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

[Milkyway]

spikeyhead said:

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.

Coat retrieved
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vYg4x_Bvwo8

[texaxile]

I've just finished Rob Halfords Auto biography "confess". (good read BTW). In it, he mentions that Judas Priest recorded a few songs with Stock Aitkin and Waterman in the 90's. Pete Waterman is a keen railway enthusiast and has a collection of old Railway loco's which he rents out to companies who need them. The company I work for hired one of his Engines (A class 08 shunter). I drove it.

Edited by texaxile on Friday 14th July 20:11

[Allegro_Snapon]

Nearly being run over by Zodiac Mindwarp on a Zebra Crossing in 1990.

Stealing Little Frank off Frank Sidebottom at a gig at Manchester Uni in Nov 1993. Chris Sievey (Frank) threatened to glass me at the interval unless I gave him back.

Ex missus calling the person who was shatting her up in Soap Nightclub in Manchester a "piggy eyed little pervert". Turned out to be Ryan Giggs. We got thrown out the club for that.

Got a taxi home from the station, turned out the previous incumbent of said taxi had been Ian Brown of the Stone Roses. "A great gentleman, unlike that knut from Oasis, actually each of the knuts from Oasis".

[Zarco]

Shatting her up. What a dirt bag.

[texaxile]

Zarco said:

Shatting her up. What a dirt bag.

[Composer62]

Roofless Toothless said:

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…..

Brilliant story

[Blown2CV]

i had razor ruddock and dominic matteo thrown out of my 18th birthday party

[lowdrag]

A research of my car's history showed one previous owner was Michael Palin. Still looking for the cotton buds.

[HardtopManual]

When I was a student, my university held an annual students vs pros athletics event that was broadcast live on the BBC. My halls of residence was quite close to the running track. We had all had a few beers that moring/lunchtime and decided to play a few childish pranks, unrelated to the athletics event, one of which was to stretch cling film across the toilet bowls in our halls and then fill them with water. If the user wasn't paying attention, they'd sit down and get a very wet backside, and the water would slosh over into their underwear/trousers/skirt. I know, hilarious, but we were 18. Unbeknownst to us, the hall's toilets were being used by the TV crew, including the presenters, one of whom went into the booby-trapped toilet. She came out a bit later, face like thunder, with a big wet patch down the front of her trousers.

Sue Barker, I'm sorry.

[White-Noise]

I had the same barber as timmy mallet and Chris barrie

[LE62NDE]

I went to a play at my brother's school and nearly tripped over Richard Baker the newsreader during the interval.

None of the above is a euphemism.

[Lefty]

I was in a meeting with Dave Cameron (when he was PM). I was there to answer questions that he didn’t ask.

I have had a beer with Gwyndaf Evans, Eddie Izzard and Huey Morgan. Not all at the same time.

A friend of mine at school was the nephew of Louise Aitken Walker. I met her a number of times. Nice lady, hell of a driver.

Bob Dylan was a next door neighbour of a friend. She didn’t know he lived next door and had a party one evening and he turned up with a bottle of wine. They invited him in and didn’t know he was until after he left and somebody else told her.

[paulguitar]

Rick Springfield used a friend of mine's toilet on a ship.

[Nethybridge]

Lefty said:

Bob Dylan was a next door neighbour of a friend. She didn’t know he lived next door and had a party one evening and he turned up with a bottle of wine. They invited him in and didn’t know he was until after he left and somebody else told her.

Mmmm, love it, but I thinks this is the work of a fabulist.

By all accounts His Bobness is a famed miserablist par
excellence, and the sour faced one turning up at a
neighbour's house with a $4 bottle of Walmart
plonk looking for a chinwag is pushing it a bit.

[Lefty]

Nethybridge said:

Lefty said:

Bob Dylan was a next door neighbour of a friend. She didn’t know he lived next door and had a party one evening and he turned up with a bottle of wine. They invited him in and didn’t know he was until after he left and somebody else told her.

Mmmm, love it, but I thinks this is the work of a fabulist.

By all accounts His Bobness is a famed miserablist par
excellence, and the sour faced one turning up at a
neighbour's house with a $4 bottle of Walmart
plonk looking for a chinwag is pushing it a bit.

Funnily enough your user name is very apt to the story.

[Avenicus]

My wedding reception was in a place popular for football teams to stay.
On the day of our reception, Sunderland were staying overnight for a London game.

One of the bridesmaids got chatted up by a guy who called himself Kevin Phillips and was quite star struck.

I had to tell her that yes, Kevin Phillips was their star striker but, no, he wasn't the black guy that tried to pull her.

[paulwirral]

Our wedding reception was in a hotel with a golf course , when we retired to the bar the pro celebritiy charity game had just finished and we had the company of a few ex footballers and soap stats , I’m not interested in the slightest by football an I don’t watch soap operas so I was a little bemused to say the least at various members of our party fawning over strangers .
Also Paul McCartney still owns a house down the road from us , the only time he visited it I was away in Edinburgh , shame he missed me !

[Stan the Bat]

paulwirral said:

Our wedding reception was in a hotel with a golf course , when we retired to the bar the pro celebritiy charity game had just finished and we had the company of a few ex footballers and soap stats , I’m not interested in the slightest by football an I don’t watch soap operas so I was a little bemused to say the least at various members of our party fawning over strangers .
Also Paul McCartney still owns a house down the road from us , the only time he visited it I was away in Edinburgh , shame he missed me !

Paul McCartney's brother used to ( might still do ) live not too far from you.

[Doofus]

Stan the Bat said:

paulwirral said:

Our wedding reception was in a hotel with a golf course , when we retired to the bar the pro celebritiy charity game had just finished and we had the company of a few ex footballers and soap stats , I’m not interested in the slightest by football an I don’t watch soap operas so I was a little bemused to say the least at various members of our party fawning over strangers .
Also Paul McCartney still owns a house down the road from us , the only time he visited it I was away in Edinburgh , shame he missed me !

Paul McCartney's brother used to ( might still do ) live not too far from you.

So did Paul mcCartney.

[paulguitar]

My brother did a gig for Paul McCartney at a private dinner and had a pint with him afterwards.