10 Things DU Doesn't Know About You.

[SOteric]

It's been a long enough while I think we can even fudge a bit and bring out somethings that DU hasn'e heard about you in a while.

Let's see:

1. I had the Chicken Pox as a 2 year old.

2. My favourite teacher was Father Myron Murphy.

3. I love to ski, rock climb and climb mountains.

4. I spend most of my weekends working in a temperate rain forest.

5. I play the flute, the piccolo, keyboards, percussion and melodic percussion and spent some time in a marching band as a majorette.

6. I can't bowl to save my life. Unless you value gutter-dusting.

7. I aspire to own my own home one day.

8. My cat's name is StirFry.

9. I drive a convertible sports car.

10. I have a small, cafe au lait coloured birthmark the size of a quarter on my right hip.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

1. Lydia's ten

1. I have a scar on my forehead from falling and hitting my head against a step when I was three.
2. My first day in first grade, my teacher misheard my name and called me by the wrong name the whole first day--until she happened to glance down at her class roster.
3. I took piano and violin lessons as a kid, but I'm no good at either.
4. I grew up hearing both German and Latvian spoken on a regular basis and could understand German quite well by the time I was twelve.
5. I memorized Luther's Small Catechism at the age of 14, as was customary for young Lutherans in those days.
6. I have never been able to turn a cartwheel.
7. By the time I graduated from high school, I had visited 38 states and 9 countries.
8. I have never dated a man who was more than one year older than me, and several who were up to ten years younger.
9. I cannot tolerate vinegary foods.
10. I have sung at both Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center (although not solo, of course!)

[SOteric]

3. I've never been able

to turn a cartwheel either!

I'd love to hear about your Carnegie Hall and Kennedy Center experiences sometime.

[FuzzySlippers]

44. The corner of a step?

I have a scar on my forehead from hitting it against the corner of a step. Took 5 stitches. They oughta make the damned things with rounded corners.

[Radio_Lady]

224. My ten things that DU would know (or care) about me!

1. I am an only child, and wish I had the "perfect" brother or sister.

2. I was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where I loved the snow. But I tell people that my parents "kidnapped" me to southern Florida (where my uncle lived) when I was three years old.

2. When I saw the ocean for the first time, I was dressed in a yellow pinafore and walked right into the swirling seawater. Someone had to save me when I started to sink. I have now been an avid swimmer for 55 years, and have helped teach at least five granchildren to swim.

3. Being from Florida, I don't ski, ice skate, or snowboard. But I do LOVE cold weather. My sports are bicycling, walking, and making out on the beach. (Well, a long time ago, that is...)

4. I ran into the corner of a open bureau drawer when I was 4. I had to have stitches. Now, I have about a one-inch scar on my right eye, under my eyebrow.

5. I had my tonsils removed when I was about 4, and still remember that I was terrified when they put the ether mask over my face.

6. I had a brilliant, but emotionally cold father (a well-respected lawyer who might have had undiagnozed manic depression) and a severely depressed mother. I have had bouts of depression since I was 19 years old, but now have it under control. My mother and father are both deceased now, and I do miss them, but have forgiven them for their failings. They did the best that they could.

7. I wanted to be a doctor or a lawyer, but my family did not encourage that. I ended up with TV and radio work beginning at age 17 and continuing for almost four decades. Here's a picture of me at my first job -- a local children's Popeye program where I was co-host.
http://moneycentral.groups.msn.com/millenniummadness/ft...

8. I am allergic to MSG (monosodium glutamate) -- it gives me a big headache1

9. My four-year-old grandson is just adorable! He's sleeping upstairs right now. I wish he'd stay this age for a little longer.

10. I don't have a good rapport with my gynecologist. I think he's trying to persuade me to jump in to a (hopefully) minor uterine procedure on May 12th. Besides that, I'd like to try to do it without general anesthesia, which truly terrifies me. If we don't get to a better place, I'm going to ask for a second opinion.

[Glenda]

127. I like you already!

"8. I have never dated a man who was more than one year older than me, and several who were up to ten years younger."

[MrScorpio]

2. Mine

1. I have four nipples
2. I make a killer cheesecake
3. I can't carry a tune
4. I used too drive a Gremlin
5. I have a soft spot for Dutch Cookies
6. I can do an Elvis impression that makes my wife laugh
7. My favorite cereal is granola
8. I almost got into a car accident with a Supreme Court Justice
9. Colgate is my favorite toothpaste
10. I've never killed a man

[SOteric]

5. Thank you!

AaaaThankyouverymuch! /Elvis.

[Abelman]

81. I call bs

We all know about that man in Reno. Just to watch him die, YOU ARE SICK!

[Zomby Woof]

4. I'll give it a go

1. I eat shards of broken glass to toughen up my esophagus.

2. My elbows look EXACTLY like Willard Scott's toes.

3. I use frozen asapargus tips to shave.

4. Peanut butter is good for curing jock itch (oh, wait, that's from my 10 Things DU Doesn't Know About Peanut Butter list).

5. I can whistle out of my left nostril in the key of D, out of my right in the key of C.

6. I wake up at 4AM to pee every morning, like clockwork. It's a gift.

7. I keep a booger of mine shaped exactly like Ronald Reagan.

8. #8 is too personal.

9. Mayonnaise and me. It's an intimate experience.

10. I have an invisible goldfish named Corky. I feed him invisible hamburger I buy at the invisible butcher's across the street.

[SOteric]

6. *snerk*

Butthead.

[shugah]

91. you should sell the reagan booger on ebay

i bet you'd make a shitload of $!

is invisible hamburger good for invisible goldfish? don't they make invisible goldfish chow that is created specifically to meet the invisible needs of invisible goldfish? (i'm just concerned about the health of your invisible ghoti)

[imenja]

222. a booger shaped like the Virgin Mary would be more lucrative

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

7. I had chicken pox at the age of two also. n/t

[Longgrain]

8. In all honesty...

1. I'm extremely shy.

2. I received my social education at a school for teens with behavioral problems.

3. I tried suicide when I was fourteen.

4. My first girl was named Elaine

5. My last girl was named Audrey

6. I've written a novel.

7. I love life.

8. I hate art.

9. I'm in love with another DUer.

10. . fill in the blank.

[SOteric]

12. Very surprising indeed, -

Your ambivalent feelings about art, I mean.

[Longgrain]

16. True, just one of those frustrations I have to deal with.

I wish I concentrated on something like Photography, or graphic design instead...

[khashka]

151. It goes with the territory

I'm a damn good writer when I want be - and I'll do virtually anything not to be. What I want to be is a photographer - which I'm really bad at.

Anyway, you are good at painting so stick with it. There's a truism that really talented people rarely like what they are talented at. I write extraordinary poetry (or so I've been told) but I hate it - it's derivative, childish, maudlin. But I do it because it's just one the things I do. It's a cross we all bear.

You might not like art, but you're an artist and you're just gonna have to suffer through it

Khash.

[Longgrain]

161. I don't mean that I hate art in itself

But my muse(s) can be such a bitch(es) at times.

I just can't satisfy them.

[khashka]

162. I know what you mean

I spend half my time kissing her damn feet (and being grateful for it) and the other half swearing I'll strangle the bitch if she ever bothers to show up. Definitely a love/hate relationship.

Most people think the Muse is a metaphor for the creative process. But it ain't..

Khash.

[Radio_Lady]

223. This might be a bit OT, but I had fun with the site on ART or CRAP?

It's pretty cleverly put together, and you'll be amazed at what you pick from the choices!

http://www.modestypanel.com/artorcrap /

My father was an amateur painter and sculptor. After he died, I kept a few things, but gave much of it away to charities.

I usually go with what I like (despite other folks). I don't have enough money on a fixed income to buy paintings, but frequently I will scan in a famous painting or photo and use it on my computer desktop for a few months.

We went to the Seattle Museum last month. We enjoyed most of the impressionists, but their main exhibit left us cold.

We've been to many worldwide museum, and one of the best was in our former residence -- the Boston Art Museum. We spent much time there.

Again, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

[tjdee]

14. In love? Ooohhhhhhhh.

Jiminy, I hate when people say stuff like that, I really want to know who it is.

Really really badly. REALLY REALLY BADLY. (If you watched Spongebob Squarepants, you'd see how that was funny.)

Ah well. Good luck with that!

[Longgrain]

26. Ah she knows...I think

There may be one or two others.

They know who they are, I hope.

Nothing will probably come out of it, but it was fun trying.

[Zhade]

98. Ha-ha! I tried suicide at ten, I win!

Wait...

[WindRavenX]

9. hmm

1. I have a tattoo
2. I am bisexual
3. I can be a party animal- or a wall flower. Depends on mood.
4. I enjoy running
5. I enjoy The New Yorker
6. I am a poet and a scientist
7. I love Boston Terriers
8. I want to teach HS biology
9. I love soy milk
10. I am deathly afraid of being abandoned.

[SOteric]

13. Have you tried

the soy milk steamed with a little hazelnut flavouring? MMmmmmm....tasty! I love it on blustery cold days.

[WindRavenX]

27. No, but I do enjoy soy chai lattes

That's high livin' right there

[LynneSin]

15. Me too - especially in public places

I was once separated from my family at the grand opening of the Harrisburg East Mall (sometime when I was 5). To this day I get a major sense of fear that overwhelms me when I can't find the people that I'm doing stuff with (ie malls, concerts). Cell Phones have helped alleviate the fear some. But even still - to this day I prefer shopping alone and if I do go with others I prefer driving.

[WindRavenX]

18. That type of abandonment doesn't scare me so much

I'm talking about the type of abandonment where someone you love just disapears.
And it came true. I can't cope.

[A HERETIC I AM]

137. WindRavenX, cause of your #7, this is for you;

Mr BB exhibiting his fashion sense

[DrZeeLit]

146. Mr BB needs his own show. Or his own list. Or.. a walk.

We love Mr. BB, don't we?

[A HERETIC I AM]

160. Yes, i confess, i love him. And i miss him.

(He died last Sept.) I love the pic of the Bulldog too!

So...sorry if i bring him up too much.

[DrZeeLit]

174. NO! There is never "too much" when it comes to our loved ones,

departed or not.

I fully understand. I don't know what I would do without my dog. He's the love of my life (and my husband knows this).

Here he is:


These guys (below) aren't mine. I just borrow them for fun.

