Will Arnett(Actor, He plays 'Gob' in Arrested Development) is my great uncle(GrandMothers brothers) grandson. He is also my moms cousins son(2nd cousin?).
My parents often see his mother and grandfather, but haven't actually seen WA since their wedding.
I am also related to Conrad Black, and Benjamin Moore(Banjamin Moore paints)
Um, how do I answer this one. Well my last name is Hockey, I'm Canadian....so?
I think of it this way, who would name themseleves after a sport? Either the dude who created Hockey's last name was hockey, or he named it after someone else. Or he had never heard the word "hockey" before. I do not really converse with that side of the family, but i suppose i should inquire, maybe my great great grandfather or mother or something created it.
I have no famous relatives that I know of. At least who are alive. My great-great-I don't know how many great are involved in this grandfather was Albert Einstein's brother. Or father's brother. I don't know. When my grandpa talks, I kinda tune him out.
Two of my ancestors came over on the Mayflower. Hmmm...someone would think that my grandpa spent a lot of time and money trying to figure out our family tree.
For a while, my sister was convinced we were related to Orlando Bloom because my grandmother's name maiden name is the same and her parents came to America from England. While there is a slight possibility, I told her not to get her hopes up.
That's all I can think of.
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While I don't have any known "famous" relatives on either my side or my husbands, I do have an "infamous" relative on my father's side. My great-grandfather was a bootlegger for the mob during the prohibition! He never gave the family (including my grreat-grandmother) his true last name. He told her when they met that his last name was "Stewart" and to never question him about it! Plus I have a great-aunt who was a Madam in a brothel! Yikes! I even have memories of her from my early-childhood. Her name was Goldie and she was in a wheelchair...go figure!
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My twin first cousins, when they were babies, were in the movie "Georgia", only for about 5 minutes each.
I do have a couple distant infamous relatives though. On my dad's side of the family, my 5th cousin is Kenith Starr. Remember him, from the whole Clinton thing?
On my mom's side, something like a 4th or 5th cousin to me, is Carl Mays. Carl Mays was a professional baseball player in the early part of the 1900's. He was a pitcher, and he was damn good. In 1918, Carl Mays won two world series games for the Red Sox, which contributed to them winning the series. It was the last time that the Red Sox would win a world series in the 20th century. Carl was later traded to the New York Yankees. It was when he was with the yankees, in August of 1920, when Carl's claim to infame occured. He pitched a strike to Cleveland shortstop Ray Chapman, striking him in the head! Mays had mistaken the incredibly loud cracking sound as the ball hitting the bat, and quickly made to throw Chapman out at first. It wasn't until after he turned around that he saw that Chapman had collapsed on the ground. He had taken a hit straight to the temple. He was pronounced dead the next day in the hospital. Baseball had never before nor never since seen a tradgedy like this. The accident led to the invention of the batting helmet. Though Mays continued to play baseball for nine more years, he had ruined his chances to make the hall of fame, and his accident with Ray Chapman haunted him for the rest of his life. Even his obituary mentioned the accident in the very first line.
So there you have it. Two first cousins who were in a movie for a short period of time each when they were babies, 1 evil distant cousin (some may disagree with me there though), and 1 distant cousin who started out famous enough before that infamous accident occured.
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I won't point anyone out specifically. But here are a few pet peeves.
Run on sentences
When people post something like "testing sig" and then have a theory in the same post. Alot of people would just ignore the thread, or just talk about the sig, and the theory would be forgotten.
When people title every single post, even when they are in the middle of a thread.
Hmmm, I'm related to John Hancock on my dad's side, it's only through marriage or something though. He was the first person to sign the U.S. constitution (I think), and I'm pretty sure he's quite famous.
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Basically the person is just saying they won't believe you no matter what you say.
I don't have any real famous relatives the common person on the street would know. One of my very distant cousins was Claus Von Bulow (aristicrat who killed his wife, Sunny, and bribed his way to freedom), Then my family is only known in Military units. My Grandfather invented an archeaic computer sonar system that was so advanced they used it in submarines into the late 70's, 80's time frame...and then the military part goes sour when I own up to the fact that many of my great-great uncles were famous German generals in the German army during WW1 and some other relatoves were in commanding positions in the Nazi army as well.
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...my uncle lives in L.A., and is sort of in the movie business. He had an extrmemly minor role in a horrible movie called the lost platoon-it was something about zombies. he was the zombie as a 20-year-old.
his best friend tho, is sam lloyd, who is the nephew of christopher lloyd. he plays one of the singing lawers on scrubs. my uncle always tells the story of having thanksgiving dinner at christopher lloyd's house. sam also had a few one episode roles(usually as a crazy) on third rock from the sun and seinfeld.
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The only famous relitive I have that I can think of right now is a dude named Ricky V., who is my uncle's ex-wife's son, and was on American Idol (I think in the Top 32 of a season I can't think of). Also, he has a deal with Universal, and his single was suppposed to come out a while ago, but I never heard it.
Also, Ricky was supposed to go on tour with Justin Timberlake and 50 Cent, but I never remember hearing about it, and I only know that Justin went on tour with Christina Aguilera and Black Eyed Peas, no one else.
~Quidditchqueen~
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