Pardon me, Burton. The ol' mince pies have been acting up lately,

Capt__F 07 Apr 16 12:40 Joined: 10 Jun 08 | Topic/replies: 11,539 | Blogger: Capt__F's blog
Burt

are you a Major ?

how did you guess that? Household cavalry actually old chap.

Bill Beaumont I think.

blimey SH where have you been hiding? Look them up I'm sure you will know loads

FFS You know who Eddie the Eagle is but not Sir Ed Hillary

See Wellard no on the list

John Lord
Ronnie James Dio
Lemmy
Rolf Harris - twice

You need to get out less S-H!

Dion Dublin and Steve Hodge for me.

I used to have a few words with Brian Clough regularly when he was alive, I used to sit behind him at the Albion. I used to see Ted Moult every Sunday as my great grandad was his farm manager and I used to play chess with Ted's daughter. I used to see Paddy Considine most weekends before we moved as he is the wife's cousin. Met loads of pro footballers when younger but probably non Scandy Haven has heard of.

yes it was some course at Burton Tech College, I think Shane came from Uttoxeter which is quite close to Burton. Paddy got into his music big time so the acting took a back seat for a while. I think he's making a new film now about a boxer that has a brain injury or something, he's offered the wife's brother a bit part in it apparently.

he's a lovely chap who had some dark spells which are mostly behind him now, his dad and 2 uncles used to have me in stitches with the stories of what they used to get up to.

Stickyvicky looks as if he shook hands with a Masters champion.

And another ...
Lord Davenport (AKA - Fast Eddie).

OP, when and where did you shake hands with Grahame Souness?

Santa Claus

I've shook hands with King Arthur.

even SH must of heard of him.



it was during the Newbury by-pass protest.

I've done some googaling and wikkiing, again.

Bill Beaumont - Rugby, retired 1982, no interest in Rugby and years before I was around.
Bilko - is this seargent bilko ? 1955 to 1959 this show ran for, can't say I saw it repeated on TV  in the 90's, we were all about Power Rangers, those mighty morphin power rangers and Neighbours, everyone needs good neighbours.
Broadway Joe - NFL player who retired in 77.
Buddy Ebsen - American entertainer born 108 years ago, no, lost on me.
Peter Ustinov. -Career highlights
In 1939, he appeared in White Cargo at the Aylesbury Rep, where he performed in a different accent every night.[9] - we've all seen the Wizard of Oz from the same year, but not this one.
Gareth Hunt - Wiki tells me he starred in Upstairs Downstairs and the New Avengers, now I have heard of both of these but never seen either.
"Black" Jack Delal - can't name many billionaires.
Selwyn Lloyd - a seemingly dull Conservative politician from the 60's and 70s.
Captain Sensible - singer songwriter, never heard of the damned or his number 1 happy talk. Though just having watched whatever I just watched on youtube, I think I'll say no more
Steve Van Zandt - Now although he was in music, apparently he was in the Soprano's for 8 years, for this I probably deserve mocking as it's a show I only ever dipped in and out of as cult as it began in more recent times.
Alan Alda Never seen MASH, though I know many repeats were shown years after.
Lee Majors - Actor, Never seen or heard anything he's been in.
Richie Richardson - see last post.
Jimmy Cricket - I know pretty much all of the modern and classic comedians but not this one.
Patrick Lichfield - zero interests in royals now let alone then.
John Lowe - darts player from the 70's/80's, no interest in darts now nay chance of having heard of one from then, Phil Taylor and Barny or whatever his name is are about the only two I could reference.
Jimmy Corkhill off Brookside - Never watched soap operas, really never understood the appeal or watching a lot of arguing and shouting and people having endless affairs along with disprotionate amount of murders n such a short space of time in such close proximity.
Bill Werbenuik - I like Snooker and know quite a few of the older players, not heard of him.
Joel garner - see last post
tmm
Barnaby Jones - is this Buddy Ebsen? never heard of the show, finished in 1980
Sir Learie Constantine see last post.
Sir Edmund Hillary given he was the first to climb Mount Everest, I may have heard his name in the past, well probably have, but would never have known it off the top of my head, still doesn't sound familiar.
Hugh Gaitskell - politician from over 60 years ago, hardly likely.
Victor Korchnoi - no chess doesn't float my boat. Last he was competitive was early 90's.
Mark Taimanov - see above.


I think you all need to start shaking hands with the present so the thread feels a bit more inclusive

as the masters is on MR. A . PALMER

I can only speak for myself but the people I mentioned were famous  in their spheres of activity at the time I met them. Isn't that the purpose of this thread? Can't think of many of the people deemed famous at the moment who I would be bothered to meet even if it were possible. There are many long since dead who I would like to have met, for example Epicurus, Charles Darwin, Paul Dirac (feel free to google ) but that's perhaps another thread?