[Radio_Lady]

225. WindRavenX, I raised two Boston Terriers in the 1950's --

Bambi, my first, had no papers but he was a sweetie. He was hit by a telephone truck and killed when he was four years old. I was so sad that my father purchased a female, "Dolly" (Duchess of Dade) for me a few months later. I raised her and trained her for AKC Obedience Work, and she won her CD (Companion Dog) degree. Then, we bred her to "Ch. Regardless" a stud who was 14 years old at the time.

Dolly when proceeded to free whelp (no Caesarean) SEVEN male puppies. One had a cleft pallette and had to be put down. But the size of the little got our picture published in one of the Boston Terrier breed books.

Dolly contracted breast cancer at age 12. They operated on her, but she never regained her strength. We all agreed to not subject her to any more pain. One day, we drove her to the veteranarian's and she was eased into eternity.

Will Judy (original publisher of "Dog World") said it best:

"A dog is the only true love that money can buy."

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. Hmmm...

1. I was run over by a semi when I was 12

2. Through a fate of chance of scheduling, I happened to be scheduled to sing at a mass at a famous Basilica a couple hours after John Paul II died. That was amazing.

3. I drive a convertible sports car, too!

4. I love liver

5. Earwigs (the insects) TOTALLY freak me out

6. Centipedes freak me out so much that I will jump around and scream like a baby sometimes. When I lived in Hawaii, I occasionally dealt with the Hawaiian versions of those abominations - minimum, one foot, and ghostly white and HUGE! Did I mention HUGE?! AHHHHH!

7. I like to rant, especially about culture and art, as they are "intepreted" in America

8. Bagpipes make me feel like I'm listening to the very basic music of the universe, and they make me cry in primitive, pre-human-consciousness resonant joy

9. The funeral industry offends me no end

10. I am actually a clone made from the DNA of Alistair Crowley and Thomas Kinkade, which, I think, explains a lot.

[SOteric]

17. Eh heh...

you mock. I jump around and scream about moths. I know, I know, harmless, they still creep me out.

[Rabrrrrrr]

19. Bugs of all sorts are creepy to me

Don't like them. Flies I can live with.

Moths, though - I also think they are creepy, and I HATE when they touch me!

Ewww.

:shudder:

[LynneSin]

23. I have no fear of bugs whatsoever

Seriously.

Then again I had a semester of Invertabrate Zoology. Also not bothered by snakes. But when I had a bat in my home that freaked me out - but probably because my sweet lil Evita became a ruthless killer

[khashka]

136. Bugs don't bug me either

Day before yesterday a spider was crawling up my thigh - scooped it up and placed it where it could find food and be relatively safe. I think what I said was "My underwear ain't the greatest place for you, babe, let's find somewhere better."

Last night I rescued a baby snake from my parents' pool. I'd had several snakes and so the usual problems most people have didn't bother me. Snakes are pretty damn cool!

Get over the bat thing, though. Only thing cooler than snakes are bats.

Khash.

[_testify_]

56. #10 rofl that's brilliant! n/t

[A HERETIC I AM]

138. I drive a tractor trailer............

I once ran over a twelve year old.......

oops...was that out loud?

sorry

[LynneSin]

11. Here's mine:

1. The first vinyl album I ever bought was Electric Light Orchestra's "Out of the Blue" and the second was Supertramp's "Breakfast in America"
   
2. I have owned every Led Zeppelin Album on 4 different mediums: 8-track, vinyl, cassette and CD. I'm a little upset to find out my mother sold my 8-track collection
   
3. When I was a kid during the christmas holidays, I use to memorize all 5 verses to "We Three Kings". I always thought the Shepards got way more attention than the Kings
   
4. The first song I ever remember hearing on the Radio was "Oh What a Night" by Frankie Vallie and the Four Seasons. It was played on WKBO 1360AM in Harrisburg
   
5. I still remember the day that I first had conscious thought processes. It was about 2 weeks after my 5th birthday. I was walking around the side of the house when it first happened. To this day, I think if re-incarnation exists, the souls don't possess the new bodies until sometime in the new bodies 5th year. I mean, how many of us remember anything before we were 5?
   
6. My first Celebrity Crushes: Davy Jones of the Monkees and Engelbert Humperdink
   
7. My mother said I was quick to potty-train (just after my second birthday after I saw another girl who was a year old using the bathroom) but slow to start talking & walking
   
8. I tried once being a "born-again" Christian sometime in 8th grade by tearing up my Led Zeppelin tee-shirt. It didn't take and boy do I want that shirt back. However, I still think of myself as a Christian
   
9. Speaking of Led Zeppelin, I became a die-hard fan because of my brother. I had seen Sean Cassidy in concert and he refused to have a lil sister who listened to "teeny-bopper" music. Led Zeppelin was the first real band I ever listened to.
   
10. I have a major fear of electricity. Probably from accidently electocuting myself on an outlet when I was a kid. To this day I still unplug stuff during a major electrical storm.
    
    
    

[SOteric]

24. I love that Charlie Brown cartoon in your sigline!

and I understand about the electricity. Something similar is why I never actually learned to swim.

[LynneSin]

32. Thanks! I'll probably go back to the Bloom County one

I had made this sometime when everyone was all depressed about the demise of ATA.

[Zomby Woof]

25. I can remember before I was 2

A few months before I was 2, when we had a family outing at a park in San Diego. A few weeks later, we moved away to TN, and that is where most of my memories of being 2 through 5 come from. It still amazes my parents, and my older sister, what I can remember from my early childhood.

[LynneSin]

30. I remember bits and pieces before 5

I actually remember the day I first saw that girl use a bathroom - it was at her house. Her mom and my mom use to go walking together taking both of us along in our strollers.

I also remember a very ugly coat I use to wear. Also, that first song I ever heard was actually before my first conscious thought.

And I remember the day that my brother's school all got food poisoning from the potato salad.

But they're all just random thoughts

[Zomby Woof]

34. You never know...

You may have heard the first couple of Zep albums when they were new and that planted the seed!

True about the fragments. I thought you meant you had NO memory before 5 and I would have been surprised.

[LynneSin]

37. Before age 5 most people remember random things

But after that age I remember incidents vividly with details.

Obviously you missed the item where I said I had a crush on Engelbert Humperdinck. We owned the album and I played it all the time.

Edit note: One random memory I had is probably why I'm anti-war to this day. I was watching the evening news with my mother (CBS with Walter Cronkite) when my mother left the room for something leaving me there along watching TV. They had a news story that prefaced by saying that parental discretion was advised due to the graphic nature of the piece. Well obviously neither parent was in the room at the time so I was curious enough to watch. The piece showed some very very horrific pictures from the Vietnam war and I remember it upset me so much that I slept in my parents bed for a week.

[Zomby Woof]

42. I didn't miss it

I just have the attention span of a gnat on caffeine.

[HeeBGBz]

48. I have early memories of two and under

Taking a spring photo with bunnies and being told to sit still for the pic but I was after them bunnies.

A picture of Mom and me. I was probably 18 months old or so. I remember the dress my mom wore because I liked to touch the polkadots on it.

[driver8]

218. Are you from Harrisburg? I used to live in Camp Hill as a kid.

I went to Highland elementary school.

[HeeBGBz]

20. Everything you never wanted to know

1. I currently have 8 cats and a dog.

2. I make awesome cheesy tater soup.

3. I was an Elvis Impersonator at age 3.

4. I was in a tornado when I was 6.

5. I've never felt an earthquake.

6. I wrote a book about alien abduction.

7. My photo won first prize in a photography contest.

8. I was married twice.

9. I once had a chihuahua named Uzi.

10. I was trained to repair military radio equipment.

[tjdee]

22. What happened in the tornado?

Was it all Dorothy like?

That seems really scary.

[HeeBGBz]

33. Yes, but no witches on bicycles

My uncle and my dad were digging a ditch behind the house. Us cousins were playing.

The wind came up real strong. My uncle and cousins hurried home. We gathered around a big chair in the living room. All clingy like. It got very dark. I was crying. I don't remember sound, just panic.

Then it got light again. I remember being surprised that it got light out again. It was dark aa night. My dad and sister went to check on my grandparents but there was electric wires over the road.

My grandparents watched it come up the hill towards our house but then at the last minute it came towards them instead. Knocked down a tree and half the chicken house. Killed chickens and put a cow in our pasture that wasn't ours.

[intheflow]

45. Yikes!

Having never really experienced one, I'm totally afraid of tornados.

[HeeBGBz]

55. I want to see one, but not be IN one.

I've had tornado dreams all my life. Now I have this weird attraction to storms.

[tjdee]

111. Wow...

I've actually been out and about (actually, looking for a video store, DUH) during some small tornadoes but didn't know it until the next day.

I don't know what I would have done if I actually saw one.

Whew!

[HeeBGBz]

112. I never saw it.

But I think I "felt" it. I was crying. My little brother was telling me not to cry, it would be okay.

I see tornados in my dreams. Sometimes swarms of them. In the dreams, they always just miss me. I'm always watching weather and clouds to try to catch a glimpse of one.

Incidentally, I'm currently living on the same land, in the same spot as my grandparents downed tree and henhouse. So if history ever repeats itself, I'm off to Oz.

[ScreamingMeemie]

21. Here are mine...

1. I only slept with my daughter's father once.

2. I make a mean cup of coffee.

3. I can bend my thumbs all the way back to my wrists.

4. My dad is my best friend in all the universe.

5. I have killed every houseplant I have ever owned.

6. My nickname in grade school was Snowmobile Woman because of an ugly parka like hand me down snowsuit.

7. I am considering running for school board next year.

8. I own a Jaguar XJ6...but it needs some work.

9. I have freckles in summer.

10. I love to cook.

[SOteric]

29. Mmmmmmmmm coffee.....

a talent for that is one of the most redeeming traits, evvvverrrrr!

This schoolboard gig won't interfere with your posting to DU will it?

[HeeBGBz]

39. I'm there with ya on the plants

I have a black thumb. Giving me a plant is like putting it on death row.

[FuzzySlippers]

53. I can do the thumbs thing, too.

Both at the same time. I can also press my fingers flat together and lift up the rest of my hands to form acute angles. I am truly a freak.

[intheflow]

61. I'd vote for you, Mrs. Grumpy.

Run!

[Glenda]

128. 5. I have killed every houseplant I have ever owned.

Me too! Plants cry out when they enter my abode. They already know their fate

[Magrittes Pipe]

28. 1. I like snickerdoodles and ginger snaps.

