Tell me

[SOteric]

10 things that most of DU doesn't already know about you.

I'll go first:

1. I own a 2 volume copy of the OED.

2. I hold the family record highest 25 scores at three-dimensional Tetris. The nearest score trails me by over 30,000 points. Buwahaha.

3. My two favourite colours are Hunter Green and a deep blue, just the shade of lapis lazuli.

4. I bite my fingernails.

5. I believe Earnest and Julio Gallo were grape assassins.

6. My favourite drinking mug bears the Star Trek insignia.

7. I have an exceptionally poor sense of direction.

8. I adored my mother. She made everything beautiful and extraordinary even while we lived in near poverty. She was a tall woman; not in stature, in her soul.

9. As a very young girl, I had a torrid crush on our parish priest.

10. I can smell heat and cold.

[JanMichael]

1. 1. Moderately color blind, my socks are all mis-matched.

2. Was a registered Republican in College. Excuse? Worked on a Liberal Palm Beach Republican's US House campaign so registered to vote in the primary.

3. While I listen to mostly hard rock/punk music I totally dig Euro Disco "bands" like "Ace of Base" and "Eiffel 64"...

4. I haven't always been an Atheistic Existentialist. At one time I was a Agnostic Deist/Pantheist!

5. Once bowled a 99 after the age of 18...

6. Played the trumpet and French Horn up until my Junior year in HS.

7. Have the soul (loose interpretation) of a writer but zero writing skills.

8. Can count to ten in Blackfoot Indian (Native American).

9. Can curse quite effectively in Polish.

10. Met Jean Claude van Damme in a great little Italian restaurant in Krakow, PL.

[Cheswick2.0]

19. Your coolest response is 6

my father and mother met at a music camp, they both played French horn.

[UrbScotty]

210. It's a FREEDOM Horn, not a French Horn!

I can't believe those pathetic LIEberal peaceniks!

[ /GOP sarcasm ]

[HEyHEY]

2. I'll go

1: I have an amazing shirt that I've worn sooo much in the last three years and it doesn't seem to wear. (Not bad for $5), If you know the band "gob" I once sang an acdc song with them while wearing it.

2: I have a hat fetish

3: I have dislocated my shoulder twice and even right now it hurts.

4: I can drive a golf ball over 250 yards...and I hate golf.

5: In junior high, I was a tough son of a bitch.

6: Regardless of that, I cry quite easily when watching movies.

7: I wanted to be a mechanical engineer when I was a child, but the shit school system and my learning disabilities put that out of reach..... I am still whizz when it comes to building stuff though.

8: I make the mistake of judgin people by their eyes.

9: Once, when really drunk I considered asking a gay guy if I could
kis him. (what the hell I was curious)

10: I used to be a damn good snowboarder.

Yan made me think of one..but it would be 11..okay for the Canadians...when I lived in Quebec during the last election...my area was crazy Bloc Quebecios supporters..so I figured, "What the hell I'll vote Bloc, my guy ain't gonna win anyway, and now I can say I voted Bloc!"

[Cheswick2.0]

21. Your coolest response is 5

I am hoping to have a whole classroom of kids like you by this time next year.

[DealsGapRider]

203. Agreed.

5 was hilarious.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

3. Okay, my turn

An odd grab bag of facts.

1. My parents taught me to read before I started school.
2. I was a fanatic fan of the Mickey Mouse Club, so much so that I refused to come to the dinner table.
3. I was ten years old before I met someone who wasn't either Lutheran or Catholic.
4. I read all the James Bond books during ninth grade science class.
5. Until I took a gym class in college, I thought that people were born either physically fit or physically unfit, and that there was nothing you could do to change it.
6. Three of my graduate school friends became published science fiction writers.
7. My maternal grandfather deserted two armies: the Imperial Russian Army and the French Foreign Legion. He ended up as a high school teacher in Minneapolis.
8. I have a history of being the woman that men date just before finding the love of their life.
9. I had long hair until 1999. Then, one day, it was just "time" to cut it.
10. I don't like most fruits (except for apples and blueberries) and have to force myself to eat them for health's sake.

[Cheswick2.0]

22. Your coolest response is 7

I would love to have had a conversation with your grandfather.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

90. I had a similar experience to #3

I didn't meet a Protestant until college. Everyone growing up was Catholic, Jewish, or Eastern Orthodox Christian.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

4. OK (but I am not sure I have withheld 10 things)

1. My father was a professional boxer when he was younger.

2. I used to date one of the guys (yep I used to date a guy) who produced Tom Petty's first album. I was there for almost all the recording of that disc.

3. Although I post mostly about guitars, I was a trained classical piano player from the time I was six until I was 17. (Can barely play worth a shit now)

4. I was on the drill team.

5. I dated Hal Ashby's girlfriend WHILE he was dating her ( he was cheating on his wife)

6. I played basketball in high school.

7. I first pursued broadcasting as a career objective and when I started working on the air at a radio station, the business was so full of freaks that I THEN went to law school.

8. I used to work for a Republican lobbyist and a Democratic lobbyist at the same time (both knew it too)

9. I used to be a very heavy drinker and coke head.

10. I played Las Vegas with my uncle's orchestra (he was a bandleader...now deceased) when I was 18 years old.

[Cheswick2.0]

24. 10

just because it sounds like such fun.

[Fenris]

5. Me

1. I have grappled with questions about religion and God and spirituality since I was twelve, the age at which I started asking serious questions.

2. I am an anal-retentive when it comes to books. If anyone borrows a book and so much as dog ears one page I flip out.

3. I suffer from generalized and social anxiety, take 6 pills every morning so I can interact with other people, have long bouts of depression, and have few friends.

4. I am a hopeless romantic and have the tendancy to be too nice.

5. I own two electric guitars, an acoustic guitar, an electric bass, and a saxaphone.

6. I listen to Rush Limbaugh nearly every day. (That's a BIG secret)

7. My favorite movie is Love and Death.

8. My great grandfather was a surgeon in the Confederate Army during the Civil War and was also a local lawyer, all of which is detailed in the two volume nineteenth-century publication History of Southeast Texas, Illustrated. One of the only copies of this book remaining is on my bookshelf (both volumes).

9. My entire family owns only white automobiles.

10. My most prized possession is my grandfather's prayer book, which was bequeathed to me upon his death by my grandmother. I keep it close to me most of the time and have been known to use it.

[Cheswick2.0]

25. 9

because I wonder if you all planned it that way.

[Fenris]

28. No. It is a bizarre coincidence

Although I have questioned my kin on possible racist undertones in their choice of automobile colors.

[dudeness]

215. are you by chance a morrisey fan?

:)

[rbnyc]

6. Hmmm...

...This is hard because I tend to share everything.

1. I have very cute feet, with well formed pinky toes. ;-)
2. I have always hated the taste of milk.
3. I love Hello Kitty.
4. When I was in High School I invented my own D&D style role-playing game based on The Evil Dead and played during study halls in the Math and Science Resource Center.
5. I've never been arrested or gotten any kind of ticket.
6. I was voted "Most Creative" in my High School senior class.
7. I wasn't sure if I'd passed a needed class and would get my B.A. until the day before graduation and I never told my mom or dad.
8. I once had a friend drop me off in a town I'd never been to before with my suitcase, my guitar, my teddy bear and fifty bucks and leave me there. I lived there for a year and had a great time. (Austin, Texas)
9. I almost always have lucid dreams. 75-80% of the time, I realize I'm dreaming and have some level of control over what happens.
10. I predicted my accident. About 2 weeks before the accident I turned to a co-worker and said, "I will never walk down the aisle. I'll be in a horrible car accident and I'll be in the hospital." I was in another serious car accident about 13 years ago and I predicted that one too. I was on a road trip with friends. I woke up and knew the car I was riding in that day would crash. I was going to ask a friend to switch cars with me, but then I decided I'd feel horrible if my friend was killed in a car crash so I just never said anything. After about half an hour on the road we were in a 3 car accident and my head and face got very messed up. I've predicted other things too, but I don't want to name them because it just sounds too crazy. I'm not at all interested in having the ability to predict the future, or if it's actually possible, or how it could be possible. I really just try to ignore it. And it only happens once or twice a year at the most.

[Cheswick2.0]

26. 10 of course

your number 10 is interesting to me because though I can predict if someone I love is on the phone before I answer it, I have never gotten farther than that. I wouldn't mind being a little more tuned in.

[rbnyc]

34. Sometimes I feel that way...

...but mostly, I just wonder what good it does. I've never known how to deal with it other than to put it out of my mind and go on with my life. What if I'm able to predict the events because they are very important in shaping my life, and if I tried to avoid them I'd be taking myself off the path that's really best for me? It's all too confusing. I mean, on one hand, I'd rather have had my wedding and honeymoon as planned, and not lost my baby, but on the other hand, what if this experience was essential for giving us the skills for having a more enriched life and being better parents in the future?

:shrug:

:)

[TheReligiousLeft]

7. Here are mine

1. I’ve had more heart surgeries than Dick Cheney
2. I have two beards (not a double chin, but shaved down the middle, they are nearly as long as Osama‘s beard)
3. I’ve written 3 “Novels” none published as of yet
4. I can translate Hebrew
5. I have dreadlocks
6. Lived in Brussels Belgium for 3 (From age 5-8)
7. My dog had a Mohawk for a summer cut several years ago
8. I listen to KRS-One
9. Without glasses/contacts I can’t see the big E on the chart
10. I used to be big into Real Time Strategy games

[Cheswick2.0]

29. 10 , I knew I would someday find a person to help me figure out

how you open a hermetically sealed sarcophagus.

[JohnKleeb]

8. ok

1. I am probably the most medicore as for as classes go of all the young DUers.
2. I once wore glasses
3. I sleep at times in school
4. I like to listen to soundtrack music
5. I dont have my permit yet
6. I love action video games and movies despite being a dove
7. One of my heroes is John L Lewis
8. I am considering asking if we can have a socialist club at school
9. I have a rotten temper
10. My little brother looks like a donkey.

[rbnyc]

9. sleeping in school...

...I once fell asleep in class while smoking a cigarette and set my notes on fire.

;-)

[JohnKleeb]

10. damn that must had been nuts at least you didnt burn yourself

:hi: I am glad you are feeling better after your accident. I dont smoke though but I have drooled on my notes.

[rbnyc]

15. Thanks.

I can't wait til I can walk without crutches.

It was directing class. (Everyone in the theatre dept. smoked, so there was smoking in all the classes.) It was quite a scene.

[Rhiannon12866]

27. Welcome back, rbnyc! It's good to see you back and in good spirits

I'm so sorry that life has been handing you such bitter lemons.;(

I have been on crutches, myself, and it really was a bitch. I was at boarding school, in the dead of winter, and it was impossible to get around. I got in trouble for skipping classes, but there were some that were just too far to crutch to. I remember once I slipped, crutching down a hill, and wiped out everyone on the sidewalk ahead of me like a bunch of bowling pins!:D

I also remember when people smoked in class. I didn't smoke then, so didn't appreciate the freedom people had back then.:shrug:

Anyway, it does sound like you caused quite a scene, appropriate for a directing class! LOL! :7

[rbnyc]

36. My crutch buddy!

I never knew before how much it sucks! I know a lot of people have been there. Glad you can relate. And thanks for the welcome back.

