Let's hear 10 things...

[kmla]

That most of DU does not know about you.

SOteric did a post like this a while ago, and it was one of the most interesting threads I've read since I've been here. And since imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, I thought I would start another one. But all credit for this idea belongs to SOteric.

I'll start:

1. I've never been skinny dipping. Probably rooted in my fear of water.

2. My wife has never seen me drunk. We've been married for 10 years, together for 13.

3. I live near a small airport where the Blue Angels appear during an annual air show every summer - I get to watch them from my back yard.

4. I like to go antiquing, but don't get to very often.

5. I am right handed. But I eat left handed. Just feels more natural, that's all.

6. I am a smart ass, descended from a long, distinguished line of smart asses. I worry that I offend other DU'ers with my smart-ass comments sometimes...

7. I am the youngest of three children.

8. The last time I was tested, I had a relatively high IQ. It's just that "motivation and applying myself " part that held me back a little.

9. I just don't understand hockey. Kinda like going to games occasionally, but I don't know what the hell is going on.

10. In college, I was one letter grade (in a specific class) away from changing my major to telecommunications. If I had failed that test, you may have had the chance to listen to me do overnights in some small market oldies station in Boise, Idaho. But I got a 'B' on the test instead.

Let's hear 10 things about YOU...

[La Lioness Priyanka]

1. hmm

50% of my family in clinically insane

i dont understand/play/like any sports

i hate the opera

i love ballet

i cannot stand male singers aside from elvis, beatles and the doors (which is way weird given that i am only 25)

thats all.......

[Robb]

2. Why not?

1. Many mornings I secretly wish I had followed in Dad's footsteps and become a third-generation plumber.

2. About twice a month I suffer from "toast madness", where I devour nearly half a loaf (or more) first thing.

3. I own a wine corker, although I have no intention of making my own wine.

4. My old boss the chef (and his wife) are still good friends of mine, and probably twice a month they ask when I'm coming back to work for them again.

5. Now that I'm working from home, I harbor a secret guilt about the electricity and NG I now use to heat the house during the day.

6. I built a special cabinet that hangs from the ceiling in the kitchen, just to display the old, old crystal stuff from grandma; and I love using it for no special reason!

7. I torment my dogs from time to time with a remote-controlled M1A1 tank I built.

8. In my youth I owned a dual 24" subwoofer cabinet that was attached to my guitar rig, and I played in the loudest band the Bay Area had ever seen. I wish I hadn't sold it, because no home theater will ever compare.

9. One of my fondest memories was driving away from a town with everything I owned in the back of my little pickup. I now have a basement full of crap.

10. My newest joy is sending Mrs. Robb flowers at work. I heartily recommend this to everyone who's got a special someone.

[Insider]

5. ToastMaster? n/t

[Skittles]

11. I laughed at the tank bit

but I gotta say, I would be MORTIFIED if a guy sent me flowers at work. I would not care for that at all, no indeed.

[Insider]

3. here goes (may be repeats from back when)

1. was a security guard at the world trade center over 20 years ago.
2. also have a master's degree in security management
3. haven't owned/worn a watch in over 2 years
4. fav movie is (drumroll)... west side story! (oh, you all know that)
5. have owned 3 cars/trucks, all gray
6. have 4 brothers, 0 sisters
7. been to moscow and st. petersburg before the wall came down
8. love hot, home-fried chicken wings more than life itself
9. cry hearing the national anthem every time
10. drug-free (10 yrs), alcohol-free (7 years), and smoke-free (2 weeks after a 3 month relapse), and still not fully present ;-)

bonus: peacefully gay (LOL)

[grannylib]

8. Best wishes on the no smoking agenda; it's the toughest addiction to

beat! I still have not managed...so good luck to you!

[Intelsucks]

4. I'm not interesting enough to come up with 10 but...

1) I didn't have a TV for 13 years, and didn't miss it at all.

2) I never go grocery shopping... I eat out every day (one meal). And I'm still fat!

3) I worry more about how my yard looks than the inside of my house. I am no housekeeper!

4) The Super Bowl was the only football game I saw all season.

5) I hate exercise, because I hate to sweat.

6) I like beer... A lot!

[Robb]

14. Beer good!

:beer:

[grannylib]

6. OK here's mine:

1. I was adopted and just met my birthmom when I was 41 (it's cool!)
2. I once met the King of Norway (King Olav the Fifth); I got to give him a bouquet to welcome him to our town when he visited.
3. I love reading children's books, especially if they were favorites of mine when I was a kid.
4. I hate hate hate hate hate hate hate the telephone. No sound in the world annoys me more than the ringing of a phone.
5. If I could go back to school and study anything I wanted, I would go back and take interior design classes (I was a psych major first time around).
6. I get cabin fever really easy; I need to get out of the house frequently, and I love being in a new place I have never seen before...I road cruise a lot.
7. I hate sunshine in the winter; it's depressing. Between December 15th or so, and the end of February, I would just as soon not see the sun. And it's really hard to drive when the sun is out and there is a lot of snow.
8. I tend to be a terrible procrastinator, particularly if in involves making phone calls! (Did I mention that I hate the phone?)
9. I love Scrabble and Boggle and crossword puzzles...word games fascinate me and make me feel like I am exercising my brain.
10. I once considered a call to the ministry, and planned to attend seminary, but upon prayerful reflection and some experianece working in the church, decided that my ministry needs to be just my life, not a paid position...can't do it, and I am really disgusted with most organized religion.

