What have you done that NO other DUer has done.

[yvr girl]

Or at least you think the chances are good that you're the only DUer who can make claim to have...

I'll start:

I've fallen off a chairlift - twice.
I've had dinner with Princess Diana.

[aclog]

1. Well its relatively lame

but I once won a trip to the Pro Bowl in Honolulu

[LaraMN]

2. Told Dr. Kevorkian I was "a fan."

:rofl: I meant "a supporter," but that wasn't what came out.

[StaggerLee]

11. LOL

That one's great!

I signed his petition...didn't say anything to him though.

[displacedtexan]

241. Me, too.

I used to correspond with him.

[matcom]

3. bitten by a 4-foot Cayman Crocodial

'jaws of death' x(

[yvr girl]

4. They have crocs in the Caymans?

Yikes. You didn't lose anything important did you?

BTW, are you and Mrs.Matcom not going to Mexico this year?

[matcom]

6. worked in an exotic pet store in high school

believe it or not we had to 'clean him' every other week (scrub the algae off). anyway, it took 3 of us (2 to hold him, one to clean him)

one of the other guys lost his grip and before i knew it he had my hand. LUCKILY the other guy immediately grabbed his head so he couldn't thrash. 2 others pried his jaws apart (after about 2 minutes)

puncture wounds only but one went to the bone. to this day i can tell you when a front is moving through x(

no Mexico this year. poor town was devistated by the hurricanes x(

[yvr girl]

7. Did you get minimum wage for that job?

I hope he at least bought you some illegal beers.

That's too bad about your trip...and the town.

[radwriter0555]

10. Not Playa Del Carmen... all reports from there say that the majority of

town is back in business.

I dream about PDC every day... I may have to schedule up another trip!

[matcom]

12. Puerto Aventuras

they got DEVASTATED

http://alanformstone.com/misc/puerto_aventuras_emily_damage/pa_damage_update.html

we have some Canadian friends that just came back. said the resorts are mostly back up but anywhere outside is still hurting

[radwriter0555]

38. Interesting. I've heard that PDC proper is just fine. I believe the canned

coast is still a wreck... I should see how Puerto Morelos is... love that place... ooo I need to go back.

[In_The_Wind]

5. Spent the evening drinking and dancing with Donald Trump.

And no one noticed. It was long before he made the public scene.

:hi:

[Lavender Brown]

39. What was he like?

:)

[In_The_Wind]

46. He was a total gentleman.

I was out for the evening with my best friend. We had stopped into Maxwell Plum for a drink before heading home to Brooklyn. Donald sent us a drink and then introduced himself. After chatting for a while the three of us went to Le Club where we danced for hours. It wasn't until we were on our way home ~ when he ask me to a hockey game, that I realized he was interested in dating me and not my friend.

[Ohio Joe]

8. I got my foot caught in an escalator

When I was about 6 years old. It caught my shoelace and just sucked it in about half way before the thing stopped. It took them about two hours to get me out, it hurt like hell but fortunately no permanent damage.

[In_The_Wind]

15. Hello ~ Ohio Joe!

to DU!

Ouch! I'm glad there was no problem caused by your mishap.

:hi:

[Ohio Joe]

21. Thank You

It's very nice to be here :)

[In_The_Wind]

25. How do you like your new home?

I was in Ohio several times last year. I think it's beautiful around Lake Erie.

[Ohio Joe]

35. It's OK

I've not been outside the Columbus area much but it's petty nice around here.

[hippywife]

45. Hi, Ohio Joe!

Welcome to DU! I lived in Columbus all my life until I married at 38 and moved to OK with my husband over 8 years ago. Lived in the Dublin area for 3 years before I left. I sure do miss home.

[Ohio Joe]

52. Thank you for the welcome :)

I bet you would hardly recognize it, I've been here a little over five years and the amount of building they do is amazing. Always several somethings going up everywhere.

[hippywife]

59. I haven't been back in about

2 and a half years now. I lived in a condo north of Bethel between Sawmill and the river. All my family is still there. As I've mentioned here before, several times...I MISS GOOD PIZZA!! LOL

[Ohio Joe]

74. I know that area, it's not far

I live near the Tuttle Mall, just on the other side of 270. I hate to say it but I feel the same way about pizza, I think everyone feels the pizza they had where they grew up is the best. Whenever I go back to Jersey, pizza is always my first stop :)

[hippywife]

78. LOL

We eat lots of pizza when we come home. It's a priority having grown up in an Italian family in the Grandview Hts area. Check out the pizza over there. You might like it. Panzera's at the corner of 1st and Grandview is excellent.

[Ohio Joe]

81. Excellent

I will check it out, thanks :)

[lady raven]

254. Where in OK are you?

I'm an Okie- Ponca City, to be exact. We have a pretty good pizza place here, and it's where our local Democratic party meets :-)

[realisticphish]

222. o, so you're in Cbus?

what area?

I live on campus, though this summer I'm moving to an apartment on Kinnear

[Ohio Joe]

228. Up in Dublin

Kinnear.... is that near the lennox theater ? I was just down there Friday night, I went to see Hostel.

[realisticphish]

229. yeah

it's the road just north of lennox. Think i'll be going to a lot of movies :)

how was hostel? Looked like Saw w/ tarentino to me

[Ohio Joe]

232. I liked it

Quite a bit different then Saw, a lot more nudity and gore. Not exactly the homicidal maniac story but sort of... don't want to give spoilers, you should see it if you don't mind the violence.

[billyskank]

19. That was the stuff my nightmares were made of

when I was a kid! :scared:

[Ohio Joe]

22. I had never thought about it before it happened

But I had many nightmares about it after.

[redwitch]

57. I STILL hesitate before stepping on an escalator

scary things. :scared:

[bigwillq]

28. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[Ohio Joe]

36. Thank you

:)

[momophile]

33. a friend of mine sat on an escalator and got her clothes...

stuck. I'm not sure how old she was.

[lizziegrace]

53. Yikes! and Welcome to DU!

I was terrified of those things when I was a kid. My father had to carry me or I wouldn't go.

Welcome to DU! I live in Golden Bear country until the end of March then I'm moving to the country between Powell and Delaware.

:hi:

[Ohio Joe]

71. Thank you for the welcome

I don't know where Golden Bear country is but Powell is not far, we'll practically be neighbors :)

[lizziegrace]

77. Golden Bear country

is (whispering) upper arlington.

[Ohio Joe]

80. ohhhh

I go there a lot, one of my best friends lives there. Also a guy I work with, his wife teaches at the high school. If you see a yellow T-bird, wave it's me :)

[lizziegrace]

86. old T-Bird or new?

PM me with the teacher's name. My daughter graduated from UA.

:hi:

[Ohio Joe]

95. It's new

2002, the first year of the re-issue. If I had used my brain for a minute I might not have gotten it. I had decided to get a new car (never had one before in my life) and had been doing tons of research on a bunch of different ones. Then I saw one on the road and threw everything out the window and went and got one :) I was not even able to test drive it, the first time I drove one was when I took it off the lot, hahahaha. It's really great, I love it but it's a wicked gas guzzler... not a very good thing and I sometimes feel guilty about it but... dammit it's sooo much fun to drive :) When I get my home computer working again (I only post from work right now... yes I'm working today) I'll post a picture of it.

[lizziegrace]

104. Please do post a picture when you can

I'm trying to stay in my father's good graces. He's got a 1967 Corvette with a 427 and side-pipes. Ever time I give him a hard time about something, he says "that's it, you're out of the will".

Realistically, I can't afford to drive the car, let alone insure it for it's full value.

I'm glad you got a car you can really enjoy. :hi:

[Inspired]

114. Met Bush when he was jogging in a park

It happened in Des Moines, IA while I was attending a work function. It was a team building thing with ice cream and a couple of work related discussions.

There were several police cars and fire trucks in the park and I didn't know what the hell was going on when I arrived. They had the entrances blocked so I hopped a small fence and walked over to the shelter. A few people were already there and said that the president was in the park jogging. (When you live in Iowa there is always some politician in town!)

Once a small work crowd gathered, about 20 of us, the secret service came over and searched everyone's belongings. The president then jogged over and met everyone. I loathe this man but I have to admit...it was kind of cool meeting a president in that kind of setting. Very casual and unplanned. Of course, I would never plan on meeting the idiot so it would have to be unplanned for me.

[KitchenWitch]

180. I did too!

My mom was on crutches at the time, and she almost re-broke her leg trying to pull me out.

