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Subject: RE: BS: My claim to fame - whats yours? From: GUEST,Karen Date: 20 Jun 01 - 12:54 PM When my dad played baseball in the minors, he was up against the pitcher Satchel Paige in an exhibition game. He never got a hit off him, of course. Satchel's fastball was just a blur! |
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Subject: RE: BS: My claim to fame - whats yours? From: Jacob B Date: 20 Jun 01 - 01:01 PM My father had Doc Egerton as a lab instructor at MIT, and I attended a bones workshop he led (really! It stands to reason that a man as bright as that would play bones!) I still have the practice bones he passed out, cut from pieces of straight lath and stamped with Egerton's office rubber stamp. I used to catch clothes as they came offstage for Ann Corio's This Was Burlesque show, and Minsky's Burlesque Follies '76. I have a picture of me with Ann Corio. |
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Subject: RE: BS: My claim to fame - whats yours? From: RangerSteve Date: 20 Jun 01 - 01:06 PM Billy Joel was in my 10th grade math class.That was in Hicksville (yes, really, the town is called Hicksville) Long Island, NY. In the same class, I sat next to Virginia Calahan, Billy's former girlfriend and the same Virginia he sings about in "Only the Good Die Young". A band that I was in did the soundtrack for a triple-X rated film called Big Abner. It was a pornographic take-off on the Little Abner comic strip. This was years ago and we were willing to do almost anything for money, since paying jobs for old-time string bands were few and far between at the time. And still are. I saw the completed film at a sleazy movie house on Times Square, and I can,in all fairness, say that you don't need to ever see this flick. It has just occured to me that someone scanning this paragraph quickly is going to read it as "Billy Joel was in an X-rated movie. I don't know how I feel about that. Just don't blame me for starting the rumor. |
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Subject: RE: BS: My claim to fame - whats yours? From: Matt_R Date: 20 Jun 01 - 01:06 PM WHOA Fib!! That's cool! Lol. All I have to say is "Oh YEAH!" |
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Subject: RE: BS: My claim to fame - whats yours? From: mousethief Date: 20 Jun 01 - 01:08 PM The best man in my first wedding went to high school with Chris Pirsig. Everybody is just once removed from fame, no? Alex |
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Subject: RE: BS: My claim to fame - whats yours? From: GUEST,Karen Date: 20 Jun 01 - 01:22 PM Hey Jacob B! Thanks for that. I never met the man but have spoken to his son on the phone (we are doing genealogical work). It sounds like he was a lot of fun. I didn't know about his bones workshop. Speaking of best men, Alex, my husband was a musician at a wedding were Henry Winkler (Fonzie) was the best man. The list just keeps growing!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: My claim to fame - whats yours? From: Amergin Date: 20 Jun 01 - 01:32 PM Hmmm....my great-grandfather's cousin was Cordell Hull... My second cousin is Bill Lair...who has been in several national interviews and books about Laos.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: My claim to fame - whats yours? From: Justa Picker Date: 20 Jun 01 - 01:35 PM I was performing at a supper club with my Jazz band (a number of years ago) and Tony Bennett (in the audience having dinner) got out of his seat and approached me on our first break and asked if we'd mind if he came up and sang a few tunes with us. He said "you guys swing real good". (Yeah...like we'd mind!) Ended up doing two sets with him. The people in the room went nuts. Afterwards he bought the band rounds of drinks, autographed some charts of his tunes I'd had, and gave me his home number and that of his manager's. We've remained friends over the years, and still touch base with each other occasionally. |
