betcha didn't know

[reiven]

post a factoid about yourself

IE
i'm the 3rd of 6 children
or
i've lived on 3 continents


i'll start

i've had two skin grafts on the same hand. one in a hospital, the other in a customers bathroom with first aid of listerine and masking tape

[cannotseethe]

When I was maybe 6 years old a low-flying meteor passed over my house. It left a wide streak (for a meteor) in the sky that persisted for many seconds. It also made a sound.

[DanteFalling]

I have a great string of three bright orange freckles in a straight line with both outer freckles equidistant from the middle freckle.
Boring, but true.

[reiven]

ron goldman grew up in my old neighborhood and went to the same elementary school

[DanteFalling]

I was 10 when my mother got me a microscope set and walked in to find my attention-needy ESFP little brother stone still on my toybox, a sheet over his head, and a toe-tag dangling from his foot, and my hand delicately grasping a scalpel 1 cm over his abdomen.

He'd never been so quiet.

INFP mother stopped giving me medical toys.

[cannotseethe]

I was very interested in chemistry and electrolysis as a kid. I'd read books or encyclopedia articles about weird chemical reactions, then hunt around for household chemicals or chemistry kits that had the necessary chemicals. I often used batteries to supply the current, but occasionally I would cut a cord off an appliance, strip the ends of the wires, plug the cord into the wall, and stick the bare wire ends into whatever concoction I had made.

[reiven]

when i was in the 5th grade, i wired three toggle switches into box on my headboard. I could turn on a light, my tv, and my stereo.

[eyeonyou]

I had three sets of canines (I-teeth)

[jonnyb]

I use to pee in the garbage can in the foyer at church when I was a kid.

[themuzicman]

I completed 1st and 2nd grade in 1 year.
And that was the worst possible thing for me to do.

I have 6 kids, and the last will graduate High School when I am 46.

[jonnyb]

I dated Mark Hacking's (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 15 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)cousin.

[eyeonyou]

i have six kids, I raised 10, and the youngest will graduate when I'm 56

[cannotseethe]

I never had my six wisdom teeth removed!

[eyeonyou]

I've never been to a funeral

[reb]

when i was 6, my cousin and i were fighting over a belt with a large metal buckle-each of us had one end, and was yanking on it-cousin had the buckle end; had a toy derringer in a 'pocket' in the buckle-i forget who got it for christmas. my cousin let go, the buckle hit me in the forehead, and left a hole from the tit that went into the belt holes. my cousin used to call me 'tittyhead'. i still have the scar. i never tell anyone in rl this story, as i do not want to get that name back again....don't go there.

[plotthickens]

I did not know the meaning of the words 'fear' nor 'trepidation', nor the phrase 'reasonable caution like the rest of humanity' as a child.

Went to the seashore when I was a toddler. Yeay, sun. Parents deposited me on the blanket. They turned around to get the cooler from the car, turned back, dropped the cooler and ran after me. I was running as fast as I could into the open ocean (complete with wicked undertow that kills at least thirty people a year). Was laughing delightedly as was pulled from frothy death. Lost a shoe, they never found it -- it got sucked under.

[hutbug]

I've been married for 30 years to the same man and we are more in love than ever.

[jonnyb]

I use to lure ferrel cats into the house where I grew up with bread crumbs, hide behind the drapes and catch the cat in my blanket. I twirlled my blanket with cat inside and then let the cat go and see what direction it would stagger off to. You know, those cats would run different directions depending on what direction I twirlled my blanky. Here hutbug, hutbug.

[MartinH]

I have no wisdom teeth, or even any sign of buds for them on X-Rays...

[reiven]

despite a dark disturbing doubt about religion, i continue to serve on a youth ministry team.

[Yhor]

I've had more than 15 different jobs in 8 different fields

[hutbug]

I've worked at the same company for 24 years as an Employee, am I an idiot, or what?

*oh, and JB, FYI, I am NOT ferrel, I have a loving owner who gave me a flea bath!*

[Kisai]

I dressed up as a priest and drank in bars in New Orleans.

[hutbug]

I was in a psychedelic rock band while in college in Santa Barbara, CA. We even made an album, but it didn't go anywhere. But it was fun while it lasted! I played keyboard (no singing for me!).

[Doppelbock]

I sat behind Hugh Downs' nephew in Algebra class.

[reb]

my penile appendage is bifurcated.

[coffeeholic]

i hid and ate butter sticks as a child.....often

[jonnyb]

Cut RT index finger most of the way off when 11. Was never supposed to gain full use of it again. I was determined to have it fully functional again as it was my most important finger, trigger finger. Works great still.

[hutbug]

I don't know what my real hair color is.

[reiven]

due to a severe financial reversal, we disconnected cable tv and internet. i try to keep up on the game threads with a frickin criket USB modem.