[Ohio Joe]

184. Yikes

I've never known of anyone else this happened to. Did you get the lines from the steps imprinted of your foot for a week or so :) I did.

[KitchenWitch]

185. Yes

It was really scary!

[rucky]

266. been there, done that.

except it ripped off the front of my shoe and just kept going.

[lpbk2713]

9. Been on the Rock of Gibraltar.

That's the first thing that comes to mind.

[eyesroll]

13. Was told by Sen. Feingold that I was a good writer.

Discussed said Senator's divorce, on the phone, at work -- with his then soon-to-be-ex wife.

[billyskank]

14. Hi yivver!

:hi:

I have taken bath in the Ganges.

[StaggerLee]

16. On a bus ride from Olongapo to Manila (1993)

A film distributor tried to recruit me for a commercial and bit parts in some action films.

Wanted to do it in the worst way but I was way too busy doing the green/card embassy thing for my then fiance.

[yellowdogintexas]

17. closed a bank account for Al Gore when we were both around 21

years old.

It was right after his father lost his Senate Seat and we talked about that.


Another one:

Sat in Earl Scrugg's TV room while he played one last tune on the banjo my (then) husband was buying from him. Randy and Steve were cutting the grass and Louise was in the kitchen. It was wonderful.

[bertha katzenengel]

41. Dude!

:wow: When I tell Mrs. V. (eastern Tennessean) about you and Earl and that banjo she is going to turn green.

:hi:

[yellowdogintexas]

252. oh yeah, I saw him inthe local hardware store once, buying

new guts for the toilet tank, too.

He is a very quiet unassuming man.

My ex met Bill Monroe once, I was not with him, though.

My best to Mrs. V. I love Earl too and I wish to hell all his old albums of the Earl Scruggs Revue would be released on CD. Those were some rocking records!

[Giant Robot]

18. Saw Star Wars Episode III

with Michael Moore. Well he was three seats to my left anyway. He was a very humble man when I spoke with him briefly as I was leaving.

[Crazy Dave]

20. Before caller ID and *69 and in my juvenile delinquent days

I used to call the mean school teachers and our asshole assistant vice-principal at 2:00am in the morning, say nasty things to them and then say I was (by name) whoever the class bully was at the time.

[fudge stripe cookays]

23. Did a pencil drawing of the band "The Church"

and got them all to sign it.

Did a pencil drawing of REM and got them all to sign it.

Won 2 essay contests to pay for freshman college tuition. One was "The Importance of the Mayflower Compact to America." The other was "The Important Services Provided by Federal Employees." $500 for one, $1000 for the other.

[bertha katzenengel]

42. Cookays gains yet more of my esteem.

Federal employees are near and dear to my heart. I married one of 'em. They're too often called mindless bureaucrats just living off a more-respectable gov't dole.

:hi:

[fudge stripe cookays]

44. My dad worked for the...

Veterans' Administration Data Processing Center in Austin, and my mom and I both worked for the IRS. Hey, the benefits were good, and it allowed me to finish my degree with a decent living wage so I didn't have to live on ramen in a complete hovel.

When I first started the paper, I didn't even know what a fefderal employee was! (I was only 17 after all, that stuff was new to me...)

Thanks Bert!
:hug:

[LaurenG]

24. Well I can think of things Duer's rarely do that I've done

I am married to a man born in England. Had my first child at 17 and my second at 20. My ex was a cop and I see and or "hear" dead people occasionally. :hi:

[amitten]

76. Oooo...what kind of ghost stuff has happened to you?

I find that intriguing.

[LaurenG]

186. Well some of it is sort of creepy

We used to get a ton of "activity" in an apartment we lived in in Colorado. It started out with bad dreams about bikers fighting and stabbing and killing each other. I had this same dream every night for weeks. The lights would also get turned on in the middle of the night when no one was there. We'd just get up in the am and all the lights would be on. I finally talked to the maintenance guy who'd worked there forever. He told me that the complex had been previously known as the purple pit, it was a bikers complex and a couple of them were killed in front of my apartment and that the ones who died lived in my apartment and the one next to mine.

I also hear from my dad. He gave me some info that helped me out during December.

Also, I had a message from my ex mother-in -law after she died. She was wearing a pair of black capris and a white shirt and asked me to tell her family that she was fine and that she loved them. When I told her husband (my fil) about it he ran in his room and got an old black and white picture of her and asked "is this what she was wearing"? It was and he said well that was her favorite outfit, she wore it as often as possible- the pants were black velvet. There are others, not as pleasant but here are a few just for fun. :hi:

[amitten]

239. More! Tell more!

That is really cool.

[kitkatrose]

26. I *voluntarily* jumped off a 12 foot bridge into water.

Oh, yeah, that was lots of fun.

[OneTwentyoNine]

27. Met and shook hands with actress Kirsti Alley

She was in town over 10 years ago putting a ton of money into an old house for the Scientology thats she's wrapped up in. We already did work for the contractor who had the job,went over and met with her and did a bid. It was early in the morning,she was just wearing sweats/work clothes...looked like anyone else at that time of the morning. Pretty nice person really.

I know some others who met with Harrison Ford out at Cessna when he was in town to pick up a Cessna Caravan. Hmmm,made it sound like he was kind of an asshole,blowing people off as fast as he could. Can't verify that 100% but thats what I was told....

[AKPacker]

29. I have a couple

I was the 8th grade cribbage champion.
I have been to Moldova.

The first was fun the second was misery.

[Patiod]

30. Put makeup on Justice Breyer's head

and did Senator Boxer's nails -- long story, but I got pulled in to do make-up on a Fred Friendly Seminar at Independence Hall. I got a call the night before to "help do makeup on some Thing with some Lawyers". I was putting makeup on a woman when someone greeted her as "Senator Boxer", and that's when I realized what I was in for. Senator Boxer, Justice Breyer, former CIA head Wm Webster, Al Haig and others.

The guy who called me was working on someone and I heard him say "you have a pretty heavy 5-oclock shadow -- we'll need to use this so you don't look like a drag queen." When everyone left, I asked "Did you know who that was that you were doing make-up on? No? Barney Frank. Who's that? The only openly gay congressman, and you just told him you didn't want him looking like a drag queen."

[GalleryGod]

58. Just a reminder

[Patiod]

198. Mmmm....Chase

Nice image for a cold, windy Monday
:loveya:

[tigereye]

290. that's a funny story

[bikebloke]

31. Walked through a mine field

In the Negev desert along the border with Jordan. It just wasn't fenced off and sign posted at the time. I was working on a moshav, walking out to a clump of bushes to irrigate the desert via my bladder. One day the army came along, stringing up a fence with the signs. Merde. The amerikans supplied the Israelis with these groovy new mines made out of plastic, so they couldn't be detected with metal detectors. Well, one day came a rare heavy rain and all the mines went floating everywhere.

Though the rule of survival was to walk only in tractor tracks. If the tractor didn't blow up, then you were probably safe.

[Strong Atheist]

32. Climbed down the inner lip of Vesuvius

as a teenager... very stupid, it was a big slope, and full of loose rocks.... took a picture straight down the inner wall ...

[coffeenap]

34. Picked up Pierre Trudeau at the airport--

Ok, met him at the airport to take him to a series of events my org. was sponsoring. He was early and just sitting in one of those blue chairs connected to 8 others. Spent an hour in a limo with him, and had a nice lunch and time to speak with him later about world issues--it would have been nice if I had understood any world issues at the time...

[DanCa]

37. Hmmm.

Senator Durbin gave me his donkey and american flag pin when I went to Washington last year at the pan forum. They are my most cherished possessions.

[bertha katzenengel]

40. I was in the chorus that opened the Carpenter Performing Arts Center

n/t

[Cats Against Frist]

43. Ridden 120 mph down the expressway, as an 18-year-old

in a convertible Mustang full of Muslims and guns, totally un-belted, sitting up high, on the back, with a plastic cup of Bud Light in one hand, and a joint in the other, listening to that techno re-mix of "O Fortuna!..."


...In Indiana.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

108. Now I want to hear the story on how that one came about?

nt

[Cats Against Frist]

118. Geez, it was about 13 years ago, and I went to college

at this small, private university where, for some reason, foreign ME dignitaries and the uber-wealthy thought it proper to send their college-aged children. I went straight from the farm in Illinois, to this little Methodist college where my parents thought I wouldn't get into any trouble. Boy were they wrong. I spent my first formative years away from home in a Turkish-UAE-Saudi quasi-orgy of drugs, fast cars, guns and rottweilers -- with three hippies as ringleaders, doing it Marlon-Brando-on-The-Island-of-Dr.-Moreau style, and a semi-professional English soccer team, masquerading as college students, thrown in for good measure. It was one of the WEIRDEST times of my life -- and I wasn't even in the inner inner circle -- if it was a movie, I would have been cast as Midwestern Blonde Yokel Slut No. 1. To be fair, some of the muslims WERE devout, and sat out the actual drinking and snorting coke.

