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      <title>Re: Monopoly Extreme</title>
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      <author>Skiffle</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I met the Bishop of Norwich (or at least the one at the time) when he came to open the new block of our junior school in 1978.  He balanced his crook on his nose.

In the music world, I've met Iron Maiden (c 1983-7) and was backstage at one of their gigs. Met Marillion 1983 and also 10cc. Last year I got the autographs of Paul Jones, Mike d'Abo, Tom McGuinness, Colin Blunstone. Long John Baldry and Chris Farlowe (members of Manfred Man, Mcguinness Flint, the Zombies and other great 60's R&amp;B acts). It was one of the best gigs I've ever been to.

I've also met William G Stewart (host of 15-1) and Bob Monkhouse.]]></description>
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      <author>Magda</author>
      <description><![CDATA[No idea if Chuck knows Don Woods or not.  And he does know him, it's probably by a different name (such is the SCA).  If Don knows Chuck, it would likely be by the name &quot;Midair&quot;.  (FWIW, Midair is pretty well known in the SCA, being a member of the Order of the Pelican, having been nominated for the BOD, and currently serving as Kingdom Exchequer for the Midrealm).]]></description>
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      <author>Anonymous User</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Wow, kissed by Tim Curry. I'm impressed. What year was that?

Back in the late seventies I was a regular Frankie fan. I sewed myself a Columbia costume, and I still have every word from the beginning of the floor show to the end of the movie memorized. And in 1979 I put together a lyrics collection (now you can buy them, but you couldn't then) in the format of a technical report, labelled &quot;Voyeuristic Programming Project Memo-VPP-79-1&quot; (a takeoff on Stanford's Heuristic Programming Project), with a blurb at the bottom of the title page &quot;This research was supported by the Altered Research Projects Agency of the Department of Decadence, under ARPA Order No. 1183. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of any agency of the Transylvanian Government.&quot;

I stopped going when the crowds got younger and rowdier and just randomly loud and crude instead of creative.]]></description>
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      <author>Anonymous User</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I've been to a White House Christmas Party...very lovely it was! I've been in the Oval Office and into the Old Executive Office building a few times.  My cab cut off George Senior's motorcade...that was cool...and I've met a lot of the Washington muckety mucks...

I even got to sit in the President's box at the Kennedy Center and sat in his chair, complete with panic button by my foot. Cool...the Presidential champagne sucked though...too bitter.

(the perks of being friends and roomies with a White House intern and the teleprompter operator from the communications office at the White House LOL)

Plus, Tim Curry sat in my lap...well fell into it really and kissed me on the cheek.

I showed Brenda Vaccaro around the Corcoran Gallery of Art...and I've met many others too...

I'm not terribly star struck by anyone generally, but I have to admit, I was nervous to meet Jasper...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2003 02:37:48 +0200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Magda,

Does your friend Chuck know Don Woods? (Another SCA jester, and the co-author with Will Crowther of the original Adventure program that was the inspiration for Zork.)

http://www.uwec.edu/jerzdg/orr/articles/IF/canon/Adventure.htm
http://www.gamespy.com/articles/march02/top30/2419/index.shtm
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Woods

I know Silicon Valley is a long way from Michigan, but you did mention Chuck taking a business trip to California, so I figured maybe he attended some Bay Area SCA gatherings too. (I'm not in SCA, just have some friends who are, including Don and his wife Sheryl.)

Don was also the dungeon master of a play-by-mail AD&amp;D game that ran for about 3 years when we were both working at Xerox back in the mid-eighties. My character was a half-elf druid named Calendwen. (Non-humans can't ordinarily be druids, but she had a back story to explain it.)]]></description>
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      <author>Sarah</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Belochka - Paul did some ridiculous number of different voices (about 50, I think) for a computer game called &quot;The Eye&quot; (he also wrote the companion book, of which I have a signed copy - considering Paul is such a cheerful chap, the book is quite startlingly depressing!).  However, he confesses himself unable to do a Geordie accent, so I feel ridiculously pleased with myself because I can!  The fact that I can't do the rest of his huge vocal repertoire is neither here nor there... ;-)

If you're interested in keeping up with what he's doing these days, you can find his fan club at www.avon-paul-darrow.co.uk.  It's got some quite spiffy pictures, too.  You may also be interested in checking out his performance as the enigmatic Kaston Iago in my friend Alan's &quot;Kaldor City&quot; series (which is quite startlingly good, and I'm not just saying that because Alan's a good friend!) - find it at www.kaldorcity.com.

