10 Random Facts

[mad pierrot]

about yourself! I'm blatantly stealing this idea from somewhere else.

1. I live in a shack by the sea. I've had dreams where my house gets washed away by a big tsunami.
2. For 4 1/2 years I worked at a zoo. I enjoyed working there more than anywhere else I have worked.
3. I once ate 20 White Castle cheeseburgers. (They were small!)
4. I've placed third in a bench press contest.
5. I don't really like cats, but I take care of 4 strays.
6. Math really, really scares me.
7. Originally I was going to college to be artist, but instead I went to an Environmental Science and Liberal Arts college to study biology.
8. I love cold weather. The coldest place I've ever been had winter lows reaching -60 fahrenheit.
9. I collect maps.
10. My favorite shoes are a pair of old, bright red Nike sandals. I wear them everywhere. My sister was so horrified when I wore them she tried throwing them away once.

 

[jeisan]

1. I live in an oddly popular small town, people come here from around the world to play and listen to music once a year.
2. My full name was used in a direct tv commerical, and it sounded like something i'd say so now i cant remember if i got drunk and emailed them one night.
3. Neither me nor any of my friends can remember the last time i fell down.
4. I'm an aspiring beach bum.
5. I've driven a car on two wheels, without killing the car or any of the passengers.
6. I like soaps, they are the best shoes ever. toys, weapons and shoes all in one package and they last me up to 3 years.
7. I carry my wallet in my left pocket
8. I hate cold weather. I grew up in the mojave desert, where it was routinely over 100F in the summer and sometimes as much as 124F (50C)
9. I can read extremely fast.
10. I can remember long strings of numbers. international dialing and calling cards have me up over 35 numbers these days...

 

[Grandpa Frank]

Ahhhh !!!!

20 reasons why we love you guys!! You're so special!

Frank

 

[Brooker]

Ok, I'll play....

1) I've (illegally) ridden freight trains on three different occasions just because I wanted to have an adventure.
2) My parents got divorced when I was six months old.
3) I once considered becoming a fire fighter.
4) I played high school football with NFL superstar Corey Dillon (who's playing in the Super Bowl today!).
5) I've been to Vanuatu (in the South Pacific) and actually saw flying fish.
6) I once recorded an album consisting of six songs on which I played all the instruments and sang.
7) I used to go scuba diving and ran out of oxygen twice.
8) I'm lactose intolerant.
9) I get along well with my mother.
10) I really enjoy singing karaoke and am the organizer of a karaoke club that meets every other week.

 

[bentenmusume]

This sounds amusing enough... let's give it a shot:

1. I live a ten-minute walk away from a football (American footall) stadium that seats over 100,000 people.
2. I was taller than average for my age until 9th grade or so, when I suddenly stopped growing.
3. I'm a night person, and I love illuminated city scenery at night, especially in Japan. (like the pictures on this site)
4. These days, I typically go to bed at around 4:30am.
5. My SAT score was the highest in my high school class.
6. I was placed on academic probation after my first semester in college, in which I stopped going to two classes entirely after the first week.
7. I rarely drink any beverage other than water.
8. I have two middle names.
9. My first computer was a Texas Instruments TI-99, which I received as a present from my father when I was three years old.
10. I love nattou, and eat it every day when I'm in Japan.

 

[HomicidalMouse]

1. I was on TV twice when i was little
2. I went to a posh private school, where i almost failed all my exams
3. I looked after lab mice for 6 months
4. I've only got 6 relatives
5. I almost joined the army
6. I spend on average 5 hours playing computer games everyday. Im only awake for 12 hours...
7. My class managed to flood the school by breaking a radiator which leaked down 3 floors
8. I talk to myself far too much
9. I've have a yorkshire terrier called Tootsie
10. There's a toilet in my bedroom...

 

[sabro]

1. I am the youngest of seven children. (three boys, four girls.)
2. I play paintball and I used to rock climb.
3. I play guitar (and sometimes bass) in the worship band at my church.
4. I write short stories
5. I have a husky dog and four cats
6. I edit video on my Macintosh
7. I do corporate team building seminars and ropes courses on the weekend.
8. I miss my motorcycle
9. I have a wife of 19 years and two boys, and we all are learning karate together.
10. I am a resource specialist (high school-- special education)

This is harder than it looks.

 

[kirei_na_me]

Let's see...

1. I had my 3 sons by the time I was 24 years old.
2. I married my boss.
3. I majored in French/International Affairs and wanted to be a diplomat.
4. My first car was an aqua '93 Geo Storm.
5. I grew up on a huge tobacco farm.
6. I walk at least 2 miles per day.
7. I had my top front teeth knocked out as a result of a bicycle wreck, so 4 of my front teeth are false(non-removable, though ).
8. The town I live in has a population of around 900.
9. My parents divorced when I was 4.
10. I was a carhop at a drive-in restaurant by the name of Dick's Drive-In. The slogan was, "If you like hot dogs, you'll love dicks."

