Post one interesting thing about yourself

Me: I have dual citizenship, USA and EU (Italian).

NY
California
Texas
Mississippi

and I was a victim of proximity rage.

32°12′52″N 110°55′05″W

48°10′22″N, 111°56′50″W

And are 1400 miles apart.

Edit for correct units

I'm pretty sure he wasn't hitting on me though

have you ever seen that show that ran on hbo years ago--conspiracy: trial of the chicago 8?

But he pointed at me and said: You in the blue shirt, are you gay?

I was stunned and mumbled a response. Then he told a joke about Deliverance, and how if I was gay and if I saw Burt Reynolds, Jon Voight, and Ned Beatty, in the woods . . . which one would I pick to rape.

gay people are rapists? :wtf:

I thought Abbie was smarter than that.

i don't how interesting that is but thats all i got.

:hi:

Oh, and I used to collect plaster fish from the 50's and once had 100 of them hanging on my bathroom walls...

RL

:rofl:

RL

Gawd, I'm boring.

What job did you have there?

(Senior Clerk Typist) It was a state job.

:boring:

More interesting to say than it was.

Since that is the department I worked in. Also I answered phones often, dealing with family members looking for information on court dates/release dates/bail info and the like. The only direct contact with inmates I had, were the ones working in the office (cleaning out garbage cans etc.) They were inmates in minimum security. They weren't supposed to talk to us, but inevitably over time we got to "know" them somewhat.

I did go on tours through some of the other prisons (high security, the women's prison, medium security etc.) I was also covered under the Correctional Officers Union and they put me through school for a degree in Corrections. I was a couple credits shy of actually graduating before I quit and moved away (a regret). I took some really interesting classes though. I still have nightmares of crime scene photos I had to look at. :scared:

I ask because a family member is incarcerated.
Just wondering how you saw them.
Thanks.

People who may have made some bad decisions in their lives, or who were unfortunate to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. People suffering from addictions who would otherwise not have done the things they were arrested for. Of course, there are those who were just evil. But I think they were more the minority overall.

:hug: For you and your family member.

I visit him as often as I can.

...he's shown me some absolutely amazing, and disturbing pictures he's taken over the years.

I won

1.4 million dollars in Atlantic city

i only post this when I'm..... drinking!!!!!


lost

Damn, you're kinda cute... have I ever told you that? Haruka thinks so, too.

I got dibbs!

Don't I, lost? (bats eyelashes)

Redstone

please expand!!!!

Thats awesome!!!!


:hi: :hi:

lost

(a house with one apartment up and one down). I ran over, and the woman was on the upstairs deck shrieking that the kitchen was on fire.

Mrs R had come out, so I asked her to grab the fire extinguisher from our kitchen for me. I ran into the front entrance of the house and up the stairs, then hit something I hadn't thought of (not being a fireman): There was a layer of SOLID BLACK smoke down to about our feet off the floor, so when I couldn't see a damn thing standing up.

Duh.

I crawled into the kitchen and saw that the fire was on the stove, so I blew it out with my fire extinguisher and went out the back door to breathe.

Then I looked back in, and the son of a bitch was burning again!

Turns out the fire was because she had left some Tupperware on the (electric) stove with the burner turned on.

Double duh.

Went back in and shut the stupid burner off and threw the Tupperware into the sink.

No heroism there, by the way. If I had gone upstairs and seen a wall of flame roaring out of the kitchen, I'd have gotten the fuck outa there, believe me.

But I did feel good later when the Fire Marshal told me that the fire was probably within two or three minutes of getting into the walls when I put it out. And the house (wood frame, and old) would have been gone.

Like I said, zero heroism. But sometimes you gotta go in without thinking; I didn't see the other people who lived there, so then may have been inside and full of smoke so they couldn't get out.

Redstone

just heroism with good risk management behind it. :)

Redstone

Redstone

Inside loops and aileron rolls.

Redstone

fangs.

Instead now I'm MISSING two teeth. Thanks a lot, modern dentistry. :\

ancient torture device screw thing with a key I had to turn everyday to widen my mouth.:mad:

Without having set foot in the country. I've also been on American TV twice, and was featured in a documentary.

:hi:

Redstone

I pulled them both from their overturned pick up truck, (black ice on roads)
just in time, as another pick up truck slammed into their truck....:hi:
Spokane Washington 15Febree 1985

I'm 51, so this is all in the days before induced births and scheduled C-sections.

My mother was born on her mother's birthday in 1934.

I was born on my grandfather's birthday in 1957. I had a cousin that was born on the same day, in the same hospital across the hall.

:shrug:

:hi:

Thanks for the reminder to play Taxi - Harry Chapin

Harry Chapin's one of my favorites. :hi:

:bounce: :)

aren't you...

;)



:)

:P ;)

We used to travel all around the midwest, and even played at the World Cup in Orlando 2 years. But.. now I am married with a daughter and another on the way.. so my husband has put the nix on paintball while knocked up!

About 18" long, in four feet or so of water in the Gulf of Mexico.

I have many hidden talents. :7

The smallest one was the size of a minnow.

