Thread: Famous people.

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.

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.

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).

Originally Posted by JohnE

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

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...

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...

Or face to.......




Ron

Originally Posted by p38arover

Or face to.......

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