# What makes you so different? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 6, 2006, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-so-different/371658 "2006-09-06T16:48:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-so-different/371658/101 "2006-09-08T11:42:30Z")
Lobelia, I also have no sense of smell! I hid my first pregnancy from everyone (including the father, whom I was still having sex with) until I was nearly eight months along. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-so-different/371658/102 "2006-09-08T12:33:42Z")
I’m a weirdo: - I’m pretty smart (am working on my MS electrical engineering degree). I’m a senior EE where I work. - I \*love \* to shoot guns, particularly high-powered, main battle rifles. Even started my own militia group. - I have never smoked a cigarette. - I have never taken an illegal drug. - I have never been in a fight. - I run 5 kilometers every day. - My wife is Asian and was born in HK. - We live in a log house on 15 acres conveniently located in the middle of nowhere. - I love beer. Beer is good. - I have never had a nice car (because I refuse to spend the money on one). I currently drive a rusted 1991 Pontiac Sunbird. I got it for free. - Though I come across as “cold and bold” on the SDMB, I am the opposite in person. IRL I am nice, geeky, quiet, and introverted. ---
**Author:** ![FormerMarineGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/65b543/32.png) [@FormerMarineGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FormerMarineGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-so-different/371658/103 "2006-09-08T12:55:44Z")
> [@](#): > > **jsgoddess** > I have over 100 first cousins. I’ve never had a dog that didn’t outweigh me. 100 cousins? > [@](#): > > **HazelNutCoffee** > When I was a kid, I was convinced I was a reincarnation of the Greek goddess Demeter. How did you come up with _Demeter_? > [@](#): > > **elfkin477** > I’m a synesthete (specifically, I see sound.) > Semi-related, I hear things people aren’t supposed to, like dog whistles and those machines that “can only be heard by rodents.” > Although I believe zero times a number is zero, I still can’t grasp why (No, don’t explain. Many people have tried.) You see sound? That is absolutely amazing to me. I have read about it, but would love to hear more firsthand. Could you start a thread about it? I would love to ask more questions. Zero times a number equals zero. That could be another thread, if you have not started one already. Could get pretty deep, if you are prepared to argue against it. > [@](#): > > **MrJackboots** > I dream almost exclusively in text. Creative writing isn’t something I do so much as something that happens to me, and most of my writer-type friends say that it must be really cool. Actually, I agree with my artist-type friends, who think it must be really damn annoying to dream in a medium, since you wake up and try to remember it, and as close as you get you never get it quite as good as it was in the dream. Can you give an example of one of your dreams? > [@](#): > > **Gleena** > I met my first husband by writing an “Any Service Member” letter during Gulf War I, we were married 10 years > My son has Asperger’s Syndrome That’s pretty cool about meeting your husband that way. How many letters were written prior to actually meeting him? My wife works with children with speech disorders and she was just talking about Asperger’s Syndrome. It is pretty amazing to me. How mild/severe is it? > [@](#): > > **Crafter\_Man** > I love to shoot guns, particularly high-powered, main battle rifles. Even started my own militia group. Your own militia group? What is your groups mission/aim? ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-so-different/371658/104 "2006-09-08T14:09:00Z")
[QUOTE=FormerMarineGuy] Your own militia group? What is your groups mission/aim? [/QUOTE] [http://champaigncounty.tripod.com/id1.html](http://champaigncounty.tripod.com/id1.html) ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-so-different/371658/105 "2006-09-08T14:38:58Z")
[QUOTE=FormerMarineGuy] Do you sell the animals for food or is it just what you say it is, a hobby? [/QUOTE] Yes, the animals are sold for food. We are keeping half a pig for ourselves, and one of the turkeys, but the rest are being sold. All of the pigs are already spoken for and I think we only have 4 or 5 more turkeys to sell, I imagine they will go quickly the week before Thanksgiving. We are really seeing a lot of interest in locally grown food because of the book The Omnivore’s Dilemma, all of our animals are raised free of hormones and antibiotics and that appears to be a rapidly growing market. But we will never raise more than 3 pigs, or more than a dozen turkeys, because it’s really all we have the time and capability to care for. ---
**Author:** ![Lilairen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lilairen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lilairen)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-so-different/371658/106 "2006-09-08T18:24:19Z")
Hmmm. - well, I’m another one of those adults who doesn’t drive, though my boyfriend has informed me that I’m not allowed to breed until I have a driver’s license. - I am extremely devout in a religion almost nobody has heard of – I’m Kemetic, which is a reconstruction of ancient Egyptian religion. I have given up on threads around here where a random atheist thinks, “But everything thinks worshipping Ra is insane, what makes your god so special?” is a clever line of argument. - I married my high school sweetheart, though it was after several years of long-distance relationship (colleges in different states) and several years of living together. - I turn into an idiot at temperatures over 85 (30C). - I’m severely allergic to carrots. - I am a published writer as a result of being a literate, coherent poster to a usenet newsgroup. - I brew mead in my kitchen. - There’s a python living in my living room (though as of this weekend he will probably be living at my boyfriend’s house for a while because husband and I are moving and the snake tank can’t go into storage). That should do. ---
**Author:** ![FormerMarineGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/65b543/32.png) [@FormerMarineGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FormerMarineGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-so-different/371658/107 "2006-09-08T19:15:50Z")
[QUOTE=Crafter\_Man] [http://champaigncounty.tripod.com/id1.html](http://champaigncounty.tripod.com/id1.html) [/QUOTE] Wow. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![FormerMarineGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/65b543/32.png) [@FormerMarineGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FormerMarineGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-so-different/371658/108 "2006-09-08T19:18:07Z")
