MetaChat - 10 Things You Don't Know About Me

1. I pee sitting down a lot. Mainly for the rest.
2. I occasionally get misty at cheesey movies.
3. I do not own a necktie.
4. I once had sex with two different women in the same day. One of whom had a boyfriend, the other of whom was the woman I lost my virginity to.
5. I have an eye for females and a deep insecurity about my looks which is a lethal combination.
6. I have smoked in my sleep.
7. I envy retarded people sometimes.
8. I often feel dumb, so I exaggerate my oafishness to overcompensate.
9. I cannot sleep with socks on.
10. I am incapable of sneezing just once. It's always a fit of 3 or more. My dad is the same way.

posted by jonmc 26 December | 16:00

One of whom had a boyfriend, the other of whom was the woman I lost my virginity to.

Actually, that's the same woman. But there *was* another woman. I'm off to the bar.

posted by jonmc 26 December | 16:00

1. I own more than 80 neckties.
2. I occasionally smoke cigars.
3. I can't fall asleep if my feet are cold.
4. I have frequent heartburn.
5. I sometimes feel vaguely uncomfortable in bars and other places people gather for fun.
6. My little collections of things comfort me.
7. My current job doesn't provide me with an office, desk, computer, or anywhere to do my work.
8. I like to eat roast goat. I really like it - I'll go way out of my way for it.
9. I broke a guitar amp the other day by connecting it in a stupid fashion.
10. I have not missed my morning cup of coffee in more than 4 years.

posted by ikkyu2 26 December | 16:40

*waves at ikkyu*

Weren't we talking about goat at Thanksgiving? I seem to remember something about that.

posted by Frisbee Girl 26 December | 16:48

We've got some ... lurkers who've decided to delurk...

My God, I'm a lurker now! How does that happen? On MeFi, at least, I was in the top 10 Contribution Index for two years or more. Now I've been lurking for just as long. Weird.

1. One [1] thing you probably don't know about shane:

shane has posted 49 links and 1780 comments to MetaFilter
and 13 threads and 1267 comments to MetaTalk
and 53 questions and 660 answers to Ask MetaFilter

The Other Thing. Tiny little Buffy, one of shane's beloved cats, can only be photographed in shadow-light, soft and gentle and ghostly like her personality.

B. shane is goofy.

1. A) shane is grateful you've pulled him back out of his shell. Thanks.

p.s. shane feels self-indulgent now, wants you to know he usually doesn't talk about himself in the third person but enjoys it when he does, and shane is childishly proud that he knows that "p.s." stands for something like "post-scriptum." There you go: that's the straight shit, all post-rectum, of course.

posted by shane 26 December | 17:01

Are ikkyu2's first seven things taken directly from the MMPI, or something similar?

posted by orthogonality 26 December | 17:02

1. I am terrified of crowds
2. I have an extremely difficult time talking to people
3. I have panic attacks when strangers touch me in any way
4. I do not, in fact, have an arrest record as an adult
5. I have gotten drunk with squatters in Amsterdam and Prague
6. I nearly have an orgasm when I get tattooed
7. I look mean, but I'm actually quite nice
8. Even though it's been two years since I was homeless, and I have a nice job and a place to live, I still feel like I'll be back on the streets at any moment and this scares me
9. I dropped out of high school when I was 16 and never went to college
10. I have a raging crush on a certain MetaChat member

posted by cmonkey 26 December | 17:04

You understand we can never be, right cmonkey?

posted by orthogonality 26 December | 17:05

11. I have a metal plate in my arm that can be felt through my skin. It does not set off metal detectors
12. I enjoy watching birds do their thing, but if they're surrounding me like pigeons love to do I feel very uncomfortable
13. I don't understand why Star Wars is so popular

posted by cmonkey 26 December | 17:14

1. I have a son who was born in August. I'm obsessed with him.
2. I've lived in a motel the past couple months. But I'm moving soon.
3. I know a man who knows an alien who knows an alien eye. He is sending word to the alien eye doctor to come fix my eyes at some point.
4. I pee sitting. Always.
5. The main reason my username is panoptican is because that's how I misspelled it when I was in high school. After that, it became a debate joke.
6. I was on the debate team. What?
7. Cartwheels are one of my favorite things to do. On average, maybe two a day.
8. I love cold weather. Really, really cold weather.
9. Today, I'm going to go get another job. I'm running out of money.
10. Last year, I crashed my car into a Minnesota State Trooper. I highly recommend that you don't crash your car into the police.

posted by panoptican 26 December | 17:15

Come on now ortho, no heckling in the thread. Post your ten things!

posted by panoptican 26 December | 17:17

Also, that old thread is fun. Thanks for linking to it fris. I did not know it existed. I shall now go add these two threads to the Wiki. Hooray wiki.

posted by panoptican 26 December | 17:22

1. I can close either eye while keeping the other open, and frequently do so while reading.
2. I can also separately raise each eyebrow.
3. I cannot bend my right thumb without also bending my right index finger.
4. I either have frequent heartburn, or chest pains. It's hard to distinguish them.
5. My eyes change color, varying from blue to green.
6. I did not pray when I was awaiting the EMTs after having a heart attack, nor did it occur to me to do so.
7. I have a cleft chin.
8. When I began speaking, I spoke in full sentences.
9. My hair is curly.
10. I want a new magic keyboard.

posted by orthogonality 26 December | 17:22

10. I collect monkeys. Not live ones, though.
9. I have never met another person with more metal in them than I have.
8. Despite being something of a masochist, I've been paid to beat people.
7. I have to "pregame" before going to a club or party since I tend to panic in crowds while sober.
6. I have sat and watched all three of the original Star Wars movies in a single stretch at least half a dozen times.
5. I hate when anyone touches my right foot.
4. My ears have been pierced since I was an infant.
3. I have been known to get up in the middle of the night and remake my bed if the sheets come untucked at the bottom.
2. I have a huge weakness for blue or green eyes.
1. If one nail breaks I have to cut them all so they're even, otherwise I can't focus on anything else.

posted by kellydamnit 26 December | 17:27

1. I have never smoked even part of a tobacco cigarette.
2. My mom died when I was 10.
3. I just learned to drive at age 39.
4. I have never traveled outside the North American continent.
5. I skipped the first grade.
6. I once had sex with 2 different guys in the same day (not counting group sex).
7. I have amblyopia (lazy eye) from birth and hence have no depth perception.
8a. I got my first piercing (ear) in my mid-20's and my first tattoo in my late 20's.
8b. I have four tattoos on my body, and at least 3 others that I am currently thinking about getting.
8c. I have only 3 piercings left in my ears, and 1 somewhere else.
9. I grew up in Cincinnati, OH, left in 1983 to go to college, and didn't go back to visit until over 20 years later.
10. I have a raging crush on and have had phone sex with a Metachat member.

posted by matildaben 26 December | 17:28

OK Fris, I won't sit in the corner again:

1. I'm a compulsive anagrammer and numbers-juggler. The first is from reading and Scrabble, the second is from a love of symmetry. Palindromic numbers are my favorite. When I found out about Fibonacci sequences and the golden mean, it made me very emotional.
2. Yet it takes me forever to do simple math! I can't stop checking and rechecking it.
3. If you make me laugh, you can get away with a lot. Too much, probably.
4. I can curse like a stevedore.
5. My grandfather was a stevedore -- and a garbageman -- and I loved him like a father.
6. I grew up on welfare. People say the most grotesque things about people on welfare to my face, assuming I couldn't possibly be one of them. Well, I am, motherfucker.
7. If you can't tell, I find equating being well-spoken, well-read, and politically progressive with being well-to-do immensely enraging.
8. I've had some health problems recently, but had some surgery on last week, and I feel much better now.
9. Stage fright. I don't look like I have it, but I do.
10. I'm a touchy-kissy-hugger but feel constantly thwarted by the fear of being misinterpreted or grossing someone out the door. This makes me sad.

posted by melissa may 26 December | 17:30

10. I want a new magic keyboard.

I think we all knew that.

I like goat!

posted by kenko 26 December | 17:37

(Hmmm...are we going to get a bunch of crushes aired in this thread? Because I love crushes! I get comments crushes, when someone says something so perfect, so funny, so well-timed and brilliant that I fall completely in love with what they wrote. I couldn't even list all the comments crushes I've had, but you're probably on the list. Yes, you.)

posted by melissa may 26 December | 17:38

1. I collect stuffed animals related to cold weather. Penguins, moose, polar bears, etc.
2. I really really like cold weather.
3. I really really REALLY hate hot weater.
4. I lived in a trailer for six years, so I can totally relate to Melissa May's welfare thing. People make the rudest comments about people who live in trailers/have been on welfare/etc in my presence and it pissed me off to no end.
5. One day, I'll have a car with a sunroof and cruise control.
6. I like the color pink.
7. I'm not a very girly girl.
8. People who don't love music are beyond my scope of understanding.
9. I hate stupid comedies.
10. I have a raging crush on multiple MetaChat members.

posted by YouCanCallMeAl 26 December | 17:41

11. I really dig it when straight or presumably-straight MeCha women express affection/smooches/flirtiness/crushiness towards me (see: MelissaMay, gaspode, and many more).
12. I have 2 masters degrees.

posted by matildaben 26 December | 17:45

[melitha has crush on meeeeee!]

Seriously, though mm, when I meet you, you're going to get the huggy-kissy-squeeziest Frisbee affection you so deserve.

posted by Frisbee Girl 26 December | 17:46

Oh my, melissa may, I just discovered you're the Harvey Girls like THAT Harvey! As in Jimmy Stewart and the pooka, eh? My respect for you just doubled. And you're friends with Joh R too.

posted by shane 26 December | 17:49

Frisbee Girl, this is your thread- where are your 10 things?

1. I hate peanut butter, even though I wish I didn't. I tried to eat it once and my mind said "This isn't so bad", but my mouth said, "No, no".
2. I carry anywhere between 8-12 lip glosses in my purse. And I use them all regularly.
3. My hair has been every length from buzzed to mid-back.
4. I eat Eggs Benedict every weekend for brunch. I have for over 6 months.
5. I balance my checkbook at least once a week.
6. Whenever I see a cute Asian girl on the subway in a funky outfit, I wish I was Asian.
7. I don't rationally believe "thin = good", but I hate feeling fat and would almost rather die than be fat.
8. I take myself way too seriously, and hate when people treat me like any normal stupid (insert age) year old. I try to avoid telling people how old I am because of this.
9. I keep my finger nails ultra short (no white on top), and get regular pedicures
10. I love lounging around the house in my underoos.
11. I have a crush right now on a Metachat member; in fact, another Metachat member is acting as my partner-in-crime and doing some operative work on said crush right now.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 26 December | 17:56

1. I'm actually very shy and I really hate making phone calls.
2. I no longer remember the natural color of my hair.
3. I have 5 tattoos.
4. All the stuff I wrote on the last thread is still true.
5. I have severe crushes on several metachat members.
6. I haven't had sex since last St. Patrick's day.
7. I get really horrendous hangovers but I continue to drink too much.
8. Physical contact makes me uneasy sometimes unless it's sexual. I don't like just hugging people and sometimes even being patted on the back makes me get stiff and uncomfortable.
9. I did everything for the first time the year when I was 15: lost my virginity, started smoking, started drinking, did acid, started smoking pot - everything.
10. My family is very upper middle class and has been in the States for a bazillion years with family graveyards & heirlooms & long ago plantations & money & all that shit (I could be a member of DAR, Daughters of the Confederacy and the Cincinnatus, which is for people whose ancestors were officers in both the Revolutionary & Civil wars) and that I wasn't a debutante (got pregnant, hee) and not only that but remain obstinately poor and useless is an abiding shame for them. I am never sure whether I am proud or horrified or just don't care about this.

posted by mygothlaundry 26 December | 17:56

8. Physical contact makes me uneasy sometimes unless it's sexual.

mygothlaundry, me too!

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 26 December | 18:01

11. I have a date on the way to pick me up and am so nervous I could crawl out of my skin and hide.

posted by kellydamnit 26 December | 18:02

Woo woo, kellydamnit, you go girl!

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 26 December | 18:02

1. I'm an oboist
2. I can crack my neck & spine like knuckles
3. I severed 4 retracting tendons in my left wrist 2 years and 2 days ago
4. Parts of my beard grow in red (I'm HongKongnese)
5. Can't stand hot weather (cold is ok)
6a. I throw knives for fun/sport
6b. I used to fence
7. I'm far more fluent in my second language than my first, third, and fourth
8. I'm terribly oblivious to female intentions
9. Used to be able to full-on cry (lacrimate) on command
10. I consistently wake up 1 minute before my alarm sounds regardless of what time its set (as long as I was the one who set it)

posted by porpoise 26 December | 18:03

(NOTE TO MODS: I'm sorry about all my double posts lately! I'm on my family member's computers and they're all ridiculous. I apologize. Please delete all doubles. Thanks.)

