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  1. I am female, married, and have two children.
  2. Both children have different fathers, neither of which is my current husband.
  3. I’m 38.
  4. I have no sense of smell.
  5. I like all animals, but I’m a cat person really.
  6. I think tattoos are hideous.
  7. I was a vegetarian for a couple of years.
  8. My daughter is named after my kindergarten boyfriend and the protagonist of A Clockwork Orange. My son is named after one of my mom’s boyfriends (the one we wanted her to marry).
  9. I hate and fear ketchup.
  10. I don’t dance.
  11. I’m totally amazed by a few things I read in this thread.
  12. I stayed up too late last night watching It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.
  13. I don’t usually like movies, but if I watch one, it’s likely because I’ve already seen it and know it’s good.
  14. To me, lyrics are frequently the most important part of a song.
  15. Green is my least favorite color.
  16. I was raised Southern Baptist, but am now an atheist.
  17. I have a brother who is a year younger than me.
  18. I smoked cigarettes for about ten years before quitting.
  19. The first time I ever voted was for Obama.
  20. I like to give my pets people names.
  21. When I was pregnant with my daughter, I kept it a secret for about seven months.
  22. I think jewelry is pretty, but I very rarely wear it. (except my wedding ring)
  23. I feel embarrassed about my lack of education sometimes.
  24. I despise my job, though it’s the best one I’ve ever had.
  25. My current car is a Volvo.
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  1. I am a Libra.

  2. I am an artist.

  3. I’d love to branch out into three dimensional work, but I can’t seem to find the right medium.

  4. My maternal family are all 5th or 6th generation Texans. Although I was born in California, I was raised in Texas and consider myself a Texan.

  5. I once saw a guy shoot himself on live TV.

  6. My older brother had a bronze colored ’60 Chevy Impala that I thought was the coolest car in the world.

  7. I used to love riding motorcycles.

  8. I once dated a stripper who was bisexual and would occasionally invite one of her girlfriends into bed with us.

  9. When I was a kid (14-23-ish) I was a seriously wild boy; drink, drugs, travel, women, parties, motorcycles, waking up in strange places, taking stupid risks, open to any experience (almost).

  10. I throw out paintings that I’m not happy with in the hope that they’ll turn up on “Antiques Roadshow” in a hundred or so years.

  11. I have a lot of tattoos (and plan on getting a lot more).

  12. I read constantly.

  13. I still love Blue Oyster Cult.

  14. One of my favorite places in the world is San Angelo, Texas.

  15. I’m divorced, but happily re-married.

  16. I want my son to see the Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo, TX with me.

  17. I don’t really like dogs. I mean, I’ve always liked MY dogs, but I’d probably hate yours.

  18. I love Jameson’s Irish Whiskey.

  19. I hate rednecks.

  20. Some time in the next 3 years, I am buying a sailboat; I don’t care what my wife says.

  21. I miss the days when my son was a baby/toddler and would fall asleep in my lap.

  22. I’m always uncomfortable around my college professor wife’s co-workers.

  23. One of my personal heroes is Paddy Roy Bates, the guy who founded the Principality of Sealand. Taking over a WWII gunnery platform off the coast, calling it his own ‘nation’ and telling the British government to kiss his ass…man, what a set of balls on that guy.

  24. I’ve lived in Denver, Colorado, Oxnard, California, Waco, Fort Worth, Austin and Corpus Christi, Texas, Charleston, South Carolina, Fort Lauderdale and, currently, Jacksonville, Florida.

  25. I’d love to settle in the Pacific Northwest.

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  1. I am a Leo and a Fire Rabbit, and both fit me quite well.

  2. I completed an AA degree in AutoCADD and am now studying Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

  3. I am 21.

  4. After graduating High School, I travelled to France with a small group of students from the fourth-year French classes on a school-sponsored trip.

  5. On that trip, while stopped in the tiny, ancient town of Sarlat, we were out walking, and heard music; upon following the sound we discovered an elderly gentleman sitting alone on the steps behind a thousand-year-old church, playing a lap dulcimer. We watched him for a while, listening to his music, with the most beautiful sunset I have ever seen as our backdrop, and when he had finished, he set his instrument aside and came over to thank us for listening. It was easily the most romantic and beautiful scene I have ever witnessed and I doubt it will ever be topped in my lifetime.

  6. I met my best friend on a bus trip from Maryland to Montreal, Canada; we became friends because of a shared interest in model railroading.

  7. I love to cook, and I’m actually pretty good at it.

  8. I taught myself to sew in order to make a Halloween costume in the likeness of a werewolf.

  9. On a daily basis, I wear a floor-length black trenchcoat with corset ties and silver clasps on the front; when the wind blows right the bottom half of it billows out behind me and I look like a character from an anime.

  10. I am a Furry and routinely wear a fluffy white tail around campus.

  11. My favorite colors are black, and white.

  12. I was introduced to this board by my Mom, and inspired to register by this thread.

  13. My mom once interrupted an ongoing argument betwen me and some friends about the exact definition of “drow” in order to give us the definition and a brief synopsis of their history, straight out of the Drizzt books.

  14. My mom read me Tolkein as bedtime stories, introduced me to Star Wars, and got me into videogames.

  15. I have a younger brother named Neil, who is awesome.

  16. I have loved Legos since I was about six and suspect I always will.

  17. I actually enjoy calculus, I find it fascinating. I hate being graded and given assignmets though; I only enjoy it when there’s no pressure.

  18. This semester, I am taking 17 credits - Dynamics (3), Thermodynamics (3), Calc III (4), Physics II (4), and an elective course called Multicultural America (3).

  19. I am NOT a morning person. If it were up to me I would sleep from 4AM to Noon or 1PM every day.

  20. I come from a very educated family - all of the adults are four-year college graduates and all of my cousins who are of age are in college as well, some of them at Ivy League schools.

  21. My favorite kinds of music include EBM, Techno, Industrial, Darkwave, Epic/Power Metal, Ska Punk, Rock, and others. I love anything that’s fast, loud, and aggressive.

  22. My favorite kinds of movies are Fantasy, Sci-Fi, and Action/Adventure. I do not like horror movies.

  23. I have only ever had two alcoholic drinks. I don’t like the taste of alcohol.

  24. My favorite TV stations are the Discovery Channel, Learning Channel, Science Channel, History Channel, and G4. I also enjoy watching the News, as well as House, Numbers, CSI, and a few other shows.

