The Lame Claim to Fame Claim

[jeremyp]

This is inspired by Alan Burns' Nostalgic Fortran thread.

My brother used to have a web site called "Lame Claim to Fame". Members would post their lame claims to fame in the form of celebrities with whom they had a connection and everybody would vote on them. Points were awarded based on the lameness of the celebrity and the tenuousness of the connection.

So for example, my brother's Lame Claim to Fame was that as a small child on a family outing to climb Ben Nevis, we met Jimmy Savile coming the other way doing a charity hit-a-golf-ball-up-a-mountain-and-back-again-athon and Jimmy Savile patted him on the head.

My brother thought that was a pretty good score, but it was bested by my lame claim to fame which was that as a small child on a family outing to climb Ben Nevis, we met Jimmy Savile coming the other way doing a charity hit-a-golf-ball-up-a-mountain-and-back-again-athon and Jimmy Savile patted my brother on the head. I outpointed him because my claim was one more step removed from his.

My other lame claim to fame is that when I was a teenager, I cycled to my friend's house and got a puncture on the way. While I was examining my bike trying to decide what to do, Harry Worth came out of his house and offered to lend me a bicycle pump.

So, let's hear your lame claims to fame.

[Nearly Sane]

I take it then that if your friend whose house you were cycling to wetepisting bete then he would beat you be abuse I presumeyoh told him?


On that line s friend of mine used to sell door to door cleaning fluids and came to the pub one night very excited that that day he had knocked in the door of Billy Connolly's house in Drymen, and been told that they weren't buying anything by Billy Connolly's daughter.

[jeremyp]

I take it then that if your friend whose house you were cycling to wetepisting bete then he would beat you be abuse I presumeyoh told him?

Ummm....

On that line s friend of mine used to sell door to door cleaning fluids and came to the pub one night very excited that that day he had knocked in the door of Billy Connolly's house in Drymen, and been told that they weren't buying anything by Billy Connolly's daughter.

That's a good one.

[Nearly Sane]

Ummm....
That's a good one.

sorry went all Stanley Unwin there as posting before tablet dies. 

I take it then that if your friend whose house you were cycling to was posting here then he would beat you because I presume you told him?

[Sebastian Toe]

My lame claim to fame is that someone, who was a mutual member of an internet forum I frequented, as a small child on a family outing to climb Ben Nevis, the family met Jimmy Savile coming the other way doing a charity hit-a-golf-ball-up-a-mountain-and-back-again-athon and Jimmy Savile patted his brother on the head.

 

[Shaker]

I think I can out-lame the lamest here.

I stood in the queue behind Kevin Keegan* in a kitchenware shop in Leicester's Shires (now the Highcross) years ago.

I am unable to report what pans/utensils he was buying.

*Tennis player of some sort?

[Rhiannon]

I can outdo any lameness so far (random encounters with sports stars and various others don't count, I once shared an airport lounge with Judith Chalmers.)

I went to the same technical college as the members of the group 5 Star. Not actually at the same time, but I only missed them by a year or two.

[Shaker]

I went to school with a murderer but I suppose that's not quite in the lame category as such, is it?

I went to the same technical college as the members of the group 5 Star. Not actually at the same time, but I only missed them by a year or two.

So what you're saying is you were in the same postcode area as some famous people, except when they weren't famous.

I need a drink.

[Rhiannon]

I went to school with a murderer but I suppose that's not quite in the lame category as such, is it?
So what you're saying is you were in the same postcode area as some famous people, except when they weren't famous.

I need a drink.

Ok.

I once bought chips from Stacey Solomon's dad.

[Sebastian Toe]

I need a drink.

I once had a drink with the Rhinestone cowboy. Well when I say had a drink, I was in the same pub. But it was at the same time.

[Robbie]

I was in the same supermarket as Alex Walkinshaw who played 'Smithy' in the Bill and is now 'Fletch' in Holby. I didn't see him but the girl at the check out told me he was there.

[Shaker]

My dad got a ride in the car (actual one - now probably in a museum somewhere*) used in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

* Apparently not: it's owned by Peter Jackson. Amaze your friends.

[Nearly Sane]

I was in the same supermarket as Alex Walkinshaw who played 'Smithy' in the Bill and is now 'Fletch' in Holby. I didn't see him but the girl at the check out told me he was there.

That's good.

[jeremyp]

sorry went all Stanley Unwin there as posting before tablet dies. 

I take it then that if your friend whose house you were cycling to was posting here then he would beat you because I presume you told him?

No I didn't, but several of my friends know they have a friend who Harry Worth offered a bicycle pump to.

[jeremyp]

My mother taught maths to Martin Bayfield and one of her friends taught him how to play Rugby.

[Sebastian Toe]

My mum used to go out with John White the footballer before he went down to London to join Spurs.

[floo]

I don't understand why some people think it is a claim to fame if they have met people in the public eye. I have met quite a number over the years, it is no big deal. They are just human like the rest of us, warts and all.

[Nearly Sane]

I am a member of a message board where a fellow member has met quite a number of people in the public eye.

[Enki]

I know a person whose friend had a son whose Dad had seen Elvis Presley live in Las Vegas.

[Sebastian Toe]

I am a member of a message board where a fellow member has met quite a number of people in the public eye.

Me too. Isn't it a small world?

[floo]

OK my lamest claim to fame, which still makes me giggle, was when at the age of ten I was sitting in the car with my mother and sisters on the pier of my home island. My sister, then five, was sitting on the potty in the back of the car when Prince Philip, on a walk about from the main Royal party who were visiting the island, stuck his head through the car window. My Mum nearly died of embarrassment.

[Sebastian Toe]

OK my lamest claim to fame, which still makes me giggle, was when at the age of ten I was sitting in the car with my mother and sisters on the pier of my home island. My sister, then five, was sitting on the potty in the back of the car when Prince Philip, on a walk about from the main Royal party who were visiting the island, stuck his head through the car window. My Mum nearly died of embarrassment.

No wonder.
Who in their right mind would want to be seen with Prince Philip?!
 

[floo]

No wonder.
Who in their right mind would want to be seen with Prince Philip?!
 

He is no so bad, my father got on extremely well with him at a private dinner to which my parents were invited by the Royal couple in the early 90s.

[Walt Zingmatilder]

I got spoken to by Barry Cryer for giving him the wrong change.

[Andy]

A friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend is friends with Kevin Bacon.