What is your claim to fame ?

[Drago]

I'm surprised no one has proudly declared they appeared on Jim'll Fix It.

A mate of mine did!

I wonder what happened to those ex-Savile Carltons that Planet X paid a fortune for the week before the man was outed as a pilthy fervert?

 

[stephec]

I'm surprised no one has proudly declared they appeared on Jim'll Fix It.

You're just dying to use that old, 'Jim fixed it for me to milk a cow blindfolded,' joke aren't you? 😂

 

[lenfield]

I saw The Smiths at a local pub in 1984. There were about a dozen people in the audience.

 

[Regular.Cyclist]

I used to deliver Sandy Jardine’s newspapers. 😂

 

[Electric_Andy]

I've never ever met anyone remotely famous. Not even a local radio host. I'm quite sad about it

 

[derrick]

Linda Lusardi once bought me a beer after i fixed her car, She had just started doing page three, Really nice to talk to, and so easy on the eye.

 

[Drago]

Linda Lusardi once bought me a beer after i "fixed" her "car"

Class 1 Euphemism Alert !!!!

 

[All uphill]

I was staying in a hotel on the Luneberg Heath in Germany while working over there in about 1981.

The hotel was empty except for me and the cast of a Danish TV show who had just completed a season. They generously included me in their stories and songs around the piano.

Later I was told how lucky I was to share a performance with Denmark's biggest stars of the time.

I still have no idea about who they were, but it was a magical evening, in the snowy woods with a small group of professionals letting their hair down

 

[dicko]

My laundromat did the washing for the Lynton Court hotel in Bournemouth and staying in the hotel was Windsor Davis and Don Estell who were appearing in the town season. In the hotel bar they had every body laughing.

 

[gbb]

None really but one very 'recognition' moment was when, in front of management, a visiting Spanish senior engineer, assisting us with their machinery that we worked on, he turned to them and said...
'Look after Colin, he is a very very clever man'

Not bad for someone who has no qualifications, no apprenticeship, just years of trying hard to learn and understand.

For him to say that was praise Indeed.

 

[postman]

I once shook hands with Jimmy Savile😳

Sadly so did i,i was sat resting at 'Dunnies' cafe Otley,when him and his mate(S) came for a brew.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Me: Match of the Day c1972, clearly visible in a crowd shot in my then fashionable 'flying jacket'.

Mrs SD: filmed in a Bromley bakery c1978/9 as a TV news item re The Bread Strike.

 

[Evil_Breakfast]

During my comprehensive/secondary education, I was in the same class (Pendragon 2) as Mark Pritchard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Pritchard_(musician)

During that, thankfully, short-lived genre of "Toytown Techno", he was responsible for this travesty :-

Shaft - Roobarb & Custard / TOTP

Along with : Kevin Hann (who was also in my class) and Adrian Hughes (who wasn't. Trafalgar or Wessex. Can't remember which.)

Mark then morphed into "Global Communication", and produced one of the best ambient/chill-out albums ever : 76:14. Which I still listen to, occasionally.

 

[Punkawallah]

You're just dying to use that old, 'Jim fixed it for me to milk a cow blindfolded,' joke aren't you? 😂

Why was Jimmy blindfolded when he asked?

 

[Punkawallah]

My ‘claim to fame’ is being an international rugby player.
Played at home against a visiting Irish team, and away against a French team. Second 15 - got pezzled of course - but I’m still claiming it!