BS: The Return of Ten obscure facts about you

Subject: RE: BS: The Return of Ten obscure facts about you
From: Ebbie
Date: 05 Jul 05 - 03:06 AM

1) I used to be thin.
2) I used to smoke.
3) I never went to high school but I did get a degree in college.
4) My favorite job is tutoring, especially in basic English. Acquiring a second language is a very small thing compared with learning to read and write one's own language.
5) I was born into an Amish family and remained Amish until I left home at 17.
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Later

Subject: RE: BS: The Return of Ten obscure facts about you
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Jun 05 - 10:43 PM

When, lo! these many many years back, I was working on a drug hotline, the ol' "cubes to the jewels" treatment was recommended for heroin overdose while they took the guy to the hospital. It worked then (1969-70) and it seems to work now.

It seemed an unlikely treatment, but you know, whatever works....

Subject: RE: BS: The Return of Ten obscure facts about you
From: wysiwyg
Date: 05 Jun 05 - 09:51 PM

Jaze, I learned it by observing others. Some people had brought a passed-out dude to the drug hotline I was volunteering at, instead of doing the smart thing and going straight to the ER or the smarter thing of calling an ambalance; this ice-cube thing was what the more-experienced volunteer did as a matter of course. I only got to drive. :~) I found out later that the ice thing is a help while waiting for the paramedics to arrive.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: The Return of Ten obscure facts about you
From: Peace
Date: 05 Jun 05 - 09:42 PM

That was one.

Subject: RE: BS: The Return of Ten obscure facts about you
From: Peace
Date: 05 Jun 05 - 09:41 PM

Subject: RE: BS: The Return of Ten obscure facts about you
From: jaze
Date: 05 Jun 05 - 07:54 PM

Wysiwig, Ice cubes to the testicles?? Whatever made you think of THAT? (But I'm glad it work when it needs to).

Subject: RE: BS: The Return of Ten obscure facts about you
From: Alba
Date: 05 Jun 05 - 07:44 PM

I will do Micca, I like the sound of this song, perhaps a PM to Alaska Mike is called for:>)

Thank you Rapaire for the link.
I know of the Yukon Quest but don't the details of the race itself.
I have been (overly) focused on the Iditarod for quite some time now!!
So I am off to read the Yukon Quest link now and to Pm Alaska Mike:>).
Thanks again Rapaire and Micca.
Blessings
Jude

Subject: RE: BS: The Return of Ten obscure facts about you
From: Micca
Date: 05 Jun 05 - 07:23 PM

Alba, Beg borrow or steal Alaska Mikes song about it!!!(Iditarod) and be prepared to laugh Maniacally for long periods, and unexpectedly(for the folks around you) for weeks after as you recall bits of it

Subject: RE: BS: The Return of Ten obscure facts about you
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Jun 05 - 07:23 PM

Yukon Quest.

Subject: RE: BS: The Return of Ten obscure facts about you
From: Alba
Date: 05 Jun 05 - 07:05 PM

The Iditarod:>)
Oh yes my proof reading and my spelling are coming along splendidly..lol

The Iditarod is a 1,112 miles Dog Sled Race from Anchorage to Nome in Alaska.

Best Wishes
Jude

Subject: RE: BS: The Return of Ten obscure facts about you
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Jun 05 - 06:57 PM

Iditarod. Yukon Quest is tougher, though.

Here's a few more about me:

1. I know how to use explosives (somethings every librarian should know!).

2. I've done coil, slab, and wheel-thrown pots.

3. I used to paint in acrylics and oils.

4. I am Ship's Surgeon for USSMVHMSUSNS Thundermug (2 guns, 48" beam, 134" keel, 10 horsepower motor).

Subject: RE: BS: The Return of Ten obscure facts about you
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 05 Jun 05 - 06:32 PM

Ididarod?

