What stuff have you done that most other people haven't?

[Ronin]

I went from growing up on the streets of Detroit to being one of the last free range cowboys (girl) in our region, (NW) maybe in the whole US. I rode in mountainous forests and steep rocky canyons, and it wasn’t like you see it most westerns. If you’ve ever seen the movie The Man From Snowy River and how he rides off the hill, well…that is how I rode pretty much every day. I became a bit of a local celebrity because I did all of this as a 5’, 110lb woman which was / is pretty much unheard of.
I am sure I am forgetting lots. I’ve, luckily and unluckily, lived a remarkable life.
Here is an outline if anyone wants me to elaborate further. :)

Ran a dozer (to perfection) and a bobcat

Did amazing “cowboy stuff” in line of duty

Can walk up to and ride most any horse that is broke, and many who are not.

Vet clinic surgery/ line of duty semen testing

Helped cows to birth thousands of baby calves, and hundreds of other animals.

Won MANY talent shows (singing) and dance contests… with no training

NIC scholarship 1 of 22 in nation

Sharp-shooter – NATURAL!

Took little kid sled down face of ski bowl several times. (First and last to do it EVAH!)

Picture on front page of Sunday paper (due to views on euthanasia)

Many news paper and magazine articles re: marketing tool that husband invented

Horse logged (logged with work/draft horses)

Mob /drug dealer at 14

Lost 3 parents before the age of 17.

Horse pack trip into the Mallard-Larkins wilderness…with mountain goats and elk so remote they’d never seen a human

Went rafting without a raft (body rafting) Did LOTS of WW rafting.

Almost got killed by cows /bulls.

Flat-lined 2 x separate instances.

Sickest person to walk out of Benewah Hopspital

Had heart attack at 31, had 3 before the age of 37

Experienced chronic kidney stones

Eaten many odd things

Almost bitten by rattle snakes…SEVERAL times. Killed many.

Rafted the salmon and the Snake rivers among others.

Been upside-down in flight

Married at 17 (not pregnant) and still married 27 yrs been together over 28.

Assisted with major (disgusting) surgeries on large / farm animals.

Kissed by a killer whale.

Cut down a girl who’d hanged herself, saved her life.

Took care of psychotic youth and criminal youth.

Booked a murderer.

Lived a wilderness lifestyle.

Grandmother at 38.

Did striptease at top of canyon for husband wearing cowboy gear.

Killed and butchered my own animals.

Underwent 30 + heart cath procedures.

Underwent open-heart bypass at 38.

That’s all I can think of, for now.

ETA: I just remembered.... I've been shot at twice...on different occassions.

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[Brianna]

When I was four, I walked off the end of a dock. I turned around and walked out of water that was 3 feet over my head. I didn't know how to swim and I have been freaked out by water over my head ever since. I wasn't freaked out at the time either. I remember how much effort it took to walk in water. I only inhaled a little.

[Goldie]

I went from growing up on the streets of Detroit to being one of the last free range cowboys (girl) in our region, (NW) maybe in the whole US. I rode in mountainous forests and steep rocky canyons, and it wasn’t like you see it most westerns. If you’ve ever seen the movie The Man From Snowy River and how he rides off the hill, well…that is how I rode pretty much every day. I became a bit of a local celebrity because I did all of this as a 5’, 110lb woman which was / is pretty much unheard of.
I am sure I am forgetting lots. I’ve, luckily and unluckily, lived a remarkable life.
Here is an outline if anyone wants me to elaborate further. :)

Ran a dozer (to perfection) and a bobcat

Did amazing “cowboy stuff” in line of duty

Can walk up to and ride most any horse that is broke, and many who are not.

Vet clinic surgery/ line of duty semen testing

Helped cows to birth thousands of baby calves, and hundreds of other animals.

Won MANY talent shows (singing) and dance contests… with no training

NIC scholarship 1 of 22 in nation

Sharp-shooter – NATURAL!

Took little kid sled down face of ski bowl several times. (First and last to do it EVAH!)

Picture on front page of Sunday paper (due to views on euthanasia)

Many news paper and magazine articles re: marketing tool that husband invented

Horse logged (logged with work/draft horses)

Mob /drug dealer at 14

Lost 3 parents before the age of 17.

Horse pack trip into the Mallard-Larkins wilderness…with mountain goats and elk so remote they’d never seen a human

Went rafting without a raft (body rafting) Did LOTS of WW rafting.

Almost got killed by cows /bulls.

Flat-lined 2 x separate instances.

Sickest person to walk out of Benewah Hopspital

Had heart attack at 31, had 3 before the age of 37

Experienced chronic kidney stones

Eaten many odd things

Almost bitten by rattle snakes…SEVERAL times. Killed many.

