Healthy interest or just a bit weird?

So. Dilemma for me.

Djokovic is unveiling his Wimbledon outfit and doing a meet and greet a short hop from where I work tomorrow.

I'm tempted to go along but can't shake the feeling that this is behaving like a teenage girl who's heard that Justin Bieber is in town.

So what do you think? Interesting experience or just a bit lame?

...lol, you know you wanna go...

Beyond lame, and you know it. You're just asking for permission to do what you know is inherently unsound.

If you're looking for enabling you need to pm some others. I'll send you a list of you want.

Urgh Screech



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HMM, go on admit it...he's signing your bag here right?

If you look closely it says "Where's Socal?".

Murdoch is that guy looking really scared. I'm calling it now.

To be fair they all look a bit scared.

Can sort of understand your dilemma HMM.

But ultimately I must advise against it.

If you really really can't resist then do go - but only if you hereby accept that this is just one step away from getting a poster of him for your bedroom wall (and I'd bet big money that you would NOT wish to do that ....)

On one hand it's a fantastic chance to see an idol, on the other hand you could be standing behind a group of people and squealing when you catch a glimpse of him which is a touch fangirlish...... My advice is do it for a laugh.

We all know what you're going to do anyway

As long as you don't throw underwear at him it's fine. 

I'd go if any of the top guys were appearing near me.

Fainting and squealing are also bad moves. Anything else is fine. Enjoy

I would go if it were Rafa and to hell with what anyone else thought.
If you want to see carpet head HM go and enjoy..but please dont take one of those giant tennis balls for him to sign..

Haddie-nuff wrote:I would go if it were Rafa and to hell with what anyone else thought.
If you want to see carpet head HM go and enjoy..but please dont take one of those giant tennis balls for him to sign..

Says the girl who had them on red alert and activating the body double decoys in Mallorca!

My other big concern is that I know he has recently expanded his range to include underwear. If it goes down that route, it really will have gone beyond my level of interest in the guy!

Plus you just know there'll be a press photographer there and we'll end up with a picture in the media of Novak in his briefs in front of a load of screaming girls and me in the background looking for all the world like a weirdo.

Then again, I've already queued to meet David Hasselhoff, so maybe I'm over-estimating my self esteem...!

HM Murdoch wrote:My other big concern is that I know he has recently expanded his range to include underwear. If it goes down that route, it really will have gone beyond my level of interest in the guy!

Plus you just know there'll be a press photographer there and we'll end up with a picture in the media of Novak in his briefs in front of a load of screaming girls and me in the background looking for all the world like a weirdo.

Then again, I've already queued to meet David Hasselhoff, so maybe I'm over-estimating my self esteem...!

I'm in awe of the self confidence it takes to declare that.

bogbrush wrote:

HM Murdoch wrote:Then again, I've already queued to meet David Hasselhoff, so maybe I'm over-estimating my self esteem...!

I'm in awe of the self confidence it takes to declare that.

Interesting that it's possible to present social ineptitude as self-confidence. I may employ that in the future.

Which enables me to make this confession:

It was a book signing. When the time came to meet the great man, I really got ushered through and was in his presence for about 3 seconds.

So I queued again and got the back cover signed too!

Got a decent a chat* with him the second time though!

*by "decent chat" it's quite possible that I really mean "an exchange of about 4 sentences".

bogbrush wrote:

Haddie-nuff wrote:I would go if it were Rafa and to hell with what anyone else thought.
If you want to see carpet head HM go and enjoy..but please dont take one of those giant tennis balls for him to sign..

Says the girl who had them on red alert and activating the body double decoys in Mallorca!

O how very droll BB... like you wouldn´t go and see Roger ... ...  wearing you RF baseball cap and shades just in case someone recognised you

I have a book confession too. I attended a Nigella Lawson book signing...she's cute, I admit it...didn't get much of a chat though.

Haddie-nuff wrote:

bogbrush wrote:

Haddie-nuff wrote:I would go if it were Rafa and to hell with what anyone else thought.
If you want to see carpet head HM go and enjoy..but please dont take one of those giant tennis balls for him to sign..

Says the girl who had them on red alert and activating the body double decoys in Mallorca!

O how very droll BB... like you wouldn´t go and see Roger ... ...  wearing you RF baseball cap and shades just in case someone recognised you

I can assure you there has never been an APB put out for me in Bottingwateveritscalled.

I love that BB once had a dream that he met Federer and, even in a dream, he didn't want to appear too lame and chose to speak about work rather than tennis!

HM Murdoch wrote:I love that BB once had a dream that he met Federer and, even in a dream, he didn't want to appear too lame and chose to speak about work rather than tennis!

I was on a train from London a while back and two seats from me was Greg Wallace from Masterchef.

Complete nightmare, he never stopped pestering me for an autograph.

I once attended a Raquel Welch book-signing even though I didn't have her book.
And not too long ago I avoided Britt Ekland because her plastic surgery was such that all I wanted to say to her was "OMG, what happened to you?"

JuliusHMarx wrote:I once attended a Raquel Welch book-signing even though I didn't have her book.
And not too long ago I avoided Britt Ekland because her plastic surgery was such that all I wanted to say to her was "OMG, what happened to you?"

How long ago for Raquel? I understand that 20 years ago she was still quite striking. Didn't she end up being in-laws with Freddie Truman?

lydian wrote:I have a book confession too. I attended a Nigella Lawson book signing...she's cute, I admit it...didn't get much of a chat though.

