Six degrees of Straight Dope

[Madd_Maxx]

[Elvis]As the snow flies
On a cold and gray chicago mornin’
A poor little baby child is born
In the ghetto
And his mama cries
’cause if there’s one thing that she don’t need
It’s another hungry mouth to feed
In the ghetto[/Elvis]

1978 Born at Greater Southeast Community Hospital, Washington D.C.
78-96 grew up in Waldorf, MD. Walter J. Mitchell Elementary, John Henson Middle School, Westlake High School class of '96. My old stomping grounds.
97-98 lived in Stafford, VA; King George, VA; Fredericksburg, VA.
98-99 moved to Cockeysville, MD (just outside Baltimore)
99-04 moved to Edgewood, MD (also just outside Baltimore, but east of previous)
2004-present York, PA

Worked at Lucent Technologies since 1998.

[SnakesCatLady]

I’m very new here (but have enjoyed it tremendously so far) and intend to subscribe soon, so I’ll play:

Born Montgomery, Ala.
Moved to Ellenwood, GA (now part of Atlanta)
Moved to Newnan, Ga.
Attended Tallulah Falls School, Tallulah Falls, GA
LaGrange College, LaGrange, GA
Georgia State University College of Law, Atlanta, GA
Honolulu (Fort Shafter) HI
Columbus, GA

[Lightnin]

@Emony Dax

Craneop2 said:

• Attended Austin Community College 1991-1993, UT Austin 1993-1996, SWT/Texas State grad school 1998-2000.

Did you ever go to the computer lab in the Riverside ACC campus? The one next to the tutoring lab? I worked there 1993-1994.

[Emony_Dax]

Originally posted by Lightnin’
Did you ever go to the computer lab in the Riverside ACC campus? The one next to the tutoring lab? I worked there 1993-1994.

Yep. All of my classes were at Riverside. Se we probably ran into each other.

[Homebrew]

@gruver

i’ve seen some missed connections with some dopers older than me but i’ll post mine now.

• born in beeville, texas in 1979

One of my college friends (Texas A&M University, Class of 1992. WHOOP!) was from Beeville. Although she’s a bit older than you, her family name, McKay, might be familar.

[Beware_of_Doug]

@photopat

I’ll give it a try.
Pat Carr, born and raised in Albia Iowa, Monroe County, 1964.
Albia High School Graduate 1982.
Indian Hills Community College, Ottumwa IA, 82-84, involved in theater.
University of Northern Iowa 84-88, theater, music (tuba) for the first year only, photography. Used to hang out at Poor Richard’s Pub on the hill. Lived in Bartlett Hall first year.
Worked at the Subway Restaurant in Ames Iowa on Welch Avenue for about 3 months, then at the Ames Tribune for a year.

Hey Pat…I was raised in Ames from age 3 and still go back a few times a year. Must admit I don’t remember you in the Trib, though I do remember Pat Beach from the ISU Daily and Register.

Subway on Welch Av., hmm? I remember the one on Main, and there’s one in the 66 station on N. Grand…anyhow, that’s one helluva sammich. My favorite things about Ames are Hickory Park BBQ, the ISU carillon (I got to play it once!) and Brookside Park. I also have the WOI-TV canned music library (big ole 16" E.T. discs) in my house, thanks to Papa Doug, who worked in the old Exhibit Hall studios when they decided to knock them down in the '90s. He’d been a Telecom major in the '50s in those very same studios…

As for me, I currently reside in quiet but crowded Irvington-on-Hudson, NY, having been in the greater NYC area for 16 years now.

[rexnervous]

Nothing close to me so far, but I’ll go for it.

• Born at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore 1966
  (Don’t remember much from that time, but if the Turtle Derby reminds anyone of anything, speak up)

• Moved to Los Angeles, probably 1974

• Moved to Bethesda, MD around 1978
  (attended North Bethesday JH and Walter Johnson HS, graduated '84)

• Attended Virginia Tech for 3 years (off and on)
  (Freshman year - '84 - Lee Dormitory)

• Lived in Gruyere, Switzerland for one year

• Lived in Sao Paolo, Brazil the following year (1993-ish)
  (Taught English at Express Language English School)

• Bend, Oregon 1997 - 2000
  (jobs = Sykes’ Seafood, Multimedia Marketing Group)

• Currently in West Hartford, CT
  (Moved here due to job transfer)

[Lok]

@Suse

My uncle and aunt lived there for many years. She always talked about it like it was the Garden of Eden, so when I finally visited it was a shock to find…well…Barstow.

But mine is still more obscure:

Not all that obscure.

Born and raised in Paulding County, Ohio, and still there, with a few years in Van Wert and Convoy, Ohio, and Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Born and raised in Van Wert County Ohio, living in Van Wert right now. My mom now lives a bit NW of Convoy.

Worked at Stratoflex in Fort Wayne, Dana in Antwerp, OH, and now I work for a non-profit in Defiance, Ohio.

An aunt and uncle used to live in Defiance, now live in Antwerp.

I went to college in Huntington, IN, 1980-85. Lived and worked at Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, VA from 86-89. Lived in Harrisonburg, VA until 91.

Go to Worldcon most years, since 1994 only missed it the last time it was in Glasgow in 95 and San Jose in 02. Used to go to Balticon, but stopped when they moved it to Memorial Day weekend. Instead I go to Marcon, in Columbus, OH that weekend.

[exastris]

@Daithi Lacha

OK, why not - -

• 2001 - Present Boca Raton, Fl.

Chances of a hit for me are kind of slim, but hey - lot’s of people come to EH (or Montauk) for their holidays, so…

Well… I just left the So Fla area for Tucson, AZ (now a wildcat). I went to Florida Atlantic University for a second bachelor’s. Know anyone there?

Other than that:

-Grew up in Miami, FL (ask and I’ll tell you the schools)

-went to U of Miami School of Music from '96 to '01

-worked at a k-12 school in Miami then a small science museum in Boca Raton

-lived in North Miami and Hollywood, FL

-been enjoying Tucson for 10 days now!

Any takers?

[MidnightRadio]

Grew up in (and am still living in) Sand Springs, Oklahoma, which is a suburb of Tulsa. But I did live in Owasso (another suburb of Tulsa) for about ten months in 1992.

Went to college for a couple of years at Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College in Miami (Fall 1995 to Spring 1997).

Have worked at several hotels and motels in Tulsa and Sand Springs and at several call centers (taking calls for VarTec Telecom, Cricket Wireless, Sprint Wireless, ShopNBC, and currently, DirecTV).

Not much else to tell, really.

[beckwall]

In regards to the OP, my father attended Hyde Park High School many years ago. And my mom got her nursing diploma fromMichael Reese Hospital, so I guess that makes me an honorary south-sider.

Born in Dearborn, lived in Livonia, then moved to Santa Cruz for my pre-teen and teenage years.

Maybe she already posted, but here goes - I attended Soquel High School, where I was in total awe of JillGat and of course her brother (he was yummy
back then, but that’s another story).

I attended a few colleges, ummm, quite a few, I was “looking for myself”.
UCSC, Cabrillo College, Sierra College, American River College.

Lived in the Auburn - Sacramento area for years, now situated in Palm Springs.

Previous owner of season tickets for the Sacramento Kings and San Francisco Giants. First started going to Candlestick in 1972, so if you saw any games between now and then, we probably passed each other on heart-attack hill.