Five fun facts about your life

[micropolitan guy]

Akin to two truths and a lie:

1. A current major-league baseball player lived in my house directly before me.

2. My maternal great-great grandfather had four brothers who served in the Civil War. Three of them died in service: Two in battle, one at Andersonville.

3. The ex-wife of a very good college friend is now married to former CIA director George Tenet.

4. A woman I graduated high school with was a POW during the first Gulf War.

5. A former president lived and practiced law less than two blocks from my childhood home, albeit in a different century.

 

[da man]

I am no fun. Therefore there are no fun facts about me.

 

[CD Boogie]

1. I got an A on a book report in grammar school about a book that didn't exist. I'd forgotten about the assignment and brainstormed a book and the report on the bus.
2. I got married in the same Las Vegas chapel as Dennis Rodman and Carmen Electra, and while my marriage lasted nearly a decade, it also ended in divorce.
3. I took 9 classes and 23 hours during the second semester of my senior year in college in order to graduate on time, which the dean told me was a record at the time.
4. President George H.W. Bush once bought me a drink
5. I am DB Cooper.

 

[KJIM]

Reveal three random facts about yourself

 

[ICanRowCanoe?]

Akin to two truths and a lie:

1. A current major-league baseball player lived in my house directly before me.

2. My maternal great-great grandfather had four brothers who served in the Civil War. Three of them died in service: Two in battle, one at Andersonville.

3. The ex-wife of a very good college friend is now married to former CIA director George Tenet.

4. A woman I graduated high school with was a POW during the first Gulf War.

5. A former president lived and practiced law less than two blocks from my childhood home, albeit in a different century.

Most of these aren't actually about you, lol

 

[micropolitan guy]

Reveal three random facts about yourself

Last post on that thread was six years ago.

The title of this thread has been slightly changed, lol.

 

[QYFW]

I taught myself cursive when I was 7.

I spoke on a long-distance telephone call to former MLB relievers Lynn McGloughlin and Donnie Moore (yes, that Donnie Moore) when I was a kid growing up in Arkansas.

I quit my job, sold everything I couldn't fit into my car and moved (with two dogs) to Virginia for a woman I'd never met. She became my second ex-wife.

My first and final classes for my 4-year bachelor's degree came 22 years apart.

I've never seen It's a Wonderful Life.

 

[HandsomeHarley]

I was in the same graduating class as a Pro Bowl and Super Bowl champion.

I had a distant cousin who played in the NFL before the merger.

I was born on the day of the greatest earthquake to ever strike the U.S. (I shook the world!)

I knew all the states and capitals and how to spell them by first grade.

I have been a trained weather spotter and storm chaser for 20 years, but have never actually seen a tornado.

 

[HandsomeHarley]

I was in the same graduating class as a Pro Bowl and Super Bowl champion.

I had a distant cousin who played in the NFL before the merger.

I was born on the day of the greatest earthquake to ever strike the U.S. (I shook the world!)

I knew all the states and capitals and how to spell them by first grade.

I have been a trained weather spotter and storm chaser for 20 years, but have never actually seen a tornado.

I was going to put that Tommy Lasorda screamed at me a couple of years ago, but that's hardly rare.

 

[tapintoamerica]

1. Former President George H.W. Bush nearly fell off a stage and into my path as I was walking outside the press workroom at the Convention Center for the Super Bowl in 2004.
2. A son of another republican president is a friend of mine.
3. My next-door neighbor was arrested and charged with 16 felony counts for maintaining his dwelling for the manufacture, sale and/or distribution of drugs.
4. I grew up around the corner from a woman featured in Playboy's issue of NFL cheerleaders. She was working as a mail clerk at a local post office at the time the magazine's publication.
5. David Byrne and I had the same driving teacher several years apart.

 

[FileNotFound]

1. I was once thisclose to running over Mark Cuban with my car. Whoops.
2. I lived within walking distance of every school I attended, including college, from the same house.
3. I once rode a motorcycle 140 mph -- but will not get on a rollercoaster.
4. I'm fortycoughcoughcough and I don't know how to swim.
5. Whatever important movie you can think of, there's probably a better than 50-50 chance I haven't seen it.

 

[QYFW]

1. Former President George H.W. Bush nearly fell off a stage and into my path as I was walking outside the press workroom at the Convention Center for the Super Bowl in 2004.
2. A son of another republican president is a friend of mine.
3. My next-door neighbor was arrested and charged with 16 felony counts for maintaining his dwelling for the manufacture, sale and/or distribution of drugs.
4. I grew up around the corner from a woman featured in Playboy's issue of NFL cheerleaders. She was working as a mail clerk at a local post office at the time the magazine's publication.
5. David Byrne and I had the same driving teacher several years apart.