[Stratego]

I was only ten feet away when lightning struck an Aspen tree in my backyard one summer night in my childhood. It was close enough that I felt it's heat and it knocked me backward and on my ass, but thankfully didn't really harm me. I later pulled a splinter from my cheek.

[plotthickens]

I think humans are HILARIOUS.

[DanteFalling]

As a child different people would tell me I had very lovely red, blonde, or brunette hair. ???

[reiven]

As a child different people would tell me I had very lovely red, blonde, or brunette hair. ???

but no mention of the lovely red lipstick?

[reb]

when i was 6, i wandered into the girls' restroom at school by mistake. i've never been the same since. i still like to walk in nonchalantly and look shocked...and say 'oh, i'm sooooo sorry!'.

[Wtfpeople]

I built a paper airplane in Elementary school, went to the second floor, threw it and it went flying after catching a huge gust of wind...

then a bird intercepted it and pecked it out of the sky. True story, I swear lol.

[jonnyb]

My favorite target to shoot at was an old Steudebaker truck. I could hear the plink when the bullet hit. I shot that thing with every gun I got my hands on.

[reiven]

when i was a senior in high school i was in the co-op program (if that's regional or outmoded, we would leave at lunch to go to work)

i managed the toy department at a local Fred's department store. one of my tasks was to throw out the trash each night, and i was unsupervised. i started out stealing little stuff, but by the time i got caught i was stealing car stereo equipment, clothing and hunting knives, etc

Loosing my job was bad enough, but facing my co-op teacher (an admirable, upright man who had my full respect) to tell him i had been fired for stealing was one of the lowest points of my life. It brought into clear focus the meaning of dignity, and i've not compromised myself (that way) since.

[gwilendiel]

I've been electrocuted, stabbed, beaten, burned with cigarettes/heated objects, shot at, dropped on my head, fell nearly two stories onto frozen ground, and missed getting hit by the long prow of a boat by less than three feet as the drunks who were piloting it crashed into the wooden pier I was standing on.

But I've never actually broken a limb. I've had broken fingers and toes and bone bruises and fractures, but never a clean break that required a cast. Ironically the only time I wore casts was when I had surgery on both feet to correct tarsal fusing. They had to go cut the bones back into separate pieces and I had a cast on each leg for a few weeks.

[Theaetetus]

As the darkly dressed loner in my 4th grade class, children were suspicious of me. One day, I managed to take apart a red pen during recess. Of course, being the loner that I was, no one knew that the red substance all over my hands was ink. A small group of girls walked up to me, then saw my hands. They thought I had killed someone or something, and ran off screaming.

I was laughing maniacally at this misunderstanding when a teacher walked up to me with wide eyes...

Also, again in 4th grade, I once bribed a kid to cover up something I had done. ( I forget what it was.)

In 3rd grade, when I was still the new kid, I glanced in my desk before a test, looking for a different pencil. A kid saw me and accused me of cheating on the test, when it was announced that I got a perfect score. I possessed the most utter, fierce, loathing hatred for him until I left the school in 5th grade.

[gwilendiel]

In 3rd grade, when I was still the new kid, I glanced in my desk before a test, looking for a different pencil. A kid saw me and accused me of cheating on the test, when it was announced that I got a perfect score. I possessed the most utter, fierce, loathing hatred for him until I left the school in 5th grade.

That reminds me of how I built a working rocket for a science project in fourth grade and did an essay on solid fuel propulsion. It was disqualified because I had used a manufactured nose cone/parachute assembly, the manufactured solid fuel rocket engine, and a store bought ignition system.

I was pissed. I did the graphics, painting and construction of the rocket body myself, and they said something to the effect of "This is too good for a kid. You must have bought it already built."

What else was I supposed to do? Make some shit out of wood and volatile and probably illegal chemicals?
Fuck. Some people are stupid.

And sorry if this is thread derailing... it's still on topic right?

[Theaetetus]

I had the same deal happening with two science projects, third and fourth grade. I didn't even place in the 3rd grade school science fair, but I won state. 4th, the school didn't let me go to state. I had to do it myself. My mother and I got to the state science fair an hour late because of the roads.


yeah, I think this is on topic somewhat...

Also, like you, I'm one of the few to never break a bone despite what building I fall off of, what I ride a bike into, what flight of stairs I've fallen down, or what tree I've fallen out of.

I was into longboarding for a bit, a long time ago, and I managed to fall onto pavement going 35 miles per hour. Got some scars and that's it.




Edit: I'm just remembering this now... The kid who won the school science fair in 3rd grade did an analysis of the popularity of cheese popcorn. The kid who won the next year determined that the food you eat determines the smell of your urine. Yes, he brought his test samples in tightly sealed jars.

