Amazing or even miraculous athletic feats you have been a part of (yours preferred)
Hole in one by one of my dad’s golf buddies-tracked right straight into the hole…
Five Hole in Ones…by MOI!
Zipping a tight spiral (football), 70 yards, on target.
5 straight stikes and a final score of 212, and my average was only 106!
Qualifying as a Distinguished Graduate at the Front Sight Firearms Training Institute’s 4-Day Defensive Handgun Class on my very first ever Front Sight event, in Pahrump, NV
The only time I’ve ever tried a masse shot in pool, and it actually worked, knocking in the target ball after the cue ball spun around an opponent’s ball. If I tried it 100 more times, I’d probably miss all 100.
On my 18th birthday, I was running in the Bergen County Meet of Champions, and 9 runners qualified for the final of the 400; because there were only 8 lanes, 3 runners were placed at the start of lane 7. Of course I was unlucky and ended up there. It was a photo finish, and it took a good 10 minutes before they announced me as the winner.
Softball is played with 7 innings. I hit a game-winning home run in the bottom of the 7th inning (with 2 out!) to advance my city over another city for the southern Ontario championships when I was about 17 years old. Glory days indeed.
One week I matched my golf and bowling scores! I think it was 112, aided by beer of course.
When in college, my school played a game at Madison Square Garden. There was a halftime shooting contest for which I was the rebounder. After the contest, I drifted out to the 3 point line and took a shot - swish. And another - swish. And another - clang! So I can realistically state that my lifetime shooting percentage at The World’s Most Famous Arena is 66.6.
Amazing or even miraculous athletic feats you have been a part of (yours preferred)
Hole in one by one of my dad’s golf buddies-tracked right straight into the hole…
Five Hole in Ones…by MOI!
Zipping a tight spiral (football), 70 yards, on target.
5 straight stikes and a final score of 212, and my average was only 106!
Qualifying as a Distinguished Graduate at the Front Sight Firearms Training Institute’s 4-Day Defensive Handgun Class on my very first ever Front Sight event, in Pahrump, NV
The only time I’ve ever tried a masse shot in pool, and it actually worked, knocking in the target ball after the cue ball spun around an opponent’s ball. If I tried it 100 more times, I’d probably miss all 100.
On my 18th birthday, I was running in the Bergen County Meet of Champions, and 9 runners qualified for the final of the 400; because there were only 8 lanes, 3 runners were placed at the start of lane 7. Of course I was unlucky and ended up there. It was a photo finish, and it took a good 10 minutes before they announced me as the winner.
Softball is played with 7 innings. I hit a game-winning home run in the bottom of the 7th inning (with 2 out!) to advance my city over another city for the southern Ontario championships when I was about 17 years old. Glory days indeed.
One week I matched my golf and bowling scores! I think it was 112, aided by beer of course.
When in college, my school played a game at Madison Square Garden. There was a halftime shooting contest for which I was the rebounder. After the contest, I drifted out to the 3 point line and took a shot - swish. And another - swish. And another - clang! So I can realistically state that my lifetime shooting percentage at The World’s Most Famous Arena is 66.6.
When at a Atlanta Flames hockey match, I was chosen to go down to the ice and try to shoot 10 pucks into an empty net in 20 seconds from between the redline and blueline. The redneck crowd booed me as they announced me from New York. If I got all 10 in the net, I would have won use of a Dodge Omni for a year. I got the first five in and the crowd started to cheer. I choked on the last 5 shots. I won a Kodak Instant camera which was the basis of the successful Polaroid lawsuit. (I still have the camera)
Amazing or even miraculous athletic feats you have been a part of (yours preferred)
Hole in one by one of my dad’s golf buddies-tracked right straight into the hole…
Five Hole in Ones…by MOI!
Zipping a tight spiral (football), 70 yards, on target.
5 straight stikes and a final score of 212, and my average was only 106!
Qualifying as a Distinguished Graduate at the Front Sight Firearms Training Institute’s 4-Day Defensive Handgun Class on my very first ever Front Sight event, in Pahrump, NV
The only time I’ve ever tried a masse shot in pool, and it actually worked, knocking in the target ball after the cue ball spun around an opponent’s ball. If I tried it 100 more times, I’d probably miss all 100.
On my 18th birthday, I was running in the Bergen County Meet of Champions, and 9 runners qualified for the final of the 400; because there were only 8 lanes, 3 runners were placed at the start of lane 7. Of course I was unlucky and ended up there. It was a photo finish, and it took a good 10 minutes before they announced me as the winner.
Softball is played with 7 innings. I hit a game-winning home run in the bottom of the 7th inning (with 2 out!) to advance my city over another city for the southern Ontario championships when I was about 17 years old. Glory days indeed.
One week I matched my golf and bowling scores! I think it was 112, aided by beer of course.
