Famous people.

[William]

Hello to all again,

Having started the Best bands thing, I got to thinking of famous people that we may have met. Suzi Quatro being the most famous musician that I have actually spoken too and for about 10 minutes. So I thought about others that I have met, shaken hands with and had a conversation with albiet briefly.

Michael Caine. Book signing in Melb.
Charlton Heston. Book signing in Melb.
The Queen. Gatwick airport terminal opening in 1988.(I have the photo too)
Pat Rafter. Shared a lift with him in Noosa back in 98. There is a really funny story to go with it but would take too long to type.

[dobbo]

Do infamous people count at all?

[shorty943]

I'd love to gossip, but, if I tell you, I have to shoot both of us.:(

Shorty.

[cartm58]

Well l've met every Prime Minister of Australia on more than one occasion and had either breakfast lunch or dinner and few drinks with them from Gough Whitlam to John Howard.

Must say the two l was most impressed with were Gough and Paul

The one l respect the most since leaving office for their views and work is Malcom.

So depending on your politics they fit both the famous and infamour catergories

[Redback]

OK

I had dinner with Richard Clapton at Kings Cross, we had the only table left in the resturant that had room enough for them, so we let them sit with us.

Then a dance with Renye Gayer later that night at the Mansel room night club, big girl;) and very nice to talk too, a very interesting night:D

I've also met Wayne Gardner, Kenny Roberts, Barry Sheen (what a top Bloke) Wayne Rainey and Keven Bartlett (another top bloke) he took me for a spin around Eastern creek:D

Have also raced against Paul and Shaun Giles (watched Shaun grow up racing bikes from his first meeting at Fairburn Park.

[Pedro_The_Swift]

I had a beer with Inc once,, then met Vlad,,





I think Inc was the hilight---





have I mentioned this BSOD I keep getting Inc??
:p;):D

[crump]

I used to drink a lot of grog with William McGuinness.

[Utemad]

My sister went to school with that blonde chick that was famous for a little bit. Forget her name but was in the first dodgy tv band 'Bardot' and that movie that was like 'Scary Movie' but wasn't. She used to come over to our house sometimes.

Very memorable obviously :D

I wouldn't call concerts meeting someone but went to the last Gympie Music Muster and saw quite a few famous people (the singers) wandering around in the crowd.

EDIT: Just did a Google search and it was Sophie Monk and the movie was Date Movie.

[JohnE]

Second go at this, buggered up the phots,
now let me see, famous or infamous, infamous always conjured up all sorts of things,
let me start with the bad guys, arrested Sallie ann Huckstep once, she was a great liar.
gangland bosses, Tony eustace wasn't a bad bloke always knew which horse was going to win, too bad someone shot him, Mick Sayers always pleasant, but he too went by the way of the bullet.
Murray Farquar, very shifty,
most of them you wouldn;t cross the road to speak to them, unless of course you were working, good crooks for CIU's.
back to resonable people,
robert ballard, at a book launch, very interesting bloke
Barry Humphries a real gentleman ( when he was in a suit)
Sting and Bob Geldoff, quietly spoken both of them.
the previous popes bodyguards,

Policiticians all seem to be tarred with the same brush, a conversation with neville wran convinced me he wasn't a nice man.
That US woman Madelaine Albright when clinton was here in 95 I think,typical yank though she could do what she wanted, her opening line,' Do you know who i am...' fancy saying that to a nsw copper who isn't impressed ( me)
famous aussies
michael diamond, russell mark, suzy balogh, clive and george barton
Countess Pinky Le grelle , british comm games skeet shooter, lesley goddard, the whole irish trap team(always in the bar at the village)
Mike Munro, no he doesn't count he is only a journo.
I know some more famous ones, at least they told me they were famous( probably to get in the photo)



https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2007/03/206.jpg (http://www.aulro.com/app/showphoto.php/photo/4370/ppuser/8616)

can't remember her name she won a gold medal i think

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2007/03/207.jpg (http://www.aulro.com/app/showphoto.php/photo/4372/ppuser/8616)