[jonnyb]

The most religious experience that I had was when I was ~11. I sat in a Sunday School class listening to a lesson on the power of prayer. The teacher's mother was in sad shape with old age and the.....um, shit (or lack of control rather) that goes along with it. The teacher explained how her family got together to 'pray' mother and grandmother to die peacfully and how the desire of their prayers was fulfilled that same night.

I took this newfound knowledge and immediately implamented it with a couple school teachers I did not like who treated me poorly. I prayed them to die over the remainder of the weekend. So much in fact that I occupied the remaining of my concious time of that weekend praying to obtain my desire. Oh how my faith in prayer and God was dashed to pieces when I returned to school and found the same teachers I expected to be dead up and moving still.

[reiven]

And sorry if this is thread derailing... it's still on topic right?

This thread was a way for me to get some depth perception on anyone who wanted to post, so anything offered is gold; i'm loving it.

i'm trying hard not to respond me too to every post, because i've had some similar experiences.

one i can't pass up- i've broken only one bone. i had a caulk gun hanging on the top rung of a 24' extension ladder, extended about 16'. i moved the ladder to the next window and heard something bump. i looked up in time for the caulk gun to hit my face. hurt bad enough i had the homeowner take me to a walk-in emergency room. after 2-3 minutes, the medical professional arranged to send me to Vanderbilt because the tip of the caulk gun had gone through my eyelid and bounced off my cheek bone (discharging silicone in the void).

The clinic didn't have the equipment to clean it out. Somehow my eyeball was not damaged, but i found out there is a tiny bone that holds your eyeball forward in the socket; i broke it. they joked that my eyeball may fall into my skull when i get older, i didn't see the humor. that was about 15 years ago, and my eyes are still parallel...

[daydreamer]

i have horrible depth perception. and i'm loopy on hormones at the moment, having trouble thinking straight. but it's not affecting the J in my intj in case you're wondering; in fact, it heightens it :) i'm like wonder woman now lol

i'm doing ivf. it is better than i thought it might be. and i get some weird thrill from giving myself injections LOL

[jonnyb]

I used to be proficient in the art of squirel calling.

[Yhor]

I talk to my dogs more than I speak to people.

[Nikita]

I got a black eye at school my first day of 6th grade in a new state.

[reb]

i acted as frankenstein in a play in college; looked good green. we did it for kids at all hallows...buried somewhere in posts, so maybe 'you do know'.

[jonnyb]

Just learned how to type correctly (well, mostly) within the last year. My notable achievement for 2009.

[hutbug]

I have no self-discipline when it comes to candy and cookies. I have eaten more of the aforementioned in the past two weeks than most people eat in a year. One of the main reasons I can't wait for the holidays to be over!!

[Bluesea]

I had to see the principal and got a detention at primary school for playing marbles with a boy in the cloak room in front of the boys toilets. I thought it was totally an over reaction - apparently, as a girl, I should be much further from the boys toilets than I was. Hmmm.. I saw nothing, I wasn't even aware of the significance of where I was, adults ... they can be so weird about things?!

[jonnyb]

I carried an amputated leg from the gross lab to the morgue one time. It was in a plastic garbage sack. I used it to press the elevator button (still in the sack). I found it interesting that the leg was much heavier than I anticipated. Of course, in the elevator, I had to take a peak.....

[zibber]

I smoked my first joint when I was 13.

[cannotseethe]

I skipped a year of math in high school, passing right from algebra to calculus.

[reiven]

i skipped geometry.
they suspended me for skipping

[NYK]

I never finished highschool. i was forced to quit and get a full-time job. i have never held a job longer than a few months other than a warehouse job i had for two years before i had a psychotic episode and destroyed everything i owned and went back to being homeless.

[Yhor]

Banana nut bread is my favorite desert.

[reiven]

when i first got married, we bought a husky pup, named him Sebastian. his mom was a registered Siberian, his dad was a neighborhood mutt who jumped the fence.

we live on a (now subdivided) farm, and he was a consummate hunter; rabbit, squirrel, mole, possum, he treed a coon on the porch beam of my front porch about 3 am one morning. i once found a leg bone that probably belonged to a cow...

one morning, my kids walked down the driveway to catch the bus, Sebastian followed behind. My neighbors kids walked down their drive, followed by their tiny furball kitten. they met at the road. in a flash the kitten was breakfast, right there in front of the kids, God and everybody.

the worst part was finding out in the next few weeks how many neighbors were missing cats. that was over 15 years ago, i'm still not a popular neighbor.

[hutbug]

Daily tennis makes my back feel better.

[Nikita]

I finished college in 3 years, and I had 0 credits going into it from high school. (I was in almost all AP classes, but I skipped the tests. :stunned:)

[hutbug]

My degree was in Cultural Anthropology, possibly the most useless of all liberal arts majors.

[zibber]

I was subscribed to Spiderman from age 10 to around age 24.

