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Old 29 Oct 2013, 07:03 (Ref:3324591)   #26
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Once I got mistaken for an assassin at the Jockey Club HQ when I was a waiter for a function attended by the former Saudi King Khalid. It's a long story but involved me being asked by the chef to break up a balloon whisk with a hammer & chisel. I thought the best place was on the stone steps of a cellar. The chink chink noise alerted a passing copper and before I knew it, I was face down on the floor in an armlock. everything was ok once I explained what I was doing.
This is completely bizarre!

Should we have a 10/10ths book of anecdotes published? Obviously not all motorsport related.
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This is completely bizarre!

Should we have a 10/10ths book of anecdotes published? Obviously not all motorsport related.
It does doesn't it. It was when I was at catering college and we were asked to cook & serve at meal for the King, who was visiting the National Stud at Newmarket. He had received death threats so the place was full of police, Saudi secret service & there were snipers on the roof of the Jockey Club. I suppose the copper had to strike first & asked questions later. Glad it wasn't a Saudi agent though!
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Old 29 Oct 2013, 07:52 (Ref:3324605)   #28
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I think this just proves that we all have a hidden past - whether or not we want to admit to it.

I still reckon getting Bonnie Langford and mother to storm out of the curtain department I was working in has to be up there on my "finest moments". Early '80s when she was at her most obnoxious - but we are the same age, so I was probably as bad, and jealous?
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I think this just proves that we all have a hidden past - whether or not we want to admit to it.

I still reckon getting Bonnie Langford and mother to storm out of the curtain department I was working in has to be up there on my "finest moments". Early '80s when she was at her most obnoxious - but we are the same age, so I was probably as bad, and jealous?

Did she “Scweam and Scweam and Scweam” ?
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No - but the mother did!
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In the early 80's I once had to test a new design of pilots helmet and oxygen mask.

It entailed sitting on a chair in an office with the helmet on for 5 minutes and breathing while they checked I hadn't passed out.

The only thing that qualified me for this was that they only had an small helmet and I had the correct sized head.
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Denise (my wifey) once stood on Sir Jackie Stewart. He's not very tall. Does that count for anything? (The standing, not the talling.)
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Old 29 Oct 2013, 17:13 (Ref:3324809)   #33
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Denise (my wifey) once stood on Sir Jackie Stewart. He's not very tall. Does that count for anything? (The standing, not the talling.)
He told me to call him "Jackie" - 1991 at the new Luffield post at Silverstone. I had done the night fire patrol (what great fun that was), dived into the observer box to take off the orange and get out the camera. Wee Jackie and son turned up to have a look at the new layout.

Has to have been that year that I, too, got THAT shot - Senna getting a lift from Mansell. But I never sold mine for loads of dosh. What a shame.

By the way - please tell me where your signature quote is from. I've used it myself in the past but simply can't remember where from. Annoying and I'll groan when you remind me. I'm thinking Tolkein.
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By the way - please tell me where your signature quote is from. I've used it myself in the past but simply can't remember where from. Annoying and I'll groan when you remind me. I'm thinking Tolkein.
It's Tolkien- The Fellowship of the Ring
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Bilbo's farewell to the guests at his birthday party, I think. And in the confusion while they tried to work it out he put the ring on and vanished in the smoke from one of Gandalf's fireworks.

(I do get out lots, honest.)

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Bilbo's farewell to the guests at his birthday party, I think. And in the confusion while they tried to work it out he put the ring on and vanished in the smoke from one of Gandalf's fireworks.

(I do get out lots, honest.)

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And proof that my memory hasn't quite deserted me, but getting close because that should have been pretty bl**ding obvious!

Time to re-read Lord of the Rings methinks. It is usually an annual thing, such a great story that you can revisit again and again.

And both you and I do get out lots. I won't embarrass you by again referring to having seen you working at Donington!!
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Bilbo's farewell to the guests at his birthday party, I think. And in the confusion while they tried to work it out he put the ring on and vanished in the smoke from one of Gandalf's fireworks.

(I do get out lots, honest.)

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Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?
I would take all of the above.

I seem to spend too much time in bed either sleeping or just feeling sorry for myself so do you make the most of "good" however it comes.

And further to previous post - that's my reading sorted out for the next treatment (2hrs +) as I've just finished last book. But why are you still on a knife edge hoping that Frodo and Sam make it when you get to Volume 3? I first read this aged 13. So I'll let you all "do the Math" as to how many times it has been read in the intervening years!
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. . . It is usually an annual thing, such a great story that you can revisit again and again. . .
Me too.

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Time to re-read Lord of the Rings methinks. It is usually an annual thing, such a great story that you can revisit again and again.
About every ten years for me.

But why was Tom Bombardil not in the film at all !!!
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Made (in the company of others) a small submarine out of oil drums and a bent pipe for the periscope, painted in bright red quick drying enamel with a black hammer & sickle on the fin (conning tower) and floated it out into the dock (when we were on backshift) next to the newly re-fitted HMS Resolution, which was due to be recommissioned the next day by the Queen Mother at a ceremony attended by the great and the good. It was spotted by two eagle eyed MOD coppers minutes before they and the press and TV took their seats, and removed following a frantic rowing boat expedition. Shame, really

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Further to a previous post on this - still think there's something here. Is there an "anecdote book" that could be produced? Profits to the Marshal's Fund?

I have no idea about publishing so this is simply an idea, but you may have contacts.

What do you think?
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OOoohh, Rene!!

He was a bit of a "looker" in his day?!
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What day was that, then?

Rene and Gilles is still the best bit of racing I've ever seen. Can you imagine the FIA if that happened now? They'd be dishing out penalties and fines like they were going out of fashion.
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Sat in the canteen at work one day and one of the sales guys sat down next to me with a client. When I looked up I recognised the client; it was Rene Arnoux!
I was marshalling in the pits at the Birmingham Superprix in 1986 and managed to squeeze a friend and his very delightful girlfriend into the pits.
I had been conversing with a diminutive ex F1 driver and upon seeing this girl and I admitting I knew her well demanded "introduce me to zat girl"
At the end of the day she was know where to be seen and my friend travelled home alone.
I believe she had a wonderful time with the ex F1 driver (alledgedly) and to this day I have never admitted to my friend and his now ex girlfriend that I introduced them.
It was of course Rene Arnoux
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