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!
You were a Bisto kid? No way! Did you get to say “Aaahhhhhh Bisto!”?
-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
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!
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.
My great-grandmother Mor-Mor had tickets for the Titanic but missed the boat. She would have traveled third class.
I suck!
Which could be considered cool!
Gods have bad aim.
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
That is seriously cool. Good for you.
Of course you don’t. Pinhead ripped it apart.
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?
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.
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).
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.
I’m related to both Robert the Bruce and Robert E. Lee. (Maybe I should start an uprising)
Hmm. You know, that would explain it. Does that make me a Cenobite? Or is there more to it than that?
I was the guy carrying the tray of coffee that the angry officer bumped into and spilled it all over himself in Topgun.
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.
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!