Something interesting...

[HarperPR]

...for a new thread here, maybe? We've done gigs, festivals, venues, what shall we talk about next?

Famous people met in odd places? Stars you may have shared a pint with? Who you fancy? I dunno. Must be tons of stuff...?

[SteveT]

How about a few moments of quiet contemplation?

[Barry]

How about will Benjani go to Man City (Roy's team) now the mighty Pompey have Defoe?

[Bob Jacobs]

Who gives a ....?

[SHAUN I]

I met Johnny Vegas at Cafe Del Mar in San Antonio last August..a larger than life character, does that count you ask? :D

[HarperPR]

Might do. What happened? Did you sit down and have a chin wag?

[SHAUN I]

Not really I shook his hand and asked him what he was doing in Ibiza, he was just on holiday. Some claim to fame eh! :rofl:

[scotpaulabear]

I knew a girl who knew a girl who slept with Simon le Bon, and she said it was wonderful...

Well it might make El laugh anyway. :p

[aspwatterson]

...for a new thread here, maybe? We've done gigs, festivals, venues, what shall we talk about next?

Famous people met in odd places? Stars you may have shared a pint with? Who you fancy? I dunno. Must be tons of stuff...?

Went to see one of Loudon Wainwright the III's young bands he was promoting way back in the mid-seventies at the Brighton Pavilion and went for a quick swiftie in the bar... and there next to me drinking was Elton John [with his hair dyed green over his ears] and Loudon himself.I think this was even before Elton tried marriage and then found love in a furnace?!

chrs
andi

[fickle_Witch]

went to a party of a friends cousins brothers dogs friends dads blah blah
got very drunk on champagne and friend went up to robert plant said "are you famous" he said "i'm robert plant" she replied "oh you're not that famous then!" and wobbled away.
:eek: <--- my face
karl howman in m&s boscombe, aka junkie town bournemouth.
oliver reed in a cherbourg/poole twinning thing in cherbourg in 1988.
louise rednapp in the post office in canford cliffs (round the corner from where she lives) and in m&s poole.
i dont make a habit of shopping in m&s, but it is good for knickers .....

amor mundi

[critch]

Had a drink with Clint Boon (aka Inspiral Carpets! Now any band that employs Noel Gallagher as a roadie must be good...!) in a pub in Manchester. It wasn't that coincidental though as I was sound engineering his gig down the road...:w00t:

[HarperPR]

Clint's a big fan of my Senses boys.

When I lived in Maida Vale, I walked out of the house early one morning - and found David Gilmour at the gate! He did live in the area so not that surprising I suppose, but still a shock. He'd just parked up and I think may have been going to the tennis club over the road.

[fickle_Witch]

ah just remembered another, t'was a bloke called paul, with a northern accent and looked like this http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41357000/jpg/_41357512_chuckles416.jpg
in a crack house in southampton.
wouldnt like to say it was him, but everyone there that i knew was sure that it was.

[SHAUN I]

Charlie Chuckle on crack - it doesnt bear thinking about..:sifone:

[scotpaulabear]

Charlie Chuckle on crack - it doesnt bear thinking about..:sifone:

I prefer Charlie Chuck meself - DONKEH! :rofl:
*leaving before I wibble some more*

[fuzzytnth3]

This post is not music related for which I can only ask that you bear with me.

I met my cycling hero Graeme Obree (http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/sportscotland/asportingnation/article/0037/) face to face for the first time not long after his incredible autobiography (The Flying Scotsman) was published.

I had in the 80's raced in races with Graeme but at the time he hadn't made an impression on the UK racing scene, only in Scotland was he gaining a reputation and mostly that was for riding a track bike (ie no gears, which in hilly Scotland is something) with the handlebars the wrong way up and back to front and winning races despite his whacky notions for what made for an efficient bike.

Graeme went on (for those that don't pay attention to cycling ie most of the UK public but mostly the football dominated media) to become a World Champion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graeme_Obree) and two times World Record Holder (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hour_record) for the ultimate sports record the Hour Record (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hour_record). He achieved all this based on gut instincts and emotion and despite depression and related mental illness.

