BS: For fun - Ten obscure facts about you

Subject: RE: BS: For fun - Ten obscure facts about you
From: mandomad
Date: 23 Nov 02 - 08:40 PM

1. Just become a grandad this year after giving up hope.
2. Went to a boarding school from five to eight years old,taught by nuns and ex-concentration camp guards.
3. Married three times, first wife went off with a bloke who was Living in a Box, eventually.(The group).
4. Saw Buddy Holly perform live twice when I was thirteen years old.
(At the Trocadero, Elephant and Castle and the Davis theatre, Croydon).



5.Played in five Rock bands, three jazz bands(all on bass), four country bands, and seven folk bands.
6. Wasn't allowed to sing with any of the the rock bands!!!
7. Shouldn't have been allowed to sing with the folk bands, but frequently did, and do!!!
8. Drive a fork lift for a living(is it?)
9. Love Beer.
10. Love Beer.

Subject: RE: BS: For fun - Ten obscure facts about you
From: Bassic
Date: 22 Nov 02 - 12:07 AM

I think there is a chance of getting John9 from Hull to post his ten facts soon, just been prompting him with a few ideas and he was having a bear9 while he thought about it, it wouldnt be complete without him!

Subject: RE: BS: For fun - Ten obscure facts about you
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Nov 02 - 11:11 PM

I think I always enjoyed the challenge of scrubbing it off. I never tried a dry removal method. Scrubbing of slug slime also gave me a nice opportunity to (with hot water and the nylon scrubber) grind off callouses. ;-)

Say, maybe they use something like slug slime to help Moleskin stick so well to feet? Ha!

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: For fun - Ten obscure facts about you
From: Metchosin
Date: 21 Nov 02 - 01:46 PM

ooh, never, never put water on slug slime, it just exacerbates the problem, just rub it with dry hands and it rolls off like little dry snot balls. It also leaves your hands and feet amazingly clean and stain free.

Subject: RE: BS: For fun - Ten obscure facts about you
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Nov 02 - 01:29 PM

True--at first they're dedicated nursers. I never used babyfood with my two, as they watched us eat they wanted to try it, so I cut or ground up a lot of stuff and fed them that way. No acclimation from jars of baby food. Ugg! They say that kissing might be an offshoot of an activity where mothers chewed up food then pushed it into baby's mouths. That would be BG--Before Gerber. :-)

Looks like Deckman was right--I missed a few of my own obscure facts. (Like knowing that one can remove slug slime from the bottom of one's feet with hot water, soap, and a Dobie pad).

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: For fun - Ten obscure facts about you
From: Metchosin
Date: 21 Nov 02 - 01:18 PM

maybe even more in common than you might think SRS and actually for the first seven or eight months I was her only source of food, although I think at the time, my nursing became extended not because of any health or comfort benefits for my child, but because for a long while, nobody explained to me me how to actually stop.

I did work as a Park Naturalist for a couple of years. However the only ropes I came close to using then, would have been in order to garotte small boys who insisted on jumping up and down on chum salmon carcasses so they could watch the eggs pop out. Never actually show children how salmon reproduce. I also recall spending an inordinate amount of time demonstrating the trick of getting bananna slug slime off your hands.

Subject: RE: BS: For fun - Ten obscure facts about you
From: Nerd
Date: 21 Nov 02 - 12:36 PM

1) I currently have four jobs

2) I have two advanced degrees in folklore (maybe that's why I NEED four jobs!)

3) I hope to win the lottery but never buy a ticket; I figure my chances of winning are not substantially worse that way!

4) I have had dinner with Eli Wallach, Stephen Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein (at different times!)

5) I write bad poetry and worse fiction, but

6) I am a professional writer

7) The five bottles of alcoholic beverages in my house are port, calvados, aguardiente, mead and gin

8) I consume elderberries almost every day

9) Given my druthers, I would eat nothing but Asian food

10) I find myself replying to BS much more often than "real" music threads--especially narcissistic threads like this one!

Subject: RE: BS: For fun - Ten obscure facts about you
From: Kim C
Date: 21 Nov 02 - 12:03 PM

Wilco, I've lived in Tennessee 27 of my 35 years. I have never rented shoes and I have always had running water in my home. Here in Nashville we're even advanced enough to have skyscrapers and cell phone service. And golly gee, I went to school all the way through COLLEGE!

