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The TVClubHouse: Archives: 2004 January - Arpil: Okay, ever realized that you HAVE done something that many people have not?: Archive through April 03, 2004 users admin

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Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Friday, April 02, 2004 - 7:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Eliz, I've done that too. Isn't it just the coolest?!!

Eliz87
Member

07-30-2001

Friday, April 02, 2004 - 7:22 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yes, it was pretty neat. Was the first time I'd been up in the air at all -- had never even flown on a plane before then. So it was neat and scary at the same time.

Here's another one...I graduated from high school when I was 16 (I skipped the 4th grade because I used to be such a smarty pants). I guess that's not extremely common either.

I've also met a lot of people from popular bands (circa late 80's, early 90's), but since that was so long ago and I never met anyone REALLY REALLY SUPER FANTASTIC (like Steven Tyler or Jon Bon Jovi), who really cares?

And you know something else? One thing that I HAVEN'T done that I really LIKE to do someday is be on a game show. Being from Ohio, I just never had the opportunity. I'd love for my family to go on Family Feud or for myself to go on Wheel of Fortune or Jeopardy. Maybe someday, after the kids are a little older. That'd be fun!

Eliz87
Member

07-30-2001

Friday, April 02, 2004 - 7:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh...I met Radar from MASH at a charity event here in town.

Also, this is kinda funny...I had dinner with George from BB1. I was at my husband's house (boyfriend at the time) one night and I turned it over to BB1 (because I wouldn't dare miss an episode of BB!). As we were watching, he was like, "That George guy. Do you know his last name?" And I told him that no, I didn't -- all I knew was that he was from Rockford and worked in roofing. And don't you know he turned out to be my husband's cousin! LOL He had no idea that George was on the show (we live in Ohio, George lives in Illinois, family doesn't communicate that much). Anyway, when my father-in-law passed away, George came into town for the funeral. He was very, very nice and, yes, rather wacky -- the same George you saw on Big Brother. He couldn't attend our wedding because he was off trying to cook up something with the Hollywood thing (not sure if he's still doing that or not). So, I haven't seen him since then but I'm sure I will at the next family wedding or funeral. I just thought it was kind of funny to look at the television screen and realize, "Hey, that's my relative!" haha

Yankee_in_ca
Member

08-01-2000

Friday, April 02, 2004 - 8:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
From Landi: "i graduated from high school at 16 as salutatorian - i would have been valedictorian, but i ran the driver's ed car into the driver's ed trailer.

i got my first bachelor's degree at 19 and my masters at 21.

i lived 6 months in mazatlan, mexico; when i went down on spring break and decided to stay for awhile."
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From me, Yankee: I graduated from high school at 16 also as salutatorian - I couldn't have been valedictorian because the valedictorian had better grades than me!

I also got my first bachelor's degree at 19 and my masters at 22.

I lived 6 months in the Philippines -- in Quezon City, Manila and Baguio.

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That's funny, isn't it, Landi? Perhaps we're long-lost sisters?! :-)

And I also wanted to say that people here are amazing! Everyone is constantly amazing me... cool stories in this thread!

Mamie316
Member

07-08-2003

Friday, April 02, 2004 - 9:17 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I went to Patty Hearst's trial.

Spitfire
Member

07-18-2002

Friday, April 02, 2004 - 9:31 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I am related in a way to Wayne Gretzky. My father's mom and Wayne's mom are cousins.

I can skip on my butt. I sit with legs stretched out and "lasso" the rope on the ground and jump with my butt. I know this sounds weird but ya gotta try it. I saw it done once and tried it. I have never since found anyone that can do it.

Legalboxer
Member

11-17-2003

Friday, April 02, 2004 - 10:01 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
i am related to stonewall jackson- his second wife was my great great great ...... aunt

and i am related to captain cook

on the other side of my family- a.realtive - long ago - stole a horse in germany, fled to poland and changed his name - which is how i got my last name

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Friday, April 02, 2004 - 10:07 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I feel like such a copy cat, but reading these posts triggers my horrible memory! LOL
I am related to Betsy Ross. I have a bracelet of hers that was passed down.

Kaili
Member

08-31-2000

Friday, April 02, 2004 - 10:15 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Not that being raltaed to people is something that a person has done, LOL, but I'll add mine in too. The guy who wrote "The Night Before Christmas"...he's my great (a few greats but I don't know how many) uncle.

My grandparents have a family tree book that goes back into the 1600s (in some areas, it's not totally complete or anything).

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Friday, April 02, 2004 - 11:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I have spent more time in jail than Egbok.

Landi
Member

07-29-2002

Friday, April 02, 2004 - 12:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
you just can't leave us hangin like that juju!!!

