What's your tenuous claim to fame?

[tdr1nka]

How could I have forgotten this!
For a brief spell at the end of the 80's I was in a band in LA and our bass player was Stephan Ellis from Survivor - 'Eye Of The Tiger' fame(?).

T x

 

[Monty Dog]

My second cousin went to school with most of U2 in Dublin - by all acounts their first concert was awful!
I used to frequent a pub oft visited by Ally McCoist in his playing days.
I crewed on a boat that was in the film Revolution and Blue Peter
I appeared in a news feature on Ulster TV!

 

[groucho]

I once spent an afternoon in a classy hotel room with 3 ladies and a photographer. The results appeared in the Sun and Daily Mirror!!

 

[Stick on a Giant]

My mum used to keep her horse in a field owned by Noel Edmonds

Pete Trewavas, from Marillion, mended our telly (before he was in said group).

 

[ChrisKH]

My son has his piano lesson in the house next door to that owned by the manager of Southend United, Steve Tilson.

 

[LordoftheTeapot]

Earlier today I was looking at the CAMRA site for Leicester. I wanted some information regarding this years beer vestival (work related, honest!)

I found the information I wanted, then noticed that there was some archive information on past beer vestivals. I know I have not been to one for a number of years so I thought I'd have a look through to see if I could find which year it was when I last attened.

Well, it was easy as I looked at the 2004 report, there I am, in the main photograph! Now what are the chances of me being in a photograph that lasted four days? The photographer could of taken 100's.

Can I claim this as a newly found claim to fame?

 

[PrettyboyTim]

My Great Grandfather pioneered activated sludge sewage treatment.
My Grandfather was a pioneer in the study of Ergonomics. He coined the term and wrote the first book on the subject.

 

[Fnaar]

My Grandfather was a pioneer in the study of Ergonomics.

Hippocrates?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergonomics#History

 

[sloe]

I've met Redcogs. I was in the local fish shop same time as Alex Salmond, don't think he liked that I ignored him and concentrated on the herring, he's a very odd shape I'm sure he wears a corset. The herring was lovely, had it in oatmeal with a squeeze of lemon. Shared a cottage with a guy who got backstage to meet The Fall because he was the only fan who'd travelled any sort of distance to see them, even they thought they were rubbish. Knew a guy who was pally with one of Orange Crush before they existed, but he wore green shoes in a small Ayrshire town so it was obvious he was going places. Went to school with a guy who's sister shared a flat in Edinburgh with a lass that went out with Michael Aspell. My dad's lovely cousin Rosie was pally with Jim Clark and still exchanges Xmas cards with his sister, who still lives in Duns I think. I've decorated for two of the cast of Take The High Road, when I confessed I'd never watched it was told I was missing nowt. I've decorated for a woman I heard saying something about social policy on R4 the other week. Stood in a q in a salad bar in Edinburgh in front of Denis Healey in the early 70s, like a good socialist he waited his turn.

 

[walker]

I've got more, I keep forgetting these things.

the mrs Taught Lee Ryan from Blue how to sing at a young age.

My uncles wife is Louise redknapps Cousin.

My dad once crashed out at Lemmy's house and slept on his floor.

My ex girlfriends brother used to read the news on channel 5.

 

[SamNichols]

I once went to the pub with Boris Johnson.

I worked in a shop where the owners were good friends with Rachel Stevens (from S Club 7)'s mum, and have seen her in a bridesmaid dress. Quote from manager at the time:
"Oh, you look nice."

 

[John the Monkey]

During an interval in the Royal Exchange (Manchester)'s production of The Three Musketeers, Robert Lindsay sat next to us, and offered my sister and I one of his crisps.

A pal of mine once got told to f**k off by Shaun Ryder out of the Happy Mondays.

 

[Noodley]

Mrs Noodley is friends with Tommy Gemmell, and it always makes me chuckle when he is at an event with queues and queues of Celtic fans waiting to speak to him and he rushes off towards Mrs Noodley to give her a big hug and speak about something that is not football.

 

[ChrisKH]

My godfather was Prime Minister of New Zealand.

My godfather is a gay primary school teacher. To cut a long story short my wife trained as a teacher and one of her (now dead) class mates had a Xmas drinks bash (as you do if you live over a Funeral Director's in Sheen) and the talk of the school was the Maths teacher coming with his new teenage boyfriend. It was my godfather. And his boyfriend was younger than me.

Other one's I have forgotten (antipodean in nature) - I have met Nick Farr -Jones (ex- Oz rugby captain) and seen him naked doing Father Abraham.

 

[walker]

My godfather is a gay primary school teacher. To cut a long story short my wife trained as a teacher and one of her (now dead) class mates had a Xmas drinks bash (as you do if you live over a Funeral Director's in Sheen) and the talk of the school was the Maths teacher coming with his new teenage boyfriend. It was my godfather. And his boyfriend was younger than me.

Other one's I have forgotten (antipodean in nature) - I have met Nick Farr -Jones (ex- Oz rugby captain) and seen him naked doing Father Abraham.

is this some sort of San fransico Hukka or was he actually doing father Abraham