What's yur CLAIM 2 FAIM ??

Demelza · 09-08-2006, 08:27 AM

If you get bored easily......DO NOT READ THIS THREAD !!!! I was bored and thats why I wrote it !!

What's your Claim to Faim ? Do you have one ? Do you have many ? Here are my top 11 !.....(tried to make it 10 but it just is 11)

1. My Great Uncle invented the first Black clothes dye that doens't wash out in water !! He's a proffessor at Cambridge University. Unfortunately he didn't patent it. Otherwise by now we would be rich rich rich! huhh.

2. My Great Aunty was Sue Pollard's English teacher.....(A famous woman, but Sara and others will know what an annoying woman she is, with the most terrible english dialect!)

3. My Grandfather was GIVEN a mountain in Tanzania as a gift !!! He was there on some missionary thing many many years ago, and there was this tribe of people who's cattle were really sick. My Grandfather (being a farmer) gave them advice of how to cure them, and told them to put them high on this 'ere mountain. so they did and the cattle got better !! So they named the herd after my Grandfather and gave him the mountain as a gift. We have the deeds for it, - It says that it's ours from the valey on one side to the river on the other, from the sumit at the top, right down to the centre of the earth !! but my humble mother says that missionaries were not aloud to accept gifts from the tribes and that we should not claim it. Now we could be rich rich rich. huhh.

4. When I lived in Israel, some friends and I got kicked of a kibbutz, and for a time I was living on the beach in Telaviv !! One morning we got woken up by the police and told to move. To my suprise there were huge crowds and as I looked up in a daze , who should be absailing down the skyscraper the other side of the road but ARNOLD SCHWARTZNIGER (spelling?). . . he was there to open the new Planet Hollywood restaurant on the beach, and in all the comotion I got on the wrong side of the red tape and him and his body guards came pushing through and I touched his huge, masculine, muscley........Arm (now now Shanazel stop it !!). and he smiled to me. It was ok but I was gutted that it wasn't VAn DAm

5. I used to teach Fouad El Mohandes' granson at a school in Sakara, Egypt. He's a very famous oldtime comedian in Egypt and anyway I said to his granson one day, get me a signed picture of your grandfather and I'll give you not one star but 4 stars in your book !! and he did. Not only that he also brought his grandad to the school gates to meet me !! Embarrassing when the man himself said 'now miss Joy, forget the stars, my grandson deserves to be head boy of class' !!! oops. I'll try to dig out the picture.

6. My late father was a farmer but also a racing driver of vintage cars. He used to do them up and race them, and he was loved by many many people. Now there is a yearly race held in my fathers name at Silverstone, and my mum has to present the trophy every year.

7. Now this ones a bit funny. I was living in Cairo, and back in the UK my sister's fiance was a vet who used to study vetinary with John Major's daughter. She had decided to travel the middle east, and my sister gave her my number so she could have somewhere to stay in Cairo. Next thing I know, her parents (father being Prime Minister of the UK at the time) are taking a holiday to go and meet their daughter on her travels, just at the time that she is staying with me. AAAAHHHHGGGGG. . . what do I do ??? I was fretting for about a week. In the end she came but Daddy had more important things to do !!!!

8. I sold some computer software to Jim Bowen ("oohhh give us a bully !"), the woman who used to be 'Grotbags' (with the gree face) and Buzby once (the guy that went to the moon)

9. I used to look after 'Desert Orchid' the famous race horse

10. I was in 'Boon' the TV series. On our school lunch hour if we were milling around eating chips in the town square, the film crew used to give us £10 each for being extras !!

11. I was working as a silver service waitress in a this posh country hotel, and I spilt a whole bowl of tomatoe and bazil soup down 'Mikhala Strachlen' once. (and then got the sack because the final straw was when I broke the cork into a bottle of wine worth £800. Who in the right mind would be stupid enuff to spend £800 on a bottle of wine anyway !!??

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mmmm. well I did warn you you'd get bored !! however let me know yours and I'll promise to be intrigued !! xx

Yasmine Bint Al Nubia · 09-08-2006, 03:59 PM

Hi Demelza, interesting life you have there. Instead of being bored, I'm a bit envious. So far my only claim to fame is my daughter and I are the only belly dacers in the family.
Yasmine

Sara · 09-08-2006, 04:05 PM

I Love Su Pollard, and her accent, lol. It's nice a friendly. But northeners do have a friendlier accent in my opinion.

Erm... well... Great Grandad a couple of hundred times was King of Ireland?

I bumped into Matthew Lewis (Nevil Longbottom) once.

Apparently on me great grams side we're related to Vlad Tepes (Vlad Dracul or something, cause they used to hang about in Bran). Not sure about that one though. Gram says we are, but grandad thinks it's not as important as an Irish King.

