Religion and Ethics Forum
General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: Aruntraveller on December 26, 2020, 08:34:46 PM
-
Pinched this from the book of Face.
Name 5 famous people you have met or been within a few feet of, but make one of them a lie. See if other posters can guess which is the porkie.
Be prepared to explain later!
Mine for starters:
Pat Phoenix, Danny La Rue, Neil Kinnock, Jimmy Somerville & Alison Moyet
-
I am going to guess not Danny La Rue
As for my 5 Robert Redford, Boris Johnson, Dolly Parton, George Best, Ivana Trump
-
Ivana?
Roger McGough, JK Rowling, The Duke of Edinburgh, Diane Abbott, Jeremy Paxman.
-
Ivana?
Roger McGough, JK Rowling, The Duke of Edinburgh, Diane Abbott, Jeremy Paxman.
No, was at table next to Ivana in the Plaza Hotel in New York.
Paxman?
-
Clue to one that I did get close to, to help narrow it down. https://flic.kr/p/2kkQBHt
No, not Paxo - saw him in Charing Cross Road a few years ago.
Dolly Parton? She seems least likely of the remaining four.
-
I am going to guess not Danny La Rue
No - I was introduced to him in the 80's in a gay club called Nero's in Nottingham.
-
Clue to one that I did get close to, to help narrow it down. https://flic.kr/p/2kkQBHt
No, not Paxo - saw him in Charing Cross Road a few years ago.
Dolly Parton? She seems least likely of the remaining four.
Rowling?
And no to Parton, had a vip pass to one of her concerts so actually talked to her for a couple of nanoseconds
-
No - I was introduced to him in the 80's in a gay club called Nero's in Nottingham.
Hmm... Kinnock?
-
Got it - I'd love to meet the big-chinned babe, but never have.
-
Hmm... Kinnock?
Nope, in my gay activist days a group of us stopped him on the way into a Labour Party regional meeting to make our views known.
-
Nope, in my gay activist days a group of us stopped him on the way into a Labour Party regional meeting to make our views known.
This isn't going well. Phoenix?
-
I am going to guess not Danny La Rue
As for my 5 Robert Redford, Boris Johnson, Dolly Parton, George Best, Ivana Trump
Robert Redford seems the most unlikely to me (although having said that they all seem unlikely to me!)
-
Robert Redford seems the most unlikely to me (although having said that they all seem unlikely to me!)
And again, no. Another that I was at the next table to in a restaurant, in this case The Gotham Bar and Grill in New York, same trip as the Ivana one.
-
This isn't going well. Phoenix?
Again no. I met her after a play in Nottingham at the Theatre Royal. She'd quit the Street and had taken to doing murder mysteries (possibly Christie - I can't recall now) she came in the bar after the show and sat down next to us. The friend I'd gone with was much more forward than I, and leaned over touched her on her knee and said "I love the commercial you're doing" (again I can't recall the commercial) in a suitably gushing manner and we spent 20 minutes chatting while Tony Booth slept next to her in the booth.
-
As you say not going well!
-
Again no. I met her after a play in Nottingham at the Theatre Royal. She'd quit the Street and had taken to doing murder mysteries (possibly Christie - I can't recall now) she came in the bar after the show and sat down next to us. The friend I'd gone with was much more forward than I, and leaned over touched her on her knee and said "I love the commercial you're doing" (again I can't recall the commercial) in a suitably gushing manner and we spent 20 minutes chatting while Tony Booth slept next to her in the booth.
That's a brilliant story. Ok, as you are such a big Alison Moyet fan that I am going to say that it is her you haven't been close to. If it's Jimmy Somerville, then well done, but he is actually someone I met.
-
You are correct. Fan of Alison's though I am I've never got closer than the fifth row of a concert hall.
Jimmy I met in Germany when he was performing at Cologne's gay pride sometime in the 90's. I'd been dancing like a lunatic and was taking a breather by the side of the stage and he was next to me. I said something really inane like "I love your music" - which isn't a lie given what a great song "Smalltown Boy" is, and he leaned over and said thanks and kissed me on the cheek. Then he was up on the stage singing.
-
So I'm going to say George Best - it's a 50/50 chance. But I reckon Boris is the sort likely to have been in the same places as you.
-
So I'm going to say George Best - it's a 50/50 chance. But I reckon Boris is the sort likely to have been in the same places as you.
It is George Best. I was meant to go to a dinner talk from him where I was going to be on the top table with him but couldn't make it due to a family emergency.
Boris, I met a few times when we both debated at uni, not the same one. He was a racist sexist prick.
-
Prince Charles Sir John Barbirolli Laurie Lee Enoch Powell Adrian Flowers
-
Prince Charles Sir John Barbirolli Laurie Lee Enoch Powell Adrian Flowers
Adrian Flowers?
Robert Plant Lester Piggott Jimmy Hill Nigel Farage Derek Nimmo
-
Adrian Flowers?
British photographer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Flowers
-
Prince Charles Sir John Barbirolli Laurie Lee Enoch Powell Adrian Flowers
So I think you've met Sir John, Laurie Lee, Enoch - I'm basing this on the perception I have of you from your posting and odd things you've mentioned.
Flowers is maybe to obscure a figure to be thought up of as a dud.
So I don't think you've met Prince Charles.
-
So I think you've met Sir John, Laurie Lee, Enoch - I'm basing this on the perception I have of you from your posting and odd things you've mentioned.
Flowers is maybe to obscure a figure to be thought up of as a dud.
So I don't think you've met Prince Charles.