:)

[Rhiannon12866]

75. You're welcome! You have been through so much, I am so glad

that you have returned with your sense of humor intact. I will never forget the time at my boarding school when there was a fire drill, during lunch, and I sat there, unable to move, with my crutches ten feet away. Fortunately, it was only a drill and my friend came back for me. I have found, though this was a long time ago, I have not forgotten and still often head for the handicapped stall in the ladies' room. LOL!

Welcome back and to a complete and speedy recovery, rbnyc!:toast:

[leftist_rebel1569]

12. LOL!

wow...that's funny.

[Cheswick2.0]

30. 9, I have a rotten temper too

I still have yet to totally control it. Hang in there

[nuxvomica]

83. Have you seen Disney's Pinocchio

That would explain your brother.

[supernova]

11. For myself

1. I own a one-volume copy of the OED, complete with it's own magnifying glass. It's so cool! I've always wanted one and am totally geeked out by having it.

2. I enjoy erotic fiction.

3. My best possessions are my books and my records and CDs. Can't live without books and music.

4. I'm a foodie. I enjoy trying new foods and new restaurants. But haven't been able to indulge the habit being laid off and all. :shuffles dirt:

5. I'm moody, sometimes prefering to stew in silence rather than talk to somebody. This is not always an admirable trait. I would dearly love it if there were someone in my life who could say "what's up with you?" when I get like that.

6. Really becoming a red wine freak. I try to always have a bottle on hand.

7. I have an excellent sense of direction. Even if I get lost, I can always backtrack.

8. I enjoy films to the point where I'm contemplating studying how to make them. This is an offshoot of not being able to find a job the past year. I might as well go a completely different direction and learn something new.

9. I love my little niece like there's no tomorrow. :loveya: She's 16 mos old and looks like a blonde Betty Boop.

10. Currently on my nightstand: The Book of J by Harold Bloom, The Plains of Passage by Jean Auel, The Grass Crown by Colleen McCollough.

[Cheswick2.0]

32. 8.... me too

I am thinking of one day making a documentary. I haven't decided on what topic yet.

[supernova]

81. #8

Cool. Duke has a Center for Documentary Studies and I can take courses through continuing ed.

I'm not sure what the subject matter would be either. Thinking of the documentary as a kind of illustrated, living book appeals to me.

[Cheswick2.0]

118. There was a guy who worked for NBC or CBS

I can't remember. I think it was NBC and he did the best documentay films for the news. You never saw him. He simply asked the questions and let the people answer. He was great during the first gulf war.
Because he left out all the dramatics, his reports always ended up being interesting and moving.
I have always though making a Doc would be great fun and a great way to get a message across.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

96. #4: I'm in the same boat as you

We have had to severely cut back on dining out due to my unemployment. There are many good restaurants in Boston-and many I'm dying to try!

[supernova]

102. Boston

does have lots of good restaurants I imagine. I'd love to spend a week in the city sampling different establishments every day.

What kinds of cuisines do you like, RationalRose?

[Bossy Monkey]

173. Then you'll just have to take the T to Central Square, Cambridge

and eat at the Ethiopian buffet. I hope they're still there; I haven't been up to Boston in ages.

[Lady Freedom]

13. I don't know what anybody would even want to know?

???

[Cheswick2.0]

33. well if all else fails

tell us all about your sex life

[BlueJazz]

14. Well.....

1. I live with a Bunny Rabbit
2. I sometimes cry at movies
3. I am MESSY!
4. But Clean.
5. I was a member of a "One Hit Wonder" Band. song reached #3
6. Smoke (one) cigarette a day
7. Love Hamburgers
8. Am a incurable Romantic
9. The spittin' image of a younger Nick Nolte
10. Can be very irritable if not enough sleep.

[rbnyc]

16. Which band?

Must know!!

:)

[Cheswick2.0]

35. your most interesting is #5

okay spill.... only if you want to of course

[Booberdawg]

17. It was HARD to come up with 10!

1.Had a mentally handicapped son

2.Son died in an accident 5 years ago

3.Played in band and marching band

4.Was a heavy drinker in my younger days

5.Only one out of 9 other half and step siblings to finish high school

6.I was a Registered Republican until the mid 90’s

7.I’m anal-retentive! (LOL!)

8.I never married

9.I lost a younger brother to suicide 10 years ago

10.I’m getting really lazy since unemployed

[Cheswick2.0]

37. most interesting? #6

why were you a republican and what made you change?

[Booberdawg]

49. The short answer ...

I just didn't know any better - it was out of ignorance. My family are Republicans. Once I became more politically aware I found by beliefs were and are better suited to the Democratic Party.

[Cheswick2.0]

18. after I reply I'm going to tell everyone the fact I found coolest about U

1)I know how to walk on really high stilts

2)I had a 10 lb 7 oz baby the first time around...natural

3)I once touched a deer by standing still for 30 minutes with food in my hand. She finally came up to me, I reached out and touched her neck.

4)In the late 1980s I belonged to two bowling leagues and often went to the alley by myself during the day and bowled for hours. I still wasn't any good.

5)When I was in High School I smoked in the girls room and was a horrible student. Everyone still thought I was a bookworm.

6)When I was 13 I was busted for pot and had to go to court.

7)I am killer at Sherades.

8)I drive too fast and love zigzagging around traffic on busy streets.....bad bad! I have the tickets to prove it.

9)I have 3 sisters, 1 brother, 2 step sisters, 1 step brother and 2 half brothers.

10)I was the Tether-ball Champion of my school when I was in 5th grade.

[rbnyc]

20. All of yours are cool...

...or interesting, but I'd love to walk on stilts! :)

[Cheswick2.0]

39. I think My grandpa's stilts are at my sisters house

If we all get together to celebrate the inauguration of a new Pres, I will teach you. :hi:

[ForrestGump]

23. DU don't know nuthin' about me

1. I eschew double negatives

2. I'm really busy right now, so I apologize for not being around much to insert random yak references into inappropriate stages of serious discussions (make up your own yak-insertion story here....I'm too tired, dammit, I already toldja...stop nagging me!)

3. I'm very even-tempered.

4. I found my virginity.

5. I lost my marbles.

6. I've dived with sharks while bleeding. Ask me anything.

7. I walked all night in LA once, 'til I hit the coast at sunrise. Then, for no particular reason.......

8. I've almost died more times than I remember, but I never did die, so it's obvious that I'm immortal.

9. I've been 'bitten' by a rhinoceros beetle. And a kangaroo.

10. I'm finding it hard to think of ten without revealing what I do, where I live, and who I am. :-) Let's see.....yes!....I've got one: I have very flexible wrists and ankles. Your handcuffs can't hold me! :-D



Oh, wait....now I can think of all sorts of stuff - thinking about being handcuffed must have really cleared my mind.....

Let's try this again:

1. I am fascinated by predatory animals

2. My favorite color's blue

3. I need to study Chinese martial arts, a need that started many years ago and that only grows keener

4. When I was a kid I used to think that yogurt tasted like vomit, but one day - in my teens - my father brought home a bunch of yogurts (I think someone gave them to him, for some reason) and it was love at first bite

5. I lay on Elvis' bed in his jet, the Lisa Marie (and I'd possibly be up for a bit of laying on Lisa Marie, if she was amenable)

6. I've swum with two naked French women, one of them a lesbian (long story :-) )

7. Almost two decades ago I slept next to a lovely young woman, while wearing only one of her nightdresses (hey! it was flannel, and she said it was very practical), maximally turned on, and I didn't touch her....even when she, late in the night, muttered to herself "I'm going to go nuts if I don't get it." I was so intent on not misinterpreting signals and proving myself an unenlightened chauvinist pig that I failed to recognize her seething lust. Yes, I was that dense. She did, however, fail to define the 'it' that she wanted as a balm to her sanity, so I can't take all the blame here. And by the time I realized that she wanted me - days later - she didnt want me any more. :-) And I could have jettisoned my virginity a whole six months earlier if I hadn't been so incredibly.....you supply the word. I imagine that she ran off to join a convent soon after.

8. I've broken (going head to toe, not chronologically or in order of pain):

(i) my nose

(ii) my left arm (more than once)

(iii) my right arm? (maybe I'm thinking of one of my left breaks)

(iv) probably a finger on my right hand (never had it checked out)

(v) my ribs (left side - a few of them)

(vi) my left leg (I don't think I've done my right...it's all a blur, especially with non-breaking injuries thrown in)

I think that's it. Fewer than Evel Knievel, but probably more than Britney Spears.

9. I never liked people calling their parents "the old man," "the old woman, "the olds," etc - I was always close to mine, as long and as far as I've lived apart from them. I'd be hesitant to call my girlfriend or wife "the old lady," too, even if she was perched on top of a Harley (and she'd better not be, because I prefer Japanese bikes and that'd mean that she was fixing to be some hogmeister's old lady).

10. I've never been to a strip bar or similar establishment. Probably just as well.....sounds like the ultimate torment for me, anyway. I've been married - what do I need the 'tease' for, with no possibility of touching the goodies, anyway? How extraordinarily redundant. :-)

That's my ten. the first ten were warm-up, because I was deliriously tired. And now I'm tired again.

[Cheswick2.0]

40. (i)

I broke mine too. I smacked my face on the ice playing whip on skates.

[ForrestGump]

43. Ouch. My commiserations

It's a little bit painful, isn't it?

The weird thing is, though I was prone to nosebleeds as a kid, it didn't bleed. I was 13 or 14 and did it while working on somersault - did the move fine but, on landing, something went awry and my knee impacted my face in a rather spectacular fashion.

[nuxvomica]

84. Ten things about me

1) I scored in the 99th percentile on the Miller Analogies Test so I can spot a false analogy a mile away.
2) The claw on the small toe of my right foot fell of recently, revealing a perfect little toenail.
3) I have never broken any of my bones. *knock on wood*
4) I was once trashed by the National Enquirer.
5) I have two patents pending that I don't think will make it.
6) I hate hate hate to shop in malls.
7) I have scoliosis.
8) I'm an empiricist and I believe rationalism has ruined science.
9) I lived through the '60s and remember the '60s but I don't remember most of the '80s.
10) I have read Muldoon and Carrington and have had two OOBEs.

edit: this was supposed to be a reply to the original post but I somehow got stuck on Gump's reply.

[BurtWorm]

149. nuxvomica:analogies::bush:?

[nuxvomica]

165. I don't know..."dead brush"?

I'm sure he scored in the 99th in the Dead Brush Reconizin' Test

[BurtWorm]

31. SOteric, are you British, Canadian, Irish or what? by birth?

I can't help noticing all those "-ours" where most of us would have "-ors."

That's one thing I don't know about you that intrigues me.

Here's my list:

1. I have an identical twin brother.

2. I'm Swedish-Ukrainian...or Slavic mix. My mother's father's mother came from the Carpathian mountains, was fluent in Ukrainian, but may have been Romanian, actually. Her mother's parents were from near Kiev.

