In which you tell your fellow Dopers five things they'd never have guessed about you.

[Bippy_the_Beardless]

@theunfounddoor

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[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]

What is your view on the Mutant Registration Act?

[ASAKMOTSD]

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.

[corkboard]

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.

[LonesomePolecat]

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.

[SurrenderDorothy]

@Dung Beetle

Do you all go by your middle names, or how do you manage that? Does anyone get to use the shared name?

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.

[theunfounddoor]

@Bippy the Beardless

What is your view on the Mutant Registration Act?

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!