Claim to Lame

froosh69 · 23-04-2008 3:42pm #1

there was a thread on this a while back, but i couldnt find it and i thought it was cool...

i have a few claim to lames-

Literally knocked Glenda Gilsen over as i walked out of my local chinese.

Tripped up Adrian Kennedy by accident in a club he was DJing in.

Ryan Tubridy was the guy in front of me in the Spar in Donnybrook once.

It feels great to be rubbing shoulders with the Irish celebrity classes.

Anyone got any good ones? Mine are pretty lame...

bronte · 23-04-2008 3:46pm

Brendan kilkenny sat in front of me on the bus once.
That's pretty lame.

helimachoptor · 23-04-2008 3:48pm

Met John Shea in NY got a pic with him and went for a pint
http://www.bates.edu/Images/Bates_Magazine/2007-summer/main/Shea9867.jpg

For those of you who dont know, he played Lex Luthor in The New Adventures of Superman, for the girls it's the program Teri Hatcher was in before Desperate housewives.

Shook hands with Nelson Mandela (though that was cool)
Ditto for Mary robinson

And my best Claim to Lame! Liam Brady falling asleep on me on a flight to London!

froosh69 · 23-04-2008 3:49pm

Just thought of another one, its not that lame though...the whole 1994 Irish soccer squad were on the same flight as me, and i got to meet them all. I was only six at the time and dont remember it though...which is lame.

MrJoeSoap · 23-04-2008 3:49pm

Sat beside John Rocha at "Babe" in the cinema many moons ago.

6th · 23-04-2008 3:49pm

bronte wrote: »

Brendan kilkenny sat in front of me on the bus once.
That's pretty lame.

Yes it is .... Stoner has a great story about him

Sarky · 23-04-2008 3:50pm

I have Thelma Mansfield's autograph. \o/

I came within an inch of getting spat on by Keith from The Prodigy.

I stopped the band Morcheeba from getting backstage when I did security (It's their own fault for being nobodies and not having their passes).

lisaloo · 23-04-2008 3:51pm

saw the red haired girl from the afternoon show on TV 3 at Electric picnic last yr. cant remember her name though, now thats lame.

froosh69 · 23-04-2008 3:55pm

here's another i just remembered...i dunno if it is lame or not though...Jonah Lomu apologiesed to me for stepping on my foot at the Hong Kong sevens...too right, i woulda battered him

Agamemnon · 23-04-2008 3:55pm

I once met Gay Byrne, Patrick Kielty, Daniel O'Donnell and Dana all on the same night in Donegal. Send me €10 via Paypal and you can shake the hand that shook the hand of wee Daniel. :cool:

WindSock · 23-04-2008 4:04pm

I met timmy mallet by a swimming pool when i was a young 'un and was in his music video for all of .5 seconds in ibiza.

I met pippa from home and away while i was lying on a hammock, tripping of mushrooms in thailand.

I met some of the lions rugby tour in nz when they were doing their tour in in nz.

All the best celebs are abroad

Keano · 23-04-2008 4:04pm

Agamemnon wrote: »

I once met Gay Byrne, Patrick Kielty, Daniel O'Donnell and Dana all on the same night in Donegal. Send me €10 via Paypal and you can shake the hand that shook the hand of wee Daniel. :cool:

PM sent!!

gaz wac · 23-04-2008 4:05pm

Not lame but had a pint with Damien Rice. Said hello to Ray D'Arcy last week while i was boarding a plane to Hamburg. Went to a Malibu beach wedding in Jerry Bruckheimer house, very cool :cool: http://www.jbfilms.com/

6th · 23-04-2008 4:05pm

I arm wrestled a half naked Jonny Vegas.

6th · 23-04-2008 4:06pm

bronte wrote: »

Brendan kilkenny sat in front of me on the bus once.
That's pretty lame.

Say, didnt you bump into that 6th guy in a place in dublin? He used to be pretty big news.

