# In which you tell your fellow Dopers five things they'd never have guessed about you. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 11, 2006, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-you-tell-your-fellow-dopers-five-things-theyd-never-have-guessed-about-you/363975 "2006-07-11T04:37:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-you-tell-your-fellow-dopers-five-things-theyd-never-have-guessed-about-you/363975/121 "2006-07-31T16:31:08Z")
[QUOTE=theunfounddoor] [ul] [li]My left shoulder pops out of the socket whenever I lift my arm above my head, or I can do it at will. It really freaks people out when I push my finger into the empty socket. 😉 [/li][li]I have two uvula. (the hangy ball in the back of your throat)[/li][li]I’m missing a bone in one of my toes on my left foot. That toe is the only thing I’ve ever broken. (5 times in 3 years) ☹ [/li][li]I have a natural blonde (almost white) streak of hair on the left side of my head at the temple that includes my left eyebrow and eyelashes. It showed up when I was 8 and it’s spreading. ::shrug:: [/li][/ul] [/QUOTE] What is your view on the Mutant Registration Act? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ASAKMOTSD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@ASAKMOTSD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASAKMOTSD)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-you-tell-your-fellow-dopers-five-things-theyd-never-have-guessed-about-you/363975/122 "2006-07-31T17:45:24Z")
1. My insides are reversed left to right (called situs inversus). It makes going to a new doctor very interesting if I forget to tell. 2. I have been hospitalized for major depression a couple times and have experienced electroshock therapy 14 times (something I do not recommend) 3. I am an Eagle Scout, mainly because it was expected of me by my family 4. I went to college because I never realized there was an alternative (same reason as becoming an Eagle Scout, I suppose). 5. A couple years ago, I made over $1 million. Unfortunately, I spent way more than that trying to save that business & almost went bankrupt. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-you-tell-your-fellow-dopers-five-things-theyd-never-have-guessed-about-you/363975/123 "2006-07-31T18:27:13Z")
I don’t imagine that anyone on this board has paid enough attention to any of my posts to have any idea what I’m really like, so I suppose none of these will come as a surprise at all. 1. I’m an excellent driver, but failed my written driver’s test twice when I was sixteen (third time’s the charm). Passed the driving test on the first try, though. 2. Every now and then, when I meet someone for the first time, I can guess their birthday to at least within a day or two. 3. I was a ‘B’ and ‘C’ student in most of high school and college- actually failed a couple college courses- but in the past 10 years 3 people told me that I strike them as the kind of person who was the valedictorian of my college class. 4. As a teenager, some friends and I vandalized a couple of townhouses that were under construction, where one of my friends worked as a carpenter. 5. I used to fart constantly, and could do so at will. About five years ago, suddenly I couldn’t fart anymore, but now I burp. Alot. 6. I don’t kill nearly as many conversations in real life as I do on this board. 7. I recognize humor quite frequently, and admire particularly clever humor, but rarely laugh out loud unless I’m in a conversation. I just sort of mentally note that it was funny. ---
**Author:** ![LonesomePolecat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a88e57/32.png) [@LonesomePolecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LonesomePolecat)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-you-tell-your-fellow-dopers-five-things-theyd-never-have-guessed-about-you/363975/124 "2006-07-31T18:28:05Z")
1. I was once a suspect in a murder investigation. 2. I had a gay love affair in my 30s that lasted about six months. 3. I am often complimented about what a wonderful voice I have, which mystifies me. I think my voice sounds perfectly ordinary. 4. I am glad the Union won the war (which will probably surprise a lot of folks around here). 5. Back in the early 80s, a newspaper photographer took my picture at a political demonstration, and the photograph was published in newspapers around the country. ---
**Author:** ![SurrenderDorothy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/surrenderdorothy/32/1221_2.png) [@SurrenderDorothy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SurrenderDorothy)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-you-tell-your-fellow-dopers-five-things-theyd-never-have-guessed-about-you/363975/125 "2006-07-31T19:07:09Z")
[QUOTE=Dung Beetle] Do you all go by your middle names, or how do you manage that? Does anyone get to use the shared name? [/QUOTE] no. we have to think up adjectives. big Mary, little Mary, tall Mary, red Mary, baby Mary, crazy Mary, pretty Mary, skinny Mary, Mary Sunshine… 😉 we all go by either middle names or combinations of first and middle. Like I have a sister and an aunt both named Mary Anne and my aunt uses the whole thing while my sister goes by Annie. ---
**Author:** ![theunfounddoor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@theunfounddoor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/theunfounddoor)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-you-tell-your-fellow-dopers-five-things-theyd-never-have-guessed-about-you/363975/126 "2006-07-31T19:22:32Z")
[QUOTE=Bippy the Beardless] What is your view on the Mutant Registration Act? [/QUOTE] HeeHee. I figured I would get a response along those lines. But really, I look perfectly normal. Occasionally I’ll get asked if I bleach the streak into my hair. Once in highschool some snooty twit asked why I feel the need to bleach my eyelashes just for the attention. :rolleyes: Yeah, I dip my face in bleach, really. Really it’s all just part of my clever plan Mwahahahaha! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-you-tell-your-fellow-dopers-five-things-theyd-never-have-guessed-about-you/363975.md?page=6)