AlienFTM Posted September 19, 2007 Share Posted September 19, 2007 I knew a Barry Merchant who had HRH The Princess Margaret as Colonel in Chief. He carried an LMG in NI and loaded the entire first mag with trace to make sure he hit the target. The mind Boggles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazz Posted September 19, 2007 Share Posted September 19, 2007 it does, doesn't it. THE MIND THAT IS. BARRY. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonny666 Posted September 20, 2007 Share Posted September 20, 2007 i havent got many really, my dad used to go to the school where they filmed Kes, my uncle used to be in grimethorpe collery brass band and was in brassed off, and if you remember the gladiators i met shadow from said program. ok i am heading back to my bunker to take the flak lol could it also be said i am one of the youngest members on here?? who knows lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterMacD Posted September 20, 2007 Share Posted September 20, 2007 There was a close up of me on guard at the Cenptaph a decade or so ago - my sister taped over it with Coronation St! :banghead: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andreadavide Posted September 21, 2007 Share Posted September 21, 2007 Oh, and took part in the Lord Mayor's parade once. me too, in 1999. Andrea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david052 Posted September 21, 2007 Share Posted September 21, 2007 Did the Lord Mayor's Parade too, but quite a while ago, and took part in the Royal Tournament on the Anniversary of the TA (100 years?). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted September 21, 2007 Share Posted September 21, 2007 Was that the anniversary or the length of time it was ago? :roll: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dakman Posted October 2, 2007 Share Posted October 2, 2007 Cut my teeth in films, so to speak, by being paid handsomely for hanging around with the special effects guys on "Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines" which was filmed at Booker (Wycombe Air Park). Later, (much later), thats me flying the DC-3 at the beginning of "The Eagle Has Landed", which also saw me having dinner with Jenny Agutter after filming in Exeter. The old Dak G-AKNB was painted in water-soluble camo,(Tony B will remember that), the surface finish of which was akin to sandpaper, which really hobbled her performance on a hot summers day, and I well remember stopping a cricket match near Hurn Airport as we staggered off to the west one summers evening before turning left and proceeding down Bournemouth high-street with probably a bit more cargo on than the load-sheet alluded to! The paint was left on as we needed the aircraft straight after filming was finished, and by the time the film company came to remove it, it had baked on so hard in the summer sun that it cost them a fortune to remove it! Before that, as an early teenager, I used to go to Pinewood Studios to look after a club glider they used in "Man in a Suitcase", and actually appeared on screen with Richard Johnson and another glider in a turgid James Bond spoof called "Some Girls Do", which vanished, deservedly, without trace. The moral there is that if you are going to appear in the movies and want people to recognise you, don't come on wearing a huge pair of sunglasses! Perhaps my greatest claim to fame was appearing in "Thunderbird 6", the only cinema film ever made with the earlier puppets, where a real Tiger Moth was used for some of the flying sequences. Only downside to that was that Lady Penelope was flying it, so I had to dress up accordingly, (only from the waist-up thankfully, but that was bad enough!). I thought I looked rather fetching, but enough already! (And probably too much.........?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted October 2, 2007 Share Posted October 2, 2007 Oh yes I remember November Bravo. Is the poor old cow still flying? She always got the freight jobs when Intra had her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dakman Posted October 2, 2007 Share Posted October 2, 2007 I THINK it escaped to the USA and became a Basler tri- or twin-turbo DC-3. Oldest one we had, (1942), and always felt as if it had been looked after, (ex-BEA). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted October 2, 2007 Share Posted October 2, 2007 Yes I'm sure she was the oldest, Youngest was 1945 if I remember. I used to work for Mike down at Air Marine at the Aero club hangar for a while that's how I know her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Mayhem Posted October 2, 2007 Share Posted October 2, 2007 Dakman, respect to you, anytime now, surely Hollywood will come knocking. I once got into Sean Connery's taxi. Well according to the driver he was booked to pick up the famous silver screen star, but the extenuating circumstances as to why Mr James Bond didn't show were so soperific that I can't recall them. But it would seem that I was the next fare. Impressed huh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Posted November 25, 2007 Author Share Posted November 25, 2007 I hold the record for the biggest litter of piglets born to a gilt. Total live born 26 - and they all survived! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted November 25, 2007 Share Posted November 25, 2007 That is to much info :sweat: What breed was the gilt? No boys we are NOT talking about 26 little Land Rovers hanging their front wheels over the wall of the sty. :whistle: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Degsy Posted November 25, 2007 Share Posted November 25, 2007 I hold the record for the biggest litter of piglets born to a gilt. Total live born 26 - and they all survived! Wow, a pig that can use a computer,that must be a record too. :schocked: :-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinkie Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 Ah ha --- now, lemme see. :coffee2: What have you done that is pretty unique? It may not be unique but it is kind of special - I have been a passenger driving from the West Coast of America to the East Coast. A whole week on the road. Pity it wasn't in a Dukw... coulda gone around by the Pacific and passed up on that whole Texas ordeal. Ha. Who have you met, who have you sat next to? I am a tour guide in Dublin, and on one of my last tours this year I had a famous passenger! Jackie Chan -- though no one believes me now. A scene in his movie, Medallion, shows him jumping off City Hall in Dublin, onto a Yellow Dukw! Have you been on TV, in a film, been an extra. I have been on tv inadvertently... When doing tours around the city, if it is kind of late we end up on the 6'o clock news as we chug past Government Buildings going back to base. Been on the news in that fashion a couple of times. :whistle: Have you helped someone famous get out of trouble shocked No -- Or have I? I roared at Jonathan Rhys Meyers when he was filming in Dublin but I am not too sure if I was getting him out of trouble. Have you worked for anybody famous? Famous is relative.... Have you sold anything to anybody of interest? Nope! Unless that tour to Jackie Chan counts... I didn't sell it to him however, I just yapped at him for over an hour :sweat: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miss jeep Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 lets see the pics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Posted August 26, 2008 Author Share Posted August 26, 2008 Right- we have loads of new members since the last post here some come and tell us what you have done - who you have met........... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radiomike7 Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 Back in the summer of 1968 while waiting to go to college, I was working for a company in Cricklewood that supplied juke boxes and fruit machines to clubs and pubs in the London area. One evening, the boss asked for 2 of us to work late on a huge juke box installation in the Windsor area, so we set off in the van along the M4 and as we approached Windsor I looked at the job sheet to find the address - Windsor Castle! It turned out that HM put on a huge party for her offspring every year based in the games room at the castle, a huge room with a wooden polo pony on springs surrounded by a net as the centre piece. After dragging all the kit in, my job was to connect everything up, so there I was trying to hide the speaker cables behind all the exotic plants when a pair of playful dogs leapt up and grabbed the bottom of my t-shirt. Somewhat surprised, I let out a 'get down you b**tards' and sent one of the dogs flying with a smart back hander. At this point I was suddenly aware of a casually dressed female who was taking three Corgis for a tour of the grounds, and my immediate thought was that she looked very familiar.... Yes, you have guessed it, HM herself, grinning from ear to ear at my antics. Bashing a royal mutt, swearing at another, I was expecting to get arrested on the spot, but as far as I could see there was no visible security and HM came over and chatted for several minutes before continuing her walk. Later as we were testing the system, Andrew and Edward appeared but were most concerned that they had no money and would be unable to play their favourite top 20 tunes. Needless to say the machine was set to free play and I showed them how to pre-select a number of records. From memory the princes were 6 and 10 at the time, and the Corgi soon recovered and made friends. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted September 3, 2008 Share Posted September 3, 2008 Ha ha ha, I can imagine the look on your face! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toner Posted September 6, 2008 Share Posted September 6, 2008 I've been in an advertising campaign for a well known high street chemist. I was volunteering on HMS Plymouth when she stayed in Glasgow (about 1990 to 91). That's all I'm admiting to just now... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Posted September 6, 2008 Author Share Posted September 6, 2008 I've been in an advertising campaign for a well known high street chemist. I was volunteering on HMS Plymouth when she stayed in Glasgow (about 1990 to 91). That's all I'm admiting to just now... Come on Toner - we need to know more now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil P Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 When I was 17 and an apprentice I used to go for a cycle ride at lunchine with a lad who worked in the stores. His name was Neville Holder. If it was raining he used to practice on a guitar. He played in a group called th 'N Betweens. His knickname was Noddy. I wonder what happened to him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlienFTM Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 Didn't he become a music teacher in the Black Coontroy, with a colleague called Amanda Holden? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Farrant Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 Didn't he become a music teacher in the Black Coontroy, with a colleague called Amanda Holden? You've been watching too much telly, come back to the real world :-D :rofl: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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