2. I am dependent upon hand lotion and lip balm.

3. My best friend has a big nose.

4. When I was 3, I named my goldfish "Tree-Tree."

5. I am deathly afraid of hypodermic needles.

6. I consider my hair to be my best physical feature, but I never know what to do with it.

7. I'm way too sleepy for 9:30 on a Saturday.

8. I once got peed on by a pig.

9. I am fatter than I look.

10. There actually are a few things about which I care a great deal. I may piss off a lot in the Lounge; but it's a trifle, really. Some things, some people, just matter -- much more than I sometimes let on.

[SOteric]

49. This is an actual

dependency, this obsession with hand lotion and lip balm?

[Magrittes Pipe]

52. My lips and hands chap and crack without a daily moisturizing.

That, and the DTs.

[regnaD kciN]

31. A pointless topic...

...because, no matter what you include, as soon as you post them, they no longer qualify.

[DS1]

35. okay

1. I lack some impulse control
2. I consider Zomby's gift a curse
3. My greatest achievement is my lack of ambition
4. I don't feel like driving fast anymore
5. I'm useless at foreign languages and most musical instruments
6. I don't like sweet foods, nor do I like sweet and spicy or sweet and anything mixed
7. I actually like a clean home
8. My current agenda is not to rid the world of freeper scum
9. I'm most comfortable when there's a cool breeze
10. matcom is not my boyfriend, we broke up months ago

[SOteric]

142. Many of us know

you still hold out hope of a reconciliation with matcom. I think those lacey outfits and showing a bit of leg can't hurt. Good luck to you both.

[Taxloss]

36. Ah ...

1. The working title of my first book was "So Singing". (It's not about singing.)

2. The working title of my second book is "Care of Wooden Floors". (It's not about how to take care of wooden floors.)

3. I use moleskine notebooks.

4. I consider myself an expert at Sim City.

5. According to a paranoid-schizophrenic friend of mine, I'm a minor actor in a grand conspiracy to recast the landscape of human culture. I know, that's every bit as bonkers as it sounds, but on the bright side it means there's never a lull in the conversation.

6. I used to work as a professional editor. I am master of the obscure grammar precedent.

7-10: No comment.

[_testify_]

54. I can totally relate to #s 4 AND 5!

I, too, lord my authority over computer-created citizens.

My best friend insists that one day he will be Luke to my Vader. He has sworn to take me down if I ever conquer the planet.

[Taxloss]

168. I'm with you, brother.

It would be nice to be part of some vast conspiracy. We could have matching hats and secret handshakes. Stuff might start to make sense.

[intheflow]

38. 10. Cornflower blue is my favorite color.

9. My first cat's name was Archie.
8. My first dog was a German Shepard named Hannah.
7. I love Schoolhouse Rock.
6. I have two first editions of Stephen King's The Stand (neither signed).
5. Michelle Shocked's music has influenced me greatly.
4. I've always had this weird compulsion to live in Texas, a compulsion that both fascinates and nauseates me.
3. I have three bumper stickers and three window decals on my car.
2. I worry about global warming.

And the #1 thing DU doesn't know about me:

I was in love with Keith Partridge when I was eight years old.

[SOteric]

143. I'm certain

you and Keith would have made a lovely couple.

[nini]

40. here's mine

1. I am the 5th of 6 kids
2. I graduated from college on my 35th birthday.
3. I've never lived outside a 5 miles radius.
4. I love to cruise and have been on more than 40 cruises.
5. My dad was a L.A.P.D. police officer.
5. I can't stand two faced fake people (well,maybe you did know that about me)
6. I never expected to get married but probably will now
7. I used to work for the US Postal Service
8. I'm a grandmother and have the cutest grandson on the face of earth
9. I can't sing worth a damn.
10. I am really good in math.

[SOteric]

150. A person who can

do math! Worth Zomby's weight in gold, I'm tellin' ya.

[dolo amber]

41. If I can think of 10 things I've not blabbed about before...

Here goes:


1. If I'd have had a son, I would've called him Malcolm.

2. My first pet was a beagle called Janie, and she was poisoned by a woman named Jane. Then Jane died of cancer and I was happy. Seemed sorta like poetic justice.

3. The latch inside the back passenger side door on my car is broken. I drive an Audi. It will probably cost half the GDP of Bolivia to fix.

4. I think being a music supervisor on films or tv shows would be the most kick-ass job in the universe.

5. I am very incredibly jealous of people who can write well.

6. My normal body temperature is 97.4.

7. I have a birthmark on the inside of my left knee. My little brother has the exact same birthmark in the exact same place, and my dad has it on the inside of his elbow.

8. I am a fabulous college dropout, but I still hold out hope of going back and finishing someday.

9. My parents, prior to marriage, had the same (although spelled differently) last name. That explains some things, eh?

10. I am the dumbest smart person you will ever know.

[Magrittes Pipe]

43. I can vouch for #10.

She truly is an idiot savant.

[Name removed]

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[HeeBGBz]

58. My normal body temp is 97 too.

It's weird.

[SarahB]

65. The temperature thing...

As someone who takes a lot of temperatures, I'd say that 98.6 is more of the upper range of normal than anything else. I see more patients with temps in mid range 97 than anything else. So, you might be normal there.

[tammywammy]

73. My normal body temperature is 96.8

So when I was in elementary school and was sick your fever had to be 100 or higher for them to call your parents. Mine would naturally be 99, which was really high for me, but they wouldn't call my mom.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

166. Mine is too!

I thought I was the only one!

[_testify_]

46. my list:

1. I am absolutely terrified of zombies. When I walk into a room for the first time, I actually gauge its defensability against a zombie attack.

2. I am the third Eagle Scout in my immediate family.

3. I have witnessed a murder.

4. Along with two other people, I consumed 100 White Castle hamburgers in one evening.

5. I found the love of my life on a phone sex line and we have been together for 7 blissful years.

6. I read Marquis de Sade's 'Juliette' at age 11.

7. I once was wanted by the Postal Service for vandalism when I was a teen.

8. I have never lost a game of Trivial Pursuit in my adult life.

9. My mother's family is displaced French nobility who fled to Italy and became farmers after the revolution.

10. My grandfather was arrested the first day he arrived in the US for selling fruit without a license.


Number 1 is 100% true. I have endured endless teasing because of it.

[nini]

59. welcome to DU... but 100 White castle burgers????

whoa! shared or not!

[_testify_]

60. yeah it wasn't a good idea...

I'll omit the repurcussions out of respect for the lounge.

[Magrittes Pipe]

62. They don't call 'em "sliders" for nothing.

[fudge stripe cookays]

186. Holy fuck! Someone else does #1!!!

I can't believe it. I have also endured endless teasing (mostly from my husband, reprehensor) because of my absolute terror of zombies! This mostly resulted from a horrible nightmare I had the night I first saw "Night of the Living Dead."

My dad had been dead for 2 years, and I dreamed that I was Barbara and was trapped in the farmhouse. When the zombies busted in the door, instead of saying "Johnnie!" it was "Daddy! It's daddy!" Then he took a chunk out of my shoulder. And I woke up screaming.

You are not alone, _test_.
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PS- I have only lost 1 game of Trivial Pursuit, and that was because reprehensor lucked into insanely easy questions, and I got really hard ones that game.

[_testify_]

228. I got my nightmares from Dawn of the Dead (the original)

the opening scenes, where the tenement-dwelling people have been keeping their zombified relatives in the basement...just freaked me out!

However, scared as I am, I still watch every zombie movie that comes out and play every Resident Evil game I can get my hands on.

Wouldn't it be sweet if we could get an online trivia game going in here?

[fudge stripe cookays]

230. That would be kinda cool.

I keep my eye on lounge threads about music and movies. I think that's about as close as we'll come.

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[SarahB]

50. Ok...

1. I had chicken pox on my 17th birthday. (Actually, for two weeks before and a week after. It's pretty bad at that age.)

2. I work in pediatric medicine with very sick children, but it doesn't usually make me sad. It inspires me and makes me grateful.

3. I have one sibling, my brother, who developed a severe seizure disorder at the age of one from reasons that still haunt me.

4. My parents married and divorced each other twice.

5. I detest when my toenails get too long.

6. I enjoy refinishing furniture.

7. I'm very handy with household stuff (I just fixed my toilet this week and am a master of any and all clogs).

8. I want to be a certified lactation consultant when I'm an RN and believe strongly in breastfeeding and other aspects of natural health (hopefully I can work in all my holistic stuff with the realities of Western medicine) and importance of nutrition.

9. I grew up in Omaha, Nebraska.

10. I only allow myself to eat sugary foods two days a month.

[tammywammy]

74. Wow, my parents were married, divored and remarried

I've never met anyone else that belongs in that category with me.

[SarahB]

78. Did they stay married the second time?

Mine didn't. They were always on and off between the first divorce and second marriage too. Kind of skewed my view of marriage I think. Probably why it's kind of hard to imagine doing it again myself.

[tammywammy]

82. So far they have

But, they're the type of couple that loves each other, but really shouldn't be married. And they do make each other miserable half the time, but now, I think they somewhat enjoy the misery.

They divorced the first time when I was 17, and remarried a little over 2 years later.

[flamingyouth]

51. Mine

1. I've never had chicken pox.

2. My first job was tying strings to use to hang salmon strips in a smokery.

3. I was moved from kindergarten to first grade in February of the school year, mostly because I could already read.

4. I hate oranges.

5. I've never been skiing.

6. I used to be a court-appointed special advocate for children.

7. I've met two different silent film actors.

8. I collect old (like 80 years or more) yearbooks.

9. One of my four cats is deaf.

10. My dream vacation is to visit the isolated South Atlantic islands of St. Helena and Tristan da Cunha (well, a couple of people here know that).

[SOteric]

144. Is it just

oranges, - or does all citrus leave you uninterested?

[flamingyouth]

190. Yeah, just oranges, oddly

I do love the rest of the citrus family.

[jmm]

57. Here goes,

1) I’ve had the chicken pox twice. The first time I was four. The second time I was 14 and I had an idiot doctor who doubted I could get it twice and tried to diagnose me with hepatitis.

2) I have a scar on my nose from when I was in 4th gr. While home sick one day I pulled on a Venetian blind because the light was bothering me. When I heard a noise I looked up and it fell on my nose.

3) I have 17 freckles on my body. I never realized until an ex pointed it out.

