15 minutes of fame

BEAT · 25-07-2002 5:32pm #1

It is said that the average person will only experience 15 minutes of fame.
Where will yours be?
has it happened already?
do you expect more than 15 minutes?

( ex. saving someones life, being in the news for something etc...)

I dont believe it has hit me yet...but I feel it will be longer than 15 minutes and arrive in the world of the arts somehow...through my paintings or books.

Winters · 25-07-2002 6:21pm

I couldnt really care where or when i get my 15min of fame .. or if i will even get it ...

All I hope is that im not going to be on a red banner paper.. I hate em!

TacT · 25-07-2002 6:27pm

I would hate to be famous....

beardedchicken · 25-07-2002 6:44pm

school around the corner, age 11- my how orange gerry ryan is!!
don't think it counts as fame really!

Dont be at yourself · 25-07-2002 6:57pm

Echo Island, aged 11.

*hangs head in shame*

Dustaz · 25-07-2002 7:01pm

LOL echo island!:)

1 second 15 frames of a close up of me appeared in a documentary about lap dancing ...... (i worked on it and was forced to include it

), Unfortunatly, they used that clip of the show on The Late Late Show.

Err, my arm is holding a camera light at the end of The Charlton Years if that counts :P

Stephen · 25-07-2002 7:48pm

Dusty, perhaps you should try some fight-club style editing? You know, insert a frame of you into every production you work on, a few times per production?

Maybe even this one:

* gets coat

TacT · 25-07-2002 8:04pm

lol I was on pats chat in 1st/2nd class

We still have the video locked away in a high security vault off the cayman islands!

JustHalf · 25-07-2002 8:15pm

Mine will be when I return from my five year hiatus.

OLDYELLAR · 25-07-2002 10:35pm

hey i got onto rick o shea`s 15 seconds of fame on 2fm , once singing to a hoover and once for making up a 2fm jingle .............................................................................................................aw man i am way toooooooo sad !

Thanx 4 The Fish · 25-07-2002 10:54pm

Yes,.... yes you are, but at least you did not have an article about you in Woman's own...

OLDYELLAR · 25-07-2002 10:57pm

please tell me more about the article ? purty pleeeseee?

Thanx 4 The Fish · 25-07-2002 11:03pm

Whole family were in it and there was a full page photo of me (fostering poster child that I was) and a bit of an interview. I still can't believe the shirt that I was wearing.

OLDYELLAR · 25-07-2002 11:09pm

awww cool , your like the most famous person i know , you go!.....................................,,,,,,,,,,,,,,............ok stop, i know i`m sad!

Shinji · 26-07-2002 9:27am

I do a fair bit of TV/Radio stuff - financial programs, business commentary on the games markets, that kind of stuff; occasional interview slots about games as art or whatever.

However....

My 15 minutes of fame, as far as the bástards I hang around with are concerned, will always be the first time I did live TV, and spent 10 minutes being ritually abused by Dustin the Turkey on the Den while I tried to promote a magazine we'd just launched....

SheroN · 26-07-2002 9:37am

ah i remember it well rob, i thought there was gonna be tears and/or bloodshed.

Dustaz · 26-07-2002 9:40am

Shinji just owned the thread.

I dont care if someone married madonna, Appearing with Dustin beats anything.

The Sweeper · 26-07-2002 9:44am

That's very true. Dustin is teh win.

So I don't have to bring up my repeated appearances on Jo Maxi then?

Phew...

Rabies · 26-07-2002 9:47am

Originally posted by Shinji
of fame, as far as the bástards I hang around with are concerned, will always be the first time I did live TV, and spent 10 minutes being ritually abused by Dustin the Turkey on the Den while I tried to promote a magazine we'd just launched....

cool.
pat kenny/gay byrne cant even survive a going over from Dunstin. the only thing Dustin never takes the p!iss out of is Man Utd. and because of that he truely is a Turkey:)

when were you on the Den. have you it recorded. maybe put it for download so we all can see your fame/misfortune of being abused by a turkey

oeNeo · 26-07-2002 9:50am

Agreed, I'd love to have seen it.

amp · 26-07-2002 10:38am

Bertie Ahern gave me a medal on the 6 o'clock news when he was Lord Mayor. Also I appeared on the Brush Shields show, which was RTE's finest ever program starring some guy from an old irish band ever.

My picture was put into all the papers. Also, the President of Ireland awarded me a plaque and a stereo, which was nice.

And all because I caught my mate falling out of tree after he got electrocuted.

Dr. Loon · 26-07-2002 11:55am

I (our band) supported Ocean Colour Scene in The Olympia, and in Queens Hall in Belfast. Also supported Aslan, in K2 in Howth. Was fun.

Dustaz · 26-07-2002 12:28pm

what band loon?