[Lefty48197]

119. Oh hell, who hasn't done THAT?

lol

[Magrittes Pipe]

47. I sailed from Peru to Polynesia on a tiny raft in 1947.

No, wait, that was Thor Heyerdahl.


Never mind.

[northzax]

203. and he faked that one, didn't he?

as I recall?

[kay1864]

224. Hmm, not according to Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_Heyerdahl

And there's almost always a "Controversy" heading in a Wikipedia entry, if there's an actual controversy.

Maybe some other explorer you're thinking of?

[northzax]

225. no, there's something about Heyerdahl

I'll try and come up with it.

[izzie]

307. I read your book when it came out. And your still with us.

Your have to be the oldest man on DU and that has to be a first also.

[RebelOne]

48. Been skydiving. After six jumps, I decided that sport was not for me.

[fishwax]

111. I've been skydiving

and it was awesome. I only went once, though. I wanted to go again, but ran into two problems. The first was the expense. The second was the difficulty of finding someone else to go with. When I would tell people I went, they would usually say "I've always wanted to do that." But then when I'd mention I was hoping to go again and looking for someone to go with me, their enthusiasm would very quickly disappear :)

[RebelOne]

136. Yes, my first jump was awesome.

I went out of the plane perfectly and landed right in the middle of the drop zone. But after that all kinds of disasters happened, such as the chute risers wrapping around my neck, losing my way in the air and not finding the drop zone, and then being dragged for 100 feet through rocks and dirt when the wind caught my chute after I landed.

[fishwax]

172. yikes! I can see why you decided it was not for you

:scared:

I'm glad you lived to tell those tales :):hi:

[Ohio Joe]

113. I went once

Then decided that it did not make sense to me to jump out of a perfecly good airplane.

[RebelOne]

135. Yup, decided the same thing, so instead I learned to fly the plane.

[WolverineDG]

49. Here's 2

Spent NYE day of 1999 walking around Uluru (Ayers Rock) in Australia.

Drove Randi Rhodes & her producer Barry Crimmins from the hotel in McGregor to the Peace House in Crawford. :)

dg

[neweurope]

50. I climbed up the Mont Lozère in France leading a horse,

(the montain is 1700 m high) - one of those "riding trips" where you march more than ride - and slid down the other side on my butt, still leading my horse, and it was so rainy and foggy that I never saw the damn mountain at all. All I saw for three days was the tail of the horse before me. Been there three times since, and the mountain insists on being covered in fog at all times.*g*

-----------

Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[momophile]

51. spent the 1999 millennium on a desert island just west...

of the dateline. One of the first to see 2000!

[lizziegrace]

54. I've met Tony Bennett n/t

[taterguy]

55. washed my hands standing next to Al Gore

[Benfea]

56. Nearly got arrested in East Germany

I got lucky. I'm sure the communist East German polezei would have loved to get their hands on a vandalous son of an American military officer.

People get so touchy about chain fences.

[Gormy Cuss]

60. Pulled mug shots for photo line-ups.

I learned the art of selecting four other people who met the general description of a suspect without looking so much alike that the witness would be confused.

[RetroLounge]

61. Had 2 Chciago Cops pull their weapons and aim at me

while telling me to put my hands on my head and get out of the car...

I asked how I could get out of the car if my hands were on my head?

Was then physically and roughly pulled from car and tossed against a wall and frisked.

They were looking for a drug buyer and our car matched the description, apparently.

Was a bit scary...

RL

[yvr girl]

66. Valid question on your part but

did they pistol whip you for being 'cheeky'?

[RetroLounge]

75. No, but told us to go back to Wisconsin

that "our kind" wasn't welcome.

Hmmm, two artists, a musician and a writer in the car.

RL

[yvr girl]

93. You wild Wisconsin child you

(I know, Illinois child...)

[Rabrrrrrr]

149. Grovelbot's fetish for German latex scheisseporn cost us the war in Iraq!

I posted my post in the wrong spot, so chose to post from the cache while I correct the error.

[jmm]

183. I've had similar experiences

I found out the hard way cops don't like it when you ask them, "How do you expect me to get out of the car with my hands up while I have a seatbelt on and your right hand has a gun in my face while your left hand if grabbing my shirt?"

[ProfessorGAC]

192. Sort Of Happened To Me Too, But Not Chicago Cops

They were Will County Cops.

Here's what happened, lest you think i'm a dangerous felon:

When i was dating my wife (back in the late 70's) she lived in an old farmhouse in the middle of nowhere. (The family who owned it lived in 2/3rd, she lived in the other third.) Well there had been a series of stalkings of, and the rapes of two teenage girls in the area of the largest city in the county.

Well, i'm leaving her house one night around 10:30 or 11, and as i'm driving out, there's a big mercury vapor light, so i forgot to turn my headlights on. I get about 2/3rds of the way down the driveway and then i turned on my lights. Boom! Mars lights galore!

Four cop cars, 8 cops, all out guns drawn, 5 of them shotguns. I showed my hands, and got out slowly. I said "Stay calm fellas, i belong here!" One comes over to me, and starts asking me what i was doing there and why was i driving without headlights. I explained. My girlfriend (long since my wife) and the landlady both come out the front and tell the cops i'm cool and i belong there.

The cops relax and guns go down. They were EXTREMELY apologetic and admitted they were freaking out over the stalker/rapist. I did, however, not go home. I went back inside and just stayed there for the night. Too wound up to drive home at that point.
The Professor

[Tikki]

62. Worked at the 1984 Summer Olympics...

at the UCLA venue as a security guard...



Tikki

[CaliforniaPeggy]

63. I remember, when I was about 10 or 11 years old.........

My dad has always been crazy about trains.......

Real ones, toy trains, model railroads and like that......

Well, one Sunday, the four of us (my folks, my brother and I) drove down to the local rail yard.

We parked, and got out next to a big steam locomotive. The engineer said they were getting ready to move it around the track, and would my brother like to drive it?

So we all got into the train, but then my brother changed his mind...

So they asked me if I'd like to drive the train!

Well, what do YOU think? Hell, yes!

Good thing I didn't have to steer the damn thing.....controlling the throttle was almost too much...

Chug chug chug....then chugchugchugchug! Fast, then slow.......it was a riot!

We were all laughing.....it was so much fun! The day I got to drive a locomotive......

:hi:

[FLSurfer]

64. While it wasn't as exciting as the time I was pulled off a bus

in Nicaragua and almost conscripted into the Army, I built my own house.
I am still living in it today and it is definitely my greatest accomplishment.

[graywarrior]

65. I was a concert promoter in NE in the 70's.

[AngryAmish]

67. I saw Barack Obama naked

[yvr girl]

69. What? No detail?

Where? When? Why? How...?

[AngryAmish]

79. About a year ago

health club.

[Benfea]

83. See? When you ask for details...

…a lot of the time they're a lot more mundane than you were expecting them to be.

[yvr girl]

90. I was expecting something like that

just so you know.

[Benfea]

105. I was hoping for something a bit racier.

For instance, I've seen an Olympian naked (well, partially naked).

When I was in college (IIT), my fraternity had close ties with a fraternity next door, and we drank together often. (Before you think I'm one of those annoying stereotypical frat-rats, IIT is an engineering school and we had more in common with "Revenge of the Nerds" than "Animal House.")

One of the guys in the other house that I got along with was a painfully shy black fellow named Prentis (if I remember right, college was a bit of a blur). My little circle of drinking buddies would often drag Prentis out with us because we liked him and desperately wanted to get him to come out of his shell instead of being so shy and reserved all the time. One time we dragged him along to a bout of drinking at a particularly rowdy sorority. That night we actually got Prentis to have a few beers. We congratulated ourselves on making progress with him. Unfortunately, we forgot to take into acount the… erm… rowdy nature of the sorority in question.

The girls adored Prentis (tall, dark, handsome, and nice almost to a fault), so of course the instant he passed out, the girls stripped him naked and shaved every bit of hair on his body, including his pubic hair. Needless to say, Prentis never went drinking with us again and we never did get him out of his shell.

Years later, I found out he was an Olympic kick boxer and won a medal of some sort.

