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

Proof no one from my youth reads LRC otherwise they would be saying, "I went to school with Moe's Tavern!"

I agree with poster who said this was a lame thread so here's my lame contribution: The dad of one my childhood friends was the navy dr. who performed the first autopsy on JFK, and another h.s. friend was in the national news because he had his wife murdered in order to fund his secret SM lifestyle, and then tried to have the hitman killed, but other than that my younger brother and I are more famous in our respective fields than anyone we went to school with.

I grew up near Tom DeLonge (Blink 182). He was a few years older than me, but I had two sisters near his age. They partied with him a lot. One of my sisters was eventual expelled from Poway High for the same incident that Tom was. They both transferred to a nearby school.

Also, they played a "concert" in our backyard one weekend when my parents were out of town. 12-year-old me was thoroughly unimpressed. Even more so when my sisters conned me into cleaning up the mess of beer cans after the party in a weak attempt to hide the party from my parents.

Guess who I am wrote:

I agree with poster who said this was a lame thread so here's my lame contribution: The dad of one my childhood friends was the navy dr. who performed the first autopsy on JFK, and another h.s. friend was in the national news because he had his wife murdered in order to fund his secret SM lifestyle, and then tried to have the hitman killed, but other than that my younger brother and I are more famous in our respective fields than anyone we went to school with.

To: Guess who I am

I know who you are.

Lucifer. You're the devil. The JFK story gave it away.

"Who killed the Kennedys, after all it was you and me."

"Pleased to meet you, won't you guess my name?"

... both Hans Gruber and John McClane as a child. They were such good friends back then. So sad.

I was very good friends with Gayle Geraci back in the 1960s and early 1970s.

Gayle Geraci was the younger sister of Philip "Flip" Geraci. We all lived in the New Orleans suburb of Metairie.

Flip Geraci was just an idealistic kid back in the summer of 1963, when -- while goofing around Canal Street (or was it Camp Street) one day, he stumbled upon a group that called themselves "Fair Play for Cuba." Flip was studying Spanish in school (he was about 14 or 15 when this all happened), and he was a really naive, idealistic (but nice) guy. So he stops and talks with them for a long while, and they talk him into raising some money for their group. So I think he raised a small sum -- maybe 10 bux or something (would be around 100 bux in todays dollars) -- for their cause. But I don't really think he even understood what the group was about, honestly.

Anyway, because he raised some money for them, he got "on their books," so to speak.

A few months went by, then on Nov 22, 1963 over in Dallas, TX, another guy that was associated with the Fair Play for Cuba group -- a man named Lee Harvey Oswald -- ended up getting arrested for killing President Kennedy. (I am NOT going to speculate here, whether I believe Oswald actually killed the President or not.)

FBI investigators swooped down on the Fair Play for Cuba group, seizing their books, and found that Flip had raised a small sum of money for the group a few months before.

So they pulled Flip (and his mother, since Flip was a minor) in for an interview. Flip didn't know anything, and the FBI interviewers soon realized they were dealing with a young kid who didn't have a clue.

Nonetheless, a few years later when the 24 volume Warren Report was finally published, the entire transcript of the FBI's interview with Flip Geraci and his mother is included in that report, verbatim.

Moe's Tavern wrote:

Proof no one from my youth reads LRC otherwise they would be saying, "I went to school with Moe's Tavern!"

I was there for the creation of the beverage that is known as the "Flaming Moe."

Pssst. The secret ingredient is cough syrup.

I'm Ned Flanders twin brother Ed.

Asker of questions wrote:

This has got to be the lamest thread. Only one famous "claim" so far.

Just shows how few famous people there are. 95% of the "famous" people mentioned in this thread I've never heard of and most of connections mentioned are pretty distant.

Me: nobody. And if you look at the wikipedia page for my high school putting out ~700 graduates a year for 50 years from an upper middle class suburb you'd expect a couple famous people by random chance, but nope, nothing.

i live under a bridge wrote:

He hasn't posted on this thread yet but the guy whose cousin is Dave Grohl (Nirvana, Foo Fighters) should win.

Actually lrc poster Aric Van Halen grew up with some very famous people.

I went to high school with Julia Roberts. She was one grade behind me, and we only knew each other well enough to say "hi" in the halls.