[hutbug]

I have 5 boxes full of old (1955 - 1975) DC comics in my closet, probably worth about $2000. I bought them all because I love them.

[reiven]

i've had regularly occurring migraines since i was 5

[Wapiti]

I stuck a paperclip in an outlet while at school, in the 3rd grade, on a dare.

[jonnyb]

I weigh less now than I did when I was in Jr high.

[hutbug]

I don't work in the consumer electronics industry, but I have been registering under false pretenses and going to the annual shindig in LV for over 10 years, just because I love electronic gadgets.

[zibber]

I don't work in the consumer electronics industry, but I have been registering under false pretenses and going to the annual shindig in LV for over 10 years, just because I love electronic gadgets.

I'm an undercover FBI agent.

The jig is up, fella.

[daydreamer]

i have 35mm film from over 10 years ago that i havent developed

[jonnyb]

I spent hours as a kid throwing knives and sticking them into things. One time I threw one into the grass, missed and stuck it through my shoe and a subsequent toe. To avoid the scorn of mother, I washed it off and put bandaids on my toe, lots of them, throughout the day untill it stopped bleeding. Good thing I did my own laundry too. The sock looked as though someone bleed to death.

[MassHysteria]

At the age of 11, I had a very, very strange mass of blood vessels attach itself to the back of my retina in the right eye and start hemorrhaging. I had it surgically removed, and my vision improved dramatically. Nine months later, it came back. After the surgery this time, I was left with a blind spot in the center of my vision and myopia.

We still have no idea what caused the sudden appearance of the blood vessels. They were talking about a freak histoplasmosis, a tumor, any number of things.

I am still legally blind in my right eye and always will be. The vision in my left eye has been reduced because of the strain, so my eyeglasses prescription is very odd. But I like my glasses, so I really don't mind.

[XMark]

Thanks to breaking my right wrist back in highschool, I can no longer bend my right thumb without my index finger going down with it. Even if I hold my index finger in place, I can't bend my thumb. But if I hold my thumb in the closed position I can point my index finger with no problem.

[plotthickens]

I'd rather fail on my terms than succeed under someone else's direction.

[reiven]

three years ago i was driving one of my sons to see some family in alabama. as we topped monteagle mountain near chattanooga in the rain, i lost control of the car and did a 360 in traffic. we ended up on the outside shoulder, pointing in the right direction.

[hutbug]

I've been in 6 car accidents, 2 of them fairly major, only 1 was my fault, and 0 injuries, whew!

[taciturn]

I drift my car a lot. Never intentionally.

[jonnyb]

I use to be able to play the harmonica.

[Rafaelsk]

I eat 3 times more than friends who weight 3 times more than me, I guess I burn all that ATP.

[Liason]

I used to catch those rather large ants and put them in ziploc baggies as a child, to see the difference in lung capacity and usage of oxygen.

[Still Standing]

I live in a bilingual environment (English and French) just north of the American border and I can often tell what a person's main language is just by looking at their face.

[Cooper]

I have a basement full of bicycles

[jonnyb]

I got my first kiss with a card trick wager.

[Liason]

I rant to myself and walk alone in the rain during thunderstorms

[Still Standing]

I had brain surgery in 1992 and was cured of epilepsy.

[Cooper]

I do not like pickles

[reiven]

i've had two step mothers and five step fathers

[Still Standing]

When I was 7, I lived with my mother in the Queen Charlotte Islands, close to Alaska.

[SpaceCadet]

I punched the lead singer of Hot Hot Heat in the mouth and busted his lip at a Junior High dance.

[Cooper]

I played with JFK jr. when we were kids

[WoodsWoman]

P. Dempsey was a scrawny little dweeb in Jr. Hi.

[Cooper]

I seem to be the only one here right now. Hellooooooooooooooo.........

[jonnyb]

I saw Demi Moore once on the tarmack of Twin Fall's airport but didn't know it untill someone else pointed it out.

[eyeonyou]

I went to school with Micheal Jordan from second grade through high school. His brother Larry used to torment him on the bus when we were kids.

[Cooper]

I wasn't kidding about JFK jr.

[reiven]

when i was in the 4th grade i dropped my glass lined thermos bottle and the lining shattered into pieces. i knew mom didn't put ice in milk, so luckily i didn't drink it.

[Cooper]

My first dog was a weiner dog named Cindy

[plushbug]

I like cabbage, but can't stand brussel sprouts.

[jonnyb]

I use to try smoking straw when I was 10.

[reiven]

i smoked an aspirin

[Still Standing]

I like the sweet smell of skunk spray - but only from a distance, of course.

[Cooper]

I love the smell of a tire store....

[hutbug]

I used to be able to multi-task.

[eyeonyou]

a grew three sets of canines, had to have the second set pulled because the third set was pushing through the gum above them

[Cooper]

I started getting gray hair at 16.

