Too be fair, dated in 7th grade could have meant asking her out via notes only to have her dump him the next period via note. I remember him mentioning that she went to his high school before but the dated thing sounds new too me....
In highschool I bought weed cookies from the guys in this video. They're coming up pretty good these days.
My uncle knew John Nash (I think they were faculty at MIT at the same time, but I'm not sure), and refused to see A Beautiful Mind on the grounds that "Nash was an asshole."
Guys I went to school a few years ahead of and were in my sister and brothers classes formed the band Airbourne which has been doing quite well for themselves over the last 4 or 5 years. Have caught up with them a few times back home on the piss and they've taken their success really well. Saw them at the Big Day Out in Melbourne last weekend and they're defintely growing into an awesome rock band. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbourne_(band)
Lance Armstrong went to my high school and from stories I heard got made fun of a good deal for wearing his riding shorts to school. After a quick search it looks like Dave Williams the lead (dead) singer for Drowning Pool also attended school there.
No no, I definitely dated her for like 2 weeks. Nothing at all happened. We went to school together through high school. She wasn't smart enough to make it into college and was supposed at a club in Cincinnati when some guy came up and inquired as to whether or not she would consider porn, and that was all it took. Supposedly her parents found out during a high school football game, which is awesome. They sucked. Her stepdad was especially crazy. I called the house one day only to have him threaten to kill me if I ever called back. Needless to say I did not. This was really before everybody had a cell phone, so there wasn't an option of getting around him. I used to see her at my town's big gym, but she bought a huge house out in the country somewhere, last I heard.
I used to work with one of the guys portrayed in "Black Hawk Down," Scott Galentine. I knew he had been in the Army, but I had no idea where he had served. One day I noticed his finger had been injured and it honestly looked pretty fresh. I asked what he did to his finger and he replied "Oh, I got shot by an AK-47 in Somalia." This was after the book came out but before the movie, so at the time I didn't know many of the details of Mogadishu. He told me when he was in the hospital afterward, Sec. of Defense Aspin came in the ward to visit the injured soldiers. One of the officers present told the secretary flat out that the men would feel more comfortable if he would just leave, so he never met with the soldiers. He said he wasn't able to avoid having his picture taken with President Clinton though.
When I was in middle school I used to go to the high school football games to watch Drew Henson. He's the highest profile person from my hometown that I know of.
I've got nothing from early life as far as I know. My college, however had a couple alums that people talked about quite a bit. I never knew either of them personally. Scott Adams, the guy who draws Dilbert, and the Lizardman: I was told by people who actually had known them that apparently both of them had hated Hartwick with a passion.
I know a few MLS players, including the guy who scored the game winner in the most recently MLS Cup, Macoumba Kandji. Mac and I played juco against each other and we were both going to transfer to the same DII school, but he ended up signing with the Atlanta Silverbacks. He and I used to get dinner 5-6 times a month and he'd call me the night before every home match to ask me if I needed tickets. Then he signed with the NY Red Bull and he had an open invite for me to stay at his place and four tickets for any home match I wanted to go to. I also know one of the guys who designs illusions for David Blaine. The guy used to DJ at the bar I worked at, and on nights he wasn't DJing, he'd come sit at the door with me and we'd play the Patel game (when a group of Indians came to the door, we'd guess how many of them had the last name Patel, loser bought a shot).
Mentioned this in a thread awhile back. Graduated high school with Michelle "Bombshell" McGee, the girl who Jesse James cheated on Sandra with. Not really famous, just had a couple minutes in the limelight. She was really nice, pretty normal. Ran cross country. No crazy tattoos like she has now. Wasn't stripping or anything back then. Her mom used to cut my hair. There have been a few athletes that I was a few steps removed from in my area, but this is the only person I've known personally who gained a modicum of fame, albeit fleeting.
My highschool is the school that all the hockey players for the local team go to. Of course 90% of these guys never make it into the NHL. For my last two years there John Taveras was in some of my classes. For anyone who doesn't know who he is, he was the first overall pick in the NHL draft two years ago. Before he entered the league he was being called the next Crosby, but he didn't really live up to those expectations. Most of the hockey players that went through my highschool were complete assholes. They always had huge egos, and an attitude that they didn't need to be in school because they were amazing hockey players (which is ironic because the majority of them do not become professional hockey players). The reason I mention this is because despite of all the attention he got Taveras seemed the most grounded and he just genuinely seemed like a good guy.
