Who is the most interesting person you have ever met

I once had a very interesting and lengthy chat at a bus stop when there was a tube strike in London with Diana Rigg, an actress I admire. However, although she looked vaguely familiar, I didn't realise who she was until long afterwards. It's often tricky when you see people out of context.

Movedalot What makes you think we are all such philistines that we have never heard of one of the most influential of modern choreographers?

Cheelu your husband sounds just like mine and like you I would also nominate my husband for the same reasons as you.

I didn't know who he was. Still haven't googled it.

absent I did say "I don't suppose many of you have heard of him" . I most certainly did not in any way assume that onyone on GN was a "philistine". Please do not misquote me.

I bet 95% of the people reading GN would not have a clue who Maurice Bejart was/is.

I'm talking about all the people reading it (including lurkers) not just the clever clogs amongst the posters

Thanks j07 I'm getting pretty fed up with being made out to have said something totally different to what I actually did. I would not be so arrogant as to assume you all shared my interests.

I'd never 'eard of him.

I see from Wiki that he was a pal of the Empress of Iran - so he wouldn't have been my type anyway

River and Elton John and Gianni Versace ++++

Gets worse!

Does that mean absent that those who have not heard of Maurice Bejart are philistines.

Riverwalk It's not surprising if you've never heard of Maurice Béjart if you have no interest in dance. However, I feel fairly sure that there are more than two Gransnetters with a knowledge of and interest in the subject. In spite of the Empress of Iran (surely ex-Empress now), he was a truly kind and helpful man with time and patience for people far less talented and influential than he was.

I'm a philistine, have never heard of him , will google him.

moved I'm not ashamed to be one of the philistineswho had never heard of him. We live and learn, or at least some of us do

Hope I'll keep on learning until the day I pop my clogs. Would hate to think I know it all already.

Kali not having heard of Maurice Bejart does not make you, or anyone else, a phillistine in my opinion but clearly absent thinks it does.

Movedalot Please don't put words into my mouth. After all, it is something you have complained about many many times over quite a long period, so you must know how annoying it is.

However, it seems that you may be right in your assumption that dance is an elite interest given that only posters ignorant of Maurice Béjart have posted about him.

Moved and Absent yous two are too posh for this board!

I called in to see a friend, a professional stage magician, n around 1970-71, and he introduced me to his house guest, a little, bearded man who explained that he was in the UK to publicise his book, an exposé called The Magic if Uri Geller. his name was James Randi, known professionally as The Amazing Randi.

Today, in his eighties Randi is still involved with his James Randi Educational Foundation, which still offers $1,000,000 to anybody who can demonstrate any kind of supernatural 'power' or ability, under test conditions.

He has spent much of his life exposing those who cheat the public, people like the 'faith healer' Peter Popoff for example, using his knowledge of the tricks and methods of the magician to ferret out their cheating.

James Randi is Quite Interesting... www.randi.org/

I have heard the name but don't remember the context. Does that make me semi-posh, Riverwalk?

Oh heavens – don't lets revisit the posh thread. Wasn't that a bone of contention? [mixed metaphor emoticon]

I genuinely can't answer this question. I've met many interesting people, but none that stands out, and if I'm honest some of the more interesting people were ones that I didn't really admire. Now if you asked me who do I admire then I would say my husband and his parents; you will never have heard of them, but they have enormous hearts and are extremely kind people; my in laws work tirelessly for the benefit of others and do it without fanfare. I think there are a lot of other lovely people around like them too.

I have not met m/any famous people! I used to see Alan Tichmarsh quite a lot years ago before her was famous as he is (still) good mates with mutual friends and we went to watch them in their Am Dram shows.

I heard Edwina Currie speak and though I do not share her party politics her passion for getting more women into politics ..at all levels and for any political 'colour' I did support!

However I do have a lot of extremely interesting longstanding friends and we meet often and always have lively and stimulating discussions about a variety of subjects!

I have cousin who is married to a very interesting man (journalist) who spent many years in an Israeli jail.. knows all sorts of interesting things and has a refreshing view on life.

My DH is QI..but probably not now the most interesting..but perhaps I just know him too well!

Abesnt Where on earth are you coming from? What motivates you to twist things like this?

If you read back you will see that the boot is entirely on the other foot. I simply alluded to what you had actually said. I had hoped for an apology once you realised you had misrepresented me.

You have done it again. I quote:

"However, it seems that you may be right in your assumption that dance is an elite interest given that only posters ignorant of Maurice Béjart have posted about him."

I have never assumed that dance is elite! It is open to all in its various forms and requires no specialist knowledge in order to enjoy it. It is often a lot cheaper to go to see dance than to go to a football match and I don't thinkmany would call football 'elite'

I had thought things were getting better on GN in the last few days but once again you have had a go at me. Why? Please stop it, I think we all find it unpleasant.

River and Anno not posh, just like dance in all its forms. Think Fred Astaire, Strictly, Bollywood, Stomp etc. none of them posh and certainly Maurice wasn't posh! One of his last pieces was all to music by Queen and most people wouldn't think there was anything posh about that. I loved it. Still watch it on DVD.

movedalot couldn't agree more.