The Bastard Posted September 5, 2007 Share Posted September 5, 2007 David Icke lives on the Isle of Wight, doesn't he ? Is this a Wikipedia "fact" ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoobe Posted September 5, 2007 Share Posted September 5, 2007 We don't really "get" celebs over here, if one of them slags us off, the Chief Minister will invite them to visit, give them a guided tour, so they can say it all again. If it is an actor we pay them a substantial sum to appear over here in a film no one will ever watch. But if they say that they like it here and that it is a wonderful place, we break into their propertys and shout obscenities (Robin Gibb); traipse across their land and organise a campaign against them when they try to stop us (Clarkeson); bang them up (Kershaw) or shove them in a home (Norman Wisdom). Pure Genius!! :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thesultanofsheight Posted September 5, 2007 Share Posted September 5, 2007 David Icke, a British writer and public speaker who has devoted himself since 1990 to researching "who and what is really controlling the world." No sh*t. Tell me that's not true? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Declan Posted September 5, 2007 Share Posted September 5, 2007 For that matter have Rick and Adam Wakeman ever been members of Black Sabbath? They may have done keyboard work for them but that's not being a member. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldmanxfella Posted September 5, 2007 Share Posted September 5, 2007 For that matter have Rick and Adam Wakeman ever been members of Black Sabbath? They may have done keyboard work for them but that's not being a member. Wiki also says that he did play with the Sabbath under an alias as a session keyboard player in 1973 on Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. So there you go .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Declan Posted September 5, 2007 Share Posted September 5, 2007 That doesn't make him an ex-member, that makes him a hired hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldmanxfella Posted September 5, 2007 Share Posted September 5, 2007 That doesn't make him an ex-member, that makes him a hired hand. As the band line ups changed I think everyone got to be a hired hand ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WTF Posted September 5, 2007 Share Posted September 5, 2007 king orry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave the Cardboard Box Posted September 5, 2007 Share Posted September 5, 2007 Only really three contenders for being known world wide - Geoff Duke - in the fifties was a superstar, the Senior TT was a Blue Riband of British Sport, along with the Cup Final, Boat Race, The Derby and the Lords Test. He was known throughout the world when motor cycle racing was a truly mainstream and popular sport. He was a version of Sportsman of the Year in 1954' Rick Wakeman - millions know who he is, but mostly one generation. Top of the list has to be Norman Wisdom. Every generation knows who he is, as do people in countries around the world, especially the Commonwealth. Four, four contenders - Nigel Mansell was known worldwide, He even took over the "Who do you think you are , Stirling Moss?" mantle. The most distinguished Manxman still alive is Professor Frank Kermode, but he never won a TT or dressed in wizard clothes.... yet.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wideload Posted September 5, 2007 Share Posted September 5, 2007 John Rhys-Davies Indie dont eat those dates! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twitch Posted September 5, 2007 Share Posted September 5, 2007 I am under the impression that Brian Johnson, lead singer of AC/DC, lived in Baldrine in the early 80's, when they were just getting pretty massive worldwide. A very nice man so I heard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Declan Posted September 5, 2007 Share Posted September 5, 2007 Might be a nice guy but all their decent records were made before he joined. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
%age Posted September 6, 2007 Share Posted September 6, 2007 Fletcher Christian from the Bounty was always the best known Manxman before TV and popstars were invented. His name and that of his ancestors came back into the World during the Pitcairn Child Sex Assault Trials. For example, Wiki on Fletcher Christian has this to say: Christian twice sailed to Jamaica with Bligh. Following the mutiny, Christian attempted to build a colony on Tubuai, but the mutineers terrorized the natives. Abandoning the island, he stopped briefly in Tahiti where he married Maimiti the daughter of one of the local chiefs on 16 June 1789. While at Tahiti he dropped off sixteen crewmen. These sixteen included four Bligh loyalists who had been left behind on the Bounty and two who had neither participated in, nor resisted the mutiny. The remaining nine mutineers, six Tahitian men, and eleven Tahitian women then settled on Pitcairn Island where they stripped the Bounty of all that could be floated ashore before Matthew Quintal set it on fire. This sexual imbalance, combined with the effective enslavement of the Tahitian men by the mutineers, led to insurrection and the deaths of most of the men. But on this Island we much prefer the Hollywood Clark Gable film version of the events. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bombay Bad Boy Posted September 6, 2007 Share Posted September 6, 2007 John Rhys-Davies Was he in Black Sabbath too? "You shall have my axe" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Bastard Posted September 6, 2007 Share Posted September 6, 2007 Fletcher Christian from the Bounty was always the best known Manxman before TV and popstars were invented. Fletcher Christian wasn't a Manxman. He was born and raised in Cumbria, though he was of Manx ancestry & apparently spent some time in Douglas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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