  25. I have a seemingly unique variant of a rare autoimmune disease which the doctors at Johns Hopkins have never seen before; I’m trying to get it named after myself, so far without success.

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  1. I’m a Cancer with Leo Rising and Moon in Libra (and I even know what that means)
  2. I read tarot cards & collect different decks
  3. My faviorite how-to new age book is “Complete Idiots Guide to Palmistry”
  4. I learned more Spanish from the book “Spanish for Gringos” than I did in HS
  5. The day and month of my birthday is an important day in Irish history.
  6. I love the Gaelic language and can write/speak bits and pieces.
  7. My favorite cat was named after a Celtic deity (Cliodhna)
  8. I once was a forklift driver for a freezer-warehouse
  9. I burnt out on reading books so I took a little over a year off.
  10. I just started reading again & have 2 going at the same time.
  11. I love cemetaries & am most comfortable visiting them.
  12. I suck at grammer, but usually do pretty good at spelling - although I am not immune to typos!
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  14. My first car was a brown 70-something Honda hatchback that I bought from a farmer and only cost me $300. It was named ‘The Roach’ because it also had trailer mirrors mountes on each side of the front hood. And it looked like a big brown bug!
  15. My second car was named Jezabelle - and she was a pain in the arse!
  16. All of my other cars have had names except this last one which I just refer to it as ‘my baby’ because it has taken good care of me (even though i am rough on it)
  17. I went many years with expired out of state plates and never got caught - even though I had been stopped for speeding (3 miles over)!
  18. I’ve lived in 4 states.
  19. I use the neti pot
  20. I got to see 2 of my all-time fav rock legends after their “extended vacations”.
  21. I got to meet Tantric members when they toured with Creed
  22. I ruined the movie “The Sixth Sense” for the group when I informed them that Willis was dead 9during the parkbench scene)
    23.and on the same token, i was completely oblivious to the fact that Kidman & kids were dead in “The Others”
  23. i do not make a good tree for the cats to climb on
  24. I got the knick-name “Aimless” because of my ability to start on one subject, move to another, and another, and another, but still manage to pick up the original topic of conversation where it left off.
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  1. I have never owned a car, though I came close in the mid nineties.

  2. My sisters were jealous of my eyelashes when I was a kid.

  3. I once got lost on the Helsinki metro, even though it has only one line.

  4. I still wear “Grampa Sokalski’s Parka”, a hand-me-down from friends during a very broke time three years ago.

  5. I have dreamed in LabView, French, and hand-drawn cartoons, though not at the same time.

  6. When I was a small boy, I had blond hair. Now, it’s brown.

  7. I came third in a math contest at my high school.

  8. I inherited my grandfather’s antique electronics books. If you want to know about television, electric railways, or arc welders from the 1930’s, I’m a good one to ask.

  9. I have an entire stable of cartoon characters, some of which I have drawn up.

  10. I get distracted easily.

  11. I can swing my friends’ son Wade around on my back, even though he’s 11 and weighs 110 pounds. Thanks to workouts, I’m a lot stronger than I used to be five years ago.

  12. My favourite meal is “scrambled amoeba”: hamburger hash and mashed potatoes, mixed together.

  13. I may have a degree of ‘face blindness’. I don’t recognize people instantly; I have to figure out who they are by putting together appearance, hair, clothes, voice, etc, etc.

  14. When I was sixteen, I gave my Lego connection to my cousin because I was ‘too old for them’. When he was sixteen, he gave them back to me. I still have them.

  15. Some of these Legos were older than some of my roommates.

  16. I am a Leo and a Water Rabbit.

  17. I used to participate in the Devilbunnies online shared fiction.

  18. I am learning AutoCAD.

  19. I can speak 2.05 languages: English, Esperanto, and a very small amount of French. I would like to study French and Japanese.

  20. The only PowerPoint-style presentation I have given in my life was in Esperanto at an international conference in Montreal last summer.

