Tell the Lounge something we don't know about you.

[ohiosmith]

When I was younger, I was an actor, dancer and model. My last modeling gig was in 1991.

[taterguy]

1. My real name is not taterguy

Shocking but true.

[ohiosmith]

2. We knew that.

[madinmaryland]

10. We already know your name is Francis. nothing shocking about that.

[Kali]

46. ...

:spray: :thumbsup:

[BillStein]

75. my name isn't bill

but nobody calls me "William"

[av8rdave]

3. I'm living in Georgia for a month

Can't win 'em all :(

[liberaltrucker]

6. Looks like you pissed off the wrong manager

:scared:

[av8rdave]

15. No...training. Just as bad!

[rbnyc]

4. I'm such an open book!

I can't think of anything I haven't confessed, bragged about or complained about.

The only things I can think of that I may not have talked about are pretty dark.

Um, I once accidentally smoked pcp in a bathroom with a couple of Creole folks who turned out to be very dangerous. I couldn't understand a word they were saying. And I thought it was just a joint. The bartender told me later they had rolled a tourist just the night before.

Anyway, I gave up the idea of running for office looong ago.

I don't THINK I ever told that story before.

[rug]

5. My real name is taterguy.

[Kali]

47. ha!

I knew it!

[Tyrs WolfDaemon]

7. My parents say that I was born with a tail

They said it was furry and that the Dr. cut it off before they could stop him.

[kentauros]

8. I'm writing a book.

About a newly-minted djinni :)

[mcctatas]

9. i lived in a "tent community"

With my parents when I was a toddler, such is life when raised by hippies :shrug:

[bigwillq]

11. I love dancing with glowsticks.

:bounce: :hi:

[ohiosmith]

41. We need pics.

:hi:

[stuntcat]

56. yay!

:bounce:

[Sky Masterson]

12. I have a headache.

Surprise. :D

[necso]

13. I'm a pretty good cook,

and occasionally give food (like when I get a good deal on a large piece of meat) to my neighbors.

My sense of smell has diminished to the point where I may have to stick my nose right in a flower to smell it. (On a related note, I can't remember what I've posted as well as I used to, so maybe...)

I sometimes watch the tv with the sound off, and for more than a minute or two (it can provide a rather startlingly different perspective on what you're watching, for better or worse).

...

I frequently use words literally, like "something" as "some thing", "indeed" as "in deed"; and use "thing" as meaning anything, including a container of things.

[nolabear]

14. I've been married three times.

The first time, for about nine months. Second, seven years. The last one, for 27 years. When I got it right, I got it right.

[liberaltrucker]

32. Congrats on the third!

:toast:

My two were E, 13 yrs and M 11 yrs
Ain't gonna be no third.

Got very familiar with divorce laws
in CO and AL, I'd rather not face those in PA.

:scared:

[nolabear]

62. Well, back then marriage was the Southern way to run away from home.

Sad but true. I grew up about when I should have, and the "real" marriage survived just fine. They were sweet guys but we were children.

[curiousabout...]

16. I'm desperately trying to get enough posts to start a discussion on here.

[femmocrat]

18. Welcome to DU, curiousabout!

:hi:

Good luck getting your posts.

[bigwillq]

20. Hello.

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[curiousabout...]

21. :]

Thank you!

[Swede]

25. I did not know that.

:hi:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

17. I dislocated my right elbow in '07. It didn't break the skin though.

Conscious sedation is pretty cool, I guess.

[femmocrat]

19. I have a vintage 1960 Nixon button.

My grandmother gave it to me. She was a proud member of Republican Women! LOL

[JBoy]

22. I'm drinking bourbon I smuggled in from the US.

Fuck yeah.

[MrMickeysMom]

23. I sing opera when I vacuum...

Well, at least I think it's opera.

[HERVEPA]

24. I've trekked in Nepal.

[Mopar151]

26. I've been backstage with the Wallenda family n/t

[Kablooie]

27. I used to be Dopey at Disneyland.

I was a pig too.

[johnnie]

28. I never learned to properly tie my shoelaces

I do some weird twist thing with my arms.

[applegrove]

29. I helped on study tours of ANC members before the first South African election.

[Broken_Hero]

30. I recently became a father....

:D

[BlueIris]

33. Congrats! nt

[krispos42]

38. Congrats! :-) n/t

[bluesbassman]

31. I spent a summer working as a carny. And no...

I don't have small hands and I don't smell like cabbage. :)

[Throd]

34. I invented helium.

[krispos42]

37. Yeah, by breaking the oxygen that * I * invented!

Hmph.

[BlueIris]

35. I'm a natural blonde.

:hide:

[glinda]

36. I have nine rescues.

[Paradoxical]

39. I've had 5 near death experiences.

1. When I was 4 I nearly died from pneumonia.

2. When I was about 10 I almost fell off the edge of a cliff. My father grabbed the back of my jacket at the very last second, as I was falling forward.

3. I contracted Meningitis when I was 17. Turned out to be only a severe case of viral meningitis. However, as with all suspected cases of meningitis, the ER staff needed to perform a spinal tap in order to verify the illness. Being a phobic of needles, I told them the only way they'd keep me on the table was if I was sedated. The anesthesiologist gave me an accidental overdose of Ketamine. I went into respiratory arrest and they had to use a massive dose of epinephrine to bring me back.

4. I tried to kill myself in January of 2010. Needless to say, the prior 6 months or so were some of the darkest times in my life. While I was visiting a friend in Minnesota, I decided that I no longer wanted to live. It was late at night and everyone was asleep. I took about 20 mg of Lorazapam and 15 mg of Lunesta. I had a lot more and was planning on walking out onto the frozen lake where I was going to take the rest of the pills, pass out and then die from hypothermia. Figured it was a fail proof plan. Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on how you view it, I miscalculated how long it would take for the first 35 mg of pills to kick in. I ended up passing out on the ground in the basement trying to put snow shoes on.