Number 9, however, I can't argue with. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: For fun - Ten obscure facts about you
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Nov 02 - 10:07 AM

Metchosin, hats off to you! We have much in common. Sad to have to make the point, but it shouldn't be unusual to nurse your children that long (it's not like you're the only source of nutrition that whole time!). It was the same with me and my two children. Love the story about the budgie, and I'm in awe of the electrical wiring! I'm tackling rerouting and wiring the television cable and telephone wires, but I haven't tried the electrical system. I need a fan installed, and would do it myself but for figuring out where the juice would connect (it'll be a new outlet, not replacing something in that part of the ceiling already) and installing the switches. . .

Anyway, nice to read your list! And Ella, I have a number of first aid stories that your list reminds me of. I was a member of a Mountain Rescue team, for those occasions when rescue and first aid were necessary for people in the mountains where technical skills were required to reach them. More than once, on my own hiking, I came across individuals who weren't going to make it out of their hike on their own. For example, on the trail from Kennedy Hot Springs that comes down from the Pacific Crest Trail I one time talked total strangers into carrying the backpack and gear for a fellow suffering from disorientation and dehydration and other health problems. I stayed with him and slowly walked him out, practically force-feeding him water along the way. When we reached the trailhead a couple of hours later everything was there and others in the parking lot were able to help him with salty food, etc. I'm afraid if I'd just walked past him, I'd have been called out later anyway, with the entire group, so we could carry him out. The only disadvantage to this kind of good deed is that my employer (the Forest Service) didn't pay me the overtime for the day because no official call for help had been issued.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: For fun - Ten obscure facts about you
From: GUEST,Fred Miller
Date: 21 Nov 02 - 10:06 AM

I have been living in a cave since the 1950's. (Thanks Sir Roger, now I can dig it.)

I find appendix scars attractive, ever since my Russian hippie babysitter showed us hers, causing a 15 minute puberty, comparable to spontaneous combustion, or the Lon Chaney Jr. werewolf transformation. She asked me if I needed an aspirin.

Junior Wells once stopped by to see my father-in-law, who wasn't home. My wife was a child but tried to mix him some sort of drink,   and he was merrily dancing with her and her sisters in their basement when my wife's grandmother arrived and was scandalised.

The only stitches I've ever had were in the orchids area, near the peonies.

Subject: RE: BS: For fun - Ten obscure facts about you
From: Willie-O
Date: 21 Nov 02 - 09:55 AM

Why can't i stay away from this thread? It's ridiculous on a dialup connection.

Worse yet, having gotten it all loaded I don't feel right about not posting to it.

I saw the Rolling Stones in Toronto, during the tour that Rolling Stone magazine assured its readers, would be their last ever. In the same sentence the writer pronounced that Dylan would never tour again.

The year was 1975. If you're going to be wrong, be REALLY wrong.


W-O

Subject: RE: BS: For fun - Ten obscure facts about you
From: Sir Roger de Beverley
Date: 21 Nov 02 - 07:34 AM

Fact number 11 - I too am a CAMRA member

Subject: RE: BS: For fun - Ten obscure facts about you
From: alanww
Date: 21 Nov 02 - 06:37 AM

Hi Genie.
CAMRA is a consumer pressure group established in the 1970s when all the big breweries were buying up and closing down the small ones and were pushing pasturised gassy beer on us rather than wanting to take the trouble of letting the beer mature naturally in the barrel (its not so gassy then!). Its been very successful but there are still many battles to fight such as ensuring the pubs get back the right to not be tied to having to take beer from only one (big) brewery. Many are independent but unfortunately most are not.

"Come landlord fill the flowing bowl ...!" Hicc!!
Alan

Subject: RE: BS: For fun - Ten obscure facts about you
From: Metchosin
Date: 21 Nov 02 - 05:34 AM

1. Recently, I constructed a headlamp for myself using white LEDs.
2. I shot a house cat when I was ten, while training cougar hounds with my father. (..........sorry..........)
3. Not surprisingly, apparently my first words as a baby were not "Mama" and "Dada" but "pardon me" when I was being burped
4. I can dredge up more facts from my head about microscopic worms than most people would care to know.
5. In Grade 9, I was expelled from school for wearing mascara.
6. I breastfed my first child for two and a half years.
7. Brownie McGee accused me of wearing shoe polish for perfume.
8. In Grade 6, I raised my hand in class and asked the teacher if I could be excused so that I could go home to let the budgie out of the refridgerator.    She let me.      
9. I installed a 200 Amp service and did all the electrical wiring for our house.
10. I pierced my brother's ear when he was young using a potato and a sewing needle sterilized in candle.