Don Jr. or Eric?

 

[CD Boogie]

1. I was once thisclose to running over Mark Cuban with my car. Whoops.
2. I lived within walking distance of every school I attended, including college, from the same house.
3. I once rode a motorcycle 140 mph -- but will not get on a rollercoaster.
4. I'm fortycoughcoughcough and I don't know how to swim.
5. Whatever important movie you can think of, there's probably a better than 50-50 chance I haven't seen it.

My gf is 37 and just last year learned how to ride a bike and to swim. I kind of guilted her into it, pointing out that my 9 year old daughter could basically kick her ass in two thirds of a triathlon.

 

[Buck]

• I got thrown out of RiverBlues at Penns Landing in Philly one year for jumping in front of BB King's golf cart and shouting at him. (I'd had too much to drink.)
• I got tossed out of the old Sands Casino in Atlantic City for passing out face down on the carpet in the gaming area. (I told security I was looking for my contact lens, but I was wearing glasses.)
• I spent a day with people from the US Geological survey free diving and mapping karst formations and the aquifer of northeastern Guam.
• I was robbed in Benin, Nigeria, and contracted malaria in Calabar, Nigeria.
• I have eaten two endangered species.

 

[tapintoamerica]

Don Jr. or Eric?

I'll leave you to hang out with them.

 

[QYFW]

I'll leave you to hang out with them.

Only one other person it could be.

 

[spikechiquet]

- I quit college to take a job in radio because I left a cassette tape of my work from college radio at that station by accident and they liked it so much they hired me. After realizing I was a 21-yr-old punk that didn't want to follow their rules, I was fired 5 days into the job. I re-enrolled into college that semester and made Dean's List because my classes were Intro to Basketball and 3 internships with local radio and TV stations.
- My distant relative was paid to throw a World Series game.
- I was fired from my college newspaper because I had my car broken into, so I posed as a reporter for the paper and interviewed a bunch of skaters that always hung out in that parking lot and I assumed one of them broke into my car. So I got all their names for this fake story and reported them to the cops. My editor found out and fired me on the spot. I don't blame him one bit.
- I have been to multiple swinger parties. I have never partaken, though, in the revelry.
- Then governor of Michigan, Jim Blanchard, probably saved my life when I was a child. He pushed me out of the way of a charging moose during a relocation project in the 80s. My uncle worked for the Dept. of Natural Resources and so he took me along and we were right next to the boxes that opened to let the moose out. Instead of hi-tailing it into the woods, one of them turned around and charged at me. Blanchard pushed me out of the way and someone else with the DNR was able to scare it to turn into the woods. Even at 10 years old, yes, your life can flash in front of your eyes. LOL

 

[PCLoadLetter]

Only one other person it could be.

I'm counting at least nine other possibilities.

 

[da man]

- I quit college to take a job in radio because I left a cassette tape of my work from college radio at that station by accident and they liked it so much they hired me. After realizing I was a 21-yr-old punk that didn't want to follow their rules, I was fired 5 days into the job. I re-enrolled into college that semester and made Dean's List because my classes were Intro to Basketball and 3 internships with local radio and TV stations.
- My distant relative was paid to throw a World Series game.
- I was fired from my college newspaper because I had my car broken into, so I posed as a reporter for the paper and interviewed a bunch of skaters that always hung out in that parking lot and I assumed one of them broke into my car. So I got all their names for this fake story and reported them to the cops. My editor found out and fired me on the spot. I don't blame him one bit.
- I have been to multiple swinger parties. I have never partaken, though, in the revelry.
- Then governor of Michigan, Jim Blanchard, probably saved my life when I was a child. He pushed me out of the way of a charging moose during a relocation project in the 80s. My uncle worked for the Dept. of Natural Resources and so he took me along and we were right next to the boxes that opened to let the moose out. Instead of hi-tailing it into the woods, one of them turned around and charged at me. Blanchard pushed me out of the way and someone else with the DNR was able to scare it to turn into the woods. Even at 10 years old, yes, your life can flash in front of your eyes. LOL

If you weren't going to partake, why did you go to swinger parties? Isn't that what they're for?

The moose thing sounds very much like it should be a scene from a sitcom. Maybe Benson since a governor is involved.

 

[CD Boogie]

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- Then governor of Michigan, Jim Blanchard, probably saved my life when I was a child. He pushed me out of the way of a charging moose

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