[Insider]

12. nice to meet you

and good luck on the ministry thing. THAT is tougher than not smoking! ministry in action

and wellbutrin is working like a charm. it worked nicely for me two years ago, and now too. not even a thought really. i am grateful.

[grannylib]

16. Thanks, I might have to try that!

[Skittles]

13. regarding the King of Norway

was that in Decorah Iowa? Was there a parade? My drunk Uncle Dewey drove in that parade in a convertible - uninvited guest. :o

[grannylib]

15. *lololol* yes, it was....Dewey Bruening?? OMG hee hee hee....

his niece is one of my best friends from high school, if that's who it was, hee hee hee...
Was he in one of his Caddies, sitting in the middle of the front seat???

[Skittles]

46. no, not a Bruening

but still a drunken Dewey. He was ahead of the king, driving in the parade drunk. Another one of my uncles, Flavian, was the Mabel town drunk for many years. :o

[Shananigans]

7. 10 things about me...

Ok...some of them will probably get me alot of slack, but you asked!

1. I only brush my teeth once a day (in the mornings) unless I am going out
2. I had a fish named Indigo Van Gogh (now deceased, bless his little soul)
3. I hate cats
4. When I was 4 I broke a TV and blamed it on my little brother
5. I had my first one-night-stand last month
6. My favorite food is gnocchi
7. I think Tom Cruise is a schmuck
8. I'm supposed to be working hard right now (not hardly working)
9. I work for a non-profit
10. I've been to South Africa

[terrya]

9. Me....

1) I don't know how to drive a manual transmission car. Never learned.

2) I have this fondness for meatloaf. I make it all the time.

3) I met Mitzi Gaynor at a bar in Chicago after the Gay Pride parade several years ago. She's still beautiful.

4) I STILL don't understand football.

5) I'm the youngest of 3 children. Yes, I'm the "baby". :-)

6) I was in Cub Scouts, Webelos and in Boy Scouts for awhile. I quit the Boy Scouts before I got any merit badges. Just as well, I suppose.

7) Beyond Canada, I've never been outside the United States.

8) I don't really like shopping (shattering THAT gay stereotype)

9) I'm a voracious reader. I have books stacked all over my bedroom floor.

10) I can't stand country music. I've tried to like it. Really.

[Skittles]

10. OK

1) I have never been to a funeral
2) I have five brothers and no sisters
3) I still put vinegar on my potatoes because I spent part of my childhood in England
4) One of my brothers is 11 months older than me, one is 11 months younger than me, another is 11 years younger than me
5) I am super sweet on oneighty in the DU :*
6) I have never considered anywhere "home", the result of being a GI brat the first 15 years of my life
7) I attended three high schools - England, Iowa and Illinois
8) I send care packages every month to soldiers in Iraq and will do so as long as they are there
9) My namesake Skittles is a 26 pound bundle of feline love who lives with my boyfriend.
10)I do not own a single piece of jewelry.

[grannylib]

17. Where in England? Used to live in Nottingham myself; went to 8th grade

(Third Form, as they say) there in 1972-73

[Skittles]

41. I think we have talked before

my dad was in the Air Force and we moved a lot. My mum is from Martham (near Great Yarmouth) so I was there a lot. Also High Wycombe / Bicester (went to Upper Heyford High School).

Decorah Iowa in '72!

[Interrobang]

18. Ten things about me...

1) I'm nearly ambidextrous -- I can write legibly in two alphabets with my left hand (my dumb hand), and six with my right.

2) I just got a call for an interview with an avionics firm in Waterloo, ON because I sent them a resume *on a whim* back in November. WOO-HOO!! (Forgive me, I'm telling *everyone*!) :bounce:

3) My mom, my dad, and I all have birthdays in February. My sister's the odd one out (July), although if you do the math right, her birthday comes out as "The Number of the Beast"!

4) The farthest from home I've ever been is Oahu, Hawaii. I want to go to Europe, Japan, Thailand (specifically Phuket), and Israel, the latter to visit friends and my fiance's family!

5) I wear my wallet, keys, and watch dangling on chains from my belt loops, and I haven't lost any of them since I started doing it, either. (No, I don't do it to be fashionable.)

6) I haven't worn an actual wrist watch in years. No matter what the straps are made of, they eventually eat away the skin under the band, despite my best efforts to the contrary.

7) I own somewhere in the area of 2000 books, periodicals, and related items. This isn't enough, of course.

8) I live in the top half of a big old Edwardian house, two doors down from Frederick Grant Banting's original practice.

9) I can sew, but only medieval clothing.

10) Unless I'm wearing aforementioned medieval clothing, I *never* wear skirts, partially because I hate skirts (gender issues, in part), partially because I hate my silly atrophied calves, and partially because I hate trying to get around in the modern world while wearing skirts (busses and staircases particularly vex me).

[foreigncorrespondent]

19. Ok...

01. Like you, I have never actually been skinny dipping. Not through fear of water though, more like I am shy about stripping off in front of just anyone.

02. Not all DUers know that I was sexually, physically, and mentally abused as a kid by a family member very close to me.

03. I was very popular in an AOL chat room for many years.

04. I like to drag race.

05. I can pull apart and rebuild a V8 engine.

06. I can pannel beat and spray paint a car, even though I have never been taught how to do it.

07. I am the second eldest of four kids. Yet the youngest child to my mother.

08. I was a high school drop out. And have been regretting that for most of my adult life.

09. I am currently doing an IT course.

10. My ancestry (on my fathers side) is some how connected to Napoleon Bonaparte.

[never cry wolf]

20. I feel for you about #2

My best friend in the world was sexually abused by her father as a young child. I have read up some on it in an attempt to try to help her through any lingering emotional problems but she seems to prefer to mostly ignore it which from what I have read is not the best way for a survivor to finally resolve all the deep seated issues.