Subject: RE: BS: For fun - Ten obscure facts about you
From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 21 Nov 02 - 05:25 AM

Genie...

I just happened to be in the exact spot at the time someone needed help. On both cases no one else had known it happened. With the little girl, she was on her own in the pool and got into difficulties, and she was so terrified her parents would go mad with her we decided we wouldn't tell, as long as she didn't go in the pool on her own again.

With the teenage girl, it was late in the eve, and not many people about, just me and another person saw her. She was so embarassed and once again scared her parents would find out, that once we'd talked to her, and reasoned with her. She came to the decision she didn't want to do it anyways. So we just took her home and she was ok.

It tends to be quite often I get into these situations, somehow it just happens. Last winter I was travelling on a road at 1am, no other car, when BAM a car came wizzing from the other direction and crashed itself into the barrier.

I don't know why - but I seem to be around these things when they happen. I'd actually prefer not to be as I get pretty shaken up each time. I think alot of it is because I'm usually travelling home late in the eve or the early hours of the morning after gigs and sessions and well, that's when alot of these things happen.

Here's some more...

11. My grandfather had harmonica lessons with Larry Hagler

12. I'm learning Welsh at the moment. (Dw i'n dysgu Cymraeg)

13. As well as roaches, slugs come near the top of my hate bug list

Ella

Subject: RE: BS: For fun - Ten obscure facts about you
From: Nemesis
Date: 21 Nov 02 - 04:32 AM

* I once worked for the nephew of Gordon of Khartoum

* My Great-grandfather (Joesph Smith) was in the founding team of Arsenal Football Team and actually got his work mates to chip in 6d each towards it.

* His brother-in-law (my GggUncle)Charlie Williams - was apocrypcally the first and only goalkeeper to score a goal (from one end of the pitch to the other) before the FA made it illegal.

* I can move my eyes in two different directions at once.

* I decided (wrongly) to get married after being charged and chased by a herd of aggressive African elephants .. in Africa BTW!

* My other GF baked Prince Charles' Christening Cake and the Queen's engagement cake.

* I probably have the biggest appendix scar ever in the World (that was going to be "minute and below my bikini line" according to the surgeon.

* I always want to drink a glass of milk after eating mincemeat pies at Christmas

* My Grandfather and I shared exactly the same taste in degrees and time scale of decaying cheese

* I gave birth to my son on 3/11/89 on a carpet that I subsequently gave to Trevor Crozier, folk musician, who's birthday is also the 3 October.

Subject: RE: BS: For fun - Ten obscure facts about you
From: Miken
Date: 20 Nov 02 - 11:45 PM

Don. May be! But it didn't seem so at the time. Don't think I could
hav kissed her back!!!

Genie, Think I should have saved those shoes?? LOL.

Mike

Subject: RE: BS: For fun - Ten obscure facts about you
From: katlaughing
Date: 20 Nov 02 - 11:11 PM

Annamill, I don't recall hearing about you in the Village, either. Nor about your move to CA. Good luck and happiness to you!!

Subject: RE: BS: For fun - Ten obscure facts about you
From: Genie
Date: 20 Nov 02 - 09:30 PM

Alanww,  A Campaign for Real Ale?  Sounds like a worthy cause!  Tell us more.

Miken ("Janis Joplin once vomited on my feet at a party.")  Now that's something to include in your autobiography!

Ella, (6. At the age of 11 I saved a 5 year old girl from drowning in a hotel pool in Florida.
7. At the age of 25 I stopped a young teenage girl from throwing herself off a very tall bridge in my town by talking to her.)
I'd hardly call those "obscure" facts about you.  At least not at all trivial!  Good on ya!

Annamill, are you coming to the San Diego area?

Hey, here's a thought.  Can folks put a link (links) to their posts in this thread into their Profile on the Mudcat Profiles page?  Might be more interesting than the where-I'm-from-and-how-I-make-a-living info.
 

OK, everybody -- RATTLE MMARIO!!

Genie

Subject: RE: BS: For fun - Ten obscure facts about you
From: GUEST,MMario's Secret Santa
Date: 20 Nov 02 - 08:51 PM

I've narrowed the choice down to a couple of items, but it might be helpful if MMario would post his obscure list here, just to give me a little extra material to work with! He's showing such restraint, since he hasn't even posted here. Or has he blocked the BS threads? Someone, rattle his cage, please!

