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    Claim to Fame

    Does anyone have any famous connections that they aren't too ashamed to admit to?
    My claims to fame are:
    1) Gregory Peck (actor) - Apparently he is(was) some cousin or other. My dad's mum's maiden name was Peck. Gregory's Dad was a cousin or second cousin or something; a bit vague I know but I was small when the family was discussing it.
    2) Simon O'Brien (actor/presenter) - I went to Primary and Secondary school with him, was in most classes with him, not a proper friend as such but definitely amongst the 'known first hand' people.

    “If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.”

    "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Charles Churchill : A dog will look up on you; a cat will look down on you; however, a pig will see you eye to eye and know it has found an equal
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    My Father knew Lloyd George.
    The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years.
    Brian Clough

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    • #3
      Originally posted by bubblewrap View Post
      My Father knew Lloyd George.
      Amazing, what a coicidence - Lloyd George knew my father too.
      A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot! (Thomas Edward Brown)

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      • #4
        Originally posted by scarey55 View Post
        Amazing, what a coicidence - Lloyd George knew my father too.
        Not related are we????
        The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years.
        Brian Clough

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        • #5
          Originally posted by bubblewrap View Post
          Not related are we????
          Hang on, I'll ask me Dad
          A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot! (Thomas Edward Brown)

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          • #6
            I was supposed to go to school with Anthony Nolan he never made it

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            • #7
              I use to go out with "Brian Glovers" nephew.

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                My Uncle knew Harold Larwood...............Honest
                The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years.
                Brian Clough

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                • #9
                  Just remembered:
                  Ray Lambert (footballer) was good friend of my aunt and uncle and was their best man. My uncle was also his best man.

                  “If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.”

                  "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." Ralph Waldo Emerson

                  Charles Churchill : A dog will look up on you; a cat will look down on you; however, a pig will see you eye to eye and know it has found an equal
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                  • #10
                    my great, great uncle Jimmy Brain is the second highest goal scorer for a single season for Arsenal, he played for them from 1923 till 1931 and scored 39 in 1925-6.

                    Jimmy Brain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

                    my dad went to school with Bergerac (?sp.)
                    Kernow rag nevra

                    Some people feel the rain, others just get wet.
                    Bob Dylan

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                    • #11
                      I once did the sound system for a Cliff Richard do
                      Family motto "semper in excretum"

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                      • #12
                        I once walked past Russ Abbot in the street! Yeah really

                        He's tall!
                        Last edited by Glutton4...; 07-11-2009, 11:22 PM.
                        All the best - Glutton 4 Punishment
                        Freelance shrub butcher and weed removal operative.

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                          I once met Mick Jagger in Dublin, was too young to have any idea who he was.
                          Also met Chris Akabusi, Nick Gillingham (Gold medalist swimmer), Roger Cook (of the Cook Report), and last saturday night I kicked the international professional poker player Dave 'Devilfish' Ulliot in the shin, he was not a happy chap.
                          I'm also related to the Lord Mayor of the City of London (Not Boris Johnson, the other one)
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                          Snadger - Director of Poetry
                          RedThorn - Chief Interrobang Officer
                          Pumpkin Becki - Head of Dremel Multi-Tool Sales & Marketing and Management Support
                          Jeanied - Olliecentric Eulogy Minister
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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by OllieMartin View Post
                            I'm also related to the Lord Mayor of the City of London (Not Boris Johnson, the other one)
                            Dick Whittington?

                            “If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.”

                            "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." Ralph Waldo Emerson

                            Charles Churchill : A dog will look up on you; a cat will look down on you; however, a pig will see you eye to eye and know it has found an equal
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                              Had dinner with my hero Sir Steve Redgrave a few years ago.

                              Lent the actress Emily Lloyd my pen in a pub just round the corner from the passport office in London about 20 years ago.

                              Met Douglas Adams.

                              Had a conversation with Rick Wakeman at the luggage carousel in Atlanta airport.

                              Was treated by the same physio who had treated Linford Christie (very embarassing, don't ask ).

                              Flew on the first ever BA 757 flight and still have the cert to prove it (how sad am I?).

                              Had a very short conversation with Jean Jacques Burnel, the bassist in the Stranglers (I was working security when they played at my University, he walked up to me and said "where's the bog" and I pointed him in the right direction).

                              My OH's brothers dog is in the Guinness book of records for having the loudest bark.
                              There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that understand binary and those that don't.

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