Speaking of Gladys Knight. She has THE BEST restaurant on Peachtree St. sm

• Famous highschool or college classmates? - ss
  • None for me, but friend went to college with Rbt. Redford, and - sister had highschool music with Mare Winningham.
  • No famous HS friends, but... - jade
  • My uncle's sister worked as Paul Anka's assistant - sm
    • I once transported a pony for Paul Anka's wife. - San Francisco - nm
  • My daughter is distant cousins of Steve Martin & is also related to - Martha Ball Washington. So, yes, that's (sm)
  • I went to HS w/Valerie Bertinelli. I was at the Van Halen concert - where she and Eddie Van Halen met. (sm)
    • Was that Granada High School in - Granada Hills, CA?
      • No, prior to One Day at a Time, she went to Captain Shreve High where we both went. - Granada Hills must have been later. nm
  • Went to HS with future Mrs. Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson - nm
  • My girlfriend went to school here in Atlanta - Charlene
    • Speaking of Gladys Knight. She has THE BEST restaurant on Peachtree St. sm - MQer
      • I ate there, cared nothing for it - Charlene
  • Well, not famous for high school but my departed husband was friends with - Linda
    • Oh, forgot to mention saw hubby on Comedy Central 1 night with - Linda
  • My ex stepdad went to HS with Bette Midler in Hawaii. This is sm - MQer
  • Closest we have is the fiddle player for Brad Paisley, but the VP - mtmomof3
  • Not proud of this one - Mike Tyson was a few years behind me in HS - mammamt
    • high school - cat
      • Small world - - mammamt
        • I'm south of Albany near Po'k, across the bridge from the Catskills. nm - Near the Vanderbilt & Roosevelt mansions. NM
          • OMG - I just saw your post, Hyde Park NY - my mother took me there to the mansions...sm
            • The mansions are still here, but the Game Farm closed this spring - after 65 yrs or so. Very sad...nm :(
  • Cindy Crawford was a cheerleader two towns over.... - she was a soph when I was a senior
  • Dad went to college with Hugh Hefner and Arte Johnson (U of I) - wimt
    • University of IL? I heard Suze Orman was a roommate there of John Belushi's wife - nm
  • Vince Lombardi was my father-in-laws - ss
    • Dad was college instructor of the Packers' - clhmt
  • John McCook from B and B. Did hi school plays with him. - way back when
  • I dated a guy who went to high school with Janis Joplin - Rad MT
  • Dad went to high school with Jim Morrison from The Doors - sm - missy
  • John Bongiovi (aka Jon Bon Jovi) - nm
    • Wow, lucky you! - LinK
      • I didn't know him personally - sm
        • John Bon Jovi - LinK
          • LOL, funny. I love Richard Gere. Does his dad look like him? - sm
            • There's an ad out now with Gere and dad talking about - volunteering. Son is cuter, natch! nm :)
            • Yes he actually does - LinK
  • My parents both went to college with Stephen King - Jo
  • Joe Namath was in my class nm - Beaver Falls, PA native
    • He sure was a looker in his quarterback days! nm - Go Joe Willie! :)
      • Oh, was he a good looking guy! Sad - he didn't age well.
  • Stone Phillips' sister is a radiologist where I work sm - MT in NC
    • Kris Novoselic's (Nirvana) mom was my hairdresser. - nm
    • Would her name be - 123
      • actually, it's Minta - lol
      • Now THAT's pretty funny-- - nm
  • Joan Allen.... - nm
  • My high school boyfriend went on to become a - trose
    • Has he ever been on last comic standing? - ss
      • No about Last Comic Standing. CMT is country music television. - trose
        • I will keep a watch out for him. - ss
  • My husband went to school with - LinK
  • My cousin is Carrie Underwood.. - on my grandpa's side...sm
  • No, but I found out a distant cousin - Misha
    • because you mention paleontology - Snuggs (sm)
      • OH! Is that a baby Rott? - nm

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in line for a bathroo stall.  Finally a lady came out of onel and I went inside.  There was urine ALL OVER the seat.  I was just livid.  Okay lady, if you are too scared to sit down to pee because of the germs, then for crying out loud, WIPE UP YOUR PEE so it's not there for some total stranger to have to deal with.  Or hold it until you get home. 

Gross, gross, gross. 

You should've asked for your money back! 

I've met folks from all over the world and learned different types of cooking here and there...just home cookin'...nothin' fancy.

