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Tell Us Something (Non Pinball Related) Interesting About Yourself
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My friend (and small shareholder in my bar) lives next door to Geraldine Moffatt (Babe in 1971 Get Carter movie with Michael Caine). He has a very large picture of her in the bath scene in his kitchen to her annoyance. Her sons, Sam and Dan Houser founded Rockstar Games (GTA fame) and are now worth sqillions.
this thread rocks, and i can only see it getting better and better. every one of us has a boatload of interesting tales to tell, looking forward to reading this well into double-digits number of pages. come on n00bs, great way to introduce yourselves, especially if you have an unpronounceable forum name that means a lot to you but is totally non memorable to everyone else. then when we all meet up somewhere down the road at shows or chat in pms, i can remember 'that bloke who got arrested because he used to hang around outside Tescos masturbating into a hat' or 'that fella who gave Emlyn Hughes a reacharound'.
much easier to hang a memory on that, for me anyway, than 'the bloke i bought/sold machine xyz off/to' or 'the bloke who i sent/who sent me some pin part or whatever'. those all kind of merge into each other, so unless i've met someone in person, i'm terrible with names and have almost no memory cells left. that's my excuse anyway when i meet someone at a show who comes up to me and says 'thanks for the xyz' or 'did machine xyz work out for you?', and i look blankly at them.
much easier to hang a memory on that, for me anyway, than 'the bloke i bought/sold machine xyz off/to' or 'the bloke who i sent/who sent me some pin part or whatever'. those all kind of merge into each other, so unless i've met someone in person, i'm terrible with names and have almost no memory cells left. that's my excuse anyway when i meet someone at a show who comes up to me and says 'thanks for the xyz' or 'did machine xyz work out for you?', and i look blankly at them.
This is me and Anneka Rice circa 1985. My mates mum picked us up on our school lunch hour to watch her open a local petrol station!!!!! She arrived by helicopter wearing her jump suit. I'm on the far right holding my nuts
I fix his key cutting machines
When I was 15 my mates and I thought it was cool to fill a foot diameter glass ball with lynx, hairspray etc, stick a lighter over the hole and watch the 12' flame come roaring out. That is until the ball spun and the flames hit me in the face! At the time I had the superb long curtains with shaved undercut hairstyle. My face instantly blistered (and burst) my hair was on end and smouldering (a bit like guile from SF2) that was when I learned that morphine rocks.
Unfortunately, due to many a day spent bunking off, the school did not believe this had happened when they rang the house, so I walked into school looking like Freddy Crouger. Needless to say, there were many apologies and a quick lift back home, but a few people saw me.
Unfortunately, due to many a day spent bunking off, the school did not believe this had happened when they rang the house, so I walked into school looking like Freddy Crouger. Needless to say, there were many apologies and a quick lift back home, but a few people saw me.
I don't enter many competitions but when I do I seem to win them including:
All expenses trip for me and a mate to see England in the world cup in Cape Town (0-0 draw with Algeria) thank god we didn't pay!
Holiday to Zanzibar and Kenya safari
Tickets to see Daft Punk in Hyde Park
Tickets to see Muse Radio 1 Live Lounge with 15 other people and a meet and greet afterwards
All expenses trip for me and a mate to see England in the world cup in Cape Town (0-0 draw with Algeria) thank god we didn't pay!
Holiday to Zanzibar and Kenya safari
Tickets to see Daft Punk in Hyde Park
Tickets to see Muse Radio 1 Live Lounge with 15 other people and a meet and greet afterwards
In another example of my genius, my mates and i were on our way to London by train when we saw a ticket inspector making his way through the carriages. We all made our way to the other end of the train (as naturally we didn't have tickets or any money to buy them) but he kept working his way towards us. Then the train started to slow down as we approached a station so we all got ready to leg it. Unfortunately the train only slowed as it was passing and wasn't stopping, so we all got to a door (the old ones you could open at any time) and agreed to jump for it!
Naturally only I was daft enough to jump, I went tumbling and skidding along the platform passed some rather stunned commuter's (destroying my prized spliffy jacket along the way) then quickly bounced up and left the station (in my head that is what happened, I suspect I didn't quite 'style it out'). Once out the station I fell into the first bush, cryed and passed out.
My mates found me some time later, laughing themselves stupid and telling me that the inspector had let them off after seeing me jump! Bastard's.