Subject: RE: BS: The Return of Ten obscure facts about you
From: Alba
Date: 05 Jun 05 - 04:01 PM

My real name is Judith

1. I raced Motorbikes when I was younger now I just drive at normal speed on my Triumph (but not all the time:>)
2. I react very badly to Mosquites bites (that's why I live in Maine in the Backwoods lol)
3. I have climbed the Mount Blanc 3 times (not recently though:>)
4. I hate Lobster (That's another reason why I live in Maine lol)
5. I have mild dyslexia that became a real issue for me at Uni due to a certain Prof's attitude towards my spelling but I graduated with Honors inspite of him. (bite me Lombard I haven't forgotten you..let it go Jude, let it go...lol
6. I think my Son is the most wonderful Man on the planet, but then as his Mother I am very biased.
7. My Great Grandmother was a stunningly beautiful Jewess from Portugal who married my Great Grandfather one week after they met. They said it was love at first sight. They were married for 61 years and passed away within 2 months of each other.
8. I can't stand chocolate chip ice cream as the choc chips look like dead flies to me.
9. I came close to Death from Scarlet fever when I was five.
10.I intend to take part in the Ididarod in the future.. ( and I will)

Subject: RE: BS: The Return of Ten obscure facts about you
From: wysiwyg
Date: 05 Jun 05 - 03:57 PM

I prefer to point out the obscure facts when people attack me out of their own bigoted stereotyping, but....

1. In some respects I am radically socialist (never part of the rigid rightwing religious).

2. I used to be a twin.

3. I've spent a number of hours with more than one would-be suicide, talking them off high places and off/through bad dope. I learned that ice cubes on testicles actually works in some overdoses, to buy time to get the patient to the ER.

4. In my extreme youth I once left known civilization with a total stranger for a weekend of camping that eventually included being given some very, very bad dope, a flood, target shooting (at me and my helpful rescuer) and having the shooter arrested when he arrived back in civilization still (foolishly) toting a pistol deep in his backpack.

5. I can drive very fast with great enjoyment, on the right roads, and I can nail the ravine section of Sheridan Road on Chicago's north shore in a full-length cargo van full of people and cleaning equipment.

6. I'm good at raising and nursing critters, most of whom come to me instantly-- wild or tame.

7. I'm known around my community as an excellent stepmother.

8. I was born in the morning, but not this morning.

9. I'm a real good shot with a .22 rifle, and with handguns up to .380 and six-inch barrels.

10. I'm staunch in an emergency, whether it be bloodied people or people needing to be extracted from a bad situation in a real big hurry.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: The Return of Ten obscure facts about you
From: GUEST,Skivee
Date: 05 Jun 05 - 03:40 PM

1. I have been nearby, but have not met, Gerald Ford, Barry Goldwater, Werner Von Braun, Arthur Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Harlen Ellison, Rusty Scheikert... and, as mentioned previously, Vincent Price.
2. I have traveled great distances to stand under the shadow of the eclipsed Sun...many times.
3. I jones for good panang ghai.
4. I have too many obscure books... obscure, but not valuable.
5. I have no cats.
6. Once learned a Japanese song about noodle soup, and a better one about herring fishing.
7. I know how to do the following: Changool Jahsee haaron mackee.
8. I will never choose to see a Pauly Shore film.
9. I once gave Michael Hedges a G string.
10. I saw the last manned flight to the moon from 3 miles away. Loud.

Subject: RE: BS: The Return of Ten obscure facts about you
From: GUEST,Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 05 Jun 05 - 03:31 PM

1) I missed this thread when it was originally on the board because Hurricane Ivan knocked my telephone service out for ten weeks.

2) I may or may not be smart enough to be a member of Mensa. I've never been tested and I wouldn't be a member anyway. I'm smart enough to have built my own house, learned to play several instruments tolerably well with no formal instruction, and figured out how to make a decent living doing something that I enjoy immensely (and, incidentally, taught myself how to do) without having to kiss anyone's ass.

3) I think item #2 actually revealed eight things about me which actually makes this item #10 instead of #3.