3. Burt Worm is a pseudonym. I've had it since I was 17.

4. I used to post on Usenet in political groups as xofpi.

5. I was in the first incarnation of a band that achieved minor cult status in Boston, circa 1980. We were known as the Wank Stains. They became the Stains, then Ice Age.

6. I smoke.

7. I drink my coffee black.

8. I feel naked.

9. I used to edit True Detective and several other true crime magazines. It was my favorite job.

10. I also own a two volume set of the OED.

[Cheswick2.0]

41. #3 ??

Burt Worm is a pseudonym. I've had it since I was 17.

Why did you need a pseudonym at 17?

[BurtWorm]

42. It just came to me while I was doodling during English class

I've never really liked my name.

[JohnKleeb]

45. say burt if you ever play multiplayer computer games use it

When I play my MOHAA and BF1942 I go by Captain John Kleeb or some other rank. Captain is the highest I go thought. *lightbulb* maybe Lance Corporal Kleeb maybe good but I prefer for Captain because it gives me a feeling of leadership technically it doesnt matter.

[BurtWorm]

50. Lance Corporal Kleeb has a nice ring to it.

Maybe I'd be Pope Burt?

[SOteric]

46. I was born

in San Francisco, California. Both of my parents were born and raised in Parma, Italy and immigrated to the US only a few years before my brother and I were born.

The Commonwealth spellings are owing to my schooling. I did not attend public schools but was educated by the Jesuits. My instructor in spelling and grammatics was an Irish priest, Father Myron Murphy.

Possibly I would have overcome the tendency toward Commonwealth spellings during my time at prep school. My first professor of English and Grammatics at university was a tyrannical Brit, however, with a rigid definition of what constituted "English."

I've lived around American spellings all my life, and now and again they make their way into my thinking. But the influence of my teachers has been so complete that most words seem wrong to me if spelt otherwise.

[BurtWorm]

47. "Spelt" otherwise...

Man, they really did a number on you! ;)

PS: I'm totally charmed by that quirk of yours.

[SOteric]

48. I think if

my parents had been better versed in American English, I might have resisted more. As it is, they were in no position to influence me one way or the other.

[BurtWorm]

51. So are you fluent in Italian as well?

[SOteric]

52. There are some cultural lapses

and idiom failures, but overall, yes.

[BurtWorm]

54. Those can be very embarrassing.

Last year in Paris, I told a waiter after a meal, "Nous sommes finis," (we are dead) instead of "Nous avons finis." (we are finished ). He smiled politely, but this has given my seven-year-old hours of fun when she recounts tales of our traveling misadventures.

[Bossy Monkey]

176. At least you didn't tell him you're pregnant

like all the other Americans do

[Kathy in Cambridge]

101. #5 I remember the Stains!

I hung out in the punk scene in high school...funny.

[BurtWorm]

114. Are you serious?

Actually, they did gig a lot, opened a bunch of times for Mission of Burma. Roger Miller produced their record and played on some tracks. I loved the Stains.

[SiouxJ]

126. Hey! I'm Swedish-Ukranian too!

My dad is full Swedish and my mom is full Russian (her father was Ukrainian and mother was Russian mix). Mom was born here but had to learn to speak English.

Maybe we're related ;-) We should get together and make Ukrainian Easter eggs - lol.

:hi:

[BurtWorm]

128. You mean we really are an ethnic group?!

Zdrastvyte, flikka!

[SiouxJ]

134. Nasdarovia!

:-)

[AlienGirl]

38. There's Something About Tucker...

Okay, there are ten things about me. Maybe. *If* I can think of ten things I haven't whined endlessly about yet!

1. I spend way too much time wondering if getting a boob job would solve all my problems, thinking that my life would be perfect if I'd been blessed with good looks, and being terrified that people find me repulsive.

2. I have more dreams about getting unusual pets far more often than ones about falling in love.

3. I have a "thing" about pens. I get hooked on one particular brand of pen and I get very possessive of them. Currently, my pen of choice is the Pilot Precise V5, because of its ultra-smooth writing-feel and good balance. Plus it produces a variable and sensitive line that can be used for sketching as well as writing. I think all Pilot pens are pretty good, followed by Sanford and Pentel, with Bic way way down there.

4. Snow makes me depressed. Even if I don't have to shovel it, just seeing snow can send me into an awful mood.

5. I like to save my money next to my bed, rather than in a bank. It sounds weird, but there's something about having it physically *there* that is more reassuring than having numbers in a book.

6. I've been taking ephedrine to stay awake during morning shifts. It's the only thing that keeps me up and alert--and it puts me in a good mood, too. (My blood pressure's fine and I don't exceed recommended dose, so I should be safe).

7. I like it when people touch me. Doesn't have anything to do with sex--I like getting a hug from Ulex and the RepubRoomie in the morning when I go to work and at night when I go to bed. And I really like it when we play-fight, or when RepubRoomie pretends to sit down on top of me. It's silly and childish, but I like it.

8. I have my rat's cage right next to my bed, so I can talk to my rat before I go to sleep.

9. I delight in surprising people.

10. I'm embarrassed at how poorly I've retained my skills in Spanish. Though I can make myself understood, I find myself forgetting simple things like when to use "por" and "para" and how to make the past tenses of certain verbs. I'm secretly as insecure about my mind as I am about my body...

Tucker

[Cheswick2.0]

44. # 7

don't we all feel that way. The way you get along with your roomies is great...even repubRoomie.

[dawg]

88. regarding #1 ....

I don't think a boob job would improve your life. I've seen your picture, and you're cute. And ladies, for the last time, "size doesn't matter!"

Anything more than a mouthful is wasted!
:-)

[rainydaywoman]

154. What if u don't even have a mouthful?

That's me. I'm very fit and have very low bodyfat%, so the boobies r gone. I've spent hours thinking about it too. I've been offered modeling jobs (fitness publications)and then they end up going with girls w/big boobs (they don't even look all that fit). It gets a little depressing at times, especially when u r too poor to pay for it anyway.

Sorry to drone on, just wanted u to know u r not the only one who spends time thinking about this.

[dawg]

158. It's a shame that people have to worry so much about their appearance.

I'm guilty of it too. But if you've even been considered for modeling jobs, then you are probably very good-looking. I personally think slender-looking women are adorable.

[WilliamPitt]

53. OK

10. I was the kid who got beat up all the time in Jr. high school

9. I worked for 10 years on a busted-ass public golf course, and can whip all yo asses at golf

8. I lost my virginity by surprise

7. I smoke

6. I think Pabst Blue Ribbon is a damned good beer

5. I've broken 19 bones in my life

4. I own a wetsuit

3. I was engaged...accent on 'was'

2. I'm probably the lonliest guy you know

1. I know something about 9/11 that will make you shit your intestines, but I can't say it in public...yet.

[BurtWorm]

56. #1.

Can you say when you can say it?

[WilliamPitt]

58. No

Not until I get the time to run it down until it is publishable.

[BurtWorm]

59. Well, be careful.

[WilliamPitt]

60. Always

[SOteric]

64. Aww.

[supernova]

98. #2, find that hard to believe

YOu certainly have plenty of friends here at DU. :hi:

[ComerPerro]

218. C'mon Will

Regarding #1...

What the fuck????

Did you do this just to torment us?

[USMC0861]

55. Honorable

1. I try to be fast thinking, slow talking, and listen to everything.

2. I like the color yellow.

3. I have walked through a holy land as a believer.

4. Looked at a object and got the same impression as another person.

5. Made a friend and lost a friend on the same day.

6. I don't like clowns.

7. I have a cat.

8. I have tapped wires on a soviet trunk phone line under 800 feet of sea water breathing mixed gases. (back in the 70's)

9. I assume that my opinion is just as useless as everyone else’s.

10. Believe that a wise man and a tired man are prone to say the same things.

[WilliamPitt]

57. Fuckin A to #8

Read Bamford's book, 'Body of Secrets' about the NSA.

[USMC0861]

61. I could tell you more but I'd have to bore you.

I could tell you more but I'd have to bore you with facts.

[WilliamPitt]

62. I love facts

[USMC0861]

65. I warned you

This is what happened (I warned you)

Me and my dive team were briefed on a dive job with some unfamiliar equipment, training on how to set it up, how deep, how long and what decompression table we were going to use for the saturation dive. Blew down in a can (saturation habitat) got into a bell (dive bell) went to work, came back up, back in the can (this went on for a few days) and by the time I got out of the can (decompression) we were back in port. Wasn't till a few years later that I figured out that we installed a parell relay transmitter and encryption unit(read "phone bug" aka "wire tap") on a russian layed trunk line (a cable as round as a 55 gallon barrel.)

At the time it was a job like any other. (except that we were using some one else's non US ship which was kinda wierd, and now I know why.) No cloak and dagger crap, or KGB divers with spear guns after me. Just another boring ass job that just happened to be kind of interesting later in life.

[WilliamPitt]

68. Cool

Thanks!

[Skittles]

67. HEY WILLIAM

how does one lose it "by surprise" and how did you break so many bones?????

[WilliamPitt]

69. Car accidents, wrestling and skiing

The accident...I'll keep that to myself. :)

[RetroLounge]

162. and hopefully they aren't related!

eom

[catpower2000]

85. Posted in wrong place

Posted in wrong place.

Cat

[nyrnyr1994]

63. Let's see here now...

10. Played football in H.S. with a guy who's in the NFL now.
9. I'm unemployed and looking for work. (That $50,000 piece of paper with the letters B.S. on it better start paying off someday)
8. Previous mayor of my hometown was mayor for 42 years (I think it's still a U.S. record)
7. Mother died unexpectedly 5 yrs. ago, had a foreboding phone conversation with her the night before that still haunts me to this day.
6. Diabetic (type II with insulin)
5. Founder of MCI was an alumni of my college
4. Fav TV show is 24
3. Fav smokes are Newport (yes I know, diabetic and still smoking, moron I am, I'm going to quit)
2. I'm in a karaoke contest tomorrow night
1. Was in a seminary at one time studying to become a Catholic priest.

[SOteric]

71. Welcome to DU nyrnyr.

[nyrnyr1994]

72. Thanks

This was an interesting topic, i was suprised i was able to think of 10 things to write, provided me with a chance to reflect so late in the night.

[Skittles]

66. well, OK

1) I am a natural blonde. A REAL ONE.
2) I once won a Patsy Cline soundalike contest
3) I have five brothers and no sisters
4) I am both a GI brat and an Air Force veteran
5) I cannot stand any kind of sauce on my food
6) I always eat one thing on my plate and then move on to the next
7) I have never been to a funeral
8) Oneighty is my cyberlove
9) I never wear shoes if I don't have to
10) There is always a solid black male cat in my life

[SOteric]

141. I have

4 brothers and no sisters.

I did not know about you and Oneighty. I vow to restrain myself and not seek his amourous attentions. I'd hate to give you a reason to kick my ass.

[Forkboy]

70. Great thread

DUers are just too cool!

1-I'd give up everything (sadly even my wife) to be the first person to set foot on Mars.Even if it means dying there.