Keano · 23-04-2008 4:10pm

I once talked to Glen Hansard - me not like him since then

bronte · 23-04-2008 4:15pm

Sabotage wrote: »

Yes it is .... Stoner has a great story about him

That I gotta hear! some hair on that bloke

Heard a lot about that 6th fella...seems to think a lot of himself. Pfft.

shane86 · 23-04-2008 4:38pm

Agamemnon wrote: »

I once met Gay Byrne, Patrick Kielty, Daniel O'Donnell and Dana all on the same night in Donegal. Send me €10 via Paypal and you can shake the hand that shook the hand of wee Daniel. :cool:

pfft. When I was three O`Donnell held me up in a photo (my granny is a fan, it was at some appearance or somesuch he made at a hotel)

Apart from concerts I cant confirm Ive seen anyone famous in three odd years. Though a few months ago a lad rushed past me on O`Connell Street who looked very like Damien Duff, if it was him.

I saw Anne Doyle in town at least three times. And a lad who looked the spit of Ricky Tomlinson once walked by us, he was even wearing a typical Jim Royle dirty cheap lookin shirt.

My ambition in life is to run into a drunken Eamonn Dunphy when I am fairly well on myself. I was very disappointed when we had a work do on a Friday night in that Renards nightclub and he didnt show up.

edit- oh yeah, got a photo with my arm around Katy French, she was a hired model at a Christmas work do in late 2006 wearing a Mrs Claus type short outfit (she wasnt famous then, I only made the connection when the papers started being full of stuff about her every day maybe 3 months later)

blah · 23-04-2008 4:40pm

I once saw Dennis Quaid, from behind, some distance away, when he was teeing off at a golf course, and I was waiting tables in the clubhouse. :pac:
Shook hands with Hillary Clinton.
Saw Bill Clinton drive past in his presidential limo in Washington DC.
Saw Ross Noble (English Comedian) from behind in the International Bar.
Colin Murphy once walked past me in DCU.
Saw Bertie in Arnotts.
Once walked past Louie Walsh on Parliament St, my mate said "it's Louie Walsh", and Louie Walsh says "No, it's not me!", and runs off

BLITZ_Molloy · 23-04-2008 4:43pm

Tried to chat up Rosanna Davidson. Made a bit of a hash of it. She looks very good in person.

shane86 · 23-04-2008 4:52pm

blah wrote: »

Colin Murphy once walked past me in DCU.

ffs I forgot that one

A Sunday night on a bank holiday weekend at some point before new year we were in The Village, walkin back in from that side alleyway everyone smokes at and see my mate infront grabbing some chap, hugging him and roaring "you are one funny cnut! Fair play to ya son!"

As Im walking in Colm/Colin* emerges, nods, smiles and says "awright what about ye" and walks past. Id assumed my mate had run into someone he knew already

*: which is it? There is Colm Murphy and Colin Murphy. Ones a comedian one is a DJ. Both are nordies and I always mix them up

Shook John Brutons hand at the opening of the Blanch centre 11 or 12 odd years ago (he was some lad who used to have some big job or somethin....). Bertie walked past me in the same place with about a dozen minders/hangers on in suits during the last campaign.

Sleepy · 23-04-2008 5:05pm

Ken Doherty sat beside me on an early morning Ryanair flight to the UK.

Naos · 23-04-2008 5:10pm

The cheap bastard.

Shook Bernard Jackmans hand and had five second one way(me) chat with him.
Eoin McLove from Father Ted, cannot remember the lads name, lives in my estate.

Poxyshamrock · 23-04-2008 6:40pm

I held the door for Anne Doyle.
She was very nice about it.

Quality · 23-04-2008 6:42pm

Was at a function with president Mary McAleese yesterday.

Also there was Shane Byrne, Andrea Roche, Pippa O'Connor and a few other minor Irish celebs..

kerash · 23-04-2008 6:48pm

I confess, I got Ryle Nugents autograph when i was younger... stop laughing, i was young:o, he useta be on kids tv, that musta been 15 years ago...very very lame

jenny-walsh · 23-04-2008 6:55pm

I got ripped to shreds by Dom Irrera at a comedy gig at the cat laughs, he caught me looking at my watch. Got to have a few pints and a laugh about it with him a few days later though.
Met Bill Murray...think it was teh first or second year of the cat laughs. He looked like a knacker in a big long wool coat. Very nice though.
I had to be a day guide for Patrick Bergin (of Sleeping with the Enemy fame) when he visited Kilkenny years ago. Talk about tall! I could look him straight in the elbow!!!

funk-you · 23-04-2008 6:56pm

Walking by trinity college a fly flew into my mouth so i spat, looked up and it turns out i almost gobbed on Bertie Ahearn.

