My uncle was fantasy author Robert Jordan who wrote the Wheel of Time series which might be a television series pretty soon.
Other than that... I've had one wedding I officiate go viral on Yahoo News and Huffington Post when the groom decided to flip his car after the rehearsal dinner. His wedding was from his hotel bed after the ambulance had to deliver him there until surgery could be done later on his spine. Everyone else in the family is pretty non-famous.
Wall-e wrote:Spoolpigeon wrote: My name is a verb in my local SCCA region.I've heard pigeoned used as a verb and it seemed horrific.
Correction: real name, not screen name.
Still somewhat offensive though 
Hardly famous in any way.
But we have an island off the coast of Maine named after the first of my ancestors arriving from Ireland around 1760.
Spoolpigeon wrote:Wall-e wrote:Correction: real name, not screen name. Still somewhat offensive thoughSpoolpigeon wrote: My name is a verb in my local SCCA region.I've heard pigeoned used as a verb and it seemed horrific.
I was Spoolpigeoned and still wake up in a sweat occasionally. The memory haunts me. 
In reply to Karl La Follette:
Hey!!...I got suspended for fighting in 1981 too, though not with Karl.
I got five days. My father took me to the Air Museum and the new car expo in Hartford. I still have some of the brochures. I remember having mixed feelings about the 1982 Camaros. Boy, did I learn my lesson...
In reply to Karl La Follette:
That's some awesome family history Karl!
I've gotten three involuntary days off from school a couple of times.
Malicious tampering with the PA system. Bogus charge if I've every seen one. There was no damage done to the system.
The other was malicious tampering with a teachers car. Also bogus. We simply stuck it sideways, between two trees.
Since when are practical jokes considered malicious. 
My grandfather once had the largest barb wire collection in the U.S. And third largest in the world. It was supposed to go to a mueseum when he died but by the time he died, they didn't want it! He used to travel the country in his motor home on all the back roads looking for odd wire and cut it right out of the fence. He called it, " daylight requisitioning"
KyAllroad wrote:Spoolpigeon wrote:I was Spoolpigeoned and still wake up in a sweat occasionally. The memory haunts me.Wall-e wrote:Correction: real name, not screen name. Still somewhat offensive thoughSpoolpigeon wrote: My name is a verb in my local SCCA region.I've heard pigeoned used as a verb and it seemed horrific.
JohnRW1621 wrote:Type Q wrote: ...I am a decedent of this guy. George ClintonPlease understand my disappointment when your link did not lead to Parliament Funkadelic. Still interesting, just not AS interesting.
The neighborhood I grew up in was majority African American. My family was part of the white minority that lived in it. My brother and I had listened to plenty of Parliament Funkadelic before we learned about this part of the family history. I don't think my mother ever understood why we had so much fun telling our friends and neighbors we were related to George Clinton. 
In reply to Type Q:
Glad to hear the opportunity was not squandered!
Now we're getting into ancestors? Like Toyman01, Daniel Boone is back in the family tree on my moms side. But really not that surprising for the part of Missouri she's from, Ozark mountains. And the fact that he had something like 8 or 9 kids and each of the kids had that many also so keep going down generations there will be thousands of decendents. On my dad's side, other side of Missouri there was a couple brothers that are cousins 4 or 5 times removed. Frank & Jesse James mother was sister to my great-great grandmother. Can't trace my family name past the Kelley that left Georgia and settled in Alabama. Nothing on him other than he came from Georgia and nothing before him. I'm guessing indentured servant. Look up Irish in Georgia, interesting read.
petegossett wrote: No way you can drop that info and not tell us which He-Man character it was! So...???
I did not provide the name.
In reply to Apis Mellifera:
Very cool!
The line of Chiefs of Clan Campbell and I go all the way back to a certain Sir Neil Cambel who just happened to have married the oldest sister King Robert, 17th Earl of Bruce. So, His Grace Sir Torquel Campbell (current Chief) and I share a rather well known uber-great, uncle circa 1315. 
In reply to mtn:
Maybe.
Well, my butt has been in the magazine 7 ti es, I have been it twice, I sold a photo to them also. Everyone loved my photos from the 2015 challage that I posted. Thats about it. Iam also one of the 2 track photographers at the local dirt track....
In reply to moparman76_69:
I was wondering when that would show up in these parts!
This is a great series.
Slip angle podcast ep. 126 is an interview with Pete Lindberg and they talk about mazdeuce and the r63, and the ef hatch.
My son just won an Emmy award. The real one- for television work.
I don't think that makes him famous, but it is a rather impressive piece of hardware sitting on the shelf.
He has helped build several Challenge cars, and drove at the Challenge, so he probably qualifies.
My last name is "Bacon". Some folks seem to think that's kind of a cool deal.
My last name is Johnson. The other sort of folks think that means something.
minivan_racer wrote: Slip angle podcast ep. 126 is an interview with Pete Lindberg and they talk about mazdeuce and the r63, and the ef hatch.
I think it's fair to say that Mazdeuce is possibly the most famous of our regular contributors at the moment.
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