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Subject: RE: BS: My claim to fame - whats yours? From: Clinton Hammond Date: 20 Jun 01 - 01:42 PM Got heckled by John Allen Cameron last weekend... jammed a bit with him at the pub afterwards... Have hung out with James Keelaghan at my local... But the fame I'm proud of most, is my own! ;-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: My claim to fame - whats yours? From: jeffp Date: 20 Jun 01 - 01:52 PM My aunt dated Cosmo Allegretti (Dancing Bear on Captain Kangaroo). I once played touch football with Eunice Kennedy Shriver. jeffp |
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Subject: RE: BS: My claim to fame - whats yours? From: Grab Date: 20 Jun 01 - 01:54 PM Family claims to fame: My dad was at school with John Renbourne, albeit in a different year (JR was 4-5 years above my dad). My great-grandfather set up the department store "Crawfords" in Hong Kong (basically the Hong Kong version of Harrod's), but through some shady boardroom deal he lost control of the company and got booted out (about 1930). Personal claims to fame: Met Prince Philip when I was collecting my Duke of Edinburgh's Gold. Otherwise very little. Graham. |
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Subject: RE: BS: My claim to fame - whats yours? From: GUEST,Kim C no cookie today Date: 20 Jun 01 - 02:09 PM I sold a futon to Bela Fleck; I sold ice cream to Ranger Doug and Too Slim of Riders in the Sky; and I sold a bedroom suite to Woody Paul of Riders in the Sky for his teenage daughter. No, the furniture store did not sell ice cream. It was two different jobs. Also sold a stone angel to Emmylou Harris's mother. And a down comforter to Bernie Leadon. (hey, this is Nashville, after all) One of my ancestors, Jacob Van Meter, was among the first to settle Hardin County, KY. He was a French & Indian and Rev War vet and there is a DAR chapter named after him in Elizabethtown, KY. I can yodel and impress my friends at parties. :-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: My claim to fame - whats yours? From: CarolC Date: 20 Jun 01 - 02:20 PM I posed nude for a calendar wearing nothing but my accordion...
I like to call the following kinds of things 'sideways fame' because they're not quite the same as 'full-on' fame...
I ran the sound board for about one third of a Peter Rowan concert.
I was the first person to officially collect, identify, and catalogue a specimen of a Swamp Rose Mallow (Hybiscus Palustris) in the history of the state of Oklahoma.
The artist who did the Elvis stamp (remember the Elvis stamp?) has a pen an ink drawing of mine hanging in his home. I don't know if they're still there, but for years, the Tulsa Zoo had 'Native American artifacts' that I had actually either made, or artificially aged, and were displaying them in part of their museum as the 'real thing'. |
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Subject: RE: BS: My claim to fame - whats yours? From: Trapper Date: 20 Jun 01 - 02:28 PM My Great-Great-Grandfather was the tailor to Kaiser Wilhelm. I got to be the "Sixth Dimension" with the Fifth Dimension on "Age of Aquarius" at a local venue (years ago!) I got to sing "Last Thing On My Mind" at the Winnipeg Folk Festival backed up by James Keelaghan and Anne Hills! I was the father to the sweetest girl on earth. - Al |
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Subject: RE: BS: My claim to fame - whats yours? From: GUEST,Kim C no cookie Date: 20 Jun 01 - 02:28 PM (man I need to go fix that damn cookie) I forgot to mention that my calligraphy hangs in many establishments in Nashville. Each year, the Nashville Scene (a weekly newspaper where I used to work) has a Best of Nashville poll, and I inscribe the certificates for the winners. I have done it for about the last 8 years. |
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Subject: RE: BS: My claim to fame - whats yours? From: gnu Date: 20 Jun 01 - 02:33 PM I try to go out of my way to be kind to others and help out when I can. Of course, being a gnu, I can lose control without warning when someone is rude, so I guess it all evens out. Like George Carlin said, "...I just want to be a cool guy." Nothin special about this good ol Kent County boy. Well, actually, although it's PI these days, I am THE best partridge hunter in the world, since Dad passed away. My huntin buddies don't call me Bird Dog for nothin.
