Random facts about ourselves

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Hey evilbeth, I didn’t do Academic Decathlon but I do remember what it is :smiley: I did Academic Super Bowl myself. And I can’t play games with anyone that can’t play right, be it kid or adult. And one of my biggest peeves is the movie Beauty and the Beast…I’ve practically memorized the thing and I chew people out every time they get lines wrong. Except my really cool fellow Disneymoviemaniac. She and I drive chat rooms crazy by doing whole scenes from Disney movies in room :smiley:

When are you going to realize being normal isn’t necessarily a good thing?

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TaleraRis–sounds like we’d get along fine!
I despise sand.

I will buy anything that is sold on a television infomercial.

I have panic attacks if I have soap on my hands or feet for longer than a few seconds.

When I am really bored at work and I can’t get on-line to the SMDB, I stretch out rubber bands and write movie quotes or song lyrics on them and stick them in other people’s files.

When I make mashed potatoes they always end up brown because of all the stuff I put in them.

The fundamentalist Christian women I work with think I am a Satanist and are afraid of me.

The Top 10 Greatest Things About Procrastination:

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random things about me:

  1. I am insane about the Simpsons and I once learned (and recited) all 26 of Cletus’ children as listed by him on the show (for a bet)

  2. I was in an Advert for Hershey Spoons (the chocolate bar you can eat with a spoon!)
    but never saw the finished advert (as it was for the USA and I live in Ireland)

  3. I watched every episode of Twin peaks and never understood it at all.

  4. I do not find Sienfeld funny and wonder if its really something wqrong with me. am I alone?

John Larrigan

“82.35% of all statistics are made up on the spot”–Vic Reeves

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StoryT: Yeah, it was tragic; a promising career cut short when it broke in two. Now it’s painful to curl up in a ball and I set off metal detectors every where.

Just curious: What did your mouth do to get judged “Magnificent”? No innuendo intended, well, not much anyway…

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Hmm well make sure you don’t get arrested Tyler :). The Cops in Monterey are so into their jobs, they’ll actually cite you for spitting on the sidewalk. :slight_smile:

  • I love the beach. I don’t want to live in any state without a decent beach in it.

  • I like Chinese and Japanese ink paintings, and am trying to teach myself to do it (well at least get close to the style).

  • any further tattos I get will have an “asian” theme to them.

  • I’ve been to Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, and Arizona. I’ve also been to Yosemite all of 2 times.

  • I earned a $1,500 a year scholarship from my school.

  • I only speak English, but am working on learning Spanish. I also took an intensive summer course in Tagalog, and I didn’t even have to pay the $1,300 tuition fee either (The Monterey Institute of International Studies had money they needed to get rid of).

It’s worth the risk of burning, to have a second chance…

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I love clean bed sheets so generally wash mine a couple of times a week.

There is just nothing like a big ole hug.

Spicy food and red wine are total aphrodisiacs for me.

When in line at the grocery store, I always look at the rag magazines, never buy them but alway have a good laugh.

I get tongue tied when I’m nervous and end up sounding like goof.

I love blowing bubbles with bubble gum.

Yesterday I was called a dork, bitch and cool by three different kids.

I am still dreaming about swimming in the ocean one day.

We are, each of us angels with only one wing,and we can only fly by embracing one another

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I have a pen pal in England that I’ve been writing to for 26 years…We’ve never met in person although we have spoken on the phone a few times.

I love to cook.

I’m a good mom. People comment on how well-adjusted and well behaved my daughter is…And I’ve disciplined her without hitting her.

On the above point, it breaks my heart a little everytime I see how some people treat their children…In public, no less. I almost walked up to some parents in Costco and told them off, last Saturday.

I hate to watch movies with torture and cruelty in them.

–Gail
“Predictable, really I suppose. It was an act of purest optimism to have posed the question in the first place.” --John Cleese

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Good for you Gail,

I personally cant stand people who cant treat their kids right.

One of my pet hates is the site of a kid cowering in front of their parents who are threatening to hit them.

But I think thats a whole different thread

John Larrigan

“82.35% of all statistics are made up on the spot”–Vic Reeves

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I’ve been to 45 of the 50 states - still have Alaska, Maine, Montana, New Hampshire and North Dakota to go.

I drive a brand new Harvest Gold 2000 Ford Ranger pick-up.

I lived in the same house the whole time I was growing up.

People look at me weird when I say I prefer Los Angeles over San Francisco.

When I was a kid, I used to spend hours reading unrelated stuff in the encyclopedia. Now I do the same thing on the Internet.

I have a reputation for inserting bits of trivia into conversations, even conversations in which I’m not participating.

My SO and I have driven most of the old Route 66. We still have a stretch from Williams, Arizona to Santa Monica left to do.

I broke my arm while climbing over a chain-link fence (I fell off backwards).

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I have been to every state except Hawaii and Alaska.

I have that annoying habit of correcting others conversations at times.

I love puns, though I can’t pun very well myself.

I admit I’m a bit of a jerk about things, and am socially inept.

>>Being Chaotic Evil means never having to say your sorry…unless the other guy is bigger than you.<<

—The dragon observes

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Privy, yeap. The Hangar 18. Dad even once gave a tour for a TV news crew one time.

And I have been repeatedly assured by dad that the guys I saw working in there with bulbous eyes and large grey heads just had a birth defect, and were as human as I am. :wink:

—(Playing with my antenne.)Narile

>>Being Chaotic Evil means never having to say your sorry…unless the other guy is bigger than you.<<

—The dragon observes

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  1. I have been, at two different times in my life, been madly in love with two different guys, both named Ray, both born in Germany.

