What's Your Claim To Fame?

[ashacat]

I am (distantly) related to the royal poet John Dryden. My family still has a Royal trust stately home in England which was built by the Uk royal family for John, you can pay to visit it (Canons Ashby), family weddings, funerals etc are still held there.

http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/...nonsashbyhouse/

My uncle is mates with Nick Faldo and I have met him a few times.

My cousin has been the private pilot for; Eddie Jordan, Mick Hucknel etc etc

I was the the model for Nokia XpressPrint adverts in SE Asia.

My grandad was a Cheltenham Town FC striker.

Edited December 18, 2006 by ashacat

[Patsycat]

My dad played rugby against Idi Amin in Uganda in the late 50's

[JacknDanny]

you're not on o' them spiceychicks that was fluttering around a few years back are ya?

Not a spice girl, If I told you the name you could google it and see the pictures and I would die.I can't even sing.

You were either part of Atomic Kitten, or more likely your name is Karen Parry and you were part of Flip and Fill

[rollergirl]

you're not on o' them spiceychicks that was fluttering around a few years back are ya?

Not a spice girl, If I told you the name you could google it and see the pictures and I would die.I can't even sing.

You were either part of Atomic Kitten, or more likely your name is Karen Parry and you were part of Flip and Fill

Nope i'm none of the above, those people are famous, i'm not.

I am rollergirl, and is nobody impressed with oral hygene these days?

[gpt]

Sporty Spice was my eldest daughter's best friend years ago and she sat on my lap on many occasions.

Kissed by Cilla Black in the Cavern

Cycled the Wirral lanes with Chris Boardman

[swain]

My claim to fame is that I became engaged and married two women at the same time on the Jerry Springer show. Was pushing my belief that all women are bi-sexual and that all they need is a loving non-judgmental environment to explore their sexuality. The show did so well they they did two follow ups and flew me back in to talk about open relationships. After that the Ricky Lake show picked me up for their valentines special to talk about unconventional relationships. The fifteen minutes was over after that.. and the marriages didn't last much longer either ...

[ourmanflint]

My claim to fame is that I became engaged and married two women at the same time on the Jerry Springer show. Was pushing my belief that all women are bi-sexual and that all they need is a loving non-judgmental environment to explore their sexuality. The show did so well they they did two follow ups and flew me back in to talk about open relationships. After that the Ricky Lake show picked me up for their valentines special to talk about unconventional relationships. The fifteen minutes was over after that.. and the marriages didn't last much longer either ...

truly a classic tale... well done

[ashacat]

My claim to fame is that I became engaged and married two women at the same time on the Jerry Springer show. Was pushing my belief that all women are bi-sexual and that all they need is a loving non-judgmental environment to explore their sexuality. The show did so well they they did two follow ups and flew me back in to talk about open relationships. After that the Ricky Lake show picked me up for their valentines special to talk about unconventional relationships. The fifteen minutes was over after that.. and the marriages didn't last much longer either ...

[JacknDanny]

you're not on o' them spiceychicks that was fluttering around a few years back are ya?

Not a spice girl, If I told you the name you could google it and see the pictures and I would die.I can't even sing.

You were either part of Atomic Kitten, or more likely your name is Karen Parry and you were part of Flip and Fill

Nope i'm none of the above, those people are famous, i'm not.

I am rollergirl, and is nobody impressed with oral hygene these days?

Here is a list of artists who got to number 3 in 2002

Christina Miliana

DB Boulevard

Doves

H and Claire

Atomic Kitten

Sophie Ellis Bextor

Flip and Fill

Madhouse.

I will leave that for other members to do their homework, I have to go out now

[ourmanflint]

It's H!!!!!

[I Go With You]

I sat directly in front of OJ Simpson and his wife Nicole at a USC-UCLA football game in 1983. I remember looking back frequently and in awe of how beautiful she was, a real stunner. OJ looked like he had been awake and wired for 3 straight days on coke, eyes beat red and bloodshot. Marcus Allen attended the game and was sitting nearby as well and had gone over to talk to OJ a few times. These seats were on the 40 yard line about 20 rows above the field at the Rose Bowl. USC lost the game in the end by one point. They were going for the 2 point conversion for the win rather than kicking the extra point for a tie. UCLA won the Pac 10 crown and went to the Rose Bowl thanks to USC not executing the 2 point conversion or going for the tie. A tie tosses UCLA out of the Rose Bowl and Arizona State would have gone

That is claim to fame #1. more later

Edited December 18, 2006 by I Go With You

[I Go With You]

This fellow is a very good friend of mine from my USC days

http://imdb.com/name/nm0170461/

[Barney_the_Dinosaur]

1) Colin Farrell told me he fancies my wife. (2004)

2) I helped the ex President of Indonesia put his trousers on (2003)

Edited December 18, 2006 by Barney_the_Dinosaur

[I Go With You]

I am very good friends with the Grandson of General Patton of WWII fame.

Here is another very good friend from USC

http://imdb.com/name/nm0994529/

[Old Croc]

I had a beer with this guy a few months back.