2-I used to street fight for money.(And the way things are going I may have to again)

3-I have 24 of the 27 Godzilla movies ever made.

4-Even though I'm a punk/thrash/noise fan I still think Cheap Trick is one of the greatest bands ever.

5-I had no parental supervision from the age of 10 on.In fact I rarely saw either of my parents.(We all get along fine now).

6-My wife says she can see people's auras sometimes...and I believe her.

7-I wish I could be half as cool as Nick Cave.

8-I lost my virginity at age 11.

9-Everyone tells me I'm a great artist but it bores me.

10-When I'm in the reading mood I'll read about 15 novels a month.When I'm not I wont read anything for months.

[SOteric]

142. Wow, - Mars.

I'd love to go, too. But I'm much less passionate about it than you. in fact, I could be talked out of it by my cats.

If you decide to resume your street-fighting career, let us know. I'm sure that I'm not the only DU'er who'd happily provide you with the relative address of a Republican neighbourhood and fund your new career. One might as well enjoy one's work... :7

[Forkboy]

183. hmmmmm

I would need a good manager :)

[SiouxJ]

156. We have two things in common - and no it's not the street fighting

or the virginity thing - I had to wait until 17 :-( .

Cheap Trick is one of the greatest bands ever! I've seen them at least a dozen times!

Also, #9 Ditto! I was even an art major in college but it bores me. I'd much rather be a musician but I have not talent in that area.

[Forkboy]

184. A dozen times????

:-( I've seen them twice.

They're opening for Cake here in Boston (I like Cake a lot to) but tickets are $30...too steep for me.Cheap Trick has the best harmonies since the Beatles!

[SiouxJ]

192. Yup! I must have 30 or so Rick Neilson guitar picks

and even a couple of Zanders. If they play within 200 miles of me I go see them. Might even be more than a dozen :shrug:

They are just so fun live!

(also, I'll admit I've had a crush on Zander since 10th grade - lol)

[buddhamama]

166. does that pay a lot...

street fighting? do women street fight too(have you seen this)? i may be small but i'm sure i could kick somebody's ass, and i could use the money. it is kinda hard for me to picture you fighting. that face, that smile...:-)

does Angel share with you her knowledge of people's auras?

too bad you're bored by your art, because you are very talented.

[Forkboy]

186. Doesn't pay much

Depends on the setup.It was usually a hastily organized thing outside of bars or clubs where you pick the vict...er,opponent and then people put up money on who will win.It wasn't like Brad Pitt in the movie Snatch or anything...just letting drunks lose their cash.

I've never seen a woman fight like that,but I've known a couple who could kick my ass if they had to.Hopefully I'll never give you a reason to test your ass-kicking theory on me :)

Angel doesn't really talk about auras often,but there's no way I'd think she'd lie to me about them so I believe her.She's mentioned that mean people usually have a blackish red aura and nice people have a bluish aura.She says the whiter the aura the better the person.

And thanks for the comment about my art.It's possible I'll get back into someday.I'd like to write a book and do illustrations for it,so that might be the way I get back into it.

[Lady President]

73. 10 seems like a lot

My life is a little dull.

1. I'm dyslexic which makes me appear stupid on message boards.

2. I was a competitive swimmer from 5 through college. The type of team where you are up before dawn, work-out 4+ hours a day, and the rest of the world thinks your parents are borderline abusive. I loved it.

3. I was in a car accident and the head trauma caused me to be completely tone deaf.

4. I adore animals. I once had a goldfish put to sleep after he suffered a stroke.

5. My ancestors were arrested by George Washington at Trenton for drunk and disorderly conduct.

6. I'm an only child, as is my mom, and her mom. And, we all have "Ellen" in our names.

7. I'm never afraid to ask a question.

8. I was president of my sorority in college (which I never admit to anyone).

9. I have an astounding amount of Seinfeld quotes memorized.

10. I attended public, private, and parochial high schools.

[USMC0861]

78. small tr

I'm dyslexic too but I'm too busy to notice.

[Shanty Oilish]

74. My OED has 12 volumes

Printed in the 1930's. Two volumes would only get me as far as "Czech."
I have virtually unbreakable fingernails. I don't deserve them. I eat unwisely.
Got a house in Mexico I haven't seen in a year or so.
I used to have a dandy pilot's license, but I hate to travel.
Well that's about it. All the good stuff is still classified. ;)

[SOteric]

119. A pilot's license. Wow.

That's pretty cool.

[WINEWOMAN7]

76. Tell Me

1)I'm new to DU after watching for many months
2) I'm a widow of 2 years.
3) My dad was president of the young democrat's club in the 1930's in California.
4) I am a progressive who wants to see Bush * defeated any way we can. I work within the movement in Idaho ( this is a republican state and totally conservative, it's very difficult but we must keep trying. I've attended anti-war rallys and worked to pass an amendment in the state to repeal the anti-terrorist act.
5) I became politically active when the nutso right wing went after Clinton. I think this is a war to be fought to save our democracy and our freedoms.

[SOteric]

120. I'm so very sorry for your loss

and welcome to DU. I'm sure you'll find a great many friends here.

[Cheswick2.0]

124. Hi welcome to DU

So you are the little happy face in Idaho on the DU atlas! Glad to have you here. I hear Idaho is stunningly beautiful.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

77. 1) I used to have 3 kidneys,

but one didn't work right, so it was removed.

2) I watched my operation partially in an out-of-body experience.

3) My sister drives me nuts wih her inane chatter.

4) Too much red meat gives me gas.

5) I will go to Alaska and offer myself as a sacrificial feast for grizzly bears when I become nursing home material.

6) There's a book inside me that's waiting to be written.

7) I love graveyards and enjoy communing with dead folks.

8) I once saw an ant with a proboscis...It was NOT a wasp or some other insect, it was an ANT!

9) Some of my best friends are trees. I like talking with them.

10) When I filled out my census form, I x-ed "other" in the race category and filled in "human".

[SOteric]

121. Trees

do make excellent companions.

[ulysses]

79. neat thread

1. I have a mild office supply product fetish.

2. Even with all the file folders, etc that come from #1, I'm completely disorganized and always have been.

3. I prefer stormy days.

4. I generally drink five or more cups of coffee a day, throughout the day.

5. Somewhere in my ancestry is, evidently, a Scottish sheep thief.

6. I took piano lessons for ten years, but I play primarily by ear.

7. I love early vocal music - Hildegard von Bingen to Palestrina.

8. I've lost about twenty pounds since I started teaching again.

9. I used to be able to define "synthetic unity of apperception" as something other than polyester or position 43 in the Kama Sutra.

10. I get my sense of humor from my dad.

[SOteric]

122. #1

- Me too.

#3 - Me too. Thunderstorms put me in a romantic mood.

#4 - Me too.

#6 - Me too.

#7 - Me too. I adore Hildegard von Bingen.

#10 - I got my sense of humour from my father as well.

[ulysses]

174. what, no sheep thieves?

;-)

[Cheswick2.0]

130. 1 and 2 apply here as well

I was always the kid who had all the gear perfectly organized for the first day of school. I believed it would set me on the right track and keep me from drifting off into some other head space which I invariably did by about the third hour there.

I love office supplies, I think they will actually inoculate me against my natural disorganization.

[catzies]

160. Your #5 is intriguing Ulysses! Why "evidently?"

Do you have the evidence? :)

[buddhamama]

167. did this ancestor

wind up in a penal colony, by any chance?

two of my ancestors wound up in Australia, horse thievery.

[ulysses]

172. not as far as I know

My dad used to encourage my oldest sister to get into geneology and find out more about the family. His interest cooled when she found *that* reference. :)

Really interesting stuff in your response, by the way. I knew you were introverted, but the rest of it I'd never have guessed.

[GOPisEvil]

80. I wanna play!

1. Like Mr. Pitt, I was the kid that got beat up in Jr. High. (Fuckers!)
2. I moved 7 times by the time I was 12. (Yeehaw for the USAF).
3. I am a naturalized US Citizen (adopted foreign national).
4. I'm a huge WWII history buff (living for 3 years next to Pearl Harbor can do that).
5. Was once a registered Republican. What can I say? I liked one of their minor candidates for Governor one year. I voted for Ann Richards in the general election though.
6. I've been with the same employer for 11 years, although I've held 5 positions in that time.
7. I love cooking, but rarely cook. :shrug:
8. I'm intensely shy around people I have never conversed with, either via phone, e-mail, or on DU. Starting a new conversation with someone I don't know at all? :scared: But, I can get up in front of a room and make a presentation to strangers as long as I am prepared.
9. I am very loyal to anyone I consider a friend.
10. I am too EFFING nice! (But a lot of you here know that!)

[SOteric]

123. If you are a shy person

I, for one, am incredibly glad you make the effort to share yourself around here. :loveya:

[BigMcLargehuge]

82. 10 from BigMcLargehuge

Hmmmmmmmm....

10. I identify much more with my Portuguese ancestry than with my French.

9. At any given time I have six things going on in my head at once which translates to six competing projects going on at once. Right now I am editing courseware about Quality of Service, writing a series of vampire short stories (though the lore bores me terribly), a novel about superheroes (my second in a series), a novel about The Rape of Nanking, a daily journal for my son that I'll present to him, bound, on his 18th birthday, scouring DU for information about stuff, and pining for my new Mac.

8. Both of my brother is are chefs. One is regionally famous who has guest chefed at Harrods of London and just bought a restaurant for half a million bucks.

7. I am the oldest of three, and my first concrete memory is of the afternoon my youngest brother came home from the hospital as a newborn. I was three. My mother said "You'll have to help me keep them safe and take care of them because you are the oldest," so I always did.

6. I love Japanese pop music, and hate American pop music.

7. I started working 70 hour weeks in my family's restaurant on my 13th birthday.

6. I love cats but am highly allergic to them.

5. I knew I was going to marry my wife the first time I laid eyes on her in college. I had a vision of her in a wedding dress before I even knew her name.

4. I live in the UK for 18 months in college.

3. I have a high-heel fetish.

2. I was nominated but never won the NH small press association columnist of the year award and although I pretend to be aloof about the whole thing I think of it as my greatest failure and don't like to talk about it.

1. My greatest goal in life is to visit Tokyo, Japan, Pin Fang, China, and Ulan Bator, Mongolia.

[SOteric]

125. Kewel. One of my brothers

is a chef, and my mother was as well.

[catpower2000]

86. I only have one..I am the most boring person on earth...

Man, you people are really interesting! There's nothing about me that I could put into a little factoid.

This is the kind of thread that reminds me that I'm way out of my league on this website. :-( Crawling back into my hole now...

Cat

[GOPisEvil]

87. Boring is not a word I associate with you.

:-)

[catpower2000]

94. I can't even think of ONE thing, much less ten!

I bet you a hundred bucks you can't either. And you know me pretty well.

Cat

[GOPisEvil]

95. I can think of a couple.

Whether or not you'd prefer them to be shared is another matter entirely. ;-)

[catpower2000]

97. I bet it's nothing I haven't shared on DU before...

the original post said it had to be stuff that I haven't shared on DU.

