What are the 5 most interesting things about you?

In My Humble Opinion
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  1. I actually know what all the ingredients listed on shampoo bottles are.

  2. I was engaged to my psychotherapist’s husband’s ex-wife (I didn’t learn this until I was (a) out of therapy and (b) already dating her).

  3. My mother was a courier in the Dutch Underground during WWII (OK, this is actually something interesting about my mother – sue me).

  4. I used to be a registered EMT, but have never worked in an ambulance or hospital.

  5. I used to date Rikki Lake’s husband’s aunt’s cousin (I think that’s the chain; Suzie is either Rob’s aunt or his mother). OK, this is the same person as #2 – what can I say, she’s connected.

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  1. I’m 6’ 8" tall. Until I was 28, I could eat anything in any amount and not gain weight.

  2. Despite my height, for years I slept in a twin-sized bed and primarily drove a (girlfriend’s) Geo Metro and didn’t think anything of it. I was always sort of surprised when I saw myself in full length mirrors: “wow, I’m tall!”

  3. I have a PhD in theoretical physics.

  4. My current job title is “computer scientist”, despite the fact that I’ve never taken a single computer science class.

  5. I was an incredibly fussy eater until I was about twenty. I ate baked potatoes plain, hamburgers plain, salads without dressing, and avoided anything with a sauce on it, by choice. As a kid, I was terrified of going to summer camp solely because I was worried I wouldn’t like the food. At about age 20, the fussiness went away like someone had flipped a switch.

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  1. I’m not really afraid of anything. I dislike many things but I’m not afraid of them.

  2. I want to be a medical examiner or a lab technician and my desire predates CSI and Crossing Jordan.

  3. I have 25 long boxes of comic books in my garage and I’ve never read any of them.

  4. I have many hobbies, talents and different kinds of training but I’m not actually good at any of them.

  5. I am double jointed in both elbows, can fold my tongue and can wiggle my nostrils (together and alternating).

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Not much here but I will give it a shot.

  1. I have a gluten intolerance called Dermatitus Herpitiformus (DH) with a twist. I react like I am on drugs. I can’t focus, do nothing, and am prone to mood swings, which are not violent (most of the time). I was diagnosed when I was 19 and really don’t remember much of my younger days.

  2. I stand as the only person to score 100% on the stats exam at my college. I also was the only kid in the province to score 100% on a province wide math exam when I was in sixth grade.

  3. I am a hockey goalie that could be playing pro but am not. I have skated with Mike Leclair (sp) and Mark Deyell and have had them comment that there is no way I should not be playing pro or getting a shot at an NHL camp. My response refers to #1 as I missed my chance to get scouted young and have moved on to play competitive senior hockey. It pays the bills :smiley:

  4. My goal is to learn everything. I will read anything if I think I can learn something, even if I am not generally interested in the subject.

  5. I learned last year that while I have a photographic memory, most people do not. How do you people get by???

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[ul][]I can swear in Esperanto.[]Everyone in Canada with the family name Lofkrantz is related to me by marriage.[]I was the only person in electronics school to carry a sketchbook. I used to take notes in cartoon form.[]I think in pictures. I was very surprised to find that some people don’t, and I still have a hard time comprehending that.I’ve met the inventor of Tokipona.[/ul]

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  1. I have never experienced a “sugar rush”. I’ve attempted it a few times, to no avail. No amount of sugar seems to work.

  2. I like haggis. I think it’s a tasty treat.

  3. I have personally struck fear in the heart of an actual evil-doer (wife-beater, in fact). It was glorious. He hid behind his mommy.

  4. My wife and I have hobnobbed with Scottish nobility.

  5. There is a slim chance that I may be related to the most decorated soldier in US Army history. The last names match and he’s from the right part of Texas, but other than that, we have no idea…

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  1. More than 99 percent of my family has lived within 20 miles of where my parents now live for more than 300 years.
  2. I have a picture of my grandfather that was taken the day the Titanic sank.
  3. I go to church in the church where George Washington married Martha Custis.
  4. I once broke a girlfriend’s nose during sex.
  5. I crashed and demolished a car I was test driving when I was 17 years old. It wasn’t my fault, I didn’t get hurt, and the dealership’s insurance covered the entire thing. I also didn’t buy a car from them - a fact that pissed the owner of the dealership off to no end.
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  1. 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. (stealing Shirley Ujest’s :wink: )

  2. I nearly died delivering both my kids. Because of major complications associated with the pregnancy and delivery of my son, I had to have an emergency c-section and hysterectomy.

