| What's your claim to fame? 09:05 - Mar 18 with 25168 views | W13R |
Right, a bit of lighted fun in these testing times.
Mine is, performed twice at The Royal Albert Hall.
First time around I sang a solo to a full house. |  | | |  |
| What's your claim to fame? on 21:19 - Mar 20 with 2130 views | bosh67 |
Wrote the original short stories that were licensed by movie studios to eventually become the films, Event Horizon and Bad Santa. One paid for my wedding and our home. The other paid for my divorce.
Dated some quality well-known women over the years. |  |
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| What's your claim to fame? on 22:56 - Mar 20 with 2099 views | MoonshineSteve |
| What's your claim to fame? on 21:19 - Mar 20 by bosh67 |
Wrote the original short stories that were licensed by movie studios to eventually become the films, Event Horizon and Bad Santa. One paid for my wedding and our home. The other paid for my divorce.
Dated some quality well-known women over the years. |
Quality women? |  |
| I am still Steve but no longer in Dagenham. |
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| What's your claim to fame? on 23:05 - Mar 20 with 2084 views | bosh67 |
| What's your claim to fame? on 22:56 - Mar 20 by MoonshineSteve |
Quality women? |
er... yeaaaahhhhhhh! Not for long, but long enough.
One well known British singer
One formerly well known British actress
One well known French actress.
All three really lovely and saw right through me! | |
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| What's your claim to fame? on 23:50 - Mar 20 with 2047 views | 2Thomas2Bowles |
I'm pretty sure I'm the only guy to get a BJ in the toilets of the two brewers Clapham from a real woman.
YES she was a real woman |  |
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| What's your claim to fame? on 00:05 - Mar 21 with 2025 views | Boston |
| What's your claim to fame? on 23:50 - Mar 20 by 2Thomas2Bowles |
I'm pretty sure I'm the only guy to get a BJ in the toilets of the two brewers Clapham from a real woman.
YES she was a real woman |
Probably my ex. |  |
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| What's your claim to fame? on 00:07 - Mar 21 with 2020 views | Boston |
| What's your claim to fame? on 00:05 - Mar 21 by Boston |
Probably my ex. |
...girlfriend that is. She lived close by. | |
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| What's your claim to fame? on 00:07 - Mar 21 with 2029 views | timcocking |
How about the time 'FHM' awarded my bacon roll the title of 'best Manwich* in Britain''?
Obviously, their choice of word there not mine. |  | | |
| What's your claim to fame? on 00:57 - Mar 21 with 2027 views | DannyPaddox |
| What's your claim to fame? on 13:17 - Mar 20 by MrSheen |
My sister gave the Marquess of Blandford methadone when he was in Pentonville. |
If this was the beginning of a short-story I’d carry on reading. |  | | |
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| What's your claim to fame? on 07:46 - Mar 21 with 1949 views | qprxtc |
I told Phil Jupitus that Orient are shit. I should have told Bob Mills. Either way it wasn’t funny. |  | | |
| What's your claim to fame? on 08:06 - Mar 21 with 1931 views | distortR |
| What's your claim to fame? on 07:46 - Mar 21 by qprxtc |
I told Phil Jupitus that Orient are shit. I should have told Bob Mills. Either way it wasn’t funny. |
yeah, i drunkenly assailed Laurie McMenemy (?), when he was in the England set up, arm round his shoulders belligerently demanding he call up Gary Thompson.
And I didn't even like Gary Thompson. | | | |
| What's your claim to fame? on 08:09 - Mar 21 with 1928 views | distortR |
| What's your claim to fame? on 21:19 - Mar 20 by bosh67 |
Wrote the original short stories that were licensed by movie studios to eventually become the films, Event Horizon and Bad Santa. One paid for my wedding and our home. The other paid for my divorce.
Dated some quality well-known women over the years. |
the dating quality women bit isn't a claim to fame mate, it's just really bloody annoying.