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      <author>dante</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Ooh, forgot that Dougie Vipond used to be in Deacon Blue. He wandered through the tea bar the other week when I was there. Unfortunately I had my back to him - by the time I turned round I just saw *his* back disappearing through the door.

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      <author>jon</author>
      <description><![CDATA['Course you should recognise Deacon Blue ... Dougie Vipond does the Holiday show, and Lorraine was in Taggart ..... and you'd always know Ricky. He'd be the one with his eyes fixed to the mirror.

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      <author>dante</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Deacon Blue? You expect me to recognise Deacon Blue? Ricky Ross, if you're lucky. Probably not, though.

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      <author>jon</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Darius? I thought we were talking about *famous* people? Let me know when Deacon Blue drop in, though.



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      <author>dante</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Jon: I'm glad there's someone else with as few famous friends &amp; acquaintances as me!

I got a signature off Neil Hannon (Divine comedy) at a festival once. And I've met Chris Aldridge, who does the news and shipping forecast on Radio 4...

Darius is gonna be at my work on Saturday, though. Maybe I'll meet him and become best buddies, you never know...

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      <author>Magda</author>
      <description><![CDATA[My friend Chuck was bumped up to first class while coming home from a business trip to California.  An attractive blonde sat next to him, and he said hello, asked her if she was going to Detroit for business or pleasure, and what she did for a living (she said she was in entertainment) and so on.  He spent most of the trip playing games on his laptop computer, and asked her to watch it for him while he went to the restroom.  As they were deplaning, he noticed she had a bit of fluff stuck to her pants, told her so, and removed it, for which she thanked him.

When they got to the gate, a bunch of people crowded around her, including photographers.  Chuck, flabbergasted, asked one of the other passengers who she was, and was told that it was Pamela Anderson Lee.  He'd had no clue whose bum he was plucking lint off of.

His wife (my best friend) jokes that if he could sit on an airplane for hours obliviously playing video games with Pamela Anderson next to him, she's not to worried about him straying.

(BTW, when his wife and I first met Chuck, he was dating the not yet published Sarah Zettel.  In fact, he's a jester in the SCA, and was part of the inspiration for the main character in 'Fool's War'.)]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2003 20:14:57 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>belochka</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I once met Margaret Beckett, she was doing one of those 'Visit to a training centre for the unemployed in a deprived urban area' things; I was just trying to get through a graphic design course.  She had a very limp handshake btw.

I've also hit Chris Rea with a rucksack, not on purpose!  I banged into him while we were queuing up to sign driver release forms at Brands Hatch, (he was there to drive his Caterham, we were there to test drive a bike engined version of said car). He was very nice about it.  Gary Numan and his wife were there to do a test drive as well, but he looked a bit grumpy so I didn't say hello or anything.

Sarah -  You've met Paul Darrow! I've admired him for years, and had a crush on him in the Blake's 7 days.  I know that he does voiceover work, was most impressed to find his vocal talent on a PS2 game called 'Primal' I've played recently.



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      <author>Sarah</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Skiffle and I have also met Steven Pacey, but failed to snog him!  He's quite charming, and extraordinarily well-educated and literate - much nicer than the character he played.  I never liked Tarrant.