Not long after he published his book I happened to be in Ardgay in the north of Scotland in a Youth Hostel to take part in a 250k Audax (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audax_%28cycling%29) cycling event with a blind friend on my tandem. First thing in the morning about 6:30am I went down to the kitchen to have some breakfast. Having got together some Weetabix I headed through to the Dining area to find that I wasn't alone and the person already tucking into his breakfast seemed familiar.

It dawned on me it was Graeme Obree, but not wanting to make a complete tit of myself I just chatted with him not letting on that it was hero, asking what he was going to be doing that day, to which he informed me he was going to spectate with some friends at the 10 mile Time Trial Scottish Championships.

As I was dressed in cycling gear he asked me what I was going to be doing and so I explained I was doing a 250k on tandem with my pal Diane. Now as I had read his book I knew that Touring and Club cycling was how Graeme had got into cycling in the first place, and so he talked about that for a bit. But after a bit I couldn't keep up being "cool" and had to confess I realised who he was, and I asked him about his announcement earlier that year to give the Hour Record another go and then a while later calling it off to which I told him I was relieved as I had been worried at the time he would be sucked back into the spiral of pressure and depression that had afflicted him throughout his career.

Graeme joked about his mental history and said "it was ok you don't need to hide the cutlery". I asked Graeme if I could have his autograph and I explained I would love to have him sign his book which I already had a copy of but didn't have with me to which he said he had some copies of the book with him and he could sign one of those if I was willing to buy another copy. I wound him up about being such a salesman, but I was more than happy to buy another copy of the book and funnily enough Graeme had no change to give me, for which he was very apologetic, so I paid something like 11 pence over the normal price for a book I already had.

So I still have that copy of the book and gave my original copy away to friend who I thought would enjoy the book.

All in all Graeme Obree is a lovely bloke with a gentle wit and humble persona for somebody that has achieved so much that so few have in the cycling world. A more approachable and kind person you couldn't wish to meet.

[Barry]

That was a great post Fuzzy, puts most footballers to shame, I say most because there are still a few who retain some humility, Pompey's Linvoy Primus being one of them.

[fuzzytnth3]

Thanks Barry, try to get a hold of Graeme's book it's a fantastic. The film (http://www.mgm.com/sites/theflyingscotsman/) they made is not bad but the book is harrowing, funny and painfully truthful account.

What I did like about the film were the scenes of Graeme riding on the track, it's the only cycling film I can think of that got close to what it actually feels like when pushing yourself to the limit.

There have been some truly awful cycling films, the worst has to be American Flyers with Kevin Costner with some ludicrous cycling scenes which would upset any cyclist who had ever been in a real race or just anyone who knows which gear you should be riding in to not have legs spinning at a ridiculous rate while only going at 5 mph!

I know very little about football, so I have no idea if Pompey are an Italian team who's ground nestles under the slopes of Mt. Vesuvius or maybe a British Team with an interesting nick name (similar to a Scottish team I know of who for some reason are called "The Arabs") and as for Linvoy Primus sounds like a name for a camping stove but I'm guessing he is in fact a talented player who deserves my respect :biggrin:

[aspwatterson]

Fuzz..enjoyed your cycling stuff.. think I told you before about my ex brother-in-law's book on the Tour de France? If not, will repost as it is a good read and available in the library..

andi

ps Your FM radio selections seem to imply you listen to Another Day everday? Can't fault it... only problem the song always reminds me of a long lost relationship which should never have been lost.

[Barry]

ah just remembered another, t'was a bloke called paul, with a northern accent and looked like this http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41357000/jpg/_41357512_chuckles416.jpg
in a crack house in southampton.
wouldnt like to say it was him, but everyone there that i knew was sure that it was.

What an awful combination, a crack house, a chuckle brother and the vile village. Yuukkk!!

[critch]

What an awful combination, a crack house, a chuckle brother and the vile village. Yuukkk!!

Found this emoticon before and I was wondering where I could use it, but here'll do!!

:23:

The similarity to barry chuckle is quite alarming I think you'll agree!

[scotpaulabear]

Greatest. Emoticon. EVER. :wink:

[HarperPR]

Found this emoticon before and I was wondering where I could use it, but here'll do!!

:23:

The similarity to barry chuckle is quite alarming I think you'll agree!

I thought it was Amy Winehouse...:biggrin:

[Barry]

Or Amy Crackhouse.