  21. I eat my hamburgers plain, with nothing but pepper on the meat. On my hotdogs, however, I have peanut butter.

  22. I would very much like to go to Australia and Japan.

  23. I helped build a house whose walls are made of rammed earth contained in automobile tires.

  24. When I was in grade one, they moved me to grade two. I am now convinced that this had bad effects on my development.

  25. I wear glasses, and have since age seven or so.

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  1. I’m a Leo.
  2. I was born in 1961.
  3. I’m the older of 2 kids.
  4. Both parents are deceased.
  5. I have 1 grown kid of my own.
  6. I’ve been married, for better or worse, for 22 years.
  7. I have 2 boxers.
  8. I’m another train freak.
  9. My favorite musician is Mark Knopfler.
  10. I’m an unashamed conservative-libertarian.
  11. I hate snow.
  12. I used to drink alcohol, but do not anymore for medical reasons other than addiction.
  13. I have a black belt in Tae Kwon Do.
  14. I retired from TKD because of arthritis.
  15. I walked away from a dream job at NASA when the dream turned out not to be.
  16. I think too much about things.
  17. If I won the lottery, I’d go back to college. Permanently.
  18. I want to ride a bicycle the entire north-south length of Israel.
  19. Depending on the day, I can be debilitatingly shy, or the most unabashed flirt.
  20. I once shot a man in Reno just to watch him die (Just kidding). I’m considering shaving my head.
  21. My favorite activities are ones where I challenge myself.
  22. I’ve saved lives.
  23. I’ve seen people die.
  24. I live in a swamp.
  25. I belong to a mainstream Protestant church, but do not regularly attend because the closest parish is 40 miles away.
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  1. I am a Scorpio, but believe that astrology is a giant fraud.
  2. The only US president I ever saw in person was JFK. It was at a campaign rally in Grand Rapids in 1960, and I was just short of 4. I got on my dad’s shoulders and remember the man with reddish hair.
  3. I was watching live when Oswald was shot.
  4. I cannot snap my fingers.
  5. I have never eaten macaroni and cheese in my life.
  6. I have never smoked a cigarette in my life.
  7. I am 30 years younger than my father and 30 years older than my son.
  8. I can draw better with an etch-a-sketch than I can with paper
  9. I was terrified of what we called “pinchinbugs” as a kid. Here’s what one looks like (next to the ruler):http://maria.fremlin.de/stagbeetles/usa/pseudolucanusplacidus.html
  10. I went to every Little League practice and every game as an eight year old. I got exactly one at bat in that season (the minimum the rules required) in the very last game.
  11. I have every Dylan CD except for the redundant “Greatest Hits” ones.
  12. I was born in a car as my parents didn’t quite make it to the hospital. Well, they got as far as the parking lot.
  13. I think it’s too hot when it gets over 70.
  14. I would rather watch election returns than anything else on TV.
  15. I like the smell of my dog’s foot pads.
  16. If I get a plug of wax out of my ear, I like to roll it on the table and make a long skinny wax line.
  17. I do crosswords in ink using capital letters only.
  18. I am allergic to alcohol.
  19. The best candies are the Easter Whoppers with the speckled candy coating.
  20. I will eat cooked tomatoes but not raw tomatoes, raw carrots but not cooked carrots.
  21. I can extract square roots with pen and paper
  22. I have the complete DVD collections of “Are You Being Served?” and “Twin Peaks”
  23. I have seen every one of the Great Lakes
  24. I have never been out of North America
  25. I could watch Emmy Rossum’s videos all day
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  1. I prefer cold weather to hot.
  2. I have gotten multiple upgrades (hotels, flights) just by sweet-talking agents. Once for two people on a transatlantic flight :D.
  3. I love rhubarb.
  4. I had sex for the first time on my 20th birthday too!
  5. In a related topic, I have never had sex with a woman (I’m male).
  6. I used to dream about having a job that required a lot of driving (such as quality inspector for a restaurant chain).
  7. I tend to perseverate on adverse conversations with others to the point of distraction.
  8. I type about 80wpm.
  9. When I was young, I was concerned that my hair would turn brown as I aged. (It didn’t).
  10. I have shaved off my moustache four times. And hated it each time.
  11. I built my third and forth computers.
  12. I studied Spanish in Costa Rica for two weeks; regrettably, most of it has gone since I don’t use it.
  13. I have a 31" waist.
  14. I have had three puncture wounds (foot, toe, hand).
  15. I can’t stand anise. Which is a shame, because Absinthe sounds great in theory.
  16. I only like two beers (Smithwicks and Blue Moon). I have tried many many more, but get turned off by the bitter flavor.
  17. I learned how to drive a manual transmission with a column shift (“three on a tree”).
  18. I do not like football, and really don’t get why people do.
  19. I learned how to ski in my 30s.
  20. I do my own taxes. And my partner’s. (No, I’m not a tax preparer).
  21. Both of my kitties are rescue animals. One from a bar parking lot, one from the pound.
  22. I like to dance - C/W, typically.
  23. I cannot fathom how someone can’t keep a beat.
  24. When I tell people I don’t analyze them, I really don’t. Unless you say/do/act in a way that *really *triggers the analytic part of my brain.
  25. I don’t post often because of my tendency to edit and reedit my responses.
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  1. I am completely incapable of brevity. It’s part of why I don’t e-mail people enough, and why I have the chat thing almost permanently disabled. In chat, I am always answering the first question when another five come in, making me take even longer to respond. Aphorisms, apothegma, epigrams are just not part of my vocabulary.
  2. I have a fearful temper. Most people never see it, but when I snap, the Hulk shows up. I’ve never done anything to a fellow human other than yell at them, but inanimate objects that piss me off pay the price. Once, when the thermostat went berserk and heated the house to 30 Celsius in the middle of August, I switched off the furnace, took the thermostat down to the basement, smashed it to pieces with a two pound hammer until I could run it through a sieve and tiled the floor with what was left. A smoke detector incurred my wrath after it revealed its true nature as a shower detector - it went off everytime I took a shower, and yet, didn’t go off when the toaster oven went Oppenheimer on us - so, it was pulled from the ceiling, smashed with the broom handle, swept down the stairs and out the front door, all the while me being dripping wet and with my nooglies flapping in the breeze.
  3. My parents wanted me to be either a lawyer or a Presbyterian minister. I have to forcibly remind myself that this had more to do with the respect in which they held those positions than any innate personality flaws on my part.
  4. My earliest memory is a dream - I had just been put to bed and there was a massive thunderstorm outside. Lightning came in the window and struck me on the foot. It was in Melfort, from my memory of the room, so I couldn’t have been any older than four. I suspect what really happened was that sensation when you’re just drifting off to sleep, and you kick, waking yourself up. Couple that with a storm, and I think that’s what really happened. Or maybe it really was lightning; it’s hard to tell.
  5. Although we’ve just bought the Pine Box House and I can’t picture us leaving Toronto, there’s a huge part of me that has never left Manitoba. I know, I was born in Saskatchewan, but I lived in Brandon from when I was 4 until I was 20. Most of my family is buried there. I still like sour cream on my pizza. It wasn’t until I got married that I realized I was probably not going back there, even though I miss the place something fierce.
  6. I love Winter - passionately. I can walk for hours in sub-zero temperatures (in either scale.) When I was a kid, I used to go out in the woods and lie on my back during snowstorms, to see how deep I could let it get before I had to move. I called it ‘snowbathing’. I also love wearing enough clothing that I can carry my stuff with me, and I shed that armour in the spring with the greatest reluctance.
  7. I have had three hernia operations, all in the abdomen. I live in mortal terror of splitting open like an overripe melon one day…