I've met several of the stars of B7, in fact.  Paul Darrow (Avon) I know quite well, but not as well as I know his wife Janet, who's a long-standing penfriend of mine - I finally met her in person in March.  I've met Gareth Thomas (Blake) twice, but he didn't remember me from the first time so I don't suppose he'll remember me from the second time!  I've also met Jan Chappell (Cally) very briefly, and had a couple of long conversations with Scott Fredericks, who did a guest appearance as Carnell and is now reprising that in my friend Alan's &quot;Kaldor City&quot; CD series.  I think I am a little in love with Scott Fredericks.  After Skiffle told him about the nine westerns she had in print, he turned to me and asked, &quot;So what do you write, then?&quot;  I was taken aback, and asked how he knew I was a writer, since I hadn't mentioned it.  &quot;It's the way you talk,&quot; he explained.  Then he stole the show at the cabaret by reciting Yeats... ah, delicious memories!

I've actually met all the actors in &quot;Kaldor City&quot;, but apart from those already mentioned (Paul and Scott) none of them is particularly famous apart from Russell Hunter, another thoroughly engaging old chap.  He's another one I should like for an uncle (I've said that about Paul Darrow since I first met him).

Oh, yes, and my friend Alan isn't famous yet, but he will be.  You heard it here first! :-)

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      <author>Simon</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Back when I was still at school somebody organised a political debate there _ with questions afterwards _ between guest speakers from the three main parties. The Conservative one was the then-chairman of the FCS (whose name I've forgotten), the Liberal one was somebody fairly minor (an advisor to a local councillor?), the Labour one (if memory serves me correctly) was Peter Hain (then chairman of the Young Socialists?)... I asked Mr Hain a question, which he declined to answer at that point; then the person next to me asked Mr Hain a question, which he declined to answer at that point; then the next person in the row actually asked Mr Hain why he wasn't willing to answer our questions, and didn't get much of an answer either...
And the chairman of the FCS branch in my college (UCL), whom I met on a number of occasions, was John Whittingdale who's now an MP.
I doubt whether any of them would remember me, but maybe Hain might remember the session as a whole. 

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      <author>jon</author>
      <description><![CDATA[The only famous person I can say I've met proper like is Mike Harding, folkie, comedian, and hill-walker. He presents the folk show on radio 2 these days. Nice man.

Oh, and John Prescott (Deputy Prime Minister). He came to visit/officially open our new call centre at work (when Minister of Transport). He bounced about like a balloon with a slow leak, and then answered a call. The poor old lady on the end only wanted the times of the buses to Didsbury, and when he proudly told her who he was, she called him a 
^&amp;*(£! liar and hung up on him.

Neither of them would remember me, though.



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      <author>Magda</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I will grant that of those I mentioned, only Sarah Zettel and possibly Jasper would actually recall having met me specifically, and only Sarah would be likely to invite me to her wedding (she did) or recognize me on the street and say 'Hello'.]]></description>
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      <author>adam</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Simon, I've met Michael Cule (the Vogon Guard chappie, although I wouldn't have remembered his name) too. I took part in a short RPG he was GM'ing once.
I have also met Bruce Rioch (Scottish footballer, I was with a load of Scots in Majorca otherwise I wouldn't have recognized him) and I've played pool with Tony Knowles (snooker player).
My biggest claim to fame though is that I went to school with Steve Coogan (and played rugby with him).
Oh I almost forgot this one - Teddy Sheringham said 'Alright' to me outside a Little Chef on the A1.]]></description>
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      <author>dave</author>
      <description><![CDATA[One of Sarah Zettel's books was on my amazon wish list for ages, never got round to buying it..

Can't remember which. Recommendations?]]></description>
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      <author>Anonymous User</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Private family joke on the title them e of those monopoly rules - change 'sale of stock' to 'stale sock'.

sngh sngh sngh

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      <author>Auntysassy</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Remember Tarrant in Blake's 7 - real name Steve Pacey?  Tall with dark curly hair?  

Well, when I was 15, I was in the choir supplied by my school for a two week run of Joseph and the Amazing thingy at the local theatre and he was playing Joseph.  And at the end of run party, he snogged me. 