Rafted the salmon and the Snake rivers among others.

Been upside-down in flight

Married at 17 (not pregnant) and still married 27 yrs been together over 28.

Assisted with major (disgusting) surgeries on large / farm animals.

Kissed by a killer whale.

Cut down a girl who’d hanged herself, saved her life.

Took care of psychotic youth and criminal youth.

Booked a murderer.

Lived a wilderness lifestyle.

Grandmother at 38.

Did striptease at top of canyon for husband wearing cowboy gear.

Killed and butchered my own animals.

Underwent 30 + heart cath procedures.

Underwent open-heart bypass at 38.

That’s all I can think of, for now.

ETA: I just remembered.... I've been shot at twice...on different occassions.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GxvcunxIkKs/R1LfSjOpILI/AAAAAAAAAAw/0UzglKoQKrU/s1600-R/Valkyrie+on+pegasus+horse.jpg

lol :D

I once HAD to get into town to pay my auto insurance. I had been at the feedlot and I was covered in mud (stepped into a bog) and cowshit (worked several bulls for ranch.) I was wearing cover-alls and it looked like someone had dipped me in thick gunk from the waist down. My upper half was better but not by much. I had no time to change or shower.
So, at my new agent's office, I stood down from the door and knocked. A woman came out and looked at me with eyes as big as saucers. I reached up and handed her a check, " I just needed to pay my premium..."
"Wait." she said.

I heard a man's booming voice. "Really? Oh I gotta see this!" A HUGE man walked out in suit and tie. "So you're Dan's new cowboy? OMG! What happened to you? I've never seen anyone so dirty, especially a woman. My wife would freak."
He was smiling ear to ear. I think I just turned red.

That was the day I met my very good friend, Ken. He loves to tell the story about the first time he met me. He tells it better than I do...through his eyes.

[Daisy]

I've hitchhiked from Vancouver to Anchorage. I've worked in a fish factory. I married an illegal alien.

My life is fairly unremarkable.

[sidhe]

I'm currently studying Old English, just because.

I read Old English. I spent the first half of my college career doing medieval studies. The two things I remember - how to read Old English, and how to spell "medieval" consistently.

[sidhe]

Oh, and when I was a lifeguard I saved two drowning kids - one at a Girl Scout Camp, the other at a daycare.

I also worked one night with a broken knee on crutches at a neighborhood pool. I subdued three young hoodlums on one leg that night. Well...after the first one got taken out by the gimp, the other two reevaluated their decisions.

Also while lifeguarding, I had to leave work carrying a 9mm while being covered from the pool by my manager /w a .30-06 rifle with a laser sight after I broke up a drug deal behind the poolhouse. The buyers were waiting down by the parking lot when the pool closed.

[frazier]

Also while lifeguarding, I had to leave work carrying a 9mm while being covered from the pool by my manager /w a .30-06 rifle with a laser sight after I broke up a drug deal behind the poolhouse. The buyers were waiting down by the parking lot when the pool closed.
Well come on! Did they "make your day"?? Did they "feel lucky""??

[sidhe]

Also while lifeguarding, I had to leave work carrying a 9mm while being covered from the pool by my manager /w a .30-06 rifle with a laser sight after I broke up a drug deal behind the poolhouse. The buyers were waiting down by the parking lot when the pool closed.
Well come on! Did they "make your day"?? Did they "feel lucky""??

Nah. They were rich kids from within the gated community, probably about the same age as I was back then. They'd just never had anyone tell them "No, you're not allowed to do that" in their lives, and took off when my manager yelled for the tall guy to look at the dot on his friend's forehead. They hadn't even entertained the idea that when they said they'd be waiting for me when the pool closed, I'd take it seriously. I did, though. So did the neighborhood pool manager. He was tired of this group of kids acting like they were Scarface and Gang, so he decided to treat them like they actually were. They became very polite afterwords. I think one of their dads called the manager and thanked him for scaring his son straight. :)

Disproportionate response: Not called for, but really funny.

ETA: I was a middle-class Army brat from outside the gated community. I didn't have patience for them, either. :)

[Free in Freeport]

I routinely go for months at a time without either shared or solo sex.

[Zygote]

I have camped above treeline (at 11,000 feet) and bathed naked in a lake fed by snow melt.

I have spun and woven a wool blanket that my family or cats use daily.

I have dissected a number of horseshoe crabs in a lab.

I have given birth without pain meds, twice.

I have jumped (not dived) off a 10m platform.

I have picked and crushed Cabernet grapes and drunk the wine they made.

I have ridden a Greyhound bus straight across the U.S., sleeping through Indiana, Nebraska and Nevada and waking to sunrise over the eastern Sierra Nevada mountains.

