... properly livin' the dream!

[nicanary]

PurpleTurtle said:

I had a slash (and mid-slash chat about Spurs' prospects that season) with Dave out of Chas 'N' Dave at a curry house in Bracknell.

I had gone to se them do a turn there, they hadn't just randomly turned up. All you can eat curry buffet plus Chas 'N' Dave ... properly livin' the dream!

Now THAT'S a good night out, 'specially if the beer's decent.

"If 'e comes rarnd 'ere
If 'e comes rarnd 'ere,
I don't care if 'e comes rarnd 'ere.
I've got my beer in the sideboard 'ere.
Let yer muvver sort it art if 'e comes rarnd 'ere."

Best singsong artists ever.

[soxboy]

PurpleTurtle said:

I had a slash (and mid-slash chat about Spurs' prospects that season) with Dave out of Chas 'N' Dave at a curry house in Bracknell.

I had gone to se them do a turn there, they hadn't just randomly turned up. All you can eat curry buffet plus Chas 'N' Dave ... properly livin' the dream!

I am now singing (in my head) 'Gercha' but replaced by 'korma'.

[BigBen]

nicanary said:

PurpleTurtle said:

I had a slash (and mid-slash chat about Spurs' prospects that season) with Dave out of Chas 'N' Dave at a curry house in Bracknell.

I had gone to se them do a turn there, they hadn't just randomly turned up. All you can eat curry buffet plus Chas 'N' Dave ... properly livin' the dream!

Now THAT'S a good night out, 'specially if the beer's decent.

"If 'e comes rarnd 'ere
If 'e comes rarnd 'ere,
I don't care if 'e comes rarnd 'ere.
I've got my beer in the sideboard 'ere.
Let yer muvver sort it art if 'e comes rarnd 'ere."

Best singsong artists ever.

circa 1988 when on holiday with my parents my elderly grandmother and her sister were left in charge of the house. As a night out they went to see Chaz and Dave who were ably supported by what they described as a 'blue' comedian, wish I could have been there, then again it was probably as inappropriate for 12 year old me as for 80 year old them.....

[Hugo a Gogo]

I was once in a video shop in Walthamstow (E17!) at the same time as Brian Harvey from East 17 (the words 'video shop' should suggest to you that this was at the time when he was a bit famous, before he ran over his own head)

he was driving an awful barried E30 convertible

Lennox Lewis once told my I was parked in a stupid place

he was in a gold 500SEC

[Blib]

Did you lamp him one?

[imagineifyeswill]

In the late seventies when Andy Robbins used to do the tour circuit wrestling Hercules the bear , he came into my local pub one night asking if he could put up a poster advertising for a local venue the following week and stayed to have a pint. In walked one of the local loudmouths saw the poster and announced,he,s a big headed bd that Andy Robbins not recognising Andy standing at the bar.

[Ayahuasca]

CC07 PEU said:

Last night, on a flight from Glasgow to Heathrow, I sat behind and to the right of Jimmy Somerville of '80's pop bands Bronski Beat and The Communards.

Did he have a little black case, and a sad and lonely face?

Edited by Ayahuasca on Tuesday 16th December 00:10

[Halmyre]

I was listening to Roxy Music's "Re-make/Re-model" from their first album, and there's a line in it mentioning a car number plate, CPL593H. Well, my dad used to have a series 2 Land-Rover with a number that was only a few digits away!

[J8 SVG]

Ed Sheeran is friends with my sister (met him at YMT in Plymouth) and he used to stay on our sofa when playing gigs in the midlands. Have been to see him with less than 10 people in the "crowd", was quite surreal seeing him at Glasto this year!

[Blown2CV]

Halmyre said:

I was listening to Roxy Music's "Re-make/Re-model" from their first album, and there's a line in it mentioning a car number plate, CPL593H. Well, my dad used to have a series 2 Land-Rover with a number that was only a few digits away!

looks like the car is off the road

[Halmyre]

Blown2CV said:

Halmyre said:

I was listening to Roxy Music's "Re-make/Re-model" from their first album, and there's a line in it mentioning a car number plate, CPL593H. Well, my dad used to have a series 2 Land-Rover with a number that was only a few digits away!

looks like the car is off the road

IIRC it was a Mini Clubman, so hardly surprisingly. Dad's Landie appears to be the same.

[Blown2CV]

Halmyre said:

Blown2CV said:

Halmyre said:

I was listening to Roxy Music's "Re-make/Re-model" from their first album, and there's a line in it mentioning a car number plate, CPL593H. Well, my dad used to have a series 2 Land-Rover with a number that was only a few digits away!

looks like the car is off the road

IIRC it was a Mini Clubman, so hardly surprisingly. Dad's Landie appears to be the same.

wonder if it was also the door shut and engine start, drive off sounds at the start of Love is the Drug?