h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hmmm, I swear I posted about the program earlier. Anyway,he was a doctor and a contemporary dancer, my father is traditional Chinese and he didnt really approve, saying he should work on his doctoring and all that. I feature as a 8 year old in a shellsuit!!!

Hes given up the dancing now to become a GP though.

I've just met Lord Killearn and Sir Malcolm Bates. I'm sure you're all as excited as I am.

Liam.

Who are they?

Craig, the original winner of big brother, went to my ihgh school (he left before I started though).

My mum's cousin presents a program on discovery about steam trains and married Sophie Aldred (Ace from Dr Who)

My mum and dad once threw Simon Rattle in the showers when he was 16 and playing the drums for the pantomime they where both in.

Sir Malcolm Bates is the Chairman of the board of London Transport, Lord Killearn is a big man in finance. Both satisfy the rich criterion for this thread but obviously not the famous bit

Liam.

If we're talking rich my sister had a conversation with the late Mr Littlewood on freshfield beach...she was 2 at the time but he seemed quite impressed anyway.

One of my very very distant relatives was Tyrone Power, the original Zorro

We once saw Ziggy (the scouser from grange hill) at Lime St Station

Hubby has been in the Times, the Guardian and numerous computer magazines promoting Leonard Cheshire

My school made the front page of the Telegraph while I was in third yr because some idiot stabbed another idiot

Another of my mum's cousins works in the music business and helped the careers of Rick Astley and Steps...luckily he seems to be the kiss of death and as soon as he got involved they split up/stopped recording.

I fainted in the office of our local newspaper...it didn't make the paper though

Oooh I like this game

I catch the train with Mickey 'The Munch' Skinner - scary forward-type England rugby player from the Carling era.

When I say we catch the train together - we catch the same train. We are not together. I would go and talk to him and attempt to catch the train together, but as the point of this thread is tenuous connections that would not be any good, now would it?

Well if we're talking tenuousness and trains here, I think I can play.

Yesterday at Victoria station I saw Chris Eubank getting off of a train from Brighton, then saw Sir Bernard Ingham getting on the same train for the return journey.

I bet there is a connection - it is probably something to do with Bilderberg and 12 foot high lizards.

Well I was just amazed that Eubank was using the train. Obviously he must be suffering from a shortage of the readies these days.

Or he has better things to do than find a parking space in London...it's hard enough with a disabled badge never mind when you aren't allowed to use yellow lines as your own special parking bay

I'm not certain if this connection is tenuous or more direct. When I was a Boy Scout in my youth, I went to a parade in Biloxi, MS, and (directly) shook hands with the astronaut Fred Haise, who was the one who stayed in the Command Module (tenuous) and didn't go to the moon.

Oh, I also managed to catch a glimpse of (Vice) President Bush, Sr., through a window overlooking the tarmac, as I was traveling through Andrews AFB in Virginia. He was boarding Air Force One and I was fiddling with my Pentax SLR and thought, "Should I take a snap? Naw! It's only the Vice-President. Now, if it was President Reagan, I use up some film!" [I think it's called 'hindsight' because it makes you feel like an 'bum'...]

BBB

My dad (formerly a traffic officer at the uni I attended) got to meet former President Gerald Ford in an elevator on campus one time.

Oh! And later, after my dad got promoted to security supervisor, he got to work for a couple of days with the secret service agents who accompanied Hilary Clinton to the university when she spoke there.


Cheers!
Raindawn

Trawling through the backlog of my newly unmoderated old journal entries, I was reminded of this gem...

I was once caught in a traffic jam caused by a lorry operated by the haulage firm belonging to David Coulthard's father.

Now, *that's* fame.

Surely you mean "now that's *tenuous*"?

If you want to look at it that way, I suppose...

I once told Ricky Martin to F*ck Off, he got in my way when I was trying to get into HMV, I thought he was one of them anoying people who hand out crap in the street, only to find out the next day it was Ricky Martin doing a CD promotion.

I've also tried to pull Denise Van Outen in a bar (but failed), but my cousin did go out with an Oz'y soap star - I can't remember her name unfortunatly it wasn't kylie.

Also, my great-grandad was a famous footballer.

Oh, you can't get away with being that vague- *which* famous footballer

I must qualify for Whos Who,

*Saw the actress who plays Nora Batty, shopping in Manchester, TWICE.
*Auntie went to school with Anne Robinson.
*Dad met a drunken Richard Branson.
*Raved next to Prince Naseem in the Hacienda, Manchester.
*Took Kenny Bakers sons old job.
*Step sisters gran lived in the flat next to Keith Moon.
*My grandma (like every other female scouser) claims to have sat next to Pete Best on the bus.

SCHEME (I am availiable for supermarket openings)

Last night I drank a lot of cognac with a Norweigan who used to mark Spurs player Steffen Iversen during youth football tournaments.