Which Famous People have you met

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Which Famous People have you met

Post by hbk4894 » Sat Mar 24, 2012 2:22 pm

I was just thinking has anyone ever met any famus people and they where really nice and has anyone met any that are not so nice?

My Mate met Clare and Sarah of Hollyoaks and they seemed nice
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Re: Which Famous People have you met

Post by bobo the clown » Sat Mar 24, 2012 5:52 pm

The Pope, but he's dead now.
Not advocating mass-murder as an entirely positive experience, of course, but it had its moments.
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Re: Which Famous People have you met

Post by Annoyed Grunt » Sat Mar 24, 2012 6:09 pm

bobo the clown wrote:The Pope, but he's dead now.
In the library, with a candlestick?
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Post by bobo the clown » Sat Mar 24, 2012 6:34 pm

Annoyed Grunt wrote:
bobo the clown wrote:The Pope, but he's dead now.
In the library, with a candlestick?
the sacristy, but I promised I'd never tell.
Not advocating mass-murder as an entirely positive experience, of course, but it had its moments.
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Post by Gail Platz » Sat Mar 24, 2012 7:19 pm

I met Nicky Hunt in Natwest in Westhoughton.
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Post by jaffka » Sat Mar 24, 2012 8:38 pm

Tony Knowles
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Post by Annoyed Grunt » Sat Mar 24, 2012 9:01 pm

bobo the clown wrote:
Annoyed Grunt wrote:
bobo the clown wrote:The Pope, but he's dead now.
In the library, with a candlestick?
the sacristy, but I promised I'd never tell.
Sounds like Dan Brown's next novel.
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Re: Which Famous People have you met

Post by Zulus Thousand of em » Sun Mar 25, 2012 8:01 am

Sir Edward Heath - who I think you will find is now deader than the Pope!

... and if the opening poster thinks that Clare and Sarah from Hollyoaks are famous people then he's got a lot of living to do. :D
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Post by Montreal Wanderer » Sun Mar 25, 2012 3:30 pm

In a longish life I have been in a position, fortunately or otherwise, to meet many well-known people. I have often found that a public person I approve of is quite different from the private person, and vice versa. For example, in Canada I approved of our former Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau's politics but found him remote and offhand one on one. Conversely former Quebec Premier Lucien Bouchard, whose aim was to break up Canada, was pleasant, thoughtful and charismatic. In the UK, I went to school with a number of people who subsequently became famous - for example Marc Cox in tennis, Brian Barnes in golf, Ian Balding in horse racing and I was at University (same classes) with Sir Bernard Cuthbert de Hoghton (now of Hoghton Tower) - they all seemed pleasant enough but who knows how they will have changed in fifty years. On the world stage I suppose the most famous would be Nelson Mandela and then Secretary General of the UN Pérez de Cuéllar. The SG was pleasant enough, though formal, while Mandela was a warm, down to earth, rather wonderful person (which rather surprised me).
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Post by Bruce Rioja » Sun Mar 25, 2012 7:35 pm

I further know that Monty has also met Hugh MacLennan, which, for some reason, he hasn't mentioned :?
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Post by Gooner Girl » Sun Mar 25, 2012 7:38 pm

Bruce Rioja wrote:I further know that Monty has also met Hugh MacLennan, which, for some reason, he hasn't mentioned :?
Who?!
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Post by thebish » Sun Mar 25, 2012 7:39 pm

one of my church members once met the queen and said:

"has anyone told you that you look very like the queen?"

to which the queen replied:

"How terribly reassuring!" 8)
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Post by thebish » Sun Mar 25, 2012 7:39 pm

Gooner Girl wrote:
Bruce Rioja wrote:I further know that Monty has also met Hugh MacLennan, which, for some reason, he hasn't mentioned :?
Who?!
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Post by Gooner Girl » Sun Mar 25, 2012 7:40 pm

thebish wrote:
Gooner Girl wrote:
Bruce Rioja wrote:I further know that Monty has also met Hugh MacLennan, which, for some reason, he hasn't mentioned :?
Who?!
Montreal Wanderer - we sometimes call him Monty for short!
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Post by Bruce Rioja » Sun Mar 25, 2012 7:52 pm

Gooner Girl wrote:
Bruce Rioja wrote:I further know that Monty has also met Hugh MacLennan, which, for some reason, he hasn't mentioned :?
Who?!
Tsssk, troublesome child ;)
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Post by bobo the clown » Sun Mar 25, 2012 8:05 pm

Bruce Rioja wrote:
Gooner Girl wrote:
Bruce Rioja wrote:I further know that Monty has also met Hugh MacLennan, which, for some reason, he hasn't mentioned :?
Who?!
Tsssk, troublesome child ;)
Well Bruce, I just read that.

So, now ... who is he ??? :conf:
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Post by Bruce Rioja » Sun Mar 25, 2012 8:19 pm

bobo the clown wrote:
Bruce Rioja wrote:
Gooner Girl wrote:
Bruce Rioja wrote:I further know that Monty has also met Hugh MacLennan, which, for some reason, he hasn't mentioned :?
Who?!
Tsssk, troublesome child ;)
Well Bruce, I just read that.

So, now ... who is he ??? :conf:
He's that bloke that you just read about.......... Durrrrrrrrr! ;)
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Re: Which Famous People have you met

Post by Montreal Wanderer » Sun Mar 25, 2012 8:52 pm

Bruce Rioja wrote:
bobo the clown wrote:
Bruce Rioja wrote:
Gooner Girl wrote:
Bruce Rioja wrote:I further know that Monty has also met Hugh MacLennan, which, for some reason, he hasn't mentioned :?
Who?!
Tsssk, troublesome child ;)
Well Bruce, I just read that.

So, now ... who is he ??? :conf:
He's that bloke that you just read about.......... Durrrrrrrrr! ;)
Bruce is correct although I'm not sure how he knew. Hugh MacLennan was a Canadian author (The Two Solitudes, Barometer Rising, etc.). He was also an English professor at my University and I would have lunch with him (and others) at the Faculty Club on many occasions. I also knew his student, Leonard Cohen, although I haven't seen him since the 1970s. Hugh was chatty, Leornard was, oddly enough, quite shy.
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Re: Which Famous People have you met

Post by Bruce Rioja » Sun Mar 25, 2012 9:20 pm

Hugh Maclennan Immortalised Here ;)
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Re: Which Famous People have you met

Post by TANGODANCER » Sun Mar 25, 2012 9:28 pm

Had Francis Lee as a neighbour in Westhoughton and met quite a few footballers at his parties: Rodney Marsh, Mickey Thomas, Dave McKay, Mike Summerbee, Freddie Hill and a few I've probably forgotten. Were they nice? Freddie Hill's a grand lad and very down to earth. The rest, gee I can't remember. The liquor flowed freely and it was all very friendly so they must have been. :D
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