Claim to lame

Lockstep · 09-12-2007 08:14PM #1

This might have been done before but I found no mention of it in the search buttons.

Allrighty, we all have our terrible claim to fames. We walked past some C-list celebrity or our dog bit some actor on the chin. Who here can come up with the most piss-poor claim to fame?

I'll start the ball rolling, I went out with a girl who went to a house party at Emma Watson's and Emma Watson's little brother tried to get her into bed. The cheeky little scamp

Also, I saw the guy who plays Bob in Fair City in a hotel in Dublin.

dlofnep · 09-12-2007 08:18PM

Who is Emma Watson?

I served yer man with the schmig in Fair City a few years back. Can't say I'm the type of person who gets starstruck.

Lockstep · 09-12-2007 08:20PM

dlofnep wrote: »

Who is Emma Watson?

I served yer man with the schmig in Fair City a few years back. Can't say I'm the type of person who gets starstruck.

Emma Watson plays Herminone Granger in the Harry Potter movies.

Statso · 09-12-2007 08:20PM

dlofnep wrote: »

Who is Emma Watson?

I served yer man with the schmig in Fair City a few years back. Can't say I'm the type of person who gets starstruck.

Emma Watson is the girl from the Harry Potter movies.

dlofnep · 09-12-2007 08:26PM

Oh right, haven't watched them. Is she hot/legal? Nevermind, I'll google her.

dlofnep · 09-12-2007 08:27PM

She's cute. Bit young though.

AlmightyCushion · 09-12-2007 08:40PM

I showed one of the guys from Westlife where the beans are in Tesco.

deisemum · 09-12-2007 08:40PM

I was on Open House with Marty and Mary, had a make-over not long before the show finished. Met so many RTE people in the canteen.

I've had my photo with Sonia O Sullivan plus interview in several newspapers.

Met several premier league footballers through my job when I worked in London, god I loved that job.:D:D Also met some Eastender actors/actresses plus numerous C list tv actors.

Met Helen whatever her name is, the English astronaut who went into space with the russians.

Colin Farrell was at a table near me in a well known restaurant.

peasant · 09-12-2007 08:48PM

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

I showed one of the guys from Westlife where the beans are in Tesco.

I let the other guy from Westlife in his Ferrari out of a tight spot in front of the shop by backing up a bit

and I almost walked over Chris de Burgh at Dublin airport once ...he's tiny and I was in a rush

oh...and I had words with the secretary general of NATO once ...he was drunk and had swiped my pint

GhostInTheRuins · 09-12-2007 08:52PM

I sat beside that rugby player in the cinema (You know, the small fella with the mullet) and jeered Marty Whelan in town.

Thomas_S_Hunterson · 09-12-2007 08:54PM

D.T. Jesus wrote: »

and jeered Marty Whelan in town.

lol, when I was about 12, I was at some Disney on Ice show with my school, and MArty Whelan was sitting a few rows behind us.

Anyway after the show, a few of us went up and got his autograph. The shame:o

AlmightyCushion · 09-12-2007 08:58PM

Oh I've got another one. I sat in the same train carriage as some local politician (Not sure if I can call him a politician as I don't think he ever got elected or know any one who voted for him).

GhostInTheRuins · 09-12-2007 08:58PM

Sean_K wrote: »

lol, when I was about 12, I was at some Disney on Ice show with my school, and MArty Whelan was sitting a few rows behind us.

Anyway after the show, a few of us went up and got his autograph. The shame:o

I know a lad who got the signatures from the members of b*witched when they were picking up someone from a skate park

GhostInTheRuins · 09-12-2007 09:00PM

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Oh I've got another one. I sat in the same train carriage as some local politician (Not sure if I can call him a politician as I don't think he ever got elected or know any one who voted for him).

That's certainly a lame one alright

The_Minister · 09-12-2007 09:01PM

The black chick from Breakfast on Pluto. Walked past on the road, only a day or two after seeing the movie.

Ruu_Old · 09-12-2007 09:02PM

The chap who played Eoin McLove walked past me with a cameraman in Cavan a few years ago.
/me hangs head in shame

Zaph · 09-12-2007 09:03PM

I know a girl who shagged Colin Farrell. Then again, doesn't everyone.

GhostInTheRuins · 09-12-2007 09:04PM

Oh I got another one. When I was a young fella, I was waiting for my mam when she was getting her hair cut and the woman that plays Rita (I think) from fair chity came into the hair dressers :cool:

And one time I was in the waiting room of my GP and Johnny Logan was sitting across from me.

Thomas_S_Hunterson · 09-12-2007 09:08PM

D.T. Jesus wrote: »

Oh I got another one. When I was a young fella, I was waiting for my mam when she was getting her hair cut and the woman that plays Rita (I think) from fair chity came into the hair dressers :cool:

Another fair city one, when I was collecting money and selling santa bears or something for charity back in transition year, yer one that plays Lana came in and bought one off me.