Cat

[GOPisEvil]

99. Well, OK, that may be...

...but it doesn't mean you are boring. It just means you've shared more about your life than some of us.

Plus, you're young yet, you've got plenty of time to do interesting things with your life.

[catpower2000]

100. Uh, that doesn't make me feel better...

I'm 30, there was plenty of time for me to do something in there.

Wow, what a depressing way to start my day. I've barely been at work an hour and already I'm thinking about what an utter failure my life has been.

This should go well.

Cat

[GOPisEvil]

103. Done something? Like what?

Why would you consider your life a failure? By whose measuring stick? I submit that depending on your POV, your life could be a success. Think of other folks who have gone through what you have.

You can't change the past; learn from it and move onward. Focusing on what you haven't done won't get anything positive accomplished. Focus on what you WANT to do.

[catpower2000]

104. Die?

Sorry, shitty mood today. This thread is just really depressing. I'm sure I'll feel better later.

Thanks for trying.

Cat

[GOPisEvil]

105. OK - I'll let you be depressed then!

I hope you feel better later! :-)

:hug: Edit - you sound like you need one o' these!

[dawg]

110. Are you reading some of these responses?

For cryin' out loud, you should be thrilled that you don't have some of these type things to say about yourself!

:P

[Kathy in Cambridge]

107. You are HARDLY boring!

I always look forward to your feistiness, cat!

I severely doubt you are a failure-you really make an impression on DU!

[catpower2000]

109. It's amazing how much you can fake on a website, isn't it?

I can tell you honestly and from the bottom of my heart that I have never accomplished anything worthwhile in my entire life.

And now, I will stop hijacking this thread.

Cat

[BurtWorm]

117. I'm stealing something from SOteric.

DU :loveya: catpower2000

PS: I think I speak for everybody except the Freeper moles, who hate everything.

[ForrestGump]

220. If you hadn't accomplished anything in your life 'til now, then

what is the affection and regard with which we hold you colelctively and as individuals? Chopped liver? And I'm sure that that's just the tip of the iceberg.

I tell you, any more of this, young lady, and I'm going to have to bend you over my knee... :spank:



P.S.: your successful quittage is another accomplishment of which we are recently aware, and that's enough to break the Camels' back (pun originally not intended, but then I saw it and decided I'd intend it). So, catpower2000, meet Forrest's knee.... :spank:

[SOteric]

112. Oh, puh-shaw

You're a great and interesting person. It's just too early for your brain to be fully engaged. For you, I'll help:

As a child, what was your favourite book or story?

What, in the last 10 years has been your most prized possession?

Did you love school, hate school...? Why?

At which subjects did you excel?

Name one teacher who has deeply influenced your life and tell us how.

Tell us the first name of your first crush.

[dawg]

89. here goes ...

1. I'm not sure what an OED is.

2. When I was a teenager, I used to play Dungeons & Dragons in my room, alone.

3. I'm probably counted as a Republican because that's the last primary I voted in - even though I was just trying to screw around with them and force a runoff.

4. I'm an only child, my parents are divorced, and I'm terrified that my wife might leave me one day and then I'd be all alone.

5. I wish I could play the guitar. I also wish I knew karate.

6. I'm not a touchy-feely person, except for with my wife and children. If anyone else touches me, I cringe.

7. I love the Lord of the Rings books and movies. I think they contain valuable lessons for society.

8. I'm not turned on by the idea of two lesbians going at it. I find that I have much more luck with heterosexual women.

9. I think Confederate President Jefferson Davis made a foolish mistake in removing Gen. Joseph E. Johnston from command of the Army of Tennessee.

10. I feel a little uncomfortable posting some of this on a public message board.

[SOteric]

127. Thank you for

making the effort, in spite of your discomfort.

I used to love D&D as a teenager. OED = Oxford English Dictionary.

[Mandate My Ass]

91. ten things

1. My maternal great grandparents' marriage was arranged. He was small and slight, she was tall and Rubenesque. By all accounts they were blissfully happy and had 14 children.

2. I saw Santa and his reindeer outside my bedroom window when I was six years old. I'm as convinced now as I was then that I really saw him.

3. I had my son when I was 18 years old.

4. My maternal grandfather was a successful vaudeville and off Broadway dancer but gave it up to become a house painter and day laborer during the depression. :-(

5. I was an animal midwife as a child. My mother could never turn away a stray but they must have sensed her squeamishness because they always sought me out when they were in labor. The most memorable was when our dog Lady woke me in the middle of the night and gave birth to 13 puppies, all of whom lived.

6. When under stress I still have godawful nightmares about not attending my high school graduation.

7. I was once fluent in Latin.

8. In seventh grade I came in third in the Philadelphia Archdiocesan spelling bee.

9. In between husbands I had a brief but hot affair with a guy I used to babysit as a teenager. Luckily, we're still very good friends.

10. I can touch my heels to the back of my head with ridiculous ease but cannot get my forehead anywhere near my knees and have to strain a bit to touch my toes.

[SOteric]

129. It's amazing to me

the sacrifices people made during the depression. This current Administration cause me fears that some variation of this will be required again.

[Mandate My Ass]

136. The ghost of things yet to come

I anticipate multiple generations living together with the very young and very old taking care of each other while the rest eke out a meager living. That is, if Bush isn't stopped soon.

[Mandate My Ass]

92. ten things

1. My maternal great grandparents' marriage was arranged. He was small and slight, she was tall and Rubenesque. By all accounts they were blissfully happy and had 14 children.

2. I saw Santa and his reindeer outside my bedroom window when I was six years old. I'm as convinced now as I was then that I really saw him.

3. I had my son when I was 18 years old.

4. My maternal grandfather was a successful vaudeville and off Broadway dancer but gave it up to become a house painter and day laborer during the depression. :-(

5. I was an animal midwife as a child. My mother could never turn away a stray but they must have sensed her squeamishness because they always sought me out when they were in labor. The most memorable was when our dog Lady woke me in the middle of the night and gave birth to 13 puppies, all of whom lived.

6. When under stress I still have godawful nightmares about not attending my high school graduation.

7. I was once fluent in Latin.

8. In seventh grade I came in third in the Philadelphia Archdiocesan spelling bee.

9. In between husbands I had a brief but hot affair with a guy I used to babysit as a teenager. Luckily, we're still very good friends.

10. I can touch my heels to the back of my head with ridiculous ease but cannot get my forehead anywhere near my knees and have to strain a bit to touch my toes.

[StaggerLee]

93. Me

1. Both of my parents are from Mexico- my dad’s birth certificate reads Texas but we know better.

2. I served 6 years in the US Navy and 2 years as a merchant marine (Military Sealift Command)

3. I never behaved long enough to earn a good conduct medal- (honorable discharge though)

4. My last girlfriend broke up with be because of ideological differences.

5. I was asked to be an extra in a movie (Philippines) back in ’92 – turned it down because I was trying hard to secure a fiancé visa for my girlfriend at the time.

6. I can shoot water through my two front teeth- I fluid thin stream so if you need cooling off just let me know!

7. One of my favorite actors is Natalie Wood. What a beauty…

8. I don’t eat pork.

9. Magic Johnson hit on my ex-wife once. (I thought it was hilarious)

10. I have this thing for feet. Nothing crazy- I just like pretty feet. I once worked with a woman who had an aversion to feet. I threatened to come in on our casual day wearing sandals and she about flipped out. I calmed her down by assuring her that I was only joking.

[SOteric]

131. *L*

You are a bit of a rebel, aren't you. I enjoyed the taunting you gave your co-worker. I've never heard of anyone with an 'aversion to feet' before, but I suppose it takes all kinds...

[buddhamama]

106. okay

1) i am tone deaf

2) in grade two i won art contest sponsered by the ADA-to promote oral hygiene- and my work was in every dentist's office and school in the country.

3) i do a great ventriloquist act but unless you are kid you'll probably never see it.

4) excluding my son and SO, my ex-husband is my closest friend.

5) i don't like shoes and i walk on the tips of my toes most of the time.

6) i fast at least once a week. the longest i've gone without eating is six days.

7) my favorite game is scrabble.

8) i've broken numerous bones, suffered minor brain damage and have come close to death a few times.

9) i am extremely introverted and it takes a lot of energy and will to post here.

10) i have to rub my feet together before i can go to sleep.

:-)

[SOteric]

132. I have some

ex-flames with whom I'm pretty close as well.

With regard to number 9, - I for one, and many others that I know of, are extremely glad you make the effort. :loveya:

[buddhamama]

168. you are so sweet !

with so many interesting, intelligent but most of all nice people, how could i stay away! :loveya:

[MissMillie]

108. Here's my Ten

1. I color my hair.

2. I'm an identical twin. We even have identical first names (we have different middle names).

3. I've worked for some of the top minds in the fields of Decision Theory, Risk Analysis, and Negotiation (including Howard Raiffa).

4. I quit smoking 5 1/2 years ago.

5. My favorite color is yellow.

6. I used to be an avid Boston Bruins fan, but I have come to realize that their management is not interested in bringing a championship home to Boston. They have abused my fan loyalty long enough. I'll never buy another ticket.

7. My favorite sandwich is a Reuben.

8. My parents have been married for 53 years. They were married when my dad was 19 and my mom was 16 (after having "dated" for 4 years). My mom was 5 months pregnant on their wedding day. They are still in love. I'm insanely jealous. Imagine meeting your soul-mate when you're 12, and still having him/her in your life 57 years later...

9. I used to be a part-time town correspondent for the Worcester Telegram.

10. My local karaoke bar has named a drink after me. It's called the "MaryAppletini".

[SOteric]

133. It is an amazing thing

how long some people can stay happily in love.

My parents grew up together, married in their early 20's and stayed happily married for a great many years, until my mother's death 2 years ago.

It makes me wonder what skills, or dispositions, or innate knowledge they have that is so lacking in most marriages today.

[Sal316]

111. My top 10 list..

10. I am lactose intolerant.
9. I take my vegetables in pill form (Ultimate Greens!)
8. I can play flute, clarinet, saxophone, guitar, piano, and drums.
7. Someday I want to go to culinary school.
6. I build bombs and warheads for a living.
5. I have two US Patents to my name.
4. Theology is a passion of mine, and if I didn't have to have a job, it would have been my major in college.
3. I'm a bit of a closet 'freak'.
2. I have a framed "Titanic" movie poster hanging in my living room.
and......

1. I was carjacked and nearly killed on my 21st birthday.

[SOteric]

135. Wow. - You're a

musical over-acheiver!

How frightening about the carjacking. Did you suffer any long-term ill effect? Was your car recovered?

[Sal316]

161. Ill-term? Nah.

I have a much more 'Zen-like' approach to life since then.

