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How tenuous are your connections to the rich and famous?
Orcus Posted Oct 31, 2002
Didn't John Noakes have Shep? 
John Craven was the geezer who did Newsround and now does Countryfile...
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sprout Posted Oct 31, 2002
That's right - what I meant was maybe John Craven would have been happier if he had had a dog like Shep to walk round the country with 
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IctoanAWEWawi Posted Oct 31, 2002
"Didn't John Noakes have Shep?"
That's quite a serious allegation, Orcus, even for a blue peter presenter!
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Orcus Posted Oct 31, 2002
Well he did work with Peter Pervert
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sprout Posted Oct 31, 2002
Maybe that's how the garden got trashed - chasing Shep around and around 
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Orcus Posted Oct 31, 2002
You'll have to ask Les Ferdinand about that 
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julyflower Posted Oct 31, 2002
My brother in law is Vic Reeves' cousin!
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The Snockerty Friddle Posted Oct 31, 2002
Sam Brown once said she liked my bike.
TSF
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Just Bob aka Robert Thompson, plugging my film blog cinemainferno-blog.blogspot.co.uk Posted Oct 31, 2002
Surely if your brother-in-law is Vic Reeves' cousin then so is your husband (wife?)...
My cousin did a course last year with the Royal Shakespeare Company. She met Judi Dench, Kenneth Branagh, and had a drink with Anthony Hopkins. Apparently he likes to be called Tony and he tried to hit on her!
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egon Posted Oct 31, 2002
unless brother-in-law is being used to refer to spouse's sister's husband or just sister's husband.
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julyflower Posted Oct 31, 2002
my sister Val's husband is 1st cousin to him (vic reeves)
Sister Val and her husband have a daughter Alice, same name as Vic's daughter. Val and hubby went to his wedding to Sarah (the one who went off with a builder then another woman) how exciting is this??
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Chronicargonaut Posted Oct 31, 2002
I've met Tom Baker at a book signing, and even weirder, met Nicol Williamson (Excalibur) in a Laundry/Library on Holiday abroad last month.
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julyflower Posted Oct 31, 2002
A combined laundry/library, what a good idea
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egon Posted Oct 31, 2002
Get your washing done and read some quality fictio simultaneoously.
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Chronicargonaut Posted Oct 31, 2002
Yeah, it was a great little hideaway, and the lady who ran it was nice.
My wife and I on the odd occasion when we felt a bit rebellious we named it the Librette. Oh, wild, crazy days!
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ali1kinobe Posted Oct 31, 2002
My tenuous claim to fame is my dad was in the proffesional wrestling circuit with the likes of Jimmy Saville and pat roach
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Orcus Posted Oct 31, 2002
Jimmy Saville was a wrestler?
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Trout Montague Posted Oct 31, 2002
I beat Jimmy Saville in the Cardiff marathon
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Captain Kebab Posted Oct 31, 2002
Yeah, Jimmy Saville WAS a wrestler.
I learned only today that a colleague at work used to attend the same church as Johnny Vegas.
And another colleague informed me in the same conversation (oh what rarified circles I move in) that his parents had once had a conversation with Kelsey Grammer.
I used to work as an AA Patrol in the late 1970s, and I once attended Marti Caine's broken down car. It was a loose connection. She was a bit stroppy about being kept waiting and said, 'Do you know who I am?' I didn't. Had to ask my mum when I got home.
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Just Bob aka Robert Thompson, plugging my film blog cinemainferno-blog.blogspot.co.uk Posted Oct 31, 2002
Didn't you know, Orcus? It's one of those well-known little-known trivia facts.
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