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

[illmonkey]

droopsnoot said:

w1bbles said:

I heard Robin Cook taking a dump in a cubicle at Heathrow Terminal 1 in 2001.

Robin Cook the former politician, or Robin Cook the author?

I'm going with the politician, they're normally full of st

[loafer123]

I met Michael Owen and shared a table with him at the races this week.

Lovely bloke.

[HTP99]

One of my dogs we rehomed coming up to 10 years ago, her previous owner was a lovely girl who had lived with and was engaged to Kieran Hayler, he went on to marry, have kids with and divorce Katie Price.

[eldar]

I heard someone I know on the 6PM Radio4 news a few days ago. I borrowed his mk1 Golf GTI many years ago. Excellent cars.

[ruwokeenuff]

Picked up a hire car alongside Botham.....jeez he is FAT

[67Dino]

Andy_mr2sc said:

I made some parts recently for Alan Sugar's yacht, Lady A.

Did he gave you a very vague spec, 8 hours to do the job, and 5 argumentative colleagues to work with, none of whom had any relevant experience at all? (except one, who went on a boat once and now thinks he knows it all).

[WY86]

I watched abit of it. Did make me chuckle when the commentator mentioned Charles having a bad back due to years of polo and skiing. Its a tough life for some.

[bristolbaron]

WY86 said:

I watched abit of it. Did make me chuckle when the commentator mentioned Charles having a bad back due to years of polo and skiing. Its a tough life for some.

Watching Charles on the telly is very tenuous indeed!

[SpudLink]

Decades ago I knew someone who worked with gold leaf (a gilder). The late Queen once helped him pick up pieces of it that he dropped on the floor.

I think that places me somewhere in the line of succession.

[Dermot O'Logical]

SpudLink said:

Decades ago I knew someone who worked with gold leaf (a gilder). The late Queen once helped him pick up pieces of it that he dropped on the floor.

I think that places me somewhere in the line of succession.

Just behind Andrew, I suspect. Don't start making any plans just yet.

[generationx]

Randomly had a few beers with legendary baseball coach Don Freemen in a bar in Cologne (he coaches the Cardinals here) the other day. Lovely humble bloke, looking forward to meeting him again. Apparently he’s a regular in the same place I am but must have simply missed him up to now.

https://www.abcahalloffame.org/inductees/2018_free...

[pingu393]

generationx said:

Randomly had a few beers with legendary baseball coach Don Freemen in a bar in Cologne (he coaches the Cardinals here) the other day. Lovely humble bloke, looking forward to meeting him again. Apparently he’s a regular in the same place I am but must have simply missed him up to now.

https://www.abcahalloffame.org/inductees/2018_free...

Does he get the rounders in?

[generationx]

pingu393 said:

generationx said:

Randomly had a few beers with legendary baseball coach Don Freemen in a bar in Cologne (he coaches the Cardinals here) the other day. Lovely humble bloke, looking forward to meeting him again. Apparently he’s a regular in the same place I am but must have simply missed him up to now.

https://www.abcahalloffame.org/inductees/2018_free...

Does he get the rounders in?

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[DickyC]

My maternal grandmother's maiden name was Bullock. I must be related to Tina Turner.

[Composer62]

My other halves father apparently spent a very convivial alcohol fueled evening in Caracas with Jimmie Angel when he was there on a work assignment,

Jimmie Angel "discovered" the Angel Falls in Venezuela in 1933 - the highest waterfall in the world.

[24lemons]

I appear on an episode of Mortimer and Whitehouse Gone Fishing. sort of…..

[Roofless Toothless]

Composer62 said:

My other halves father apparently spent a very convivial alcohol fueled evening in Caracas with Jimmie Angel when he was there on a work assignment,

Jimmie Angel "discovered" the Angel Falls in Venezuela in 1933 - the highest waterfall in the world.

I passed my honeymoon in Canaima, close by the Angel Falls. It was more than 50 years ago and in those days there was only a dirt runway, so no jets. We went in a DC3, and it was very informal. The cockpit door was open all the time, and if you looked along the aisle you could see out of the front window. We flew up the gorge to look at the falls, close by a half mile high cliff. Everybody rushed to one side to look out of the window, and then to the other side on the way back. The pilot must have been heaving in the opposite direction on the joystick!

There was a very nice camp there, in the middle of nowhere, miles from any roads. We had a comfortable little bungalow to stay in. After a few days we came out to look at the scenery…..

[Milkyway]

I nearly got run over by Rick Steins 928 in Padstow.
He parked half on the pavement, & gave me a funny look as he disappeared into the bank.
( I was on the pavement first).

I helped build the coffee machine that Clarke Kent / Superman punches.
( I think that it was Christopher Reeves second outing...
It was returned, but was covered in anti- glare gunk.)

Edited by Milkyway on Friday 14th July 18:54

[Alex Z]

On separate occasions I've nearly run over Carl Chinn (Brummie historian) and Jon Bentley (TV presenter), both of whom walked out into the road without looking. Every time I watched The Gadget Show I regretted hitting the brakes.

[spikeyhead]

My mate Mik announced one evening in the pub that he'd nearly run over Bonnie Langford.

"I didn't know you drive Mik." to which the reply came, I don't, I was doing about 30 through Covent Garden in my wheelchair.