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 26 December | 18:03

Pinky: done.

posted by dodgygeezer 26 December | 18:07

Hmm, mygoth & TPS reminded me of a couple

11. Have had hair lengths ranging from 0 to halfway-down my back
12. I'm the eldest-son of the eldest-son &c going back to an 8th son of a Chinese emperor back in the 400's

posted by porpoise 26 December | 18:07

14. When I was growing up, my dad really wasn't up on that whole "good parent" thing, so I ate whatever scraps I could find around the house. One day I ate a bowl of peanut butter for breakfast, and now I feel sick when I even smell it.

posted by cmonkey 26 December | 18:16

oboist! yay!

1. I might could have a crush on a certain mefite.
2. I want people to like me, but not enough to be nice to them.
3. I like telling really bad jokes.
4. Holy crap this album is great.
5. I would guess that I have about six cups of coffee in a year, though this has recently increased.
6. I hate making phone calls, meeting people, talking to anyone I don't already know, etc.
7. I used to be really good at math, but not any more.
8. I am given to impossible infatuations.
9. I'm ticklish and flinchy.
10. I like doodling things so much that I frequently keep my doodles. I have doodles from several years ago in a briefcase. Similarly I frequently pick random shit up to make things—I have a twisty fork (and have had for five years), a boot I found on the street fashioned into the base of a lamp, and a weird glove/table-leg thing on my wall.

posted by kenko 26 December | 18:18

11. Peanut butter is my favorite food in the whole world. I usually have at least 10 jars on hand. Only natural peanut butter though. Sometimes, when I'm feeling really poor, that's all I'll eat over the course of a day. This even after discovering that organic peanut butter is perilous.

posted by panoptican 26 December | 18:20

12. I never talk on the phone. I figure, anyone worth talking to is worth e-mailing or talking to via AIM. I have 300 minutes a month + free weekends, and rarely use up even a fraction of those minutes.
13. I never drink coffee, I rarely drink tea, and when I go out in the evening hours, I usually only drink one or two alcoholic beverages. All of my energy is natural- and I don't really know why.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 26 December | 18:23

10: I have never had a driver's license, and although I probably have to get one in the near future, I am NOT looking forward to it.
9. I don't think I can ever legally be President of the United States, but I'm not sure.
8. I haven't spoken to my brother in nearly 20 years.
7. I have difficulty forming close attachments with anyone or anything.
6. I often avoid events or activities that would probably be fun, and I'm not sure why.
5. I really despise having a big deal made of my birthday. In high school I intentionally skipped a birthday party being held in my honor, because no one had actually asked me if I wanted one.
4. Despite growing up from birth in a foreign country, I am still almost completely unable to speak that language.
3. Ever since learning how to type in high school, I obsessively play this stupid game in my head in which I start with a word, any word, and figure out if that word requires more left-hand keystrokes, more right-handed keystrokes, or neither.
2. I am very worried about my health, but keep postponing my next doctor's appointment.
1. I am losing interest in music, and this disturbs me in ways I can't really even describe.

Wow. Upon review, that's somewhat depressing.

posted by deadcowdan 26 December | 18:32

1. I like to be scared.
2. I wish bidets were popular and common.
3. I love reading aloud, and being read aloud to.
4. My favorite game is scrabble, but I'm not very good at it.
5. If I could change one thing in this world, I'd make each day longer.
6. I'm never satisfied with my use of the English language.
7. I like unfunny jokes.
8. I keep trying, but I don't like New York.
9. I got completely squicked out at my first MeFi meetup, and wanted to leave almost instantly.
10. The only reason I'm not a full-time pro poker player is that I'm afraid of how it would be perceived, if I later wanted to go back into the business world.

posted by mosch 26 December | 18:34

1. I have never smoked
2. I skip breakfast and lunch sometimes
3. I comfort eat sometimes
4. I love washing up
5. I once drank a bowl of vinegar
6. When out and about, I form opinions of people based on what newspaper they read, their mannerisms, and how they speak
7. feet+socks = sexy
8. I love cutting my finger nails and toe nails. I'm trying to grow them, but it's hard.
9. When someone is sitting opposite me on the train/bus/tube, I always check their ring finger
10. I love apples, coffee, chocolate and ice cream.

posted by flopsy 26 December | 18:51

8. I keep trying, but I don't like New York.
9. I got completely squicked out at my first MeFi meetup, and wanted to leave almost instantly.

mosch, that's so sad :-(

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 26 December | 18:56

1. I have been trained in clinical hypnotherapy and accupressure.
2. My first job was frying frozen hunks of meat at McDonalds. I've had many cooking jobs since and have never spat in the food.
3. I grew up with a maid cleaning up. This probably made me a cleaner person, by keeping my standards high.
4. Once I had to hitchhike across Arizona in a day.
5. I love pears, feta, and walnuts but hate bell peppers, goat cheese, and eggplant.
6. I once had sex with the same woman 5 times in 90 minutes.
7. I really stink at finishing what I start.
8. I medicate my acute shyness with alcohol, often screwing up the correct dosage.
9. In my private life, I am a prodigal dispenser of flatus.
10. I cut my own hair.

posted by scarabic 26 December | 19:03

11. I learned tonight that the two songs guaranteed to get any bar, anywhere, singing along with the jukebox, in earnest are "Like A Rolling Stone," and "What's Going On."

posted by jonmc 26 December | 19:04

1. I cannot sleep wearing more than boxers.
2. When I was growing up, my father went from being a small business owner running for state representative (he lost in the primary to current US Senator from Michigan, Debbie Stabenow) to bankruptcy and welfare within a matter of months.
3. I was going to go to the US Naval Academy, but I failed the physical because of my back problems.
4. I have seen almost 200 movies this year.
5. What little facial hair I can grow comes in red, white, silver, brown, and black.
6. I just found my second gray hair. It's quite long and curly. I am proud of it. I found my first on my 30th birthday.
7. I tend to have one best friend who usually annoys the hell out of me. Our conversations consist of the friend doing a monologue while I say "yeah, really?" and suchlike while I resent them.
8. This year, I made almost $1000 selling my CDs on ebay and Amazon. I was going to buy a Sony PD150 video camera, but the money ended up going toward my student loans and bills.
9. I don't like visiting my family. If I had my druthers, I think I wouldn't call or visit them at all.
10. I went to my first meetup recently. Just before the meetup, I had a panic attack in the bathroom of the Chicago Public Library, and I almost went home. I'm shy.

posted by goatdog 26 December | 19:04

12. My family history is fairly typical of many immigrant families: from working poor to working class to lower middle class and my sister and her husband will probably make the leap to professional class. I sometimes feel like a man without a country classwise for my divided sympathies.

13. I have zero piercings and tattoos. I let a female friend pierce my ears once but they got infected so I took them out. I took this as evidence that the Amighty wants me unpierced and untattooed.

14. I like walking around naked in my apartment but usually feel foolish after about a half hour.

posted by jonmc 26 December | 19:15

14. I'm really outgoing and I'm always scared that shy people hate me or think I'm a ditz.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 26 December | 19:17

1. I'm fanatical about spelling and grammar in ads and signs, and won't go into a store that misspells something on their sign because it irritates me so much.

2. I'm fascinated by and love accents, and can often identify southern accents according to what state the person is from. (And being a Georgian, I can even tell a south GA accent from a north GA one.)

3. My dad, granddad, and I all have/had the exact same name.

4. I love horror flicks and don't much like sci-fi. (My partner is the other way around, unfortunately.)

5. Except for delivering pizzas in college, I've never had a job that wasn't in the broadcast industry.

6. This is my car.

7. In my dreams I am often a different person, and have even met myself in these dreams.

8. If I could live anywhere in the world, it would be in the Florida Keys.

9. I love rollercoasters to the point of obsessing over them, and have ever since I was a child.

10. I collect tarot card decks.

posted by BoringPostcards 26 December | 19:22

::drools over the car of boringpostcards::

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 26 December | 19:24

mosch, that's so sad :-(

11. I almost edited those items out.

12. I'm glad I stayed at the meetup.

There are some good things about New York, especially when it comes to variety of food and sources of unexpected entertainment. But I miss walking my dog on the beach at 6am, with almost nobody on the sand, and the first surfers in the water. I miss the smell of the Pacific. I miss the sun.

13. I agree with this statement: There are only three sports: bullfighting, mountaineering and motor racing; all the rest are merely games.

posted by mosch 26 December | 19:33

14. I like walking around naked in my apartment but usually feel foolish after about a half hour.

Man, I love loafing around naked, as long as the weather's nice.

posted by kenko 26 December | 19:38

1. I am addicted to cheese fries from the diner down the street. I get them so often that as soon as I walk in someone will usually yell to the kitchen, “Cheese fries for amro!”
2. My great-uncle Morty (I am told) ran a gas station that was a front for the Jewish mafia, before disappearing one winter day with nothing but some summer clothes, leaving behind his wife and small children.
3. Armistead Maupin told me about Metafilter.
4. I was a victim of an infamous hoax.
5. I was once interviewed for the New Yorker.
6. 3,4, and 5 are all related.
7. I once moved four times in one year.
8. I chose my career for all the wrong reasons, and I probably made a really big mistake.
9. Lately the cheesiest stuff on TV will get me all choked up. There’s a Kodak commercial that makes me downright cry.
10. I hate goodbyes. I will avoid them if at all possible.

posted by amro 26 December | 19:44

1. I am a very good driver.
2. I have an eidetic memory that is trying to kill me
3. I feel acutely uncomfortable unshod around anyone but family
4. I am a good cook
5. I have bad dreams
6. I was bullied as a kid
7. I only feel comfortable wearing white socks
8. I can find a good restaurant by nose
9. I am constantly on the verge of tears
10. I get excited about perfect things no matter how small

posted by Mr T 26 December | 19:46

15. I wish I had grown up in NYC like my dad & uncles, although as a freind told me recently "you got in enogh trouble in the boondocks, if you'd grown up here, you'd be in prison." Just the same, it's my spiritual home.

posted by jonmc 26 December | 19:51

1. I spent a weekend in a rural Jamaican jail when I was 17.
2. I can play "The Rain Song" in A major (without a capo)
3. I am basically bisexual, I think
4. I experienced my first french kiss at a Clash concert.
5. I have been in love twice
6. I like the Beatles more that the Grateful Dead
7. I grew up on a farm
8. My best friend is an AIM buddy
9. I paid $3000 for my guitar
10. There is fame in my future

posted by Cryptical Envelopment 26 December | 20:07

Oh, you all know how to make a gal smile with such great comments. I'd hoped to add mine sooner than later, but it looks like I'm headed off to work.

Ciao for now!

posted by Frisbee Girl 26 December | 20:13

12. I too cut my own hair. Badly.
13. I think the world is going to end in the year 2012. Possibly on July 4. I personally hope that it's a nuclear ending.
14. I am obsessed with nuclear weapons. I know a lot about them. I read anything on the topic. The place I'd like most to visit is Los Alamos, New Mexico. The place I'd like to visit second most is Hiroshima, Japan.

Also, it's official. Y'all are a bunch of freaks. Lovely freaks of course.

posted by panoptican 26 December | 20:18

15. If I'm walking around my place naked it's night and the blinds are all open. This happens pretty frequently.

posted by panoptican 26 December | 20:19

1) I have large birthmark on my right ankle which very few people have ever seen. It has freaked out doctors and nurses who thought it was a melanoma lesion. Nurse, "What is that?" Me: "A birthmark." Nurse: "How long have you had it?" Me: *looks at her like she's nuts*
2) I attended 1 elementary school, two junior high schools, three high schools, three colleges, one university.
3) I took 17 years to complete my bachelor's degree.
4) I am congenitally blind in my right eye, yet I am right handed. (This makes shooting somewhat complicated, particularly with rifles.)
5) I have a pistol range in my basement.
6) I was a founding member of the Michigan Norton Owners Association (the second largest chapter of the USNOA.)
7) I used to have a body described as "a young Hercules" and consistently finished in the top three arm wrestlers in my motorcycle club. Now I get out of breath going up stairs.
8) Once my father and I went to the barber shop together. The barber was joking around and asked me what sort of haircut I wanted. I said, "One with a hole in back; like my dad's." My dad never forgot this, nor let me forget that he remembered.
9) I first appeared in motion pictures when I was six years old.
10) I really miss doing field investigations.
11) My great-grandfather brought the first plow into Lewis County, Washington. He was widely known as a great friend of the Indians. He also had the first electric light in Washington Territory. It was a Siemens dynamo and it came 'round the Horn on a clipper ship.
12) My grandfather was six at statehood and told me about it. He was a member of the first graduating class at Western Washington Normal School, now WWU, where I completed my undergraduate degree.

posted by warbaby 26 December | 20:19

13) I would have sworn that party bunny wasn't there before the refresh.

