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• What is YOUR Claim To Fame
• PLEASE LEAVE YOUR MARK
• My Claim To Fame by Poddys
• My Claim To Fame by Nathanville
• My Claim To Fame by tzdelar
• My Claim To Fame by Shellonline
• My Claim To Fame by Imagineit
• My Claim To Fame by Grandpas
• My Claim To Fame by Paroshep
• My Claim To Fame by Manxsal
• My Claim To Fame by Soultravelers3
• My Claim To Fame by SemperFidelis
• My Claim To Fame by Kim Giancaterino
• My Claim To Fame by Lexi
• My Claim To Fame by BarryfromTexas
• My Claim To Fame by Clarissa789
• My Claim To Fame by ElizabethJeanAllen
• My Claim To Fame by FlashFink
• My Claim To Fame by beeobrien
• My Claim To Fame by blue22d
• My Claim To Fame by XP
• My Claim To Fame by Jo Murphy
• My Claim To Fame by KrissyB14
• PEOPLE WHO HAVE ACHIEVED FAME ON SQUIDOO
• PEOPLE WHO DESERVE A CLAIM TO FAME
• OTHER LINKS ABOUT FAME OR FAMOUS PEOPLE
• Other Lenses by Poddys

What is YOUR Claim To Fame 

PLEASE LEAVE YOUR MARK 

I decided to place the Guestbook here close to the beginning of the page where you can find it. There are so many sections to this page that the guestbook was getting buried. It's supposed to be easy to find, but I think it was becoming more and more li

SO WHAT IS YOUR CLAIM TO FAME?

Ok so you have something to be famous for, even if in only a small way. Just leave everyone an entry in the guestbook and tell the world.
If you are deemed worthy, I will create a special section for you in the HALL OF FAME below to tell the world about your CLAIM TO FAME.
So come on, tell us what you think, and leave your mark..."

SPARAR Thanks for visiting my page on Stumble, thought i would come check this cools lens out and bookmark it for you.. its brilliant! all the best Glen Posted May 08, 2008

amynchris

just stopping by to check out your site!

Posted May 01, 2008

krissybee14 My claim to fame was when my band played for our schools intramural meet. That was such a big thing for me at that time because we were suddenly popular at school. Up to this day my batch mates still recognize me and ask if our band still plays. Posted April 24, 2008

Jo_Murphy Well ... when I was out on my Hen's night about 10 years ago, the girls made me pose for photos with various men whilst we were out and about around town (Wellington, New Zealand). It wasn't until I showed my fiance the photos that I realised that two gorgeous fellas I'd had my photo taken with in a bar were in fact the New Zealand Rowing Champions (Rob Wadell and ..oh..I've forgotten the other guys name..). ok, i'd never have known if my other half hadn't pointed it out .. but still ...it's kind of a claim to fame isn't it?! Great lens Poddy, you're a star! Jo Posted April 23, 2008

XP My claim to fame? I guess it would be the 9 years I worked for Ted Nugent. Started when he moved Ted Nugent World Bowhunters to Jackson, MI in January 1991, and resigned late in 2000. Worked my way up from data entry position to Managing Editor and Layout/Design Artist of his Adventure Outdoors magazine, official publication of Ted Nugent United Sportsmen of America, which at that time had a circulation of around 25K worldwide. Crazy days. Just a teenage kid when I started. Had lots of fun and learned much; the hard way at times, but grew nonetheless. Still in touch; did a Nugent for President bumper sticker design for his organization just a few weeks ago. Posted April 22, 2008

 

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My Claim To Fame by Poddys 

• My great-grandfather (on my mother's side) married the widow of Thomas Hardy's cousin (Thomas Hardy was an author from Dorset in England who wrote well known books like The Mayor Of Casterbridge)
• My grandfather (on my father's side) was one of the last Cape Horners (sailed around Cape Horn in a sailing ship)
• I have travelled around the world
• I met Davie Jones of The Monkees
• I saw Benny Hill in the street once

My Claim To Fame by Nathanville 

My claim to Fame is highlighting the Claim to Fame of family members, and others, on my websites including my lens The Famous and Not So Famous.

Ordinary people such as my great great grandfather George Burgess who was a practicing Phrenologist in Victorian Britain, Thomas Arthur VC and The Infamous Sarah Bradbeare of Pitminster (1664-1719).

