What are the 5 most interesting things about you?

In My Humble Opinion
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Is this a skill you cultivated or something you discovered? Do I even really want to know? :dubious:

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1.) I made $20k in one year working for myself when I was 15, with the exception of about two years I haven’t made anything LESS since.
2.) I’ve played golf with Alice Cooper. (how crazy is that?)

3.) I’ve been backstage to about a million concerts. (not really a million but more than I care to count.)

4.) I was a published writter at age nine or ten (I think)

5.) I’ve slept with women and NOT remembered their names… (yeah I got 'noth’n for number 5. [shrugs shoulders]

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  1. I’m a part-time professional game reviewer.
  2. I can multiply most two-digit numbers (i.e. 45 x 21) in my head (though I’m a bit out of practice and not as fast as I used to be).
  3. I’ve written 4 books and I’m working on a 5th.
  4. I’m one of the few employees in my company allowed to both work part-time and telecommute (and, no, I didn’t sleep with anyone to get that privilege).
  5. I’ve been to most of the western and southern states, but I’ve never visited any state in the northeastern US.
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Yay! My favorite subject: Moi!

  1. I can make anyone laugh or at least smirk.

  2. I can curl my tongue and wiggle my ears.

3.I retain freakish amounts of T.U.T (Totally Useless Trivia) but my mind is a colander when it comes to day to day operations & political stuff. Apprently there is some kind of election this year.

  1. I am the most traveled person in my family (which really isn’t saying much) but also my extended family and inlaws.

  2. I pack light and carry my own bags.

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I’m probably one of the most boring people on the planet (which is probably why I am single at 34), so I would be hard-pressed to come with five items that could be used on “Jeopardy!”. Nonetheless, I’ll give ot a shot:

  1. I went through all my years of school without ever missing a single day.
  2. I have played several musical instruments and I have perfect pitch, so I can play familiar songs by ear on these instruments.
  3. I went to Mexico with some other students from my Spanish class in 1987.

That’s all I can come up with before delving into the really mundane stuff that would be of little significance to most people.

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  1. I am really good at Henry VIII trivia.
  2. In college, I got fired from being an RA under scandalous circumstances that nowadays would have gotten the director of residence life fired.
  3. I am originally from Bangor, ME and that’s why I like to read Stephen King - because he mentions all places I know.
  4. I really don’t like Stephen King books except for the Bangor stuff.
  5. That’s all I can think of.
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I’m using that for my number one. Thanks, Shirley! :slight_smile:

  1. I was once thrown out of the Washington Monument for screaming.

  2. I can fit my entire fist into my mouth.

  3. I’ve only been out of the U.S. once, and that was when I was eight years old (and I only went to Toronto).

  4. I used to run a Rocky Horror Picture Show cast.

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  1. I used to live in Siberia

  2. I delivered a baby once

  3. I met Geraldo Rivera in the Kabul Airport

  4. I road a camel truck from Iraq to the Raddisson hotel in Kuwait City

  5. I am writing this in Baghdad.

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I thought I was going to get to this before Draelin. Alas, 'twas folly. :wink:

Hm.

1.) I, too, am amongst the trivia-bearing souls of this country. Including the ability to answer trivia questions about things that, by all rights, I should know nothing about.

2.) I am extremely tolerant of repetition in movies, games, and food. I can’t even calculate the number of times I’ve watched Baseketball - and yet, I watched it again Monday.

3.) I once lost 30 pounds on a diet consisting primarily of large portions of Papa John’s Pizza and Wendy’s Hamburgers and Chicken Nuggets.

4.) I own more comic books than some small comic book stores.

5.) I have a tendency to be very, very silly. This includes mimicking music and sound effects with my mouth, suddenly breaking into outrageously stereotyped foreign accents without warning, and piles of puns.

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My life has been pretty boring really, so my list will likely reflect that.

  1. At 26 I’ve had only one girlfriend, who I am marrying next August (Hi Alias :smiley: )

  2. At 26 I’ve never tried any sort of drug and have only been drunk once. The first and only hangover I ever had convinced me of the wisdom of sobriety.

  3. While playing street hockey, I dislocated my shoulder. I popped it back in and missed one shift before returning.

  4. I can bend my left index finger back far enough to touch the back of my hand and used to be able to do it with my right pinky.

  5. As a child, I went 4 years with a serious lung infection every christmas (screw you santa!). As an adult, I’m on three years with a minor injury (checked in the mouth, dislocated shoulder, hockey stick to eye 2002/broken hand, hockey stick to head 2003/sliced pad of left index finger off 2004)

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  1. I row and coach rowing.

  2. I didn’t start rowing until I was 30 when I joined a college crew team. Me and 90 freshman girls.

  3. I’m learning Japanese (albeit slowly) and have one of the largest collections of yaoi manga outside of Japan.

  4. I own an accordian (which I can play poorly) and also play tenor sax and piano.

  5. Ummmm, how about I have worn only black and shades of grey for the last twenty years. Or that I’ve been a vegetarian for twently years but will “cheat” at Arbys (and only Arbys).

