What's your tenuous claim to fame?

[Disgruntled Goat]

My father-in-law and his mates tries to put John Lennon on their bonfire (it was 1954)

My dad once spend a drunken night chatting up Jayne Mansfield.

Spent a night in the pub with 'Kes' author Barry Hines. Bought him a pint of Guinness. He never bought me one back though.

Shared a lift (elevator) with Lloyd Cole (of Commotions)

Worked with Maggie Philbin

Told lead singer of The Alarm to 'eff off' at Live Aid (He was pushing past me, trying to get to the front to see U2).

My next door neighbour is Ralph Lawson (a famous DJ apparently)

Jimmy Saville lives down the road from me.

A girl I used to work with shagged that twat in the hat from Jamiroqui.

 

[Disgruntled Goat]

I also know someone who is/was mates with Dr Harold Shipman's son.

 

[bobbyp]

My sister was at school with David Bowie's son.

Mrs P had her arse pinched by a Dalek once.

 

[longers]

I served Edward Woodward a baked potatoe.

 

[ChrisKH]

Ooh I nearly forgot. I lived next door to Fashion Designer Steven Linard for 22 years. He was a year older than me at school and his sister was my sister's best mate. See http://www.geocities.com/nenonwoman/sl7.html

 

[longers]

I've also served Dot Cotton a bowl of soup. It was all she wanted, she was more interested in smoking than eating.

 

[barq]

You need to get busy with all those PMs now.

Haha! I've spent the last half hour wondering if there was any way I could hint what it was, but it would clearly be extremely defamatory... Sorry to be a tease.

If I make it to a CC meet up at some point in the future you'll probably be able to extract the truth from me after a few pints of beer.

 

[Mortiroloboy]

Well...I once worked with a bloke, whose mother thought up the slogan - 'A Mars a day, helps you work, rest and, play'.

I was a choirboy ( yes I know hard to believe) when someone from the church got married, the groom knew Sir Cliff Richard, whom he invited to his wedding, so got to see him in the front pew, exciting when you are only 12.

Once Met William Hartnell the first Dr Who.

whilst out walking our twin daughters in the small village we lived in at the time, located near to Highclere Castle, The Queen was driven by in a Range Rover, presumably on her way to see the Earl ( who was one of her horse trainers) the Rover slowed right down (narrow lane ) her Maj. looked out and smiled.

Oh yes and, I watched the opening sequence to the Bond Film 'Die another day' being filmed. where Pierce Brosnan is being chased across Korea by the baddies in a hovercraft, lots of explosions etc, well guess what, it wasn't Korea, it was Aldershot, S'true.

 

[red_tom]

My step sister's Dad was a baddie in the A-team one week.

He's also been in a million other programs and films but this one is by far the most impressive.

 

[ChrisKH]

I once met Roy Castle. It's a cliche, but he was one of the nicest blokes you could ever meet.

My sister (same school as me) was classmate to Fuzzbox, that one-hit-wonder group from the 80s.

Didn't they come from down south, Portsmouth way User? I recall someone I worked with in 1988 saying he came from xxxxxx ( I forget the town name now - the word Lymington rings a bell, I don't know why) and he knew them as they were friends of his sisters.

 

[gbb]

Doesnt come any more tenuous than winning a swiss roll christmas log decorating competition at school.
Teacher was very pleased with my effort..... so they asked me to do another.
I made a right balls up of it...i can almost see the dissapointment in their faces

 

[Twenty Inch]

My dad once had a stall selling furniture in the Dandelion Market, Dublin, where U2 used to gig.

 

[ChrisKH]

No, they were in my sister's class at school in Kings Heath, Birmingham. Well, one of them was, and the others were the year above. I remember the one with the funny coloured hair.

Lying toad, wait till I see him.

 

[Jaded]

I went to Wimbledon.


It was closed.

 

[Dave5N]

Sorry to change the subject and bring up cycling (I appreciate it isn't the 'done thing' on the forum...


...but my missus once dated dieter runkel's brother.

For the chap at the back who doesn't immediately recognise the name, he is a former Cyclocross World Champion (and the first man to race with clipless pedals.)