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In My Humble Opinion
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Hahahahahahaha! I used to light candles for viewing of The Wonder Years!

Oh, and I’m terrified of crickets.

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Aaah, another “I’m not alone” moment in SDMBdom.

  1. I think that my baby really is the cutest baby in the world, and I’ve really, deeply considered if I might be biased. And decided that I’m not.
  2. I have two babyseats in my van too!
  3. My idea of a really great date with my husband involves dinner at a big buffet.
  4. I spend one day a week with my mom, and have a blast doing it.
  5. I’m extremely, outrageously excited about my new sewing machine, and may very well make matching dresses for BabySage and me. (I can’t believe I’m even thinking of that…)
  6. I write decent poetry but I get bored talking about poetry. And when I read publicly, I wear nice bright colors instead of black.
  7. I am consistently broke.
  8. My ideas of how I would spend money if I doubled my income always starts with “I’d buy groceries without worrying about my budget!” WhooHOOO!
  9. I’m a stay-at-home parent. (Except for…#10)
  10. I deliver newspapers for the extra income. And I LOVE my job.

~karol

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Whoops.
Missed on preview;
Of course, a cute puppy will cause me to involuntarily clench my teeth. Not so much puppu
:eek:
:smiley:

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OMG, so do I! I got it for my 16th birthday and now it’s like 3-4 pounds of silver jangling off my wrist!

I’m so uncool that I think it’s really cool to find two geeky things in common (three, if you count the hats).

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  1. I play accordion.
  2. I’m in a Morris dancing team, where I play said accordion.
  3. I have had in-depth conversations with other accordion players about techniques, types of accordions, etc.
  4. After having given it up for about 12 years, I’m not as good as I would like to be at playing my accordion, but I can keep up with the rest. (Although, I do think I’m pretty rad in my learning-by-ear ability)
  5. I role-play w/ my fiance & his friends every Wednesday night. Table-top, not live-action.
  6. I, like aunti em, am afraid of crickets.
  7. I have worked at the local Renaissance Faire for the past 4 years.
  8. For the first 3 years, I thought I was so cool because I worked at the local Ren Faire.
  9. Misplaced quotation marks “annoy” me. Whenever I see them on signs or ads, I start yelling to anyone present.
  10. Not only do I occasionally use cliches, but I also mix them up (I can’t think of any at the moment, but an example would be “Don’t cry over spilled glass houses”)
  11. I sometimes stutter because my brain works faster than my mouth.
  12. I’m incredibly clumsy. I’m also currently pregnant, so the clumsiness is getting worse day by day.
  13. I know far too much about the Joker & Harley Quinn’s relationship. My fiance & I dressed up as them for Hallowe’en 2000. My user ID is Harleen Quinzel.

oy.

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  1. I hate drinking, and I ESPECIALLY hate wine. I think wine tastes like shit. And deep down inside, I think a lot of the people who say they like wine think it tastes like shit, too. But I can’t control my revulsion, whereas everyone else seems to know a lot about wine.

  2. My favourite snack is Lipton Cup-A-Soup (Chicken Noodle Supreme) and a glass of chocolate milk.

  3. I don’t like any hipster bands.

  4. I like airplane models.

  5. My greatest personal moment was the night I won my high school’s Public Speaking Competition in my last year of high school. I absolutely destroyed the field; it was no contest. I got a standing ovation. I still shiver with pride.

  6. I refuse to get one of those short-forward-spiky-RussellCrowe haircuts every guy seems to have now.

  7. I’m really afraid of insects.

  8. I don’t like any sort of food I’m unfamilar with, and I hate fancy cuisine. I could eat steak, chicken, and basic vegetables and such for dinner every single night.

  9. I’m a terrific fielder at any position, but I can’t hit worth a damn.

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I think I can sum mine up in a single line:

  1. I consider the majority of the things listed so far very cool.

(Of course, I also LARP, like Billy Joel, wear garb to Ren Faires, and own almost no clothing that isn’t black…)

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to add some more:

  1. I teach high school.

  2. I was addicted to the supercheesy short-lived WB series Young Americans. The addiction has really only died down in recent months, and the show was only on for eight episodes summer before last. I even went to the YA Gathering last summer in Havre de Grace, Maryland.

  3. I have every episode of Buffy on tape, and I will buy them all on DVD as they are released.

  4. I have every episode of Northern Exposure on tape. I think it was the best television show ever. Period.

  5. I love Barbra Streisand.

  6. I’m only 25, but I think Burt Reynolds is yummy, but only from around the time of Deliverance and then Boogie Nights and afterward. Gray-haired Burt is delicious.

