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

[Pendaric]

I've skydived (tandem), bungee jumped, firewalked, worked for myself all my life and built up a £3 million property portfolio.

What have you done that most of the population hasn't?

[Brianna]

Does sex in the woods count? :)
How about sex in a cop car?

[Pendaric]

Does sex in the woods count? :)
How about sex in a cop car?

I've done sex in the woods. It was cold and uncomfortable.

I'm not an exhibitionist. I prefer my sex in the warm.

[David B]

Skippered small yachts across the Irish Sea, had a couple of years of ashram life, won a race in a dinghy National Championship, admittedly in a small class. ETA Had a haircut on a public (though secluded) beach, while in the nude, by nude hairdresser. I doubt that anyone else has done that.

David

[sidhe]

Firewalked, went hang gliding (on a safety tether), snorkeled off the Keys, went shark fishing, and James Brown told me I played bass like a black man.

Four of those someone else might have done. If anyone else got complimented by James Brown on their rhythm, I'll be amazed.

[sidhe]

Does sex in the woods count? :)
How about sex in a cop car?

Sex in woods. Check.

Cop car? No.

Graveyard? Yes.

[Gooch's Dad]

Hmmm...rode a horse on a California beach. Surfed at Malibu. Bicycled 200 miles in one day. Dove off of a 10 meter platform into a pool. Did a 50k inline skate race. Taught swing dancing classes.

I would put "ran barefoot on pavement for 8 miles", but I think many millions of people in the world have done that.

[Izmir Stinger]

Been to the Middle East, jumped out of a plane, resuscitated a drowning victim, worked as a projectionist (real film - they guy who works upstairs at digital theaters isn't a projectionist).

EDIT TO ADD: Not in that order.

[Brianna]

I've done sex in the woods. It was cold and uncomfortable.

I'm not an exhibitionist. I prefer my sex in the warm.

Then you weren't doing it right.

[Brianna]

Hmmm...rode a horse on a California beach. Surfed at Malibu. Bicycled 200 miles in one day. Dove off of a 10 meter platform into a pool. Did a 50k inline skate race. Taught swing dancing classes.

I would put "ran barefoot on pavement for 8 miles", but I think many millions of people in the world have done that.

swing dancing huh? I can see you doing that.... almost.

[sidhe]

Then you weren't doing it right.

He needs the guide.

[Jacey]

On key days I wager more money on sports games than some people make in a month

I was an extra in a movie, got paid while getting paid at my regular deal, and met SamJack

I had Zach Braff blow off Mandy Moore for a minute to take a picture with me, later watched strippers with Zach and Dave Foley

Learned how to kill people but still haven't

I own some expensive notable artwork

I own an unrestored Amazing Fantasy 15

I got someone so worked up at my joking description of American Psycho that she told me to stop being "inflammatory" and had me banned

[Christina]

Most of the things that I've done that most other people haven't had something to do with sex, drugs or rock and roll and aren't the kinds of things that you brag about. Let's just say that I've done them all in some pretty strange places. (I mean locations, you pervs). Some of them were just dumb, like hitchhiking across the country alone, snorting cayenne to clear a head cold and more recently instigating the start of a message board. :D

I've lived in a few communes as well as scary slums, traveled around on Dead tour for years, spent a lot of time up close and personal with hundreds of homeless people, raised millions of dollars of other people's money, won some pretty cool awards, gotten death threats from crazy anti-homeless wackos and went crazy and came most of the way back. My life has been anything but typical and now I just want to be happily boring.

[Jobar]

Growing up, my father ran a dairy farm; from the time I was about 14, I was put to work doing a man's job.

I've done some very cool things as a result of that, and even more very disgusting things. It was a way of life once common, but becoming increasingly rare.

In high school, I was a National Merit Scholarship Finalist, the first one the school I went to ever produced. (I didn't actually get the scholarship, though.)

And I have lived basically rent free for the past 28 years; I have lifetime tenancy in a small house on a property where I serve as caretaker/handyman. A very good deal both for me and for the property owner.

[BWE]

Killed and butchered thousands of cows.

Actually, my whole life has been a string of rather unusual things.

[Brianna]

Killed and butchered thousands of cows.

Actually, my whole life has been a string of rather unusual things.

thousands huh? My dad is a butcher. :)

[Goodchild]

Graveyard? Yes.

I've done that as well, right on top of a grave no less :p

I've also had sex in a very uncomfortable place ... yep, the backseat of a Volkswagen.

I've been shot, electrocuted, impaled, gashed wide open, hit by a car, concussed by a falling steel beam, been in a truck that flipped 5 times ... and the only lasting damage I've dealt with is a stupid knee injury from falling at work lol.

I've given my ex-wife a place to live, helped her get a job where I work and even let her use my car so she can work. Not many ppl would do that at all. I suspect I may be too damned kind.

[Brother Daniel]

I played the piano on stage in a fancy-schmancy theatre, in front of an audience of hundreds. (Fortunately, they were there to hear the children's choir I was accompanying -- not to hear me.)

I placed 48th in USA+Canada in the Putnam undergraduate mathematics competition. (The median score was zero. A six-hour test. Yes, people do this for fun.)

I finished off a PhD with untreated ADD.

I climbed the old city wall of Constantinople, in the dead of night.

[BWE]

thousands huh? My dad is a butcher. :)

Maybe tens of thousands. I worked in slaughterhouses as a kid all the way through college. About 10 years in all. I'm not even sure there are small slaughterhouses any more. I'm also pretty sure that they're non-union and terrible pay. I made pretty good money. Lots of people made it a career in those days.

I'm the only journeyman butcher I know in my current field, although I doubt my skills are very top-notch any more.. :) But I still have all my fingers and not too many severed nerves so I feel good about it. I learned a lot about attitude there that stuck with me ever since. I learned a lot about compassion too.

[Mediancat]

Does sex in the woods count? :)
How about sex in a cop car?

The former, sure.

The latter -- was it with the cop?

Rob

[Loren Pechtel]

Climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro.

[PostMortem]

I've eaten whale, several different ways but the most unusual is from a can (like tuna).

I've been out drinking with the head of the Yakuza for Shinjuku (This is akin to drinking with one of the heads of the 5 families in New York).

I've been kidnapped (Not related to the above).

And I can think of a lot more but most of them I wouldn't want to put in writing.

[Brianna]

The former, sure.

The latter -- was it with the cop?

Rob

Of course.

[BWE]

I climbed this cliff centered in this pic:
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_HKtfyfEpfzQ/RgDO3XxkArI/AAAAAAAAGHE/0-F3jXK4u-8/s720/IMG_20070318_6533.JPG
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_HKtfyfEpfzQ/RgDOwXxkAlI/AAAAAAAAGGU/8flj-kTQEGA/s512/IMG_20070318_6521.JPG(here it is in the snow)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3120/2445104110_965822831b.jpg?v=0
and here it is in the sun (Big picture):
http://www.snohomishsportsmensclub.org/images/Project/Kelcema%20Lake%20one%20of%20our%20Fish%20Plants.JP G
in slip on shoes and cutoff shorts and a tanktop with a buddy. It's a fuck lot bigger than it looks in these pics. I climbed it when the cliff was bare but above were snowfields and around the lake too. We started at the low point, the bottom of the V in the shadow in the sun pic. It inverts for quite a ways at about 2/3 up. The cliff is several hundred feet high.

[Brianna]

Maybe tens of thousands. I worked in slaughterhouses as a kid all the way through college. About 10 years in all. I'm not even sure there are small slaughterhouses any more. I'm also pretty sure that they're non-union and terrible pay. I made pretty good money. Lots of people made it a career in those days.

I'm the only journeyman butcher I know in my current field, although I doubt my skills are very top-notch any more.. :) But I still have all my fingers and not too many severed nerves so I feel good about it. I learned a lot about attitude there that stuck with me ever since. I learned a lot about compassion too.

<3 I bet you can sharpen knives really well.

[BWE]

<3 I bet you can sharpen knives really well.

I have a certificate somewhere that says I'm certifies as a master knife sharpener by the union. It's pretty funny. But yes, I can sharpen knives better than most.

[Brianna]

I've hiked to here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Mountain_(Minnesota)

I also grew up on a diary farm. :) Started driving tractor as soon as I was big enough to pull the hand clutch.

I have also butchered animals. Not as many cows... but pork, chickens, venison, and beef.

[BWE]

link should include the last parenth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Mountain_(Minnesota)

[Moriah Conquering Wind]

Let's see. Moriah once fucked Richard Hatch ... does that count?

Before he got, like, terribly old and stuff, it means. :D

Got into a nasty argument once with the dude who played Chekov on Star Trek, too. Over religion of all things. Hey, HE asked Moriah about ITS beliefs. HE instigated the conversation ... then HE got pissy and nasty when it started answering his questions, acting like "what the fuck you blathering on about this to ME for?" Um, dude? If you don't really WANT to know what someone thinks, believes, whatever, here would be a clue: don't fucking ASK!!!

Asswipe.

[Moriah Conquering Wind]

Hmmm, what else ...
... several things it COULD post, feeling a bit shy though about doing so.


ETA: PostMortem, same here, re kidnapped, though more specifically, lured on false pretenses, taken across state lines, and held hostage for nearly 12 hours. Long story, don't feel like going into details, but this happened just last November.

[LoneWolf]

- I have sky dived and SCUBA dived, two things a lot of people have done but not MOST.
- Swam with pirhana in the Amazon.
- Lived on 4 continents, soon to be 5.
- Have personally met President Bush, Condi Rice, and Colin Powell.
- Had lunch with Bill Clinton.
- been on Airforce One (not while flying though)
- have eaten spiders, snakes and scorpions
- bottle fed a white tiger cub
- a bunch of other stuff but if I told ya I’d have to kill ya. I’m kidding! But seriously, I’d have to kill ya.

[Puck]

I'm boring...

Trolled for grouper under the Skyway Bridge
Could throw a 10' cast net
White water rafting on the Ocoee River
Been up in a glider plane
Been in a tornado and a few sideswipes of hurricanes
Had a gun pointed at me and dared the guy to pull the trigger
Can shingle a roof by myself
Held a Hummingbird, twice.
Seen Venus in the middle of a bright sunny day

Ooooh, and I've touched Ashaman's big 12 inch. :D
(okay, so several here have, too)

[Uthgar the Brazen]

Stood on top of a five-storey parking deck during one of the worst lightning storms in recorded (Texas) history and never got hit once.

It was fucking awesome.

[alien billie]

- I have sky dived and SCUBA dived, two things a lot of people have done but not MOST.
- Swam with pirhana in the Amazon.
- Lived on 4 continents, soon to be 5.
- Have personally met President Bush, Condi Rice, and Colin Powell.
- Had lunch with Bill Clinton.
- been on Airforce One (not while flying though)
- have eaten spiders, snakes and scorpions
- bottle fed a white tiger cub
- a bunch of other stuff but if I told ya I’d have to kill ya. I’m kidding! But seriously, I’d have to kill ya.

I wish you'd told George and Condi.

[Febble]

I once saw a moon rainbow.

[Oolon Colluphid]

I've been shot, electrocuted, impaled, gashed wide open, hit by a car, concussed by a falling steel beam, been in a truck that flipped 5 times ...
Man, that was a bad, bad day.

[alien billie]

Man, that was a bad, bad day.

But a great movie.