4) When I was young I had a habit of mispronouncing stuff but it always seemed to involve food. For example I was raised Catholic and thought it was The Father, Son and Holy Sparerib and I couldn’t pronounce mayonnaise until I was 11.

5) I’ve got all the hair in my family. My brother once measured his, our mom’s, and my hair strands with his micrometer. His was a 1/3 thicker than mom’s but mine was twice as thick as his.

6) Speaking of hair, I was born with an inch and a half of straight black hair just like my siblings have but when I was 5 it started to curl.

7) My CD rack which can hold about 1,000 but now filled with books and I‘ve still got boxes of books cluttering my place and my mom‘s basement.

8) This winter I developed a pigeon phobia after an incident that could’ve come straight out of that Birds movie.

9) I’ve been told I’m the “nicest bitch” and the “best liar” at my job. This is what the people who like me say. I’ve given up on becoming the “most talked about behind my back” because I’ve got too much competition in that category.

10) I first developed a reputation as an excellent liar when I was 13 and managed to convince a couple of cops to go away and not check the back of my building where my brother and some of his friends were drinking underage. No I wasn’t drinking with them and I used the incident to blackmail my brother into not drinking again until he was 21.

[SOteric]

145. Maybe all that

clever misrepresentation of the truth points toward a career on the stage?

[scarlet_owl]

63. Here's mine

1. I have psoriasis.

2. I really love dill pickle flavored potato chips.

3. I like going to garage sales.

4. I don't like to drive.

5. I planted a whole bunch of hostas today.

6. I pray the rosary every day.

7. I cut my hair short last month for the first time since childhood.

8. I have a silver bracelet on my right wrist that I never take off.
Nor do I ever take off my Miraculous Medal.

9. I got hit in the face with a softball as a kid.

10. I wear socks with sandals occasionally.

[_testify_]

66. I've turned from the Church over time but

I was an altar boy for awhile and I always thought the weekday morning praying of the rosary was one the most beautiful things I've seen...

[lumberingbear]

64. Here's mine

1. I'm gay.
2. I make a wonderful apple-walnut pie.
3. I retired at 54 (I'm 57 now).
4. I'm leaving all my money to my sister and none to my right wingnut brother!
5. I've been a "best man" 6 times.
6. I eat too much.
7. My favorite pet is my sister's dog, Sally.
8. I've been taking care of my 92 yo mother for 3 years (She has Alzheimer's.)
9. I like cozy mysteries and britcoms.
10.Watching my mother go downhill is breaking my heart.

[SOteric]

147. I can well understand your number 10

Before her death, my mother's health declined some years ago after a stroke. It is heartbreaking.

[tammywammy]

67. 10 things about tammywammy

1. My nickname really is Tammy.

2. I have red hair, not auburn not orange, but red.

3. I played the cello for 8 years, including a stint in the Ft Worth youth orchestra in the 8th grade.

4. My first pet was a cat named Custard. My father's mother gave her to me when I was 3, and I named her after Strawberry Shortcake's cat (hence, why I wanted a cat in the first place).

5. My top two favorite movies of all time are The Contender and Silence of the Lambs.

6. I'm in love with the show Six Feet Under on HBO. My dad wanted to cancel HBO and I told him no way, because I must watch it this summer when the last season starts.

7. I have read a ton of books on Hitler. (I find him fascinating, but not in the I-want-to-follow-in-his-footsteps way)

8. I love sushi.

9. My favorite flower is the calla lilly.

10. My cats Mia and Monty are polydactal (they have extra toes.

[Individualist]

68. Here goes

1. I'm a boring person. (Wait a minute, you already know that.)

2. Married at age 19, got a divorce at age 22 and said never again. (Age 62 now - I meant it!)

3. At age 12 I named one of my cats Penrod.

4. I'm terrified of severe thunderstorms and spiders.

5. Some of my friends think I'm psychic (repeat psychic - not psychotic).

6. At this point in my life I'm content with myself and don't give a damn what anyone else thinks about me.

7. I'm another DUer who never could turn a cartwheel, and when hoola hoops were the rage I never could keep the darn things rotating around my waist.

8. I can keep a secret. People know when they confide in me it will go no further.

9. Since retiring I love that I can be the night person I always wanted to be; stay awake until 2 am or later and sleep until 9:30 or later the next morning.

10. My DU name is neither masculine nor feminine. For those who wonder, I am woman, hear me ROAR!

[SOteric]

148. I'd have to argue with your number one.

No way, lady!

[Individualist]

178. Awwwww!

I'm going to hug your neck for saying that, hon.

[Bok_Tukalo]

69. OK

1. There's wasp nest on my balcony.

2. I really am freaked out by wasps since a childhood incident involving my older brother, his friends, a wasp nest, and several rubber band guns.

3. I have the same socks on that I had on yesterday.

4. The socks are clean.

5. All my socks are clean.

6. I'm afraid to go out on my balcony.

7. No really, I am. Even though I have clean socks.

8. I don't take my socks off when I go to bed.

9. I never sleep on the balcony even when there aren't any wasps.

10. I have three nipples.

[SarahB]

71. Oh my!

Perhaps you could use the clean socks somehow to kill the wasps.

[Bok_Tukalo]

77. There's an idea

Sorry. I was trying to be humorous. None of that is true ... except for number 10.

[SarahB]

79. You could pierce it.

Just that one. It'd be kind of cool.

[jpgray]

70. 1. I don't like answering these things (nt)

[Robeson]

72. I'm not tellin'.

[nuxvomica]

75. I practically have nothing left after doing several of these

But here goes...
1. I had chicken pox and German measles at the same time.
2. My favorite teacher was Dr. Gulliver.
3. I won a "basket of cheer" at a raffle when I was in grade school.
4. I attended a party honoring then Sec. of Def. Clark Clifford.
5. I gave a presentation at a technical conference before an audience of one.
6. A tree fell on my house once but did no damage.
7. I was once employee of the year.
8. I have never seen a ghost or a UFO.
9. I never learned to tie my shoes correctly.
10. I skipped one religion class in high school religiously and passed it.

[SOteric]

153. So...

do you rely on loafers, or do you only buy those new velcro fastening shoes?

[nuxvomica]

202. Nope. My laces just come loose frequently

Because I never mastered the magic shoelaces-stay-tied technique. I have been to the website that teaches you how and I've done it very slowly but I can't get the hang of it unless I've got the instructions in front of me. I have a co-worker with the same deficit and I'm sure there are thousands like us. This is America's secret shame, or at least one of them.

[RevolutionaryActs]

76. Ok let's see;

1) I am deathly afraid of Nancy Grace.

2) I have seen the movie Moulin Rouge! over 60 times.

3) I've been drinking coffee since I was 11(and it didn't stunt my growth! ).

4) My dad died when I was 10.

5) We have a papasan chair that we fondly call "the heroin chair."

6) I use to be really chubby, ok I was fat.

7) I love board games.

8) I've never eaten an oyster.

9) I start my new job on Thursday.

10) I use to be able to tie a cherry stem with tongue, I would imagine I still can.

[marions ghost]

125. LOL, the cherry stem trick....

I am sincerely fascinated that you have see Moulin Rouge 60 times!
WHAT is it about that movie for you? Is it a Nicole Kidman identification, or something about those days in France?
Maybe it's just one of those unexplained obsessions, but hard for me to imagine. I have rarely seen a movie more than once. If I had to see the same movie 5 times, I would be excrutiatingly bored. though I can listen to music over and over, a high tolerance for repetition there).

[RevolutionaryActs]

126. I just love it. I love the actors, the acting, the music.

The dancing. I love the idea of Paris at the turn on the century, and Bohemians rule.

I know can say every line, sing every song. I can even do some of the dances. Yes, I'm crazy.

I also identify with the character of Christian, we have a lot of the same ideals.

[marions ghost]

132. yeah I see the attractions

of that Bohemian life and the entertainment of the period

thanx for reply, I'm just interested in people's obsessions--they tend to be so diverse these days. One movie 60 times, I just had to inquire...

[RevolutionaryActs]

134. Yeah, all of that..... and I'm an obsessive freak.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

80. oooo, number one is creepy, so I apologize

1. I was once a registered repug. (see, I TOLD you!)
2. I can wiggle my ears like an alien.
4. I actually like snakes but no bugs, please.
5. I used to watch psychic John Edward when he was on Crossing Over.
6. I like the taste of raw bacon.
7. I am a three time published author.
8. I have to sleep in the nude because pajamas and nightgowns make me feel like I am strangling.
9. I think Clint Eastwood looks like Mortimer Snerd.
10. Liquid dribbling down my chin drives me completely bonkers

[SOteric]

155. Raw bacon?!

*L* I'm not sure the health department would encourage that on several levels.

[fudge stripe cookays]

204. ???!!! Raw bacon???!!!

Erm....trichinosis anyone? Do be careful, friend!

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[Abelman]

83. At the end of the thread...

I wonder who will read, and if I can think of anything good and dishy...

1) I am making a short independent film this summer.

2) I only live in Alaska during the high school year, I spend the summertime back home in Michigan.

3) I have been dangerously close to attempting suicide. (those days are forever over)

4) I have a personal religion so complex even I don't understand it. Basically an amalgamation of Buddhism, Christianity, and Native American beliefs.

5) I find traditional values and rituals of Native Americans totally amazing and I find their legends and values to be better than most cultures I know about.

6) I FUCKING hate onions.

7) I am a straight white male who fights for rights for everyone else, almost on a daily basis.

8) I'm working on a novel.

9) I don't believe in any form of marriage based upon the Gospel teaching "let your yes be yes and no be no," so that two people simply say they will spend the rest of their life together and do it. Besides, if my gay brothers can't get married, why should I be allowed to?

10) I have an amazing sense of self-integrity and self-righteousness, coupled with a minor hero/martyr complex which I am constantly trying to supress.

[regnaD kciN]

109. Good luck on #1!

I just finished my first feature last year. (And, no, this isn't part of a "top ten" list of my own -- I've mentioned it so often on DU, I think most people are probably sick of hearing about it by now.) I have a production company whose web site is here.

I know of at least one other indie filmmaker here on DU.

[Abelman]

141. Neat!

we have a webpage too:

http://www.angelfire.com/indie/badwaitress .

We are working to professionalize things up, but we're making the movie first then we'll do it.

[Runcible Spoon]

84. Farce's 10

1. I've been in a cop car whilst tripping on acid. Twice. (but not because I was arrested)

2. I played 9 years of classical cello.

3. I dyed my hair 7 different colors in high school.

4 I detest existentialists, even though I used to be one.

5. i'm going for my PhD but I secretly dream of running away and training horses for a living.