When living in London i was in a vintage guitar shop in tin pan alley, in walks Bob Geldof. He complimented me on my playing. Pity he sucked.

Was having a few pints in my local in chiswick and while at the bar Al Murray started talking to me. Weird seeing him in a suit. Nice guy though, nothing like tv.

-Funk

echter · 23-04-2008 7:05pm

Myleen Klass told me I was gorgeous...

....like when I was 7 :rolleyes:

metaoblivia · 23-04-2008 7:06pm

I saw Steven Tyler from Aerosmith at my gym in January. He was leaving as I was coming in, and he was yelling at someone. He ended up really close to me - just inches away - and was still yelling, and then he noticed me and apologized to me and walked out.

echosound · 23-04-2008 7:47pm

I have many many claims to lame because of the industry I work in (meeja), but the lamest totally-non-work-related one is many years ago drunkenly shouting and giggling at Mary Harney as she was trying to hold a business breakfast meeting at the booth next to us - we had crawled into a hotel bar at 8 am after drinking since about 2pm the previous day as it was the only early house open, and spent a happy half hour cackling at our "sparkling wit" while the business folks tut tutted and she shot dagger glares at us.

Oh and one more non-work related one - many many years ago Brendan O Carroll pulled a face at me in a nightclub once - someone fell off the dancefloor and hurled chunks all over the chap I was with, and Carroll was sitting beside us at the bar and narrowly avoided the chunks himself.

DEmeant0r · 23-04-2008 8:24pm

I played Tennis one court from Martin Keown in Galway like 10 years ago, I got his autograph and I was going to challenge him to a game of Tennis but I didn't have the balls

Sherifu · 23-04-2008 8:27pm

Was at the table next to the Tyrone football team at the last Galway races.

MizzLolly · 23-04-2008 8:29pm

That you're a star fella, can't remember his name, stole my pen once.

Dolbert · 23-04-2008 11:09pm

Waiting for the lift in Dublin Airport, who should appear when the doors open but Craig from Big Brother 1! Beat that!

taidghbaby · 23-04-2008 11:13pm

once had my dirty little way with a girl who used ta go out with davor suker (legendary soccer player)

wandatowell · 23-04-2008 11:23pm

Met Gaybo at Galway Oyster Fest a couple of years ago, the man was sound out, bang on. We chatted for a good quarter of an hour. Also saw thierry henry score a hat-trick but then again so did the 38500 other supporters at the match

:D:D

Sofaspud · 24-04-2008 12:08am

Pauline Mcglynn laughed sarcastically at a joke she thought I made when I was about 15, doing work experience. I was going to offer her a cup of tea afterwards but chickened out.

I also saw M People and Boyzone in the Airport during the height of their respective fames.

But my biggest claim to lame is seeing Buffalo G, also at the airport!

edit: I also saw gaybo in Howth train station a few months ago.

flanum · 24-04-2008 12:59am

saw james brown at dublin airport years ago and roared "alright jimmy" and he waved back at me.

judi dench once went on a union march with my dad (and several other thousand strikers).

Toto Wolfcastle · 24-04-2008 1:05am

I convinced a few people in a pub once that Gary Lightbody, Mickey Harte and a few other 'celebs' were in the same pub. They weren't but there were some guys there who looked like them. Tried to get non-Mickey Harte to sing that song from Eurovision but he didn't know it.

Packie Bonner was on the same Air Lingus flight to New York as me. He was very nice to anyone who approached him.

Mick Galway was signing copies of his book in a phone shop once. You got a free book if you bought a phone, but I didn't want to buy a phone so I ran in with my maths book, asked him to sign it, said 'You rock' and ran out again.

And my biggest claim to lame: Sinead from that band Six went to the same school as me and I got her autograph when she visited. (In fairness, I tried to sell it to the little girl I was minding that night, thus restoring my street cred...she had no money though so I threw the autograph away.)

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