If the French woman was the one from betty blue i'm putting you on ignore for ever and a day. | | | |
| What's your claim to fame? on 08:10 - Mar 21 with 1926 views | qprxtc |
| What's your claim to fame? on 00:57 - Mar 21 by DannyPaddox |
If this was the beginning of a short-story I’d carry on reading. |
The very definition of pithy. | | | |
| What's your claim to fame? on 08:11 - Mar 21 with 1924 views | qprxtc |
| What's your claim to fame? on 08:06 - Mar 21 by distortR |
yeah, i drunkenly assailed Laurie McMenemy (?), when he was in the England set up, arm round his shoulders belligerently demanding he call up Gary Thompson.
And I didn't even like Gary Thompson. |
The very definition of drunkenly. | | | |
| What's your claim to fame? on 09:18 - Mar 21 with 1888 views | eastside_r |
As this has somewhat moved away from the OP request for 'light-hearted', I will stick my oar in.
I once had lunch with the Las Vegas spree killer, Stephen Paddock. |  | | |
| What's your claim to fame? on 09:34 - Mar 21 with 1848 views | 2Thomas2Bowles |
| What's your claim to fame? on 00:07 - Mar 21 by Boston |
...girlfriend that is. She lived close by. |
I guess the only way to know, does she spit or swallow... | |
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| What's your claim to fame? on 09:39 - Mar 21 with 1844 views | DylanP |
Madness used to practice in my house. The first time they were on Top of the Pops, they all came round to watch on our tele. The video for their song "Our House" was filmed in our street.
I once shook the Queen's hand. It was Silver Jubilee year and she was visiting Queens Park to walk around and mix with the commoners. We were al behind a rope waving flags and when she came up to where we were I popped out in front of her and stuck my had out. If you did that these days you'd get shot.
Full on met Dave Clement. My Mum was head mistress of a local high school (Quinton Kynaston in Swiss Cottage) and they had a school fair and he came along. Hung out with him for quite a while before and during the proceedings. Got a polaroid of the two of us out of it.
Was good friends with Mark Stein in high school. He later played for QPR. |  |
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| What's your claim to fame? on 10:15 - Mar 21 with 1828 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
| What's your claim to fame? on 09:39 - Mar 21 by DylanP |
Madness used to practice in my house. The first time they were on Top of the Pops, they all came round to watch on our tele. The video for their song "Our House" was filmed in our street.
I once shook the Queen's hand. It was Silver Jubilee year and she was visiting Queens Park to walk around and mix with the commoners. We were al behind a rope waving flags and when she came up to where we were I popped out in front of her and stuck my had out. If you did that these days you'd get shot.
Full on met Dave Clement. My Mum was head mistress of a local high school (Quinton Kynaston in Swiss Cottage) and they had a school fair and he came along. Hung out with him for quite a while before and during the proceedings. Got a polaroid of the two of us out of it.
Was good friends with Mark Stein in high school. He later played for QPR. |
I lived near QP growing up. I nearly went to Quinton Kyneston as well. Was rough as fck in the 90s! Fair play to your Mum. [Post edited 21 Mar 2020 10:16]
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| What's your claim to fame? on 10:32 - Mar 21 with 1819 views | wood_hoop |
Not so much a claim to fame but met many of film and tv fame in the early seventies as I worked for a very large theatrical agents in Mayfair when but a mere slip of a lad (15 years old).
Used to run around with scripts etc to their houses or hotels, met so many and thought nothing of it at the time.
Peter Cooke of Pete & Dud fame, had a pad in Ladbroke Grove
Chris Lee (Dracula)
Peter Wyngarde ( Jason King tv) used to be hordes of pretty girls outside the office waiting for him, none realising he was supposedly gay.
Rex Harrison ( Dr Doolittle) had a place in Belgarvia
Telly Savalas ( Kojak) really nice man
Britt Ekland, lived in Mayfair had a black mini which was a gift from Peter Sellars.
