| Minor claims to fame 12:26 - Mar 5 with 2826 views | Dubtractor |
Inspired by a thread on bluesky, share your most trivial claim to fame.
Back in the early 00s, when DJing in Brighton, Chris Eubank parked up in his big lorry and insisted on carrying my record bag to the club for me. |  |
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| Oh and also.... on 15:28 - Mar 5 with 366 views | GeoffSentence |
| Oh and also.... on 13:31 - Mar 5 by Keno |
I have been told I look a bit like David Beckham and on a plane once a bloke asked me for baby spice autograph |
When I was a child, Alan Beith MP who went on to become Liberal Democrat treasury spokesman, bought me a box of airfix desert rats. |  |
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| Minor claims to fame on 15:30 - Mar 5 with 353 views | Churchman |
| Minor claims to fame on 15:24 - Mar 5 by DJR |
I once had a permit to park regularly on the parade ground where Trooping the Colour takes place. One morning as I got to Admiralty Arch I noticed there were barriers, and I said to the person at the barrier (I can't remember if it was a soldier or policeman) that I was trying to get through to park.
He let me through but I entered the Mall to find there was no traffic, and the whole area around St James Park had been cordoned off to stop cars getting in. From recollection, it was probably a State visit.
I then had to figure out how I was to get out of from what was obviously a restricted area, and wondered if I might face some sort of sanction, or even be surrounded by armed police.
As it it, I drove round the back of Whitehall to Birdcage Walk, and after speaking to the person manning the barrier at Parliament Square was let out.
I can only assume I was let through in the first place because I have the bearing of a high-ranking military officer.  [Post edited 5 Mar 15:29]
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No, they needed some practice with a ‘live’ (well, almost) target for the snipers to zero in on.
Just because you couldn’t see them, doesn’t mean they weren’t there just itching to turn your head into a canoe. |  | | |
| Minor claims to fame on 15:35 - Mar 5 with 339 views | noggin |
As a young recruit, I once had to run behind Prince Charles's car and open his door every time he stopped somewhere on the military camp.
Ever since then I have despised the royal family. Pathetic elitism. |  |
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| Minor claims to fame on 15:39 - Mar 5 with 307 views | stringy |
| Minor claims to fame on 13:28 - Mar 5 by Keno |
I opened a bank account for Peter And The Test Tube Babies |
niche! |  | | |
| Minor claims to fame on 15:40 - Mar 5 with 304 views | GeoffSentence |
I used to work with the nephew of Ali Campbell, singer with UB40 No idea what Ali was like but his nephew was a lovely chap and he'd also been a professional footballer for a while. | |
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| Minor claims to fame on 15:41 - Mar 5 with 305 views | stringy |
got to chat to Bjork once when we were both about 17 at a gig she'd played at the Manchester Gallery (w/ Chumbawamba and others); didn't ask about Puffins but learned there was about 8 km of tarmacked roads on Iceland. I'd like to think my conversational skills have improved a bit since then (ish). | | | |
| Minor claims to fame on 15:46 - Mar 5 with 294 views | fhb1 |
I once shared a bed with Bobby Robson and watched Match of The Day with him.
I should probably add some context.
We were both very peripheral to a wedding reception which taking place at the bride’s family home.
Later in the evening a few of us went upstairs the kids games room (it was a large house), played a bit of ping pong and then watched MOTD. He and I perched on the side of bed, focussing on the footy.
I think he was working in Holland at the time, but we had a great reminisce about favourite games during his latter years at Ipswich. He had a real soft spot for Eric Gates.
Surreal evening ! |  | | |
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| Minor claims to fame on 15:46 - Mar 5 with 287 views | GeoffSentence |
| Minor claims to fame on 15:35 - Mar 5 by noggin |
As a young recruit, I once had to run behind Prince Charles's car and open his door every time he stopped somewhere on the military camp.
Ever since then I have despised the royal family. Pathetic elitism. |
If you were following on foot, why the feck did he need to drive? | |
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| Minor claims to fame on 15:47 - Mar 5 with 285 views | noggin |
| Minor claims to fame on 15:46 - Mar 5 by GeoffSentence |
If you were following on foot, why the feck did he need to drive? |
Just because. | |
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| Minor claims to fame on 15:47 - Mar 5 with 285 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
I sat and ate lunch with Sue Barker during the first day of Queens in the media room at Queens club.
I insisted on calling her the full "Sue Barker" throughout, which she found hilarious.
Every time I saw her after that, I would always lead with "After you, Sue Barker" |  |
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| Minor claims to fame on 15:54 - Mar 5 with 261 views | giant_stow |
| Minor claims to fame on 15:35 - Mar 5 by noggin |
As a young recruit, I once had to run behind Prince Charles's car and open his door every time he stopped somewhere on the military camp.
Ever since then I have despised the royal family. Pathetic elitism. |
Its weird, I agree that that sounds unnecessary and over-humbling elitism, but I'm still in favour of the monarchy. But then I never had to do what you did. |  |
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| Minor claims to fame on 16:18 - Mar 5 with 194 views | fhb1 |
I bumped into Michael Palin in Iraq.