[MortalWombat]

I'm double jointed in all my fingers, and I can bend my thumbs straight back to touch the top of my wrist, without them breaking.

[datagirl]

The birthmark on my back isn't really a birthmark. My brother bit me when I was about 2 years old (he is 13 months younger than me). I still have perfectly round mark just below my left shoulder.

[Calica]

I went on snail gatherings as a kid. I put the snails in a plastic bowl, covered the bottom with leaves and twigs and went home. They never stayed there until the next morning.

[GouldFan]

My first job was to pull white hair out for my neighbor granny when I was in the first grade. She gave me 50 cents for it.

[BellaBianca]

When I was eight, the family had a cat. I named him 'Sam' after the hobbit.

[reiven]

my best friend in the world is an 8 lb shih tzu named pippin. i'm not sure where the name came from :laugh:

[Artio]

When I was eight I tried to heal a little bird. I didn't succeed, but named it after Estonian bank robber for the funeral. Then I buried it with a fake passport with diffrent name in case it was going to escape the country after death.

[MortalWombat]

I was in a helicopter once. I was young, so I don't remember anything much except, "there's no way he knows what all them buttons do"

[reiven]

i went to a military gun show with my dad when i was little. i remember he told me the cobras were coming. i stopped to listen....nothing at first, then i heard and felt sheer power approach and fly over me. the whole show was stacks of junk cars betting blown to bits by various munitions and weapons of doom.

yeah, i was impressed

[MortalWombat]

I can't cross my eyes or roll my tongue

[fokalina]

On tests...
I never start with the first question.
Most often, I work backwards. Or arbitrarily.

[Cooper]

I fall asleep getting tattooed

[MassHysteria]

I collect things from the year 1987.

[reiven]

i have a decent coin collection my kids will fight over.

[MortalWombat]

I once paid for an entire meal by fishing through a fountain with change in it.

[GouldFan]

This year's crop has been not successful. We split a small quarter-sized potato among three of us, so we could have a bite of our first crop. Didn't have to cook it, because there wasn't much of it.

[plotthickens]

I... I... *gaspsob* I can't grow carrots *sniff*

[MassHysteria]

The first time I got behind the wheel of a car, I nearly killed five people and a dozen cows.

[Mohammad]

president george bush, sr., texas governor rick perry and secretary of defense robert gates, are all gentlemen that i served dinner to.
this one's too out there to bluff. :)

[BellaBianca]

I haven't been behind the wheel of a car yet, but I'm going to learn how to drive this winter.

[GouldFan]

Ever since taking microbiology, some rotting smells are not as repulsive as before (still repulsive though). When I smell something bad, part of my mind goes to thinking about the type of microbe producing the smelly compounds, thereby drawing some attention away from focusing on the odor. I guess the samething could be said about other unsightly growths. I tend to notice biofilm, slime, pigment, and that sort of thing, before I say anything about the mess, so it may seem as if there is a delayed response to those things.

[TrailBlazer]

I can cause myself to become completely numb, to the point where I cannot feel pain. Very useful, however Its hard to get out of it, so it can also be a nuisance.

[MortalWombat]

Sometimes my heart short wires, and I drop. I've had ultra sounds, EEGs, EKGs, all sorts of tests and wires, the works. Nobody knows why. I did have a hole in my heart when I was born, though.

[fokalina]

I have a birthmark that no doctor can identify/classify.

Can you?

It's light blue with small, reddish/purplish spots.
It's almost perfectly round and over an inch in diameter.
It's a slight indentation and sort of a "soft spot."
It's been there since my birth.

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I guess this is more of a "betcha don't know." :)

[MassHysteria]

I can kick all of your asses at Pokemon Battle on N64.

[SAnnBR]

I am a descendent of Jesse James.

[MortalWombat]

I didn't play with dolls when I was little. I played with little Pokemon figures, up until the point when my half-brother buried them all in the backyard. Sometimes when it rained hard, I would find one.

[plotthickens]

I am fourth cousin by marriage to George Bush the Moron.

If I'd known before, it would have made me hesitate in saying 'yes'.

[MortalWombat]

I can't cross my eyes or roll my R's.

[masterpeach]

I have a three leaf clover shaped birth mark.

[MortalWombat]

My pinky toes are less than an inch long.

[GrnEyz]

For whatever reason... females seem to think my hands are attractive.

[reiven]

i had six step fathers.

[GrnEyz]

I have a birthmark that no doctor can identify/classify.

Can you?

It's light blue with small, reddish/purplish spots.
It's almost perfectly round and over an inch in diameter.
It's a slight indentation and sort of a "soft spot."
It's been there since my birth.

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I guess this is more of a "betcha don't know." :)

It's a tattoo from God... simple enuf... ;)

[RedOrange823]

I have had a total of eight teeth pulled. four, two and two.

