I spoke with Bill Clinton when he was governor and checking out books. He shook hands a lot more when we was running for President.
I’ve touched someone who shook hands with Manfred Rommel.
That’s all I got. 
Don’t tell me:
Your mother: Wait a minute. I know you. You’re Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. You play basketball for UCLA.
Him: I’m sorry, but you must have me confused with someone else. My name is Roger Murdock. I’m just an English major.
Her: You are Kareem! I’ve seen you play. My dad’s got season tickets.
Roger Murdock: But just remember, my name is…
[showing his student id]
Roger Murdock: ROGER MURDOCK. I’m an English student.
Her: I think you’re the greatest, but my dad says you don’t work hard enough on defense.
[Kareem’s getting mad]
Her: And he says that lots of times, you don’t even run down court. And that you don’t really try… except during the playoffs.
Roger Murdock: [breaking character] The hell I don’t! LISTEN! I’ve been hearing that crap ever since I started at UCLA. I’m out there busting my buns every night. Tell your old man to drag his ass up and down the court for 48 minutes.
Direct descendant of one of the “Salem Witches”.
I used to work for David Miliband when he was education Minister who went on to become Foreign Secretary and is currently looking to become leader of the opposition party here in the UK.
I met a ton of famous people working for him (usually they were minor celebs but plenty of big hitters in the politics world), so I’m 0 degrees from someone famous and 1 degree away from scads of bigger people (David has no doubt met the likes of Bush, Obama etc, I know he’s met the Queen, Hilary and Bill Clinton and of course is bessie mates with Tony Blair).
I am a direct male descendant of a pair of English colonists of the 1st Colony at Jamestown. I have the last name and everything and every generation is well researched and documented multiple ways like a snapshot of American history. Every time I hear about the Mayflower and the other New England colonists, all I can think is “Great, new money. There goes the neighborhood.”
That is pretty cool though. I felt bad for those Salem witches and have been there many times. It was like a colonial Jerry Springer show gone horribly wrong.
I shook hands with VP Richard Nixon.
I had a long conversation one fine evening with Michael Hedges.
I got hugged by Elizabeth Montgomery.
I’ve met Chuck Norris on several occasions (was even an extra in SIDEKICKS).
My cousin played in the NHL, and he knows a lot of hockey players, including Wayne Gretzky. But I also went to school with a lot of current IHL and NHLers (hockey town) as well, so…yeah, I know a lot of hockey players.
My sister met the Calgary Flames, including Iginla and Brathwaite, in 1999 (I think). She had cancer and was in the hospital when they all came to visit. She was in the paper and also got a ton of signed stuff from them, including jerseys and pucks and stuff.
My husbands grandmother met Hitler when she was a child. She said he shook her hand and was very nice. Not sure of the context of the meeting.
Hmm. My dad’s company does work for NASA, so I’ve met a couple of astronauts (John Glenn, Fred Haise from Apollo 13).
My brother was friends with one of Thierry Henry’s cousins in high school.
My cousin had a catering job after college and once waited on a table with Donovan McNabb & family.
Friend’s cousin went to undergrad with Prince William. She said he was a kind of a jerk, at least at that point.
Then there’s the college friend whose HS soccer coach was Paul Epstein. His twin brother is Theo Epstein, the GM of the Boston Red Sox. And their older sister is a Hollywood writer married to an actor. So I can milk that fairly tenuous link for a whole bunch of equally tenuous connections to athletes and actors.
Other than distant acquaintence, I have no ties to the famous.
But I still say that if he had lived, my father would have been a Damn sight better choice than Alito.
Anne Murray is my boyfriend’s cousin. That’s about all I got.
My brother (1)
dated a girl in college (2)
who was the cousin of an actor in the original “Friday the 13th” movie (3)
which also starred Kevin Bacon! (4)
I have a friend who dated Nathan Lane (about ten years ago.)
I have another friend of who dated (put out for) Rufus Wainwright a couple of times.
I met Neal Patrick Harris at a party yet another friend held. Harris was not publically out yet, but showed up with his boyfriend.
The actor who plays the twins Adam/Stuart on “All My Children” made a drunken pass at me once - in a bar called “Pieces” in NYC’s west village. (I didn’t go for it.)
I forgot one: my best friend is a second (or third?) cousin of Billy Ray Cyrus. I know you are all jealous now.
Don’t forget LIAR! 
Her freakin’ bird died and she said it was my fault! I guess that makes me a libelous bird killer! Hey, maybe I could sue her ass for slander?
What the hell is up with her lips, by the way? EEWWW! She has screwed her poor face up big time. Bless her heart…
Who is Billy Ray Cyrus?
Seriously?
He’s Hannah Montana’s daddy! Mr. Achy Breaky heart with a mullet hairdo.
Ah.
Thanks.
At least I’ve heard of Hannah Montana.
He had that hit country song Achy Breaky Heart and a seriously red neck mullet hairdo.
I’m a Robert Johnson guy.
I’ve meet and said a few things to J. W. Marriott, he’s said more to my daughters though as they are in the daycare at Marriott headquarters. So who ever he knows.
My father has meet George Wendt and had him at a softball fund raiser. I’m sure he’s meet other people as well.
I was staying at a resort on Maui, when Kevin Bacon and his family joined us on the elevator. It was in that moment that I asked him, and he taught me, the difference between a boogie board and a skim board.
One degree, baby.