Is that why her husband tried throtteling her lydian

It was mid-80s I believe - still very attractive but more heavily made-up than I had expected. Or that may have been Sophia Loren - it's all a bit hazy - I saw them both.
I think I've already mentioned the time I chatted to 3 Bond girls.

JuliusHMarx wrote:I think I've already mentioned the time I chatted to 3 Bond girls.

No, pray tell!

If you can overcome the initial embarassment of being one of the few males in room, surrounded by hundreds of screaming fangirls, actually the situation might turn to positive and you could make some interesting new contacts there. Also, check out for Noleisthebest...........

Jeremy_Kyle wrote:If you can overcome the initial embarassment of being one of the few males in room, surrounded by hundreds of screaming fangirls and socal, actually the situation might turn to positive and you could make some interesting new contacts there. Also, check out for Noleisthebest...........

Corrected

At one of those conventions at the NEC - various celebs - they have movie ones and sports ones etc. I live close by and wanted to see Marina Sirtis, who didn't show up in the end. There was some Star Wars guys (Chewbacca, I think) and George Lazenby, Richard Kiel etc. I don't collect autographs, but was quite shocked that they all charged money for them - £5 even if you bring your own photo.
Anyway the queue for Olivia D'abo, Maud Adams and Lois Chiles was...well, there was no queue, so I went up, apologised for not wanting an autograph but chatted about D'abo's Bond Girl documentary, which I had recently seen, Chiles' appearances in Dallas (I told her sleeping with JR was a big mistake) and Adams' short-lived TV show Chicago Story, which I remembered quite well.

I could do a lot worse than spend time with 3 later Bond girls...Green, Arterton and Kurylenko 

lydian wrote:I could do a lot worse than spend time with 3 later Bond girls...Green, Arterton and Kurylenko 

Don't mention Arterton or Green, I feel so disloyal to Ana when you do that.

JHM, I suspect that they probably enjoyed that more than someone buying an autograph!

Serious kudos for being able to start non-Bond conversations with all three though. Good knowledge!

Anyway HM, you might as well go along - if you get a chance to say anything to him, ask him if the new shirts are rip-proof. I reckon that would a good line.
I recently missed the chance to ask Karren Brady, who happened to be in a local Sainsburys, where the Sugar was - and regretted it ever since.  
Although on a very busy December day in my local Tesco a few years ago I did manage to say to Roy Wood "It's so busy in here - Thank God it's not Christmas everyday!"

lydian wrote:I could do a lot worse than spend time with 3 later Bond girls...Green, Arterton and Kurylenko 

It's an unsophisticated choice but Denise Richards is my favourite Bond girl.

If sitcoms have told me anything, it's that you shouldn't walk up to Richard Wilson and bellow "I don't believe it!"

Best bond girl? Hmmm. Dr Quinn who played Solitaire in Live and Let Die (Jane Seymour?)

Now that's a clothing / autograph session worth turning up for.
I'm definitely an Eva Green fan...

lydian wrote:Now that's a clothing / autograph session worth turning up for.
I'm definitely an Eva Green fan...

From the little I know of Eva Green's work, she's unlikely to be asked to endorse a clothing range...

The Special Juan wrote:If sitcoms have told me anything, it's that you shouldn't walk up to Richard Wilson and bellow "I don't believe it!"

Best bond girl?  Hmmm.  Dr Quinn who played Solitaire in Live and Let Die (Jane Seymour?)

But you could walk up to him and quietly say "Actually, I do believe it"

Well...cough...JHM...there was THAT film she did, The Dreamers, from which its almost impossible to post a pic!

bogbrush wrote:Murdoch is that guy looking really scared. I'm calling it now.

So HM, what's the decision - you going or not?

JuliusHMarx wrote:

The Special Juan wrote:If sitcoms have told me anything, it's that you shouldn't walk up to Richard Wilson and bellow "I don't believe it!"

Best bond girl?  Hmmm.  Dr Quinn who played Solitaire in Live and Let Die (Jane Seymour?)

But you could walk up to him and quietly say "Actually, I do believe it"

Ah, good plan! He'd still assault me though.

HM Murdoch wrote:

lydian wrote:I could do a lot worse than spend time with 3 later Bond girls...Green, Arterton and Kurylenko 

It's an unsophisticated choice but Denise Richards is my favourite Bond girl.

I don't know what her name is, but the Bond girl from Skyfall was amazing. The one who gets shot in the deserted town. Looked a bit Oriental, and was a real stunner.

This is a much better conversation than draws or who's Wimbledon favourite!

lydian wrote:Well...cough...JHM...there was THAT film she did, The Dreamers, from which its almost impossible to post a pic!

Bertolucci?

Indeed LF. The same guy who made Last Tango...but also another film from an interesting 1949 book called The Sheltering Sky. The book was the inspiration behind and provided some lyrics for my favourite Police song...'Tea in the Sahara'...set here nicely with clips from The English Patient which evokes similar imagery to that portrayed in the book.

I think if you got to speak to him for five minutes and genuinely ask some interesting questions it might be OK but not to queue up and get a signature for a few seconds.

Isn't everyone's Wimbledon outfit white shirt, white shorts and white socks?

Henman Bill wrote:I think if you got to speak to him for five minutes and genuinely ask some interesting questions it might be OK but not to queue up and get a signature for a few seconds.

I've decided not to go for precisely the reasons Henman Bill describes.

A brief chat would be great but queuing for an autograph is not really my thing.

Although if Ivanovic, Kirilenko or Sharapova ever did a clothing launch, that might test my resolve on that front!

By the way, who says healthy interests can't be a bit weird?