Get to know your Narnians (please do not delete)
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Ooooooo question question!!!
In MaccyD's in America - do they have lots of new healthy options and vegetarians and salads and stuff or is that just old England?
In MaccyD's in America - do they have lots of new healthy options and vegetarians and salads and stuff or is that just old England?
Yeh he goes to a church in California
I have a good one!
The most famous person I ever met:
When I was a teenager, one of my best friends and I were totally wound up in opera and very, very poor, so when Luciano Pavarotti and Dame Joan Sutherland were in concert in town, we could not even afford the cheap seats. But so star-struck were we, we found out where this society reception was going to be AFTER the concert ($500 per ticket!), dressed to the nines and staked out the lobby of the place, hoping we could at least score an autograph.
When Pavarotti arrived, he was all alone, walking through the lobby saying "Bon journo" to people, so we dashed up and said, "Mr.Pavarotti, what a great concert" etc, as if we knew. He seemed delighted, thank you, thank you ...
Then he took us each by the arm, and said, "Shall we all go in together?" and brought us right through the entrance, into the reception, no tickets, apparently his guests. It was so FUN!
Same question: most famousest person you've ever met?
The most famous person I ever met:
When I was a teenager, one of my best friends and I were totally wound up in opera and very, very poor, so when Luciano Pavarotti and Dame Joan Sutherland were in concert in town, we could not even afford the cheap seats. But so star-struck were we, we found out where this society reception was going to be AFTER the concert ($500 per ticket!), dressed to the nines and staked out the lobby of the place, hoping we could at least score an autograph.
When Pavarotti arrived, he was all alone, walking through the lobby saying "Bon journo" to people, so we dashed up and said, "Mr.Pavarotti, what a great concert" etc, as if we knew. He seemed delighted, thank you, thank you ...
Then he took us each by the arm, and said, "Shall we all go in together?" and brought us right through the entrance, into the reception, no tickets, apparently his guests. It was so FUN!
Same question: most famousest person you've ever met?
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lsipher
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Great story inkspot! I don't think I've ever met anyone famous...oh well.
Same question.
- Lu
ps..."God bless the USA" is the refrain of a song, so it works too.
Same question.
- Lu
ps..."God bless the USA" is the refrain of a song, so it works too.
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most famous person I've met? I guess Rebecca St. James or some of the Newsboys guys. (though I only met Phil Joel from the Newsboys, and it was real quick). It was nice 'cause it was all backstage away from the crowds, who can get rather obsessive sometimes if you know what I mean. I'm not sure who's really considered more famous: Rebecca St. James or the Newsboys, but Rebecca seemed a lot easier to approach.
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UncleAndy
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I hope it isn't considered rude to jump in on a conversation like this? I'm still finding my way round the ettiquette of this sort of thing, anyhoo......
Famous people I have met while working and living in the fair city of Nottingham; Ricky Thomlinson (used to buy all his kids and grandkids books at the bookshop I worked in when ever he was working in town)
Ronnie James Dio, at the same bookshop, I didn't speak to him and a friend said I should have asked him if had been in a Black Sabbath covers band, missed opportunity!
Four non blondes, when they were still famous (showing my age) they were using the same pedestrian crossing as me, they are tiny, tiny ladies!
Whilst working at A different shop as manager we had signings for Nichele Nichols (Uhura Star Trek) and Amber Benson (Tara from Buffy) she was one of the nicest people I have ever met
And finally Quentin Tarantino, well thats actually stretching it a bit, he walked passed me in the town centre once (he is a patron for a film festival that used to run every year in Notts) I saw and heard him walking towards me and thought "wow he sounds just like QT", and then "He really looks like him to!" when he actually walked passed and it was him I was to dumbstruck to say anything! I read a few months later that Nottingham is his favourite UK city and he has friends here. Go figure!
Famous people I have met while working and living in the fair city of Nottingham; Ricky Thomlinson (used to buy all his kids and grandkids books at the bookshop I worked in when ever he was working in town)
Ronnie James Dio, at the same bookshop, I didn't speak to him and a friend said I should have asked him if had been in a Black Sabbath covers band, missed opportunity!
Four non blondes, when they were still famous (showing my age) they were using the same pedestrian crossing as me, they are tiny, tiny ladies!
Whilst working at A different shop as manager we had signings for Nichele Nichols (Uhura Star Trek) and Amber Benson (Tara from Buffy) she was one of the nicest people I have ever met
And finally Quentin Tarantino, well thats actually stretching it a bit, he walked passed me in the town centre once (he is a patron for a film festival that used to run every year in Notts) I saw and heard him walking towards me and thought "wow he sounds just like QT", and then "He really looks like him to!" when he actually walked passed and it was him I was to dumbstruck to say anything! I read a few months later that Nottingham is his favourite UK city and he has friends here. Go figure!