*wonders if he is losing his mind*

posted by warbaby 26 December | 20:29

1. I once did a play (House of Blue Leaves) that required me to gorge on peanut butter. I've hated it since.
2. My nickname in jr. high was "Scrabble Queen" because I tend to use too many big words.
3. People who have known me longest will describe me as loud, neurotic and dramatic. New friends I've picked up in the last decade will describe me as responsible, laid back and together.I don't know who's right.
4. My nose grew wider during pregnancy and has never gone back to normal.
5. I am a horrible singer, but often got singing roles or solos because of my enthusiasm.
6. My screen name should really be "jrossi2r."
7. I want to be Bette Davis.
8. I laugh too loud too often.
9. I don't read as often as I'd like because I hate putting books down.
10. I love potluck-type foods. Broccoli salad. Ambrosia. Pigs in a blanket. Yum.

posted by jrossi4r 26 December | 20:30

11. I collect floaty pens.

posted by amro 26 December | 20:34

Well, all the stuff I listed last time is still true, and all the stuff that’s left over is impossibly boring:

1) I am not related to either Biz Markie or Bob Marley. (I have received mail addressed to Mr. Marley, though.)
2) Dogs make me stupid. I am the biggest dog slut on the face of this earth. Before I got a dog of my own, I would get my fix by walking around Green Lake and saying hi to every dog whose owner would let me.
3) I’ve made sandwiches for both Whoopie Goldberg and the dark-haired Indigo Girl.
4) I had my ear pierced in 1979 and took a lot of shit about it, from complete strangers, for years afterward. I stopped wearing an earring when I saw characters on TV sitcoms doing so. The hole is just about closed now. I also have a tattoo on my upper right arm.
5) I prefer the company of women. Over the course of my life, 99% of my best friends have been female.
6) I’ve never seen cars as anything other than transportation.
7) The very first rock & roll show I attended was Blue Oyster Cult, Black Oak Arkansas, and Piper (featuring a very young Billy Squire).
8) One of the biggest regrets of my life is that I received my initial information about punk rock from the pages of Rolling Stone. Being the long-haired suburban dimwit that I was, I totally bought into their misinformation and never went to the Mabuhay Gardens for fear of getting beaten up.
9) On the other hand, I think I was the first DJ at our high school radio station to play The Clash and The Ramones.
10) I think mayonnaise is vile.

posted by bmarkey 26 December | 20:36

Ok, here we go.

1. I moved 11 times before I was 10 years old.

2. I am the opposite of shy and try to meet new friends every day.

3. I want to go to grad school but I can't figure out what I would do there.

4. Every friday night I go to the same (somewhat dive-y) bar, get drunk with the same people and sing karaoke.

5. I'm trying to figure out who my MeCha crush should be (all the cool kids are doing it).

6. I will most likely never post an FPP on MeFi. Too much abuse.

7. I shaved my head a week before freshman orientation in high school.

8. I'm sad that there are aren't many MeFites/MeChas to have meetups with (jealous of the NYers).

9. I have a million gamer boy friends who I pick on relentlessly.

10. I love knitting and doing other crafty things.

posted by SassHat 26 December | 20:38

11. I collect floaty pens.

Be Warned. This is the Most Offensive Floaty Pen Ever.

posted by jonmc 26 December | 20:38

I also collect floaty pens. And I really want the one jonmc just linked to.

posted by jrossi4r 26 December | 20:40

Well, I'm new around these here parts, so the ten things I write here will be the ten things I'm remembered for for all of MetaChat eternity. But no pressure.

1. I didn't have my first alcoholic beverage until I was 22. Despite this, I hold my liquor like a pro and have only been drunk once despite many a night of debauchery since then. (My CON is like 24.) (And woe to those who got that joke, and to me for telling it.)
2. I had my ten year high school reunion recently, at which I hooked up, quite unexpectedly, with an old (and until then, strictly platonic) friend.
3. I don't watch horror movies, but like to read scary books.
4. I have never had a nightmare. (I don't know if #4 is related to #3.)
5. My ex and I had only been together 4 months when we discovered we were having a child. We recently split up but maintain a strong friendship and spend time together as a family often.
6. I was a child prodigy. I never skipped a grade but went to all the gifted schools and crap. Valedictorian of my HS. In college I discovered (or "decided") that grades were really not that important and ended up with a 3.1 GPA but a whole lot of fun memories.
7. I am a software consultant and currently on a contract with the Navy. I'm trying to get out of government work and back into a job with my former boss. Because government work blows.
8. Music is the one of the most important things in my life, despite the fact that I don't actually play an instrument. I have done promotion for this band, and they play songs for me at their shows, which is totally bitchin'. Most of my other favorite bands are from Europe (but not this one).
9. I have two cats, Lance and Kaylee. I am a cyclist (though I don't currently own a bike, haha) and got the cats during Lance Armstrong's 7th tour, so Lance is named for him. Kaylee is named after my favorite character from Firefly.
10. I thank whatever cosmic forces or higher powers there are out there every single day for the wonder that is my 4 year old daughter, Hunter, and for the fact that I have such a good relationship with her mother. I am a lucky man.
11. Referring to myself as a "man" still feels weird to me. I'm still just a "guy".

posted by mike9322 26 December | 20:49

1. I have a warm, gooey musical crush on a certain Mechan. I think she knows.
2. I am half Swedish.
3. My grandfather taught at the University of Chicago alongside Enrico Fermi and Bruno Bettelheim.
4. When he ran for suburban school board as an educator, his university connection got him branded a communist. By the Chicago Tribune. He was actually a straight-ticket Republican.
5. I am not intrinsically interesting, which is why I rely on my grandfather's interesting life.
6. I don't want to be like my dad, who starfucks his way through every other conversation.
7. I passed up an opportunity to go to the Bay Area during the dot-com boom, because I had a good job back in Chicago.
8. I flunked out of college.
9. I lost my virginity while committing adultery. Yes, this makes logical sense.
10. My favorite art genre is impressionism, but not because it's pretty.

posted by stilicho 26 December | 20:51

This is the Most Offensive Floaty Pen Ever.

I cannot argue with you there. And I want it, too.

posted by amro 26 December | 20:53

More interesting things, people. As everyone else says, the previous list holds true. So this is going to be hard.

1. Deep down, I don't think I'm very interesting.
2. I can't play any musical instruments.
3. I can't remember the last time I was bored. This is because I'm very easily entertained.
4. I am way more political than anyone on MeFi would ever guess, but talking about it tires me.
5. Sometimes I wish I could just be alone for a month or so.
6. I'm the only atheist in my huge catholic family.
7. I lost my virginity when I was 15, because the opportunity was there. I never saw the boy again, and didn't really care.
8. I like routine, and wish I went to the same dive bar every Friday night, like sasshat.
9. I'm way flirtatious when you get me started (matildaben!) and in real life have to remember to dial it back because I'm married and monogamous.
10. In general, people like me but I don't make huge impressions on them. I like it this way.

posted by gaspode 26 December | 20:55

my god. that was even less interesting than I think I am. If that makes sense.

posted by gaspode 26 December | 20:57

12. This thread made me discover that my third favorite band has a show in Norfolk in February. None of my favorite bands EVER come near here so this is absolutely amazing stupendous unbelievable news. I am giddy with joy right now. Thank you MetaChat!

posted by mike9322 26 December | 20:58

1. First job was when I was 13 years old as a radio DJ 8 to midnight.
2. First business was a DJ music service when I was 16.
3. I can be too easy going but then too severe when I finally do get angery.
4. I am very bright but very lazy
5. I am a very good cook.
6. Software and networking has been my living for many years but I dislike nerds.
7. I read aloud for 1 hour a night to my kids from before thier birth until they where 12 and 13.
8. Like Traci Lord I made porn movies in my teens.
9. Most animals just seem to like me.
10. I don't drive and don't much like being in a car but I have flown millions of miles.
11. I am not at all shy and love teaching, public speaking, talking, and being in charge of things.

y'all are great and mecha is fun. Thanks.

posted by arse_hat 26 December | 21:04

1. Amazingly, I share the first three items on jonmc's list, (and also #13 and #14) but I'd give them all up for #4.
2. I have always been rather neglectful of my cars, and they have usually punished me for it.
3. Ditto for my body.
4. I'm still surprised that there are some people who have never heard my "James Dean Story", because I'm getting tired of telling it.
4. I am now living in my "If I could live anywhere in the world" place.
5. I'd rather be a webcartoonist than a blogger, but I really need to improve my drawing/Photoshop skills.
6. My only appearances on television were (a) on a Los Angeles newscast, doing a "ground-level tightrope walking act" and (b) on a PBS fund-raising auction during which Casey Kasem yelled at me to sit down.
7. My other greatest "brush with celebrity" involved Robin Williams making fun of what I was wearing by calling me the name of a great dead gay tennis player (another story I've told too often).
8. After a few telephone-intensive jobs early in my working life, including answering the phones for a radio talk show, I now really dislike telephones.
9. I prefer to carefully pre-plan my spontaneity.
9a. Like others above me, I have freaked out before a Meetup.
10. But I am generally more outgoing when I'm cold sober.
11. I am allergic to peanuts, but not life-threateningly so.
12. I have had MeFi crushes, but always ended up competing with quonsar for their attention so I just gave up.
13. My childhood athsma helped keep me from ever taking up smoking (and prompted both my parents to quit).
14. I try to be very deliberate in my collection of "things"... for example, the only Spongebob merchandise I own is a Spongebob sponge.
15. "Wendell" is not my birth name, but originated in an Embarassing Story My Parents Told about picking out my birthname (another overtold story).
15a. My all-time most Embarassing Story My Parents Told was about me having a hernia operation at the age of 5, then showing everybody at the hospital the stitches.
16. I am going to organize an All-California MetaFilter/MetaChat/MonkeyFilter Meetup here in San Luis Obispo that will be LEGEN...as Barney on "How I Met Your Mother" would say... DARY!!!

posted by wendell 26 December | 21:08

1. Once, while riding my bicycle, I nearly ran over Allen Ginsberg.
2. I am almost phobic about the telephone.
3. "So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish" makes me all mushy and romantic.
4. At age 18 I narrowly escaped death in a gas explosion at the last FROL party.
5. I love wool socks.
6. I dislike NYC.
7. I've never been in a fistfight.
8. My moral compass is distressingly easy to deflect.
9. My pinky fingers are symmetrically crooked.
10. I have trouble thinking of ten things to disclose about myself.

posted by Triode 26 December | 21:44

1. I dislike my family, but not because I'm ashamed of them.
2. I'm in my current career because I was severely depressed, and it was my way of "ending" my previous life.
3. I've been "wildly" successful in my career, and that frightens me.
4. I feel that I can relate very little to others, partly 'cause of said career.
5. At a meetup, the only thing I was comfortable talking about was a place I haven't lived in 6 years.
6. I'm a giant pushover, to the point that I will sacrifice greatly just to appear helpful.
7. I have a very good memory for details, particularly about people.
8. #7 makes me incredibly self-conscious, so I lie and pretend not to remember things.
9. I'm still in love with somebody I haven't seen in more than a year, and seems to care little for me.
10. I don't have a MetaChat crush. You all out-class me.

posted by jawbreaker 26 December | 21:53

"10. I don't have a MetaChat crush. You all out-class me." jawbreaker, I don't buy that for a moment.

posted by arse_hat 26 December | 22:05

Skynrd floaty pen - you're in luck

posted by warbaby 26 December | 22:05

1. i am a transracial adoptee.
2. i am double jointed to the point where i can bend my fingers back to my wrist.
3. i was born in las vegas.
4. i am extremely shy around people i don't know.
5. pihkal made me cry.
6. i went to the national spelling bee in 7th grade, but not the real one; the american league of christian schools one.
7. i got a 1580 on my SATs.
8. i like hallucinogens.
9. i have never had what i would consider a real relationship.
10. i had never even gotten drunk, let alone discovered #8 until this year.

posted by mayfly wake 26 December | 22:15

1. I've met and talked with the Dalai Lama.
2. I nearly died when I was seven.
3. I give people a dummy phone number to avoid ever talking on the telephone.
4. I am one of the most articulate people I have ever come in contact with, but generally prefer to interact on a rather common level.
5. I have had almost thirty serious injuries and attendant trips to the emergency room, consequences thereof, etc., and they have changed me irretrievably from a happy person into a much darker one.
6. I am a woman who dislikes women.
7. I have a cleft nose.
8. I learned to read fluently when I was two.
9. The way I look at the world and my place in it almost totally precludes me from forming meaningful interpersonal connections, which is at odds with my natural affinity for psychology.
10. I have a raging crush on a certain MetaChat member.

posted by rebirtha 26 December | 22:43

1. I was interviewed about my art for a local teenagers cable show in high school, and among the drawings I brought was a nude from a life drawing class. The drawing was done from behind.

I didn't think anyone at school had watched the show, but the next day, I was approached by two black girls about it. One of them told me "I liked the one with the booty". I did not get laid as a result of this, which is just as well, since I had a girlfriend at the time.

2. I have been personally belittled by Harlan Ellison, and I made friends with Shane as a result, through a Metafilter thread.

3. I feel guilty about not using my various talents, which is a lot, lately. I have trouble dividing my time between the internet and the things I do.

