Tell Us A Totally Random Factoid About Your Life

[THUNDER HANDS]

I'll go first.

My father is in a famous music video. The Bangles' "Walk Like An Egyptian" video features my father, at the very end of the video, doing the egyptian walk across a street in front of the hospital he used to work at.

:D

Okay, now your turn.

[GOPisEvil]

1. I was sworn in as a US Citizen 10 years and 1 day after my mom.

Same court room, same judge.

:-)

[underpants]

26. Really? Where are you from?

I must have missed that along the way. You look like a normal decent 'Murkan. :shrug::bounce:

[VelmaD]

27. Nope...

he's one of them dang furriners...comin' to this country and stealin' our jobs and marryin' our wimmin.

Get him. :evilgrin:

[GOPisEvil]

32. Born in Greece, adopted by 2 US citizens at 4 days old.

If my adoption were today, I'd have been an automatic citizen, but nooooooo...I had to have the INS lose my file, and go through all the bureauractic crap. I still have the little flag they gave us though. :D

[underpants]

34. That's nice

Greek huh? Have you seen my lamb?

[GOPisEvil]

38. Pvt. Charles Lamb?

I think I saw Radar with him a minute ago...can't figure where he'd go! :D

[underpants]

41. HA!

Pvt.Charles Lamb that is too funny.

[welshTerrier2]

142. the tag line was

that radar flew him to safety in tokyo on "bo peep" airlines ...

and we all had to sit around eating a spam lamb ...

[welshTerrier2]

143. oops ... n/t

[MiddleRiverRefugee]

63. I am a 3rd generation Federal Contractor...

Grew up in Glenn L. Martin's company town in Middle River, MD. Grandfather and father all worked at Martin's. So did stepfather, brother-in-law's family too.

My first job out of grad school was for a Beltway Bandit in Northern Virginia.

[Kamika]

2. uhmm

thats not your life is it?

[THUNDER HANDS]

66. well, technically no...but here's something about me

Freddy Roman, the lounge-singer/ comedian who performs up in the Catskills and Vegas and other places - is my godfather. He announced my birth to a packed-house in vegas.

At which point my grandmother, who was in the audience, fainted and was taken to a local hospital.

:D

[REP]

3. I'm Very Distantly Related to Elvis

Really!

[Ninga]

4. Wow, I'm really old.....

my father walked and demonstrated and protested with Walter Ruther in the very early union organizing days.

[Ninga]

7. which has given me inspiration

to see the plight of those who are less fortunate. My real factoid is that I hold elected office in a small Twp. in Ohio.

[Fridays Child]

168. That's great!

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[Tyler Durden]

5. I grounded Air Force One with Reagan on board.

Delayed his takeoff, actually. I was in a medivac chopper at Andrews AFB and took priority for my dustoff before Reagan, so he got to sit for a few minutes.

No biggie, but I was an emergency and he wasn't: so I told the tower to hold all traffic until we were enroute and out of the pattern.

[Jonte_1979]

6. My mother's old school mate is married to Kofi Annan

Her name is Ann Annan. 'Tis true.

[SoCalDem]

8. Dorothy LaMour sang a lullaby to me

I am old :(

[NicoleM]

I know how to juggle because

I took an acting class in college, and we started every class by working on our juggling. I think it was supposed to loosen us up or something (my classmates and I were very tightly wound). You couldn't pass the class unless you could juggle by the end of the semester.

[Drifter]

77. Juggling is used as a metaphore ...

for life. "He Juggles Work, Family and Play". It is all about devoting the right amount of attention to the right thing, at the right time.

It is a great tool for learning how the mind and body collaborate to perform seemingly impossible tasks. It is a lesson in learning how the human body learns.

There is no secret to learning how to juggle (or becoming an outstanding juggler).

The secret is practice. Once again as with everything in life, practice is the key to succeeding at nearly everything.

Besides it fun as hell. Learn to Juggle.

Cheers
Drifter
7 ball / 5 club / 6 ring Juggler

[Richardo]

91. Apropos quote from Springfield Police Chief Clancy Wiggam:

"Oh, man, what a day. It's no cakewalk being a single parent, juggling a career and family like so many juggling balls... two, I suppose. "

[SpiralHawk]

9. Shoe size 10 1/2

"It is not a sign of good health to be well adjusted
to a sick society." -- J. Krishnamurti (1895-1986)

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

10. I almost kicked the crap out of Jesse Jackson , Jr.

I was in the marching band while I was high school . The number one highlight of the season is the homecoming parade for North Carolina A&T State University - the same college that Jesse Jackson , Jesse Jr and his brother all graduated from . Every year you see Jesse Jackson Sr. with the microphone saying " Keep Hope Alive , donate some money " over and over again bah . Well anyways , we ( the marching band ) were marching into the stadium . We had certain movements that we did where we turn and kick in the air ( as in typical southern marching band fashion ) . Jesse Jackson , Jr was standing right there in the street , he just appeared as I turned around doing the routine - if I would have kicked up in the air , I swear I would have kicked him in the face . I stopped my leg once I saw him , He just appeared out of no where . He just stood there , I was in shock and embarrased realizing I could have killed a congressman . LOL .

