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Fri Apr-24-09 08:39 PM
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Whoa! I went to school with that guy! |
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On the cover of the free newspaper they distribute in the metro every weekday, a photo of a guy who looked kinda familiar. Turns out we went to school together my last two years here before I went to the States. Turns out he's a musician and actor of notoriety, and he started his career the year after I left.
Has anybody seen my yearbook? :P
How about you? Anyone from your past turn up in the media?
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Fri Apr-24-09 08:39 PM
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1. Yup. I taught a couple of famous folks. |
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Back in the day. Henry Simmons from NYPD Blue and John Popper from the Blues Travelers.
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Fri Apr-24-09 08:41 PM
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Edited on Fri Apr-24-09 08:42 PM by Breeze54
"Anyone from your past turn up in the media?"
ME!! :rofl:
Seriously....
it was my ex but it wasn't pretty. :sarcasm:
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Fri Apr-24-09 08:50 PM
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3. I went to school with Daniel La Plante, who raped and murdered a pregnant mother... |
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... then drowned her two daughters, ages 5 and 7, back in '87.
That's my brush with fame, I guess. :(
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Fri Apr-24-09 08:56 PM
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4. My high school graduating class included |
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Former Senator George "Macaca" Allen - who was a racist asshole even back then, as well as Daulton Lee, who was involved in a well-publicized espionage case back in the 70's. He was the "snowman" of The Falcon and the Snowman fame, played in the movie by Sean Penn.
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Fri Apr-24-09 09:09 PM
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5. My old school friends only show up in the media for getting arrested or killed. |
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I didn't grow up in the best of neighborhoods. :shrug:
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Fri Apr-24-09 09:25 PM
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6. I used to hang out with one of the assholes who started Politico |
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fecker almost killed me driving the boat I was water-skiing behind, shoulda known then :P
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Fri Apr-24-09 09:47 PM
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11. I bet she floats pretty well though. |
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Fri Apr-24-09 10:00 PM
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13. That's what a life vest is for! |
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Fri Apr-24-09 09:30 PM
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7. Not HS, but some college friends have |
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Fri Apr-24-09 09:42 PM
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9. The dude who got John Walker Lindh |
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into Islam.
He was a nice kid. :shrug:
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Fri Apr-24-09 09:45 PM
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10. My High School graduating class included |
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Fri Apr-24-09 09:48 PM
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His father was my eighth grade science teacher, and the whole family attended our church.
Also, I knew sci fi/fantasy writers S.N. Lewitt and Esther M. Friesner in graduate school.
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Fri Apr-24-09 10:18 PM
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14. One of my classmates former showed up on Jeopardy! But one of his former classmates shot Reagan. |
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So I thought, like, hey, whoa! I know that guy! when I saw him on the tube. But I don't know what he thought when he saw Hinckley on the tube.
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Fri Apr-24-09 10:21 PM
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15. Mostly college--John Podesta ; Obama's transition chief (etc) was a friend of mine, and his roommate |
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Barry Bearak, who was one of my best friends there ( met John through him) won a Pulitzer in international reporting from Afghanistan( NY Times, about 6 years ago)and some of you may remember reading of his arrest and short time in jail last year in Zimbabwe, courtesy of the Mugabe regime. A high school friend, Mandy Jones, was Miss USA, and runner up to Miss Universe, in '73 ( found out years later she'd apparently been the commissioner's wife on Chickenman , which some of you older and midwestern DUers may remember. ( radio parody of Batman). I haven't seen any of these people in eons; Barry is the only one I occasionally keep in touch with, but to this day, it cracks me up to see John on TV being interviewed as a major heavyweight in American politics. Not that he wasn't a brilliant and focused guy back then, but still, when your personal memories of someone are frozen in time as just another goofy ( albeit, again, focused and brilliant ) college kid, it just, I don't know, seems sort of surreal.
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Fri Apr-24-09 10:33 PM
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16. i went to middle school |
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Edited on Fri Apr-24-09 10:35 PM by elana i am
and i believe part of high school with ramesh ponnuru. he used to live here in KC.
eta: yeah, i just read his wiki page. i guess he skipped a couple grades and that's why i only remember going to high school with him for a year. he graduated high school at 15.
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Fri Apr-24-09 10:42 PM
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17. a guy I dated a few times |
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is now a central figure in a major federal fraud case. Every couple of months when I read the old hometown news I run across another story about the case. Weird.
We ran into each other a few laters, when I was still in college and he had graduated and was with the family business (the same one which now is the target of a federal case involving the alleged fraud of nearly 250 million bucks), and he struck me as still "cute" but sorta clueless in a box of rocks sort of way.
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Fri Apr-24-09 10:47 PM
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18. and with Brady Barr of National Geographic |
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fame. Didn't ever know him, though.
Would rather be able to say I had a connection to him than to the alleged fraudster.
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Fri Apr-24-09 11:04 PM
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19. I went to elementary school with 'Sam Anders' from BSG. |
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Yep, he was cute then too. :P Nice guy.
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Sat Apr-25-09 05:04 AM
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20. Went to college for s semester or so with Drew Barrimore's mom. |
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I am absolutely certain she would not remember me at all.
:shrug:
mark 44-6
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Sat Apr-25-09 05:36 AM
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21. My brother's best friend from HS is an up-and-coming horror novelist. |
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Edited on Sat Apr-25-09 05:49 AM by Chan790
It's not really surprising though...in HS when everybody else was getting a first job flipping burgers, CJ got one as an columnist/reviewer for Fangoria.
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