# Tell us one thing about yourself
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [October 14, 2012, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690 "2012-10-14T13:57:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 11
### Author:  [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2012, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/201 "2012-10-25T04:29:17Z")
I’ve delivered pizza to then-Secretary of State Colin Powell, in person, to his home in McLean, VA.
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### Author:  [@mage-girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mage-girl)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2012, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/202 "2012-10-26T19:24:03Z")
I love to write, but the thought of doing National Novel Writing Month is terrifying. \>\_\<
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### Author:  [@Molotok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Molotok)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2012, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/203 "2012-10-26T19:58:17Z")
I make the most delicious omelettes I’ve ever tasted.
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### Author:  [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2012, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/204 "2012-10-26T20:10:52Z")
I became a grandma today! Well, a step-grandma (my husband’s daughter had a baby).
Might be cool. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2012, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/205 "2012-10-26T20:33:44Z")
I’ve shaken hands with all three of the Sultan of Brunei’s wives.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2012, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/206 "2012-10-27T01:38:03Z")
> [@Filbert](#):
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> I’ve shaken hands with all three of the Sultan of Brunei’s wives.
Not simultaneously, I’m guessing.
A former Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor of Vermont is having ice cream in my kitchen at this very moment.
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### Author:  [@PoorMarie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoorMarie)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2012, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/207 "2012-10-27T22:35:42Z")
I’ve seen Elizabeth Taylor three times in my life: onstage in \*Little Foxes \* at the Kennedy Center; disembarking at JFK airport and she was head-to-toe in white fur; and in the veggie section in the Safeway in Potomac, Maryland.
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### Author:  [@Schrodinger\_s\_Platypus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schrodinger_s_Platypus)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2012, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/208 "2012-10-28T04:48:12Z")
I’ve created the official best Disney Princess costume at Dragon\*con.
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### Author:  [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2012, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/209 "2012-10-28T05:14:24Z")
I was a ventriloquist when I was a child (my father was a magician, Punch and Judy puppeteer and Ronald McDonald so it was a show-biz family. My older brother was a unicyclist).
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### Author:  [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2012, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/210 "2012-10-28T13:45:21Z")
Not the mistake of Columbus.
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### Author:  [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2012, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/211 "2012-10-28T14:50:10Z")
Richard Nixon stole my mitten.
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### Author:  [@AuntPam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntPam)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2012, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/212 "2012-10-28T15:41:29Z")
I tap-danced on the stage of the Palace Theater in New York City, after being invited backstage by Bob Fitch (then playing the role of Will Rogers’ father in the Will Rogers Follies), and descending the secret Judy Garland stairway to get to the dressing rooms. It was after the show, of course–no audience. But still.
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### Author:  [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2012, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/213 "2012-10-30T14:42:08Z")
I wrote narration for a documentary voiced by Tommy Smothers, whom I met when he came here to cut the audio track and film the portions of the doc in which he appeared. Nice man. I ate lunch with him and he showed us his yo-yos. :eek: 😃
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### Author:  [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2012, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/214 "2012-10-30T15:41:38Z")
I have two passports US/UK .
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### Author:  [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2012, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/215 "2012-10-30T15:43:23Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#):
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> I wrote narration for a documentary voiced by Tommy Smothers, whom I met when he came here to cut the audio track and film the portions of the doc in which he appeared. Nice man. I ate lunch with him and he showed us his yo-yos. :eek: 😃
So, I’ve always wondered, is the halting speech normal for him or entirely a character act?
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### Author:  [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2012, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/216 "2012-10-30T19:33:43Z")
Ha, no he talked relatively normally from what I remember, but now that I think about it, I think that act was just an exaggeration of his normal speech. He didn’t much care for the formal narration, which I can of course understand, him being a comedian more or less. We let him just wing his on-camera part, telling his own story about how he knew the subject of the doc in his own words instead of the scripted version I’d written.
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### Author:  [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2012, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/217 "2012-10-30T19:59:08Z")
> [@digs](#):
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> I’ve figured out a way to doodle for a living.
I am jealous of **digs**.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2012, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/218 "2012-10-31T00:42:06Z")
> [@Tibby or Not Tibby](#):
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> Richard Nixon stole my mitten.
OK, now you’ve _got_ to tell us the story.
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### Author:  [@VernWinterbottom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VernWinterbottom)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2012, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/219 "2012-10-31T01:04:52Z")
I hold a Massachusetts cannon and mortar firing license.
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### Author:  [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2012, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/220 "2012-10-31T06:40:28Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> OK, now you’ve _got_ to tell us the story.
[Mitten Incident](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=15347490&postcount=64)
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