[Oolon Colluphid]

Hmmm. 'Bugger all' is the first thing that comes to my mind.

Best I can think of is being given an impromptu and maddenly brief back-stage tour of the Natural History Museum by one Per Ahlberg. I was in London, had had a few pints at lunchtime with my brother-in-law, went into the museum as I'd intended anyway, had a sudden idea... and just sort of... asked if he was in.

[Oolon Colluphid]

But a great movie.
Yeah. Goodchild's identity can now be revealed. He is Jason Voorhees.

[dug_down_deep]

On Monday, I walked 18 miles to get home. Out of spite, because she said I was bluffing.

I don't recommend it. At about mile 10, I was feeling very, very stupid. Haven't talked about it since.

[BWE]

On Monday, I walked 18 miles to get home. Out of spite, because she said I was bluffing.

I don't recommend it. At about mile 10, I was feeling very, very stupid. Haven't talked about it since.

that's an all day walk. Shit.

[dug_down_deep]

6 hours

[Brianna]

6 hours

I retract my statement as I can't do math today. carry on.

[Goodchild]

Yeah. Goodchild's identity can now be revealed. He is Jason Voorhees.

Though I'll probably regret admitting it, I have worn a hockey mask before :)

Ooh, that reminds me. In the area of physical trauma i've also had a slapshot rebound up into my eye. Everyone said I fell to the deck like a rock lol.

[LoneWolf]

I wish you'd told George and Condi.

HA!

The day I got to pull ol' Georgie's picture off our office wall was a very, VERY good day.

[Loren Pechtel]

that's an all day walk. Shit.

I've gone farther. Something close to 30, most of it was over rough terrain and the lowest altitude was 12,000'. The highest was 18,500'.

In hindsight I would have done things differently: I would have walked 50. It would have been easier than walking the additional 20 on sore legs the next day. (Anything in between wasn't a realistic option, there was shelter at the halfway point but neither food nor water.)

So long as you don't push too hard and are in moderate shape it's not hard to simply keep going.

[BWE]

I've gone farther. Something close to 30, most of it was over rough terrain and the lowest altitude was 12,000'. The highest was 18,500'.

In hindsight I would have done things differently: I would have walked 50. It would have been easier than walking the additional 20 on sore legs the next day. (Anything in between wasn't a realistic option, there was shelter at the halfway point but neither food nor water.)

So long as you don't push too hard and are in moderate shape it's not hard to simply keep going.

Well, thanks for that tip. :cool:

[diana]

Well shit.

I got nothin'.

d

[RBH]

- Have personally met President Bush, Condi Rice, and Colin Powell.
- Had lunch with Bill Clinton.- Well, I precede you by a few presidents: I met JFK when he was aboard my ship 6 days before Dallas.
- Have crawled into the bottom of a Polaris launch tube into the space under the missile to wiggle the control surfaces of the rocket motors 20 minutes before launch
- Crawled into a number of burning buildings on purpose
- Once the ceiling fell in on me whilst I was in there
- Done underwater body search and recovery, and found some
- Some other stuff associated with fire/EMS/heavy rescue that I prefer not to think about
- Attended four institutions spread over 8 years before I finally got a B.A., then blasted through to the Ph.D. in 3.25 years, narrowly missing a new land speed record.
- Once reportedly drank 16 Rusty Nails (http://www.drinksmixer.com/drink4306.html) at a bar on Hotel Street in Honolulu. (I say "reportedly" because I lost count - and consciousness - and was told later that someone else counted)
- Played follow the leader. On motorcycles. In the dark. With lights off. Cross-country.
- Rode a motorcycle across the country north to south, Florida to Minnesota
- Some other stuff I've repressed - the Rusty Nails killed off some neurons, I guess.

[hecaterin]

Rode a motorcycle across Bhutan.
Sang in concerts at the Sydney Opera House.
Written computer programs on punchcards.
Reviewed restaurants for a newspaper.
Drunk snake wine.
Danced in a burlesque show.
Done CPR for real - too late, though.
Worked as a nude model.
Got arrested at Greenham Common.
Cycled around the IJsselmeer.

That'll do for now.

[Uthgar the Brazen]

HA!

The day I got to pull ol' Georgie's picture off our office wall was a very, VERY good day.

Yeah. Except the agency director wouldn't let me have the one we'd had up for 8 years. She suspected something untoward would happen.

:evil:

[LoneWolf]

Yeah. Except the agency director wouldn't let me have the one we'd had up for 8 years. She suspected something untoward would happen.

:evil:

Your director sounds like a very insightful person. :)

I tried to think of something clever but in the end I just ran it through a shredder very slowly. It was cathartic.

[dancer_rnb]

Performed with a scottish dance group at Folklife Festival in San Antonio.

Help run an english country dance group. (Think Jane Austin movie dancing)

[sohy]

I drove across the country by myself with a two month old baby. That was totally nuts.

I've inserted many Foley catheters in both females and males, including one in a kinky boyfriend back in the 70s. ( Well it was his crazy ass idea, thank you very much and I can't believe I told y'all that )

I've been baptized in a fundy church when I was 8. Bet most of you haven't done that.

I've been bitten by a rattle snake.

I hitchhiked with my girlfriends on the Jersey shore when I was a teenager.

I attended a wonderful Dizzy Gillespie concert just a few years before he died in a half empty run down auditorium in Greenville, South Carolina.

I successfully talked some asshole out of raping me after he grabbed me in a dark parking lot many years ago.

I attended peace marches during the Viet Nam War.

I picked up a guy in one of those disco bars that had fog coming up from the floor and now I still can't seem to get rid of him after thirty years. :D

I'm getting desperate here now.

[frazier]

Made my own telescope mirror, and the scope to put it in.
Played a game of tournament chess against GM Andy Soltis (lost, of course). This was in the ninth round of a twelve-round swiss, not just a random pairing.
Jumped over a cabin on skis.

[His Noodly Appendage]

Spent a year or two homeless, living out of a car with my family and eating from dumpsters, between the ages of 7 and 9.

[Moriah Conquering Wind]

6 hours

did a 12-mile hike once and that about did the feet in with blisters. stamina fine but FRACK, the BLISTERS!!!! :eek: OWWWW ....... :(

[Joykins]

Let's see. In roughly chronological order.

Touched Jimmy Carter's pants (at a White House Easter Egg roll).

Baptized in an evangelical church at the age of 9 (not 8)--I think that's pretty common though.

Had my picture in National Geographic.

Been to Papua New Guinea, had someone point an arrow right at me, and met a former cannibal.

National Merit Scholar.

Published fiction.

Lost on Jeopardy!

Had a VBAC.

[Xorply]

Several years ago created some of the most monster threads to ever grace a message board, some of which still exist to this day.

-X

[Christina]

Was "If you catch on fire, do not run" one of yours? That was one of the funniest threads that I've ever seen and it convinced me to start posting there.

[Xorply]

Most people know me for the Battle Threads, but I also created the Caption thread at II as well as the What Music Are You Listening to thread. All of which have spawned several bastard children at that forum and several others.

-X

[Pendaric]

Was "If you catch on fire, do not run" one of yours? That was one of the funniest threads that I've ever seen and it convinced me to start posting there.

As far as I recall that was started by Oxidizing Material.

[Asha'man]

I've been 1000' below the surface of the ocean, in a 3-man research sub. (ok, it had retired from research, and was a tourist ride in Grand Cayman Island.)

I've jumped out of a perfectly good airplane. Just once, and it was a static line jump.

[Christina]

Most people know me for the Battle Threads, but I also created the Caption thread at II as well as the What Music Are You Listening to thread. All of which have spawned several bastard children at that forum and several others.

-X

I loved the caption thread too. You all came up with hilarious stuff.

[Pendaric]

Most people know me for the Battle Threads, but I also created the Caption thread at II as well as the What Music Are You Listening to thread. All of which have spawned several bastard children at that forum and several others.

-X

Good times. I used to enjoy the Battle Threads.

[David B]

Good times. I used to enjoy the Battle Threads.

Whereas I, seeing the number of posts in the Battle Thread at IIDB, never opened it up, in fear that I would have to read all the way through it.

I have something of a history of ploughing through long threads:(

What about starting it here, whateveritis?

David

David

[Ray Moscow]

I've done martial arts most of my life.

I've lived in some strange places, butchering several languages in the process.

I used to do a lot of religious stuff, going through several traditions.

Otherwise, I'm ordinary.

[Brother Daniel]

Touched Jimmy Carter's pants (at a White House Easter Egg roll).
I assume that's "pants" in the North American sense (trousers) rather than the British sense (underwear)?
Baptized in an evangelical church at the age of 9 (not 8)--I think that's pretty common though.
I waited to age 11 for some forgotten reason.
Had my picture in National Geographic.
Maybe I've seen you. (Which year was that?)
Published fiction.
Way cool.
Lost on Jeopardy!
Isn't that a Weird Al song?

[Joykins]

Yes, trousers, 1987, and my whole life sometimes seems like a Weird Al song. :D

[Brother Daniel]

Much of Weird Al's "White and Nerdy" fits me, though I was never a Trekkie.

[RBH]

Man, it gives me the willies hearing about Weird Al, since I saw his father (Frankie Yankovic, the Polka King (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_Yankovic)) play at a wedding dance (not mine!) in the early 1950s.

[Garrett]

Been a burglar. Quit when I was caught for stolen goods due to a snitch. Sounds bad I know. Is bad. I won't even shoplift now. But man what a rush, to sneak through town in the dead of night, pick a target, find a way in, loot the place while the good people sleep, then escape. Must be why I love the game Thief so much.

Rock climbed from the Sierras to the Rockies. Wow. I'm afraid of heights, which is why I took up the sport. After a year of bouldering and top-roping, I actually lead several climbs! Including the Independence Monument in the Colorado National Monument.

Got caught in a riptide, barely made it back to shore. Tore cartilage in my knee from that, and I still limp.

Spent a couple of years trying to find and regain my stolen kids. I succeeded.

[Brianna]

I've eaten whale, several different ways but the most unusual is from a can (like tuna).

I've been out drinking with the head of the Yakuza for Shinjuku (This is akin to drinking with one of the heads of the 5 families in New York).


Eskimo? How far up the cost do you live?

[dug_down_deep]

Garrett, you scare me sometimes.

[Arctish]

I've eaten some unusual seafood: whale, fresh herring roe, seal oil, shark, and blowfish.

I have snorkeled with sea turtles, skates, and sharks (touching a few of them as they passed) and gone scuba diving on tropical reefs.

I have been close enough to Orca to smell their breath. I was so close once some of the blow drifted onto my skin and clothes.

I have looked into the open mouth of a humpback whale catching herring.

I gone skinny dipping in a pool of ice water on a glacier.

I have flown solo in a small Cessna.

I rescued an injured Red Shouldered hawk and helped raise a baby raccoon, a baby gray squirrel, and 3 little skunks.

I have been bitten by a wild raccoon.

I was employed for 2 months as an astronomer even though I'm not an astronomer.

[Brianna]

I have been bitten by a wild raccoon.


Did you have to have rabies shots? :(

[VoxRat]

This thread makes me feel really dull. I've been to Antarctica. Other than that, can't really think of anything worth mentioning.

[Anne]

We made liner notes in a rock star friend's album once.

I have embroidery in two museums, in two countries. I hope to have at least one more at the end of my training.

I've been backstage and in the pit of Lincoln Center more times that I can count. My Grandfather was a percussionist there.

