TheQuietBisharp
Official Terrarian
My dad was featured in the same football magazine that a future pro athlete was in.
I think the first one is the not so lame one.I have 2 such claims: one is very lame, the other is not that much.
The first: My grandmother's sister is the mother-in-law of the mayor of the city I currently live in.
The second: My great-grandfather (my mother's faternal grandfather), Dr. Vitéz Szilvágyi Benárd Ágost signed the Treaty of Trianon (Versailles) on the Hungarian part after WW1. (Dr. meaning he got PhD, Vitéz is the Hung. version of the title "Sir" or "Knight", his father got his nobility and the first name "Szilvágyi" from Franz Joseph the Ist in 1877). He was the Minister of Welfare at the time, and being a patriot, he didn't sit down when signing and also refused the offered pen, instead signed with a rusty old pen he took from the hotel he was accomodated at.
He was sentenced to death by the communist goverment in 1919 for his Christian-Socialist views, but managed to escape.
In WW1, he spent 50 months on the battlefield as a medical officer, and got a bunch of medals for it. On October the 14th, 1914 he went scouting with 17 Hussars, and captured a Galician town Urzejowice along with 300 Russian soldiers.
In the same year, November the 5th, 6:50 the Hungarians wanted to blow up the railway bridge of Przeworsk so the Russians couldn't cross the river Mleczka. The fuse had already been lit when they noticed my great grandpa riding towards them from the other side along with some Hussars, he jumped to the bridge fearlessly and managed to cross it while it exploded behind his back (just like in American action movies). His comrades didn't make it, only him.
Sorry for the wall of text!
If that's true, it's the most non-lame claim to fame ever.Samuel L Jackson is my father.
If that's true, it's the most non-lame claim to fame ever.