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PostPosted: Fri Jun 28, 2013 11:22 am 
I see that By Toutatis have passed their target in fundraising for their new album. Excellent news.

And erstwhile poster Mr R Hardwick has co-written and organised an exhibition in Durham, related to Cuthbert and the Lindisfarne Gospels, opening tomorrow. Well done him.

This has given me an idea for a new thing for the Bunker. People can send their achievements to me and I'll give them an encouraging mention.

Is this OK, Mr I? :wink:


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Wait, wait. I need my notebook.......


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I came close to an achievement. I was once the star of the headline on the Football Mail’s back page with "Simmons show West the way." It's just a shame that's not how you spell my name.

If they'd spelt it right, now that WOULD have been an achievement.

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 28, 2013 11:37 am 
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I came close to an achievement. I was once the star of the headline on the Football Mail’s back page with "Simmons show West the way." It's just a shame that's not how you spell my name.

If they'd spelt it right, now that WOULD have been an achievement.


You must think I'm stupid. This is a professional venture. I'm not including folk who pretend they're other people who just happen to have a similar name.


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I came close to an achievement. I was once the star of the headline on the Football Mail’s back page with "Simmons show West the way." It's just a shame that's not how you spell my name.

If they'd spelt it right, now that WOULD have been an achievement.


You must think I'm stupid. This is a professional venture. I'm not including folk who pretend they're other people who just happen to have a similar name.


See what happens? A paper spells your name wrong and you forfeit your personality. :evil:

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It isn't exactly fame but I once achieved enough notoriety to get on the front page of the Sun and be the lead item on Sky News- soon blew over but it was very weird at the time.


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I was finished by a runner up on Mastermind in 2011.


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Didn't Princess Margaret once rent a bike off you? That's a better claim to fame than seeing Nick Nairn.


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I co-starred (as an extra) in a cult French fillum called 'Ma saison preferee' with Catherine Deneuve and Daniel Auteuil. My scenes were set on the banks of the Garonne in Toulouse where the fillum was set. confised bbolt

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I've been on TV and radio (work related) and published quite a bit.

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I co-starred (as an extra) in a cult French fillum called 'Ma saison preferee' with Catherine Deneuve and Daniel Auteuil. My scenes were set on the banks of the Garonne in Toulouse where the fillum was set. confised bbolt

A similar thing befell me on the banks of the Seine at Quai d'Austerlitz. I forgot to ask the name of the film though. All I can say is it looked pretty cheap. Well it would, being French and all.

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Didn't Princess Margaret once rent a bike off you? That's a better claim to fame than seeing Nick Nairn.


Meh - not sure, Nick Nairn is a fucking god up here. And it was Princess Anne. And her fella had oil all over his waterproof. Fecking scruffy bastard.

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 28, 2013 2:51 pm 
Hmm. I see I'm going to need more chapters than I first thought.
Who wants to be interviewed first? On modern NHS-type principles, if you pay lots of money you go to the front of the queue.

ps. Grave, you seem have mistaken this for an audition for 'Would I lie to you?'


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Didn't Princess Margaret once rent a bike off you? That's a better claim to fame than seeing Nick Nairn.


Meh - not sure, Nick Nairn is a fucking god up here. And it was Princess Anne. And her fella had oil all over his waterproof. Fecking scruffy bastard.

My right hand once appeared briefly on Look North. Seriously it did,


What was it doing to get Look North coverage without the rest of you being involved? You don't have to answer if it would incriminate you in any way.


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Sigh. Toulouse, that means that she was famous, but not necessarily that you were. She didn't recognise you did she? Think about that for a minute..........


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I know, for I was those knickers.

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I'm so famous, people I've never met walk up to me on the steps of the Millennium Stadium and say "You're Montpoolier aren't you?"

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Sigh. Toulouse, that means that she was famous, but not necessarily that you were. She didn't recognise you did she? Think about that for a minute..........


The fact that she didn't report me to the police doesn't mean she didn't recognise me. I'll have to concede on the fame point though.


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I used to hack into Emma 'Baby Spice' Buntons voicemail and listen to her messages, but that's not really a claim to fame, is it?

I did once put the phone down on Daniel O'Donnell for being an arrogant prick.

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I'm so famous, people I've never met walk up to me on the steps of the Millennium Stadium and say "You're Montpoolier aren't you?"


But that's because you were holding that placard, remember : Win ten pounds. Guess my name. Is it Napoleon, Montpoolier or Francois Hollande?


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PostPosted: Fri Jun 28, 2013 3:16 pm 
Right, so we have self-confessed stalkers, hackers, and the rest of you don't know what 'famous' means. So that's that.

Except for MFR who, I seem to remember, has a very attractive looking residence in Western Scotland, and who may therefore need to be interviewed.


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Allez - I think it was the Mike Neville era, circa 1990

And Mssr Toulouse - my palm was striking a table hard, caught on camera, to illicit a response from some technical measuring thingamajig. All technical stuff care of a dodgy basement in the Civils Department of Durham Uni. For some reason they were not interested in seeing the rest of my honed physique.

None of which compares to the sighting of Nick Nairn. Seriously it doesn't.


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What about infamous bunkerites....? Oon holiday once walking along the backz of some houses that backed onto thd beach, I turned to discover our lass who was supposedly behind me 100 yards back leaning over the wall talking to a woman doing a barbecue.... I stood as they chatted and laughed for five minutes (I was starving)...then lost it and shouted to ask if she was coming...she said her goodbyes and joined up with me as the women waved ....... "that was Zoe Ball, thanks for showing me up".... now if it had been her dad, fair enough.....then bumped into a woman who told us her husband was a blackbird...funny evening that.

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I wrote the "Shepherds Of Gateshead" jingle. I was also employed by the Indian Government to put the little Red bits in Pilau Rice. Was also directly responsible for the ill-fated "Cabana" chocolate bar circa 1979.


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You lying get!

They employed me to put all the horrible tasting little seeds in curries though.

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I wrote the "Shepherds Of Gateshead" jingle. I was also employed by the Indian Government to put the little Red bits in Pilau Rice. Was also directly responsible for the ill-fated "Cabana" chocolate bar circa 1979.

I can still do the Shepherds jingle in full.... the power of repetetive adverts eh? :laugh:

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