Peter Sellars, was staying at the Playboy Club in Park Lane, had to take some stuff to him and once walked down the road with a 'Bunny Girl' my word, my eyes were on stalks and cars tooting their horns at the sight of a small pimply youth with this beautiful goddess in the full bunny regalia.
Britt Ekland I once took some scripts to at her flat and could not understand why she was wearing a fur jacket when answering the door at the height of the summer, her agent laughing when I returned to the office told me she was butt naked underneath as she was having a massage when I called and grabbed the nearest thing to hand to cover her modesty.
Met many more but enough in my list to bore the arse off you for know. |  | | |
| What's your claim to fame? on 10:40 - Mar 21 with 1789 views | 2Thomas2Bowles |
Oh, I just remembered, it is a long time ago.
I use to drive Bronski beat around when they were just getting to be known 84/85 and living off Camberwell Rd.
I think that's why I was in the Two Brewers. [Post edited 21 Mar 2020 10:44]
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| What's your claim to fame? on 10:57 - Mar 21 with 1770 views | TacticalR |
| What's your claim to fame? on 09:18 - Mar 21 by eastside_r |
As this has somewhat moved away from the OP request for 'light-hearted', I will stick my oar in.
I once had lunch with the Las Vegas spree killer, Stephen Paddock. |
Was that in Las Vegas?
Reporter Greg Palast was at school with Paddock:
The Las Vegas Shooter, Two Years Later
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-las-vegas-shooter-two-years-later/ |  |
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| What's your claim to fame? on 12:08 - Mar 21 with 1729 views | Boston |
| What's your claim to fame? on 09:18 - Mar 21 by eastside_r |
As this has somewhat moved away from the OP request for 'light-hearted', I will stick my oar in.
I once had lunch with the Las Vegas spree killer, Stephen Paddock. |
I’m convinced he was bi-polar, there was definitely an east and west paddock. | |
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| What's your claim to fame? on 12:10 - Mar 21 with 1728 views | Boston |
| What's your claim to fame? on 14:16 - Mar 20 by Mick_S |
Just thought of another one - my Father in Law taught JRR Tolkien's son many, many years ago and was given a signed copy of The Lord of the Rings, which he promptly lost. Bugger. |
Was the ‘bugger’ because dad taught in a Public School? | |
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| What's your claim to fame? on 13:29 - Mar 21 with 1702 views | eastside_r |
No not in Vegas. On a cruise (ship) a couple of years before. | | | |
| What's your claim to fame? on 13:46 - Mar 21 with 1672 views | Boston |
| What's your claim to fame? on 09:34 - Mar 21 by 2Thomas2Bowles |
I guess the only way to know, does she spit or swallow... |
One swallow does not make a summer. | |
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| What's your claim to fame? on 14:48 - Mar 21 with 1641 views | Juzzie |
| What's your claim to fame? on 10:15 - Mar 21 by BazzaInTheLoft |
I lived near QP growing up. I nearly went to Quinton Kyneston as well. Was rough as fck in the 90s! Fair play to your Mum. [Post edited 21 Mar 2020 10:16]
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I went to QK from 78 to 84. Suggs left i think just as i joined.
Talking of Madness, i missed out on being In the Baggy Trousers video (song was based on QK though applied to all Secondary schools really) as my best friend’s older brother was Chalky of Chalky & Toks (the roadies). My mate was in the video at exactly 1:00 kicking a can as he walks along.
My claim to fame? Met sir Les at the Brits mid 90’s and before then, if any of you out there bought NFL replica jersey that were popular mid 80’s, i worked for the company that made the silk screen ink and the Miami Dolphins orange ink was my creation. I was only 17 and had been at the company a few weeks. God knows how I managed it as my boss was on paternity leave and I was running the ink lab on my own (supervised, but mainly going it alone). Seventeen! |  | | |
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