[American liberal]

160. you did not!

[American liberal]

161. got stung in the butt by a wasp the first time I had intercourse

[AngryAmish]

168. East Bank Club

[JudyM]

213. Was he totally hot?

[hyphenate]

68. Well

I can think of a few that I don't think a lot of others have done, but not sure about the NO ONE part of it.

I've written a novel (fiction, not a non-fiction book like others)
Wrote a screenplay (episode of Quantum Leap that didn't get made)
Almost killed myself and my sister going downhill on a bike when we were much younger
"Starred" in an ice show (it was a one-nighter) when I was 5
Went to an all-girls high school (it turned coed when I was a senior, but our graduating class was still all female)
Was adopted within the same family

I'm sure there are others, but I can't think of any off the bat

[American liberal]

174. you can scratch adopted within the same family off the list

I was too.

[Shine]

70. I broke an arrow with my throat.

it's a ritual they do over in India, where you place the point of an arrow in a certain spot on your throat and the other end against a wall. Then, you push through until it breaks. It's a profound experience of quite literally pushing through what you think you're capable of.

I've also done a 25 foot firewalk while I was 8 mos. pregnant. My feet did NOT burn. The coals felt like popcorn. It was incredible how transformative the experience was. Such a testament to the power of the mind over body!!

I LOVE all that kind of stuff....where we stretch our boundaries and push through FEAR. :thumbsup:

[tigereye]

291. wow, Shine

I didn't even want to do pushhands when I was pregnant! What a great story to tell the kiddos.

:thumbsup:

[merh]

72. You had dinner with Princess Diana!

Damn, that is awesome!

1) Been the "perp" during demonstrations of police attack dogs and had the dog charge me and hang on my arm.

2) body surfed (for lack of a better term) Katrina

[Robb]

73. Dogsledding, still, apparently.

...Unless someone else has, but I haven't seen them yet.

FWIW, I've fallen off a chairlift twice, too. :hi:

[northzax]

207. sorry, you need to cross dogsledding off the list

I've done that.

and the chairlift (thrice, as far as I recall)

I think I can play the trump here. I have ridden a swimming moose. the catch is that you have to let go before it touches groud, or it will kick you to close to death.

[haele]

82. Ran my hand through an electric washing machine ringer...

...When I was four. Kept pulling back and ended up nearly taking off my index finger until I just let my arm run through to the elbow and the "safety" finally sensed a jam and sprang open.
They transplanted skin from the inside of my elbow to cover what was left of my index and middle fingers. Six months in a hard cast, another year of PT. Ouch. Fourty-two years later, I still have some major scars from that incident.
Only good thing - I got to bang the neighborhood rug rat bully over the head with my cast and got him to stop bugging me and my friends for a while.
Luckily, my folks had health insurance through UC Berkley back in the day when insurance really did cover most health care, so it was close to free for them to get me fixed up.


Haele

[Midlodemocrat]

84. Taught Henry Simmons of NYPD Blue

and John Popper of the Blues Travelers.

[bertha katzenengel]

85. Henry Simmons is a stud.

You lucky teacher you. ;)

[Midlodemocrat]

87. And he was just as sweet as he is good looking.

I adored him. He was a superstar athlete, great student, great looking, and just as kind as could be. His parents did a great job with him.

[bertha katzenengel]

96. That's great to hear.

I hope to see more of him - but in movies, Henry, or on the stage.

[NNadir]

98. Existed for years with my genome.

I would take the birth of considerably more (on average) than 73 trillion births before anyone does that again.

[bertha katzenengel]

88. Thought of another one -- and this one is a lock for "no other DUer" --

was the first infant to have open heart surgery in California. :hi:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

157. Wow!

I'm glad you survived! :hug:

[bertha katzenengel]

189. Me too, Goddess.

:hug:

[ContraBass Black]

89. Nearly fell on my ass in an ice storm waiting for John Edwards

And then shook Wesley Clark's hand the next day.

[Inspired]

116. Drove in motorcades with John Edwards

met his younger kids.

[Joey Liberal]

91. I lived in a motel during high school

That was a trip.........

[RevolutionaryActs]

92. You had dinner with Princess Diana? That's sooo cool

Um... I've slept with both you and progmom. I bet no one else has. :7

[Brewman_Jax]

94. Been Ship's Navigator

my last assignment while in the Navy. Actually used the sextant and chronometer for celestial navigation. Also radio (including radar) navigation and satellite navigation. Those are the only Navy books that I still have when I got out.

[Wcross]

97. I didn't "do" it, it happened to me- hit by lightning.

I was at summer camp sitting on a picnic table with metal legs. I was sitting on a bolt and my foot was on the ground. Lightning hit the tree right next to the table, I was thrown about ten feet into a tent. Got a burn on my butt and one on my toe. It was quite shocking!

[Blue-Jay]

99. Smuggled weed out of Jamaica in the bell of my saxophone.

about a dozen sticks.

[lavenderdiva]

100. In reading this thread, I am struck by the thought of what an interesting

group we have here on DU!!!

For myself, as a child I lived in Australia and had a pet wallaby kangaroo. Moved back to the states, won the 9th grade spelling championship. Grew up, got involved in Ballroom Dancing, and was ranked 2nd in the U.S. at one point. Currently, one of the top Christmas designers in the very large city I live in now.

[GOPFighter]

166. My wife would love to meet you!

She just started taking ballroom dancing lessons. Loves it.

[lavenderdiva]

226. Good for her! But what about you?

I'm sure she would LOVE for you to start to learn to partner with her in dancing! It is such a wonderful and FUN way to exercise. Not that that's why one starts with it. Competitively, one 1-1/2 minute routine equals running an 800 meter race! The best benefit, should you start to participate with your wife, is that you will be able to share a hobby and meet some wonderful people in the process.

I have just started to get my husband involved and we are taking beginner lessons once a week, given by a local university. Its good for me to go back over the basics once again, and it helps him tremendously. I know he's not doing it for any other reason than it makes me oh-so happy, and he loves me (which makes me love him all the more!)

Get your dancing shoes on, take your wife in your arms, and get moving!

ps. give your wife a big hello from me-- Is she watching 'Dancing with the Stars' on ABC, or 'America's Ballroom Challenge' on PBS?

[GOPFighter]

238. My wife has always wanted to be a dancer

At first she wanted me to go with her, but by the third week she said, "No offense sweety but you would only hold me back if you came with me." She's a natural, I'm a walrus. I'm not offended, she's right and I'm tickled to see her so happy.

Some of us are dancers, the rest of us watch and admire...! Good luck to you and your hubby, maybe after Angie reaches her goals, I'll join her and learn some basic steps. Thanks for responding.

[coffeenap]

101. Learned to drive a stick shift in the mountains of former Yugoslavia.

[lavenderdiva]

102. Please share the details of your dinner experience with Princess Diana...

I, for one, would love to hear, and I know there are others as well...

[EstimatedProphet]

103. I was part of the team that took care of snakeheads

Remember the snakeheads, the fish in MD that were threatening to screw with the natural fish populations of the entire eastern seaboard a couple years ago? I helped get rid of them.

[ScreamingMeemie]

106. Registered at DU under the name MrsGrumpy.

I know, I have led a pretty boring life. :hi:

[Wapsie B]

109. Join the club Mrs. G.

We may not have climbed Mt. Everest or dined with Kings or Queens. But who we are as individuals is the special part to me.

:hi:

[ScreamingMeemie]

120. You know it!

:hi: :hug:

[hfojvt]

177. I tried to do that

but they said it was not original. I said, to myself, "Yeah? I'll give you original."

[AlienGirl]

107. Got Mr. Hitler's phone number

[johnnie]

110. Signed my name

I would guess no one here has ever done that.

[Left Is Write]

112. I think I am the only DUer ever to work for WYTE radio. If I am NOT...

then I would love to hear from any DUers who did! :D

[billyskank]

115. Drawn a picture of yvr girl!

:D

[Lefty48197]

117. I shook hands with Clinton, Gore, and Kerry during their Pres. campaigns

Kind of a trifecta, although I'm probably not the only one.

[NoPasaran]

121. Protested President Jimmy Carter

Outside of a town hall meeting he was having in some small town near Pittsburgh. I was in the Socialist Workers Party at the time.