  7. I am genuinely nice.

  8. I think being a bitch is bourgeois. I use words like bourgeois in everyday conversation.

  9. I hate sushi.

  10. I never watched shows like Sesame Street, the Muppets, or Petticoat Junction because I was too busy watching Donahue.

  11. I despise mosh pits.

  12. I’ve never been in a real relationship.

  13. I’ve never done any drug harder than nicotine, and I don’t smoke.

  14. I think Abercrombie and Fitch just may be the third Anti-Christ.

And just to stop myself before I go on ad nauseum

  1. I actually like Eminem’s new song, and I’ve decided that that is decidedly uncool.
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  1. I regularly clean under the hood of my car.

  2. I rarely clean the bathroom.

  3. I look forward to trash day because it gives me something to do.

  4. I go to three stores to buy food that’s on special, even though I really don’t have to.

  5. Many, many days go by when i literally do not say a single word to another human being. Even more days go by when the entirety of my human contact consists of:

  • I’d like a small coffee, please.
  • That’s $1.40.
  • Thanks.
  • Have a nice day.
  • You too.

  1. I think polishing metal is fun.

  2. I have a pair of silk boxer shorts with the superman logo on the back and front…my mother bought them for me…and no one else has ever seen them on me.

  3. I do needlepoint…and I’m male.

  4. I’m good at it.

  5. I read a book from cover to cover, even if it sucks.

  6. I live in a retirement community at age 34.

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  1. I’ve memorized the entire 1st Harry Potter book. It made watching the movie interesting, because I’d remember tiny snippets of dialogue that they left out.

  2. My friends compare me to a friendly blue smurf and the inhabitants of the house of Usher. Hmph.

  3. I stayed for fifteen minutes at the last party I went to. Brought a takeout box and filled it up with food before I left, too. (Of course, it was a geeky marching band party, so just attending made me even more uncool than going for just 15 minutes)

  4. For the past three years, I’ve spent every Friday night in the fall sitting in a football stadium in a dorky uniform.

  5. I can remember bits of trivia I read when I was 5.

  6. Rather than the latest on MTV, I shake the walls of my house with choice selections from Phantom of the Opera.

  7. My mom thinks I’m just the coolest, smartest person she knows and that everything I say is just the epitome of deep. (Boy, do I have her fooled…)

  8. I have really spiffy pink fuzzy smiley face slippers.

  9. I use words like “spiffy” and “terribly” in my everyday conversation.

  10. I’ve been called a walking dictionary by one too many people

I’ll end this here, I think.

jessica

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  1. I go to way too many concerts. Nearly 50 in the last three years (and about 30 more before that.) Very few of the artists I’ve seen are heard on the radio very often. I’ve seen most of my favorite artists at least five times. I check the local concert listings (within 100 miles or so) every day on Pollstar.

  2. When my boyfriend and I buy a house next year, we’re going to have separate bedrooms. And three cats. And eventually a dog.

  3. I am lactose intolerant. I take a LOT of Lactaid. I am not ashamed of this, but it does suck and can be very uncool.

  4. I lurk more than I post on the SDMB. But I really wanted to make one of these lists. And it’s probably a little too long.

  5. Although I think meeting people online is not always a good idea, some of my best friends have been met online, including two boyfriends (the first one in 1994, the dawn of internet time. I met the current one online about two and a half years ago. He is 5 years younger than I am. At the time, he was 18, and I 23.)

  6. I am an obsessive fan. Not of anything in particular, but if I like something enough, I find out everything I can about it. This includes (but is not limited to): Tori Amos, They Might Be Giants, Kevin Smith films, Moxy Fruvous, Ani Difranco, etc. This makes me a huge geek, because I tend to have an excellent memory for tiny tiny details.

  7. I write HTML for a living. I detest detest detest WYSIWYG editors with a passion. I use a simple text editor. I’m one of the few people left that gets paid for writing HTML, I think.

  8. I love proofreading and correcting other people’s papers. People do not often love my corrections.

  9. My clothes are simple and not stylish. I wear a plain or striped t shirt, and jeans or jean shorts (occasionally I branch out into khakis. I consider this “dressing up”. When I wear a dress, I feel like freakin’ Cinderella going to the ball.)

  10. My roommate/best friend and I wrote a bad teen horror novel before we started our freshman year of college based on a male friend of ours that tended to have obsessive crushes (run-on sentence, wow). My roommate would kill me if she knew I was making this public knowledge, even when I’m fairly anonymous.

