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#25 Re: non climbing claims to fame
January 18, 2016, 02:48:18 pm
I was once a roadie for the stranglers

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#26 Re: non climbing claims to fame
January 18, 2016, 03:07:32 pm
Shirley you weren't born when they did Something better change ?

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#27 Re: non climbing claims to fame
January 18, 2016, 03:40:54 pm
I was Leicestershire junior Orienteering champ as a youth.

I sang in a barbershop choir who won the British championships and sang at the worlds in Pittsburgh in front of 20,000 people in an ice hockey stadium (I was 15 at the time).

I've met Robert Plant.


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#28 Re: non climbing claims to fame
January 18, 2016, 03:56:37 pm
I played pool with Keith Richards once. It was doubles, but still.

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#29 Re: non climbing claims to fame
January 18, 2016, 03:58:01 pm
I once mistook Dame Margot Fontaine for a shop assistant.

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#30 Re: non climbing claims to fame
January 18, 2016, 04:04:22 pm
Terry Nutkins once told me to fuck off in the Inverness branch of Matalan. Treasured moment.

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#31 Re: non climbing claims to fame
January 18, 2016, 04:13:47 pm
Terry Nutkins once told me to fuck off in the Inverness branch of Matalan. Treasured moment.

Not mine but the above reminded me of it..

One of my colleagues whilst walking and reading a book at the same time in a underground station once walked straight into Anne Robinson (weakest link fame) knocking her over. She got straight up shouted 'Cunt' at him loudly and walked off :D

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#32 Re: non climbing claims to fame
January 18, 2016, 04:24:40 pm
biggertuboflard :clown:
Only England's premier (and perhaps first and last) ski jumper. Came to fame at the Calgary Olympics for coming last; thereby laying the foundations for proud failures like Eric the Eel.

Slackers, he's pretty small now, he used to be a bit of a heavyweight (I was asking him about it, he competed at around 90kgs I think if I remember right) but he's down to 73kgs or thereabouts and aims to get to 68kgs in the next few months, so lighter than me!

I once conversed on a bouldering forum with the son of England's premier (and perhaps first and last) ski jumper. :clown:

It was a crap joke and not at all meant as a slight on his stature or girth, I couldn't decide between that and suffixing your username with 'Snr'.

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#33 Re: non climbing claims to fame
January 18, 2016, 04:34:00 pm
biggertuboflard :clown:
Only England's premier (and perhaps first and last) ski jumper. Came to fame at the Calgary Olympics for coming last; thereby laying the foundations for proud failures like Eric the Eel.

Slackers, he's pretty small now, he used to be a bit of a heavyweight (I was asking him about it, he competed at around 90kgs I think if I remember right) but he's down to 73kgs or thereabouts and aims to get to 68kgs in the next few months, so lighter than me!

I once conversed on a bouldering forum with the son of England's premier (and perhaps first and last) ski jumper. :clown:

It was a crap joke and not at all meant as a slight on his stature or girth, I couldn't decide between that and suffixing your username with 'Snr'.
Aaaaah! Makes sense now ;D

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#34 Re: non climbing claims to fame
January 18, 2016, 05:28:23 pm
I once made a pizza for sergeant major off of it aint half hot mum. that was the pinnacle in my working life, well my working life in pizzaland anyway.


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#35 Re: non climbing claims to fame
January 18, 2016, 05:46:13 pm
I once made a pizza for sergeant major off of it aint half hot mum. that was the pinnacle in my working life, well my working life in pizzaland anyway.

I once delivered a pizza to Linda Lucardi..

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#36 Re: non climbing claims to fame
January 18, 2016, 06:23:28 pm
I once drove Frank Bruno to a gym. Didn't like him.

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#37 Re: non climbing claims to fame
January 18, 2016, 06:46:41 pm
Featured in the opening credits of that Saturday kids tv programme with Michaela Strachan, Timmy Mallet etc.

Got thrown in the sea by Lee Sharp - he was playing for Torquay at the time.

Served drinks to numerous Z-list celebrities when working at theatre bar in Torquay: Jim Davidson, Rod Hull, Harold Bishop, Cannon and Ball, the Crankies, various gladiators. The shit is endless.

Saw Sid Little three times in one day. Randomly, in three different places (wasn't stalking him).

This is all tragic.


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#38 Re: non climbing claims to fame
January 18, 2016, 06:52:05 pm
I gave Tommy ball a blow job

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#39 Re: non climbing claims to fame
January 18, 2016, 07:06:25 pm
Rock on.

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#40 Re: non climbing claims to fame
January 18, 2016, 07:15:24 pm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8661984.stm

This was the front page of the BBC News site at the previous election, and that's my mum. She was thoroughly pissed off at the photographers and just wanted to get home for coffee. Bria just wanted to get home for dog biscuits.

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#41 Re: non climbing claims to fame
January 18, 2016, 07:20:05 pm
Featured in the opening credits of that Saturday kids tv programme with Michaela Strachan, Timmy Mallet etc.



Which one are you? :D

Watching that has tripped me out. Check out Tommy Boyd's Jordan 1s at the end of the clip! 8)

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#42 Re: non climbing claims to fame
January 18, 2016, 07:36:25 pm
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Rock on.

You're thinking Bobby Ball

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#43 Re: non climbing claims to fame
January 18, 2016, 07:41:01 pm
:sorry:
Rock on.

You're thinking Bobby Ball

Wasn't it Tommy 'Cannon' and Bobby Ball?

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#44 Re: non climbing claims to fame
January 18, 2016, 07:42:12 pm
Rock on.

You're thinking Bobby Ball

Rarely out of my mind.. ever since that night in Rhyl...

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#45 Re: non climbing claims to fame
January 18, 2016, 08:16:20 pm
I shared a pint with Richard Harris in Covent Garden. Sort of.

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#46 Re: non climbing claims to fame
January 18, 2016, 08:28:28 pm
I appeared, along with one Graeme Alderson with the legendary Trevor and Simon in a comedy sketch on saturday morning kids show Going Live. They were fairly good sorts as I remember.

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#47 Re: non climbing claims to fame
January 18, 2016, 08:34:24 pm
I shared a pint with Richard Harris in Covent Garden. Sort of.

Does that mean:
A. You sat down and had a drink with the man
B. You threw your pint over him (thus sharing)
C. You stole his beer when he got up to leave/go for a piss etc

;)

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#48 Re: non climbing claims to fame
January 18, 2016, 08:49:47 pm
It means he sat down at the same table as me as I was having a quick half after traipsing round Covent Garden, the Coal Hole was his local there.  We exchanged a few words.  Richard Burton wanted a seat too but I told him to get lost, there weren't enough stools.

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#49 Re: non climbing claims to fame
January 18, 2016, 08:52:53 pm
I serenaded/audibly offended Paddy Hopkirk at a fancy party in Buckinghamshire with my guitar and dulcet tones. I was the only kid there si think he was probably just being nice. It's the same party that some sheik passed me his coat and I politely directed him to the coat hooks all of ten steps away before walking off.  I'm pretty sure he wasn't used to that. Needless to say, he didn't listen to any of my shit guitar skills. :punk:

 

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