I was born in two Michigan cities at once- Pontiac and Muskegon. (Actually in the back seat of a Pontiac in Muskegon)
I bet I am the only doper who can drink one whole beer in a single gulp
I think I’m the youngest Doper.
I might be the only doper to have marched in a parade in Peterhead, Scotland, then later that week signed a peace treaty (officially ending a 600 year clan feud) as a witness…
If anyone else here has done these things, they should get in touch with me because we’re family!
I “invented” the Doper White elephant swap and the Book swap. So that makes me sort of a unique Doper. I’ve had two moderators in my house at one time, but I am probably not the only one who has.
I wish I could say I had several moderators in my bed, but (a) that wouldn’t be true (b) that wouldn’t be unique* :eek: and © I probably wouldn’t admit it here anyway.
*I don’t mean at the same time, although if someone has shagged two mods at one time I definitely want to hear about this.
Marching in peterhead…
Interesting thought
Only doper who knows who the historical cuauhtemoc, as opposed to our cuauhtemoc, was who knows he doesn’t know what his own id means, who knows that “oxymoron” does not mean “logical contradiction”, can not give himself head - or even want to try despite a davebearish interval (another thread), wants to wear a kilt but is concerned about Peterhead entry, doesn’t know if he would shag a moderator because he doesn’t know even know their genders and is not in priceguy’s shoes, can not dunk a basketball without a ladder and yet is 6’ 2" and athletic enough to outrun most bicyclists up a mountain road.
I should qualify my statement. I could do this in high school. I have since gained about 150 pounds (!) and can’t do it now.
However, were I to ever lose the weight, I’m sure I could do it again. I have a very long torso.
Does that make you feel unique again? 
Wrong !
I’m the only Doper who…
wait, no.
Um. No, not that either. And…nope.
I’m the only Doper named Kyla! Ha.
Lets see… I am the only one (that I know of) who has sung the Star Spangled Banner at a baseball game and a hockey game in one day!!
Hmm, is there anybody else out there who had all four grandparents attend college? (They would have gone in the 1910-1925 time frame.) If so, then the fact that one set were also farmers might be unique, assuming you aren’t one of my cousins.
And if I really have to push it, I can claim to be the representative Ph. D. the fourth of four consecutive generations of Ph. Ds.
To tell it briefly:
Last summer I spent six weeks at the Achill Archaeological Field School on Achill Island run by Professor Theresa McDonald (a truly charming woman, especially when you consider she had to deal with a bunch of American students.)
Most of the six weeks we were working at the Deserted Village in Slievemore, but the last week of the course we went out to take a look at a site that is to be excavated at a future date. This site is an Early Medieval village at Caraun Point east of Dougort on the Island’s north coast. The site is known to be a Cillin (a burial ground for unbaptized children) and there is a small plaque to that effect on the site.
Anyway, it was a fairly cold, drizzly day when we visited. Theresa had us take a brief look over the site to see if we could find any artifacts sitting on the surface. The site wasn’t really much to look at, just some exposed sand which shifts with the winds, and some partially exposed stone foundations of old buildings, which contained some fire-cracked stones, presumably from cooking or heating fires.
The area was littered with colorful bits of broken marine shells, quite often round and purple. I picked up a number of these fragments (along with a weather-ravaged pair of panties and a few beer cans, which told their own story) then I saw something that looked a bit different. When I picked it up and had a good look at it, I realized it was an old coin.
When we got back to the Folklife Centre in Dooagh (which was our base of operations, or whatever the term is) I looked up medieval British coins on the internet and found a match. It was a penny coin from the reign of Edward I (the king in Braveheart, FTR.)
Picture of an example of the type of coin I found.
That’s about it. Theresa turned it over to the National Museum on her next trip into Dublin and entered my (real) name in as the discoverer. Neat eh?
This is really incredible! Wow! Cool family!
I’m distantly related to Jesse James. My grandfather’s got a cousin or something up north who’s a direct descendant. I think that’s pretty nifty, though he wasn’t the romanticized outlaw the westerns make him up to be.
All the other dopers seem to be highly intelligent and well educated.
I’m the only monkey in the bunch.
Thank you (Of course, it would be nice to be verifiably uniquely talented at something. Maybe, if I meet some of these moderators …)
One of the things that I think is coolest, is that my grandfather’s (Ph. D. Chemistry) sister had a Ph. D. in history. Tough for a woman to get a research job back then, :mad: but she did help set up several of the Penn State branch campuses. (Their father has a building named after him at Penn State, so perhaps he helped.)
Nice guess, but, inevitably, you’re not uniquely the only identical twin doper.
Now I think of it, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a previous thread where being a twin might be relevant and hence worth mentioning.
ThaPootah and SlowMindThinking, yes, the name of the village is Peterhead. Deal with it. It’s down the coast from Aberdeen and is a very nice little village with cobblestone streets where my Clan and I were treated like celebrities by the village council simply because one of our ancestors was kind enough to found the village a few hundred years ago.
At least SMT answered the OP and therefore isn’t a complete waste of bandwidth…
“I’m probably the only Doper who can claim to have gone to school for all twelve years, plus kindergarten, without ever missing a single day.”
I did that all the way through college too, but I did miss one class this is because I took two classes that overlapped at UCSD…
Well, I think I might have a winner. I have the most posts 