Tell us one thing about yourself
 

I always hate starting these threads because apparently 40% of the Dopers don't know the meaning of the word "one" and by Post #7 there's "The top three I would pick ..."

So you're with a crowd and you're fairly anonymous. You could confess you killed the Lindburgh baby and they'd be like, "OK. Whatever. Next person's turn." Share one fact about yourself. Could be funny or poignant or interesting or unique. Just make it one (and yes this question is supposed to be hard so just pick one).

Mine? So many to choose from.
I was at John Denver's last concert. Mrs. Cad is a big fan and had never gone to one of his concert so I took her while he played at Cerritos. When I heard he died it made it very surreal.

I prefer the company of animals and books to that of most people.

I have been a prisoner in the M.E.

I've figured out a way to doodle for a living.

I was the guy who built the giant bow for the catapult on the discovery channels "Doing Da Vinci" Embarrassing show.

I loathe cats.

I'm three days younger than Denzel Washington.

I talk to myself in my car a lot. I mean a LOT. Sometimes I do it when my 2 year old is in the back seat. He gives me looks of concern.

I killed a seagull with a kayak paddle.

I rescued an injured seagull flapping futiley on the shoulder of a highway.

I've been a staunch supporter of immigrant rights pretty much my entire working life.

I am able to hide my depression extremely well.

I have a big heart.

I have flown a glider.
Won a free lesson and so I took it.
It was kind of fun, but once was enough.

I have green eyes but they sometimes look blue. Or grey.

I saw Harry Chapin in concert less than a year before he died.

I was the first human to see a small section of a previously undiscovered cave.

I'm pigeon-toed (i.e. my leg bones are slightly twisted so my feet naturally point inward instead of straight-forward). It's mostly self-corrected as I've gotten older, but you can tell when I'm walking on stairs.

I've driven more than 1 million miles in the US.

Given time I will forget most everything that bothers me because that was then and this is now.

I can fly a helicopter.

My ankles twist and give out on me so often that I have taken falling and recovering to an art-form.

I, personally, am duck-footed. Most people don't notice it, though.

My first real kiss was in Piazza San Marco, Venice.

I found an ocelot in my attic.

Just don't tell me you are ever duck-faced.

I've been shit-faced.

I have been in an active space shuttle.

I once owned a monkey.

I saw Tracy Chapman perform in October 1986.

I was born the same day as Alan Moore (although obviously not the same year).

I think that's a Dr Seuss book.

I am making a Steampunk short film.

Hey, me too!

Umm...:confused: Demi Moore's dad?? :confused:

Umm...:confused: Roger Moore's dad?? :confused:

Sorry, never heard of him before this thread. (Alan, not Roger).

My husband, kids and I are very active in the build-a-device-to-fling-a-pumpkin world.

I am dreading the holidays. It's the first one since my husband's death.

I once had tea with Brian Eno in his back garden.

I coach high school cross-country and track(distance events).

Michael Madsen was brought into my office for a potential scifi film we were in preproduction on. I had no idea he was coming to the studio, and I didn't know exactly how to maintain my cool. I showed him some of the concept work we were working on for a character he was considering playing, and after pointing out some boring details, I pointed out a vague area in the art, and said we imagine this is the bathroom, in case your character needs to take a dump.

Got a fucking awesome burst of laughter from him. Great guy, cool as a cucumber, shorter than I thought, alas the film was never produced.

It was pretty surreal. I immediately played Stuck in The Middle With You for the rest of the CG guys as soon as he left the department.

I've written more than one million words of fiction. According to Stephen King, my writing is no longer necessarily crap.

Alan F'ing Moore. Writer of Watchmen, V for Vendetta, The League of Extraodrdinary Gentleman, etc. Worshipper of a fictional Roman snake god. Well-known freak and gentleman. I'd like to meet him some day, but he scares me, even if people say he's really nice.

I've been shit-canned.

John Scalzi gave me a lift to the airport once.

I've been to Yosemite at least once a year over the last 25 years.

I once sat on Danny Glover's lap.

I grew up in the northwest. When I was 13 I had been to Florida and all along the East coast and back home again, however, I had never been more than 30 miles west of my home.

I have fixed that though and have been to both coasts and the Gulf of Mexico.

I was nominated as an elector for a presidential candidate. Sadly he lost our state so I can't say I was a member of the electoral college.

A hot air balloon landed in my yard.