# 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
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2012, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/21 "2012-10-14T20:17:14Z")
I can fly a helicopter.
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### Author:  [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2012, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/22 "2012-10-14T20:20:52Z")
My ankles twist and give out on me so often that I have taken falling and recovering to an art-form.
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### Author:  [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2012, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/23 "2012-10-14T20:29:11Z")
> [@interface2x](#):
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> I’m pigeon-toed (i.e. my leg bones are slightly twisted so my feet naturally point inward instead of straight-forward). It’s mostly self-corrected as I’ve gotten older, but you can tell when I’m walking on stairs.
I, personally, am duck-footed. Most people don’t notice it, though.
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### Author:  [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2012, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/24 "2012-10-14T20:49:26Z")
My first real kiss was in Piazza San Marco, Venice.
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2012, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/25 "2012-10-14T21:09:12Z")
I found an ocelot in my attic.
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### Author:  [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2012, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/26 "2012-10-14T21:45:14Z")
> [@Zsofia](#):
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> I, personally, am duck-footed.
Just don’t tell me you are ever duck-_faced_.
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### Author:  [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2012, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/27 "2012-10-14T22:11:01Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#):
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> Just don’t tell me you are ever duck-_faced_.
I’ve been shit-faced.
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### Author:  [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2012, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/28 "2012-10-14T22:29:01Z")
I have been in an active space shuttle.
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### Author:  [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2012, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/29 "2012-10-14T22:42:09Z")
I once owned a monkey.
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### Author:  [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2012, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/30 "2012-10-14T22:48:10Z")
I saw Tracy Chapman perform in October 1986.
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### Author:  [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2012, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/31 "2012-10-14T22:51:26Z")
I was born the same day as Alan Moore (although obviously not the same year).
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2012, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/32 "2012-10-14T22:51:39Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#):
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> I found an ocelot in my attic.
I think that’s a Dr Seuss book.
I am making a Steampunk short film.
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### Author:  [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2012, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/33 "2012-10-14T22:52:55Z")
> [@Sudden\_Kestrel](#):
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> I once owned a monkey.
Hey, me too!
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### Author:  [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2012, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/34 "2012-10-14T22:53:26Z")
> [@Silver\_Tyger](#):
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> I was born the same day as Alan Moore (although obviously not the same year).
Umm…😕 Demi Moore’s dad?? 😕
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### Author:  [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2012, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/35 "2012-10-14T22:55:11Z")
Umm…😕 Roger Moore’s dad?? 😕
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### Author:  [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2012, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/36 "2012-10-14T23:03:41Z")
> [@Kenm](#):
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> Umm…😕 Roger Moore’s dad?? 😕
Sorry, never heard of him before this thread. (Alan, not Roger).
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### Author:  [@Palo\_Verde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palo_Verde)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2012, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/37 "2012-10-14T23:06:47Z")
My husband, kids and I are very active in the build-a-device-to-fling-a-pumpkin world.
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### Author:  [@Stendhal\_Syndrome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stendhal_Syndrome)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2012, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/38 "2012-10-14T23:08:14Z")
I am \*\*dreading \*\*the holidays. It’s the first one since my husband’s death.
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### Author:  [@mascaroni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mascaroni)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2012, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/39 "2012-10-14T23:13:58Z")
I once had tea with Brian Eno in his back garden.
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2012, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/40 "2012-10-14T23:16:25Z")
I coach high school cross-country and track(distance events).
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