[Maddy McCall]

39. I wash my dishes by hand. No dishwasher...don't want one.

I actually like to wash dishes.

[Hubert Flottz]

11. I like Cold Beer And Jeeeezuz!

Edit} Typo:I meant Cold Beer and Cheeeezes!

I Guess the :evilgrin: made me do dat!

[La_Serpiente]

12. Hmmm

Well, I got to perform in a regional honor choir that represented the Western half of the US.

What else??? When I was cooking at my church for the homeless, I stopped a fire from burning down the kitchen.

[Rainbowreflect]

13. My sister was in the Oval Office for the signing of a bill, by Bill.

She got to meet both Clinton & Gore.

[soleft]

14. Ewen McGregor will be at my apartment tonight

[tjdee]

117. Wha....wha..........uh.......drool.

That's all I have to say about that. I'm also exceedingly jealous, as you may expect.

Unless you mean that he's going to be there on your TELEVISION SCREEN!

In that case, yes, he'll be dropping by my apartment as well. I've been trying to catch "Nora" on the Sundance channel. Or Flix, one of those.

:hi:

[soleft]

159. Dammit, I missed him!

They were filming in the lobby of my building. My doorman said he shook his hand and was very nice. Shoot.

[Bronco69]

15. One of my closest friends is the

woman who played Shoshana Johnson in the tv movie, Saving Jessica Lynch.

[Catfish]

16. Not much of a slugger

I was in a homerun hitting contest at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium. I didn't hit a homerun but I did connect a couple of times so I wasn't completely embarrassed.

[Flames]

17. I am a Bears fan

The best damn football team period.

[bearfan454]

23. People don't understand Flames.

They don't realize if you are a Chicago Bears fan than you are a Chicago Bears fan from the day you are born until the day you die. Even if the Bears go 0-16 for 50 years in a row, you are still a Chicago Bears fan. It is just like being a Dem.

[RebelOne]

18. My mother's cousin was a junior senator in Delaware in the 1950s.

[eyesroll]

19. I used to be related to Eddie Vedder by marriage

My great-grandmother's first cousin's granddaughter is Beth Liebling (of Hovercraft), who was married to Eddie Vedder for a few years. (I'm not sure if they're actually legally divorced, but the marriage is over.)

I should say I've never actually met Cousin Beth, let alone former Cousin Eddie.

[Red State Rebel]

20. I can do a great Chicken Cluck!

[bearfan454]

21. I feel that my and everyone else's existence here on earth is for

the 70 or 80 years if we are lucky to make it that far and it isn't even one grain of sand on the beach of time.

[ZenLefty]

47. That grain of sand is an eternity

Each and every one.

[Melsky]

22. I won first prize

in third grade in an essay contest about energy conservation.

[ScreamingMeemie]

24. Did I mention my daughter was in the National Speeling Bee

Last year...? Speller #107.


;)

[TXlib]

102. Let us hope spelling is not genetic...

:)

[ScreamingMeemie]

161. Ha, would you believe it if I said I did that on purpose??

I didn't think so. ;)

[VelmaD]

25. My best friend and I...

webhost sites with adult content. One of my jobs is editing homoerotic fiction for her publishing company. (And y'all wonder why I end up repying on ALL of the threads about sex.) ;-)

Hmm...second fact free of charge. I sing second alto in the Austin Women's Chorus. :-)

[CO Liberal]

28. I'm Distantly Related to James Joyce, The Author

My mother's maiden name was Joyce - he and I are distant cousins.

[Endangered Specie]

29. I have direct ancestory

to the original Mayflower voyage

[DebJ]

120. so does my roommate....from whom are you descended?

My friend is from Winslows line.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

30. I'm a very distant cousin of Ramsay Clark.

Also my brother's name.

[Atman]

31. My cousins are two of "The Angels"

"My Boyfriend's Back."

