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Name Five Things You've Done That Others Probably Have Not
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loki44
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OK, an interesting little exercise here. Off the top of my head:
1. Stole a car (an orange VW bug) with friends to drive to the Decatur, IL headquarters of Judges Guild just to purchase CSWE.
2. Illegally crossed the border between Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana by swimming across an estuary.
3. Ran 800 meters in less than 1:55.
4. Finished an M.A. in Linguistics simply to retain a graduate assistantship long enough to finish an M.A. in History.
5. Helped resettle refugees for more than a decade.
1. Stole a car (an orange VW bug) with friends to drive to the Decatur, IL headquarters of Judges Guild just to purchase CSWE.
2. Illegally crossed the border between Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana by swimming across an estuary.
3. Ran 800 meters in less than 1:55.
4. Finished an M.A. in Linguistics simply to retain a graduate assistantship long enough to finish an M.A. in History.
5. Helped resettle refugees for more than a decade.
Templetroll
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1. Saw "Rocky Horror Picture Show" in a theater where no one knew you were supposed to do things during the film. It was still pretty entertaining, I fell in lust with Susan Sarandon. Later, in Newark De a local group had a female Dr Frankenfurter for their run of the movie. That made the Janet/Dr scenes a bit interesting.
2. One of my neighbors was a professional clown; my brother started training with him first, then me, then my Mom. She ended up having the best career of it by being the old lady called from the audience to be put up on two brooms, then having one pulled out from under her to sweep the stage. A few folks commented that they worried about her health when she hobbled up to the stage with her cane. I dressed in my clown outfit on July 4th, 1976 because the aircraft carrier I was assigned to was stationed off Jacksonville Beach, Fl, for the sake of readiness. :\ They had a cookout on the flightdeck, babes went around our ship in speedboats and I wasn't bored for a few hours by clowning around.
3. I have done a small program on punchcards for a class! The computer the DLA commcenter I worked at had was bought second-hand from Sears in the 70s. cardpunch and tape drives, it was great.
4. At one game of D&D I met my future wife, two future bosses - one became the VP of the company and hired me and the other was hired later but became my supervisor. and to think as soon as I sat down on the couch with my character I fell asleep! They were so nice they figured I must have had a rough day so they played without waking me up, despite my snoring outrageously! I was finally woken when it got to a fight and no one wanted to risk being the one to get my character killed. They were sweethearts, a great group of gamers.
5. I played The MtG card character, The Goblin King at a LARP. I even successfully did a cartwheel without injury!
2. One of my neighbors was a professional clown; my brother started training with him first, then me, then my Mom. She ended up having the best career of it by being the old lady called from the audience to be put up on two brooms, then having one pulled out from under her to sweep the stage. A few folks commented that they worried about her health when she hobbled up to the stage with her cane. I dressed in my clown outfit on July 4th, 1976 because the aircraft carrier I was assigned to was stationed off Jacksonville Beach, Fl, for the sake of readiness. :\ They had a cookout on the flightdeck, babes went around our ship in speedboats and I wasn't bored for a few hours by clowning around.
3. I have done a small program on punchcards for a class! The computer the DLA commcenter I worked at had was bought second-hand from Sears in the 70s. cardpunch and tape drives, it was great.
4. At one game of D&D I met my future wife, two future bosses - one became the VP of the company and hired me and the other was hired later but became my supervisor. and to think as soon as I sat down on the couch with my character I fell asleep! They were so nice they figured I must have had a rough day so they played without waking me up, despite my snoring outrageously! I was finally woken when it got to a fight and no one wanted to risk being the one to get my character killed. They were sweethearts, a great group of gamers.
5. I played The MtG card character, The Goblin King at a LARP. I even successfully did a cartwheel without injury!
Templetroll
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HellHound said:
Most of the players were planes-hopping wizards, a few were the tyrannical rulers and the events were the battles in the arena; players not involved got to be the various summoned creatures.
We had the obligatory politicing and a nice fast M:tG revolution the second day. I was pleased because the rebels sought the Goblin King out to aid them and the tyrants were almost polite when they ordered him around. And he survived the rebellion! It was most entertaining and was done in time for dinner.