Small accomplishments, but somewhat unusual.

[Loren Pechtel]

I have camped above treeline (at 11,000 feet) and bathed naked in a lake fed by snow melt.

I've spent the night above the tree line but in a permanent hut instead of a tent. The next night was again a hut but just below the permanent snowcap.

Two of the women in the group dove into a snowmelt stream, the rest of us had more sense.

[rlogan]

Wow. Some amazing stuff here. Golly, a few items:

I've shot five bears, four of them charging. Three grizzlies were charging me at the same time and I took out two of them with an elephant gun and skinned them through the night in front of the third.

Survived two bushplane crashes - the last one pretty bad. I was too hurt to steer my emergency raft and capsized in white water trying to get out, 70 miles from the nearest road. Spent a night at ten degrees, wet.

Rescued some people on Mt. McKinley. It's a story in Reader's Digest. Winds in excess of 100 mph, thirty below zero, blah blah blah

There's a full page story in National Enquirer too. Called me a modern day Indiana Jones. pffft.

Well the "pointed gun at me" story too, except he pulled the trigger and got four years in prison for it.

I don't want to make a long list. It's an ongoing lifestyle and I realize it is going to get me killed eventually. There have been some amazing deep jungle expeditions off the amazon with anacondas and shooting a fifteen foot alligator trying to chomp me. Escping from river pirates, the shining path guerillas, surrounded by six men with machetes discussing killing me in the Mountains over the Mekong in remote Laos, living with Ah Kha hill tribe people in Northern Thailand, the NPA in the Kalinga province of the Philippines...

God damn, so many times I wasn't sure I was going to make it. Hiking 22 miles through deep snow to rescue a friend. Snowmachines going through the ice. Escaping drowning in a whirlpool trying to save my dog, hypothermia in caves, emergency igloos, capsized canoes - crawling (!) twelve miles with a wolf behind me all the way...

But at the moment I am living with a spectacularly beautiful girl 30 years younger than me who runs around the cabin in stuff that would give a lot of men a heart attack - but training her in all of the useless skills I have learned - how to tell the age of the animal tracks we encounter, what moose pee smells like, how to avoid becoming lost while bushwhacking, drive heavy equipment, snow machines, planes, and stuff -

And to me it was just another thing I decided to do, but not independent of what I was doing all along. It took me ten years and 7 different countries to find her. I was amazed how much wrath and ridiculous crap I took over it from anonymous keyboard townies doing their best to characterize her as a victim of human trafficking, something I sent away for in the mail.

But anyway to the OP - I'm training a 20 year old hottie that had never seen snow before to be a mountain girl of interior Alaska.

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[Matty]

Okay, now rlogan has posted (ello mate) , my semi semi intrepid shit looks pathetic :)

what have i dont that most havent ver 2:

200 or so acid or shroom trips. :)

surfed an idyllic sunset swell with a pair of seals for company

broke a board and nearly drowned in a heavy duty wipeout.

seen a 7year old die.

been circled by a 9ft bull shark.

played with an octopus

spend multiple weeks out of sight of land on a research voyage

actually done for a career what i decided on when i was maybe 11.

headbutted someone. On purpose.

emigrated.

[Goldie]

I have camped above treeline (at 11,000 feet) and bathed naked in a lake fed by snow melt.

I've spent the night above the tree line but in a permanent hut instead of a tent. The next night was again a hut but just below the permanent snowcap.

Two of the women in the group dove into a snowmelt stream, the rest of us had more sense.

I've done this, as well, on my pack trip into the Mallard-Larkins. I'm in good company. :)

[Goldie]

Taking a break on my way up.

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t228/lilcarolyn01/cowgirlmal.jpg

Surgery on a baby calf from my days at the vet clinic

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t228/lilcarolyn01/vetclinic1.jpg

When i was a cowgirl... we were at a halloween party and just wore our work clothes. We won for most authentic. lol

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t228/lilcarolyn01/cccowboys.jpg

[Christina]

Two of the women in the group dove into a snowmelt stream, the rest of us had more sense.

I dove into an ice melt lake in the Sierras at about 10,000' and there were still ice shards in it. It felt like that my body just propelled itself back out instantly after it sucked all the air out of my lungs. It sure taught me a lesson about checking the temperature and depth first.

[alien billie]

headbutted someone. On purpose.


Was it you that did Jay Kay?

Please?

:bang: ;)

[Zygote]

Two of the women in the group dove into a snowmelt stream, the rest of us had more sense.

I dove into an ice melt lake in the Sierras at about 10,000' and there were still ice shards in it. It felt like that my body just propelled itself back out instantly after it sucked all the air out of my lungs. It sure taught me a lesson about checking the temperature and depth first.

