Anybody Famous For Anything?

[Ivan...]

Come on chaps and chapess's with such a number of members on here, there must be some of you that are famous for something? Doesn't have to be life changing or impressive, just interesting or funny or sad, think you get the gist.

I may well have started this thread to show off! I have a few some better than others, so i will let the few i have out slowly.

I held the world record for performing a wheelie, on an 1980 XR 500, twin shocker for about 2 weeks! 3 miles! Which i thought was impressive, then some crazy Fin or Swede, came along and did 144 Miles! Around a track and only stopped as he ran out of fuel!

I retired gracefully.

Ivan...

Over to you guys, come on!

 

[Ecoman]

I was in the film Memphis Belle as an extra. You only see my face once and its so distant and blurry that you can't even tell its me!

 

[mountainm]

I dj'd a warmup set for Judge Jules way back in the day.

 

[Dave-the-rave]

I'm a legend in my own mind.

 

[Ivan...]

Brilliant! Thats the idea, keep em coming.

Ok, my next one, i got slapped around the face by Gareth Hunt (blooming great man) he came into my bookies for a bet and i took the mickey out of his Nescafe ad, you can imagine my hand gesture (you know shake the beans) he did not like it one bit!

Ivan...

Loads more to come!

 

[shaggystu]

Not so much a claim to fame as a brush with fame.

I was walking through Durham city centre once as the filming for the first Harry Potter was taking place, I walked round the corner of one of the libraries up near the cathedral (law library I think), and straight into Robbie Coltrane in full Hagrid get-up. He's a big chap, I'm not, I bounced off and landed on my ****, he laughed heartily

 

[Ecoman]

Not me but my Dad (Dave Beeton) was the rocket expert on Richard Hammonds Engineering Connections.

[video=youtube;WiJnINPInbg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiJnINPInbg[/video]

 

[petrochemicals]

the great birmingham run is LIVE on channel 5 right now, you might see a drunk on the pavement around the city centre, that's me !

 

[treadlightly]

I once played a dead Redcoat at Culloden in a film about the 1745 Jacobite rebellion. It's hard playing dead especially on a freezing Scottish moor. No obvious breathing and certainly no shivering allowed!

 

[Dave-the-rave]

Well this isn't a claim to fame really but...once upon a time I nicked a load of champagne off Prince Charles. I was walking out as he walked in, the lid blew off the bin and he looked at the contents, looked at me and just walked on saying nothing. It was good stuff too.

 

[dwardo]

I used to look after the computers for a few Manchester united players. Not being into football some of the other lads conned me into asking them which position they played for Liverpool. That didnt go down well.

 

[Biker]

I met John Fenna twice and lived to tell the tale.

 

[wingstoo]

My first wife and I were the founders of only the second officially recognised childrens cemetery in the UK, I wish we hadn't had too but we did...

 

[John Fenna]

I was the very first pupil enroled in the British School of Brussels...

 

[Mesquite]

I was the very first pupil enroled in the British School of Brussels...

Way back when your were just a sprout

 

[widu13]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blC_D2-v6c4

 

[Harvestman]

I discovered a new species of harvestman to the UK, and got on radio 4 to tell of it.

I also famously mis-identified a common spider as something rare and the Countryside Council for Wales spent a lot of time and money on surveys trying to find the rarity as a result, without success, as it wasn't there.

 

[Harvestman]

I met John Fenna twice and lived to tell the tale.

Surely you are famous as the inventor of Bushcraft Betty.

 

[Ivan...]

Nicely done lads, knew you wouldn't let us down, some interesting tales there, and more to come no doubt.

My next one, not sure of the year, 87 i think, i am responsble for nets of logs on garage forecourts, i started put split logs in swede nets , as they have to breathe, or go mouldy, and joe public likes to see the product.

Was told flatly by Esso, Shell and alike that it was a non starter, because it was a fire risk!!! Anyway i was contacted by a company calld BFL, (British Fuels Linmited) And the rest is history as they say, their first order was for 10,000 nets! Me and 2 members of staff in my little yard!

A good man could net 200 a day, but they snagged on the netting, and it killed your fingers and knuckles, anyway i sold the contract for(ooh can't remember what i told the taxman) And was glad to see the back of that old job.

Multi million pound business now!

Ivan...

 

[mountainm]

I cancelled an interview with tori amos and had lunch with atomic kitten.