Famous people.

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

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

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

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).

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Originally Posted by JohnE

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

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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

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...

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Originally Posted by 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...

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


:D

Ron

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Originally Posted by p38arover

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

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yep that summed it up..... i am 5"6" :P

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

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