What are the 5 most interesting things about you?

In My Humble Opinion
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  1. I was on the American game show Wheel of Fortune when I was 12 years old.

  2. I almost got kicked out of my Christian college freshman year.

  3. I only get out of bed when the numbers on the clock add up to the number 7. For instance, if it’s 6:01 because 6+1=7. Or 9:34 because 9+3+4=16 and 1+6=7. I absolutely can’t get out of bed unless it works out in such a way.

  4. I’ve been in four car accidents over the past two years. In all of them, I was a passenger. I often wonder if it’s God’s will for me to die in a car considering I’m so scared of them. A tree just fell on my mother this summer when she was in her car. My brother better look out!

  5. I often wonder what sex is like, but my body doesn’t seem to tolerate birth control very well and I am terrified of getting pregnant because I think it would kill me, physically and emotionally. So I abstain.

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  1. I have absolutely no debt.
  2. I can crack my elbow like you can crack your knuckles.
  3. I can dead-lift the rear end of a Ford Festiva.
  4. I can pop stones out of my tonsils as if they were pimples.
  5. I am a human spitting cobra!..I can squirt spit from the sub-lingual saliva glands under my toungue.
83

-I was a medic in the Air Force.
-Am an above-average cruciverbalist.
-Liked liver and hated applesauce as a child; just the opposite now.
-Never listen to music.
-Can still remember liturgical Latin from my altarboy days.

84

  • I did my junior year of college in Jerusalem, Israel. I could speak Hebrew pretty well by the time I left, but I’m forgotten a lot of it since.

  • I have C-scoliosis. Most people who have scoliosis have an S-shaped curve in their spine, which can be corrected by surgery or a brace. My curve is C-shaped, either because I have an extra vertabra or because one of my vertabrae is deformed. It’s uncorrectable, but pretty harmless. My left shoulder is a little higher than my right and my shoulderblades stick out at different angles.

  • I once swam with wild dolphins in the Red Sea.

  • I was the supastah of my school music programs. I played the flute. When I was in sixth grade (elementary school in my district) I would go to the nearby junior high and play with their advanced band. I won the outstanding musician award both years of junior high, and a music scholarship my senior year of high school. Unfortunately, playing really wrecked my jaw (I have TMJ) and now I rarely pick up my flute. Oh, and to combine two factoids: I used to busk in the pedestrian mall in Jerusalem.

  • I was born in the US, my parents and their siblings were all born in the US, and their parents were all born in the US. But six of my eleven first cousins are (dual) citizens of other countries - three are British, three are Mexicans. One of my Mexican cousins is getting married next month and I am going to the wedding in Mexico City. I am just about ready to start a Pit thread about the weird questions that result from this topic. Basically, yes, my cousin is Mexican, and no, I am not. Yes, she was born in Mexico. Yes, she speaks Spanish. AND English! BTW, she isn’t a migrant worker or a cleaning lady either. I know! She’s Mexican AND a college graduate! Crazy!

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Took me awhile to come up with 5. ::sighs::

  1. I have flown a B-17 bomber (just for a little bit).

  2. I am not a sailor, nor have I been in the Navy; But once spent a total of 103 days on a vessel, out of sight of land.

  3. I can name at least one Airline captain whom I taught to fly (saw him in the grocery store a few months ago).

  4. I can ‘drive’ almost anything. Airplanes, boats, cars, 18-wheelers, you name it. The largest thing I’ve ever driven was 708 feet in length, 50,000 tons displacement.

  5. I absolutely cannot do any sport that involves throwing or catching a ball. (I suck at all of 'em, football, baseball, basketball, soccer). But I do great at Frisbee (go figure?)

86

*I’ve been keeping bettas for five years now.
*I have no belly button. It removed during one of my many surgeries as a baby.
*I had the opportunity to go on stage with Chuck Berry when I was five, but I chickened out.
*I’ve met the guy who created the Happy Meal.
*I was born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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  1. I won a medal in seventh grade for performing well on the SAT.
  2. I have studied at four different universities. (five, technically)
  3. I used to be able to touch my toes to the back of my head, lying on my belly.
  4. I quilt, I embroider, I cross stitch, I knit, and I crochet (learned to crochet in first grade)
  5. I have lived and worked in five different states in the last seven years. No, I’m not military.
88

Whoa! Scratch number five!

New number five:

I have lived and worked in five different states in the last four years.

89

  1. I traveled to every continent in the world before I was twenty.

  2. English is my sixth language, but I can only speak two of them now fluently.

  3. The majority of people who hit on me are men.

  4. The majority of women who hit on me are ten years my senior.

  5. Not only have I met Kelsey Grammer, but I’ve touched his bottom - at a synagogue.

90

  1. My two brothers and I were all born at home – on purpose. :smiley:

  2. I met my husband at a Rocky Horror Picture Show after-party. :stuck_out_tongue:

  3. We were married by a veterinarian (we were only her third or fourth wedding). :wink:

  4. With a little stretching, I can touch each one of my fingers (not including thumbs) to the back of the corresponding hand. :dubious:

  5. My eyes change color (blue, grey, hint of green) depending on my mood and what I’m wearing. :eek:

Egads, that took hours!

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  1. I have a lovely, brilliant little girl in addition to my lovely, brilliant wife.

  2. I have performed a corporate takeover. Corrolary: Though I’m 37 years old, I have never had to go on a job interview for a “real” job.

  3. I believe in nothing but myself. Oh, I have opinions and “rules of life”, things like that, but actual rock-solid belief? Naw, not for me.

  4. Until the age of 4 I had my own language, one that could only be understood by my brother. “Una gatta byttie tow” meant “I would like to eat… NOW!”, stuff like that. I started to speak English only as I started to read it. By the time I was 7, however, I was reading HG Wells, Lords’ A Night to Remember, stuff like that.

  5. My two year battle with my parents. However, I must grant that, by now, it is probably only interesting to those involved.