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You can watch mine!
CanaryYellow - Black overalls with yellow stripe, fluo yellow helmet.
Chris Van Der Drift - Team NZ overalls (Black&white) Black helmet.
Brendan Hartley - White overalls, black helmet.
Two are professional race drivers, one was a test driver for Toro Rosso F1 2 years ago, one raced for Team New Zealand in A1GP and one is me.
FFWD to 1:20
CanaryYellow - Black overalls with yellow stripe, fluo yellow helmet.
Chris Van Der Drift - Team NZ overalls (Black&white) Black helmet.
Brendan Hartley - White overalls, black helmet.
Two are professional race drivers, one was a test driver for Toro Rosso F1 2 years ago, one raced for Team New Zealand in A1GP and one is me.
FFWD to 1:20
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It was all going so well until 1:37.....CanaryYellow wrote:FFWD to 1:20
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Where was the safety car?
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.....then I became Ron Jeremypa102aw wrote:This was me in 1975
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In the early 80’s I was working in a posh shop in Bond St. Jeremy Beadle came in looking for a pale blue pure silk suit. We didn’t have one, but from really old stock out the back I remembered we had a pale blue 97% viscose 3% silk suit. Viscose and raw silk have a similar look, so I cut out the inside label stating the percentage mix, and came bounding out with a “hear you go.” Luckily it was the size he had asked for (though not the size he was). I managed to get him squeezed into it and with a few adjustments by the tailor the jovial prankster went away happy as Larry.
I wonder if he would have been ‘Game For A Laugh’ if he’d found out?
I wonder if he would have been ‘Game For A Laugh’ if he’d found out?
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it sounds like it was too small for him…. when he held it up to look at it - which hand was he holding it in?
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I was thinking 'where is Tommy Cannon in that picture ?'.Ave a banana wrote:.....then I became Ron Jeremypa102aw wrote:This was me in 1975
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I was thinking Billy Connolly's fat twinRick wrote:I was thinking 'where is Tommy Cannon in that picture ?'.Ave a banana wrote:.....then I became Ron Jeremypa102aw wrote:This was me in 1975
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I modelled myself on Jason King (remember the series)
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That's a cracker.The Woolster wrote: I once bounced on Robbie Coltraine's bed.
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Would've been more impressive if Robbie was still in the bedbloggie wrote:That's a cracker.The Woolster wrote: I once bounced on Robbie Coltraine's bed.
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It might have cracked.
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I'm sure she was male as well..sleuth wrote:pa102aw wrote:In 1976 I shagged the one on the right in a van behind a Disco in Holland where they were playing
Isn't that a geezer Pa??
but whatever floats your boat
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Achiles74 wrote:
I'm sure she was male as well..
but whatever floats your boat
One of the first trans-sexuals?
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Bumped into andy peters at station few months ago. He thought he wouldn't get recognised in the international crowd, but i recognised him. I think he was running from some asian looking america with a camera who was keen on fantasy football.
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It was dark, so maybe it was the one on the leftAchiles74 wrote:I'm sure she was male as well..sleuth wrote:pa102aw wrote:In 1976 I shagged the one on the right in a van behind a Disco in Holland where they were playing
Isn't that a geezer Pa??
but whatever floats your boat
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I probably have a better claim to lame, i have a screenshot of a final result where i beat Van Der Drift (overtook him on the final lap) and have a better fastest lap time too. Not bad considering i was giving him 40kgs and the karts have pokey 200cc engines.
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Baccara was a female vocal duo formed in 1977 by Spanish artists Mayte Mateos (February 7, 1951, Logroño) and María Mendiola (April 4, 1952, Madrid).
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it must have been REALLY dark if you had to double check it now.pa102aw wrote:Baccara was a female vocal duo formed in 1977 by Spanish artists Mayte Mateos (February 7, 1951, Logroño) and María Mendiola (April 4, 1952, Madrid).
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It's not really that lame, but all the same it does involve "meeting a celebrity".
I was at school and we had an activity week at the end of each summer term. I always chose Cricket as that's the only sport I have ever really been any good at.
Anyway, one year we went to Trowbridge to watch the Minor Counties play The West Indies in a one day match. It was pretty much all ruled out due to rain, but I did approach Sir Viv Richards and ask him for his autograph. He patted me on the back and said "later on please". I never did get the autograph....
