Racing roadkill
Guru
I almost forgot
And
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Celebrity spotting
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Fnaar
Smutmaster General
- Location
- Thumberland
I literally bumped into Dennis Healey at Victoria mainline station once, when I worked nearby. "oops, sorry mate" I said, and milliseconds after we'd gone our separate ways, I realised who it was.
Saw Michael Portillo shopping in Army & Navy once.
My mum nursed loads of impt people, incl Alexander Fleming. She also nursed David Bowie's brother for a while.
I've bought a drink for Slim Gaillard, when he used to gig regularly in London many years ago. Seriously pleasant man, and a musical genius imho. He was also Marvin Gaye's father-in-law.
I once had to introduce Isla St Clair at a hospital fete. I really fancied her (hey, I was still in my teens), and got terribly tongue-tied.
Saw Michael Portillo shopping in Army & Navy once.
My mum nursed loads of impt people, incl Alexander Fleming. She also nursed David Bowie's brother for a while.
I've bought a drink for Slim Gaillard, when he used to gig regularly in London many years ago. Seriously pleasant man, and a musical genius imho. He was also Marvin Gaye's father-in-law.
I once had to introduce Isla St Clair at a hospital fete. I really fancied her (hey, I was still in my teens), and got terribly tongue-tied.
Don't recognise the ones in the first photo.
I recognise John Surtees, Stirling Moss, Lord March & John McGuinness in the second picture, but who is the weird looking saddo with the long (dyed) black hair and shades?
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Racing roadkill
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Dayvo
just passin' through
- Location
- 59° 50′ 5.55″ N, 10° 47′ 41.89″ E
When I was at uni, I missed out on a sports dinner, with Jack Charlton as the main guest. I'd noticed that he has lost half of his middle finger and was curious to know how (me having the lost the top part of my index finger). I asked two friends (who didn't know each other, and also too be sure at least one remembered) to ask him how it had happened.
One friend later told me that he said,'Bloody hell, no-one has asked me this in over 30 years and now two people on the same night have asked me the same question.'
Apparently he got it caught in a slammed car door.
KneesUp
Guru
Funnily enough he mentioned you when we were chatting at the Laundrette last Wednesday.
Sara_H
Guru
I was once waiting in my car at a red traffic light in a less salubrious part of Sheffield at about 3am when no less than Mick Hucknall crossed the road in front of me, in all his ginger dreadlocked glory.
I made to get out of the car to pester him ( this was at the height of Simply Red fame) but my boyfriend at the time ordered be back in the car for fear of being stabbed or shot due to the locale (Pitsmoor for those who know their north).
I made to get out of the car to pester him ( this was at the height of Simply Red fame) but my boyfriend at the time ordered be back in the car for fear of being stabbed or shot due to the locale (Pitsmoor for those who know their north).
Mad Doug Biker
Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
- Location
- Craggy Island
I once saw Tommy Sheridan in Buchannan Street in Glasgow campaigning with his Scottish Socialist Party.
I went to take a picture and immediately, he asked me aggressively
'Are you from The News Of The World?' (He had some sort of injunction with the former newspaper at the time).
I said
'Yes!'......
No, only kidding, I said 'no' and all was well.
I went to take a picture and immediately, he asked me aggressively
'Are you from The News Of The World?' (He had some sort of injunction with the former newspaper at the time).
I said
'Yes!'......
No, only kidding, I said 'no' and all was well.
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DaveReading
Don't suffer fools gladly (must try harder!)
- Location
- Reading, obvs
Lenny Henry used to be a member of my local gym befire he moved out of the area. He was renowned for rarely, if ever, speaking to anyone or even making eye contact with other members, which was fair enough and nobody could fault him for that.
I did get his attention one day, though, when I pushed open the door of the changing room with a bit more welly than I'd intended, and it stopped suddently when it met something solid standing on the other side ...
He didn't say anything, or make eye contact, in response to my mumbled apology.
I did get his attention one day, though, when I pushed open the door of the changing room with a bit more welly than I'd intended, and it stopped suddently when it met something solid standing on the other side ...
He didn't say anything, or make eye contact, in response to my mumbled apology.
Profpointy
Legendary Member
One of my father's schoolteachers was apperently quite well travelled and mentioned that the 3 best orators he'd ever heard (I believe live) were Hitler, Mussolini, and Lloyd-George. Quite a useful warning to anyone overly impressed by great oratory
I forgot the last bit of the story, he also said that after hearing them he would have signed up to do anything. A really chilling reminder of the power of oratory. These days we are perhaps more familiar with great speeches being force for good like Martin Luther King's Dream, but as often as not oratory has been a force for evil
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
She was absolutely tiny.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/dj-sarah-kennedys-drink-drive-ban-3618837
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/dj-sarah-kennedys-drink-drive-ban-3618837
I sat opposite her in a pub, just outside of Woodstock, on the way back from London one evening. Sometime around 1985.
Back to my adolesence in Buckinghamshire. Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne lived near my school. Apparently they were often seen about the town at lunchtime. I however never did, though given that I was into two tone and the beginning of new romantic stuff, I'm sure I would have feigned indifference if I had.
