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

[Blown2CV]

custard sooty test



he recently did a one-off sooty show in the village for "adults only", think it was for charity... i didn't go. Might have been funny.

[yellowjack]

onyx39 said:

littleguy said:

Blown2CV said:

Matthew Corbett lives in the same village as me and has turned into a properly grumpy old man. He does a lot of campaigning for uk waterways (a lot of people have canal barges here) and is kind of a reluctantly public figure. His house is amazing though. Bad to post a pic?

post away!

He used to live in Blackwater / Yateley.

I thought he still lived around here. But then why would he write and tell me he was moving?

I remember a story in the local paper about him being plagued by kids knocking on his door and taking the mickey out of him. His house was easy to find, apparently, with the "SootyMobile" sat outside.

[soxboy]

yellowjack said:

I thought he still lived around here. But then why would he write and tell me he was moving?

I remember a story in the local paper about him being plagued by kids knocking on his door and taking the mickey out of him. His house was easy to find, apparently, with the "SootyMobile" sat outside.

I do miss those little vans, can't remember last time I saw one.
Even now still referred to as 'Sooty vans'.

[Looket]

The old man did his military service together with Juha Kankkunen.

The ex's mum got aggressively courted by Jacky Ickx but shot him down due to his reputation as a bit of a playboy. She is also related to a beatified pope, so I've dipped my wick in some properly holy places.

An ancient ancestor was a glass blower for the Habsburgs and later the Russian tsars so I may just be the actual last living (bd) member of either house. Respect my authority, peasants.

My great grandfather cleverly made himself a bit unpopular with Lenin so got hounded all the way from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok to Okehampton by the Cheka.


That's it, these are my only claims to fame. I feel that if my story was ever to be made into film it'd be just like Forrest Gump except almost none of it would be about me and it would be really, really st.

[MarshPhantom]

soxboy said:

yellowjack said:

I thought he still lived around here. But then why would he write and tell me he was moving?

I remember a story in the local paper about him being plagued by kids knocking on his door and taking the mickey out of him. His house was easy to find, apparently, with the "SootyMobile" sat outside.

I do miss those little vans, can't remember last time I saw one.
Even now still referred to as 'Sooty vans'.

My Dad had one when I was about 10, along with a bright yellow chicken chaser.

Oh, the shame.

[Abbott]

In the latest Guinness rugby ad paying tribute to Bill Mclaren my son is a body double in one of the photos 24secs in
http://youtu.be/OgpMyuILYFg

[Urban Sports]

Just said alright to Ricky Tommo in town walking up Duke street, he replied "alright lad how are ya?".

[Scousefella]

Urban Sports said:

Just said alright to Ricky Tommo in town walking up Duke street, he replied "alright lad how are ya?".

My Arse!!!

[dudleybloke]

Saw Wagner turn on Dudley's xmas lights earlier.
He performed his latest crap song which sounded like something off eurotrash.
This caused me to go home.

Edited by dudleybloke on Saturday 22 November 20:16

[stitchface]

Dunno if it counts, but anyway...

If you're watching the England rugby on Sky, every time they cut to Stuart Lancaster in the stands there's one of his team in the bottom right of shot. He's called Duncan, and was in the year above me at school.

[Blib]

That's pretty tenuous.

[CarTimeNow]

i yelled at keith chegwin yesterday, well to be fair there were a lot of us shouting at him (basingstoke chrimbo light switch on)


and more tenously, i'm friends with michael sprotts cousin

[stitchface]

Blib said:

That's pretty tenuous.

[VictoriaYorks]

When my dad was growing up he was a paper boy, and did the same round as a young Mick Jagger

[Allaloneatron]

In last episode of The Britas Empire, Britas walks out of the wreckage of the sports centre fire with two little girls. One of those two girls was a temp in our office for a bit.

[coopedup]

I was in nearly all episodes of Horses Galore, a kids documentary back in the 70's, and was seen falling off in one episode

[GoBig]

The temp who occasionally helps out in our office, and has done for donkey's years, played an Ice-cream man in a recent episode of Coronation Street.

[Chunkymonkey71]

FRA53R said:

I went to the same school as Jim Clark, albeit at considerably different times and he spent even less time there than I did, same place as Rory Bremner. I also went to the same secondary school as Ewan McGregor.

Clifton Hall? My son goes there.

[AstonZagato]

I was asked to pick up Thom Evans (ex-Rugby player and Strictly contestant) from Cambridge station in the DBS and drive him to turn on the Christmas lights. He decided to drive himself so I didn't do anything.

A new level of tenuousness. Almost meeting someone not very famous.

[FRA53R]

Chunkymonkey71 said:

FRA53R said:

I went to the same school as Jim Clark, albeit at considerably different times and he spent even less time there than I did, same place as Rory Bremner. I also went to the same secondary school as Ewan McGregor.

Clifton Hall? My son goes there.

Yep, went there until primary 4, great school. Can honestly say that was the only time I was happy in education. Small world eh?