I didn't dive. A fellow packer did and for a moment we thought we might have to rescue him.

After backpacking up to 11,000 feet, washing off in ANYTHING beats the alternative.

[Matty]

headbutted someone. On purpose.


Was it you that did Jay Kay?

Please?

:bang: ;)

with that degree of hat brim to contend with? No way. :)



Ooh i did a polar bear dip in lake ontario for charity last year does that count.

It was february and fucking cold (-15 air temp, water at whatever that cold point before moving water freezes is)

[Christina]

After backpacking up to 11,000 feet, washing off in ANYTHING beats the alternative.

Yeah. After climbing a few thousand feet in the hot sun, ripping off our clothes and diving in was all we could think of. Unfortunately I got there first.

[rlogan]

Gosh Matty - it isn't a competition. I read with great fascination all the things people have done.

An impressive number of acid trips, mate! Nothing beats bumbling around in the woods being blown away by wildflowers.

Geez, we forget the things we've done when we're old.

I won a lot of titles in four different combat sports when young, and was on a national championship wrestling team. Just seems like nothing now. Something I wanted to do and then just moved on. Five team-mates were olympic gold medalists. I was basically a loser there. The best I did nationally at anything was 4th place but won state and regional titles in three of them. Boxing I lost in the finals of two different states. As a coach my wrestling teams won five state titles in a row.

Did the band thing, cut an album, and the first time I heard myself on the radio I laughed so hard I had to pull over. Again - just walked away from it and life moves on.

Ran a marathon - the equinox, not a garden variety - and determined such people are clinically disturbed.


You know Goldie sounds like you like to get out in the woods. Sharpshooter. I never considered myself much of a shot. Or even very good at the things I do now.

But the one thing I do know is that when the heat is on - when you are in the teeth of it - there is something that wells up from within. A kind of focus. This is what you were born for. You are in your element and there is nothing but the moment. I'm not so good at the bench but when the chips are on the line the bullets seem to have a laser guiding them.

Maybe Ronin knows that feeling in his line of work. Ha ha - Christina on your psychidelic trip to the fireworks. A surgeon operating on a heart.

I live for that feeling. And I think really its all about attitude. You can make a walk be an adventure, your gardening, the next wave, or even the next dish you wash.

or you can think life sucks and be a poopy butt about everything

[Matty]

heh yeah rl i know. I was just leaving a gap or two :)

[Goldie]

Yep...my grandfather was a sharpshooter brought in by the Detroit police during the old gang wars.
My mother, my eldest brother and I took after him. We are all excellent shots, even without a bit of "real" training. The first time I ever shot, I was dead-on.
I am the same way with other things that require aim...like baseball, tho I've never played on a real team, my bat rarely missed.
I rarely miss.
It's just one of those weird talents/skills.
Now I feel like Napolean Dynamite... "I have bow-hunting skills....nunchuck skills...drawing skills..."

ETA: I think I hurt my husband's ego the first time he and a friend took me out to shoot his .45 and his 300 Weatherby. I was only 17 they were 25 and were raised shooting and hunting. My husband laughs about it now, how everyone's jaws dropped.

OH! another ETA: When I first moved to Idaho, I was 15 and was required to take outdoor ed. It was fun. You learn so much...but one of the things we did, oddly, was learn to golf. I had never golfed in my life. Withing the first week I got a hole in one. NO SHIT!
I had no idea how special/rare that was. I was like "hmmm - cool" and off to the next hole. OMG! My teacher was pissed...hell everyone there who knew anything about golf was pissed.
It just wasn't fair.
I should have persued it, but my mom was too poor to pay for me to play golf 20 miles away from home. :(

[Loren Pechtel]

Two of the women in the group dove into a snowmelt stream, the rest of us had more sense.

I dove into an ice melt lake in the Sierras at about 10,000' and there were still ice shards in it. It felt like that my body just propelled itself back out instantly after it sucked all the air out of my lungs. It sure taught me a lesson about checking the temperature and depth first.

We didn't specifically discuss that it was snowmelt but most of us were of the opinion that it was too cold to consider without even going over and testing it. We were on the way up a mountain with a small glacier on it!

To make it worse they went in in bra and panties--and had nothing to change into after getting them soaked with cold water. (We had all skinny-dipped together before, they left the clothes on because we weren't the only people on the mountain.)

[Loren Pechtel]

Two of the women in the group dove into a snowmelt stream, the rest of us had more sense.

I dove into an ice melt lake in the Sierras at about 10,000' and there were still ice shards in it. It felt like that my body just propelled itself back out instantly after it sucked all the air out of my lungs. It sure taught me a lesson about checking the temperature and depth first.

