Post Interesting Facts about yourself...

[darin]

I think it'd be fun to post up some little-known facts about ourselves, in an effort to get to know one-another better.

From 'strange but true' about me:

• I've dunked a basketball on a 10-ft hoop
• I've bench-pressed 265lbs
• I've never broken a major bone
• I've never had chicken pox
• I've appeared in a movie with Mathew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, and Ally Sheedy
• I've never seen The Fast and the Furious - or any of it's sequels.
• I once had stitches in my tongue
• I once walked with a cane for 6 months
• I've been within 100 feet of something going Mach 1
• I've held something on my shoulder whichc changed the course of a war (related to above)
• I've never caught a fish
• I don't watch debates
• I've driven over 140mph - in a 50mph zone! doh!
• I've set my cruise control on 180km/hr - and kept it there for 2 hours
• I've never been in a Turkish Prison

I'll try to think of more and add them - if you see something that interests you, ask me about it And hopefully, others will do the same for you, after you share some things about yourself.

[Abbey Marie]

Impressive bench-pressing, D!

I'll go. I apologize for the braggy ones- but they are somewhat interesting, I think.

1. I am claustrophobic
2. I passed the PA bar and NJ bar at the same time
3. I've been engaged 3 times, married 1 time.
4. I'd petition to outlaw Sloppy Joes. Cannot smell them without gagging.
5. I haven't eaten red meat, pork or veal for 15 years.
6. I am very scared of public speaking
7. I can't swim well enough to save myself, and am afraid to be in deep water, but my dream is to learn to scuba dive
8. I am always very moved by the ability to vote, and usually tears well up.
9. I apparently have the highest road rage potential so far on the board. This does not really surprise me
10. I have one child, and she never takes my advice. I wonder if she would ever give me positive rep?
11. I generally have more fun around men than around women, which I attribute to growing up with two older brothers and no sisters.
12. My favorite ride ever was Space Mountain at DisneyWorld
13. I've never been, nor would I go to, a circus

[darin]

Thanks Abbey!!

I generally have more fun around women than men - which I attribute to growing up with 3 older brothers. I musta spent 2 years of my life (cumulative) in a head-lock!

[Abbey Marie]

Thanks Abbey!!

I generally have more fun around women than men - which I attribute to growing up with 3 older brothers. I musta spent 2 years of my life (cumulative) in a head-lock!

-Cp must pay!

[-Cp]

Impressive bench-pressing, D!

5. I haven't eaten red meat, pork or veal for 15 years.

Uhhk.. how can you even call yourself a conservative!??!?!?!??!?

I'd seek professional help ASAP!!

-Cp must pay!

Huh??????????

1. I as well was in a movie with Mathew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, and Ally Sheedy
2. I have shaken hands with Hugh Heffner, Vince Neal and Flava Flav
3. I spent time talking to "tapanga" from the show "boy meets world"
4. Regardless of what dmp claims, his time in a headlock was far less yet always well deserved.
5. I love cooking and love pairing it with good wine
6. I often tear-up during good speeches
7. Braveheart was the first movie to ever make me tear-up
8. I'm not much into TV/Movies - even though I have a KICK-ASS surround system.
9. I spend far too much of my life in front of a computer.
10. The more Palin speaks, the more sexy I think she is!
11. I grew up in the "Assembly of God" churches and now find them nauseating.
12. I always prefer blondes - but am not totally exclusive to them (my wife isn't a blonde, for example)
13. I'm often heard saying "I wouldn't pay $0.10 to see the statue of liberty take a leak to my kids.
14. I've never been to the east coast (furthest east I've been is Toronto).

[Abbey Marie]

Uhhk.. how can you even call yourself a conservative!??!?!?!??!?

I'd seek professional help ASAP!!

So, you really believe we are what we eat?

[darin]

maybe she just...uh..hasn't had the right meat?

I'd offer...but...

/me ducks and runs!!!

[Abbey Marie]

maybe she just...uh..hasn't had the right meat?

I'd offer...but...

/me ducks and runs!!!

[Yurt]

1. year in the Marshall Islands teaching kids
2. had a knife to my face in 8th grade by a cholo for being white
3. 1st auto accident (17) - rear ended another - because i was staring at 3 hotties pretending i was badass at cal poly, claimed "sun" was in my eyes
4. dated a black girl in the 10th grade, hated by majority, both white and black, received threats by both races, experienced overt racism by both
5. stole a canadian hotty and made her an american
6. while teaching her to kayak on the willamette river dt portland, i completely spilled in front of many folks
7. born in the south, georgia
8. highest mnt: hiked to the top of eagle cap, 10,500 ft

[manu1959]

inspired by those that shared before i did............

I had chicken pox and scarlet fever at the age of 18
I once had stitches in my tongue
I have been on the bridge of the uss hornet and sat in the captains chair
I caught my first fish at 48 on a fly rod
I have driven over 110mph - in a 55 mph zone!
I hate cruise control.
I have shaken hands with a penthouse pet, clint eastwood, mary stewart masterson and jimmy carter
I have showed in michelle piffers master bedroom
I have been 15 days away from being homeless
I love good wine
I cry every time I watch the sniper scene in blackhawk down
Sarah Palin is sexy
I passed the architectural exam on the first try …. no studying
I prefer the company of women, which I attribute to growing up in a matriarchal family environment
I have been to the Moscow circus and bolshoi ballet in Moscow.
I have flown a kite out of the 20th floor window of a hotel in kiev
I have sunbathed nude at popeye’s village in malta

[jackass]

1. I had my appendix removed.
2. I have met MikeTyson, Clarence Clemons, Elle and Im sure others.
3. I was an extra in this movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090217/ and still havent watched it!
4. I have held and pet a baby lion.
5. I torture my kids come Halloween.
6. I have only been on a plane twice.
7. I have wanted a tattoo since I was 5 and still dont have one.
8. I have been stung twice in the tongue by bees.

[Abbey Marie]

Lots of tongue facts.

[Trigg]

Well I've lead a pretty boring life so far, but here goes.

1. I've had a child in every state I've lived in. That's why we had to quit moving
2. Had a tornado go across a road, just behind me.
3. Road in a car doing 120 in a 55 zone. We were in a group of 3 cars.
4. I cried when I watched My Girl.
5. I cry when I watch sad movies.
6. I was rear-ended outside Tampa when I was 5 months preggo.
7. I've never met anyone famous.

[darin]

oh!

• I've been to Moscow, Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, Bangkok, New York City, Los Angeles, and Seoul.

[Trigg]

oh!

• I've been to Moscow, Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, Bangkok, New York City, Los Angeles, and Seoul.

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