4. I utterly despise the Beatles. I have the same visceral reaction to their sound that I have to the smell and taste of eggs (why would anyone ever want to eat a fart-flavored zit?).

This has gotten me in trouble with a lot of people who were previously unaware that it's even possible not to like the Beatles.

5. I have a couple of Metachat crushes, and—unlike others—I am not afraid to name them: Frisbee Girl and LeeJay. However, I am taken, and unlikely to be un-taken any time, well, ever.

6. A couple of postings on my first weblog destroyed my entire social group in Madison, Wisconsin.

7. I care a lot about what my parents think about me, but not in a bad way.

8. I am a lifelong nailbiter. See the evidence here.

9. I always get in to these threads way too late, but everything I said here still stands.

10. I think rebirtha's nose is cute.

posted by interrobang 26 December | 22:56

4. I utterly despise the Beatles. I have the same visceral reaction to their sound that I have to the smell and taste of eggs (why would anyone ever want to eat a fart-flavored zit?).

Oh my god, I thought I was the only one who hated the Beatles.

posted by cmonkey 26 December | 23:09

In roughly chronological order:

1. For almost two years, I watched tapes of Degrassi Junior High and Days of Our Lives with a classmate crush and a glass of 7-Up and vodka every day after school.
2. There were 17 kids in my graduating class from grade school, 1200 people in my home town, and I drove 40 minutes every morning to get to high school.
3. When my high school english teacher gave me an F on a particular short story, I entered it in a Ray Bradbury short story competition out of spite. It won first place.
4. My first Internet login name was "vampyr". I've used my real name ever since as penance.
5. I've had a web site since 1994. The first featured poetry, ABBA, and mind-reading. Every personal web site since that one has simply been an empty placeholder.
6. I know ikkyu2 from talk.bizarre.
7. I am a college drop-out. I've often talked about going back, but there's no way in hell I actually would.
8. I married the first woman I ever had intercourse with.
9. I did tequila shots with the voice of Spongebob Squarepants after watching burlesque and Mexican wrestling.
10. I like saying "I love you", and I always mean it.

posted by eamondaly 26 December | 23:09

1. I've quit smoking about 7 times since I started at age 12. (This times for good!)
2. I'm the kid of orthodox jews and I'm dating a muslim who's half baptist (who my parents love).
3. I've never believed in God, or prayed seriously, despite having been preached to my entire life.
4. I've had glasses my whole life, and always been sort of a nerd, but nobody ever really picked on me cause I was big enough to beat ass on em.
5. I loved Iron Maiden in 2nd grade.
6. My family is incredibly pedantic, and I fight the impulse to criticize always.
7. I've been skinny, fat, and now am sorta in shape for the first time in my life.
8. I sold weed in college to support my habit.
9. I friggin love dogs, and really any sort of cute animals (I won't lie, snakes, bees, and cockroaches can all go to hell). I saw a documentary on these baby polar bears last night on public television and damn near lost my mind.
10. I fear death.

posted by Edible Energy 26 December | 23:12

wendell, I still have a blog-crush on you. But my love for quonsar is different, you have to understand.

posted by stilicho 26 December | 23:38

10. I cut my hair myself. You can tell.
9. My memory, for things like birthdays and anniversaries and names and whatnot, is embarrassingly bad.
8. I hate getting rid of old clothes.
7. I visit bars I would never otherwise patronize because they've got those NTN bar-trivia machines.
6. These days, I seem to prefer instrumental music, or, failing that, music with lyrics I can't understand, because many lyrics seem kind of stupid.
5. At any given moment, I've got at least 30 library books checked out.
4. Also big stacks of books I've never read, records I've never listened to, etc.
3. I like to think of myself as a very normal, average sort of person.
2. Ever since my teen years, I've told people that I'm going to quit smoking (cigarettes) when I turn 30. I'm 29 now, and frankly I don't think I'm going to go through with it.
1. Like quite a few other people, I have a bit of a crush on someone from MeCha.

posted by box 26 December | 23:39

OK, all you people with crushes need to come clean, like interrobang did. It's getting to be like a junior high dance in here.

posted by bmarkey 26 December | 23:44

relax, bmarkey, none of the undeclared ones are on us.

posted by jonmc 26 December | 23:49

In my case, that's a given.

posted by bmarkey 26 December | 23:51

jonmc, I have a collective crush on all the NYC boys, so you are definitely in there.

posted by gaspode 26 December | 23:58

that dosen't count, 'pode. and what about poor bmarmkey?

posted by jonmc 27 December | 00:01

S'alright. I'm spoken for, anyway.

posted by bmarkey 27 December | 00:02

that dosen't count, 'pode.

huh! thanks a lot, ass.

*sniff*

bmarkey I don't know so well. And we're all spoken for here.

posted by gaspode 27 December | 00:05

I am really, really late, but since the wiki was mentioned, I thought I would contribute:

1) I am worried that nothing interesting will come out of my head as I sit to write this.
2) I have a tendency to dislike anything that appears to be popular.
3) I wish I had a larger circle of friends, mainly in the non-internet world, but also in the internet world.
4) I have 2 daughters, whom I love dearly and honestly make my heart burst on a regular basis.
5) I also have a wife whom I love quite a lot.
6) I have such a high arch in my feet that I cannot even put a pair of cowboy boots on. I don't mind though.
7) I really should lose some weight, but I can't seem to get around to it.
8) My dad killed himself when I was thirteen. The last time I saw him alive, I was eleven. It makes me very sad that he doesn't know my wife or daughters, or me really. Don't mean to sound all heavy, but it's a pretty big part of what formed me I think.
9) I have no religious faith to make me feel better about my dad being dead. I really don't think he is watching over me. Perhaps strangely, being an atheist (albeit a non-aggressive one) gives me some comfort.
10) My kid brother, who's 25, could be the wisest soul I have ever known.

posted by richat 27 December | 00:07

Ten More Things You Probably Didn't Know About Me. (Here are the first ten) Again, no particular order.

1. I am a serious fantasy football addict. I'm playing in 4 leagues this year and made it to the playoffs in all. And I am currently cursing Corey Dillon because he just cost me the Super Bowl in one of them. *grrr*

2. I played Powder Puff football in high school. (This was official school-sanctioned Powder Puff, not secret Powder Puff where you went in the woods and got beat up) I played defensive tackle.

3. I was a contestant in the Bolingbrook/DuPage Township Junior Miss program my junior year of high school. I won a runner-up award for talent.

4. Way back in my college days, I had sex with two guys in less than 24 hours. Both of them were just friends of mine. One of them is still the best I've ever been with.

5. I kind of wish I had gone to an old-school sleepaway camp when I was a kid, even though I probably would have hated it since I'm seriously unathletic.

6. I'm a speed reader.

7. I love playing Trivial Pursuit, but none of my friends will play with me because I always win.

8. I'm pretty shy about approaching new people. When I'm at a party or somewhere and I don't know a lot of people, I'm really quiet until I get more comfortable with the group. And as far as asking a guy out...forget about it!

9. I applied to eight colleges and got into seven of them.

10. I don't have a raging crush on anyone here as far as I know.

It was really hard to think of 10 more things!

posted by sisterhavana 27 December | 00:07

huh! thanks a lot, ass.

*sigh*

It's not an insult to you, dear heart. It dosen't count cause it's collective. You could replace yours truly with Sam The Butcher from the Brady Bunch and it really wouldn't make any difference, would it? Thus, it dosen't count. And I'm spoken for, too.

posted by jonmc 27 December | 00:10

oh I know. It was put-on indignation.

11. I'm still waiting to get my first genuine crush while being with my husband.

posted by gaspode 27 December | 00:17

..and I know I have a few crushers here. I just wonder where the hell they were when I was single!

posted by jonmc 27 December | 00:18

That's awesome, warbaby! Good find.

posted by amro 27 December | 00:22

Given permission from taz and dodgy (who would be most affected by it technically), I think we all need to register sockpuppets and have an anonymous Crush Coming Out thread. You could admit to your crush without anyone knowing who you are. I, for one, would feel quite relieved by it.

posted by mudpuppie 27 December | 00:39

ok here goes, though i could put in any random ten things and it would still work:
1. I was once chased by an elephant
2. No meal is complete unless it has rice.
3. I always had a mustache till about a year ago
4. I love bilingual puns
5. I hate going in front of and speaking to a large group of people.
6. I used to teach knots at my scout group
7. I once spent 7 days 'river rafting' in a lake
8. I think several steps ahead inany given situation
9. I have never broken a bone.
10. I'm latinophilic.

posted by dhruva 27 December | 01:24

Muds, I'd be willing to do this, but only if your sock puppet is called 'pudmuppie'. Actually, everyone should do anagrams of their names, and we can try to figure it out. Of course, that wouldn't be too hard in my case.

Maybe we could do some kind of Valentine's Day Crush Out. But... anonymous? Wouldn't that just make everyone crazy?

My 10 (more) Things:

1. If I find a fork or spoon on the ground, I take it home and wash it and it becomes my Favorite. I will actually rummage around in the silverware drawer to find that particular one.
2. I have never heard Wendell's "James Dean Story".
3. I hate answering the phone so much that occasionally I just don't pick it up, then I call my husband on his cell phone to see if it was him. (If we had Caller ID, I'd probably almost never answer at all).
4. I actually like the weird taste of instant mashed potatoes. One of my favorite no-work meals is fish sticks, instant mashed potatoes, and (cooked) frozen spinach.
5. I detest going to social functions that I can't easily leave on my own, by foot, public transport, or cab. Being "trapped" somewhere causes me high anxiety, and I don't handle it gracefully.
6. Related: I'm never, ever bored on my own, but can easily become so at parties; I'm almost always ready to leave before anyone else is.
7. I rarely get depressed.
8. I think I could hide my feelings if I wanted to, but I don't bother - so if you pay any attention at all, you pretty much always know where you stand with me by just looking at my face.
9. Unwilling housekeeper. It's 2006 - where's my silent, efficient robot maid? Keep your flying cars; I want Rosie.
10. I'm going back to bed now.

(11. I really want to hear amro's story. I've read three of the "Tales of the City" books at least four times.)

posted by taz 27 December | 01:27

CHAM RUNE.

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 27 December | 02:24

1) With depressing regularity, I get out of bed and fall over because both of my feet are asleep.
2) Sometimes while reading a book, I eat molasses straight, using a spoon.
3) When eating M&Ms or Skittles, I generally feel the need to make sure that the right and left sides of my mouth get the same number of candies of a given color. When there're an odd number of candies of that color, I split the last candy in half so that things remain even.
4) I sometimes spend large amounts of time trying to figure out how I'd survive in the case of nuclear war/apocalypse/pandemic/ground war/etc. in the region where I live. I never actually do anything to prepare, though, because that seems a little too paranoid. It's more fun to imagine post-apocalyptic life than it would be to build a bunker and sit around waiting for the end, anyways.
5) I wish that there was more molten iron in my life.
6) I finished reading The Hobbit in kindergarten, and immediately went on to The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion. I've read all of them but the first at least once every year since then.
7) I went through a year or two where I was barefoot almost all the time, including the winter. I started wearing boots again because they get better traction in the snow, and also because I'd gotten used to putting on shoes to work in lab.
8) I lie about my birthday because I don't want the attention.
9) Although I did a radio show for a few years, I never recorded it [or listened to archives of the broadcasts], despite the fact that I've been told by many people that my radio voice was very different from my normal voice. If I start my show up again, I intend to keep things this way.
10) I can't bear marking books, even to write my name in them or to highlight or take notes. Even folding over corners is too much for me.

posted by ubersturm 27 December | 02:28

Here's mine, with much prompting from Matildaben:

10 Things You Din't Know About Lipstick Thespian:

1. I have a tattoo of the Little Prince on my right arm.

2. I am a published poet and award-winning actor.

3. I had sex exactly twice this year.

4. The only illegal drugs I haven't done are injectable heroin and ecstasy.

5. I haven't had a regular job since October, 2004.

6. I am enormously needy of attention and love being the center of it.

7. I have seduced both men and women.

8. I am a very physical person - I love hugs, wrestling, etc.

9. One of my biggest fantasies is being friends with Rosie O'Donnell and taking care of Jennifer Aniston's pets.

10. I am prone to melodrama and hyperbole - everything is the Most Something of Something for me.

(by the way, no. 4 and 5 are NOT RELATED, just so you know.)

posted by Lipstick Thespian 27 December | 02:58

Well, okay. With bonus item, because I went to 11, like in Spinal Tap.

1. I have this thing that I've done since grade school, where I count out syllables on the fingers of my right hand. (Not the thumb, just the fingers, working in order from pinky to first finger: it has to start with the pinky and end with my first finger.) I'll do this while I'm reading, or in time with the dialogue while I'm watching TV-- just breaking the syllables down into groups of four and three. It looks like I'm tapping my fingers, but I'm actually counting and grouping. I've just... always done this; I think it's probably since I learned about poetic meter. I can tell you in an instant how many syllables there are in any given sentence. I tend to do it more when I'm tense.

