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

[Trevatanus]

glenrobbo said:

Nick Kershaw lived in the same house that my Uncle and Auntie had lived in many years before.

Well whoop-di-doo.

Wouldn't it be good to be in your shoes?

[paulguitar]

Trevatanus said:

glenrobbo said:

Nick Kershaw lived in the same house that my Uncle and Auntie had lived in many years before.

Well whoop-di-doo.

Wouldn't it be good to be in your shoes?

Even if it was for just one day.

[The Mad Monk]

Alex Ferguson thinks that he is exempt from waiting his turn in queues at airports.

[GrizzlyBear]

GrizzlyBear said:

john2443 said:

GrizzlyBear said:

I once met the man from Del-monte.

What did he say?

The Man from Del Monte, He say, "well actually I work for Del Monte, I travel to the plantations to check the quality standards, so I suppose that makes me a Man from Del Monte... [Chuckle]" I was on a train in the 1980s and just got chatting to the bloke opposite.

Edited by GrizzlyBear on Friday 24th July 16:21

Also in the early 80s I met Geoff Capes (World Strongest man a few times, Shot putter etc), seemed like a nice bloke.

[Wacky Racer]

The Mad Monk said:

Alex Ferguson thinks that he is exempt from waiting his turn in queues at airports.

Perhaps he was caught short...


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/465718.stm

[h0b0]

The Mad Monk said:

Alex Ferguson thinks that he is exempt from waiting his turn in queues at airports.

I spent a lot of hours at his house around 2000. I never met him though, it always seemed like he was leaving when I arrived and arriving when I left. He was very decent to my colleague even offering him a beer at 10AM on a Saturday.

[coppernorks]

posters are to be congratulated for the feeble, waffer thin nebulousness of many of the encounters.

my sister served a pot of tea and some toast to popular scottish tv personality andy stewart, he was a delight, but left no tip

[Laurel Green]

coppernorks said:

posters are to be congratulated for the feeble, waffer thin nebulousness of many of the encounters.

my sister served a pot of tea and some toast to popular scottish tv personality andy stewart, he was a delight, but left no tip

[eldar]

coppernorks said:

posters are to be congratulated for the feeble, waffer thin nebulousness of many of the encounters.

my sister served a pot of tea and some toast to popular scottish tv personality andy stewart, he was a delight, but left no tip

Strong claim. Do you need an agent?

[HappySilver]

Many years ago I was on a train about to head out of London to Sheffield, I was sat by myself at a table seat. Shortly before departure two women with two small children got on and headed towards my table. One of the women gave me the will you give up your seat so we can all sit together look, I ignored this as I had booked the table seat as I was working on my laptop. So I ended up with what turned out to be the mother and the two children sitting with me around the table, the nanny (I think) had to sit a few seats away. A while into the journey one of the children started chatting to me, I was polite but didn’t engage in full conversation as I was busy. After a while she announced out of the blue “my daddy is Jeremy Beadle” her mother jumped in at that point and told her “we don’t tell people that”.

A few years later I happened to see a tv show where Jeremy had his kids with him, it was the same two I had sat with.

[Frank7]

coppernorks said:

posters are to be congratulated for the feeble, waffer thin nebulousness of many of the encounters.

my sister served a pot of tea and some toast to popular scottish tv personality andy stewart, he was a delight, but left no tip

Bit of a bummer getting nebulousness right, but wafer wrong.

[illmonkey]

HappySilver said:

Many years ago I was on a train about to head out of London to Sheffield, I was sat by myself at a table seat. Shortly before departure two women with two small children got on and headed towards my table. One of the women gave me the will you give up your seat so we can all sit together look, I ignored this as I had booked the table seat as I was working on my laptop. So I ended up with what turned out to be the mother and the two children sitting with me around the table, the nanny (I think) had to sit a few seats away. A while into the journey one of the children started chatting to me, I was polite but didn’t engage in full conversation as I was busy. After a while she announced out of the blue “my daddy is Jeremy Beadle” her mother jumped in at that point and told her “we don’t tell people that”.

A few years later I happened to see a tv show where Jeremy had his kids with him, it was the same two I had sat with.

Rumors are he's got a small penis, but on the other hand it's bloody massive.

[Animal]

I saw Anne-Marie Duff in the park opposite our house at the weekend. Thought she was really good in His Dark Materials. Her ex was in our chemist a little while back too. Short bloke.

Katherine Ryan used to live opposite us until she bought a house with her husband. She looks very different off the telly...

[Smitters]

illmonkey said:

Rumors...

Outstanding.

[Blib]

Frank7 said:

coppernorks said:

posters are to be congratulated for the feeble, waffer thin nebulousness of many of the encounters.

my sister served a pot of tea and some toast to popular scottish tv personality andy stewart, he was a delight, but left no tip

Bit of a bummer getting nebulousness right, but wafer wrong.

It may well be a hat tip to a well known Monty Python sketch.

[nonsequitur]

Frank7 said:

coppernorks said:

posters are to be congratulated for the feeble, waffer thin nebulousness of many of the encounters.

my sister served a pot of tea and some toast to popular scottish tv personality andy stewart, he was a delight, but left no tip

Bit of a bummer getting nebulousness right, but wafer wrong.

Yes Frank, clouds do look like ice cream.

[roboxm3]

lowdrag said:

Another memory. Sponsored by my accountants KPMG to play in a pro-am at Woburn. Got drawn with a young proette. We all, including the proette, played off the yellows that day, and when it was my turn I drove straight down the middle. She then drove down the middle too. I walked past the first ball to the one 20 yds further and got called back. She had outdriven me. I didn't really know her name but I was well aware who I had played with a year later. A young Anita Sorenstam. Such a lovely person.

I hate to be that interwebs pedant but as she's one of the best ever to have tee'd it up, I thought Annika deserved a correction...

[nonsequitur]

Laurel Green said:

coppernorks said:

posters are to be congratulated for the feeble, waffer thin nebulousness of many of the encounters.

my sister served a pot of tea and some toast to popular scottish tv personality andy stewart, he was a delight, but left no tip

I wonder if he hogged many slices of toast?

[whitesocks]

Zippy used to drink in my dads local.

[mikal83]

waiting outside in the chill January air at Ipswich railway station after leaving a well known Naval prison camp at Shotley.....we saw Sir Alf bimble along to the heated waiting room. He signed autographs for us all. 1974.