5. Just last October, I was riding my motorcycle and nearly ran into the back of a car at 50 mph. I had looked down to adjust a strap on my backpack and looked back up just in time to realize that traffic had come to a grinding halt in front of me. My instinct was to grab the front brake as hard as possible. I compressed the brake lever so quickly that the motorcycle did not have time to transfer weight onto the front forks. The front wheel locked up, ending gyroscopic stabilization. The bike fell to the right and I flew off to the left. I slid past the back of the truck in front of me, missing the tailgate by a matter of inches. Flipped through the air and on the ground until I came to a stop on my hands and knees. On a positive note, I did get to ride in a helicopter while being strung out on liquid morphine.

[PassingFair]

53. You're a hazard to yourself!

http://youtube-music-videos.blogspot.com/2010/11/pink-dont-let-me-get-me.html

I hope you're on a more even keel now!

[TBF]

40. I'm a lounge lurker

though I mostly post in GD.

[KamaAina]

42. I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.

:P

seriesly, I once broke a wooden board at one of those Tony Robbins seminars. It was made of really cheap softwood, so if you struck it hard enough, with the grain, it had to break.

Mom, however, couldn't quite get it done, so she had to try again, in the center of the circle, with the other seven or eight weaklings, as the rest of us looked on. :-)

[LynneSin]

43. I use to hang out with Rich Gannon at the Bent Elbow

Mind you he was a backup backup QB for Minnesota at the time.

[Fire Walk With Me]

44. What DOESN'T the Lounge know about me?

[struggle4progress]

45. I share my intimate life secrets with anonymous strangers on the internet

[spinbaby]

48. I have four cats

Oh wait--everyone here has cats.

[Kali]

49. I took ballet lessons in 6th grade.

anybody who knows me can now laugh their asses off:rofl:

[rug]

54. I would never laugh at that.

The Cow Town Ballet

This here is the story of Jed Beaudelay,
who once was the head of the Cow Town Ballet,
the greatest of all of the old western sights,
for Jed would take milk cows and dress them in tights.

In tutus and slippers his cows would sashay,
they'd spin pirouettes, they'd glissade and plie.
And cowpokes from Boston to Monterey Bay
would journey to Cow Town to see the ballet.

And every night how his cattle would dance!
They'd act out a musical cattle romance,
with skill and precision, with grace and with flair,
they'd glide 'cross the stage and they'd leap through the air.

And when it was over the cowpokes would cheer
and even the manliest men shed a tear
for nowhere on Earth but the Cow Town Ballet
had anyone ever seen cattle sashay.

Old Jed Beaudelay would still run the ballet,
if not for the fact that when cattle sashay,
and all of their tutus are flapping around
their costumes make sort of a shuffling sound.

And some no-good cowpoke, on hearing that sound,
grew rather unhappy; he stopped and he frowned,
then ran to the sheriff, deciding to tattle,
so Jed was arrested for rustling cattle!

- by Ken Nesbit

[Kali]

58. ...

:wow: :wtf:






:rofl:

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

50. I was kind of a clown

or numskull in my early years in school and got expelled from high school. I pulled it together and got a University degree.

[stuntcat]

57. show em

GET that degree :headbang:

[old mark]

51. 2 things...I am a published poet, and I once worked as an acid handler....

Needed the money after I realized poetry does not pay.

mark

[ohiosmith]

52. Cool, I was once an acid taker.

[old mark]

68. Yeah, but everybody KNOWS that....nt

[nolabear]

63. ROTFL! I heard that. Uh, and acid handler pays?

DO tell.

[old mark]

67. It involved re-packaging quart-sized heavy glass bottles of sulphuric

and hydrochloric acid from large wholesale containers into single bottle boxes. IIRC, it paid a little over $8 an hour working for a temp agency. I did it for a while, but it made me a little nervous.

mark

[stuntcat]

55. I can say the alphabet backwards in less than 5 seconds

about 4.5 seconds I can do it, maybe 4 seconds if I try hard.


I wish I was a model. I act like I am anyway :)

[Liberalynn]

59. I am addicted to romantic suspense novels.

Like Nora Roberts, Jayne Ann Krentz, Heather Graham etc.

[MiddleFingerMom]

60. I'm not really a Mom and my favorite joke is "Pull my finger".

.
.
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Too shocking and too personal?
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[JitterbugPerfume]

61. I used to be an Avon Lady

back in the 1960s . I didn't last long because I hated it .

[Dr. Strange]

64. Boobs. I like 'em.

Also, flvegan and MrCoffee are my love children from a dalliance with Dale Bozio during the eighties.

[TZ]

72. Hey silly, Ohiosmith asked for something nobody knows about you

Not something that EVERYONE including their families and children know. Dr. Strange liking boobies=the sky is blue.:P

[ohiosmith]

73. Hahahaha!

:rofl:

[GReedDiamond]

65. The first time I met Leonardo...

...DiCaprio, he was 4 years old.

I can hardly believe everything that has happened since then.

[SOteric]

66. I won a 'best legs' contest in college.

[friendly_iconoclast]

69. I have a Bacon-Ekberg-Cobain number of 2.

I am not rich, in show business or politics- but for some reason, I have known people that have worked with all three.

[sakabatou]

70. In Judaism, I'm a Kohen.

[MilesColtrane]

71. Cybil Shepard used to babysit me.

[NewJeffCT]

74. I doubt anybody knows my name is Jeff

:evilgrin: