The thread in which PHers reveal tenuous links to famous people.
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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 had to get a stuck cassette tape out of the head unit in Jim Davidson’s boat. Before I could try to remove the tape I had the extract the knife which was also jammed in there.
I met him a while later when he asked me for advice about a new tender. I helped inflate the tender when it arrived but it didn’t survive long as he soon wrapped the davits and tender around another boat.
I met him a while later when he asked me for advice about a new tender. I helped inflate the tender when it arrived but it didn’t survive long as he soon wrapped the davits and tender around another boat.
eldar said:
My brother, an estate agent, has just sold a house that Noele Gordon, of Crossroads fame, lived in briefly.
He believes this added at least £3.50 to the selling price.
That's nothing, i spent a month staying at the long shoot motel in Nuneaton that was used for external filming of crossroads.He believes this added at least £3.50 to the selling price.
One from my late mother.
She was on a train coming home and was joined at her table seat by 'a very nice young man'. He went and got teas for them both and they were chatting away.
At some point she asked what he did.
'I'm a triple jumper.'
She paused for a moment: unsure how to reply.
'Are you any good?', she said
'Well I am the World and Olympic champion.' said Jonathan Edwards. He helped her off with her bag at her station. A very nice young man.
She was on a train coming home and was joined at her table seat by 'a very nice young man'. He went and got teas for them both and they were chatting away.
At some point she asked what he did.
'I'm a triple jumper.'
She paused for a moment: unsure how to reply.
'Are you any good?', she said
'Well I am the World and Olympic champion.' said Jonathan Edwards. He helped her off with her bag at her station. A very nice young man.
Peter Frampton's dad was head of the art dept at my school. He never taught me art because I was a bit crap. One day he did take the class though, when our regular teacher was off sick, but I was playing truant.
Peter Frampton knew David Jones, so there's my tenuous link to Angie Bowie.
Peter Frampton knew David Jones, so there's my tenuous link to Angie Bowie.
ElectricSoup said:
Aside from Alex "Hurricane" Higgins (who once told me to "f
k off out of it" when I was 12 years old), the most intensely miserable and rude celeb I've ever encountered was Jim Bowen, who used to drink in the pub I worked in. Also a regular in there was virtually unknown actor Vivian MacKerrell, the person on whose personality and behaviour the character Withnail was based. The latter was a delight, usually, but morose in drink.
Higgins was a thoroughly unpleasant guy in his later years - he'd be seen in any pub in Belfastcwith a pool table, wearing a big floppy cap and raincoat, offering games of snooker/pool for 50p depending where he was. Enough 50ps, up for another drink, and one free from the barman. You could hardly even hear him talk - but he always had that "I'm a world champion" talk and attitude. And the ego to go with it.k off out of it" when I was 12 years old), the most intensely miserable and rude celeb I've ever encountered was Jim Bowen, who used to drink in the pub I worked in. Also a regular in there was virtually unknown actor Vivian MacKerrell, the person on whose personality and behaviour the character Withnail was based. The latter was a delight, usually, but morose in drink.guindilias said:
ElectricSoup said:
Aside from Alex "Hurricane" Higgins (who once told me to "fk off out of it" when I was 12 years old), the most intensely miserable and rude celeb I've ever encountered was Jim Bowen, who used to drink in the pub I worked in. Also a regular in there was virtually unknown actor Vivian MacKerrell, the person on whose personality and behaviour the character Withnail was based. The latter was a delight, usually, but morose in drink.
Higgins was a thoroughly unpleasant guy in his later years - he'd be seen in any pub in Belfastcwith a pool table, wearing a big floppy cap and raincoat, offering games of snooker/pool for 50p depending where he was. Enough 50ps, up for another drink, and one free from the barman. You could hardly even hear him talk - but he always had that "I'm a world champion" talk and attitude. And the ego to go with it.k off out of it" when I was 12 years old), the most intensely miserable and rude celeb I've ever encountered was Jim Bowen, who used to drink in the pub I worked in. Also a regular in there was virtually unknown actor Vivian MacKerrell, the person on whose personality and behaviour the character Withnail was based. The latter was a delight, usually, but morose in drink.Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff