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  • #32
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    I met Brendan Gleeson in Dublin Airport once, he was sitting next to my Mum but I wasn't sure it was him, so I went online on the computers nearby and on to IMDB and compared photos of him there with photos of him in the airport.

    Then we got on the plane and who was sitting in front of us, but Brendan.
    Got his autograph ( on a napkin:P), this at a time when I was huge into Harry Potter.,, That and he is a great actor.

    I was also in a short film on tv.


  • #33
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    At the chinese circus in 1992 in the rds and bono and family where there got his autograph.
    Being on the team bus with the dublin gaelic football team back in the early eighties coming back from a match in tuam.
    Have met numerous politicians from all parties.
    In lanzarote in 09 our now president was on the beach beside us,lovely man.

    Many more small episodes like that cant remember them all,


  • #34
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    hondasam wrote: »
    I met Hugh Grant once, just for a quick chat in his car.

    Hang on if memory serves me right didn't you make a porno after that based on your 'encounter'?

    Hmmmm.......brb.......

    *puts 'hondasam hugh grant back seat undy-grundy' into xvideos search engine* :pac:


  • #35
    Washington Irving
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,066 ✭✭✭Washington Irving


    I was on RTE News when I 9 during the snow.
    My great grandmother taught Douglas Hyde Irish


  • #36
    holystungun9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,933 ✭✭✭holystungun9


    Tubsandtiles wrote: »
    I'm cousins with yer man that presents the late late show :)

    Are you any relation to KnobsandKnockers ?


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  • #37
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    I wrote the feature film Fame.


  • #38
    Macken200
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88 ✭✭Macken200


    Was walking by St Paul's cathedral in London and getting ready to cross the road by one of those zebra crossing yolks when I spotted one of those vintage Rolls Royce cars with the little flags on the bonnet that the Royals use coming down the road,so I stood there to see if there was anyone in the back.
    The Queens mother was sitting in the back and as she was passing she spotted me and leant forward on her seat and gave me a big olde wink and a wave.I liked her after that.


  • #39
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    I invented the question mark.


  • #40
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    krudler wrote: »
    I invented the question mark.


    Why ??????????????? :)


  • #41
    Ghandee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    Macken200 wrote: »
    Was walking by St Paul's cathedral in London and getting ready to cross the road by one of those zebra crossing yolks when I spotted one of those vintage Rolls Royce cars with the little flags on the bonnet that the Royals use coming down the road,so I stood there to see if there was anyone in the back.
    The Queens mother was sitting in the back and as she was passing she spotted me and leant forward on her seat and gave me a big olde wànk and a wave.I liked her after that.

    eurgh.....



    :pac:


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  • #42
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    * Was interviewed a number of times on TV/Radio over a number of years.
    * Met many a politician, Irish and international. Orally tackled quite a few of them!
    * Went for a meal with U2 (Met them thru a Dublin accountancy firm)
    * Know many a famous singer and TV/Film star.
    * Addressed local and national rally's/protests.
    ...There's a good few reasons.

    Then there is a few people over three days of our wedding (cast of Star Trek, Buffy, Angel, Leverage, Bands, Stargate, Terminator films, etc):


    http://img851.imageshack.us/img851/9539/adambuffy.jpg
    http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/6103/arminsmwebjpgw300h198.jpg
    http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/496/borgqueen.jpg
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    http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/9001/kanejpgw300h196.jpg
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    http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/1540/nathanfillion.jpg
    http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/1844/neilroberts.jpg
    http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/6122/nicholasbrendon2.jpg
    http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/6382/pointpleasent.jpg
    http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/9994/quark2sm.jpg
    http://img810.imageshack.us/img810/4896/regpuppet.jpg
    http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/9373/robertpatrickjpgw300h21.jpg
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    http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/9035/scan3fz.jpg
    http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/3879/twougliesjpgw300h400.jpg

    Sorry about blurred faces. Its a security thing.


  • #43
    Gandalph
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,895 ✭✭✭Gandalph


    Colm Meaney walked by my mam and my dad and goes to his wife "Jesus look theres *my dads name* honey", my da just smiled and walked on until my mother had to tell him who it was! My dad was a decent jockey at the time and Meaney was an avid racing fan!

    My grandad also trained Arkle for any of you old enough to remember that far back in racing days!


