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My dad spoke to Mick McManus on the phone.

JackyJoll wrote: Fri Apr 30, 2021 10:36 pm My dad spoke to Mick McManus on the phone.

I worked for Mick McManus' niece.

Met Alex ‘Hurricane’ Higgins when he was on the slide down. He was on a train to Manchester having played a few local halls to get some money. He was sat on the floor in between the carriages trying to avoid the ticket collector. He smelled of a few beers. The collector didn’t miss him. He asked him for his ticket. No ticket, asked him for money. No money. I gave Alex £2.50 and got a grunt in return.

Sad to see one of your heroes in such a bad way. The end wasn’t too far off.

mangocrazy wrote: Fri Apr 30, 2021 10:10 pm Got drunk in a bar in Vila Real (Portugal) with Joey Dunlop. Next day he went out and won the F1 race and I had a stinking hangover.

Lawson, Dan Gurney, Bill Huth (owned Willow), Rainey & a couple of other guys at a table in the bar up but Turn #4.
Lawson (being massaged & getting a neck rub by a pneumatic blonde) "Is this your wife?"
Me: "Actually it's my ex-wifes, bosses wife"
Lawson: Daaayum

Yorick wrote: Fri Apr 30, 2021 9:51 pm I met Prince Charles when he came to open the new factory at Lucas Aerospace. Ditto the Queen in Bradford centre.

I went to Sandringham and he presented me with a medal ... I was a bit/lot fatter then



The missus loved it as she was the plus 1 and love everything royal so when he did the meet and greet after she was on cloud nine when he had a chat (you would never guess from the photo) and she managed to blag some shortbread from the royal kitchen for the oldies at her care home

Eddie Lawson was at the Stafford Classic Bike show about 10 years ago and I took two large B/W prints of shots I'd taken of him on the works Yam at Silverstone in 1985 to the show - one for him to keep and one for him to sign for me to keep. He was very appreciative and is definitely one cool dude.

mangocrazy wrote: Fri Apr 30, 2021 11:45 pm Eddie Lawson was at the Stafford Classic Bike show about 10 years ago and I took two large B/W prints of shots I'd taken of him on the works Yam at Silverstone in 1985 to the show - one for him to keep and one for him to sign for me to keep. He was very appreciative and is definitely one cool dude.

He can be quite a funny fucker at times. He autographed my ZRX about 20 years ago & said "That's just cut the value of you bike in half".
A while later I was in the pits & a friend spotted it "wow that's made your bike more valuable"
Me: That's not was Eddie said....

ZRX61 wrote: Sat May 01, 2021 12:12 am

mangocrazy wrote: Fri Apr 30, 2021 11:45 pm Eddie Lawson was at the Stafford Classic Bike show about 10 years ago and I took two large B/W prints of shots I'd taken of him on the works Yam at Silverstone in 1985 to the show - one for him to keep and one for him to sign for me to keep. He was very appreciative and is definitely one cool dude.

He can be quite a funny fucker at times. He autographed my ZRX about 20 years ago & said "That's just cut the value of you bike in half".
A while later I was in the pits & a friend spotted it "wow that's made your bike more valuable"
Me: That's not was Eddie said....

He has a very dry wit... I was photographing the 1985 Silvestone GP for Superbike Magazine and the weather for race day was appalling - relentless sideways rain. It was so bad it fucked up the motor drive on one of my Nikons. Freddie Spencer won the race and Eddie was a never quite in touch 2nd. At the post race debrief in the press office Freddie thanked the world, their wives and all his sponsors and then Chris Carter turned his attention to Eddie.

CC: Well Eddie, I suppose that race gives the lie to the old assertion that Americans can't race in the wet?

Eddie: Yeah. Us Americans are shit in the wet.

And that was all he said...

Me: So how many ZRX's & ELR's have you signed?
Eddie: *All of them*

Met Mladin at Willow one time. Fuck me, what a miserable bastard. Made Foggy seem personable.

Scud wrote: Fri Apr 30, 2021 10:19 pm<snip>

Robert is a nice bloke, Micheal is a year!

What does that mean? Or is "Micheal is a year" a typo? (Well, two typos if you include the misspelt "Michael". )

I saw Prince Charles when he was still in short trousers, but I was only someone in the crowd.

Nope, not a single one, my only claim to fame is standing about 3ft from Big Ben when it struck 10 o'clock in the morning and having a guided tour of the guts of parliament when I was working there as a contractor for a few days in the early 90's.

I fixed John Birt's computer towards the end of his BBC DG job, if I'd made a copy of his interesting address book then I'd probably have had Boris Johnson's phone number.

Saga Lout wrote: Sat May 01, 2021 10:14 am

Scud wrote: Fri Apr 30, 2021 10:19 pm<snip>

Robert is a nice bloke, Micheal is a year!

What does that mean? Or is "Micheal is a year" a typo? (Well, two typos if you include the misspelt "Michael". )

Auto correct I think, twat is the word I wanted - and I’m crap at spelling

JackyJoll wrote: Fri Apr 30, 2021 10:36 pm My dad spoke to Mick McManus on the phone.

KungFooBob wrote: Fri Apr 30, 2021 10:37 pm

JackyJoll wrote: Fri Apr 30, 2021 10:36 pm My dad spoke to Mick McManus on the phone.

I worked for Mick McManus' niece.

I am Mick McManus!

Taipan wrote: Sun May 02, 2021 10:33 am

JackyJoll wrote: Fri Apr 30, 2021 10:36 pm My dad spoke to Mick McManus on the phone.

KungFooBob wrote: Fri Apr 30, 2021 10:37 pm

JackyJoll wrote: Fri Apr 30, 2021 10:36 pm My dad spoke to Mick McManus on the phone.

I worked for Mick McManus' niece.

I am Mick McManus!

No, I am Mick McManus ....

Was glared at by a Mitchell brother who isn't Ross kemp.
Seen Michael Foot in his Pyjamas (when he was alive)

Taipan wrote: Sun May 02, 2021 10:33 am

JackyJoll wrote: Fri Apr 30, 2021 10:36 pm My dad spoke to Mick McManus on the phone.

KungFooBob wrote: Fri Apr 30, 2021 10:37 pm

JackyJoll wrote: Fri Apr 30, 2021 10:36 pm My dad spoke to Mick McManus on the phone.

I worked for Mick McManus' niece.

I am Mick McManus!

I am the Boston Crab!

I've can put a tennis racquet on my face and pretend I'm Kendo Nagasaki.