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

[Goblyn]

Lessee ...

1. Hugged a dolphin in Japan at 16
2. Got lost in Korea with no money and no knowledge of the language. At night.
3. Decided to start learning to play the violin at 21.
4. Intentionally read an account of the quest to solve Fermat's last theorem
5. Enjoyed the first Halo more than the second one

 

[Belen]

I feel so plain.....

1.) Went commando every day for a week my senior year in high school (it was a dare, cute color guard chick in involved. Yes, I had to change into a band uniform on the bus perform the competition. No, I am not letting you know what I received as a reward for being successful.)

2.) Dated a sexy Afrikaaner whose father was a police colonel.

3.) Own a card autographed by Darth Vader.

4.) As a member of West Campus Security (NC State), had a TV thrown at me from the 9th floor of Lee Dormitory. It narrowly missed killing my partner and I. The 9th floor intoxicated RA saw it happen and covered for her guys with the cops and we later proved that she was having sex with the entire suite on a regular basis and had her fired and expelled from the university.

5.) A member of my first gaming group saved my life.

 

[Goblyn]

Hey, BelenUmeria, I just said your name out loud for the first time and, boy, does it roll off the tongue.

 

[Ahnehnois]

2. Decided to become a vegetarian when I was, like, 6 and stayed true to it ever since.

Actually I did that one too.

Five unique things worth posting...um have to think about that.

 

[DungeonmasterCal]

I just thought of another--an old friend used an expired Press pass to get backstage at a KISS concert in 2000 to have all four original members of the band sign a Christmas card that he mailed to me.

 

[Torm]

Alright, by a total lack of popular demand , five more:

6. I shook hands with and was thanked by a sitting President. (Reagan - I was 10, and I was running the campaign for him in my school's mock election.)
7. I've been within 50 feet of the Pentagon, as a civilian, without being stopped at a guard station, and not on a tour of any kind. (Pre 9/11 - I like to think somebody couldn't get this close that way, now. )
8. I've met Weird Al, and got him to autograph a copy of "The Cat In The Hat".
9. I've attacked someone, with intent to harm, with a (toy) lightsaber. (I was 8.)
10. I took a knife away from a teenage punk who was threatening a mall security guard in the food court. (I was 14, and it wasn't particularly heroic - they were blocking the mall exit I wanted to use.)

 

[GentleGiant]

1) Played in the California semi-pro football final on the Inglewood Blackhawks team (that's one step below NFL - we lost ).
2) Been contacted by a scout from the Canadian Football League after a game - concerning a possible contract (had to leave the States before anything more could come of it, though ).
3) Crossed the Atlantic twice to meet/live with two different women I met online (3 months and 2 months respectively).
4) Slept with a married woman after a party (elsewhere), in her oldest son's bedroom, while her two kids slept in the next room and her husband slept in their own bedroom.
5) Slept with a

Spoiler

TS

Beauty Queen...

Ahem...

 

[Qlippoth]

1. Spent my first night in Europe sleeping underneath a front yard swingset.
2. Had a 50-caliber machine gun pointed at me during a Central Maine lobster festival.
3. Got mugged after a minor car accident (by an absolutely not-connected-to-the-other-driver person).
4. Toured the entire steam tunnel system of Johns Hopkins University (from 10pm to 4am, ending with a raid on the still locked campus cafeteria).
5. Knowingly drove "the wrong way" on Interstate 95 in Connecticut during a Thanksgiving Eve blizzard.

 

[Emperor Valerian]

1) Arrested 16 times by the militzia in Minsk, Belarus (they don't like foreigners)
2) As an American, watched "X-Men 2" in Russian, in Russia
3) Worked at IBM, now graduate student working towards History Ph.D
4) Seen three tornadoes
5) Held $13,000 cash in my hands (worked for a booster's fundraiser in H.S.)

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

9. I've attacked someone, with intent to harm, with a (toy) lightsaber. (I was 8.)

I've done that! Got punched in the face and headlocked for my trouble, but I did it.


I've thought of another: Had nitrous oxide (getting my wisdom teeth out) and hated it. Freaked me out, I could feel my head slowing down