When in college, my school played a game at Madison Square Garden. There was a halftime shooting contest for which I was the rebounder. After the contest, I drifted out to the 3 point line and took a shot - swish. And another - swish. And another - clang! So I can realistically state that my lifetime shooting percentage at The World’s Most Famous Arena is 66.6.
When at a Atlanta Flames hockey match, I was chosen to go down to the ice and try to shoot 10 pucks into an empty net in 20 seconds from between the redline and blueline. The redneck crowd booed me as they announced me from New York. If I got all 10 in the net, I would have won use of a Dodge Omni for a year. I got the first five in and the crowd started to cheer. I choked on the last 5 shots. I won a Kodak Instant camera which was the basis of the successful Polaroid lawsuit. (I still have the camera)
Making a twenty foot putt on what was literally the first hole of golf I ever played. I thought for a minute that maybe I had a natural gift for the sport that I had never known. Then I played the second hole.
Amazing or even miraculous athletic feats you have been a part of (yours preferred)
Hole in one by one of my dad’s golf buddies-tracked right straight into the hole…
Five Hole in Ones…by MOI!
Zipping a tight spiral (football), 70 yards, on target.
5 straight stikes and a final score of 212, and my average was only 106!
Qualifying as a Distinguished Graduate at the Front Sight Firearms Training Institute’s 4-Day Defensive Handgun Class on my very first ever Front Sight event, in Pahrump, NV
The only time I’ve ever tried a masse shot in pool, and it actually worked, knocking in the target ball after the cue ball spun around an opponent’s ball. If I tried it 100 more times, I’d probably miss all 100.
On my 18th birthday, I was running in the Bergen County Meet of Champions, and 9 runners qualified for the final of the 400; because there were only 8 lanes, 3 runners were placed at the start of lane 7. Of course I was unlucky and ended up there. It was a photo finish, and it took a good 10 minutes before they announced me as the winner.
Softball is played with 7 innings. I hit a game-winning home run in the bottom of the 7th inning (with 2 out!) to advance my city over another city for the southern Ontario championships when I was about 17 years old. Glory days indeed.
One week I matched my golf and bowling scores! I think it was 112, aided by beer of course.
When in college, my school played a game at Madison Square Garden. There was a halftime shooting contest for which I was the rebounder. After the contest, I drifted out to the 3 point line and took a shot - swish. And another - swish. And another - clang! So I can realistically state that my lifetime shooting percentage at The World’s Most Famous Arena is 66.6.
When at a Atlanta Flames hockey match, I was chosen to go down to the ice and try to shoot 10 pucks into an empty net in 20 seconds from between the redline and blueline. The redneck crowd booed me as they announced me from New York. If I got all 10 in the net, I would have won use of a Dodge Omni for a year. I got the first five in and the crowd started to cheer. I choked on the last 5 shots. I won a Kodak Instant camera which was the basis of the successful Polaroid lawsuit. (I still have the camera)
Making a twenty foot putt on what was literally the first hole of golf I ever played. I thought for a minute that maybe I had a natural gift for the sport that I had never known. Then I played the second hole.
My high school football team won the city championship… two years in a row! (I played tight end on offence and outside LB or CB on the defence)
Amazing or even miraculous non-athletic feats you have been a part of (yours preferred)
In university, a friend and I defeated the Canadian Bridge Champions in a tournament with alot of help from a crazy 6NT doubled-redoubled contract that we bid and made!
Amazing or even miraculous non-athletic feats you have been a part of (yours preferred)
In university, a friend and I defeated the Canadian Bridge Champions in a tournament with alot of help from a crazy 6NT doubled-redoubled contract that we bid and made!
Won two vacations (one to St. Martin, one to Hawaii) playing phone-in trivia contests on the Family Channel.
Amazing or even miraculous non-athletic feats you have been a part of (yours preferred)
In university, a friend and I defeated the Canadian Bridge Champions in a tournament with alot of help from a crazy 6NT doubled-redoubled contract that we bid and made!
Won two vacations (one to St. Martin, one to Hawaii) playing phone-in trivia contests on the Family Channel.
I received a rave review, for my performance as Lady Jane in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Patience, from a critic who rarely said even a remotely kind word about any performance.
Amazing or even miraculous non-athletic feats you have been a part of (yours preferred)
In university, a friend and I defeated the Canadian Bridge Champions in a tournament with alot of help from a crazy 6NT doubled-redoubled contract that we bid and made!
Won two vacations (one to St. Martin, one to Hawaii) playing phone-in trivia contests on the Family Channel.
I received a rave review, for my performance as Lady Jane in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Patience, from a critic who rarely said even a remotely kind word about any performance.
In college I played a dozen games of Scrabble simultaneously (for a charity event), and won ten of them.