 

[BrennaCeDria]

1. My first memories are from a foreign country (UK, and I'm American; and specifically the memory is of Dover Castle)
2. I didn't meet my father until I was 10 years old (until then I thought my stepfather was "dad").
3. I'm a history major, but haven't taken a single history course at my uni so far.
4. I am currently living with, and would marry if asked, my former manager (who was still my supervisor when I started dating him. )
5. Only two of my wisdom teeth have been removed; the other two are just now coming in.
6. I have multiple inner-ear disorders, all of which alone can make me dizzy to the point of fainting but which always strike together instead of one-at-a-time.
7. My first and only car thus far is a 94 Saturn with a sunroof that got stuck open and has since been superglued shut, and a passenger door with a hole busted in it.
8. I have a passport with no visa stamps, since I haven't been able to afford to travel yet.
9. I can count on one hand the number of dishes I can successfully cook.
10. I've been playing video games since I was ten, and have recently began making music videos of the footage of the Playstation era Final Fantasies.

 

[Brooker]

5. I grew up on a huge tobacco farm.

Do you smoke? I always imagined people on tobacco farms forcing ciggies on their kids when they were like four years old.

Mom says, "Kirei honey, finnish your pack of ultra cool menthols or you're not getting any dinner."

 

[kirei_na_me]

You know what's weird? Most of my family on my mom's side(the farm owners) do not smoke and hate cigarettes. Weird, huh? I smoked off and on from age 18 to 26. I haven't touched a cigarette in two years. ☝

Oh well, the tobacco farms are all but finished now, it seems. My family is retired from the business and everyone else is getting bought out. The cigarette business is pretty evil anyway.

 

[Shooter452]

Okay...I'll play, also.

Let's see:

(1) I have visited forty-eight different nations (4 in Central America, 4 in South America, 11 in Africa, 4 in North Africa, 4 in the Middle East, 15 in Europe--including eastern Europe, 6 in Asia (including Australia and New Zealand). I do not count Canada since my visit there was limited to an airport terminal in Newfoundland.
(2) I cannot speak any language fluently--some think that includes English.
(3) In addition to military service, I have worked in law enforcement, have been a Teamster, done retail sales, been a skip tracer, and was a short-term substance abuse councilor.
(4) I earned an AA and a BA in Criminal Justice.
(5) I've consumed (mass quantities) beer (and some whiskey) in pubs all over the world. The best were in Australia and the UK, in that order, but Bavarian beer gardens are also superb.
(6) I quit smoking cold turkey in 1983 from a three pack-a-day Marlboro habit.
(7) I (mostly) quit drinking beer in 2000...of the two vices, that one I miss them most.
(8) I wrecked a 1964 Alfa Romeo Giulia roadster (very much like the white roadster seen in the movie Day of the Jackal except mine was red). It is the saddest material loss I ever incurred.
(9) I drove a Mini-Cooper-S before driving Mini's was cool.
(10) I make it a point to read four books each month: on the spike at this time are Flyboys, by James Bradley, LA Confidential & the Black Dahlia, both by James Elroy, A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman, and SHOGUN , by James Clavell. The last two are re-reads. I often re-read a book that I enjoyed--usually years after the first reading.

I do not know what all that stuff means, but I spent nearly twenty minutes thinking up this feces. And I am not sure why. *shrug*

Bene qui latuit, bene vixit

 

[Clawn]

Since I feel absolutely no obligation to...

1. I will talk to my cats when writing.
2. I'm only 14 but I am now regreting something that will eat away at me for the rest of my life.
3. I am, on average, an inch taller that all my other friends.
4. My dad is Danish.
5. I listen to classical and rock music while I read.
6. I talk to myself to gain ideas for stuff.
7. I've touched an armadillo.
8. I wrestle.(not WWF)
9. I have hyperhydrosis.
10. I feel obligated to tell others the right way to do something.

 

[Shooter452]

o.
8. I wrestle.(not WWF)
.

Really? What weight class?

You're not from Iowa, are you?

 

[RabidPanda]

1. I'm the only one of my friends who can drive a standard vehicle (stick-shift/manual).
2. I'm a very lazy person, but I enjoy a good challenge.
3. I live in Hawaii, but can barely swim. (Bad experiences during childhood...)
4. I went to a small K-12 (Kindergarten to 12th Grade) school. My graduating class had 19 people. Total.
5. My first camping trip was when I was 17 with my Junior class and the Senior class. We slept 10 feet from the beach in the yard of a friend of my teacher.
6. I got my first REAL job in September/October 2004.
7. I have a Siamese Fighting Fish named Blue who has bitten me (or at least smacked his fishy mouth into my finger) three times.
8. I hate American Idol.
9. I love watching "Trauma: Life in the E.R." even though it freaks me out.
10. I buy my breakfast from 7-Eleven.

 

[sabro]

(10) I make it a point to read four books each month: on the spike at this time are Flyboys, by James Bradley, LA Confidential & the Black Dahlia, both by James Elroy, A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman, and SHOGUN, by James Clavel. The last two are re-reads. I often re-read a book that I enjoyed--usually years after the first reading.


Bene qui latuit, bene vixit

Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.

