I am equally jealous. *green*Dumbfish1 said:snip
OMG SAME corn is so taty and sweet to the lips!MeXR said:I FUCKING LOVE CORN FIELDS!!
I'd pay! If only for the anecdotes (and maybe some face time with the man if at all possible). Now that I think about it, he and my dad would have a better conversation than I would, seeing as how he's the inorganic chemist of the family.Alucard 11189 said:Ha ha! I will dine out on the fact I had Poliakoff as a tutor for the rest of my life! I would have loved to have met Peter Cushing! Damn your father for meeting deceased english actors (grrrr....)
Thursday Next, Nursery Crimes, Shades of Grey, The Last Dragonslayer.The Cheezy One said:
Points if you know what he wrote without the use of Wikipedia! And listing the titles in the pictures doesn't count.![]()
Apart from that, no-one.
MeXR said:Uh... I dunno, corn field haters?MetaKnight19 said:Who doesn't?MeXR said:I FUCKING LOVE CORN FIELDS!!
OT: I guess that's kind of cool.
You can have a conversation with Poliakoff about almost anything actually. I once had an hour long conversation with him about the race to build the atomic bomb in world war II and theories as to why the German's failed in their attempts. Hell, you can actually have a conversation with him about water bottles, he collects them and lines them up in his office. He also teaches molecular symmetry using dog toys,that's always a riot!SckizoBoy said:I'd pay! If only for the anecdotes (and maybe some face time with the man if at all possible). Now that I think about it, he and my dad would have a better conversation than I would, seeing as how he's the inorganic chemist of the family.Alucard 11189 said:Ha ha! I will dine out on the fact I had Poliakoff as a tutor for the rest of my life! I would have loved to have met Peter Cushing! Damn your father for meeting deceased english actors (grrrr....)
Dredging up my pre-teen days, Kriss Akabusi was a part-time trainer at my primary school, quite how or why I can't recall. At high school, Trevor Brooking was a guest and the prize winners (for the yearly propaganda event, that's basically what it was) all got to meet & greet him, myself included. That was pretty cool.
And then, I remembered... my entire family has (at some point) had to share tube space with that effing c Bob Crowe...
Do you mean Steve Irwin? Or did Stone Cold Steve Austin really wrangle snakes down under?rabidmidget said:I met Steve Austin before he was famous, he was rescuing a venomous snake caught in my chicken fence, as this was back when he just worked at the zoo.
Then again later, when his daughter started going to my school.
And at a snake demonstration at Australia zoo.
It isn't that weird considering the area wasn't that highly populated.
LOL, reminds me of one of the organic lecturers I had. One of the girls in the class brought in a pot plant as a housewarming gift (party to be held after uni was out). Don (the lecturer) walks up to the pot plant and proceeds to talk to it, ending with 'not feeling chatty, today? Too bad.' But then, he then goes on to lecture the pot plant (in advanced retrosynthesis) and the pot plant alone. That was quite amusing.Alucard 11189 said:You can have a conversation with Poliakoff about almost anything actually. I once had an hour long conversation with him about the race to build the atomic bomb in world war II and theories as to why the German's failed in their attempts. Hell, you can actually have a conversation with him about water bottles, he collects them and lines them up in his office. He also teaches molecular symmetry using dog toys,that's always a riot!
Anyway, on topic: Your family are quite the star magnets aren't they? Peter Cushing and Richard Attenborough! I really want to meet them. (A bit difficult in the case of Peter Cushing, but I can dream... Ah well, I will just live in the hope that I get to meet Christopher Lee.)
The Woman in Black?binnsyboy said:Daniel Radcliffe, when he was filming part of this horror film in my village. The name escapes me. He's a nice guy. Short, though.
I wish my lecturer in retrosynthesis was as cool. He was called Barry, and woebetide if your phone rang in the middle of a lecture. He would actually answer the phone and then confiscate it. He was also the first lecturer I encountered that reduced a fresher to tears (I later found out that it isn't exactly difficult to reduce freshers to tears, I mean how bloody difficult is it to understand that you DO NOT add water to a Grignard reagent? grumble grumble)SckizoBoy said:LOL, reminds me of one of the organic lecturers I had. One of the girls in the class brought in a pot plant as a housewarming gift (party to be held after uni was out). Don (the lecturer) walks up to the pot plant and proceeds to talk to it, ending with 'not feeling chatty, today? Too bad.' But then, he then goes on to lecture the pot plant (in advanced retrosynthesis) and the pot plant alone. That was quite amusing.Alucard 11189 said:You can have a conversation with Poliakoff about almost anything actually. I once had an hour long conversation with him about the race to build the atomic bomb in world war II and theories as to why the German's failed in their attempts. Hell, you can actually have a conversation with him about water bottles, he collects them and lines them up in his office. He also teaches molecular symmetry using dog toys,that's always a riot!
Anyway, on topic: Your family are quite the star magnets aren't they? Peter Cushing and Richard Attenborough! I really want to meet them. (A bit difficult in the case of Peter Cushing, but I can dream... Ah well, I will just live in the hope that I get to meet Christopher Lee.)
And yet another one has come to mind... Barry Took, a few years before he died, met him at a charity do in Colchester. At first I didn't realise who he was (me being only about twelve at the time).
Oh yeah, and I'd love to meet Christopher Lee as well. Actually, I'd love to hear him sing live even more.
Ive met Dave McPherson at a gig in london, he was a cool guy, nice to see another INME fan on the Escapist. My mate met him again at an acoustic gig where he told him to play master storm he laughed and said "I think this a bit heavy for this crowd"Sgt. Dante said:Got chatting to INME after a gig one year when they were signing autographs after the show. They casuallymentioned that they were going to a certain bar afterwards and asked if we (me and my GF) fancied coming along.
Unfortunately we had to decline as we weren't both of age to be allowed access to a bar. Absolutely gutted... They're pretty decent folk.