'Dirty Girls'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Hm, according to Wikipedia, famous alumni from my high school: Gene Pitney (music guy in the 50s and 60s), Bill Romanowski (former football dude, which I vaguely remember knowing at the time), and Mark Warner, former Governor and current Senator for Virgina!
Also Charles Ethan Porter, an African American still life painter.
Black people in Vernon? And in the late 19th century!? I am surprised.
My college has a lot of famous people though. Spaulding Gray, Jennifer Coolidge, David Cross, Dennis Leary, Norman Lear, Henry Winkler (who spoke at my college commencement!)...
Oh, duh. Wikipedia reminds me that I actually forgot the one famousish person I actually knew, Peter Mulvey.
I should have assumed that my high school would have spawn a lot of sports folk. One of whom was part of a major doping scandal. Yeah, that sounds about right.
I watched the Jeopardy last night and we watched the PBS special ahead of time, too. One thing we noticed it that Watson did well on the $200 questions but struggled more on the high-money questions. (Notice he went down the board by $ amount, not closing out categories like people tend to do.) One thing that fascinated me is Watson sucked at the "which decades" questions - which were really fact-based, and should have been easier for him than, for example, funny APBs for literary characters. Wonder where the glitch was there.
Also, Alex Trebek is getting old.
Famous persons from my high school -- a couple of semi-famous athletes, and a HUD secretary for less than a year.
My colleges have many more famous people. You can put together quite a list based on UNC basketball alone. And a president (James K. Polk from UNC).
Some famous alumni generate less pride (Newt Gingrich from Tulane).
Hey hivemind - what should one look for when buying quinoa? I had it last weekend and want to start making it more often but haven't the slightest idea how to buy it. Also what are your favorite quinoa recipes? I had it with pesto sauce tossed with asparagus and grape tomatoes.
My dad went to HS with and played football with Terry Bradshaw.
Notable alumni from my high school:
*Carolyn King - one of the first girls to play Little League Baseball; she was the centerpiece of a landmark lawsuit in 1973 that led to Little League dropping its boys-only policy.
*Shara Worden (née Wright) - professional performing and recording artist. Lead singer for My Brightest Diamond and also steps in and performs with The Decemberists.
I forgot to mention upthread that Chris Isaak worked for me briefly at uni. I didn't remember him at all until my ex-husband (a major fan) reminded me. I ran the student security unit for the basketball/concert arena and he was on staff.