Topic: What's your claim to fame?

[MrGrumpy]

Emma Bunton once brought me a glass of apple juice at a sushi bar.

Can anyone beat that?

[Mutton Geoff]

I’ve snogged Duffy. Before she was famous.

Played a prank with the Dirty Sanchez lads backstage at Wakestock, who told me I went too far. 

Pissed off Carl Barat so much that he spent an hour by a camp fire sharpening a stick, as he was paranoid off beak.

Loads of stories like that as I used to knock about with some people involved with music.

Bangor then ?

[Mutton Geoff]

I have a few minor ones:

Coached with, against and did courses with ex-Liverpool, ex-Premier League, ex-International players, and ex-MLS ones (didn't know who they were )

Was interviewed on live tv as a kid, about youth activities for young people (one of those vox pop things)

Was part of a failed tactical software programme, and a minor advisory role on a Prozone type software that is now used in the the EFL and SPFL among others

Non-football:

I came up with the Hulk Hogan catchphrase "Whatcha gonna do when Hulkamania runs wild on you"

I was the first person to put an apostrophe in their first name at a random point to separate the name. You're welcome, Mo'nique.

I brought the Goodies together before they were a comedy act

I used to be "Tenspeed" from "Tenspeed and Brownshoe"

I was one of Murphy Brown's secretaries in an episode

And lastly, I invented that ticking sound your phone makes when it passes other electronics.

My god how old are you?

[TepidT2O]

The goodies met in the cellar under oxford university’s jazz society.

He’s either ancient and much posher than we’d all realised .... or joking

[Crosby Nick]

Bangor then ?

Just a snog he said.

[Mutton Geoff]

The goodies met in the cellar under oxford university’s jazz society.

He’s either ancient and much posher than we’d all realised .... or joking

He might have been collecting glasses or pulling pints oh sorry halves for them.

[Kenny's Jacket]

John Barnes and Jan Molby have both made my Mam a cup of tea at Melwood. I was there too, but didnt get a brew.

[L8Craig]

Took a penalty at half time at Anfield

[Kenny's Jacket]

Took a penalty at half time at Anfield

Did you miss?

[Elzar]

Did you miss?

He did, and from the name Craig, I presume he is also a Mister.

[L8Craig]

Did you miss?

Buried it
To be fair, we were only 10. Them goals are massive when you are only 4ft.

[Billy The Kid]

I posted this in the Dolores O'Riordan thread just after she passed away. This isn't my claim to fame, it's actually my cousins. But it still a good story

A quick story about Dolores, back in the early 90's, a cousin of mine got a job as an air hostess with Aer Lingus. Most of the flights she worked on were on the Shannon to London route. She lived in Cork so had to drive to Shannon (via Limerick) on a daily basis to commute to work. Anyhow, one day as she was passing through a small town called Charleville (which is about halfway between Cork and Limerick) she spotted a young lass with a guitar case on her back hitching a lift towards Limerick. So she stopped the car and gave her a spin.

As they got to chatting the lass in question introduced herself as Dolores, and told my cousin she was a singer in a band. She had been in Cork to do a gig and was trying to make it home to Limerick on the cheap. Seeing as my cousin had to travel up and down that road every day for work she told Dolores to take down her phone number and give her a buzz anytime she needed a lift to or from Cork. Bear in mind this was the early 90's - long before mobile phones hit the scene so the numbers they swapped were landline numbers

Sure enough, they ended up travelling the Cork / Limerick road together on a couple of occasions. Then a few months later, having not heard from Dolores in a while, and wondering what had became of her (bear in mind there was no texting, facefucking or twattering in them days) my cousin happens to switch on Top Of The Pops, and lo and behold who's on the stage only Dolores. Que my cousin leaping up in shock "Oh my god that's the girl from Limerick I used to give lifts home to". Just goes to show that you never know

RIP Dolores. x

[Kenny's Jacket]

I posted this in the Dolores O'Riordan thread just after she passed away. This isn't my claim to fame, it's actually my cousins. But it still a good story

Did she give her petrol money?

[Tesco tearaway]

Did she give her petrol money?

She would have done if she wanted a lift to Tipperary 

[Kenny's Jacket]

She would have done if she wanted a lift to Tipperary 

 

 

Well it is a long way

[Tesco tearaway]

 

 

Well it is a long way

I knew you wouldn't ask 

[LovelyCushionedHeader]

My record on FIFA 14 online seasons was something like 97-17-0 (w/d/l) before I finally lost and that included wins against a couple of number 1 ranked players. Ended up losing two in a row and never played it again.

Won a golf tournament when I was younger and had a headline in my honour including a witty pun related to my surname.

Other sporting achievements (not really claims to fame but they were good personal achievements and I'm sport crazy):

Broke my high school's record number of runs in a cricket innings (67*)
Broke 200 at ten-pin bowling
Went round my golf course under par

A whole host of football related shit too but who cares about that.

My partner could be involved in a future Louis Theroux documentary.

[LanceLink!!!!!]

"The bloke that runs the thing comes over and said - Oi, no professionals. I took my helmet off, I said I'm not a professional. He said - you're not a professional? I said - No, he said - well you should be"

I was playing school cricket many years ago, we didn't take it too seriously because we were rubbish. We were bowling and out struts this batsman with the full gear on, helmet and everything, no one wore a helmet at under 15's school cricket, of course we took the piss, I was wicket keeper and myself and the slips were giving it to him. I seem to remember he hit every other ball for 4 or 6 and when he finished batting, he bowled the whole team out. He was called Anthony Penberthy (PROPER Cornish name) and went on to have a decent career at County level, Northants I think. 