Subject: RE: BS: The Return of Ten obscure facts about you
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 05 Jun 05 - 02:31 PM

I once played in banjo in a jazz band and the job carried a curse, as the previous holder of the job had disappeared in mysterious circumstances - no one would tell me the details.

As a baby, I was Mr Cod Liver Oil and Orange Juice for Boston, in 1949. its been downhill all the way ever since. my picture was in the window of the Ministry of Food.

I was an extra in Crossroads, The Nanny, Boon and some other TV things.

I was in the same class at school as Jim(Stone the Crows!)Broadbent, the Oscar Winner.

I heard The Beatles before they were famous, standing outside St George's Hall, St Helens. We were kids larking about.

My Dad was a policeman. When Larry Parnes asked him to provide Billy Fury with an escort to the stage, past his adoring fans. Dad said, tell the big jessy to get up there and get on with it....!

such musical ability as I've got came from my Dad's side of the family - he played the mandoline really well.

my real name should be Travers. that was the name of the irish gypsy family who sold my grandad, when he was a baby, in a St Helens pub.

i am seeing a hypnotist to help me lose weight.

i can't tell jokes.

all the best
big al whittle

Subject: RE: BS: The Return of Ten obscure facts about you
From: jaze
Date: 05 Jun 05 - 12:18 PM

5 more...

1.I have no middle name and sort of feel cheated. I picked Anthony as my confirmation name. I think James Anthony has a nice ring to it. It's not legal, though.

2. Mashed potatoes is my favorite food. I also like french fries with gravy on them.

3. A gypsy once told me someone put a curse on my life as a baby, and for $15 she would remove it. I declined her offer.

4. I'm fascinated by the occult, unsolved mysteries, and lost civilizations.

5. Bora Bora would be my #1 destination if I ever get the chance. the fjords of Norway would be #2.

Subject: RE: BS: The Return of Ten obscure facts about you
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Jun 05 - 09:25 AM

I have had 5 different natural hair colors throughout my life (normally 2 at a time). Clear, white, blonde, copper red and rarely black.

I had 4 too many adult eye teeth but had them removed in childhood.

My sense of smell is more acute than anyone else I have ever met.

My vision extends far into ultraviolet which makes certain flowers appear different to me compared to dark eyed people.

I witnessed a physical phenomenon that defied current laws of physics.

I have 6 half brothers/sisters I have never met and 2 that I have.

In college I made Deans list once right after being put on academic probation.

I was a therapeutic hypnotist for 12 years and marveled at some of the confessions people made.

I can recall at least 5 occaisions in which other people have saved my life.

I recall nearly as many occaisions where people have tried to take it.

I find people most beautiful when they are not egocentric.

I wish I could have been a better musician.

Subject: RE: BS: The Return of Ten obscure facts about you
From: LilyFestre
Date: 04 Jun 05 - 06:25 AM

Noddy....yes, I have danced IN the Danube. I kicked off my shoes, rolled up my pants and waded in...danced myself silly!!! :)

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: The Return of Ten obscure facts about you
From: wildlone
Date: 04 Jun 05 - 04:23 AM

1 I had a toe broken when a polo pony stood on it.
2 The Queen has spoken to me.
3 My real father was an American who was killed in Korea.
4 Three cats come to visit but I do not own one.
5 I first drove a tractor at 7 years old.
6 I drove one of the first landrovers ever built.
7 I started re-enactment in 1969.
8 I started smoking at 11.
9 Discovered sex at 12.
10 First alcoholic drink [in a pub]at 14
11 My mother had to adopt me when when stepfather did.
12 My adopted father was related to Mosley.
13 My family name first appears in the saxon forest roll of about 800ad.
14 I have been riding motorbikes since I was 16.
15 I could join mensa IQ 168.

Subject: RE: BS: The Return of Ten obscure facts about you
From: harpgirl
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 01:51 PM

My niece is a blood relative to Edgar Allen Poe. My sister in law inherited 2k from his estate many years ago as she was one of many distant relatives. He had no children as I understand it but had cousins. So my grand niece will have my blood and Edgar Allen Poe's mixed together. Cool!