I didn't dive. A fellow packer did and for a moment we thought we might have to rescue him.

After backpacking up to 11,000 feet, washing off in ANYTHING beats the alternative.

This was at no more than about 7,000', a couple hours out of base camp and we were only carrying water/lunch/cameras, the heavier stuff was going by porter. They didn't need to go in to get clean, they just liked swimming and the stream looked inviting if you didn't consider where it had to be coming from. Maybe the fact that it was subtropical forest and we couldn't see the snow up higher lead to their overlooking it.

[Christina]

I have no excuse because there was still ice only about another 1000' up on peaks surrounding the whole lake with no trees to block anything. I knew it would be very cold, but it never occurred to me that there was still going to be ice in it in July.

[rlogan]

I don't do cold water. You people have issues.

[Christina]

You live in a freaking ice box. The water was warmer than right outside your front door.

[Loren Pechtel]

I don't do cold water. You people have issues.

And irony meters explode everywhere!

[Loren Pechtel]

I have no excuse because there was still ice only about another 1000' up on peaks surrounding the whole lake with no trees to block anything. I knew it would be very cold, but it never occurred to me that there was still going to be ice in it in July.

The incident I speak of was late April or early May. The season didn't really matter, though, as we were only a few degrees from the equator.

The climate change as we went up was incredible. Base camp at 5,000' was mild tropical--we were gorging on wonderful bananas grown nearby. Over 2 days we hiked to 12,000' and the vegetation went through subtropical, basically temperate (evergreen, however) and then alpine. An hour beyond the second camp and we crossed a ridge and that was it, we never saw any more vegetation.

[Zygote]

The climate change as we went up was incredible. Base camp at 5,000' was mild tropical--we were gorging on wonderful bananas grown nearby. Over 2 days we hiked to 12,000' and the vegetation went through subtropical, basically temperate (evergreen, however) and then alpine. An hour beyond the second camp and we crossed a ridge and that was it, we never saw any more vegetation.

Hiking down into the Grand Canyon in January was like that, but upside down.

It was 5 degrees (F) at the rim. On the trail below, waterfalls were frozen and bare branched bushes glistened with ice. As we went lower, the temperature rose. The snow melted away. Green appeared. Lower still and flowers were blooming, birds were singing. We peeled off layer after layer.

It was like hiking from winter to spring in the course of a morning. Had we gone further down, we would have reached summer. But we had to get back up to the tent well before dark.

[rlogan]

I'm serious. Cold water gives me a heart attack. That retarded foreigner takes cold showers. Third world savage. Doesn't it make your heart stop?

[Loren Pechtel]

The climate change as we went up was incredible. Base camp at 5,000' was mild tropical--we were gorging on wonderful bananas grown nearby. Over 2 days we hiked to 12,000' and the vegetation went through subtropical, basically temperate (evergreen, however) and then alpine. An hour beyond the second camp and we crossed a ridge and that was it, we never saw any more vegetation.

Hiking down into the Grand Canyon in January was like that, but upside down.

It was 5 degrees (F) at the rim. On the trail below, waterfalls were frozen and bare branched bushes glistened with ice. As we went lower, the temperature rose. The snow melted away. Green appeared. Lower still and flowers were blooming, birds were singing. We peeled off layer after layer.

It was like hiking from winter to spring in the course of a morning. Had we gone further down, we would have reached summer. But we had to get back up to the tent well before dark.

I've been down the canyon IIRC 5 times--overnight stays on the bottom, although never in January.

There also isn't that much vegetation there to make the change so noticeable.

[Teshi]

I got into a streetfight with a gypsy gang and won.

[Spherical Time]

I've broken my neck.

[Lisa0315]

I've broken my neck.

Wow! Are you okay today? Have you recovered fully?

[Matty]

i've seen the northern lights, that was pretty fucking cool,

i dont know how actually rare it is but half my Canuck mates have never seen it and were watching TV at the time of the "best light show in the last 10yrs this far south" .

heheh. muppets.

[Christina]

I've always wanted to see the northern lights and I would go up there if I was certain to see them within a short amount of time, but the idea of hanging around in an ice box in the dark for weeks on end and still maybe not seeing them doesn't sound very good to me.

[Matty]

i saw them from my front porch whilst having a spliff :)

they were bright enough that even the light pollution made no real difference. I watched them for over an hour (so about another three doobs ) and then had to go in because it was bloody freezing and my neck was cricked

it was this show captured here. those shots were taken about 50miles down the road.
http://www.ontarioweather.com/specials/northern/northernlights2004.asp

[rlogan]

Very hard to describe them. Best show I ever saw was coincidentally when I was doing acid, and it wasn't just the tripping. A lifetime experience.

