Lunch fun facts
· 12/08/2005 01:01 PM by Steve Gigl
Another facts meme, this one from Sheila:
1. My uncle once: Either participated or simply watched while intoxicated fellow crewmembers launched a Jeep off of an aircraft carrier with the catapult. (Probably the latter, but he never did say definitively.)
2. Never in my life: Have I been downhill skiing. (Nor have I felt the need…)
3. When I was five: I was in kindergarten with Mrs./Ms. Mackie (sp?). I got in trouble once for not listening, and it scarred me for life… (kidding.)
4. High School is: 300 miles and 11 years away.
5. My parents are: Fun!
6. I once met: Jason Newsted
7. There’s this girl I know who: married me!
8. Once, at a bar: I skanked. People were horrified, but that hardly matters after 3 beers. [OK, it has happened more than once.]
9. Last night: We did a little Christmas shopping at B&N and Target, but didn’t find anything.
10. Next time I go to church: Will be Sunday.
11. When I turn my head left, I see: My Packers coffee thermos (thanks, Mike!)
12. When I turn my head right, I see: A stack of magazines I still need to go through.
13. How many days until my birthday?: 90ish
14. If I was a character written by Shakespeare I’d be: One of the unremarkable side characters who’s there to generate one plot point.
15. By this time next year: It’s not clear exactly how, but things will likely be very different.
16. A better name for me would be: The one I have is just fine, thanks.
17. I have a hard time understanding: How Air America stays on the air (20 Michael Savages and 0 Pragers/Hewitts/Medveds/Soucherays/, and certainly no Mischkes).
18. If I ever go back to school I: Would either go to cooking school or go back to college for mechanical engineering (I wanted to double-major in that and EE, but was dissuaded by the lack of similarity in the prereqs.)
19. You know I like you if: 1) I can’t form a coherent sentence when I’m talking to you (means I’m nervous); or 2) I ramble too &$%$ much (means I’m comfortable talking to you). Not a lot of middle ground, sadly.
20. If I won an award, the first person I’d thank would be: My wife and my parents (in the same nervous sentence).
21. Take my advice: I agree with Sheila’s: brush twice and floss once every day. MLW has plenty of horror stories about people who don’t.
22. My ideal breakfast is: A camping breakfast: cereal while the main food is cooking, then either an egg/cheese/meat dish or a pancake/french-toast-type big breakfast (with coffee and OJ throughout).
23. If you visit my hometown: You might have to get used to the paper mill smell (depends on the wind and time of year).
24. Why won’t someone: Get the point across to the leaders of the Democrat party that there’s a difference between criticizing and undermining? For the love of God, be an opposition party with some serious ideas, please!
25. If you spend the night at my house: Our dog will try to sleep with you.
26. I’d stop my wedding: If someone knocked the candelabra over and started the church on fire. (Which almost happened!)
27. The world could do without: People who think bumper stickers are persuasive.
28. I’d rather lick the belly of a cockroach than: Stop writing, even if it’s filler like this!
29. Paper clips are more useful than: One of my 3 computers at home, at the moment.
30. If I do anything well, it is: Seeing patterns where other people don’t. [Sadly, not very marketable.]
31. And by the way: I’m hopelessly addicted to the new Avenged Sevenfold CD.
Category: Home-Family-and-Kids
Scope: Personal
Conversation of the century
Experiment
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The third row of doom
The uncle one is classic. I would have loved to see that!
— Scott P Dec 13, 11:42 AM #
Yeah, Uncle David led a very interesting life. Unfortunately, he passed away before I was old enough to realize that I should have been constantly asking him for stories (we got a lot of stories anyway, but I bet there were more).
I was also probably too young to hear some of the really good stories, at least in their full detail…
— Steve G. Dec 13, 12:34 PM #