Dustaz · 26-07-2002 12:31pm

Originally posted by Minesajackdaniels
So I don't have to bring up my repeated appearances on Jo Maxi then?

omg you dont get away with it that easy. Joe Maxis is a period of utter shame for irish television and thus you need to provide us with full details so we may take the piss out of you.

OLDYELLAR · 26-07-2002 12:53pm

now my fame seems crap , aww man dustin rocks so hard , gwan ya good thing!

PPC · 26-07-2002 2:21pm

Originally posted by [oeNeo]
Agreed, I'd love to have seen it.

I was talking to a guy in RTE there today about this and he said ring Steve Darcy at (01) 2083369 and he might have a copy of it.

So i rang him but got no answer...
So could someone ring as i can't seem to get through and can't be bothered to leave a message on the machine. :rolleyes: and then someone can upload it

Dr. Loon · 26-07-2002 3:35pm

Originally posted by Dustaz
what band loon?

If you mean our band... we were The Jive Principle, but we split up...

CuLT · 30-07-2002 2:35am

I was on echo island :P i was also on tv3 news for about 3 seconds in an interview of ppl at the point that year.

I was mentioned in the sun (i know) earlier on this year when my dad won an obscene amount of prizes in one night (a car, 75,000 euro and a trip to the copacabana) ,

and on the radio 2 weeks later when my mum won a bmw 3 series

The Sweeper · 30-07-2002 8:18am

Originally posted by Dustaz

omg you dont get away with it that easy. Joe Maxis is a period of utter shame for irish television and thus you need to provide us with full details so we may take the piss out of you.

No chance Dusty, if you want the tapes you have to trawl through the archives for 'em.

...and yes, the couch WAS covered in real sweets...

deco · 30-07-2002 1:31pm

Originally posted by tactical anni
lol I was on pats chat in 1st/2nd class
We still have the video locked away in a high security vault off the cayman islands!

Sweet lord.....I think I was on that too....

bonkey · 30-07-2002 1:55pm

Although to my shame I must admit to having been on Joe Maxi as well, I think my girlfriend's claim to fame is worthy.

She was one of the extra dancers in the Podge n Rodge "Collost-o-you, Collostomy" video.

jc

swiss · 30-07-2002 2:04pm

My only claim to fame lasted for about 5 seconds, I made a brief appearance along with about 20 others on the 6 o'clock news. I didn't even think anyone spotted me until I got home and someone mentioned it to me - I hadn't told them there was the chance they would see me on d'telly.

Originally posted by bonkey:

She was one of the extra dancers in the Podge n Rodge "Collost-o-you, Collostomy" video

ROFL, that was a class video. You have it playing in my head now.

BTW, someone somewhere must have the tape with Shinji and Dustin. I'd say it would fetch a handsome price on the "For Sale" board

RTE would have it in their archives surely? Someone might be able to ftp an mpeg to yorema or some other site.

Jimi-Spandex · 30-07-2002 2:23pm

I'd actually kill to see Rob being taunted by dustin

I remember seeing Rob on some other computer game show, thumb bandits I think it was, they got his name wrong

Mr Farhey. I think it was something to do with games that blatantly court controversy cant really remember, I was drunk when I saw it

Shinji · 30-07-2002 6:54pm

Yeah that was the bit on Thumb Bandits... And like so many before, they did indeed spell my name wrong.

By the way, anyone who acquires that tape of me and Dustin immediately becomes a target for my crack team of, er... I don't know. But it'll hurt.

PPC · 30-07-2002 10:42pm

Originally posted by Jimi-Spandex
I'd actually kill to see Rob being taunted by dustin

I remember seeing Rob on some other computer game show, thumb bandits I think it was, they got his name wrong Mr Farhey. I think it was something to do with games that blatantly court controversy cant really remember, I was drunk when I saw it

ring Steve Darcy at (01) 2083369 and he might have a copy of it.

Littletinyman · 30-07-2002 10:51pm

I was lucky enough to see Rob's (in)famous appearance on The Den, I had no idea who he was at the time though

Robbo · 30-07-2002 11:53pm

"The Works" when I was 11.

"Are ye laffin?"
"Not really, no"

Take an Iota.
We beat Raphoe from Donegal. I went a bit mad and spent some time in rehab afterwards. It's all been downhill since.

Jimi-Spandex · 31-07-2002 1:14pm

Does anyone know what year/month/day/time it was on? (the rob vs. dustin showdown) Or some details which would make it possible for me to get the thing tracked down, i.e. what the name of the mag he was promoting was?

Lex_Diamonds · 31-07-2002 1:29pm

A discrete **** in Pajo's Junkbox (not really fame though is it?)

SheroN · 31-07-2002 1:49pm

the mag was G4 (still have a few copies lying around here someplace)...it was in 1998..or maybe very early 99......not too sure.

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