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Darron Lee, ILB?
astroturfing
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some elite NHL players like Saku and Mikko Koivu, Rasmus Ristolainen etc.
j/k my co-workers know them but i don't :/ i only knew a dude who became a millionaire race car driver (Markus Niemelä), who almost made it to the F1. i remember encouraging him when we were young kids, and he was into karting.. i literally told him "maybe you'll get to drive formula 1 some day!", he got pretty close. now he's pretty seriously injured though, with memory issues etc, so yeah.. (because this happened: https://youtu.be/bazJSO_cNps)
j/k my co-workers know them but i don't :/ i only knew a dude who became a millionaire race car driver (Markus Niemelä), who almost made it to the F1. i remember encouraging him when we were young kids, and he was into karting.. i literally told him "maybe you'll get to drive formula 1 some day!", he got pretty close. now he's pretty seriously injured though, with memory issues etc, so yeah.. (because this happened: https://youtu.be/bazJSO_cNps)
i had a spectrum growing up. Somehow they had a niche market over here in brasil
And sometimes i got a "crash" magazine, which i couldnt understand at the time but i used to love the pictures. Is that one?
Rentahamster
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Yep.
Stallion Dan
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Family member was on TOWIE, she did some movies when younger, think she models now. I only see her at weddings.
Straight Edge
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My friend married and later divorced Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys.
My parents were pretty good friends with Red Grammer when I was very young and living in California (they asked him to sing at my bday party multiple times and he never turned them down, not even once), so I was fairly good buddies with his kid Andy Grammar since we were the same age and got along real well. They traveled a lot so I usually got to see him at least one or two times a year til I moved.
Imagine my shock when I randomly hear his tunes 20 something years later on the local stations and then see them make multi-platinum..Woulda high fived him hard if I could have.
Imagine my shock when I randomly hear his tunes 20 something years later on the local stations and then see them make multi-platinum..Woulda high fived him hard if I could have.
captjohnboyd
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My mom's old roommate/best friend dated Matt Groening in the late eighties early nineties and I had dinner with him. This was right when he started the simpsons I believe. He had also out out these trading cards about death. Can't remember what they were called but each card was an interesting way you could die. Getting eaten by wolves. Killer dinosaurs lol whatever. He gave me an entire signed deck that I promptly lost. I was more excited for those cards than that he created the Simpsons. I loved his Hell comics series at the time too.
Also my previous roommate is a part time small actress who played the girlfriend to the kid in "A Kid in King Arthur's Court" or whatever it was called and she's been on CSI new orleans and in the forthcoming Geostorm movie with Gerard Butler. That's about it. Met plenty of famous ppl but no one that I knew personally that became famous unless my former Roomie does lol
Also my previous roommate is a part time small actress who played the girlfriend to the kid in "A Kid in King Arthur's Court" or whatever it was called and she's been on CSI new orleans and in the forthcoming Geostorm movie with Gerard Butler. That's about it. Met plenty of famous ppl but no one that I knew personally that became famous unless my former Roomie does lol
I went to high school with some guy who won a couple of rings with the Patriots. Can't even remember his name. We called him by his initials. One of those guys.
I think that's it. Oh wait no, I met Grant Gustin twice when he was still in high school. He went to some special art school a friend taught at, and I remember him from some functions related to my alma mater. He looked pretty much the same as he does now, just had weird frosted 90's hair years after it went out of style.
I think that's it. Oh wait no, I met Grant Gustin twice when he was still in high school. He went to some special art school a friend taught at, and I remember him from some functions related to my alma mater. He looked pretty much the same as he does now, just had weird frosted 90's hair years after it went out of style.
Impeccable
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My high school as well, lol.
Switch Back 9
a lot of my threads involve me fucking up somehow. Perhaps I'm a moron?
One of my best friends dated Dallas Green for a while before Alexis blew up.