  8. I’ve completely lost track of how many unwritten novels, stories and scripts I’ve plotted out. It’s into the double-digits, for certain. The difference between a writer and a dilettante with interesting ideas is the writer is someone who is capable of forcing himself to write for a set period of time on a daily basis. I just have a head full of surreal plots gone fallow.
  9. I love writing supplies, office supplies and paper. Walking into an arts supplies store, office store or a place like Laywine’s Paper, Pens and Organizers in Toronto is the closest I’ll ever come to walking into a fetish bar.
  10. I can’t spell worth a damn. My sister Elspeth was the same way, and she was who taught me to be unashamed about consulting the dictionary for everything.
  11. Singing is a God damn ridiculous way to make a living.
  12. Does it bother any one else that this list isn’t truly random? It is generated by my free-associations based on my present mood. Cage found this sort of thing out when he started composing aleatoric music - it takes some real imagination to distance yourself from your choices based on taste. I generated a random list of 25 words to help me make this list truly random. It didn’t help.
  13. I love balconies, deck and especially rooftops. I’ve lived in many different places where I’ve found a way to sneak up to the roof and stargaze.
  14. It was purely by chance that I got into music at all. I overheard my Mum on the phone, telling one of her friends that she was going to sell my brother’s old trumpet, as no one in the family was playing it. I was a primitive sentimental animist at the time, believing that all inanimate objects had feelings, and so I said “No, Mum; don’t sell it! I’ll learn to play it.” I started band in Grade 5, a year behind everyone else, but that was the start of music for me. I have no idea what I would have done had it not been for music, but it probably would have involved an institution with an unpleasant smell.
  15. I was a terrible slacker in High School, and, in fact, almost didn’t graduate because my grades were so appalling.
  16. My experience of the ‘paranormal’ - One day, I came home from school and climbed the hill up from where the bus dropped me off to find our dog, Gypsy, terribly upset. She had cornered an alien and it was cowering under a tree, but it had scratched her pretty badly on the nose. It had glowing red eyes, slimy plastic scales, claws, teeth and a long pink tail. I grabbed Gypsy by the collar, which allowed the space creature to teleport to the mother ship. I washed off Gypsy’s nose and put a band-aid on it. When my Dad came home, I told him all about the invasion, and he listened to me and then asked me to describe the alien. After I told him all about it, he went off to get a large book from the shelf. Paging through it, he came across a picture and showed it to me - “Is that what you saw?” “Yes, how clever of you to have an encyclopedia of aliens, Daddy!” “Well, Doug,” he said “you don’t usually find these this far from the river, but it has been a wet spring. This is a muskrat, not an alien.” We then had a long heart to heart about Occam’s razor and rational inquiry. It has served me well to this day - I haven’t been bothered by aliens or muskrats lately.
  17. I love both dogs and cats. Never understood that ‘cat people vs. dog people’ stuff.
Don't think I could eat a whole one, though...
  1. I admit freely to being a geek, nerd, squid, bookworm, freak, whatever you care to call it. What’s different about me is I’m a geek that hates technology.
  2. One of these days, I will get back to composing. In university, I found out that once I got past all the -isms of 20th century music, I didn’t have anything to say.
  3. I love gardening and carpentry.
  4. Like most storytellers, I have a terrible time not making things up. Even when I tell the truth, I have to put my own stamp on it, whether it’s using deliberate ingenuous spoonerisms, sarcasm, hyperbole, nailing someone’s head to the floor…
  5. I end way too many sentences in…
  6. I learned how to ride a motorbike in 1993 when I was in Stratford. It was pretty weird, as that was the way that my brother Bill died, but it was also the way he lived. Bill used to work at some crappy dead end job through the winter and then in the spring, he’d take everything he owned and throw it in a milk crate that he’d strap to the back of his bike and he’d be gone until the snow trapped him someplace else the next winter. I felt like I made a huge connection to him and who he was, although frankly, the whole time my heart was in my throat because I knew how easy it was to get nailed in traffic.
  7. I hate shopping. Everytime I find something that I like, it goes off the shelves. The Body Shop and I have this long history of me going in there to refill whatever it was I bought the last time, only to find that they stopped making it a month ago. Rice Puffs, my favourite brand of apple juice, you name it.
  8. My cappuccino and pesto flavoured toothpaste didn’t sell as well as I thought it would.
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  1. I actually read every single list in this thread before starting my own.
  2. I was born in 1982.
  3. I was once attacked by a bear while camping in New Mexico.
  4. I don’t think I’ll ever get a “real” job (ie, one where I’ll use my degree.)
  5. My degree was in something I consider “useful” (engineering,) and I think degrees like philosophy, political science, liberal arts, and so forth are useless and stupid and I don’t understand why anyone would waste the time and money on them.
  6. I don’t believe in god, the paranormal, or anything else of that nature. If it can’t be explained by science, then it’s only because we don’t understand it well enough, not that it can’t be.
  7. I seem to go through bouts of mild depression every so often…now is one of those times.
  8. I hate my current job, and have hated every job I’ve ever had and wonder if I ever do get a job I want, if I’ll hate that as well.
  9. I am over $70k in debt, mostly student loans.
  10. I love video games, but I go through phases where I will play one for several hours a day till I get about 80% done, then stop playing it for months until I finally finish it.
  11. I once gave myself a concussion by putting my legs behind my head.
  12. I used to play the trumpet and French horn, but haven’t played either in over right years.
  13. Despite having almost 50 people in my IM buddy list, there are only five on that I’ve talked to at all in the past six months. Only two of them do I have regular conversations with.
  14. I was in a threesome with my best friend and his (at the time) girlfriend. Oddly enough, things were never weird after the fact.
  15. I’m lactose intolerant, but I still consume dairy.
  16. I have sent nude pictures of myself to one of my girlfriends, but only because she was sending me nudes and I felt guilty she wasn’t getting anything “in return,” not because she specifically asked me to.
  17. People trust me, think I’m reliable, and put me in positions of authority despite the fact that I am not trustworthy nor reliable, and am bad at leading people. Even when they see for themselves how bad I am at all three of these things, they keep doing it. I should have been fired from every job I’ve ever had, yet instead I’ve always been rewarded. It’s too nad I hated them all…:stuck_out_tongue:
  18. The other week I had a dream where I was watching “The Wizard of Oz” on stage, yet all the characters were from video games. When I woke up, I decided that someone should write a version of “The Wizard of Oz” with video game characters, cause it would kick ass. (FTR, the only specific thing I remember is that the Tin Man was Mega Man.)
  19. I’ve smoked weed maybe only a couple dozen times at most, yet I don’t think I’ve ever been high. I never felt any different after smoking, except a couple times i did it after lots of drinking and I was just dizzy and sleepy.
  20. I’ve only ever had two “proper” blowjobs in my entire life, despite having about a dozen sexual partners. Both of those came from a girl I went on just a few dates with in October of 2007, which was also the last time I had sex.
  21. Every now and then I think about getting a tattoo, but then back out because it would be a super-nerdy video game tattoo in a very prominent location and do I really want that there forever?
  22. The furthest I’ve ever been from my hometown is Italy, and the furthest I’ve lived from my hometown is northern NY, just over three hours away. I really want to live somewhere far away from here.
  23. I despise mornings with a passion.
  24. I tend to sleep nude more often than not, even when it’s cold. I hate being bunched up in clothes, even just a pair of boxers.
  25. My first concert was Weird Al when I was 16. :smiley:
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  1. I work in a bookstore.