  2. I am deeply in love at present with James of Team Rocket (Pokemon), and I don’t care who knows it.

  3. When I was 12, for no particular reason, I memorized half of the poem, “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere”. Three months later, guess which poem we were required to memorize the first half of??? No one has ever believed me, but it’s true.

  4. When my husband was out of town, our mongrel stray cat we adopted got sick and needed an operation just before Christmas. I considered having it put down, but my conscience required I call hubby. Per his orders, I OK’d the operation with the vet and spent the $800 we had saved for Christmas, presents, etc. on the operation. When I tell people that today, they look at me as though I had escaped from an asylum and am possibly armed and dangerous.

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I have some 8 or so posts to go over 2000 the second time.The counter lost 60 posts.

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More Useless Shirley Facts:

I, too, once memorized most of " The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere." I cannot recall the desire that propelled me to do so, but I can still do the opening lines.

Since I was about 10 years old, I’ve had chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast every sunday morning. ( No syrup. yuck. Just butter.)

I’ve owned the same hair brush since I was 19. ( If I lose it, I just may weep.)

I have underpants still from 9th grade.

The bra’s in my dresser range in size from 34A - 36C, thanks to the joys of pregnancy.

I wear men’s underwear when I’m pregnant.
(Cheaper and more comfortable than the ugly maternity things.)

Every guy I have dated in my life was very handy in fixing things and into some bizarre sport called Soccer.

I never had cable until a year after I married.

I never had an answering machine until I married.

We’ve been cable-free since Labor Day weekend.

I never cooked a meal for someone else (other than mac and cheese while babysitting) until…oh…about two years after marrying.

I have never cooked a meal that had taste other than overcooked corregated card board to it.

I prefer driving a stick shift.

I don’t panic in crisis situations.

I’ve done double black diamond ski runs and lived.

I’ve done moguls and did a yard sale.

I cannot stand the feel of wooden popsicle stick on my teeth. ( It’s the equivalent of finger nails on a chalk board to me.)

I have not talked to another adult in the past seventy two hours (other than hubby and a telemarketer).

I can ramble with the best of them.

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In 1995 someone stole my hammer at our garage sale.

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if you want a real abbundance of useless information you should check out my page…

and before you all start telling me i have too much time on my hands, i’d just like you to realize… that you’re all very right. :slight_smile:

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“human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust; we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.” - albert einstein

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1-I love to read and will read several books a week.
2-I dislike violence or being violent, but I am Very good at it.

3-I have never been in the military or a police officer but I have been shot at, stabbed, hit with: a baseball bat, chain, two-by-four, shovel, beer bottle, steel kettle filled with water, rocks, bricks, a high-heeled shoe, and a small tree.

4-I have been maced and pepper sprayed by accident.

5-I have been hit by a car twice by accident, once on purpose.

6-I have had cosmetic surgery to ease facial scars.

7-I once knocked over an oxygen tank and watched it shoot out of the building I was in across an open field and thru the (wooden) side of a nearby building.

8-I remember lines from movies and TV with near perfect quality and grow very irritated at my roommate who can Never get one right!

9-I have never been to a professional or college level sporting event.

10-I have never been in love, and I often doubt I ever will be.

11-I can do housework better than any woman I know.

12-I will sit at 5am and watch infomercials, but only for gadgets, never weight-loss, money-making, cosmetics, or relationship aids.

“The universe doesn’t give first warnings or second chances”

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  1. I’m pretty lazy, which is why I don’t post more often.

  2. I’m socially inept and am often afraid of looking stupid. So I sometimes do.

  3. I can drink most people under the table on a good night.

  4. I just found out today that I will probably need major hip surgery.

  5. I adopted a rescued greyhound.

  6. My most embarrassing admission: I have a hard time sitting still, and I rock in the car and at the computer desk when I think no one is looking.

I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken.

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:wink: Back in the mid-80s, KFOG-FM in San Francisco had a very cool TV commercial with a woman mouthing bits and pieces of music and DJs talking, clipped from a typical day’s programming. The POV was an extreme close-up of the woman’s mouth as she lip-synched the clips. Gradually the camera panned back so you could see the woman (who was quite a looker) wearing a KFOG t-shirt. The final line in the commercial was a voice-over saying “You have a magnificent mouth.” Then the woman says (in her own voice), “KFOG is a magnificent radio station.”

A few years after that commercial ran, KFOG decided to do a second (similar) commercial starring one of their listeners. After a few rounds of eliminations, the final contest was held at Bimbo’s in SF. There were about 10 finalists and I took third place. I’m absurdly proud of this accomplishment. :wink: < inuendo>(I mean, you gotta have some luscious lips and a pretty talented tongue to carry this off successfully…)</inuendo >

StoryTyler
“Not everybody does it, but everybody should.”
I Spy Ty.

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More Lanna facts:

  1. For some strange reason, every guy I know has an infatuation with my ass.

  2. I’m very obessive-compulsive about matching. My underwear, earrings, nail polish and hair things must be the exact same hue as my shirt. If something is a shade different, I will spend the rest of the day on edge.

  3. I can recite the details and added bonuses of at least 3 infomercials at any given time.

  4. I have an IQ of 145, but still say things like, “Wow, this rain is really wet!” on a daily basis. Often, people will look at me and remark, “You know, when we first met, I thought you were incredibly stupid!” about a week or two after first meeting me.

  5. My weekends tend to fill up about two weeks in advance, and I usually am away from the house 12 hours on both Friday and Saturdays. My parents have taken to grounding me once every other month just so they can remember what I look like.

  6. I cannot take a compliment. Whenever I’m praised, I’ll argue with the person until they retract their statement.
    -Lanna