Famous People/Places Near You?

[Schweppes]

- Stephen King
- Bush family vacation house
- L.L. Bean

Think that's about it.

 

[vericz]

Disney world

 

[Deleted member]

My next-door neighbor is Ozzy Osbourne.[/sarcasm]

The city I live in is home to a popular water park. It's also the setting of a VERY funny movie.

EDIT: Crap, I didn't know how old this was...

 

[Zero Beat]

I live in Miami, so come on, what do you think? My step dad works with stairs/railing/crown molding. He did Willy Chirino's house.

And if I go to Bayside(10 mins from here depending on traffic) and take the ferry around the coast, I'll see over 50 celebrities' mansions, including Jlo's, Shaq's, Ricky Martin, Will Smith's, ect.

 

[cheap_josh]

Well I live right outside of DC... so if you consider political figures famous, then yeah I got you covered.
Heh... our local news is everybody else's national news.

Oh yeah, and I think the guy who made AOL is somewhere around here too.

 

[The Fail Tracer]

World's first oil well is in PA, which is where I live.

Yeah, yeah, I finally located my location...

 

[XACE-K]

The only famous thing I know about where I live is that parts of the movie "School of Rock" were filmed here. I need to find some more famous stuff about where I live.

 

[Proud_Smash_N00b]

Supposedly, I live near where Eazy E was buried
RIP

 

[Sad Panda323]

The new Children of the Corn movie is being filmed near where I live.

Yeah....

 

[~rh]

^ Iowa... ._.

I live near:
Ginuwine [saw his house, he has a huge G on his gate :LAUGH:
Gilbert Arenas
ChuDat lol

 

[Kinzer]

Las Vegas itself is pretty famous worldwide...unless you want me to get into detail what happens here...stays here...

 

[Moy]

My mom and dad went to the same high school as Dan C-something, the guy who voices Homer Simpson. The assistant pastor at my church interviewed Tony Romo a bunch of times when they were in the same high school.

I'm also in Kentucky right now(don't live here) where Churchill Downs and the Louisville Slugger Factory are.

The Louisville Ironman is taking place as I post.

 

[OmegaXXII]

well here's a list of famous people in my hometown of Houston (I love it!)


Beyonce (wow I can't believe she's actually from Houston, HOT!
Slim Thug
Lil' Flip
Mike Jones
Paul Wall
Bun B
Booker T (WWE wrestler)
Tom Brady
Vincent Young

people residing in Houston are Yao Ming (tallest guy in the NBA by the way 7',7")

also the scandalous Janet Jackson/Justin Timberlake Super Bowl half-time incident actually took place, yea that's right in Houston at the Reliant Stadium.

 

[Kinzer]

Isn't Mike Jones a rapper who has a song where the lyrics are mostly made up of his name or something?

 

[OmegaXXII]

Isn't Mike Jones a rapper who has a song where the lyrics are mostly made up of his name or something?

if you mean by him saying "who? Mike Jones" then yes, also he tends to give away his phone number in many of his songs, which is hilarious just think about calling him.

 

[1048576]

Yao Ming is 7'5", 7'6" tops.

 

[OmegaXXII]

Yao Ming is 7'5", 7'6" tops.

well after looking up Wikipedia he is indeed 7'6" (229 cm), but still it's only by an inch of what I originally said, even so he's still the tallest guy in the NBA.

 

[DMG]

Dr Pepper was invented in Waco, Steve Martin was born in Waco, Ted Nugent lives in Waco (I don't like him but wtev), the ALICO building in Waco was once the tallest structure in the Southwest, the Sprinter Michael Johnson graduated from Baylor University, Football player Ladainian Tomlinson grew up in Waco, and other famous people I don't have the space to name.

There's surprisingly a long list of famous people from Waco.

 

[Virgilijus]

My sister interviewed Avril Lavigne over the phone for the literary magazine she is working for.

Not my family's proudest moment, but still a celebrity encounter.

 

[Peeze]

I live where deion sanders grew up, and where thomas edison and henry ford had a winter home.

 

[~rh]

if you mean by him saying "who? Mike Jones" then yes, also he tends to give away his phone number in many of his songs, which is hilarious just think about calling him.

281-330-800 fo

"Hit Mike Jones up on tha low cause Mike Jones about to blow"

Ahaha, I was actually listening to that crap Saturday and I called the number. It's out of service D:

 

[The Fail Tracer]

I just now looked up some famous people from my state. I'll list them.

- Edgar Allan Poe
- James Buchanan
- Fred Rogers
- Bill Cosby
- Jeff Goldblum
- Seth Green
- Will Smith
- Schooly D

I did not expect Schooly D. That's awesome. He did the Aqua Teen Hunger Force theme.

 

[The Executive]

The Bear Bryant Museum is in my town; the man is arguably the greatest college football coach of all time.