This bloke was famous didn't he do an ad


https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2007/03/208.jpg (http://www.aulro.com/app/showphoto.php/photo/4371/ppuser/8616)

they looked famous

so there my commonwealth games experience meant i rubbed shoulders with them all , after all they all took pity on the Falklands Team.


https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2007/03/209.jpg (http://www.aulro.com/app/showphoto.php/photo/4373/ppuser/8616)

even this bloke and his girl , again taking pity talking to our Chef De Mission Patrick.

john

[JohnE]

Pedro
just remembered , I met Vlad too.
I now know our borders are safe.


john

[LoadedDisco]

Well through Security work.
Ex ruler of Dubai.
Rolling Stones.
Anthony Hopkins.
Paris & Nicky Hilton.
Natalle Imbrugllia & Daniel Johns.
Thorpy (Super Fish).
Jimmy Barnes.
Sophie Monk.
There are a few others as well, I have a few pics and newspaper articles and some magazines where I have been snapped in a photo with some of them.

[RobHay]

Brendan Abbott........I have had the honour of putting handcuffs on him:eek: and explaining to him that I was on the winning team...he was the loser:nazilock:

[GregTD5]

Sir David Attenborough, when he was in Darwin doing a story on termite mounds. One of the nicest people I've had the pleasure of meeting.

[JohnE]

Hey Rob of the Hay,
thats a good well known infamous one.



john

[William]

Second go at this, buggered up the phots,
now let me see, famous or infamous, infamous always conjured up all sorts of things,
let me start with the bad guys, arrested Sallie ann Huckstep once, she was a great liar.
gangland bosses, Tony eustace wasn't a bad bloke always knew which horse was going to win, too bad someone shot him, Mick Sayers always pleasant, but he too went by the way of the bullet.
Murray Farquar, very shifty,
most of them you wouldn;t cross the road to speak to them, unless of course you were working, good crooks for CIU's.
back to resonable people,
robert ballard, at a book launch, very interesting bloke
Barry Humphries a real gentleman ( when he was in a suit)
Sting and Bob Geldoff, quietly spoken both of them.
the previous popes bodyguards,

Policiticians all seem to be tarred with the same brush, a conversation with neville wran convinced me he wasn't a nice man.
That US woman Madelaine Albright when clinton was here in 95 I think,typical yank though she could do what she wanted, her opening line,' Do you know who i am...' fancy saying that to a nsw copper who isn't impressed ( me)
famous aussies
michael diamond, russell mark, suzy balogh, clive and george barton
Countess Pinky Le grelle , british comm games skeet shooter, lesley goddard, the whole irish trap team(always in the bar at the village)
Mike Munro, no he doesn't count he is only a journo.
I know some more famous ones, at least they told me they were famous( probably to get in the photo)



https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2007/03/206.jpg (http://www.aulro.com/app/showphoto.php/photo/4370/ppuser/8616)

can't remember her name she won a gold medal i think

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2007/03/207.jpg (http://www.aulro.com/app/showphoto.php/photo/4372/ppuser/8616)

This bloke was famous didn't he do an ad


https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2007/03/208.jpg (http://www.aulro.com/app/showphoto.php/photo/4371/ppuser/8616)

they looked famous

so there my commonwealth games experience meant i rubbed shoulders with them all , after all they all took pity on the Falklands Team.


https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2007/03/209.jpg (http://www.aulro.com/app/showphoto.php/photo/4373/ppuser/8616)

even this bloke and his girl , again taking pity talking to our Chef De Mission Patrick.

john

If there was to be a trophy for this, I'd say you'd be in the running.

Cheers.

[Quiggers]

Yeah, well I've met JohnE!!! beat that:D :D :D

GQ

(g'day John, the beach and the river was picture perfect today)

[dobbo]

Yeah, well I've met JohnE!!! beat that:D :D :D

GQ

(g'day John, the beach and the river was picture perfect today)



Simple



I am DOBBO;)

[shorty943]

Safe names.

Chatted and drank beer with Keith Payne, Australia's only living Victoria Cross recipient. Several times.:D

Went to school with Jeremy Burgess of 500GP fame. Aldgate Primary, inthe Adelaide Hills. And his rather attractive blonde sister Katie.;)

Ditto, Robert Klompe, 1970's VFL Carlton, ex-Sturt, ex Aldgate PS.