Subject: RE: BS: The Return of Ten obscure facts about you
From: Amos
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 01:45 PM

EP:

You're being a tease!! Spill the beans, ma'am!!! :D

A

Subject: RE: BS: The Return of Ten obscure facts about you
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 01:34 PM

Honestly folks, I keep reading these posts and thinking about what I might contribute, without getting myself arrested.


Still can't.

But enjoying these very tame, but truely interesting offerings.

..xx..e

Subject: RE: BS: The Return of Ten obscure facts about you
From: Blowzabella
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 11:52 AM

Skipy - that must have been AMAYZING!!!! (just a tad jealous!!!)

Blowz

Subject: RE: BS: The Return of Ten obscure facts about you
From: GUEST,noddy
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 09:47 AM

lilyfestre you danced IN the Danube?

Subject: RE: BS: The Return of Ten obscure facts about you
From: Splott Man
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 08:33 AM

1. I once hitched a lift from one of Fleetwood Mac

2. I once got a lift to college in a white, open top Rolls Royce, and when I got there, nobody saw

3. I had my first grey hair at 24 – in my beard

4. I can't swim

5. My Mum was a darts champion

6. My sister is a retired window cleaner

7. I can play Turkey In The Straw on a plectrum, on my teeth with a teaspoon, and on my nose with my fingers, but not at the same time (this is in danger of becoming a separate thread)

8. After A levels I stopped shaving for three weeks, when I went back to school for sports day, nobody noticed my beard

9. I have met the astronaut (Tom Akers) who mended the Hubble telescope

10. I'm 57 and I have yet to meet someone else with my surname other than my parents and siblings

That's the first 10 I could think of. There'll be more I'm sure.
Incidentally duellingbouzoukis, my beard was ginger before it went grey, and now my eldest's is too, yet no ginger hair on either of our heads.

Subject: RE: BS: The Return of Ten obscure facts about you
From: LilyFestre
Date: 12 Oct 04 - 01:15 PM

11. I hitched a ride in the back of a pick-up truck from Atlanta to Forsythe County, Georgia in January 1987 for the first Martin Luther King Day March.

12. We hosted a Russian Exchange Student in 1994.

13. I have danced in the Danube.

14. I know one phrase in Pennsylvania Dutch that sounds nasty but isn't.

15. The first time I saw Pete (standing across the quad), I knew we would spend the rest of our lives together.

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: The Return of Ten obscure facts about you
From: jonm
Date: 12 Oct 04 - 12:48 PM

1. My father, grandfather and great grandfather were, respectively, an Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman. I think that makes me the punchline.

2. I have signed not only the British but also the Saudi Official Secrets Act. Yes, it does say they can chop bits off you if you violate it!

3. Any battery-powered watch I wear stops within the day, even with new batteries. I am currently wearing a solar powered one.

4. I once loaned my mandolin to Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull in a session, and didn't recognise him.

5. I won a general knowledge quiz live on local radio at age 8.

6. I recorded both the fastest and slowest times at Long Marston drag strip on the same day. One with a 300bhp bike and the other with a Citroen 2CV I used to tow it.

7. My father taught himself to drive wih his mother in the passenger seat. She was given a licence in the Land Army in the War but never sat behind the wheel.

8.   I taught my father to ride a motorcycle. He ran over the examiner and broke his collar-bone while taking his test.

9. I once owned a Fender Stratocaster whose original purchaser was Paul McCartney.

10. I have played musical instruments solo on stage at the Albert Hall and in several Scandinavian and Northern European countries but have never been billed or introduced by name (or any pseudonym, for that matter).

Subject: RE: BS: The Return of Ten obscure facts about you
From: Chris Green
Date: 12 Oct 04 - 12:04 PM

1) I spent a night in hospital after the set of the Tweenies stage show fell on me.

