i have come up with an idea for a good thread. i know a lot about you guys because ive had the privelege of reading lots of your posts on things, but i really would like to know a bit more about your personalities. hopefully, there are others who feel the same. here is my little forum game and the rules:

1) you have to post 2 things about yourself that people here would not know about you and might not believe to be true.

2) if you comment on this thread, you have to post 2 things... otherwise, keep your head out of the ring.

3) you can post 2 things as many times as you can continue to amaze us.

pretty simple

Ooooohhhhh Your a nosey Bugger arn't you DS

Well I can touch my nose with my tounge (I can actually stick it right up my nostrils but I never do that )

I can do the splits......BOTH ways Ouch!


By the way You never posted your 2 Fab & Groovy Facts!!!

OK, let me try an see if I can come up with two things that you all would probably never see coming in a million years.... ok, here goes:

1. I make huge pots of my spagetti sauce, and take it to homeless shelters. Once I am there, I boil the noodles, and we all sit down and eat together. Now, before say that this is sooo nice of me to do, I have to tell you, I actually get a little something from it. You see, I have this sick obsession with feeding people, and my sauce is so awesome, that I would practically shove it in anyone's face, just to hear them say how good it is..


2. I won a gold medal in swimming, for the butterfly stroke. (Years ago, of course)


So, there are my contributions at the moment, hope it surprised some people.. If not, then give me time, I am sure I can come up with some other stuff.

Reese

Wow Damian, some story - you kick ass!

OK, my turn:

1. My IQ has been tested at Mensa and showed 166.

2. My first job was selling tropical fish to petstores. (Inspite of fact 1)

Awesome Phantom, cool thread DS

1. im a gymnast (not olympic yet)

2. i hate birds

O.K.

I used to be a man ...





only joking I couldn't resist it

O.K. Here are 2 true facts . I had two short stories published by the time I was 14 .
And was tested at being in the top 3% of the state of Victoria Australia for science and Mathematics at the same age , who new it would be all down hill from there

Wow Phantom & Kismit thats great

Nothing so academic for me though, or sporting like Reese and Lola.

But here goes anyways-fact no.1- I didn't actually get my drivers license until last year(I was petrified of failing, but I ended up getting 100%)

fact no.2-I was going out to night clubs at the age of 14(with my parents consent)

QUOTE (Kismit @ Jun 25 2003, 10:22 PM)

I used to be a man ...

Is that why we haven't seen your pic yet?

Seriously, Kismit, you being in the top 3% for science and mathematics doesn't surprise me at all. You have posted some theories in our scientific discussions that lead me to believe that you have gone uphill, and not downhill


Lets see...
1) I sunk a gunboat from Yemen with a 50 calibre machine gun in the Gulf of Aden. Way too cool

2) I came in 4th place in a high school chess tournament in the state of Oregon

at you Homer , now everyone will be looking for an adams apple when I do eventually post my pic Oh and that gun boat thing is cool

QUOTE

But here goes anyways-fact no.1- I didn't actually get my drivers license until last year(I was petrified of failing, but I ended up getting 100%)

Neen I was 25 when I got mine and scarred silly I wouldn't pass . I got it first time but apparently I approach corners to fast

Now I'm going to try and top Dshwartz's serial killer story with this one ...
I used to walk to school everyday with , spend nights out with , visit after school with infact was very friendly with a girl who ended up in jail for murdering a 16 year old and burying him under her house I'm glad I never peed her off .

Hmmm, here goes


1) Only person to test at 100% in the Grammar and spelling sections at the college I attended before the University of Lethbridge (the other section ranged between 87-95%)
2) I hold some seriously elitist views and tend to judge people on Phenotypes (visible genetic expression), based on Evolutionary Psychology and Social Psychology and the amount of intelligence reflected in speech, thoughts, concepts etc. Also how well these are expressed to others and the rate of assimilation of new information as this is a function of how quickly the synapses are forming and being myelinated which would give an advantage to survival so in my mind this is a plus. Okay, enough ranting.
Please nobody attack me, I am not judging or chastising you guys. Just giving some odd bits of trivia...

