Claims to Fame/Famous firsts?

Bard · 02-09-2002 11:51am #1

Everybody's got them... some make us more proud than others...

What's your claim to fame?... - is there something that you were first in the world to do? Something you invented? Something popular that you started?

Just curious

e.g.: (I'm pretty sure) I was the first person to broadcast a G.A.A. match live over the Internet. It was Limerick Vs. Clare and it was broadcast (via Clare FM) live from the gaelic grounds on the Ennis Road in Limerick in 1996.

seamus · 02-09-2002 12:12pm

I do believe I was the very first person to consider the joining of sweetcorn to tuna. Now everyone does it!

[EDIT: I was also the first person to write the ringtone version of Postman Pat correctly. All of the others were just wrong. Mine is right

]

Gordon · 02-09-2002 12:31pm

I was the first person to arrange a MIDI version of Elvis Costello's song "Pump it up"

Oh and to create a midi version of Britney Spears' "Hit me baby one more time" done as a classical piece.

just call me midi of the road.

bombidol · 02-09-2002 12:50pm

First irish guy to do commentry for a wrestling event:D

TacT · 02-09-2002 1:24pm

I appeared on Pats chat as a squeaky little runt at the ripe old age of 10 along with a few mates from school

Kids ask me to sign their skateboards/t-shirts for them, a lot of them already know me by name.....

Oh and I have a section in a new Irish Skateboarding video called "9 Miles to Ireland" wazaaaaaaaa or something

JustHalf · 02-09-2002 1:40pm

I am the best.

Pepe LeFrits · 02-09-2002 2:34pm

First person on this thread to say..

actually, let me rephrase...

WHO GIVES A RATS ARSE

Littletinyman · 02-09-2002 2:40pm

GO AWAY BARD :mad:

Bard · 02-09-2002 2:45pm

Originally posted by Littletinyman
GO AWAY BARD :mad:

It's called a "discussion forum", littletinyman. If you don't want to use littletinyfingers to type out what littletinybrain can actually come up with and have a discussion then why do you bother?

I was curious about the topic and so I posed the question. Don't need your kind of pointless reaction, thanks.

What is this? Free-for-all flame Bard day?

Give it a rest, ffs.

Pepe LeFrits · 02-09-2002 3:05pm

So how about having some discussion then instead of a series of posts listing how great one is. *yawn*

Thanx 4 The Fish · 02-09-2002 3:07pm

Bard is a cnut, Bard is a cnut

Anyway back on topic. Claim to fame, /meh was the poster child for foster families way back when. Everybody else is just a poor imitation.

Also scored with a volley from the edge of my own box last week in soccer, keeper came up to take a free, one of their boys headed it on and I cleared it ( I mean, spotted the keeper off his line and blasted a shot over his head) with a swinging right boot. Am sure I am the first in the Mayo League to have done so, if not in the world

Did I mention Bard is a Cnut

Bard · 02-09-2002 3:40pm

very funny, t4tf

And Kaids... wrong idea... something you were 'first in the world' or 'first in Ireland' or whatever to do - or a 'claim to fame' may not necessarily be something to be proud of. I'm not asking people to tell me how great they are.

They just will, anyway

Dustaz · 02-09-2002 5:40pm

Shortlisted for an oscar

ok ok , before being accused of blowing anyones trumpet:
1. I wasnt shortlisted, a film i worked on was
2. 2 other irish films were actually nominated the same year
3. it was a short film
4. I lead a sad life, i need these things...

Dont be at yourself · 02-09-2002 5:49pm

Everyone in my school knows me as "The Guy Who Dressed Up As A Woman. Repeatedly."

Or, to be really anal, I found a neat way of putting in a diamond design while laying cobble driveways.

TacT · 02-09-2002 6:12pm

what's the problem lads, don't like being recognised at all?
Bleedin modest types

La_Gordy · 02-09-2002 6:49pm

Tommy Tiernan laughed at me.

Puck · 02-09-2002 7:05pm

I think I was the first to use the phrase "Jesus on a bycycle" after seeing a guy who looked incredibly like Jesus cycle past me on my way home from school long ago.

Also invented the term "Puckosexual" for people that fancy me. I wanted a Puckosexual board if there was going to be a homosexual board.

Also climed down a bridge and walked along the bed of the river Suir. But that was a long time ago when I was a little shit.

KdjaCL · 03-09-2002 12:19am

Im in the video of a band called 4th Dimension ,

Quite proud of it too but i had it on Video tape from 2tv .

it was a gig at the point about 8 years ago Prodigy headlined it ,would love to get it again but i lost the video tape.
im in the video of one of there songs which was terrible but im in it for about 2 minutes all me all the time ...LOL

Kdja

jaggeh · 03-09-2002 1:32am

when i was 11 i did an add for nickelodeon in the states, they interviewed me while i was in a waterpark lol

also...... met lenny henry when i was 8, i was wearing street hockey gear and he started beating me up for a laugh O_o

Ry · 03-09-2002 2:33am

I presented a Live TV show once. Wasnt ever broadcasted. Though it was shown to a large audience in my old school. I was the Shamrock Rovers Mascot too :P

Milhouse · 03-09-2002 3:02am

I have a horsey...
Neiiigh.... Neiiiigh..