Thats all I can think of right now...

Demelza · 09-08-2006, 07:53 PM

Yasmine......thats a GREAT claim2Fame......keep up the good work dear xxxx

Sara.....who's Neville Longbottom ??? Is it the guy that says 'I don't beleeeeive it'.....or have I got that one wrapped round my ass ? and King of Ireland eh? I'm impressed xx

ps. thought of another 2 today.....Stuart Peirce (footballer) used to live on the other side of our field so you could almost say next-door-neighbour !! and when he let the whole of England down in the Italy world cup by loosing the last penalty.....we kids made a big banner outside his house for him saying 'Don't worry Stuart, we still love you !' and made him a happy man. 3 Years later I saw him in the local restaurant having a blazing row with his wife.
And secondly, I used to drink with Roy Kene.

Do you thik I could be a footballer's wife ???

xxxx

Aniseteph · 09-08-2006, 08:57 PM

Bored, Demelza? BORED?!!! How could anyone be bored by that?

I wish I could think of even one claim to fame but I can't.

I'll keep trying...

(no, every thing I think of is really lame. Lame Claims to Fame...)

Suhad · 09-08-2006, 09:18 PM

My mother used to be a Playboy bunny at the original Playboy Club in Chicago, IL; I'll try to dig up a picture.

My mom went to school with Danny Kaye, my grandmother went to school with Danny Thomas.

My great grandmother on my mother's side was once arrested for indecent exposure because she was wearing a bathing suit that showed her knees (I have a picture that was taken right before she got arrested, I'll try to find it)

My uncle was in the Air Force and stole an airplane by impersonating a colonel; he was a pilot but he wasn't authorized to have that plane. He had seven children and a happy marriage but he was also a secret transvestite (auntie knew but helped him keep it secret).

My husband's father is the chief inventor/designer/engineer of the ground hugging radar system used in the military today in drone planes. He used to fly in Hueys with the Coast Guard testing it and tweaking it as they flew. He's also the inventor of the hatch blowing system for the Apollo rockets which he did after the one that caught fire while on the ground and trapped the astronauts inside.

Me? My only claim to fame is that all three of my boys have not only survived to adulthood but are productive, (relatively) sane, and happy.

Aniseteph · 09-08-2006, 09:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Suhad

He's also the inventor of the hatch blowing system for the Apollo rockets which he did after the one that caught fire while on the ground and trapped the astronauts inside.

Wow... truly I am not worthy.

(I'm a big Moon Exploration History fan)

Please post your pictures Suhad! - I was going to say I'm looking forward to seeing your great grandmother's knees but it sounds rather odd. You know what I mean...

Moon · 09-08-2006, 09:52 PM

1. My picture was in a local newspaper once (together with a few class mates) because of some school project.

2. A Dutch politician said "hi" to me when I saw her.

3. My sister danced with a dutch soccer player.

4. I "suffer" from synesthesia, which is quite rare.

5. When I was on holiday in Indonesia, a group of aproximately 20 teenagers wanted to be on a picture with me. My picture could be on the wall of quite a lot of teenagers' rooms now!

6. I know a lot of great bellydancers...from this forum!

Yshka · 09-08-2006, 11:33 PM

My father invented the first bread-toaster on wheels you can also wash your dog in?

no lol, no inventors or fame on my side, must go with the fact that me and my sister are also the only bellydancers in the family. Moon's point 6. also would apply to me..

well erhh... maybe that I have a friend who thinks she might be related to Buddha in some way.. I don't know where that idea came from but if it was true, there you'd have it

Viv · 09-10-2006, 07:14 AM

Hummm, claims to fame.....(of a sort)

Grandpa was George Bush. George D. Bush that is. I used to have all sorts of fun when people would ask if we were related to the vice/president when I shared the same last name in the 80's and early 90's. My poor Dad and brother still get asked on a daily basis if they are related.

My mother sent in the design that ended up being Digg'm the Frog that is the logo/spokesman for Sugar Smacks cereal. It was for a contest the cereal company was holding for kids. My grandmother sent in the drawing before Mom had put her name an contact information on the back of it. Of course it probably wouldn't matter since all contest submissions became property of cereal company. Imagine Mom's surprise to see her drawing on a commercial!

My kiddo was on the first Oddessy of the Mind team to not only win first place at State, but to go to the World Competition for her charter school when she was in fourth grade.

My claim to fame? The local NBC news station has more footage of my rear end than any other view since their camera guys insist on getting behind us to film whenever they do any piece on one of our performances....LOL!!!!

