What are the 5 most interesting things about you?

In My Humble Opinion
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Wait, I thought of a better one!

  1. I kept my first pregnancy a secret from everyone (including the baby’s father, who I continued to have sex with) for seven months. My daughter was born about five weeks after I broke the news.
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  1. I’m a black belt in tae kwon do.
  2. I taught myself to read sometime before I was 4.
  3. I dislocated my thumb in gym class in 7th grade and just popped it back in myself. Ever since I can dislocate it at will.
  4. I had eye surgery when I was 6 months old and again when I was 7.
  5. I’ve had a letter to the editor published in a major US newspaper (at the tender age of 16, no less!)

And a bonus one:
I’ve been playing violin since I was 4 years old.

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You must have wanted to know or you wouldn’t have asked. :wink:
It was both cultivated and discovered after 2 or so years of yoga and Pilates.
There are websites devoted to this art/skill as well.
Really.

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  1. My wife is Chinese.

  2. I do not watch television. At all.

  3. I have never taken an illegal drug, nor have I ever tried a cigarette. Yet I love beer. Mmmm, beer… :slight_smile:

  4. We live in a log house on 15 acres in the middle of nowhere.

  5. I’m the founder of a militia unit.

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  1. I was completely fluent in French as a child, but have lost most of it in the past 10 years.

  2. I am somehow related to Robert E. Lee through my great grandmother.

  3. I was in fairly bad car accidents on 2 occasions that involved relatively high speeds and no seat belt, and I wasn’t hurt on either occasion. (I wear a seat belt now, by the way.)

  4. I am still friends with 2 high school ex-boyfriends and 1 junior high ex-boyfriend. (I’m 25)

  5. I suffer from emetophobia.

  6. Harborwolf and I are getting married next year :smiley:

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I really want to know more about this one…

  1. I’m both an Eagle Scout and a Vigil Honor Member of the O/A. Only about 1 in 2000 Scouts becomes both.
  2. I married a co-worker 5 years older than me. I first met her when I was in high school, and she had graduated from college.
  3. I once spent 3 weeks backpacking in New Mexico, and would kill to do again.
  4. I used to be able to change a clutch in a '84 Plymouth Reliant in under an hour. And it wasn’t even my car. :dubious:
  5. I’ve done the Heimlich maneuver 4 times in my life. All 3 people have survived; one person had it done twice at separate times.
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  1. When Oprah was just a local Chicago show, she invited me on as a Gay Teen. I declined.

  2. I have a picture Joan Baez sticking her tongue out at me, age 3.

  3. I almost died of meningitis at age 5.

  4. No one in my family (excepting me) has EVER worked in a white-collar job. They are all either academics, artists, professionals, or laborers.

  5. I am violently allergic to all artificial food colorings.

Whee.

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  1. I have a twin sister.
  2. We once sat on Danny Glover’s lap.
  3. A gas station attendant once gave me CPR.
  4. I have a Ph.D in biology.
  5. My cats are better than your cats.
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  1. I converted to Judaism before I married Mr. Neville

  2. I have a Master’s degree in astrophysics

  3. I had four majors in college, all at the same time- astronomy, physics, math, and computer science, though I only graduated with three degrees- I know I am a slacker :slight_smile:

  4. I am an avid player of Europa Universalis, Europa Universalis 2, and Crusader Kings. I am also a medieval history buff- my interest was started by the games.

  5. Nothing ever goes quite the way it normally should in my life- I have a long but atypical story about how I met Mr. Neville, about my “pop thesis defense”, and about my “pop interview”. It keeps things interesting…

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  1. When I was 13 the apartment my family lived in was robbed. I was home alone when it happened. He came down the stairs with two rifle’s and said “move and you’re one dead bitch.” (They weren’t loaded but I didn’t know it at the time.

  2. By the age of 11 I had had 6 major abdominal surgeries, the last one took 15 hours. My 7th major surgery was March of this year. (I’m 27 now.)

  3. A few days after I graduated college in Maine I went on a road trip with two friends of mine. We drove from Northern Maine to Key West, Florida to San Francisco, California and back to Maine. Over 9000 miles. I’d do it again in a heartbeat. :slight_smile:

  4. I’ve only dated three people (the first when I was 22 in college) and am now engaged to the third and know I will spend the rest of my life with her. We both feel like we’ve finally met someone else that we can be absolutely retarded with. We deserve each other. :smiley:

  5. Very soon, (like within the next month) I hope (Oh Please! Please! Please! :slight_smile: ) to get pregnant by being artificially inseminated. I don’t have fertility problems, I’m just a lesbian and the “traditional” way just ain’t for me.

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  1. I hold an Advanced Class amateur radio license, but I’m not very active on the air anymore.

  2. I rode my first bicycle century (100 mile ride) the day after I turned 40. I rode my second century on my 41st birthday.

