I'm proud to be:_________

an Irishman
an amateur historian
a tonedeaf balladeer
a socialite

I’m proud to be:

short
Only Mostly Dead’s wife
a math teacher
a pole dancer
a Terp

A tap dancer.

That took effort. Everything else (wit, charm, naturally curly hair) was just luck.

A man
An American
An environmentalist
An adventurer
A working man
A second amendment supporter
An inquiring mind

I’m proud to be a husband with the same wife for 28 years.

I’m proud to have raised two daughters who care for me.

I’m proud to have a business where I can interface with clients who appreciate me services.
I’m proud because I constantly occupy my thoughts for the common man/woman and society at large.

I’m proud and this is worth emphasis, I’m fucking proud to be Canadian because after you add up all the +s and -s, we are living something magic here and it ain’t just geography, its the people. No disrespect to my fellow American posters. A lot of what we have is thanks to you people.

I’m proud to be humble.

I prefer The Tubes version:

a nurse
their daughter
his wife
44 years old
a nerd girl

well-read, kind, cheerful, helpful, Canadian, a Mensa candidate, a published author, an award-winning Gifted student, in the 98th percentile of the population’s verbal IQ level, thoughtful, good-hearted.

And modest, obviously.

Biracial - It helps me appreciate both sides of the coin
Physically healthy again - after being overweight too long for excuses
Not a follower
Atheist
Loved - I’m not the easiest person to even like

I’m proud to be a high school dropout-turned-honor student at UCLA. And I am proud that I had the opportunity to reject Berkeley. :smiley:

I’m proud to have been happily married for nearly 27 years.

I have to say I’m not surprised in the least. I’ve long thought you were one of the sweetest, smartest, and coolest people on this board.

Aye, Kythereia. I remember well your kindness to me. You have more than book-learning too!

I am poud to be assertive, open, empathetic, mystical, musical, creative, womanly*, centered

A lover of tweeds, jazz, color, Yeats, the moment, nostalgia, potential, Cezanne

*Sometimes, when a woman is most womanly and a man is most manly, they can be essentially most alike.

Haha, gotcha there

I live just outside Manchester in a small village called Hale.

I put Manchester 'cos I figured most dopers would never have heard of Hale.

Nice :cool:
Proud to be:

A British Columbian
Morally Guided
Fairly Well-Traveled
A Critical Thinker

A Doper!

That made me laugh aloud. Thanks.

I’m proud to be:

a Peace Corps Volunteer.
reasonably fluent in Bulgarian.
pretty well educated.
somewhat well-travelled.
being a Chicagoan.

I’m only proud of my accomplishments that I…well, accomplished. These are the only things I can think of that took actual effort on my part.

A good husband and father
A PhD
A good teacher
The author of several published articles
A morally decent (although probably not outstanding) person
A person who tries to be open-minded and a critical thinker
Comfortable in and excited by living in foreign cultures

I’m proud to be:

a good friend
a Chicagoan
a Jew
a graduate student
eager to learn new things
summa cum laude from Cornell and a First from Oxford
the child of my parents

I’m proud to be:

an electric guitarist by preference
Amerasian
a father
a recreational reader