It's a long story, but I pulled a 360 on a desolate road in SC just as a cop (miracle) passed the other way. (He forced me to drive)

[Kathy in Cambridge]

113. Not too exciting but...

1. I am a natural strawberry-blond
2. I am an old punk rocker (well, still in my 30s). I grew up in clubs from the time I was 14, and still have friends from those days.
3. I was captain of the debate team in high school (and still love a good sparring match)
4. I attended 3 colleges, majored in history and took 1st and 2nd year languages as electives for an easy 'A'
5. I was a National Merit Scholar and a member of the National Honor Society in high school
6. I spent a year traveling in Europe with financial aid money that was supposed to be used for classes
7. I've been unemployed twice in the last year, though I'm an overachieving sales professional. Unemployment makes me very lazy!
8. I HATE the sound of leaf blowers! There is one outside the window as I write!
9. I could never live anywhere where the bugs are bigger than my hand and have venom that could kill you.
10. I adopted two older boy cats (6 and 7 years old) in May, and it's the best thing I ever did!

And I'm a huge Red Sox fan...but you all knew that.

[SOteric]

137. I'd have to concur

with the adopting cats thing. I adopted one and another adopted me. They certainly add some indefinable (but good) something to my life.

How lovely to have had the opportunity to see Europe. (I'm sure you've sorted out the financial aid thing by now.) I think it should be an educational requirement for American school children to spend some extended period of time in other countries before they can graduate and receive degrees.

[Squeech]

115. Stop me if you've heard this one before

1. I was obsessed with diseases as a kid. Somebody in the next town died of bubonic plague and my mom was terrified that I'd find out and panic.

2. I've never broken any bones. I have broken four teeth, two of them badly enough to need extracting.

3. And then there was the time that I was sucking on a tank of nitrous oxide, fell out of my chair, and broke my nose.

4. I was a terrible student, and only made it through two years of college. My drug history had nothing to do with it; I'm just lazy.

5. I've always been a Democrat, but I've probably spent more time as a registered Republican, so I could vote against their anointed front runners in the primaries. My record, by the way, is dismal: my candidate wins no more than 25% of the time.

6. My luck is pretty bad in general. Therefore, I don't gamble or play cards for money.

7. The only paranormal experiences I have ever had have been hearing voices that aren't there.

8. I will eat nearly anything, but the one thing I really don't like is tarragon. The first time I met the woman who is now my mother-in-law, she cooked medallions of chicken in a tarragon sauce.

9. I've always lived in the Boston area (including my laughable college career in Providence), but I love to travel-- the further the better. I've been to Asia 5 times and South America 4 times.

10. I played the trumpet for about three months (fifth grade). Now I (only) play guitar, bass, mandolin, piano and marimba. Ask me about my musical career :-)

Jeepers, that was too much like work! I hope it's interesting...

[SOteric]

138. Okay, tell me about your musical career.

I completely understand about the tarragon. I've never been very fond of it either.

[kmla]

116. In case anyone cares, here goes - sorry if it's boring...

10. I love looking for Seller's cabinets in antique malls (for those who are not into antiques, a Seller's cabinet is one of the brands of Hoosier Cabinets that were used in the early part of the century. They are the ones with the built in flour sifters and the pull out worktops). My grandfather worked at the G.I. Sellers factory for 32 years - that's the main reason. (Look up hoosier cabinets on Ebay - see what I mean.)

9. I used to have a crush on Kristy McNichol :loveya: when I was in my teens.

8. I have a weekness for teen romance movies (10 Things..., She's All That, Sixteen Candles, etc.) - I'm 41.

7. Wanted to be a professional comedian when I was younger - never made it past amateur smart-ass, though.:evilgrin:

6. I love shopping - and I'm a guy.

5. I came THIS close (hold your index finger and thumb together) to switching my major in college to telecommunications, with the intent on being a DJ. I actually worked at a campus radio station for 4 years. Some of the best times of my life.

4. I would like to restore an old muscle car. But two kids and daycare expenses are a bit more important at this point. But someday...

3. My eyes tear up a little when I hear "Puff the Magic Dragon".

2. I have considered Rogaine to regain my slightly receding hairline.

1. I am deathly afraid of roller coasters, and also heights. If I were forced to ride a TALL ROLLER COASTER, I would probably soil myself. And have a stroke. In that order.

[SOteric]

140. But you're a

very, very good smart ass. :evilgrin:

Hope you get to restore that car one day. Don't put your dreams off too long, life has a way of interfering.

[kmla]

145. Gosh, you noticed!

And I thought no one appreciated my rapier wit and snappy repartee....

I was beginning to get a complex about being a DU threadkiller - once I replied, the thread was done...

<KMLA wipes a tear!>

Seriously - cool thread, SO.:yourock:

[soleft]

139. 10 things I haven't already devulged?

1. I've broken my nose 3 times.

2. I do a great Sylvestor Stallone imitation

3. I used to work in a Haunted Mansion

4. I was once on disability for 3 months due do Major Depression

5. I own a Jetta

6. Phil Simms is one of my all time heroes

7. I saw the movie Alien over 100 times

8. I once played a transgender crime boss with a peg leg, eye patch and hook hand in a movie

9. I've recently overcome my adversion to mustard

10. Despite #'s 2 and 8, I'm fairly fem, kind of a low fem, aka low heel fem or "Eddie Bauer Fem"

[SOteric]

143. With regard to

Number 8, - I sincerely hope you won't be typecast in that role for future consideration. I can't imagine the opportunity to play such a character will be coming around all that often.

[soleft]

146. I casted myself actually

It was a comedy short I wrote and co produced. I originally wrote the part for a man and at the last minute the actor dropped out, so....I knew the lines.

[SOteric]

147. Marvelous!

A bonus fact, from soleft! What talent is accumulated in these boards.

[Bossy Monkey]

181. Transgendered Crimebosses would be a terrific name for a band, by the way

not to go all Dave Barry on you...

[TXlib]

144. Mine

1. I own an indecent number of physics and math books, and will probably own still more.
   
   
2. The only record I can claim is something grotty that KCDem already knows about...
   
   
3. My favorite color is cobalt blue, especially in glass.
   
   
4. I bite my toenails. OK, I'm not that flexible. But I can crack just about every joint in my body.
   
   
5. I believe there are innumerable inhabited worlds throughout the universe, and quite a few with technologically advanced civilisations. But we will never meet them, or hear from them because of the vastness of space between us.
   
   
6. My favorite beers are Belgian.
   
   
7. I have an exceptionally poor sense of direction. I probably make SOteric look like Christopher Columbus. I can't find my way out of a paper bag with both hands and a bloodhound. KCDem, however, has a freaky sense of direction. I'd be lost without her. Literally.
   
   
8. My mother sure knows how to make dead things taste good.
   
   
9. When I was 17, my 40-something neighbor seduced me.
   
   
10. I can hear ultrasonic sounds.
    

[SOteric]

148. Dude,

I can't find my way out of a phone booth in broad daylight with a map, a compass and 3 helpful strangers.

If I'm going someplace new, I have to have a full tank of gas and a couple of hours lead time.

[Corgigal]

150. Im taking a shot as a newbie

1. My first crush was on the singer Tom Jones.
2. I won my elementary school reading contest where I was awarded
a book.
3. Peter Frampton lived in my hometown when he was huge due to the album Frampton comes alive. My friends and I spend lots of time hanging around the front of his home flirting with security guards.
4. While visiting Boston I was approached 4 times within a 48 hour period for sex. I was only 16.
5. I can't write worth a damn but have always made my money off of my voice.
6. I was a dysfunctional star several years back on the Oprah show.
7. I need new living room furniture.
8. I think I'm in the happiest phase of my life and I'm still waiting for the other shoe to drop.
9. I was in the USAF for 8 years and I thank my lucky stars that I got out of there.
10. I am also a natural blond.

[SOteric]

151. Welcome to DU,

- and good lord! What part of Boston did you visit?!

[Corgigal]

153. Northeastern University

area of Boston. I was wandering around alone. However being a native NY'er nothing upsets me. I just kept on keeping on.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

155. That's the Fenway

it used to be seedy-my old boyfriend lived on Hemenway Street and his corner was home to straight, gay and tranny hookers. So that doesn't really surprise me.

The Fenway is much more gentrified and safe nowadays. Back in the '80s, I would only take a taxi down there!

[soleft]

152. You were in the airforce and a dysfunctional star

there's a story in there I think

[RetroLounge]

157. Okay, I'll give it a try, in no particular order

1) I got so drunk one time while living in Chicago, that I woke up day later in another State with a strange woman and just decided to stay here, quit my job, get divorced and go back to school.

2) I don't drink anymore...

3) I've always wanted to be a Locomotive Engineer, but never acted on those impulses, and instead just bounced around life and let laziness and fate and others determine the course of my career(s). I'm now a software designer/programmer.

4) I used to be an auto mechanic, a mailroom sorter, a musician, a literary magazine editor, a roofer, a retail upholstery clerk, an aluminum sider, and a pizza delivery guy.

5) I have an unfinished novel in a desk drawer, which I'm told is quite good, and was used as my Graduate Thesis (Magna Cum Laude), but I have no interest in finishing it at this time. I am (technically) a published poet, although I haven't written anything new in almost 10 years.

6) Gibsons Rule, Fenders Suck. (If you have to ask, don't.)

7) I was born with an undescended testicle and a herniated groin muscle and had surgery when I was 9 months old. A very small scar when a baby. But one that stretched over the next 42 years.

8) I suspect my family was Jewish at one time, while in Germany, and switched when they came over here. Have met a number of jewish people from Germany with my last name, and once while working for the Uiversioty, I got the other guys mail by mistake, all in Hebrew. Family Tree research has not proven or disproven this feeling. Also would not matter as I am not religious.

9) I struggle daily with Spirituality and the thoughts of a higher being, and I range all over the spectrum when it comes to belief vs. non-belief. When I am on the believing part of the spectrum, I feel somewhat better than when I am on the non-believing side. But it still doesn't help...

10) With a few exceptions, I don't think a single fucking thing designed and built after 1960 is worth a shit, and I live surrounded by objects of beauty, form and function, all built in the 1950's.

[Squeech]

159. Fenders don't necessarily suck, but

I agree that they are fundamentally different instruments from Gibsons. (I'm a Gibson player myself, with a 1969 SG Custom.)

And I too can attest to the link between laziness in determination of career and computer programming.

Regarding the supreme being question, I actually feel worse when I think one may exist-- because of the implication that, for an allegedly omniscient and omnipotent being, He sure is doing a lousy job. (Or, if it really is just an experiment, why would He deserve our prayers?) This ties in to my conviction that the best available evidence for the Revealed Christian God is that a boatful of armed men, sailing under the cross, was able to bring down an empire ruling millions, not once but twice (Cortez vs. the Aztecs and Pisarro vs. the Incas).

[RetroLounge]

169. Fenders don't necessarily suck, but

I've had this fun rivalry going with friends over the years. I like to get their dander up about their guitar choice.

I tease that someday when they make enough money they can afford a real guitar as opposed to those toy strats and teles.

Truth be told, I've owned and loved both. Just like My Les Paul better.

[Bossy Monkey]

182. Let the scar heal

A buddy of mine was born with the same condition, but his dad wanted to save money and tried cheaper treatments. Thus he didn't get his hernia surgery until he was 8 and is reasonably sure this is why he is now sterile. Ironically, the father is dying of diabetes and is trying to keep himself alive to see a grandchild that will now never come. There are worse things than hernia surgery at 9 months.