  11. I have never smoked a cigarette or tried an illegal drug. I occasionally have a few drinks, but dislike drinking to excess or being around others that are.1) I attend way too many concerts. Nearly 50 in the last three years (and about 30 more before that. Oy, my hearing!) Most of the artists I’ve seen are rarely played on the radio. I’ve seen most of my favorite artists at least five times. I check the local concert listings (within 100 miles or so) every day on Pollstar.

  12. When my boyfriend and I buy a house next year, we’re going to have separate bedrooms. And three cats. And eventually a dog.

  13. I am lactose intolerant. I take a LOT of Lactaid. I am not ashamed of this, but it does suck and can be very uncool.

  14. I lurk more than I post on the SDMB. But I really wanted to make one of these lists. And it’s probably a little too long.

  15. Although I think meeting people online is not always a good idea, some of my best friends have been met online, including two boyfriends (the first one in 1994, the dawn of internet time. I met the current one online about two and a half years ago. He is 5 years younger than I am. At the time, he was 18, and I 23.)

  16. I am an obsessive fan. Not of anything in particular, but if I like something enough, I find out everything I can about it. This includes (but is not limited to): Tori Amos, They Might Be Giants, Kevin Smith films, Moxy Fruvous, Ani Difranco, etc. This makes me a huge geek, because I tend to have an excellent memory for tiny tiny details.

  17. I write HTML for a living, and it’s not freelance. I detest detest detest WYSIWYG editors with a passion. I use a simple text editor. I’m one of the few people left that gets paid for writing HTML, I think.

  18. I love proofreading and correcting other people’s papers. People often do not love my corrections.

  19. My clothes are simple and not stylish. I wear a plain or striped t shirt, and jeans or jean shorts (occasionally I branch out into khakis. I consider this “dressing up”. When I wear a dress, I feel like freakin’ Cinderella going to the ball.)

  20. My roommate/best friend and I wrote a bad teen horror novel before we started our freshman year of college based on a male friend of ours that tended to have obsessive crushes (run-on sentence, wow). My roommate would kill me if she knew I was making this public knowledge, even when I’m fairly anonymous.

  21. I have never smoked a cigarette or tried an illegal drug. I occasionally have a few drinks, but dislike drinking to excess or being around others that are.

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A great many of my uncool characteristics have already been listed but here are a few more.

  1. For christmas I got a pair of fuzzy, footey-pajamas with a pattern of shooting star like little kids wear. I love them and wore them all day, even to Christmas dinner.

  2. My first date and first kiss did not happen until I was 21.

  3. I had never even seen an illegal drug until a couple of months ago at age 23.

  4. I still kiss my brothers and parents goodbye and goodnight.

  5. Despite having lived in Seattle since the age of 3 I don’t even like the smell of coffee.

6)I think watching medical procedures both on TV and while volunteering at the hospital is interesting.

  1. In Jr. High I had a big crush on Wesley Crusher.

  2. I refuse to puchase any article of clothing that has the brand blazoned across it. If they want me to be a walking advertisement they can pay me for my time.

  3. I have a habit of ignoring customs and conventions of personal appearance that irritate me in some fashion. For this reason I seldom wear a bra, shave my legs or paint my face. Furthermore, I do not consider this habit to be a profound political statement, merely a personal preference for comfort and occasionally do all of these things just because I feel like it today.

  4. I love cloaks and wish it wasn’t so hard to find a good one.

  5. I love watching old swashbuckling movies with Erroll Flynn and Tyrone Power.

  6. I think that the kind of individuality exhibited in this thread is way more cool than manufactured pop culture.

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::high-five!:: Okay, you are now one of the coolest not-cool people posting in this thread. DOWN WITH WYSIWYG!

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To #8–you said it!

To #9–I love makeup, but will wear what I like and not the latest trends; I refuse to wear a bra even though I’m generously-endowed (or, as the b/f puts it, I have “an insanely nice rack”), and I don’t shave my legs or my pits.

To #10. Make your own; it’s really easy and you can find simple patterns on the web.

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Ooops, hit submit too soon–sorry.

Add this to my uncool list:
I know the words to the BrunnenG anthem and often wander around singing it aloud.

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Best. Thread. Ever.

