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How tenuous are your connections to the rich and famous?
~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum Posted Mar 23, 2001
I gotta lotta online friends in the Uk and tha's where the Beatles were from. They are the group Paul was in before Wings!
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~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum Posted Apr 7, 2001
There are some threads where it is really cool to have the last word. And then there's this one ..I feel so humiliated!
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magrat Posted Apr 8, 2001
I once knew a girl whose cousin's friend was brothers with a guy who was in Muriel's Wedding...
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magrat Posted Apr 8, 2001
no last word for you! 
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Bright Blue Shorts Posted Apr 9, 2001
Or you ....
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Abi Posted Apr 9, 2001
My stepfather makes sausages for such luminaries as Henry Cooper, Gloria Hunniford, Adam Faith and Richard Stilgoe...
What a guy! :-0
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~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum Posted Apr 9, 2001
Adam Faith likes sausages..? Are you sure he actually eats them?
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Zak T Duck Posted Apr 10, 2001
Henry Cooper is a third rate talk show host on channel 5 in the UK, and Gloria Hunniford is a former heavyweight boxer. 
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~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum Posted Apr 10, 2001
And Adam Faith is ...arrgh! I thought y'meant Adam Ant, sorry. So who's Adam Faith?
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Hurtenflurst Posted Apr 10, 2001
I played tennis against Andy Fairweather-Low (he's no Pete sampras but he's not bad) a few years ago! He used to play for the Macintosh club in Cardiff - dunno if he's still there.
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Hurtenflurst Posted Apr 10, 2001
.......Oh! AND my father's step-sister is married to a cousin of Chris de Burgh's wife (the lady in red herself)! Aren't you glad I shared that with you?!
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Hooloovoo Posted Apr 10, 2001
One of my friends old school teachers was Frank Skinner.
Hooloovoo
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Apr 11, 2001
My wife's friend's best friend's husband is Bono of U2.
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Apr 11, 2001
My best friend once mistook Colm Meaney (O'Brien from Star Trek) for a close acquaintance and engaged him in conversation.
I knew a bloke who met the Pope.
I sang a song for the President of Ireland, Mary Robinson (now High Commissioner for Human Rights).
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Apr 11, 2001
I know a bloke who worked as resident engineer on a plane used by Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II of the UK. This guy was a Welsh Nationalist and nearly caused an "incident" when he was told to serve canapés to the Queen.
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Jeremy (trying to find his way back to dinner) Posted Apr 11, 2001
Last year in july the legendary Mr James Brown ("Sex Machine, "I feel good", ...) wanted to have the t-shirt I wore when I worked at a festival. I gave it to him, but I'm afraid he never actually wore it ...
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You can call me TC Posted Apr 11, 2001
Do you think he washed it?
My Mum worked for the Jockey Club in Newmarket up until she retired and they had Lords and all sorts coming in and out all the time.
One of her favourites was King Hussein of Jordan.
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Jeremy (trying to find his way back to dinner) Posted Apr 11, 2001
One thing that is not really a 'connection':
Some years ago I guided a group of German and Italian teenagers to Salzburg. When we walked though the town we were suddenly urged aside by some security staff. The reason was that the Dalai Lama visited the town the very same day. He was no more than a couple of yards away.
I must say that I was very impressed. He really has some kind of aura around him (even more that the Pope has, imho).
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Apr 11, 2001
Did the security staff push and kick? I like the idea of the Dalai Lama being ushered through the streets by a gang of heavies!
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