Just start banging her sister. Bam, brother-cousin!

It.

Not a cousin, by my Great Uncle (Grandma's brother on my Mom's side) was an MLB pitcher. Won the WS with the Reds in 1940. He wasn't very good, but still an MLB'er is an MLB'er. He gave up Mel Ott's 500th career homer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Hutchings

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I have no first cousins, aunts or uncles. The people I knew as aunts and uncles as a child were great aunts and uncles.

One of my great uncles was famous for getting drunk, dressing up as santa claus at the Christmas eve party, coercing women to sit on his lap and then pinching their rear end as they walked away. It was all great fun participating in traditions brought over from the old country

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

That fucker does kind of look like you.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Sounds like he had my eating/drinking habits too!

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Sam Giancana

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Ironically, he was paid $52/game.

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You know me like that.

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Edna Staley Ness. Ex-wife of the ironically alcoholic Eliot

I'm related to Vince Carter and Tracey McGrady.

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my brother deposed the younger Ligue a couple years ago. Said the guy is not too proud of his fame these days and was really embarassed to admit it and talk about it.

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I guess my most famous cousin was Jerry Orzoff, co-founder of Lettuce Entertain You. He died in the 80s and left his entire half of the business to his partner, Rich Melman. He was first cousin with my dad. When my dad was in law school and newly married Jerry came to his house with a business proposition. Said he was opening a restaurant and offered my dad 10% of the business for $25,000. At the time my dad was driving a cab and in law school so that kind of money might as well have been $25 million. But, even if he had it he wasn't going to invest. Name of the restaurant was RJ Grunts which stands for Rich/Jerry and grunts is the sound you make when you eat a good meal.


Later on after he died Jerry;s mom was in People magazine for being the country's best panhandler. For years she would stand outside 2 jewish deli's asking for money. She ended up donating $1,000,000 to the Jewish United Fund from her panhandling. My dad says that means she probably made $2,000,000 and pocketed the rest.


We also have a guy who was a massive reality tv star in the early 2000s.

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My one cousin is an engineer in Nashville and is in pretty tight with Vince Gill ... like he travels with them (I think the group is called 'The Time Jumpers' or something like that) to work the sound and engineers his albums ... I think he has a couple of grammys for a couple of albums (my cousin). Well, he doesn't get a statue, just a certificate in lieu of said trophy. He does work for other folks as well, usually one-offs for names and no-names alike ... Amy Grant (obviously as she's married to Vince), a track w/ Sheryl Crow, George Strait, Miranda Lambert. I think he got a grammy with Keith Urban too.

FWIW, he can personally attest to Taylor Swift being a hack and a twat-wagon on top of it. Not that that should surprise anyone.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Strange how mobbed up so much of this board is.

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

Wasn't grunt supposed to be the sound that Melman's girlfriend made?

One of my good friends growing up, his dad was friends with those guys. I think they went to Lakeview together. Melman wanted him to be a partner too. He asked him, "Rich, what the fuck do you know about running a restaurant?" Anyway, this guy was a hustler in his own right. In between failed ventures, he was working for Melman at a place he had on Davis Street in Evanston. He wanted to use the slogan, "Eat and Get Out!" but Melman wouldn't let him. He did use it later at Ed Debevic's though. This guy eventually did very well on his own with an apartment rental service.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Giancana claimed to be a cousin when he was arrested. And he used our last name regularly I'm told as an alias.

I guess there is an HBO movie called "The Rat Pack" where he is using our name in that as well.

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I guess that it's safe to say that no one else in the family has a kitchen in the basement. Any more.

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

You remember that?

Where was JORR that night??

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As for JORR, you just know that he was on Harlem Ave in a shady dive bar drinking with a friend who once played bass with Joan Jett.

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

So he was at Horvath's??

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Someone far more creative than me will have to start a Penthouse Letters type thread just from the JORR perspective.

But topping the board's classical hero's own stories is a high bar.

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

That's scary.

I am currently scrubbing my posts of my usage of the D-word.

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.