I got Flyboys for Christmas...almost as good as Flags of our Fathers.
Currently reading Funikoshi's biography, Karate-Ka, Everything You Know is Wrong by Russ Kick, and Dr. Phil's Ultimate Weight Solution .

 

[mad pierrot]

Wow!

You learn something new about someone everyday...

Shooter, man, you get around!

10. I was a carhop at a drive-in restaurant by the name of Dick's Drive-In. The slogan was, "If you like hot dogs, you'll love dicks

Did you ever actually have to say that at work?

I'd love to see Frank and Maciamo post up here.

 

[Shooter452]

Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.

Latine loqui coactus sum. Mea maxima culpa.

I preferred Flags of Our Fathers.

You learn something new about someone everyday...

Shooter, man, you get around!

Hey, M-P, when you serve a few years with Marine Security Guard Battalion--those are the guys who guard embassies and consulates, and legations--you get around a lot! Inspection tours took me to every post in my area of responsibility. The rest of my visits came along with port calls and an R&R down-under during that unpleasantness in SEAsia.

A career of military service has its good points. Pay is not one of them, but if I had been in it for the money, I would not have been in it at all.

 

[misa.j]

Wow, everybody here is so unique and special.
I want to try, too.

1. I x-country ski 8 miles a day on weekend, when there is enough snow. (this winter sucked for skiing)
2. I am a granddaughter of a school principal and a daughter of an alcoholic mason.
3. I got the first prize three years in a row on the backstroke race when I was in middle school.
4. I have never used a dishwasher in my life.
5. I have been cutting my own hair for the last 5 1/2 years.
6. I like swearing sometimes.
7. I have seen a real "Tengu" (a Japanese long-nosed goblin) who came out of nowhere and disappered in 3 seconds, at an amusement park.
8. I have a hard time not to laugh when I need to be serious, but I don't get a lot of jokes.
9. In an office or a house, I often try to make sense of patterns on seilings or carpet and end up staring at them for a while.
10. I have fainted while I was on stage.

 

[ToySoldier]

1. I managed to grow kiwiplants from seeds which I got from kiwifruits bought from a store
2. I'm lefthander
3. I read Tolkiens Lord of the Rings for the first time when I was nine or ten years old, and have re-read it 5 times
4. Everytime I hear Justin Timberlakes song I want to imitate his high voice (I can't stand him)
5. I saw a mother bear and her two cubs in nature( though I was sitting in a schoolbuss)
6. My essay for finnish languages matriculation exam was published in our small towns newspaper 'cos I got the highest grade
7. I have never been drunk
8. I hate Titanic, I haven't watched it, and never will
9. My cousin is an actress
10. I keep a list of books which I have borrowed from library or bought, and mark there when I borrowed them, when I finished reading (or didn't) and write some notes if I really liked the book

 

[Flashjeff]

Ten random facts? Okey dokey, I'll play:

1) After 20 years in the military, I'm incapable of sleeping past 4 a.m.

2) I have a mad passion for Amazin' Fruit Gummi Bears and Chikin' in a Basket crackers.

3) I've never drank any wine or hard liquor and hate beer.

4) My favorite color is purple, grape is my favorite Kool-Aid flavor.

5) Even at the advanced age of 46, the notion of getting married doesn't appeal to me.

6) Large dogs like pit bulls and the like scare the unholy hell out of me.

7) Shojo is my favorite kind of anime. I love stories that tug at the heartstrings.

8) Like RabidPanda, I'm also a freak for Trauma: Life in the E.R.

9) I live for true crime documentary shows like American Justice, Cold Case Files and City Confidential.

10) Even though I was in the Navy and spent time on ships, I couldn't swim. Still can't.

My! That was fun!

 

[mad pierrot]

Damn Jeff!

20 years in the military? Up at 4am?
Remind me never to get in a fight with you!



(impressed)

 

[Mycernius]

Sounds like fun

1. Started wearing contacts recently after saying I never would
2. Travelled around North America for six and half weeks without telling anyone
3. Jumped out of a perfectly good aircraft (what a stupid thing to do, and yes it was at 3000feet)
4. Can juggle
5. Used to work on a army barracks and took the P*** out of junior officers (joys of being civvie staff)
6. Drives a lorry
7. Types too fast sometimes and makes really dumb mistakes, then post them without checking the spelling
8. Do amatuer dramatics (sing, act Tapdance)
9. One younger brother who can really annoy me at the present moment in time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
10. Got a five meter swimming certificate (can swim further, honest)
11. Bloody useless at maths

 

[Mimmy_08]

this is fun..

1. I like banana with peanut butter.
2. I usually take a walk if im depress.
3. Japan is the first country I been.
4. I love rainy season..I love rain.
5. I cant drive, but i can swim
6. I usually read books than watching t.v.
7. I LOVE converse shoes.
8. I admire men wearing white briefs.
9. I am coffee addict.
10. I have more male friends than female.

 

[Flashjeff]

Damn Jeff!

20 years in the military? Up at 4am?
Remind me never to get in a fight with you!



(impressed)

Not to worry, mp! I'm a lover, not a fighter!