I've seemed to luck out at museums, and have guards pull back the ropes to let me get closer to stuff/ sit in stuff/ try stuff on. I like that luck.

I've been bitten by a dolphin and swam with a hammerhead.

[Christina]

This makes me think of some more stuff. Robert Anton Wilson dumped a bowl of popcorn over my head once, Clarence Clemons asked for some rolling papers, Springsteen asked to play my bf's guitar once which was really hilarious because he didn't know who he was and gave him a rash of shit over making sure that his hands were clean and that he knew what he was doing. I could barely keep from howling in laughter every time Springsteen looked at me since he realized that I did know who he was. I've met a lot of other musicians but not though any effort of mine. The same BF worked for Bill Graham Productions so he always got me backstage. Harrison Ford donated a lot to my shelter although I never met him. We got a lot of grants from Paul Newman's foundation too and his daughter Nell used to make lots of donations and would bake cookies and pies for the clients. They never knew who she was but they all had crushes on her. It was cute.

I also got to watch the fireworks over the Hudson River on one 4th of July from a metal cage suspended from the side of the Empire State Building above the 80th floor that you had to get to by scrunching along a catwalk on the side of the building. I was tripping at the time and getting out there was terrifying.

[Tawny]

I've been stabbed
Ive had breakfast with Bob Dylan
I have had my left eyelid lowered....twice
I've sung in a choir on Songs of Praise! (Brits will know that one)

[Puck]

I also got to watch the fireworks over the Hudson River on one 4th of July from a metal cage suspended from the side of the Empire State Building above the 80th floor that you had to get to by scrunching along a catwalk on the side of the building. I was tripping at the time and getting out there was terrifying.

We need a Thanks button. Of all the stories so far, that's the one that's wowed me.

[Christina]

We need a Thanks button. Of all the stories so far, that's the one that's wowed me.

It was great. A friend's father was the head of security and maintenance and my friend worked for him there and had all the keys. I can't even imagine how much trouble he would have gotten in if we had been caught by someone that recognized him, but with all of the private parties going on at every viewing deck in the building no one noticed us or if they did they didn't care.

One night we almost had his dad convinced to light up the top of the building with rainbow lights when the dead were in town like they do with red and green lights for xmas, but he wouldn't give in.

[Lisa0315]

I don't think I have done much that other people haven't. I have danced and sang on stage before. I have had an invitation from Ted Nugent to join him backstage when I was 17. That is about it, actually.

Lisa

[RBH]

Man, it gives me the willies hearing about Weird Al, since I saw his father (Frankie Yankovic, the Polka King (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_Yankovic)) play at a wedding dance (not mine!) in the early 1950s.Now I learn that Weird Al is not Frankie's son. They're both Yankovics, but no relation! Whoda thunk it?

[dug_down_deep]

I don't think I have done much that other people haven't. I have danced and sang on stage before. I have had an invitation from Ted Nugent to join him backstage when I was 17. That is about it, actually.

Lisa
Ted likes him a 17 year old or two. He actually took guardianship of one so he could do her.

And Courtney Love gave him oral when she was 12.

Of course he's a conservative nutjob, too, which pretty much fits the profile, I guess.

[Lisa0315]

Ted likes him a 17 year old or two. He actually took guardianship of one so he could do her.

And Courtney Love gave him oral when she was 12.

Of course he's a conservative nutjob, too, which pretty much fits the profile, I guess.

Good grief, that is disgusting! Where did you get that info? I hope it is not true. I hope Courtney Love made it up. I knew about the 17 year old whom he eventually married. She was from Hawaii. I never heard about Courtney Love, though.

Lisa

[BWE]

This thread makes me feel really dull. I've been to Antarctica. Other than that, can't really think of anything worth mentioning.

may I use that for a sig?

[Pendaric]

I've also been held at gunpoint for 10 minutes.

The most terrifying incident of my life - About 8 years ago I had come out of the bank and got in my car, and as I was putting my seatbelt on a guy jumped in behind me, told me he had a gun and he would blow my brains out if I didn't so what I was told, and then he told me to start driving.

I was made to drive a couple of miles with him threatening me all the way, then he told me to pull over and give him my money. His lucky day - I'd just picked up the wages and there was about £1,500.

He ran off with it, but I consider myself worth a fair bit more than £1,500.

[Ray Moscow]

He ran off with it, but I consider myself worth a fair bit more than £1,500.

Hell, yes! Give him the money.

I think I would have been terrified, too.

[dug_down_deep]

I was in a convenience store while it was being robbed, but never had a gun pointed at me. That's gotta be a profound experience.

[Notta]

The mayor of Tokyo looked down the front of my dress as he tried to convince me that Franzia boxed wine was 'very fine'. I agreed.

Other than that, nothing much special. Although on the same trip to Japan I convinced a Yakuza guy to pose for a picture with me. I knew nothing about the Yakuza until I got back and showed my kids the photo -- they were appalled that I managed to make him pose.

[diana]

I've been baptized in a fundy church when I was 8. Bet most of you haven't done that.Here.

Only technically, it was in a nearby river in February. But it was fundy and I was 8. So you can't use that one. ;)

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[diana]

Had my picture in National Geographic.Were you the dark-skinned woman with the deflated, pendulous breasts?

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[diana]

I also got to watch the fireworks over the Hudson River on one 4th of July from a metal cage suspended from the side of the Empire State Building above the 80th floor that you had to get to by scrunching along a catwalk on the side of the building. I was tripping at the time and getting out there was terrifying.I won't pretend to compete with that, but I did get to see the 4th of July fireworks over the mall in Washington from Section 8 of Arlington National Cemetery because I worked there and a handful of us had a friend in the park service who got us in after hours.

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[Christina]

I case it wasn't clear, there was a handrail on the catwalk. If there wasn't I doubt if they could have gotten me to crawl on my hands and knees, never mind walk. Arlington must have been great.

I had a gun pointed at me a few times when I was a teenager working at a store in the Bronx in the early 70s but it was never a big deal. It happened all the time in all the stores in that neighborhood and you just handed over the money and no one ever got shot. The managers expected it and came around collecting all the money once an hour so there wouldn't be much to get and no one expected us to be heroes.

[Puck]

Dang, I forgot about having a gun pulled on me, although I know I've told it before.

Guy intentionally bumped into the back of my ex's truck that I was driving, I was waiting at the drive through window for my order. I was so pissed that I got out and walked back to him and told him to never do that again. He pulled a gun and grinned. I leaned against the brick wall behind me, put my left foot on the wall (miss cool, I'll have you know) and told him 'go ahead motherfucker, shoot'. He put the gun down, I went back to my truck, and was soooooo tempted to put it in reverse and drive over his car. But I just left and carried the burgers home.

Wonder what they girl in the window thought.....

[Joykins]

Were you the dark-skinned woman with the deflated, pendulous breasts?

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No, I was the teenager in sunglasses and hot pink Elizabethan costume carrying a beach bag.

No shit.

[Brianna]

No, I was the teenager in sunglasses and hot pink Elizabethan costume carrying a beach bag.

No shit.

Proof? :D

[nygreenguy]

Had coffee with Obama.

Twice.


Ive watched 4 people die in front of me from motorcycle accidents.

[Anne]

^^^ completely not jealous of that one.

[nygreenguy]

^^^ completely not jealous of that one.


Which one. :)

[Anne]

Coffee.

Coffee sucks.

<sheesh>

I've had a ton of my peers die. My brother's friends started kicking it when I was a kid, then my best friend's kid sister died when I was 8, and then I just had a ton of deaths. About 1/4 of my graduating class from HS have died already, one within a year of graduating. A couple in 9/11.

I feel like I'm living 100 years ago, with my personal death toll...

So I'm not jealous of your watching 4 people die...

[Albion]

I've set up and coordinated a group blog with 30 authors and managed not to go totally insane in the process (I hope, anyway...)

Not that it sounds like such a great achievement, but I'm a total disaster around computers so for me it's pretty impressive.

[Ronin]

Does sex in the woods count? :)
How about sex in a cop car?

...

:tortoise:

[Wolfhound]

Artificially insemenated chickens.

I win!!!

[Brianna]

...

:tortoise:

:D Can you say you haven't been tempted?

I am pretty boring mostly.

[Notta]

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.

[Jobar]

I wouldn't doubt that sex in the back of a cop car is old hat for Ronin. :D

[Jobar]

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.

Did they call you 'Igor'?

[Brianna]

I wouldn't doubt that sex in the back of a cop car is old hat for Ronin. :D

Eh, I got to sit in the front!

[Notta]

Did they call you 'Igor'?
No, but I seemed to have developed a fixation on shiny, shiny knives.....:D

[Ronin]

I wouldn't doubt that sex in the back of a cop car is old hat for Ronin. :D

Actually, not in a be-squillion years, my friend...never mix the spermatozoa with the likes o' germatozoa.

:banana:

Eh, I got to sit in the front!

Up front, you say?

:facepalm:

[Brianna]

Actually, not in a be-squillion years, my friend...never mix the spermatozoa with the likes o' germatozoa.

:banana:



Up front, you say?

:facepalm:

I can't say he was the smartest cop I knew.
It was fun while it lasted and I never did catch his last name.

The sex was good and I treasure them now several years later. :D

[sidhe]

I am pretty boring mostly.

Lies. Damn lies.

On the subject of guns and cops:

I had guns pulled on me by cops twice in a week, of the three times I got stopped by a cop that week. The other one, they drove onto the sidewalk where I was walking and boxed me in.

I was never the guy they were looking for. :D

Amusingly, the last two were by university campus police. I knew a few of them from chatting outside late at night. One of them was involved in both stops. I never let him live that down.

[Joykins]

Proof? :D
It was Feb. 1987. There is a picture of a cute Icelandic girl on the front of the issue. Go look it up; I guarantee you there is some packrat in your family that has hoarded the issues for years.

[Moriah Conquering Wind]

Haven't had a gun pulled (yet), but been raped a couple times by force (not injury-inflicting violence, just overpowering by brute force -- being 5'3" and at the time weighing maybe 115 tops and weak as a kitten, didn't take much) and taken hostage once (by 3-d humans, it means) for about 12 hours. Does that count?

[Moriah Conquering Wind]

You all know what a qadesha bes, yeah? An hierodoule? "Scarlet woman"?
Served that way for some 20 years. For those who don't know, it would be the equivalent of a combined spiritual counselor/advisor, transmitter of gnosis and visions, and sacred prostitute all in one for fellow occultists & ceremonial magickians of either gender.

[Moriah Conquering Wind]

Had the cops called on it for its thoughts being unacceptable. Been involuntarily committed for the same reason.

Kid you not.

[Moriah Conquering Wind]

Of course none of the above could be considered "accomplishments" by any means ...

For that we have to return to more halcyon and promising days, such as at the age of 12 where it got invited with 5 other classmates from its algebra class to participate in a Johns Hopkins sponsored math and science talent search.

And obviously being taught to suck cock at the age of 7 wouldn't fit in here either, though some might consider that an accomplishment. ;)

[Uthgar the Brazen]

First six-pack of (real) beer at 5, not even a buzz. Maybe the jelly beans helped off-set the alcohol. :dunno:

3 high-speed car chases with cops, one ending in manslaughter. Killed a man once just to watch him die. Then raised him from the dead and did it again, but in a differently creative way. Slaughtered thousands and once kissed Franklin Roosevelt when he wasn't looking, and gave Ben Franklin about 40 wedgies over the course of his career.