It is a horrible scar that will stay for life and surprisingly much more widespread than most imagine.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

38. sexual abuse

sometimes i think it is best to ignore it than to relive it constantly as a victim

[silverlib]

45. I disagree

A victim is still a victim, whether they ignore or fail to publicly expose there victimization. I admire people who talk about it frankly, as they bring attention to others who can't yet talk about it and let them know they aren't alone. Some people may feel uncomfortable hearing about it, but they are the ones that I pity. Being a victim of any crime is nothing to hide.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

51. that is true

but some people make a conscious decision to "get over it" and they have that right as well

[foreigncorrespondent]

55. Yes...

...but if they make the decision just to push it aside and "get over it", then they will never really get over it.

I buried what happened to me for a great number of years. It wasn't until I met Sapphocrat did I truly begin to talk about it openly. Now, I am dealing with it, the way I should have dealt with it many years ago, and I am a better person for it. Anyone who just pushes it aside like that will have this come back and haunt them, mark my words.

[snobird]

61. My added 10..

Interesting lists so far, here are mine :

1)Born & raised in Northern Ontario ( Timmins)

2) Dislike hockey, but have always supported the Montreal Canadians..go figure

3) Love Figure Skating

4)) Terrified of cats.. (yup a lesbian who cannot handle cats).. although my friends cat "Little Wish " is working on that.

5) Loved my Grandma , she was the most influential womyn in my early years.

6)Speak and write fluent French, a little Japanese and Spanish.

7)Lovedddddddd Las Vegas & want to live peacefully and "freely' in our "lil guy" in the Florida Keys with gator.

8)Am a new Grandma as of Jan. 18/04 ( that makes # 3)

9) Survivor of sexual abuse by a priest,so STRONGLY support all people who have courage to face their demons.

10)Feminist who champions all womyns work.

[CanuckAmok]

21. Moi:

1) I have always been an only child, but I recently found out I a 25 year old half-sister who is a TV weather announcer in England.

2) My strongest personal trait is 'loyalty'.

3) I spent my first two years out of the military on an intensive therapy of Lorazepam and Amitryptaline.

4) As an adult, I have weighed as much as 240lbs and as little as 155lbs.

5) I was secretly married and divorced at age 21, and my family still doesn't, and won't, know.

6) I won a pair of binoculars and a ticket to an advance screening of "Return of the Jedi" for doubling the size of my newspaper route during a sales drive.

7) My father was an East London gangster. He worked for the Kray Brothers, and a fictional character based on him was featured in "The Krays" movie made a few years ago.

8) I'm a fairly handsome man, but I make a very attractive woman.

9) I fell out of a moving Moke (small British Jeep-type vehicle) onto my head when I was 2, and still have a tiny scar.

10) I cannot hold my end of a conversation, even a very serious one, without quoting "The Simpsons". Oh, wait, DU already knows that.

[populistmom]

22. Not that I have much to say, but...

1. I'm inherently an incredibly private person.
2. I hate talking about my innermost stuff because it leaves me vulnerable.
3. I will no longer talk about my innermost stuff on DU.
4. I currently have a love/hate relationship with DU.
5. I wish I could erase everything said to people on DU this past week.

Given this, my next 5:

6. My favorite color is lavender.
7. I'm 5' 5".
8. I have green eyes.
9. I also have two green cars of varing shades of green.
10. I got a papercut this morning.

[LynneSin]

23. Here is my list:

1. I refuse to drink any wines from California and I'm hestitant for red wines from any of the American Countries (N/S). My face will turn bright red like sunburn due to allergic reaction to certain red wines. I've had it bad with both Californian Red Wines and an Chilean Red. I solve this problem by sticking mainly with Australian, New Zealand and South African Wines, none of which have ever caused this reaction.
   
2. I have a severe adversion to pickles and I've been known to return meals because the waiter forgot to remove my pickle as I requested, especially if that pickle is touch my main meal (I had a meal with Ramsey last Saturday but the pick was buried under the french fries and I really didn't want to eat that many fries)
   
3. I have a BS in Biology and minor in Religion. But my job is in Unix Support but I mainly do statistical analysis of our department
   
4. I have a slight speech impediment which causes me to stumble over certain words. I never got it corrected because when I was in elementary school they put kids into special education if they had a speech problem, but I tested in the gifted level.
   
5. I buy Soap Opera Digest every week from the Grocery store because I'm too embarassed to say I have a subscription to the magazine. I hope by posting this I'll either give in and get a subscription or quit buying the damn thing.
   
6. I love watching documentaries and love the fact that my On-Demand includes A&E, History Channel, National Geographic and E!. The last 5 documentaries I've watched were about Shelter Dogs, Nazi Fugitives, Crank Abuse in Iowa, Skinheads in Alabama and the True Hollywood Story of Corey Haim
   
7. My mother quit bugging me about when I would get married and have kids when she inherited a step-daughter who did all those things for her. I'm quit grateful for my stepsister for taking this burden off my shoulders
   
8. My home is usually either a total pig style or the neatest place you'll ever see
   
9. First president I ever unofficially voted for was Jimmy Carter. My dad let me pull the lever and I liked Jimmy cause he grew peanuts and made peanutbutter - my favorite food.
   
