# what makes you unique here? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 6, 2001, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-unique-here/80107 "2001-09-06T20:36:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Angelnside](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b3f665/32.png) [@Angelnside](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angelnside)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2001, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-unique-here/80107/141 "2001-09-09T01:52:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Enderw24 \* > \*\* I was swinging my sister around and around and around and…oh crap. I let go. \*\* Oh, how funny!! I did the same w/ my cousin…I was holding one arm and one leg…spinning and spinning…she was flying up and down…really fast and then,well,she flew right out of my hands…and hit the coffee table…head first!! LOL She doesn’t seem to hold it against me at this point in our lives…there are lots of people she doesn’t talk to in the family!! LOL I thought I was the only one that had done something like that!! ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2001, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-unique-here/80107/142 "2001-09-09T04:43:39Z")
A few more: I’m probably the only Doper that occasionally bites chunks out of aluminum cans, sometimes even while sober. I think I’m the only Doper who went to Boston Latin School. I’m the only Doper that has performed a one handed cartwheel with a cup of cheap champagne in one hand, while too drunk to even walk straight. I’m the only Doper to have taken part in accidentally starting a root fire in Boy Scouts. ---
**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2001, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-unique-here/80107/143 "2001-09-09T13:56:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Colibri \* > I am for sure the only trochilidologist on the boards. > > I am _probably_ the only member with a frozen cuckoo in my refrigerator. _Variations on a Theme by Colibri_: I am for sure the only corvidologist on the boards. I am _probably_ the only member with frozen warblers in my refrigerator. And I think I am the only Doper to have a live Kakariki sitting on my computer. ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2001, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-unique-here/80107/144 "2001-09-09T14:31:55Z")
I think I’m the only Doper to have met both Stephen King and Allen Ginsberg (sp?)… I’m sure that I’m the only Doper to have gone canoeing during a harsh thunderstorm in order to rescue three balloons filled with pot seeds!😉 I know I’m the only Doper to have participated (however briefly) in the making of a Korean monster movie! I think I’m the only Doper who has stood in N. Korea… I know I am the Doper who has recovered most smoothly when standing in front of a room full of students and having the fact that my zipper was down pointed out to me… I zipped up, and went on to teach “XYZPDQ” and segued into acronyms… stumped them all when I asked what “laser” and “scuba” meant…😉 I’m pretty sure I’m the only Doper who has been using beer cans as ashtrays for the past year or so (I dropped and broke my ashtray, and I can’t buy another one because I am supposed to quit smoking sometime, eventually…). ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2001, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-unique-here/80107/145 "2001-09-09T14:55:28Z")
I am most likely the only Doper who co-wrote an original TV series that got produced and screened. And I may be the only doper who has videoed two ‘lesbians’ in a porn shoot in a spa bath. Twice. With two different sets of girls. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2001, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-unique-here/80107/146 "2001-09-09T15:06:51Z")
I am the only doper that has sex with me on a regular basis. I am also the only doper that WANTS to have sex with me on a regular basis. ---
**Author:** ![Wicked\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/2acd7d/32.png) [@Wicked\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wicked_Blue)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2001, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-unique-here/80107/147 "2001-09-09T15:15:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Manservant Hecubus \* > \*\*I am also the only doper that WANTS to have sex with me on a regular basis. \*\* Um, no. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2001, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-unique-here/80107/148 "2001-09-09T20:36:59Z")
I am probably the only doper who has eaten live waxworms. Several times. And liked it. (They’re also pretty good lightly sauteed, BTW. They taste like slightly nut-flavored shrimp when you cook them.) I’d make a bet that I’m the only doper who was ever hired to be a phone psychic. (No, I don’t think I’m psychic. I don’t think ESP exists. But I was a sophomore in college at the time, and for the pay they were offering, I was more than happy to be “psychic.” I only lasted 2 days on that job, though. My bosses were phone fascists\* [You had to request permission to get up from the phone to use the bathroom. And if they **did** vouchafe you this opportunity, you were **timed**. We had a 5-minute limit. No joke.] Not to mention that I felt pretty guilty about working for a psychic phone service; I felt that I was collaborating on a scheme to bilk lots of poor and ignorant people. It was a pretty surreal experience working there, and I learned a lot about the wild ‘n’ crazy world of phone banks and the odd mentalities of people who really **do** think they have some special extrasensory powers. So I’m not that sorry that I was hired there, but I’m glad I didn’t stay for very long.) I think I’m the only doper who once lived with 2 people I’ll call “The Urine Twins.” These people refused to use the toilet when they wanted to pee. They said they didn’t want to waste the water consumed by flushing the toilet. Instead, they **saved their urine** in 50-gallon apple cider jugs kept in their room. What made it worse was that my cieling was their floor, and their floor (my ceiling) was weak. I used to be jolted awake, sweating from fear in the middle of the night, having had the awful nightmare that several 50-gallon glass jugs full of urine had fallen through the cieling and come crashing down my bed. Like at least couple of others of us, I am a fan of bluegrass music. I could be the only one going to the Halloween OhDope who doesn’t know what her costume will be yet. \*Note that I did _not_ call them “Nazis.” ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2001, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-unique-here/80107/149 "2001-09-09T20:48:54Z")
