# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2003, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-random-cool-things-about-yourself/176634/161 "2003-05-25T01:49:46Z")
I think you’re cool, **Fionn** 🙂 As for me, I just got awarded 1st Rank in my Filipino Martail Arts class. I know how to kill ya with a knife really fast! Although I haven’t gotten a real job in the industry yet, I have already had one advertisement I created and developed published while I was an intern two years ago. My biggest accomplishment, personally, is that for three years, I was a member of the only nationally syndicated student produced show, **The Campus Loop**. It was sketch comedy, and we actually had some funny bits! We stopped when we graduated and the company paying us went bankrupt, but people in Pennsylvania loved us, and I’m sure someone in Compton wants us dead. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2003, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-random-cool-things-about-yourself/176634/162 "2003-05-25T03:04:43Z")
> [@](#): > > I made it to 28 Dead shows, woohoo! Not bad at all! As for me, I’ll be seeing my 30th Allman Brothers show a month from Monday. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![funions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/34f0e0/32.png) [@funions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/funions)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2003, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-random-cool-things-about-yourself/176634/163 "2003-05-25T04:48:21Z")
My SO and I are going to be building a cob house. People have a tendency to give me things without realizing they’re doing it. My parents bought the first Audi Fox sold in our city. I don’t complain when my SO leaves the toilet seat up, afterall, I leave it down. ---
**Author:** ![FisherQueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@FisherQueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FisherQueen)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2003, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-random-cool-things-about-yourself/176634/164 "2003-05-25T11:43:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by 5U1C1D3 \* > \*\* > So far i had to throw away 4 dead kittens (no more than 3 weeks old, 2 on 2 different times) because the stray cats i feed brought them to me to my backyard patio…as if i could revive them or something… > > \*\* I hate to mention the possibility, but cats are very territorial… I had an outside cat who used to kill kittens who tried to encroach on his turf. ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2003, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-random-cool-things-about-yourself/176634/165 "2003-05-25T12:25:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bodypoet \* > \*\* > I gave birth to an 11 pound, 4 ounce baby. Naturally. With no painkillers, dammit. > > \*\* Winner, by far. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2003, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-random-cool-things-about-yourself/176634/166 "2003-05-25T12:53:33Z")
I’m related very distantly to Pocahontas. I have a friend who is a Nanny. She went to “Nanny School” in England and used to be a Nanny for some minor English Royalty, and now is a Nanny for a famous Hollywood couple. I met Roy Rogers when I was about 5, and got my picture taken with him. When I was student teaching, I did an internship at a school for special-needs children, and am in a documentary that was being filmed on a child there. My husband and I are in the crowd scenes at the stadium of “Major League 2.” I bet I’m the only female member of the Board who can drive a fire engine. ---
**Author:** ![Peregrine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a6a055/32.png) [@Peregrine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peregrine)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2003, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-random-cool-things-about-yourself/176634/167 "2003-05-25T13:57:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kinsey \* > \*\*I bet I’m the only female member of the Board who can drive a fire engine. \*\* No, I’m another one. In fact, I _taught_ fire engine driving for a few years, as part of my stint as a fire service instructor. I have a scar on my nose from a third-degree burn resulting from a small accident in a flashover trainer. My helmet and face-mask were all bubbly when the instructor-trainer let us out. In Georgia in the early sixties, I drank from the “wrong” water fountain. I was too young to read the sign, and my mom wasn’t about to explain why different people had to use different fountains. My great-grandfather wrote a dictionary of [Chinook Jargon](http://chinookjargon.home.attbi.com/phillips.htm), now available online. According to his daughter (my great-aunt), he had the first houseboat on Lake Union. I was one of 24 perfect scorers in the McGraw Hill-Omni Crossword Puzzle contest, back in 1988. It was billed as the worlds most difficult crossword or some such thing, but really it was only very technical. I was born at midnight, straight up. My mom was given a choice of which day would be my birthday. ---
**Author:** ![indecisive1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/41988e/32.png) [@indecisive1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/indecisive1)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2003, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-random-cool-things-about-yourself/176634/168 "2003-05-25T14:00:05Z")
my mom witnessed the explosion of the Hindenburg. she was 3. they left in such a hurry that they slammed her finger in the car door. Her fingernail has never grown right since. And she will never, ever, ride on a blimp. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2003, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-random-cool-things-about-yourself/176634/169 "2003-05-25T14:25:44Z")
I shook hands with Gerald Ford when I was ten years old. My senior year in high school, I was voted “most likely to reach the moon without NASA’s help.” I carried a plastic pink flamingo with me to the stage when I got my M.UP, which elicited the response of “that’s tasteful” from the president of UB. I’m supposedly a direct relative of a very famous explorer who “discovered” Australia. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2003, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-random-cool-things-about-yourself/176634/170 "2003-05-25T14:27:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Peregrine \* > \*\*I was born at midnight, straight up. My mom was given a choice of which day would be my birthday. \*\* Now that’s **very** cool! Which day did she choose, the day before or the day after? ---