[Friar Snig]

It would be about ten years ago now (wow, an unintentional RH song title so early in this post, I wonder if there'll be any more?) when I was stood at the queue to check in at Schiphol airport, after a three day long binge in Amsterdam with a large group of friends. Some people call them a 'stag do', Aussies call it a 'buck's party', but in this case I think 'binge' is appropriate. The delights of the 'Dam had been well and truly sampled (well most of them).
Back to the queue. As I stood there in a daze I happened to look behind me, and there lurching above me was an extremely dishevelled Jeremy Clarkson, the TV guy. Unable to convince myself that it was indeed him, I tapped my buddy in front on the shoulder and asked him if he felt able to confirm that it was indeed the man I thought it was. My friend was at that stage in a far more exuberant mood than I, and turning to look he exclaimed "F*** me! It's Jeremy Clarkson!" in a loud voice, at which the rest of our group in front all turned to make similar exclamations.
I had to feel sorry for the man. He was quite obviously the worse for wear (a hard day's filming I expect), yet here he was being harangued by a bunch of cheerful men.
To his credit, he took it all in his stride and even accepted the offer of a beer in the bar where he mumbled a few words to us, and posed for the odd photo or two.
Mr Clarkson's flight was called, he said his goodbyes, and set off across the departure lounge towards his gate. It was at this point that one member of our party shouted across the hall...

"Nice one Jeremy, you look like you've been on Top Gear!"

[telemonster]

when my best mate, andy, lived in london he shagged a lass, who'd shagged a lad, who'd shagged KYLIE MINOGUE! when he told me, i was like, 'wow, that's like you've nearly shagged kylie', and he was like., ' yeah, but i'm nearer to having shagged that guy, though!'

i agree with lemmy when he said 'you should NEVER meet your heroes!

[aspwatterson]

This most must be a missing thread which should have carried onto eternity...bet Linn and Big Chris have too many to recount to get involved/bothered [why doesn't she write her autobiography on the famosity/funny snippets that she has been surrounded with?]...

Meeting Roy after many years hence "Are you Andrew Watterson?"

Meeting Roy previously " So you've been following me for 35 years then?"

Meeting Nick " Nah yer alright mate!"

Meeting Jeffrey Archer when I told him he had a very intense face pointing at his wrinkles "Oh do I?"

My Middle East Sales Director's [Cyril Hodgson RIP] impassive, quizzical reaction when I said drinking Southern Comfort was too sophisticated for him.

Patrick Moore's last pronouncement at his Cosham Tech lecture in the Seventies "There is other life out there, might not look the same as you and me, but it exists without a shadow of doubt, get used to it"

Trevor Bayliss, inventor of clockwork Radio "I have approximately 500 Patents registered and half of them are military".

Richard Branson replying to my idea about marketing his smile worldwide for the Virgin empire, by measuring digitally the smiliest city in the world, by walking down streets with cams recording. Then the friendliest winning cities beam up a laser smiley face to Virgin Gallactica. Received several letters from him and his cohorts eventually, and the last was something like "Fantasatic idea, but a bit off tangent for us at the moment, as we have to now concentrate on maintaining our current businesses". My view was not really commercially orientated at all, just trying to make the world a happier place btw.

List goes on...must be the cheekiness in me...

c/a

[HarperPR]

Gosh, Andi, you could do your own book! Are you starting a collection.

I have a few things that have been said to me...but probably too X-rated for here.

What about embarrassing/foot-in-mouth moments? Just come to mind as a well known journo today tweeted about Depeche Mode cancelling show and made a comment...to later find that it's because Dave Gahan is having surgery for a cancerous bladder tumour. Not good. Think he regretted that.

My worst of recent years...meeting Phil Etheridge for first time and standing there copying his Brummie accent back to him, till I realised and started blushing! Thought he was gonna tell me to do one. He didn't! (I do have a thing - I think it's a bit of a Tourettes thing - about accents: hear a good one, I have to try it, there and then. It's not to be rude, just hearing the sounds and compelled to try and recreate. Pete and Sadfish can attest to my 'Scouse Nick fan' one - haha!).

