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

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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[QUOTE=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. :wink: [/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) :frowning: [/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]
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What is your view on the Mutant Registration Act? :smiley:

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  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.

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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.
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  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.

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[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?
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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…

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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.

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[QUOTE=Bippy the Beardless]
What is your view on the Mutant Registration Act?
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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!