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My dad was a high school classmate & friend with Claude Jarman, Jr., who had won a special Academy Award as a child actor for his performance in "The Yearling" in 1946. Dad was also a classmate with him at Vanderbilt.
My mom went to college with Ted Cassidy at Stetson. She performed in a couple plays with him in college, and went to a dance with him. She said he went to Stetson to play basketball, but he found out he liked to act more than play basketball. She also said he was one of the truly nicest people she ever met. You might remember him as Lurch from the original Addams Family TV show of the early 1960's.
One of my younger sisters went to high school with Wynonna Judd. They graduated in the same class, and have been casual friends since high school.
All I've got for myself is sitting a row over from Bo Jackson in a Geography class (Bo knows Geography!), and playing in a couple pick-up games with Chuck Person at the Rec Center during my time at Auburn.


My neighbor was PR manager for the Kansas City Royals when Bo won the All Star game MVP award. I'm in the yard and my neighbor waves me to come up to his car. The MVP trophy was in the back seat wrapped up. I wish I would have asked to heft it.
 
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When working on my MBA, I had a study partner who was also a co-worker.

Two years after graduation he was busted for kiddie porn. And lots of it.






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I did the DNA spit test. I am 6th cousins to Winston Churchill, and William Shakespeare is my 10th great uncle.




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My wife worked for KFBB in Great Falls and was on site when they hauled the unibomber out of his shack.




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I once took a dog bite report from WWF announcer "Mean" Gene Okerlund's daughter-in-law. It was at Gene's cabin. Gene wasn't there and as an 80's kid who watched WWF every Saturday, I was super bummed about that.



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I had a neighbor that was a serial killer.


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Sumpthin' Smith and the Redheads performed at my house in the early 1960's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnhGuajp0sc
 
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My wife worked for KFBB in Great Falls and was on site when they hauled the unibomber out of his shack.


My Step-Father use to work for the USFS. He drove by his place all the time.


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if you add 44+46, you get 0. I did it twice to confirm.
 
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I met Bill Clinton coming out of a Porta John.




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Back in '83 when I flew to San Diego with my large yellow envelope and was looking for the MCRD San Diego liaison desk in the airport, others like me recognized each other as new USMC recruits in the airport. We grouped with each other in our attempt to locate this desk, and during this search, 2 or 3 others told me that they had just got off of the plane where they saw Morgan Fairchild was a fellow passenger. They said she was smokin' hot in person.

Oh yeah, we found the desk moments later where our world changed forever. I walked up the gunny or staff at the desk and was about to ask how we get to the base when all hell broke loose. Screaming, yelling, cussing and all kinds of hand and arm movements 'directed' all of us onto a bus outside where we were ordered to STFU and practice breathing. Morgan Fairchild had already become a distant memory after that.


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Back in 87 when the Browns were in the playoffs, they came to Vero Beach, FL where I lived at the time (training at Dodgertown). We only had a few bars so the whole team showed up at the one most of us locals went to. Well, Bernie Kosar decided he was going to hit on my girlfriend (and I definitely wasn't going get in his face about it since I had no illusions about my chances against 1 ton of linemen). However, she brushed him off and it was, from then on, my favorite football ritual to see his ass get sacked.
 
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All the pro wrestlers in Portland lived in our neighborhood, so their kids went to elementary school with my little sister. There were always a lot of big Samoan guys at school events. So we knew the local pro wrestlers in Portland in the late '70s.

And a young Bill Walton looked at a house on our street, but found an FBI agent lived down the way and didn't buy.




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I did the DNA spit test. I am 6th cousins to Winston Churchill, and William Shakespeare is my 10th great uncle.

I'm calling you on that one, no two-fers allowed.




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I had a neighbor that was a serial killer.

Serious Clark ?




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I met Bill Clinton coming out of a Porta John.


I have a friend from Arkansas who showed to me her high school graduation picture. All graduating seniors, she is standing right in front of Bill Clinton.




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My BILs last name is Reasoner...as in Harry Reasoner from 60 minutes...Harry was his grandfather.



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One of my cousins is Richard Chaves. After the Army and a tour in Vietnam, he became an actor. One of his roles was as Poncho in the original Predator. His stories about Arnold Schwarzenegger on set were pretty entertaining. He was also Colonel Paul Ironhorse in the War of the Worlds TV series.



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Back in the 60s, we had a young couple move in next door. He was a nice guy and would sometimes play with my brothers and I. It turns out he was the most active burglar in the St. Louis area. His Wife never knew as he was in one of the trades and would often get called in to "work" late at night.


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One of my friends owned one of those movie theater/bar/restaurants when they first came out in the early 90s. He was my roommate at the time, so I would bartend there often.

One night there was a private event. There was a WWF event at the time, so I got drink with Captain Lou Albano, some other wrestling personalities, including a group of wrestling midgets. Fun times were had by all!

Actually that wasn't very lame at all, they were all pretty cool folks.


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