What famous or infamous people did you grow up with as friends when you were a kid?

Almost Famous wrote:

some random runner guy wrote:

High School teammates with Jay Johnson. I guess famous in running circles not to rest of country. Amy Adams was in same grade as Jay, but I didnt really know her too well.

Was Jay smoking the competition? Hell, to even run for Colorado, he had to have been pretty damn fast!

It was early/mid 90s. The dark ages of distance running. He was solid for sure, but his times would get laughed at now-a-days. Would not score in CO state meet now. Tom Reese and Adam Goucher were same year, though Adam didnt run track SR year.

Jay helped me out a lot in HS.

Frank Sinatra.

winelover1969 wrote:

Ejkcfgbgh wrote:

Went to a school with a Sandusky type coach.

I know you're not trying to get into the weeds here with Sandusky, but you should do some real research on the case.

There was zero, ZERO physical evidence in the case, and it was 100% circumstantial.

The case really ramped up after Paterno was fired, and it may have been in retaliation for the termination of the legendary coach.

The media made this an open-and-shut case, but it is anything but.

PSU fans are sociopaths for believing this. The incident that the coward, Mike McQueary, witnessed alone was more than enough evidence to put Sandusky away for a long, long time. No one was interested in doing anything though.

Askerer of questions wrote:

Just curious, do you support Obamacare?

No, but I was pretty shocked and impressed that little Jon Gruber orchestrated this big a "thing".

lipstick on a pig wrote:

Just wow... wrote:

The "architect of Obama Care", Jon Gruber, was a kid I was friends with. He lived 4 doors down from me. He was one grade ahead of me in school. We were pretty good friends when I was around 10-12 years old. We did sleepovers, played after school, etc., but went into our own social circles when middle school rolled around.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/10/26/obama_architect_jonathan_gruber_obamacare_is_not_imploding_working_as_designed.html

Was he a liar back then?

Not sure how much he lied, but he came off as pretty weasely, as has been reflected in his recent digressions.

Just wow... wrote:

lipstick on a pig wrote:

Was he a liar back then?

Not sure how much he lied, but he came off as pretty weasely, as has been reflected in his recent digressions.

I bet he was cute back at that age. Did your sleepovers ever get "friendly"?

The baby from Nirvana's Nevermind album.

Dogtown Cool! wrote:

That's pretty cool! Any stories? I was always a fan of Alva skateboards growing up (while, of course, listening to Suicidal Tendencies).

Mike was as I described at the time. Remember that ST was not his first band at all. It's the one that took off. Even then, no money. No radio. I'm glad it worked out for him. He put the time and effort in.

Dogtown wasn't fun or cool. PD was super militarised and it was a pretty small community of misfits and petty criminals with nothing going on and nowhere to go.

Boggle wrote:

I went to high school with Lopez Lomong and my girlfriend went to high school with Jordan Hasay

Shower pics or it didn't happen.

dsjhbfhjbds wrote:

PSU fans are sociopaths for believing this. The incident that the coward, Mike McQueary, witnessed alone was more than enough evidence to put Sandusky away for a long, long time. No one was interested in doing anything though.

Wow you did not read his post. There was no proof that Mike McQueary was telling the truth.

wonderful, this thread got infected by Sandusky truthers.

go crawl back under whatever rock you came from.

pop_pop!_v2.2.1 wrote:

Dogtown Cool! wrote:

That's pretty cool! Any stories? I was always a fan of Alva skateboards growing up (while, of course, listening to Suicidal Tendencies).

Mike was as I described at the time. Remember that ST was not his first band at all. It's the one that took off. Even then, no money. No radio. I'm glad it worked out for him. He put the time and effort in.

Dogtown wasn't fun or cool. PD was super militarised and it was a pretty small community of misfits and petty criminals with nothing going on and nowhere to go.

For those who don't know Suicidal Tendencies.

James Corden

I graduated with wiz khalifa and my brother graduated with mac miller.

Was in kindergarten in Nairobi with Obama near the hospital where we were born.

pop_pop!_v2.2.1 wrote:

Most of the guys from the very fictional Dogtown movies. I'm very surprised only one of them ended up a convicted felon. I would have predicted many more dead by drugs/crime somehow.

Jay Adams--dead, heart attack, age 53.

Bob Biniak--dead, heart attack, age 51.

Paul Cullen--dead, causes related to long struggle with addiction/possible OD, age 47.

Chris Cahill--dead, heroin/cocaine OD, age 54.

Joe Thomas, Cleveland Browns. Will not surprise me in the least if he is both hosting a fishing show on ESPN and attempting the shot put professionally during his late 30s, early 40s. The thing I like about him is he stays true to his roots and to this day does not make private conversations about himself. He makes it about you and your interests instead. Very selfless human being.

Jessen jeffla wrote:

Pornstar kagney linn karter, her name was kagney necessary back then. She ran cross county and dated some guys on the team.

Winner of the thread if you dated her too.

Amy Fisher was in my class- 92 Bellmore JFK