[indigo32]

163. Fun Post

I've really enjoyed reading all this

so here goes in no particular order either

1. I went to nursing school shortly out of high school, worked as a Nurses Aide and really enjoyed the experience for the most part. I truly considered it a gift to witness life and death that way, and be able to assist. It was all the other crap that led me out of the profession

2. I drink strong black coffee ALL DAY LONG

3. I have never drank a pop in my life

4. I have Turners Syndrome, thats why I'm just shy of 5'0

5. due to #4 I have had MANY ear infections... I have one right now in fact. Once when I was about 8 I woke up from surgery, thought I was getting another tube put in my eardrum, and found I had gauze wrapped around my head. I thought they'd let me roll off the operating table, turns out they had decided to replace my scared ear drum with skin from behind my ear.

6. I dated a gay guy in high school, he was using me for cover, this was before I realized I was a lesbian myself.

7. I think of switching careers to be a 911 dispatcher often

8. add me to the list of people who took a ton of piano lessons and can't play much anymore

9. I can't have kids and dream of adopting

10. I'm TERRIBLE with managing my finances.

[SOteric]

189. I have so often

thought that being an emergency dispatcher must be a fascinating career. I could never do it myself. I get too caught up in empathy for other people's lives.

[indigo32]

193. I'm pretty cool headed

people often remark that it takes alot to ruffle me. I think I'd be good at it. It's certainly not for everyone... and empathy is a good thing right :) (Not that I don't have any LOL)

[SOteric]

197. It is a good thing,

thank you. :-)

But not such a good thing if you're a 911 dispatcher and you get caught up in it. Good for you, then. You sound ideal for the job. I hope you get a chance to explore that in your life.

[Corgigal]

214. Did 911

for both EMS and the sheriffs dept. No money in it and it burns you out. Too many sad stories in the brain.
However I once gave CPR instructions to a man whos goat was in cardiac arrest. I don't think the goat made it but hey, we gave it a chance.

[NYYFan]

164. Here goes

1) I'm a female

2) I live in NC- not NY as my name might suggest

3) Mrjinx is my brother

4) I just got my blue belt in Tae Kwon Do yesterday.

5) I have a severe weakness for smoothies ;-)

6) I've lost 55 pounds since starting Tae Kwon Do last September.

7) My favorite music ranges from the 50's - early 90's- not much new music excites me now.

8) I'm single.

9) James Bond fanatic.

10) I have 2 jobs. Dr's office manager and assistant to director of an art gallery.

[BurtWorm]

171. Congratulations on getting your blue belt

and losing 55 lbs.! Woohoo!

:toast:

PS: Were you ever a NYer? How come you like the Yankees?

[mvd]

170. Here goes

I didn't realize how much I've told people here, from my politics to my crushes to my interests. I don't think I have ten things, so I'll stick to these.

1) I have more Scottish ancestry than I thought before.

2) I think Hilary Duff can act - just don't like her music.

[SOteric]

190. I've travelled the world a great deal

and in all my travels the people I've found the warmest, the most welcoming, the most human...were the Scots and the Irish.

[Breezy du Nord]

175. 1. I am half Czech

2. I like Harry Potter in a non-geeky way.

3. My favorite color is turquoise cuz it's fun to spell.

4. I HATE Math.

5. My hair is super curly.

6. I can't see in my right eye.

7. I'm going out to the debate team.

8. I think I'm the only feshmen on DU.

9. I went to Mexico this summer.

10. In Mexico, I fell in love with a hot Mexican guy. (J/k :P)

[SOteric]

191. Ooooh, -Debate Team!!

Excellent!!

You'll do well to learn to recognise the informal fallacies.

[Richardo]

177. Fun read! I have something in common with lotsa DUers....

1) Played trumpet and French Horn in through high school.

2) Was an ambidextrous pre-schooler when learning to write. Chose left hand.

3) In college, was detained at US Customs for attempting to smuggle two six-packs of beer into California from Mexicali.

4) Almost turned that incident into an arrest by smirking at the Custom's agent's lousy spelling: "Penaty for failer to declare." Roommate burst out laughing when he saw me start to smile.

5) Guilty TV pleasure: Cops.

6) Read 2001: A Space Odyssey in one Sunday afternoon when I was 11 years old (1968)

7) Have seen 2001: A Space Odyssey - in a theater, not on video - more than 20 times.

8) Own seven dogs and two cats.

9) Was a conservative through high school and into college. Wrote an essay in junior high school DEFENDING Nixon and Watergate.
Got an A from a liberal teacher because it was at least well-organized and somewhat reasoned. (I think she also liked its contrariness)

10) Have been in one fist fight (6th grade). Not my idea. Got slaughtered.

[Breezy du Nord]

178. like your #6

Sounds like me.

[Richardo]

180. You reminded me...I *was* going to put that I'm also half Czech

but the Scots-Irish-German half must have made me forget. :D

[indigo32]

179. Heh

I played french horn too.... that's funny
also I'm ambidextrious...I write with left hand but can do almost anything else with both and prefer most sports (tennis, golf, batting) with my right hand.

[SOteric]

185. Ten *more* things about me.

10. I admire a well-crafted insult, inspite of it's inherent rudeness.

9. I make a cosmically good pecan pie.

8. I don't much care for Hemingway.

7. I like running. Sometimes I run in charity races.

6. I can't stand Earl Grey tea, it's like drinking cologne. (But I still think EarlG is tops)

5. I am a bit of a commitmentphobe.

4. I play evil practical jokes on my youngest brother Mike. --But he started it.

3. I have four bottles of cognac and a bottle of armagnac in my liquor cabinet.

2. When I lack the words to express myself otherwise, I resort to poetry.

1. I cut the end of my left thumb off while traunching fish.

[kmla]

187. Factoids 11-20 from me...

11. Have a big jar of goldfish crackers at my desk for everyone at work to enjoy - it is an easy way for me to be a "social magnet".

12. I eat left handed, but do everything else right handed. If I were to punt in the NFL, that would be left footed, though.

13. Didn't really like broccoli until I was in college. Now I eat it at least once a week...

14. Haven't been inebriated in about 15 years or so. My wife has never seen me drunk.

15. I do enjoy a scotch and water every now and then. But just one.

16. Was a borderline geek in jr. high school and high school.

17. Have a relatively high IQ. Not bragging, just the truth. (Saw my permanent records in high school once).

18. Took an aerobics class in college once because the girl/guy ratio was 7:1. Got a girlfriend from that class, too!

19. I was told 3 times in one night at a party by people who didn't know each other "Hey - you remind me of Bill Murray."

20. I think CSI is the best TV show in years, and that reality TV is just one step closer to "The Running Man" coming true in our society. I don't watch ANY reality TV.

[BritishHuman]

188. okay...

In no particular order (now I've got you all looking back at what order you put things in, haven't I?)

1. My religious beliefs are Internally consistent (no hits and no bullets].
2. My mother has severe Alzheimers Disease.
3. I've never broken a bone, or spent time in hospital.
4. I was expelled from kindergarten for persuading the other children to climb on the piano.
5. I've appeared in a Wonderstuff video.
6. I once flew 6000 miles to spend a weekend with some friends.
7. The only trophy I've ever won was for third place in a karting competition.
8. I perceive sensations as colours.
9. My birthday is the same day as my sister's, who is five years older than me.
10. I found out last night that the source of the odd smell in the living room was a dead frog my cat had stashed behind the tv. A couple of weeks ago, by the look of it.

[SOteric]

194. You left out

That you're left-handed.

That you've a degree in mathematics.

That your hair is longer than mine. And prettier, too, dammit.

That your idiot brother once set the both of you on fire in a strange, duct-tape related incident.

That your cat's name is actually Elvira, after Elvira Mistress of the Dark.

That if most folks here took the time to know you, they'd think you were the cleverest, most knee-slappingly funny fellow ever to wander or be dragged bodily into DU.

That you drive a convertible.

That you get medeival about people who call those 'herbal concoctions' tea.

That a good many of your friends described themselves with a label that makes them sound like worshipers of Satan.

and finally, ... that I am your deeply devoted love-slave.

[BritishHuman]

199. I didn't want to make everyone jealous

Doesn't everyone want to be left-handed? :-)

And you left out that you're the smartest, funniest, sexiest woman there ever was, is or will be. :loveya:

[SOteric]

200. Yes.

That 'left-handed' business is entirely why I am your devoted love-slave.

[Bossy Monkey]

195. 10 things

The thing about depersonalized screennames is that you may have read me saying innumerable things about myself at one time or another but with no name or meaningful sobriquet to attach them to, you'll most likely forget or confuse me with some other un- DUer like unidentifiedbassplayer. Thus, if it's a subject I've already worn out but figure most DUers still don't know about me, I'll start with "I'm the one that..." to differentiate from anybody you might be confusing me with.
1) I can make those disgusting farting noises by squeezing my hands together.
2) I can stick my entire fist in my mouth.
3) I'm the one who shares both first and last name with another DUer, Stuckinthebush
4) I spent the 1990s reading everything I could get my hands on about archaeology.
5) I'm the one totally obsessed with Steve Wynn, John Wesley Harding and Too Much Joy.
6) Used to be an expert on Soviet-era Russian history. Also majored in International Relations during the Cold War. Boy did I bet on the wrong horse!
7) Was the worst trombone player in the history of the world. As I haven't played in 23 years, presumably I'd be even worse now.
8) Of my 8 great-grandparents, 6 were Protestant, including a Methodist minister, one was Jewish and one was Catholic. So naturally I was raised Catholic. (In the South, if you're Catholic it means one of two things: 1) you're Italian; or 2) somebody two or three generations back married an Irish woman.)
9) My father's father was also a Methodist minister but got defrocked for expressing doubt from the pulpit regarding Jesus' divinity.
10) I inherited my grandfather's piety and his tact.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

202. I played the trombone, too!

And I haven't played in 23 years either!

I wasn't bad, but I was a better violinist. :nopity:

[YellowRubberDuckie]

196. It's my turn.

This is a really fun post. I hope you guys give enough of a crap about me to actually read and respond to this.

10. I have a weakness for restaurants and good food. I spend way too much on going out even though I'm a poor college student.

9. George Carlin and Lewis Black are my favorite comedians.

8. I hate my boobs. They are DDs and they get in the way.

7. I have a weakness for Psycho thriller movies and books.

6. My favorite color is Yellow. My favorite flower is the daisy. O8) Because both are so happy and friendly.

5. I'm in love with a boy named Skip.:hug:

4. I have hypothyroidism. (My thyroid doesn't work well, and it slows my metabolism down to nothing.)

3. People who do not use proper grammar bug the crap out of me. :grr:

2. I haven't had a parent for 7 years. He died and left me with an alcoholic mother who hates me. She literally spends more time with my dead father and sister than she has with me my entire life. I recently became a part of a real family and for the first time I found out what it is to be loved unconditionally and without judgement. I'm 24, and I have literally never felt so loved and protected in my life. They say after a while you don't need a mother anymore...they were lying. I forgot how much I needed one.

