[GraemeA]

I met Andy Popp once, he's cooooooooooooool 

[andy popp]

Not any more

[JaseM]

Paddy Ashdown gave me a lift when I was hitching to college once. He was driving a shagged out brown Escort with the stereo ripped out. And to make matters worse he didin't drive on the left, nor did he drive on the rightt, but, somewhere in the middle...
   ...that last bit is not true, he was a very safe driver.


John Dunne refused to be weighed when I was doing some uni project.

[Teaboy]

Pete Chadwick is a bit of a legend, he's been climbing at a good level for longer than most

Indeed he is and has and I hope my comments didn't sound too churlish, an off the cuff quip that probably sounded better in my head than on the page, certainly no slight intended on someone who I do think is a bit of legend

[dontfollowme]

I briefly met John the "Vermin" Sherman in Font as he was staying at the same place as us and we left our beer for him.

[webbo]

at the yorkshire dales triathlon.i stopped mike hardings commentry dead when i stripped naked on the bike to run transition.

[SA Chris]

You reckon it was out of awe or pity?

[webbo]

after a 1000 metres in a sub 10 degree lake followed by 42 of the hilliest miles you could find in this country.what do you reckon.

[Mike Tyson]

As mentioned in another thread, got told to "Not eat so much son" by Doug Scott as I failed on Picnic Sarcastic.

Olympic triple jumping leg end Johnathon Edwards visits my shop a bit. Nice bloke.

[Johnny Brown]

Most unique climbing thing I've seen was probably watching Pat Littlejohn falling off due to loose rock, and landing upside down. At the time he was trying to convince a sceptical international meet of the rock quality.

Best climbing tick though, (the afore-mentioned being hit-on by Lynn Hill I am assured is not an unusual experience) was having Big Ron ask me for beta at the Plantation. Get in.

Bez once crossed a pub to tell me I should be a rock star  - made much funnier by the fact that all my mates were in bands and I was the tone-deaf one. I started to tell him how I had no musical ability and then remembered who I was talking to.

Celebrity-wise I think Cowboyhat could easily win this...

[Obi-Wan is lost...]

Best climbing tick though, (the afore-mentioned being hit-on by Lynn Hill I am assured is not an unusual experience) was having Big Ron ask me for beta at the Plantation. Get in.

You sure he wasn't hitting on you?   

[7lbs overweight]

Diminutive Gritstone Legend only asked me if my friend was gay.  Which makes me a complete munter judging by the rest of the thread.

Went shopping for tights with Wolfgang Gullich.  He bought the red and white striped pair he wore in the photo of him soloing Weedkiller.

Whet shopping for funk LPs with John Allen.  He bought some Graham Central Station.

Had a non-violent difference of opinion about rap bolting with John Bachar.

Shagged by female Everest summiteer when this was quite a big deal.  Summiting Everest that is.

Ate scones with tc in Sheffield Uni refectory.

[Yossarian]

I got a blowjob off that isabelle patissier once. think i might have been dreaming though...

[GraemeA]

I have to watch Sandrine Levet get changed out her sweaty climbing keks every time she wins at Birmingham. Anti-doping rules means that I can't let her out of my sight. It's a job that has no end of volunteers but I couldn't trust others not to look away 

[SA Chris]

I got a blowjob off that isabelle patissier once. think i might have been dreaming though...

Are you sure that wasn't a blowjob off a patissier who called himself Isabelle? (real name Claude le Pouf?)

[tubbs]

>>have to watch Sandrine Levet get changed out her sweaty climbing keks every time she wins at Birmingham. Anti-doping rules means that I can't let her out of my sight. It's a job that has no end of volunteers but I couldn't trust others not to look away 

You said it was my turn to do that!

On a similar vein (ahem) Sandrinne gave me a hug when she won the bouldering at Birmingham in 2001!

[Yossarian]

no, his chocolate eclair is quite a different prospect...

[Pantontino]

I was once sat in a pub in Manchester with my wife. She gets up from her seat and disappears off to the toilet, at which point Sean Ryder taps me on the shoulder and asks me if the vacant seat is taken.

Pathetic, I know.

On the Lynne Hill tip, one day in the early 90s when I was at Volx the aforementioned Gav Ellis fell off some 8a and had a proper tantrum, shouting at the top of his loud geordie voice: "Fuckin' 'ell, I'm climbin' like a fuckin' woman!!"

Lynne happened to be cruising up a neighbouring 7c+ at the time, and realising his gaffe, poor old Gav squirmed in the uncomfortable silence as he was slowly lowered to the deck. 

(we all looked on sn**gering, of course)

[Johnny Brown]

Any Sean Ryder tick is a tick worth having, I reckon. Man is a genius.

[tubbs]

Jerry Gore once asked me for beta on Freeborn Man at Swanage!

[whispering nic]

Font Trip 2000 ish

Dragged a pissed Chris Davies into some french girls flat and watched in dissapointment as he started dribbling on the floor and we got kicked out

Got into fisticuffs with big Malky after he'd had a couple of whiskies and I told his guests to gtfk out of my seat when they came to visit our gite 

[dave]

I once met Roy Castle.

[Will Hunt]

Thought I would revive this topic with the news that I saw Andy Kirkpatrick on Pete's Eats today. Seemed to be tapping away at a laptop which was probably the best plan of action for the she-hite weather.

[Houdini]

Must've been cold up there, Will.   


Have one of those new-fangled waterproof jobbies did he?

[SA Chris]

waterproof jobbies

I hear these are causing havoc down the sewerage works.