[hussar]

33. The Queen mother gave me a tie

[johnnie]

35. My cousin

My cousin is secret service for the shrub. He works at the Whitehouse, and I have talked to him about it a few times. Not really suppossed to say what we talked about though..lol

[populistmom]

36. Geraldo Rivera altered my life forever

In the mid-70's, he did a huge expose on Willowbrook, an institution in New York for people primarily with mental retardation. When my parents seprated in 1978 when I was 6, my father, being an attorney who also worked strongly in advocacy for the disabled, was offered a job in NYC in the Willowbrook Review Panel, an agency set up largely due to Geraldo's report (later 86ed by Reagan budget cuts). At the time, we lived in Omaha, so after that, I saw my dad very little for several years.
Eight years later, my parents remarried (but divorced again 6 years after that) and by then my dad lived in Connecticut. My mom and I then moved here to CT where I still live.
So, if not for this original report by Geraldo, my dad would have never moved east so down the road neither would I have as well. Wouldn't have met my husband, nor would I have had the children I have. Weird.

[Stanchetalarooni]

37. I bought myself a soymilk machine for mybirthday.

I make my own soymilk from soybeans.
It is so easy and costs approximately .30/gal. to make.
Compare that to $2.00/liter.
It looks like a funky coffee maker; large oversized carafe, heating element, temerature sensors, grinder and strainer all contained in the "lid".

[CO Liberal]

40. My First Car Was a 1958 Hillman Minx

Paid $80 for it - had it for a year and a half before the trans got jammed in second.......

[Dead_Parrot]

42. You still got it? Wanna sell ?

LOL...

[CO Liberal]

68. No, Unfortunately.....

It went to the junk yard in 1973.......

[Screaming Lord Byron]

43. Made in Glasgow, IIRC

Or to be more precise Linwood, Renfrewshire.

[HEyHEY]

58. that was my dad's first car!

[dofus]

44. My uncle Vinnie

was head elevator operator at the Empire State Building for many years, from sometime in the 1950's until at least 1980. His actual connection to me is that he's my mother's brother's wife's sister's husband. Got that?

I'm also the agent who oversold Ralph Nader on an Allegheny Airlines flight in the early 70's which led to a lawsuit which eventually resulted in the oversale policies you have today, of soliciting volunteers. The most interesting thing is that it was the third time that very week he'd been oversold (or denied boarding as we more commonly called it then). The other agents at the other airlines called me up to laugh at me when they heard about our incident. Nader was ALWAYS late to the gate back then (bet he isn't any more) and it was pretty clear he was looking for the excuse to sue. He did a good thing, because the current system really is a better one. Just a couple of weeks ago thanks to volunteers, I was able to get on a flight home rather than being involuntarily oversols. Thank you, Ralph Nader.

[BigMcLargehuge]

45. the middle finger and ring finger on my right hand are the same length

ooooo... creepy

[HEyHEY]

59. no wonder your typing is so strange

;-)

[ZenLefty]

46. I can bench 315 pounds

and my mother attended college with Stephen King.

[MaineDem]

133. Did your mother go to Maine?

King was Student Senate President when I was a freshman there.

[spinbaby]

48. My father invented a color

You see the red in the boxing glove at the top of your screen? My father patented the phosphor that makes that red.

[Guaranteed]

76. I'm named after my great uncle, who worked on the JFK assass. invest.

My middle name is Charles, and my great uncle was a man named Charles Peck, on my father's side. I never met him, as he died just before I was born, but apparently he was extremely well respected in my family. Anyway, he was in the FBI, and he was one of, I think, four or five agents that investigated the organized crime connection to the JFK assassination. I've seen his name in books relating to the assassination.

Oh, and I was born on my dad's 35th birthday- so he's exactly 35 years older than me. Kinder weird.

[Palacsinta]

49. My grandparents were born in Transylvania

and we never drink..............wine.

[MissMillie]

50. I have an identical twin with the same first name.

We have different middle names.

[XNASA]

51. When I was 12, I stuckout the side on 9 pitches..........

...in the first inning of the first game of our local Little League Season.

Then I came up to bat as the lead-off hitter in the bottom of the 1st and hit the first pitch over the left-field fence.

I couldn't have scripted a better start to the season.

[grannylib]

52. I got to meet the King of Norway when I was a kid

[cosmicdot]

53. I made the Bantam League Football All-Star team

played 3 positions on offense + defense on our championship team

the next year, I was Captain of our league's championship basketball team

had "naturals" on both side of the family in both sports

[Whitacre D_WI]

54. When I met Lou Reed,

the only thing I could think to say to him was "my God... you're so small!"

[caledesi]

55. My cousins are "The Cowsills"... 70s group

[Red State Rebel]

86. AHHHHHHH!!!! I was a BIG fan!!

[henslee]

145. I saw cowsill girl (Laura?) sing w/ Dwight Twilly once, yrs ago..grt voice

[GregW]

56. I'm in an episode of "Bay Area Backroads"

Click here for transcript

There is also a video floating around somewhere.

