On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Peter Miller and/or Arantxa Ubieta wrote:
superbob wrote:
what's everyone's claim to fame?
i'll start.
I once saw Terry Scott (of Curlywurlyfame) eating an ice cream in Bournemouth. I think he was pissed.
OK. 1. I once had a video camera pointed at me in some football stadium in Spain next to Johan Cruyff - I felt such an arse as I was dressed in an identical striped shirt to my two brothers (younger and older, now leading executives in Ford and Mitsubishi respectively). I think we were supposed to look "cute" and were told we were going on Dutch television. I didn't know and don't know anything about football so I probably even spelled his name wrong. 2. I got Tom O'Connor's autograph in Upton Village on the Wirral when I was 8. He was opening a record shop. 3. My gay buddhist friend in Newcastle lives next door to someone from The Bill. We nicked a twig from her garden. 4. My girlfriend Linda saw Robin Cook with his wife in the Loon Fung restaurant in Edinburgh. He didn't look very happy apparently. 5. I know Peter Miller. 6. I had a chat with Patrick Moore in an observatory in La Palma, in the Canaries. He called me "young chap" and "my boy" a lot. I was about 24. 7. In a pub in Dublin last year Linda and I saw Father Ted run in, clutching a mobile phone, look round in a panic and run out. This 30 minutes after Lucian from The Liver Birds had sat drinking at the bar. Now for goodness sake let's dispense with these irrelevancies and get on with the list. Sniff. Paul mailto:owner-sinister@majordomo.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------