[Nikia]

122. At least two safety changes done after two separate injuries

At the freshman/college adviser dinner at my college, I punched a hole in my thumb with the joint of the milk machine. Within a week, the dining hall had a new milk machine that wasn't jointed like that.
While biking home from my new job to home, after I graduated from college, I wiped out after my bike tires got caught in rail road tracks I was riding over. I has walked across the street to a nearby business for help with my injuries. Within a short period of time, the city put up signs saying "Caution railroad tracks may catch bike tires."

[abex]

123. hung-out with some wise guys for about a year nt

[HEyHEY]

124. Taken a train, car, boat and airplane to work in a 1.5 hour timeline

Also, I made the Premier of B.C. crack up laughing.

[Maddy McCall]

125. Had breakfast with Justin Wilson at his lakeside home; Ran over myself...

with my own jeep; at a whole crawfish on a dare; had several meals and conversations with Gerald McRaney (who really is a nice guy, even though he's a Republican); had an intense debate with Karl Bernstein over welfare reform. Justin Wilson was my neighbor for the five years before his death.

But I never fell out of a chairlift. And I never had dinner with Diana. :P

[lpbk2713]

128. I would love to have had some one-on-one time with Justin.

I'd bet he could go on for hours with great stories.

Too bad he was pre-Food Network. He would be their super star. Moreso than Emiril.

[Maddy McCall]

138. You know, that's the way I had always envisioned him...

But, mostly, he was a business man. He had a studio in his home, and he took calls, incessantly, when I visited there. (Visited several times, at his invitation. The first time--the breakfast--I invited myself by offering him a jar of my fig preserves to taste.)

When I met him, he was divorced from the last wife in a string of wives, and he talked about that a little. It was hard to chit-chat with him, though, because of him taking call after call.

Sadly, my image of him as a slightly naughty grandfather figure was blown after my visits with him. First and foremost he was a businessman who marketed himself and his image--perhaps he knew that he was ill and he wanted to control what would happen to him after his death. I was most amazed that his "cajun" accent all but disappeared when I visited, and when I listened to him talk, and when he handled business calls. He certainly managed his image.

We had breakfast once--I brought fig preserves that I had made, and he made homemade biscuits, and we sat on his deck and had breakfast. That was the only time we were mostly uninterrupted. He was very kind to me and to my son, who was only two at the time. I asked him for a keepsake (I know, it was tacky) and he gave me a small cast-iron skillet. I still have it--it's well used, though I've never used it. I was very sad when he died.

[Benfea]

133. You ran over yourself?

That's almost as good as Dave Barry winning the Pulitzer Prize for making fun of it.

[Maddy McCall]

139. Yeah, I was riding through a waterpark, hit a hole, fell out, and my...

back tire ran over my leg.

Actually, it happened twice. Second time was at the same place...my friend was driving, I turned around to fetch another beer, and fell out, and the tire rolled over my thigh.

Another time, another friend was doing acrobatics on the roll bar. She fell off on the main thoroughfare in our small town. I didn't miss her until I talked to her, and she didn't reply, and I looked in the rear view mirror and she was in the middle of the street.

BTW, did I mention that I drank too much as a late-teen and early-adult.

Not proud of it, but it did give me some funny stories to tell. :D

(And I'm quite thankful that I'm alive and that I never harmed anyone with my reckless youthful lifestyle. It truly is a miracle.)

[Benfea]

144. Not once, but twice! Clearly, you are gifted! ;) -NT

[Oeditpus Rex]

126. Thrown out the ceremonial first pitch at a ball game

I've done that one twice. Once was with about 10 other people; we did it as a pass from a football formation.

Shot a wedding held on a baseball field.

All those were in the minor leagues, but the player who got married has been in the majors since 1992 (now with Seattle). And the couple are still married.

Mmmm... photographed the former first lady of California (Gray Davis' wife) and interviewed Orlando Cepeda.

Touched myself. :evilgrin:

[proud2BlibKansan]

127. I voted for Bob Dole

[abex]

132. oh no

[proud2BlibKansan]

137. Not for president

but for US Senator

[abex]

147. all's forgiven anyway

[begin_within]

129. Sat in a fireworks factory in China and made fireworks.

[mdmc]

130. I posted a thread about swimming in the Hudson River, and I

went swimming in the Hudson River!

Anyone else do the same? Holla!

[fight4my3sons]

204. I have!

Not for long though. Just jumped in and got right back on the boat. The Hudson freaked me out. There are some huge fish in there and the current is strong. I'm originally from Pughkeepsie. Our friends from Beacon had a boat we used to go out on. A lot of people used to jet ski from Waryas Park in Poughkeepsie also.

[mdmc]

234. I live in

Newburgh, across the river from Beacon. Poughkeepsie was the closest "meetup" venue to me. Peace, God!

[fight4my3sons]

251. That's the side that Gully's is on, right?

We had some other friends that docked their boat over there. We just moved to Maine last year. Lived up near Woodstock before then. Poughkeepsie before that. My husband and I both grew up in Dutchess county. He went to NYMA and lived in Cornwall for a while. He knows the Newburgh area better than I do. There are parts that I know better than to go into.
Back in high school we all used to go to Breakneck with kegs. That was interesting. Not fun to run down the path when the police came.
Peace!

[northzax]

208. I went swimming in the East river

does that count?

we tossed the Cox in and went after her.

and yes, the school insisted we all get tetanus shots afterwards.

[Capn Sunshine]

131. Spent many days with one of the signatories of the PNAC letter

He's really not so evil. He's my uncle.

[Radical Activist]

134. Attended two concerts by major bands that were released on DVD.

One by the rolling stones, the other was U2. I just lucked out. Now I can buy my concert memory on DVD at any music store.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

140. Interviewed Eddie Izzard about European politics, whilst he

was eating a sortof roast dinner from a paper plate and struggling with a neck brace (after suffering minor whiplash).

[Maddy McCall]

141. Wow!

I love him. He's a brilliant comedian.

[Shakespeare]

212. I am profoundly jealous.

Profoundly, profoundly jealous. I love Eddie.

[auntAgonist]

142. I married

my first husband. I bet no one here is married to him now :hug:

just saying :)

aA

[LeftyMom]

143. I've been hit in the head with a socket wrench

Well, I hope none of the rest of you have had that experience. It was not fun.

[abex]

148. that'll smart everytime

[eyesroll]

206. I got hit on the head with a waterski -- while in a docked boat.

Ouch.

[JudyM]

214. I was hit in the face close range by a discus.

During track practice, was standing about 10 ft behind someone and they released it too early! Knocked me down and hurt like hell but somehow no broken teeth.

[Missy Vixen]

145. Played with two lion cubs

I also wrote a novel in November, and I'm writing another one now.

Julie

[Puglover]

146. I got kicked out of a trainstation

in Montpelier in France in the middle of the night (we had no money for a hotel) and stood on a corner hitchhiking. We got picked up by two gay men and their 3 legged dalmation Olaf. We sat on huge wheels of cheese and drank beer for about two hours while they drove us north almost all the way home to Strasbourg.

B-)

[Rabrrrrrr]

150. Almost nailed Sigourney Weaver with a door at church

and almost knocked Philip Glass and his lunch over on line in the cafeteria at NYU Medical Center.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

151. I've been poolside with Peter Frampton & his wife at their home

--of course, I was only there to do maintenance on their landscaping irrigation system, but still... :evilgrin:

I've also been to Alan Jackson's home, Ray Stevens' home, and Lee Greenwood's home (big deal, but he's famous even if he IS a right winger).

[Redstone]

152. Fallen off a helicopter?

Redstone

[maveric]

153. Watched Soviet Navy ships enter San Diego Harbor in 1990.

Right before the fall of the communist govt, the US and USSR had some good will deal where we allowed the Soviets ships into SD Harbor and the 32nd St Naval Station.
At the time it was a bit scary seeing the Soviet flag on ships in a US Naval port.
We got to watch the sailors disembark their ships. They looked scared but facinated at the same time.

[zone]

154. Fell off the chair lift just the other day

Wrote some dirt about the Princess's boyfriend after he and she perished in a car crash.

Hiked to the basecamp of Mt. Annapurna.

(Accidentally) slammed the door on Wendell Berry.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

155. Not necessarily the only one to do this but....

(1) I operated a flight simulator at a pilot training school when I was 9 or 10 years old and practiced landing a plane
(2) I wrote to Ronald Reagan when I was nine and got an autographed picture
(3) Wrote an e-mail to President Clinton and got a letter back telling me how he valued input from “people like you who are the youth of America” or something like that –I’ve never lived in America and at that time hadn’t even been to America (someone in his office presumably sent out the wrong standard reply letter intended for a domestic audience instead of an international audience)

[UncleSepp]

156. Did a two hour interview with Vladimir Zhirinovsky

A few other interesting things, too...

