Being a boring, done nothing old fart it is extremely unlikely that I will ever be famous for anything approaching normal. But, I am unique in being the only known person living that has four hollow teeth. The previous record was one tooth.
I was on a football fun week at Cleeve Park school and had been dropped off early one morning so was chucking a cricket ball around at a wall and running after it in the playground.
A little while later one of the other kids called my name so I chucked it to him - fully 30 or 40 metres away. The individual headed it and received a rather splendid lump on his head but wasn't overly fussed.
That individual was Lee Bowyer. That probably explains a bit about him :-)
In 1972, rather than paying it in, I left a cheque in my desk drawer and went home. It was for the not inconsiderable sum of £35mn. I've just looked it up and that's around £390mn in today's money. It cost around £10k in overnight interest plus a computer re-run for the end-day trading. At the time my annual salary was about £900. I'm told that to this day it's still spoken about at the place I worked as an example of things not to do.
I was young and inexperienced ( as we all were once upon a time ).
I was trying to get a ride on mower through a set of electric shop doors, you know the kind that open when you go up to them, well unfortunately ,me being new at driving one, the machine had 'a mind of its own' and raced into the doors shattering all the glass in them, I haven't driven a ride on mower since that day.
At 15 years ago, Stoke were winning 1-0 at The Valley with about 2 mins to go. Two late goals and we win, walking up Floyd Road I saw Nick Hancock standing on the corner, I said to him "I bet you thought that was all over." To which he told me to go forth and multiply.
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Also the first out of my mates to have a threesome.
A little while later one of the other kids called my name so I chucked it to him - fully 30 or 40 metres away. The individual headed it and received a rather splendid lump on his head but wasn't overly fussed.
That individual was Lee Bowyer. That probably explains a bit about him :-)
Snooker: Beaten two world champions.
Quiz machines: got barred from Give Us A Break quiz machines at two different snooker clubs.
It was for the not inconsiderable sum of £35mn. I've just looked it up and that's around £390mn in today's money.
It cost around £10k in overnight interest plus a computer re-run for the end-day trading. At the time my annual salary was about £900.
I'm told that to this day it's still spoken about at the place I worked as an example of things not to do.
I was trying to get a ride on mower through a set of electric shop doors, you know the kind that open when you go up to them, well unfortunately ,me being new at driving one, the machine had 'a mind of its own' and raced into the doors shattering all the glass in them, I haven't driven a ride on mower since that day.
Does anyone need their grass cutting? :-0