**Author:** ![Peregrine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a6a055/32.png) [@Peregrine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peregrine)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2003, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-random-cool-things-about-yourself/176634/171 "2003-05-25T16:31:13Z")
She chose the day after. I now observe it on the day before, partly because we moved three time zones west, and partly because I’m contrary. It was a full moon, too, by the way. [sub] **Rodd Hill** : Fisgard?[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![modro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@modro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/modro)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2003, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-random-cool-things-about-yourself/176634/172 "2003-05-25T16:33:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jackelope \* > \*\*My last name is American. My ancestors arrived from Flanders in 1642, and decided that a new name was in order (“Oh, and while we’re at it, let’s start a city here. I loved our stopover in York, didn’t you? Great! Let’s call this place _New_ York!”). Anyway, they ditched their Old World name and got a new one. NYC Dopers familiar with Remsen Avenue: that’s us. > > The point being that most Americans’ family names are French, or English, or German, or Chinese, or whatever; but mine is _American_. There were never natives of another country with my last name. I’ve always thought that was pretty cool. \*\* Mine too, actually. Apparently on immigration from Poland, our last name was changed to Modro. So mine also, is American. ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2003, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-random-cool-things-about-yourself/176634/173 "2003-05-25T22:17:33Z")
In one of the _Straight Dope_ columns, Cecil included a link to my web site. And he referred to me by my first name 5 (five) times. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2003, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-random-cool-things-about-yourself/176634/174 "2003-05-25T22:36:11Z")
I have a defective Female Clothes-Shopping Gene. That’s right, I hate to shop for clothes. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2003, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-random-cool-things-about-yourself/176634/175 "2003-05-25T23:23:23Z")
> [@](#): > > I shook hands with Gerald Ford when I was ten years old. Holy moley, I’d forgotten – when I was ~8, I shook _Nixon_’s hand. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2003, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-random-cool-things-about-yourself/176634/176 "2003-05-25T23:42:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kinsey \* > \*\*I have a defective Female Clothes-Shopping Gene. > That’s right, I hate to shop for clothes. \*\* no way… you are my ideal woman - marry me… ---
**Author:** ![moejuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@moejuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moejuck)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2003, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-random-cool-things-about-yourself/176634/177 "2003-05-25T23:43:47Z")
Once, a kid in my study hall asked me the capital of Columbia, I didn’t know, and felt embarrased, so I spent 4 month memorizing the capitol of every country in the world. The kids in my class have started a website dedicated to our class mascot at www.geocities/muckerscluckers. I can wiggle my right ear independently of my left. I wrecked my best friend’s car into a lake, upside down and completely submerged, but still lived. I also fell through the ice on a lake once and was trapped underneath for almost 2 minutes. I am afraid of water. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2003, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-random-cool-things-about-yourself/176634/178 "2003-05-25T23:55:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by garius \* > \*\*no way… > > you are my ideal woman - marry me… \*\* 😛 It’s just clothes (and shoes), **garius**. If I go in a bookstore or antique store, all bets are off. You still want me? ---
**Author:** ![Salem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Salem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Salem)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2003, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-random-cool-things-about-yourself/176634/179 "2003-05-26T03:34:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kinsey \* > \*\*I have a defective Female Clothes-Shopping Gene. > That’s right, I hate to shop for clothes. \*\* Yes, yes, yes. And I hate going to malls for any reason. I don’t mind browsing in little shops with antique or unique items for a bit, as long as it’s at a decent pace and not too crowded. ---
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2003, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-random-cool-things-about-yourself/176634/180 "2003-05-26T04:09:12Z")
I have sailed to Antarctica on board a Russian ice-breaker, and walked on the Ross ice shelf. (And drunk champagne on the Ross ice shelf, come to think of it, served from a bar made from blocks of ice cut from the shelf.) I invented the lightning rod when I was six years old (and was very disappointed to learn that someone else had done it first). One week in three (more or less), I am the solo production support for an entire country’s banking interchange. My great-great-great-grandfather was shipwrecked off the coast of Ireland while sailing from Edinburgh to Australia. I have his diary, including an account of the event. Hard to read, but fascinating. (He actually _used_ long 's’s in writing, for real. Wow!) My great-aunt, Dorothy Sligo, lived on Sligo Terrace in Dunedin, New Zealand. The street was named after her family. She was the last Sligo to live there, though. She once visited Ireland so that she could mail a postcard to Mrs Sligo, Sligo Tce, from County Sligo. (Apparently the postmistress gave her a _very_ odd look.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-random-cool-things-about-yourself/176634.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-random-cool-things-about-yourself/176634.md?page=10)