Thirteen Random Facts About Yourself: 2023 Version

[ER]

I liked the old thread, it's been half a decade, let's do another:

1. I think orange is an underrated color.

2. Wherever I am I am likely within reach of a tube of Chap Stick.

3. I like to color but I'm not very good at it.

4. I have never broken my wedding vows, and have a near-mania about keeping my word.

5. I am a little safer from pursuing lions, since I can outrun my friends.

6. I think mirrors have the capacity to be extremely creepy things.

7. Almost everyone I know has had some preternatural experience.

8. I believe I have been psychologically tortured.

9. I try not to exceed 30 grams of sugar a day in my diet.

10. I think Star Trek blows Star Wars out of the water, but Star Wars is doing a much better job these days.

11. When I was a child I grew up meeting a fair number of famous and well-known people.

12. With firearms I am an excellent shot, but try as I might mastering archery eludes me.

13. I dislike killing so much I try to catch bugs in the house alive and let them go outside.

[RCMerchant]

1. There are 3 Ronald Merchants in my family. My Uncle (now dead), my cousin and me.
2. I met Verene Troyer (aka Mini Me) in rehab.
3. I hitchhiked from Michigan to NY.
4. I drew a comic strip for the local paper for 10 years.
5. I've been arrested over 20 times. No felonies!
6. We have had 2 suicides in my immedite family. My brother Richie, and my cousin Ricky.
7. My grandfather Merchant divorced my Grandmother before I was born, and married an American Indian woman. My Uncle Eddie and my Uncle Doug both married Mexican women. I lived for many years with an American Indian woman and a black woman.
8. I have never been married, but have 2 children and 5 grandchildren.
9. I used to get drunk in Poe Park, the Bronx.
10. I knew 6 murder victims, and one murderer.
11. My mother was adopted.
12. My great grandfather was a silversmith in Norway.
13. My older brother was in prison for attempted murder.

[Trevor]

1. I was born in a country which now has a different name.
2. I was an unwanted child and was raised by a childless couple who are the only parents I have ever known.
3. I am the son of a feminist and a former juvenile delinquent who later became a cop 
4. I lived through a deadly bush war.
5. I had my first movie experience at the age of 6.
6. I went to an English Public School although not in England.
7. I am an abuse survivor and would unalive myself if I ever hurt anyone the way I was hurt or any way at all.
8. I nearly killed a school bully and everyone left me alone after that.
9. I got arrested in February 1987, a month after coming to South Africa for not having an ID: thankfully I had my passport with all my permits on me.
10. I have worked on over five hundred films, including an Oscar winning one.
11. I have a niece and nephew who are the only young peeps I allow to call me Uncle.
12. I am a trained projectionist and archivist.
13. This is my second home.

[Rev. Powell]

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