Naturally only I was daft enough to jump, I went tumbling and skidding along the platform passed some rather stunned commuter's (destroying my prized spliffy jacket along the way) then quickly bounced up and left the station (in my head that is what happened, I suspect I didn't quite 'style it out'). Once out the station I fell into the first bush, cryed and passed out.
My mates found me some time later, laughing themselves stupid and telling me that the inspector had let them off after seeing me jump! Bastard's.
One of my mates won the Dutch national lottery (about £500k). He'd set up a standing order whilst ****ed at some point several years before, which he can't even remember setting up. Then got a letter from them to say he'd won.
When I was younger me and a few mates decided to try and make some fake pound coins by melting down some of their BMX trophies. We made the mould out of blue tack or something and got 1 side perfect. The other side was a complete mess, but we persevered. The saucepan we were melting the pewter down in was getting a bit hot though so one of my mates decided the best way to cool it down would be to add some cold water....
I was standing in front of him when he did it so I got covered in molten metal when it turned to steam and exploded. Nothing serious as most of it just got stuck on my T-shirt fortunately. We gave up after that so never did get the 2nd side working.
I was standing in front of him when he did it so I got covered in molten metal when it turned to steam and exploded. Nothing serious as most of it just got stuck on my T-shirt fortunately. We gave up after that so never did get the 2nd side working.
I barred Kevin Davies form Yates's in Southampton for starting a food fight.
About 2 weeks later the whole of the Southampton Football team came in as part of their Christmas party, I waited until everyone had been served then had him escorted out by the doormen. The rest of the team left him stood outside while they finished their drinks.
I reached the national Fly fishing finals 5 years in a row, before pinball took over.
I've played hockey for England. (If I was as good at football as I was at hockey, I'd be able to afford every pinball machine ever brought out!).
I beat the number 1 ranked chess player from Hong Kong when I was 11.
I've been diagnosed as being "on the Autism Spectrum"
I caught (and released before I knew what the record was) the British record Dragonet (a sea fish). That would have made me the holder of 2 Guinness World Records.
I was involved in the very first implementation of automatic stock ordering in the licenced trade - it was a disaster and couldn't predict $h!t.
I once learned all 105 and 611 two and three letter words valid in Scrabble, just for the sake of it. I didn't even own a Scrabble board.
I've played hockey for England. (If I was as good at football as I was at hockey, I'd be able to afford every pinball machine ever brought out!).
I beat the number 1 ranked chess player from Hong Kong when I was 11.
I've been diagnosed as being "on the Autism Spectrum"
I caught (and released before I knew what the record was) the British record Dragonet (a sea fish). That would have made me the holder of 2 Guinness World Records.
I was involved in the very first implementation of automatic stock ordering in the licenced trade - it was a disaster and couldn't predict $h!t.
I once learned all 105 and 611 two and three letter words valid in Scrabble, just for the sake of it. I didn't even own a Scrabble board.
Hilarious!
My mum is Sticky Vicky...... 
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RobZombie
Got membership revoked from a casino in Stoke thanks to Robbie Williams just before Take That became famous.
I think sticky vicky has retired now and her daughter (your sister) has taken the role on.My mum is Sticky Vicky......
I once met David Gower as I was leaving a nightclub back in 1986, he was just coming in so I stopped him, and being the cocky git I was back then I said `aren't you Ian Botham?`, to which he shrugged his shoulders and said, `yeah must be the suit`. Top bloke.
I went through my senior school years with Ray Winstone as a classmate. Well not so much a mate as in year 8 we knocked six bells out of each other in a playground punch up and both got caned from the headmaster for our indiscretions.
"Where's ya tool?... "what tool"?.. "this fecking tool"....
He's an annoying nob even on screen. Faux-hardman.
This helps the memory. Back in the late eighties I 'accidentally' found myself in the midst of a pound coin counterfeit operation.
They did thousands of them. I found myself passing a few on.
Court cases and jail for some.
God knows how i avoided it all. Dodgy mates (good friends ) who correctly kept me out of it in their statements.
I was a bit part and foolish.
There truly is honour amongst thieves
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In 1997 I went to Black Rock desert in Nevada the watch the land speed record attempts by Richard Noble's Thrust SSC team and Craig Breedlove's Spirit of America team and ended up part of the SSC team (in a super minor role).
My mum is Sticky Vicky......
Is this true or a windup?