I was in a cabin out in the toolies with another fellow, and he came back inside from taking a pee and said "you better get out here..."

When I was following him out and he opened the door, I could see the colors reflecting on the snow - that's how brilliant they were. Took up half the sky. Unbelievable brilliance of colors, swirling and whooshing about.

I've seen them do things nobody else has described to me. A lot of nights in the hot tub with all the cabin lights off.

kind of begs an explanation, Teshi...

[Teshi]

kind of begs an explanation, Teshi...

I was living in St. Petersburg (the one that used to be Leningrad). Buncha gypsies (who knows if they were actually Roma, you know, but it was what you'd categorize as a gypsy street gang) jumped a friend and I, trying to steal our stuff. She stood there shrieking like a girl, frozen, but my reptile brain took over and I started swinging. Broke a couple noses, busted a few balls, and they ran away.

Not a very exciting story :D

[espritch]

Repelled down the side of my dorm in college.

Dived with sharks in Bimini.

Rung the neck of a chicken (I grew up out in the country).

[Coleslaw]

I saw a panoramic view of the town of Eger in the camera obscura at the Lyceum.

[Spherical Time]

I've broken my neck.

Wow! Are you okay today? Have you recovered fully?Yeah, that was a few years ago, while I was a mod at IIDB. Had to take two weeks off and everything. Of course, in real life I was laid out for 8 months or so.

I'm better now.

[Loren Pechtel]

Rung the neck of a chicken (I grew up out in the country).

Where did you find a chicken bell? :D

rung (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/rung)

wrung (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/wrung)

[Christina]

Another post just reminded me of this. I took a 75 year old prudish woman to see Cirque du Soleil's "Zumanity" because my sister didn't realize that it was about all sorts of interesting kinds of sex when she bought the tickets. As if that wasn't bad enough, I ended up dancing on stage with a 6'5" drag queen in a headdress and another guy dressed in a loincloth. When the usher told me on the way in not to catch anyone's eye and smile back unless I had a sense of adventure I probably should have listened, at least in front of my mother.

[Coleslaw]

Rung the neck of a chicken (I grew up out in the country).

Where did you find a chicken bell? :D

Loren, you are hopeless. (http://www.cluckinbellhappychicken.com/)

[espritch]

Rung the neck of a chicken (I grew up out in the country).

Where did you find a chicken bell? :D

rung (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/rung)

wrung (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/wrung)

If you can make a bell out of a taco, you can make a bell out of a chicken. Of course you don't want to know where the clapper goes.

[Brianna]

I have skinny dipped in Lake Superior.

I have climbed to the highest peak hill in MN.

[Ray Moscow]

Rung the neck of a chicken (I grew up out in the country).

I'm "country" enough that I assumed most people had done this. :)

[premjan]

Don't they have those machines that do it now (insert the bird head down and the neck is chopped)?

[4321lynx]

In my young days, chopped off a chicken's head, put it down & watched in amazement as it ran around, spouting blood. My dad nearly laughed his head off too.

[Pendaric]

Bumping this for newcomers.

[Troglodyte]

Kissed the Blarney Stone. Eaten a Uighur version of boudin made with lamb - smelled like poop but tasted alright. Driven Susan Lucci's vehicle. Been in a low-budget z-rated campy indie movie that never made it past the first day of shooting! ( lol I was an evil elfin clone, doing my own stunts against a horde of time/space-warped Vikings...)

[Matty]

In my young days, chopped off a chicken's head, put it down & watched in amazement as it ran around, spouting blood. My dad nearly laughed his head off too.

there was that one that lived for a couple years after being incorrectly decapitated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken

[Norrin Radd]

Combed my chest hair.

[Lisa0315]

Combed my chest hair.

:eek: Yeah, that would definitely be something I have never done. :D

[Matty]

I saw Cribber reef in Newquay break, in the winter of 1987. Takes basically a hurricane to make it break and its one of the biggest and more dangerous waves in the UK. Breaks properly once in a blue moon.

Would have been sat almost exactly where this is filmed from. Sat becasue it was too windy to stand.
Even though i had my board and suit i didnt have the stones to even try and surf it. Its got a pretty horrendous horrible failure to success rate and a big rocky reef right below you.

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[dug_down_deep]

Jumped on the bed in the ICU. As the patient.

I have a picture, but haven't uploaded it to my photobucket yet.

[MadMez]

I was the duty Russian / German interpreter on the iron curtain when it came down. Drank a shit load of Congnac with the soviets that night.

Walked away from a plane crash (an Andover) in Norway.

Helped destroy 60 MiG and S.U. aircraft. With permission, of course.

Published a Children's Book.

Some other stuff.

