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Post by PlayaPetal » Mon Feb 06, 2006 7:58 am

I can spin double rifles and double flags - and I can make my ears wiggle
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Post by LeChatNoir » Mon Feb 06, 2006 8:10 am

My first paying job... I worked in a women's shoe store. I know all about pumps, slingbacks and sandals.
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Post by mojo » Mon Feb 06, 2006 9:57 am

Cowboyangel - I can top that. I was married to a Republican Tax Attorney!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by Atar » Mon Feb 06, 2006 10:35 am

I used to be bullied in school, and because of it I can honestly say that I do not give a crap about what others think of me. I believe it built my character, eventhough I didn't realize it at age 8. Maybe it helped I beat the crap out of my bullies every once in a while. You get in trouble for it, but who cares, you go home feeling like you own the world :mrgreen:
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Post by SED » Mon Feb 06, 2006 11:15 am

Now I recognize you. Hey sorry, dude. Glad you didn't take it personally
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Post by DVD Burner » Mon Feb 06, 2006 11:18 am

SED thinking/dreaming of himself as a bullly........That's hillarious.



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Post by Davoid » Mon Feb 06, 2006 4:14 pm

I will myself to stop hiccuping. Took me a while to realize it was a sorta-unconscious adjustment to my diaphragm (the muscle, not the birth control device). After 3-4 hiccups, I realize I'm doing it, and I stop it.

[Sidenote: my mom says I once used her diaphragm (the birth control device, not the muscle) as part of a Lego helicopter that I took into school. Not too shabby for a kindergartener.]

I can also forestall sneezes, and you can too: just bite your lip hard. A pain signal overrides a sneeze signal. I've found this to come in handy when hiding in dusty closets from the bad guys.


edited for spelling, twice. to think i was also the first runner-up in the 1984 montgomery county, pa spelling bee...

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Post by karine » Mon Feb 06, 2006 4:26 pm

I washed my dishes & kitchenware from 2005 playa on Monday, February 6th, 2006.

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Post by cowboyangel » Mon Feb 06, 2006 5:01 pm

it's my birthday today and I feel great!
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Post by Magikal » Mon Feb 06, 2006 5:05 pm

cowboyangel wrote:I was a republican for 1 year. That's all, just one year, so let's forget about that now ok?
No way, CA, we're never gonna let you live that down. BWAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

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Post by DVD Burner » Mon Feb 06, 2006 5:10 pm

OOOOO MAAAAN!


HAPPY BIRTHDAY COWBOY!


Why didn't you post that in the birthday thread? I would have been prepaird.
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Post by theCryptofishist » Mon Feb 06, 2006 5:22 pm

I lived in Cambridge England for one year in the 70s, and was introduced to Stephen Hawking.
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Post by BigCock » Mon Feb 06, 2006 9:56 pm

I'm not actually a chicken. I'm just a lot less scared of the world in costume.

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Post by robotland » Tue Feb 07, 2006 7:40 am

Davoid wrote:I will myself to stop hiccuping. Took me a while to realize it was a sorta-unconscious adjustment to my diaphragm (the muscle, not the birth control device). After 3-4 hiccups, I realize I'm doing it, and I stop it.
I, too, share this power. Usually stop it at ONE! Sit up very straight, and take a slow, deep breath without holding it.
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Post by EvilDustBooger » Tue Feb 07, 2006 8:49 am

robotland wrote:
Davoid wrote:I will myself to stop hiccuping. Took me a while to realize it was a sorta-unconscious adjustment to my diaphragm (the muscle, not the birth control device). After 3-4 hiccups, I realize I'm doing it, and I stop it.
I, too, share this power. Usually stop it at ONE! Sit up very straight, and take a slow, deep breath without holding it.
I can stop hiccups by taking a long deep breath and reciting this tongue twisterin a single breath) :

Theopolis Thistle
the successful thistle sifter,
in sifting a sieve full of unsifted thistles,
thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb.
IF Theopolis Thistle the successful thistle sifter
in sifting a sieve full of unsifted thistles
thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of HIS thumb,
see that THOU in sifting a sieve full of unsifted thistles
Thrust NOT three thousand thistles through the thick of THY thumb. Success to the successful thistle sifter.







works every time

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Post by robotland » Tue Feb 07, 2006 9:08 am

Thertainly!
Howdy From Kalamazoo

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Post by robbidobbs » Tue Feb 07, 2006 10:58 am

I can make cricket sounds with my tongue.
Learned it in the 5th grade.
I'll be in my blanket fort until further notice.