Umm…never mind that last part. I just read the Halloween OhDope thread’s more recent posts. Apparently, several people are trying to figure out what they’re going to dress up as. Nice to know I’m not alone in that. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2001, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-unique-here/80107/150 "2001-09-09T20:56:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Wicked Blue \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Manservant Hecubus \* > > \*\*I am also the only doper that WANTS to have sex with me on a regular basis. \*\* > > Um, no. 😃 \*\* If he doesn’t know by now that that’s not true…screw it, he’s _got_ to know that’s not true. Geez, every time you hear that thought in your head, consider yourself reassured, all right already? Okay, and…uhm…I’m the only Doper who uhmmmm…who is so boring that all three of the “most unique” things she’s posted about herself are incredibly stupid and boring. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2001, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-unique-here/80107/151 "2001-09-09T21:59:20Z")
I’m the only doper that has [this view](http://doorbell.net/doorcam.htm) outside the window as I type. ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2001, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-unique-here/80107/152 "2001-09-09T23:02:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\*waterj2 \*\* > I’m probably the only Doper that occasionally bites chunks out of aluminum cans, sometimes even while sober. Nope: did this at **FlintDope** this year with… **Strainger** s Guinness can, IIRC (though it may have been **Uncle Beer** s.) More stuff:[_]I’m probably the only Doper to have started a Fraternity. Technically, “re-founded” as the house had closed in 1957, but I_ was the first new brother.[_]I’m probably the only Doper that averages 600 miles/weekend and that the folks at Avis know by name.[_]Anyone else have a _$50 million_ liability policy for work? ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2001, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-unique-here/80107/153 "2001-09-09T23:15:50Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by thinksnow \* \*\*[li]Anyone else have a _$50 million_ liability policy for work? \*\*[/li][/QUOTE] Yep. ---
**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2001, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-unique-here/80107/154 "2001-09-10T15:25:07Z")
I am the only (very new) doper to have played live on stage with Robert Plant I am the only doper to be considered (wrongly) a football hooligan mastermind by the British Police (I’m not even a stupid one) I too have met serial killers through work (Peter Sutcliffe and a couple of others) I am the only doper to have been arrested for not taking his library books back. ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2001, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-unique-here/80107/155 "2001-09-10T15:36:56Z")
> [@](#): > > I too have met serial killers through work (Peter Sutcliffe and a couple of others) Yeah, but I bet none of them came to your house for Thanksgiving. > [@](#): > > I am the only doper to have been arrested for not taking his library books back. OMG. They can ARREST you for that?? \ ---
**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2001, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-unique-here/80107/156 "2001-09-10T15:42:06Z")
No I worked in theirs! ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2001, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-unique-here/80107/157 "2001-09-10T15:45:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by The Infraggable Krunk \* > **I believe I’m the only Doper who’s managed to dislocate his shoulder… playing volleyball, for Chrissake.** Volleyball, pingpong, swimming and doing pullups. Not all at once, though, 'cause that would be weird. ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2001, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-unique-here/80107/158 "2001-09-10T16:42:04Z")
[QUOTE] \*\*GingerOfTheNorth > [@](#): > > me\*\* > [li]Anyone else have a _$50 million_ liability policy for work? [/li][/QUOTE] > Yep. Just on you? That is, you, personally, have that much insurance on the work you do? That’s eerie, **Ginj**. ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2001, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-unique-here/80107/159 "2001-09-10T17:10:41Z")
I’m probably the only one to own and love Split Lip Rayfield’s CD _Never Make it Home_. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2001, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-unique-here/80107/160 "2001-09-10T17:35:01Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by GingerOfTheNorth \* \*\* > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by thinksnow \* > \*\*[li]Anyone else have a _$50 million_ liability policy for work? \*\*[/li][/QUOTE] > > Yep. \*\* Okay, you two, _ **WHY???** _ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-unique-here/80107.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-unique-here/80107.md?page=9)