10. I took an elective class in college called "Electing the President" in 1988 (the class was during primary season). My professor assigned me to monitor Dick Gephardt because I have no(blonde) eyebrows like him and we were both democrats.
    

[nini]

24. Ok.. here goes

1. I am the 5th child of 6. 3 boys first, then 3 girls so I was the middle girl. I used to have a bit of a Jan Brady thing when I was younger
:-)

2. I didn't graduate college until I was 35. I went back to college after a car accident that kept me from returning to my fabulous job at the US Post Office!!

3. I protested against the Vietnam war when I was 11 years old while one of my brothers was over there fighting. We never held it against him as he volunteered before they could draft him in the hopes he'd get a better assignment - he was wrong. He did come home - Thank God.

4. I volunteered at Bobby Kennedy's campaign office in town when I was 11. That was my first political involvement.

5. I am EXTREMELY sarcastic but hold it back if I don't know people very well because I've accidentally offended too many people before.

6. I have a degree in Computer Science and am really good in math :-)

7. My dad was an alcoholic and my parents were divorced when I was 3. He pulled himself together and we were quite close before he died.

8. I LOVE to go on cruises and have about 260 days at Sea (this is a big deal to frequent cruises). I want to work on a cruise ship actually and have applied. We'll see.

9. My closest friends are friends I have had most of my life - since I was 5 years old or so. I do have other close friends but the fact I have many from way back is a wonderful thing to me that we have always stayed in each other's lives.

10. I was a spitfire as a kid.. Here is a picture to prove it.

[never cry wolf]

25. Here's mine, FWIW

1. I should be working but find DU WAY too damn addicting. It is really becoming a serious problem.

2. My dad's dad participated in the bonus march of WWI vets on DC. He later joined the communist party. They were on welfare in Chicago during the depression.

3. My other grandpa had his doctorate and was a corn breeder for Funk's G hybrid in Bloomington, Il. He traveled all over the world developing new breeds. My mom didn't know that there was a depression.

4. I was on the 12 year plan for college.

5. One of those years was spend at U of I's architectural campus in Versailles, France.

6. I seriously believe that if more murican RW types could spend an extended stay overseas they would see the USA in a new light and move to the left.

7. I have found my soulmate, I believe. Unfortunately we are both currently in bad marriages to others. (It hurts.)

8. My nickname with all my buds is "ears."

9. I bit my nails for 40 some years until a couple of years ago.

10. My mom is a rushbot.

[SOteric]

26. Wow, - you even give me attribution!

Thanks, - but I hope everyone and anyone will feel free to use this type of question here at anytime. I think it makes us feel less abstracted from and more connected to one another.

Okay, 10 more things...Lessee:

1. I studied ballet for 14 years. I can stand on pointe. Still.

2. My home is neither very messy nor excrutiatingly neat. I aim for a level of tidy comfort and call it even.

3. I actually encourage my literature and writing students to read bad novels. Skinner will be able to confirm that there's little people love more than a chance to complain and be viscious with someone. I find they learn their lessons faster than if I hold up examples of brilliance and perfection and ask them to try to write as well.

4. I tend to do most of my cooking without recipes. It's more a matter of technique and flavour layering.

5. I don't know anyone worse at bowling than me.

6. I love the rain. I love the sound of it, the feel of it, the way it polishes the streets to a high gloss and the way it perfumes the air.

7. I'm intensely private. It's a life lesson learnt long ago. (And possibly a bit of neurosis.)

8. I love the flavour of black currant.

9. I more often wear skirts and dresses.

10. I'm more than a little bit of a lead-foot. I'm trying to change my evil ways, though.

[TheMightyFavog]

27. Here goes..

1. When I was in Fifth Grade I recieved a one day in-school suspension for passing a picture of my ass (inspired by an episode of The Simpsons) around the school bus.

2. I hang out at Fark, Wilwheaton.net, and the Internet Infidels Discussion Board.

3. I came within 2 1/2 feet of shaking Clinton's hand when he came to Green Bay in 1996.

4. I am the youngest of four. One brother, two sisters.

5. I smoke a pipe.

6. The furthest I've been from home was Death valley, CA.

7. I have ADHD and OCD.

8. I started out as a history major, became a theatre arts major after it was discovered that I had some talent and that I wanted to become a star, but after an epiphany after reading Sun Tzu's Art of War, I decided that the desire to become famous was a major flaw in my character, so I decided to become a Communications major.

9. I joined the Communist Party, USA in 1999 as a direct result of surfing the internet while intoxicated.

10. I prefer boxers.

[GOPisEvil]

28. I'll try coming up with 10

1. All of my dress shirts are either white, white and blue or blue.
2. I own, at last count, over 10 wristwatches. I have a thing for old ones. The one I am wearing is a 1960s-era Omega Automatic, bought on eBay for $100. Works great, too.
3. The building across the street from mine has fire trucks and an ambulance headed into the parking lot. It doesn't appear to be on fire though.
4. Four of the vehicles I have owned were previously owned by my parents.
5. I really like mountains and tall trees. They amaze me. Of course being from Texas, land of the hills and scrubby trees, this makes sense.
6. I am an only child.
7. I have voted for exactly one Republican in my life. He stood no chance of election in his primary anyway, but he told the truth at the debates that were held, and I liked that.
8. I walk when I play golf, unless I am playing with a certain group of friends.
9. I have had the same employer since August 1992.
10. There are only two points during an airplane flight I dread. Right after take-off while the plane feels like it is struggling, and right after landing when the pilot hits the brakes.