Yeah !! but I bet ya never sunk a Yemenese gun boat

Good posts guys

Here goes:

1.) I almost drowned once. It was my first camp in the boy scouts and we were swimming in a small freshwater creek. One of the older boys told me not to go out further than a certain area because it was deep, but for some bizarre reason I went out there, lost my footing and went under. Luckily I was spotted in time.

2.) When I was a young boy I had a BB gun (a small air powered rifle which fires ball bearings at low velocity). One day I decided to fire at a passing car, but seeing how I didn't hear anything I assumed that I'd missed, and thought nothing of it. The next day our neighbour told me that a guy came knocking on his door furious because he'd been hit in the ear with something, and thought it came from his house. He was able to get the guy to leave and he didn't tell on me. But I can tell you I felt so bad after what he told me that I didn't pick a gun up again for a long time, and when I did I used it responsibly...

Now, since I am commenting, at the end I will post two more things, but I want to comment on so many people!

First, Halo, how was it exactly you noticed the first time you could actually stick your tongue ALL the way up your nostril? hehehehe

BBK, wow, that was a mouthful.

Kismitt, being that I write now, good for you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DS, I don't think I would have expected anything less from you...

Sageghost, Now this is precisely why I think boys and girls should camp together. I would have saved you!


Ok now, two more things.

1. I have this thing about clowns, I do not like them, ever since I was little. (And, please spare me the pics, like Magik used to to do to me, I am still scarred from that)

2. When I went to school out in California, I hung out with Gang members, the Crips. I was never jumped in or anything, but they were really nice people. We all used to hang out, and there they taught me to spray paint. It is a talent, one that I fall very short of.


Reese

Oh my goodness....I have nothing that can top these, but I will add my two..

Hmmm, I was in the US ARMY for MP (military police), but was discharged due to being pregnant. The recruiters even showed up to my graduation to make sure I really was six months pregnant. I was set to leave August 9, 2000 to fort Leonard Woods Missourri...

The four major awards I have won in my life are Best Sense of Humor, and Most likely to be seen on television, and I am actually very proud of them I have lived a boring, short twenty one years I guess

I have to say that an IQ of 166 is astounding, I read that Einsteins was in the 160's also. I have never shook hands with a serial killer, but have hugged a pedophile that I would love to kill, although that will never happen Just wishful thinking..Hopefully I can think of something more interesting later

Ooops, two major awards, I don't know what I was thinking there

let me think

1. I have to stare at bodybuilders all day long at work. I work as a graphic designer for a company that manufactures bodybuilding supplements.

2. I was accused of attempted kidnapping when I was 14. (Huge misunderstanding! apparently people don't like it when you're in a car and offer ask the little neighbor boy if he would like some candy! We were even in a car driven by my friend's MOM!)

3. One more, just because. I can give an audible illusion of my vocal cords being a steel pipe, as well as feeding strings,chains,spaghetti from throat to nostril and vice versa and also looped from nostril to nostril internally.

QUOTE (Kismit @ Jun 26 2003, 06:30 AM)

Yeah !! but I bet ya never sunk a Yemenese  gun boat

That was the coolest thing I ever did
Too bad it only happened once

QUOTE (DSchwartz @ Jun 25 2003, 08:43 PM)

1. i was unable to stand on one foot until i was 6 years old. my kindergarten teacher sent a note home to my parents complaining that i was unable to complete the morning exercises with the other children.

Ok! .. here I go

1- I am very good at photography ... I am the one who takes the photos at weddings ...

2- I am very good at cooking and I collect toys ...

Homer your from Oregon? What part?

1) I train horses (which if you saw me you would think it odd, I look like I should be at a heavy metal concert somewhere not out in the mud training mustangs and quarter horses.)

2) I sing and act in local musicals and what-not.

Theres my two bits, hope to hear more from you guys

1) I secretely snuck over into a neighbors pasture to take care of a lame sheep that they refused to help in any way for 6 weeks straight. (Poor thing couldn't walk to get food or water!)