Tetsubo
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I find this thread fascinating. But I have to ask, how many of these things are unique? How many of them have NEVER been done by anyone else?
I've had loaded guns pointed at me, disarmed a knife-weilding person (twice), had dental work done sans pain relief, had numerous "interesting" encounters with members of the opposite sex, been an SCA Baronial Officer, made it through a very bad illness as a child, didn't have a drivers license until I was 36, communed with spirits, lived with ghosts, self injured, have the largest gaming and LED flashlight collections I've ever seen, etc.
But are any of these things unique? No. Has anyone else ever done them? Yes.
For truly unique things I'd have to say I'd only count creative efforts.
1) Written a play. (Bad play)
2) Written quite a bit of poetry. (Class Writer in HS, 1982)
3) Written some prose. (Poorly)
4) Sketched a lot of weapons. (Pretty good at this)
5) Married the best darn woman that I ever met. Second marriage.
If nothing else, I have some geat memories.
I've had loaded guns pointed at me, disarmed a knife-weilding person (twice), had dental work done sans pain relief, had numerous "interesting" encounters with members of the opposite sex, been an SCA Baronial Officer, made it through a very bad illness as a child, didn't have a drivers license until I was 36, communed with spirits, lived with ghosts, self injured, have the largest gaming and LED flashlight collections I've ever seen, etc.
But are any of these things unique? No. Has anyone else ever done them? Yes.
For truly unique things I'd have to say I'd only count creative efforts.
1) Written a play. (Bad play)
2) Written quite a bit of poetry. (Class Writer in HS, 1982)
3) Written some prose. (Poorly)
4) Sketched a lot of weapons. (Pretty good at this)
5) Married the best darn woman that I ever met. Second marriage.
If nothing else, I have some geat memories.
Eosin the Red
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I am only up to page five but here go mine.
1. I have done search and rescue in three major catastrophies (200 ish victims each time)
2. Died twice in one afternoon (I got better).
3. I was qualified to perform extracation on the Space Shuttle.
4. I have had the FBI unholster their guns on me.
5. I have driven 178 MPH on a motorcycle.
6. I made it through 9 borders in Europe (including Austria and Chec) during the 80s without any form of identification.
1. I have done search and rescue in three major catastrophies (200 ish victims each time)
2. Died twice in one afternoon (I got better).
3. I was qualified to perform extracation on the Space Shuttle.
4. I have had the FBI unholster their guns on me.
5. I have driven 178 MPH on a motorcycle.
6. I made it through 9 borders in Europe (including Austria and Chec) during the 80s without any form of identification.
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Eosin the Red
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devilbat said:
She got married again? I thought that I had banished her.
Bladesong
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Saw this thread from the beginning, but wasn't sure I wanted to say anything.
1.) Used to be the baby sitter for the drummer of Offspring (he was just Ronny then).
2.) Stuffed 13 people in my T-Bird (I was handcuffed to one) and we all went to the movies. I was dating two females at the same time (one in the handcuffs). Interesting night.
3.) Watched my 18 month old sister die and be resuscitated. She's never been the same since.
4.) Had to watch a man burn to death in a car, while two other people dragged me away from trying to pull him out. Hopefully none of you will ever have to do that.
5.) Watched my daughter beat all kinds of records running the 100m and 200m in city, county, and hopefully soon to be state championships.
There were actually more "monumental" and interesting ones than these, but these are the ones that seem to stick out the most in my mind.
1.) Used to be the baby sitter for the drummer of Offspring (he was just Ronny then).
2.) Stuffed 13 people in my T-Bird (I was handcuffed to one) and we all went to the movies. I was dating two females at the same time (one in the handcuffs). Interesting night.
3.) Watched my 18 month old sister die and be resuscitated. She's never been the same since.
4.) Had to watch a man burn to death in a car, while two other people dragged me away from trying to pull him out. Hopefully none of you will ever have to do that.
5.) Watched my daughter beat all kinds of records running the 100m and 200m in city, county, and hopefully soon to be state championships.
There were actually more "monumental" and interesting ones than these, but these are the ones that seem to stick out the most in my mind.
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