[MortalWombat]

I have a birthmark on my lower back that looks like a sideways heart.

[RedOrange823]

my birthmark is the exact same as my dad's and in the exact same spot

[MortalWombat]

I like my dog more than I like 97% of the people on Earth.

[RedOrange823]

I like my dog more than I like 97% of the people on Earth.

Me too. Make it 99.9%

[GrnEyz]

Sometimes... my farts smell like Glade air freshener.

[MortalWombat]

Me too. Make it 99.9%

Mine's probably closer to that, too. I gave the billions people I haven't met yet a sliver of hope, though. :laugh:

[RedOrange823]

I have matching moles. I have a mole on my right wrist and in the same spot on my right ankle. Then, in between my first and second fingers on my left hand and in between my first and second toes on my left foot. It's quite odd.

[MortalWombat]

A small family of groundhogs live under my barn.

[RedOrange823]

My dog once found a mouse and 'played' with it. I watched it slowly die and take it's last breath.

[GrnEyz]

I have a birthmark on my lower back that looks like a sideways heart.

A picture is worth a thousand words...!

[Jet]

was born June 6/66

[reiven]

i went to a psychiatrist or psychologist when i was in early grade school. evidently the observations he made disturbed my mom. on the way home from his office that day, she said don't worry son, they thought einstein was crazy when he was young, too
:laugh:

[MortalWombat]

In 10th grade, I won the Biggest Smart Alec award for my class.
It's framed on my wall.

[reiven]

i was voted wittiest of the class of 81

[MortalWombat]

I never went to a single school dance. I refused.

[jonnyb]

I use to be afraid of getting abducted by aliens when I was a kid, especially after watching those stupid 'Unsolved Mysteries' episodes and having to walk to the workshop a block away in the middle of the night.

[reiven]

i used to let beef bullion cubes dissolve in my mouth.

[jonnyb]

^I licked my bullion cubes till they were gone.

[MortalWombat]

^ I only like the chicken ones.

[RedOrange823]

Drank 7 packets of vinegar on a dare

[Mohammad]

i get terrible shin splints if i don't run right.

[RedOrange823]

I was forced to narrate my kindergarten production of "Henny Penny" (Chicken Little) because I was the only person in my class who could read well enough. I almost cried because of the stage fright... *shudders at the memory :disappointed:*

[Mohammad]

i'd been wearing glasses for 13 years, before finally switching to contacts.

[MortalWombat]

I was in The Princess and the Pea in 5th grade.

[MassHysteria]

I skipped out on my first night driving lesson to watch the CMAs.

[reiven]

i can remember when i intended to become a superhero; costume, lair and everything.

[MortalWombat]

I find children to be completely insufferable.

[reiven]

i'm starting to not hate cats

as much

[MortalWombat]

when I was little, I wanted a ferret more than anything.

[reiven]

i've had dogs, cats, snakes, gerbils, tropical fish, wallypogs, saltwater fish, hamsters, black widows, geckos, turtles, mice, (yes, so far more than one of each) one sugar flier, and one tarantula.

[MortalWombat]

I have no idea what a wallypog is.

[reiven]

that's what we called them. they look just like this, only brown
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about 4-8 inches long.

[MortalWombat]

my newts were cooler.

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[reiven]

a newt?
did they get better? :laugh:

[MortalWombat]

the cat ate them.



:(

[reiven]

before you turned them back into peasants?
*gasp*

[MortalWombat]

they had little newt villages? that i didn't know about? :shocked:

[reiven]

3 years of acting/drama was the highpoint of high school.

[freeeekyyy]

I've never accomplished much of anything.

[RedOrange823]

the cat ate them.



:(

...this depressed me a little. :(

[think]

I can't whistle.
*sheds a tear*

[MortalWombat]

I can't stand albino animals.
Red eyes are just darn unnatural.

[Mohammad]

i get the most painful shin splints when i run hard.

[reiven]

i can't chug carbonated drinks. dr pepper or beer, maybe three glugs and i have to stop.

[Mohammad]

i bought my first car for $1,800, and sold it off 20,000 miles and 3 months later, for $1,800.

[Calica]

I can't whistle.
*sheds a tear*
I whistle while inhaling air instead of exhaling it.

[RedHead8808]

I went to 2 elementary schools, 2 middle schools, 3 high school.... dropped out a month before I graduated, and went to three colleges.

[hopeworthhoping]

Dec. '03 I went into a coma 3 days after x-mas due to lungs collapsing from pnuemonia. My family was told that I would never make it through the week. I woke up late in February of '04 and thought that I had been held against my will and my organs were being harvested for sale on the black market... (You have odd dreams in a coma).

