Some people I've actually met ...
[edit]... some of whom I wish I hadn't. This is my chance to drop some names and hope that not too many of them are bruised in the fall[1]:
Politicians and associated people
[edit]Public policy makers etc
[edit]- During his lifetime, I swam in the same swimming pool at the Otters Club in Colombo, Sri Lanka, that Sir Arthur C. Clarke regularly used. For the purposes of utterly shameless name-dropping, I count this as aquataneous extra-biological contact.
- Although I never met him face to face, I did have some phone conversations with Sir Walter Scott as part of my job. I thought the last one went well, but he chose to make an official complaint against me. You never can tell. I also spoke to Franco Belgiorno-Nettis a few times by phone but never came face to face with him.
Some people I wish I'd met but couldn't or didn't or haven't
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- ^ In some cases it was just a brief handshake, or even less