I also saw the guy who plays one of the gardai in the show at Sydney Parade Dart station

Lirange · 09-12-2007 09:09PM

Ruu wrote: »

/me hangs head in shame

Don't hang your head.

I crossed paths with Pat Kenny in Skerries.*

*Please don't ban me.

leninbenjamin · 09-12-2007 09:32PM

one of our MEPs gave out to me before when he used to teach in our school. wee Seanín.

then again he probably gave out to every single student who walked through those doors, seemed that type of guy.

Scraggs · 09-12-2007 09:34PM

I lent one of RTÉs renowned political correspondants a FF pencil at a press conference. He wasn't impressed.

Milktrolley · 09-12-2007 09:42PM

The lamest claim to fame I have... Brendan Kilkenny walked past me on O'Connell Street in Dublin about two weeks ago. And there I was thinking that he only wore all that crap on tv.

Miley from Glenroe cycled past me in Rathmines before the summer too.

ansionnachclist · 09-12-2007 09:44PM

I was on "The Cafe". RTE show I think lol. And I asked the Polish chick from Fairly Sh!ty (dont think shes on it anymore) a question and said she was looking well lol... live on tell. Got embarrassed. Tatyana is her name or something like that.

Lockstep · 09-12-2007 09:52PM

Nicky from Westlife came with his bint, the Taeoseach's daughter to mass at my church, in Belgium of all places.

I saw Dick Spring at Superquinn as a kid and he was handing out election leaflets, i asked him for a "ticket", he laughed and gave me one. Nice man.

My ex girlfriend had a bitchfight with Brian Eno's daughter.

I knew a girl who looked like Princess Fiona in Shrek, albeit the ogre version.

I met a guy at the Gaelthucht who said he knew the girl who plays Luna Lovegood, said she was a right nutjob.

I met Pat Rabbitte(leader of Labour party), Eamonn Gilmore(same) and the mayo candidates for the Labour Party and Sinn Fein

My old man worked at a bar and served Debbie Harry from Blondie.

Best claim to Lame ever: a man in Galway goes up to random people and tells you how he met Rory Gallagher, if you've ever seen the Little Britain with the woman who says she was Molly Sugden's bridesmaid you'll have a good idea

Lockstep · 09-12-2007 09:55PM

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Oh I've got another one. I sat in the same train carriage as some local politician (Not sure if I can call him a politician as I don't think he ever got elected or know any one who voted for him).

Milktrolley wrote: »

The lamest claim to fame I have... Brendan Kilkenny walked past me on O'Connell Street in Dublin about two weeks ago. And there I was thinking that he only wore all that crap on tv.

.

I'm unsure which of these is a more crappy claim to fame

FlutterinBantam · 09-12-2007 10:00PM

I was waiting to have a shíte in The Redbank in skerries when a local Fianna Fail councellor vacated the stall.

Left a big coil in there,had to wait for the other one, and who was in it???

Johnny Logan!!!

Cool_CM · 09-12-2007 10:04PM

I told glen hansard he was a c*nt to his face whilst in the brog, it was great

BrokenArrows · 09-12-2007 10:24PM

Might as well ad my 2c

when westlife were becoming famous, well known but not millionaires yet me and a group we sitting at this nice spot in a bar in sligo. Was one of the best places in the bar. Well at some point 2 of the westlife guys come in with their entourage and one of the lackies comes up to us asking if he can have the table.

Of course he gets told where to go. He comes back a while later offering to pay for a round.

We had just decided to leave anyway so we took the money for the drinks and left.

Was funny:D

connundrum · 09-12-2007 10:26PM

I once showed Kerry McFadden (at the time) to her seat.

I practically saved Oliver Stone's life. He tripped on an exposed cable and I caught him as he plunged to certain death.

I stopped yer man from Ireland AM from coming into the club I work. Then I let him in. Him being a dick apparently wasn't a good enough reason not to let him in.

I sat beside Hector (Hector an seo!) on the train from Dublin to Galway. It was before he got all Hollywood and was actually a sound chap.

I once escorted Westlife from their dressing room to the stage. It was super fun and all the lads were sound. Or was the Queens of the Stoneage I'm thinking of...

A lad I used to work with in the Savoy once went up to Bono at a premier and asked him if he would swap sunglasses with him. Sir Bono told him to fuck off saying - 'Do you even know how much these cost?!'

Lockstep · 09-12-2007 10:27PM

connundrum wrote: »

A lad I used to work with in the Savoy once went up to Bono at a premier and asked him if he would swap sunglasses with him. Sir Bono told him to fuck off saying - 'Do you even know how much these cost?!'

Ha!

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