[4321lynx]

In my young days, chopped off a chicken's head, put it down & watched in amazement as it ran around, spouting blood. My dad nearly laughed his head off too.

there was that one that lived for a couple years after being incorrectly decapitated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken

Thanks for pointing this out.:)

[Late_Cretaceous]

Rappelled from a helicopter a few times .

I also used to have to routinely dunk my gloved hand into liquid nitrogen (I always sweated a little doing that, knowing what would happen if the glove leaked).

I hypnotized someone once.

[Matty]

ah, you;d have to leave your hand in there for a bit (well a few seconds) before any major damage. the body heat creates a thin barrier that gives you some time before your fingers start snapping off (yeah i played with a flask or two in my time :) )

the funnest thing to do with liqN2 is instant ice cream.

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[Loren Pechtel]

ah, you;d have to leave your hand in there for a bit (well a few seconds) before any major damage. the body heat creates a thin barrier that gives you some time before your fingers start snapping off (yeah i played with a flask or two in my time :) )

the funnest thing to do with liqN2 is instant ice cream.

There's a commercial instant ice cream machine based on this. The idea is to have it in a store, you can make whatever flavor the customers orders on demand.

[epepke]

Hmmm....

I started the second program in the United States to teach English to residents at a psychiatric hospital. It worked pretty well, and I won the Florida Department of Children and Families Volunteer of the Year.

I exhibited twice at SIGGRAPH.

I helped a bunch of people (200 that I know of) overcome shyness. I even turned someone away from Borderline Personality Disorder. This never happens.

As a kid, I was on the Wonderama show.

I've probably done other things, but I can't remember them.

[Late_Cretaceous]

I sat in Obama's senate office chair.

I used to kill mice for a living while working as a microbiology tech. I manually killed 30 mice one day and harvested their thymus glands. I would either separate their neck vertebrae or smash their tiny skulls against a tabletop. True! It's one of the reasons I stopped being a lab rat.

Same here. The mice never were even aware that they had stopped living, but the rats knew what was coming - they are pretty smart. I used to have to pin them down and use a small pry bar to separate their heads from their spinal cords (charming huh?). Then I had to peel their skin off thier arms and remove a tiny muscle without damaging it, and before the tissue started to die. That's when I began to doubt some of the stuff published in scientific literature. There is no way in hell someone can do all that, including mounting the muscle on and apparatus in a bath all under 20 seconds (it usually took over 4 minutes). Grinding the muscles up afterwards is where I had to plunge my hand into liquid nitrogen.

[Matty]

mmmm. murine homogentates. yum :)

we do cremaster muscle (ballsack retractor) circulatory imaging for a few labs, the good thing about the cremaster being that it is easy to externalise without damaging the mouse too much under anaesthetic and the tissue is thin enough to image blood flow and clotting activity etc. I know they are well looked after and never feel a thing but boy do i feel sorry for them.

[Late_Cretaceous]

Here is one I forgot about...

Making out with your boss's wife while he is in the hospital (it was progressing to more, but someone knocked on the door, and yes we were both drunk).


Not recommended, BTW.
I think she told him something of what went on to him out - of guilt.

[Matty]

woah. thats pretty heavy.

[Jack be Quick]

couple of pages back, but I just got to this thread tonight - blast you Ronin for making me cry!

I rode a camel. Not that big a deal, but nobody's mentioned it yet.

[4321lynx]

Installed a REDNECK Home Security System. It is not copyright or patented. Want to do it? Go ahead:

HOW TO INSTALL A REDNECK HOME SECURITY SYSTEM….

1. Go to a second-hand store and buy a pair of men's used size 14-16 Work boots.

2. Place them on your front porch, along with several empty beer cans, a copy of Guns & Ammo magazine and several NRA magazines.

3. Put a few giant dog dishes next to the boots and magazine.

4. Leave a note on your door that reads:

"Hey Bubba, Big Jim, Duke and Slim, I went to the gun shop for more ammunition. Back in an hour. Don't mess with the pit bulls -- they attacked the mailman this morning And messed him up real bad. I don't think Killer took part in it but it was hard to tell from all the blood."

PS - I locked all four of 'em in the house. Better wait outside.

[Matty]

lol. i can see how that could work.


does bungee jump count? i did a big old water touch one of those a few years back . bloody awesome. i just thought loda of peopl had done them.

i also abseiled down the tallest building in PLymouth, for charity.

[reddhedd]

Have sex with my husband....

[Matty]

nah. done that. :)

[dug_down_deep]

Hasn't everyone? :)

What is "abseiled"?

[Late_Cretaceous]

This one may not be all that rare. I am sure many have had comparable experiences.

