What is your claim to fame ?

[Badger_Boom]

When I worked in St Katherine Dock I would see them quite regularly walking around the docks, as they had a flat in Wapping.
Their height difference was always very funny.

I've never met Sir Rod or Penny Lancaster, but I did get to look around Rod's railway workshop in the loft of his country pile in Essex.

 

[No Ta Doctor]

One of my schoolmates from primary school is the younger brother of Casper, whose name was called out in the playground sounds of Pink Floyd's Another Brick In The Wall, Part Two (album version)

 

[Dogtrousers]

One of my schoolmates from primary school is the younger brother of Casper, whose name was called out in the playground sounds of Pink Floyd's Another Brick In The Wall, Part Two (album version)

I think you're in the lead of the most tenuous claim competition

 

[Binky]

I think you're in the lead of the most tenuous claim competition

You want tenuous, I'll give you tenuous.

I've slept with Elizabeth Taylor.

But not that one.

 

[Dave7]

A previous comment reminded me.
Anyone remember the French singer François Hardy ?
I went to see her at Liverpool Uni approx 1966. After the show I had a full on snog with her.
Not that I am bothered about her luscious lips and great figure. It made no impression on me

 

[Paul_Smith SRCC]

I was in a film called 'Paul's ride in the Park'....or was it '101 Dalmatian's'....

 

[YMFB]

I don’t, but my wifes family included the infamous https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Blood

 

[classic33]

A relative, now deceased, married Biddy Early. Another, deceased again, went onto find the Gorteenreagh Hoard, when he went to clear a fairy fort from his land.
Done to prove there was nothing under the fort, and there was no danger to him from the fairies.

There's a family connection between the two of them.

 

[Hilldodger]

I taught Chris Hoy to ride a penny farthing.

Chris and Kelly Brook with a couple of my machines.

 

[No Ta Doctor]

I think you're in the lead of the most tenuous claim competition

It may be tenuous (it is) but it's immortalised in the thirtieth best selling album of all time. Carved in vinyl.

 

[stephec]

I taught Chris Hoy to ride a penny farthing.

Chris and Kelly Brook with a couple of my machines.

I've spent an hour trying to come up with a clean reply to this, I'll keep on trying. 😂

 

[Badger_Boom]

A relative, now deceased, married Biddy Early. Another, deceased again, went onto find the Gorteenreagh Hoard, when he went to clear a fairy fort from his land.
Done to prove there was nothing under the fort, and there was no danger to him from the fairies.

There's a family connection between the two of them.

Are you saying there was no fairy curse?

 

[ClichéGuevara]

My claim to fame will be that I followed the unraveling of the @classic33 story before it became a best selling book and film.

 

[No Ta Doctor]

If we're doing family now, I'm a direct descendent of Sir Rupert Kettle

Yes, that is a real person and a real name, not just what I call one of my most important kitchen appliances. It's an anglicisation of the French Huguenot Quitel. He was a 19th C lawyer who pioneered the concept of arbitration in employment disputes, and has a blue plaque in Wolverhampton

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Alfred_Kettle


Oh and he had a son called.... AC Kettle.

 

[classic33]

Are you saying there was no fairy curse?

It's what he set out to prove, but to admit digging a fort up would have had him in trouble.