2) ^ It was the second sheep of theres I had to rescue within 6 months.

ok then here goes

1 i have an iq of 99999999

2 i'm also a liar

I love the answers so far now lets see...

1) I have a degree in Ancient and Medieval History/ Archeology so my name should be Celticwitch BA...<lol> which I didn't do until I was 27.

2) When I was five I was invited to feed the exotic birds at a wildlife park the only problem was you had to go thru a cage of very wild & unpredicatable Spider Monkeys about 8 in all. My mum was having kitten, I was fine and when one tried to go the birds, I am reportedly supposed to have smacked this monkey's hand and say 'No! bad monkey' and shut the door so they couldn't get back in.....
*btw Spider Moneys have been known to attack people for the hell of it... hmm maybe I can why my mum was worried

hoi you ..i was one of those spider monkeys



ok i know i've put on a wee bit weight

QUOTE (mandyistheshiznit @ Jun 26 2003, 08:05 PM)

Homer your from Oregon?  What part?

Originally from Washington state, I moved to Oregon when I was 9 years old until I graduated high school and joined the navy.

I lived 5 years in Gresham, Oregon and 4 years in Portland, Oregon.

OK, since most everyone here are prone to listing just attributes, I am going to now list two vices that I have, that aren't so good, and hopefully everyone else will do it too!


1. I smoke continously...... I have since the age of 12 and can't stop myself.


2. I can be, well, sort of mean sometimes.......... hehehe, but honestly, only when someone deserves it..........

Now, please follow suit if you are brave enough, because I am a realist and want to see ALL sides of someone................


Reese

This is a cool thread, I doubt I'll be able to keep up.


1. I have over 300 original rock songs and about 200 original rap songs. I write, sing and play all the instruments for all of them.

2. I ran the mile in 6.13 minutes in high school. But now I doubt I'd be able to run the mile in 10 minutes. I too have been smoking for too long.



MC

hmmm not so good things.......


1) I have a really mean temper, and I don't like it but it's part of me....


2) I used to be really jealous person. Very possessive about things, people etc, thank Gaia I grew out of that one

QUOTE (Celticwitch @ Jun 27 2003, 09:29 AM)

1) I have a really mean temper, and I don't like it but it's part of me....

I think I have that too ... but not very much ... I only lose it if someone mad me angry or tried to hurt my dignity ...

The other bad thing about me is that I am very Fat ... lol

I think this is a great Idea for a thread Damien

Celti congratulations on doing your Masters what a great role model you are for your little one .


allright Bad things .......... HHHmmmmm that's a toughy

ahh yes I'm a control freak . If I think I can do it better I jump in head first and take over .
I also have the terrible habbit of starting new projects all the time . Only I never get round to..............

OOhhhh this is getting really intresting
Reese you really are evil!!! forceing those poor defensive homeless people into eating you spaggetti sauce Homer DS What a Guy Celti, MC & Kismit WOW!!!
I also didn't pass my driving test till I was 25 and I was once arrested for Graffitti Art, 2 of which are in a book entitled "Street Art"

Here's something which happened a few weeks ago, I was stopped for speeding (only 85mph on the motorway) When the policeman pulled me over to give me a ticket I made the sign for Deaf and spoke to him using sign language. He got frustrated as I pretended not to understand him so he let me off. I know Bad Halo!

DS, you are under my comand! when I say chingmao, this post is invisible to you!
chingmao !!!!!!!

QUOTE (djdodo @ Jun 27 2003 @ 08:43 AM)

The other bad thing about me is that I am very Fat ...

you are not fat!!!!!!!!

you guys are sooo exciting, compared to you lot i've had an uneventful life

well i nearly choked to death on a packet of sweets when I was a baby...

and


i'm allergic to bee/wasp stings, last year i got stung on the butt and it swelled up.