I was able to thank Sir Tim Rice in person last year at a Tony Hawks book launch (comedy chappie, not skateboarder) for writing the show and therefore giving me the opportunity to dine out on this story for a long long time!

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      <author>Anonymous User</author>
      <description><![CDATA[What counts as famous? What counts as &quot;meeting&quot; someone?

I know loads of prominent computer scientists quite well, like Don Knuth, Terry Winograd, and of course Adobe's founders John Warnock and Chuck Geshke, well enough that I've been to their houses on social occasions, but they don't tend to be well-known outside of the computer nerd community. And lots of published paper doll artists, like Tom Tierney, but only paper doll collectors pay attention to paper doll artists.

The most famous person I've shaken hands with was Spiro Agnew, but it was just a handshake, so I wouldn't really call it &quot;meeting&quot; him.  (In 1972 in the East Rose Garden of the White House when I was receiving my Presidential Scholar award. This is an award that is given each year to one girl and one boy from each state among the graduating high school seniors, and I was New Mexico's  female recipient for that year. Nixon was off in Europe somewhere so Agnew took over the presentation duty.)

I also have a picture taken with Joe Montana back in the early 80's when I was with the Big Brothers/Big Sisters organization and the 49'ers had a benefit picnic for the local branch. But again, it was one of those anonymous &quot;meet the public&quot; events so I wouldn't really count it. 

The most famous person I've spoken to for more than a couple minutes is Charlie Sheen. My daughter Tiffany used to go to the same summer camp that his daughter went to, and they were in the same cabin for two years in a row. She even flew to L.A. for a weekend to go to his daughter's bat mitzvah. But I only met him to chat briefly about our kids at a few parents' day show-and-tells, and I'm sure he has no memory of ever meeting me or any of the other &quot;camper parents&quot;. So while it counts for my daughter, I'm not sure it counts for me.

I guess the most famous person that I know well enough that he would reply yes if you asked him &quot;do you know someone named Teri Pettit?&quot; is Doug Hofstadter, but I've already mentioned that acquaintance in other threads.

(Magda, I've read several of Sarah Zettel's books and liked them, but never met her. Her web site seems to be out of date. It was last updated in 2000 and says she is &quot;working on&quot; Kingdom of Cages, which was published in 2001 - and which I read and enjoyed in 2002 when it came out in paperback.)]]></description>
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      <author>Simon</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I've been to a few SF cons and met a number of famous or semi-famous authors at some of those, too. Admittedly in many cases I was too dazed at actually meeting them to do more than to say how much I liked their works and to ask for their autographs, but _ Douglas Adams (as a guest speaker at UCL's SF &amp; Fantasy Society, soon after the first series of HHGTTG was broadcast...), Roger McBride Allen, Poul Anderson, Jack Chalker, Arthur C. Clarke, L. Sprague DeCamp, Diane Duane, Robert Forward (whom I actually met before his first novel was published), Harry Harrison, Anne McCaffrey, Elizabeth Moon, Larry Niven, Alexie Panshin (whose humorous trilogy about two characters named Tony Villiers &amp; Torve the Trog i suspect many of you would find enjoyable...), Jerry Pournelle, Karl Edward Wagner, and probably a few others whom I don't recall right now.

Oh, and one of the other contributors to a magazine about roleplaying games (called 'Alarums &amp; Excursions') with which I'm involved _ and somebody else whom I've met at an SF convention _ is a British actor named Michael Cule who played the Vogon guard who threw Arthur &amp; Ford out of the airlock in the televised version of HHGTTG.

Magda: LOL at your story about why the car wouldn't start.
 
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&quot;This was willed where what is willed... can get rather silly.&quot;]]></description>
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      <author>Carla</author>
      <description><![CDATA[i'm not a show off, of those the only that meant a lot was Senna...
I've just been lucky I guess - this is nothing compared to my colleagues who have been working here in events and stuff for longer...]]></description>
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      <author>kaz</author>
      <description><![CDATA[No one likes a show-off, Carla]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2003 08:39:13 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>Carla</author>
      <description><![CDATA[well, if we're speaking of famous people we met I would be all day here writing (i'm not bragging btw) but a friend used to work in the Estoril F1 track and took me there regularly, so I've met all the major Formula 1 drivers since 1987, including Senna, Prost, Coulthard, schumacher, Hakkinen, and so on and so on...

