# What’s the most extraordinary thing you’ve posted about yourself? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 26, 2012, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-extraordinary-thing-you-ve-posted-about-yourself/626344 "2012-06-26T13:44:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tapu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@tapu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapu)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-extraordinary-thing-you-ve-posted-about-yourself/626344/21 "2012-06-26T17:41:10Z")
The one I’d doubt if I weren’t, myself, the poster is about how I married the high school football coach a week after I graduated. I didn’t post that here, though. Well, I guess now I have. ---
**Author:** ![Capt\_Kirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@Capt\_Kirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt_Kirk)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-extraordinary-thing-you-ve-posted-about-yourself/626344/22 "2012-06-26T17:52:05Z")
Given the level of skepticism around here I am surprised no one called me out on my descriptions of the two deaths I have seen up close and personal, car fire and shooting. They did happen exactly as I described, but not a single “come on man, you can’t be serious”. And so it begins… **CAPT** ---
**Author:** ![Rodgers01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@Rodgers01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodgers01)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-extraordinary-thing-you-ve-posted-about-yourself/626344/23 "2012-06-26T17:53:37Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > [Umkay has been banned. - About This Message Board - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=656426) > > In a nutshell. More details available in ATMB, the pit and elsewhere. Ah, wow - thanks! ---
**Author:** ![tapu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@tapu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapu)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-extraordinary-thing-you-ve-posted-about-yourself/626344/24 "2012-06-26T18:00:31Z")
Oo! Discovering dead person, that reminds me. This one is pretty unbelievable: [The Dead Body I Didn’t Find OR Why Tapu Would Not Make a Very Good Detective](http://tapu-tapu-tapu.blogspot.com/2011/09/dead-body-i-didnt-find-or-why-tapu.html) ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-extraordinary-thing-you-ve-posted-about-yourself/626344/25 "2012-06-26T18:59:33Z")
[This pretty much covers it](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=645477). ---
**Author:** ![tapu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@tapu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapu)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-extraordinary-thing-you-ve-posted-about-yourself/626344/26 "2012-06-26T19:08:36Z")
For a sec there I thought we were in the “what scares you” thread. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-extraordinary-thing-you-ve-posted-about-yourself/626344/27 "2012-06-26T19:16:55Z")
I was on a sailing trip that lost a young woman overboard. Her father was a famous hockey player, so it was a bit of a news story at the time. I mentioned the trip before the accident, though, which should bolster my credibility somewhat. And a few more personal things. Never figured anybody was interested enough to use them against me. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-extraordinary-thing-you-ve-posted-about-yourself/626344/28 "2012-06-26T19:26:29Z")
please disregard this post ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-extraordinary-thing-you-ve-posted-about-yourself/626344/29 "2012-06-26T19:34:29Z")
I’ve posted here (and elsewhere) a few extraordinary things about my childhood. That I was abused by my father, that my mom was so controlling she wouldn’t allow me or my sister to get driver’s licenses. I’ve never been publicly called a liar. I’m not always sure what goes on at the snark boards, of course. But I think (and hope) I come off as realistic. The key, I think, is to not be a one-trick pony, and don’t blow your wad so early. I wouldn’t share that kind of personal information as my first post on the first day I joined a new message board–that is really why people like umkay and that frost guy come off as ingenuine. I also don’t troll for sympathy. I don’t bring my past up out of the blue, because that looks like a desperate bid for attention. I only bring up my own issues when I think they lend me credibility in a related, topical discussion. Anything else? Well, if it quacks like a victim card, and walks like a victim card… ---
**Author:** ![PaulParkhead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@PaulParkhead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PaulParkhead)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-extraordinary-thing-you-ve-posted-about-yourself/626344/30 "2012-06-26T20:07:18Z")
On SDMB, I suppose it would be the fact that my wife died. That’s probably not so extraordinary in and of itself - I’m not the only widower in the world - but I don’t think I would have posted here about it if it had happened, say, yesterday. Several years before she died, though, and before we married and I moved to the US, she was involved with AA. She got 13th stepped by a guy who was hosting meetings (or whatever you call it) while drinking a bottle of gin a day. There’s much more to the story, of course, faults on all sides and so on, but I did post on an AA forum to ask for advice, as she was living so far away. Boy, did I live to regret that. I was told I must be making it all up, such things could never happen, I was obviously drunk, and so on. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-extraordinary-thing-you-ve-posted-about-yourself/626344/31 "2012-06-26T20:21:35Z")