1. I have a flip flop fetish. :bounce: My favorite pair right now are Floaties from Sugar Shoes. I refuse to wear real shoes unless it's under 59 degrees outside...Oh and I heard that Jennifer Aniston has a $200! pair of flip flops, and now I must have some. LOL Yes, I'm a closet freak!

[SOteric]

198. I can definitely relate

to the restaurants/food thing. Giiirrrrllll you have got to learn to cook upscale. It'll save you some serious $$$'s and potential honeys do not mind if you practice on them.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

201. I can...I just don't

My boy is the cook in the family. We sometimes do it together, which is fun. I don't cook because I live in a dorm (this is my last year THANK GOD) and I will tell you right now when I get out, I'm going to be cooking so much, Skip is going to gain 50 pounds. lol
Duckie

[Booberdawg]

206. Welcome to DU YellowRubberDuckie!

:toast:

Linda

[YellowRubberDuckie]

207. THANKS!!

:hug:

[rainydaywoman]

213. Hey

YellowRubberDuckie, I LOVE George Carlin! He's the best. We own almost all of his albums and use a lot of his sayings around the house.

How about his cheer---Rat shit, bat shit, dirty old twat. 69 assholes tied in a knot. Hooray! Lizard shit! Fuck!

He's crazy!

I hope my grammar was ok!?!;)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

204. BTW, This is one of the best threads I've seen in the lounge!

It's nice to see all the interaction in response to people's answers. And you tend your thread so well!
:bounce:

[SOteric]

205. Thanks.

I figure if people are giving up vulnerable little places in their souls they deserve at least a bit of response, - a hello and welcome, a how do you do...

[AquariDem]

208. Am I way too late?

If not, here's mine:

1. I have a slight spinal curve that makes one pants leg go just a tiny bit lower than the other.

2. I really like Cris Williamson's music, and I am 21.

3. I have Asperger syndrome, and I had many cool "special interests" in different countries around the world as a kid.

4. I love the mixture/marbling of green, purple and deep blue.

5. I really don't mind cleaning the toilet.

6. I grew up with my mom, who's African-American, and her partner, who was born in Costa Rica.

7. I've always excelled verbally, and done "okay" in math.

8. I have yet to smoke pot (can you believe it?)

9. The yummiest alcoholic beverage I've had yet is peach Zinfandel.

10. My eye color has gone from blue-gray to hazel to brown over the years.

[Chovexani]

209. All about my nerdy self

1. I'm ambidextrous, but mostly use my right hand (makes life a lot easier)
2. I'm a Goth, and love period fashions (modern "fashion" is boring as all get out)
3. I just got a black kitten named Drizzt (pronounced "drist"), named after the sexiest do-gooder in the Forgotten Realms.
4. I'm a huge anime fan, love Asian Pop/Rock and enjoy cosplaying at various anime & sci-fi cons
5. I read and write slash fiction
6. I met my sweetie of six years online (on a MUD)
7. I worked for two years at an occult shop, and am a 2nd Degree Wiccan High Priestess
8. I have played D&D off and on for most of my life
9. I was voted Miss Callisto 1999 by a bunch of lesbians :) (ok, I was the only one dressed as Callisto, but it still counts!)
10. I am completely, *utterly* obsessed with all things Final Fantasy and have an encyclopedic knowledge of the series that is most assuredly unhealthy

--Chovexani

[dolo amber]

211. I'll have a go...

10. I have ADHD, which is very uncommon for girls. Most females have the inattentive form, not the hyperactive form. I act like an 8 yr old on crack 90% of the time.

9. Tragically, I am possessed of an amazing imagination, and no creative outlet whatsoever for it.

8. I have an imaginary dog. I pet him sometimes. His name is Gomez and he is a pug.

7. I LOVE techno. I use it as relaxation music like some people use New Age. I throw on the headphones, put on a bangin' Jeff Mills set and just let my mind wander.

6. The television in my house, when it is on, stays on Nickelodeon. Not only for the kids, I'd MUCH rather watch cartoons than Judge Judy or Survivor any other of the plethora of shite out there.

5. My very favourite teacher ever held me down and tickled me while reciting the 8s of the multiplication tables until I memorized them. He would be put in jail for that today. I have utterly no doubt of the innocence of his actions. He rocked.

4. My appendix is on my left side. Yours might be too, it's actually not terribly uncommon.

3. I took ballet for 14 years, until my teachers decided I was a) too short and b) too top-heavy to ever be a professional dancer. Oh, and I blew out my knee.

2. If I could have anything in the world, I would want a collection of genetically engineered miniature safari animals. :D

1. I have an excess of self-esteem. Not conceit, I just think I'm an over-all pretty good person. It breaks my heart to see good people who let the world convince them they're worthless. And so I decided that the world is already going to try to kick my ass, I ain't bendin' over to make it easier. ;)

[leftist_rebel1569]

212. My turn!

1. I have a large collection of bottles of this energy drink called "Rain"...one of the "Elements" drinks. Last time I checked, I had an amount somewhere in the 60s..

2. I have a birthmark on the left side of my forehead (thank god it's usually covered by my long hair)

3. I was originally a Libertarian (for about a month...)

4. I'm straight, yet I have a crush on Chris Cornell, lead singer of Audioslave and former lead singer of Soundgarden...

5. My all-time biggest hero, Tom Morello, is the guitarist of Audioslave. Also, formerly of Rage Against the Machine, greatest band on the planet

6. The most expensive things I own is a tie between my Playstaion 2 (alone) is the sound system for my computer (sound card, cords, speakers, woofer, etc.)

7. <--- My lucky number

8. The only candidates I haven't came out and supported as my one candidate yet are Braun, Edwards, Lieberman (and Clark, if you consider him a candidate...) In other words

9. Two of my life goals revolve around the game "Dance Dance Revolution"...1) to play it at least once in an arcade in Japan and 2) Get a "AAA" grade on the song "Max 300" (I WILL do it...)

10. I love staring at myself in the mirror, for some strange reason...

[rainydaywoman]

216. Here goes...

1.I'm 29 and married to a 55 year old. My Mother and sister both thought I was nuts. They wanted me to for marry money, not love, especially if he's older. Needless to say, they r outta my life.

2.I've had dreams of people I've never met and places I've never been that have come true. No, it wasn't deja'vu. I told my Husband about a couple of them, then as they happened I poked him and said, this was my dream I told u about. Now he believes me. If only I could tell which ones were going to come about.

3.I left home when I was 14 and was homeless and drug addicted, almost killed myself.

4. Now all my highs are from herbs. I've taught myself a lot about herbal remedies. I'm not too fond of western medicine for most conditions. JMO

5. I never finished high-school. This makes me a little hesitant to post on here, because I'm not very good at expressing myself like most on here are. I'm working on my GED, just need to brush up on some math and essay writing (I hate writing essays). After that I'm not sure what I want to do.

6.I had my son when I was 18 (to my husband) totally natural at home w/a mid-wife. He was 9.5lbs.

7.I swear I have the sex drive of a male. It seems to be increasing as I get older.

8.My Grandmother was John Glenn's cousin. I remember her talking about it every time he was on TV or mentioned. Her maiden name was Glenn.

9. My other obsession, besides politics and current events, is workingout & nutrition. I write down everything that goes into my mouth and very rarely do I eat anything that's pre-packaged or processed. No pork either.

10.My Dads name is Don Cornelius, like that dude from Soul Train. LOL I couldn't think of anything else.

This has been an awesome thread and has showed me the 'warm' side of DU. A Great bunch, but of course, ur democrats!

[dudeness]

217. ok here goes

zzzzzzzzzzz
1. I was born and still live in Australia
2. my great grandfather emigrated to australia in 1853 from Ireland..He was a political dissident
3.I have been an active socialist/ trade unionist since the first day i joined a trade union
4.I lived in england during the early 80s (was playing rugby)but found time to join in picket lines during the great miners dispute
5.I am married with two daughters ..the eldest is studing architecture
6. i am a firefighter (17 years)
7.I have recently given up gambling..but still drink and smoke too much
8.I would one day hope to be part of a revolutionary overthrown of a right wing government
9.i enjoy political discussions
10.i plan to retire to Sri Lanka

[Tikki]

219. These are.....

1. I adored my Mother-in-law.
2. I had 4 major surgeries to remove 5 non-essential and no longer essential organs while still in my 20's.
3. I worked for the Olympics in 1984 at the UCLA Venue.
4. I have listened to Rock Music from the 50's onward and IMHO.. 60's Psychobilly and 70's Old School Hardcore Punk Rock is the best Rock Music.
5. Mr. Tikki has been my best friend for 40 years.
6. Mr. Tikki has never chewed gum, eaten popcorn or drunk coffee.
7. My historical idol is Charles Darwin.
8. I received my first BA at age 44.
9. Geology Rules the Universe.
10. I am ashamed of the Industry that grew my Hometown and even more ashamed of what my High School mascot was (and still is).

[PittPoliSci]

221. here goes!

1. my favorite color is...RED!

2. i miss my deceased grandmother more than any words i could ever type her could ever do justice.

3. i am in midst of working on starting a surf-rock revival band, in pennsylvania...not easy!

4. my friday night is usually spend working, then playing video games, cause there is NOTHING to do in the suburbs.

5. i am a member of amnesty international.

6. my cell phone number is...eh...nevermind :-)

7. i love my irish culture! my hockey stick is adorned w/ the colors of the irish flag. orange, white, green!

8. i also love my sweet girlfriend, and i don't know what i'd do without her.

9. my favorite number is 63

10. listen to this one now, i am a full time student, video store clerk (i'm hopefully going to quit soon though!), lifeguard during the summer, volunteer firefighter, hockey player! i'm busy!

[Breezy du Nord]

222. I can appreciate #4

God can I.

[bicentennial_baby]

223. Let's see

1. I was born with one tonsil and an ear that's pointed like an elf's

2. I was supposed to be a twin, but the other fetus did'nt develop correctly

3. I broke my femur when I was 11

4. I am in an open relationship

5. I am fascinated by bacteria and viruses

6. I dropped out of the 2nd grade

7. I have a brother I've never met

8. I've wrestled a loaded gun away from someone twice my size

9. I'm terrified of deep, dark water

10. I'm very anti-social

Wow, I did'nt think I could come up woth 10, how about that?!

[proud patriot]

224. I started a new thread

This one is getting hard for those with dial up :hi:
please continue discussion here
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=159251

[SmileyBoy]

225. OK, here's me:

1) I'm overweight, but I'm losing weight currently (5-10,220 lbs.)

2) I'm Muslim

3) My favourite shows of all time are Family Guy and Ren and Stimpy

4) I have over 29,000 pennies in my penny collection

5) I never sleep with a pillow, because it causes me to sweat

6) I'm a student at North Dakota State University

7) I HATE all types of science fiction/fantasy (LOTR, Star Wars, Star Trek, Babylon 5, Farscape, Battlestar Galactica, etc.)

8) I hate all types of Anime, but my brother absolutely loves it

9) I'm a student assistant for NDSU football

10)My hair is black and slicked like an Italian mafia guy.