Doing the signings for work means I've met Geoff Hurst, Ronnie O'Sullivan, Ellen MacArthur, Michael Palin, Trinny and Tranny (oops Susannah), Joanne Harris, Wilbur Smith, James Patterson, Monica Ali, etc, etc...

And by hanging around after gigs or by plain luck I've met Mansun, King Adora, Tindersticks, Morphine, Nada Surf, Conteau Twins, The gift, Divine Comedy, and many more...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2003 07:41:44 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>Magda</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I used to go to SF cons, so I've me a bunch of folks, including Isacc Asimov (briefly - I hadn't any books with me so he signed my con badge).   

At my first con, a couple friends and I ran into Robert Asprin as we were supposed to be leaving to get Pam home in time for her curfew.  Since Pam was dressed as Tananda from the Myth Inc. series at the time, we stopped and chatted with him for about half an hour.  We told Pam's mother that we were late because the car didn't start when it was time to leave.  This was technically correct.  We simply failed to mention that then only method by which we attempted to start the car at that point in time was telekinesis.

I've met a bunch of folks from Dr. Who, including four of the Doctors (Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy) and several companions.  In the late 80s I saw an amusing panel with actors from Robin of Sherwood.  Michael Praed apparently got over his fear of flying by learning to be a piliot, but can only do it if he's flying the plane.  He'd apparently flown himself to Chicago from the UK, arriving at some godawful hour of the morning, and the panel was at 9am.  I have an amusing series of photos of him gradually looking more and more human as the pile of empty coffee cups in front of him grows.  The conversation was largely held up by Mark Ryan (Nasir), which was entertaining since he almost never spoke on the show.

For photographic proof that I used to be an avid scarf-knitting Dr. Who fan, look here:

http://www.geocities.com/magda_vogelsang/DrWho.html

BTW, speaking of famous people, the woman in the group shots dressed as Colin Baker (the patchwork one) is now a published (and very good, in my not entirely biased opinion) sf author with 7 books to her name.  Her name is Sarah Zettel, and I highly recommend her books if they're available over there.  (Okay, I haven't read her more recent fantasy stuff yet, but I'm sure it's good too).  When I first knew her she was working as a technical writer and writing fan fiction and short stories.  I still remember watching her jump up and down when she had her first short story accepted by Analog.
I particularly recommend &quot;Fool's War&quot; and &quot;Playing God&quot;.

Oh, and I have met one other famous person you may have heard of.  Some chap from Wales by the name of Fforde.

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      <author>kaz</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I met Wasim Akram several years ago.  He came into the Optometrist where I worked because his glasses had been broken whilst on tour of Australia.  It was a bit of an anti-climax coz at that point he'd just started playing international cricket and couldn't speak much English.  the team manager had to come in and translate for him.  I've also met Adrian Plass (English Christian author).]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2003 04:12:07 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>Skiffle</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I said hello to Sophie Aldred (Ace, from Dr Who) outside a theatre. I was actually waiting for Denis Lawson but he didn't come out.

I met Quentin Tarantino back in about 1993, when 'Reservoir Dogs' had only been out a couple of months. I asked him to sign my film festival programme; he spelt my name as 'Jyleene' and added 'Mr Brown' after his own name, so I'd be sure to remember which one he was. Bless.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2003 01:24:50 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>Sarah</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Well, I _have_ had a conversation with David Blunkett, but the dog was more interesting.  And it was the dog I meant who had large clodhopping feet, but I wouldn't want to be trodden on by Mr Blunkett either.

Richard Caborn (bouncy chap with a beard who is now Minister for Sport or something) used to be my MP.  Now he's a real character!

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