Tell me random cool things about yourself

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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My wisdom teeth never came in.

Luke Perry visited my junior high. We’d won a contest sponsored by a deodorant company.

I met and interviewed Jerry Springer.

I interviewed (over the phone) the lead singer for the Goo Goo Dolls.

I’m not sure about this, but I think every trait I have is recessive.

I have an inordinate number of Canadian friends.

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I’m also (more distantly) related to Eliza Dushku. Never met her, though.

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My great-uncle was eaten by pigs.

When I was born, my feet were upside down and backwards. They had to cut them off and sew them back on right. I still have the scars.

I had perfect attendance in first grade.

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Kind of a prick? I thought he was pretty notorious for being a total asshole. I even know a Buddy Rich joke whose entire punchline is based on this premise, but it’s a bit too long to share right now.

  1. I’ve been in a 150 mph high-speed chase (riding along with the police) in Johannesburg which ended in a rather gruesome shoot-out and one dead carjacker.

  2. A record I played on sold 300 copies in Japan recently.

  3. I was at the last White Sox game in Old Comiskey Park.

  4. I was at the Boston Red Sox game in 1994 when John Valentin pulled off the rare unassisted triple-play. The tenth in Major League baseball history. But wait. It gets better. I was looking the other way and missed it. :smack: The only game I’ve ever seen at Fenway. And I missed the freakin triple play. :smack: :smack:

  5. I caught FIVE foul balls in two consecutive White Sox games.

  6. I’ve (unknowingly) walked through a minefield.

  7. I can figure out the combinations of most Master locks within 5 minutes. (10 seconds is my record.)

  8. Michael Jordan stepped on me once.

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I’m an atheist.

Two of my cousins are hermaphrodites.

An unusually high number of people in my family have died from lightning strikes.

One of my good friends is Blake Pickett. She’s funny and sweet and kind and far more beautiful in person than in any of her movies. She took the picture of me that’s in my profile on Teeming Millions. She lives in L.A. now, but we still talk from time to time.

.:Nichol:.

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My great-great-great-great-whatever grandfather was the Second Earl of Essex.

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I was once mentioned by name (spelled correctly, even!) in Herb Caen’s column. When Herb was alive, it was quite the local accomplishment to be mentioned.

I own a piece of antique television transmitter test equipment made by/for NBC with serial number 1.

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I can pick locks

I snuck into a cordoned off police scene during a hostage situation to get photos and nearly got arrested

I hung out with Marcy Playground and the Violent Femmes when they played at my college

I can ride horse exceedingly well for someone who has only ridden twice (guide told me so)

I have an innate gift for analysing people’s dreams (though sadly my own remain inconprehenisble)

I seduced the boss’s daughter two days after quitting.

I brought someone back with CPR…they died later, but they had a pulse when I left them.

I could drive when I was 10.

I took an internationally known (but not award winning) photo

…but enough about me…

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Hulk Hogan picked me up with one hand–and not in a friendly joking kind of way either.

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I had dinner with Nolan Ryan.

I am the 731st ranked Magic: the Gathering player in Texas (as of 5/11/2003).

My mom thinks I’m cool.

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I have so little hair on my arms and legs that I couldn’t shave them if I wanted to.

I have dreadlocks down past my shoulders. They’re all my own hair, too. As a corollary, I haven’t straightened my hair since middle school.

One of my paintings was displayed in the Maryland State House.

My great-grandmother’s sister lived to be 100 years old. She was lucid up to the end, too. Still be alive if it wasn’t for that cancer.

I haven’t painted my fingernails or toenails since I was 13.

To the best of my knowledge, I’ve never met a celebrity.

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i had, until they were removed for health reason (age 13), two perfect rows of teeth, one behind the other like a shark.

i have been strip searched by several militery types with big guns thanks to being a foreigner in the wrong place at the wrong time (1992 algerian coup)

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I can bend my thumb, forefinger and pinkie finger on each hand so that they touch my wrist

Erm, I only skipped school twice due to illness

And… I can do accents :wink:

I’ll be back when I can remember more…

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I have all 32 adult teeth with zero dental work.

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I have a scarily accurate set of runes that has served as both a mindreader and a pregnancy test.

I was one of the few people who claims to be in a Satanic cult that actually was in a (pseudo teen angsty) Satanic cult.

My great aunt is also my great great aunt…yet there is no inbreeding in my family.

I somehow instinctively know how to throw a spear.

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I have no belly-button. Had it removed during open heart surgury when I was a baby and they never put it back. I don’t miss it.

Apparently I’m distantly related to some real screwballs, like Mary Todd Lincoln and Richard Nixon (found out my relation to him through some simple research). Thank goodness I’m distantly related.

I could have gotten on stage with Chuck Berry when I was five, but was too shy.

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I once sparred with Mark Breland.

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I’m a private pilot. I have helicopter and fixed-wing ratings.

I ride a motorcycle.

I’ve worked on ultra-low-budget films, and I get hacked to pieces in the title sequence of Cut Up.

I’m a good cook.

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I had an long, intense, passionate physical relationship with a black woman who later decided she was a lesbian.

I have gotten the same fortune cookie fortune three times, years apart, in three different restaurants (“You could prosper in the field of medical research”).

I scored in the 99th percentile on the verbal portion of the GMAT years back (94th percentile on both the other portions).

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In the last year, I’ve gone to lectures by the following people at my school (Roger Williams University):
Matthew Shephard’s mom
The guy who played Pinhead in the Hellraiser movies
The fellow American History X was based on
Famous military historian Jeremy Black
Former US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Chad Freeman
A former senior CIA Directorate of Operations official

I annoyed the guy who played Pinhead, and managed to make a good impression on the historian, ambassador, and CIA dude. I’m very glad about that last, because he probably knows how to have me killed and make it look like an accident. :slight_smile: On the other hand, the Hellraiser dude could “rip my soul apart”, which isn’t a good thing. oh well.

Let’s see, what else about me is cool…um, I’m a DJ at a college radio station, but I’ve already mentioned that a bunch of times. :slight_smile:

I was once propositioned by not one, not two, but three hot women at the same time - and being the cowardly fellow I am, I claimed I had work and fled to my dorm room, where I cursed myself for a fool and a wuss for a good two hours. Then I ordered pizza, and all was right with the world.

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.

I once ate an entire can of spam in a single sitting.

In a similar category to an earlier thing I mentioned - I was once propositioned in a bar by a very cute girl, and I didn’t realize I’d actually been propositioned until one week later. At this point, I cursed myself for being an idiot.