Ten Random Facts About Yourself

[ER]

1. I have visited James Dean's grave.

2. When I gaze up into a night sky, I often hear the same music play in my head, but I have never been able to identify what it is or where I heard it.

3. I have a mental block that makes me almost unable to speak or write my godson's name unless I concentrate on it.

4. I can put together a fifty-piece US map in under thirty seconds.

5. When I was little I was terrified of Teddy Ruxpin.

6. The existence of capital punishment makes me sick.

7. I once fell asleep in a cornfield.

8. This boy and I once got into a contest to see who could leave our right hands submerged in ice water the longest, and we called it a draw at ten minutes.

9. I am rarely more than five feet from at least one tube of Chap Stick.

10. I have seen every episode of The Big Bang Theory.

Bonus: I like italics.

[Chainsawmidget]

1. I have seen a ghost.

2.  I've ridden a camel.... and a horse. ... and a donkey.

3.  I have drove into a hurricane.  (The very edge of it anyway.)  

4.  I have a mounted deer head of a buck I killed before I was ten in my dad's house in Tennessee.  

5.  I once ran two miles in under 15 minutes.  

6.  I was once paid to dress up as Spider-man, sign autographs, and entertain kids.  

7.  When I was in Highschool I counted how many licks I took me to get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop.  I have sense forgotten the number.  

8.  Some one once was going to pay me to appear in a Star Wars fan film, but I lost his phone number before we could make any kind of concrete deal.  

9.  I used to work chemical operations in the military.  Mostly decontamination.  

10.  I live alone, so I only put on pants when I have to leave the house.  

[ER]

Chatting with my husband, who is on the other end of the state tonight, and I got him to do this. He said....

1. I am adopted and I don't know anything about my biological father.

2. I use a nail gun to spell out all three of my children's initials someplace hidden in every old house I restore.

3. In 2nd grade I went to a children's symphony concert and a man dressed as Chopin talked to us and until I got rudely corrected in middle school music class I thought I'd met the real Chopin.

4. The night I met my wife I was annoyed with the girl I was out with that night and almost walked out of the party and if I had I never would have met the woman I married, so I tried to get her to be our maid of honor but she if she did that she'd have to get divorced.

5. Unlike my OCD wife I couldn't care less about the question of the existence of God.

6. I've never run out of gas. Unlike my wife.

7. I've never been under anesthetic. Again unlike my wife.

8. I bought my first house at 21.

9. I used to invite a kleptomaniac to my parties.

10. I making hate lists and doing surveys. Also unlike my wife.

[RCMerchant]

1.I'm a drunk.-no mystery there!  
2.I hitchiked to  Liberty,New York-in the Catskills-from Lawton Mi.,which is near Kalmazoo and Lake Michigan. I was 16! It was fun.
3.I'm 5'2".
4.I read the  giant Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer in a week when I was in the hospital.
5.I still don't have a cell phone.
6.I'm smoking pot right now-so I aint drinking today!  
7.I've seen ufo's 3 thimes.
8.I went through the a sun roof of a car in a car accident-we flipped into a cornfield.
9.I like black licorce.
10.I walked from Lawton to  Marcellus (about 6 miles) in a blizzard  in the middle of the night-and I had dropped 2 hits of blotter!

[RCMerchant]

a few more facts:


8. I saw a bigfoot once.

now THAT sounds interesting!

[indianasmith]

1.  I have written five novels.
2.  I discovered and helped excavate a fifty foot mosasaur in 2001.
3.  I am an ordained minister.
4.  My wife and I met in second grade.
5.  I hold a third degree black belt in karate.
6.  I found my first Indian arrowhead when I was 5 years old.
7.  I've found over 8000 more since then.
8.  I've taught at the same school for 21 years.
9.  I have held a baby crocodile.
10.  I have also held a tiger cub.

[javakoala]

1.  I have never watched Titanic.

2.  I collect (well, used to) gothic romance novels printed in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. Fell in love with the covers.

3.  I have been basically living and breathing and eating horror/SF/weird movies since I was around 4 or 5.

4.  I turn 54 this year.

5.  The only time I have ever been moved to tears by glorious music was listening to Cecilia Bartoli.

6.  I, too, have seen what I believe to be ghosts/spirits/shades.

7.  My family, on my mother's side, has a long history of supernatural incidents.

8.  I love doing basic video/photo editing, and think I have missed a calling when it comes to working more heavily in that area.

9.  I build grand castles in the sky, and, before I can put a flag on the highest point, I've torn the whole thing down because of fear and questioning myself.

10. I have an intense dislike of social media and do my best to avoid those obsessed with it.

[Rev. Powell]

1. I am listed on IMDB.

2. I have dated a woman half my age (I was 46 at the time).

3. I've visited 42 of the 50 states.

4. The only political party I've ever been a member of was the Libertarians, for about a year in my early 20s. I've been an independent before and since.

5. I used to write fiction, but after I had a piece published in a paying journal, I haven't written another short story.

