Everybody - Tell Us Something We Don't Know

[Quixotic1]

To all our members Posters and Lurkers alike - Tell us something we don't know about yourself....a funny story, an obscure fact, whatever it may be.

Quizzle

[Salamander2]

I'm pretty new her, so there's lots no one knows. I  love the San Francisco 49ers, I'd rather eat mashed potatoes and gravy than dessert, I have been married to my best friend for 32 years (and that's not counting 5 years of dating), reading is my idea of a good time, my favorite book is Pride and Predjudice,  I am a quiet neighbor but a noisy friend, I believe in God and shopping therapy,  and I try to smile even when I don't feel like it.  

The Evolution of Medicine

2000 BC- Here, eat this root

1000 BC- That root is heathen, say this prayer

1850 AD- That prayer is superstition, drink this potion

1940 AD-  That potion is snake oil, take this pill

1985 AD-That pill is ineffective, take this antibiotic

2000 AD- That antibiotic is artificial,  here, eat this root.


Sally :)

[biowham]

I have a tattoo of a shark on my ***.

[shoshin]

My first extended experience with ongoing struggles with numbness, tingling, and legs and feet falling asleep was during the fifteen months I spent in a Zen temple in Japan. Of course, this was much better than MS in that all I had to do to get rid of the problem was stand up and walk around a little bit. Would that MS were so easily resolvable. I'm sure I'm not the only one who'd love a bit of a respite (I'm having a very tingly day and stairs are killing me recently).

Actuall,. my legs have actually always fallen asleep kind of easily. What was worse during the sesshin (extended meditation retreat periods) was the pain--I used to say that I felt like someone was doing dental work on my knees. Still, I always knew if I just stood up and moved a bit, it would go away. Somebody please tell me the secret to get this MS to go away!

sho

PS for Julie: That was a funny story about the monkey. I went to Indonesia a couple times when I was living in Japan. I taught English for a couple years and when we had long vacations it was cheaper to go out of the country, even with the airfare, than to travel in country. There are many beautiful places in Bali. Sadly, I think my traveling days are over. I don't think I would be able to move after that many hours trapped in an economy class plane seat.

[pennst8r]

I am the world's biggest soccer fan!

Despite my verbosity, I am actually very shy. I do public speaking - because it scares me:) Same reason I am a roller coaster nut - it got me over (sort of) my fear of heights.

I love ghost hunting, but am unsure if I believe they exist...

I am not too bad an artist

I cannot live without a dog in my life

I'm double jointed in my fingers - all of them (makes for some interesting spasms)

I have few friends...many many acquiantances, but keep to my family much of the time

I married my true soul mate

I love this forum though I've had little time to come on lately!

Penn

[wonko]

*I'm 5'9", the shortest in my family.  The rest (including my mom) range from 6'-6'7".

*I worked at a burger king (doing drive through) my senior year of undergrad, and I actually kinda liked it!

*I've taken a polygraph before. (and passed!)

*I can stard on my head for >5 minutes.

*When I was 17, I totaled 2 trucks in 10 days (no one was hurt except me, I conked my head in the 1st one).

*The longest I've ever stayed in one apartment is 2 years.  (This is a great way to avoid things like cleaning behind the fridge--just move before it needs to be done!)

*I used tape to "hide" inspiring fortune cookie fortunes all over my office in grad school for the next person to find.

*I'm a generous tipper.

[JemmAus]

Well....this is more about one of my sons than me. I have 4 kids, aged 25, 22yo twins and an 11yo. The male twin gives me grey hairs....

He is one of those lads who flies through the air upside down on a BMX bike.

He is accident prone. He is the only person I have ever heard of who needed stitches on his eyelid from throwing one of those 20cent plastic soldiers (if you throw it in the air, and it lands on your eye, look out). At our hospital in my home town, he has 26 different sets of x-rays for his various self-inflicted injuries.
One of my personal favourites occured about ten years ago. he went down to the creek with his friend to build a tree house. Ten minutes later he rides back down the driveway on his bike, clutching his armpit. Silly lad had swung on a branch in the tree, and managed to impale his armpit on a nearby broken branch. The innards of his armpit were hanging out!
Another time, when I was about 8 months pregnant with the last one, he was at a friends house (same friend as the armpit incident actually). The motehr of that frined rolled up at my house looking all in a panic, and asked me to go to the dr with her. There was my son absolutely covered in blood, aftre his mate had accidently clobbered him in the skull with a 9 iron golf club. From that he got a compressed skull fracture and forty stitches.
He's had 6 concussions, 2 skull fractures, twice broken his collarbone, broken his nose, smashed his ankle to pieces, and had too many stitches to count.
Now he's 22.
He left Aus in March with plans to work in the UK for two years,and ride his BMX bike on every skate park he could find. But after 3 weeks decided it was too cold and headed for Europe, where he promptly fell in love with and American girl from Montana.

He's been in Montana now with her for two months, and just discovered that his 90 day visa waiver programme thing that he's on doesn't mean he can go to canada for a weekend and then start a new visa waiver programme, he has to actually leave the Nth American continent by 14 october.
So  lucky old me, because silly boy has run out of money, and I just got back from a travel agents $1500 worse off after booking him a flight home so he doesn't get arrested and end up in some immigration detention centre!

*sigh*

Kids!

Good bit of course is he's coming home,a nd he promised to get me a red ferarri wheelchair (if such a thing exists) if my legs give out. He reckons they go faster...

If anyone wants to see him, he's on a youtube clip ffrom 2 minutes 20 seconds to 4 minutes  10 seconds here:

youtube.com/watch?v=vc4JajNiW2w

just add the w w w bits I suppose....

Jemm