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waterhogboy said:
*said in a verrrrry southern/redneck/ "Sons of the Confederacy" accent* "TEXAS IS ITS OWN NATION!!!!!!!!!!!"
LOL, we have our Texan pride down here, y'all.
UncleAndy, the way this thread works (or should work, lol!) is one person asks a question, which they place at the end of their post so that everybody sees it. Somebody (or mutiple "somebodies") will reply to the question, and then ask their own. If you get here "late" for a question (i.e., it's already been answered), feel free to answer it, as well as the other questions.
That'd be awesome if y'all wanted to come to the states! I plan on travelling to Missouri & possibly the far-Western tip of Tennessee this summer, so maybe we could get together there (those states would treat you more "tolerantly" than here in Texas--Texas would show you real Southern Hospitality, but there's very few people who would be able to hold a decent conversation with someone who, at least in this state, would be more liberal than themselves, lol!)
KK, famous people: I don't think I've ever met anyone famous, but my best friend's aunt was once on a plane that had *all* the Dallas Stars hockey team on it (this was about 4 years ago, maybe more, when Hockey was still played).
Question: Has something ever happened to your pants (trousers, not undergarments) that mae them look as though you'd wet yourself? It had been raining on Monday, and when I went to get my gym shorts from the trunk, I opened it, and all the water that had been sitting on the top of the trunk fell onto my shorts. BIG, HUGE wet-looking mark *all* over my shorts.
I've met a couple of the Prodigy, and Julia Carling! Woo hoo! I saw BIlly Connelly outside Green Park Tube in London once, oh and Richard Curtis on the tube too- that was cool!
Ach, must learn to read all hread before posting ..
Yes Aragorn - contsantly! hot tea is a favorite, or something thast stains really nicely.
Q: Has today been a good day for you? if yes, why? If no..why??!
Ach, must learn to read all hread before posting ..
Yes Aragorn - contsantly! hot tea is a favorite, or something thast stains really nicely.
Q: Has today been a good day for you? if yes, why? If no..why??!
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Aragorn51088 said:
Grrrrrrr... the taps in my 6th form common room toilets are rubbish and if you turn them on too much they spray all over you so when you come out of the toilets.......
Ive had a bad day cos I left for school at 7.45 and didnt get home till 7.00!!!!
Which do you prefer - rollerballs, fountain pens or biros??
Nah theyre well expensive, smell funny and you have to replace the cartrige all the time (which usually leaks in your pencil case).
Biros are best cos you can use em, chuck em and get another one well cheap!
Biros are best cos you can use em, chuck em and get another one well cheap!
Completely off subject but am I the only one thats thinknig that summers coming really late as most trees still dont have their leaves? I mean I thought by May it were usually all there?!?!
Sorry, that somehow stemmed from snails - dont ask me how, random brain connections. It is somewhat legitimate though as it is a question....
Sorry, that somehow stemmed from snails - dont ask me how, random brain connections. It is somewhat legitimate though as it is a question....
Yes, yes, fountain pen
Yes, like WHB, I have had water spray on me from an explosive faucet, and despite what my husband thought, it was NOT funny!
Yes, today has been a great day! I finished my work in a timely fashion and had time to visit Narniafans-dot-com -- and had spaghetti for lunch.
And, I prefer to write with a fountain pen when I write by hand, but truth be told, I hardly every do any handwriting. Too computerized.
I will say, I first realized Russia was not the threat I had been led to believe as a Cold War kid when I visited, and every Russian person wanted my Bic stick pens -- they said they could not get a good pen in Russia. You cannot be a super-power if you cannot manufacture a pen.
Same question:
What kind of pen do you prefer?
Ball point, roller-ball, fountain pen?
Yes, like WHB, I have had water spray on me from an explosive faucet, and despite what my husband thought, it was NOT funny!
Yes, today has been a great day! I finished my work in a timely fashion and had time to visit Narniafans-dot-com -- and had spaghetti for lunch.
And, I prefer to write with a fountain pen when I write by hand, but truth be told, I hardly every do any handwriting. Too computerized.
I will say, I first realized Russia was not the threat I had been led to believe as a Cold War kid when I visited, and every Russian person wanted my Bic stick pens -- they said they could not get a good pen in Russia. You cannot be a super-power if you cannot manufacture a pen.
Same question:
What kind of pen do you prefer?
Ball point, roller-ball, fountain pen?
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