[u4ic]

158. Almost got run over by Duran Duran's limousine

:rofl: I was 16...

I was bodychecked in a game of hockey by a future (women's hockey)Olympic gold medallist.

[SoCalDem]

159. Shook hands with Dwight D. Eisenhower

:)
Been to Havana...before Castro

[American liberal]

162. hitchhiked with my dog from Seattle to Vermont when I was 16

[American liberal]

163. Met Bill Cosby?

He put his arm around me and called me his "homey." Truly a great, great man. I've been a big fan all my life! :loveya:

[Catchawave]

164. Married a Republican !

:banghead:

[miss_american_pie]

195. I'm currently married to one

;)

[Benfea]

309. My condolences. -NT

[ChoralScholar]

165. I performed at President Clinton's Re-Election party in 1996 - EOM

[wickerwoman]

167. Played in Giants Stadium...

in a drumline. :-)

[hfojvt]

178. I played basketball in William's Arena

where the University of Minnesota Gophers play.

It was an intramural game. The Minnesota marching band also did a half time show for the Vikings at the old Metropolitan stadium. I am not sure if I marched in that or not, since I was an alternate.

[GOPFighter]

169. Wow, this is fascinating!

Whoda' thunk we we had such a taleted and unique group here!

My uniqueness, if any, is pretty mundane,

* I shook Hubert Humphrey's hand the day Richard Nixon, who defeated him, was sworn in as President
* I've traveled to Andorra (twice), Gibralter, Lichtenstein, and Libya
* Got sent sprawling by a cop's horse at a protest on the Mall in DC
* Approximately 500 tiny itching chiggers burrowed into my dick and groin area while camping one night (my doctor, a female, was disgustingly amused at my plight)

[clyrc]

170. Sneaked My then fiance INTO jail to meet my brother at a prison picnic

My fiance wasn't on the guest list, so he just got on the floor of the car as we went through the gates. We didn't have any problems.

I've done a few other things I don't think other DUers have done, but I can't talk about them!

[Lithos]

171. Worked in the same production as Helen Hayes

Watched Van Cliburn play Happy Birthday for her.

Also, got to tell Mark McClellan and his brother Scott off to their faces... course it was something like 30 years ago.

L-

[WCGreen]

173. Have pictures of me with President Clinton, Michael McDonald..

Dennis Kucinich and Al Gore.....

for spelling...

[LSK]

175. had my transmission blow up while driving in the FL keys

Luckily I called my parents who were down there ( I was driving to meet them ) and they picked me up and the car got repaired at the Key West Chevy dealer.

[XemaSab]

176. Seen 578 species of birds

in the lower 48.

:shrug:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

230. I want to hang out with you

if I can find where my kid put my binoculars!

[XemaSab]

243. What kind of binoculars?

(says Xema the snob :P )

[GoddessOfGuinness]

246. Nothing fancy...

10x25 pocket-sized rubber-coated field glasses. Mr GoG got them for me about 20 years ago. They've served well, though it'd sometimes be nice to have something more powerful.

I'd also like a pair of camera binoculars one of these days...

So what do birding snobs like best? :D

[XemaSab]

249. For midrange I really like the Celestron Regals

For high end, I like Swarovskis. :D

[ForrestGump]

179. Probably lots of things that would make me too easy to identify

A couple of more innocuous things include getting bitten by a kangaroo, trying to save the life of a mortally wounded shark (underwater), and holding hands with Vanity.

Vanity: :loveya:

[benEzra]

181. Sat by my 10-day-old son's bedside before and after open-heart surgery

and in the next five years did another open-heart, seven angioplasties, and a Ladd procedure. There are probably a few DU'ers who have done that, but not many.



Bravest kid in the world...

[GoddessOfGuinness]

233. Damn...

Brave parents, too...
How old is he now? Does everything seem to be looking good?
:hug::hug::hug:

[Dinger]

257. Oh, Ben Ezra, How Is He Doing?

What a sweetheart!:hug:

[benEzra]

261. Doing VERY well...

he turns 7 next month, and we got a very good report from his last visit to the cardiologist. His circulatory system is now functionally pretty normal, just with a lot of artificial parts in there.

He has DiGeorge syndrome, which results from a genetic deletion on the long arm of chromosome 22. His prognosis of living a normal adult life are pretty good, he's just got a lot of stuff to deal with before he gets there (speech, feeding, some physical therapy are on the table at the moment). But he has a very positive attitude about it.

Thanks for asking!

[Lochloosa]

182. this one's kind of gross....

Picked up body parts from a hospital morgue and burned them in the incinerator. I was 18 and REALLY needed a job. :puke:

[MissMillie]

187. part of the welcoming committee

for the National Championship NJROTC Drill Team and Color Guard 2 years in a row!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

188. I've sung in three different ensembles that perform Eastern European

music, a la the Bulgarian Women's Choir.

And yes, I can do the voice, or rather, the appropriate vocal stylings for each region.

[rbnyc]

190. I might be the only one who has free-climbed to the top of Bell Rock.

And I'm probably the only one who was married in a hospital.

[ccjlld]

191. Fed my baby brother an entire bottle of aspirin

I was 2, he was about 9 months. I fed him an entire bottle of St. Josephs Baby Aspirin. They found us with he empty bottle and pumped both our stomachs, mine was empty, his was full of aspirin.

I remember the incident. My mother didn't believe I could remember but I told her it was at Thanksgiving and the parade was on TV. I also told her we were under the kitchen table. She looked at me really strangely and told me that the parade I remember seeing was JFK's funeral and we weren't under the table but under the crib.

[bullwinkle428]

193. Went down the bobsled track at Calgary Olympic Park

a few years ago - site of the 1988 Winter Olympics. It was an incredible thrill! Definitely recommend it wholeheartedly to any thrill-seeker out there...

[swimboy]

194. I got arrested

for skinny-dipping. :evilfrown:

[tjwmason]

276. I demand photographic evidence.

:evilgrin:

[swimboy]

297. I thought you didn't want a valentine.

Please advise.

[tjwmason]

302. You're making my resistance to buckle.

Even my extreme cynicism cannot cope with an offer like that.....

[hunter]

292. I was caught skinny dipping alone in the ocean at 2 in the morning...

...but they didn't actually arrest me.

I think they were worried I was trying to drown myself, but no, I was just swimming.

[swimboy]

295. It's a great way to swim, isn't it?

I guess I'm not exactly rehabilitated.

[elehhhhna]

196. I delayed a big drug bust at a neighbors house by

letting my dog out (didn't know there were DEA & cops all over the 'hood). He barked his brains out at the two undercover cops in the backyard--they had weapons in their hands and were preparing to storm the guys house. THAT was not fun. Jake wouldn't come in until I started trilling "cook-ies!". Oy.

[elehhhhna]

197. I also droped Richard Dent to the ground with a martial arts move when

I was 8 months pregnant. That WAS fun .

[tyedyeto]

199. I spent the night on top of Half Dome in Yosemite

Along with 25 7th and 8th graders, their teacher and other chaperones.



Best field trip I ever went on as a chaperone.

[Burma Jones]

200. Knocked a US Senator Down....and....

Knocked over a Senator. I sort of ran/knocked over Barbara Mikulski at the Preakness. I helped her up, apologized drunkenly, and assured her that I voted for her and will forever continue to do so. She was quite a good sport about it...


also

Punched a Policeman, was arrested, and got away with it

Rear ended someone's car and had a court determine it was the other guy's fault when he took me to court

Played with Koko Taylor and Count Basie (not at the same time)

Chanted Fuck You, Fuck You, Fuck You to a screaming crowd of crazed High Schoolers (who promptly joined in) at a Night Time Homecoming pep rally.

Walked Barefoot five miles in pitch black from Plymouth Center, MA to our band's cabin near the Miles Standish State Forest alone on Acid, after a Dead show in Boston.

[azmouse]

201. I flew from PA to NV sitting next a Representive from PA

His last name was Mascara and he and his wife were flying out to Las Vegas. I was returning from my grandmother's funeral. I think they were both happy I was a Dem (same as them). Mrs Mascara told me about her meeting with Hilary and what life was like in DC. At the time I thought I was going to be in DC that year and they both invited me for a private tour of the Capitol but the trip fell through and I couldn't take advantage of the offer.

[Penndems]

265. Representative FRANK Mascara?

Wow, I remember him. Wonder how he's doing?