  2. I am fat.

  3. I am tall.

  4. I have no debts nor assets.

  5. I write songs.

  6. I have visited the United States 6 times since 1999.

  7. I have also visited France, England, Wales, Scotland, Germany (x3), Italy, Spain, Canada, and Malta.

  8. My favourite place in all the world is Galway City.

  9. I nearly died several times as a child.

  10. I have a degree in Communications.

  11. If I get my act together I’ll eventually have a phd in Communications.

  12. I live 2 miles from an international airport.

  13. I have delusions of becoming a full time writer.

  14. I drink too much whiskey.

  15. I like dancing.

  16. I think I’m smarter than everyone else.

  17. I hate cats.

  18. I like dogs but don’t want to own one any more.

  19. I love old photographs.

  20. When I was younger I thought the Moon was the Earth’s reflection.

  21. I am 27 but feel thrice that sometimes.

  22. Although I have been somewhat of a success in my life thus far I feel like a failure.

  23. I play guitar lefthanded (and badly).

  24. I am left handed.

  25. I wear glasses.

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I may murder who ever thought of this. If any of you are on facebook I have recently gotten tagged in a million and one notes of this. Sorry if someone has already posted this.

1- I am currently in class
2- I completely favor Mac/Apple products though I never used one until 1 year ago
3- I’m afraid of the dark if I am alone
4- I try and look much more knowledgeable than I am
5- I sometimes am much more knowledgeable than I appear
6- I am a few weeks (months?) from graduating college
7- I will be a certified teacher in Secondary Life Sciences
8- I would like to go to Grad School for Information Sciences at Simmons University
9- I am already running out of things
10- I’d like to live in Maine on a LARGE chuck of land in a nice cabin designed by myself
11- I enjoy nice clothing, especially clothes by INC International Concepts
12- I thoroughly enjoy flirting
13- I am currently absolutely twitterpated with a female (she’s on the dope)
14- I am officially out of things.

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  1. Maine is the only place I’ve really ever fallen in love with, I always knew I wanted to live in New England… Now I have found the place.

  2. I will be a teacher, and eventually with luck a college professor.

  3. I want to earn two PhD’s in my lifetime, I don’t know if I can do it, but I plan to die trying.

  4. I usually worry constantly, but lately I have found less and less to worry about.

  5. I feel grossly inadequate most of the time, I am overly nice to people because I feel it compensates for my “not being enough”.

  6. My favorite color is green, like my eyes, and I only say the “like my eyes part” because my mom always says they are blue… She is wrong.

  7. My dad moved 14 times in my life, and then I moved in with him… He stopped moving.

  8. I am in love with postsecret, and now… Straight Dope.

  9. I hate being angry, and I choose to avoid it makes it easier to handle and get over.

  10. I think I’m funny, most of the time.

  11. I say a lot of stupid things, but I am really very intelligent.

  12. I never lie… I refuse, its pointless. Even if my telling the truth hurts someone, I figure it is better in the long run.

  13. I talk to the same person every day, all day, and I see him a lot… I frequently worry that I am not interesting enough and soon we will be out of things to do or say… Or even out of chemistry. I like him too much to want this to happen… But I’m not really willing to give up the amount of time I spend talking to him. Or the amount of face time I spend with him.

  14. I feel like I should be further along in this list.

  15. I’m supposed to call my mother.

  16. I have a 3 hour lecture in less than two hours, and I am less than excited for it.

  17. I honestly believe my friends are the coolest kids out there, because they are.

  18. I want to marry Andrew McMahon, he is an inspiration to me.

  19. I love the smell of apples, and going apple picking… so lame, but so fun!

  20. I love to cook and don’t do it nearly enough.

  21. If I never even get to my first PhD I think I would still be happy, as long as I can still help people and make the kind of impact some people have made on me.

  22. I can’t live without music, and I always wished I learned how to play the violin.

  23. Even though I felt like I should be farther a long, this list has not really been hard for me, I did one on facebook the other day, though the lists are quite different.

  24. My away message says I’m anxious, and I was earlier, but not so much anymore.

  25. I am currently procrastinating… I have a lot of work to do, and what I feel is a very little time to do it all!

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  1. I am a picses.
  2. I have been married three times.
  3. I have 6 different letters in my first, middle and last names.
  4. I was born on 3-3-66.
  5. My address starts 366.
  6. My first and last names are the same letters but rearranged. There are 3 of them.
  7. My husband finds the above number thing very odd and somewhat creepy.
  8. I am a temp - I have not yet found a full time job after being laid off.
  9. I am adopted.
  10. I gave my daughter up for adoption when I was in my early 20’s.
  11. I read all the time.
  12. I hate watching the news.
  13. Rush is my favorite band followed by Ozzy Osbourne.
  14. I love cooking.
  15. I have not had a hair cut since 1999.
  16. I have terrible self esteem.
  17. I have a 4.0 GPA in college.
  18. I have no savings whatsoever and we live hand to mouth.
  19. I am extremely sentimental and cry over TV shows.
  20. I drink too much.
  21. I’m very allergic to dogs yet have adopted a German Shepherd.
  22. I have one brother who is not adopted.
  23. I have a bad temper.
  24. I am tired a lot.
  25. I am funny.
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  1. According to my mother, she birthed me by herself in a snowbound taxi on a bridge in Munich when the taxi driver bailed and went for help.
  2. I used to bite my fingernails down to the nubs, to the point of pain and blood. The parental units tried everything from nail polish to jalapeno sauce to get me to stop. Nothing worked. I did this until I was 35 years old. One day I saw a person steadily gnawing upon their nails and thought it a very unattractive habit. I no longer bite my nails on a regular basis. Almost hardly at all.
  3. I am a night owl. I don’t feel comfortable going to bed while the moon is out. But I bitch about getting into the “sleep zone” right around 7 AM when the sun is coming through my window, heating up my blankies.
  4. In no particular order, my favorite concerts: KISS’ second tank tour. Iron Maiden’s Powerslave tour. Queensryche’s Operation: Mindcrime tour. And a triple bill: Girlschool on their Screaming Blue Murder tour, opening for Iron Maiden on their Number Of The Beast tour, and headlining was Scorpions on the Blackout tour. (Metalheads will know what I mean.)
  5. I don’t believe in religion, but I do believe in God.
  6. I have never voted in my life. I tried to vote once, but I stood in line for an hour and then they told me I was at the wrong location based on my address. I even had to pay for parking.
  7. I am not afraid of the number 13. I live on the 13th floor. I have a very good friend who was born on Friday the 13th.
  8. I, too, was fascinated with digital clocks. Loved to point out when the display said 12:34, 525, 252, 333, 123, 416, 222, 456 and any other sequential number or time where the digits factor in 4x3=12, so 4:12. And reciprocals: 1251, 215, etc.
  9. Despite growing up in Texas, I received no training in firearms until I joined the army. I have since qualified “Expert” with several American and NATO weapons.
  10. I also have always named all of my computers, as well as cars. My last car was “Jack” (as in “Let’s hit the road, Jack) and my last computer was D.O.R.I.S. (Data Optimization and Retrieval of Information System).
  11. Although I consider myself a very safe driver, I have had several accidents where I should have been killed which I walked away from. Nobody else ever got hurt in any of my accidents.
  12. While working in a hospital, I developed a hobby of shooting / collecting pictures of bodies in the morgue when Bobby would let me sneak in. He even used to let me go in to see the bodies before and after the autopsies were performed. (These pictures almost have all been lost, so no requests, please.)
  13. Once, on vacation, I walked three miles through the rain to a dock on the coast of Le Harve, France to board a ferry to Ireland. The ferry had left by the time I had arrived. I was rescued by a crew of French dock workers who gave me food, got me drunk, got me a cab and directed the cab to the CVJG (?) aka the French YMCA. I got a room on the cheap, a hot shower, and more dinner. After that, all I wanted to do was to go to bed. When some other patrons in the bar heard me speak, they approached me and asked if I was an American. When I said yes, they proceeded to convince me to allow them to practice their English skills upon me and plowed me with drinks. I don’t know how much “drunken American” I taught them, but the next day they drove me to the station and put me on a train back to Paris. I don’t know why Americans don’t like the French. I do.
  14. I totally respect my mother. I call her GOL – the Giver of Life. She hates it. She is a fighter. She participated in the fight to get Ozzy banned from San Antonio for 10 years, petitioned to get Audie Murphie a stamp from the USPS, won a bar of gold at a Whataburger 50’s trivia contest and got her picture in the paper - lots of other things. Don’t f**k with my mom.
  15. I am a Capricorn. When they find out, many people say I’m a “typical Capricorn”. I don’t know what this means.
  16. I still have a picture of my friends and me when we were at Six Flags (Arlington, TX) at 12:34 and .56 seconds on 7/8/90. A good time.
  17. I try not to show it, but I am very competitive. I hope I am a good sport about losing. But I hate losing.
  18. Friends often text/email/call to find out answers to pointless trivia questions. They all know I am the first guy to call about ANY heavy metal question. Or Star Trek.
  19. Upon purchasing a new DVD, I will often watch it four or five times in a row. Just to make sure I catch all the nuances. Only then will I invite others to watch it with me.
  20. I do not want attention. I want to be the ‘behind the scenes’ guy. I enjoy seeing my friends having a good time and knowing that I had something to do with it.
  21. I moved cross-country once. I put on a special pair of boots and waded through the shore in the Puget Sound. Then I started driving. I put the boots back on and stepped off the beach in New Jersey. Coast to coast boots. These boots have now since worn out.
  22. Over the course of three cars, four years and one job, I have traveled the perimeter of the United States.
  23. I am a pretty funny guy. I usually give two punch lines: The first for the obvious laugh, and the second for those who understand the twist to the joke.
  24. Pre-9/11, I arrived late to the ticket counter at BWI airport. The man in front of me had the same destination. He asked the lady at the counter if he would be able to make the flight. She sort of giggled and said, “Well, they’re boarding now, so probably not.” He proceeded to walk very fast toward the gate. I got my ticket and started running to the gate. While passing the other guy, I said “Good luck” and continued to run. He and I ended up having a sprinting contest in a very OJ Simpson moment, to include hurdling chairs, benches and luggage to get there. We both got there on time, panting and high-fiving while giving tickets to the check-in lady.
  25. I bore very easily. I have more, but I am glad I am finally on number 25. I’m done.
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  1. I’m a minimalist.
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If you’re familiar with Facebook or other computer networking sites you’re probably already familiar with the rules. In addition it’s been well recorded (usually disdainfully) in many periodicals and zines and other writing: theTwenty Five Random Things About Me phenom that’s virally spreading.

It’s pretty self-explanatory- just write 25 Random things about yourself, they can range from a single word to a paragraph, however much or little you wish. On Facebook you have to “tag” others to do likewise, but here it’s completely voluntary. (My apologies if this is already done, but attempting to search for it keeps giving me an “out of memory” error message of some sort which is not on the part of my computer.)

TWENTY FIVE RANDOM THINGS ABOUT ME

  1. Had I been a girl my parents had planned to name me Mary Lorena (the latter after my father’s favorite Civil War song).

  2. I grew up on a cattle farm in Alabama that my father named Locksley Hall after his favorite Tennyson poem.

  3. I was born in 1966 but most of my playmates were born in the 19th century or very soon after.

  4. Courtesy of my childhood I know how to castrate pigs (which is not easy, incidentally).

  5. My favorite toys when I was a kid were sticks, ranging from a few inches to 8 foot staves.

  6. My favorite storebought toys were the BEST OF THE WEST action figures; I had Johnny West, Jane West (a hand me down from my sister), General Custer, Geronimo, Sam Cobra, and a couple of the horses (on little inline wheels).

  7. My favorite writers change of course but currently they include Sarah Vowell, Truman Capote, David McCullough, early John Grisham (haven’t read him in years), Stephen King, Kurt Vonnegut, and Gore Vidal.

  8. For a 6th grade history book report/history project I re-enacted the hanging of the Lincoln Conspirators using the Best of the West action figures above (except for the horses); Geronimo in a ragged dress sock for a dress played Mary Surratt.
    The class gave me my first ever ovation and my teacher recommended therapy. (When she told my mother “Do you know that your son HANGS action figures with real nooses?”, my mother replied “Well, they killed the president.”)

  9. I’ve written the draft of a book on my first 20 years entitled CASSEROLES FOR THE DEAD, but I’m continually rewriting it.

  10. I drove a Yugo for more than five years. His name was Victor for most of that time (“Yugo, Victor Yugo”) but it never got a chuckle. After he was battered in a hail storm I changed the name to Todd for Bill Murray’s “crater face” character on SNL (the Lisa Loopner sketches).

  11. I fell in love with showtunes after dusting off my parents’ original 1950s Broadway LP of MY FAIR LADY. My current reigning favorites include RAGTIME, LES MIS (of course), 1776, and the revamped Mendes version of CABARET.

  12. I have two dogs- Ollie (named for Oliver Hardy [he was born a block from where Hardy lived in Georgia]) and Mardi (full name Mardi Gras, or “Fat Tuey”).

  13. In addition to CASSEROLES FOR THE DEAD, I occasionally work on a sequel for GONE WITH THE WIND (its copyright expires in a few years). I won’t say too much about it, but I will say it’s non-linear and Scarlett’s grandmother (Solange Prudhomme Robillard) and a modern day genealogist are both major characters.

  14. Former dogs I’ve had over the years have included Fritz the Dachapoo, BB the bald St. Bernard, Corky the Catatonic Corgy, Nutless Bob the Quasi-Bassett, Niko and Dudley (both Pekingese and both bald- never get a Pekingese), Ashley the Siberian Husky, and muts Blanca, Blue, War Eagle, Red Eagle, Shalimar, Susie (possibly my favorite of the lot save for the current two), Bimbo, Travis, Westminster, and Spot. Cats have included Miss Kitty (yeah, I know), Canada, Bela (the god king of Central Alabama cats from the mid 70s to the late 80s), Spooky, Doolittle, Stupid, Stupid Jr., and Stupidia.

  15. My phobias include snakes and horses. (Snakes because they’re satanically evil little buggers that all need to die [I know I know, ecosystem smeekosystem, but there’s nothing they kill that Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts and kids in detention can’t be sent out to kill just as well], horses because I had a major accident on one named, of all things, Poky [though when he stepped on a live electrical wire he wasn’t poky anymore], before which I was a very good rider.)

  16. I’m years and years out of practice, but I used to be an excellent shot with a 30.30 and with a .22 and won awards in high school. I currently don’t own a rifle but I have an embarrassing number of handguns.

  17. Among my handguns and weaponry are a Confederate cavalry pistol and saber. (I considered doing Civil War reenactment for a while, but a combination of feeling I’m way too fat [not that this has stopped a lot of others from doing it] and they wouldn’t let me set fire to things.

  18. My ancestry is Scots-Irish, German, and Swiss, with possibly a black ancestor in the early 18th century and the ubiquitous rumors of “Injun somewhere in there”.

  19. My favorite current TV shows are BIG BANG THEORY, 30 ROCK, UGLY BETTY (though it’s in major decline) and MY NAME IS EARL.

  20. All time favorite TV shows include SANFORD & SON, WKRP in CINCINATTI, ALL IN THE FAMILY, and NORTHERN EXPOSURE.

  21. I’m not religious or even what you’d call spiritual, but I do believe in ghosts and some other supernatural entities. (My father worshipped Irony as an incarnation of the Divine, and I can somewhat see his point.)

  22. One of many reasons I don’t believe in professional psychics happened in March 1993 when I was desk clerk at a convention center where a large New Age convention was held. Self proclaimed psychics and seers and spiritual advisors came from all over the country. Most had to stay an extra day due to a massive widespread snowstorm (especially by Alabama standards) that none had “foreseen”.

  23. I occasionally go through biographical fixations in which I read everything I can find on certain historical figures. A few past subjects of this fascination include: Cornelius Vanderbilt and his family, Brigham Young, Creek Indian chief Alexander McGillivray, Hermann Göring, Sarah Bernhardt, King Alfred the Great, and Alexander the Great. Usually these periods last for a few months, and one day I wake up and am no longer particularly interested in them.

  24. I’ve pretty much decided I don’t have a “better half” but for better or worse am complete and will probably remain romantically unattached until such time as I commence decomposition. I’m very honest when I say I find the prospect comforting.

  25. I smoke cigarettes unfortunately and am somewhere between a tee-totaller and a very moderate social drinker (I probably have about 10 drinks per year, most of them on the same night).

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  1. I love the gym and go everyday.

  2. I have been in Intensive Care on life support 12 times in the last year.

  3. I have had a verucca on my right foot for ten years.

  4. I am very bendy and flexible and can do funny things with my legs behind my head.

  5. I can’t stand the taste of alcohol and have never finished a glass of anything in my whole life. Although alcohol has saved my life a little too often.

  6. I love fairies-drawing them, collecting them, believing in them.

  7. I hate cities and love the middle of nowhere.

  8. It is fun to try and get your windscreen wipers going in time to your music.

  9. I am a very good driver and learnt to drive in 3months after my 17th Birthday.

  10. I am very proud of having 5 A grade A Levels.

  11. Travelling is my passion and have been in the Taj Mahal, up the Eiffel Tower and up the Statue of Liberty in a thunder and lightning storm.

  12. I have spent my whole life wanting to be a clinical psychologist only to find in the past year I dont want to be one at all.

  13. I can’t understand how people do cartwheels but would love to learn.

  14. The sun makes me extremely happy, heat and light are very important to me.

  15. I haven’t ridden my own bike for about 10 years, but do ride a bike everyday.

  16. Tropical beaches with clear sea and white sand give me happy butterflies in my tummy.

  17. I think I have a posh English school girl accent but my friends would have to confirm that. Actually, I just asked my family and they said I don’t, I have a standard English accent. How boring.

  18. I have never smoked a cigarette or even held one.

  19. I love being given flowers.

  20. I did a skydive on a Christmas Eve.

  21. My childhood dream is to be an acrobat.

  22. I sing like a cat but think I sound beautiful.

  23. I love swimming in the sea.

  24. The cinema is one of my favourite evening things to do.

  25. I love sushi.

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TWENTY FIVE RANDOM THINGS ABOUT ME

  1. Had I been a girl my parents had planned to name me Mary Lorena (the latter after my father’s favorite Civil War song).

  2. I grew up on a cattle farm in Alabama that my father named Locksley Hall after his favorite Tennyson poem.

  3. I was born in 1966 but most of my playmates were born in the 19th century or very soon after.

  4. Courtesy of my childhood I know how to castrate pigs (which is not easy, incidentally).

  5. My favorite toys when I was a kid were sticks, ranging from a few inches to 8 foot staves.

  6. My favorite storebought toys were the BEST OF THE WESTaction figures; I had Johnny West, Jane West (a hand me down from my sister), General Custer, Geronimo, Sam Cobra, and a couple of the horses (on little inline wheels). The smell of vinyl still makes me smile.

  7. My favorite writers change of course but currently they include Sarah Vowell, Truman Capote, David McCullough, early John Grisham (haven’t read him in years), Stephen King, Kurt Vonnegut, and Gore Vidal.

  8. For a 6th grade history book report/history project I re-enacted the hanging of the Lincoln Conspirators using the Best of the West action figures above (except for the horses); Geronimo in a ragged dress sock for a dress played Mary Surratt.
    The class gave me my first ever ovation and my teacher recommended therapy. (When she told my mother “Do you know that your son HANGS action figures with real nooses?”, my mother replied “Well, they killed the president.”)

  9. I’ve written the draft of a book on my first 20 years entitled CASSEROLES FOR THE DEAD, but I’m continually rewriting it.

  10. I drove a Yugo for more than five years. His name was Victor for most of that time (“Yugo, Victor Yugo”) but it never got a chuckle. After he was battered in a hail storm I changed the name to Todd for Bill Murray’s “crater face” character on SNL (the Lisa Loopner sketches).

  11. I fell in love with showtunes after dusting off my parents’ original 1950s Broadway LP of MY FAIR LADY. My current reigning favorites include RAGTIME, LES MIS (of course), 1776, and the revamped Mendes version of CABARET.

  12. I have two dogs- Ollie (named for Oliver Hardy [he was born a block from where Hardy lived in Georgia]) and Mardi (full name Mardi Gras, or “Fat Tuey”).

  13. In addition to CASSEROLES FOR THE DEAD, I occasionally work on a sequel for GONE WITH THE WIND (its copyright expires in a few years). I won’t say too much about it, but I will say it’s non-linear and Scarlett’s grandmother (Solange Prudhomme Robillard) and a modern day genealogist are both major characters.

  14. Former dogs I’ve had over the years have included Fritz the Dachapoo, BB the bald St. Bernard, Corky the Catatonic Corgy, Nutless Bob the Quasi-Bassett, Niko and Dudley (both Pekingese and both bald- never get a Pekingese), Ashley the Siberian Husky, and muts Blanca, Blue, War Eagle, Red Eagle, Shalimar, Susie (possibly my favorite of the lot save for the current two), Bimbo, Travis, Westminster, and Spot. Cats have included Miss Kitty (yeah, I know), Canada, Bela (the god king of Central Alabama cats from the mid 70s to the late 80s), Spooky, Doolittle, Stupid, Stupid Jr., and Stupidia.

  15. My phobias include snakes and horses. (Snakes because they’re satanically evil little buggers that all need to die [I know I know, ecosystem smeekosystem, but there’s nothing they kill that Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts and kids in detention can’t be sent out to kill just as well], horses because I had a major accident on one named, of all things, Poky [though when he stepped on a live electrical wire he wasn’t poky anymore], before which I was a very good rider.)

  16. I’m years and years out of practice, but I used to be an excellent shot with a 30.30 and with a .22 and won awards in high school. I currently don’t own a rifle but I have an embarrassing number of handguns.

  17. Among my handguns and weaponry are a Confederate cavalry pistol and saber. (I considered doing Civil War reenactment for a while, but a combination of feeling I’m way too fat [not that this has stopped a lot of others from doing it] and they wouldn’t let me set fire to things.

  18. My ancestry is Scots-Irish, German, and Swiss, with possibly a black ancestor in the early 18th century and the ubiquitous rumors of “Injun somewhere in there”.

  19. My favorite current TV shows are BIG BANG THEORY, 30 ROCK, UGLY BETTY (though it’s in major decline) and MY NAME IS EARL.

  20. All time favorite TV shows include SANFORD & SON, WKRP in CINCINATTI, ALL IN THE FAMILY, and NORTHERN EXPOSURE.

  21. I’m not religious or even what you’d call spiritual, but I do believe in ghosts and some other supernatural entities. (My father worshipped Irony as an incarnation of the Divine, and I can somewhat see his point.)

  22. One of many reasons I don’t believe in professional psychics happened in March 1993 when I was desk clerk at a convention center where a large New Age convention was held. Self proclaimed psychics and seers and spiritual advisors came from all over the country. Most had to stay an extra day due to a massive widespread snowstorm (especially by Alabama standards) that none had “foreseen”.

  23. I occasionally go through biographical fixations in which I read everything I can find on certain historical figures. A few past subjects of this fascination include: Cornelius Vanderbilt and his family, Brigham Young, Creek Indian chief Alexander McGillivray, Hermann Göring, Sarah Bernhardt, King Alfred the Great, and Alexander the Great. Usually these periods last for a few months, and one day I wake up and am no longer particularly interested in them.

  24. I’ve pretty much decided I don’t have a “better half” but for better or worse am complete and will probably remain romantically unattached until such time as I commence decomposition. I’m very honest when I say I find the prospect comforting.

  25. I smoke cigarettes unfortunately and am somewhere between a tee-totaller and a very moderate social drinker (I probably have about 10 drinks per year, most of them on the same night).

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