# 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:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-extraordinary-thing-you-ve-posted-about-yourself/626344/61 "2012-06-28T22:56:25Z")
> [@listedmia](#): > > I’ve only just started posting here after a long, long period of lurking. I’ve been following the umkay threads some. Now I’m kind of scared that if I mention certain things about my life, I’ll have to spend a ton of time defending them. So for now, I’ll try to post minor contributions to other threads and avoid mentioning that I’m a formerly-homeless, formerly-heroin-addicted, bisexual, freight-train-riding, 22-year old art-school-dropout who lives in a legal squat house with a much older man, lost my mother at a young age, was raised conservative Catholic, and hangs out with a lot of very very strange people. 😃 > > (Yes, I know that was ungrammatical as fuck, but I don’t even know how to begin parsing that sentence correctly!) 22 pfft, I don’t believe it. I say we send this thread off the rails until we get some proof. As of me, I think the strangest thing (off the top of my head) I’ve posted is that I once found out one of my employees was living in our (snow) plow. It was a strange day. ---
**Author:** ![SCSimmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@SCSimmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCSimmons)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-extraordinary-thing-you-ve-posted-about-yourself/626344/62 "2012-06-28T23:00:45Z")
> [@listedmia](#): > > I’ve only just started posting here after a long, long period of lurking. I’ve been following the umkay threads some. Now I’m kind of scared that if I mention certain things about my life, I’ll have to spend a ton of time defending them. So for now, I’ll try to post minor contributions to other threads and avoid mentioning that I’m a formerly-homeless, formerly-heroin-addicted, bisexual, freight-train-riding, 22-year old art-school-dropout who lives in a legal squat house with a much older man, lost my mother at a young age, was raised conservative Catholic, and hangs out with a lot of very very strange people. 😃 > > (Yes, I know that was ungrammatical as fuck, but I don’t even know how to begin parsing that sentence correctly!) If we all promise not to doubt your stories, will you post some? It sounds like you have some good ones! Note: I won’t suggest that we also promise not to critique your grammar. As well ask us to hold our breath until we die, or fly to the moon by flapping our arms. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-extraordinary-thing-you-ve-posted-about-yourself/626344/63 "2012-06-29T00:03:19Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > Come on, folks. Let’s get our whoosh meters callibrated. I hope so. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-extraordinary-thing-you-ve-posted-about-yourself/626344/64 "2012-06-29T00:38:14Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > Come on, folks. Let’s get our whoosh meters callibrated. I didn’t even think that was gonna fool one. single. soul. 😃 I’m loving this place lately. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-extraordinary-thing-you-ve-posted-about-yourself/626344/65 "2012-06-29T00:51:55Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > I didn’t even think that was gonna fool one. single. soul. 😃 > > I’m loving this place lately. Missed the edit window: Just in case there are those reading this not familiar with my joke, I was saying I was a “wannabe” from the “DPW” spectrum that has garnered so much attention as a result of the **Umkay** B.S. Considering how the topic of this thread was borne, I thought the joke was apropos. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-extraordinary-thing-you-ve-posted-about-yourself/626344/66 "2012-06-29T01:00:17Z")
Possibly the fact that I actually make a _very_ good living from my legitimate work at home jobs. Or the fact that I co-authored a book with a fellow doper after asking if anyone was interested in working with me in a thread here. ---
**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 29, 2012, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-extraordinary-thing-you-ve-posted-about-yourself/626344/67 "2012-06-29T02:03:02Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > I didn’t even think that was gonna fool one. single. soul. 😃 > > I’m loving this place lately. There is an actual mental illness that makes people want to amputate healthy limbs… forgot what it’s called, but I would not be shocked if there was a Doper with that condition. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-extraordinary-thing-you-ve-posted-about-yourself/626344/68 "2012-06-29T02:05:59Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > There is an actual mental illness that makes people want to amputate healthy limbs… forgot what it’s called, but I would not be shocked if there was a Doper with that condition. Look up _right now!_ 😉 ETA: Did you miss [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=15219314&postcount=65) post? ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-extraordinary-thing-you-ve-posted-about-yourself/626344/69 "2012-06-29T17:30:06Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > There is an actual mental illness that makes people want to amputate healthy limbs… forgot what it’s called, but I would not be shocked if there was a Doper with that condition. Manic arborism. ---
**Author:** ![Curiosity\_Kills\_Her](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Curiosity\_Kills\_Her](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Curiosity_Kills_Her)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-extraordinary-thing-you-ve-posted-about-yourself/626344/70 "2012-07-01T02:05:13Z")
I haven’t told it on this board, but when I was 19 I got into a heated altercation in a hotel lobby with ‘Big Tom’, a ginormous member of Ice Cube’s entourage and security detail, the Lench Mob. I was told for a number of years after the incident that Ice Cube himself used to ask “How’s that crazy white girl?” on the occasions he ended up in contact with a person I was relatively close with. I never met the man himself. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-extraordinary-thing-you-ve-posted-about-yourself/626344.md?page=3)