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Subject: RE: BS: My claim to fame - whats yours? From: Dorrie Date: 20 Jun 01 - 02:34 PM oooooooooh sooooooooooo many-but the other day me and my sister had our picture taken with billy bragg at beverley folk festival.Which isnt that ace as i know sam pirt!!!!!!!!!!! And my sisters boyfriend knows hannah from sclub7 and myleene from hear'say. Well i was amazed love dorrie xxx |
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Subject: RE: BS: My claim to fame - whats yours? From: Donuel Date: 20 Jun 01 - 03:19 PM The original post was about a cousin ; mine is Gene Hackman. Personally I made 1st cello in college. As a clinical hypnotist I introduced many doctors to the advanced uses in surgical blood pressure/fear/pain control. I got kicked off Maestronet for claiming amateur built violins might out perform the $14,000 violins of Michael Darnton (an uptight administrator of the site). |
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Subject: RE: BS: My claim to fame - whats yours? From: Linda Kelly Date: 20 Jun 01 - 03:38 PM I was in the cage on TISWAS (no applause please).My knees appeared on Young Scientist of the Year. My friend John played a tree on Dr Who.I got Richard Geres autograph outside the Monet exhibition in London- he is soooo small! My brother got an MBE for sorting out toilets in Albania and then of course there was the 1978 Coventry City squad -but frankly that is more information than you need to know and I do not wish to incriminate myself.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: My claim to fame - whats yours? From: GUEST,Amos Date: 20 Jun 01 - 03:58 PM My second girlfriend ever married John Hammond Junior. Only after we parted, though. I wanted to but couldn't pass the physical. |
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Subject: RE: BS: My claim to fame - whats yours? From: sophocleese Date: 20 Jun 01 - 04:13 PM My grandfather had occasional duties as bodyguard to Haile Selassie when he was in England. One of my great grandfathers, in a union, met Lenin. A brother of mine has played for, and been complimented by, JR. I shook Pierre Trudeau's hand when he came to our highschool and got my picture in the paper with him. One of my great great grandfathers ran a teashop where Dame Clara Butts would have some of her meals. My uncle has stood in a queue at a ski hill behind Princess Di. |
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Subject: RE: BS: My claim to fame - whats yours? From: GUEST,Drumshanty Date: 20 Jun 01 - 04:40 PM Cathal McConnell once sang me and my dad "Farewell to Ballymoney" in the Royal Oak. I got a peck on the cheek off Aly Bain once. Margaret Bennett gave me advice on singing a few years ago. I met her again recently and she is a lovely lovely lady. I had my photo taken with ace pennywhistler Alex Green last weekend. Anybody remember Alan Bradley on Coronation Street? He tried to murder Rita? I stood on his toes at the cheese counter in M&S in Manchester. Tracy Oh yeh... I work in the Scottish Parliament so I am surrounded by (in)famous faces every day. But I don't think that counts. |
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Subject: RE: BS: My claim to fame - whats yours? From: Benjamin Date: 20 Jun 01 - 04:44 PM I'm friends with Frank Coluccio's daughter. Okay, so that won't impress anyone who isn't familiar with construction companies around Seattle. Carla Leurs (a hot violin prodigy) briefly attended my school before leaving for a career touring the workd as a world class violinist. Paul Geremia dug my playing when he heard me do Sporting Life Blues. I've also met a number of classical guitarists as they come through town. Many of them know my teacher. |
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Subject: RE: BS: My claim to fame - whats yours? From: Angie Date: 20 Jun 01 - 04:58 PM well i am decended from mary queen of scot's (twice removed through marraige).my mother's cousin is dave hill from slade, my uncle gaylord single handedly brought about the invention of the surgical glove and i am the secret love child of norman wisdom. (and billy connelly squeezed my knee at the girvan folk festival ten years ago) |
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Subject: RE: BS: My claim to fame - whats yours? From: CarolC Date: 20 Jun 01 - 05:02 PM One of my paternal great-grandfathers built the historic Princess Hotel in Hamilton, Bermuda. |