[QUOTE=August West] Yes, the animals are sold for food. We are keeping half a pig for ourselves, and one of the turkeys, but the rest are being sold. All of the pigs are already spoken for and I think we only have 4 or 5 more turkeys to sell, I imagine they will go quickly the week before Thanksgiving. We are really seeing a lot of interest in locally grown food because of the book The Omnivore’s Dilemma, all of our animals are raised free of hormones and antibiotics and that appears to be a rapidly growing market. But we will never raise more than 3 pigs, or more than a dozen turkeys, because it’s really all we have the time and capability to care for. [/QUOTE] Do you ship the turkeys? I would be interested in buying one. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-so-different/371658/109 "2006-09-08T19:20:57Z")
At one point in my life I had twelve toes. ---
**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-so-different/371658/110 "2006-09-08T19:32:20Z")
[QUOTE=Struan] At one point in my life I had twelve toes. [/QUOTE] Easy to step on, huh. 🙂 You could have given _me_ one. ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-so-different/371658/111 "2006-09-08T19:56:05Z")
**FormerMarineGuy** there is nothing I’d like better in the world than to sell you a turkey, but one of the reasons I get the price for my turkeys that I do is because they are fresh, never frozen. And I think I’d have to freeze one to ship it that far. My recommendation to you is to check out [Local Harvest](http://www.localharvest.org) and find someone near you that raises heritage-breed turkeys and give them a call. I think you will be happier with a fresh locally raised bird than you would be with a frozen, shipped one. I should warn you that fresh heritage-breed turkeys are significantly more expensive than a frozen one at the grocery store. Most farmers that sell them are very small operations like mine, not giant factory farm conglomerates. ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-so-different/371658/112 "2006-09-08T20:18:20Z")
Well, I’m a little late, but here are a few things–not unique but somewhat rare on this board. I’m Mormon I homeschool my kids I speak fluent Danish I dip my own chocolates (better than See’s!) ---
**Author:** ![Harbinger\_of\_Courteous\_Debate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8c91f0/32.png) [@Harbinger\_of\_Courteous\_Debate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harbinger_of_Courteous_Debate)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-so-different/371658/113 "2006-09-08T20:31:52Z")
[QUOTE=FormerMarineGuy] \ Have you ever read up on this? What kind of hallucinations do you have? Did you take a lot of acid in your younger years? [/QUOTE] Sorry for the delay in answering. I’ve never read up on it, it’s nothing intrusive. Just the odd time I’ll be completely alone and clearly hear a spoken word or an out of place noise. I don’t know if it’s some sort of spontaneous memory or what, but it’s not constant, or really all that regular. BTW, I’m still _in_ my younger years, and I’ve never done any acid! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![FormerMarineGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/65b543/32.png) [@FormerMarineGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FormerMarineGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-so-different/371658/114 "2006-09-08T20:40:54Z")
[QUOTE=August West] **FormerMarineGuy** there is nothing I’d like better in the world than to sell you a turkey, but one of the reasons I get the price for my turkeys that I do is because they are fresh, never frozen. And I think I’d have to freeze one to ship it that far. My recommendation to you is to check out [Local Harvest](http://www.localharvest.org) and find someone near you that raises heritage-breed turkeys and give them a call. I think you will be happier with a fresh locally raised bird than you would be with a frozen, shipped one. I should warn you that fresh heritage-breed turkeys are significantly more expensive than a frozen one at the grocery store. Most farmers that sell them are very small operations like mine, not giant factory farm conglomerates. [/QUOTE] Thanks for the information. I would not mind spending the extra money if I could taste the difference. The health aspect does not really concern me, to tell you the truth (although I will probably regret it later in life). Thanks for the link. ---
**Author:** ![FormerMarineGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/65b543/32.png) [@FormerMarineGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FormerMarineGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-so-different/371658/115 "2006-09-08T20:42:42Z")
[QUOTE=dangermom] I speak fluent Danish [/QUOTE] I have been reading up on Soren Kierkegaard, recently. Pretty interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-so-different/371658/116 "2006-09-08T20:49:28Z")
[QUOTE=gum] Easy to step on, huh. 🙂 You could have given _me_ one. [/QUOTE] I don’t even have a personal memory of my supernumary toes! I’d like to have seen them and used them for nefarious purposes, dammit. ---
**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-so-different/371658/117 "2006-09-08T21:01:24Z")
[QUOTE=Struan] I don’t even have a personal memory of my supernumary toes! I’d like to have seen them and used them for nefarious purposes, dammit. [/QUOTE] hehehehe 🙂 Like scaring the little kiddies by polishing your toe-nails with numbers? Or asking the shoe-shop lady for a size ‘extra narrow’? ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-so-different/371658/118 "2006-09-08T21:03:56Z")
[QUOTE=FormerMarineGuy] I have been reading up on Soren Kierkegaard, recently. Pretty interesting. [/QUOTE] 🙂 Just don’t pronouce it KierkegArd. Ow ow ow! (OK, that’s an unrealistic expectation–but it still hurts!) ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-so-different/371658/119 "2006-09-08T21:58:59Z")
[QUOTE=dangermom] 🙂 Just don’t pronouce it KierkegArd. Ow ow ow! (OK, that’s an unrealistic expectation–but it still hurts!) [/QUOTE] How should it be pronounced? I’ve only heard it a handful of times and it seems it was pronounced the way you’re saying not to. ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-so-different/371658/120 "2006-09-08T22:08:19Z")
FormerMarineGuy, I honestly can’t remember how I came up with Demeter. I liked plants a lot; maybe that’s how it started. Fortunately I am no longer under this delusion. Or that’s what I tell mere mortals. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-so-different/371658.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-so-different/371658.md?page=7)