Can you swim? Six kids in Louisiana couldn't.

MrsExpendable can't dive either, so I don't know who is going to teach our kids.

 

I remember being scared silly to dive as a kid. I remember hanging on to the diving board at the local Y. Not quite sure how I managed to go from standing on the board to hanging on to it in a split second, but I did. I eventually got over it and can dive just fine from a standing position, but now that I'm fat and out of practice, I'm not sure I'd want to dive from a high board.

 

I really , honestly had no idea who she was. But yes, she's stunningly beautiful.

 

I've been resisting posting this all day, but I can't any longer:

Q: What's the only wood that doesn't float?

A: Natalie.

 

She was pretty famous as a kid, too.

 

Neither can I. Had lots of ear problems as a kid and never learned because of that.

One of my best friends had his right eardrum removed because of a congenital condition that caused it to keep growing long past when it should have stopped. (I may have part of that wrong, but it's something like that. The issue was that it would have eventually grown into his brain.) He can't dive, either, because he has no sense of up and down when he's underwater.

We also took DIP class together and they had us put on the beer goggles that simulate the effects of a few beers. He put them on, got a huge headache a few minutes later and had to leave.

 

Also...Natalie Wood...God DAMN.

 

Nah, your username is as funny as it gets.

 

I think you really need to get a grip on reality. And take care of some deep, deep issues you're harboring. But why face reality when you can continue to run from it?

 

Hell, I might have learned to swim before I could walk.

Even had ear problems as a kid but that didn't keep me from the water.

Swim, dive, snorkel and would like to learn how to scuba dive. I love being in the water.

My whole family is that way.

People not knowing how to swim, that's just something that baffles me.

 

Yep. Miracle on 34th Street was her first big role.

Ryan, check out her filmography - she starred in quite a few classic films of the '50s and '60s: Rebel Without a Cause, The Searchers, West Side Story, Splendor in the Grass, Love With the Proper Stranger, Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice, etc.

 

One of my fav college memories. Its winter break and I'm still at the apartment working during break at the restaurant and all the roomies are gone. Never watched Miracle before (I was 19) and turn it on. What a wonderful story, just another hint then of how ignorant I was at 19 and that not everything had to be in color.