2) I worked for four days as a door to door frozen food salesman before leaving in disgust. Unfortunately I left my driving licence behind and didn't realise for another two years when I was pulled over by the police.

3) I spent six months at Exeter University without attending a single lecture.

4) Although my hair everywhere else is dark brown, it's ginger in one place (and it's my beard, before you think I'm being rude!)

5) I wear a ring that my dad gave me four days before he died.

6) I was once engaged without knowing about it.

7) A couple of years ago I changed from wearing pants to wearing boxer shorts - more expensive, but far more comfy!

8) My godfather was the first black man to direct a West End play.

9) I broke two ribs and two fingers in a quarterstave fight.

10) One of my middle names is Columba.

Subject: RE: BS: The Return of Ten obscure facts about you
From: GUEST,noddy
Date: 12 Oct 04 - 11:37 AM

1 I continually lose the toe nails of both my big toes.

2 I got arrested for throwing a flour bomb during a student demonstration in the 70s.

3 I am an orphan.

4 I have had sex with more women than I can count.

5 I cant count past two.

6 I am related to lots of famous people but dont know who they are.

7 lots of famous people are related to me who dont want to know who I am.

8 I have lots of scars some in very interesting positions gained in strange ways.

9 I dont know how to make bread from scratch but can make it from flour.

10 I am a member of the mile high club (almost three miles actualy.) and dont fly.

11 I cant count past two.

Subject: RE: BS: The Return of Ten obscure facts about you
From: GUEST,noddy
Date: 12 Oct 04 - 11:09 AM

1 This is not my real name. Surprise surprise.

2 Iam also known in other circles as Nobby but thats a long story.

3 I am mad about sports and was once World Champion I am still Scottish Champion.

4 I proposed to my wife on the top of Mont Blanc

5 I have made the first ascent of several mountains over 4000m with my wife.

6 I have tried to learn how to play a musical instruement for years and failed miserbly with all of them

7 I think I know who posts as noddy to annoy me.

8 I once met Rhienhold Messner( my life time hero) and got his autograph then lost it within the week.

9 I hate my boss.

10 I dont tell lies.

Subject: RE: BS: The Return of Ten obscure facts about you
From: ToulouseCruise
Date: 12 Oct 04 - 10:46 AM

"Guest" had asked about the 4in scar from a frisbee accident....

Pretty boring actually... a friend and I were playing frisbee in his yard, to see how many consecutive catches we could make... we were up to around 40 or 50, when his throw went a little wild. I went running for it, tripped, and ripped a nice gash in my arm on the side of a utility trailer in his driveway.

Didn't make the catch, either.

Brian.

Subject: RE: BS: The Return of Ten obscure facts about you
From: freda underhill
Date: 12 Oct 04 - 09:52 AM

thanks again, guys, for the warm wishes. here's some more obscure facts..

12. I nearly died from serious illness after the birth of my youngest child, and spent three years recovering, including recovering my memory.

13. In 1983 I marched with 800 women to Pine Gap, an american defence base near Uluru in Central Australia, and after a tussle with a policewoman pulled the bolt out of the gate so that it could be opened. 111 women broke through and entered the facility, before being arrested. They all gave the name Karen Silkwood.

14. i have sailed down the Ganges at dawn, watching dolphins jumping and playing in the holy city of Varanasi.

15. i have written several pantomimes in rhyme for children, and produced them at various festivals. They include a republican version of Cinderella (she marries the gardener), Snowed Under and the Seven Downsized Persons (but there were about twelve downsized persons acting as the dwarves, because they were job sharing) and Love at First Byte (a Vampire one).

16. I like turkish delight.

Subject: RE: BS: The Return of Ten obscure facts about you
From: GUEST,Skipy
Date: 12 Oct 04 - 06:38 AM

to Blowzabella,
Sorry I meant only one in the uk. The Memorial flight one. I flew from BZN during a Battle of Britain Day. I was given the front turret! Did I hold the guns & pretend to mow down the crowd like a nine year old? Well of course I did!
Flight duration a mere 22 mins & 20 seconds!