  • #44
    Helix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,661 ✭✭✭✭Helix


    a relation was instrumental in the release of the birmingham six


  • #45
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,325 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Met author Edna OBrien in Galway, she spotted me doing Christy Moores greatest hits with the bodhran, whilst busking on High Street. She based a busking character on me for her book Down By The River. Also TG4 based one of the Postcard programmes on me from a postcard I participated in during the mid 90s, John Spillane presented the programme.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #46
    Macken200
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88 ✭✭Macken200


    Ghandee wrote: »
    eurgh.....



    :pac:

    Haha ..I walked into that one.. :)


  • #47
    Birdie086
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,437 ✭✭✭Birdie086


    Micheal Manning, the last man to be hanged in ireland, was a distant cousin


  • #48
    Lady Chatterton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    OP, I've met the real Kieran Fallon, he is from a neighbouring parish :p








    Ah, Kfallon, I think I prefer you though :o


  • #49
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Worked in national radio along with a few well known-ish personalities. The divas aren't always who you'd expect. And the down to earth are often not who you'd expect either. :)


  • #50
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    MrsD007 wrote: »
    OP, I've met the real Kieran Fallon, he is from a neighbouring parish :p








    Ah, Kfallon, I think I prefer you though :o

    Hey mrsD, I hear he is a bit of a fraud but nice with it and he is from one of the nicer counties of Ireland.:p

    I would prefer kfallon as well.


  • #51
    Birdie086
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,437 ✭✭✭Birdie086


    Dudess wrote: »
    Worked in national radio along with a few well known-ish personalities. The divas aren't always who you'd expect. And the down to earth are often not who you'd expect either. :)


    Very true, worked for two years as front of House in a theatre and the above statement is very true. Actually forgot all the famous peoples I met while working there, you stop taking notice after a while.


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  • #52
    Helix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,661 ✭✭✭✭Helix


    how is meeting famous people a claim to fame?

    is that like saying that meeting wayne rooney is a your claim to being a premier league winning footballer or something?


  • #53
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    MrsD007 wrote: »
    OP, I've met the real Kieran Fallon, he is from a neighbouring parish :p








    Ah, Kfallon, I think I prefer you though :o

    I have met him too, it's still in the **** bank :o :pac:

    And ty, I prefer MrsD To Michael D :P


  • #54
    Aishae
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,800 ✭✭✭Aishae


    met mary macalease at my school as a teen - i was specifically singled out to meet her and i dont know why :eek:
    dad went to school with (ooh ah) paul mcgrath - never met him o course
    mam knew some lad called sean og, supoosedly a big deal, or so she says
    directly descendant from the o'neil kings of ulster (is there anyone in ireland that isnt descendant of a king? they were ten a penny)
    i can eat the largest pizza at dominoes in one sitting :pac:
    i know one of the Belle Amie girls in a very distant roundabout cousins neighbours sisters dogs humans mistress way
    was on the Works with my class years ago - we didnt win though (boo)
    i had a background part in that old tv movie the biker (i think it was)
    im famous for falling into a bath after a few pints years ago (dont ask) better than falling out of a nightclub whilst flashing your arse and getting papped though
    im famous for halting boards threads in their tracks :cool:

    im a sleb, let me in there :pac:


  • #55
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    hondasam wrote: »
    Hey mrsD, I hear he is a bit of a fraud but nice with it and he is from one of the nicer counties of Ireland.:p

    Banned :mad:

    :P


  • #56
    baalthor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,244 ✭✭✭baalthor


    Tubsandtiles wrote: »
    I'm cousins with yer man that presents the late late show :)
    That's (mc) savage !


  • #57
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    kfallon wrote: »
    Banned :mad:

    :P

    Kieran fallon would know more about that than me:p:D


  • #58
    splendid101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 655 ✭✭✭splendid101


    I jerked off over a picture of Beyonce once.


  • #59
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    hondasam wrote: »
    Kieren fallon would know more about that than me:p:D

    FYP

    Account deleted :mad: :mad:


  • #60
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    splendid101 wrote: »
    I jerked off over a picture of Beyonce once.

    Hardly a claim to fame, who hasn't :rolleyes:

    :p


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  • #61
    Ellis Dee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,510 ✭✭✭Ellis Dee


    John Doe1 wrote: »
    Justin Bieber got me pregnant:(

    His surname is German for "beaver". He's a busy little one, isn't he?:D:D:D


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