[HEyHEY]

57. My lifes in the crapper right now

how's that?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

89. I'm sorry to hear that...

:hug:

Maybe it'll help to talk about it?

[Bertha Venation]

60. June Lockhart visited me in the hospital when I was a baby.

According to my mother, it was a big deal. For you youngsters, June Lockhart was a quite famous television actress in 1963, what with "Lassie" and "Lost In Space."

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

61. One of my ancestors was Treasurer of the United States...

One of the first, I believe.

[Character Assassin]

62. I am a juggler.

working on five balls, don't quite have it yet.

[Drifter]

78. Hey Juggler ....

I have been trolling this board for many years trying to find Jugglers (without much success).

I too am a Juggler. I have been juggling for about 23 years (started when I was 16. I did it in college (learned to pass clubs). I got bit by the bug again about 4 years ago, when I happened upon the local juggling club.

Well, now I'm the president of the club (elected, but clearly the only one willing to take on the job). I have been juggling seriously since then.

My first big committment was to learn 5 balls. I could barely keep together a 4 ball fountain. I consider myself a pretty solid 5 ball juggler (I can usually go for over a minute at will).

see my post above where I shamelessly plug my juggling accomplishments.

Feel free to contact me. I also teach juggling, and would love to help whenever I can.

Cheers
Drifter

[Character Assassin]

110. Believe it or not, I learned it in 'Circus Arts' at University of Oregon

Had to fill in one more PE credit, and it was fantastic. Learned to ride a unicyle, balance board tricks, etc... I really dig passing, and with weirdo objects. We did it once with three people, a mop, a lawn dart (before they were banned) and a phone book.

The only thing I could never, ever get the hang of was the damn tight-tope. Even only like 6 inches off the ground, it was impossible.

There was a guy there who could easily 5 ball and sometimes 6 ball. He could also juggle 5 balls bouncing them off the ground and walking around. Quite cool.

[radwriter0555]

79. know 8 pin jugglers. The Flying Karamasovs, in fact. And the Pickle

family circus.

Yes, I used to know circus folk.

[radwriter0555]

80. Oh, I know the Butterfly Man too.

http://butterflyman.com

And yes, that's a tattoo on his head, it's real. And yes, he does put a toupee on top of it now and then.

He helped me out for a while when I lived in San Francisco.

Saw him again a couple years back at the Renaissance Faire... an amazing fella, great website, check it out.

No, I never slept with him.

[Drifter]

90. I met the butterfly man ...

a few years ago at the IJA (International Jugglers Association) convention in Madison, WI.

I actually watched someone fire actual blow darts into his body. Needless to say he was quite pissed.

Cheers
Drifter

[Drifter]

93. Rad,

What exactly is an 8 pin juggler. I assume you are referring to juggling clubs (pins are things that are used in sewing and bowling).

I don't believe you know someone who can juggle 8 clubs (solo). I know this because as far as I know it has never actually been accomplished (Juggle = 2*n throws and catches with n objects). There are only a handlful of Jugglers that have managed to flash 8 clubs (Flash = n throws and catches of n objects).

If you referring to more than one juggler juggling 8 clubs, I can believe that. I can do that also (admittedly poorly though).

The Flying K's are great, and I have at least heard of the Pickle Family circus.

Cheers
Drifter

This is easily the most number of Juggling related posts on any thread in the history of DU.

[radwriter0555]

99. The Flying K fellas can do 8 pins solo, and I believe

that Robert can do 8 pins solo.

Or was it 7?

And isn't robert HYSTERICAL when he's pissed?

Funny, FUNNY fella.

And they call em pins, as in, they look like bowling pins.

[Drifter]

164. Not solo ...

No one has ever put 8 club juggling on stage.

Anthony Gatto (considered the greatest technical juggler in the world) routinely Juggles 7 clubs in his vegas show. He has at least Flashed 8 clubs (8 throws, 8 catches), but never on stage. His record might be 14 or 16 catches. Jason Garfield has at least flashed it, Jian Wan Qian has flashed 8 badminton racquets. Other than that, there aren't many others capable.

Again, I would believe that Flying K's have passed 8 clubs between 2 people on stage.

And no, they don't call them pins. They call them clubs, because they don't look anything like bowling pins. ;-) I have real bowling pins and they are extemely hard to juggle.

Cheers
Drifter

Check Out the Internet Juggling Database. http://www.jugglingdb.com/ They have the largest collection of juggling videos on the net. Absolutely amzing stuff can be found there.

[chefgirl]

64. Never one to follow rules..

I'll share three:

1) I was in the N.J. State Choir for three years
2) My portrait won first prize in a national photography competition
3) My son attends the same high school that Stephen King went to

-chef-

[NightTrain]

65. When I lived in Laughlin, Nevada, in 1995 and '96....

...I appeared not once, but twice, on a locally-produced TV program called "The Morning Show" to talk about record collecting.