Needles to say, he had the last laugh.

[Ziltoid]

I'm meeting Geddy Lee a week Monday in Manchester. This tops everything.

[LanceLink!!!!!]

I'm meeting Geddy Lee a week Monday in Manchester. This tops everything.

Only if you lick his hair.

[Ziltoid]

Only if you lick his hair.

Don't think I'll get away with that, although he has a lot.

[Nitramdorf]

I'm meeting Geddy Lee a week Monday in Manchester. This tops everything.

Blimey, that's fantastic. Congratulations. 

May I ask what it's in relation too? His book tour?

[dudleyred]

Not really got one but if had to I’d say playing golf last year with Vince Carter- didn’t have a clue who he was at the start. One for our American sports fans I guess!

[Ziltoid]

Blimey, that's fantastic. Congratulations. 

May I ask what it's in relation too? His book tour?

Yes, already bought the book but now I have to get another. I'm not arsed at all. Cannot wait.

[RedSince86]

When i was living in the States i had Jessie Rogers the porn star on my Xbox friends list for a couple of years, used to play a lot of Black ops 2 and Cod Ghost with her, she was pretty cool and quite funny.

I got her game tag from a Youtube channel i used to subscribe to called ElPresdador, she was on one his videos and mentioned her game tag and she wanted more people to play CoD with so i sent a request and got added.

Someone on Twitter posted her game tag and she used to get leery guys saying all sorts of stuff to her in game lobbies, she eventually quit porn gaming and Twitch and last i heard went to University to study psychology i think in Arizona.

[Daniel Cabbaggio]

Liam Neeson apparently walked my Aunty home from school every day trying to get a piece of action, didn't work tho. Other side of the family knows his mum very well and she is still alive IIRC.

I was in a not so great movie called a Belfast Story, few years back as an extra. As a very non scary Paramilitary/lookout

[evie]

I'm related to a famous polartraveller  He was my grandfather's grandfather. He's even got a part of Svalbard named after him

[Phatz]

I sang in the Philharmonic when I was 12 years old.

[sms1986]

Sir Tom Finney was my second cousin twice removed via my paternal grandad and was probably called Thomas because it's a common name in my dad's family.

[Qston]

My great uncle led the Cockleshell Heroes and raced Sir Francis Chichester across the atlantic for a quid bet

[The Gulleysucker]

My great uncle led the Cockleshell Heroes and raced Sir Francis Chichester across the atlantic for a quid bet

Hasler?

An amazing and very brave man, you should be very proud.

[The Gulleysucker]

I've had the pleasure (and sometimes disappointment) of meeting quite a few either people over my life, either well know at the time or who became so later.

One that sticks out, I can't think why, is below who I had the pleasure of sharing a train journey down to Devon from London one evening almost 30 years ago.

Contrary to expectations, she was actually really nice (showed me her portfolio!) and I believe now works as a Black Cab driver.

[Nitramdorf]

My great uncle led the Cockleshell Heroes and raced Sir Francis Chichester across the atlantic for a quid bet

Thats fantastic mate. A great man. All the best 

[Qston]

Hasler?

An amazing and very brave man, you should be very proud.

I am. I only met him once, just before he died in the late 80's. I was told many stories about him by my grandfather who underplayed his own part as a senior officer in the royal artillery who helped get his men to safety in Crete when the German paras landed.

He hated the film by the way.

[Qston]

Thats fantastic mate. A great man. All the best 

Cheers mate

[The Gulleysucker]

He hated the film by the way.

As a kid I really enjoyed it but I had later read that he was somewhat under impressed with the film.

I think that's true for many of those chaps, those that did extraordinary things like Hasler often remained understated and incredibly modest about their exploits and felt uncomfortable with any portrayal of their heroics, especially Hollywood style glorification stuff.

To them it was simply a job you got on and did and afterwards never gave it a thought that it was brave or heroic but instead they would remember it more with sadness that some of their mates didn't come back.

[Qston]

As a kid I really enjoyed it but I had later read that he was somewhat under impressed with the film.

I think that's true for many of those chaps, those that did extraordinary things like Hasler often remained understated and incredibly modest about their exploits and felt uncomfortable with any portrayal of their heroics, especially Hollywood style glorification stuff.

To them it was simply a job you got on and did and afterwards never gave it a thought that it was brave or heroic but instead they would remember it more with sadness that some of their mates didn't come back.

That's exactly how he saw it. I think they even changed his name in the film at his request. The reality is that I think only two got back, him and Bill Sparks. They had to trek down through to Spain to avoid capture and execution. A fate that some of his men faced.

Men of a different era

There was a very good documentary about it a few years ago which Paddy Ashdown did.

[Sir Capon of Debaser]

My uncle who's Egyptian had 2 of his cousins playing at the World Cup in 1990.

[kavah]

Just a snog he said.

Ha ha

[Sir Capon of Debaser]

2 of my best mates growing up were the sons of the guy who made Black Beauty,What's Good for the Goose starring Norman Wisdom,and the Witchfinder General.

Me and my bro were always round his house and he was a boss fella