6. I trained to third level dressage.

7. I've partied with the Peace Corp in Guetemala. Viva Mosa!

8. I like elegantly violent sports, like rugby and snowboarding.

9. I am stoned right now.

10. I'm not afraid of heights but petrified of small spaces.

[SOteric]

154. Such a lot of

secret cellists on DU. Maybe we should put together a string ensemble.

[usedtobesick]

85. my closet holds

1. I am a defense contractor living with a peace activist

2. I spent my first year of college at Jerry Falwell's School but I feel better now.

3. I want to live in Montana

4. I just bought a cool used jeep

5. Traveling is my favorite pass-time

6. I just parked my 73 super beetle to restore it

7. I paid my way thru college with a Track Scholarship

8. I have the coolest two kids in the world

9. I did 12 years in the Army

10. My favorite author is Christopher Moore

[SOteric]

156. What part of Montana?

One of the cities, - out near the buttes, - somewhere in big sky country?

[usedtobesick]

173. Flathead lake area

North and East of it, maybe Bigfork or north

[AmandaRuth]

86. Okie Dokie

1: I play the piano and alto saxophone

2: I love good Thai food.

3: I am completly obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Star Wars

4: I am an extremly Kyan Douglass obsessed thirteen year old girl.

5: My favorite flavor of ice cream is Butterschotch

6: The thing that really makes me mad is when I walk into the bathroom instead of my bedroom

7: I love German Shepards and Showdogs Moms and Dads

8: My greatest dream is to go to Oxford in England and study the Literary Arts.

10: I have two great parents!

MiniAmandaRuth

[SOteric]

158. Mmmmm, - Thai food!!

Love that stuff!

[yvr girl]

87. Here are my deepest, darkest secrets

1. I am a trained Polynesian dancer

2. I have a commercial pilot's license

3. I was working in a press office the night of the new millennium

4. I was missing when I was a child - tons of strangers were looking for me. I heard about it for years afterward

5. I can make myself cry by thinking about the day my dog died in grade 5

6. I was in an ice show when I was 7. (I was a grasshopper)

7. I heard Mt. St Helens blow in 1980

8. One of my nick names is Draqua - I love the water

9. I made wickedly strong cocktails when I was 7

10. The first thing I learned to cook was scrambled eggs. The lesson took place in the redwood forest.

[Redstone]

100. You withheld the part about the Polynesian dancing

from us when you were in Boston? ...........Well, now that I think about it, I can understand why.

Redstone

[yvr girl]

105. I would have given lessons or a demo

No one asked, and the subject didn't come up.

I can really move my hips.

[Redstone]

108. The subject will come up next time,

I'll make sure of that.

Now that I've picked on one of your ten items, feel free to beat me up about one of mine (at the end of the thread).

Redstone

[shugah]

88. you have stirfry the cat????

i've been wondering where that kitty got to! i'll stop calling for her every night. "c'mere kitty, kitty! STIRFRY!"

[Skittles]

93. YEAH

SOME OF US ALREADY KNEW SOTERIC HAD A CAT NAMED STIRFRY! I laughed my ass off first time I heard it!

[VelmaD]

89. Ok...here goes

1. I was an excellent free throw shooter as a kid. Used to win local contests all the time.

2. I was a cheerleader in elementary school. Yes this is Texas and we had elementary school football.

3. I would have been the youngest person to complete all the swimming classes at my local YMCA...except when I started classes my little brother whined so much that they let him in too.

4. I don't have a pet now because I can't bear the thought of going through losing another one after I lost my only dog back in 1990.

5. I can't shoot pool. Not at all. It's sad.

6. I had never eaten cheesecake until age 32 and now it's one of my favorite things in the whole wide world.

7. I used to write and edit the underground newspaper at the college where I got my undergraduate degree.

8. I was born to be a musician. I learned to play the piano when I was so young that I don't actually remember it. I do everything to a rhythm.

9. I dread running into my ex now that he lives in Austin.

10. I have had the same best friend since I was 13 years old. That's just over 20 years.

[Glenda]

129. That's cool! I'm jealous!

"1. I was an excellent free throw shooter as a kid. Used to win local contests all the time."

[Redstone]

90. Very few people know,

and they're not saying.

Redstone

[Skittles]

92. ok

1) I'm really quite anti-social and have to be dragged out of my apt

2) I cannot stand the taste of ANY wine and cannot understand how anyone can

3) I love fish but no other form of seafood - shrimp, crab, crawfish etc. Only fish and only FLAT FISH - no swimming steaks like salmon

4) I've never had regular sleeping hours my entire life

5) I read a book a week

6) at 48 I am the same weight I was when I was 18

7) When I was a kid I had a gerbil named Mama Pinkus

8) I have always snored

9) I'm a movie buff and see at least one a week at the theater and rent one too

10) I always eat dinner at home sitting on the couch

[SOteric]

179. I think irregular sleeping hours would drive me crazy.

I don't know how you deal with it.

[yellowdogintexas]

94. OK here goes nothing'

1. I flew to Germany without adult companions at the age of 10 and lived with my uncle and aunt on the military base for six months.

2. I learned to read before I started school.

3. I am old enough to have been vaccinated for smallpox.

4. I had red measles and German measles back to back.

5. I love to sing but I suck at it big time

6. If I were any good at math, I would probably be a doctor. I love
medicine, and learning about it, but the math would have kept me out of premed, most definitely.

7. I have so many books that the last time I moved, my mother (who was helping me pack ) said to me "Every time you do this I wish I had never taught you to read!"

8. I love to travel and read about traveling and planning our vacations

9. My daughter is the light of my life.

10. My best friends in life are: my sisters, my husband and our daughter.

[SOteric]

180. But, but, but....

books make such excellent household insulation.

[Mr Bojangles]

95. Here we go

1. I play the saxophone, guitar, bass and drums (though not that well on the drums)

2. I'm a brother of Kappa Kappa Psi (Eta Sigma chapter, University of Central Florida - AEA)

3. I'm a habitual lurker (oh wait, this is things DU *doesn't* know about me)

4. My Cat has two names. The Magical Mister Mistofelees (or ze kitty) at home, and "Tux" for the vet (his home name is too large to put on his carrier when I take him in)

5. I enjoy repairing computers in my spare time

6. World of Warcraft is the number one destroyer of my spare time.

7. I work two jobs (one full-time, one part-time...60-ish hours a week)

8. I'll be 24 in July

9. I only have one tattoo, and sure enough, I regret it.

10. It was difficult for me to come up with 10 things for this list.

[Individualist]

122. My cat also has two names

Honey and Cattila the Hon.

[Zhade]

96. Very few DUers know much about me. i keep 'em in the dark.

But, for all those calling for more info about me (quiet, you'll both be paid LATER), here are "Ten Fun Facts About Zhade That You Didn't Know And Probably Will Forget In Ten Minutes":

1. I work for Rupert Murdoch.

2. I love video games, anime (SUBBED), movies, and reading.

3. Cops once pulled me over for an upside-down flag on my car antenna.

4. I was born in The Netherlands.

5. My brother went to school with Shaq.

6. I once met Francis Ford Coppola and had a short conversation with him about writing.

7. I am a father whose son lives across the country with his mother.

8. I think marijuana is beneficial to mankind and should be legal.

9. I used to be a fundamentalist Christian, as well as a Mormon.

10. I am a "latte-sipping liberal Democrat".

(One's a fake. Can you guess which one?)

[SOteric]

157. Number 10!

I'm speculating you're more of a latte-guzzling liberal Democrat. Or maybe a latte-day saint.

[Zhade]

171. "latte-day saint" - and I thought *I* made bad jokes!

Yes, it's number 10 - I don't like coffee, and I'm not a Democrat. Good guess!

[WilliamPitt]

97. Will's 10

1. I had the Chicken Pox as a 21 year old college student. That sucked rocks.

2. My favorite teacher was Brainerd Philipson.

3. I love to write, drink beer and smoke cigarettes.

4. I spend most of my weekends writing, drinking beer and smoking cigarettes.

5. I play no instruments whatsoever, but I can spin books and dinner plates on my index finger.

6. I used to be a damned good golfer when I worked at a golf course Gave it up when I had to start paying for it.

7. I aspire to burn down SOteric's home one day.

8. My cat's name is Boomer.

9. I drive a Subaru Forrester.

10. I have a tattoo that reads 'THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS' across the middle of my back.

[VelmaD]

99. And a lovely tattoo it is too

I wanta see you spin dinner plates.

[Redstone]

103. Item 10: Woody Guthrie fan, are you?

Redstone

[yvr girl]

104. I knew like HALF of those

We need deeper secrets.

[SOteric]

159. Excellent.

When you're ready to burn down my house, you'll need to know that my real name is Hedges, I live in the Chicago area, and I'll pm you with the address as soon as he signsI sign the papers and fill out the insurance forms.

[khashka]

172. I think I'm in love with Will Pitt

Never mind the fact that he writes so well.....

There is nothing quite so cool as a guy with THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS tattooed on his back. Seriously.

Khash.

[BreweryYardRat]

101. First one of these I've done...

...so here goes.

1. I am a huge Internet junkie.

2. There's a big ol' scar on my scalp.

3. I'm obsessed with medieval weapons and armor. To the point that I'm making a maille vest for myself and there's other stuff in the planning stage.

4. I gained 60 pounds the first 3 years of high school. Very little of it was muscle. This year, I've been holding steady around 235, I'm gaining a lot of strength, and my body fat percentage is dropping.

5. I've tried several different styles of Eastern martial arts over the years, and it's never worked out, for one reason or another.

6. Stargate geek. Big time.

7. I love to read.

8. My digestive system is constantly fucked up.

9. I love animals.

10. I can bend my thumbs and pinkies back to my wrists, although it's hard to do with my (double-jointed) right thumb.

[usedtobesick]

175. Stargate rocks

watching season seven now on computer, watched season 6 all yesterday

[BikeWriter]

102. Just a damned minute! You can't get any more specific than that?

J/K, Sweety.

[Arkana]

106. Well...

1. I'm the penultimate mama's boy...it makes me ashamed to admit it, but I am.

2. I used to play the alto saxophone--both classical and jazz.

3. I'm extremely socially inept--part of the reason I didn't go to the Boston DU gathering (I'm from MA).

4. I'm 20 years old, but I still play with Legos.

5. I didn't reach 150 pounds until I turned 19. I was always the lightest kid I knew--and my friends who were heavier never looked it.