[azmouse]

280. Yep.

He and his wife were very nice. He was interesting to talk to.

[Penndems]

301. Met him at the 1996 Democratic National Convention in Chicago

He IS a great guy. Wish he was still holding public office. :(

[momophile]

202. I gave vaginal birth to a 10 lb. baby

ouch...


on edit - post 500!!

[LeftyMom]

217. damn

:woohoo: :yourock:

[momophile]

267. thank you. I'm proud I didn't die. nt

[xmas74]

218. C-section to a 10 pounder

but worked w/ a woman who went completely natural for her 12 lb baby. And that was her first!

[miss_american_pie]

227. I did that twice

Congrats on 500 :hi:

[momophile]

269. okay, you are amazing! twice?!

Never again!!

And thanks for the congrats.:hi:

[miss_american_pie]

288. More like crazy

as I'd do it again. :hi:

[eridani]

271. Looks like several of us know what it's like--

--to shit a Volkswagen.

[miss_american_pie]

289. ...

:rofl:

[gmoney]

205. Was "Honorary Bat Boy" for the Cincinnati Reds

For one game at least... got to go out on the field before the game and shag flies during batting practice. 70s home run slugger George Foster hit one straight toward me -- total line drive. Put my hand up to try to catch it, but when it was about 30 feet away, I could HEAR it sizzling towards me, so I let it go by... hit the outfield wall on the fly. Probably would have taken my hand off if I'd tried to catch it. I was tall enough at the time that kids in the stand thought I was a player and kept calling to "Eighty-Eight, throw me a ball." (The uniform had BB on the back for batboy.)

Got to hang out in the locker room before the game and get a ball autographed by everyone who was there... had such an overgrown mop of hair that crazed Cuban relief pitcher offered/threatened to cut it all off with a straight razor, and the only hat they could find large enough was Tom Seaver's (who wasn't there that day)... so I got to wear Seaver's hat during batting practice. Sadly, didn't get to keep the hat or the uniform, or even spend the game in the dugout.

[kwassa]

209. Watched 4th of July fireworks from the South Lawn of the White House

along with thousands of others. The view is directly at the Washington Monument, where they are setting them off. I never was so patriotically moved in my life

I later got to shake Clinton's hand.

Chatted with Diane Fienstein at a fundraiser for awhile, in an amazing house overlooking the Pacific.

[Caoimhe]

210. Tasted pulverized snake

-When my brother was stationed in Okinawa I went to see him and we attended a Habu snake/mongoose fight. The mongoose took care of the snake very quickly. In the room was a bunch of snake "products" and my brother and I dared eachother to taste the powder. He went first, didn't register anything bad, so I dipped my finger in the jar and touched it to my tongue. Within about 30 seconds the full force of putrid flavor hit. It was so disgusting, we ran out of there, trying to find something to drink that wasn't snake juice. It took days to get the taste out of our mouths!

-Also went with him to a cave he and some friends had discovered that had Japanese boots (with the split toe) sitting around a tiny metal table, with plates and silverware. The cave had been firebombed and the boots were burned and the walls were burned. I think the occupants of the boots died in the event. My brother lifted up a boot and bones rattled around inside. Talk about eerie.

-dug giant fossil teeth from an 8 foot long extinct salmon from the top of a mountain in Oregon.

-drew a giant full sized picture of Clyde Drexler on foam core and had a friend who was a bodyguard for the Trailblazers take it to the locker room, where Buck Williams, Terry Porter and Clyde danced around with it and then Clyde signed it for me. Still have it.


MY 1000th POST!!!!

[Caoimhe]

211. duplicate

oops

[JudyM]

215. Asked Barney Frank if he'd like to register to vote during a registration

drive in '04 when we were trying to hit as many folks as possible in Dupont Circle. It was less than a second after he said kindly "No, thanks, I'm already registered" that I recognized him. What a hoot.

[myrna minx]

219. LOL! That is pretty funny.

I have hugged Senator Wellstone and John Waters kissed my cheek and said that I was sweet.

[warrens]

216. Flew the Fuji Blimp and interviewed Mark E. Smith

A. Right over the Statue of Liberty and then over my house in Brooklyn.

B. It did not go well.

[RandomKoolzip]

220. I did acid, mushrooms, and Nyquil all at the same time once.

Then chased it with some Sudafed.

Outer fucking SPACE!

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

255. Wow. I made it into space just on mushrooms once.

I felt like I was coming down. My friend and I were sitting in his lit home office smoking cigarettes, then when we stepped back into his dark living room, I was literally standing amongst the stars. I looked at him and just said, "wow there's a million points of light." Then we laid on the floor and stared at the stars. I need to trip again soon.

[Mnemosyne]

221. Sat bare butt on a fully heated curling iron.

Accident of course!

Early morning 1990,
Daughter getting ready for school.
Toilet seat lid.
Half asleep,
Intense pain, then numb.
Five hours later more pain.
Severe embarrassment,
Five days later the doctor.
How did you do this?
He asked.
Trying to curl my pubic hair.
She replied.
Butt.
Then he laughed.
Third degree burn,
Leg meet ass.
Butt of everyone's joke.
Small town,
Live that one down.

Cool thread yvr girl!:hi:

In peace and hope,
V

[Mnemosyne]

242. And corresponded with Mitch Snyder for a couple

of years before his death.

All you guys have had such cool lives! Mine has been pretty boring. :)

Just traveled around the country a bit, moving.

[patcox2]

223. Stood in for a congressman (surrogate) in a campaign debate.

Actually, I did it twice. During a campaign, if a condidate, its usually the incumbent, cannot make an event, he sends a surrogate. In this case, the republicans were purposely scheduling votes to prevent dem candidates from getting back to their districts to campaign. I worked for the congressman's campaign, and they asked me to surrogate, so I stood in for the congressman in two public debates with his opponent, who is a semi-prominent, C-list republican dude nowadays.

[ET Awful]

231. Broke down in a bus on my way to Woodstock in 1969 . . . but . . .

I was only about 5 months old :P

[GoddessOfGuinness]

235. Walked into a train tunnel and ran like hell out the other side

when we saw a train enter the tunnel in back of us.

There were 6 of us; and occurred at Harpers Ferry, WV. When we crossed the railroad bridge, a young woman was in hysterics waiting for us. She had been drawing a beautiful pastoral scene that hundreds have rendered before her, when the calm was shattered by six screaming teenagers bolting out of the tunnel.

She said we inspired her with a new idea for a painting.

[DS1]

236. Nearly get run over by another DUer on the way to a meetup

:-)

I didn't mind, we're used to it out here

[kay1864]

237. Went to the movies with Prince Charles and Lady Diana

(technically)... I attended the Royal Premiere of a James Bond movie in 1989, and I was about twenty rows behind Charles and Di. Didn't meet them, of course, but I did meet Bond, Q, and M (the actors that play them, that is).

Went to three different parties at the Playboy Mansion.

Shook hands with John Anderson, 1980 Presidential candidate (remember him?)

[calico1]

240. Had a bout of dengue fever.

Happened when I was around 19. Worst thing I have ever had in my life!

[SoCalDem]

250. That was our worst fear when we lived in Panama..That and

being bitten by a fer de lance

[calico1]

274. I lived in Puerto Rico at the time.

The mosquitoes came from somewhere in Africa as I recall. The local officials were telling everyone to get rid of all standing water. Small planes came around spraying and we were told to stay inside and bring in our pets too. But by that time I had gotten it. It was like influenza but worse. I could not eat or get anything down, not even water. And my eyes! Just moving my eyes would hurt like hell. All my joints hurt. I had fever and the shakes. Oh boy, was it bad. Then at some point they brought in some shots from somewhere and I went to the local school and got a shot and within a few days it was gone. Luckily for me I was young and healthy. Some older people and children died from it. I am glad my mom didn't come down with it. I would never wish it on anyone.

[5thGenDemocrat]

244. I've been to every single township in Michigan's Lower Peninsula

There are 1083 of them. And my peezos and I did this in about four months of weekends in 1993.
John
Oh, and I met Mitch Albom ("Tuesdays with Morrie," etc) while standing at the next urinal in the press box of the Pontiac Silverdome. We didn't shake hands under the circumstances.

[pointblank]

245. I.....

have gotten drunk with Artie Lange at a bar after one of his shows.

Did a shot of Jagermeister with Eerie Von of Danzig/Samhain/Misfits fame.

Met Maynard from TOOL and he gave me and my friends sodas from his tour bus.