STaN · 03-09-2002 4:36am

Originally posted by Milhouse
I have a horsey...
Neiiigh.... Neiiiigh..

fisty · 03-09-2002 4:44am

I founded Microsoft

Bard · 03-09-2002 7:57am

Originally posted by Puck
I think I was the first to use the phrase "Jesus on a bycycle" after seeing a guy who looked incredibly like Jesus cycle past me on my way home from school long ago.

Ah c'mon... the term "Christ on a Bike!!!" has been around for yeeeeeears! Various incarnations of it, such as "Jesus Christ on a piece of toast!" and "Jesus Bicycling Christ!" have been used for quite some time, particularly in the books of Diana Gabaldon.

( ah crap, I'm being pedantic there... heh )

Originally posted by Milhouse

I have a horsey...
Neiiigh.... Neiiiigh..

LOL... brilliant

I might as well throw my oar (back) in ...

I was the one who started RTÉ Radio 2FM broadcasting on the web... way back in October 1996. [ more ]

Oh ... and I think I was the first web developer in Ireland to get a threatening letter from Barney the Dinosaur's lawyers (for this)- although I could be wrong on that count

(Jesus, there's no escape with archive.org around!!!)

TacT · 03-09-2002 5:54pm

Originally posted by kdja
Im in the video of a band called 4th Dimension ,

Quite proud of it too but i had it on Video tape from 2tv .

it was a gig at the point about 8 years ago Prodigy headlined it ,would love to get it again but i lost the video tape.
im in the video of one of there songs which was terrible but im in it for about 2 minutes all me all the time ...LOL

Kdja

And what a great gig it was apart from
being thoroughly freaked by this girl who jumped off the balcony

while I was on a bit of a high.

RopeDrink · 03-09-2002 8:01pm

Erm...
Sugg's from Madness gave me 50p when I was, like, one year old after he met my mother outside Sainsbury's.

I was part of a band for "The Adventure" across from where I used to live in London. Was their KeyBoard player until I moved over here and lost interest in music altogether.

Founded VAR (LOL, such a fame inducing achievement) and we are the longest running clan in Irish gaming(?) to date.

Was known as "The English Guy" In the Tech once I moved over, which made me an idolised, pin-up, successful bully magnet.

There are others, but they're rather pathetic really, and not worth mentioning.

Crash · 04-09-2002 12:07am

Em, I'm most likely one of the few children who had to be stopped by my teacher from stabbing Ray Darcy with a pencil in the leg.

lordsippa · 04-09-2002 12:39am

I'm the poncho guy <all the dubs who've been in the city last few weeks'll know me so>.

Karl Hungus · 04-09-2002 1:37am

Sorry Rope... I think you mean 'Co-Founded' VAR.

But as for me personally, my claims to fame would be...

I'm in Cradle Of Filth's DVD.
Very briefly, you can see me.

And I've also wrote a script that's going to be made into a short film over in England.
Not gonna say much tho, as it's not gonna be finished for some time.
But Film4 are funding it. Part of an unknown talent type thing.
Some guys I know over the net are making the film for this, and asked if they could use one of my little stories.

amp · 04-09-2002 9:43am

I'm fairly sure I'm going to be spottable (I got into the centre moshpit) when last years Slaine is broadcast on telly. According to Hotpress it's to be aired "soon". Sadly they've also scotched rumours of a DVD of the event.

I'd love to be on a DVD, that would RAWK.

Otherwise I've done work for various famous people, which I'm not going to name, and got a medal when I was 12 for catching my friend when he fell from a tree.

WhiteWashMan · 04-09-2002 11:09am

i was voted wánker of the year for my team in woking hockey club last season as the person with the most wánker of the week votes over the season.
i recieved 2 boards awards last week making me most adored member of this community

Pepe LeFrits · 04-09-2002 11:52am

Originally posted by RopeDrink
Founded VAR (LOL, such a fame inducing achievement) and we are the longest running clan in Irish gaming(?) to date.

HIV

WhiteWashMan · 04-09-2002 12:18pm

there are lots of older clans.
DF, HIV and doozer from q2 days, im sure there are remanents of q1 clans still going.

VAR?

who the fúck are they?

RopeDrink · 04-09-2002 7:34pm

Apparantly HIV have broken up once, or maybe twice. (Correct meh if Im wrong)
If that is the case, and after remembering that we've never split, would indicate that we are infact the longest running.

Personally I couldn't give a flying toss, but we've been around for yonks, and to have CO-Founded the clan, to me, is an achievement. VAR was probably the only reason I ever found the net / found boards / found mIRC / found Boards Drinkies / Acid-Reign, my first novel (List goes on).

Wether or not you care, that is an achievement to me.

ykt0di9url7bc3 · 04-09-2002 8:14pm

I was one of the first people in Ireland to go through a delicate laser eye surgery to burn away muscles from the sides of my eyes,

...the operation was to correct my position of my head.....my eyes were defaultly in the right hand side corner of the eye socket which meant that when i was looking forward my head was pointing slightly up and 60 degrees left of centre....It was giving my neck a huge strain and dirty looks from other class mates....

...The doctors had to wait until my eyes were mature enough to do the surgery...they didnt tell me that my eyesight would be blurry for a few days after the operation.....I awoke thinking they had botched the job but a helpful nurse found me colapsed in the corridor trying to get my bearings....

The surgery worked but it wasnt an exact fix...I now look a little to the right every now and then but it is a vast improvement!

SheroN · 05-09-2002 1:48pm

First man to walk on the moon.

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