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Serious Thread: Tell us something cool and true about you

Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 2:15 pm
by JohnnyDoglands_Archive
burun wrote:
jayryan wrote:i have twelve screws and a steel plate holding my left foot onto my body.

I wish I had remembered this last night, because we could have had a Metal Foot Bonding Moment.

(screws in toes, here)


My knee is held together with a bolt. Maybe there are enough of us on this forum to build a whole mechanical person?

Whenever I smoke Golden Virginia tobacco, i think of my ancestor John Rolfe, who was a 15th century Virginia tobacco baron.

Serious Thread: Tell us something cool and true about you

Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 3:09 pm
by bleh_Archive
i have a plate and seven screws in my right arm.

the current king of jordan taught me how to play checkers when i was 4 or so. his mom, the ex-queen, got mad at me for taking a laughing cow cheese out of the fridge without asking. i also went swimming in the huge pond they called a bathtub.

Serious Thread: Tell us something cool and true about you

Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 3:29 pm
by Kayte R.
I was the Lansing Area Indian Leg Wrestling Champion for a few months.

I have a bachelor's in Electrical Engineering.

Those are mainly the only true things about me.

Serious Thread: Tell us something cool and true about you

Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 3:35 pm
by buzzsaw_Archive
I had a car fall off a jack and land on me and squeezed out unhurt. This was one of MANY near death/serious injury stories I have.
My band crashed a music festival here in St louis with a flatbed truck and a generator.
I was on Ask This Old House on PBS
I am training to do the 300 workout developed by Mark Twight.
My uncle was in the 1988 Guiness Book for joke telling.
I work in a firetruck dealership which my parents own.
I am building a 1965 Riviera from the frame up
I rehabbed a 100 year old house and in the process taught myself drywall, plumbing, electrical, tiling, and landscaping skills. I want to build my own house someday
i have travelled around inside a large Conoco-Phillips refinery. It is a surreal experience

Serious Thread: Tell us something cool and true about you

Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 3:44 pm
by pwalshj_Archive
buzzsaw wrote:I was on Ask This Old House on PBS


Which show and what problem? I need to know this.

My mother's maiden name is the same as my fathers surname. Pre-emptive strike. No and no. Just a common name.

Serious Thread: Tell us something cool and true about you

Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 3:45 pm
by Pasta_Archive
I've been told I make the best handmade Pasta outside of Italy.

I am going to do everything I can to be a VERY good husband.

I'm the Chinese Jew.

Serious Thread: Tell us something cool and true about you

Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 4:48 pm
by The Code is Almighty_Archive
My last name means Cinderella in Czech.

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Serious Thread: Tell us something cool and true about you

Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 5:18 pm
by Ace_Archive
JohnnyDoglands wrote:Whenever I smoke Golden Virginia tobacco, i think of my ancestor John Rolfe, who was a 15th century Virginia tobacco baron.


Does this mean you're related to Pocahantas?

Serious Thread: Tell us something cool and true about you

Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 7:10 pm
by iembalm_Archive
There is no one in North America who will come through your front door and treat you with more respect and compassion when you have just had a loved one die in your arms.....than me.

My father invented the Tiger's Milk bar while working at Arizona Labs as his first job after college. Cool!

He was getting $5 an hour, and has not ever received any "royalties" or anything. Not cool!

I recently started a Crap/Not Crap thread about Tiger's Milk bars. Not cool!

I played one year of Little League in Southern California with Troy Aikman.

I once threw a complete game no-hitter in Little League that ended 17-4.

When I was about ten, I was on a summer school field trip bus and a bigger kid my age a couple of rows behind was pinching my little sister. I told him to "knock it off, dick." He turned his attention to me, and as we filed off the bus at Universal Studios, he was getting some shots in to my kidneys and ribs. I took it for about ten steps, then turned and burst his mouth with a good left hand. I was made to sit in the bus while everyone else saw the shark, and a few days later me, him and our parents convened in the principal's office. I was asked to give my side of the story, and I included everything except the calling him a dick part. His mother asked me if I hadn't said something else, I came clean, and she turned to the principal and said, "I'm sure you understand how we feel about being called names." They were black. I was shortly expelled. When we got out to the car, my dad knelt down and told me he was proud of me and that I had done nothing wrong. I've always loved him for that. Guess that's more cool on his part.

Serious Thread: Tell us something cool and true about you

Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 7:11 pm
by Ty Webb_Archive
Everything about me is both cool and true.