Had a chat with Bev Harrell, as I carried her costume cases for her, a couple of years ago. Ah, boyhood crushes.:blush:

Got snubbed by that wine and sailing fellow, Hardy. Does that count?


Erm,

Probably also knew, in my youth, some of the same people JohnE did.
Sailor's sort of liked "The Cross". :angel:

Shorty.

[markyc]

Dunno who the bird is but that's one good lookin fella!:D
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ (http://img267.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc00080sr0.jpg)

[Disco300Tdi]

Tsk, Tsk, Tsk....Queen Elizabeth 2nd once told me to never drop names....

[LoadedDisco]

Tsk, Tsk, Tsk....Queen Elizabeth 2nd once told me to never drop names....

One I don't do Security anymore and there is nothing wrong with dropping names as long as you don't tell the tails that could go with those names. :p

Maybe you don't have a name to drop other than your avatar ?

[Disco300Tdi]

Maybe you don't have a name to drop other than your avatar ?

Never met the guy, but I like his humour

[Quiggers]

I reckon it's amazing how Russell Coight looks like George W Bush. When Bush goes soon, he could front the USA version of Russell Coights All Aussie Adventures - a position he would be ideally suited for.......

I can see it now, George's Tours of Texas: "Afore we goes drarvin, we needs ta change the ingin in tha Suburban, ah. N git a sixpack ah Bud."
And - ah needs to put in the gern racks, n git sum shells. En we kin take Cheney 'long, he's a guuud shot."

GQ

[p38arover]

Oddly enough, I've never heard of most of the people in these lists. It would be easier to name the ones I have heard of (about a dozen of them and they are actors) than the ones I haven't. :)

I couldn't recognise anyone in JohnE's pics.


Ron

[dobbo]

Dunno who the bird is but that's one good lookin fella!:D
http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/656/dsc00080sr0.th.jpg (http://img267.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc00080sr0.jpg)



Bloody hell is Kate famous?
Whats she done?

[Pedro_The_Swift]

Well through Security work.

Ex ruler of Dubai.




hmmm,

so many jokes so little insurance,,

:wasntme::angel:;)

[gghaggis]

Many years ago, I was installing a sound system in a prominent Perth doctor's mansion in Claremont. He was having a party that night and we were struggling to have the job finished in time. As my father had been an old professor of his, he invited us to stay back and 'monitor' the system - which I seemed to recall consisted of us walking around with bottles of champagne we couldn't pronounce and chatting to his (rather celebrious) guests. I ended the night getting drunk with Kate Manning (of Dr Who fame) and Andrew Sachs (Manuel from Fawlty Towers). Quite a night!

Cheers,

Gordon

[BigJon]

Andrew Sachs (Manuel from Fawlty Towers). Quite a night!

Cheers,

Gordon

The Sicilian Twit!!

[LoadedDisco]

:p
hmmm,

so many jokes so little insurance,,

:wasntme::angel:;)

Dont need insurance on this issue and I dont joke.:p

I could even scan my pay recept and invoice for the job and PM for proof, but that would make you cry how much I was payed for 8 days work. :p

[JohnE]

Sorry Ron,
they came out small, probably below the focal length for your glasses,
here you go,
Surely you recognise the bigger photo
http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w248/JohnE_1/FalklandsExperience180.jpg

this one is an extra, a familiar face maybe?

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w248/JohnE_1/FalklandsExperience143.jpg

You mustn;t have been watching anything commonwealth games, i think her name is hewitt, Comm Games Gold medalist
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/


john

[p38arover]

Sorry Ron,
they came out small, probably below the focal length for your glasses,
here you go,
Surely you recognise the bigger photo


this one is an extra, a familiar face maybe?



You mustn;t have been watching anything commonwealth games, i think her name is hewitt, Comm Games Gold medalist
http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w248/JohnE_1/FalklandsExperience117.jpg


john

The first two I recognise - Blair (?) and the Queen. I assume the woman with Blair (?) is his wife. The last? No idea. I've never heard of her and I never watch sport - not even the Olympics nor the Comm Games. I have absolutely no interest in sport of any kind. I can't understand why anyone would watch it.