  1. I own most of the Spider-Man clone saga. It’s what got me back into comics years ago.
  2. I still have a pair of leather Rockport topsiders. I wear them around the house, to get the mail, etc.
  3. My stereo receiver is an old Marantz 6000 series. It’s a “classic”.
  4. I’m a guy and I admit that I enjoy massaging my girlfriend’s feet.
  5. When guys start talking about sports and cars, I never have anything to contribute to the conversation.
  6. I’ve never seen a Godfather movie.
  7. I rented Transformers: The Movie the other night “for my kids”. After they went to sleep, I watched it in complete rapture.
  8. I excitedly told my girlfriend that Judd Nelson did the voice for Hot Rod/Rodimus Prime, as if she would really care.
  9. I own a Corona T-shirt that says “Life’s a beach. And then you dive.” I got it in Cozumel & I wear it often.
  10. Spoonful of peanut butter and a glass of cold tea (no ice) is my favorite snack.
  11. I always “air-drum” on that really intense part of Phil Collins’ “In The Air Tonight”

Nah, 11 is plenty. I really need to get some work done.

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  1. I wear sandals. With socks. Everywhere.
  2. I don’t like most “cool” music. Anything by The White Stripes, most punk, Radio Head (or is it Radiohead…I’m not even cool enough to know), The Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Who, Def Leppard, etc. All of it sucks.
  3. Back in high school, Jean-Michel Jarre was one of my favorite musicians.
  4. No human being, outside of those in the medical professions, have seen me without a shirt on in over fifteen years.
  5. I don’t like much in the way of fiction novels. Even the so-called “classics”. I’d rather read a textbook. And I do.
  6. I own Armageddon and Independence Day on DVD.
  7. I paint Warhammer and Warhammer 40K miniatures. But I don’t play the games. I do know the rules, though.
  8. I don’t drink alcohol, nor do I smoke or do drugs. I also hate coffee and tea.
  9. One of my favorite memories from college involves going to lunch immediately after dissection labs, with a couple classmates, all of us smelling of formaldehyde.
  10. As of tomorrow, I will be 33 years old, and I still think dinosaurs are the coolest things since sliced bread.
  11. I didn’t choose my major in college based on employability. I chose it based on interest: palaeontology.
  12. I spell “palaeontology” and “archaeology” with an “ae” just because I think it looks better that way.
  13. I have no idea who Dave Barry is.
  14. I have no interest in politics.
  15. I pass out at the site of real blood. Especially my own. I can watch the goriest of movies without effect, however.
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  1. I like Abba, Barry Manilow, Motown, anything from the 80’s, and I think Billy Joel is the greatest of all of them.

  2. I think I’ve heard three songs written in the last 15 years that I haven’t classified as talentless swill.

  3. I own several Big Johnson tee shirts and wear them everywhere cuz they crack me up.

  4. I think Armageddon and Swordfish are fantastic movies.

  5. I routinely crap myself when all I wanted to do was break wind.

  6. Not long ago, a beautiful woman was flirting with me, in a very obvious and shameless manner, all but drooling. I didn’t know it at the time. My wife had to clue me in on it. I thought she was just friendly in a bubbly kind of way.

  7. I’m really excited that my wife bought me the complete works of Poe and can’t wait to read it… again.

  8. I really want the “I Choked Linda Lovelace” tee shirt ala Joe Dirt.

  9. For years I couldn’t watch MST3000. The little shadow guys were annoying to me because I couldn’t hear most of the movie. It took me years to actually “get it”. Now I love it.

  10. I think Monty Python movies are incredibly not funny and don’t even crack a smile, even when my wife is rolling on the floor in tears of laughter.

  11. If unsupervised at late night, I’ll buy anything on TV if it means getting a free steak knife. I have things in my kitchen that I don’t even know what they do… but I got a cool chop-o-matic paring knife with them!

  12. I make flowing headbands ala Jimi Hendrix out of my worn out hawaiin shirts cuz I think they make me look cool.

  13. I don’t think I know how to spell hawaiin.

  14. I realized that I could spend the rest of the night adding to this list. That’s enough for now.

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  1. I not only have puppy slippers, I wear them and think they’re cute.
  2. I am sappily romantic rather than a hot stud. I’m moved to tears on a weekly basis just by my boif being nice to me.
  3. I’ve dated (for want of a better word) 3 folk musicians. 3. FOLK. Musicians. No excuse except I was young, stupid, and easily impressed.
  4. I think the best porn is when it looks like they’re in love.
  5. I went to see Legally Blonde and thought it was a really good movie.
  6. Parties are my idea of hellish torture.
  7. I loathe Wuthering Heights, and detest anything I’ve read by Hemingway, Marvell, Wordsworth, Dickens…but will happily sit down with a trashy sex novel for an hour and thoroughly enjoy the experience.
  8. My monitor has a beanbag tiger sitting on it which roars.
  9. I went to university because I enjoyed it, and will even attend a lecture or two when I visit now, purely for fun.
  10. I can’t watch horror movies. I didn’t sleep for a week after Blair Witch.
  11. I can’t top this -