Regards Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: The Return of Ten obscure facts about you
From: Peace
Date: 12 Oct 04 - 12:11 AM

1) 滚开            Chinese
2) Fuck weg       Dutch
3) Cassez-vous    French
4) Bumsen weg    German
5) Cogida Apagado Spanish
6) Scopata Fuori Italian
7) 出ていきなさい   Japanese
8) 가버리십시요    Korean
9) Vá-se foder    Portuguese
10) Middle finger Universal

Subject: RE: BS: The Return of Ten obscure facts about you
From: lucky_p
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 11:55 PM

To Sir John from Hull:

I will be indebted to you for life if you can tell me how to say "Fuck off" in ten languages -- convey phonetically if necessary. This will add a certain texture to my life that has heretofore been missing.

Thank you, dear.

Subject: RE: BS: The Return of Ten obscure facts about you
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 06:44 PM

Strewth, I was scraping the barrel in the previous thread.

11. I have no desire to be any younger.
12. A friend who walked away from my brother's fatal car crash cannot talk to me.
13. My eldest grandparent was born in 1879, the youngest 1889. I was born in 1959.
14. I once rubbed an obviosuly pregnant woman's tummy, and was told it was a cyst.
15. I spent a happy year as mate on a Thames barge
16. I was once sick when in drink I made a cheese sandwich using marzipan.
17. I saw Len from Emmerdale drive by today.
18. I know the USDA 2004 US soya crop estimate will be increased at 07:30 Chicago time tomorrow morning.
19. Oaklet has mended all the tunes I have written
20. I refuse to dig out the 4 mile tunnel to Thornton Abbey that local folklore insists is in my cellar.

Subject: RE: BS: The Return of Ten obscure facts about you
From: lucky_p
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 04:20 PM

How lovely to be a grandma, Freda.

Subject: RE: BS: The Return of Ten obscure facts about you
From: dianavan
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 01:30 PM

Freda -
I am envious. Congratulations! Oddly enough, I almost named my daughter Rose Marie but I couldn't make up my mind between Anna Rose, Marianna Rose, Rosanna Marie, etc. Beautiful and traditional names in my family. I hope mother and daughter are doing well and basking in bliss.

d

Subject: RE: BS: The Return of Ten obscure facts about you
From: Peace
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 01:01 PM

Anyway, not to cut in here, I thought I'd direct y'all to the thread entitled:

"BS: Our Freda is a Gran."

Subject: RE: BS: The Return of Ten obscure facts about you
From: Peace
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 12:09 PM

Uh, folks, Freda's a grandmother.

Congratulations, Freda.

Subject: RE: BS: The Return of Ten obscure facts about you
From: HuwG
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 11:48 AM

Continued from previous thread:


19. I have a scar on my right cheek. It doesn't show on passport photographs. Well, not where it is. Apparently I had an abscess on my, er, well, my posterior when aged 18 months or so. It was rather inexpertly lanced by a district nurse. It has been quite a while since anyone was intimate or inquisitive enough to notice or comment on it.

20. Another scar was acquired when training in the army in 1981. I collided with someone whose rifle was loaded with blanks, but did not have a "blank firing adaptor" fitted. I was left with a circular burn scar on my forearm, which took a long time to heal, because threads of shirt and combat jacket had been driven into it. For years afterwards, if I wished to appear hard, I would refer to the scar as a "7.62 mm low-velocity entry wound" (i.e. a bullet hole).

Subject: RE: BS: The Return of Ten obscure facts about you
From: freda underhill
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 09:51 AM

11. As of today, I am grandmother to a beautiful baby girl, Rose Marie.

Subject: RE: BS: The Return of Ten obscure facts about you
From: Metchosin
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 02:45 AM

I don't believe the owners of pit-bulls quite fall into the teary-eyed category Fred.