Note that I rarely ever watch TV news and I don't buy newspapers. In fact, I can't remember the last time I watched the news.

Ron

[p38arover]

Bloody hell is Kate famous?
Whats she done?

Well, there is that, um, special movie of hers on the 'Net.

Ron

[Quiggers]

Looks like a scene from Dr Who, mate!

Only the smart people are not wearing sunglasses.

What was this: a comparison of beaks or crows feet?:D :D :D :D :D

Has a nice smile, your "chef de mission", we should give him a job as he'll be available shortly.......;)

Q

BTW: for any doubters: John is okay, .....okay.

GQ

[markyc]

Hey! Don't talk about my girl that way:p:p

[Mud_Bogger6]

I've Met Brocky, Brocky's son, Rex Hunt and Bushy, and a heap of the racers from the 24hour

[Disco300Tdi]

Note that I rarely ever watch TV news and I don't buy newspapers. In fact, I can't remember the last time I watched the news.

Ron


Well, there is that, um, special movie of hers on the 'Net.

Ron

What sort of profile am I building of you Ron :eek: :eek:

[Quiggers]

I wanna know our new newby's bonafides, before I answer any more of Williams curious and fascinating questions - like how many times have you been bogged and/or how many times have you pulled out a Toymota punter from a bog?:twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

William, you ask more qs than me and, well...........okay........

Status Quo (Vadis)..........1974:cool: Alan is here, god love earth media

GQ

[Tote]

Had a few Beers with Nash Chambers ( Kasey's brother )
Met Felicity Urquhart backstage
Met Tricia Yearwood at a signing
Shook Neville Wran's hand and have to agree with JohnE that he's shifty.
regards,
Tote

[noddy]

PLayed pool with Rob Smith from The Cure fame....very interesting night. I forgot my make-up and hair spray and was the odd one out!:D


Grew up with some of the more notorious Bra Boyz, but I would not call them famous...;)

[Quiggers]

They (bra boys) will be famous soon.

Had brekky with Sara Storer a few weeks ago, such a nice person, and sings like an angel.............

GQ

[p38arover]

What sort of profile am I building of you Ron :eek: :eek:

I've only heard about it!

Ron

[MacMan]

One of the funniest things I have seen is Bill Hunter and another familiar Australian actor whose name I forget winding up a young shop assistant on grand final day a couple of years back. They were both dressed to impress if you were living in the 1960s (but this was two years ago, and they pulled it off wonderfully) and they were carrying on as if they were both handicapped with seriously impared speech. The young bloke had no idea who they were which made it even better to watch.

I've asked Mick Gatto to leave somewhere before (politely). He did, and told me I was a gentleman. I twigged the next day.

I've also met a number of medal winning athletes and been part of the tech/equipment support.

Also walked into Jason Donovan in Chapel St (literally), didn't give him the time of day.

Chatted to Sigrid Thornton in a supermarket. She's tiny!

Done business with one of the Fox boys.

[hiline]

i've done heaps of work over the years for celebs :D :D

[BigJon]

, and sings like an angel.............

GQ

Now that is a matter of opinion...:p

[hiline]

Now that is a matter of opinion...:p


some of her songs are ok :D

but not many though :angel:

[barney]

HERE WE GO welcome to namedroppers corner
at the last lroc meeting i met warren brown, cartoonist from telegraph and who did the paris to peking thing, garry garry beers used to own my yoot, done some work at richard carter's house (actor) pretended i'd never heard of him 'cos he's a nob, used to do electrical work at ian moss's place in harbord, kevin borich on numerous occaisions, my ex wife was good friends with gina jefferies before she was famous, herm kovacs (drummer from TMG), a whole lot of country musos from tamworth that no one has ever heard of, don burrows, that'll do.

[BigJon]

done some work at richard carter's house (actor) pretended i'd never heard of him 'cos he's a nob.

I don't think I have ever heard of him anyway...

[BigJon]

a whole lot of country musos from tamworth that no one has ever heard of

Do you know Cat Southern?

[landrovermick]

Speaking of games - I shook hands with Nelson Mandela at Sydney 2000

met many of the athletes and hangers on - we werent allowed to take photos but !