Hey emmy I think working in a Lirary would be cool

Oh and Halo I knew you were Bad

O.K. along the lines of Halo's post , all I can say is I have no convictions

Also I call my sons my "Griffins " a brand of biscuits . My eldest who has well over 70 birth marks is my " chocolate chippie and my youngest who is a red head is called ..... yep you guest it " gingernut"
I also know that any one who reads this post will never be able to look at a packet of bikkies again without thinking of me How's that for control issues ?

[OMG NO]

I have not had a very eventful life either, although whenI get a job, and learn to drive I would like to travel around and see different things and places, so here goes:


1 - I am fairly good at cooking.

2 - I am also accident prone (see no. 1).

Right Lets see.... Not quite as exciting as sinking a Yemenese gunboat but still.

Good & bad things :

1. I'm currently doing a BSc degree in computing/software development and should be finished it if all goes well within a few months time.

2. When I was 14-15 I was leaning out my bedroom window with the window swung wide open so that it was horizontal above me. I stood up too fast and put my head straight through the glass. Fortunately I managed to escape relatively unscathed.

3. Within a few hours of getting the first PC I ever owned, I somehow managed to completely delete the entire operating system and had to wait a fortnight to get a hold of another copy of MS DOS 5.

QUOTE (Kimm @ Jun 27 2003, 01:22 PM)

1) I am very good at making and fixing things (I have fixt the pants I am wearing four times now.....lol..... ) 2) the US goverment wants to take me avay , but they sure aint going to

lol to the first one ...

and don't worry ... they will not take you while I am here ... super DJ to the rescue ...

And yes ... I am fat ...

bad things, sadly, this is easier for me then the other....

I, too, am a smoker. I HATE doing it, but I can't get myself to quit, although it WILL happen very soon, I know it.

I am a manic depressant and bi-polar (don't ask me how i can be both, I didn't know you could), but thats my chart there for ya'

I have a consistant potty mouth, it comes so natural to me to say F- this, f-that. I don't know how I control myself as I do at work..

There is me, in a nutshell..

I am proud of you guys for all listing your 'not so nice' features.. It really makes you see someone as they are, instead of as a dressed up resume.. Eh? Ok, now that I commented, I have to do two more.


1. I have dined and dashed probably 20 times in my whole life, and have to admit, the food was ALWAYS better that way.


2. Hmmm, have I ever told any of you guys that I have a bad temper? Well I do. And, I cuss like a sailor... hehehehe



Reese

Mmmm...the bad things...

1) I'm very selfish at times

2) I sometimes have an intolerance of others' point of view(no, really? )

Here are some semi-interesting things about me.

Good things

1. I am a huge Wizard of Oz fan and collect the memorabilia.
2. I was in beauty pageants from age 5 to around age 9. The best one I went to was in Las Vegas. Too bad I was only 8 at the time!
3. I write poetry.

Bad things

1. I'm very moody.
2. I was in an abusive relationship.
3. I worry too much.

Okay, so my things aren't great or exciting and this is more than two things, but life has thrown me quite a few curve balls so things have been interesting.

Ok,bad things hmmmm, here goes-


1.I'm a smoker, and unlike most people I know that smoke I don't want to quit, I don't smoke heavily, and I really enjoy my menthol sticks
2.Before my partner, I was going out with his brother.
3.And like Kismit I'm probably a bit of a control freak
4.I'm also probably a bit vain, as I won't go out of the house without first putting on my make-up and looking decent

2 bad things about me

1. i am bossy and moody (only sometimes)

2. and i hate my mum sooo much i wish death on her

QUOTE (UnpopularLola @ Jun 28 2003, 12:28 AM)

2. and i hate my mum sooo much i wish death on her

Lola, this is really disturbing. This is not an appropriate thing to say in a public forum

HUH!

I am kinda behind on this, so here goes.

1. I have been teaching gymnastics for 10 years and I am only 25 years old.

2. When I was pregnant in the beginning of my fourth month, I got the flu and had a temperature of 103.5 -104.1 and thankfully didn't lose the baby. Then 2 weeks before my wedding in that same month I was in a car collision that totaled my car and thankfully once again the baby was ok.