6. I have every James Bond movie ever made.

7. I have a Welsh Springer Spaniel named Argos, and a black Labrador Retriever named Callisto.

8. I can snap my fingers, but I can't whistle.

9. I have a "Jimmy Carter for President" poster, as well as a "Yankees Suck!" bumper sticker on my bulletin board behind me as I type this.

10. I have not pulled an all-nighter yet in the two years of my college career.

[Redstone]

107. OK, I'll do it right this time:

1) I have never owned a car with an automatic transmission.

2) I have broken or pulped every joint in my right leg, and every joint in my left arm. At the same time.

3) I did not obtain medical treatment for this until eleven days after it happened.

4) My fingerprints are not on file anywhere.

5) I was diagnosed by a psychiatrist as having a "pathological lack of fear." This didn't scare me. So I think he may have been right.

6) I learned to read at three and a half, reading the newspapers my parents put on the floors while they were painting the house.

7) I graduated from high school at 16, having taken second and third grades in one year.

8) The year I was in fourth grade, I was in a class of seven kids for the first half, then we moved, and I was in a class of eighty-three kids for the second half of the school year.

9) No, I do not dye my hair. It's really still black, naturally, despite my age.

10) Yes, I really am that old. Mrs R. doesn't look her age, either. Buy me a drink and I'll tell you our secret.

Redstone

[yvr girl]

110. 83 kids - your poor teacher

Where was that?

[Redstone]

121. She was a sadistic nun who deserved it.

Holyoke, Massachusets.

Redstone

[yvr girl]

124. You had a class that size in America

Holy cow. I thought you must have spent some time abroad.

[Redstone]

139. Holyoke, Mass. in the early 1960s was a horribly lousy city

dealing with loss of manufactuing, and quite poverty-stricken as well. The school I went to in 4th grade was condemned, and torn down the following year.

Holyoke is still pretty sad, but they're trying. They've restored the magnificent old city hall, and put in a children's museum downtown. But it's still a poor city. I'm sure they're not allowed to put that many kids in a classroom anymore, even in the Catholic schools.

Redstone

[yvr girl]

149. Wow, that's bad

I can't believe your schools are funded by the city, that makes it so unfair. Ours are funded by the province - it equalizes things.

[Redstone]

167. It was a Catholic school, funded by the tuition.

Which cannot have been much.

My brothers got to go to the public school, which wasn't great, but was better than that hellhole.

Although, ost US schools get the bulk of their money from local (town, city) property taxes. It's a system that could use some work, indeed.

Redstone

[BlondieK143]

113. Alrighty, I'll play.

1. I have a birthmark in the shape of a small Christmas tree on the top back of my left leg.
2. Starting in August two years ago, in 6 months time, I was in 6 different wrecks. Only one of which I was driving.
3. I've been almost completely run over by an 18 wheeler. (in a car)
4. My father and I rarely speak (he's too busy working on his third marriage).
5. I never graduated from high school (which is ironic because I always wanted to go somewhere big like Harvard).
6. I'm a VERY sexual person.
7. I love to write.
8. I have been a guest DJ on a few local radio stations.
9. I've had to wear glasses since I was in Kindergarten. Remember the Vision Vans that went from school to school? They ruined my life. Thank God for contacts!
10. On one of the radio gigs I did, I was going to get married to a COMPLETE stranger that called in. AND I'll have you know, their ratings TRIPLED that day!

[GalleryGod]

114. Thanks for that, Blondie!

[Parrcrow]

115. ten things, you say?

could be tough, I blab about myself alot.


1: I sometimes pretend to have a huge ego as a joke.

2: or maybe that's a defence mechanism.

3: I once worked night shift for a year and a half and I think its caused me to develop slight agoraphobia.

4: I tend to think of people my own age (43) as old and then remember that I'm that age too.

5: For four months I was not allowed to enter the United States while my fiance visa application was pending and I felt like my soul was being torn out of my body every damned day that I could not be with my fiance.

6: I have never stayed overnight in a hospital.

7: Both of my parents died before I was thirty.

8: Everytime I've read The World According to Garp, a very close family member has died. (three times).

9: I think that the most popular teacher in grade school hated my guts.

10: If I wasn't engaged, I'd be hitting on SOteric non-stop!

[SOteric]

181. Oh you!

You're such a sweetheart.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

116. My exciting and thrilling list

1. I had chickenpox at the age of 1 1/2.

2. I had mumps at the age of 5.

3. I had measles at the age of 6.

4. I drive a 2003 Urban Gray Pearl Mitsubishi Outlander.

5. I played the cello from 5th-10th grade and would love to take it
up again.

6. I am crazy about Morrissey and the San Francisco 49ers.

7. I have a birthmark on my left hand and wrist that's actually an
area of hyperpigmentation stretching halfway up the right side of
the hand.

8. My sister Bullwinkle925 tried to kill me when I was little by
slamming on the brakes of Mom's car and making me fly forward and
bang my head on the dashboard.

9. My favorite food is macaroni and cheese.

10. I hate hot dogs, hamburgers and sandwiches.

[SOteric]

182. One of my brothers

tried to kill another of my brothers when they were little by stuffing Rice Krispies up his nose. Oh the indignity of sibling rivalry.

[two gun sid]

117. Ok. I'll play.

1. I had rheumatic fever when I was 4yrs old.

2. I learned to play guitar from a coal miner in WVA.

3. I never eat beef.

4. I don't enjoy riding horses.

5. I'm a dog person without a dog but, I have two cats.

6. I was once shocked by 2400 volts on the job.

7. I have never voted a straight ticket but, have never voted for a
repug.

8. My nose has been broken twice and my lower lip has a scar that busts open every time my lips are dry.

9. The best friend I've ever had was a dog named White-boy.

10. I wear a size 10D shoe.

[SOteric]

183. How did you get such a shock?!

Yikes!

[Mutley]

118. Here's mine

In no particular order other then the order in which they come to me.

1. I'm terrified to start writing a novel.
2. I had chicken pox when I was 5.
3. I have two tattoos.
4. I don't play well with others.
5. I smoke too many cigarettes when I'm sitting in front of the computer. I have to keep them upstairs just to stop myself from unconsiously having one every ten minutes.
6. I took three years of clarinet lessons and I still suck.
7. I played softball for three years and I still suck.
8. My first memory is my third birthday. I was begging my mother to sing me the second verse of "Happy Birthday" which is something like "How old are you now? How old are you now?" etc.
9. Burger King makes me throw up. Don't ask me why but every time I eat at Burger King I'm really sick the next day. Needless to say it's been a long time since I ate at Burger King.
10. I want people to like me. Probably too much.

[SOteric]

184. That would be where we differ. I'm not terrified to start a novel

but I have a lot of trouble finishing them.

[HughBeaumont]

119. Welll .. ..

1. My hair used to be three feet long.
2. I used to have six earrings.
3. I've never tried a smokeable product. Ever.
4. I quit drinking when I was 19.
5. I'm a stepdad.
6. I find Horatio Alger stories to be bullshit.
7. I've been to Guiness and Ripley's museums on both sides of the US (San Fran and Niagara Falls)
8. I've never traveled to another country (Canada doesn't count. Well, they do, but that's not even a flight for me)
9. I still listen to underground metal.
10. I don't think I'm in love anymore.

[SOteric]

185. Ooo! Ooo! I've been to the one in San Francisco!

I loved that place as a kid.

[Allenberg]

120. Well, here goes...

1. I was stationed at National Security Agency Headquarters, Fort Meade MD from 2000-2002.

2. I've met Lt Gen Michael V. Hayden, Deputy DNI (and former DirNSA) on a personal level, and had a chat with him about the Pittsburgh Steelers. (General Hayden is from my neck of the woods)

3. First and last name are Hebrew, but I'm a Byzantine Catholic

4. I'm a member of the National Youth Sports Coaches Association

5. I get bad gas when I don't eat.

6. Worst experience? Chicken pox in 8th grade.

7. I married my ex-fiance's best friend.

8. Supported going to war in Iraq at first.

9. I have a bottle of absinthe on my desk

10. It's my two-year wedding anniversary on Tuesday.

[SOteric]

187. Happy anniversary!

[marions ghost]

123. What popped out today....

1. Many of my greatest fears have come true, so I try not to fear anything if I can possibly help it.
2. In theory I like to cook, but not in actuality. I cooked a great dinner for my SO when we met 20 years ago and have never done it since. There are things he's never done again either, however he has become an excellent cook. He has a theory that my never cooking again was that I had set such a high standard for myself, and in fact reached perfection I was afraid of failure.
3. I have almost no "favorites" in any category of anything (I have just realized this profound fact). I even like all colors.
4. I hate all appliances and refuse to collect them. Only the Germans can make a vacuum cleaner and they are am kostspieligsten (or even schweineteur). I trust brooms.
5. I am a writer but also an occasional ghost writer. I work hard at not being too verbose and have achieved silence occasionally.
6. I have had two non-drug-induced out-of-body experiences. They were fun and educational.
7. I have a dog named Sybil Disobedience.
8. I have been obsessed with pyramids since early childhood for no apparent reason. Hope to find out why one day.
9. I take in everything visually. I once amazed my parents by describing exactly the floor plan of the apt we lived in when I was 2-3, right down to which way the sun came up (ie. which side was dark and which was light).
10. The Rolling Stones once popped into a little restaurant next door to the house I was renting. A waitress showed me a holy crabshell she claimed was Mick's. That was before Ebay.

[khashka]

130. Khash's Ten

1. I broke my back when I was four. Totally shattered, but it ended up OK.

2. I rarely cut my toenails.

3. I have an ex lover's name carved into my left arm.

4. I love my daughter ( anyone who has read my posts knows that, but I can never say it enough)

5. My grandfather died last night and I don't know how I feel about it.

6. I smoke way too much - tobbacco is the devil's weed.

7. I think Mark Morford is god or at least a good fuck.

8. Susie Bright - see number 7.

9. I'm completely venal, carnal, and evil - but basically a nice guy.

10. I have a huge crush on Jimmyjazz, but don't tell her.

[SOteric]

188. Re: Number 10, - your secret is safe with us.

[inanna]

131. 1. I don't drive and probably never will.