[cookiesa]

Have been go cart racing with Lowndes and Seaton when they were both racing for Ford. Both easy going and down to earth, no big ego's even though they well and truely outclassed the rest of us. Even ate the BBQ that was put on.

We told Craig about one of the girls who was a big fan of his but wasn't able to go so we called her and he said hello. She thought we were having her on for a while..... then she realised who she was talking too! He signed a poster and made reference to the call for us to give to her when we got back... She was very embarrased!

[JohnE]

This thread is becoming interesting,

Ron , you are the first person I have come across that doesn't know about sport. BTW the Commonwealth Games were in Melbourne this time last year. Tony Blair is the PM of GB and that was his wife next to him, while they were visitng the athletes village during the games.

Hey Noddy I grew up at the bay,born and bred there, when there were only three schools to go to, bay infants, bay primary and bay high, The bra boys who the hell are they, probably children of the same losers, that used to think they ran the south end.

NOw lets have some name dropping, John Matheson of Paris to Peking used to work with him, not a bad bloke in his day. He used to live /or still does under the lighthouse at vaucluse , went to a news years party there a few years ago.
My missus knows/knew ric carter, years ago and he was a nob then.

Mick were you in DAP during 2000 or just on a gate, We doggies went everywhere and met everyone.


john

[JohnE]

It is becoming more and more interesting, finding out what makes people tick on this site, I would have thought most people would have had a tale to tell,
Please don't be offended .but i am so far seeing two lots who don't keep up with politics nor are interested in sport. It makes me wonder.
Quiggers that may be something for a forthcoming survery/ article how many of the general population fit into that category.

we are indeed a diverse society , in beliefs and ideals.


keep em coming


john

[numpty]

OK my turn. Met the late Govenor of NSW, Sir Roden Cutler, when I were a young bloke. A thouroughly charming gentleman. Not famous perhaps ( at least not to me, as she is the wrong flavour ), but met the Hon. De anne Kelly, local member for Whitsunday. That was yesterday at the official opening of our Fire Station on Hamilton Island's Gt. Barrier Reef Airport.
Scratching the bottom of the barrel now.:p

[p38arover]

I've met a few pollies including Gough when he was PM and some Labor Ministers of the Crown (and couple were stuck up mongrels, too) . I used go drinking every Friday night at the Minister for Communications house in Norfolk Island. :D

But I can't think of anyone important.

I supplied car parts to one of the competitors in the Paris-Peking Rally (one of the Hillman Hunters. The team couldn't get parts in the UK so they were referred to me - my email address at that time was hillman@bigpond.com and I ran the Hillman Owners Club website).

[p38arover]

Ron , you are the first person I have come across that doesn't know about sport.

When I said I take no interest in sport - I meant exactly that. I couldn't identify many sports persons.

During the Olympics I was offered free tickets to a corporate box at the athletics (plus hotel accommodation for the night). I turned them down as I couldn't think of anything more boring than watching athletics (except maybe football of any code). I was a bit more diplomatic than that.

I grew up in a home where my parents had no interest in sport and I suppose it transferred across. My sisters have no interest and neither do my kids. My wife watches equestrian events but that's it -she's not interested in general sports either.

In newspaper quizzes we do very well on general knowledge but can never answer any sporting question.

Ron

[incisor]

i once drove abagail around in a very early lamborghini...

never liked her on the idiot box, but she very nice person face to face...

[p38arover]

i once drove abagail around in a very early lamborghini...

never liked her on the idiot box, but she very nice person face to face...

Or face to....... :eek:


:D

Ron

[incisor]

Or face to....... :eek:
yep that summed it up..... i am 5"6" :P

[JohnE]

Again mate please don't be offended.
Its interesting,
as far as the olympics, it is a shame you didn't take up the offer, although I worked clearing and patrolling a lot of the venues with my little black dog. Sydney had an atmospere I can only describe as electric, completely different to its normal self. I know it may sound weird and I may have been sniffing too much explosive, but its true, I even had a day off during the first week and took my son into the basketball. Visiting as a punter was an unreal experience, then later in the week i was lucky to be given a ticket to the trap shooting finals, aside from nearly knowing everyone in the stands , it too was different,
the whole olympic and paralympic experience is something that will, for me, stand out for a long time in my mind, and yea there was a lot of elbow rubbing especially in the games village. and other behind the scenes areas.
Oh yea, the only athletics that turned me on, was when the para games were on, they deserved everything they got.
Both experiences for me, as a worker at Sydney 2000 and a team official at Melbourne 2006, have remained as experiences that far exceed those normal day to day events we all go through,
plus I get to do some good name dropping.


