Rejected by Diana - not many can/would admit to that. From what I've heard.
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The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberOk, here's my attempt at it Oxy - my Dad gave Jimi Hendrix a light, Hendrix liked a smoke, so did Bob Marley, Bob Marley was a Rastafarian, and therefore viewed Selassie as his God on Earth.
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Quaz
offlineMemberNo, Jeni, we have already established that the only link from Bob to Hailie is via the old Bishop of Ethiopia who officiated at Bobs funeral, when he was already dead so they never technically met. A Bob is not a full Haile I'm afraid, so in this round we would have to pass it on to Oxy, who has alreaddy buzzed, but already has at least 4 Hailies in the bag, so I must remind him that it needs to be without deviation or repetition, in this game that is loved so much in this country and indeed around the world.
Posted 7 months ago # -
Quaz
offlineMemberAnd, incidently, my mate didn't cop off with Diana, but if he had she could have been married to a lovely bloke who does very nice patio work in the home counties. And he did once see Bob Marly playing live, and he has a Selasie via Di to the Queen mum (in 3 moves I believe).
Posted 7 months ago # -
Oxbridge
offlineMember1) [the one everyone has] I met my former MP, Tom Cox, who met Tony Blair, who met the Queen Mum, who met Haile Selassie
2) My college friend Philipp Rohwedder was the son of Detlev Rohwedder, who worked under Helmut Kohl privatising the East German state industries. Kohl knew Willy Brandt who was at former French President Pompidou's funeral in Paris, as was Haile Selassie.
3) Another college friend, Tony Brennan, acted in a play with - phworrr - Bettany Hughes. A fellow BBC TV historian of hers, whose name I've forgotten, did a documentary about the chapel at Axum in Ethiopia and met the guardian of it. His predecessor would have met Haile Selassie, who often went there to pray.
4) My mum, who I met quite often, was the admissions secretary of a dead posh girls' school in London. In this capacity, she showed Errol Brown of Hot Chocolate ("a de-LIGHT-ful man") around when his daughter went there. Brown jammed with Bob Marley (it's on YouTube), who met the Archbishop of Addis Ababa, who met Haile Selassie.
I think I'll do some work now.
Posted 7 months ago # -
The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberHa!! I can do it in two!
I've shaken the Queen Mum's hand, and she met Selassie!!I claim my five pounds!
Posted 7 months ago # -
Quaz
offlineMemberI think I have 2 Hermann Goerings.
One is via my Grandad and his uncle (they were the same age, it's complicated). After the end of the war the Uncle was given the job of organising a dinner (strictly in the capacity of 'servant') for the Allied commanders at Goering's place, and as my Grandad was stationed in the same area he took the chance to pop in for a look around. Ok, so he never met Goering, but he got a nice group photo of the allied commanders, including Monty.
The other is a friend who had relatives on both sides in WW2, and one captured his own cousin, a German Luftwaffe officer,in North Africa.
Posted 7 months ago # -
The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberQuaz, is the mate who didn't cop off with Diana, but who does lovely patio work the mate I'm think of?
Posted 7 months ago # -
The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberPlus Cam would have thighs of steel from horseriding.
Posted 7 months ago # -
I once played cards with Haile Selassie, who met the Queen mum, who met Haile Selassie. Just the 4 steps for me, that's not bad going.
Posted 7 months ago # -
beau-jolly
offlineMember@Carter/Jeni. That looks like an interesting new thread: "Celebs you would like to shag and why" I'm not bloody starting it though!
Posted 7 months ago # -
Sir Lupus
offlineMemberI was out with my wife at Inverness restaurant The Joy of Taste just before Xmas, and we were trying to guess the workplaces of the diners at other tables out for their Xmas meal. We had one table down for a GP surgery - older man in bow tie, various middle aged women - when who should walk in and sit down there but local MP and something-not-quite-as-important-as-George Osborne at the Treasury, Danny Alexander. Young Danny looks to have put a bit of weight on on the ministerial lifestyle, which I'm sure is unhealthy, very busy with little time for exercise and lots of meetings with posh biscuits, but the upside of that is that at least he doesn't look 12 years old any more.
This being an unimpressive celeb encounter, obviously we took care not to speak to him or indeed interact in any way with anyone at his table.
My wife also recently walked past someone who she thinks looked a bit like the other local celeb, Karen Gillan. But then again she says it might not have been her. Does that win?
Posted 4 months ago # -
Gerontius
offlineMemberWent for lunch at Escot Park a few days ago....sat next to Hugh
Oh sorry, I'm so used to calling him Hugh now.
Hugh Fearnley - Whittingstall to all you people who don't know him like I do.
He passed me the brown sauce
The canapes were quite nice but they definitely needed a lift....Posted 4 months ago # -
Son of Barnabas
offlineMemberIs Thelma Barlow's son Gary Barlow?
My son, when a schoolboy, was once on a TV programme which also featured a very young pre-Take That GB(BTW it's almost a year since I was last on NB and I'm delighted to see this old chestnut still fresh as ever!)
PS Sorry but I can't think of a Haile Selasse, Kevin Bacon or Mornington Crescent connection, but I seem to remember that we are not playing strictly by the Tudor Court rules.
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Sir Lupus
offlineMemberYou may find this hard to believe - I know I do - but apparently I live only 3 miles away from that colossus of the internet, the shape-shifting star of Mature Dating UK, the mysterious woman known only as "Rebecca". I'm sure I walked past her in the street recently, not that I've seen anyone who looked like any of the pictures above, but it was probably her in yet another incarnation.
The question remains, how far away is she from Hailie Selassie? Athough somehow I think I can guess
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Sir Lupus
offlineMemberSo with Rebecca it's like some kind of magnetic repulsion - a force field that keeps her 3 miles away? phew...
sorry to further her domination of every thread on here. Back to tenuous links to celebrity...Er, I heard that David Cameron the other day - well, on the radio...
Posted 4 months ago # -
Titus
offlineMemberMy friend's younger son has met HM the Q twice, the second time with his fiancee.
"Come with me darlin' and I'll introduce you to the Queen ..." How cool is that as a chat-up line?
_ _ _On one occasion I was greeted by name in the street, on the same day, by the mayor, by my MP and by the bishop. Just shows what a piss-pot little town I live in.
_ _ _Agree about Camilla - she must have something a bit special to have attracted Charlie, and is sure ain't her looks. Unlike Rebecca. (Is there any way of making sure Rebecca stay 3 miles away? Even that is worryingly close.)
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The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberMy brother-in-law sent me a photo at the weekend, of a party he was at in his friend's house. Nothing unusual, just him, Jim Carrey, and Christopher Lloyd having a few beers...
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