Who has done what, in your family?
Jul 19th 2011, 7:25 am
#61
Chan eil aon chànan gu le
Thread Starter
Joined: Feb 2009
Location: On the ning nang nong
Posts: 22,437
Re: Who has done what, in your family?
Did you get the ANSWERS though? Or did you get mixed up with "The Wild Geese"...
We're a weird bunch. My mother seems to know everyone it sees, remotely famous - some more so, some less so... remotely famous than others - or well known in their circles...so whether it's Sir John Hunt's (careful how you spell it) daughters, or the women who sailed around/walked around the world...
My brother in law is a well known actor and we often see him on the box. He and his brother were also Olympians.
We're a weird bunch. My mother seems to know everyone it sees, remotely famous - some more so, some less so... remotely famous than others - or well known in their circles...so whether it's Sir John Hunt's (careful how you spell it) daughters, or the women who sailed around/walked around the world...
My brother in law is a well known actor and we often see him on the box. He and his brother were also Olympians.
No. Apparently shit like that dies with a person.
Jul 19th 2011, 7:33 am
#62
Lost in BE Cyberspace
Joined: Oct 2005
Location: Hill overlooking the SE Melbourne suburbs
Posts: 16,622
Re: Who has done what, in your family?
wow, does that mean that either Stanley Kubrick used some top of the range bona fide working spacesuits, or the Apollo 11 astronauts got a really bum deal? 
I would have thought film costume design and functioning spacesuit design were fairly non transferable skills, other than the cosmetic look?
I would have thought film costume design and functioning spacesuit design were fairly non transferable skills, other than the cosmetic look?
Uranus did not go cold as a boy...
Jul 19th 2011, 7:53 am
#64
Account Closed
Joined: Jul 2006
Posts: 14,188
Re: Who has done what, in your family?
wow, does that mean that either Stanley Kubrick used some top of the range bona fide working spacesuits, or the Apollo 11 astronauts got a really bum deal?
I would have thought film costume design and functioning spacesuit design were fairly non transferable skills, other than the cosmetic look?
I would have thought film costume design and functioning spacesuit design were fairly non transferable skills, other than the cosmetic look?
Jul 19th 2011, 7:55 am
#65
Account Closed
Joined: Jul 2006
Posts: 14,188
Re: Who has done what, in your family?
Jul 25th 2011, 2:43 am
#67
BE Enthusiast
Joined: May 2007
Posts: 443
Re: Who has done what, in your family?
Well some impressive family members - mine nothing really!
I am incredibly proud of myself actually, grew up on a council estate, quite poor really but always out with friends and pretty happy really. Fled a violent marriage after 10 years of hell, went to uni - first one in my family. Years later ex was in court for the same offences with his new partner so I came forward and had to endure a trial myself - he's now serving lengthy prison sentence. More offences emerged once he got sentenced, went to trial just before we flew out but unfortunately bloody jury let him off!
So here I am rebuilding our lives, trying to fix the mess he's caused, but hey, I'm a survivor and actually think I've made the best decision for my family at this moment in time.
So here's to me!
I am incredibly proud of myself actually, grew up on a council estate, quite poor really but always out with friends and pretty happy really. Fled a violent marriage after 10 years of hell, went to uni - first one in my family. Years later ex was in court for the same offences with his new partner so I came forward and had to endure a trial myself - he's now serving lengthy prison sentence. More offences emerged once he got sentenced, went to trial just before we flew out but unfortunately bloody jury let him off!
So here I am rebuilding our lives, trying to fix the mess he's caused, but hey, I'm a survivor and actually think I've made the best decision for my family at this moment in time.
So here's to me!
Jul 25th 2011, 6:10 am
#68
Lost in BE Cyberspace
Joined: Sep 2005
Location: Somewhere South... Not Telling YOU
Posts: 10,959
Re: Who has done what, in your family?
My matenal grandfather joined up aged 15, was gassed at the somme, was returned to blighty a shellshocked, lousy, skeletal semi cripple,...was fed up for a few months by the Government, deloused and then offered the choice to go back or be shot for "lack of moral fibre"... He was too much of a coward to face a firing squad so went back to the front line...
My sister was a page three model in the early eighties, friends of the paula crowd, introduced me to shedloads of infamous and famous people and drugs, travelled the world, made heaps of money and then shoved it all up her nose... Which is why I have little sympathy for those that do this to themselves and even less for those that lead others down that particular pathway...
But BEST of all my great great etc aunt was tried at the old bailey for theft of a gown and two candlesticks, found guilty and transported to NSW womens prison on the Wansted ..... which makes ME Australian royalty!
My sister was a page three model in the early eighties, friends of the paula crowd, introduced me to shedloads of infamous and famous people and drugs, travelled the world, made heaps of money and then shoved it all up her nose... Which is why I have little sympathy for those that do this to themselves and even less for those that lead others down that particular pathway...
But BEST of all my great great etc aunt was tried at the old bailey for theft of a gown and two candlesticks, found guilty and transported to NSW womens prison on the Wansted ..... which makes ME Australian royalty!
Jul 25th 2011, 12:13 pm
#69
Lost in BE Cyberspace
Joined: Oct 2005
Location: Hill overlooking the SE Melbourne suburbs
Posts: 16,622
Re: Who has done what, in your family?
Playtex had an involvement.