09-08-2006, 08:27 AM	#1 (permalink)
Demelza Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Nottingham, UK Posts: 417	What's yur CLAIM 2 FAIM ?? If you get bored easily......DO NOT READ THIS THREAD !!!! I was bored and thats why I wrote it !! What's your Claim to Faim ? Do you have one ? Do you have many ? Here are my top 11 !.....(tried to make it 10 but it just is 11) 1. My Great Uncle invented the first Black clothes dye that doens't wash out in water !! He's a proffessor at Cambridge University. Unfortunately he didn't patent it. Otherwise by now we would be rich rich rich! huhh. 2. My Great Aunty was Sue Pollard's English teacher.....(A famous woman, but Sara and others will know what an annoying woman she is, with the most terrible english dialect!) 3. My Grandfather was GIVEN a mountain in Tanzania as a gift !!! He was there on some missionary thing many many years ago, and there was this tribe of people who's cattle were really sick. My Grandfather (being a farmer) gave them advice of how to cure them, and told them to put them high on this 'ere mountain. so they did and the cattle got better !! So they named the herd after my Grandfather and gave him the mountain as a gift. We have the deeds for it, - It says that it's ours from the valey on one side to the river on the other, from the sumit at the top, right down to the centre of the earth !! but my humble mother says that missionaries were not aloud to accept gifts from the tribes and that we should not claim it. Now we could be rich rich rich. huhh. 4. When I lived in Israel, some friends and I got kicked of a kibbutz, and for a time I was living on the beach in Telaviv !! One morning we got woken up by the police and told to move. To my suprise there were huge crowds and as I looked up in a daze , who should be absailing down the skyscraper the other side of the road but ARNOLD SCHWARTZNIGER (spelling?). . . he was there to open the new Planet Hollywood restaurant on the beach, and in all the comotion I got on the wrong side of the red tape and him and his body guards came pushing through and I touched his huge, masculine, muscley........Arm (now now Shanazel stop it !!). and he smiled to me. It was ok but I was gutted that it wasn't VAn DAm 5. I used to teach Fouad El Mohandes' granson at a school in Sakara, Egypt. He's a very famous oldtime comedian in Egypt and anyway I said to his granson one day, get me a signed picture of your grandfather and I'll give you not one star but 4 stars in your book !! and he did. Not only that he also brought his grandad to the school gates to meet me !! Embarrassing when the man himself said 'now miss Joy, forget the stars, my grandson deserves to be head boy of class' !!! oops. I'll try to dig out the picture. 6. My late father was a farmer but also a racing driver of vintage cars. He used to do them up and race them, and he was loved by many many people. Now there is a yearly race held in my fathers name at Silverstone, and my mum has to present the trophy every year. 7. Now this ones a bit funny. I was living in Cairo, and back in the UK my sister's fiance was a vet who used to study vetinary with John Major's daughter. She had decided to travel the middle east, and my sister gave her my number so she could have somewhere to stay in Cairo. Next thing I know, her parents (father being Prime Minister of the UK at the time) are taking a holiday to go and meet their daughter on her travels, just at the time that she is staying with me. AAAAHHHHGGGGG. . . what do I do ??? I was fretting for about a week. In the end she came but Daddy had more important things to do !!!! 8. I sold some computer software to Jim Bowen ("oohhh give us a bully !"), the woman who used to be 'Grotbags' (with the gree face) and Buzby once (the guy that went to the moon) 9. I used to look after 'Desert Orchid' the famous race horse 10. I was in 'Boon' the TV series. On our school lunch hour if we were milling around eating chips in the town square, the film crew used to give us £10 each for being extras !! 11. I was working as a silver service waitress in a this posh country hotel, and I spilt a whole bowl of tomatoe and bazil soup down 'Mikhala Strachlen' once. (and then got the sack because the final straw was when I broke the cork into a bottle of wine worth £800. Who in the right mind would be stupid enuff to spend £800 on a bottle of wine anyway !!?? ) mmmm. well I did warn you you'd get bored !! however let me know yours and I'll promise to be intrigued !! xx Attached Images Last edited by Demelza; 09-08-2006 at 09:06 AM.

09-08-2006, 04:05 PM	#3 (permalink)
Sara V.I.P. Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Wales/Yorkshire Posts: 1,160	I Love Su Pollard, and her accent, lol. It's nice a friendly. But northeners do have a friendlier accent in my opinion. Erm... well... Great Grandad a couple of hundred times was King of Ireland? I bumped into Matthew Lewis (Nevil Longbottom) once. Apparently on me great grams side we're related to Vlad Tepes (Vlad Dracul or something, cause they used to hang about in Bran). Not sure about that one though. Gram says we are, but grandad thinks it's not as important as an Irish King. Thats all I can think of right now... __________________ With a little bit of this and a little bit of that, now shake your bum.... :P