2. I got arrested at an anti-Cruise missile demonstration in England (Greenham Common) in 1983. My right foot was visible in a photograph on the front page of the Guardian. Despite my fundamental belief in both peace activism and feminism, I found much of both movements to be anti-intellectual and sometimes embarassing.

3. I played the harp when I was a child.

4. I have a long-standing crush on a Metafilter member, but no Metachatters. I would, however, love to take mygothlaundry out to lunch one day to compare notes.

5. My son was conceived within three weeks of me meeting his father. We actually lasted as a family for a good eight years, which I figure is an honest effort.

6. There are a serious of weird correspondences between the career of Kurt Cobain and my tonsils. I kept getting flareups of strep throat which would land me in hospital around the times albums were released, etc. I finally had them out within a day or two of his suicide. No, I don't think it means anything, really, aside from that human thing of looking for patterns.

7. I once had sex under a full moon on a deserted bridge in Venice at 3 a.m.

8. It took me almost twenty years to finish my B.A.

9. I have a best friend who I've known since I was in Grade Two, and who even now lives five blocks away from me.

10. I'll get visual images stuck in my head-- usually places I've driven past or am familiar with-- and they will be in my mind's eye while I'm reading, or trying to sleep, or writing, sometimes for months. At one point it was the view from my former front porch; at another a house on a corner that I used to drive by. I have no idea what this is, if it happens to anybody else, and I would actually not miss it if it went away.

11. I'm synaesthetic, with colours for numbers and letters. My name is pink because of the J, and I always disliked it a little because of that.

posted by jokeefe 27 December | 03:31

The only illegal drugs I haven't done are injectable heroin and ecstasy.

I'll see you that and raise you mescaline.

Erm, I should add that I've been a non-drug user for coming up on twenty years. I did, however, have a bit of an experimental youth. Being a punk, and all.

posted by jokeefe 27 December | 03:42

I think I now have a crush on jokeefe. Ya see, it isn't hard at all to come clean.

posted by panoptican 27 December | 03:49

10 things you don't know about sleepy (and because you only know him as mr. harvey girl)

1. i hardly sleep.
2. i look stoned most of the time and have found that people always think i am, even when i'm not.
2a. i've never injected heroin, but that's about it.
3. i flunked out of college, but have a couple of (worthless) master's degrees now.
4. My father rebuilt a motorcycle in our kitchen when i was a kid not once but twice (a BSA and a Triumph). The garage wasn't heated.
4a. I've loved Motorhead for years, but I have a weird sensation looking at Lemmy cuz throughout my childhood that's exactly how my father looked (minus the moles).
5. One of the few erotic dreams i remember from my teen years involved the scene from the original Willy Wonka when they walk into the main room with the chocolate river (although the chocolate river had nothing to do with it).
6. i seriously and undeniably hate snakes.
7. i once watched a prerecorded game of nine ball with Steve Albini while he talked about Chicago and its billiard history.
8. i was in a head-on collision at 65 miles per hour.
9. i usually hate everything i create and find if i hate it for more than three days in a row, nobody else finds out about it.
10. i use slanderous remarks like dinglehorse and turdweiler (although i think dingle may have a less disgusting meaning here--I could be wrong though).

ok, i'm off to see if the info from the old crappy computer downstairs has made its way to the external hd then it's off to bed and work tomorrow which

11. makes me physically ill.

posted by sleepy_pete 27 December | 04:04

So, I lurk a lot in both MeCha and Mefi, but I couldn't resist being fashionably late to this party. :)

10. I have had more tropical diseases than I care to admit. Malaria is one of them.

9. I have had many surgeries, but never have broken a bone. In total, I have had more than 7 pins in my body. When doctors take the pins out, I keep them.

8. I've drank with 7 Canadian Prime Ministers. My job involved going to a lot of parties and social events. I like to say that job taught me how to drink. I started working for the federal government when I was a minor, which caused headaches when getting my security clearance. When people hear that I've worked for that specific agency, they are usually impressed. I have no idea why.

7. I have no desire to learn how to drive a car. This might explain my affinity for subways and trains.

6. I wish I knew how to put on make up. I don't wear it, nor have plans to - but it seems like a useful skill to have.

5. I've been the victim of a hit and run. Twice.

4. I prefer sleeping in hammocks to beds.

3. I am the only member of my immediate family who does not speak 4 languages fluently.

2. I cannot stand latex balloons. Whenever I am near them I become agitated for no reason.

1. I competed in the National Science Fair in the 8th grade and received an Honourable Mention. I wish I had continued to study science.

Putting that list together was hard...

posted by carabiner 27 December | 04:38

Oh my god, I thought I was the only one who hated the Beatles.

Nope. Satan hates them too. :-D

posted by Cryptical Envelopment 27 December | 04:48

1. I like to wear mismatched socks.
2. I've never consumed an illegal substance, which makes me feel a bit like an anomaly.
3. I love maps, but not in a technical obsession sort of way...more of a romantic way I guess.
4. I was bitten by a ferile cat as a kid and ended up on tv, because it was a new rabies treatment (fewer shots required). They asked me where the cat bit me, and I showed my middle finger to the viewers in an all too familiar gesture. (^_^)
5. I really wish I had a copy of that moment.
6. I prefer dogs to cats (any surprise?), but every man I've fallen for has been a cat freak.
7. People seem to view me in extremist terms, but I don't understand that. I'm usually too quiet to have earned whatever label is being applied. I don't do labels.
8. I have always felt like an outsider (outside of my family). However, my curiosity keeps me going to events and being around people.
9. I take inspiration from my 7-year-old self.
10. I may have a blushing fetish. (Which may occassionaly cause me to go out of the way to embarass certain people.)

11. I hope somebody else will add to this thread after me. I don't like to be the last commenter.

posted by MightyNez 27 December | 07:02

I am so late to this!

1. Interrobang, I've been belittled by Harlan Ellison too!

2. I got a 780 GRE verbal score. I feel it is too high to tell anyone about.

3. I was shy when I was a child but now I have many friends.

4. I was born in the year of the rabbit, so maybe I was meant to be on MetaChat.

5. My eyes are tawny brown, which is unusual for an Asian person.

5.1. If the sun shines on my eyes the right way, they appear gold-colored. Only one person has ever noticed this besides me.

6. For more than ten years, I did not cry.

7. This year I became estranged from my family.

8. I wish I were more of a geek.

9. I saw snow fall for the first time this year.

10. I've been told I am a descendant of a Chinese Imperial minister and also a dynasty.

10.1 This may not be true, but I believe it has been true enough to have an impact on my life.

I wish I could hug all of you who fear going to meetups but go anyway. Meetups for online communities were one of the first ways I got out of my sheltered upbringing. They did a lot for me. I hope so much that they (and other things!) enrich your lives too!

posted by halonine 27 December | 07:06

P.S. MightyNez, glad to be of service! :)

posted by halonine 27 December | 07:08

And, some of the below are updates:
10: Apparently I'm primarily Finnish and Swedish, with a bit of the Brit (from Leeds) thrown in and my real family name is Stormen.
09: I'm married to my partner.
08: I've never been outside of North America (but I have been all up in that shit, so to speak.)
07: I'll be at MOCCA this year.
06: I'm on vacation, on high speed, watching the Graduate on AMC right now (two things I wouldn't be doing if I were at my apartment).
05: The other, non-updated items, are still true.
04: I find Jeff Bridges to be completely unattractive.
03: My sister is only my half-sister, and I didn't find that out until I was in my teens.
02: I have crushes on the more unlikely of metachatters for the most unlikely of reasons.
01: I'm not telling who!

posted by safetyfork 27 December | 07:29

Frisbee Girl... we're still waiting. (You did this in the other thread, too.)

posted by warbaby 27 December | 07:34

11. As of this morning, I've now had sexual dreams about two mechazens & I'm not telling who. ;-)

posted by mygothlaundry 27 December | 09:01

1. I have a fear of posting late in a thread, because I might be the last post and then I feel like I ruined everything, and that everyone hates me and all. So I'm taking that risk. Somebody else do one please.

2. I have four brothers and sisters who are 18-23 years older than me. It's weird.

3. I'm hyperflexible. Shallow ball & socket joints.

4. Just won another fantasy football championship.

5. I'm an introvert and I'm proud of it.

6. I prefer cyber sex to phone sex.

7. Probably because I hate talking on the phone.

8. I've acted professionally for twenty years, but it's very bad for my mental health, so I don't do it as much anymore and I have a real job and all.

9. As a High School Senior, I was voted Best Dancer and Worst Dressed.

10. My car is usually messier than the average car, although my living and working spaces are quite neat.

posted by rainbaby 27 December | 09:25

Late, and probably beside the point:

1. I probably can't ever be president of the US.
2. I used to talk too much, now I talk too little.
3. I love dogs but sometimes ignore the ones I'm actually taking care of.
4. I love bad comedies, particularly of the romantic sort. I fear that this has done actual damage to my ability to maintain relationships.
5. I think that my friendship with my best friend from college makes other people seem boring.
6. I really dislike cigarettes, but have no problem at all (in fact, quite the opposite) with pot.
7. Sometimes I run far.
8. I have an absurd affection for people that I've met at meetups or emailed with for just about any reason. I like the particularity of the experience in the face of so much online anonymity.
9. I wonder sometimes if I read less because I love it and more because I love having done it.
10. I wish I could be entirely alone for a month, but I suspect that I would be exactly the same at the end of it.

posted by omiewise 27 December | 10:00

I didn't want to add anything, but this is the thing I really wanted to write:

11. I wish that I had religious faith, but I know I never will.

posted by omiewise 27 December | 10:05

Some more after reading the thread and to ensure that there's a post after rainbaby.

BONUS 01: In Jr. High I was voted most unique.
BONUS 02: I cut my own hair and have for the last 12 years (though there was a time for a year in there when I was flush with cash and had the barber shave it).
BONUS 03: I don't have any tattoos or piercings, but I have designed multiple tats.
BONUS 04: My band teacher made me cry in the 7th grade. I quit the saxophone at the end of that year and took up the bass guitar outside of band class as my revenge.
BONUS 05: I type slow...

posted by safetyfork 27 December | 10:24

[Sorry guys, we were very busy at work last night and I was too bushed to finish my list.]

Despite his glaring flaws, my father is my favorite person. Because of her courage and strength, especially as of late, my mother is approaching an equal position. This makes my heart swell to buck-stop-and-almost-burst.

When I'm really excited and smile big, I look slightly cross-eyed. (In my old passport picture I look like a very happy half-wit. True story.)

I cooked my first meal at five.

I can be horrible with names. When asked directly, I have been known to forget my own. However, I mentally nickname almost everyone.

I once hired an assistant based on the fact that I thought his name was Kermit. Turned out his name was Kurt, but he let me call him Kermit anyway.

I had a severe sleep disorder for over 20 years.

I can't stand clothing that touches my waist, but someone's hand there is fine.

Good manners are extremely important to me.

Up until recently, I was able to read backwards as quickly as forwards; right and left still confuse me, despite several mnemonic aids.

I could not ride a bike or swim until I was nine.

I love ballroom dancing and would do it daily if it were feasible.

For several years, I thought that I had personally lost touch with something very important, but the last few months have proven otherwise and this makes me extremely happy.

I was a competitive speaker in highschool and was going to be a speech writer or spokesperson until I fell in love with linguistics at university. I'm still passionately interested in both.

Though not shy and very accustomed to being in front of people/commanding attention, when someone takes notice of me specifically or as an individual, it makes me feel uncommonly special. Conversely, I notice a lot more than I let on, because I worry that people will think that I'm obsessive or misread my intent. Experience has supported that fear.

I always have music on.

Few skills in life give me more pleasure to me than being able to effectively articulate an idea or an experience, yet the things I could not explain given light years of time bring me the greatest joy and solace.

Not a day goes by that I don't wish I could give people my eyes so they could see just how amazing and beautiful and talented they really are.

'bang made me very blushy & I think that his girlfriend is one lucky, lucky lady.

posted by Frisbee Girl 27 December | 10:36

(11. I really want to hear amro's story. I've read three of the "Tales of the City" books at least four times.)

taz, I'll try to give you the short(er) version. I wrote a long-ass letter to Armistead after reading The Night Listener, because I recognized "who" he was writing about. Next thing I knew, the lovely man called me, and we talked for an hour and a half about our experiences with Tony Godby Johnson. He also asked me if I would be interviewed by Tad Friend for The New Yorker. After the article came out, he told me to check out this thread. Of course, sign-ups were closed at the time, so I couldn't comment. Shoot me an email if you want to read The New Yorker article, and I'll send it to you.

posted by amro 27 December | 11:09

Like people are going to read this far down the page... I actually started a list like this on my LJ, so I'm basing the first 8 from that.