Subject: RE: BS: The Return of Ten obscure facts about you
From: Sam L
Date: 10 Oct 04 - 08:05 PM

Didn't mean to dis dogs or dog owners--I've had a couple. But there's a certain type of rank sentimentalist that uses dogs as the objects of their deep teary-eyed love of themselves. And they also don't like to pay for their newspapers. My favorite dogs are dingos.

Subject: RE: BS: The Return of Ten obscure facts about you
From: lucky_p
Date: 10 Oct 04 - 05:06 PM

Thank you, Nick and Sue B.

Nick -- I'm hopeful now because I think I now understand some very important things that I never quite got before. Like it's not about being cute and sexy and talented and laughing alot as an end in itself. As I have said before, it's about vulnerability and it's about intimacy, which means allowing yourself to be known all the way down to the bone and only sticking around people who allow themselves to be known that way.

Sue -- Guess our Catters across the pond don't know about Boston Latin (and many Staters don't know it either), but that was and is a hell of a school. Let's put it this way: when you graduate from that school, you will be a Harold Bloom-type classical intellectual, an anomoly in the sea of unfortunate mediocrity that characterizes American public schools.

Subject: RE: BS: The Return of Ten obscure facts about you
From: Teresa
Date: 10 Oct 04 - 04:34 PM

1. I know how to make bread from scratch.
2. Otherwise, I am a below-mediocre cook, and don't like it particularly.
3. I love to learn things from people. :)
4. I'm extremely curious.
5. I was born two months prematurely, and have been blind all my life as a result.
6. My favorite thing to do is listen to some good Celtic or old-timey music and read a good science-fiction novel.
7. I write poetry, mostly free verse.
8. The older I get, the more like a kid I want to become.
9. I've read more books online since the advent of the Internet than I'd read in all my life previously.
10. Small things of wonder make me cry. :D

Well, good for now. :)

T

Subject: RE: BS: The Return of Ten obscure facts about you
From: Metchosin
Date: 10 Oct 04 - 04:07 PM

at the risk of being repetitious-

11. When I was small, my father told me he went to Borstal with Gene Autry. I believed him.

12. My family has labeled me an obsessive compulsive with ADD.

13. We started building our house 30 years ago and it is still not finished.

14. My husband and I just marked our 32nd wedding anniversary and to celebrate, we just completed a 2,700 km driving tour of BC, including a side trip, in order to take our dogs to Barkerville, only to find that dogs are not permitted in Barkerville, but we took them in anyways.

15. I have never been without a dog in 58 years. I have only been    bitten by a dog once, full in the face, when I was four. I still have a scar from it. It was not my dog. It was a cocker spaniel. I am still not particularly fond of cocker spaniels. I learned early that not all dogs are trustworthy, nor all people, but dogs are generally more trustworthy than people and have governed my life accordingly.

16. My grandfather sailed around the Horn under canvas.

17. I collect dragonflies.

18. I make wonderful soups and incredible steak and kidney pie.

Subject: RE: BS: The Return of Ten obscure facts about you
From: Sam L
Date: 10 Oct 04 - 03:32 PM

Probably happened, Dianavan, people suck, but I don't really know. I didn't know any other paperboys except my brother.
   I was drafted into my older brother's morning route one night when I'd stayed up late playing with a tape recorder and my dad's guitar. It's one of my clearest memories--I was just getting ready to collapse in bed when I heard my brother begging off sick. Somehow he never got better enough to do the route again, and my parents wouldn't let him quit, so that meant it was my job now. I was a middle child. I rolled my papers at the building in silence, didn't know or speak to anyone there.

and I had an afternoon route, where a truck dropped my papers. Never knew another paperboy--I think I knew of some kids who had routes.

The night I inherited a paper-route is probably my best obscure fact about me, because it's one of the longest clearest memories I have from childhood.

Another is when I was 14 I decided to buy myself some cool sandals with my own money from working at a screen-printing shop. I wound up the next day wearing them at an older girl's apartment, where I came to a stoned but lucid realization that they were atrocious and ridiculous things to wear, tucked them discreetly under the sofa, went home barefoot, and never looked back.