Obscure claims to fame
By Brian Clegg
When I was at school, for reasons hidden in the distant past, we once had a competition for who had the best obscure claim to fame. It was won by a classmate who’s aunty was the woman who came on at the end of the Morecambe and Wise Show (you had to have been there).
Personally, I now can cite two possibilities. In family legend, I have an ancestor who prefigured a classic cartoon demise. My great great (ish) grandfather was allegedly the first person to be killed by a steam roller. While I have no documentary evidence, it was the story my grandmother told me and I have no reason to doubt it. In reality it wasn’t the dramatic cartoon-style flattening – it ran over his foot and he died of shock. But still.
The more recent and well-documented claim is that I have had my photograph in Playboy magazine. (I was reminded about this by hearing on the news that the magazine is to be reborn.)
Though I never bought it myself (honestly) many people claimed that they only bought it for the articles – and, to be fair, mine was about time machines: nothing salacious.
One thing I can be fairly sure of: there’s a reader of this who can beat me with an obscure claim to fame. All suggestions welcome.
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