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

[Gruns]

Top 5

5. Was robbed at gunpoint.

4. Shook hands with legendary Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, Mork style, while saying "nanu nanu". And I wasn't drunk.

3. Appeared in a Morey Boogey Board commercial. I even had a line of dialogue. I was paid $5 and got a free Boogie Board.

2. Accomplished something as a pro Magic the Gathering player that will likely never be done by anyone again. (Sounds more impressive than it is.)

1. Was the first person in the history of the universe to make Refreshing Orange Fizzlepop in the game Everquest 2.

Later!
Gruns

 

[Tinker Gnome]

I defenstrated Darth Vader.

 

[der_kluge]

My Mom is visiting from Arkansas. This is her list:

1. Has a name that no one else has - Deloma.
2. Broken the same knee twice.
3. Hosted 6 different exchange students - Finland, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Germany x2, France.
4. Worked on a gas pipeline on the dynamite crew.
5. Was Cinderalla in a parade.

My wife:

1. Gave her first insulin shot to herself at age 7.
2. Was the youth advocate for the American Diabetes Association for Kansas in 1990.
3. Made the U.S. Senate pause when she was 3 calling out for her grandma from the observation deck.
4. Had a book thrown at her during a therapy session.
5. Campaigned for her father when he ran for prosecuting attorney.

 

[fusangite]

I wasn't going to post past #5 but I need to boast about my afternoon today to someone and everyone is asleep:

6. Gave a speech that inspired British Columbia's most senior legislative reporter/columnist and moderator of the 2005 provincial election debate to ask me to come out of political retirement and run for office again.
7. Had a reporter carefully record that I was an "historian of Mormon thought" during a media interview.
(later in the day and totally unimpressive)
8. Watched my co-GM get stood up by barsoomcore for the 4th time in a row (grrrrrr). (What's your excuse this time?)

 

[Inconsequenti-AL]

Some interesting stuff here.

So far, Cthulu's Librarian having a beer with Levon Helm has made me envious... I really like The Band!

Mine:

1) Been shot in the right buttock. By my brother. Deliberately. In fairness, it was only an air pistol and I deserved it...
2) Got expelled from school when I was 16. For fighting. And I lost.
3) Played in one of Piratecats sessions! (And it was 'that good' )
4) Fell asleep on a dual lane road in Bristol. What can I say, the tarmac felt comfy. Glad and a little suprised I survived that one.
5) An ex girlfriend and I decided to go for a nice romantic walk in the woods. One thing led to another... until we were caught in the act by a troop of boy scouts out for a nature walk. Wonder if they get a badge for that?

 

[Raging Epistaxis]

Thought of a couple more from my youth

I've traveled the navigable Mississippi river from Minnesota to Memphis in a small cabin cruiser. (and most of the Illinois river and a fair bit of the Tennessee river)

I've waterskied for 21 contiguous miles without stopping. Don't remember which river that was on. Hey, it was 20+ years ago...

R E

 

[DungeonmasterCal]

What the heck, here are some more:

1. Stood in a port-a-potty line with Jim Dandy Mangrum of the rock band Black Oak Arkansas at an outdoor concert. I was disturbed to find he refers to himself in the third person all the time.

2. Passed out on the grass at that same concert, and nearly drowned when a thundershower came up. (I was on my back and the rain got in my lungs from snoring...true story).

3. My brother and I walking around town drinking cognac and we both passed out on the 13th green of a golf course. We woke up covered in snow. And cold.

4. Caught a rattlesnake with my bare hands when I couldn't make it coil, rattle, or strike at me. Carried it my hand and let it go in the woods at the edge of the road so it wouldn't get hit by a car.

5. Was in a video for the 80's one hit wonder band "Autograph". The video was never aired.

6. Was challenged by a college fencing instructor to a duel when I told her she was an incompetent teacher. I won.

 

[der_kluge]

One more I thought of on the way in:

Modeled down a runway.

 

[Rel]

Modeled down a runway.

You clever girl...(ok, that's the last time, I promise. But you were asking for it that time! )

 

[der_kluge]

You clever girl...(ok, that's the last time, I promise. But you were asking for it that time! )

Yea, I suppose so.