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Mysteryman

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Re: Claims to fame?
« Reply #15 on: 06 October 2010, 20:40:10 »
I was on car booty. Wandering around haggling over the price of tat. :-[
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« Reply #16 on: 06 October 2010, 20:42:08 »
About my only claim to fame is that I once met a survivor of the Titanic disaster.  She had been a nanny for a wealthy family in 1912 and was a friend of my Great Aunt, who I met this lady with.

Looking back I should have asked a lot of questions, but I was too young to do so!! ::) ::) ::)
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« Reply #17 on: 06 October 2010, 21:15:16 »
My claim to fame , i was on fifteen to one a good few years ago ,and managed to get to the last three! , went very quickly downhill from there and was the first one knocked out, actually got people ringing the house to say "well done" ,it was a good day out and scored with the expenses, still got it on VHS tape somewhere.
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« Reply #18 on: 06 October 2010, 21:20:49 »
Nearest thing I've been is on my local radio station, on a late night call in program.

And was filmed for a short News piece for Central News many years ago (when the camera's still used film in them), but unfortunately my piece was at the end of the reel, and it had t be scrapped as it hadn't recorded too well ~ Figures, as when people take photos of me, the cameras seam to play up after that !!  :-/
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« Reply #19 on: 07 October 2010, 19:13:53 »
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Not to fame but to shame.

I appeared - quite by accident - in the morning, lunchtime and evening news bulletins the day following a particularly nasty incident I attended and got a very severe bollocking for it. :-? ;D



My claim to fame has yet to be finalised .... but other than that I had a similar mishap to Zulu's .... was keeping press, onlookers and general riff-raff out of a factory which was closing down. Managed to avoid getting caught in a camera's "field of view" for a few days. Then one night saw myself on the evening news leaning nonchalantly on the traffic barrier without a care in the world!!!!

The ONLY five minutes I relaxed the whole time (honest!) and the bloody cameras were still there !!!!
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« Reply #20 on: 07 October 2010, 19:21:29 »
I must be on hundreds of 20 year old photos. I used to work at CBS records (now sony music) in Soho Square. I was forever trying to get the likes of Bros or Deacon Blue in the back door without being spotted, but very rarely succeeded. Imagine the horror when they looked at their prized picture, only to see my ugly mug instead of the georgeous Matt Goss. ::)
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« Reply #21 on: 07 October 2010, 19:33:02 »
I was once an unpaid extra in a feature film.  It was a long time ago - probably about 1958.  Can't remember what the film was called, if I ever knew. 

I have this fantasy that I will be watching a film on the telly one day and I'll recognise myself.  Not likely to happen, 'cos I don't generally watch films of that vintage.

They were filming outside our house one day and my schoolfriend and I got roped in.  I was told to stand there and look like I was having a conversation with my friend.  We were told to say "Rhubarb, rhubarb" because that gave the appearance on film of normal speech.  Weird. :) :) :)
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« Reply #22 on: 07 October 2010, 19:47:40 »
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I was once an unpaid extra in a feature film.  It was a long time ago - probably about 1958.  Can't remember what the film was called, if I ever knew. 

I have this fantasy that I will be watching a film on the telly one day and I'll recognise myself.  Not likely to happen, 'cos I don't generally watch films of that vintage.

They were filming outside our house one day and my schoolfriend and I got roped in.  I was told to stand there and look like I was having a conversation with my friend.  We were told to say "Rhubarb, rhubarb" because that gave the appearance on film of normal speech.  Weird. :) :) :)


Off topic, J .... but do you remember the film "Rhubarb" with all the classic comedians. the only words in the whole film were ... you guessed it ... rhubarb  ;D
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« Reply #23 on: 08 October 2010, 10:05:02 »
I was in the BBC documentry of the Hungerford massacre a couple of years ago, I then owned an EX TVP Senator which I restored back to its forma glory, and the BBC hired my car as well as myself as I also played a couple of parts one as a policeman and also a solicitor.

Have also been in The Inspector Lynley Mysteries as a police officer. :y 
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« Reply #24 on: 08 October 2010, 10:15:42 »
My house has been on Road Wars as the pursuit roared past, and my ex-neighbour opposite was on the xmas version of the same displaying her newly created "assets" to the camera  :y
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« Reply #25 on: 08 October 2010, 10:23:13 »
i went to college with Claire Sweeney (not that thats anything to boast about)
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« Reply #26 on: 08 October 2010, 10:23:58 »
Forgot this one this was my restored EX TVP Omega with me driving down at the Haynes motor museum  :y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNpJWhgH63Q
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« Reply #27 on: 08 October 2010, 10:51:00 »
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My house has been on Road Wars as the pursuit roared past, and my ex-neighbour opposite was on the xmas version of the same displaying her newly created "assets" to the camera  :y
;D ;D ;D

When I moved to Slough, the very first TV programme I saw when I switched the TV on was a police thing .. in Slough .. attending a fight just down the road from my house.

Wondered what I'd let myself in for!  ;D
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« Reply #28 on: 08 October 2010, 10:54:17 »
What did you let your self in for lol...........
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« Reply #29 on: 08 October 2010, 11:11:04 »
Not me but.

My Dad PDId a car for Nigel Mansell when he worked at a BMW dealership.
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