Name Five Things You've Done That Others Probably Have Not

[Desdichado]

This thread has also made some of us realize how boring theirs is in comparison.

It's also made some of us think that maybe that's not such a bad thing!

 

[Storm Raven]

1. Jumped off a waterfall in central Africa (in upcountry Zaire actually).
2. Watched a pride of lions take down a zebra, live (while in Tanzania).
3. Severed one of my own fingers and had it reattached.
4. Took part in a fossil hunting expedition in the Olduvai Gorge.
5. Injured myself playing golf.

 

[BiggusGeekus]

3. Severed one of my own fingers and had it reattached.
5. Injured myself playing golf.

I don't suppose these events were related? ....

 

[NiTessine]

So you're the other person. Mind you I picked mine up in the $5 discount bin. Still think I was kinda ripped off.

I paid full price for mine, and don't regret the purchase.

1. Spent two years of my life in a mental institute, on three different wards in two different hospitals. I completed the two final years of comprehensive school in there.

2. Received a set of table silvers as a birthday present from a major of the KGB, back when they still had a KGB.

3. Cause my local grocery store to up their regular Mountain Dew order from the main warehouse, because I kept buying their stock dry.

4. In separate sittings, I've watched four seasons of Babylon 5, four seasons of Buffy and three seasons of The West Wing straight through.

5. Struck myself in the face with a sword, breaking the lens of my glasses and causing a bleeding wound. That was mildly embarrassing.

 

[Finster]

I don't know if these are things I've done, or things that just happened to me.

1) Was mistaken for a bank robber, and held at gunpoint while backup arrived.
2) Along with four other guys from the marine biology department, wiped out a species.
3) Traded jokes with a cop for two hours straight to avoid the holding cell.
4) Caused activation of Dayton AFB bomb squad with a practical joke that got out of hand.
(Not my fault, I swear)
5) Did 10'x10' chalk painting on recently constructed I670 highway for charity in
Columbus,OH.

 

[Storm Raven]

I don't suppose these events were related? ....

Although it would be amusing if they were, no. Separated by many years and many miles.

 

[Kemrain]

Ah, Clive's actually a really nice guy, if you met him without knowing what he wrote, all you'd think was that he was an eccentric British gay man who lived in Los Angeles. As for lunch, we had salad, if I remember correctly.

A salad? That's all? C'mon.. You had the blood of the innocent as dessing, didn't you? With crutons formed of the last gasp of a man tortured to death? C'mon.. Something creepy!

Or, even worse.. It was completely normal, and you'll be left wondering until the end of your days why he spared you...

- Kemrain the Crazy.

 

[billd91]

Re: Buying the D&D movie

I paid full price for mine, and don't regret the purchase.

If that doesn't brand you as unique, nothing else will!

 

[Bront]

What?! You shot Captain Kirk?!?!

He runs a charity paintball tournoment every year. I interviewed him for Paintball.com durring the one he did in Pennsylvania in 2003. I also played in it on the opposit team, so I got to shoot at him

The first article I wrote
The second article I wrote

I missed the last one, might try to make it again this year, depending on the schedule.

 

[Greylock]

5. Injured myself playing golf.

Heck, I injured myself once playing horseshoes. Took twelve stitches.

My family still gets a laugh out of it, and it was over twenty years ago.