[QUOTE=Barrett Bonden]
Clearly the third. No one on the planet has a Bacon number exceeding 2.
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Really? According to Wikipedia, the average Bacon number (counting not just the acting community is 2.946).
I’m not quite ready yet to reveal if that’s truly my Bacon number or just a lie.
[QUOTE=Lord Il Palazzo]
There’s something fowl about Hal’s duck story.
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Bzzzt.
A duck took up residence in the pond that formed in front of our house whenever there was so much as a light drizzle. When I was learning to walk, my mom would put in the yard to let the grass cushion the falls, and I was subsequently “adopted” by the duck. It would follow me around wherever I went. During this learning process, I would fall quite a bit – the duck would run over to me, nudge me with his bill and quack at me to get back on my feet.
Why would you go with #2? Because it is the least bizarre thing on the list? But yeah, you’re right. Of course, I forgot that I have this. So yeah, I have dinosaurs.
[QUOTE=Lord Il Palazzo]
I was seriously on the verge of starting one of these threads when I noticed this one. Curses, foiled again and all that.
In high school, I broke my leg in gym class by tripping on a lacrosse stick.
I was once bitten by a wild animal while visiting Dollywood.
My Bacon number is 3.
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As for me, I have never broken a bone so 1 is out. I did, however, get my hand stuck in a lacrosse stick ,a cheap plastic one with a plastic strip to keep the ball in (similar to this but much cheaper looking.) There was just enough of a gap under the plastic band to get my hand stuck.
Curiously, the animal that bit me at Dollywood was a duck. I wonder if Hal was behind it…
I’ve been dumped twice for calling two girls by the wrong name.
I saw a stranger get stabbed, and I chased away his 2 assailants.
I have memorized the entire “D” section of the dictionary.
[QUOTE=tdn]
Why would you go with #2? Because it is the least bizarre thing on the list? But yeah, you’re right. Of course, I forgot that I have this. So yeah, I have dinosaurs.
You’re lying about #3.
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And you would be correct. I used to play cello in HS, but since then I haven’t touched one at all, though I probably could still pound out a tune if I had to.
[QUOTE=Barrett Bonden]
As a second grader, I became a published author.
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[QUOTE=Myself]
Double down on false.
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That actually is true.
[QUOTE=Myself]
I provided a line in a song that became a top 20 hit for the band Traffic.
I served as Royal Elevator Operator to Queen Elizabeth II.
I set a record at my high school in track that will never be broken.
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I’m going to guess that the third item is true. (Defunct event maybe?) So which of the first two are false? Hmmm. I have a suspicion of elevators, so I’ll say two is false. . .
[QUOTE=Lord Il Palazzo] Desert Nomad’s sunk if he thinks I’ll believe he’s a driven a water taxi.
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Actually I have. A couple of years ago I was in Deira and had to cross the Creek to Bur Dubai (for those not familiar with Dubai, the “Creek” divides the city in two and is perhaps a few hundred meters wide and a couple miles long). Small, 20 passenger taxis called abra’s make the 7 minute crossing for about 30 US cents.
It was about 2am and with nobody around and no traffic on the Creek, the only way to cross was to hire a whole boat and pay for all 20 seats. Once out on the water, I asked the 60ish captain if I could take the wheel. He amusingly obliged… I figured with the fare I had paid, I had earned it.
So for a brief period in the middle of the night I was Abra Captain Desert Nomad. It was a blast. I brought us close in to the dock, but turned it over to the more experienced fellow for actual docking… we both thought it best that way.
[QUOTE=Chefguy]
I’ve climbed to the top chamber of Cheops.
I’ve capsized a sailboat on Lake Victoria.
I’ve rafted the Zambezi River below Victoria Falls.
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My money is on #3.
I’ve had my picture on the inside of a major national magazine.
I’ve been interviewed on television multiple times.
I’ve spoken with G.W. Bush by telephone on a radio call-in program.