Tenuous claims to fame (88/365)

[white_hart]

I don't have a lot of tenuous claims to fame*, but as of 7:30 this evening I will be able to say that my handknitted socks have been on BBC2.

(They will be on Mastermind, on the feet of T, who will also be on Mastermind.)

What are your best tenuous claims to fame?

*nor do I have any actual claims to fame, really

Comments

[danieldwilliam]

I believe your socks did quite well.

[white_hart]

They did indeed!

[honigfrosch]

What are your best tenuous claims to fame?

A book on goth subculture whose author used online surveys, and after answering his questions very thoroughly he quoted me with a single line.

[white_hart]

Being quoted in a book is definitely fame!

[lilliburlero]

I've got a quiz-related one, which is that in my third year in university I went out with the chap who exclaimed "Homosexuals!"* in response to a University Challenge question to which the correct answer was "Regiments of the British Army". He's even in TV Tropes!

*my faulty memory improves the joke by having him buzz in before the question is finished, but YouTube is there to chasten me. Paxo's response is rather homophobic, no surprise there though. Bamber Gascoigne would never.

[white_hart]

Hah!

[hilarita]

I'm in the acknowledgements (with my name misspelt) for a non-fiction book by an author-journalist whose main claims to fame were writing up the Enoch Powell Rivers of Blood speech for the Scottish Herald, and getting one of his fiction books made into a film starring a Big Hollywood Action Hero.

[white_hart]

I am in the acknowledgements of a couple of academic books - side-effect of the job!

[nineveh_uk]

We switched on a few minutes before the end and suddenly it came back to me that T was doing it and I exclaimed 'That's my friend's husband!'. So perhaps my best tenuous claim to fame is that a Mastermind semi-finalist did some shopping for me when I had Covid.

[white_hart]

:-)

[callmemadam]

I didn't realise at the time, but well done socks! I felt so sorry for that woman who didn't know anything and looked crushed.

[alithea]

Me too, she looked about to burst into tears, didn't she?

[girlyswot]

And so relieved and shocked when there was finally a general knowledge question that she knew. The knitting lady also looked terrified throughout.

[alithea]

Yes, she did. And got flustered and missed some answers she knew.

[ankaret]

Poor woman, the black chair got to her.

[alithea]

It really did, I'm sure she knew a bunch of the answers, I didn't think the general knowledge questions were *that* hard, I got several.

[white_hart]

T says it's a known phenomenon - people just get stuck in a cycle where they miss a question they knew the answer to and then are too busy inwardly beating themselves up about that and miss part of the next question, so they pass on that one too, and so on and so on. One of the things he practiced was getting things wrong and just moving on.

[antisoppist]

I have seen it now. Well done T. And he also looked as though he had practised "say an answer, any answer, quickly rather than pass" in case it came down to number of passes, although it really really didn't :-)

[white_hart]

As well as watching lots of old episodes he spent some time practicing with me firing questions at him out of the Mastermind quiz book, to get used to not passing or spending too long thinking ;-)

[white_hart]

I know, she looked so miserable. And because of COVID she wouldn't even have been able to have any friends or family there to support her.

[alithea]

T and your socks did very well!

[white_hart]

They did, didn't they!

[antisoppist]

Damn, the return of the Town Band to distanced outdoor practice in someone's garden meant that this was the first week I didn't watch it because I was lugging child's tuba about the village at the critical moment. iPlayer.

[white_hart]

Thank goodness for iPlayer! We normally watch it timeshifted, rather than live, but watched it on time yesterday.

[cmcmck]

My invented phrase: 'English is ethnic too' got quoted and referred to in a major historical study.

[white_hart]

Impressive!

[oracne]

VICTORY.

[white_hart]

Victory indeed!

[qatsi]

What are your best tenuous claims to fame?

I nearly got interviewed by John Peel for Home Truths in 2001, but due to being abroad on holiday the honour went to uitlander instead.

[lokifan]

I was on a small Italian TV channel when I was 10, singing a song with about a dozen other kids.