09-08-2006, 08:57 PM	#5 (permalink)
Aniseteph V.I.P. Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Sussex, England Posts: 1,687	Bored, Demelza? BORED?!!! How could anyone be bored by that? I wish I could think of even one claim to fame but I can't. I'll keep trying... (no, every thing I think of is really lame. Lame Claims to Fame...) Last edited by Aniseteph; 09-08-2006 at 09:33 PM. Reason: PS

09-08-2006, 09:52 PM	#8 (permalink)
Moon V.I.P. Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: the Netherlands Posts: 3,627	1. My picture was in a local newspaper once (together with a few class mates) because of some school project. 2. A Dutch politician said "hi" to me when I saw her. 3. My sister danced with a dutch soccer player. 4. I "suffer" from synesthesia, which is quite rare. 5. When I was on holiday in Indonesia, a group of aproximately 20 teenagers wanted to be on a picture with me. My picture could be on the wall of quite a lot of teenagers' rooms now! 6. I know a lot of great bellydancers...from this forum! Last edited by Moon; 09-09-2006 at 11:11 AM. Reason: forgot a word

09-08-2006, 11:33 PM	#9 (permalink)
Yshka Moderator Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 1,250	My father invented the first bread-toaster on wheels you can also wash your dog in? no lol, no inventors or fame on my side, must go with the fact that me and my sister are also the only bellydancers in the family. Moon's point 6. also would apply to me.. well erhh... maybe that I have a friend who thinks she might be related to Buddha in some way.. I don't know where that idea came from but if it was true, there you'd have it Last edited by Yshka; 09-08-2006 at 11:37 PM.

09-08-2006, 03:59 PM	#2 (permalink)
Yasmine Bint Al Nubia V.I.P. Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Akron, Ohio Posts: 1,132	Hi Demelza, interesting life you have there. Instead of being bored, I'm a bit envious. So far my only claim to fame is my daughter and I are the only belly dacers in the family. Yasmine

09-08-2006, 07:53 PM	#4 (permalink)
Demelza Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Nottingham, UK Posts: 417	Yasmine......thats a GREAT claim2Fame......keep up the good work dear xxxx Sara.....who's Neville Longbottom ??? Is it the guy that says 'I don't beleeeeive it'.....or have I got that one wrapped round my ass ? and King of Ireland eh? I'm impressed xx ps. thought of another 2 today.....Stuart Peirce (footballer) used to live on the other side of our field so you could almost say next-door-neighbour !! and when he let the whole of England down in the Italy world cup by loosing the last penalty.....we kids made a big banner outside his house for him saying 'Don't worry Stuart, we still love you !' and made him a happy man. 3 Years later I saw him in the local restaurant having a blazing row with his wife. And secondly, I used to drink with Roy Kene. Do you thik I could be a footballer's wife ??? xxxx

09-08-2006, 09:18 PM	#6 (permalink)
Suhad Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 322	My mother used to be a Playboy bunny at the original Playboy Club in Chicago, IL; I'll try to dig up a picture. My mom went to school with Danny Kaye, my grandmother went to school with Danny Thomas. My great grandmother on my mother's side was once arrested for indecent exposure because she was wearing a bathing suit that showed her knees (I have a picture that was taken right before she got arrested, I'll try to find it) My uncle was in the Air Force and stole an airplane by impersonating a colonel; he was a pilot but he wasn't authorized to have that plane. He had seven children and a happy marriage but he was also a secret transvestite (auntie knew but helped him keep it secret). My husband's father is the chief inventor/designer/engineer of the ground hugging radar system used in the military today in drone planes. He used to fly in Hueys with the Coast Guard testing it and tweaking it as they flew. He's also the inventor of the hatch blowing system for the Apollo rockets which he did after the one that caught fire while on the ground and trapped the astronauts inside. Me? My only claim to fame is that all three of my boys have not only survived to adulthood but are productive, (relatively) sane, and happy.

09-10-2006, 07:14 AM	#10 (permalink)
Viv Moderator Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Yuma, Arizona Posts: 152	Hummm, claims to fame.....(of a sort) Grandpa was George Bush. George D. Bush that is. I used to have all sorts of fun when people would ask if we were related to the vice/president when I shared the same last name in the 80's and early 90's. My poor Dad and brother still get asked on a daily basis if they are related. My mother sent in the design that ended up being Digg'm the Frog that is the logo/spokesman for Sugar Smacks cereal. It was for a contest the cereal company was holding for kids. My grandmother sent in the drawing before Mom had put her name an contact information on the back of it. Of course it probably wouldn't matter since all contest submissions became property of cereal company. Imagine Mom's surprise to see her drawing on a commercial! My kiddo was on the first Oddessy of the Mind team to not only win first place at State, but to go to the World Competition for her charter school when she was in fourth grade. My claim to fame? The local NBC news station has more footage of my rear end than any other view since their camera guys insist on getting behind us to film whenever they do any piece on one of our performances....LOL!!!!