2. I'm actually pretty antisocial and don't like others ('cept a few) messin' with my routine.

3. I love coffee and Earl Grey tea.

4. I don't like anything that is too sweet.

5. I quit smoking and really didn't find it that hard (much to my own surprise).

6. We got to see The Tragically Hip play live in their hometown of Kingston Ontario only a month after we moved there.

7. I don't like shopping malls much. I prefer the shops and boutiques in older downtown areas. In fact, I just tend to liked aged places a whole lot more than "new" places period.

8. I'm a dog person and I have a Siberian Husky.

9. Lately I have really been on a Chef Salad kick for some reason.

10. Fire is my biggest fear. Next to that would be heights and then....SPIDERS. I am terrified I will be bitten by a brown recluse for some damned reason.

[SOteric]

189. I know a man who just quit smoking one day

and it took. I imagine that's pretty rare. Good for you!

[mark414]

133. well since it is at the bottom, here goes

1. i think hip hop is the most creative and viable genre of music ever created

2. i have serious committment issues; and get myself in a lot of trouble with the opposite sex because of this

3. i can crack my toes on command

4. i smoke pot daily (ok...a couple of you know that)

5. pretty much the only things that offend me are people who trash hip hop and people who whine about "reverse racism" (which tend to be the same folks)

6. i once hooked up with someone on CL C.E.

7. the only time i will dance is when i am completely alone

8. i work in the meat department of a natural foods grocery store

9. most people think i'm older than i actually am

10. i have a treasure trail

[SOteric]

191. People think I'm actually younger than I am.

No, I'm not all that old, but I'm often carded for alcohol or confused for the students at the school where I teach.

[RetroLounge]

135. Okay, I'll give it a try

1) My first dog was named Portia, I was 26 when I got her, she had a 30-60-90 triangle shaped head, and died of Parvo Virus in 3 days. I waited a few months and rescued another dog from a neighborhood pet store, named her Kelsey, and had her for years until my ex-wife took her in the divorce. She may or may not still be alive somewhere in Chciago. My next dog, Nikita, was with me 13 years and just died last spring. My first cat was a stray that moved into my 1965 Impala SS that I was restoring in my garage during high school. I named him Peter Percival and he proceeded to have a litter of kittens in the front floorboard area. My dad made me give her away, along with the kittens, and I was angry for years about that.

2) I have a scar on top of my left foot from a childhood bicycle accident that plunged a broken pedal thru my foot. I have many other small scars, some self inflicted.

3) I was once a published author, with short stories and poems out there in the world, but I don't write anymore. Except I publish a quarterly column in a Railroad Historical Society Magazine, so I guess I still write a bit.

4) I once tried to hang myself in a drunken blackout. I found myself to be inept at suicide and depression, so I knocked that shit off 15 years ago. Coincidentally, that's also when I stopped drinking.

5) I am the one and only person in my family bloodline to go to and graduate from College. I have a Masters now. I will be paying off student loans until after I need new ones for my kids.

6) I work indirectly for the Military Industrial Complex, specifically for the Defense Industry, and I have no pangs of guilt. The software I write indirectly helps save lives as well as provide the means to take lives. I've accepted that.

7) Although I own and played a Les Paul back in the day, and evangalize on the perfect feel of a well tuned Les Paul Custom, I secretly admired the feel and sound of a Stratocaster.

8) I would rather model HO scale trains than do almost anything else. Except maybe go look at real trains and take pictures of them.

9) My first ever slow dance was at a party after a Multiple Dystrophy Carnival we put on as kids in the 70's, and it was with my best friend's sister Mary and the song was "Lets Pretend" by the Raspberries. Many years later we had a short fling, broken up by her Catholic parents (I'm a heathen, you know...)

10) I never went to any of my proms, for fear of rejection, but I got invited to a senior prom when I was 26 by a beautiful 17 yr old girl, but I declined for fear of arrest.

RL

[SOteric]

192. Yep, those Master's degrees are pricey.

And sometimes I wonder how worthwhile they are...

[RetroLounge]

198. Not very, it turns out...

Oh, Well...



RL

[A HERETIC I AM]

140. Okey Dokey....

1) My father worked for the CIA
2) Because of #1, I have lived in Athens, Greece and Alice Springs, Australia and all around Washinton, D.C.
3) My work involves NASCAR racing
4) I travel constantly (In Seattle this week, last week Phoenix, In 2 weeks, Portland)
5) I play decent pool, bad golf
6) I quit smoking after 27 years cold turkey, but started back up about a year ago. (Makes me a bit weak, i know)
7) I used to own a red convertable sports car AND a Harley. (Had to sell them both....::sob::
8) I am, for all intents and purposes, homeless. (I live in hotels)
9) I was born in Arlington, VA. (Mainly because of #1)
10) I am a Republicans worst nightmare. (Pro-Choice, Pro-Labor, Pro-Church/State separation, pro-Gay rights, Humanistic Atheist etc, etc,)
11) Yeah, i know....only ten....I LOVE Boston Terriers and have had them all my life (Except now, i am dogless)

[SOteric]

193. Aw, - everyone ought to have a chance to have a dog

but I do understand that some living arrangements are not in the best interest of the critters.

[progmom]

152. here goes

1. I own about a dozen instruments and play none of them well anymore.

2. My husband's band had a single selected by Melody Maker magazine to be "Single of the Week".

3. I'm the 7th most powerful person in jazz!

4. I could live on chocolate, cheese, and good bread.

5. I can't drink milk unless it's with food. Milk by itself skeeves me out.

6. spiders make me hyperventilate

7. my husband doesn't drink, so i rarely do at home.

8. i once caught a home run ball at Tiger Stadium.

9. i love noir fiction.

10. i am a compulsive music collector.

[SOteric]

194. Okay, but

milk and chocolate cake are only Zen together.

[progmom]

200. agreed

100%

milk and chocolate cake are heaven.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

163. Mine

1. I had chicken pox in 1st grade, but I hardly had any 'pox', just a high fever.

2. My house is very clean and organized, but my car looks like a homeless person lives inside it.

3. I love to cook, but I hate to bake.

4. I have been friends with my five closest friends for over 20 years.

5. I laugh really easily

6. I could sing the alphabet at 2; read at 3; recite all the Presidents at 4.

7. I was thin until I hit 36 and my thyroid went haywire. I have been battling a variety of health problems since, including chronic sinusitis and urinary tract issues.

8. I'm very diplomatic, despite my wiseassery

9. I am a take-charge kind of person, and don't have a lot of patience

10. I have a soft-spot for children and animals

[SOteric]

196. We're a great deal alike in number 9, except that

for some very special individuals, I have an almost pathological patience. It's rare though.

(I've also had the same closest friend for 20 years)

[yvr girl]

229. I've seen the car - she's not lying

She also didn't say that she's a wonderful hostess - meeting you was a highlight of my trip.

[Deep N RedLand]

164. Since truth is stranger than fiction, here goes.

1. Was a Reagan conservative in the 80's.

2. Was baptized Catholic and once actually believed in the concept of Jesus.

3. Am a closeted-lover of Disco.

3. Been injured in 4 auto accidents in less then ten years, none of which were my fault (Florida drivers suck!).

4. Was born and lived half my life in Philadelphia.

5. Was once seduced by a woman 11 years my senior (and still married to her!).

6. Have an undergraduate degree in Criminal Justice.

7. Hate to hear the fucking phrase : "Disney", "Micky Mouse" or "Tourist"!

8. Lived through 3 hurricanes in 6 weeks.

9. Once found myself in the middle of a mini-orgy proving the theory unexpected shit happens.

10. Have written several unpublished novels.

Plus a lot more that shall remain an enigma.

[SOteric]

197. I take it that when you get your novel published

you're not planning a visit to Disneyland.

[arwalden]

165. Hi

[SOteric]

199. Hello.

[Left Is Write]

169. I'm not sure I can think of 10 things I haven't already chattered on about

1. I birthed children in three different decades, two different centuries, and two different millennia (1987, 1999, 2002).

2. I'm the exact middle of five children.

3. I worked radio for a few years in the early/mid 90s.

4. My girl children both have blue eyes and my boy child has brown eyes.

5. I am a writer (did my user name give it away?). Unfortunately, at this point I am an unpublished, unpaid writer.

6. The birthmark notation in the OP reminds me that I have a birthmark shaped like South America on the top of my right foot.

7. I am left-handed.

8. I used to smoke cigarettes.

9. I have never had one of Matcom's white chocolate macadamia nut cookies.

10. I had a crush on the late NBC news reporter David Bloom.

[SOteric]

201. I've never had one of matcom's cookies either...

But apparently Mrs. matcom has to clean up after him when he bakes, so...I guess I'm okay going through life without them.

[Left Is Write]

209. Maybe Mrs. Matcom can filch the recipe for me...

and I'll make some, and I'll send some to you.

[flvegan]

170. Let's see...ten things:

1. I have new socks;

2. I was put in pc for wailing the crap outta some guy that tried to rape my friend at a party;

3. I used to play the drums...poorly;

4. I had a Kiss lunchbox in elementary school. Scared everyone;

5. Before I liked Kiss, my favorite was Shaun Cassidy;

6. I used to have long hair...to my waist...dyed maroon;

7. I'm a certified personal trainer and sports nutritionist;

8. I used to idolize John Gotti, and thought Bruce Cutler (his lawyer) was who I wanted to be;

9. I keep boltcutters in my car;

10. I was once invited to be a member of the Republican Senatorial Inner Circle, and framed the letter as I was so proud.

[SOteric]

203. Let's be real here, -

that Shaun Cassidy thing is WAY scarier than KISS.

[bettyellen]

176. let me think.....

1) i was the shortest kid in class for 10 years of school, but then grew 6 or 7 inches in height all in one year when i was 15.

2) my mon has alzheimers and when she does recognise me now, she usually thinks it's that year that i grew so much.

3) i learned how to read on my dad's lap when i was three from the NY Daily News.

4) i can remember a lot of things from when i was 1 1/2 - 2 years old.
when i was that age, i thought people stayed the same size forever, and i was pissed off i couldn't reach a lot of things, couldn't break out of the crib and had to grab on to things to walk. i wished i had been born a grown up.

5) i have been known for my obsession with pocketbooks since high school. my mom used to go through all my stuff, so i used to keep every private thing i had in one, and i never let it out of my sight. i slept on top of it for years.

6) i used to dress my hand me down ken doll in barbie's clothes and call him aunt tilly, and my brother and i had an agreement that he could borrow my barbie, if i could borrow his gi joe.

