FAB Virgil - OMG, I just met Gerry Anderson!

[Fab Foodie]

I'm a little starstruck, I've just unknowingly spent 30 or so minutes in the company of Gerry Anderson, a real hero, creator of so many programs that made my childhood. And he's a lovely man.

Thunderbirds are go!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Anderson

 

[Noodley]

Did you not find out who he was til he/you had gone?

 

[Fab Foodie]

Did you not find out who he was til he/you had gone?

No! Unfortunately not, it was only as we were saying goodbye with his wife that the penny dropped, we had already said bye to him at that point, I could hardly go back and fawn!

 

[Vapin' Joe]

Could you see his strings?

 

[yello]

I think it's nicer not knowing. It makes you less inhibited.

I remember my wife and I walking the dog in Richmond Park one Sunday morning. We met Melvyn Bragg, a lady (maybe his wife, dunno) and a dog. Whilst the dogs acknowledged each other in the time honoured fashion, my wife was happily chatting to them (about dogs), oblivious of who he was. It was only afterwards, when I said who it was, that she suddenly felt aware of the conversation.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Could you see his strings?

 

[Noodley]

Aye I reckon it was best to not know who he was when you were speaking, but glad you found out! Otherwise you would not have been able to start this thread (there's a strings joke in there somewhere but I cannot be arsed finding it)

 

[wildjetskier]

I'm a little starstruck, I've just unknowingly spent 30 or so minutes in the company of Gerry Anderson, a real hero, creator of so many programs that made my childhood. And he's a lovely man.

Thunderbirds are go!

http://en.wikipedia..../Gerry_Anderson

Have to agree with you there a one of a kind i am sure, pray tell what were the circumstances to you meeting him

 

[Fab Foodie]

Have to agree with you there a one of a kind i am sure, pray tell what were the circumstances to you meeting him

Mrs FF shares a mutual interest with his wife in one of her hobbies, I was but the chauffer!

 

[wildjetskier]

Great stuff, I bet you were kicking your proverbial bum, but also circumstances like that could be a little awkward, if you know what I mean.. You're a lucky man

 

[Fab Foodie]

Great stuff, I bet you were kicking your proverbial bum, but also circumstances like that could be a little awkward, if you know what I mean.. You're a lucky man

Thankfully all unplanned, otherwise I'd have just stood there and blabbered!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I was but the chauffer!

You could dress up as Parker next time.

He probably gets really naffed off when folk just want to talk about Thunderbirds (Captain Scarlet was always my fave) any time he meets someone.

 

[Fnaar]

What's the wives' mutual hobby? Supermarionation?

 

[Fab Foodie]

What's the wives' mutual hobby? Supermarionation?

Yeah, they both like to immerse their meat in youghurt, spices and herbs for a real-long time ....

 

[Fnaar]

There are websites for that sort of thing.