[pete c]

internal body parts confusion

hah! Can I borrow that for an album title (la?) :biggrin:

[fuzzytnth3]

My worst of recent years...meeting Phil Etheridge for first time and standing there copying his Brummie accent back to him, till I realised and started blushing! Thought he was gonna tell me to do one. He didn't! (I do have a thing - I think it's a bit of a Tourettes thing - about accents: hear a good one, I have to try it, there and then. It's not to be rude, just hearing the sounds and compelled to try and recreate. Pete and Sadfish can attest to my 'Scouse Nick fan' one - haha!).

My daughter Mhairi and I also suffer from this we call it "wandering accent syndrome". Like you say we tend to mimic other different accents of people we meet.

As my kids were brought up in Dunfermline in Fife which has it's own accent including west and east versions yet I had been brought up in Essex and Sussex and so the kids at home would speak like me but at school they would speak with a Fife accent.

[aspwatterson]

Whenever I came out of Saudi month long visits my wife used to ask me why I was speaking with an American ARAMCO accent. Accents are very vicariously contagious and can change with the wind of your thorax; depending on who you're mixing with. Still annoys me that I can't negate the Taff twang having spent so many years there. Even Croppers thought I was blooming Welsh boyo! I do love some of the Northern accents mind, which sound so soft and caring....Boltonese for example.

Friends Reunited has just reminded me that Alan Pascoe used to go to Southern Grammar School Pompey. Bet none of you remember him then?

c/a

[telemonster]

i tend to soak up accents and slang whenever i go to new places or meet people. i'm sure lots of people do it subciously...unconciously... after a drink or 5..

i do love regional variations in accents and language, though!

[aspwatterson]

Just to spark this thread up a bit...lighting a fuse...

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Roy mentioned in comments...etc.

and, 1966 revisited live.....


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c/a

[HarperPR]

hah! Can I borrow that for an album title (la?) :biggrin:

mmm...yes. As long as I get a credit for 'inspiration'.:D

[NoCelebrity]

I had a Speech Professor who was able to correctly guess what High School I went to on the basis of my accent, which she described as virtually no accent, or Midwest Dictionary (American) English. Most Network news anchors have worked in Chicago News at some point just to practice our almost perfectly bland accent.

Da Bears Fans accent is far more common now than it was before they introduced it on SNL during the Ditka era (The "T" in Ditka is silent, especially when choking on a slab of pork ribs or having a mild myocardial infarction).

Jealous I am, so naturally I steal all sorts of silly accents when I'm bored...
It's the Jedi way of poking fun. Yoda try it some time...:biggrin:

[robert-tree]

When I was at school(secondary), I met Brian Jacks- remember him? He used to be on T.V in the '80s, briefly, but I can't remember the name of the program.....I think he was a champion at judo, or suchlike? Maybe someone else does? Anyway, to cut a long story short, I had my photo taken with him, as did many of my classmates........never be allowed now??????!! Ah, the innocence of youth......mmmmmm......:chillpill:

[SHAUN I]

When I was at school(secondary), I met Brian Jacks- remember him?

I remember him well, he was a World Champion in Judo, and the Superstars Champion,

[SteveT]

Nobody could thrust their squats like Brian. Of course, Superstars brought us one of the iconic moments of television when K*vin Ke*gan tottered around on that bicycle.

[Barry]

Whenever I came out of Saudi month long visits my wife used to ask me why I was speaking with an American ARAMCO accent. Accents are very vicariously contagious and can change with the wind of your thorax; depending on who you're mixing with. Still annoys me that I can't negate the Taff twang having spent so many years there. Even Croppers thought I was blooming Welsh boyo! I do love some of the Northern accents mind, which sound so soft and caring....Boltonese for example.

Friends Reunited has just reminded me that Alan Pascoe used to go to Southern Grammar School Pompey. Bet none of you remember him then?

c/a

Middle distance runner if my memory serves me right?

[Barry]

Nobody could thrust their squats like Brian. Of course, Superstars brought us one of the iconic moments of television when K*vin Ke*gan tottered around on that bicycle.

Nearly as funny as when he lost it as Newcastle manager with his famous "I'll love it...." rant.

I have to admit to quite liking KK despite his connections with the vile village.

[wobbly bob]

i remember alan pascoe!

[SHAUN I]

Friends Reunited has just reminded me that Alan Pascoe used to go to Southern Grammar School Pompey. Bet none of you remember him then?

c/a

I remember him dropping the baton in a crucial England relay race once :D