  3. I started getting gray hair in high school, started coloring my hair in my early 20’s, and now at 39, am nearly all gray (if I let it grow out).

  4. I can make both my wrist bones crack over and over and over again. It’s loud, and really freaks people out.

  5. I can pee standing up, too.

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  1. I know how to make pasta from scratch.
  2. I do a great monkey impression.
  3. When I stand with my feet together, my knees face each other.
  4. I was in the World Trade Center when it was attacked.
  5. I once walked the length of Manhattan in a day (with Pucette ).

Actually, I probably wouldn’t reveal number 2 to Alex or he’d make me do it! :eek:

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  1. I’m left-handed, but I golf right-handed
  2. I once got lost in the Adirondacks and had to be rescued by forest rangers
  3. I can’t bake - really. Everything I’ve ever baked has been either over or underdone or was missing an ingredient.
  4. I’ve lost 100 pounds over the last year
  5. I hate you Alex.
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  1. I also have synesthesia.

  2. I am left-handed but do not curl my hand over my writing. Instead I turn the paper and write from top to bottom rather than left to right.

  3. I walked at the age of 9 months and spoke in complete sentences at 11 months.

  4. In 1979 my ex and I sold our home and business and traveled the U.S. for a year living in a VW camper.

  5. Not long ago a Mayberry-whistling cockatiel dropped on my head in my backyard and now is a squatter in my home.

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I can also turn on lightswitches with my shoulderblade. Comes in reall useful when my hands are full and it’s dark.

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  1. The summer I was 25 (when the mid-west flooded) I drove around the country alone. 14 states and a lot of floodwater.

  2. During the above roadtrip, I got lost in mid-Nebraska and ended up in Chugwater Wyoming without crossing any paved roads. (I naively thought if I kept going I eventually find pavement. :smack: )

  3. I can bend my all fingers using only the first knuckle.

  4. I’ve driven through all 48 contiguous States and 3 Canadian Provinces.

  5. My fat cat, Baby, will defend me like a dog.

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  1. I am invisible.
  2. I invented the concept of size.
  3. In my spare time, I build Giant Murderous Robots out of liquorice.
  4. Once I managed to spit a cherry stone over 8 miles.
  5. I can speak in Braille.
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  1. I figured out, by myself, the concept of multiplication at age 5, and could also read & write at that age.

  2. I took Spanish classes every year of school since the 6th grade (including college), but I’ve forgotten almost all of it.

  3. I’ve never broken a bone or had surgery.

  4. I’ve driven through every state on the east, south and west coasts of the United States.

  5. I worked as a substitute teacher at an elementary school for a few months when I was 20, even though I had dropped out of college without getting my B.A.

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hmmm, OK, why not

  1. I can slam my fist through 8 concrete blocks with no damage to my hand.

  2. I lived without indoor plumbing for 15years! yes in the usa, i am 50

  3. Everytime I have lost a job, I very soon found a much better one.

  4. I was slashed by a crazy guy with a knife running from the police during my FIRST visit to a big city.

  5. All my kids talk freely to me, and have never screamed they hate me.

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I’m going back for seconds because I know you all have a Thirst to Know More About Me. (Please stop laughing.)

  1. Every company I’ve worked for has (eventually) gone out of business.

  2. I graduated in the top 98% percentile of my high school class.

  3. By the time I am 40 I will have buried all my siblings.

  4. I am a constant reader: magazines, cereal boxes, books, books, books.

  5. I am a writer of romance novels. ( Except the heroine isn’t as flakey.)

  6. I have had my letters to the editor printed in such noteables as People and Movieline Magazine ( Hi Eve. They suck)

  7. I road on an elevator once with Lee Iaccocca.

  8. I can drive a stick shift on cars or farm tractors ( not exactly the same thing.), jump start a battery, change my own oil and turn an Econoline around in microspazmically small spots.

