Claim to fame
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- Nairn3
I KNOW that you were all watching the Eurovision Semi-Finals tonight, well, if you saw the contestants from Malta throwing a frisbee on a beach - I BOUGHT THAT FRISBEE.
Yes, I know, you just fell off your chair. We all did.
- https://youtu.be/aHk…Nairn
- How did that happen?scarabin
- The fuck********
- I don't want to spoil the magic - let your imagine run free!
*wafts hands gaily in the air*Nairn - honestly woulda been more impressed if you'd been the one that taught finland its headbangin' routineArchitectofFate
- Also looks like a disc that is not pdga approvedArchitectofFate
- ha, it's not! They were originally going to use my old one, which is apprioved, but I couldn't find the fucking thing. I did about two days ago though...Nairn
- is this soccer?monospaced
- CyBrainX0
Dimitri Martin is my cousin-in-law. His father was a Greek Orthodox priest named Dean Martin who gave a service at my mom's funeral.
- garbage6
I am related to Elvis in TWO different ways. So yes, I'm famously inbred.
Thank you, Mississippi.
- Morning_star2
Smoking weed with rock stars #2
--------------------------------...I was in a band in the mid nineties and we supported Agnostic Front at a show in Birmingham. It was attended mostly by uber-judgemental straight edge hard-core kids from the West Midlands being all puritanical about drink and drugs.
It was a fucking riot of a show and after it was over we hung out with Vinnie Stigma and Roger Miret and smoked olympic quantities of some really nice resin. They both regaled epic stories of NYHC in the early days, mostly featuring Harley Flanagan.
Post Script: I asked them about the straight edge no drink, no drugs attitude lots of the fans had and Roger replied "Fuck all of them. We get wasted".
- dbloc7
- your project?Krassy
- yeah can't believe it's been 12 yearsdbloc
- https://www.qbn.com/…dbloc
- ha!
https://www.qbn.com/…Krassy - https://www.qbn.com/…utopian
- : )dbloc
- robthelad7
Mick Jagger is a family member
- Yes, Mick Jagger is a family member.palimpsest
- my great grandma - 3rd cousin removed - is kiki dee - of Elton John fame !!!!_me_
- Stepmom's brother married Jade Jagger, I've never met them sadly, but dad went to the wedding. Had a blast.robthelad
- ^ swags like jagger_me_
- uh oh, looks like they split... a family member no more!spl33nidoru
- Noooooo, what is my claim to fame now ?! Haharobthelad
- Sorry mate! :D But if they had kids i say you're still good!spl33nidoru
- I daren't ask, my Dad is still married to her but long separated too, I can hope no one does sufficient research next time i mention it :Probthelad
- _me_0
I had a lovely evening with Sarah Stockbridge back in the early '90s
- sted0
Extra in the series Family Circle, got some unexpected cash for the random talking :)
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After 5th grade I was asked every year to recite something at a school event and i played sick, dumb, and incapable to memorize just to get away.
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For years I fucked over my teachers to reduce the drama about how to use cassette players and setup tv-sets to show movies and documentaries in the classrooms. They just started talking how many types and brands of electronics we have at home and I had to repeat a year as a result. (I got a lot of honesty few years later why and how... :)
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I was the kid who knows computers and electronics in our old post soviet 12-storey house.
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In high-school for two years I was the guy who could get the latest music whatever the fuck that would be.
(thanks to the dial-up modem and mp3)—
Got hit twice in my life for burping the first two lines of a poem in front of a lot of people. 99% found it funny :\
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- Ianbolton3
I met Darth Vadar at some special shop opening event when i was 5. He was so terrifying and massive I cried, so my mum had to take me home
- Don't feel bad. When we saw ANH in the cinemas when I was 4 in '77, the opening scene with the Star Destroyer terrified me so much, I freaked out, and mum hadContinuity
- ... to take me to the toilets to calm down.Continuity
- Continuity0
I have two.