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Post by tisha2 » Tue Feb 07, 2006 12:33 pm

robbi -

i think the 3-minute miracle you just posted on the masturbation thread belongs over here, too.

wow.
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Post by Lassen Forge » Tue Feb 07, 2006 1:37 pm

3 years of school in broadcast technology and production (mainly television), back in the old days when computerized graphics were a new and exciting development.

Learned how to drive a D-4 Caterpillar at the age of 8, and took my driving test in a car 3 years older than my grandmother.

There's a couple, and I still can't hold a candle to Robbi's thingy. Wow...

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Post by spectabillis » Tue Feb 07, 2006 1:42 pm

Spent some time living in a hippie commune as a child.

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Post by Cabanasprings » Tue Feb 07, 2006 1:47 pm

spectabillis wrote:Spent some time living in a hippie commune as a child.
That explains a lot. Thank you.


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Post by blueniteowl » Tue Feb 07, 2006 2:03 pm

There is a round bald spot on the back of my head behind my right ear that is approximately the size of a cigarette. I wasn't born with it either.

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Post by spectabillis » Tue Feb 07, 2006 4:43 pm

Cabanasprings wrote:
spectabillis wrote:Spent some time living in a hippie commune as a child.
That explains a lot. Thank you.
not as much as you think, i also lived in a physically and emotionally violent ghetto.

from that time, like blue, i have a bald spot on my head from being split open by someone with half a brick.

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Post by Mozy bonz » Tue Feb 07, 2006 4:48 pm

Hmm. Well as a freshman in high school I pole-vaulted 14 feet and took some medals also high jumped 6 foot 1 inch. I wrestled varsity and took some medals as a freshman. Played some football also.
Started loven fast women and racing fast motorcycles and fast cars. Just never went back to kids sports. Fast women, Fuel, fire, going 170 mph, things that can kill you. Fun stuff you know.


I have been a bouncer in small bars and security at large events with up to 30,000 people all pack in front of a stage for about 25 years. (30,000 people Peril jam golden gate park SF)

Some people know me as *bone crusher*Tasmanian devil*body guard*or just mike

I just look very big and scary. I would rather help you with the situation and not make it worst by being an ass and end up wrestling with you.

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Post by Isotopia » Tue Feb 07, 2006 4:56 pm

I'm not actually a chicken.
No

way.

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Post by dr.placebo » Tue Feb 07, 2006 5:17 pm

joel the ornery wrote:
cowboyangel wrote:I was a republican for 1 year. That's all, just one year, so let's forget about that now ok?

i am curious how you got past the entry exam?
He lied. A passing grade was automatic.

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Post by Cabanasprings » Tue Feb 07, 2006 5:37 pm

spectabillis wrote:...from that time, like blue, i have a bald spot on my head from being split open by someone with half a brick.
Sorry that had to happen to you.


I have a bald spot (big ole scar) on my head from diving head first into a brick planter while playing football in the front yard as a little kid. The docs shaved most of my head and had to make the cut deeper to get out all the little pieces.

That may explain a lot about me!

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Post by blueniteowl » Tue Feb 07, 2006 9:48 pm

I fractured my skull when I was four falling off the back of my dad's truck.

That may explain a lot about me.

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Post by karine » Tue Feb 07, 2006 10:20 pm

I absolutely adore those little half cans of pop. (You know- like 8 oz cans). They are awesome. (and good for MY super strong mixes!)

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Post by cowboyangel » Tue Feb 07, 2006 10:55 pm

climbed Denali twice, summited the last time and cried there. Best high ever.
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