Have you ever met a super famous person?

[glynndah]

I feel left out. I haven't met anyone famous yet.

Mine wasn't actually famous.

 

[loquere]

I feel left out. I haven't met anyone famous yet.

I'm sure you have and didn't notice. Have you not looked in the mirror this morn?

 

[loquere]

I met the Beatles in 1965 when they were doing the photo shoot for the EP "Nowhere Man" in Chiswick Park.

Who are they never heard of them?

 

[mynameisben]

I met Fizzo the Clown at the grand opening of a new Dairy Queen when I was eight years old.

 

[loquere]

I met Fizzo the Clown at the grand opening of a new Dairy Queen when I was eight years old.

That must have been scary?

 

[Desiremakesmeweak]

"Have you ever met a super famous person?"

Yes.

 

[loquere]

"Have you ever met a super famous person?"

Yes.

Goood

 

[_Lynn_]

Mine wasn't actually famous.

There was a Major League Baseball player from the city I grew up in. His MLB debut was in 1959 . . . when I was three.

I'm sure you have and didn't notice. Have you not looked in the mirror this morn?

I looked into the mirror, yes.

 

[loquere]

There was a Major League Baseball player from the city I grew up in. His MLB debut was in 1959 . . . when I was three.



I looked into the mirror, yes.

You have 42.000 posts. You qualify.

 

[DirkVanDyck]

My biggest claim to fame was meeting Alice Cooper.

I was working for a discount store in my home town when he came in to buy some paints he spent about 10 mins in the store just chatting away about art and music to me and a couple of co workers. Fantastic bloke really down to earth.

 

[loquere]

My biggest claim to fame was meeting Alice Cooper.

I was working for a discount store in my home town when he came in to buy some paints he spent about 10 mins in the store just chatting away about art and music to me and a couple of co workers. Fantastic bloke really down to earth.

"Third Rock From The Sun," You like that show?

 

[DirkVanDyck]

Third rock I have not watched in years I don't even think I saw the final series. The episode where they all start dreaming for the very first time has always stuck in my head.

 

[loquere]

Third rock I have not watched in years I don't even think I saw the final series. The episode where they all start dreaming for the very first time has always stuck in my head.

You know what I realize, speaking to a British person. It's the same for Ausie's as well, there are specific tiny cultural differences that pop out.

-You said Series

-We all say Season

-After than I saw your UK email IM thing.

 

[DirkVanDyck]

It is those wonderful little things that make us distinctive and different. I have a few friends who have started to call them seasons it doesn't quite sit right for me.

 

[loquere]

It is those wonderful little things that make us distinctive and different. I have a few friends who have started to call them seasons it doesn't quite sit right for me.

Do you know when you're speaking to someone outside of Great Britain?

I have questions for you.

-Do you say Great Britain/ Britain/ or the UK?
-Do you consider Great part of Europe?
-Are you fond of the queen?

 

[DirkVanDyck]

Wow talk about being put on the spot!

I usually say the UK.

Last time I checked we were part of Europe for better or worse.

And fond of the queen how? Fond sexually...no waaay too old for me. Fond as in liking the monarchy...they don't annoy me like celebs do, I do think they are antiquated but are trying to be less so. Can the UK survive without them? sure but should we? Probably not they are a great tourist attraction after all.

 

[oggbashan]

Do you know when you're speaking to someone outside of Great Britain?

I have questions for you.

1. -Do you say Great Britain/ Britain/ or the UK?
2. -Do you consider Great part of Europe?
3. -Are you fond of the queen?

1. Great Britain is part of the 'United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland'. Britain is an abbreviation of 'Great Britain'.

The British Isles is a geographical term, not a political one, and includes all of Ireland.

2. Geographically the British Isles, and the UK, and Great Britain are all part of Europe. Politically the UK is part of the EU but not the Eurozone.

3. Yes. She promised at her Coronation in 1953 to serve her country and people and has been doing that to the best of her ability ever since. She works hard every year. Today she is in hospital being treated for gastro-enteritis and has cancelled her many engagements for this week. She is in her mid-80s and should be slowing down, but her sense of duty won't let her. Long live Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II!

 

[loquere]

Wow talk about being put on the spot!

I usually say the UK.

Last time I checked we were part of Europe for better or worse.

And fond of the queen how? Fond sexually...no waaay too old for me. Fond as in liking the monarchy...they don't annoy me like celebs do, I do think they are antiquated but are trying to be less so. Can the UK survive without them? sure but should we? Probably not they are a great tourist attraction after all.

Cool, what I meant about Europe was. If you and your friends were going on vacation in Ibiza or Greece where ever. Would you say something like. "I'm off to holiday in Europe?" Personally in your day to day do you identify yourself as European? Or is it simply British or English for you.

 

[C2W]

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Does Iggy Pop of Iggy and the Stooges, count as famous???
Met him and the boys from the James Gang, at a hotel in T-town OH back in 1973.

 

[oggbashan]

Cool, what I meant about Europe was. If you and your friends were going on vacation in Ibiza or Greece where ever. Would you say something like. "I'm off to holiday in Europe?" Personally in your day to day do you identify yourself as European? Or is it simply British or English for you.

Holiday in Europe? British people might have said that in the 1960s.

Now? If someone said I am going to Greece the response would be "Where in Greece?" followed by "I/we went there last year/in 2006. Don't forget to visit this bar..."

Except in comparison with other continents I don't think any Europeans would call themselves that. We are English, Welsh, German, Bavarian, French, Provencal...