swiggles - I'm so sorry your family members are going through this. Prayers for both of them - and you.

Swiggles, I'm so sorry to hear that. MS is a terrible, terrible disease.

Sorry....I didn't mean to sidetrack the thread. I was really enjoying reading about famous people.

But thanks so much to both of you for caring!!

Now let's hear about some more meetings with famous people!

Alek Wek (extremely tall & beautiful African model) asked me for directions when I worked at Walt Disney World.

And my mom tells the story that Marty Robbins waved to me at a concert when I was a baby.

When I was in the Army in California, I moonlighted as a security guard and on one assignment, Clint Eastwood came up to talk to me at the Monterey Jazz Festival. I was working the gate at the fairgrounds and after most everyone else had long since arrived, an old pickup truck entered the parking lot and Clint stepped out and walked up. He is an extremely nice guy.

This past fall, my wife and I met Fred Thompson and several others of the cast and crew of "Alleged" which is a new movie about the Scopes Monkey Trial. We were invited by the director to watch some of the filming. Senator Thompson is a very impressive gentleman.

Ralph Waite (The Waltons) while he was filming an episode of The Mississippi in our bank. He is an incredibly nice person.

I met Cheryl Swoops.....anyone know who she is?

You mean the basketball player? I thought her first name was Sheryl.

You're correct. It's Sheryl. My next door office mate's name is Cheryl. I just automatically typed it that way.

Could you take her one-on-one?

Went to high school and played a lot of basketball with Taylor Hicks.

Grew up down the street from the dude you might have seen on Dateline that killed his wife while scuba diving on their honeymoon in Australia.

I went to elementary school with Tina, the wife he killed.

Will be beaching it up with Tory McPhail in may gonna get him to cook breakfast!!!!

Bananas Foster on pancakes, yum!

Barb your Avatar suggests that your posts have a certain bias? Maybe that is why no one considers your opinions valid.

I grew up across the street where Jeffrey Dahmer (less his brain) was creamated... that was an exciting day

You lived across the street from a crematorium? Ewwww.

Last summer, i ran into John Wall & DeMarcus Cousins outside of B-Dubs in Lexington, and I had my picture taken with them. Not everyday you run into potential NBA Lottery picks.

Crematorium was part of a funeral home... its a very lovely looking funeral home.

never heard of her...

now, if you met Sheryl Swoopes, the basketball player, I've heard of her...

OK!!!....so I spelled it wrong....'cuse me for livin'!!!

You lived across the street from a funeral home? Ewww.

Another infamous is Brenda Andrews, who killed her husband. She was a loan secretary that worked in an OKC bank for years and years with us. Alot of us freaked out when we heard the new.

"It happened on November 20, 2001 in an Oklahoma City suburb when Brenda Andrew lured her estranged husband to her home to pick up their two children. Brenda told him that the pilot light of the furnace was out and while he bent to fix it James Pavatt came quietly up behind Rob and shot him in the side with a 16 gauge shotgun. In vain, Rob grabbed at a garbage bag full of empty soda cans trying to protect himself, but Brenda took the gun from Pavatt and blasted her husband in the chest. Afterwards she used a .22 caliber pistol to shoot herself in the arm and told police that she and Rob had been the victims of masked intruders"

That was before CSI....before we knew that a crime lab can get to the bottom of ANY murder.

I know right? Plus a buddy of mine family owned the other funeral on the other side of town... that was always interesting to hang out there.

And, when I was in college, I lived kitty corner to another funeral home, although I never recall them having a funeral there in the two years I lived at that place... that was kinda creepy.

Johnny Michael Spann, the first US combat fatality in the war after 9/11 was raised in my hometown. I go to church with his mom and daughters. His children are smart and beautiful and will contribute great things to this world.