6. I eat dinner with my mother and father every Sunday.

7. I've been in jail once, for less than 24 hours.

8. I once stole a Christmas tree.

9. I first logged onto the Internet in 1991.

10. As an adult, my weight has fluctuated between 150 and 250 pounds.

[ER]

Part II.

1. When I was four my imaginary playmate was my grandson, an adult who told me I should write things down, and whom I still claim taught me how to read. He seemed as real as anyone else I've ever met in my life.



2. My favorite seasons in order are: winter, autumn, spring, and summer. I love cool rainy days and hate heat and humidity, so why I live where I do, I have no idea.



3. My favorite color is yellow, edging out blue, and my favorite sound is silence, in moderation. My favorite smell might be hot pavement after a light rain, though fresh-mown grass is very nice. My favorite touch-sensation may be nice clean bed-sheets against my skin.



4. I have a pseudo-phobia of horses, and I do not know why this is since within reason no other animals, including the Big Three S's "spiders and snakes and sharks," scare me.



5. When I was thirteen I persuaded my mother to choose as our PBS (affiliate) membership premium, Upstairs, Downstairs, The Complete First Season, which is maybe my favorite TV show ever.



6. In 1990 I went to Land Between the Lakes with my best friend's family, and ran ahead with her little brother on a multi-mile looping hiking trail so far and so fast, we went all the way around and came up behind the others and scared them. Her dad actually said the ess-word, and I'd never heard him say that before.



7. I once wrote a letter to Kevin Spacey. He replied.



8. I was at Lollapalooza on the 25th anniversary of the moon landing, and hadn't eaten in four days. I came home, turned around and went to visit my family in Ireland, and when my aunt picked my up in Dublin to drive us across, she got me to eat something, and without meaning to I threw it up, and kept throwing up anything I ate for about the next day. It was embarrassing and scary, and her English roommates told me I had a problem. I said no I'm fine, then ate and yakked again. I said sorry, my life these days is an after-school special on steroids (I had to explain to them what an after-school special was) and they nervously kind of laughed, and my aunt promptly reported me to my mother, her oldest sister, who of course freaked out and said, "Evelyn, you're going to die." Ironically, three months later, I nearly did.



9. I almost lost my virginity the same day I got my driver's license. Almost. He asked me a question, and that made me stop and think. For the record, never ask me a deep question if you want to have sex with me because I'll stop whatever I'm supposed to be doing and think about it. Oh, well, taught him to get philosophical.



10. I like to cook, and am good at it, but I don't like to eat, so when people ask why I'm not eating what I fixed, I tell them it's because I put poison in there.


Bonus: As long as I don't know anyone buried there, cemeteries make me feel peaceful and at one with my place in time.

[HappyGilmore]

1.) I'm Bipolar with anxiety. 
2.) I've never smoked a cigarette a day in my life.  Even though half the school I went to did.
3.) I'm 33 and never learned how to drive.  I just walk everywhere.
4.) Went to Catholic school and at like age 11 realized it wasn't my bag and science was my thing.  Led to some trouble.
5.) MC Hammer was the first concert I attended.
6.) I've seen several ghosts and fully believe in the paranormal.
7.) Despite living in Philly, I've never gone to the two biggest cheesesteak spots: Geno's or Pat's.
8.) I've seen UFO's.
9.) I've been both completely straight-edge hardcore and a big drug user at various stages of my life.
10.) Kurt Vonnegut is probably my favorite author.

[Trevor]

10.  I live alone, so I only put on pants when I have to leave the house.  

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We might be distant relatives. 

[Trevor]

7. I once fell asleep in a cornfield.

I hope you didn't meet He Who Walks Behind The Rows   

[Trevor]

4.) Went to Catholic school and at like age 11 realized it wasn't my bag and science was my thing.  Led to some trouble.

[Trevor]

1. I was born in what was then Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) on 11 September 1967: I moved to South Africa in 1987 to study and never went back home. I am a proud African patriot.

2. I am a film archivist by profession and a lazy bum by inclination. 

3. Wearer of (slightly) used undies. 

4. I am a teetotaler in almost all cases including beer like Old Milwaukee.  It seems I cannot spell teetotaler correctly. 

5. For some odd reason, children like me and are not scared by me, unlike many adults who don't know me and find me to be very intense and scary. Kids are the most perceptive of all human beings.

6. I know the people who made Space Mutiny, Nukie and The Demon personally. 

7. My sexual orientation? You ask, I tell. 

8. My middle initial is T for Thomas, sometimes it is T for trouble. 

9. I have been a life long movie fan since I saw Murder On The Orient Express at age seven and a life long bad movie fan since I saw Lost Horizon (1973) when I was six.

10. This place is my home and my family is here. 

[Trevor]

1. I am adopted and I don't know anything about my biological father.

I am too: my hatred for my biological parents trumps everything in my life and is the only thing I am negative about.

3. In 2nd grade I went to a children's symphony concert and a man dressed as Chopin talked to us and until I got rudely corrected in middle school music class I thought I'd met the real Chopin.