My Claim To Fame by tzdelar 

Well, my dad's great, great...great? grandma sort of dated General Custer (before he was general I believe) and rumor has it we are related to US President Buchanan somehow.

But, more recently, I won a radio station caption contest, submitted a letter to the editor of our local newspaper on a topic that bugged me and I was included in the February issue of Parenting magazine, page 55 under what to do with your child's artwork.

All completely unrelated, seems a coincidence and likely will never occur again like this! It's been fun though.

My Claim To Fame by Shellonline 

Well... I do not if this is a claim to fame but it sure was fun... I do extra work in movies and by some freak of nature (long story... too long for this blurb) I landed a very small part in the new Batman movie coming out in July 2008. My character is a doctor in the movie and it was a lot of fun!

My Claim To Fame by Imagineit 

I've had several small claims to fame like winning an essay contest and receiving a sizeable monetary award when I was 13, singing a solo on the US Capitol steps on choir tour one year when I was 16 or 17, I have been interviewed on the radio and television for various activism activities in my younger days, and I currently provide private therapy services for children with developmental disabilities (e.g, Autism and Down's syndrome).

My Claim To Fame by Grandpas 

One of my claims to fame.... I stopped the singing group of the 1960's, The Mamas & the Papas who were driving in a Lincoln besides me one evening on my way home from work. We were driving over the Desoto Bridge by Manatee Memorial Hospital in the early 1960's and I motioned them over. The actually STOPPED and I got their autograph for my sister-in-law who was a huge fan of theirs! I talked to them for several minutes; they were friendly & enjoyable! HOW unique is that in this day of superstars & groups having body guards and private jets! Things were sure different in the 1960's. Now, Mama Cass has passed on & I'm so excited I actually got to meet them, driving down the street in a small town USA. Also met Howard Bellamy of the Bellamy Brothers Singing Group at Webster Flea Market in Sumter County, Fl. He was shopping for bargains, I recognized him & just approached him & had a 5 minute conversation. Just a down-to-earth, everyday country boy! Cool!

My Claim To Fame by Paroshep 

Aaah, this lens reminded me of my past life in the USA where I was once active in local politics and headlined in the newspaper for calling the Chairman and my college on the Board of County Commissioners unreliable.
But now I live on a Greek island and write lens about my brushes with celebrity. See our group at http://www.squidoo.com/groups/brushwithcelebrity

My Claim To Fame by Manxsal 

My great grandmother was an acrobat with the Barnum and Bailey Circus, my great-grandfather also worked there but I don't know what he did.
Me personally, I don't have much of a claim to fame. I was in the local newspaper when I was 4 years old. My twin sis and I were one of 3 sets of twins in our kindergarden class and we made up a third of the class, so they just had to do a story on it.
In my career as a Community Moderator/Manager & Administrator for online communities I was/am well known by thousands of members on the sites I worked on.

My Claim To Fame by Soultravelers3 

My Claim To Fame by SemperFidelis 

Hmm, I guess our claim to fame was when someone emailed me and pointed out that we (SemperFidelis) were featured in a social bookmarking video. www.stompernet.com We're about 30 minutes into the video and last for all of 10 seconds. Does that count as a "claim to fame?"

I think that definitely does count. Just think, maybe millions of people all around the world will have heard of you. You are now officially famous

My Claim To Fame by Kim Giancaterino 

Mine is probably being Homecoming Queen in high school. Even though it was a long, long time ago, people I went to school with still introduce me to their friends/spouses that way.

My Claim To Fame by Lexi 

My claim to fame is having Oliver Wendell Holmes, the Supreme Court Justice, as an ancestor and Jesse James as an ancestor on the other side of the family. Odd mixture, huh?

On my own work I did have a book on painting flowers in acrylics published last year by North Light in North America, Search Press in the United Kingdom, and Simon and Schuster in Australia. I also won a juror's choice award for one of my paintings in an international competition, The Art of the Blossom.

My Claim To Fame by BarryfromTexas 

My claim to fame is not so big. I met President Bush in person before he was president, I did a protection detail for his father when he was president, and my sister was on the team that developed the IBM PC.