I believe a couple of my class mates did get Courtney Walsh's though.
I was at school and we had an activity week at the end of each summer term. I always chose Cricket as that's the only sport I have ever really been any good at.
Anyway, one year we went to Trowbridge to watch the Minor Counties play The West Indies in a one day match. It was pretty much all ruled out due to rain, but I did approach Sir Viv Richards and ask him for his autograph. He patted me on the back and said "later on please". I never did get the autograph....
I believe a couple of my class mates did get Courtney Walsh's though.
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I got Viv's autographRicht wrote:It's not really that lame, but all the same it does involve "meeting a celebrity".
I was at school and we had an activity week at the end of each summer term. I always chose Cricket as that's the only sport I have ever really been any good at.
Anyway, one year we went to Trowbridge to watch the Minor Counties play The West Indies in a one day match. It was pretty much all ruled out due to rain, but I did approach Sir Viv Richards and ask him for his autograph. He patted me on the back and said "later on please". I never did get the autograph....
I believe a couple of my class mates did get Courtney Walsh's though.
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At first glance I thought you said " I got Vid's autograph"AKNel1 wrote:I got Viv's autographRicht wrote:It's not really that lame, but all the same it does involve "meeting a celebrity".
I was at school and we had an activity week at the end of each summer term. I always chose Cricket as that's the only sport I have ever really been any good at.
Anyway, one year we went to Trowbridge to watch the Minor Counties play The West Indies in a one day match. It was pretty much all ruled out due to rain, but I did approach Sir Viv Richards and ask him for his autograph. He patted me on the back and said "later on please". I never did get the autograph....
I believe a couple of my class mates did get Courtney Walsh's though.
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pa102aw wrote:From 1974 to 1977 I was the Manager of a Disco in a town in the north of Holland called Groningen. A lot of up and coming groups used to come to my place and I also had a thing going with one of the girls from a Dutch Group called 'Pussycat', who had a big hit with a song called Mississipi (I'll see if I can find a clip)
This was me in 1975
Have you had a gender change Pa? (the nose is the giveaway not to mention the mullett.
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I had a similar experience although not as pleasant.Richt wrote:It's not really that lame, but all the same it does involve "meeting a celebrity".
I was at school and we had an activity week at the end of each summer term. I always chose Cricket as that's the only sport I have ever really been any good at.
Anyway, one year we went to Trowbridge to watch the Minor Counties play The West Indies in a one day match. It was pretty much all ruled out due to rain, but I did approach Sir Viv Richards and ask him for his autograph. He patted me on the back and said "later on please". I never did get the autograph....
I believe a couple of my class mates did get Courtney Walsh's though.
when I was about 14 I went to see a pre season friendly Posh v West Ham.
A couple of friends wanted to see if they could get some of the West Ham players autographs after the match so we waited around the players entrance after. I thought I would join, in and when Bobby Moore walked out approached him. I got a hand off to my face and muttered something under his breath which I didn't quite catch for my troubles as they all hurriedly jumped on the team bus. That was the one and only time I ever bothered trying to get an autograph. Makes me laugh every time people go about what a nice guy Bobby Moore was.
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I went to a Bobby Moore Soccer School one Summer (aged about 10) - I have his autograph tooRick wrote:I had a similar experience although not as pleasant.Richt wrote:It's not really that lame, but all the same it does involve "meeting a celebrity".
I was at school and we had an activity week at the end of each summer term. I always chose Cricket as that's the only sport I have ever really been any good at.
Anyway, one year we went to Trowbridge to watch the Minor Counties play The West Indies in a one day match. It was pretty much all ruled out due to rain, but I did approach Sir Viv Richards and ask him for his autograph. He patted me on the back and said "later on please". I never did get the autograph....
I believe a couple of my class mates did get Courtney Walsh's though.
when I was about 14 I went to see a pre season friendly Posh v West Ham.
A couple of friends wanted to see if they could get some of the West Ham players autographs after the match so we waited around the players entrance after. I thought I would join, in and when Bobby Moore walked out approached him. I got a hand off to my face and muttered something under his breath which I didn't quite catch for my troubles as they all hurriedly jumped on the team bus. That was the one and only time I ever bothered trying to get an autograph. Makes me laugh every time people go about what a nice guy Bobby Moore was.