I have posted what could be seen as contradictory things about my military career. Someone sent me a PM about it once. Easily explained by the fact that I’ve been doing it a long time (first full time then part time) and I have changed jobs several times. Since its usually not needed I don’t go through the whole story each time. So I might mention being a tanker, a combat engineer or being in army aviation. All have been true at some point but not currently. ---
**Author:** ![dngnb8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@dngnb8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dngnb8)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-extraordinary-thing-you-ve-posted-about-yourself/626344/32 "2012-06-26T20:30:08Z")
I havent here, but I have on another forum. When I was a paramedic, I was held hostage at gun point for 4ish hours. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-extraordinary-thing-you-ve-posted-about-yourself/626344/33 "2012-06-26T20:30:21Z")
I’ve been really sloppy about my personal life here - it wouldn’t be much effort at all for a motivated person to identify me. Hopefully that motivated person won’t ever be the wrong one. I suppose the most out-there stuff I’ve posted has been about my sociopath half-brother and his kids and his dead wife. Well, and then I was on Jeopardy. I guess I could have lied about that, but I’d have picked a skinnier, prettier player’s identity to steal. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![sandra\_nz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-extraordinary-thing-you-ve-posted-about-yourself/626344/34 "2012-06-26T20:31:45Z")
I posted that my birth mother was 12 when she became pregnant with me, 13 when she gave birth to me. It was in a MMP thread which, in retrospect, was probably not the place to share something like that! ---
**Author:** ![Septima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@Septima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Septima)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-extraordinary-thing-you-ve-posted-about-yourself/626344/35 "2012-06-27T15:59:26Z")
That I used to fire roman replica siege weaponry on a semi-annual basis, sometimes with fireballs. I’m really not sure how to prove that part beyond any doubt, but I could make reasonable case. There are pictures and advertising posters and such. Though I suppose I could still be suspected of identity theft. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-extraordinary-thing-you-ve-posted-about-yourself/626344/36 "2012-06-27T17:01:26Z")
My childhood. The fact that I was abused is hardly earth-shattering, but the crazy instability of my childhood has resulted in me having a lot of interesting experiences, such as having 4 different ‘‘fathers’’ and legally emancipating at 17. The first time I posted about it, it actually ended with some folks believing I was a troll. I guess because I told a lot of details about my life, and at the time they seemed to contradict one another. I dunno. I guess if I was not me, I’d appear pretty farfetched, too. It seems like another lifetime ago… sometimes I have to remind myself that yes, all that crazy shit happened to me. And one thing I didn’t have back then was perspective, understanding that suffering is universal and there are way worse lives to live, so I tend to be a lot less melodramatic about it now. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-extraordinary-thing-you-ve-posted-about-yourself/626344/37 "2012-06-28T01:24:27Z")
I’ve tried to stay away from some of the wilder stories, on the basis that people are likely to not believe me, and I wouldn’t blame them. Particularly since my personal internet-safety rules would prevent me from verifying a lot of it. I have told some crazy, totally true stories here, but there are also a bunch that I haven’t told. ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-extraordinary-thing-you-ve-posted-about-yourself/626344/38 "2012-06-28T01:48:36Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Probably my failed rescue attempt of a young girl in Lake Michigan. > > But that story was easily verifiable at multiple news websites. A couple of crazy plane crashes too, right? (Or is that someone else?) I think I’ve posted way too much personal info about myself (it’s all lies from here on out, folks), but I don’t think any of it has been all that unbelievable. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-extraordinary-thing-you-ve-posted-about-yourself/626344/39 "2012-06-28T01:50:15Z")
> [@Crotalus](#): > > There are a couple of dopers who know enough about me in real life that I couldn’t possibly pull that off. Oh yeah, I’d bust your ass. 😉 **tapu** if your real name is Denise, PM me… ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-extraordinary-thing-you-ve-posted-about-yourself/626344/40 "2012-06-28T02:02:08Z")
> [@laina\_f](#): > > Incidentally, IMHO you’re one of people who’s come out of the umkerfluffle looking like a good sane person. Oh yeah, loving **Nzinga** but not just for this. But I _am_ loving your use of **umkerfuffle**!!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-extraordinary-thing-you-ve-posted-about-yourself/626344.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-extraordinary-thing-you-ve-posted-about-yourself/626344.md?page=3)