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Subject: RE: BS: My claim to fame - whats yours? From: Linda Kelly Date: 20 Jun 01 - 05:16 PM Now I think about it - my father went to school with Philip Larkin who apparently was a complete shite. I got a detention from Mo Mowlam when she was our head girl and my sister ad her friend went to a party with Thin Lizzy. I also used to go drinking at the Chase Motel with Jasper Carrott and my friend Sally went on a date with Eric Clapton when she was an air stwewardess with BA. My father knew Eric & Ernie and Linda Lusardi (don't ask) |
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Subject: RE: BS: My claim to fame - whats yours? From: Clinton Hammond Date: 20 Jun 01 - 05:47 PM What's a "TISWAS"????? |
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Subject: RE: BS: My claim to fame - whats yours? From: Linda Kelly Date: 20 Jun 01 - 06:06 PM Today Is Saturday Watch And Smile! Demonic 'children's' tv programme which consisted of adults being extremely drunk and having water and gunge thrown over them and torturing young defenseless children -pretty much your average Brit Saturday morning viewing. TisWas became legendary because it gave birth to the careers of Chris tarrant and Lenny Henry. Sadly it did nothing for my career! |
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Subject: RE: BS: My claim to fame - whats yours? From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 20 Jun 01 - 07:19 PM I have served Paul Heaton of the Beautiful South, and Tracy somethingorother from Everything But The Girl, Paul lives near me he is a good bloke, I often see him in my local, that Tracy is a stuck up silly cow though,(do you know who I am kind of attitude). |
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Subject: RE: BS: My claim to fame - whats yours? From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 20 Jun 01 - 07:23 PM Ps Paul is playing at Cambridge Folk Festival this year. |
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Subject: RE: BS: My claim to fame - whats yours? From: RangerSteve Date: 20 Jun 01 - 07:30 PM In addition to my last comments here: While performing in a coffee house in Brooklyn years ago a guy came in and started backing us up on the house piano. I later learned that it was Peter Schikele - PDQ Bach. He definately had a talent for old-time string band music. My harmonica playing was complemented by Leon Redbone, but not to my face. I was directing traffic once and held up traffic so Senator Bill Bradley could cross the street. I said "Good Evening" to him but he ignored me. Now he'll never get my vote. He was also in the audience at Albert Music Hall in Waretown NJ when my band was playing. He's so tall that he had to sit in an aisle seat with his legs in the aisle. I almost tripped on his feet in the dark. I also shook hands with Kaptain Kangaroo at a supermarket opening when I was 6 yrs. old. |
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Subject: RE: BS: My claim to fame - whats yours? From: Jim Dixon Date: 20 Jun 01 - 09:10 PM I have shaken hands with Hubert Humphrey and George McGovern (at different times -- as well as some Minnesota politicians you wouldn't care about.) I once ran into Senator Paul Wellstone in my favorite bookstore. We exchanged a few words about the books we were buying. The owner of this bookstore, when he was in high school, went to a Jewish summer camp with Bob Dylan. I have visited in the home of my state senator, who once shook hands with Groucho Marx! (He has the photo on his wall.) The funeral director who directed my father-in-law's funeral once dated Tammy Faye Bakker, before she married Jim Bakker. My cousin was literally a face in the crowd in the movie, "A Face in the Crowd." She lives in Piggott, Arkansas, where it was filmed. In high school, my best friend's biology lab partner was Sue Diller, daughter of Phyllis Diller. Another friend's older brother was a high school classmate of Dick Gephardt. In college, I lived in the same house with a guy whose cat ran away and was found by Muriel Humphrey, wife of Hubert Humphrey. |
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Subject: RE: BS: My claim to fame - whats yours? From: Geoff the Duck Date: 20 Jun 01 - 09:13 PM Juggling Custard. |
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Subject: RE: BS: My claim to fame - whats yours? From: Lyrical Lady Date: 20 Jun 01 - 10:41 PM I'm related to Jaqueline Bissett . My new house is in the same neighbourhood as Randy Bachman from Bachman, Turner Overdrive and Valdy lives just 'round the corner. LL |
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Subject: RE: BS: My claim to fame - whats yours? From: wdyat12 Date: 20 Jun 01 - 10:55 PM I found true love after fifty. wdyat12 |
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Subject: RE: BS: My claim to fame - whats yours? From: wdyat12 Date: 20 Jun 01 - 11:05 PM I also scored the only touchdown during the entire 1962 football season at Needham Highschool on the Junior Varsity Team. I recovered a fumble on the first play after the half and ran 56 yards with little or no intereference from the other team. They won 6-0. It was a very long ride home in that bus. wdyat12 |