[Intelsucks]

30. I think I play better golf when walking vs. using a cart, but

the beer is easier to manage using a cart.;-)

[GOPisEvil]

32. I don't drink when I play golf.

I play so much when it's warm out, and I know beer dehydrates you, so I avoid it altogether. BUT, I have a walking bag with a holder that would probably fit a quart-bottle of beer, if I were so inclined. ;-)

[Intelsucks]

34. I'm usually alcohol free on the front nine, but one swing by the clubhouse

and it's all over.

[kmla]

31. Cool, dude. I'm envisioning GOPisEvil driving down the highway...

... in the parent's old station wagon, with the wood paneling look resplendent on the sides. The Meerschaum pipe is lit, and the top two buttons of the cardigan sweater are unbuttoned in a dashing, cavalier fashion...

(Don't be offended. This comes from a person who is driving a mini-van that he bought from HIS parents that is a blue-ish color. A blue that is not found in nature. Similar in hue to the eyes of the Stepford Children.);-)

[GOPisEvil]

35. LOL! Not quite...

Car 1 - 1980 Datsun 210 (my first car at 16, technically I never owned this car, but it was "mine"; no one else drove it.)
Car 2 - 1984 Subaru station wagon (NO PANELING!)
Car 3 - 1990 Mazda truck (a beater, but a free gift after I wrecked my only new car when it was 5 years old)
Car 4 - 1994 Infiniti G20, my current ride.

All but the truck were purchases, but at greatly reduced cost to me. :7

[g_philli]

29. This could be fun, especially since nobody knows me.

1.The only nightmare I¡¦ve had that I remember is when I was like 5 and the washing machine became a monster and ate my blankie.

2.I know I want to switch careers but don¡¦t doing anything about it.

3.When I¡¦m single, I find masturbating depressing. I¡¦m single ƒ¼

4.I think I might have let the woman of my dreams get away, because she has God in her life.

5.I¡¦ve never been to Yosemite, I live in California. Hopefully soon.

6.I¡¦ve had sex with two republicans. Not proud of it. I might have converted one of them though.

7.I never buy any sweets for my house, but I have a huge sweet tooth.

8.I never buy meat for my house, but I¡¦m not a vegetarian.

9.I smoked my first joint in my 20¡¦s.

10.I didn¡¦t grow an inch in high school.

[DS1]

33. let's see

1) When I was young I'd get in my ninja suit and sneak around the neighborhood at night.

2) I have a phobia of big ships.

3) I have an intense dislike for personal printers, ie HP Deskjets.

4) My cat is killing me slowly by robbing me of consistent REM sleep.

5) Somewhere off the coast of Hawaii you can find a pair of my boots.

6) I've been taken in for questioning numerous times but never charged or arrested.

7) I'm useless at paying bills on time, it's not the lack of money, it's the lack of motivation to give it to big business.

8) I hate it when my hair gets curly due to humidity.

9) My right foot is bigger than my left, though not substantially.

10) I cherish my decision to throw away my cellphone.

[silverlib]

36. Here goes

1. Can't tell my left from my right.

2. Tone deaf.

3. I have never bought anything but silver cars (yea, me too, Insider)

4. Favorite movie - Groundhog Day

5. Hated Lost in Translation

6. Have framed "Bush quotes" hanging in my home office.

7. Once protested the seat belt law and offered to serve time for violation.

8. Like most men better than most women, and the women I like mostly like men more than women.

9. Like my organic meat very rare (put a band aide on it and it's healed).

10. When my fourteen year old was three, I took her out a daycare to meet Bill Clinton.

[Pithlet]

37. Mine.

1. I have a beauty mark on my face just like Marylin Monroe and Madonna. It is just above the left corner of my upper lip.

2. The sound of a music box playing always makes me feel very sad. It doesn't matter what tune it's playing. I don't know why.

3. I have a morbid fear of spiders. We have to pay an exterminator to come once a month, or I can't stand it.

4. My house used to always be spotless before I had kids. Now it is usually a disaster area.

5. I used to have a BBS with multiple phone lines, so up to 12 people at a time could come on and chat. It was mostly people in the Baltimore/DC area, but it got pretty popular; we had a few hundred customers before my parents pulled the plug. This was was in the 80's, before the internet was popular.

6. Never been skinny dipping.

7. I didn't want to have kids for the longest time, and thought I never would.

8. I've been married once before.

9. I love to read, and have a broad range in taste. Lately I've been reading a lot of novels geared towards kids. Harry Potter books started that trend with me. I'm now reading Lemony Snicketts books.

10. I can't think of a tenth thing right now.

[Esurientes]

39. Well, some things I'll never admit to, but...

1. My grandfather was run out of Virginia on a rail, figuratively speaking, for organizing at a textile mill.
2. My father was a big music fan and was personally acquainted with Pete Seeger and Louis Armstrong when he lived in Washington, DC.
3. My mother and my daughter both belong to sororities. (I don't)
4. My stepfather shook Nixon's hand.
5. I shook Hubert Humphrey's hand.
6. I decided to stay home with my kids when they were babies, and managed this by operating a home-based word processing business that was surprisingly successful.
7. Before #6, I operated a pet-sitting business that was surprisingly successful.
8. Another way I saved money when I was unemployed was to give up my car and take the bus. I walked to the grocery store with the kids in a Radio Flyer wagon (This was one of the things I was never going to admit to you. My kids get so mortified when someone in town remembers this!)
9. I once worked in an office where the boss was having an affair with his secretary; and his wife found out and shot both of them.
10. Let's see...something positive to end with: I am almost 51 years old and I don't have to take any prescription medicines!

