15 minutes of fame
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theboyfold

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11,469 posts

255 months

Thursday 11th December 2008
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Who's had their share then?
If so where was it and can you post a link to it to share with the masses?

ff5317

453 posts

254 months

Thursday 11th December 2008
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What we calling fame here then, pic in the local rag, interview on local radio, national press, telly? So many degrees of alleged fame. I for one could tick all the afforementioned yet would not consider myself to have ever been famous.

Steamer

14,179 posts

242 months

Thursday 11th December 2008
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Kevin & Perry Go Large.

I'm in there somewhere boxedin

space1999

436 posts

218 months

Thursday 11th December 2008
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my son has been in the paper twice been on the front of the hospital leaflet, and been on the local radio live today and all week advertising the Bristol big give! And he is only 9!

LDNrevs

9,313 posts

232 months

Thursday 11th December 2008
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theboyfold said:
Who's had their share then?
If so where was it and can you post a link to it to share with the masses?
You've had your 15 and want to share it with us don't you..? wink

Slinky

15,704 posts

278 months

Friday 12th December 2008
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Extra in Woof, feature in Birmingham Post for Unicycle Hockey, model on Pebble Mill at One (aged about 4..) and a variety of other bits and bobs...

How are we defining fame here?

slinky

johnnymaestro

4,775 posts

252 months

Friday 12th December 2008
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In 1996 I was in the Local rag as me and my Brass quartet were in the finals of a competition at the time. I have the article still but no scanner i'm afraid. I was 10 at the time.

In 1997 I appeared on a TV show called 'Sticky' which was on Chidrens ITV (Citv). I was the challenger, making a girl drive a tank round a assult course(at Mallory Park). My mum worked there and we lived 5 mins away at the time. So muggins here got ousted into the role. I still have the VHS of it somewhere, and my god is it embarrassing.

simonrockman

7,119 posts

284 months

4hero

4,505 posts

240 months

Friday 12th December 2008
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Me and a mate made the music video for this tune, the video is not on youtube frown I must rip a copy to the pc, if only I could find a vhs player scratchchin It was on MTV, The Chart Show, amongst others. Them were the days..

Legmaster

1,273 posts

236 months

Friday 12th December 2008
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I crewed the Santa Maria and can be seen in various bits (in silhouette mainly!) in this Columbus film:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=RKefSTum8eo


craig-A

523 posts

249 months

Friday 12th December 2008
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As said earlier, depends what you mean by fame, but here goes.

Met Gordon Brown a couple of times, he was in the opposition at the time though.
Been interviewed on TV once, got ripped at work big time for that one.
Had a letter printed and 2 articles in Autocar about cars i bought and probably most embarrasingly, a full colour pic in the Aberdeen Press and Journal regarding a car i'd bought.

PhantomHumper

2,202 posts

219 months

Friday 12th December 2008
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Singing 'flower of scotland' on Australian tv about 15 years ago when I was at school.

Don't have a copy though hehe

LDNrevs

9,313 posts

232 months

Friday 12th December 2008
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4hero said:
Me and a mate made the music video for this tune, the video is not on youtube frown I must rip a copy to the pc, if only I could find a vhs player scratchchin It was on MTV, The Chart Show, amongst others. Them were the days..
Please do.. or do you have any examples of video stuff you do..

camgear

6,941 posts

223 months

Friday 12th December 2008
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Saturday Disney - Splat Pack - Haha!

anonymous-user

83 months

Friday 12th December 2008
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I once nearly lost Nick Mason's wife's luggage.

absolutely

3,168 posts

221 months

Friday 12th December 2008
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My hands were on a Midlands Today Special working on my group's clay model when they were doing a feature on my friend, I never got to see it.

Burnham

3,668 posts

288 months

Friday 12th December 2008
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Crossflow Kid said:
I once nearly lost Nick Mason's wife's luggage.
Wow, thats nearly quite a story! Please tell us more.

(not really, please dont) wink

The Riddler

6,565 posts

226 months

Friday 12th December 2008
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4hero said:
Me and a mate made the music video for this tune, the video is not on youtube frown I must rip a copy to the pc, if only I could find a vhs player scratchchin It was on MTV, The Chart Show, amongst others. Them were the days..
I can copy from VHS to dvd if you wish..

My 15 mins of 'fame' came in various ways, a regional BBC programme, stuff in magazines (fishing related) and skysports. smile

I am in no way famous though.

A1GOY

1,521 posts

231 months

Friday 12th December 2008
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I've been in the Local rag a few times for sponsored Skis, old school stuff and I used to have a column in there (but thanks to budget cuts...).

When I went to Thailand a few years back (World Scout Jamboree, oh yes) some Thai people thought I was Daniel Radcliffe. Cue newspapers, radio and TV trying to find me and interview me...
The Prince of Thailand came to open the ceremony and the cameras were on me (well, some of them) for my reaction to him. Which was scary.
I had my 15 mins and it was ace. Can't find the coverage on the web, but I've still got a copy of the Bangkok Post with my piccy on the front page.

stigmundfreud

22,454 posts

239 months

Friday 12th December 2008
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on the eve of 7/7 I was in Springfield Missouri. The girl I was staying with worked for Fox news so they decided that as I was a Brit they needed to interview me. This didnt sit well with me as they were making the assumption I knew London (as thats where we all live right) and that I cared (I was on holiday, no one I knew was involved so it didnt really register). Anyway in the interview I mentioned that after speaking to contacts in London there was a lot of suspicion that the French were involved as it had just been anounced we had won the 2012 Olympics and we had also beat them in a cook off.

Warhol was right.