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Subject: RE: BS: My claim to fame - whats yours? From: Amergin Date: 21 Jun 01 - 12:26 AM the only touchdown? boy, you sure had a great team....it's pretty bad when the cheerleaders are better players than the jocks.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: My claim to fame - whats yours? From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 21 Jun 01 - 02:17 AM It is a sad state of fame... when YOUR personal claim... is diseasedly based
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Subject: RE: BS: My claim to fame - whats yours? From: CarolC Date: 21 Jun 01 - 02:27 AM Didn't see you in the calendar, GUEST,.gargoyle. Maybe next year, eh? |
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Subject: RE: BS: My claim to fame - whats yours? From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 21 Jun 01 - 02:29 AM I was there You didn't look in the right place. |
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Subject: RE: BS: My claim to fame - whats yours? From: CarolC Date: 21 Jun 01 - 02:34 AM Oh, you mean like one of those 'Where's Waldo' books? Cool. |
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Subject: RE: BS: My claim to fame - whats yours? From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler Date: 21 Jun 01 - 10:41 AM My wife's sister's husband's sister's son (are you with me so far?) is Ollie Knights, one half of pop acoustic duo Turin Brakes ("The new Simon and Garfunkel") who seem to be getting plenty of gigs and plugs in the press for their concerts and records recently though I've never heard them. RtS (Is that plug OK boys,you know where to send the cheque, InOBU taught me all I know!) |
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Subject: RE: BS: My claim to fame - whats yours? From: Bat Goddess Date: 21 Jun 01 - 12:38 PM Kissed by Oliver Reed? Not bad, tho' I'd prefer Alan Bates. In actuality, I HAVE been kissed by Louis Killen... Bat Goddess |
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Subject: RE: BS: My claim to fame - whats yours? From: wdyat12 Date: 21 Jun 01 - 02:22 PM Amergin, Our Junior Varsity Team didn't rate any cheerleaders. Not too long after that faux pas I hung up my uniform and joined a rock band. We had plenty of cheerleaders then. wdyat12 |
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Subject: RE: BS: My claim to fame - whats yours? From: GUEST,SharonA Date: 21 Jun 01 - 03:49 PM Seventh cousin to James Michener (so I'm told). Had a college English class with the niece of the man who draws "The Family Circus" comic strip (Bil Keane?) Took a songwriting workshop with Bob Franke. He said my songwriting-exercise song was "masterful", but maybe he says that to all the paying customers? Gene Shay, Philadelphia Folk Festival emcee, said I "write songs the way they ought to be written." One of these years I might actually make a real CD! |
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Subject: RE: BS: My claim to fame - whats yours? From: Matt_R Date: 21 Jun 01 - 04:07 PM Wow! My dad went to the same highschool as Bil Keane. |
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Subject: RE: BS: My claim to fame - whats yours? From: Skipper Jack Date: 21 Jun 01 - 04:28 PM Well Prince Charles shook my hand at the Swansea Shanty festival three years ago. (I was in the official welcoming line-up) But what gave me greater satisfaction was, that he stopped to hear my junior shanty group "The Nipper Jacks" singing on stage. I also met The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh at the Swansea Maritime museum when I was taking a class in a shanty workshop at the time. I was too busy with the kids to stop and talk to them!
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Subject: RE: BS: My claim to fame - whats yours? From: Harold W Date: 21 Jun 01 - 04:31 PM John Denver used to live on a street named for me. |
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Subject: RE: BS: My claim to fame - whats yours? From: Dorrie Date: 21 Jun 01 - 06:22 PM Hey john in hull- sorry 2 b a poohead but every1 knows paul heaton but its still impressive-He lives on Marlbrough ave near y the back of my house. but well done - shame u missed beverly love dorrie xxx |
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Subject: RE: BS: My claim to fame - whats yours? From: Matt_R Date: 21 Jun 01 - 06:41 PM Everyone?? Speak for yourself!! "Perfect 10" is one of my favorite songs ever!
Those anorexic chicks |