1. I like talking about sex so much that I started giving talks and demonstrations about it at local anime cons.
2. I had three surgeries on my kidneys before I was 12.
3. The largest age gap upwards between me and my sexual partner was about 40 years. The largest gap downards was five.
4. I will probably never become a cabaret singer because I am embarassed by a lisp I have never fully gotten rid of.
5. Two of my favorite media mediums (comics, anime) were introduced to me by my first boyfriend.
6. I first started wearing glasses in the third grade because a story on the nightly news made me wonder if I had an eye problem or not.
7. There is a roll of flesh/fat/whatever on my belly that I will probably never get rid of because I suspect it's scar tissue from my last surgery.
7a. Also, because of that last surgery, it looks like I have two bellybuttons.
8. There are possibly five or six of my former lovers I would drop everything to have sex with, if they offered to fly me to wherever they were.
9. I have tiny crushes on a lot of you, but they're only tiny because I haven't met most of you in person yet.
10. I have a sex drive that is greater than that of many men I know.

posted by TrishaLynn 27 December | 11:10

My first list had some non-content items, so here's some make-up sex:

1. Every year my wife and I have a semi-large spat about the amount of shit to buy for our two boys. We understand each other's viewpoint (she: anti-materialism, me: let's go all out for once!) but we still annoy each other about it.
2. I really enjoy the feeling when a really giant turd is sliding out of my ass and wonder sometimes if that means I secretly want things shoved up my butt.
3. I have a Master's degree in English Lit but actually am not very well read.
4. rainbaby beat me with my own players...I've been in lots of fantasy football championship games but never won the big one. (I've got one last chance next week.)
5. Seems like we should have MeCha fantasy football league next year. (My crush on sisterhavana just grew bigger.)
6. rainbaby also beat me on the older sibling thing: my closest brother is 11 years older than I (the oldest is like 18 years older). I thought that made me special, I guess I was wrong.
7. I hate being wrong (but am capable of admitting it).
8. When I first started reading MeFi in 2001, pretty much every comment by dhartung amazed me.
9. I have raging crush on many a MeCha, but if I were forced to name just one, at the moment I'd say matildaben.
10. I really wished I had stuck with the "I have a huge crush on my own raging member" joke I was gonna make.
11. I should have let Frisbee Girl have the last comment. I feel guilty.

posted by danostuporstar 27 December | 11:10

Sheebus! There's no reason for me to have the last comment. It's an open ended thing and I want to hear from as many people that are comfortable posting and maybe even some who are nervous. *smiles at lurkers* (I know you're out there!)

You guys are a lot more interesting than you realize. Also, if you're adverse to making lists, tell a story about something most people don't know about you. My curiosity is exceeded only by my collective MeCha affection.

[And, yes, if you all let this be the last comment on this thread, I'm going to be annoyed.]

posted by Frisbee Girl 27 December | 11:25

You guys are a lot more interesting than you realize.

I'm actually less interesting than you'd imagine, but here's some more.

1. I almost died of the croup at age 2.
2. My Maternal Grandfather made his living making tombstones and my Dad grew up next to a cemetary. I beat long odds not becoming some kind of Death Freak.
3. I have horrendous table manners.
4. I was suspended from high school 4 times (2 fights, one drunkeness, one arson)
5. I hate my arms and especially my wrists. They're like pencils, they're so thin.

posted by jonmc 27 December | 11:30

1) I find these confessional lists both upsetting and completely fascinating, which is how I like things.

2) I have almost died at least three times that I know about, in two car wrecks and from being shot at. (semi-random, you can hear bullets passing by your ears).

3) In my teenage years I was more or less a committed criminal, I've been arrested about four times but have never been caught or charged for my many minor illegalities since turning 18.

4) I regret several of the things that I did and would like to make amends, although that is probably not possible except in a generalized karmic way.

5) I am a deeply moral person, however I tend to derive my morality from within, this has caused complications.

6) I need money.

7) I am not shy at all, I enjoy the company of others and I am generally known as a "funny, outgoing guy", nonetheless I prefer to be alone at least 3 or 4 hours a day, which means I stay up late because I live with my fiance and step (to be) daughter.

8) I am pretty sure that the first CD I ever bought with my own money was "100 miles and running" by NWA, I've got no idea what the first tape I ever bought was, but it pretty much had to be AC/DC or Motorhead.

9) I fully intend to quit smoking in January of 2006.

10) I don't have crushes as a general rule but I am exceedingly fond of all of you, I believe that in this world, sadly, even love needs an army.

posted by Divine_Wino 27 December | 11:36

DW: Go for it! *cheers like mad*

posted by TrishaLynn 27 December | 11:50

1) I am currently overweight by about 30 pounds.

2) I think studying the films of Guy Maddin (particularly the ones written by George Tolles) will teach me something important, but I have no idea what.

3) I have thought I was in love about ten times. I have actually been in love twice. I feel intensely guilty about the other 8 times.

4) As I've gotten older, my temper has resembled my mother's more and more. This terrifies me, particularly as I've also picked up her habit of acting like everything is fine as soon as the reason for the flare up has been resolved. I love my mother, but I really don't want to be like her.

5) If the situation arose where I had to choose, I would eat a dead human being before I would kill and eat a live cat.

6) I think feelings of guilt and resentment are the two biggest causes of negative behavior in both myself and humanity at large.

7) I like cooking, but I need my wife to tell me what to cook. When she's out of town, I usually end up eating junk.

8) I have a few small scars on my face, behind my ears, and on my neck as the result of having a bunch of sebaceous cysts removed.

9) I envy articulate people, to the point of not being able to speak (or write, depending on the medium) around them sometimes.

10) I'm left handed.

posted by PinkStainlessTail 27 December | 12:13

1. I play violin like a boxer.

2. I play guitar like Magic Sam.

3. Sometimes socks irritate my feet, and I end up taking my shoes and socks off at work.

4. Sometimes when my feet are irritated by my socks, I scratch them in my sleep until I break the skin.

5. I have scars on my feet most of the time.

6. I absorb novocaine into my system twice as fast as is the norm.

7. Once I had stitches put in my foot by a doctor who didn't know novocaine wouldn't work. The finest of surgical threads felt like a towel being yanked through my flesh.

8. All four of my wisdom teeth were knocked out in sixteen seconds, after the dentist took ten minutes jamming about twenty syringes of novocaine into my gums.

9. If you think I look scary, I'm not as scary as I look. If you don't think I look scary, I'm scarier than you think. There is no middle ground.

10. All of my moral posturing and cynical jibes aside, I believe in one thing: truth is beautiful. I say this to myself every morning in the shower several times.

If I didn't, I would be some kind of mess.

posted by Hugh Janus 27 December | 12:14

1 - My parents are the two people I admire the most.

2 - Not a day goes by that I don't terribly miss my grandparents.

3 - Despite that, until very recently I have never been interested in the thought of starting a family, and I'm 35

4 - I wear my dad's (and grandad's) watch, which I am supposed to pass on to my son someday (I've had to replace the watch's crocodile wristband, that was possibly original; it was about to break, though). I sometimes wonder, what if I have two sons -- which one'll get the watch? and what if I have girls? it's quite a mannish, old-skool watch, not really good for a woman.

5 - I love steam baths, but I hate humid weather (I'm a big fan of the desert, actually -- so I should be a sauna guy, I guess)

6 - Today, I'm wearing a 21-year-old v-neck sweater. it's _so_ not my oldest piece of clothing. I love old clothes and would never really throw them away, no matter how threadbare they get.

7 - Whenever I'm in a new city, I check if a great artist is buried there, and I try to visit, to pay my respects. I have done this as far back as I can remember (most emotional visits -- Poe and Truffaut). Years ago I discovered it's a Sufi thing. But I'm not a Sufi.

8 - I recently assembled my first IKEA piece of furniture, a big motherfucker, in less than three hours, all alone.

9 - Twenty years ago, I vowed never to ride a motorbike again in my life.

10 - I'll never play poker again in my life. You should have seen me, that Monday night, a long time ago.

posted by matteo 27 December | 12:25

Probably not worth commenting on, but PinkStainlessTail reminded me:

12. I was born left-handed. Almost everyone in my family is left-handed, including both my parents. But an otherwise progressive private nursery school forced everyone to be right-handed. There are still some things I can only do lefty, though.

posted by amro 27 December | 12:34

Well, now I'm in the mood for more sharing.

12. My favorite food is (any type except american or provolone) cheese.

13. I was a commited vegetarian for 7 years until the day I did my first experiment on an animal.

14. My ex-boyfriend and my husband's ex-fiancee hooked up at our wedding reception. They did not know their status as exes.

15. I have been party to a break-in at Camden Yards baseball stadium -- I didn't get picked up by security, but my friends did (after they pulled some grass off left field)

16. I always think the best of people I don't know. It takes a lot to offend me or piss me off.

17. In 1996, my 3 friends and I had a hitchhiking race from the tip to the bottom of New Zealand. I came in second by 45 minutes.

18. I packed for my move to the USA in 40 minutes, and was exceedingly drunk at the time.

19. I haven't cried in front of my mother since I was 3 or 4 years old.

20. I don't think Hugh looks scary.

posted by gaspode 27 December | 12:35

Oh, gaspode, I was thinking about my #9 and your #20, and I should make it clear that I've been growing a beard and I look like a young wooly mammoth right now. Thus the scary thing. So maybe I should say:

11. I'm growing a beard and it looks kinda scary. Don't be scared.

posted by Hugh Janus 27 December | 12:52

I second the idea of a MeCha fantasy football league! : )

A few more things I thought of...

11. I've never smoked or taken an illegal drug in my life, and I don't plan to.

12. My first boyfriend at IU (the one I lost my virginity to) was a major cocaine dealer in high school, but he had been clean for about a year when we met.

13. My friend Lisa and I have been friends since first grade, and we still live about five minutes from each other and talk almost every day.

14. I can read stories in the paper and see TV shows and movies about people getting murdered and not blink, but I can't bear to read or see anything about a dog being abused or dying.

15. In grade school, I went to the hospital at least four times a year (spending several nights there) because I dehydrated so badly when I got sick (I couldn't keep anything down at all and had to be fed via IV). I went only once in fifth grade, and then it never happened again.

16. My name would have been David Ike if I was a boy.

17. When I was really little, my pediatrician used to call me Rebecca. (my name's Rachel) The name grew on my parents, and when my sister was born that's how she got her name. (The doctor never called her Rachel, though!)

18. I know (or know of) several other Rachel-and-Rebecca sibling pairs.

posted by sisterhavana 27 December | 12:53

1. I learned to take care of things I own from my Dad.
2. I also learned to think & look ahead from him, and to this day I'm a very quick thinker. But I forget that, and many times in conversation people look at me with a lost expression.
3. My late Mom was hilarious; I wish I had inherited more of her personality and less of my Dad's.
4. I'm the only gay child in our family, the youngest of 4 daughters.
5. I avoid mean people in any way possible; this includes in movies, books and in person.
6. My parents took me and my 3 sisters to see Planet of the Apes at the drive in when I was 4. I was scared shitless. They also took us to see Patton. Which also scared me shitless.
7. I'm depressed about what to do with my career/work and talents.
8. I push myself out of my comfort zone once a year. The first time I decided to do that, I went out of the US for the first time alone to St Barth's.
9. I am madly in love with the woman I just exchanged vows with. I look forward to seeing her every night, and eating out and going to movies with her is still an exciting date after almost 6 years.
10. I don't handle compliments well.

posted by chewatadistance 27 December | 12:54

11. I think I may be taz's twin.

posted by chewatadistance 27 December | 12:55

Awww Hugh, I bet you look all cuddly and snuggly.

posted by gaspode 27 December | 12:59

1. I've only recently started to feel guilty about how absolutely awful I am at keeping in touch with long-distance friends and family.

2. This is the first time in my life I've ever lived without another human being -- no roommates or boyfriend in the apartment.

3. My emotional dependence on my cat therefore seems to be growing.

4. I cannot fall asleep, or stay asleep, if my feet are too warm.

5. When I was in college, a therapist told me that my need to be by myself after spending long periods of time with others was a problem. Despite knowing nothing about introversion, I knew the therapist was an idiot and never went back.

6. I want to go back to school to get a master's in counseling so that I can become a therapist.

7. Despite my username, my eyes are not blue and I am not Italian, and I've never actually heard the song from which I took the reference.

8. In high school I was voted "Most Sophisticated" and I got to wear a wonderful hat in the photo, which was stolen from my car five years later (the only other thing taken was my visitor's parking pass).

9. I used to write really long, wonderful emails to my friends, and I'm not sure why it feels like I no longer have time to do that.

10. Most of my favorite places in the world are bars. The others are cathedrals. I tend to prefer to be in both types of places alone, and my mental soundtrack for the two tends to be the same.

posted by occhiblu 27 December | 13:19

1. I want everyone on MetaChat to have a crush on me because I love being the center of attention.

2. Muds, I'd be willing to do this, but only if your sock puppet is called 'pudmuppie'. I actually tried to register this sock puppet, but the account was blocked. Guess someone thought I was up to no good.