  9. I sneak food and drink into every movie I see. (Whilst my husband treats the snack bar like it’s a Sweden House Buffet, thus cancelling out any savings of mine.) Leading to the new adage at our house: It’s not love, its competition.

  10. I have two incredible, just freaking incredible kids that are healthy, healthy, healthy, smart and plotting against me ever having money to put in my IRA again. Pokemon and baby dolls anyone?

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  1. I have awkward dietary requirements: I’m vegetarian, and I have a dairy intolerance. Oddly the intolerance is not to lactose - I don’t know what it’s to. We (my dietician and I) decided it didn’t warrant further testing, as I’m not interested enough in including dairy in my diet that I’d be willing to go through what fixing it would likely involve.

  2. I am, nonetheless, an excellent cook. :slight_smile: I cook a wide range of vegan and vegetarian foods, and am pretty good at catering for just about any awkward diets. (The two main ones I can’t deal with are scary nut allergies and kosher, and I could do the nut allergies if someone could guarantee me a nut-free kitchen).

  3. I’m a dual citizen, both UK and USA. Going back a few more generations I have an even broader range of nationalities. I’ve lived in four different countries.

  4. When my IQ was tested at the age of 16 I ranked in the top 0.1%. I’ve just completed my mathematics BA at Cambridge, and two years out of three I got the fifth highest mark in my year (I messed the third year up a bit, but still got a first - the top grade).

  5. I’ve had various training to become a masseur, but didn’t complete the professional course I attended because I couldn’t keep up with the neccesary practice and homework alongside the revision for my final exams in the afore-mentioned BA.

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[ul]
[li] I don’t eat vegetables or fruit[/li][li] I once co-wrote a small children’s TV series (it got produced and everything)[/li][li] I have an entry on the IMDb[/li][li] I work in porn, and despite this I have only had one sexual partner, in a relationship that lasted about six weeks, and that was three years ago.[/li][li] I snuck onto the set of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith[/li][/ul]

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1.) Although I’m healthy now, I had quite a few accidents in my youth and, by the time I was 22 I’d spent over 13 months of my life hospitalized for various burns, fractures, ruptures, etc. Despite that, I played football, soccer and ran track through most of junior and senior high school.

2.) While I’m the head scientist of my discipline at the largish (~4000 employees) NYSE traded energy firm by whom I’m employed, my highest academic credential attained is a bachelor of arts.

3.) During college I drove a taxi on the graveyard shift and met quite a few entertainers (Fats Domino, Boz Scaggs, Billy Gibbons, Stevie Ray Vaughn (passed out) and Hall and Oates come to mind), Congressmen and the dregs of society of the likes that I’d hate to share a city block with now, much less a car seat. I converted the one year old San Antonio police car to a cab myself - only car I’ve ever painted - it came out fine; I guess all those years of building model cars paid off. Tip: remove the masking tape ASAP.

4.) I’ve hitchhiked around the United States with a backpack for several months at a time. Met other interesting people and did odd things.

5.) I’m not gay, but I do live in the Montrose area of Houston and I lead the, as near as I can figure, 1982 Gay Pride Parade here. I was driving around with my brother, who was visiting after having recently moved to San Francisco. Neither one of us was aware that the parade was that day and, as we approached Westheimer on Yupon, I saw that there was a police barrier, but it had been pulled aside. So I pulled out on Westheimer (thankfully, I turned right) as my brother was commenting that although San Francisco had the reputation of being the gay city, he thought there were many more apparent gays on the streets of Montrose. In fact, they seemed particularly friendly that day, as everybody on the street was waving at us.

I looked in the rearview mirror and…OMG! Hah! I broke out laughing. Right behind us was a float , and I could see others behind it. There was nothing to be done as all the side streets were barricaded. We couldn’t get off the parade route until we got to the end and the police directed us to the dispersal area. I told my brother to just smile and wave at the TV cameras.