Of course, I think he liked it, or I'd only have gotten away with it twice, three times tops.

[Hallie-Rivka]

Met Howard Dean, and two years after the fact he still remembered me.
Gave road head in a cop car.
Have lesbian moms.

[Hex]

It was Feb. 1987. There is a picture of a cute Icelandic girl on the front of the issue. Go look it up; I guarantee you there is some packrat in your family that has hoarded the issues for years.

Or has the entire century on CDs ... :cool:

Should I post the proof then? :D

[Hex]

And, just to add in my own little bit ...

... chased bears at night, sans flashlight whilst wielding a 3 foot bulldozer-adjusting wrench ...

... drove aforementioned bulldozer at the age of 5 ...

[Free in Freeport]

Um, I did the nasty in the elevator at Jacobson's, an upscale department store.

Lived in Alaska and Mexico.

Been married to the same person for 26 years.

[PostMortem]

The mayor of Tokyo looked down the front of my dress as he tried to convince me that Franzia boxed wine was 'very fine'. I agreed.


That wouldn't happen to have been Governor of Tokyo Shintarō Ishihara by any chance, would it?

He is one of the most repugnant people ever to hold a major office in a developed, democratic country. Of the many appalling opinions he has spouted here's just a few:


All elderly women should die soon, or kill themselves, because they contribute nothing to society.

Women who have not had children should not be entitled to a pension or any other government assistance.

The police and military should be prepared to shoot and kill foreigners in the event of a major earthquake in Tokyo because the foreigners will most certainly take the opportunity riot and loot. (Never mind that after the last two major earthquakes in Japan foreigners were often denied any food, shelter or assistance at the emergency response stations)

Japan must never allow a female to take the Imperial Throne.


So I wouldn't be surprised if it was him you met, as you can see he's a real charmer.

[/derail]

[Moriah Conquering Wind]

Got a a standing ovation once at the age of 19 just for walking into a crowded movie theatre. Must have been the miniskirt and thigh-highs. ;) Honestly had no idea why everyone suddenly stood up and started clapping and cheering until a kind soul pointed out why.

Then it felt embarrassed. LOL.

Oh, got another round of applause during a lecture once for blurting out, "oh FUCK the feminists!" in response to some really over-the-top ludicrous example of supposed "politically correct gender inclusive" rewording of ancient texts. Oy vey.

(Love reading everyone else's here -- sorry it doesn't have any real "accomplishments" to wow the group, thanks for tolerating its silly pathetic attempts to find meaning in random life events)

[Cath B]

When I was in my teens in the 70s I had a ride in a coracle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coracle) at Cenarth on the river Teifi.

The coracle forms a unique link between the modern life of Britain and its remote past. This early type of boat was in existence amongst the Britons at the time of the invasion of Julius Caesar, who has left a description of it, and even employed it in his Spanish campaign. On land, coracles could provide light troops with protection from missile weapons.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Coracles_River_Teifi.jpg

[LoneWolf]

I manually killed 30 mice one day and harvested their thymus glands.

I did something like that once. When I was 15 I volunteered at the Fort Worth Zoo and one day I had to help prepare the food for the monitor lizards. The yfed them mice but the mice had to be dead first. I think they injected them with vitamins or something. Anyway, I had to kill about 30 of them. We did it by holding them by the tail and whipping them down on to the table hard which would, usually, kill them instantly. It wasn't pleasant and I avvoided that particular duty in the future.

[Moriah Conquering Wind]

Ouch! Always thought necessary kills for lab animals involved helium or something. (Helium, right? Brain glitch, not sure it has written the right gas--supposed to be painless, kill in like 15 minutes or so?)

[Moriah Conquering Wind]

Ooooh yeah, got to meet Senator Paul Wellstone just weeks before the horrible tragic plane crash that claimed his life and the lives of nearly all his immediate family. :( What a lovely man he had been, and so dedicated to doing GOOD with his position, too. We need more like him.

[Oolon Colluphid]

I've sung in a choir on Songs of Praise! (Brits will know that one)

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[Tawny]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpNIwx32F30
I love that! I also love the School Master and Hell too :)

[Lisa0315]

I was known as the Masked Mooner of **** ***** when I was 16. The cops never caught me. :D

Lisa

[Puck]

Someone give Lisa a cookie! Love it.

[Lisa0315]

Someone give Lisa a cookie! Love it.

That was some fun times. A whole bunch of us used to pile into a Chevy and cruise Main Street. One night, there was some guy who cut us off in traffic, and we started chasing him. We were cussing him. He gave us the finger, and the next thing I knew I pulled down my pants and mooned him. He nearly wrecked. The next night, my friends gifted me with my first thong (that was the mask) and I mooned everyone on Main Street the whole summer.

Which brings up another memory...I was with a guy who burned down a field by accident. We had this stupid boy with us and he threw out a firecracker. It was hot and dry and the whole field went up. There were cops and fire trucks all over the neighborhood that night.

Lisa

[His Noodly Appendage]

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[dug_down_deep]

Skinned an elephant with my teeth.

Swear to god.

While it was alive.

With both hands tied behind my back.

[Lisa0315]

Skinned an elephant with my teeth.

Swear to god.

While it was alive.

With both hands tied behind my back.

Somehow, that sounds sexual to me...:evil:

[dug_down_deep]

I left that part out.

[Lisa0315]

I left that part out.

*snicker*

[Joykins]

Or has the entire century on CDs ... :cool:

Should I post the proof then? :D


:eek: Be my guest.

[Anne]

heh.

You look cute.

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj251/Hex_Runes/287B0249.jpg

[Brianna]

Or has the entire century on CDs ... :cool:

Should I post the proof then? :D

I think Hex won the Geek Award of the year with this one.

[Anne]

heh.

I always say, the nerdier the better.

Nerds turn me on.

[Brianna]

heh.

I always say, the nerdier the better.

Nerds turn me on.

I would be really impressed if he had all of the "knights of the dinner table" comics on cd too :D

[Goodchild]

I would be really impressed if he had all of the "knights of the dinner table" comics on cd too :D

Before I got rid of my comic collection years ago I had the first hundred and something issues of that :) Hoody hoo!

[Brianna]

Before I got rid of my comic collection years ago I had the first hundred and something issues of that :) Hoody hoo!

:(

[Goldie]

I'm going to have to put my contribution on "Word' first, I think. I have done some odd things, but many of you know that already.

[Joykins]

Man, that is pretty damn nerdy. But I'm is nerdy enough to wear a 1500s style dress in 1980s colors, so I can't judge. :rolling:

[Notta]

Ouch! Always thought necessary kills for lab animals involved helium or something. (Helium, right? Brain glitch, not sure it has written the right gas--supposed to be painless, kill in like 15 minutes or so?)
Ether. My employer was too cheap to buy ether, so I had to whip them by the tail and smash their heads, or wrench their head away from their neck to kill them. Poor little buggers....:(

[Anne]

oooo!

Hex reminded me!

I was on a plane the IRA bombed!

[Notta]

oooo!

Hex reminded me!

I was on a plane the IRA bombed!Where were you buried?

[sidhe]

I would be really impressed if he had all of the "knights of the dinner table" comics on cd too :D

Thanks for reminding me! I'll get back to work on finding those. :)

[tjakey]

160+ on a motorcycle (public but empty road, me bad)

200+, inverted, 5 feet off the ground in an Extra 300S

30 turn spin in an airplane (and a knife edge spin - wild ride that)

I rode along in a 4 way "dog-fight" with an acrobatic team known as the Northern Lights out over the TX desert. That was the wildest damn ride I have ever been on!

I once talked a lost and scared pilot out of heavy weather by giving him a lesson in IFR flying over the radio, while I skirted right along the edge of that same weather. He and his passengers lived, I beat the weather back to the airport (barely) and it all worked out okay. I wouldn't want to do it again though.

Sailing, rock climbing, SCUBA diving, flight instructing...stuff like that, I think a lot of other people have done those things.

Someday I hope to live on a sailboat and chase grand babies and warm weather up and down the East coast.

[Moriah Conquering Wind]

Wow tjakey, some hardcore extreme action there! Impressed -- and slightly jealous. :)

Fastest it ever went on a motorcycle would be 60 down the highway, barefoot with no helmet. At age 15, as a passenger, not driving. Scary enough!

[Anne]

Where were you buried?

:)

We were late taking off and taxi-ing when it happened.

It was fun. I was 12. I was sitting by the wing with the engine that was bombed and got to watch the stuff happening.

The next 23 hours of being searched and under security guard and confined, not so fun...

[tjakey]

Oddly enough, I don't normally think of those things as extreme. The 160+ on the bike I still do pretty regularly (GSXR1000). The airplane stuff was back in my airshow and acro-instructor days. Long ago in a galaxy far, far away...

Now I drive a corporate jet for a living, (I'm the guy everyone loves to hate these days.) and the folks in the back are allergic to "extreme." Not that the jet will do much more than go from place to place. It wouldn't like being upside-down any more than my passengers. Except for the bike, about the most extreme thing I do these days is take the sailboat out when the winds are blowing pretty hard and get it heeled over 25 degrees or so.

[Uthgar the Brazen]

For the record, I just hate your employers, tjakey, not you. ;)

[tjakey]

Fair enough Uthgar. And for the record the people I have carried in the back of the various corporate airplanes I have flown have often been some of the smartest and hardest working people I have been around. 12 to 14 hour days, with a number of sight visits, multiple meetings on sight and other meetings that continue while I fly them from one place to the next, are the norm, not the exception. For many of them the "corporate jet" isn't a perk, it is a smallish, crowded, often uncomfortable place that is simply a part of their job that has to be endured. Our company never uses the airplane for personal business, doesn't fly "guests" and rarely sends us out with less than 4 passengers on board.

I would love to get a job in a big corporate barge complete with flight attendants, stand up head room, 0.8 Mach cruise and all the goodies that flies to all the hot spots in the country. But my pocket jet is about the size of a big van and lands at small airports, hot spots like Caruthersville and Lula, Prairie du Chien, Waterloo and Detroit. They own the plane because there is no good way to get where they need to be without it.

Anyway, my personal rant. I love the people who hate corporate jets, then drive their own personal cars everywhere they want to go. What's the matter, you too good to take the bus?

[Loren Pechtel]

Now I drive a corporate jet for a living, (I'm the guy everyone loves to hate these days.) and the folks in the back are allergic to "extreme." Not that the jet will do much more than go from place to place. It wouldn't like being upside-down any more than my passengers. Except for the bike, about the most extreme thing I do these days is take the sailboat out when the winds are blowing pretty hard and get it heeled over 25 degrees or so.

Why should we hate you? You're not responsible for them having the jet.

[miss djax]

i spent my 20's as a rave promoter, met some great djs and bands and toured around quite a bit. ended up on a few album liner notes :D

ive stayed in a great chateau in the loire several times for holiday, with groups of friends. its also a vineyard so you pick up bottles in the cellar, line them up near the stairwell and pay for them when you leave. the last time i think 10 of us drank over 100 bottles in a week. :D sure was fun ;)

[Mung Dynasty]

Well I once rode a motorbike straight through a herd of cattle on a full moon while tripping on LSD.

This wasn't deliberate. They just happened to be on the road at the time. Don't ask why I was on the road at the time. That's another story.

[Anne]

I once came to a complete stop on a major highway during a heavy fog merely to see how fast I could go from '0 to 60'.

[Mung Dynasty]

So, how fast?

[DrLight]

Lets see - born in Papua New Guinea
god father was a cannibal/head hunter witch doctor (my dad was a govt ranger there)
had infantile malaria
been hopsitalised in icu after a bad mugging
been a baptist lay preacher (but I got better)
been in the oldest rain forest in the wrold - Taman Negara in Malaysia
been up an active volcan, in an earthquake and a typhoon - quake was small 6.something, but the typhon and volcano were during the one holiday in Japan - was great - and only a couple of years ago.

[LoneWolf]

Anyway, my personal rant. I love the people who hate corporate jets, then drive their own personal cars everywhere they want to go. What's the matter, you too good to take the bus?

HA!

It's all relative, ain't it?

[MrFungus420]

Does sex in the woods count? :)
How about sex in a cop car?

Sex in woods. Check.

Cop car? No.

Graveyard? Yes.

Church...I'm so going to hell! :evil:

[MrFungus420]

Worked at two different strip clubs (bouncer and bartender).

Helped nurse a dog back to health that had a broken neck.

[DMB]

I have a broken neck of my own. (Overturned a car at 90 mph.)

After more than 20 years of living in a Francophone country, I still speak imperfect French.

Went to about 20 different schools as a child.

It's hard to work out what other people might not have done.

[Lisa0315]

Oh, I got one...

I am not a nurse but I was the primary caretaker of a catastrophic accident victim. I have administered an IV via Pic Line. I done wound care for someone with MRSA. I have given shots in the stomach and arms of this same person. I have built a handicap ramp with no prior knowledge. Need really is the mother of invention.

I have received 12 credit hours for life experience. It helped me complete my degree. I only applied for 8 hours but they gave me 12. I think the story above inspired them to do that.

Lisa

[tjakey]

Now I drive a corporate jet for a living, (I'm the guy everyone loves to hate these days.) and the folks in the back are allergic to "extreme." Not that the jet will do much more than go from place to place. It wouldn't like being upside-down any more than my passengers. Except for the bike, about the most extreme thing I do these days is take the sailboat out when the winds are blowing pretty hard and get it heeled over 25 degrees or so.

Why should we hate you? You're not responsible for them having the jet.

The problem is, (something no one seems to remember) if they don't have the jet then the people who build jets, service jets, fuel jets, park jets, build hangars for jets, and fly jets don't have jobs. And, (something else no one seems to remember) the US aircraft manufacturers where not only net exporters to the world, (kind of rare in our country now) but at the very cutting edge of technology, (something else kind of rare in our country now).

Everyone smiled at how GM and Ford were forced to close their flight departments, get those "FAT CATS." You know who wasn't smiling were the hundreds of highly skilled and well payed people, pilots / mechanics / dispatchers / schedulers that made up those departments.

Ah well, the populist revolt has started. I hope to eek out a living long enough to make the transition to living full time on my sailboat. Of course, after the revolution it will be called a "yacht" and someone, somewhere, will decide I am a FAT CAT and should be living in a hovel somewhere.

[Brianna]

Does sex in the woods count? :)
How about sex in a cop car?

Sex in woods. Check.

Cop car? No.

Graveyard? Yes.

Church...I'm so going to hell! :evil:

What is this "Detroit Rock City"? :D

[Lugubert]

Seems like “experienced” counts as “done”.

More than 30 years ago, driving on a North German Autobahn at 130 km/h, my new car uncontrollably steered to the right, down a small slope, revolving one full turn before stopping on a field, right side up. A small scratch on my forehead must have come from contact with the rear mirror; otherwise, I was unharmed.

Several years later, it was revealed that the front wheel bearings for that model year hadn’t been factory greased before delivery, but had had just the oil film from the bearings manufacturer, so the right one must have seized.

[sidhe]

I did 120mph in a car I didn't own in any sense of the word. :)

[Brother Daniel]

After more than 20 years of living in a Francophone country, I still speak imperfect French.
I've lived over 40 years in a francophone country, and I bet my French is much worse than yours. (But then, most people in this (supposedly) francophone country of mine speak no French at all.)

[Lisa0315]

The only French I know is Encule and Encume. I bet I am not even spelling it correctly. Let me know if you get the gist...:D

[Moriah Conquering Wind]

Does sex in the woods count? :)
How about sex in a cop car?

Sex in woods. Check.

Cop car? No.

Graveyard? Yes.

Church...I'm so going to hell! :evil:

Mmmmm ... sacrilicious! :evil:





(and ditto sidhe's tally here)

[Dannyboy]

What have i done?

i have drunk freshly melted glacier

i paid a bride-price of 9 cows for my wife

i've scuba-dived off the side of a 500ft coral wall with hammerhead sharks

i've been to Darfur (worth mentioning on its own, but it also contained several unique experiences)
- met an escaped slave
- been shot at by bandits
- hidden from the Janjaweed
- managed a medical clinic in an IDP camp

i've had to tell hundreds of people that their husband/wife/parent/child has died

And finally (on a more upbeat note), i have stripped naked on the stage of a transvestite bar. :)

i like this being my first post. Hello.

[Lisa0315]

What have i done?

i have drunk freshly melted glacier

i paid a bride-price of 9 cows for my wife

i've scuba-dived off the side of a 500ft coral wall with hammerhead sharks

i've been to Darfur (worth mentioning on its own, but it also contained several unique experiences)
- met an escaped slave
- been shot at by bandits
- hidden from the Janjaweed
- managed a medical clinic in an IDP camp

i've had to tell hundreds of people that their husband/wife/parent/child has died

And finally (on a more upbeat note), i have stripped naked on the stage of a transvestite bar. :)

i like this being my first post. Hello.

Wow!!! I am very impressed!

[Christina]

i like this being my first post. Hello.

So do I. Hello : )

[Mung Dynasty]

I want the pix from the bar.

Post 'em up, boyo. :D


Anyway in response to the earlier "sex in a cop car" thing: although I haven't done that I have had sex in a Hillman Hunter in the forecourt of a service station (that's gas station to you Septics) on a Sunday afternoon.

[Sodong]

I can spin at very high speeds on ice skates. When I was less sure I'd break, I could leave the ice in a vertical direction.

I slept on a beach once and woke up surrounded by sand crabs

I caught a water moccassin once and moved it to a place where it wouldn't come to harm

I've touched a dog shark

Somewhere in this city there is a large painting of me naked and 25 years after it was painted I bumped into the artist on the subway

I'm sure I must have done something more significant than these thing but now it's way past time for bed and I've done nothing very productive in these past few hours than hang out here and listen to a bunch of Bob Dylan songs.

[Free in Freeport]

I lost 70 pounds and completed a triathelon past the age of 40. Ok, so it was one of those baby Danskin triathelons, not a "real" one, but I'm still counting it!

1K swimming, 20K bicycle, 5k running.

I've resisted the ridiculous tattooing fad.

[Christina]

I suppose that losing over 100 pounds and keeping it off for 6 years so far is something that not a lot of people do, and I can still dance as well on roller skates at 49 as I could at 29. The only difference now is that I'm scared to break a bone at my age and won't throw myself into spins as hard. It's not as much fun knowing that your bones are far more brittle than they used to be. I've done some really goofy and weird stuff when I was very manic but they won't make any sense to anyone that hasn't been there and then they would laugh their asses off.

No tatoos for me either. I've always had a commitment phobia and I don't want anything permanent on my skin.

[Dannyboy]

I want the pix from the bar.

Post 'em up, boyo. :D

Sadly no documentary footage has survived of the stripping, although i do have a photo of me in drag from earlier in the evening (this all seemed like a good idea at the time as i recall) which you are welcome to have a look at just as soon as you pry it out of my cold dead hands. :)

Was it one of those self-service places?

[Sodong]

I suppose that losing over 100 pounds and keeping it off for 6 years so far is something that not a lot of people do, and I can still dance as well on roller skates at 49 as I could at 29. The only difference now is that I'm scared to break a bone at my age and won't throw myself into spins as hard. It's not as much fun knowing that your bones are far more brittle than they used to be.Yeah, same for me only I do it on ice skates. I went down pretty hard a few weeks ago and I still have a nasty bump on my knee that doesn't seem to want to go away. It hurt for a long time. I used to recover pretty quickly from that sort of thing. The spins I still do...because I love doing it and refuse to give it up - I'll take my chances. I've eased off on the jumps though and will only occasionally (when I'm feeling ballsy) do a single. My 49th is coming up in a month or so. I've done some really goofy and weird stuff when I was very manic but they won't make any sense to anyone that hasn't been there and then they would laugh their asses off.

No tatoos for me either. I've always had a commitment phobia and I don't want anything permanent on my skin.I have do have one on my hip/left butt cheek, but it's commemorative rather than decorative and I usually have that part of me covered up, so it's not normally visible to anyone but me. :)

[dug_down_deep]

I helped this guy (http://www.myspace.com/elvymusic) with his lyrics - basically just telling him when something sounded strange in English and suggesting another way of saying it.

[Brother Daniel]

The only French I know is Encule and Encume. I bet I am not even spelling it correctly. Let me know if you get the gist...:D
Hmmm. "Enculer" is literally "to bugger"/"to buttfuck"; and several figurative phrases (roughly equivalent to "fuck you!") can be derived therefrom. "Enculé" is a pretty generic (rude) insult.

As for "encume", I can't guess, nor can I find anything when I look it up.

[Ray Moscow]

The only French I know is Encule and Encume. I bet I am not even spelling it correctly. Let me know if you get the gist...:D
Hmmm. "Enculer" is literally "to bugger"/"to buttfuck"; and several figurative phrases (roughly equivalent to "fuck you!") can be derived therefrom. "Enculé" is a pretty generic (rude) insult.

As for "encume", I can't guess, nor can I find anything when I look it up.

We learn something new every day here. :)

[Lisa0315]

The only French I know is Encule and Encume. I bet I am not even spelling it correctly. Let me know if you get the gist...:D
Hmmm. "Enculer" is literally "to bugger"/"to buttfuck"; and several figurative phrases (roughly equivalent to "fuck you!") can be derived therefrom. "Enculé" is a pretty generic (rude) insult.

As for "encume", I can't guess, nor can I find anything when I look it up.

We learn something new every day here. :)

I thought it meant Fuck Me.

[Christina]

The spins I still do...because I love doing it and refuse to give it up - I'll take my chances.

I know - when your balance is perfect it's the greatest rush. My favorite thing to do on skates is to do 4 step spins in rapid succession with only one stride in between to keep up some speed, and run them along in a big backwards circle as fast as I could. It probably has a name in ice skating because I've seen the same thing although of course on ice it's much more graceful. The chances of falling on my ass were in direct proportion to the number of people that I was showing off in front of.

Sometimes after a long night of tripping I would go out to some dark empty parking lot and skate around like that under the stars for hours. The only non-traffic ticket that I ever got was for making a security guard chase me around an indoor lot because I was determined to take the outside ramp all the way down. That was so much fun at the time that it was worth a misdemeanor. That one also gets filed under manic, obviously ; )

[Ronin]

I was a latch-key kid who grew up in the wreckage of Camille in Gulfport, MS watching Bruce Lee, Lone Ranger and Vincent Price matinees at the Paramount Theater on Saturdays.

