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[peterbj7]

A couple of things come to mind. In an earlier incarnation I was an auditor, amongst other things for a small bookshop in Henley-on-Thames in England, a sort of real-life version of the one in the film Notting Hill (though that is also a real shop). Over three years I got to know George Harrison, who lived locally and was a book-o-holic who used to love to come in and browse. He couldn't stand hero worship, but he was certainly game for a friendly chat over a coffee. Lovely guy, who really hated fame. He stopped coming in after an intruder in his house stabbed him - he actually became afraid of going out at all. I'm sure what had happened to John made it much worse. And then he contracted the throat cancer that killed him.

And for a number of years I was in Who's Who, the British publication about people who are rich and/or famous. I was only there because my father was, but I still had a couple of paragraphs. No longer since my father died.

[shawnabbott]

A couple of things come to mind. In an earlier incarnation I was an auditor, amongst other things for a small bookshop in Henley-on-Thames in England, a sort of real-life version of the one in the film Notting Hill (though that is also a real shop). Over three years I got to know George Harrison, who lived locally and was a book-o-holic who used to love to come in and browse. He couldn't stand hero worship, but he was certainly game for a friendly chat over a coffee. Lovely guy, who really hated fame. He stopped coming in after an intruder in his house stabbed him - he actually became afraid of going out at all. I'm sure what had happened to John made it much worse. And then he contracted the throat cancer that killed him.

And for a number of years I was in Who's Who, the British publication about people who are rich and/or famous. I was only there because my father was, but I still had a couple of paragraphs. No longer since my father died.

Was your father rich and/or famous? what did yours say about you? wow, a famous person right here....

Edited by shawnabbott, 12 December 2008 - 04:20 PM.

[kevininpo]

l got to spend quite a few hours talking with Brewster Denny over the space of a week...you have to google his name...there is too much to tell...needless to say, hands down the coolest person l've ever met

[peterbj7]

Was your father rich and/or famous?

Well he certainly wasn't rich. Not famous either, except in a very narrow circle. His job did bring him into contact with important people such as the Prime Minister of the day and the Queen, and earned him his knighthood. On one memorable occasion when he was on a ship due to dock in Gibraltar on Christmas Eve but which was delayed until the early hours of Christmas Day by heavy seas, which would normally have meant the ship would have to heave to outside the harbour until Boxing Day as Christmas is the one day of the year that the dock is closed, not only was the ship allowed to dock (at 3:30am) but the entire military staff were recalled and had to mount a full official welcome, bands 'n all. He was by far the most popular person on the ship, and by far the least popular person in the dock.

[shawnabbott]

Was your father rich and/or famous?

Well he certainly wasn't rich. Not famous either, except in a very narrow circle. His job did bring him into contact with important people such as the Prime Minister of the day and the Queen, and earned him his knighthood. On one memorable occasion when he was on a ship due to dock in Gibraltar on Christmas Eve but which was delayed until the early hours of Christmas Day by heavy seas, which would normally have meant the ship would have to heave to outside the harbour until Boxing Day as Christmas is the one day of the year that the dock is closed, not only was the ship allowed to dock (at 3:30am) but the entire military staff were recalled and had to mount a full official welcome, bands 'n all. He was by far the most popular person on the ship, and by far the least popular person in the dock.

wow, he was knighted...with the likes of Sir Elton John!

[shadragon]

Well one day I met this really attractive woman and...

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...and then she slipped back into her costume and went back to the X-Men set...

[Mermaid Lady]

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ROTFL!!!

I met Alan Thicke once at the 1989 Macy's thanksgiving parade in Houston. He was grand marshal or something like that. We were there on street skates in our "Urban Animals" garb. They had skaters representing musical eras, and we were punk rock. I was wearing leopard slintight pants, leather jacket, chain belt and studded wrist bands, and he came up to me and said "You woudn't hurt me now would you?"

FYI he looked just as flawless in person as he did on TV.

I also know Markie Post's father. He's a Professor Emeritus at UC Davis.

Edited by Mermaid Lady, 13 December 2008 - 07:07 AM.