[Colin Ex]

40. Ten things

1. I own two black skirts. I got them at Goodwill and wear them on Fridays sometimes (now called Pants-Free Friday at the dorms).
2. I have about 400 compact discs, most of which is punk and electronica.
3. I'm in my freshman year of college studying political science.
4. I was a Mac kid until last year, when I took the plunge and bought a PC for college. I really miss Macs.
5. I'm one of the dying breed of kids who mix cassette tapes.
6. I have a sketchbook that I used for a little while. There are a few drawings, but now it mostly contains notes of stupid things I see people doing.
7. I used to have a cat named Muffy. She lived to be 19 years old.
8. I used to have mice, too. I had pretty shitty luck with mice -- suffice to say I don't have mice along longer.
9. I've been in a grand total of one romantic relationship.
10. I'm eighteen and my birthday is the second of August.

[non sociopath skin]

42. OK, here goes ...

1. My dad was chased by a beserk camel during his wartime service in Egypt.

2. I have a steel plate in my right leg and a mis-shapen right elbow, the results of a serious argument with a car in my teens.

3. I don't drive (possibly as a result of 2), I can't swim and I don't play a musical instrument.

4. I turned down the opportunity to study law at Cambridge University.

5. My poetry tutor at the Uni I did go to was Cecil Day-Lewis, later the poet laureate and father of Daniel, the actor and the Librarian was the poet Philip Larkin.

6. My brushes with the famous include being buddies with Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys before he was famous and bumping into Paul McCartney's brother in a pub doorway.

7. I'm a magazine junkie - usually read about 7 or 8 a week.

But the best 3 are about my wife and I ....

8. We met on the Net because I typed the word "operetta" into an AOL search and contacted her ( I lived in the UK - she was living in Louisville KY)because we're both interested in theatre music. We met a few months later in New York - my first ever airline flight at the age of 51 - and were married a few months later.

9. We discovered that 12 years earlier, although we lived on opposite sides of the pond, we had both been in the same hotel in Brighton on the same afternoon and must have missed meeting each other by minutes.

10. Although Arlene is American and I'm a Brit, she has always been a devotee of English folk music and I've always been a devotee of American music. Before we met, we spent years amassing what should
have been each others' record collections.

The Skin

[Parrcrow]

43. me in ten lines

1. I am left-handed.
2. I am a middle child; I have an older and younger sister.
3. My career was destroyed by government lay-offs in the late '90s.
but its getting back on track.
4. I play a pretty good third base in spite of being a lefty.
5. I feel like I'm wasting money when I buy groceries.
6. I feel like I'm wasting food when I eat those groceries.
7. I'm engaged to a woman more wonderful than I thought possible.
8. In the last couple of years, I've begun to suffer hearing loss.
9. When I complained at work about a woman coworker constantly
touching my ass, the personnel director laughed in my face and
called me an egomaniac.
10. I'd rather spend time in a bookstore than anywhere else.

[JohnKleeb]

44. here goes

1. Despite being a southerner by birth and being raised here in VA, I have no noticable accent.
2. I have sleeping problems.
3. I am the only left handed one in my family
4. I love WWII video games
5. I plan to never ever to own a gun
6. Deadly afraid of bolonga (some know it but others dont)
7. I eat peanut butter despite supposely being allerged
8. My hair is really goofy and military looking somewhat right now *holds head in shame*
9. I once was near blonde
10. I have the cutest eyes east of the Mississiphi ;).

[Anaxamander]

47. 10 things

1. I have size 14 feet.

2. I've never gotten a speeding ticket OR parking ticket AND I've never been pulled over by the cops. I'm a cautious driver.

3. The ONE time I've gotten a parking ticket, I went to court and got it overturned (the sign had a misprint).

4. I have very neat handwriting.

5. I can dunk a basketball on a regulation goal.

6. I'm from south Georgia, but I never went to church as a kid.

7. I can't gamble because I'm too indecisive.

8. My wife is from Yokohama, Japan.

9. My parents divorced when I was two years old.

10. My favorite play of all time is Lord Byron's Manfred.

[wysimdnwyg]

48. Let me see...

1. I have dual Associates degrees in Electronic Engineering and Computer Technology

2. I have four parents (dad & step-mom have been married 21 years, mom & step-dad for 15)

3. I absolutely HATE it when anyone asks me when I'm going to get married. I have no girlfriend and, quite frankly, I prefer it that way. I get to do what I want, when I want, without having to coordinate with anyone else.

4. I went to college twice. The first time, I had a good time. I lost my scholarship after the first year, and my Pell Grant after the second year. I had a really good time.

5. I spent 12 years in a condo with a cat I was not supposed to have. (Screw their no pet rule.)

6. I bought a house for three reasons: I wanted a garage, I wanted a pool table and I was sick and tired of dealing with #5.

7. I think Brad Pitt is a terrific actor.

8. Until the past couple of years, I had never read the following: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, 1984, Catcher in the Rye (still haven't, but I own it and it's on the list)

9. While in the 11th grade, I failed Trig and Advanced Math, but I made the math team. (I refused to do any homework.)

10. Once, during my freshman year at college (the first time), I got totally wasted and finished the evening by running up and down the hall in my dorm naked. This was not streaking, though. I went into the hall for some unknown reason in my underwear, and I got stripped and locked out of my room by the other guys in the hall. I was really, REALLY drunk. (Kids, do not try that at home.)