7) my dog flip was epilectic, and sometimes i stayed up all night holding him down while he had seizures.

8) i love the smells of shoe polish from a tin, coppertone lotion and cigarettes.

9) i have the same birthmark as all the women in my family on my thigh. it looks like ireland or a scotty dog sitting up.

10) i ended up in the area that i live in because my double first cousin is spiteful and was pissed at her roommate. i ended up loving it, and disliking my cousin a great deal.

[SOteric]

205. My brothers would 'borrow' my Barbie

but she always came back ...erm...molested in some way.

[bettyellen]

216. well, what do you think i was doing with GI Joe, heh heh......

although you're right, Barbie would come back pretty disheveled....

[Redstone]

227. Hey, we have something in common besides black hair...

Learning to read at three from newspapers.

Redstone

[Bouncy Ball]

177. But how would you know I'm not just making shit up?

Or sprinkling true stuff in with lies?

Or mixing lies in with truth?



I think ZombyWoof gets up to pee at 4:15 every morning. Not 4:00.

[SOteric]

206. I don't know that, but

I'm willing to risk a few stretched truths, - as, - in this case, - the fate of the world does not depend upon verifiable answers.

[fudge stripe cookays]

195. Hmmmm...Unknown Fudge Facts.....

1. I have a faded scar on my right cheeck from running on hardwood floors and taking a header into an end table when I was 2. We got me to the doc in time, and all was well, but several months later, same floor, same slip, same table. Whoosh! Didn't make it in time.

2. My brother is 12 years older than me. We're completely estranged. He is a jerk, and missing my wedding was the last straw for me.

3. I can't play any musical instruments. But I was once told I had perfect pitch (as far as singing)

4. I quit college at the end of my junior year, and didn't get back for my degree until 7 years later.

5. Was once "up close and personal" with the drummer for the Goo Goo Dolls when we were in college together years ago.

6. Clinging to my dad's leg when I was 3, I bumped his hand, and a cigarette ash fell into my eye. Boy did THAT hurt!

7. My first real job was when I was 15, as office helper for my mom when she was a bookkeeper at a plumbing company.

8. I OD'd when I was 20.

9. I had 4 years of Catholic school, from 5th through 8th grade, and have now rejected all of it.

10. I spent a good portion of 2nd grade (every other week) with tonsillitis or strep throat. All I really remember of 2nd grade was penicillin shots in my ass until I got my tonsils out!

FSC

[SOteric]

207. I attended

Jesuit schools right up to the moment I went to college.

[sundog]

208. ok

1) I once worked at a dog grooming salon run by drag queens (this is true)

2) I have been to a nude beach more than once

3) My first pet was named Buffy

4) I really hate mustard

5) I really hate pickles

6) I cook lots of exotic foods, but my fave meal is PB & J

7) I once ate a bag of mushrooms & ended up in the top of a tree

8) I love the ocean more than anything

9) I have deep love for my family, though they often feel the brunt of my frustrations

10) The lounge has really helped put a smile on my face over the past year

[Kathy in Cambridge]

213. I thought I was the only one who hated mustard and pickles

[sundog]

214. you are not alone dear

they're all against us

[sharonking21]

210. A Late List

1. The first time I flew when I was a child I was exceedingly disappointed to find out that there were no borders of states and counties painted on the ground as appeared in my Atlas.

2. I come from a long line of divorcees going back 4 generations.

3. I secretly miss being pretty and striking-looking now that I'm 62.

4. I have falling elevator dreams.

5. I have somewhat stilled my fear of flying by secretly just giving up my life each time I get on an airplane.

6. I still love someone from a failed relationship that started over 25 years ago.

7. I was once married to a right-wing Republican.

8. I am smarter than most people.

9. My grandfather, who was missing a finger, taught me how to write and I still hold a pen or pencil as if I were missing that finger.

10. I have little-to-no patience with complacent people.

[Guy Fawkes]

211. I'm a bit strange (duh!)

So my list is understandably odd:

1. I've been hit by cars on 13 occasions. Though they were all going somewhat fast, and a few actively TRIED to hit me, I have never been badly hurt, nor have I sued or sought other legal action.

2. I have an purple electric violin which I call "Harvey" after the 6ft tall white rabbit.

3. I played Final Fantasy: Tactics Advance for 80 hours straight; my bottom left eyelid started twitching and I had to stop. It kept twitching for several days.

4. I have some 27.6Gb of music on my hard drive. I have never heard some 10Gb+ of it. This includes a HUGE lecture series on philosophy of religion.

5. My first intellectual interests were virology and microbiology.

6. I took French for four years; I never did any work and passed for three years. I dropped the class after my fourth year teacher gave me the grade I deserved. C'est la vive.

7. I used to draw a comic strip about two guys named George and Max. They started out as strawberries back when I couldn't draw people (I still can't). I stopped the strip after someone on the internet told me it was kinky.

8. For no reason I can recall, I recently started drinking apple juice. I drink a little under a gallon a day (on average). I will, on occasion, drink over a gallon a day (weekends and such).

9. I've been roller-blading since I was about 4 or 5 years old. I wouldn't mind competing (racing) some time.

10. A few years ago I was into playing an MMORPG (an online computer game) called Anarchy Online. I never passed level 9, but I had over 13 trillion "credits" and I had a collection of just about every item in the game. I played for 15 days straight- no sleeping- one June. I started hallucinating (bad) and went to bed after the 15th day. I quit shortly there after.

(Interesting side note: I have a strange fantasy that Garfield (the cat, not the president) will jump through my window shooting mail at me with a vacuum cleaner. This was one of my hallucinations/)

[CO Liberal]

212. Our Lists

Me:

1 - I'm the only familiy member in three gnerations to have red hair - the other one was my great-grandfather.

2 - I was the first kid in my second grade class to get glasses.

3 - I had frostbite in both hands and both feet - the result of camping with my Boy Scout Troop in the middle of January. (The doctor called it a mild case, because I didn't lose any fingers or toes. But 40 years later, I my hands and feet still get numb when i get cold.)

4 - When I was at the 1964 New York World's Fair with my family, we were walking down a street and ran into Charo coming the other way.

5 - I have not spoken to my older sister since 1997.

6 - I will never speak to the Princess' older sister again.

7 - I learned to drive in a '56 VW Beetle.

8 - My first three cars ('58 Hillman, '61 Peugeot, '56 Beetle) all had manual chokes.

9 - My first wife tried to stab me to death - in front of my son, who was 2 at the time.

10 - Every woman I've dated (or married) since 1972 has been full-figured.

* * * * * * * * * *

The Princess:

1 - I shoplifted when I was a teenager.

2 - I vandalized an empty house with my girlfriends when I was 17.

3 - I never learned how to drive a stick shift.

4 - I'm allergic to pennicillin.

5 - When I was a kid, I was PAINFULLY SHY.

6 - I had a pet rabbit that lived in the house.

7 - From the time I was 16, my parents let me have liquor at any party I kad.

8 - I have a pink birthmark that's shaped like a butterfly on my left shin.

9 - Last year, I thought my marriage was over.

10 - I was asked to leave a funeral parlor during a wake for laughing too loud.

[Roon]

215. Here goes

1.I remember one time being a baby in a crib.

2.I drove 18-wheelers when I was younger.

3.I am hearing impaired and wear two hearing aids.

4.I lift weights for an hour every morning.

5.I inline skate for 40 minutes every morning.

6.I quit smoking in Feb. after 21 years.

7.I gave up crap food and soft drinks last June and lost 40lbs.

8.I gave up booze.

9.I plan on eventually giving up coffee but I will never give up my occasional bowl of weed.

10.I have been hiv positive for 15 years

[driver8]

217. Here are my 10...

1. I lived through the Northridge earthquake in 1994 but thought I was
going to die.

2. I almost bit my tongue in half when I was 5 years old.

3. As a kid, I lived in Maine, Scotland, Panama, Virginia, Guam and
Adak, Alaska.

4. I have landed on, and been catapulted off an aircraft carrier.

5. I am a very strong swimmer.

6. Pizza is my favorite food.

7. As a kid, I had to go to the emergency room 3 times in less than 2
weeks.

8. I pitched 2 no-hitters in Little League

9. Slash, from Guns n' Roses, once gave me a hug.

10. The mascot of my high school is called "a Stoner."

[Seabiscuit]

219. OK...

1. I'm not really a horse.

2. I've never run around the Del Mar race track, even though I've been there.

4. I never won anything at Santa Anita. In fact, I've never even been there.

5. I never had a jockey named "Red".

6. I didn't even live through the Depression years.

7. I never had an owner who used to repair bicycles.

8. I never met War Admiral.

9. I've never eaten hay.

10. I was never put out to stud.

[imenja]

221. and it's your birthday today!

60th at that!

[Jean Louise Finch]

220. 10 things you never wanted to know about Jean Louise Finch

1. I am viscerally afraid of masks. I run, kick and scream to get away from them.

2. I used to be vegan, but now I am, as they say "veg-aquarian". I think the healthiest I've ever been was when I was vegan.

3. I'm obsessed with www.raptureready.com, for pure entertainment.

4. I'm learning Thai, because I live in Bangkok, and I'm going to be here for five years. I find the language really, really difficult.

5. I have an affinity for dark brown and black foods: dark chocolate, coffee, vegemite, black licorice.

6. I think we're too late to stop widescale international crises resulting from global climate change.

7. I used to live and breathe music, but it has taken a backseat to other interests in the last couple of years. It makes me sad that I can't get the same feeling of elation (or desolation) that I once could.

8. I have the most appalling possible sense of direction.

9. I had pneumonia the summer I was eighteen, my freshman summer, which directly led me to never spend another summer at home.

10. I hope to live on every continent at least once in my life, for at least three years. I've got two down so far, and am well on my way to the third.

[SKKY]

226. 10 Things you absolutely must know about Scott William Knapper...

10. He love's "Leave it to Beaver".
9. Thinks Prince is THE musical genius of his generation.
8. Wants to run a Marathon.
7. Absolutely sucks at math- just pitiful at it.
6. Considers it a tremendous honor to serve in the Navy.
5. Is a HUGE, I mean HUGE Real Betis fan.
4. Speaks fluent Spanish.
3. Thinks thongs are the shiznit!!!
2. Loves his wife of 6 years "con locura".
1. Has a son, Sergio, who has Down Syndrome, and who is the neatest
thing since night baseball.