[VOX]

67. My great-great grandfather fought at Gettysburg...

He was a private in Company D of the 11th Mississippi Infantry. The 11th was part of the Pickett-Pettigrew advance on the third day of the battle. The regiment incurred 340 casualties; they started with 389, which meant a loss of eighty-seven percent of the men.

The 11th Mississippi was part of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, and as such, it fought in numerous major engagements of the war. My great-great grandfather was finally captured on April 2, 1865 near Petersburg, and was imprisioned, where he caught smallpox, but somehow survived.

The ancestor that links me to him was born *after* the Civil War, so, if my great-great grandfather had been killed or died of disease, I wouldn't be typing this right now -- I wouldn't exist!

[Catfish]

69. I'm related to General Pickett

My paternal grandmother was a Pickett and descended from George Pickett.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

100. Have you visited Gettysburg?

We drive up there a lot, since it's only 90 minutes from here.
The next time I go, I'm going to drive along Confederate Lane and see if I can find the 11th Mississippi monument, and I'll send a thought your way... :-)

[Catfish]

148. No

and I'm not that far, I'm in North Central WV and used to live outside of Altoona, PA. I'd like to visit in July and hope I make it next summer.

[VOX]

162. No, I haven't GOG -- but it's on my "to do" list...

Just to go there and walk the ground, and draw in the history.

I read where the 11th's monument is fairly new and is located on
Hancock Avenue, at the Bryan House.

Best -- :toast:

[Dogmudgeon]

70. I was almost in the cast of ST:Voyager

I think it was Voyager, before the character was written out of the script.

They chose me to be the "consort" of Jeri Ryan's character 7 of 9.

My character's name was 25 or 6 to 4.

(Ducks flying dishware.)

--bkl

[geniph]

71. My father swears his grandfather was Doc Holliday

of OK Corral fame (infamy?).

[jeter]

72. When I was 11 (1986) I got a lot of media attention

for saving a three year old boy. I had learned CPR in school (5th grade) three weeks before and had to use it when a friend of my cousin was found drowned in a pool. The boy's life was saved. The media made a big issue because I had just learned CPR in school which they said was a really good thing because had the school not taught us kids CPR the boy would have been dead.

[Fridays Child]

169. Now, THAT'S cool!

:thumbsup:

[Solly Mack]

73. Both my little toes are underdeveloped

causing them to look more like extra-nubs than actual toes. They both are pointy at the end(lack of bone) but lots of tissue

[Screaming Lord Byron]

74. I have a 'drunk' toe

It's at 90 degrees to the others.

[CO Liberal]

75. I Had My First Army Physical on December 7, 1971

A date which will live......in infamy.

I failed the physical because I was underweight and still under lifting restrictions after having my spleen removed earlier that year. Six monts later I returned for a second physical - I was still underweight, so I was classified 4-F (medically unfit for military service).

[Throckmorton]

81. I was born in the same Hospital Room as my father

23 years and 7 months later, I hope they changed the sheets.

[Throckmorton]

83. Oh, and Christopher Lowell is my brother

The color schemes in my home are to die for.

[radwriter0555]

85. No WAY!?? how cool are YOU? I love that guy!

He's hysterical, and a pretty good decorator too.

[JVS]

82. My Great-Great Grandfather was in the 1st Minnesota

http://rhet5662.class.umn.edu/heroes/1stmin.html

[CO Liberal]

84. My Father's Car Was In a Commercial For the Seeing Eye

The Seeing Eye is headquartered outside Morristown NJ, where I grew up. They train their students and dogs on the streets of Morristown, and that's where they filmed their commercials, which many TV stations aired as public service announcements.

For many years, their commercial showed a blind person and a Seeing Eye Dog walking through a crosswalk near the Morristown Green. A white 1963 Volkwaren Beetle can be seen in the background, going east on US 24 (Washington Street).

That was my father's car.

[Red State Rebel]

87. My sister dated Rusty Young from the band Poco

[SiobhanClancy]

88. My grandfather introduced the women's suffrage amendment in Missouri

when he was speaker of the Missouri house,way back in 1919. His father,right off the boat from Cork at age 16,ran away and joined the union army and was shot in the back in 1864. Many years later,in 1912,the bullet moved and killed him.

[rucky]

92. I Was a Tabloid Tipster

n/t

[RetroLounge]

94. My CB Radio handle when I was a kid was

"Nowhere Man." It was prophetic.

My first car was actually a 1960 Ford Truck. I wrote a poem once about that truck. It got published in a local paper. I got high a lot in that truck. It was gray primer.