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At first glance, that looked like crook. :dubious: Makes for an interesting combination.

  1. I have never seen an entire episode of the Simpsons.
  2. I have never done non-prescription drugs or smoked.
  3. I have a B.A. in Music Performance (Tuba).
  4. In spite of studying martial arts for the past 10 years, I have never been in a fight in my life.
  5. I have run a playtest module for TSR, played in playtests for Hero and GURPS, and participated in the development of the 3rd Edition Hero Games ruleset. I didn’t get name credit for the TSR game, but my name’s in the other stuff.
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  1. After spending my first 23 years in Boston, I packed up and moved to the other side of the world and have been here ever since. I’m starting my 10th year now.
  2. I shot the president of Bulgaria and the Prince of Denmark (ok, with a camera).
  3. I’ve lost count of how many couples I’ve married, but it’s around 400.
  4. I’m following a family tradition of “move overseas and marry a local” (grandfather’s brothers: France->Indochina; father: France->US; me: US->Japan). Our genes will survive anything.
  5. In my advertising and branding work, I created the name Aibo for Sony, and the name Mindstorm for Lego.
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You want dull? You got it, baby!

  1. I married my brother-in-law (and am best friends with his ex-wife)

  2. I was in a fishing accident and had to have my eyelid sewn back on.

  3. I am 48 and have never had a cavity.

  4. My boobs got pregnant six months before my tummy, leading to a hands-down win in a wet t-shirt contest.

  5. (Chicagoans will get this): I used to date a Leisure Suit.

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It’s been interesting reading everyone’s posts, so I’ll have a go…

  1. I went to boarding school in England from the age of 5 while my family splintered and dispersed around the globe – so growing up I enjoyed extended school holidays in Portugal and South Florida, amongst other places.
  2. I took a degree in Business Computing Systems and turned down $100k-a-year job in Ft. Lauderdale in the late ‘80s to return to London and complete my studies (the jury’s still out on that one).
  3. Since graduating I have worked for various banks trading currencies, which has taken me around the world living and working in places as diverse as Japan, Singapore and Germany.
  4. I have two fabulous sons, 8 and 5, from a marriage that sadly lost its way. I don’t know how I could be any more proud of them.
  5. I paid for my way through university by painting pictures and selling them mostly in the U.S. and mainly thanks to my father who is a great artist – I hang onto the dream that one day I’ll be able to concentrate my time fully on seeing how good an artist I could be.
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[ol]
[li]I’ve lived in 28 residences in 15 cities in 8 states.[/li][li]I discovered at about age 40 that I loved roller coasters. I’ve now ridden 62 coasters. My brother and I once took a 3-week “coast-to-coast coaster tour”, starting with the Giant Dipper on the Pacific in Santa Cruz and ending with the Cyclone on the Atlantic at Coney Island. I’ve ridden coasters in Canada.[/li][li]I’ve sung in the symphony choruses of three cities (Kansas City, Houston, and Memphis), as well as other choruses.[/li][li]I collect pencil sharpeners and am a member of Puntgaaf, the international pencil sharpener collectors club.[/li][li]One of my life’s goals is to have my picture taken on the steps of each of the 50 state capitol buildings. So far I’ve done 30.[/li][li]I make dream catchers and am currently making one for flamingbanannas (it will be done soon, I promise).[/li][/ol]

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  1. I have a pretty good musical ear (better than anyone I have met so far anyway)and can sing most songs in tonic solfa after hearing them a couple of times (can also write them down so I got rhythm too baby)

  2. I taught myself how to play classical piano and when I finally got lessons aged almost 17, I passed my Grade 8 (highest numbered grade in Associated Board of Royal College of Music exams) within 3 years. I also won first prize in one of Ireland’s most prestigious competitions for young musicians during this time for two-piano duet with a friend.

  3. I have a dislocatable jaw.

  4. At 28 I have never been in hospital.

  5. I have been to 11 countries other than my own and am going to the 12th in a couple of weeks (woohoo).

That’s enough blowing my own trumpet. Now I feel I should list 5 bad/ uninteresting things to balance it out a bit :slight_smile:

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  1. I have no sense of smell.

  2. I came close to dying earlier this year as a result of domestic violence.

  3. I was in a TV commercial for a local car dealership when I was fourteen.

  4. I am a vegetarian.

  5. I smoked for twelve years, then quit.

My list is pathetic!

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  1. I work for NASA
  2. I build robots and model railroads for my hobbies
  3. A guy who flipped out and killed several people in a nationally known workplace massacre was a member of my Boy Scout troop growing up.
  4. I used to be active in Boxer rescue.
  5. I’ve never met Alex Trebek.
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  1. I used to be a nanny (I’m male).

  2. I can pee sitting down.

  3. I can do the “belly roll” (a la Luther Billis in South Pacific) really well.

  4. I once found a 10 million year old fossilized whale.

  5. I used to have dreadlocks.