I was 28, on a walker and going to physical therapy and speech classes b/c I had atrophy or something like that... Im not quite sure b/c I was just pissed that they insist that I use the walker. I decided maybe I should use it when I woke up late on night and had to pee, I sat up, threw my feet over the bed, and fell on my face..... trust me. I used the walker. It only took me about 5 months or so, but I got function back in my legs, arms, and speech.....
My lungs are kinda f+cked to say the least..... but I am here to tell that story...

[mountain]

When I was a kid, I was into model rocketry. I built my own launch pad and ignition system to save money. The ignition system consisted of a wall switch and a chopped-up extension cord (and a lantern battery). One end of the extension cord had two alligator clips, and the other end was connected to the switch.

Well, it didn't take me long to replace the lantern battery with the discarded plug from the extension cord. I then had 120VAC routed to two alligator clips, controllable by the switch.

I took every discrete electronic component that I could find and clipped it into souped-up ignition system.

Small 1/8 or 1/4 watt resistors exploded with a pop.

Large 1 watt+ resistors just sizzled and fell apart into two pieces.

Small ceramic capacitors also tended to explode nicely. The big electrolytic suckers blew the circuit breaker more often than not.

Now I'm a software guy, and they won't let me near the hardware. Why is that?

[MassHysteria]

When I was a junior in high school, my 74-year-old great-aunt Dotty looked at me thoughtfully one morning over breakfast and said ''You have the sexiest bedroom eyes I have ever seen. One day, some lucky guy is going to look into those and say '*gasp!* That's it! It's her! Everything I've been looking for!'''

No luck so far, but I still sort of like the idea.

[irini]

I'm 38 years old but everyone believes I'm 10 years younger. I'm not sure if that is good or bad. (For me is fine anyway).

[MortalWombat]

I'm still pro at jump rope.

[pottersjar]

I once laughed out loud (meaning, loud) during a funeral about 30 seconds after I saw the minister quickly push his false teeth back into his mouth to prevent them from falling to the floor during an exuberant moment in his sermon. No one else laughed. It was awkward.

[Still Standing]

I went to 2 elementary schools, 2 middle schools, 3 high school.... dropped out a month before I graduated, and went to three colleges.

I went to 5 elementary schools, 2 high schools (no middle schools here,) one college and 3 universities and don't even have 90 credits in similar programs to receive a bachelor's degree (but I have 135 university credits in total.)

[jonnyb]

I used to iron all my money when I was young. My mother gave me an ironing board the other day. *looks in wallet* Hey, I have a whole buck; I will have to make it crisp and new again.

[rwyatt365]

I have a case of "road rash" from a motorcycle accident in the '70s that extends from my left knee down to my ankle - quite attractive! ;)

[Artio]

Biblical exegesis interested me when I was a kid. After I kept questioning about some illogicalities (to whom were Eva's and Adam's children married to if they were the first and only people on earth; was the lake frozen when Jesus walked upon it etc.) my Sunday school teacher asked my mother to shut me up. Oh, those were the days.

[reiven]

in my 3rd grade school/christmas music program, i neighed like a horse at the end of jingle bells. i auditioned and was chosen...to sound like a horse.

[MortalWombat]

I have the recessive inheritance on chromosomes 7; I can't taste phenylthiocarbamide.
Which explains why I like brussels sprouts.

[reiven]

i've never met a phenylthiocarbamide i didn't like.

[MortalWombat]

Have you ever tasted the strips?

[reiven]

strips of bacon, a strip of leather, but never prokelophinhydoimaltodextrin strips

[MortalWombat]

It's a pretty interesting dominant/recessive trait lab.

I can do an advanced sudoku in less than 4 minutes ;D

[reiven]

i have never sodokued

[MortalWombat]

I'm slightly addicted to them.

[reiven]

i was addicted to sunflower seeds from age five until about two years ago.
i can enjoy them in moderation, now.

[MortalWombat]

I don't like candy.

[Wapiti]

I'm the only one of 4 siblings to not (yet anyway) be diagnosed with breast cancer.

[MortalWombat]

I sing 1st soprano normally, but I can reach 2nd alto when I don't feel good.

[Liason]

I litter

[MortalWombat]

I went to church when I was little. One of the deacons was diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease). I watched him as, over time, his muscles slowly weakened and became paralyzed. It spread throughout his muscles, though the disease leaves all sensory capabilities alone. He progressively lost the ability to walk, to move, to speak, and to breathe. Eventually, he died. That was what initially sparked my interest in neurological diseases.

[MortalWombat]

I can play the harmonica, and I'm pretty proud of that fact

[RedHead8808]

I litter

we would never be friends...

Im an anti litter advocate.