[MissMillie]

49. my 10

1) I have an ugly scar over my belly button.

2) My car has 159,000 + miles on it. Gotta love that Toyota

3) Like kmla, I am right-handed, but I eat w/ my left.

4) My idential twin sister is homosexual, but I am a heterosexual.

5) I am planning on gastric bypass surgery this summer.

6) The only person in my family shorter than I am, is my mother.

7) I work at the very same Business School that Bush* got his MBA.

8) I make the best peanut butter fudge in the world.

9) I have an uncanny ability to hook up with the most emotionally unavailable men.

10) I grind my teeth in my sleep.

[geniph]

50. My ten

1. I'm the youngest of 13, counting both my late half-brother and all my stepsiblings - the youngest of 6 if you count just my full siblings.

2. My original major was political science. I changed majors to biochemistry and still haven't graduated.

3. I get very weepy during sad/sentimental passages in books or movies, but would rather have root canal without anesthesia than cry in front of other people (except my husband).

4. I was frequently mistaken for a boy up until I was about 12, and was very confused about my gender as a small child. I still often identify more with stereotypical "male" attitudes than stereotypical "female" attitudes.

5. I have a deep-seated need, almost a fetish, for expensive bed linens.

6. I bought my own home - a single-wide mobile home - at 23, and lived alone there for 10 years. Well, alone if you don't count three cats, a dog, a rabbit, seven birds, three frogs, two toads, and two salamanders.

7. I used to be a bodybuilder, till I got tired of the narcissistic aspects of it.

8. I worked for Boeing for 20 years.

9. I played varsity volleyball in high school. I sucked, but I was on the team. The team sucked, too.

10. I used to play soccer obsessively, up to five times a week (regularly) at one point. I was never much good, though.

11. I'm polyamorous.

[devilgrrl]

52. My 10...

1. I've never been skinny-dipping either

2. I like to smoke pot like it's going out of style

3. I was the only "planned" child in my family

4. I do not like to watch Basketball

5. I can't use the toilet while other people are present.

6. Spiders scare the shit out of me.

7. In art college, the only thing I learned was how to HATE art.

8. I've been unemployed a total of 2 months in the 15 years since I graduated from college.

9. I love Gummi Bears and can eat them to the point of vomiting!

10. I helped give all the kids in my 1st Grade Class the Mumps around Thanksgiving of 1969!

[Frangible]

53. okay!

1. I've never been skinny dipping either. Bit too self-concious.
2. I've never been drunk, actually-- just mostly intoxicated. Drinking heavily makes me very tired.
3. I get horribly sick on planes, and need to drug up or can't travel by air
4. Built my own geiger counter, classifying me as a true geek
5. Speaking of which, I use two computers at home, at once. Did I mention the geek part?
6. Have a pet tarantula. It freaks people out, but is the most docile animal I've ever seen.
7. I read/post to DU too much at work
8. Due to my political stances I fit in with no one politically, although I'm about 90% liberal
9. I hate watching sports. Except for like, women's beach volleyball, I could handle that.
10. Anti-social. Have a hard time convincing myself to meet new people and try new things.

[fudge stripe cookays]

54. My list...

1. I played Pontius Pilate in an 8th grade production of "Jesus Christ Superstar." Little girls had to play most of the parts since the guys weren't interested. I had short hair so it was okay.

2. My father died when I was 13.

3. One of my ancestors, Urbain Baudreau de Graveline, helped to found Montreal.

4. I met my amazing husband, reprehensor, over the internet. He still makes me all tingly after 3 1/2 years being hitched.

5. My family is remarkably dysfunctional. My brother is completely estranged from my mother and I, and my mother and I have had our moments as well. I still have no idea if we will be speaking when one of us dies; it's very cyclical.

6. My real name is Italian. My parents were stationed in Italy when my mom heard it. But she was afraid everyone would mispronounce it from the Italian way, and changed the spelling.

7. Hung in the same circle of friends as Mike Malinin, the drummer for the Goo-Goo Dolls, years ago when we both lived in the same dorm at the University of North Texas.

8. In 1987, I managed to get backstage after seeing The Cult, hoping to get an autograph. I sat backstage with Guns and Roses and didn't even care because I had no idea who they were.

9. Recently found out that one of my unrequited crushes in high school came out of the closet and is living in L.A. with his boyfriend. We've been e-mailing pretty regularly since we got back in touch!

10. I love languages. I've had 2 years each of French and German, learned fair amounts of Spanish and Italian, and once began learning Turkish so I could travel there. When I was little I told my mom I wanted to learn every language in the world so there would never be anybody I couldn't talk to. She said that sounded about right, since I never shut up.

[LanternWaste]

56. Just 'cause I'm bored (and a bit vain...)

1. I was the Drum Major for my high school marching band

2. I was almost married twice

3. Secretly pining away for a girlfriend I dumped when I was nineteen (seventeen years ago :P )

4. I going to Cancun this Monday to meet my best friend's wife for the first time (they've been married for over two years) and look for a job.