I've won at least 4 in the last 18 months, I won a Future Shop gift certificate, a Dixie Chicks prize pack, tickets to an art show, and, just today, a t-shirt... I'm sure there's more but I don't remember.

I've never won anything really major, though.

Welcome to DU! :hi:

Don't be a stranger. :hi:

I don't even know where I'd begin.

I recently saw "Dog Town" on the tele about such things, and I have to say that I respect you down to the deepest depths of my heart for doing that.

And thank you for saying that.

at Fort Lauderdale Int'l Airport when I was 12-13 years old.

Thing was... I didnt know how to fly, but the pilot let me pilot often. It was a small Cessna, and we used to goto Bimini 3-4 times a month.

:hi:

escort service. I take the calls work them and then dispatch them out. I get tipped 20%

Its a part time job but its kinda fun and definitely interesting.

Our number one escort drives a freaking Mazzaratti.......

:)

Look, man, I didn't mean to bite your nose off. But the idiot in charge of the hospital decided it would be a good idea to give me anti-depressants.
But they were able to sew it back on, and that's the important thing, right? Are there still scars on the left side?

endurance under long, incredibly stressful periods of sleep deprivation (ie: more than 50 hours) on several occasions in a classified working environment.

So much so that the lactic acid built up in my muscles so bad that I could not walk at the end of these stints, and had to be literally carried to my car, and then I managed to drive myself home.

This is what has made me a little "different" today. And I'm dead serious.

I want to hear the story!

Nah, I didn't drive it into a tunnel...

We (my parents and my brother and I) had gone down to the train yard to watch the trains. My dad is a huge train buff!

An engineer in this particular engine asked my brother if he would like to move the train around a bit of track, and at first my bro said yes.

So we piled into the cab, and then my bro decided he didn't want to drive it after all, so they asked me!

Luckily I didn't have to steer...

Controlling the throttle was something else, and the train would go veryvery fast, and then veryvery slow!

It was a riot, and my sole claim to fame!

Oh, and I moved it maybe 100 feet...

That's the story...

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I have developed a southern accent that has gotten worse over time, much to my dismay at times, although there is someone that thinks it is sexy, I think her accent is sexy despite the fact that she denies that she has one :P (not southern)

:hi:

although I know there are others who have it, too. :D

And it was rather easy to tell us apart because we were a grade or two apart in high school and I was an average sized white guy with long hair, and he was a tall, skinny black guy with a shaved head. :P

There are a few famous people who share my first name though. It's just not a very common name in the US, I suppose. A lot more common in the UK.

How did it end?

With the help of half a dozen U.S. Marines.

about what it would be like to live on a houseboat.

It's true, according to any number of tests though I've never seen any freaking evidence of it IRL.

... that's not saying much, I'm afraid.

And I'm not even going to try to rephrase my original response!

Caused coordination problems when I was young. Took me a long time to learn how to ride a bike. Doctor said it was because I didn't have a "dominate" side (left or right)

Ok, reading through others, I think this might count: a relative of mine (ancestor's relative) wrote the Lithuanian national anthem and is on their currency - sort of the George Washington, or maybe more correctly Benjamin Franklin of Lithuania. Lithuanians I meet always notice my name as being one of theirs. Doesn't real count as something interesting about me though, does it?

He rented 1/2 my house and we didn't talk much. My explanation for people who think I am filthy for living with that stench is, it really was BAD) was I always had the front and back windows open so the air moved through. Then I thought it was one of my dogs or something rotten in a garbage pail or somewhere and I kept checking for various causes of the smell. Then I thought their was a dead squirrel or other animal in the wall.

I finally went over to his side of the house and he was dead as dead can be and rotting.

Then I was the only suspect in what was a potential murder case until they ruled he died from natural causes. They put crime scene tape around the house which really made me feel comfortable, (not).

I collected about $2,6000 from my insurance company for "dead person" and it went to disinfecting and ripping out all the carpets and putting in tile in case someone dies again.

(I'll repeat that every time there's a thread like this because everything else sounds weird and bullshitier :))

The interesting thing is that I was one month premature. My poor mom was bed ridden for months, had to take dangerous blood products (they were not known to be dangerous in '85), and almost miscarried 2 months into the pregnancy (which would have been her second miscarriage in a row).

edit: my mom didn't have a c section

by natural child birth

:pals: to your mom...

btw did I mention

OUCH!!!!

:)


lost

No joke.

pre the Pipeline.

But that isn't about me.

I like to hunt (for food) and fish (ditto).

And I think Jimmy Page is God.

Wow, I AM weird!

dictionary that does not have any modern words, I can't find a single one.

:hi:

...I just can't put my finger on it. Welcome to DU! Hope you stick around.

Mom said I was reading signs at three and books at four.

The other interesting thing is that I am the first person who graduated from a particular community college with a degree in court reporting, after they started the program.

......I got nothing...sorry...

I was the second oldest of 12 children....

Was an excellent clarinet player in HS....

Once lost 195 lbs....(on the flip side, gained a lot of it back)

I did the barrel-distorted NASCAR footage, the wide Panavision shots and the anti-keystoning lenses for closeups on the buildings.

