What you should know about me!

[Mixyblob]

I jumped out of a moving train when I was (a lot) younger, to avoid a £10 taxi ride home.

 

[Phileas Fogg]

Where was that? I was arrested at gun point in Zambia.... Nothing in comparison to your horrendous experience.

Benin, West Africa. I was supplying the then president with an aeroplane, BAC 1-11.
Taken by five men from a religious group and sentenced to five years in captivity for an invented fraud. Ordered to pay US$100,000 if I wanted to live. The UK representative, we had no embassy there, cancelled the payment my company was in the process of making as "The UK does not pay ransoms."
Had they not done that I would have been out in a couple of days. All hell then let loose and life became rather uncomfortable. Eventually a payment was made anyway and I walked free.

 

[Ingwe]

Jim, feel this needs a little bit of expansion.. (as the parachutes didn’t!).

Why someone jumps out of a perfectly good aircraft defies my comprehension.

 

[houdini]

Jim, feel this needs a little bit of expansion.. (as the parachutes didn’t!).

I’m far too trusting that’s the trouble, some might say gullible, just far too trusting for my own good. My father, Zog the Martian, used to tell me that over and over again, but I never learned. Going to have my first coffee now, perhaps that will help……………

 

[Two on Tour]

I taught a guy called Trevor Jordan to fly a hang-glider.
You may not have heard of him, but he is the husband of Elkie Brooks.
He used to have a beautiful black Jenson Interceptor FF back then.

I had been to quite a few Vinegar Joe gigs a few years before meeting Elkie and by that time she had become posh and did not
want to be reminded of her raunchy time in Vinegar Joe.

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[Madeinengland]

I did a static line parachute jump for Greenpeace, save the wales.

 

[Jim]

I’ve never had a full day off work since August 1988

 

[The Coops]

Do you still have the key and can all Funster connect too it, we promise not to tell others?

Don't tell anyone but its was called a .....key, it opened a multitude of Blackpool Council boxes and depots! Shaped like the letter.........!

 

[Jim]

I’m far too trusting that’s the trouble, some might say gullible,

The first parachute failed to open. (My fault, long story, it was a round canopy, exit height 3200ft opening height 2000ft) It was a tangled mess 15ft above my head, hardly slowing my descent, I would die trying to land it. I deployed my front-mounted round reserve, which hit that tangled mess and failed. Why am I still here?

I did as taught, Twice, I grabbed the hem of the reserve, gathered as much of it to my chest as possible and then shook it like you might a bedsheet. the second attempt It opened. 5 seconds later, some say more like 2 or 3 seconds. I landed hard but unharmed. That was my last jump for 2 years.

 

[Jim]

I've been around the world a few times but I've never been to Scotland.

Ten years since posting that and I've still not been to Scotland

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[L' Hobo]

Don't tell anyone but its was called a .....key, it opened a multitude of Blackpool Council boxes and depots! Shaped like the letter.........!

I've got a few of those, I think you have got it down to a tee with your description!

 

[Janine]

The legendary guitarist, Albert Lee, took me out to dinner on my 50th birthday

Edit: Just realised that I have already bragged about that on this thread but, hey, it was quite awesome

 

[bobnick]

I was kissed by Tina Turner......................TWICE

 

[L' Hobo]

Going to have my first coffee now, perhaps that will help…………

Don't they have coffee on Mars???

 

[L' Hobo]

Ten years since posting that and I've still not been to Scotland

I wondered why you were interested in my Passport application ? (unless there's something else you not telling us.....

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[Jim]

I wondered why you were interested in my Passport application ?

Was I?

 

[Phill D]

I was the Army Adjudent to the Royal Tournament at Earls Court one year and hosted or met lots of dignitaries including, the Queen and Duke, Charles and Diana etc.
3 months later I was posted to the Falkland Islands.

Must have been something I did..

 

[dabhand]

I have never been unemployed

 

[dabhand]

Or had a pet monkey

 

[dabhand]

Although I do have a picture of a monkey sitting on my knee taken in Lewis’s Department store in Liverpool whenI was a kid

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[L' Hobo]

Although I do have a picture of a monkey sitting on my knee taken in Lewis’s Department store in Liverpool whenI was a kid

Would that be allowed these days??

To protect the Monkey I mean!

 

[Grasmere9]

I am the only female to have reversed at speed up the main drive at the Cholmondeley Pageant of Power....and complimented on it by Derek Bell. This was in the evening before the very first Pageant opened. Lots of silly dares etc by the exhibitors and probably a few too many glasses of sparkly stuff!

 

[Odd-no-more]

I was the youngest Father Christmas in a groto at a London department store in 1974

 

[Tombola]

I work too hard

Ive been on the Royal Yacht Brittania

The only food that turns my stomach is Aubergine

I once had to steal food to be able to eat

 

[Coastal Cruiser.]

I have twice run out of air while diving

Obviously survived

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[Odd-no-more]

Would that be allowed these days??

To protect the Monkey I mean!

Having worked for many years as a beach photographer, with monkeys, I can tell you it was banned the year after I gave it up in the early 1980's

 

[L' Hobo]

I wondered why you were interested in my Passport application ? (unless there's something else you not telling us.....

My Passport has just arrived! Despite hearing stories of delays etc., as I said before, it was ALL done (photograph, form the LOT) at the Post Office on Monday afternoon and has been delivered to my door TODAY. Well Done Post Office! MOST impressive!

 

[L' Hobo]

The first parachute failed to open. (My fault, long story, it was a round canopy, exit height 3200ft opening height 2000ft) It was a tangled mess 15ft above my head, hardly slowing my descent, I would die trying to land it. I deployed my front-mounted round reserve, which hit that tangled mess and failed. Why am I still here?

I did as taught, Twice, I grabbed the hem of the reserve, gathered as much of it to my chest as possible and then shook it like you might a bedsheet. the second attempt It opened. 5 seconds later, some say more like 2 or 3 seconds. I landed hard but unharmed. That was my last jump for 2 years.

AND you managed to do that from 2000 ft while traveling at, what is it 32ft per second per second, WoW!

It would have been MY last jump EVER!

 

[Northern Boy]

The locals think I am a secret agent working for the British government, according to fellow local who had drank too much vodka at a village midsummer party. I guess asking if there was any martini I could add to the vodka and declining a spoon gave it all way

 

[Jim]

traveling at, what is it 32ft per second

Not quite, as the bag of washing was generating considerable drag so well below terminal. But it was all over in a minute or so.

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