[KamaAina]

247. Been politely excused from a party in the Upper Pontalba Building

that's the one on the St. Peter St. side of New Orleans' Jackson Square, to the left as you're standing along Decatur looking at the postcard shot of St. Louis Cathedral.

What the hey, it was sunrise anyway, so I had just enough time to grab a little breakfast and head on out to the Fair Grounds for Jazz Fest...

[LostinVA]

248. Have sex with Kate Winslet

Oh, you mean in REAL LIFE.

[lady raven]

253. Been kissed by Steven Tyler

(not in a sexual way, pervs!)

and my husband didn't even mind!

I also survived a car accident that the police and towtruck people said looked like it was impossible to survive (and my worst injury was a broken arm) and I also survived severe hypothermia that same night (accident in January, middle of the night, in the middle of nowhere). I had a spiritual experience that night also, involving an angel.

There is also a VERY slim possibility that I may have been fathered by a well known rock star. (and no, it wasn't Steven Tyler. My birthmom never slept with him and didn't even meet him for the first time until the year after I was born)

Also, when I was 18 (1990), I was reporting a crime at my local police station (Someone shot at my car when I was driving- Turns out I was between them and the intended target) and was taken to an interrogation room, had my arms checked for tracks, and had my car searched. Then I was accused of being a vampire- yes, a VAMPIRE! (BY COPS!) The reason? I "had my hair dyed real black" and "was wearing white makeup" (My hair is naturally nearly black and I am very fair- I wasn't wearing makeup AT ALL). Bizarre. Only in Oklahoma.

I also fell off the back of a moving London double decker bus (at the back of the bottom floor). Actually, I thought that my ex husband PUSHED me, but he insisted that he did not. I know now that he did (It kind of became obvious when he abused me for the next 4 years).

I've also voted Republican. Twice. The first time was when I made a VERY ill informed choice and voted against a Dem who I wrongly believed to be corrupt. The guy I voted for was unmistakably so. Lesson learned. The second time was when our county had two guys running for DA and both were Republicans. I voted for the MUCH less of two evils.

[Dinger]

256. Rolled A Pickup Over, While NOT Wearing A Seatbelt, And A Sledge Hammer

flying around the cab like popcorn. I walked away from that one.

[Metta]

258. Stood at the spot where Napolean died.

St. Helens Island, in the middle of the south Atlantic. Also, am one degree removed, twice, from Charlie Parker. I shook hands with Jay McShann and Red Rodney.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

272. Wow. There must not be very many ships that head out that way

[Metta]

279. I just happened to luck out.

I have no idea why we stopped there. We stayed for only a couple of hours. Luckily, I came across his house and stepped in to look around. The area was roped off which was a direct invitation to me as a 21 year old guy. :)

[Scout1071]

259. I've played basketball on the court at Allen Fieldhouse, the mecca

of college basketball.

And I met Yoko Ono once upon a time.

[iconoclastic cat]

260. Over 150 hits of acid.

After 150, I figured it was pointless to count.

[Magrittes Pipe]

278. In a row?

[SteppingRazor]

283. Nah.. plenty of us have eaten more than sheet of LSD...

At least, I know I have :yoiks:

[GalleryGod]

262. Skipped A Desultory Stupor Bowl Broadcast and all the bean dip..for

and dinner at

[ornotna]

263. Spent the night in a Nabataean tomb

at Madain Salah in Saudi Arabia. In 1969 we went there on a Boy Scout camp out for 5 days.

[Awsi Dooger]

264. I birdied the 18th hole at Pebble Beach and the 1st hole at St. Andrews

Though not on the same day.:) And I prefer not to talk about the rest of those rounds other than the scenery and the experience. Actually I was even par over the last 6 holes at Pebble, four pars then a bogey out of the front bunker on the par 3 17th, followed by the perfect 18th via a ripped drive, fairway wood and a half sand wedge to about 5 feet. At St. Andrews I hit a line drive tee shot that got great roll, then a lucky misjudged second shot that bounced over the Swilcan Burn to maybe 10 feet. In those days I could putt with steady nerves so draining it was a mere formality.

I also attended the famous '69 Jets/Colts Super Bowl in the Orange Bowl.

[rucky]

268. I reported Helen Hunt to the tabloids...

for making out with Melissa Etheridge at a bar in Hollywood.

[progmom]

277. you DID?

:thumbsdown:

[lavenderdiva]

286. so I guess its true, huh?

I just saw the movie, 'A Good Woman' last week, starring Helen Hunt and Scarlett Johanssen.

[NV Whino]

270. I've climbed to the top of the Bay Bridge via the cable

and I have photos, which I will dig out if anyone insists, to prove it. This is the Bay Bridge, not the Golden Gate. The Golden Gate has elevators to the top.

[DS1]

296. I believe you, I'd like to see the pictures anyway

:-)

[NV Whino]

303. I have to dig them out an scan them

This was pre-digital. As soon as I can remember where they are, I'll post a pic thread.

[MrScorpio]

273. Stepped inside North Korea

Yep!

[x-g.o.p.er]

281. Cross the DMZ at Panmunjom?

I did that, too, when I was in the army and on a tour.

[Scout]

275. watched part of a Michigan football game...

from the ROOF of Crisler Arena.

Former BIL was the manager of the arena, and took us on a tour during the game ... went out the hatch onto the roof of the arena and stood for a few minutes looking down into U-M stadium watching the game.

My first husband was there too, but I doubt he's a DUer!

[x-g.o.p.er]

282. Flew Gloria Estefan around South Florida

in my army CH-47 during Hurricane Andrew relief. She sank a lot of coin and time into the Red Cross effort going on, so we flew her around Florida City, Homestead AFB, and other areas.

She was cool, but terrified of flying.

[jpgray]

284. Attended a private party last night with free food and champagne

:P

[SteppingRazor]

285. I've caught spaghetti on fire. I sold drugs to 311....

I ran over an armadillo. I drove from central Missouri to South Florida in 20 hours straight, in order to see Phish at millenium New Year's Eve. Speaking of Phish, I interviewed Trey Anastasio (also dozens of other rock stars and other celebrities of reasonable fame. But that was my favorite, along with Jon Stewart). I've gone cliff diving and hanggliding. I ate peyote and wandered aimlessly through the streets of Tijuana -- and lived. I got arrested at a protest, and I wasn't even protesting (have also been arrested while protesting, but I figure I'm not the only one here). Hmmm.... I'm sure there's more.

[BikeWriter]

287. I have survived two major industrial explosions and a war.

The Texas City Disaster of 1947 and that of 1978 in which Texas City Refinery blew up.

[blindpig]

293. Eaten Piranha

Caught Fer-de-lance(bad ass snake), visited Asa Wright Nature Preserve.

[Ron Mexico]

294. Saw the 1980 Olympic hockey win over the Soviets live.

It's amazing how many people I meet who claimed to be there. If you were to believe all of them, I was one of about 395 million people who had a ticket.

My uncle was a paramedic who worked the '80 games and wrangled a ticket for me and my dad.

[x-g.o.p.er]

299. Nice one!!

[Ron Mexico]

304. The clock running out was the best moment of my life. (n/t)

[x-g.o.p.er]

298. Did "it" on the 50 yard line of Ohio Stadium

Back in 1985. Right on the 50. Back before the renovations, they had dorms in the stadium (don't know if they're still there), and I knew this gal who was living in a dorm room. We had a bit to drink, she grabbed a blanket and showed me how to get on the field...and the rest, as they say, is history.

I smile every time I watch an Ohio State home game, and not because I'm a fan.

[hunter]

300. I was at a party in Westwood California.

A very famous person snuck outside and started puking her guts out in the street. I held her up. Then her guys ran over and dragged me away from her.

I was also one of the earliest anonymous posters on the internet. I don't type any of my old names or haunts into groups.google.com because I'm afraid to. I have friends who have had their old posts removed, but I can't do that. You all don't need to know what sort of freak I was.

When I was a kid I met Sherriff John



According to an early KTTV press release, Sheriff John's Fun Brigade was "dedicated to chasing gloom and creating happy, smiling youngsters all over Southern California" with contests and prizes and his theme song "Laugh and Be Happy".

http://latvlegends.com/SheriffJohn/sheriffjohn.html

[bigtree]

305. I sat next to three turkey vultures on the side of a mountain

[izzie]

306. Some fat man with a badge said if I did not go with him he would

arrest me as a whore. A real odd line to try and pick up a women.

[NV Whino]

308. Oh geez. I got one more

How could I have forgotten this one?
I've been (bear) hugged by Maya Angelou!

Gawd! That was great!