5. I've finally gotten to the point where I'd rather be miserable because I'm single than miserable because I'm not.

6. I have a secret crush on a poster here at DU (I'll never tell)

7. I skinny-dipped once; but the trunks were two sizes two big and it was an accident.

8. I recently surrendered my 403(b) (substantial penalties apply due to early withdrawal not in compliance with contractual agreement, blah, blah, blah)

9. I have written three screenplays but I'm too chicken to get them read.

10. A very attractive young lady flirted w/ me last week, but I'm so dumb I didn't realize until the friends I was with at the time told me it was a definate flirt yesterday (stupid me, stupid me, stupid me)

[Sapphocrat]

57. Ten, huh? Okey-doke...

1. My cat Val's full name was "Exxon Valdez," because he looked like an oil slick as a baby.

2. I was born three weeks late, so I almost ended up on the cusp of Leo & Virgo.

3. I use only four fingers to type (one on the left, three on the right) -- but I can still type about 75wpm.

4. I find it curiously satisfying that I wear "progressive" lenses (they're like trifocals, only they're not). I think I would just stumble around in a myopic haze if they were called "conservative" lenses.

5. When I was less than a year old, I got into some ant poison and had to have my stomach pumped.

6. The mere mention of English actress Nanette Newman makes me laugh out loud. Literally.

7. My most frequent recurring nightmare has me naked in the midst of a big city with no way to get home except by walking.

8. The reason I didn't become a cartoonist was that I thought I'd stop enjoying it if I had to do it for money, and on a deadline. Now I'm sorry I didn't.

9. I have a weird phobia about anyone touching my navel, and I don't know why.

10. I abhor real-life violence, yet am a true-crime buff and insatiable fan of slasher movies. Go figure!

[kmla]

60. Sapphocrat - This one's for you...

:D

[Sapphocrat]

65. ROFLMAO!!!

Oh, I love it!! Oh, thank you, kmla! Ow! Ow! Uncontrollable giggling! :D

"I'll just die if I don't get this recipe... I'll just die if I don't get this recipe... I'll just die if I don't get this recipe..."

Heheheheheheeee...!

[beevul]

58. Heres mine...

1. First and best, I met my soulmate(GF) over the internet, and we have been living together for almost 2 years now, happy as can be. We met playing Everquest.

2. I was adopted, but have never tried to find my biological parents.

3. I am Sci-FI.

4. I love japanese monster movies.

5. I was born and raised in a town or 3000 people in MN. I spent 31 years there, then moved to AZ to be with my soulmate. My hometown in MN was largely rural with lots of farming. We had lots of hayrides.

6. I love animals. We have 2 birds, Cookie and Sonny. We have 15 cats, Tigger, Cowie, Misfit, Sassy, Ziggy, Bambam, Popcorn, Graham (A bobtail) Trouble, Hershey, Littlegirl,Harley, Moushou, Red, and Butterscotch. We have 3 red eared sliders(turtles). We have 4 dogs-Peanut, Bearbear, Shera, and Millie, and 3 puppies atm.

7. I never went to a high school dance, I always skipped it in favor of the party.

8. I have been in AZ almost 2 years and still have not seen a rattlesnake, scorpion, or tarantula in the wild. I have seen a few black widows, and saw my first wild coyote in the desert 4 days ago. He was verry pretty with his winter coat.

9. I love heavy metal music. The grimmer it is, the more I like it.
Harvester of Sorrow, and Justice For All, Sanitarium, are some of my most favorite grim songs. I have seen Metallica in concert 7 or 8 times, before they went soft though. Country music disagrees with me to the point of nauseum.

10. If I won 10 million dollars in the lottery, I would make it my personal mission in life to find out the truth about bigfoot, nessie, ogopogo...etc. Maybe wait untill the girls are in college, and me and the GF would disappear into the wildernesses of the world looking for answers.

[jmowreader]

59. My ten

1. I was introduced to my wife by her sister, who was a cook in my battalion's dining facility.

2. I was born in an Air Force Base hospital, but both of my parents were civilians at the time.

3. I carry a cordless drill in the trunk of my car.

4. I have seven college credits to my name: two English classes and a weekend computer seminar.

5. I have five black cats.

6. I was featured in a two-page ad for QuarkXPress (it's a computer program) in Macworld magazine.

7. I can put my feet on top of my head.

8. I briefed President Clinton.

9. My favorite cocktail is gin and ginger ale.

10. My least favorite question in all the world is "do you have anything cheaper?"

[CBHagman]

62. Nice to meet you all.

This has been very amusing and moving.

Here's mine:

1. Another middle child here.
2. I have never smoked ANYTHING. Not even once.
3. I knew Donna Rice (Yes, THAT Donna Rice) at university.
4. I've never owned a car.
5. I've never broken a bone, though my teeth are another matter entirely. :-)
6. I've finally come out as a DOG person, rather late in life, but currently don't have pets (work schedule doesn't allow for it).
7. My uncle ran guns to the IRA many, many years ago.
8. My great-grandfather ran the workhouse in Minneapolis many, many years ago.
9. I never saw a human corpse until I was about 25 years old. (No open-casket funerals when I was growing up)
10. I've been a cantor at church.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

63. ok

1. i'm an ovo lacto vegetarian
2. i have not ever had a boyfriend
3. i really hate football
4. my birthday's in june
5. i'm going to spain in april
6. i develop my own black and white photos
7. in my basement i have an art studio
8. i don't know what i'm going to college for
9. someday i'll be president
10. I have two dogs, two rabbits and a hamster my brother left at our house when he went back to school.

i eat left handed a lot too, weird!

[kmla]

64. Yep. Can't figure out that left handed eating thing...

...Always try to set at the end of the table if I can. Hate to jostle adjacent diners for wing-room...:D