My high school was awesomely 'Florida'. A nice mix of trashy and wily. Our valedictorian rarely did his own work, instead having several girls do most of the bullshit work for him, then just went in and aced the test. The teachers knew he was up to no good but never got anything to 'stick', so instead they resorted to vague threats that it wouldn't work in college. Turns out it did, but what worked out better was his excellence at poker. He's been on the WSOP broadcasts and was at one point a top-20 online player. A girl at my school got into a fight with Brooke Hogan (I believe, can't find the story now) and sold the details to TMZ. She spent that money on a sweet rack and now works at Hooters. Livin' the dream!
A couple years back my Dad & I attended a private dinner party (maybe 8-10 people) with four of the captains from Deadliest Catch. Four course meal. King crab & drinks. Delicious food, free, and everyone was pretty laid back & got lit. My recent place of employment, on the lake, was a get-away for a few celebrities like Mike Metzger, John Elway and Dennis Franz. All of which were regulars since they had a place on the lake, besides Metz, and were all cool to bullshit with. Elway never tipped though. I ride with a guy at his property who was backflipping dirt bikes right after Mike Metzger, and will be attending next years X-Games Big Air contest. I've ridden dirt bikes with Ryan Villopoto, Mike & Jeff Alessi. Also received a solid high-five from James Stewart and Ricky Carmichael, with that, I possess their powers. Sarah Palin went to the same college as my girlfriend and I. Her name's also Sara. Both of which I'm sexually attracted to. When I was little, my babysitter was dating the blue ranger, from Power Rangers (the original).
Don't really have much of a dog in this fight. But for those of you who have seen "Sideways", Missy Doty, the actress who played the slutty waitress at the end, lived across the street from me and was my childhood babysitter.
Let see... My 7th grade math teacher's husband was the scout that "discovered" Orel Hershiser. I went to high school with Rusty LaRue. He was a standout in high school, then went on to play basketball and football for Wake Forest. He later played for the Bulls and various other NBA teams. He was and is a pretentious, condescending, Jesus freak. His sister ended up being a huge dyke, so alls well that ends well. Also in high school, there was this very ugly girl in my class. Her parents were the host family for Derek Jeter when he played for the Greensboro Hornets in 1992. He came and spoke to our class. She claimed he was her boyfriend. She was full of shit. And ugly. Outside and in. Because of the Hornets, I've met Don Mattingly and Andy Pettitte. In college at NC State, I met Jill Wagner, Zach Galifianakis, and Phillip Rivers. Nothing bad to say about any of these people. The girl I was seeing said Rivers hit on her at a party we were at. Doubt it. Same girl also told me her mom taught Steven Tyler how to kiss. Thought she was lying once again. Boy did she prove me wrong. Got to meet him backstage with her and her mom at a Aerosmith show in DC. She did, in fact, teach him how to french kiss in high school. Nice dude. Edit: Forgot. In middle school I went to basketball camp at Campbell University. Bobby Hurley was the guest athlete and was signing autographs in the courtyard outside of my window. Some Carolina fans threw gummy bears at him from my window. Because it was from my room, I was blamed and had to apologize. I told him that I didnt do it and that I was a State fan and had no beef with him or Duke. He believed me and all was good. He even signed my shirt.
Since it's almost Superbowl weekend I'll share a brief story about the time my sister was almost sexually assaulted by Big Ben himself. Obviously I didn't think anything of it at the time, but my sister, who goes to school in Atlanta, sent me a text one weekday morning about a year ago bragging she'd been hanging out with Jerome Bettis and Ben Roethlisberger at a club the night before. She even said that Roethlisberger tried to "woo her, unsuccessfully." She said he stood around drinking looking like a serious creep until he got drunk and started hitting on her. She didn't know how right she was, as she sent me those texts on a Wednesday morning, and it was that Thursday that Ben did whatever he didn't do. When the story broke a couple weeks later I called her to remind her to be careful. She did mention that Jerome Bettis was a blast, though.
These fine gentlemen met in my mom's spanish class. She was the teacher. One of them graduated my high school the same year as my brother and two of them went to his college. But they didn't really know each other.
If you're going to lie at least do it well. Big Ben wasn't in Atlanta at any point during that week minus flying into Hartsfield, he was home in Lake Oconee until the night in Milledgeville. Also, why the fuck would Jerome Bettis have been there? Lies lies lies.