Secret Santa

Subject: RE: BS: For fun - Ten obscure facts about you
From: GUEST,open mike
Date: 20 Nov 02 - 08:35 PM

i can only roll my tongue to the left...
In 1998 I sailed in the Caribbean on a
4 masted clipper ship to see the total
eclipse of the sun-my daughters and I
had the good fortume of meeting and
hearing presentations made by Hale & Bopp
discoverers of the comet named after them,
who were both on the same ship.
I am not revealing anything about my uvula
or my orchids..
I have c9onstructed a labyrinth in my yard.
]I walk it occasionally as a meditation.
It is on the 39th parallel, as are several
others in the u.s. there is a plan to put
others on this same latitude-the ARTLINE
project.
I am compiling info on my ancestors-family
tree/genealogy fascinates me but i think it
should be spelled geneology...
i have to go now to play at my local cafe
as i do most every wed. nite

Subject: RE: BS: For fun - Ten obscure facts about you
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 20 Nov 02 - 07:23 PM

Going for 400...

1. My great grandmother was a fur trapper (and a mule-skinner).
2. My High School record in the half mile stood for over 12 years before being broken. (I can still walk briskly for short distances.)
3. Nearly ejected from class as a college freshman for arguing with the visiting Nobel Laureate (Dr Paul Samuelson), who used his own version of my arguments in testimony to the US Senate about a month later (without crediting me, I might add).
4. I was "blackballed into retirement" for refusing to follow my boss's written order to commit a felony.
5. Appeared on television 3 times before my family owned a TV.
6. Never made it to the Met, but did get to play sax in a concert at the Brooklyn Art Museum back in '59.
7. I saw the movie "Strategic Air Command" 138 times (the summer I was a theater usher - it ran the entire summer).
8. When I was about nine, I could pluck, gut, clean, and cut up a chicken in under 3 minutes. (Granddad raised them, and one fall weekend a half-dozen of us would put 350 or so in the freezer.)
9. I hand-built the ultimate tub double-base several years ago. It's been to festivals in at least 3 states by now.
10. Once invited by unknown person to help him "loosen up" while I was standing around watching my (college) dorm's intramural wrestling(?) squad work out. Went nearly 45 minutes with him before he volunteered that - besides being about 45 pounds over my weight - he was on his way to Olympic Trials. Never got his name. He commented favorably on my "moves" and unfavorably on my lack of enough muscle to make use of them.
11. I am noted for brevity and incisive wit (you said obscure, and a lot of people don't notice that one).

John

Subject: RE: BS: For fun - Ten obscure facts about you
From: Alice
Date: 20 Nov 02 - 03:07 PM

Annamill, in all the years I've been on Mudcat, I've not read anything about you and the Village, had no idea you were moving to California or that you lost a job. See, you're facts are more obscure than you thought!!

Subject: RE: BS: For fun - Ten obscure facts about you
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 20 Nov 02 - 02:44 PM

I've been mentioned or interviewed on 3 different radio stations, all BBC.... one of them 4 times!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: For fun - Ten obscure facts about you
From: annamill
Date: 20 Nov 02 - 02:13 PM

Napolion was monorchid! So, is orchid another word for testicle? "Aren't those beautiful orchids" takes on a whole new meaning. I won't be able to see an orchid without giggling.

That will be obsure. Giggling, I mean.

Funny. I tend to think of my life as an open book, but if I think really hard (not easy these days), I can think of a few obscure facts.

Allan, I've told everyone in some thread or other about my days in "The Village".

Amos, I think everyone knows I'm coming out to live in California!

I hate roaches too! Yuch!

Oh, I will lose my job at the end of this month and I've stopped drinking. Well, I still have a glass of wine when I go out to dinner and a cold beer with a sandwich, but that's far and few between.

I'm not upset about losing my job. I see it as an opportunity to finally retire. I'll do real estate and I will have a new web site and I will sell on e-bay AND I will not get up out of bed until I want to.

What fun!

I'm sure theres more obsure stuff but I have to go to work right now.

SOON!

Love, Annamill

Subject: RE: BS: For fun - Ten obscure facts about you
From: Alice
Date: 20 Nov 02 - 01:45 PM

21. A fact that will dramatically change my life that I didn't know about myself until today - I just came back from an allergist/immunologist exam. I had a sensitivity test done to determine allergic reactions. My entire life I have had sore throats and sinus problems and finally I couldn't tolerate the breathing problems any longer. I was once told by an MD that going to an allergist would be a waste of time and money so I put it off until now. Today I found out I am allergic to feathers. I've slept with my head sandwiched between two feather pillows for as long as I can remember. I used to keep a cage of parakeets in my bedroom. I also dust with a feather duster almost every day. God, if I had only known this before, what misery I could have avoided. If you have mysterious ongoing health problems, see an allergist.

Alice

Subject: RE: BS: For fun - Ten obscure facts about you
From: Don Firth
Date: 20 Nov 02 - 12:37 PM

Miken, regarding your 2 above, if what I've heard is true, I think that meant she liked you. . . .

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: For fun - Ten obscure facts about you
From: Sir Roger de Beverley
Date: 20 Nov 02 - 09:39 AM

Fred

Matt Busby was the legendary manager of Manchester United (a world famous soccer club, for those who have been living in a cave sine the 1950s)who survived the Munich air crash that decimated the team in 1958 and re-built the team to eventually win the European Cup with a side that featured the best foorballer in the world ever - George Best.


Roger

Subject: RE: BS: For fun - Ten obscure facts about you
From: Declan
Date: 20 Nov 02 - 09:19 AM

I knew someone who was monorchid once.

He was a bit of a B**ll**cks !

Subject: RE: BS: For fun - Ten obscure facts about you
From: GUEST,Fred Miller
Date: 20 Nov 02 - 09:07 AM

Sir Roger--who is Matt Busby? I don't know and therefore am unable to dig it, dig it, etc.

I own a dictionary which does not list Monorchid. Fill in your own joke.

I once met a man from Latvia who had exactly the same 5 scars on his left hand as mine. It's hard to express how weird that seemed, how exactly they matched.

Subject: RE: BS: For fun - Ten obscure facts about you
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 20 Nov 02 - 08:51 AM

bloody hell Ella, you're good to have around in a crisis!

Subject: RE: BS: For fun - Ten obscure facts about you
From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 20 Nov 02 - 08:35 AM

Well, here's a few from me...

1. I once bit into a custard cream biscuit (UK type of cookie) and found half a wasp. (I'd eaten the other half).

2. I was asked when I was 16 to get married by a fijian man I had been dancing with at a party in London. I could be living in a mud hut on his island by now - foool fooool foooool..... (I said no).

3. I Broke my little finger on my left hand in 3 places, dislocated it, put it back in alignment myself propped up by two lollipop sticks and carried on roller skating.

4. I once appeared in Song of Praise in Liverpool Cathedral, in my brownies outfit - all you could see was my bobble hat. Didn't last long in the brownies as I didn't like sitting in cold churches.

5. I can wiggle my nostrils

6. At the age of 11 I saved a 5 year old girl from drowning in a hotel pool in Florida.

7. At the age of 25 I stopped a young teenage girl from throwing herself off a very tall bridge in my town by talking to her. Which was just as traumatic for me as it was her and very scary.

8. My great grandma came over from Ireland landing in Liverpool with no english and surrounded in mystery.

9. I found a long lost third cousin on the internet who visited me and was the double of my great uncle.

10. I can't stand the sight of cockroaches - shiver!

Ella

Subject: RE: BS: For fun - Ten obscure facts about you
From: Celtic Soul
Date: 19 Nov 02 - 10:56 PM

Your welcome, Bob...sometimes truths like that are lessened when shared. Whereas I would not wish the loss of a Mum on anyone else, let alone the regrets, it's nice to know that others understand.

Subject: RE: BS: For fun - Ten obscure facts about you
From: Sir Roger de Beverley
Date: 19 Nov 02 - 10:28 AM

I wish it was only a few years time - more like 30 I think

R

Subject: RE: BS: For fun - Ten obscure facts about you
From: Bassic
Date: 19 Nov 02 - 09:28 AM

Thanks for the tip Allan, instant access now! Nicky Barnby eh Rog! Now I know what he will look like in a few years time! Poor Bugger! Only joking :) (I can see a resembance tho, honest)

Subject: RE: BS: For fun - Ten obscure facts about you
From: Sir Roger de Beverley
Date: 19 Nov 02 - 09:11 AM

Bassic

I too have a famous cousin whom I have never met - Nick Barmby who has played football(soccer) for England and is currently with Leeds United. I have traced the Barmbies back to the East Coast near Bridlington in the 1500s and I assume that they came from Scandinavia - anyway they ended up in Hull and all over the East riding.

