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[Rhiannon]

Any spelling mistakes and complaints relating to them must be redirected
to me, personally. Ten standard drinks!

So anyway, hideous little trainspotter I am wants to know about your
fellow brushes with fame. Closest Ive come was being forced to shake
Michael Knights hand in year 10 (former AOC official, for those not with
the program) and I refused. And then about a year ago I spotted Amanda
Vanstone in the DJs food court.

I dont suppose any of you have met someone worth mentioning, like
someone off Idol.

[Ziff]

My friend met Mark Latham when he was down here in Wollongong after the election. I saw the autograph. Does this count?



I did meet the Chaser boys once though...

[stickman67]

I was up at Whale Beach one day, years ago (mid-1980s, from memory),
with some friends. We were playing cricket on the beach. I was running
after a skied ball, looking back over my shoulder and not paying much
attention to my feet. Just as I caught the ball, I kicked over a sand castle
that some guy had been building with his baby. The guy was Bryan
Brown, and Judy Davis was sitting next to him. They were, to say the
least, not very impressed.

And today I was in the local bakery buying pies for lunch (my four-year-
old son and I like a piggy lunch now and again) when in walked one of
Shannon Nolls brothers. OK, its a "six degrees" kind of thing, and
Australian Idle aint the top of the celebrity stakes, but a brush with even
a minor celebritys sibling is as good as it gets out here.

[opshop]

Im guessing it doesnt count if you go to their show to meet them?


That rules out countless comedians and musicians...


hmm...I was interviewed on ACA in 94. I got to meet Tara Brown.


And about two years ago I got to co-interview the only celebrity to come out of our highschool. I cant rememebr his name...footy ref of some kind...been on The Fat a few times. I dunno...sport bores me.

[newsonline]

Gerry Adams signed his book for me at Dymocks. He shook my hand and said "thanks for coming" (as he did to everyone). I said thanks, and I like your work. I saw two hotties getting their photo taken with him.


I also saw Pauline Hanson but it was from a distance.

[bureaucrat]

i met our G-G mike jeffreys. top bloke. our fingers touched across the dinner table like in that famous renaissance painting.


his wife was also there. and she wore the dress that she wore to our princess mary of denmarks wedding. *girly sigh*

[Erica]

I saw Lindy ("the dingos got my baby") Chamberlaind at the 2000 paralympics.


It was weird to say the least.


 

[sillykitty]

Last december I was at the Melbourne ABC studios, and I was walking around a corner when I ran into some guy coming in the other direction, who turned out to be Mark Latham.
I was mostly disapointed that I didnt realise who he was until hed apologised, made sure I was ok and walked away.

[Courtney]

I am well connected. So well connected, or have had so many brushes with fame in my past that it even gets a list. (I used to live in Thailand and went to a British school there. Its because of that school that I have met a few British bigwigs.)



Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip
Margaret Thatcher
Anan Anwar, Thai pop star, was in my class
Australian Idol competitor, Emily George, is in my (and Jess and Liangs) year at school
Damon Gameau, a vague actor who was in The Tracker and Thunderstruck.
Chaser people.
John Pilger (he was very nice)
Lemony Snicket
Jackie Collins, pulp fiction writer (she was mean)
and a few others who I cant recall at present. This was all in person though. If you want 6 degrees of separation type brushes, then there are MANY more because of my mums previous working at the airport, and variously well-connected friends.

[Jess the mess]

I saw the blasted PM a couple of month ago from a distance


from a distance he looked like a very small mushroom


up close his head looked like a hamburger

[Jess the mess]

I meant months


i really am literate


really

[Swood Corporations]

Well Ill blow you all out of the water and say that NONI HAZELHURST lived down my street for about 3 years and every day waiting for the bus Id always see her yelling at her sons and generally being really embarassing to them
Then one day she was talking to a fellow mother and the mother was standing with her daughter and her daughters friend and the mum started dancing and the daughter (whos about 13) got into such a state that she screamed and cried and shut herself in the car sulking for about 10 minutes
I mean, damn...i wouldnt consider swaying your hips back and forth a highly embarassing dance act! Needless to say Noni was slightly shocked, then turned to yell at her son some more, whilst I sat by laughing my head off

(i know that mum/daughter story had not much to do with it, but it was hilarious to watch)

[bureaucrat]

I am well connected. So well connected, or have had so many brushes with fame in my past that it even gets a list. (I used to live in Thailand and went to a British school there. Its because of that school that I have met a few British bigwigs.)



Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip
Margaret Thatcher
Anan Anwar, Thai pop star, was in my class
Australian Idol competitor, Emily George, is in my (and Jess and Liangs) year at school
Damon Gameau, a vague actor who was in The Tracker and Thunderstruck.
Chaser people.
John Pilger (he was very nice)
Lemony Snicket
Jackie Collins, pulp fiction writer (she was mean)
and a few others who I cant recall at present. This was all in person though. If you want 6 degrees of separation type brushes, then there are MANY more because of my mums previous working at the airport, and variously well-connected friends.

im just a tad skeptical that you met the first 2 on your list...

[bureaucrat]

Well Ill blow you all out of the water and say that NONI HAZELHURST lived down my street for about 3 years and every day waiting for the bus Id always see her yelling at her sons and generally being really embarassing to them
Then one day she was talking to a fellow mother and the mother was standing with her daughter and her daughters friend and the mum started dancing and the daughter (whos about 13) got into such a state that she screamed and cried and shut herself in the car sulking for about 10 minutes
I mean, damn...i wouldnt consider swaying your hips back and forth a highly embarassing dance act! Needless to say Noni was slightly shocked, then turned to yell at her son some more, whilst I sat by laughing my head off

(i know that mum/daughter story had not much to do with it, but it was hilarious to watch)

noni and the whole "better homes and garden" team are hilarious to watch. i especially like watching the craft segment to learn what hideous thing/reno i can do with expensive, but crap, materials.


i also like nonis incredibly helpful and ingenious ways to buy meat in bulk.

[bureaucrat]

when i was 8, i met the disney characters in them godawful theme parks in the US.  my mother was most outraged when "Captain Hook" placed his hand too close to her rear when we posed to take a photo.