...not knowing how.

I once treated my Mom's bridge club to a nude rendition of Tiny Tim's "Tiptoe Through the Tulips". (I was six at the time.)

:spray:

Was the bridge club, hard critics on your...performance?....

Mom, on the other hand, was mortified.

I don't remember too many get-togethers at our house after that for some reason.

For one of my hobbies: deerhunting.

are you guys just herbivores and scavengers in the wild? (sorry, too much coast to coast listening)

check out her myspace page:

http://www.myspace.com/nevadadust

in NE Missouri for about 5 months in 1975. Got kicked off though, because I liked to bathe and didn't do the "free love" thingy :P

It worked. I'm a college professor now. ;)

my father used to go and preach there

a long time ago


lost

I remember seeing that - watching a hardened criminal shout, "I'd jump right over them to get to you" to a young blonde boy who up until that time thought himself a badass. He too said it really opened his eyes and changed his ways.

Doctors discovered it when I was being treated for kidney stones. About 10% of the population has a third ureter but it's rarely noticed.

That's all I got, sorry.

John Brown



and Annie Oakley

He apparently made an inappropriate pass at her.

I am related to one of the lesser known or cared about presidents, like Madison or something.

I am Eddie Arnold's 6th cousin.

IS that interesting? Yeah. I didn't think so.
Duckie

Father of the Constitution, Father of the Bill of Rights, author of a good third of the Federalist Papers, Secretary of State at the time of the Louisiana Purchase, two-term President of the United States, Dolley's husband... so here's hoping! You wouldn't be a direct descendant, though.

Eddie Arnold is cool. I have "Cattle Call" in my iTunes. In fact, I'm listening to your 6th cousin right now.

and I'm related to Buffalo Bill

ok you got 2 :hi:

I was on "Jeopardy!" once. And unlike our great IntraVenousDeMilo, I am a loser! :hide: I came in second place in the only game I played. Got beaten out of sight at Final Jeopardy. Here's me with Alex Trebek:




Also, I once saved the live of a guy who was having convulsions in the parking lot of the bank where I worked. Some woman ran into the office screaming that a guy was bleeding and having a seizure in the parking lot. I ran out to help him. The bleeding was from where he smashed his face against a car as he fell. He was turning purple from hypoxia. I got a hold of him, turned his head to the side, and kept his airway clear. I got his blood all over me. There was a girl from the office who didn't like me very much, and she was standing watching what was happening. I yelled at her to call 9-1-1 and get some wet paper towels. I needed to clean the blood and snot away from his face so I could perform mouth-to-mouth if his airway blocked again. I had to wonder what she thought of me after that, covered with blood and yelling at her. All the time I was trying to remember my basic medical training from the Army. He was drifting in and out of consciousness, and I tried to keep him comfortable. I loosened his clothing and took off his shoes. Somebody brought a blanket from somewhere and I covered him with it. A few minutes later, the EMTs arrived. After I gave my statement, I washed the blood off and went somewhere quiet for a while.

were people whom i had become friends with over several years of "Rocky Horror" midnight movies...

Louis played 'Frank' in the floor show (and had the most fishnet-gorgeous legs i've ever seen on a man), and Wendy was our resident 'Magenta'. After i had been going for a month or so, i was recruited to be the new 'Riff Raff' (the previous Riff had graduated college and moved back to wherever). A couple of years later, the two of them were looking for a third roommate to share their downtown apartment, so i moved in.

I still talk to Wendy on occasion...
i have no idea where Louis is now... last i heard was the Seattle area.

plane.

Then I lived with my aunt and uncle on the army post for 6 months. It was an absolute blast!

WITHOUT pain medication - intentionally!

I also have a mole on the bottom of my foot (never known anyone else who did)

guess that's two

Charles Lindbergh on my mom's side. :D

n/t

personality

many don't agree with me

well with the OB/GYN's guidance :D

Texas to Stamford Conn.

by lightning. Everything was blue.

British and Canadian.

and his wife Rosa's laundry....I mixed them together, but separated the darks and whites, of course.
When I offered to do it, he chuckled and said, "But you're not Chinese!"

peace~

...I was something of a celebrity in Spain. I re-enlisted in Real Betis' soccer stadium and it was news all over Spain. I was interviewed, and in about 30 different magazines and newspapers, on several news shows, and on most of the major radio outlets. I was also invited to appear on The Carlos Herrera Program, which at the time was Spain's version of Leno. I got to meet Pedro Almodovar that night (he was also on the show as a guest). It was pretty cool, but just enough notoriety to know that I have absolutely no desire what-so-ever to be famous.

a total of seven times, from the Puget Sound to Sacramento/San Francisco or back again.

I remember crying and this beautiful lady (someone else's mom) put me on her lap and she gave me a long hug.
My face was against her chest..That is when I discovered I was a breast man... :)
:hi: lost

That is my one interesting thing.

I did at 16, hangs somewhere
in the NC Capitol buildings.
It won a state art show and
they asked that I donate it to
be permanently displayed. I did.

:hi: