05-12-2005, 01:04 AM
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#1 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: SoCal
Posts: 395
| Unusual Facts About Yourself...
Okay, for our next exercise let's share some unusual or uncommon factoids about ourselves.
Examples:
You had lunch with Rod Stewart.
Your Aunt won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
You have survived a shark attack.
Perfect score on your SATs.
You have climbed Mt. Everest
You want to be an Engineer.
Okay? Get the picture? Anything and everything should be true. Anybody can make up stuff; what's interesting is what's real.
I'll go first with:
My friend Jamie from Manchester UK is the first cousin of the lead singer of Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark, and we got backstage passes for the Concert for the Masses at the Rose Bowl in 1988 and hung out with the band. Depeche Mode and Thomas Dolby were also playing. Bono was supposedly there too, but I can't remember meeting him...
And I haven't kept in touch! 
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05-12-2005, 01:12 AM
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#2 | | I am a man... A MEGA MAN!
Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: South Carolina über Alles
Posts: 2,593
| My great uncle (in his 70s) married a woman in her 20s. My great uncle is my hero.
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RebelFencer's Awesome Quote of the Week:
"Encouraging the average age of first intercourse to go below 16?"
-Army Fencer
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05-12-2005, 01:20 AM
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#3 | | Fencing Expert
Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Angel, London
Posts: 2,446
| I think Rene Roch has done a lot for fencing. | 
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05-12-2005, 01:28 AM
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#4 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: New Orleans, LA
Posts: 550
| My Aunt is Anne Rice & I got married at her house.
Plus the girl that caught the flowers got pregnant that night!
Only in New Orleans
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05-12-2005, 01:31 AM
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#5 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Cougar Country
Posts: 8,689
| My mother grew up in the convent and became a nun.
When she turned 25 and had to either take her final vows or leave, she left and then got married. I tell people I'm a nun's daughter (you wouldn't believe how often people ask if my dad was a priest).
My cousin is a cardinal and my aunt is a nun… my sister added pope to her title for a while (quite a few people referred to her as Pope ****** the first).
In playing as a child, I was usually a priest/matchmaker and paired off all the kids in the neighbourhood and married them off.... for some reason none of them respected my rather touching ceremonies and stayed together (although some remain friends).
My 3 sisters and I created a convent... "the Saint Patrick's jogging green nuns" and refused to where anything but green for a very short while ...until we found our self-imposed "habits" to restricting.
The real funny thing is that I am an atheist (except my epeeist beliefs)… all that catholic schooling just didn't stick I guess. I think my mother must have foreseen this, she was going to name me after a saint, but named me after a goddess last minute.
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If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her 18th. birthday, you can get out of bed.
~E. Jean Carroll
It's psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I'll get a saw. ~Calvin & Hobbes
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05-12-2005, 01:48 AM
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#6 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2004
Posts: 468
| In college I earned money as a nude model for art classes. | |
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05-12-2005, 02:13 AM
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#7 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Anchorage Alaska
Posts: 1,528
| I've lived in Alaska since I was 16 (45 now), hunt and fish, but I've NEVER seen a brown bear in the wild. My wife, who was born here, never has either!
Oh, and we're related to a member of the band Maktub.
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Anchorage Fencing Club
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05-12-2005, 02:34 AM
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#8 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2003
Posts: 4,091
| My dad went to high school with the Academy's dean. | |
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05-12-2005, 02:48 AM
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#9 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2003
Posts: 548
| I own a karaoke machine that I got from Imelda Marcos herself. | |
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05-12-2005, 03:16 AM
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#10 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Sweden
Posts: 2,987
| Top this!
Hi!
I am male, and that is germane to the story.
I have been examined by a gynecologist at age 23, at the sports hall in connection to sports - in front of two sports teams. There was a good reason, but it is somewhat convoluted, so I will wait to see if anyone wants to hear it before I type it down.
Have a nice time!
Peter Gustafsson
PS: finally the net connection is working again!  Really gets to you to be without net connection for a few weeks, once one is used to it!  | |
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05-12-2005, 03:23 AM
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#11 | | Fencing Expert
Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Angel, London
Posts: 2,446
| I once reduced The Rock to tears with one soul-shattering gaze | |
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05-12-2005, 03:44 AM
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#12 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2003 Location: UK
Posts: 1,565
| My Dad once won a "beautiful baby" competition and was presented with a trophy and a kiss on he cheek by Eleanor Roosevelt.
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"I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from" [Eddie Izzard]
"she might not look like much, kid, but she's got it where it counts"
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05-12-2005, 03:45 AM
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#13 | | Fencing Expert
Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Angel, London
Posts: 2,446
| i am actually the manifestation of the hopes and dreams of a small midwestern town | |
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05-12-2005, 05:42 AM
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#14 | | Fencing Expert
Join Date: May 2000 Location: The valley of the -hot- sun, NorCal
Posts: 3,184
| I've been to edew's house ;-) | |
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05-12-2005, 06:08 AM
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#15 | | Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Scotland
Posts: 4,547
| Lessee
I've met the Queen (how underwhelming ...),
I've had Mr Bronson from Grange Hill (aka Admiral Ozzel from Starwars) and R2D2 (aka Kenny Baker) on my pub quiz team,
I once insulted the 'next big things' in gothdom by being completely and utterly unimpressed by them or their music - much to the dismay of the gig's organisers. I was drunk that day - it helped.
I was considered to be a bit of a talent at Violin as a kid, but gave it up for Heavy Metal and women (well they were girls at the time but you get the picture).
I used to hang out with the next Dr Who (David Tennant).
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05-12-2005, 06:58 AM
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#16 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 1999 Location: Australia - various
Posts: 2,756
| I've also met the Queen and had a conversation with her.
I'm been to a buckingham palace garden party.
I've had tickets to a box at last night of the proms.
I am an only child
I have an adopted sister and am an auntie.
I won a national science competition when I was 15.
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05-12-2005, 08:44 AM
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#17 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Staying in DC
Posts: 1,432
| I watched the launch of Apollo 11 from Astronaut Mike Collins living room and had Buz Aldrin as a merit badge counselor (Space Exploration, go figure!).
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05-12-2005, 09:06 AM
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#18 | | Fencing Expert
Join Date: May 2000 Location: The valley of the -hot- sun, NorCal
Posts: 3,184
| I've been to Dave Stewart's wedding.
I went horse riding with Keith Richards.
__________________ - Epee is the Louis Vuitton bag of fencing: only the best can get it, and the rest of the masses must content themselves with cheap knockoffs (sabre, foil)
- To not recognize the power of the French grip is to be in denial
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05-12-2005, 09:38 AM
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#19 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Jyväskylä
Posts: 3,850
| Once I met Mike Tyson while standing in line at Church's Chicken...
Irony rules.
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05-12-2005, 09:51 AM
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#20 | | Member
Join Date: May 2004 Location: Austin,TX
Posts: 94
| I saw the actor that played AC Slater (from saved by the bell) at a club in south padre on spring break
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