My grandmother taught me all there was to know about our native culture along with about every resource on Wicca, phrenology, astrology, numerology, Chinese astrology, crystals, transcendental meditation, Islam, Catholicism, astral projection, ghosts, the spirit world and (fortunately) Joseph Campbell.

My mother was a novitiate of the sisters of the blessed sacrament (http://www.katharinedrexel.org/) and the left convent with guitar, backpack and dreams. I was born in June, 1964.

One year, I saw the lunar capsule of Apollo 17 on the flight deck of the Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier from my step-father's boat as it made way to harbor in from splashdown in the pacific. I also met and shook hands with Captain Gene Cernan (http://marklarson.com/genecernan/bio.html) in 1970s San Diego and I still have his autograph on a photograph from the Apollo 17 mission.

He is the last man on the moon.

"Tell Cernan, BEEP-BEEP my ass!"

Al Shepard's response whenever one of the crew patches for the back-up crew would float out of a locker. Cernan, Evans and Engle had taken care to stash away patches in every single locker and compartment in the spacecraft.

At around 13, I started a club at my junior high school called "Monsters, Mysteries and Myths" which diligently searched for evidence for paranormal claims, Sasquatch, UFOs, Nessy, etc. We nine found none.

I had a high speed car crash on I-10 in Santa Rosa County Florida as a teenager on my way to taking my high school friend on his check out dive for PADI certification at Morrison Springs in Ponce de Leon (two tanks in the trunk), suffered a head injury, suffered a head injury, suffered a head injury...but otherwise came away alive. The first thing I remember after regaining my mind was my mom telling me that John Lennon had been shot and killed. It is all I can recall from that year or so still.

I used to spend a lot of my life after that in New Orleans, at Ryan's Irish Pub and the French Quarter listening to bands on temporary passes from County Sligo and Innisfree. My first taste of Guinness there brought me home and I was again in the presence of the Celts William Joseph had to leave to save his family from pestilence. No, I wasn't "carded", what part of Irish Pub in New Orleans do I have to explain? I have a bootleg copy of Mad Mike the hippie bum.

I've made out with a bridesmaid inside a very confining Catholic church confessional at her sister's wedding.

I've been held up at gunpoint as a clerk at the Majik Market at 1 am in the darkest of night and subsequently maltreated by police during the "investigation". The robber had every opportunity to kill me in a deadly still moment of uncertainty just before he fled the store and was never apprehended. I walked away into some years I'll keep my own.

I've graduated in the top percentage of my class at the police academy. I got the entire class punished for being a "show off" on the driving course. The same class kept me from being ejected for fighting in the barracks with a recruit from Columbus (who, for the record, was a complete jackass and implicitly requested what I served).

I've crashed a police car during a high speed pursuit of a car thief and had to rely on others to make the collar.

I've cut an umbilical cord welcoming the beauty of sweet human life and have whispered lies into the ear of an 18 year old as he convulsed in my arms and died.

I've taken a dead infant from her mother's arms. I've attended and photographed the autopsy.

I've hunted (http://www.geocities.com/verbal_plainfield/a-h/evans.html) and captured (http://www.wlox.com/Global/story.asp?S=7844628) monsters.

I've sent men to prison for life and talked to folks I've never known (or have seen again) from killing themselves, while completely missing the same opportunity for those I've loved.

I've breathed in the first winds of hurricane Katrina from the seawall, realized that nothing further could be done and understood that I had made the worst decision of my life that I will always regret and hold myself responsible for until the day I die. I have worked search, rescue and recovery, have seen and smelled human decay. I've recognized faces. I've delivered food to wandering men, women and children in the forests and streets. I've opened highways with a chainsaw and have torn out sheetrock and carpet for people I no longer know.

I've watched the watchmen and rendered justice for all when they betrayed the only oath we all really have.

I've had an argument regarding morals and ethics with a police chief and city administration and left their employ the day after on principle alone.

I've had another police chief call me at home that same day and offer me a job who was subsequently murdered by teenagers during a robbery in a hotel parking lot only a few months later.

I've told my good friend that I appreciated everything he has ever done for me and hugged him five days before he was killed in a motorcycle crash.

I have actually met jobar, puck, diana, talulah, ladyshea, frankie (among the infidels) and dream of meeting others one day because they are good folk and I owe them my everything.

Tomorrow night I will receive the Police Officer of the Year Merit Award ~ 2008 for courage and professionalism in the city of Biloxi, Mississippi.

I get up each morning and I wonder what will happen next.

The day I don't make it through one by some happening, you are to absolutely know that I had a great time here on this world...and hope you do as well.

[Lisa0315]

Bless you, Ronin.

Lisa

[Christina]

Tomorrow night I will receive the Police Officer of the Year Merit Award ~ 2008 for courage and professionalism in the city of Biloxi, Mississippi.



Congratulations :)

[Goldie]

Tomorrow night I will receive the Police Officer of the Year Merit Award ~ 2008 for courage and professionalism in the city of Biloxi, Mississippi.



Congratulations :)

Indeed. :)

[Ray Moscow]

From what I've read: it's well deserved, Ronin. Congratulations!

[Puck]

Bless you, Ronin.

Oh, he is so gonna kick your ass for that. :D

Ronin, you pay it back every day you clock in. And many days you are off the clock. And congrats on the award, well deserved my friend.

And you'd better damned sure return home each day, cause I wanna see you retired and playing with Grandbabies.

[Lisa0315]

Bless you, Ronin.

Oh, he is so gonna kick your ass for that. :D

Ronin, you pay it back every day you clock in. And many days you are off the clock. And congrats on the award, well deserved my friend.

And you'd better damned sure return home each day, cause I wanna see you retired and playing with Grandbabies.

Why? I deliberately took out God from that. I cannot bless him?

Lisa

[Ronin]

Bless you, Ronin.

Oh, he is so gonna kick your ass for that. :D

No damn shit, I channeled my good friend Mims Carter and just let it wash over me...ala the woo zen "I am the stone in the center of the river" crapola.

What is the sound of one hand clapping?

Who is poking who with a stick?

:poke:

Ronin, you pay it back every day you clock in. And many days you are off the clock. And congrats on the award, well deserved my friend.

Thanks for the congrats, Puck and everyone. But if they expect speechifying in a monkey suit I'm going to experience big fail.

And you'd better damned sure return home each day, cause I wanna see you retired and playing with Grandbabies.

I've manage a very good run, Becks, and just wanted to express my heart...in case.

I'm getting old, my friend, and have lost so many to capricious events these past few years.

~ Id imperfectum manet dum confectum erit

[Lisa0315]

Ronin, I apologize. I specifically took God out of "Bless you". I didn't know that it would still be offensive to you. I was sincerely trying to say "Thank you" for all you have done in the service of this country.

Lisa

[Anne]

I just remembered I fell down a well.

Seriously. We were hiking and I just started to run ahead, turned around, still running, and the ground was no longer there.

No long ordeal, just a lot of screaming (not from me) as the other kids got adults to help me out. I didn't fall all the way to the bottom, I caught the edge.

[Alethias]

Ronin, I apologize. I specifically took God out of "Bless you". I didn't know that it would still be offensive to you. I was sincerely trying to say "Thank you" for all you have done in the service of this country.

LisaThe word connotation has an overtly religious connotation to some. I took it as your genuine, sincere expression of gratitude, as a kindness offered. Speaking as one that spent most of his life a christian, and has lost his ability to have faith in a christian god, I thank you for your kindness and sensitivity.

What have I done that many others haven't? I've cast demons from people, been a prophet of god, sold shoes to the drummer of the beach boys, obtained a Top-Secret security clearance, was involved in reporting a "security issue of international significance" that I still can't talk about. Most of the things I've done that others haven't are boring, though.

[Brother Daniel]

I thought it meant Fuck Me.
I don't think so.

If you want to say "fuck me" (more-or-less literally, as an imperative) you'd say "baise-moi" or "baisez-moi" (the first is the friendly/familiar conjugation and the second is the polite/formal conjugation, although "polite" would be a bit of a misnomer given what we're talking about). Or I suppose "encule-moi" or "enculez-moi" if you want the commanded fuck to be anal in nature.

But I'm not sure that any of these options would have the right connotations. In English we might say "fuck me!" as an expression of surprise, for example. And I'd seriously hesitate to translate it directly if that's what I was trying to say!

(Yeah, watch out for "baiser". It just means "to kiss" in all the dictionaries, but in real French usage it's more like "to fuck", rudeness included!)

(Disclaimer: I'm no expert, so I'm more than half expecting someone to correct me on all of this.)

[Ronin]

Ronin, I apologize. I specifically took God out of "Bless you". I didn't know that it would still be offensive to you. I was sincerely trying to say "Thank you" for all you have done in the service of this country.

Lisa

Love is love, life is life, hope is hope, dreams are dreams, thanks are thanks, Lisa.

We are caught in the difficult circumstance of being lost between the translation of the superfluous to the most simple and distinct.

That said, thank you and peace be with you as you make your way.

I count you as a good friend and hope you feel the same.

:thumbup:

[Brother Daniel]

This bit jumped out at me:
I've told my good friend that I appreciated everything he has ever done for me and hugged him five days before he was killed in a motorcycle crash.
I'm sorry for your loss (that one and many others), but that, Ronin, was one awesomely well-timed hug.

[Lisa0315]

I have a story.

Before I started first grade, I had a very mean babysitter. This area of the country used to be known for three things: Tobacco farming, textiles and furniture. My babysitter had a shop in her basement in which she received bad socks and repaired them for local manufacturers. She put me to work when I was 4 years old (unknown to my mother). I had to stand for hours pulling socks on my hands to find holes for her to sew up.

Well, I was a very sickly child, in and out of the hospital during this period. I was beginning to get sick and I asked my babysitter if I could take a nap and she told me I had to do socks. So, I "ran away". I went to a dark place in the basement and hid. I fell asleep. I woke up and saw someone walk right by me. I remember seeing a stripe on his pants leg. A few minutes later, I heard my Mother demanding to go down into the basement, and the babysitter insisting I was not down in the basement. I remember getting mad because the babysitter was "lying" to my Mom. I came right out of my hiding place.

Understand hours had passed. Worse, it was reported on the news that a convict who HAD BEEN WORKING ON THE SAME ROAD the babysitter lived had escaped that day. Everyone thought I had been kidnapped by the convict.

Needless to say, the babysitter refused to keep me anymore. I ended up at another babysitter's house who turned out to be a preacher's wife. This family ended up being the catalyst by which everyone in my family became Christians. My uncle even ended up marrying the preacher's daughter.

Lisa

[Ronin]

This bit jumped out at me:
I've told my good friend that I appreciated everything he has ever done for me and hugged him five days before he was killed in a motorcycle crash.
I'm sorry for your loss (that one and many others), but that, Ronin, was one awesomely well-timed hug.

Yeah, Daniel, and it happened just last August.

My dear friend and HNT mentor Lt. Rob Curry will have his name added to the Law Enforcement Officer Memorial in Washington D.C. May, 2009.

http://www.nleomf.com/TheMemorial/i/offwall.jpg

http://www.nleomf.com/TheMemorial/i/ValorHope.jpg

http://photos3.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/5/2/1/3/600_5241011.jpeg



My friends (TR required).
(http://talkrational.org/showpost.php?p=129682&postcount=33)

[Free in Freeport]

I was getting ready to rappell down this cliff when I slipped, swung out, hit the wall, and swung to a ledge just 6-7 feet below the top. The upsetting part was finding out my daughter was my belayer. If she or I hadn't braked my fall, I'd have squashed her like a bug! (Not that anyone else deserves to have a falling buttress land on them, but knowing you could have killed your own kid is pretty sobering.)

http://thumb7.webshots.net/s/thumb2/0/32/35/108903235uIftxb_th.jpg (http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/1108903235052908727uIftxb)

[Sodong]

The spins I still do...because I love doing it and refuse to give it up - I'll take my chances.

