Back in 1996 my future wife and I met a nice couple, pediatrician and his fiance, a nice accountant. About our ages. They went to our wedding in 1997, and we went to theirs later in 1997. Kind of dropped out of touch after.

Reading a newspaper in 2000 or so and find out that he was convicted for possession of child porn. Thankfully, I believe there was no evidence that he actually engaged in sexual activity with a child. But absolutely revolting. Side note: He was a mega Beatles nerd, like way over the top fan boy. Until the movie "Yesterday" came out I could not stand to listen to the Beatles even for a bit, such was the negative association.

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On a less negative note. A former coworker of mine, who is half Japanese and was ridiculously, exotically gorgeous and smart (PhD in genetics), well her sister (also a stunner and got a PhD from Vanderbilt) lived with David Bowie's son Duncan for a few years. My former coworker and her sister went to David Bowie's wedding.

I saw Christopher Lloyd (Jim from Taxi) way, way across a bar in California in the mid 1980s.

I guess it is more lame when you have to remind folks what he was in...

While working at the U.S. Capital in 1992 I was taking a piss in the bathroom, and Bob Doyle came in and pissed in the urinal next to mine. I did not acknowledge him and he did not acknowledge me.

I once met the limo driver for Heather Thomas.....

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While working at the U.S. Capital in 1992 I was taking a piss in the bathroom, and Bob Doyle came in and pissed in the urinal next to mine. I did not acknowledge him and he did not acknowledge me.

Winner!

I suppose that it’s more notoriety than lameness. I worked with Dennis Rader, the ‘BTK Strangler’, he had murdered six people by the time I encountered him. Who was it that made the comment about the “banality of evil”? I think that is one word, among others, that would describe him.

My buddy dated Cheech Marin’s daughter for a couple years in high school.

I went drinking with the nephew of a Gambino crime family underboss back in the early 90s. He couldn’t hold his booze, got totally polluted, gave me his keys and told us to take care of his car. Brand new Eagle Talon turbo. My friends and I took turns being incredibly stupid in that thing on mountain roads at 2am.

Dog the Bounty Hunter has a home a few miles from me now.

I met the toy expert guy from Pawn Stars a couple years ago and talked about Transformers and Robotech. Fun fact: John Cena of WWE fame is a huge Robotech nerd.

My mom taught Alison Kraus in elementary school, and was in a play with John Malkovitch in college.

I don't know if that counts as a lame brush with fame for me though.

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I ran into Bill Russell in an airport once as a young adult. Asked him for his autograph. He just stared at me. So I shrugged my shoulders and went on my merry way.

Back in the 60's (20th century) one of our carpenter foreman rented a house owned by Bill Russell. His wife did not like the high countertops!

I used to live in the same town as Natalie Imbruglia, the guy from Greatest Catch, and Richard Sherman from the Seattle Seahawks.

My 4th grade teacher's daughter was one of the original cast members for the Barney TV show back when it first debuted. (It was filmed near where I grew up in DFW, Texas.)

She made a big deal about it, and got everyone in the class signed photos of the big purple dinosaur.

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She made a big deal about it, and got everyone in the class signed photos of the big purple dinosaur.

Post the pic or it did not happen.

Growing up in the earlier 70’s, outside of San Francisco, one of my neighbor’s was the drummer for The Grateful Dead. Although I don’t recall it, my parents said it was not uncommon to see livestock inside his house.

My buddy used to work for a company that did media and recording studio work in San Francisco. I went to his office to grab dinner with him after work one evening. The receptionist, who knew me, pointed at me as I walked in and said, "Hey, you're not Fred Savage!" I answered, "Not that I'm aware of." He said, "We're waiting for Fred to come in to do voiceovers, but he's stuck in traffic."

My buddy came out, and I said, "Don't you want to wait around and say hi to Fred Savage?" He asked me, "Do you?" I said, "Naw, I'm starving. Let's grab some grub."

I saw Ken Griffey, Jr get really pissed off at kids leaving their nose and fingerprints on his parked Ferrari F40.

My Moms best friends friend was married to Clark Gable. She was his last wife.
I also met John Wayne Gacy (and didn’t realize it til a few yrs ago) in Cleveland at a hotel in 1974. Not much later it mysteriously burned. I worked at the time as mgr of the Home Improvements Dept (paints etc) at KMart. An associate of his ( a huge AA man), who I met at KM, told me his friend was in town doing presentations on how to make money in a business opportunity. I was given the name of the hotel where the presentation was to take place. When I got there the hotel was under construction in the lobby. The associate explained to me that the desk employees were only on duty til 500p. He took me to a room upstairs. Looking back we took the stairs, I guess the elevators weren’t working yet. In those days it wasn’t unusual to go to presentations at hotels. I hade been to one for Shaklee and Rainbow vacuums. Also Dare to be Great we’re also everywhere doing presentations.
I was a young 20 yr old country boy unaware of all the evil that was in the world. My spider sense never kicked in. Now I see the red flags.
Anyways I was escorted to a room with just one other person in it. JWG was sitting at a table, dressed with a nice blue suit and a freshly dry cleaned shirt. He was eating a chicken dinner made to look like room service delivered it. He talked about making money, my interest in making money, but not offering any details. He talked about all the rich people he knew in Chicago that lived in mansions. He was reeling me in. Then he asked if I’d be willing to leave that night to go Chicago to get started. I told him No and that my roommate expected me home that nite as we had plans. Both men looked surprised when I told them I had left a note explaining where I was going and who I was meeting. As soon as I said that, the tone of the meeting changed and suddenly the meeting was over. I guess they needed someone to leave that night. I was quickly escorted down to the lobby and went home. It never dawned on me til just a few yrs ago how close I came to being a victim of JWG. Looking through the timeline of JWG I found out he was doing a business trip in 74. I’ve always wondered who the AA guy was and how he was connected to JWG.
The unknown bodies found in his crawl space may have been young men from out of state. Maybe that’s why they’ve never been identified. I watched a show where a Chicago detective solved some of the unidentified bodies through DNA, and gave the families closure. I even called the Detective but never heard back.
I am blessed for dodging a bullet that day. I know it was JWG now, but never put the pieces of the puzzle together then. I wish I had of.

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While working at the U.S. Capital in 1992 I was taking a piss in the bathroom, and Bob Doyle came in and pissed in the urinal next to mine. I did not acknowledge him and he did not acknowledge me.

Your post reminded me of the time I was at an Elvis Costello concert and Joe Satriani was taking a piss next to me, while talking to someone at the sinks.

The golf course in Southwestern Michigan where I learned to play had a myth/legend/oral tradition that Al Capone had played there a lot back in the day (and, supposedly, had been a great tipper to the kids caddying for him).

So, I may have waded into the same water hazards as Al Capone.