Amazing or even miraculous non-athletic feats you have been a part of (yours preferred)
In university, a friend and I defeated the Canadian Bridge Champions in a tournament with alot of help from a crazy 6NT doubled-redoubled contract that we bid and made!
Won two vacations (one to St. Martin, one to Hawaii) playing phone-in trivia contests on the Family Channel.
I received a rave review, for my performance as Lady Jane in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Patience, from a critic who rarely said even a remotely kind word about any performance.
In college I played a dozen games of Scrabble simultaneously (for a charity event), and won ten of them.
Amazing or even miraculous non-athletic feats you have been a part of (yours preferred)
In university, a friend and I defeated the Canadian Bridge Champions in a tournament with alot of help from a crazy 6NT doubled-redoubled contract that we bid and made!
Won two vacations (one to St. Martin, one to Hawaii) playing phone-in trivia contests on the Family Channel.
I received a rave review, for my performance as Lady Jane in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Patience, from a critic who rarely said even a remotely kind word about any performance.
In college I played a dozen games of Scrabble simultaneously (for a charity event), and won ten of them.
I was the violin concertmaster at my school.
I was in the Guiness Book of World Records for the largest human centipede but we were beat out before publication of that years book.
Amazing or even miraculous non-athletic feats you have been a part of (yours preferred)
In university, a friend and I defeated the Canadian Bridge Champions in a tournament with alot of help from a crazy 6NT doubled-redoubled contract that we bid and made!
Won two vacations (one to St. Martin, one to Hawaii) playing phone-in trivia contests on the Family Channel.
I received a rave review, for my performance as Lady Jane in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Patience, from a critic who rarely said even a remotely kind word about any performance.
In college I played a dozen games of Scrabble simultaneously (for a charity event), and won ten of them.
I was the violin concertmaster at my school.
I was in the Guiness Book of World Records for the largest human centipede but we were beat out before publication of that years book.
I’ve ridden my motorcycle on a few 1,000-miles-in-24hrs rides. My wife and I have ridden 2-up in the “Cal 24”, a 24-hr endurance ride. She power naps on the back seat.
Amazing or even miraculous non-athletic feats you have been a part of (yours preferred)
In university, a friend and I defeated the Canadian Bridge Champions in a tournament with alot of help from a crazy 6NT doubled-redoubled contract that we bid and made!
Won two vacations (one to St. Martin, one to Hawaii) playing phone-in trivia contests on the Family Channel.
I received a rave review, for my performance as Lady Jane in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Patience, from a critic who rarely said even a remotely kind word about any performance.
In college I played a dozen games of Scrabble simultaneously (for a charity event), and won ten of them.
I was the violin concertmaster at my school.
I was in the Guiness Book of World Records for the largest human centipede but we were beat out before publication of that years book.
I’ve ridden my motorcycle on a few 1,000-miles-in-24hrs rides. My wife and I have ridden 2-up in the “Cal 24”, a 24-hr endurance ride. She power naps on the back seat.
In the early 2000’s, I once pulled three quarters from my pocket: they were dated 1974, 1975, and 1976.
(Yeah, not really amazing or miraculous, but it did happen and this topic is over 2 days old…)
Amazing or even miraculous non-athletic feats you have been a part of (yours preferred)
In university, a friend and I defeated the Canadian Bridge Champions in a tournament with alot of help from a crazy 6NT doubled-redoubled contract that we bid and made!
Won two vacations (one to St. Martin, one to Hawaii) playing phone-in trivia contests on the Family Channel.
I received a rave review, for my performance as Lady Jane in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Patience, from a critic who rarely said even a remotely kind word about any performance.
In college I played a dozen games of Scrabble simultaneously (for a charity event), and won ten of them.
I was the violin concertmaster at my school.
I was in the Guiness Book of World Records for the largest human centipede but we were beat out before publication of that years book.
I’ve ridden my motorcycle on a few 1,000-miles-in-24hrs rides. My wife and I have ridden 2-up in the “Cal 24”, a 24-hr endurance ride. She power naps on the back seat.
In the early 2000’s, I once pulled three quarters from my pocket: they were dated 1974, 1975, and 1976.
My Senior Class High School academic team (quiz bowl) was undefeated; I was the captain of the team and my other team mates answered only 3 questions the entire season.
Amazing or even miraculous non-athletic feats you have been a part of (yours preferred)
In university, a friend and I defeated the Canadian Bridge Champions in a tournament with alot of help from a crazy 6NT doubled-redoubled contract that we bid and made!
Won two vacations (one to St. Martin, one to Hawaii) playing phone-in trivia contests on the Family Channel.
I received a rave review, for my performance as Lady Jane in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Patience, from a critic who rarely said even a remotely kind word about any performance.
In college I played a dozen games of Scrabble simultaneously (for a charity event), and won ten of them.
I was the violin concertmaster at my school.
I was in the Guiness Book of World Records for the largest human centipede but we were beat out before publication of that years book.
