This comes at a great time as just last weekend Fatty's girlfriend gave birth to his first child. It is a baby girl named Gabrielle Keightley McNeely. Yes Cat fans, Fat has named his child after Mr. Wildcat. That is no joke. There are no ties on either side to the name Keightley. When Mr. Wildcat passed away, Fatty was talking about it and Amanda said she loved the name so they went with it. I barely know Amanda, but I think Fat has found a good one. Gabby was born 2 months early, but both Mom and Baby are doing well. Now on to the other stuff.
I met Fatty my first semester at Madisonville Community College in the fall of 1994. I had actually played ball with him a few times and remembered his face and stunning physique, but never really talked to him. He started hanging out with us and before you knew it, he was an honorary Muhlenberg Countian. He got his name because he was amazingly skinny and Adam Sandler had a cd out at the time with a skit about a fat kid named Fatty McGhee. On the skit, Fatty McGhee would always lose his breath taking the stairs and could barely talk to his friends at school for trying to catch his breath. Well, another friend of mine, Chris Doss, and I would get out of class 15 minutes before Fatty and would wait for him in the commons area to go to lunch every day. When Fatty would start walking down the stairs to meet us, Doss would holler, "Oh no Fatty, please don't take the stairs". Fatty would take the stairs anyway, and would always act like he was out of breath. This made Doss very happy, and that was our main goal each day anyway. I wish I had a recording of one of these episodes, because it is not an exaggeration when I say that Doss would holler this out. I felt sorry for all the students down there trying to study. I assume they got accustomed to it after about the 18th time though. He would yell this literally every time Fatty took the stairs for a whole semester. The name Fatty stuck to him like the pages of Kendall's "best of Q" picture album and that is pretty much what everyone calls him now. You could find plenty of people around our age in Muhlenberg County who have no idea who Ryan McNeely is, but they know Fatty. He is known for his bald head and amazing ability to turn backflips off the head boards of Nashville hotel beds. He is also in the pool jumper hall of fame. Some of the stuff you read on this blog is probably very confusing, but there are a few readers who will get a good laugh out of it, and you can't please everybody all the time. Anyway, Fatty sells medical equipment and lives in Madisonville with Amanda and Gabby, even though she has not been home yet. I would like to wish them the best of luck. There's nothing like being a parent.
Something I made up about Fatty: He still don't know the one man who would dare give him the raspberry, and he has no idea who "Cowboy" and "Jellybean" are. These are inside jokes. They are placed here solely for the enjoyment of Tom Vinson. I guess you could say they are here to confuse the rest of the blog fans too.
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