I know - when your balance is perfect it's the greatest rush.Yep. Sure is. I also love the sensation of skating backward really fast. My favorite thing to do on skates is to do 4 step spins in rapid succession with only one stride in between to keep up some speed, and run them along in a big backwards circle as fast as I could. It probably has a name in ice skating because I've seen the same thing although of course on ice it's much more graceful. The chances of falling on my ass were in direct proportion to the number of people that I was showing off in front of.LOL! I'm kind of in a world of my own when I skate. I don't have a lot of formal training. It was more a transition from classical dance after an injury prevented me from doing any more of that and having done it regularly (maybe even close to obsessively sometimes) for more than 20 years. This year not so much though. "( Way too busy and only outdoor ice nearby. Which usually sucks, surface-wise.

Sometimes after a long night of tripping I would go out to some dark empty parking lot and skate around like that under the stars for hours. The only non-traffic ticket that I ever got was for making a security guard chase me around an indoor lot because I was determined to take the outside ramp all the way down. That was so much fun at the time that it was worth a misdemeanor. That one also gets filed under manic, obviously ; )Sounds like there was lots of energy to burn back then, hm? :)

[Tangiellis]

I studied under a Buddhist monk for a year and a half while I lived in NYC.

I have a tattoo of a cactus rose on the top of my head, hiding underneath my hair. (my tats are all mostly unseen)

Those are my only two claims to fame. The rest of the stuff in my life is ordinary.

[Sodong]

Ouch! Always thought necessary kills for lab animals involved helium or something. (Helium, right? Brain glitch, not sure it has written the right gas--supposed to be painless, kill in like 15 minutes or so?)It's often isoflurane. Another common one is halothane. Carbon dioxide can be used under certain circumstances and there are also injectibles (barbituates, T-61) and physical methods (cervical dislocation, decapitation and er...stunning) which can only be used under certain circumstances.

[MrFungus420]

I caught a water moccassin once and moved it to a place where it wouldn't come to harm

That reminds me...

I've done the same thing for a tarantula at a rest area in New Mexico.

[MrFungus420]

and I can still dance as well on roller skates at 49 as I could at 29.

Pshhhh...I can say the same thing.

I have two left feet with or without wheels... :D

[Christina]

I'm kind of in a world of my own when I skate. I don't have a lot of formal training. It was more a transition from classical dance after an injury prevented me from doing any more of that and having done it regularly (maybe even close to obsessively sometimes) for more than 20 years. This year not so much though. "( Way too busy and only outdoor ice nearby. Which usually sucks, surface-wise.
Street and bike path skating forces you to pay attention so that becomes second nature, but I did most of the dancing in empty parking lots because I was completely oblivious once I got going. I was never formally trained in any way but I had to be taught almost all of the difficult moves and practice them for ages before I had them down. I got my first pair of skates at 4 years old. I don't know how old you are but they used to be these metal platforms with metal wheels that attached to your shoes and you tightened them with a skate key. <insert painful Melanie ear worm from the early 70s). I always loved to dance too and one day I was skating to some music and all of a sudden I was dancing so I started hanging out with the really good skaters down by the beach and learned a lot more from them. We used to have great full moon skate parties and race all over town. I've never skated on an indoor rink.

Sounds like there was lots of energy to burn back then, hm? :)
Yeah, and then some. I still have more than I need but I've found ways to burn it that don't include being chased around on skates while high on drugs and I do my dancing at home as a workout.

[Coleslaw]

I've had third degree burns debrided. Fortunately most people never have to have that done. I don't recommend it.

On the fun side, I went to Antarctica last month. I've been told fewer than a million people have ever been there. That sounds like a lot, but it's less than 1/8 the population of NYC.

ETA:
I've also been on a Mardi Gras float (truck float, not the fancy ones) twice, throwing beads and trinkets. That's fun.

I've hosted 5 foreign exchange students.

I've been serenaded by gypsies in a wine bar in Hungary, although I'm sure millions of Hungarians and tourists can say the same.

I need to visit one more continent (Australia) to have been to all seven.

[Sodong]

and I can still dance as well on roller skates at 49 as I could at 29.

Pshhhh...I can say the same thing.

I have two left feet with or without wheels... :DThen surely you'd be able to skate brilliantly in a backwards, counterclockwise circle on your outside edge or in a forward, clockwise circle on your inside edge! Getting off the ice would be tricky but it could be done. I can skate the full length (and then some) of a large arena on one foot. I recommend you try that first. Ice is very hard and unforgiving to fall on. :D

[David M]

A few things:

Done 170mph on a motorbike.
Cage dived with Great whites
Snorkelled with both whale sharks and a tiger shark (the latter was unintentional I will admit).
Worked in Saudia Arabia and Turkey.
Stood at the Golden gate of constantinople.
Had a 15 minute sleep underwater while scuba diving.
Worked on a ship to south america and back when I was 15.
Watched cataract removal operations in the theatre when I was 17.
Was stung by a scorpion in the shower.
Have been to 6 continents.
Spent an evening drinking vodka with a senior (but "retired") member of the russian mafia.

[Sodong]

I'm kind of in a world of my own when I skate. I don't have a lot of formal training. It was more a transition from classical dance after an injury prevented me from doing any more of that and having done it regularly (maybe even close to obsessively sometimes) for more than 20 years. This year not so much though. "( Way too busy and only outdoor ice nearby. Which usually sucks, surface-wise.
Street and bike path skating forces you to pay attention so that becomes second nature,I've done that on inline skates and may go searching for my protective gear. I don't like it as much but it's great exercise, nevertheless. but I did most of the dancing in empty parking lots because I was completely oblivious once I got going. I was never formally trained in any way but I had to be taught almost all of the difficult moves and practice them for ages before I had them down. I got my first pair of skates at 4 years old. I don't know how old you areOld enough to know better for sure. :) I'll be 49 in a couple of weeks. but they used to be these metal platforms with metal wheels that attached to your shoes and you tightened them with a skate key. <insert painful Melanie ear worm from the early 70s). Ice skates were equally horrendous then. Zero ankle support and awfully uncomfortable as I recall. I always loved to dance too and one day I was skating to some music and all of a sudden I was dancing so I started hanging out with the really good skaters down by the beach and learned a lot more from them. We used to have great full moon skate parties and race all over town. I've never skated on an indoor rink.It doesn't require the same level of attention to the surface and so permits the direction of all of your attention to the planes, symmetries, your mass and angular momentum.

Sounds like there was lots of energy to burn back then, hm? :)
Yeah, and then some. I still have more than I need but I've found ways to burn it that don't include being chased around on skates while high on drugs and I do my dancing at home as a workout.It's good you've chosen that less risky outlet :)

[Coleslaw]

A few things:

Done 170mph on a motorbike.
Cage dived with Great whites
Snorkelled with both whale sharks and a tiger shark (the latter was unintentional I will admit).
Worked in Saudia Arabia and Turkey.
Stood at the Golden gate of constantinople.
Had a 15 minute sleep underwater while scuba diving.
Worked on a ship to south america and back when I was 15.
Watched cataract removal operations in the theatre when I was 17.
Was stung by a scorpion in the shower.
Have been to 6 continents.
Spent an evening drinking vodka with a senior (but "retired") member of the russian mafia.

So which continent do you have left to go to?

[Loren Pechtel]

A few things:

Done 170mph on a motorbike.
Cage dived with Great whites
Snorkelled with both whale sharks and a tiger shark (the latter was unintentional I will admit).
Worked in Saudia Arabia and Turkey.
Stood at the Golden gate of constantinople.
Had a 15 minute sleep underwater while scuba diving.
Worked on a ship to south america and back when I was 15.
Watched cataract removal operations in the theatre when I was 17.
Was stung by a scorpion in the shower.
Have been to 6 continents.
Spent an evening drinking vodka with a senior (but "retired") member of the russian mafia.

So which continent do you have left to go to?

6 continents are much easier to get to than the 7th. It's pretty obvious the one he hasn't gotten to is Antarctica.

[Brother Daniel]

Did you miss the fact that Coleslaw has visited all continents except Australia? From that POV, his question to David is a reasonable one.

[Anne]

Hell, my folks have only been to 4. And that's including Antarctica...

[miss djax]

is one more ok?

i had a huge layover in nyc on my way to greece and turkey. i slipped on ice in central park and fell, shattering my elbow and breaking my arm in 7 places. i had emergency surgery on valentine's day, putting in 2 plates and 12 screws in my arm, got on a plane, barfed on the curb at jfk, and woke up 12 hours later in a wheelchair in customs in instanbul :D

i'd miss work, just not vacation ;)

[Coleslaw]

A few things:

Done 170mph on a motorbike.
Cage dived with Great whites
Snorkelled with both whale sharks and a tiger shark (the latter was unintentional I will admit).
Worked in Saudia Arabia and Turkey.
Stood at the Golden gate of constantinople.
Had a 15 minute sleep underwater while scuba diving.
Worked on a ship to south america and back when I was 15.
Watched cataract removal operations in the theatre when I was 17.
Was stung by a scorpion in the shower.
Have been to 6 continents.
Spent an evening drinking vodka with a senior (but "retired") member of the russian mafia.

So which continent do you have left to go to?

6 continents are much easier to get to than the 7th. It's pretty obvious the one he hasn't gotten to is Antarctica.


I don't think it would be any easier for me to get to Australia than it was to get to Antarctica from where I am. Total flying time to Ushuaia was 17-18 hours, although with long layovers, and while there was that 2 day trip through the Drake Passage, it was more pleasant than a long flight IMO: with nice meals, comfy bed (okay, a bed) and entertainment.

And to go off on a tangent, I think it's a travesty of justice that the inventor of the scopolamine seasickness patch hasn't received the Nobel Prize for Medicine.

[Coleslaw]

is one more ok?

i had a huge layover in nyc on my way to greece and turkey. i slipped on ice in central park and fell, shattering my elbow and breaking my arm in 7 places. i had emergency surgery on valentine's day, putting in 2 plates and 12 screws in my arm, got on a plane, barfed on the curb at jfk, and woke up 12 hours later in a wheelchair in customs in instanbul :D

i'd miss work, just not vacation ;)

Brave you. I hope you enjoyed Istanbul, after all that.

And if adding more is allowed, I want to add that I once spent some time on Halloween talking to a member of the Arson Squad while dressed as Joan of Arc.

[Ronin]

I have no international travel experience.

Boo, me.

:argh:

[Pendaric]

Feel free to add as many as you want.

[Berthold]

Depends where you are.

In a predominantly anglophone community such as this, I suppose it is unusual to know and gather edible wild fungi. In continental Europe it is pretty common.

[Ray Moscow]

I have no international travel experience.

Boo, me.

:argh:

Well, you've done a lot of stuff that most of us haven't, so it evens out anyway.

[Ronin]

I have no international travel experience.

Boo, me.

:argh:

Well, you've done a lot of stuff that most of us haven't, so it evens out anyway.