john

[MarknDeb]

Um this will be good for the memory

in 88 or 89 i met and walked around the Brisbane Airport terminal with Tony Curtis (i was a security gaurd back then), same place Ell Mac pherson, Bob Hawke, Sir Peter ABles & lots of others i cant remember.

When i was about 18 a great aunty invited us (the Family) out to dinner with Jimmy Stewart

[p38arover]

Again mate please don't be offended.
Its interesting,
as far as the olympics, it is a shame you didn't take up the offer,

Nor offended in the least. I hope I don't offend thee by taking no interest in sport. :)

The best thing about the Olympics was that traffic to and from work was much reduced. It took me less time to get to/from work during the Olympics (and for some time after).

I didn't watch any of the events (apart from the opening ceremony - I didn't bother watching the closing ceremony) on TV and couldn't care less who won what or which country won more medals. It was completely unimportant to me.

I wouldn't have attended anything anyway as I absolutely hate crowds and will not go anywhere where there are crowds.

Ron

[barney]

I don't think I have ever heard of him anyway...
nothing to get excited by any way. he does those ads where he's dressed up as ming the merciless doing the ironing and he was the top cop in white collar blue. he used to do stand up when the oils would play at the antler

[BigJon]

nothing to get excited by any way. he does those ads where he's dressed up as ming the merciless doing the ironing and he was the top cop in white collar blue. he used to do stand up when the oils would play at the antler

Nope, still don't know him :D :D

[landrovermick]

Again mate please don't be offended.
Its interesting,
as far as the olympics, it is a shame you didn't take up the offer, although I worked clearing and patrolling a lot of the venues with my little black dog. Sydney had an atmospere I can only describe as electric, completely different to its normal self. I know it may sound weird and I may have been sniffing too much explosive, but its true, I even had a day off during the first week and took my son into the basketball. Visiting as a punter was an unreal experience, then later in the week i was lucky to be given a ticket to the trap shooting finals, aside from nearly knowing everyone in the stands , it too was different,
the whole olympic and paralympic experience is something that will, for me, stand out for a long time in my mind, and yea there was a lot of elbow rubbing especially in the games village. and other behind the scenes areas.
Oh yea, the only athletics that turned me on, was when the para games were on, they deserved everything they got.
Both experiences for me, as a worker at Sydney 2000 and a team official at Melbourne 2006, have remained as experiences that far exceed those normal day to day events we all go through,
plus I get to do some good name dropping.


john

yeah john, i was on the gates at the athletes villiage - so i spent the entire games sittinginside a white tent xraying things - i hated it to the max - was on the quads on the first day though - made the papers as apparently someone :wasntme: caused 10 grands worth of damage to the villiage.

in the end i chucked that many sikkies that when time came to send people back to their units early i got to go early.

as for athletes that were nice - the para's were the best nicests professional athletes i have ever met -

you still at the doggies - is gleddo still there ?

Mick - 31407

[953]

Molly Meldrem, Ruth Cracknell,Frank Thring, Graham Blundell,Sandy Roberts, Jeff Fenech,Mark Mitchell, Eric Bana,&
Glen Robbins
Hows that 4 a mixed bunch?:eek:
Cheers Dean.

[DiscoTDI]

My wife went to school with Justin Leptch. My wife and I have both met Keiron Perkins, wish we hadnt:D. I got rather drunk with Jack the mus's missus from once were warriors, cant remember her name. I have met Colin Bond on quite a few occasions. My wife met Hayley Lewis, and has met Micheal Micheal Hill Hill Jeweler Jeweler (for those of you who remember the most annoying ads). I have shaken hands with Prince Charles

[p38arover]

I forgot about Colleen McCullough. She gave me a full set of her books - all autographed "To Ron and Elisabeth, with love, Colleen McCullough" - when I left Norfolk Island.

