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Old Apr 22, 04, 7:02 am   #46
 
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Do you mean Trader Vic's? If so, it remains disturbingly unchanged, like a bizzare time capsule.
Yes I do! Gosh that's years since that name meant anything to me. God, it was tacky and long past its sell-by date years in the eighties. What it must be like now I dread to think. Probably like the dreadful Polynesian Culture centre I was told that I had to visit in Hawaii. Universal studios is less phoney at least it is what it says it is.
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Old Apr 22, 04, 3:42 pm   #47
 
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Sir Bob Geldof sat next to me TXL-LHR...A 'weirdo'..?? Indeed!! Also saw Stella McCartney in the First Class lounge at LGW..She is very stylish...and wears beautiful shoes!! Sure they're Italian...
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Old Apr 22, 04, 6:08 pm   #48
 
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Sitting behind Lord Rifkind and Alan Robb (Five Live and TV sometimes) the other day on an LHR-EDI.

Shared a row on KLM UK a few years ago with Dick Advocaat, then Holland/Rangers manager - with no split cabin on the then KLMUK, he had to go with the ****e like me
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Old Apr 25, 04, 11:02 am   #49
 
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Sven Goran Eriksson next to me in 1B on the MAN-LHR shuttle yesterday.
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Old Apr 30, 04, 7:09 am   #50
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Just how clean is First?

From a recent popular scandal sheet...

'Ashley Judd recently took a BA flight. She got into the first class cabin wearing thick gloves and immediately took out a packet of sterilising wipes and proceeded to wipe down the seats and surroundings before sitting down. She would only accept plates and glasses if she could wipe them first and insisted on only drinking from her own bottle of champagne.

(FYI: Ashley started to become obsessed with hygiene when she caught a bad virus while filming in Africa.)'
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Old May 8, 04, 9:21 am   #51
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Brazilian boyfriends are all the rage..

Lee from Steps a couple rows behind me in Club on the 246 earlier this week... and I was about the only one that noticed (other than the crew )

Hmm, what WAS he doing in Sao Paulo I wonder...
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Old May 8, 04, 10:25 am   #52
 
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From a recent popular scandal sheet...

'Ashley Judd recently took a BA flight. She got into the first class cabin wearing thick gloves and immediately took out a packet of sterilising wipes and proceeded to wipe down the seats and surroundings before sitting down. She would only accept plates and glasses if she could wipe them first and insisted on only drinking from her own bottle of champagne.

(FYI: Ashley started to become obsessed with hygiene when she caught a bad virus while filming in Africa.)'
IF true...after all...facts should never get in the way of a good story...I'm surprised she didn't bring bottled air and a mask...

There again reading the thread which recently degenerated into a discussion about farting on-board I suspect we all ought to do that (bring own air...NOT fart )
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Old May 8, 04, 10:38 am   #53
 
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The same as you, Julian Clary and Boy George, no doubt!

Also, love Lux's reference to "popular scandal sheet" Pop***** - consistently funny and required reading for those of a prurient disposition.

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Hmm, what WAS he doing in Sao Paulo I wonder...
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Old May 8, 04, 10:40 am   #54
 
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Now that is funny: I've just noticed that the word "*****" has been edited out by the software - there, I've said it again!

Worse, it's edited it out of the link too, which is ridiculous. The hideously offensive word is that describing a female dog... So, it's Pop*****.com

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Old May 8, 04, 10:46 am   #55
 
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Wary of such an indelicate topic, in that case one wonders how to avoid ending up like that baddie in "Live and Let Die" floating up to the ceiling and bursting after a flight to, say, NRT...

By the way, I've known crew to refer to F as F*** Class, due to the effects of rich dining and comfortable seclusion.

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There again reading the thread which recently degenerated into a discussion about farting on-board I suspect we all ought to do that (bring own air...NOT fart )
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Old May 8, 04, 10:53 am   #56
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Lee from Steps a couple rows behind me in Club on the 246 earlier this week
Does he count as a celeb? You get all of them on the GRU route! Didn't you see Mel B going into WT once?
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Old May 8, 04, 1:01 pm   #57
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Does he count as a celeb? You get all of them on the GRU route! Didn't you see Mel B going into WT once?
Into WT+ and her friends trying to blag an upgrade for her and them to Club... refused


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The same as you, Julian Clary and Boy George, no doubt!
OMG that is so funny, I have seen Julian Clary on the flight!! not Boy George (yet) and I'm still waiting for Peter Mandelson

But mine is cuter than all of their's
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Old May 8, 04, 1:04 pm   #58
 
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Lee from Steps a couple rows behind me in Club on the 246 earlier this week... and I was about the only one that noticed (other than the crew )

Hmm, what WAS he doing in Sao Paulo I wonder...
Hmm, what WAS he doing in Club I wonder... surely he didn't earn that many BA miles in his Steps days!
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Old May 9, 04, 1:43 pm   #59
 
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Last week (May 5th, around 10am), John Malkovitch, in the Concorde Room. I held the door open for him on the way in. He looked very old.

At last, I've broken my flying celebrity duck!
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Old May 9, 04, 5:56 pm   #60
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Last week (May 5th, around 10am
I was under the fingers of the masseuse in the Arrivals lounge at just that time... small world
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