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Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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  • Performed CPR on someone who lived (several actually, ex-EMT)
  • Successfully resisted a mugging attempt
  • Took down and handcuffed a gang member who was wanted for murder (not a LEO)
  • have had several epic heartbreaks but still can love like it never happened
  • Cooked dinner for several pro football players
  • Threw a drunk pro football player out of an amusment park.
  • Worked on a multicasualty car accident with 86 patients
  • Heard someones last heartbeat (patient)
  • Stopped a fight that would have resulted in a lethal beating if it went on much longer.
    -Found a beautiful woman who knows more about star trek than I do.
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I have also done this.

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One more I can add, after today’s activities:
Participated in a day-long photo shoot on an NHL ice rink.

Which then reminds me to add:
Helped with a NFL team’s cheerleader’s calendar shoot
-D/a

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  • Failed to graduate high school on time with the rest of my senior class.
  • Graduated Salutatorian of my law school class.
  • Successfully evaded police in a rooftop chase (I was young).
  • Eaten lunch with future U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales (back when he was a Texas Supreme Court Justice).
  • Been present at an in-chambers conference with former Enron CFO Andrew Fastow, the federal judge trying his case, and attorneys for his prosecution and defense.
  • Been present at the investiture ceremony for a U.S. Marshal.
  • Interviewed and/or cross examined multiple serial rapists and serial child molesters, including many who were psychopathic or psychotic, and at least one who was also strongly suspected to be a serial killer.
  • Briefed a case before the Texas Supreme Court.
  • Briefed and orally argued a case before the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.
  • Examined double digit amounts in kilos of crack cocaine, marijuana, amphetamine, and assault weapons in evidence seized in a federal drug raid.
  • Been inside the chamber where the death penalty is carried out in Texas.
  • Been shot at.
  • Been on the heart failure unit and almost died from deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism.
  • Trained with Chuck Liddell at his training camp.
  • Taken a punch from Chuck Liddell.
  • Submission wrestled with a UFC lightweight championship challenger and BJJ black belt.
  • Judged multiple amatuer mixed martial arts and kickboxing fights.
  • Cornered multiple professional and amatuer boxing, kickboxing, and mixed martial arts fights.
  • Hepled teach an MMA seminar in Mexico City.
  • Sang for a rock band in front of a crowd of just under a thousand.
  • Danced the role of the Nutcracker Prince in performances of “The Nutcracker Suite.”
  • Married the most awesome girl in the world.
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That’s the one I want to hear the story behind,

Oh, I hugged a leopard, but it doesn’t count.

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I just took a look at the set list and it doesn’t seem to be on there. I might have played it at some point in my college days though, but probably not with Bellson. He was really funny though.

[Yosemite Sam]I hate you[/YS], I’d love to do that, and the solstice is usually on my birthday. I have however been in the Carrowkeel cemetery in Ireland for the sunset on the summer solstice which does the same basic thing. except through a roof box.

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I have had 5 Holes-In-One in Golf.
I have met Deep Throat (Watergate).

Not that impressive.

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I have… seen the Light.

But a special light, just for me, so if you’ve seem the light, you’ve seen some other light.

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I have …ummm… done really ordinary stuff.

Made a nice card to cheer up a friend, read a Harry Potter book to my kids on a train, found a Boba Fett Pez dispenser, faked a serbo-croat accent (hey, fooled my college class on the first day), memorized a vintage Brit comedy routine (“Beyond The Fringe”), cooled down two guys that were about to have a fight, did a drift into a parking space on the opposite side of the street… and beat my wife at a board game.

That’s all I got.

Oh, when I was seven, I drew a circle on an Etch-A-Sketch…

Ha. Beat that.

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  • I’ve led the lemmings to the light.
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  • Fallen down a waterfall.
  • Got punched in the stomach as a child by a giant plush Province of Manitoba.
  • Also as a child, had a leech removed from my foot by a future provincial premier.
  • Quizzed Jack Layton on policy issues while he was visibly drunk (despite this, he gave excellent and on-point answers).
  • Written a policy backgrounder that was read verbatim in the House of Commons.
  • Administered a winning election-day get-out-the-vote campaign with multiple zone houses and over a hundred volunteers.
  • Came out as genderqueer on the floor of a national political party convention. (Got my resolution passed unanimously too.)
  • Led a well-attended interpretive tour of the art and architecture of the Montreal metro entirely in Esperanto.
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Broken my arm playing Pictionary.

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You guys are much more awesome than me.

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The first one sounds like a great story. The second one is just awesome.

This one reminds me of the time I almost lost a friendship over a game of Scrabble.

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So many intriguing revelations here.

Mine:
-Swam through/under The Blue Grotto in Capri, Italy.
-Took a Spanish course called ‘‘Homosexuality in the Caribbean - and its Diaspora.’’
-Legally emancipated as a teen.
-Enthusiastically impersonated an amoeba (multiple times.)
-Enthusiastically impersonated <cephalopod/mollusc of choice> (multiple times.)
-Was forced to have my picture taken with giant asparaguses on Asparagus Day.

[QUOTE=pravnik]

  • Married the most awesome girl in the world.
    [/QUOTE]

Sweetie, is that you?

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…have seen polar bears feeding on a whale carcass.
…have been both north of the Arctic Circle and south of the Equator.
…have been on the receiving end of both rocket and mortar attacks.
…met Shirley Temple Black (at the American Embassy in Prague).
…worked in Russia (then USSR), Poland, East Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria when they were all still communist countries.
…experienced the 1964 Alaska earthquake.

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  • I have seen attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
  • I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.

(not)

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I forgot one…not that it’s never been done, but still unique among people I know.
I gave birth to an 11lb, 4 oz baby. Unfortunately, this was accomplished naturally, with no surgery, intervention, or painkillers.
I also developed a full-blown phobia about getting pregnant.

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Why do I find that so easy to believe? :slight_smile:
I have -

  • Driven from Calgary to Chicago and back again (it’s our longest trip so far - this year’s California coast trip might end up longer).

  • Gone for a long hike on old lava flows in Northern Canada with no one between us and the Arctic Ocean. The path was not well marked, and we were very aware that a wrong turn could have gone very badly.

  • Gone for a nice walk in -40ºC weather (more than once).

  • Took a blood sample from my own mother.

  • Seen a full-sized city bus sliding down a hill sideways.

  • Went to my grandmother’s wedding that was conducted almost exclusively in Low German.

  • Stat cross-matched 23 units of blood for a guy who bled out anyway. I could have gone and thrown the blood on the emergency room floor for the same effect. :frowning:

  • Hung out with an Elvis impersonator in Las Vegas who is also the world authority on barracudas. He makes his own costumes, too. Great guy.

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Walked in on Alan Greenspan, as he was sitting on the toilet in Ayn Rand’s bathroom.