Theone I didnot meet was Enoch Powell. In the days of my youth (to my shame) I was a member of the Young Conservatives. It was a good way of having a social life if you had moved away from home. Powell was supposed to come and talk to us - but he was ill and his wife came instead. Adrian Flowers was a neighbour in France. And for a few years, I lived in Windsor.
-
British photographer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Flowers
Yes, I know who Adrian Flowers is, I thought perhaps Harrowby had not met him.
-
Yes, I know who Adrian Flowers is, I thought perhaps Harrowby had not met him.
Apologies, misunderstood!
From yours I'd go for Robert Plant, I don't know why, other than I'd not got you down as Prog rock kinda girl!
-
Maureen Lipman Tom Courtney Muddy Waters John Thaw Bill Oddie
-
Apologies, misunderstood!
From yours I'd go for Robert Plant, I don't know why, other than I'd not got you down as Prog rock kinda girl!
That's ok. I'm not that keen on Led Zep but love Stairway to Heaven. But no, I knew Robert Plant as a teenager, he went to school with my brother. We used to stand at a bus stop after school and one afternoon he was talking about a gig he was doing that evening (this is at the age of 14) I lifted my hand up and ran it along in a line and said, "one day we'll see your name in lights" , we laughed, little did we know ....
Just one of those strange photographic memories. I can see him now with a mass of curly hair with his school cap placed on the top.
-
Maureen Lipman Tom Courtney Muddy Waters John Thaw Bill Oddie
Muddy Waters - wow! I can understand as I remember you saying you were a blues fan.
I think I'll say, John Thaw.
-
No, I'm afraid not :D
-
Bob Wilson, Jimmy Savile, Andy Hamilton, Jeremy Guscott, Alice Roberts
-
I'll go for Alice Roberts. Don't know why?
-
I'll go for Alice Roberts. Don't know why?
I stood next to her at the end of Robin and Brian's Christmas Compendium a few years ago when Duran Duran were playing. Technically, I suppose I could also have had Simon Le Bon since we were in the front row and he was at the front of the stage.
-
Ramesses II
Duke of Edinburgh
Cliff Richard
Neil Armstrong
Margaret Thatcher.
-
Ramesses II
Duke of Edinburgh
Cliff Richard
Neil Armstrong
Margaret Thatcher.
Cliff? All of them are plausible in some way.
-
Ramesses II
Duke of Edinburgh
Cliff Richard
Neil Armstrong
Margaret Thatcher.
My obvious immediate reaction was Ramesses II, but I bet you've seen his mummy, you crafty sod. I guess Neil Armstrong.
-
My obvious immediate reaction was Ramesses II, but I bet you've seen his mummy, you crafty sod. I guess Neil Armstrong.
My thinking tuya (sic)
-
My obvious immediate reaction was Ramesses II, but I bet you've seen his mummy, you crafty sod. I guess Neil Armstrong.
Bingo! Nope. Met Cliff more than a few times, 'cos he was honorary VP of the BB, and other stuff. Been too near Phil the Greek for comfort at a Kirk event in Edinburgh. Similarly, I was a youth observer at the General Assembly where the old blue meanie gave her infamous "Sermon on the Mound", and I was very up close and personal to ole' Ra messes in 1980, when the cases were removed from the 'mummy room' as it then was, in Cairo Museum, to dust off the mould from their occupants. You could still smell the resin. No..... was supposed to see Armstrong in Glasgow, but the bus broke down en route. Technology, eh?
-
Jesus (it would be interesting to know what he was really like)
The Minstrel Blondel (an ancestor of mine)
The Queen
Keir Starmer
Biden
I met Cliff Richard in the early 70s when over in Guernsey, he was invited to join a group us on a day trip we were making to the small island of Herm.
Read the opening post!
-
Tony Blair
Ian Botham
Dot Cotton from Eastenders
Prince Andrew
Matthew Horne (Gav from Gavin & Stacey)
-
Tony Blair
Ian Botham
Dot Cotton from Eastenders
Prince Andrew
Matthew Horne (Gav from Gavin & Stacey)
Dot Cotton, because she's fictional, so you can't have met her.
-
Dot Cotton, because she's fictional, so you can't have met her.
Aha - good response ... but no.
I met June Brown on the set of Eastenders, all decked up as and interacting as Dot Cotton, so I think my claim was kind of accurate. Also met Roly the dog (also fictional, although definitely a real dog).
-
In that case, since you're not an under-age girl, probably randy Andy.
-
In that case, since you're not an under-age girl, probably randy Andy.
Nope - met Prince Andrew in one of the most bizarre experiences of my life.
I was asked to attend a meeting at Buckingham Palace about setting up a University Technical College, which was to be chaired by him. There was no clear agenda nor expected outcomes for the meeting provided in advance. Thought - why not, assuming I'd be just 'room meat' (in other words just there to make up the numbers).
Went along and everyone was kept waiting for 30 mins because the meeting couldn't start without him and he was late. Fairly big meeting - perhaps 30 people, education people, industry people, but it became rapidly clear I was the key person as to establish a UTC you need a university sponsor and I was the only university person invited. Effectively positioned directly opposite Andrew and Kenneth Baker (UTCs were his thing) and subjected to a really hard sell.
Establishing a UTC was not for us so I politely declined to be involved - after the meeting.
Andrew actually chaired the meeting reasonably well but I thought keeping us all waiting was totally unacceptable - the meeting could have started with Ken Baker chairing, but apparently Palace protocols wont allow it!!