I have a fear of needles. Once as a kid, during a routine taking-of-blood for a test, the tourniquet came off and somehow knocked the needle out of my arm and into my side, deep, between two ribs. I freaked a bit, and have always hated needles ever since. Hence I never did Heroin.

Heroin may be one of the few drugs I have never tried.

edit: spelling

[LiviaOlivia]

95. I broke into my neighbor's place Saturday

..with the help of the Fire Dept. My dingbat idiot neighbor left
food cooking on her stove while she disappeared for the day.

[TrogL]

96. My breakfast

Coffee and fruit bars. Anything else gives me stomach aches.

[Richardo]

97. I was a model in a Ford print ad...

...I was in high school, so it would've been the early 70s. Me and my friend's sister washing the new model whatever, she's spraying me with the hose.

[Redleg]

98. I stubbed my little toe on the bed leg three weeks ago today.

It did hurt like hell!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

101. I used to have 3 kidneys...

The third one didn't function properly, and kept getting infected; so doctors removed it after my freshman year of college.

[grasswire]

103. I was at Jesse Jackson's 50th birthday party

.......and he kissed my hand.

Also was invited to tea at the embassy of the People's Republic of China in Washington to meet with a cultural attache about cooperation for a cultural festival I was managing. It was a bizarre experience. They sat me in a dim room by myself for a long time. I was afraid a trap door would open and I would be sent off on a boat to Shanghai in white slavery. The embassy was pretty shabby inside.

I've been published in arabic language in various Middle Eastern newspapers when I was working for an arts organization and promoting Middle Eastern artists appearing at the Kennedy Center. I spoke to Peter Jennings and made phone calls to Baghdad.

Interviewed Colin Powell when he was chairman of the Joint Chiefs, in his Pentagon office with just me and my photographer and his press aide.

Ha! I just realized how much fun I had in Washington.

[progressiverealist]

104. my sister hit Jimi Hendrix with my dad's car

...very lightly- just tapped him on the hip as he was crossing the street to get some smokes before a show.

[Richardo]

105. That may be the winner, folks....

Who can top that?

[SmileyBoy]

106. I'm a member of the largest equipment squad of all college football teams.

North Dakota State has EIGHT members on its equipment team. We're only a I-AA team, but we spend more money on equipment than most D-IA schools, anyway.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

107. Rolf Harris asked me to procure some women for him

[CO Liberal]

108. Well "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport"!!!!!

:-)

[Screaming Lord Byron]

109. 'scuze me mate, where are the girls? I was looking for the girls?'

you dirty old man, Rolf.

[GregW]

111. I saw Rolf in Ireland a couple years ago ...

Just had a pint at Dirty Nellies and decided to check out Bunratty Castle. Was walking along and thought, "Hmmm ... I know that bloke with the silver hair and beard" ... and I was right.

Looked around for a wobble board but couldn't find one :(

[Screaming Lord Byron]

112. Yeah, he's a pretty cool guy. Just a little worried about his taste

in young women.

[chaska]

113. I saw a flying saucer (UFO) once,

Close up, too.

[scottcsmith]

121. My experience

I'm not a big believer in UFOs. The premise is flawed. If an alien species has developed a propulsion system for a ship that can move the ship near to the speed of light, why would it then send that ship on a journey of hundreds of years, only to have the craft make random appearances in corn fields and then vanish?

Now, I did see an odd light in the sky once. I don't think it was an alien ship, but it was still a strange experience. It was 1985, and I was waiting for the school bus. My stop was the first on the route, so I had to be up early to get the bus. One morning as I waited for the bus, I was looking up at the stars, when I noticed a light that was moving very slowly. I started thinking it was a satellite when, suddenly, the light stopped, changed direction, and whisked off at high speed.

[chaska]

127. I'm way sceptical, but...

I did see a craft of some sort (classic flying saucer shape) hover less than 20 feet above an intersection one night, while 8-10 of us stood, mouths agape, underneath it. What it could have been who knows, but I (and mother and brother) watched it for several minutes - it was very much real.

I shiite you not.

[Speck Tater]

138. scottcsmith...

Woah! It's a HUGE leap from seeing something to postulating what its origin or purpose might be.

I've seen a couple of very strange objects in the sky, and read many accounts of other people's sightings. I agree with you that the alien hypothesis doesn't make sense. Nor does it hold up in light of the evidence from most sightings.

UFOs obviously exist, but whatever they are, they are NOT spaceships piloted by aliens from another planet. Nor does a belief in the existence of UFOs make it necessary to believe in that "flawed premise".

