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Before they were famous

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  • 07-06-2021 9:09pm
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    FHFM500
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    Did you grow up with or know anyone before they became big, either in Ireland or abroad?


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    Roger Mellie Man on the Telly
    Registered Users Posts: 1,097 ✭✭✭Roger Mellie Man on the Telly


    No.


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    Duckworth_Luas
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    My dad's a pretty big wheel down at the cracker factory.


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    Mr. CooL ICE
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    Went to school with someone who is a minor figure in politics who made headlines for doing something stupid a few years back


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    Ubbquittious
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    Mr. CooL ICE wrote: »
    Went to school with someone who is a minor figure in politics who made headlines for doing something stupid a few years back


    Tom Barry?


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    Fighting Tao
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    Went to school with someone who was slim as could be. They moved to the US and now weigh in at about 30 stone. They became BIG.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Gulliver was a year behind me in school. His adventures in becoming big and very, very small are now the stuff of legend.


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    Bobblehats
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    Knew this fella before he blew up on the scene

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    Chris O’Dowd?


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    silliussoddius
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    Duckworth_Luas wrote: »
    My dad's a pretty big wheel down at the cracker factory.

    Can I borrow a feeling?


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    the beer revolu
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    I knew The Cranberries when they were starting out - nice bunch.

    I knew Cillian Murphy before he took to acting - he was a serious guitar player!
    Then I happened to be working on the first movie appearance he made - a very tiny part with one word of dialogue. Lovely fella.


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    Mrcaramelchoc
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    I knew ann doyle before she was famous. Every Saturday night in our local pub. Stilettos and a tight tight mini skirt cursing like a sailor.
    Look at her now. Who knew


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    Conall Cernach
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    I was at school with Ben Kane. He's not exactly a household name but he is a reasonably successful author of historical fiction.


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    silliussoddius
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    Conall Cernach wrote: »
    I was at school with Ben Kane. He's not exactly a household name but he is a reasonably successful author of historical fiction.

    I liked his Forgotten Legion series. Must check out some of his other stuff.


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    iamstop
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    I went to school with a lad who was a star player on the Dublin GAA football team.

    https://open.spotify.com/album/69JKwCcZGdLqX4Upj3DwP7



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    branie2
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    Not really


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    Gregor Samsa
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    I was in South Africa on business many years ago, and met this kid at the table beside me in a McDonalds. He'd got a Happy Meal, but the toy in it - I think it was a Snoopy water pistol of some sort - was broken, and he was very upset. I had just been to a trade show, and had got a load of the free branded junk they give out, so I dipped into my bag and pulled out a little car that ran on batteries and could drive around by itself that I'd got from an investment bank called Spacey, and I gave it to him.

    "Spacey!" he said. "What a cool name! Do they make rockets?".

    "No" I said. "They make money".

    His eyes lit up. "I'm going to do that when I grow up!" he said, turning on the car and watching it drive around the scattered French Fries on the table.

    "What, make a rocket? Or money? Or a car?" I laughed.

    "All of them!" he said.

    Next thing his mother called him. "Elon, don't talk to strangers"

    So I left.


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