I was riding home on the bus one day and was admiring a nice pair of legs in black stockings. I was at the back, and she at the front, and all I could see where her legs. I kept thinking how much I would love to ... (well you get the idea)

As I got off the bus, I bumped into the owner of those legs and it turned out it was an aquaintence of mine. We started talking, and well, lets just say a couple of hours later all those nasty thoughts I had been dreaming of came true.

[Matty]

Hasn't everyone? :)

What is "abseiled"?

oh yeah sorry, you guys call it rappelled, i think? .

come down it quickly but under control on a rope. backwards usually but i did it down a cliff face in wales once forwards which was much scarier.

[dug_down_deep]

Oh, okay. Yeah, that's rappelling. Sounds like fun. Maybe not as much fun as Mr. reddhedd, but fun still the same.

[Coleslaw]

My son rappelled down a 20 foot wall at the firefighter training school when he was 6. Mama didn't know anything about it until she saw a picture a week later.

[Loren Pechtel]

My son rappelled down a 20 foot wall at the firefighter training school when he was 6. Mama didn't know anything about it until she saw a picture a week later.

Despite the fact that it freaks a lot of people out I don't see how it's hazardous. I did it at age 9. I knew the rope was strong enough, it simply was no big deal--the only thing that worried me is not knowing when I was reaching the bottom and bumping my head on it--the inherent problem of walking backwards. Going down a rock wall instead of across a floor didn't change the problem.

[Thalia Thinks]

I traveled with a clown. Coincidentally I did the Hokey Pokey naked with him too.

I went to a tie dyed wedding. Maybe Christina has done that too though. :)

I naked mud wrestled in a public camp ground, spent the entire weekend naked there. Even floated down a river in inner tubes, topless, with a dive bag full of beer tied to us. All the while local, redneck fishermen followed us down the river.

I'm sure I can come up with some other stuff once I think about it.

[Christina]

I went to a tie dyed wedding. Maybe Christina has done that too though. :).

Yep I have been to a bunch of them but the thread just says 'most people' :)

[Faerie]

I've been urinated on by a lion....

A dubious accomplishment, granted, but nevertheless one not many people have experienced!!!

[Monad]

I'm sure I can come up with some other stuff once I think about it.

Does it all involve nudity? Not that I'm complaining :)

[Pendaric]

I've been urinated on by a lion....

A dubious accomplishment, granted, but nevertheless one not many people have experienced!!!

Ok, that cries out for a background story?

[Faerie]

I've been urinated on by a lion....

A dubious accomplishment, granted, but nevertheless one not many people have experienced!!!

Ok, that cries out for a background story?

We were vacationing at a National Park, and they had enclosures with the various predators which you could enter (after signing an indemnity of course!) with a ranger and interact with the semi-tame lions/cheetahs/leopards, I was only around 10 years old and got extremely excited and attached to this huge male, the animal was quite patient with me and tried to get away from me on several occassions, but I dug my hands into its mane and held on, in the end, he just decided to let go on top of me since I didnt want to let it go! I was mightily upset and soaked from top to bottom. Stank to high heaven too. I still get teased about it by my family. :dunno:

[tjakey]

At the moment I am standing (sitting actually) anchor watch in Big Harbor off Pensacola, FL.

[Puck]

Dang, not far from the center of this low pressure system, then, tjakey. Is there much wave action?

[tjakey]

Dang, not far from the center of this low pressure system, then, tjakey. Is there much wave action?

We were tucked in close to land on a 40' Cat anchored to a bridle rig. It was surprisingly stable. In fact this morning (we are back in the slip) we road out gusts to force 8 while sitting comfortably sipping our morning coffee. This is an amazing boat. (Fountaine Pajot Lavezzi 40.)

[Puck]

Which way are you headed, tjakey? And why aren't you doing a daily log for us? Some of us miss the salt water, and would love to live vicariously through you. ;)

[Pendaric]

Bump for newcomers.

[4321lynx]

Flew on an airliner from Vancouver to Toronto on the night of 4th July 1976, all the way flying over the US.
Every city, town, village, and seemingly every isolated ranch/farm wreathed in fireworks.
Quite a sight.

[Ray Moscow]

My son rappelled down a 20 foot wall at the firefighter training school when he was 6. Mama didn't know anything about it until she saw a picture a week later.

I've done it in a climbing gym, but not (so far) on a real cliff.

[Anne]

I've been urinated on by a lion....

A dubious accomplishment, granted, but nevertheless one not many people have experienced!!!

Meat Loaf sweat on me.

Does that compare?

heh--- same concert--- I got hot and changed in the audience. One of my friends i was with was a bouncer, and took it upon himself to glare at people staring at me.

I wore the t-shirt I had bought as a mini dress.

[Pendaric]

Any of our newcomers want to contribute?