[GouldFan]

I used to cut my own hair. One of my classmates was impressed, so he asked me to cut his hair, too. It came out too faminine, so he cried. ;D

[deicruxified]

when i was 13, i got hit by a car while i was riding my bicycle. i had a 0.5-inch cut on my knee, which bled non-stop yet i told the driver of the car i was ok and showed her i can still ride my bike. when i arrived home, the 0.5 inch cut became 1 inch - it was a deep cut that needed to be stitched. my mom was hesitant to give me a bike on my birthday and even threatened me that she'll throw away the bike if i get an accident so i never told her about the whole thing. instead, i searched my dad's tool box for an electric tape so the wound would hopefully close.

it kinda healed the next day. so i rode my bike again and the wound tore open after a few minutes.. *&%$.. so i went home and sealed it with an electric tape and never took it off until the 3rd day. it healed completely and with a nice silky white scar. had my wound been stitched, my scar could have been the ugliest.

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I can't whistle.
*sheds a tear*

i thought i was the only one

[MortalWombat]

I talk in crazy accents when I have conversations with my dog. I think it confuses him.

[GouldFan]

When I was in grade school, I used to write letters and numbers in mirror images at times, which sometimes got me confused about which one's right. #3, 6, and 9 were especially confusing. :wacky:

[MortalWombat]

I can write legibly with both hands. I'm not ambidextrous; it's just the result of practice.

[reiven]

i shake my head no when i say 'yes' and vice versa. people are confounded. even when they expect me to do it, many still find it amusing

[jonnyb]

I used to set traps in my sister's room while she was at school. The best one was a shoe that went flying in her face when she opened her door.

[MortalWombat]

I've caught fish with my bare hands.

[reiven]

gollum ;D

[MortalWombat]

:(

[RedOrange823]

I met Don Henley two years ago and he winked at me :blush:

[MortalWombat]

My uncle is friends with Ed Bassmaster

[reiven]

i've never had a good day fishing :(
i have no patience, i guess

[MortalWombat]

I've never been fishing with a fishing pole

[reiven]

i ate a squirrel i shot.
it was tasty

[MortalWombat]

I got food poisoning from deer meat sausage once

[RedHead8808]

Sometimes I feel like an inadequate mother.

[reiven]

i survived raising three boys into manhood. they think i did ok, so i guess i'll call it even.

[deicruxified]

i have an androgynous look and i find it amusing when people try to utter "ma'am" or "sir" when they greet. i cut my hair short 3 years ago, i was cornered by three gay people at 7-11 and then got myself into street fights when i stayed at my mom's province for quite some time. thank god i'm a martial artist.

oh yeah.. my ex boyfriend banned me from wearing a cap and wearing loose shirts because wherever we went, i'm the hunk and women can't resist greeting or flirting with me. he can't accept the fact that i am more handsome that he is.

those days were pretty much amazing. i never thought that a man's life could be that adventurous and at the same time life threatening. it makes me wonder what mulan's life was during her days.

[irini]

My six years old son wants me to play war with him while I'm trying to type posts in the forum. I have to pretend I'm dead from his shooting and then go on typing...
Now I'm back. I'm alive again! (I love children playing)

[GouldFan]

^So sweet. :cheesy:

When I was six, I went out to the streams and caught 5 crawfish and brought them home. They turned up at the dinner table :scared: and that was the first time I didn't feel like eating dinner.

[MortalWombat]

I caught and raised a duck when I was little. His name was Wakwak. Because I'm creative.

[GouldFan]

I sometimes repeat saying things and don't remember. :(

[searcher]

I only have 24 teeth. I never had wisdom teeth and was also missing an adult premolar.
In total, I've had 9 teeth removed.

[irini]

I must remove adult premolars

[MortalWombat]

I can throw a spiral better than you can.

[BellaBianca]

When I was a child, I had a cat - I named him Sam.

A few days ago, the family got two new kittens as a part of the household and my three year old daughter insisted on having a cat very similar to the one I lived with in my childhood.

I named her after my late friend, her name is Pippin.

[MortalWombat]

I now know 3 people with animals named Pippin.

[KennyIs2Grif]

I single-handedly changed the discipline policy at the first elementary school I went to.

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And all the teachers there still love me!

[MortalWombat]

My dad and I entirely rebuilt our Sport Trac by hand. It had been completely totaled, after being in a collision and rolled down a hill.

[jonnyb]

I took everything apart when I was younger......and still do. Next is a TV.

[MortalWombat]

I can do accents well enough to legitimately fool people on the phone. Yesterday, my mother called. I convinced her I was a Latino that didn't speak English. :devilish:

[irini]

I usually find something interesting to do when I'm bored. I guess that's how I found INTJf -as an efficient source of interest.

[MortalWombat]

I used to be able to raise both eyebrows, singularly. Now I can only do the left one.

[swizzluvin]

i have a scar on both my wrist for the two times i got
arrested in school

[MassHysteria]

I really don't like Star Wars.

[Cooper]

I have never seen ET