My Claim To Fame by Clarissa789 

Hey there, my claim to fame is erm ... being kissed on the cheek by Norman Wisdom. Cool. And not too many people these days even know who he is - but I do - I used to laugh at his movies when I was younger

My Claim To Fame by ElizabethJeanAllen 

I have a wonderful husband and together we managed to raise 2 fairly normal boys. They are in college now and doing well, sort of...
My other claim to fame, DRUM ROLL PLEASE... My humorous mystery MY MOTHER'S SHOES will be released in May. Congratulations - a budding author

My Claim To Fame by FlashFink 

I've worked in the animation business for a long time so my name has been buried and ignored in the credits of various TV shows and features. In the early 90s, after working on so many shows that required months of painstaking labor, I quickly threw together an animated film of my own one afternoon. To my amazement it was bought by MTV and shown all over the world!

The best part of it was a review on the internet that panned it mercilessly. It ended with "if you had one day you could make this piece of crap." Actually, the critic was being too kind since I made it in less than an hour.

My Claim To Fame by beeobrien 

Well, it's kind of a creepy one, but I was the piano teacher to the family who's little beauty pageant daughter was murdered quite a few years ago. Much better claim to fame was winning People's Choice and Best in Show Award for a woven shawl that I made. Oh, and I passed Woody Allen on the street once in London.

My Claim To Fame by blue22d 

My claim to fame...I met Kirk Douglas, flew in the Good Year Blimp (just 5 of us), tried out of the New Wed Game (didn't make TV) and still married after 40 years.

My Claim To Fame by XP 

My claim to fame? I guess it would be the 9 years I worked for Ted Nugent.

Started when he moved Ted Nugent World Bowhunters to Jackson, MI in January 1991, and resigned late in 2000. Worked my way up from data entry position to Managing Editor and Layout/Design Artist of his Adventure Outdoors magazine, official publication of Ted Nugent United Sportsmen of America, which at that time had a circulation of around 25K worldwide.

Crazy days. Just a teenage kid when I started. Had lots of fun and learned much; the hard way at times, but grew nonetheless.

Still in touch; did a Nugent for President bumper sticker design for his organization just a few weeks ago.

My Claim To Fame by Jo Murphy 

When I was out on my Hen's night about 10 years ago, the girls made me pose for photos with various men whilst we were out and about around town (Wellington, New Zealand). It wasn't until I showed my fiance the photos that I realised that two gorgeous fellas I'd had my photo taken with in a bar were in fact the New Zealand Rowing Champions (Rob Wadell and ..oh..I've forgotten the other guys name..).

My Claim To Fame by KrissyB14 

My claim to fame was when my band played for our schools intramural meet. That was such a big thing for me at that time because we were suddenly popular at school. Up to this day my batch mates still recognize me and ask if our band still plays.

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Mark Knopfler - My Claim To Fame lyrics 

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Artist: Mark Knopfler
Album: Golden Heart
Year: 1996
Title: My Claim To Fame

Well he's a big star now
But I've been a fan of his for years
The way he sings and plays guitar
Still brings me to tears

I wouldn't want to be a big deal
I wouldn't want to be a celebrity
I spend my life building ships of steel
That's all there ever was for me

Take a hammer to the sea belles
And shout my name
And I'll sail the seas as free as a breeze
That's my claim to fame

He spends his life in the studio
Jet planes and big black cars
Plays records on the radio
In all of the clubs and in all of the bars

By day he didn't have a choice
You had to take a trade
You had no money and you had no voice
That's the life I made

Take a hammer to the sea belles
And shout my name
And I'll sail the seas as free as a breeze
That's my claim to fame

That's my claim to fame boys
That's my claim to fame
To sail the seas as free as a breeze
That's my claim to fame

Well a song can live forever and a day
An old ship goes to the breakers yard
In a hundred years you're gonna hear him play
They won't remember me for working hard

Now they've all gone away, all the boys and the girls
They yard is a grave where the river runs through
We used to build the ships for the whole wide world
Now we couldn't do it if we wanted to

Take a hammer to the sea belles
And shout my name
I'll sail the seas as free as a breeze
That's my claim to fame

Take a hammer to the sea belles
And shout my name
I'll sail the seas as free as a breeze
That's my claim to fame

That's my claim to fame boys
That's my claim to fame
To sail the seas as free as a breeze
That's my claim to fame

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