He would have clearly been happy to chat but his local security team were having none of it. They didn’t like some random coming out of the crowd shaking his hand. A shame really as I love the bloke.
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| Minor claims to fame on 16:19 - Mar 5 with 186 views | GeoffSentence |
| Minor claims to fame on 16:01 - Mar 5 by hoppy |
What is a cum cafe?
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Whatever it is I wonder if they get their supplies from here
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| Minor claims to fame on 16:21 - Mar 5 with 184 views | BluePG |
Years ago I was member at the Stoke by Nayland club, and used the gym there.
One Friday evening, Everton were staying there (they were at Portman Road the next day), and Duncan Ferguson was having a swim in the pool.
After I’d finished in the gym, I went to shower and Ferguson was also showering next to me.
I can see why he was called “Big Dunc”. | |
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| Minor claims to fame on 16:27 - Mar 5 with 166 views | soupytwist |
I once had a long conversation with top percussionist and general jazz/latin music afficionado Snowboy (a.k.a. Mark Cotgrove) in Fives Records in Leigh on Sea. He'd just completed a long tour as a member of Lisa Stansfield's band. |  | | |
| Minor claims to fame on 16:30 - Mar 5 with 157 views | Radlett_blue |
| Minor claims to fame on 16:27 - Mar 5 by soupytwist |
I once had a long conversation with top percussionist and general jazz/latin music afficionado Snowboy (a.k.a. Mark Cotgrove) in Fives Records in Leigh on Sea. He'd just completed a long tour as a member of Lisa Stansfield's band. |
Had he been around the world? |  |
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| Minor claims to fame on 16:31 - Mar 5 with 155 views | pedrail |
I was the first engineer hired at the first major commercial neural-network software company (NeuralWare) which provided the technology underlying today's AI. The software package I worked on became the dominant commercial package for many years before the company got bought up. |  | | |
| Minor claims to fame on 16:32 - Mar 5 with 148 views | Radlett_blue |
| Minor claims to fame on 15:54 - Mar 5 by giant_stow |
Its weird, I agree that that sounds unnecessary and over-humbling elitism, but I'm still in favour of the monarchy. But then I never had to do what you did. |
It could have been worse. You might have been the one who had to squeeze toothpaste onto his tube. | |
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| Remembered another.... on 16:33 - Mar 5 with 148 views | Bloots |
...I got in a lift in Vegas and a couple of floors later Tom Jones got in.
I said "Alright Tom?" and he replied "Alright boyo".
End of anecdote. |  |
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| Minor claims to fame on 16:37 - Mar 5 with 121 views | sudburyblue16 |
One new years eve in Cambridge back in the 1990s, I was standing outside a packed city centre pub on a very narrow pavement, when Prof. Hawking rode over my foot in his electric wheelchair. [Post edited 5 Mar 16:41]
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| Minor claims to fame on 16:38 - Mar 5 with 115 views | DJR |
| Minor claims to fame on 15:34 - Mar 5 by bluester |
As in the ground in front of the Old Admiralty Building? Horse Guards Parade? |
That's it. Our office backed on to Horse Guards Parade, and one side was next to the area where the soldiers and horses are based before they go out on daily guard in Whitehall.
As well as the smell of horses, it was interesting to hear the hard time that soldiers got if, whilst on parade, they messed up in some minor way, including being forced to run around in circles in full uniform on very hot days.
It was possible to watch both Beating the Retreat and Trooping the Colour from the upper floors of our office which are higher than the temporary stands. I wasn't there but on one occasion a soldier at the back of the stand fell and managed to impale his leg on the railing to the garden at the back of our office.
Finally, I was in the office when someone fired a mortar at 10 Downing Street from St James Park. Everything went into lockdown and we were told to make sure our bomb curtains were properly in place. [Post edited 5 Mar 16:44]
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| Minor claims to fame on 16:42 - Mar 5 with 104 views | mellowblue |
| Minor claims to fame on 16:21 - Mar 5 by BluePG |
Years ago I was member at the Stoke by Nayland club, and used the gym there.
One Friday evening, Everton were staying there (they were at Portman Road the next day), and Duncan Ferguson was having a swim in the pool.
After I’d finished in the gym, I went to shower and Ferguson was also showering next to me.
I can see why he was called “Big Dunc”. |
on the subject of "big", my son in law is a ref and he was showering alongside Sven Goran Eriksson at St Georges Park when Sven was still England manager. Apparently there is a big reason why Sven was dating beautiful women. | | | |
| Minor claims to fame on 16:50 - Mar 5 with 94 views | DJR |
My wife (before I married her) and I were in the pub opposite the Whitehall Theatre where we got into conversation with Alastair McGowan who was appearing later in a TV show which was filmed at the theatre.
He was a lovely person and we managed to persuade him to get us mentioned in one of his sketches. The sketch was shown on TV a few days later and involved two dinosaurs which he named after my wife and me. [Post edited 5 Mar 16:52]
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