I’ve ridden my motorcycle on a few 1,000-miles-in-24hrs rides. My wife and I have ridden 2-up in the “Cal 24”, a 24-hr endurance ride. She power naps on the back seat.
In the early 2000’s, I once pulled three quarters from my pocket: they were dated 1974, 1975, and 1976.
My Senior Class High School academic team (quiz bowl) was undefeated; I was the captain of the team and my other team mates answered only 3 questions the entire season.
The incredible inability to think of anything interesting that might fit this topic.
Amazing or even miraculous non-athletic feats you have been a part of (yours preferred)
In university, a friend and I defeated the Canadian Bridge Champions in a tournament with alot of help from a crazy 6NT doubled-redoubled contract that we bid and made!
Won two vacations (one to St. Martin, one to Hawaii) playing phone-in trivia contests on the Family Channel.
I received a rave review, for my performance as Lady Jane in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Patience, from a critic who rarely said even a remotely kind word about any performance.
In college I played a dozen games of Scrabble simultaneously (for a charity event), and won ten of them.
I was the violin concertmaster at my school.
I was in the Guiness Book of World Records for the largest human centipede but we were beat out before publication of that years book.
I’ve ridden my motorcycle on a few 1,000-miles-in-24hrs rides. My wife and I have ridden 2-up in the “Cal 24”, a 24-hr endurance ride. She power naps on the back seat.
In the early 2000’s, I once pulled three quarters from my pocket: they were dated 1974, 1975, and 1976.
My Senior Class High School academic team (quiz bowl) was undefeated; I was the captain of the team and my other team mates answered only 3 questions the entire season.
The incredible inability to think of anything interesting that might fit this topic.
I got a 9 (highest score) on my senior English teacher’s notoriously hellish grading scale for essays, a few months after he told us that we should expect never to see a 9 because he almost never gave them out.
Amazing or even miraculous non-athletic feats you have been a part of (yours preferred)
In university, a friend and I defeated the Canadian Bridge Champions in a tournament with alot of help from a crazy 6NT doubled-redoubled contract that we bid and made!
Won two vacations (one to St. Martin, one to Hawaii) playing phone-in trivia contests on the Family Channel.
I received a rave review, for my performance as Lady Jane in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Patience, from a critic who rarely said even a remotely kind word about any performance.
In college I played a dozen games of Scrabble simultaneously (for a charity event), and won ten of them.
I was the violin concertmaster at my school.
I was in the Guiness Book of World Records for the largest human centipede but we were beat out before publication of that years book.
I’ve ridden my motorcycle on a few 1,000-miles-in-24hrs rides. My wife and I have ridden 2-up in the “Cal 24”, a 24-hr endurance ride. She power naps on the back seat.
In the early 2000’s, I once pulled three quarters from my pocket: they were dated 1974, 1975, and 1976.
My Senior Class High School academic team (quiz bowl) was undefeated; I was the captain of the team and my other team mates answered only 3 questions the entire season.
The incredible inability to think of anything interesting that might fit this topic.
I got a 9 (highest score) on my senior English teacher’s notoriously hellish grading scale for essays, a few months after he told us that we should expect never to see a 9 because he almost never gave them out.
Becoming a walk-on extra on a Hollywood blockbuster, and actually appearing on screen, the first and only time I tried.
Amazing or even miraculous non-athletic feats you have been a part of (yours preferred)
In university, a friend and I defeated the Canadian Bridge Champions in a tournament with alot of help from a crazy 6NT doubled-redoubled contract that we bid and made!
Won two vacations (one to St. Martin, one to Hawaii) playing phone-in trivia contests on the Family Channel.
I received a rave review, for my performance as Lady Jane in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Patience, from a critic who rarely said even a remotely kind word about any performance.
In college I played a dozen games of Scrabble simultaneously (for a charity event), and won ten of them.
I was the violin concertmaster at my school.
I was in the Guiness Book of World Records for the largest human centipede but we were beat out before publication of that years book.
I’ve ridden my motorcycle on a few 1,000-miles-in-24hrs rides. My wife and I have ridden 2-up in the “Cal 24”, a 24-hr endurance ride. She power naps on the back seat.
In the early 2000’s, I once pulled three quarters from my pocket: they were dated 1974, 1975, and 1976.
My Senior Class High School academic team (quiz bowl) was undefeated; I was the captain of the team and my other team mates answered only 3 questions the entire season.
The incredible inability to think of anything interesting that might fit this topic.
I got a 9 (highest score) on my senior English teacher’s notoriously hellish grading scale for essays, a few months after he told us that we should expect never to see a 9 because he almost never gave them out.
Becoming a walk-on extra on a Hollywood blockbuster, and actually appearing on screen, the first and only time I tried.
Finished a long-running thread on Bakers Dozen.
13 collective names for animals