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Thread #53493   Message #825982
Posted By: JenEllen
14-Nov-02 - 12:55 PM
Thread Name: BS: For fun - Ten obscure facts about you
Subject: RE: BS: For fun - Ten obscure facts about you
You folks are hilarious (Linn, omigawd, 40 minutes?) Here goes:

I was in the Girl Scouts for a total of 20 minutes. I was 6, left the meeting, called home, and told my mother that the orange socks and stupid alphabetti-spaghetti plaques they wanted us to make were "absurd".

I once rode a ski-lift at Lake Tahoe with Kenny Rogers. Convinced him to sing "Lucille" by telling him that if he wouldn't do it, I would.

I learned most of the ASL that I know from chimpanzees.

I can't sleep face to face with any human, for fear they are 'stealing my air', but for some reason, animals never bother me the same way.

I once won a bet by reciting all of the US states in alphabetical order in less than minute, and I had no idea I how I even knew it.

I am very flexible (double-jointed, whatever), to the point that yoga classes are a joke, and the point I have to reach to actually 'stretch' anything tends to frighten people. (My ex used to get the creeps because I slept quite comfortably with my top half facing one direction and my bottom half facing the other---"How can you possibly be comfortable?")

I have broken up with every boyfriend by using the same speech (stolen from Pee-Wee's Big Adventure), with the solemn vow that if any of them knew where it came frrom, I'd stay with them.

I eat everything seperately, and cannot stand for the food on my plate to touch. (obligatory peanut butter preference: the chunkier the better)

The only OCD voice I haven't been able to escape from is the 'counting' voice. I can walk into a room, have a normal conversation with someone, leave, and know exactly how many floor or ceiling tiles were in that room, how many pencils in the jar on the desk, etc.

I hate coffee-tables.