R

Subject: RE: BS: For fun - Ten obscure facts about you
From: KingBrilliant
Date: 19 Nov 02 - 08:34 AM

Bassic - we're just trying to set you up for the 400

Subject: RE: BS: For fun - Ten obscure facts about you
From: alanww
Date: 19 Nov 02 - 08:30 AM

Kris:Ouch!
sic: Try clicking on the post number which gives it in 7 sections

If I had but my own heart in keeping ...!"
Alan

Subject: RE: BS: For fun - Ten obscure facts about you
From: Bassic
Date: 19 Nov 02 - 08:04 AM

Can this thread be split? PT 1, Pt2 Pt3? it takes forever to open now and shows no sign of giving up yet!

Subject: RE: BS: For fun - Ten obscure facts about you
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 19 Nov 02 - 07:58 AM

11. I just re-read this whole thread.

12. Ditto most of the peanutbutter combinations... eaten not because of culinary reasons, but I was always hungry as a teenager. When I came home late at night, I'd make toast and milk... there used to be 24 slices in a loaf of bread... I know, because I'd eat a loaf at night, swallowed down with a gallon of milk. I weighed 135 pounds as was 6 foot 1, when I graduated from highscool..

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: For fun - Ten obscure facts about you
From: Bassic
Date: 19 Nov 02 - 07:51 AM

Ok, here goes

1    I used to be a grave digger

2    My mother worked on the Enigma project during WW2

3    I believe in Twillingsgate

4    I once blew up Thurston Binns (if thats not obscure what is!)

5    My cousin is an actor on TV, played the dopey bike mechanic Malcolm on TV programe "Watching" with Emma Wray and Lisa Tarbuck. Now in the TV cop thing set on Mersyside. (I have never met him but apparently we share many physical characteristics)

6    I have a PURRfect pedegree Persian Pussy called Sally who came from the alley at the back of my house one night and decided to stay.(Unfortunately she forgot to pack her pedegree papers!)

7    I once organised the entertainment at a party for 3000 people lasting 4 days in Scarborough UK.

8    I had a nervous breakdown later that year!! (But the party was great!!)

9    I play my fiddle better between my knees than I do with it under my chin.

10   I once gave up my seat in a pub in Chiswick, London, to Jack Warner (Sgt George Dixon of Dixon of Dock Green and Blue Lamp fame)((the gossip at the bar was that the woman he was with wasnt his wife, shock horror!!!)) (((Dont tell anyone I said that by the way)))

Hope most of them are sufficiently obscure but they are all true (alegidly)

Subject: RE: BS: For fun - Ten obscure facts about you
From: Bassic
Date: 19 Nov 02 - 07:26 AM

1- I have this one desire in life, to make the 300th post on a Mudcat thread, Bugger! missed again!!!!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: For fun - Ten obscure facts about you
From: KingBrilliant
Date: 19 Nov 02 - 07:18 AM

Alanww - monorchid = unitesticular. (one went bad & had to be chopped off [but not by me])

Subject: RE: BS: For fun - Ten obscure facts about you
From: Sir Roger de Beverley
Date: 19 Nov 02 - 07:12 AM

1        At the age of 19 was knocked off my Lambretta scooter by a milk float which then ran over my left wrist – could account for the guitar playing style now.
2        Was once interviewed on the radio by Dave Burland
3        Booked the Jeff Beck group into a college dance for £125 at a time when Manfred Mann were asking £2000. The JB group had Rod Stewart on vocals at the time.
4        Came third in a national haiku competition to win a trip to Japan. The winners were printed in the Guardian (national UK newspaper) through the week with the winner on Friday – mine was Wednesday.
5        Paul Simon stayed the night in my flat after playing the local folk club just a few weeks before The Sound Of Silence went to number 1 in the States – he did mention that the record appeared to be selling. Consequently I own a signed copy of the,now deleted, Paul Simon Songbook
6        Living in Manchester in the late 60s/early 70s used to get abusive phone calls intended for Matt Busby when United had lost - he was ex-directory!
7        Learned to play the mandolin after being given an old one by my friend Tony Maher (we used to play in a duo together with him on mandolin and me on guitar)
8        Started to go grey in my twenties and used to pull the grey hairs out – I'd be bald if I tried it now
9        Was introduced to folk music in the 60s by John Conolly (and Bill Meek) and had the pleasure of booking him into a festival this summer
10        Have twin children one of whom lives in Seattle and the other in Pontefract – they both got married this year and I gave a speech at each wedding

R

Subject: RE: BS: For fun - Ten obscure facts about you
From: alanww
Date: 19 Nov 02 - 05:58 AM

Kris: I will try to avoid the vision of you licking your own arse!
"... I heard the small birds sing ..."
Alan
PS What's a "monorchid"?

Subject: RE: BS: For fun - Ten obscure facts about you
From: KingBrilliant
Date: 19 Nov 02 - 05:51 AM

I suppose that if body-parts go to heaven, then they may be happily reunited up there on a fluffy white cloud..........

Subject: RE: BS: For fun - Ten obscure facts about you
From: KingBrilliant
Date: 19 Nov 02 - 05:49 AM

I lost a finger, but he lost a bollock - now that's just careless!

Subject: RE: BS: For fun - Ten obscure facts about you
From: Miken
Date: 19 Nov 02 - 12:11 AM

1. On my mother's side, I am descended from the Canadian explorers
   Jean Nicolet and Louis Joliet.

2. Janis Joplin once vomited on my feet at a party.

3. During the last five years I've come to truly enjoy living and
   spending much of my time alone; for the first time in my life.

4. I once sat next to Earl Scruggs on a flight from San Francisco to
   Denver. He slept the whole way!

5. I was in the first group of technicians trained to do chronic
   hemodialysis in Seattle in 1963 and am still doing it.

6. Sat next to Neil Sedaka on a flight frome New York to L.A. in the
   early seventies. He didn't sleep at all. We talked about our
   teen years, our children and parenting. He was on his way to Oz.

7. Alanww I hear ya about the concertina! I've recently started
   learning B/C button accordion from scratch at 61, and wish I'd done
   it a long time ago. It's my new passion in life.

8. I have a sailboat and spend as much time as I can in northern
   Puget Sound and coastal British Columbia waters.

9. Do lots of canoe camping in Northern Idaho and Inland B.C. with my
   brother Dave who also is my best friend.

Have to pause for thought. (I've been eating peanut butter (crunchy) and honey for years for breakfast..........)

Subject: RE: BS: For fun - Ten obscure facts about you
From: Deckman
Date: 18 Nov 02 - 11:46 PM

Celtic Soul ... I was very moved by your number ten! You have expressed a profound sadness in my families history. Thank you for posting it. Bob

Subject: RE: BS: For fun - Ten obscure facts about you
From: Celtic Soul
Date: 18 Nov 02 - 10:11 PM

1.) I started singing and performing to overcome being shy in crowds.

2.) My memory *sucks*! I have *the* hardest time memorizing material. It can take me the better part of a month (of daily hammering), and even then, I may gaff on stage occasionally if I am not singing the piece regularly, or even more often if it is new.

3.) My hair aint really red. Hell, *I* don't even know what color it is anymore, really.

4.) I dislike being alone...extremely, but neither am I overly fond of really casual acquaintance type relationships. The kinds where you have nothing in common, but hang out anyway, just to have someone to be with.   

5.) I lie about my age...I usually round *up* by at least a year, sometimes as much as 4. That way, I look *really good* for my age. The honest truth is I am 41 (my sister, CarolC, can attest to this being the truth). However, I am considering trying on 45 for size this coming year.

6.) My kid amazes me. Daily. Something she will do or say will make me sit there and say "Wow!" each and every day.

7.) Anger is a defensive mechanism used to hide fear and hurt. Learned it as a kid, and it's damned hard to break (but I am learning).

8.) I'd rather be cleaning house, painting/decorating, cooking, sewing torn clothes, and all those "homemaker" kinds of things than working. Problem is, no one wants to pay me to do this in my *own* home.

9.) I am a little good at a lot of things, and only really good at a scant few.

10.) I mourned when my Mom died, and I miss her still, but there is a part of me that feels as if it were freed too. I don't have to be the black sheep...that role mostly died with her. And the part of me that mourns does so all the more when I think that she never really knew me for the complete person I am...only the caricature she believed was me from early on.