  3. I can spin fiber into yarn and knit or weave it into clothing. But if you ask me to spin steel wool and knit a car, I’ll hit you right in the mouth. :smiley:

  4. I went to Alaska and Hawaii in the same year.

  5. I build my own hunting arrows, and I’m learning to knap stone points. I can also throw a dart from an atlatl, but not very accurately. I’m just interested in primitive technology.

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Hmmm… let’s see…

  1. I speak three languages relatively well - English, French and American Sign Language.

  2. I grew up south of the U.S. in Canada, and now I live south of Canada in the U.S.

  3. I appeared on the Today show and was interviewed by Katie Couric a few years ago.

  4. I’ve been openly Gay for 25 years, have been with my Same Sex partner for 17 years, and we got married in Toronto almost 6 months ago. :eek:

  5. I wasn’t invited to my parents’ 50th wedding anniversary or told by my mother or brother about my father’s funeral because of my sexuality.

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  1. I am the Dutch record holder for mid-ear infections - 43 of them. (Or I was when I was last at the relevant specialist, some 15 years ago. Ranked 5th European, and 9th worldwide. Yes, someone is keeping stats of this!)

  2. The Crown Prince of the Netherlands once gave me directions to an address in The Hague.

  3. I crushed my arm by accidentally sliding it in between the floor and the shaft of an elevator, in one of those two-walled elevator cabins, when I was four. It nearly had to be amputated, but gladly, they decided to leave it on. As a result, my handwriting is absolutely atrocious.

  4. A friend and I once had to outrun a very pissed off giant male elephant on a dirt road in the Kruger Park in South Africa. Sure, we were in a car, but Nissan Sentras aren’t a hell of a lot quicker than elephants on bumpy dirt roads. :eek: Great pictures though, taken seated on the passenger seat, hanging out the window, facing back towards the elephant.

  5. People always compare my wife to Halle Berry. And while that’s not entirely accurate, it is the best compliment Halle ever received. :smiley:

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  1. I have accused chestnuts of being lazy.

Okay, never mind. Real list is below:

  1. I have seen over 2,000 movies and can hold my own in the Kevin Bacon game against everyone I’ve ever met. I personally own over 300 DVDs and 175 videos.
  2. I won several competitive videogame tournaments when I was younger. No, it wasn’t quite like that movie with Fred Savage.
  3. I carry on infrequent e-mail conversations with a handful of prominent celebrities.
  4. I am a die-hard St. Louis sports fan.
  5. I am certain I can beat you in “Survivor” television trivia.
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#6) Excepting formal occasions, I do not wear long-sleeved shirts, and haven’t for years and years. I hate them.

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1 - As far as romance is concerned, I’ve yet to manage so much as a kiss.

2 - I’m a liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers

3 - I’m the only person with my forename + surname on the UK electoral roll.

4 - I don’t have a TV, and haven’t had one for nearly 10 years.

5 - I almost died in Africa when I was 9.

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-I have a brown belt in Kempo karate, but haven’t trained in years.

-I am a former Army officer (Reserves, Corps of Engineers)

-I am a successful mid life career cnager

-I have broken over 12 bones, but have never had a life threatening illness or surgery

-I have played in RPG tournament games run by Gary Gygax, Brian Blume and MAR Barker. I won prizes in each game. I’ve also play tested game supplements for Stee Jackson Games.

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  1. I write music as a hobby.
  2. I’m attempting to write a novel (keyword: attempting)
  3. Along with Alias, I also have emetophobia.
  4. I’m not scared of much of anything, including needles, yet I’m afraid to get my ears pierced :rolleyes: .
  5. I can give myself cervical traction.
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  1. I taught myself to play piano and other keyboards, drums, bass guitar, lead guitar, rhythm guitar, several styles of acoustic guitar, vibes, and synthesizers; and to write and arrange songs; record, edit, mix and master recordings - all before the age of 18.

  2. I have collected 12,000 records and CDs and 300+ VHS tapes.

  3. I learned how to be a radio DJ by watching other DJs, and started working in radio at 15. (I went from boy soprano to baritone at 13, which helped a lot!)

  4. I hitch-hiked over 6000 miles when I was 17.

  5. My wife started out as a mail-order customer, and I emigrated to the US to be with her. I’m 1200 miles from my nearest relative.

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  1. My father and older brother were both elected bigwigs in the Republican Party, and I have been chastized recently for my rabid pro-Democratic stance.

  2. I worked for a major Hollywood film studio for seven years and also had a night job at a legit theater where I met, and worked with, hundreds of celebrities.

  3. The day after I graduated from college, I went to Europe and travelled around and ended up living in Berlin for 14 years where I met my lover - we’ve been together 23 years now.

  4. I once had two guys stop me in the street late at night, with two guns pointed at my head and talked my way out of it. We then went to a bar down the street and I had a few beers with them and then casually left the bar alone and went home.

  5. I humiliated myself on an American afternoon game show, and once had a lead role in a cheezy 14 part, afternoon teen soap opera on German television.