Yeah, but I'm a selfish, greedy bastich and would like to experience it all!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/World_Map_1689.JPG/600px-World_Map_1689.JPG

[David M]

A few things:

Done 170mph on a motorbike.
Cage dived with Great whites
Snorkelled with both whale sharks and a tiger shark (the latter was unintentional I will admit).
Worked in Saudia Arabia and Turkey.
Stood at the Golden gate of constantinople.
Had a 15 minute sleep underwater while scuba diving.
Worked on a ship to south america and back when I was 15.
Watched cataract removal operations in the theatre when I was 17.
Was stung by a scorpion in the shower.
Have been to 6 continents.
Spent an evening drinking vodka with a senior (but "retired") member of the russian mafia.

So which continent do you have left to go to?

Antartica - one day I'll go there.

Adding a few more that have come to mind.

In Jeddah I ordered meat balls, and found out that that balls was literally what they were.
Held 2 of the Victoria Crosses won at the battle of Rourke's Drift.
Stood on the shore and looked at the visible line where the atlantic and indian oceans meet.
Walked into an enclosure containing 2 adult cheetah's - and they do purr when you stroke them.
Fed a baby lion cub.

[Pendaric]

I've attended a major boxing match as a member of the press and interviewed Don King. I've also met loads of boxers.

The yellow tag around my neck is a press pass:

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k225/baldbantam/Boxing/king.jpg

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k225/baldbantam/Boxing/Hagler.jpg

[miss djax]

is one more ok?

i had a huge layover in nyc on my way to greece and turkey. i slipped on ice in central park and fell, shattering my elbow and breaking my arm in 7 places. i had emergency surgery on valentine's day, putting in 2 plates and 12 screws in my arm, got on a plane, barfed on the curb at jfk, and woke up 12 hours later in a wheelchair in customs in instanbul :D

i'd miss work, just not vacation ;)

Brave you. I hope you enjoyed Istanbul, after all that.

And if adding more is allowed, I want to add that I once spent some time on Halloween talking to a member of the Arson Squad while dressed as Joan of Arc.

thanks, coleslaw :) turkey was amazing. i loved istanbul. the pix of me on that trip are great - i'm all hopped up on pain meds with a giant cast on my arm :D

the people in turkey could not have been more kind, they really went out of their way to help me.

greece? not so much. islands were great, ruins in athens were great, the rest of my time in greece was a big 'meh'.

any pics of you as joan of arc? :D

[Loren Pechtel]

So which continent do you have left to go to?

6 continents are much easier to get to than the 7th. It's pretty obvious the one he hasn't gotten to is Antarctica.


I don't think it would be any easier for me to get to Australia than it was to get to Antarctica from where I am. Total flying time to Ushuaia was 17-18 hours, although with long layovers, and while there was that 2 day trip through the Drake Passage, it was more pleasant than a long flight IMO: with nice meals, comfy bed (okay, a bed) and entertainment.

And to go off on a tangent, I think it's a travesty of justice that the inventor of the scopolamine seasickness patch hasn't received the Nobel Prize for Medicine.

There is regular tourist service to Australia. Antarctica has no tourist service beyond fly-overs.

[Coleslaw]

6 continents are much easier to get to than the 7th. It's pretty obvious the one he hasn't gotten to is Antarctica.


I don't think it would be any easier for me to get to Australia than it was to get to Antarctica from where I am. Total flying time to Ushuaia was 17-18 hours, although with long layovers, and while there was that 2 day trip through the Drake Passage, it was more pleasant than a long flight IMO: with nice meals, comfy bed (okay, a bed) and entertainment.

And to go off on a tangent, I think it's a travesty of justice that the inventor of the scopolamine seasickness patch hasn't received the Nobel Prize for Medicine.

There is regular tourist service to Australia. Antarctica has no tourist service beyond fly-overs.


Okay, now you are just being silly. (http://www.iaato.org/)

[Coleslaw]

A few things:

Done 170mph on a motorbike.
Cage dived with Great whites
Snorkelled with both whale sharks and a tiger shark (the latter was unintentional I will admit).
Worked in Saudia Arabia and Turkey.
Stood at the Golden gate of constantinople.
Had a 15 minute sleep underwater while scuba diving.
Worked on a ship to south america and back when I was 15.
Watched cataract removal operations in the theatre when I was 17.
Was stung by a scorpion in the shower.
Have been to 6 continents.
Spent an evening drinking vodka with a senior (but "retired") member of the russian mafia.

So which continent do you have left to go to?

Antartica - one day I'll go there.

You'll love it!

[BWE]

A few things:


Had a 15 minute sleep underwater while scuba diving.

:eek::eek::eek::eek:

WTF?

[David M]

A few things:


Had a 15 minute sleep underwater while scuba diving.

:eek::eek::eek::eek:

WTF?

I was waiting for a class to finish thier exercises before accompanying them on their first dive. So I was just lying on a patch of sand about 10m down in nice warm water watching them bob around practicing and the next thing I knew the instructor had come over when he realised I hadn't moved for 15 minutes. He's probably still relating the story to this day :D

I've also vomited while suba diving, now that was unpleasant. After that I stopped diving while hung over (well mostly stopped).

Was all while I was in Saudi Arabia, used to dive about 4 times a week so I clocked up a lot of dives (I've spent just over 3 days underwater).

[MrFungus420]

and I can still dance as well on roller skates at 49 as I could at 29.

Pshhhh...I can say the same thing.

I have two left feet with or without wheels... :DThen surely you'd be able to skate brilliantly in a backwards, counterclockwise circle on your outside edge or in a forward, clockwise circle on your inside edge! Getting off the ice would be tricky but it could be done. I can skate the full length (and then some) of a large arena on one foot. I recommend you try that first. Ice is very hard and unforgiving to fall on. :D

I can pretty much guarantee that I can do all of those almost as well with skates as without...never underestimate the (lack of) gracefulness of a forty-some year old white guy. :rolling:

[Sodong]

Pshhhh...I can say the same thing.

I have two left feet with or without wheels... :DThen surely you'd be able to skate brilliantly in a backwards, counterclockwise circle on your outside edge or in a forward, clockwise circle on your inside edge! Getting off the ice would be tricky but it could be done. I can skate the full length (and then some) of a large arena on one foot. I recommend you try that first. Ice is very hard and unforgiving to fall on. :D

I can pretty much guarantee that I can do all of those almost as well with skates as without...never underestimate the (lack of) gracefulness of a forty-some year old white guy. :rolling:Especially the ones with two left feet, huh? Your post caused me to imagine what one could do on skates with two left feet rather than the usual complementary right/left pair. :D

[Brianna]

I can still dance as well on roller skates at 49 as I could at 29.

I can't dance but I can go really fast. I wouldn't mind being a derby girl! :D

[Ronin]

I've attended a major boxing match as a member of the press and interviewed Don King. I've also met loads of boxers.

The yellow tag around my neck is a press pass:


Hey, those are great shots Pendaric!

Have you ever met Hector "Macho" Camacho?

http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2007/0611/box_g_macho_195.jpg

[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.

[Pendaric]

I've attended a major boxing match as a member of the press and interviewed Don King. I've also met loads of boxers.

The yellow tag around my neck is a press pass:


Hey, those are great shots Pendaric!

Have you ever met Hector "Macho" Camacho?

http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2007/0611/box_g_macho_195.jpg

No, not him, but I've met a few from that neck of the woods.

My photo gallery extends to:

Don King
Mike Tyson
Larry Holmes
Audley Harrison
Henry Cooper
Thomas Hearns
Marvin Hagler
Sugar Ray Leonard
Roberto Duran
Julio Cesar Chavez
Steve Collins
Chris Eubanks
Nigel Benn
Joe Calzaghe
Ricky Hatton
Mickey Duff

and a load more local boxers who you've never heard of.

Comes from attending fights and going to boxing dinners, and making sure I had a camera with me at all times.

[Ronin]

I've attended a major boxing match as a member of the press and interviewed Don King. I've also met loads of boxers.

The yellow tag around my neck is a press pass:


Hey, those are great shots Pendaric!

Have you ever met Hector "Macho" Camacho?

http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2007/0611/box_g_macho_195.jpg

No, not him, but I've met a few from that neck of the woods.

My photo gallery extends to:

Don King
Mike Tyson
Larry Holmes
Audley Harrison
Henry Cooper
Thomas Hearns
Marvin Hagler
Sugar Ray Leonard
Roberto Duran
Julio Cesar Chavez
Steve Collins
Chris Eubanks
Nigel Benn
Joe Calzaghe
Ricky Hatton
Mickey Duff

and a load more local boxers who you've never heard of.

Comes from attending fights and going to boxing dinners, and making sure I had a camera with me at all times.

You should compile the photos (if you're like me they're all over the place) and consider making a book for posterity.

[Pendaric]

They're all online, as well as being physically together in my collection at home.

I keep meaning to get round to making them up in to a photobook that various sites do, which are very good - we got a Kodak one for our various pet pictures a year or so back.

[Zebulon]

I nearly drowned in my great-aunt's pool a month before I turned three. I wasn't scared; I was fascinated by the way the sunlight looked on the surface of the water from underneath. That is my oldest memory.

I fell 15 feet out of a tree and hurt my arm at the beginning of summer vacation when I was eleven. I didn't tell my parents because I didn't want to be in a cast all summer, so I gritted my teeth and kept it to myself. I found out sometime after it had healed that I had fractured my ulna.

I've been a practicing Catholic, Protestant, Wiccan and Jew. I seriously considered at various times becoming a priest or a rabbi. I've kept kosher. I'm a U.S. citizen, but am also eligible for both Italian and Israeli citizenship. An EU passport might be helpful for a trip to Europe someday!

I've started and run a successful business, earned my 2nd degree black belt in taekwondo, ridden on an elephant, been licked by a giraffe, snorkeled with a sea turtle, and had coffee with Sen. Herb Kohl (nice guy!). I'm currently studying Old English, just because.

[Lisa0315]

Zebulon, That reminded me...I almost drowned when I was twelve. I could swim under water but did not know how to float. For some crazy reason, I decided to swim in the deep end and I thought I could make it from one side to the other. I remember thinking, "OMG, what if I can't hold my breath that long!", and then I panicked. One of my friends jumped in after me and I nearly drowned us both because I was climbing on top of her trying to get out. Finally, I passed out and she was able to get me out of the water.

Lisa

[Ronin]

I nearly drowned in my great-aunt's pool a month before I turned three. I wasn't scared; I was fascinated by the way the sunlight looked on the surface of the water from underneath. That is my oldest memory.

I wasn't quite so young.

My cousin was in his early teens, so I must have been 6 or 7 and was on an inflatable raft in the shallow end. He was being a goof and pushed the raft hard into the deep end and when I went to grab for support, rolled right off and sank.

It was very quiet and I remember looking curiously at the blue sky through the water surface shimmering above me. Even now I recall no sense of urgency or of suffocation, just sinking peacefully. Then, I was up and out of the pool wrapped in a towel vomiting, coughing and sputtering.

Walking back to the house I remember nothing more out of the ordinary or any further scene. I don't think I've ever told anyone what happened that day.

The description you presented is very accurate.

[Ronin]

They're all online, as well as being physically together in my collection at home.

I keep meaning to get round to making them up in to a photobook that various sites do, which are very good - we got a Kodak one for our various pet pictures a year or so back.

I think it would be a great idea.

:thumbup: