What's your claim to fame??

pennybel · #1 (**permalink**) 12-12-10, 03:21 PM

My Dad's cousin was the first welsh person to win an oscar!!! Hugh Griffith, best supporting actor for Ben Hur!!....Yea the ugly Arab horse trainer!!! Good looks run in our family!!! lol!

queen swords · #2 (**permalink**) 12-12-10, 03:39 PM

lol penny , i watched that film and can see that blokes face ... the horses were stunning Arabian horses lol

sukisue · #3 (**permalink**) 13-12-10, 04:53 PM

ive dated a known musician and ive danced on a pop show with the live bands that were playin at the time i was aged from 15 to almost 17 at the time and ive met loads of them as well and had coffee in a cafe bar with mick jagger an is band

sugar · #4 (**permalink**) 13-12-10, 05:30 PM

I once dated a prince pmsl

racey666 · #5 (**permalink**) 13-12-10, 09:50 PM

ive had coffee an cu***ber sarnies with the queen at burtons courts in london lol

#6 (**permalink**) 14-12-10, 04:06 AM

How many folk can claim to have stood in a hotel car park chatting to Alfred Marks (when he was still alive) while both wearing pyjamas and a dressing gown?

**Holds hand up and shouts, "Me, me, me, me"**
It was a Fire alarm though, not a gay convention, lol

#7 (**permalink**) 14-12-10, 04:29 AM

And while I'm here, I'll tell you another story.
It's one of those, "I wonder if this was why I was put on this Earth" moments.
It was back in 1968 when I was in the Royal Navy and stationed down at the far end of Cornwall. I'd been to Penzance for a night out at a dance hall and I was hitching back the 11 miles at about 2:30 am. I managed to get a lift and as we travelled along the country roads we saw a red glow in the hedgerows in front of us.
It was a house on fire. It was just a small, cottage type of house set back off the road with no other houses nearby. The driver dropped me off to see what I could do and he raced off to get help. This was long before the days of mobile phones and such like.
So I pulled my jacket over my face and battered down the front door of the place. I was in the living room and there were open plan stairs leading upstairs and an archway into the kitchen which was well ablaze. There was nobody in the lounge or kitchen that I could see so I ran upstairs and checked the 3 bedrooms. I found a toddler in a kind of large cot so I grabbed the whole thing and took that downstairs and went back for another look. I found another, slightly older kid who had completely covered himself with blankets so I nearly missed him. Anyway, he was wide awake and I got him downstairs as well before taking him and the cot outside. He told me that there was just him and his brother in the house so we just sat there and waited for the driver to either get back himself or for any help to arrive.
Before to long, but what seemed ages at the time, we heard the fire engine arriving and it was all go from there on in. An ambulance arrived next and then some folk from Social services.
The kids and I were sat in the crew bit of the Fire Engine and the kids were loving it.
Anyway, to cut a long story short, I often wonder if those kids grew up to be scientists or something like that and did things that changed the world for the better.

I know what you're thinking.
"What happened to the parents? Where were they?"
You would never guess.
It transpired that they had gone to the pub for a night out and left a 13 year old girl to babysit. The girl had gone home at 11pm (the agreed time for the parents to be home by) but the parents had gone on from the pub to a wife swapping party. So a bit of the other was very expensive for them, but almost a lot costlier.