3. This comment made me laugh aloud, and then I felt horribly guilty for laughing: With depressing regularity, I get out of bed and fall over because both of my feet are asleep.

4. I've only had one threesome; it was with two twenty-one year old guys. I was thirty at the time. It was lovely.

5. One time I broke my toe and didn't feel it until hours later. It was very confusing.

6. The last time I saw my grandmother, I knew I wouldn't see her alive again. I kissed her and told her I loved her, and she said "My goodness! It's not like you'll never see me again!" This makes me cry.

7. I once very seriously considered being a professional dominatrix.

8. When I get sick and am feeling really bad, I cry and say aloud "I want my mom."

9. I would give just about anything to be able to trade bodies with a lover.

10. When my ex gets back into town, I'm going to seduce him.

posted by Specklet 27 December | 13:24

I've only had one threesome; it was with two twenty-one year old guys. I was thirty at the time. It was lovely.

I am so jealous!!!

posted by TrishaLynn 27 December | 14:35

I had a hard enough time coming up with ten things last time because, as I mentioned, I'm a very dull chap but let's give it another go....

1. I hate board games. They make me feel bored(!) and angry.
2. I don't like being competitive which may explain the above. It probably also explains why I prefer the company of women to men.
3. I was a witness to a murder once. I heard someone being kicked to death.
4. I'm not shy. Life's far too short.
5. I don't tend to give a shit what most people think about me. That cuts both ways and is not neccessarily all good.
6. Actually I sometimes take a perverse delight when people don't like me.
7. In real life I'm much less inclined to suffer fools gladly. Online it's far too easy to be a chump so I guess everyone deserves another chance.
8. There's far too much salt in my diet. This will probably be my undoing.
9. I used to do karaokes pretty regularly until they stopped making me nervous and then I couldn't see the point of doing them anymore.
10. Despite what you've read in this comment I'm probably the most laid back person you'll ever meet in your life. Seriously - everyone who knows me has commented upon that above anything else.

posted by dodgygeezer 27 December | 14:37

I don't like you, dodgygeezer. I hope that makes your day.

(wait a minute, saying that to make your day means I must like you..I've gone and plumb fucked up, haven't i?)

posted by jonmc 27 December | 14:51

1. I almost died of the croup at age 2

Me too, jon! I was in an oxygen tent for almost three weeks. It's one of my earliest memories.

posted by jokeefe 27 December | 15:22

Me too, jon! I was in an oxygen tent for almost three weeks.

You were in my oxygen tent? I thought it seemed crowded.

posted by jonmc 27 December | 15:31

I'm adding some. Just because.

12. I'm a pretty serious asthmatic; I've got the lung capacity of about half adult normal.

13. Live music for me can be hit or miss-- I'm really sensitive to crowd mood, and crowds, period, and generally prefer to avoid them-- but when it works, it's the most transcendent experience I know. This has happened to me five times this year, being taken right out of myself, at shows by Sigur Ros, The Decemberists, the Arcade Fire, and Gang of Four, and at a performance of Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites, with Judith Forst and Measha Brueggergosman.

14. I miss writing my blog, and plan to return to it as soon as I've finished this damn thesis.

posted by jokeefe 27 December | 15:43

with two twenty-one year old guys

excuse my 3some-ignorant qeustion: was it any different than doing it with one 42 year old?

posted by matteo 27 December | 15:45

Me too, jon! I was in an oxygen tent for almost three weeks.

You were in my oxygen tent? I thought it seemed crowded.

Were you that kid who took my lego blocks? Because I was not pleased about that. The nurse even went back to look for them, but she couldn't find them.

posted by jokeefe 27 December | 15:47

matteo, actually, I did it with a 42 year-old when I was 21. Coincidence? I think not!

posted by Specklet 27 December | 16:01

I've only had one threesome; it was with two twenty-one year old guys.

Gah! You've just described the one sexual experience (well, they needn't have been 21) that I wish I've had and never gotten to before meeting mr g. Now I am jealous.

posted by gaspode 27 December | 16:01

gaspode: That's why I'm so jealous (without the being married thing). I'm single and I still haven't gotten a chance to do this yet.

posted by TrishaLynn 27 December | 16:03

well, make sure you do so I can live vicariously, TrishLynn!

posted by gaspode 27 December | 16:05

TrishA

Oops

posted by gaspode 27 December | 16:05

You know, I was involved in one of those (us dudes were 22; she was 29) and I remember when we moved halfway off the bed and both got inside her, one in each -- well, you get the picture -- she said, "THAT feels... WONderFUL!"

posted by Hugh Janus 27 December | 16:06

Were you that kid who took my lego blocks?

I was trying to build an escape pod for us. Ungrateful, you are.

Also, I've never been in a threesome of any kind sadly. *sniff*

posted by jonmc 27 December | 16:13

Yeah. All this talk of threesomes is...not so good for my work concentration.

posted by gaspode 27 December | 16:32

11) I was in a drunken, clothed, and gropy tangle with a very pretty Australian boy and a gorgeous redheaded girl that went on for hours (inmy memory anyway) but ultimately didn't really go anywhere intense. Closest I ever came to a threesome or a homosexual experience.

posted by PinkStainlessTail 27 December | 16:51

I've found threesomes to be overrated, myself. Much better in the imagining than in the having.

posted by jokeefe 27 December | 17:29

Really? I've never had a MMF one, but other experiences have been pretty good.

posted by gaspode 27 December | 18:42

Late to the party, as usual:

01. I'm terribly shy.
02. I blew off one meetup because I was too nervous to go.
03. I avoid the phone like the plague. It takes me along time to gather the nerve to make a phone call.
04. The mister is the first male I've willingly had sex with. He doesn't know this.
05. My first consensual sex was with a girl. We were ten or eleven.
06. My favourite food is Round Table's Italian Garlic Supreme (no tomatoes).
07. I've never smoked.
08. I'd like to shave my head but have yet to go through with it.
09. Animals seem to adore me, so do kids. As long as that holds true, I can convince myself I'm not a monster.
10. People tell me secrets. For instance: my neighbour told me that her younger daughter doesn't know that her older daughter isn't really hers. The younger daughter also does not know that the man she call's "dad" isn't her biological father.

Bonus:

11. I have a crush on all of you (really), but two people stand out: loquacious - he makes me laugh like a loon and specklet - because she's gorgeous inside and out.

posted by deborah 28 December | 02:26

Ok, late as always:

1) I have not had a threesome, but I have had a foursome (me, 2 girls, another guy).
2) My first car was a Chevette hatchback - I plastered the back window with Minor Threat/7 Seconds/Black Flag stickers and my mom said it looked like I was in a cult.
3) Borderline hypochondriac
4) The beauty of women haunts me.
5) When I was a child I fancied myself the antichrist, or hoped for immortality - something to set me apart
6) I feel terrible guilt when I throw something away that could be recycled
7) I wake and bake before going to work more than I should, which is lots
8) I am a closet fan of Don Henley's "Boys of Summer"
9) I have been told I resemble Alton Brown, David Hyde Pierce, and Hermey from Rudolph
10) Prior friends used to call me both "Shank" and "Diggler," for reasons I shall not disclose here.

posted by tr33hggr 28 December | 07:53

1) I have nightmares every single night, terrible ones when I wake in fear.
2) I have been twice revived after overdosing.
3) I have a bit of a wonmaising habit, yet if I love you, it's forever. This causes me constant conflict.
4) I have committed many crimes, but have never been caught. I still feel guilt and want to hand myself in.
5) I, too, do not drive and it terrifies me even though I know I'd be good at it.
6) I have the whole self-sabotage thing down to an art and have taken horrible risks. I think this could be a reason behind 5 and or 2.
7) A girl blogged about me, we had sex, she blogged about that too, I never saw her again. It was weird.
8) I like to write songs, poems, make pictures and sculpture but have a fear about revealing this to anyone.
9) I haven't visited this site in over a week and this is the first thread I read. It's a good one and I really wish I could spend more time here.
10) I too have a MeCha crush. I may have two, even.

Bonus Round

11) My beard grows with a white streak where the pigment dropped out of it. I tell everyone it was when I got rubella and chicken pox at the same time but it happened after I had my heart broken. I've never understood this vulnerability in me. Sometimes it's a weakness, sometimes a strength.
12) I was a committed vegetarian for about ten years but I snuck some of mum's chicken salad every Christmas.
13) I ruined my best friend's wedding because I hated his fiancee. I was best man. I also introduced them.
14) I'm having to change my profiles on MeFi and here because of this post.

posted by bdave 28 December | 09:05

Oh, and last post.

15) This has been most cathartic.

posted by bdave 28 December | 09:08

1. I taught myself how to shave, but have never really been that into it.
2. I played the saxophone for a hella long time but stopped in high school because ensemble playing is boring as shit.
3. I am a member of an NCAA championship team and have a big honking jewel-encrusted ring that I never wear because I don't like jewelry.
4. I am more concerned with using my abilities to bring joy to other people's lives than making money from them.
5. I used to wear my heart on my sleeve until it got beat up a whole lot during college and now sometimes I'm afraid that I've forgotten how to love someone new.
6. I don't like porking the night away. I'd much rather get plenty of sleep and spend the daylight hours with all the sex.
7. I hate telephones and would rather email or IM.
8. I try not to be a know-it-all and always try to learn things from other people, but deep down I think I'm really intelligent and good at writing poetry, but even deeper down I don't think so but even deeper down I do.
9. My fudge is so good that it has been known to start fights among my family members.
10. I carry peanuts around with me to feed the squirrels.
11. Sometimes I see a really got-it-all-together girl and know that there is absolutely nothing about me that would interest her and I feel all sad.
12. Despite the fact that my apartment is neat, clean and organized, and contrary to popular belief, and despite the fact that I live on Fruit Avenue, I am neither gay nor emo.
13. I'm naturally mouthy, blunt and tactless with my friends. With strangers and girls I am cheesily endearing and smooth. I blame Welsh ancestry for both.
14. I slouch, not to make myself seem shorter, but because everything IS shorter and I just naturally have to be bent over all the time to hear people or do things like warsh dishes.
15. I'm content to let other people take charge of things, but if no one does it, I'll hop in and start organizing, just to get it over and done with. The sooner things are done, the sooner I can lay around on my ass.
16. Every girl I've "known" in Cleveland has been a cold fish in the sack.
17. When I was little I'd catch crawdads in the crick and make 'em fight each other.
18. When I'm sick all I want is someone to bring me soup every six hours and to leave me alone the rest of the time.
19. I've had road rage ever since I had a job driving a set truck through the five boroughs.
20. I am extremely gentle, but I know if I'm ever in a situation where my friends or family are getting disrespected or in danger I'll either get in the disrepecters grill and shut them down with my aforementioned Welsh verbosity or wig out and turn whatever the dangerous thing happens to be into its component molecules.
21. Despite the fact that college did little or nothing to prepare me for a JOB in the real world, it DID help me determine my own particular Weltanschaunng which is really all that matters anyway.
22. I am a hugger. And an excellent one at that.
23. I think kissing is more intimate than sex.
24. I am a morning person and consistently wake up 3 minutes before my alarm goes off.
25. Hair. My hair is thinning ever so slowly on top, mainly due to my fencing mask, I believe. My hair is also very very soft. I have a pleasantly furry chest and face but little to no hair elsewhere. I found my first grey hair a month or so ago when I still had my beard.

posted by sciurus 28 December | 09:31

26. I have MetaChat crushes too. *Grins at ThePinkSuperhero and Specklet*

posted by sciurus 28 December | 09:34

* It took me 7.34 seconds after reading jonmc's list to realize it wasn't written by Frisbee Girl
* There are no psychotropics that have not made my acquaintance at sometime
* I love the aroma of coffee but the thought of drinking it makes me heave
* I haven't felt really passionate about anything for a couple of years. I need it but I just don't know what it is or how to find it...again.
* Substitute 'a girl' for 'it', too.
* I've shaved my beard off twice in 20 years. The first was because of an accident with a joint. The 2nd time was just a mistake.
* I have a big ego. Pity it is both made of incredibly fragile crystal glass and has a leak. That makes me a validate-o-phile....-ish.
* The physical changes of aging make me sad. I'm always 5 or 8 years old inside - depending on confidence levels.
* Sometime I hope to have a place where roses, jasmine, frangipanni (plumeria) and gardenia [and another one that escapes me at the mo'] grow.
* I love that our sense of smell is the most memorially evocative.
* Today my ever first flower from my first ever frangipanni had bloomed when I arrived back from the countryside - subtle traditional scent with a citrus element (trifloria). Mmmmmmmmm mmmmm.
* I love that the protagnoist in Ulysses is named Bloom.
* I haven't read a book in 2 years or so.

posted by peacay 28 December | 11:16

Very late on this, but here goes ...

1. I was born in Australia.

2. In May 1987 I cut off my right index finger and it was sewn back on again after being put in a pineapple-shaped ice bucket and taken with me to the hospital.

