BABenji - 12/06/2010 09:46 GMT
I have had lots of hot dinners. Here are my personal top tips for a comfortable dinner and leaving satisfied:
Plane Tips for First Time or Seasoned Travellers
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BABenji - 12/06/2010 11:33 GMT
I'm sorry Vintage Krug, but unless you met her lots, it doesn't count. :-)
TominScotland - 12/06/2010 12:08 GMT
Garard Butler spoke to me in the bmi Gold Lounge in Glasgow last week.....
SimonRowberry - 12/06/2010 15:21 GMT
I met George Best in the bar at EDI when he played for Hibs.
Never met Ms Sugden though....... ;-)
lloydah - 12/06/2010 18:19 GMT
Nor have I but I did stand next to Cilla Black at carousel 4 in Terminal One last year, that was the time my case failed to arrive.
VintageKrug - 12/06/2010 22:59 GMT
Actually, I really did meet Mollie Sugden on several occasions....and Cilla was in the F lounge a few months ago.
Who is Gerard Butler?
BABenji - 13/06/2010 12:32 GMT
Mr Butler is an actor.
I saw John Motson being refused entry to the Galleries First lounge at T5 last Monday, so had to make do with the Galleries Club.
SimonRowberry - 13/06/2010 15:19 GMT
I met Leo Sayer in 1991 in F on Continental's Auckland - Honolulu flight and then again a few days later on their DEN - LGW leg.
And Elvis Costello in the bar at CPH once, and Dexy's Midnight Runners on a couple of domestic flights in Finland. And Talking Heads were in C with me on a TWA flight LHR - JFK in (I think) 1980 or 1981.
I've also seen John Simpson many times but never spoken with him.
I met Jasper Carrott a couple of times in the BAExec Club Lounge at BHX back in the early 1990s. A very nice bloke.
I also sat next to Marrti Ahtisaari, the former Finnish President and all round good egg UN problem-solver on an AY flight to LHR recently - I didn't realise who he was until the bloke across the aisle told me when we were waiting for our bags.
But no Molly or Cilla though...
NTarrant - 13/06/2010 17:29 GMT
Angelica Bell sat next to me at the computers in BA lounge at Manchester and sat behind me on the flight to LHR.
Will Young has a tatto on his right buttock, his tracky bottoms slipped down slightly as he got up in the seat opposite me in BA lounge T1.
No Mollie or Cilla... I clearly have not lived
NTarrant - 13/06/2010 18:03 GMT
I think Simon, that VK was the guy next to me and I can't tell my left from my right!!
Bunnahabhain - 13/06/2010 18:03 GMT
This thread has to win the award for the quickest digression from the original topic!
I met Michael Douglas, not the actor but the street barber from The One Show, at the buffet on an East Coast train earlier this year. And several years ago Jean-Paul Gaultier was at the next table to me in Burger King in Montreal station!
NTarrant - 13/06/2010 18:08 GMT
Yes you are right Jim, and thanks to Phil for starting it or was it BABenji for getting the ball rolling?
Did you get a hair cut Jim?
SimonRowberry - 13/06/2010 18:13 GMT
Jim/Nigel - yes, it's nice to have a lighthearted thread in these troubled times!
I once met a guitar player called Alvin Lee from Ten Years After on a Tarom flight to Bucharest. I also sat behind a bloke called Ville Valo, the singer in a band called HIM, on a Finnair flight to Bangkok. And came across (so to speak) Gary Glitter in the Leamington Spa branch of Casa Fina (but the less said about that, I guess.....)
I also sat opposite Leon Brittan on a Eurostar train to Brussels.
Simon
Bunnahabhain - 13/06/2010 19:51 GMT
No hair cut at the buffet, he had a couple of gins in his hand instead of the scissors!
On to politicians now then - I was behind my local MP in the security queue at LGW south and he was describing it as "administrative punishment" - he's just become chief secretary to the treasury so probably gets a limo straight out to a private plane now!!
Passed Billy Connolly in LHR T1 one day.
PS Nigel, Jonathan and I are meeting up for a beer somewhere in central London on the evening of Thursday 15th July to further discuss such important drivel. Time and venue to be decided, whatever location suits best. Seeing as this thread has already gone way off the original subject then anyone else interested in joining us might as well say so here! Waiting to hear back from Mark at BT.
PatJordan - 13/06/2010 20:12 GMT
A few years ago, I sat close to a young lady whose face was vaguely familiar in the Aer Lingus Lounge at LHR.
I was a row behind her on the flight to Dublin, still couldn't put a name to the face.
Later, as passport control, I happened to see her name....didn't recognise it.
Went home and asked my daughers if they recognised the name: Kelly Osborne?
They were greatly piqued that not only did I not recognise her, but I didn't ask for an autograph.
Ah, well such is the price of being a middle aged fogey.
Who knows, maybe I have had the pleasure of meeting some of this forums contributors!!!
Maybe even the legendary VK.....
As JimBannerman says this thread has gone way off, but everybody is having fun: very important in this recessionary era.