I suggest you have a look at some of the books on the subject written by information scientist Jacques Vallee, Ph.D. (You might also enjoy his book The Heart of the Internet: An Insider's View of the Origin and Promise of the On-Line Revolution)

[Lizz612]

114. I have a birthmark on my left pinkie

on the palm side, near the tip. It was right in the middle of the tip when I was little but it has moved down and to the left as I've grown. There is relatively little melanin on your palm and it will never freckle, so having a birthmark there is rare. It came in very helpful when I was learning left from right. Instead of "Which had makes an L?" my mother would ask "Where is your birthmark?" Does that count as cheating, or just using what god gave me?

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[Nikia]

115. I have one on my right ring finger

I used it to learn left from right also. I was the kindergartener looking at her hand when the teacher asked about left or right.

[Lizz612]

147. Cool!

Thats so cool! That makes exactly one other person I have heard of with this!

[JohnKleeb]

116. I have the coldest blue eyes on earth

:D
oh and I have a birthmark on my armpit and when I was 7 I named it.

[THUNDER HANDS]

124. so...

What'd you name your birthmark?

[JohnKleeb]

128. I forgot lol

but he had his own pizza place when I was in second grade, oh what a silly fool I was back then. I think I called him Pit. I forget. *stares with cold blue eyes* heh, I have such evil eyes.

[SOteric]

118. I won 3 consecutive

"Best Legs" titles at the university I attended, and have been known to use the power of a very short skirt and very long legs to schmooze my way out of a speeding ticket.

[chaska]

130. DAMN!!!

Where were you when I lived in Seattle?

[scottcsmith]

119. My mother dated Ronald McDonald

I don't know if he was the actor that played Ronald nationally, or just in California.

Also, my mother was friends with the woman that the movie "Mask" is based on. "Mask" featured Cher as a biker chick and her son, Rocky, who had a facial deformity. That's Eric Stoltz behind the makeup.

I don't remember ever meeting Rocky, but my sisters do.

[Fleshdancer]

122. My parents named me after

Gloria Steinem

[RedEarth]

123. I zipped up Bette Midler's dress

Years ago, I used to be involved in helping put on concerts and was back stage watching Bette Midler sing and all of a sudden she ran off stage and said "hurry, please zip up my dress". Being the gentleman that I am, I promtly zipped up her dress.

I also, ate dinner with Van Morrison, Boz Scaggs, Grateful Dead, Chicago, Yes, Three Dog Night,....plus many other groups.

[ikojo]

129. I think RedEarth wins

hands down...dinner with the Dead? C'mon...one can only wonder what the appetizers were!

Wooo hooo!!! I am INSANELY jealous that you broke bread with the Dead!

[RedEarth]

136. lol.....Appetizers, well it wasn't shirmp cocktail

As I recall, it was something that you roll-up.....:hippie:

[ikojo]

125. My dad was a barber and his one claim

to fame was that he once cut Moe Howard's hair prior to an appearance by the Stooges at the Illinois State Fair. Guess it wasn't too difficult a hair style to maintain.

[Cheswick2.0]

126. I have seen Bill Hayes nakid butt more than once

In case you don't know, he was the guy that sang the "Davey Crocket" theme song. He also played in Days of our Lives for many years.

[Speck Tater]

131. Andrew Jackson is my great-great-great-great grandfather

according to my grandmother's DAR family tree. Also descended from a revolutionary war officer named (if I recall correctly) John Donaldson (or maybe it was Donally? sp?)

[toddzilla]

132. I'm 33 and i've owned over 25 cars..

yes, i used to be very hard on my automobiles. only crashed one though.

:silly:

[MooPie]

134. I went to elementary school with Stevie Wonder

But back then he was known as Little Stevie Wonder. Once a week parents would come in and sell stamps for U.S. Savings bonds and because my mother was one of the volunteers, I got to go around to the class rooms and hold up a sign that said "stamps." Then all the kids would file out the door and head down the hall to buy their .10 or .25 stamps. When I would go to his classroom, since it was for the blind kids, I had to take them and lead them down the hall so they could buy their stamps, and then I would lead them back. He didn't really know who I was. But I knew who he was. It made me feel cool. I also met Al Kaline (one of the Detroit Tigers best players). Boy, do I feel old.

[rbnyc]

135. I've never had a cavity.

And until 7/24/2003, I'd never had a broken bone.

[MaineDem]

137. Al Franken's wife (Frannie) and I used to be best friends

We grew up together and lost touch (damn it) when we went to different high schools.

[catzies]

139. Janet Reno was my mom's lawyer when she divorced my dad

My mom was dating my dad and Janet's brother Mark at the same time and although she married my dad instead of him, my mom remained friends with the Reno family, and I even remember going to her house when I was little. My dad also went to high school with her; I think they were in the same graduating class.