Sanfranjoshfan
Member

09-17-2000

Friday, April 02, 2004 - 2:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I got pulled over and searched for suspicion of bank robbery once. They had a bank security camera photo of the bank robber and they thought I looked like him. They showed me the photo and there definitely WAS a resemblance. It showed a partially turned away side view of the guy who had curly brown hair long enough to half cover his ears (just like mine) and he was wearing sunglasses (just like the ones that were in my glove compartment!).

They checked up on me and discovered I was just a regular guy....more fashion victim than armed bank robber!

Djgirl
Member

07-17-2002

Friday, April 02, 2004 - 3:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The only time I"ve ever been fired from a job was for asking too many questions!

I learned to read when I was 2, and write when I was 3, I skipped grade 1, and graduated highschool (Canucks go an extra grade, if you were university bound then) at 17.



Capecodkathy
Member

01-23-2004

Friday, April 02, 2004 - 5:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I shook hands and got the autograph of Lloyd Bridges of Sea Hunt Fame..

I delivered the local newspaper to President Kennedy's Secret Service team - and his chef one summer..my mother got nervous when they asked me in for drinks.. I was about 10 at the time..(but looked older) I'm sure it must have been for lemonade.. No, I didn't go in!

I was "taxied" by the police for about 50 miles with a girlfriend, back when I was 18..each town provided a car.. the police would drive us to the town line.. where another police car was waiting. (My friend and I had gone to the naval base in RI, to meet my then BF (now DH)his ship was delayed and we had no way back, so we went to the police.) Being perfect angels, our parents never knew about it!

Secretsmile
Member

08-19-2002

Friday, April 02, 2004 - 6:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I somehow managed to chase down a van with 3 small children in it, open the door, jump in and stop it before it went into a very busy intersection. They were my friend's children and the 4 year old boy thought he'd drive his siblings home. To this day I don't know how I was able to out run that van and I'm sure I'd never be able to do it again.

Lucy
Member

10-08-2002

Friday, April 02, 2004 - 6:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I went to Washington D.C last year to watch my sister argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court. She ended up winning the case, too!

Tishala
Member

08-01-2000

Friday, April 02, 2004 - 7:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Wow. So many people have done such cool things. I must have done something interesting once upon a time. I hafta think.

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Friday, April 02, 2004 - 7:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Too cool on both counts, Secret and Lucy!!

Herckleperckle
Member

11-20-2003

Friday, April 02, 2004 - 9:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I agree, Texannie, Secretsmile and Lucy's experiences are among the wowiest!

HPs:

1. On my father's side, I am related to a gangster named 'Big Nose Weiss.'

2. At age 10, without knowledge of my sister or parents, I marched myself up to a neighbor's house in Pittsburgh (Mt. Lebanon), knocked on the door politely, and gave the woman who answered a dressing down for making my older sister, Val, cry (the woman had called Val a dirty Jew).

3. I went to 16 schools before I was in the sixth grade. In the sixth grade, I moved to Delaware and set the record in my school for reading the most books and writing the most book reports. It was that year I became interested in writing.

4. At age 12, I took a local dept store to court for falsely accusing me of shoplifting and was awarded the (huge to me!) sum of $450. (I didn't know the 'number' I was handed was supposed to match the number of items I had brought into the dressing room. That whole system was brand new. Sure ages me, huh?)

5. A story I wrote for my college paper about the March on Washington (during the Viet Nam War) won a regional award.

6. After graduating from college with a teaching degree, my first job was as a tutor in a 'learning lab' at a local elementary school (recession years). I taught a child who I was told was 'hopeless' all his colors. And that was just the beginning for him. I will never forget that. Later in my teaching career, I was responsible for having a high school junior moved from a special ed class to regular classes. (She was very bright and had somehow remained misclassified for years.) Later, at a different school, I was named Chair of the English Dept.

7. In my second career (marketing communications), I received the top award for writing and editing from Delaware's International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) for two years.

8. I have fed and cared for wild eagles, owls, woodpeckers, ducks, robins, etc., as a volunteer for two years with Tri-State Bird Rescue in Delaware. That's the group who traveled all over to save oiled birds. The wonderful woman who trained me was Lynne Frink, the founder of the organization. She later died of cancer.

9. While living in Delaware, I made the front page of the News Journal (newspaper) twice--once for personally protesting Curtis LeMay when he arrived at the Wilmington airport; and once as a result of a tragic incident when my neighbor's pit bull ran through our front door, attacked, and almost killed Herc. (My DH was forced to stab the pitbull to death to save Herc.)

10. In a public hearing that the pit bull incident prompted (there had been other incidents, but this one finally got the politicians moving and caught the attention of the entire community), I addressed the Wilmington City Council regarding pit bull laws in Delaware and was asked to join the official advisory committee. I am happy to say I was instrumental in having the laws changed to address the particular issues we had in Wilmington.