They're are so many different varieties of southern cooking as in every other part of the country.  I'm from NY and didn't know squat about jowl meat in the beans and the greens....salted everything...fat on top of fat...or deer for that matter.  I was voted least likely to ever whack, hack, pack and stack a deer for the freezer...and name the parts (including making deer sausage and bambi burgers with an old-timey hand grinder) and deer jerky.        

Lamb would be a delicacy on anyone's table these days and isn't usually used in southern cooking. 

Don't get me started on seafood...lived near the ocean and bay and I didn't realize how expensive that stuff was until I moved inland 'cause I just went out and fished or harvested it.       

Now, give me a bambi burger and I know what to do with that!  Cat  

One time about 5 years ago, I was driving on the interstate, my SO now DH riding with me.  Was just passing the rear of a trucker, cars behind me so there were witnesses to this and I couldn't just slam on my brakes, put on his signal and tried to pull out anyway.  Since I was already passing him, kept going, and he ran me off the road to the center.  Pulled back on and continued to pass him, had his window open and flipped me off.  I didn't see it because I was trying to control the car, but the funny part was my DH (SO) rolling down the window and hanging out giving him a double one back all the way until I got in front of the truck.  I said WHAT is going on!!  He told me the bas%$@d flipped you off.  Come on, they're high enough up to see there's a car right in front of them they want to pass.  I told SO I'm slowing down and get that guy's plate number so I can report him.  He slowed WAY down and stayed so far back that I finally gave up... Guess he wasn't in such a hurry after all.  We still laugh about my husband's ~chivalry~ that day, him hanging out there giving him the double what for!  Wish I had a pic of that for posterity

Not dissing truckers here, my own brother was one for quite a while and have had a couple who stopped to help me and went out of their way when I had a flat tire on the interstate one time in rush-hour traffic on Friday afternoon.  My brother said that was really nice of them because it's money out of their pocket, but he did always say to report truckers who are playing games because it's so dangerous.

DS (15 yrs old) came home from school yesterday and I asked him what was new. He said the usual - "Not much."

Then.... "Oh, yeah, we learned how to put on a condom in sex class."

I about fell over!!!! Apparently, the teacher had a ... uh... plastic "subject" and she asked for a volunteer to come up and apply the condom to the ... uh... model. And it's called "Health class," but he refers to it as "sex class."

Whatever happened to food fights in school????

No, seriously, I'm glad they learn this stuff. You know what they say, "The More You Know...!"

There are online websites documenting how many men versus women in each city of this country and the number of women today far outweigh the number of men......

jes sayin'............. 

One time quite awhile ago I was pushing my youngest through the mall in his stroller.  There were two boys goofing around in the middl of the mall with the parents right nearby.  I had to stop suddenly because one of the darlings wasn't watching where he was going and fell over the stroller.  I said, "Excuse me!" with just a bit of sarcasm and the father had the nerve to yell at ME because I was rude.  I then informed him that his kid was the rude one and kept walking.  That one still makes me shake my head.

what kind of lettuce/other green leafy stuff do you like when you order/make a salad?

A couple of times I've gone in restaurants and they have brought me a salad that looked like they went out back and pulled weeds. Now, I love veggies, but that's some scary stuff. I'm simple..I just want iceberg lettuce!...then I can add other goodies that I can identify.

I have only met one (1) pit bull in my life.  It was very pleasant, wanted to be petted, and never hostile.  What I did notice is how muscular it was and I remember thinking that I wouldn't want that dog to snap at me.  All dog breeds are capable of being aggressive (especially if there is a dominance issue), but some breeds are more muscular and less *intidimated* by humans than other breeds.   It seems to me (dog experts, please correct me) it would be easier to pull a Yorkie or a Cocker Spaniel off an attacked person than a pit bull.  I don't know how that applies to bigger breeds like labs or retrievers. 

However, my humble opinion does not make up for the fact that you could face the loss of a loved family pet.  I hope it works out for you.

Anyone remember how the old stores were when there were 'Main Streets'? Remember the wood floors and the merchandise in wooden bins on tables? Remember the cookies and candy they sold that was all encased in glass? No escalators, and only the best stores had elevators? Elevators with a man asking 'what floor'?, elevators that creaked and had criss cross bars across the front, instead of doors that closed? Evening in Paris perfume for our mom's at Christmas, Old Spice or hankies with his initial on them for dad? Remember when all you could use was cash? And of course, those wonderful lunch counters? I remember one of them sold sardine sandwiches! Anyone remember?