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If my parents hadn't whisked me off to Peterborough 5 years previous I would probably have known him in that case. Would have probably been in the same team.sleuth wrote:Rick wrote:Yea me and about 600 others .AKNel1 wrote:Rick wrote:3 brushes with Geoff Capes
1) in the late 60's as a teenager was shot putted by him back into the terraces at London road when trying to invade the pitch.
2) In the early 90's stood with him watching our daughters compete at shot put (mine was doing it as she wanted a go at the pentathlon, his was the best in the area) where he gave us some good tips.
3) a couple of weeks later was at the Cambs. county champs watched him and his daughter sit down on the same side of a bench picnic table type thing for the whole thing to tip over as they went flying. We were the only other people there at the time and had to suppress the laughter as he was not amused . Muttered something about suing them
Ran against Steve Ovett and Seb Coe in the same race. The only time they had met before Moscow.
Wonder who'll play you in the movie
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/others ... inner.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
It was in the 1972 All England Cross Country Championships in Hillingdon. I wouldn't have known either of them were in the same race but I kept the programme, which lists all the competitors. When they became famous in the late 70's I realised they were both a similar age to me looked in the programme and sure enough there they both were. From memory Ovett running for Sussex and Coe for Yorkshire (I think) both were down as the 2nd on their lists which means neither won their county champs (i think they were in the order they finished their county champs - ours was anyway). I have later found out that Ovett finished 2nd and Coe 10th. . Wonder what happened to the guy who won. (wasn't me I finished about 294th).
Actually answered my own question. http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/olym ... 08507.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Think my mate might of won that a certain James Murray Smith from Hendon it was around that time ist year at senior school.
I was the cross country captain at senior school but James was a better runner than me and went on to run in Belgium finishing i think 6th in the world cross country for youths at the time.
After Googling it seems James was not ist- Maybe he was 6th in this race and then ist in Belgium im sure he won one or other.
i even googled his name as i remember he had very squinty eyes and found him on google he is today a top barrister
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Lots of quite famous people mentioned in this thread.
These are really CtFs not CtLs. Sorry to be so pedantic - but them is the rules.
The winner is CanaryYellow with Christopher Jason van der Drift.
I've googled Chris (to find his 'real' name) and I reckon he is really Chris Van Der Crash.
Seriously - I hope he is ok - that was one hell of a crash:
http://www.3news.co.nz/A1GPs-Van-Der-Dr ... fault.aspx" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Ooops forgot the other driver (who I've never heard of) Brendan Hartley
http://www.brendonhartley.co.nz/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Congrats to Canary for racing with two 'celebs'
These are really CtFs not CtLs. Sorry to be so pedantic - but them is the rules.
The winner is CanaryYellow with Christopher Jason van der Drift.
I've googled Chris (to find his 'real' name) and I reckon he is really Chris Van Der Crash.
Seriously - I hope he is ok - that was one hell of a crash:
http://www.3news.co.nz/A1GPs-Van-Der-Dr ... fault.aspx" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Ooops forgot the other driver (who I've never heard of) Brendan Hartley
http://www.brendonhartley.co.nz/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Congrats to Canary for racing with two 'celebs'
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Pretty much the same piece of tarmac as when Johnny Herbert smashed his ankle up all those years ago.
PS For round 2, how about you name the celebs and we have to come up with our genuine claims to fame about them
PS For round 2, how about you name the celebs and we have to come up with our genuine claims to fame about them
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murf wrote:Pretty much the same piece of tarmac as when Johnny Herbert smashed his ankle up all those years ago.
PS For round 2, how about you name the celebs and we have to come up with our genuine claims to fame about them
Okey dokey. I'll go first with my favourite rock legend - Frederick Bulsara. I was a major Queen fan in the 70's / 80's etc.
Edit - I'll leave in for a day or two to see if anyone has a real CtF about Freddie (or his statue )
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Err, I've seen his statue in Montreux!
(and if your hearing is a bit dodgy you might believe the headbanging to Bo' Rap' in Wayne's World was in "the murfmobile")
(and if your hearing is a bit dodgy you might believe the headbanging to Bo' Rap' in Wayne's World was in "the murfmobile")
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