Ron

[abaddonxi]

HERE WE GO welcome to namedroppers corner
at the last lroc meeting i met warren brown, cartoonist from telegraph and who did the paris to peking thing, garry garry beers used to own my yoot, done some work at richard carter's house (actor) pretended i'd never heard of him 'cos he's a nob, used to do electrical work at ian moss's place in harbord, kevin borich on numerous occaisions, my ex wife was good friends with gina jefferies before she was famous, herm kovacs (drummer from TMG), a whole lot of country musos from tamworth that no one has ever heard of, don burrows, that'll do.

Know Richard from working on Wildside and he acted in a short film I made a few years back. Good bloke by me.

Cheers
Simon

[JohnE]

Thanks ron, I didn't think you would take it the wrong way, hey your not doing too bad though dropping some good names every now and then. Collen McCulloch is a good one.

Hey Mick, thought as much, you'd know me then, my face anyway, mark smith and i were there nearly everyday, i was the bloke that started up the random f/p's off in all the public access areas, circular quay etc, only because I was told we couldn't do it.
So you were on the nightshift that all the trouble occured,with the quads. I remeber seeing some divots near the back fence
Were you working the day the Atlantics came through the xray tent,
you'd know darryl holder and greg black, they turned into grade one knobs there at that venue.
You know the little garden of plastic animals the aussie netballers had in front of their house, mine and smithys dog made off with them.
The credit union did a blurb on me at the commonwealth games.

No mate i have gone the way of most of the pre-88ers, got broken , **** on, and went. i think you told me that gledo was on the way out too, i was there the other week and he is definately gone. Hey I was a one eight. and i think gleddo is a one seven, the threes are, we,ll the top levels. i'll bet there is a three doing an LAC job. I know there were a lot of 25's and 26's as lacs. Unheard of, no wonder all the experience is leaving.
I'll leave the blurbs for aussie cops, its more fun on there.


john


lets drop some more names

[landrovermick]

yeah - threes aint that high any more wera are looking towards 50 now, its a shame all the 'ole boys are leaving. Darryl Holder - i used to work with him at CT transits - and lived three doors up from him - never had much to do with him though.

[Grimace]

Rob Bredl (The Barefoot Bushman) http://www.barefootbushman.com/PBredl.htm
Living in airlie beach and knowing quiet afew woman, turns out two of them worked at the farm he has there, and we spent many a times at the Jubilee pub and in the park talking ****.

Absolute champion bloke and crazy with his crocs, he is/was my idol up there... every other minute was spent ****ed as a bug in a puddle of bourbon... congregating with the other bar flies :)

[adm333]

I have played back yard cricket with Alec Stewart - former captain of England.

Many years ago he used to Come out to Aus in the summer and play in the local Perth competition. He was going out with my mate's sister and would often join us for a tonk.

[numpty]

Oh yeah, I forgot. Actually went to school with and played under 8's Aussie Rules (as it was known then) with former NSW and Australian opening batsman John Dyson, who took one of the best outfield catches you will ever see in a cricket match. Showing my age I know.:p

[Martin]

I met David Bowie twice. I was a partner in a london based software company, working out of Boston, and we built www.bowieart.com (http://www.bowieart.com) (changed dramatically since) - which was one of the first ecommerce sites - we had to talk to porn site owners to see how the did the bank end. We had stict instructions on protocol of meeting him, including not saying we were big fans and not asking for autographs. As part of the project we picked up a set of 4 limited edition lithographs, variously entitled D Head somthing, which were self portaits. they sold back in 1998 for $250 each, and would think they are worth a pretty penny now.

I also used to park next to Sophie Ryhs Jones in our underground car park when I worked in West London in 1999. She worked for a PR agency in the office next to us, before she became a royal. She was very beautiful back. One day she suddenly had her long blond hair cut in a lady Diana style, and next thing I know I couldn't get into my office for the press and announcement of her engagement to Prince edward.

There is a corker of a boasting story thayt goes with this, but I daren't put it in a public forum. If I ever see you on the tracks, crack a beer and I will probably tell ya. lol


Martin