Claim to Fame 1:
When I was living in Halifax (Canada, not England) at the beginning of my career in the early '00s, I freelanced for then-Ellen Page's dad, Dennis, who owned an ad and design agency in the city. I met teenaged then-Ellen once as a consequence.Claim to Fame 2:
Some months later (still in Halifax. Canada, not England), I went to a KMFDM concert with a couple of friends, and ended up smoking weed with Sascha Konietzko on the pavement in front of the venue. He then — after all of us were good and baked — gave me the rest of his stash, because the band were going to the US next (that night, in fact), and he didn't want to get in shit at the border.Of the two, I remember the weed smoking with Sascha much more fondly. And I'm not even much of a weed-smoker.
- Oh yes, and I also interviewed him and his now-wife Lucia Cifarelli for an online metal 'zine earlier that evening.Continuity
- mrAtor1
Magnus Magnusson gave me my degree
- Morning_star3
On a family trip to Brighton we parked in an underground car park and got all confused about the most appropriate exit for The Lanes.
I stopped a nearby older gentleman and enquired. He pointed to the nearest exit and said "That's your best bet, hope you have a wonderful day". We thanked him and headed to the door.
Well readers, that helpful gent was none other than Ken Barlow (actor William Roache) of Coronation Street fame.
Wanting to seem all cool, we never acknowledge who he was but i got the vibe that he was a little disappointed because we didn't.- this would have been even better had the gent been sethans_glib
- MarleyMarl3
I smoked a joint with Justin Timberlake. A solid guy he is.
- That sounds fun.monospaced
- I smoked a blunt with jamie fox at the standard when i was a kidscarabin
- And by kid i mean like... 23scarabin
- lajj4
My dad, who was a sailor in the 60s once had a beer with Mick Jagger and Keith Richard in a Liverpool pub.
A couple of years ago, I was waiting for my coffee at the shop and next to me was Olivia Wilde. She said hi and I said hi back, so we can all conclude that we had a conversation.
- rootlock2
I once sold Dale Carnegie a pen.
- monospaced1
I was backstage at a small punk show in the '90s and Gwen Stefani (not yet lead singer) changed her clothes right in front of us. I'm guessing she was still a teenager.
- renderedred0
i was doing some tilling for a turkish hotel owner in london on a sunday morning for some good cash. with a few mates. in the late 80s.
i walk out to go to the corner shop shop for some smokes.
on my way back, 10 o'clock in the morning the streets are pretty empty, i see this guy walking. as we approach each other i begin to recognize him with his sunday paper under his arm, but like i really know this person. i've seen him a thousand times, i am sure, but have no memory of him. i probably made a face while we passed because he just smiled.
i continued walking totally confused. who is this man? why is he smiling at me? why do i know him "so well"? and then it came to me. michael caine!
i am not sure if i yelled his name but i did turn around and he was very far away. he probably saw that face thousands of times :)- That happened with me and Tom Hanks once. We made eye contact and even smiled but he was so normal I didn’t realize it was him until a half block later.monospaced
- face_melter0
Get ready for dynamite action... For a short bit I was one of the top PS2 Psyvariar players in the world.
Psyvariar is a bullet hell shoot-em-up with a buzz mechanic that allows you to graze enemies and bullets without taking damage to rack up points - the more points you get it opens up further stages outside of the regular six or seven. For the most part you can play the entire game without firing a shot. The game carved out a small niche in the shooter scene because of this and still has a dedicated fanbase. The reason I stopped and no longer play it is because the Buzz mechanic - to get it working you had to rapidly smash the joystick left-right to simulate rolling the ship or you could continuously tap a button if you played on a joypad. Practising and playing for a month straight almost broke my hands.
This is from the PS4 version (not me), all the PS2 footage is blurry garbage.
- Game looks nuts. Also looks like you can fly through bullets lasers and ships without getting damage. Always.monospaced