Egbok
Member

07-13-2000

Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 12:01 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Juju2bigdog said, "I have spent more time in jail than Egbok".

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Juju, then I personally know that you've been in jail for more than an hour...

I have enjoyed reading this thread and learning these fun facts about all of you!

I was an average student in high school with lots of friends. Our graduating class was the largest in LA Unified with 800+. And in my Senior year, I was a Homecoming Queen in the Fall and a Prom Queen in the Spring...and I wasn't even a cheerleader...Yay me...LOL!!

In my young 20's I did a 5 day backpacking trip in the backcountry of Yosemite. On about night 4, my friend and I decided to sleep under the stars in our sleeping bags. Sometime after we had fallen asleep, I was awaken by some sounds of crunching twig/leaves and a type of snorting sound. I slowly pulled my sleeping bag over my face and stayed frozen with fear as I realized that a large animal was approaching. It came pretty close to my face beneath the sleeping bag and I could smell this gawd awful scent and I remember hearing his sniff/snort sounds right above my face. I remember feeling the hair on my arms stand straight up! I could tell that after he sniffed my face, he started walking away and his heavy steps got softer and softer as he left our area. I stayed in my frozen position holding the sleeping bag over my face for a long time and trying to hear if my friend was still breathing...I can LOL now but back then, I'm pretty certain I was in shock. And yeah, I could hear my friend breathing and he slept right through the animal encounter!

After some time and still holding my sleeping bag over my face, daybreak began and I heard the crunching of twigs in the distance once again. I quickly rolled myself, sleeping bag and all, over and on top of my friend and he started yelling thinking that he was being attacked by a wild animal..LOL!...and than I started screaming too....

We both jumped out of our sleeping bags and tried to understand what the heck was going on...and then all of a sudden...there sitting about 20 feet away was a huge brown bear!! My friend grabbed the pots and pans we had placed near us (haha, in case a bear came into our camp..haha!), and he banged them together and the bear took off. Once it was daylight, we could see the huge paw prints of the bear and he had walked all around us...and then the worst thing was, my sleeping bag had lots of bear slobber/drooling on it...oh yuk!!

This took place in Little Yosemite Valley, which is located up behind Half Dome. That day we made our trek down into Yosemite Valley, which was a very hard descent, but I never complained..LOL!





Herckleperckle
Member

11-20-2003

Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 12:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
A bear!!!! Eggie, we might never have been able to enjoy you had you awakened and moved! Oh my goodness!!!!!! Did you tell the park officials later? Did they tell you that you had done the right thing? Never going backpacking again anyway, but . . . aaahhhhh!!

Goddessatlaw
Member

07-19-2002

Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 7:47 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Colossus and I are playing the "you first" game here. Let's see how far this goes. We're leaving our romantic experiences out of this THIS TIME (emphasis Colossus). OK, in order:

GAL: I have been an intern on Capitol Hill

Colossus: I was the first person to paint a custom design on an NBA basketball floor. Designed by Robert Indiana, executed by me, in 1977. (GAL says: I have pictures to show he had more hair than body fat at that time - he looked like a Q-tip.)

GAL: I have partied more than a few times with the starting and bullpen pitchers of multiple Major League Baseball teams. And a catcher or two.

Colossus: While painting a water tower in southern Indiana on a hot summer day, I removed all my clothes for a photo-opportunity. (GAL - yes, I have the picture of him dongling from 150 feet up. LOL)

GAL: I saw B Angie B testify at the rape trial of Mike Tyson.

Colossus: One summer in Lake Geneva, on a motorcycle road trip with two friends, I decided to swim in Lake Geneva in my underwear even though the beach was totally populated.

Colossus says enough for now, he's starting to get nervous. LOL - he's realizing all his shit is about nudity. ROTF.







Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 9:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
ROFL!! GAL/Colossus
Eggie..the hair on MY arms stood up reading that!

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 3:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I have cropped and downsized a nude picture of Colossus.

Lancecrossfire
Moderator

07-13-2000

Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 3:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Some of the things all of you have done are quite extraordinary! Wow!

I have spent time with only one celebrity. The guy that played Odd Job in the James Bond movie, Harold Sakato (his screen name is Tosh Togo). When I was 13, I spent the afternoon in his apartment in Hawaii.

Now that I think about what I just said, that may not sound too good. I was just visiting with him.

I have performed work on nuclear and thermonuclear warheads. In some cases, working with the actual nuclear material, hands on. I was on a national response team for nuclear accidents, such as lost warheads. I never had to respond.

There is the freezer situation, but I've discussed that before.

Basically, I've lead a pretty boring life--lol.