[TRIPxCORE]

Nope i'm none of the above, those people are famous, i'm not.

I am rollergirl, and is nobody impressed with oral hygene these days?

The only RollerGirl I know is from the movie Boogie Nights. That you?

[LaoPo]

I had a beer with this guy a few months back.

Don't know the guy Croc, but I'm happy you're still alive !

LaoPo

[Buckwheat]

I had a beer with this guy a few months back.

Don't know the guy Croc, but I'm happy you're still alive !

LaoPo

Maybe this is his brother...

[Old Croc]

Don't know the guy Croc, but I'm happy you're still alive !

LaoPo

Some who have met him arn't. Mark "Chopper" Read. So named because he chopped his own ears off in prison. These days an author and the subject of a biographical film. An interesting character.

[LaoPo]

Don't know the guy Croc, but I'm happy you're still alive !

LaoPo

Some who have met him arn't. Mark "Chopper" Read. So named because he chopped his own ears off in prison. These days an author and the subject of a biographical film. An interesting character.

Maybe he had a look at Van Gogh ?

LaoPo

[ssparks111]

you're not on o' them spiceychicks that was fluttering around a few years back are ya?

Not a spice girl, If I told you the name you could google it and see the pictures and I would die.I can't even sing.

You were either part of Atomic Kitten, or more likely your name is Karen Parry and you were part of Flip and Fill

Nope i'm none of the above, those people are famous, i'm not.

I am rollergirl, and is nobody impressed with oral hygene these days?

Here is a list of artists who got to number 3 in 2002

Christina Miliana

DB Boulevard

Doves

H and Claire

Atomic Kitten

Sophie Ellis Bextor

Flip and Fill

Madhouse.

I will leave that for other members to do their homework, I have to go out now

Did my homework...near as I can tell from google, these are the results (sorry if any are wrong, to be honest I've never heard of any of them):

Christina Miliana not a group

DB Boulevard possible

Doves three guys

H and Claire are you Claire?

Atomic Kitten already denied

Sophie Ellis Bextor not a group

Flip and Fill two guys

Madhouse three guys

So, rollergirl, is it one from this list?

Were you a permanent member of the group, or a guest singer?

(I don't really see how the oral hygene clue fits into any of these, though)

[kayo]

1. Returning from the beach one day during a wee holiday in Monaco, years ago, my brother and I step into an elevator with two big black guys and one slightly less big black guy - Eddie Murphy with pals

2. Same place a few years later, i was working a summer job there, stopped for a espresso, in a little local espresso bar, table next to me, Wesley Snipes with son and a friend of his son's. They were there for the tennis tournament - celebrity vs tennis stars.

3. Same town, nearly got run over by William Shatner on my 50cc scooter, and he drunk and fast in a jaguar or bentley.

4. same town, my summer job was as an assistant to the official photographer in a place called the "Salle des Etoiles" where I got to see, in no particular order, Whitney houston, Elton John, Eric Clapton, BB King, Vanessa Paradis, Michael Jackson, Julio Iglesias, Sr., Johnny Halliday, Phil Collins (who nodded at me...), The entire Baywatch cast during the Pammy Anderson era, and more. Oh! Shirley Bassey was a regular visitor (as a guest) here as wellNB: As an aside, this era: I was in the one and only local english vdo store one day, chatting with Kim, the lady who worked the shop, when two big black guys enter the store, which was a hole in the wall. I let Kim do her job and went to browse the vdo's. One of the guys steps in the aisle I' browsing, effectively blocking my exit, and in walks a man in a white face mask. I think he was asking if Kim had Home Alone.. but I can't guarantee that...

5. In Holland, one year during the North Sea Jazz Fest, I was working the Hotel bar, and some of the hotel's guests were Jerry Lee Lewis, BB King, Roy Hargove, Dr. John. I think it was a friday night they all piled into the bar after their gigs. I got to chat with BB King for about 3 minutes, and I got to listen to Dr John play the piano for about 10 minutes.

6. A few years previous, I was walking back to the apartment I was staying in during my summer job in Monaco, after having walked through the harbour, where (the whole town knew) they were filming the next James Bond (GoldenEye, I think it was) and a lady approached me in the corridor of the 23rd floor of the building Iwas staying. She turned out to be a local casting agent, living across the hall... "we're shooting a movie here.." - Cut a long story short, I was regrettably two years too young to be in the movie at that time (as a minor extra during a harbour scene - I was fourteen at the time)

7. Age nineteen, poor, had been very ethical for some years in the workplace, packed in my ethics and took a job offered me in a porn movie. It was a forty minute short made in Amsterdam. I was an office cleaner, and when I went into the executive woman boss's office, she was having a late meeting with a "lady friend" of hers.... Insisted I get under the desk to take out her trash all the same....

8. In LOS, my best mate was a nanny/english teacher to one of the princesses. The kids were euhm.. a handful, so she packed it in. Much later, we were both invited to a dance of hers, and I got to dance with HRH.

9. In LOS, I got to meet and greet HRH the Queen of the Netherlands, on her official State visit to Kanchanaburi, and did so, between the Thai Burma railway museum and the central cemetary.

10. in 2004, I am accepted and honoured to be a member of the community we all share called Thaivisa.com, entirely due to and thanks to a gentleman and photographer named....

Edited December 18, 2006 by kayo

[Kan Win]

What's Your Claim To Fame? Mine

I met K.O. a few years back and introduced him to ThaiVisaDotCom, the rest is History.

Yours truly,

Kan Win

[Couthy]

Was in a Guard of Honour for the Brit Queen Mum in 76'.

All shiny and nice we were in our Air Force uniforms outside Crathie church, out she comes, "Present arms",

and she asks me what regiment I am in.

"The Air Force ma'am".

"Oh, really, how super".

Thought she might have known the difference between Army, Navy and Air Force uniforms after a considerable amount of years inspecting them. The colours for a start!.

Did an ab initio flying course with Prince Andrew before the Air Force decided he was too expensive to train and shipped him off to the Navy. (Pun intended).

Well, he had no educational qualifications whatsover except an 'O' level history.

Do super expensive schools i.e. Gordonstoun actually work or just meeting places for the offspring of the super wealthy?.

Mick Hucknal (Simply Red) chartered one of our aircraft one time for a European tour - great guy.

Peter Gabriel, likewise - very, very polite and non superstar.

Sting ditto charter - pain in the arse and the worth of strangulation at birth.

Annie Lennox, when she released the Diva album also for European promotion. Brill, in the galley helping the hosties do their thing.

Had dinner with Gorbachev and wife when me Mum was a political person as her escort.

Rita was lovely and enjoyed the shops with no security whatsoever - Gorbachev (Or Gorbachov?) was highly entertaining and could sink a bucket or three of whisky.

Gave a technical presentation at Government House in Bkk in 1998.

Nearly lost an eye to a guy who is doing life now X 3 in UK. (Hospital had to put it back in and apply lots of micro stitching)

Strange but true - I after the event kicked him down a flight of steps and beat the daylights out of him.

He gets a birthday card every year from me - date of birth is easy to remember and I am not making this up, his DOB is 6/6/66.

Life is fun, fun, fun. Never a dull moment!.

[Soph]

I 'starred' in Boon for anyone that can remeber (cos I cant)

[kayo]

Was in a Guard of Honour for the Brit Queen Mum in 76'.

All shiny and nice we were in our Air Force uniforms outside Crathie church, out she comes, "Present arms",

and she asks me what regiment I am in.

"The Air Force ma'am".

"Oh, really, how super".

Thought she might have known the difference between Army, Navy and Air Force uniforms after a considerable amount of years inspecting them. The colours for a start!.

Did an ab initio flying course with Prince Andrew before the Air Force decided he was too expensive to train and shipped him off to the Navy. (Pun intended).

Well, he had no educational qualifications whatsover except an 'O' level history.

Do super expensive schools i.e. Gordonstoun actually work or just meeting places for the offspring of the super wealthy?.

Mick Hucknal (Simply Red) chartered one of our aircraft one time for a European tour - great guy.

Peter Gabriel, likewise - very, very polite and non superstar.

Sting ditto charter - pain in the arse and the worth of strangulation at birth.

Annie Lennox, when she released the Diva album also for European promotion. Brill, in the galley helping the hosties do their thing.

Had dinner with Gorbachev and wife when me Mum was a political person as her escort.

Rita was lovely and enjoyed the shops with no security whatsoever - Gorbachev (Or Gorbachov?) was highly entertaining and could sink a bucket or three of whisky.

Gave a technical presentation at Government House in Bkk in 1998.

Nearly lost an eye to a guy who is doing life now X 3 in UK. (Hospital had to put it back in and apply lots of micro stitching)

Strange but true - I after the event kicked him down a flight of steps and beat the daylights out of him.

He gets a birthday card every year from me - date of birth is easy to remember and I am not making this up, his DOB is 6/6/66.

Life is fun, fun, fun. Never a dull moment!.

You thatcher's son?

[kayo]

I 'starred' in Boon for anyone that can remeber (cos I cant)

This one?

[Soph]

I 'starred' in Boon for anyone that can remeber (cos I cant)

This one?

That would be the very one!

[JacknDanny]

you're not on o' them spiceychicks that was fluttering around a few years back are ya?

Not a spice girl, If I told you the name you could google it and see the pictures and I would die.I can't even sing.

You were either part of Atomic Kitten, or more likely your name is Karen Parry and you were part of Flip and Fill

Nope i'm none of the above, those people are famous, i'm not.

I am rollergirl, and is nobody impressed with oral hygene these days?

Ok the only other ones that made it to 3 in 2002 were Shakira, Jennifer Lopez, Will Smith, Calling, and finally ANT AND DEC!!!!!!

MAYBE you were on their video singing??

[kayo]

Or maybe it was a song about her that made it to #3-

Nah, but ... is anybody getting anything on the oral hygiene clue...