Name ten cool things about yourself!

[indianasmith]

What are some neat, unusual, or awesome things you've done?  Go on, brag a bit! Here are mine:

1.  I have kicked down a door.
2.  I've written seven novels and six are now published/under contract to be published.
3.  I've held an Australian death adder.
4.  I've gone swimming in the Pacific Ocean hundreds of miles from the nearest land.
5.  I survived a collision at sea.
6.  I have a third degree black belt.
7.  I have dug up numerous prehistoric marine reptiles.
8.  I've swum all the way across a lake chasing a runaway boat.
9.  I found an Iron Cross medal from World War I in a N. Texas river.
10.  I've performed weddings, baptisms, and funerals.

[Allhallowsday]

1. I shook PAUL KANTNER's hand.  
2. I sold carded plastic that originally cost 98c for $2000.  
3. I found homes for 7 cats, 2 dogs, and 2 horses.
4. I have seen PETER GABRIEL live.  
5. I managed a company that generated 35k a month minimum with no daily work, thru my own instrument.  
6. I invented an algorithm that converted a class number into a freight charge.  It may still be used today.  
7. I bought the very first BEASTIE BOYS record on 12 inch.  
8. Of my father's three sons, I know I was the one who loved him.  
9. I have learned to think like a lawyer.  
10. I own my Catholicism like a totem.  They are my tribe.  

[chainsaw midget]

1.  I've served in the military 8 years. 
2.  I rode a camel in Kuwait
3.  I've been contacted to provide bonus material for a professional DVD release (that ended up not being used, but still...)
4.  the first year I was legally allowed to hunt, I killed a deer off my back porch while still in my pajamas
5.  I served as the Local Toys R Us's Geoffry the Giraffe for 10 years and on a few occasions, their Spider-man
6.  I've seen a ghost
7.  Once I found a older lady naked on the floor of the men's room and helped her get dressed and get back home (she was heavily medicated, went into the wrong room, turned the shower up too hot, and collapsed)
8.  I used to raise tobacco in Tennessee
9.  I've also raised pigs, cows, horses, and rabbits
10.  I'm currently work as a writer and editor on a visual novel team (it's like a videogame choose your own adventure if you haven't read the term before)

[Rev. Powell]

4.  the first year I was legally allowed to hunt, I killed a deer off my back porch while still in my pajamas

http://youtu.be/0ru_R2OwjsY

[RCMerchant]

1. I was in rehab with Verne Troyer- aka Mini Me.
2. I drew a comic strip for the local paper for 10 years.
3. I was arrested at a Suicidal Tendencies and Megadeth concert in Kalamazoo for trespassing. I wasn't.
4. I was sitting on my porch when someone I didn't wanna hang out with sat next to me. So I saw a large black beetle and picked it up and ate it. They took off!
5....that's about it.
EDIT!
5. I worked for Ted Nugent at his mink slaughterhouse in Marcellus, Michigan.
6. My Ma and brother Richie were at Woodstock. He was 2.
7. I watched the first moon landing on TV in school.
8. I saw Nixon resign on live TV. It pre-empted Jack Palance in DRACULA!
9.That's it.
Edit! Wait!
9. I saw the American Embassy stormed in Vietnam on live TV.
10. Billy Idol bought me a drink in a bar on Long Island. He sat next to me!
He was hammered.

[pacman000]

1) Had a web comic for about 5 months: http://www.badmovies.org/forum/index.php/topic,152325.msg623917.html#msg623917
2) Have had a website for about 4 years: https://websitering.neocities.org/
3) Can count change.
4) Collected (almost) the complete 1st & 2nd seasons of Pokémon on VHS. (Maybe that's more dorky than cool...)
5) Have a copy of It's a Wonderful Life taped off TV, colorized by Hal Roach.
6) Have over 100 Atari 2600 games.
7) Collects too much junk.
8) Wrote over 100 comic strips. Never published them, but I wrote them!
9) Works in a family business.
10) Can sharpen chainsaw blades & lawn mower blades.

Thought I wouldn't be able to fill this up, but I kee thinking of other things to put down. Ah well, 10 items is enough bragging for now.

[retrorussell]

1. I will be able to pay off my house in about 10 years.
2. I own a few arcade machines.
3. I like dogs. (except when people try to MAKE you like their dog, if you know what I mean)
4. I have a fairly cool YouTube channel with tons of "how to play" videos.
5. I have a great, stable job and make pretty decent coin.
6. I have a nice new hot tub.
7. I may not be outgoing but I'm pretty easy to get along with.
8. I have enough technical know-how to make my own karaoke tracks.
9. I've been to the Olympics! (as a spectator, but still..)
10. Decent singer and not a bad actor.

[claws]

1. I quit collecting comic books when I turned 13.
2. Never seen The Warriors.
3. I never developed a taste for beer or alcohol in general. I'm pretty much drunk after two beers.
4. Metal and Punk never did anything for me. Can't relate to and no appeal whatsoever. I was into R&B and soul music growing up.
5. As a kid I was at a Bob Marley concert one year before he passed away.
6. I was a regular at night clubs when I was 12. I was tall for my age, doormen probably thought I was old enough to boogie. They never asked for ID.
7. Out of curiosity I once assisted my back then best friend shoot heroin in a toilet stall.
8. I was in a relationship with a prostitute while on vacation in France. Our relationship was cut short though, because her pimp wanted to kill me.
9. Lou Ferrigno and his entourage walked by me on a beach in Italy in the late 1980s.
10. I spend most of my teen years at video rental stores.

[ER]

1.   I'm fluent in American sign language.

2.   I've won 75-percent of my tennis matches.

3.   I've saved someone's life.

4.   I've never had a cavity or a speeding ticket.

5.   I've beaten all the Soulsborne games.

6.   I taught myself to read as a small child.

7.   I've been voluntarily waterboarded.

8.   A millionaire in Austin fell in love with me.

9.   I've been inside Hagia Sophia.

10.   I've hugged Liz Phair.

[Leah]

1) I've installed a bathtub with my old boss
2) I've dug up a broken pipe that was underground underneath a house
3) I apparently hold my liquor quite well
4) I graduated college with a degree
5) I've seen Gwar live
6) I've taken a selfie with Tommy Wiseau
7) I've 100% a video game in a day
8) I helped making two new door frames
9) I tore down a shed
10) I've drank absinthe the way it was meant to be and lived 

[Trevor]

1. I am a survivor of child abuse and neglect.
2. Children and young peeps in general like me and are not scared of me - they have no reason to be scared as I mean them no harm - unlike some adults who find me intense and scary.
3. I lived through a war: not pleasant but I survived that too.
4. My hobby of films became my work: I have actually never worked a day in my life as I consider my work almost effortless.
5. I have worked on over 500 films: one won an Emmy and another won an Oscar.
6. I know the people personally who made Space Mutiny, The Demon and Nukie. 
7. I have written a book on our film industry's history.
8. I have screened films in any place you care to mention (except a toilet)
9. I am a proud nerd who loves sports - cricket and soccer - and the outdoors.
10. I have occasionally been known to wash my undergarments.