# Tell me random cool things about yourself **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 21, 2003, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-random-cool-things-about-yourself/176634 "2003-05-21T20:19:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![brainfizz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/da6949/32.png) [@brainfizz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brainfizz)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-random-cool-things-about-yourself/176634/61 "2003-05-22T11:35:05Z")
I once fell off a balcony, six floors up, into a rosebush and came away without a scratch. I spent the years between 11 and 13 unable to speak, write, read or understand anyone else due to a bump on the head. I won a beauty contest when I was 8! The prize for this was to star in the Bisto gravy advert! ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-random-cool-things-about-yourself/176634/62 "2003-05-22T11:45:09Z")
> [@](#): > > I won a beauty contest when I was 8! The prize for this was to star in the Bisto gravy advert! You were a Bisto kid? No way! Did you get to say “Aaahhhhhh Bisto!”? ---
**Author:** ![bittersweet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c57346/32.png) [@bittersweet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bittersweet)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-random-cool-things-about-yourself/176634/63 "2003-05-22T11:46:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kalhoun \* > \*\*I’ve never had a cavity. > I was in Ferris Buehler’s Day Off. With my kid. \*\* -I’ve never had a cavity either (and FBDO is one of my all-time favorite movies!) -I was in an ultra-low-budget zombie movie -I **may** be addicted to getting tattoos -I (and my high school chorus group) sang at the Old North Church in Boston, MA ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-random-cool-things-about-yourself/176634/64 "2003-05-22T12:06:33Z")
> [@](#): > > My great aunt is also my great great aunt…yet there is no inbreeding in my family. Details! Does this involve artifical insemination and a time machine accident or what? **Randomly Cool Things About Shirley** My kids adore me. My dog comes when called 3 out of 974 times. I can wiggle my ears. **Jimmy Hat** Welcome to the boards! Very funny! ---
**Author:** ![BlackKnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-random-cool-things-about-yourself/176634/65 "2003-05-22T12:17:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bittersweet \* > \*\*-I was in an ultra-low-budget zombie movie > \*\* If it was “Redneck Zombies” then you’re my new favorite person. Oh, and as much as I hate to admit it, there really isn’t anything cool about me. Well, I can pick up small objects with my toes. I’m good at that. I even invented a fighting style that involves pinching people with your toes. I call it Toe Fu. ---
**Author:** ![HDS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/bb73d2/32.png) [@HDS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HDS)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-random-cool-things-about-yourself/176634/66 "2003-05-22T12:18:55Z")
My great-grandmother Mor-Mor had tickets for the Titanic but missed the boat. She would have traveled third class. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-random-cool-things-about-yourself/176634/67 "2003-05-22T12:46:33Z")
I suck!☹ Which could be considered cool!🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-random-cool-things-about-yourself/176634/68 "2003-05-22T13:00:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Nichol\_storm \* > \*\*I’m an atheist. > > An unusually high number of people in my family have died from lightning strikes. > \*\* Gods have bad aim. ---
**Author:** ![Rapunzel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cc9497/32.png) [@Rapunzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rapunzel)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-random-cool-things-about-yourself/176634/69 "2003-05-22T13:06:20Z")
I was a distant relative of the late lyricist Alan Jay Lerner. A strange woman once walked up to me in a London nightclub and squeezed my breast to see if it was real (they are) I’ve been a blonde, brunette and redhead. Even people I used to work closely with every day often don’t recognise me. I once ran away from an encounter with a very famous British comedian (he was very drunk) I know all the lyrics to Rapper’s Delight by the Sugarhill Gang 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-random-cool-things-about-yourself/176634/70 "2003-05-22T13:27:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by whistlepig \* > \*\*… > > Several years ago, I saved the life of a neighbor’s baby who had choked and stopped breathing. > …\*\* That is seriously cool. Good for you. ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-random-cool-things-about-yourself/176634/71 "2003-05-22T13:29:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mr. Excellent \* > **… > I can argue any position on any political issues as if I really believed it, and be convincing. That’s because I have no soul…** Of course you don’t. Pinhead ripped it apart. ---
**Author:** ![pingalondon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/67e7ee/32.png) [@pingalondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pingalondon)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-random-cool-things-about-yourself/176634/72 "2003-05-22T13:43:40Z")
I once sang solo in the concert hall of the Sydney Opera House. When I was 6 I met the Queen, and gave her flowers. Hmmm, is that why I am now so keen on an Australian Republic? ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-random-cool-things-about-yourself/176634/73 "2003-05-22T14:38:59Z")
I bowled a 298 last year. My dad went to school with Fess Parker, who played Daniel Boone on TV. I use 3D modeling software, which I think is pretty cool. ---
**Author:** ![Bob\_Lawblaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Bob\_Lawblaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bob_Lawblaw)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-random-cool-things-about-yourself/176634/74 "2003-05-22T14:53:10Z")
I bet harness races for a living. I’m a distant relative of Foster Hewitt and even more distant to Harry S Truman. I broke six bones before I was five years old (each leg twice and my right arm twice), but I’ve only broken a couple of toes since (and as an adult). ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-random-cool-things-about-yourself/176634/75 "2003-05-22T14:53:51Z")
As a toddler, I (along with my family) lived in the oldest frame house in the United States. It’s the Wycoff House in Brooklyn, NY. It has since been restored and is a museum, but back then it was in bad repair and was behind an autobody shop. ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-random-cool-things-about-yourself/176634/76 "2003-05-22T15:59:34Z")
I’m related to both Robert the Bruce and Robert E. Lee. (Maybe I should start an uprising) ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-random-cool-things-about-yourself/176634/77 "2003-05-22T16:13:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Laughing Lagomorph \* > \*\*Of course you don’t. Pinhead ripped it apart. \*\* Hmm. You know, that _would_ explain it. Does that make me a Cenobite? Or is there more to it than that? ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/45deac/32.png) [@Evil\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_One)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-random-cool-things-about-yourself/176634/78 "2003-05-22T16:41:51Z")
I was the guy carrying the tray of coffee that the angry officer bumped into and spilled it all over himself in Topgun. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-random-cool-things-about-yourself/176634/79 "2003-05-22T16:46:33Z")
> [@](#): > > I’m related to both Robert the Bruce and Robert E. Lee. And The Dread Pirate Roberts too, I bet. 😉 I can multiply in my head very well, which surprises people who expect me, as a writer/journalist, to be a numerophobe. I made the Long Island Spelling Bee finals in sixth grade. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-random-cool-things-about-yourself/176634/80 "2003-05-22T16:54:25Z")
I once had dinner with three friends and **Wilt Chamberlin** , I didn’t know he’d be there. This was at the Border Grill when it was still on Melrose Ave. in L.A. He picked up the tab. I saw the **Blues Brothers** LIVE at a small bar in NYC in 1977 before they cut their first album. Later that night I sat on the back steps between shows and chatted with **Dan Ackeroyd** while he smoked a joint and talked about comedy, I was only 17 and lied about my age to get in. I am a member of the **SDMB!** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-random-cool-things-about-yourself/176634.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-random-cool-things-about-yourself/176634.md?page=5)