[dweck]

The religion/stemcell thread is boring, as it's the same-ol' same-ol'. The ignore thread is getting testy.

I know we've done this before (including the old board's trivia game), but we've got enough new blood to make it interesting, dont' we?

Post something surprising about yourself. Something that the average person looking at you wouldn't know. Has your neighbor turned down a position in the Obama cabinet (hey, who hasn't??). Were you one of the orphans in the original cast of Broadway's Annie?? Have you hit the lottery and been living off the gravy ever since??

Spill!!

 

[Retriever Mama]

I was a child model and was offered a job with an NYC commercial agency (I auditioned for a Smucker's commercial) when I was about 10. I turned it down because I didn't like the long train rides from Boston. What did I know?

*kicking myself. kicking myself. kicking myself.*

And Dan, to tie it in to your Annie comment; I got the audition because I went to dance school with the original Pepper from the original Broadway cast.

 

[Melissa]

I was on a quiz show on the local PBS station in early high school (maybe junior high, I don't remember.) They took teenagers from local schools and mixed them up so I had never met the other 3 students on my team.

1. I had a debilitating shyness back then. Still shy, but to a much lesser degree these days.
2. I worry SO much about what people think of me that even if I'm 90% sure I know something I won't answer because dear God what if I were WRONG and everyone thought I was an idiot?

So, 1 + 2 = me not answering a SINGLE. QUESTION.

Talk about looking like an idiot!

 

[dweck]

I was on a quiz show on the local PBS station in early high school (maybe junior high, I don't remember.) They took teenagers from local schools and mixed them up so I had never met the other 3 students on my team.

1. I had a debilitating shyness back then. Still shy, but to a much lesser degree these days.
2. I worry SO much about what people think of me that even if I'm 90% sure I know something I won't answer because dear God what if I were WRONG and everyone thought I was an idiot?

So, 1 + 2 = me not answering a SINGLE. QUESTION.

Talk about looking like an idiot!

Cindy Brady syndrome!!

 

[Garth]

Has your neighbor turned down a position in the Obama cabinet (hey, who hasn't??). Were you one of the orphans in the original cast of Broadway's Annie?? Have you hit the lottery and been living off the gravy ever since??

None of the above.I'm still the same boring old fart I always was.

Did I just confess to being old?

 

[bacatherine]

I lead a pretty boring life the only thing I can think of is that I raced go carts for a few years. Not like around a little track at one of those places in Gatlinburg, it was a weekly race during the summer months with trophies and cash prizes. I wasn't great but I had fun doing it.

 

[MidwestGirl]

I can't think of anything

 

[jzgrlduff]

Freshman in high school, I was hanging out with Tommy Jo (a girl). She was bad news. I started smoking, drinking, cutting class, getting detention, having to spend full days in BMC (Behavior Modification Center), smoked in the bathroom, ran the hallways trying to get away from Mrs. Kaminski who was trying to bust me for cutting class, talked back to teachers and the principle of the school, etc., etc., etc.

I ended up failing freshman year. I should have graduated in '86 with all of my friends, but I ended up the outkast in the class of '87.

 

[joflake]

I was in a drum and bugle corp from 4 years old until senior year in high school. We were state champions. I was in the color guard. Carried rifle and PA state flag.

 

[theoconbrio]

One of the following statements is true:

1. I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.
2. I rented an apartment from a young Harvard student named Barack Obama one summer.

 

[amazongold]

I was a photographer's model from age 3 to 6 and did some clothes modeling in college for Lane Bryant Tall Shops. I couldn't go pro because I am knock-kneed.

I was in a drum and bugle corps from 1966 - 1970.

I have five (yes, 5! ) ex-husbands, and they are all still alive as far as I know.

 

[theoconbrio]

I have five (yes, 5! ) ex-husbands, and they are all still alive as far as I know.

OK, that truly did make me LOL!

 

[amazongold]

OK, that truly did make me LOL!

It's the truth. When I filled out the marriage license application to marry Bill, the clerk looked at the list of names I had to put down, then looked at Bill. Bill just grinned and said "She's got me by one!"

 

[kaisdad]

I'm actually a 42 year old hausfrau named Jasmin living in Rosenheim.

 

[Aim]

I've got nothing.

 

[Ender's Mom]

I love gofugyourself.com even though I don't consider myself into fashion.

 

[Labmom2Sun]

Members of my family claim we're direct descendants of a Native American woman named Tecumpease, who raised her brother, Tecumseh, the Shawnee warrior. But I have no idea if this is actually true.

 

[MyGoldenBoy]

I have two brothers and we all are parents to twins.

No, twins don't run in my family. They do run in my younger brother's wife's family which is how his set came about. My older brother and I used various forms of assistance.

 

[CoCosMom]

My mother has 10 brothers & sisters, and my father has 9 brothers and sisters (they are both the middle child), so I have A LOT of first cousins. I see most of them at least once a year. I could probably name them all if I sat down and thought about it too.

 

[MyGoldenBoy]

It's the truth. When I filled out the marriage license application to marry Bill, the clerk looked at the list of names I had to put down, then looked at Bill. Bill just grinned and said "She's got me by one!"

Ha, that's great!