Celebrities: have you met any and what were they like?

Always preferred APL+ and Dyalog myself but my lineage was Atkins Computing, Comshare and MetaTechnics Systems.

Oh well. Sigh.

(sorry for the thread hijack)

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Originally posted by 7V:
Always preferred APL+ and Dyalog myself but my lineage was Atkins Computing, Comshare and MetaTechnics Systems.
(sorry for the thread hijack)

And did you have to do it in Martian?

I spoke to the Queen when she visited my school over 30 years ago (and have a couple of B&W photos to prove it). But, of course, we didn't have "celebrities" back then, so this doesn't really count.

I also met Robert Maxwell and Asil Nadir on a number of occasions in my professional life, but I don't suppose that out and out villains count either.

Graham

Bruce Springsteen - very nice, but sensibly wouldnt sign my Piece de Resistance bootleg.

Willy Vlautin (from Richmond Fontaine), ok celebrity is pushing it a little. Said hello after a gig in Newcastle and we stood outside the Tyne pub (i think) and stood each other drinks and put the world to rights. Absolutely lovely bloke.

I once said "Hello Mr Jackson" to Joe Jackson after a Springsteen gig and he gave me a look more withering than my ex wife.

Had a chat with KT Tunstall after playing a free gig in a coffee shop in Newcastle, prior to the album going mega. She told me she'd recently been on Jools Holland with her heroes the Cure and was overwelmed. She was a star.

Took a couple of photos of Al Pacino when he was filming in Kings Lynn in mid 80's......... didn't dare speak to him. Natasha Kinski, working on the same film walked passed me in a pub near the set......... she was holding a baby......... It was then that I realised we were not destined to be together

Personally, I would rather meet Willy Vlautin out of anyone mentioned so far, in fact, more than anyone I can think of

Alfred Brendel, Andras Schiff, Juliane Banse (LOVELY!) Angela Hewitt.

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Originally posted by Rasher:
Personally, I would rather meet Willy Vlautin out of anyone mentioned so far, in fact, more than anyone I can think of

Dear Rasher,

Willy Vlautin? Please tell more.

Regards,

Erik

PS - Many thanks for the book loan.

I met Ricky Ross (from Deacon Blue) after his concert in Huntingdon Hall (in Worcester - a lovely little venue). He was a charming bloke, and signed all my Deacon Blue and RR albums.

Also Tommy Emmanuel at the same Venue (and in London), great bloke, amazing talent!

Phil

I met Robbie Fowler, Dominic Matteo and Roy Evans in George's bar in Faliraki in 1995. Roy Evans was a genuinely nice, down to earth guy who seemed quite happy to have his holiday disrupted by fans wanting to chat or have their picture taken with him. I spent a couple of hours with Robbie and Dominic playing pool and chatting. I beat Robbie at pool which I seem to remember being rather chuffed about at the time. Even in defeat though, he was full of himself. Although I am a big Liverpool fan, I can't really say I warmed to Robbie as he struck me as painfully arogant and not terribly bright. It was interesting for me to later read in his autobiography that it was in fact his first holiday abroad!

I also spent quite a bit of time with Stuart Magill (Australian leg spinner, probably as talented as Shane Warne) during the summer of 1997. He was playing for a local minor league team in England with my sister's boyfriend and we went out drinking a fair bit and he came up to Manchester to go to the Hacienda with me. Most of the time he was a great chap and loads of fun. However, he had a fearsome temper and a staggering ability for alienating and upsetting people, which goes a long way to explaining why he test career has been so limited.
John

Spent the day playing Paintball with Brian Robson a few years ago. I had organised the games through work and Brian just happened to be taking his son and friend paintballing for a birthday treat. We needed numbers for our team so the three of them joined us.

Really nice bloke, joined in as if he had known us for years.

We still shot him at every opportunity!

Never in a million years did I think that I would be running across a field providing covering fire for Brian Robson as he tried to get the flag to our base!

Regards

MF

I got to spend some time with Richard Briers once. He always seemed such a nice bloke on telly but he was absolutely appaling in real life. Short tempered, rude to and about other people, full of himself and quite unpleasant.

Funnily enough though, Penelope Keith sometimes came into my old local in Richmond and she was really nice. She liked to tell slightly off colour jokes in her RADA voice and was a bit smutty, just how you hoped she would be in real life. Thing is when she found something funny she just had the longest, way out loud laugh and couldn't stop. She once came in with a chap who looked like (and I think it was)David Attenborough and a couple of others and you could tell it was one of his favourite pastimes just to make her almost piss herself laughing. Who'd have thought..? And in the same pub I once had a pee next to Christopher Reeve...

This is so totally awesome, everybody talks about it, but have you ever met someone who have? Well, today it was my turn and what a day, my good! Even my daughter was where, but she really never understood, just gazed at him and gave him the eye.
Anyhow, do you think that I'd brought the camera, no siree, a pen? Man , that's bad...
Can't really say that I remember what was said, of course, he sang, you know the usual stuff, I can report that he's still into choirs and gospel.

Next time I meet Elvis, then I'll be ready!

I forgot I met Elvis once too - he was at Cardiff for a fireworks thing on the night before a cup final. Mrs Rotf got tickets - for the fireworks, not the cup final. He seemed a really nice guy and I was careful not to tell him that my favourite track of his was "I'm a secret lemonade drinker" and pretended it was "I don't want to go to Chelsea".

Having watched almost no television over the last 15-20 years except for rented movies, I'm afraid that if people tell me they're famous I'll have to take their word for it.

I thought I saw Wayne Rooney in Manchester last week. Can't confirm it though cos as soon as I thought it was him I scarpered quick. I didn't want to get my head kicked in, you know what these chavs are like.

Truly?

No. Pavlova is Australian - created by an Australian chef in Perth for a visiting Russian ballerina way back in 1920's or 30's. Sorry PJT.
My wife has an American cousin who insists that pizza was created in the USA.

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Originally posted by Rasher:
No. Pavlova is Australian - created by an Australian chef in Perth for a visiting Russian ballerina way back in 1920's or 30's. Sorry PJT.
My wife has an American cousin who insists that pizza was created in the USA.

And French fries?

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And French fries?

Created by the French but all know that "Freedom Fies" taste better and were created by the good old USofA.

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And French fries?

Belgium?

And French Toast?

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My wife has an American cousin who insists that pizza was created in the USA.

by Brad Pitt no doubt.

Spaghetti? China.