(I'm still pissed she's not the Governor of Florida :mad: )

[matcom]

140. i was once addicted to Cocaine

in the 80's

big time.

for about 2 years

[Cat Atomic]

141. I'm so funny, I once made a guy vomit while he was laughing.

He was beet-red, and when he covered his mouth, vomit erupted all around it. It was amazing. And he was still laughing.

And I could never remember what I'd said before he started laughing. Neither could he. And that's probably best for everyone.

[welshTerrier2]

144. Chocolate Milk and Soda

I was responsible for making them available in the cafeterias at Syracuse University ...

[woofless]

146. I have three nipples.

no shit.


Woof

[put out]

149. Unique things or famous stuff?

Someone very close to me played footsie with a member of Congress.

I saw James Brown in an airport with a cadre of guys in dusters, surrounding him so that he walked out in front with his hair blowing back.

Three nipples, or more, is not that unusual. Pretty cool though; better than a tattoo. I have no emoticon, so you can't see me grinning.

[cosmosmom]

150. I held Paula Abdul's dead dog in my hands

It got hit by a car while she was in town going to the local psych hospital about 8 years ago. It was a little chihuahua. She was quite hysterical when she came in and I couldn't even tell who she was at first because she was screaming and crying and her face was so distorted with pain. She went into a private room and called Emilo Estevez (we knew this because her voice carried through the air vents).

She was much more composed when she came back a week later to pick up the little dogs ashes.

I also met Ellie May (Beverly Hilllbillies). She lives here in town, and used to bring her pets in to the vet clinic I worked in.


And oh yeah, I am related to William Shakespeare. I'm his cousin, 16 times removed. (Really)

[put out]

152. Tops me.

But, I once kissed a member of a really mediocre, defuct rock
band.  

[Insider]

151. 2d degree burns from an army machine gun

climbing out of the fox hole in basic. knocked it over, off the tripod bipod...

grabbed the BARREL to stand it back up. LOL holy hot sauce, batman!

[mitchum]

153. I was the Gerber baby

[VOX]

163. Enjoyed your products!

:toast:

[Mass_Liberal]

154. IIIIIIIII LIIIIIIIIIIIKE

TRRRRAAAAAAFFFFIIIIIC LIIIIIIIIIIGHTS!

[Mass_Liberal]

155. My great-great-great-great... grandfather, Adam

was one of the leader the peasants revolt of 1381 in England. He raised the counties of Essex and Kent against the boy king Edward II (i think that was his name) He was a butcher that got hanged when the revolt failed. So there's the story of my commie blood :toast:

[FloridaJudy]

156. I collect pornographic Tarot cards n/t

[sleepyhead]

157. When I was a junior in high school

I got the highest PSAT score in the entire state of Missouri. (That's the preliminary SAT test - don't know if they still administer that to HS juniors.) Made me semi-famous for a while.

[Wickerman]

158. Billie Ray held my head while I vomited

I had my wisdom teeth removed in a hospital way back in 1977. My roommate was dating then Gov Robert D. Ray's (Iowa R.) daughter. When I cam back after surgery I was quite ill from the anesthesia. While vomiting I looked up and there was the Gov's wife holding my head. She had come to see her daughter's boyfriend, who was still in recovery. I tried not to puke on her stylish shoes.

[MissMarple]

160. I like black licorice and jelly beans. And also scotch.

But never together.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

165. My mother and her two sisters each have 3 kids

and the oldest child in each family is 5 years and 4 days older than the youngest child. (March 14, 1964-March 18, 1969; June 19, 1971-June 23, 1976; September 12, 1963-September 16, 1968)

[Insider]

171. this one got a smile

not sure why...

cool.

[Swede]

166. My eyes are green and brown,

I have birth mark on my back that looks like a scorpion.

[ironflange]

167. I can do a very convincing cricket chirp

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[havocmom]

170. Weird Al Yankovic said I was the strangest woman he ever met

OK, OK, I was wearing that penguin costume at the time... Still, when someone like Weird Al makes that sort of comment about one, one must be a world class odd-ball!

And a lot of ducks followed me through the park that morning too.

[Lefta Dissenter]

172. I'm related to Alexander Hamilton

so next time you pay your income taxes, you can just skip the middle man and send them to me!

Also, I have a sketch of my mom done by James Montgomery Flagg (you know, the one who did the Uncle Sam "I Want You" poster). I also have a caricature of my grandmother done by JMF - it's really wild-looking, as I guess their relationship was! :evilgrin:

AND, my adopted brother, who is also my third cousin, grew up next door to Rita Wilson (currently married to Tom Hanks). I sure wish they had kept in touch!

And my sister had dinner with Julie Nixon and David Eisenhower.

I'll stop now. :)