Andrew Korenchkin
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Imperial is straight fire, that's pretty cool.
markofhavoc
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emily ratajkowski used to spend the night at my house because she was good friends with my sister. Entourage movie was really weird for me
TAJ
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Not famous-famous.
A guy who played in MLB for nine years used to babysit me when he was in HS. He didn't play high school baseball because his grades weren't good enough. He got signed after trying out for the Astros at 18.
The guitarist for Angels & Airwaves was a friend of a friend and I used to chat with him at the back of class.
A guy who played in MLB for nine years used to babysit me when he was in HS. He didn't play high school baseball because his grades weren't good enough. He got signed after trying out for the Astros at 18.
The guitarist for Angels & Airwaves was a friend of a friend and I used to chat with him at the back of class.
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I went to grade school with Jason Farol. I had no idea he was a singer until ~4 years ago I was in Europe on a trip with my (ex)gf and we were watching TV in our hotel room one night, and we saw him perform on Duets. I said "holy shit I know that guy!" My gf called me a liar but once we got home I pulled out some middle/high school yearbooks and there he was. Nice guy btw.
I also knew (and had a small crush on) soey milk in high school. I wouldn't call her "famous" but she has a bunch of followers and I've seen her artwork posted around the internet. She's crazy talented. Some of you may recognize this painting of hers:
I also knew (and had a small crush on) soey milk in high school. I wouldn't call her "famous" but she has a bunch of followers and I've seen her artwork posted around the internet. She's crazy talented. Some of you may recognize this painting of hers:
Whiteblade999
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Same actually. Now that you mention it, I remember you from the gamespot forums as well, mostly in off-topic. Always good to see old gamespotters.
Awesome man I am a huge Vikings fan!
The_White_Rose
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I knew Anthony Rizzo in high school.
Godzilla's Left Toe
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I knew the kid from 7th Heaven and Look Who's Talking Now.
teruterubozu
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I went to college with Ben Affleck. My friend was his roommate. We shared a bong a few times. I was pretty shocked when I saw him get up on stage on TV and receive an Academy for "Goodwill Hunting". He was all slimmed down and looked good and I was like wha?
Lord Azrael
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Was buddies in middle school with someone who's now a successful singer in Israel. His last few videos have around five million views, which considering the country's population is around eight million seems pretty damn good!
LookAtMeGo
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I went to GCVI in Guelph Ontario for a year and a bit.
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Right......
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I went to school with a few semi famous Australian footballers.
That's about all I can think of atm.
That's about all I can think of atm.
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my friend went to school with brie larson
he didn't really know her because she was always getting pulled out of class
that's all i got
edit: i should prob mention this is elementary school
he didn't really know her because she was always getting pulled out of class
that's all i got
edit: i should prob mention this is elementary school
This comment really made me burst out laughing. I honestly had no idea he was that big lol.
kurt schneider and i were in the same math class, went to a math competition and i let him down
sam tsui and i were in middle school jazz band
i had no idea they blew up on youtube
sam tsui and i were in middle school jazz band
i had no idea they blew up on youtube
Maroon 5 would hang out at my apartment in Santa Monica. I think before they changed their name to Maroon 5. One of my associate producers at Conspiracy Games was an ex-stripper from Crazy Girls (Keifer Sutherland liked her) who loved videogames and was really, really into live music and local bands. Great taste. Very cool girl. She would stay over at my place quite often. Anyway she dug them very early on. And I believe Adam dug her. Anyway Jesse burnt my sofa with a joint. True story.
Yes. Zzap 64 was the commodore 64 version. Jaz Rignall and Gaz Penn were other leading lights. In England at the time it was very important to contract (or expand) your name to include a z and a vowel.
So -
Gary = Gaz, Gazza
Julian = Jaz, Jazza
Mark = Maz, Mazza
Etc
Benedict Cumberbatch would be Bezza Cumbazzitch and Orlando Bloom would be Ozzo Blozzo.
I realize nobody asked for this level of detail.
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