3. I haven't had an alcoholic drink since 26 February 1999.

4. There is a link between 2 & 3 above, although as you can tell it took a while for me to make the connection.

5. I can't stand high maintenance women who demand constant attention and expect men to spend a lot of money on them. They make me feel embarrassed to be a woman.

6. The scariest movie I've ever seen is "Spoorloos" ("The Vanishing"). The ending gave me sleepless nights.

7. My favourite picture of the year is this one. I love it that all their faces are different and I smile every time I see it.

8. I have no illusion that I am anything other than a Plain Jane. But still I wish I was beautiful, even if only for one day, just to see what it was like.

9. I cry when people get their medals at the Olympics and their national anthem is played, whatever country they're from.

10. I hate anyone touching my neck.

posted by essexjan 28 December | 13:46

essexjan, that's a GREAT picture!

posted by occhiblu 28 December | 14:54

I'm not sure I have ten more things to say, but for the sake of work avoidance and attempting to spend the entire day on Metachat (to make up for a four-day jones), I'm going to try.

1) I was a champion marimba player in high school.When I went to college, I was invited to audition for the (prestigious) percussion ensemble. Though I felt I totally bombed the audition, they invited me to join. Turned out, though, that it met at 8 a.m. on the other side of campus, and they were going to make me take drum lessons. The thought of getting up early and being bad at playing the drums made me stupidly back out.

2) I have a crippling lack of motivation in almost all areas of my life. However, I sometimes will stubbornly spend a stupefying amount of effort on things that aren't even remotely worth it.

3) I know that there have been times in my life when I thought I was in love, but looking back on them I can't see how I possibly was. I don't know which is truer -- how I felt at the time, or my later interpretation of how I felt.

4) I have been in a relationship for several years with someone who loves me, but whom I do not love. I am both too gutless and too compassionate to do anything about it.

5) I was a strict vegetarian for 12 years, but recently started eating meat occasionally. I do not feel guilty about it, and this bothers me.

6) I once had dinner with Molly Ivins and Senator Paul Wellstone. After dinner, I heard Wellstone ask a friend "who's that girl down there who doesn't talk?"

7) In high school, I was a religious fanatic. Part of this was a product of growing up in a small Texas town. Most of it, though, was because I watched the Amy Grant Christmas special in 8th grade and developed a huge crush on her.

8) My first sexual experience was, um, born of force. I didn't tell anyone at the time because he was a good church boy and no one would have believed it. I don't like to tell people now because they try to use it to explain my being gay.

9) When my parents found out I was gay, my very stoic father said "I haven't cried since I was 10 years old, but I've cried every night for the past two weeks over this." It fucking broke my heart. (He's fine with it now.)

10) I first had a crush on a girl when I was 5. In junior high gym, I insisted on dressing in a bathroom stall because I knew that I wasn't supposed to be looking at other girls. The other girls made fun of me for it -- thought it was because they had boobs and I didn't. Little did they know....

posted by mudpuppie 28 December | 16:47

::grins back at sciurus::

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 28 December | 16:47

Watching people get their crush on in this thread has been particularly sweet.

posted by Frisbee Girl 28 December | 16:53

Woo, woo, cruuuuushes, I loooooove crushes....

::shyly pushes small little folded up piece of paper toward sciurus::

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 28 December | 17:08

essexjan - that picture made me smile too! and this is a great thread, I must say.

posted by chewatadistance 28 December | 17:11

I do love that picture as well, essexjan. Cute little faces! What exactly are they doing? Is it some sort of race?

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 28 December | 17:13

*notes the Skynrd floaty pen went for $47.57. Considers moving to Tierra Del Fuego*

posted by warbaby 28 December | 18:21

11. I make the best apple pie you'll ever eat.

posted by mudpuppie 28 December | 19:14

*reads note*

Do you like ThePinkSuperhero?

[__]Yes
[__]No

Check one.

*sends flowers*

posted by sciurus 29 December | 07:38

Tulips! My favorite! ::big smile::

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 29 December | 10:16

May I have this dance?

posted by sciurus 29 December | 10:21

y'all are just the cutest!

posted by gaspode 29 December | 10:27

Most of you know nothing about me at all, so this should be easy, but it's not, because of number 10.

10. I don't really want you to know me. There are people out there who know me IRL, so I'd rather be anonymous in the Metaverse. Not because I have anything to hide, actually, but because anonymity affords me a level of honesty and playfulness I might not feel if I had to consider whether friends or family are watching. This is probably pretty dumb of me, actually, since I already self-censor, anyway, but there it is...

9. I'll never go to a meet up. Not because of point 10., though, or because I'm shy (I'm not) - it's because I already have too little time for socializing, and am notoriously stingy with the time I do have left. So if I meet you and love you, it'll just be all regrety.

8. Most people who meet me like me. I get along with just about everybody. Partly because I'm funny IRL (all evidence to the contrary, notwithstanding), partly because I'm honest and laid back, partly because I'm just as happy to listen as to talk, and partly because I'm comfortable in just about every environment.

7. Despite number 8., I can sometimes be kind of a recluse. In fact, probably my greatest unfulfilled ambition is to live alone in the woods.

6. I've been married longer than some of you have been alive.

5. I'm the least neurotic person I know.

4. I'm a professional writer.

3. I live in the Pacific Northwest.

2. I'm a very good cook.

1. Some of my earliest memories involve sexual fantasies.

posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 29 December | 11:16

I am a huge fan of slang and colloquialisms.

Though I promise that I (almost) only use it for good, I am consistently told that I could sell sand to an Arab in the desert. I'm convinced that my greatest asset in this skill is the fact that I'm horrible at lying. That, and a wide vocabulary.

I have, in fact, sold sand to an Arab. But not in the desert.

I am the most patiently impatient person I have ever known.

Since this comment, I have been waiting for Florence to post here.

posted by Frisbee Girl 29 December | 11:45

I do love that picture as well, essexjan. Cute little faces! What exactly are they doing? Is it some sort of race?

I believe they're taking part in a race in the Chinese Pig Olympics.

posted by essexjan 29 December | 15:42

11. My ambition is to one day attend the Chinese Pig Olympics.

posted by essexjan 29 December | 15:42

Why yes sir, you may have this dance!

::dances with sciurus::

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 29 December | 22:16

1. I'm very shy.

2. I'm a little agoraphobic.

3. I despise telephones.

4. I've been rather closely associated with two people who were convicted of murder. One of them was my school principal. The other was my stepfather.

5. I quit smoking cigarettes because of an AskMe question that wasn't even mine.

6. My last romantic relationship ended badly.

7. I have eaten goat and kid and they were both delicious. Ever since then, I have been unable to call human children "kids".

8. My old dog is slowly but surely growing senile. This breaks my heart every day.

9. Mygothlaundry is my twin, I'm pretty sure.

10. My superpower is invisibility.

I hope I'm not the last pitiful comment after it's taken me two full days to write this.

posted by AcornCup 29 December | 22:26

Nope, I plan on being the last comment in this thread. No matter how long it takes.

::waits::

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 29 December | 22:32

*looks at ThePinkSuperhero with bemusement*

Is that so?

posted by Frisbee Girl 30 December | 04:32

a-hem. i think you'll find that i am the thread killer.

posted by dodgygeezer 30 December | 08:20

*sits by ThePinkSuperhero and offers to share his lunch*

posted by sciurus 30 December | 09:16

Hmmmm, turkey sandwiches? Don't mind if I do!

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 30 December | 09:58

You've got some crumbs on your face. Here lemme get 'em.

*whuffles*

posted by sciurus 30 December | 10:15

*buys bunnies a room*

posted by Frisbee Girl 30 December | 10:20

Better be at the Ritz. I'm very high class.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 30 December | 10:22

Oh, so you're just slumming with me. I see. I see.

posted by sciurus 30 December | 10:24

Baby! ::whuffles::

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 30 December | 10:34

~~*buys bunnies a room*~~
*buys bunnies a sprawling tropical island with full staff and private jet...and doggie spa*

posted by Frisbee Girl 30 December | 10:37

A doggie spa! Twinkie would love that- she is very high class. Although her favorite thing in the world seems to be laying on top of me when I'm trying to do something else. Preferably with her butt in my face.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 30 December | 10:42

aughfffllaahhh...Tickles! hee.

*sciurus gapes at size of coconuts*

posted by sciurus 30 December | 10:44

Last post!

posted by tr33hggr 30 December | 11:10

Child, please!

sciurus, can you put some more lotion on my back? I don't want to burn here on my faaabulous tropical island.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 30 December | 11:12

Sure thing. I'll put a bit on Twinkie's nose too.

posted by sciurus 30 December | 11:25

Awww, good, a sunburned dog nose is a very sad thing.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 30 December | 11:29

Need anything else? If not I'm gonna go do some more spear-fishing.

posted by sciurus 30 December | 11:32

Mmmmm, fresh fish. Can ya spear some Doritos too? A girl's gotta eat.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 30 December | 11:34

I'll make you a deal. I'll get you the Doritos if I never have to wear these cabana boy shorts again.

posted by sciurus 30 December | 11:50

No deal! A girl can live without Doritos, but without a boy in cabana shorts? NEVER!

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 30 December | 11:56

Foiled again.

*pulls out bag of Doritos and starts munching*

posted by sciurus 30 December | 11:59

::makes a move to grab Doritos, ends up splitting bag in two, all Doritos fly up into the air and onto the floor::

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 30 December | 12:18

Woo! you got up from sunbathing without putting your top back on!

*dances jig, slips on Doritos, is knocked unconscious*

posted by sciurus 30 December | 12:26

Hahahhahahah!

::pushes sciurus out of the way, eats some Doritos, uses nifty Dorito bag to make a new bikini top::

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 30 December | 15:33

Shhhh! Sleeping bunnies!

posted by Frisbee Girl 30 December | 17:09

Bunnies never sleep.... bunnies just ;-)

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 30 December | 17:14

All the more reason to love bunnies.

posted by Frisbee Girl 30 December | 17:16

Would you like a chip, Frisbee Girl? ::pulls some Doritos out of bikini top::

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 30 December | 17:27

Vixen!! Save your bikini drenched chips for sciurus, I'm not just some easy tart, you know!

posted by Frisbee Girl 30 December | 17:35

did someone say bikini chips?

posted by dodgygeezer 30 December | 17:40

Why, yes, dodgygeezer, I am serving Doritos out of my bikini top.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 30 December | 17:43

oooh, cheesy bikini flavour

posted by dodgygeezer 30 December | 17:48

::pokes sciurus, who is still passed out on the floor::

Umm, guys?

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 30 December | 17:49

I just woke up. Those cheesy bikini-flavored chips did some kind of hurt to me.

posted by panoptican 30 December | 17:50

It's all part of my evil plan! mwa ha ha!

::stuffs more chips into bikini top::

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 30 December | 17:54

"Hey, that's nacho cheese!!"

Forgive me. Please.

posted by Frisbee Girl 30 December | 18:26

*jerks awake*

WHAT WHO HUH WHADID I MISS?

posted by sciurus 30 December | 18:27

sciurus, you've been woefully remiss in your duties as TPS's extra special cabana boy.

posted by Frisbee Girl 30 December | 18:33

uh oh. I'm in the dog house aren't I?

posted by sciurus 30 December | 19:53

::pouts::

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 30 December | 22:56

*pats TPS*

posted by Frisbee Girl 31 December | 10:46

*prepares facial mask, bonbon shipment, and practices footrub technique*

posted by sciurus 31 December | 11:48

I got the last comment!

* does victory dance *

posted by dodgygeezer 31 December | 12:59

Sha. This thread ain't closed.

sciurus, don't forget some tasty kibbles for Twinkie. She's a person, too, you know.

posted by Frisbee Girl 31 December | 13:03

*buys a rawhide bone that is bigger than Twinkie for Twinkie*

posted by sciurus 31 December | 13:08

You're a peach, sciurus, you know that?

posted by Frisbee Girl 31 December | 13:26

Ok, you're out of the doghouse. But only because there's not room for Twinkie, Twinkie's bone, and you.

Now get over here and rub my feet :-D

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 31 December | 14:03

One of these days I'm gonna cash in all the brownie points I'm getting here.

*rubs feets*

posted by sciurus 31 December | 17:03

Keep rubbing, cabana boy.

posted by Frisbee Girl 31 December | 17:17

*rubs feet-smelling hands in Fris's face*

posted by sciurus 31 December | 17:23

You are so dead on the playground at recess, mister.

posted by Frisbee Girl 31 December | 17:29

I'm gone for the evening. Happy New Year!

*leaves bucket full of whuffles and kisses for distribution*

*leaves extra special package for TPS*

*waggles eyebrows*

posted by sciurus 31 December | 17:31

Hmmmm, extra special package...

::waggles eyebrows::

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 31 December | 20:41

*waggles whuffles*

posted by Frisbee Girl 01 January | 12:09

HAPPY NEW SOMETHING!

posted by sciurus 01 January | 13:31

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Oh fuck it. I hate New Year's Eve. Too much excitement for another year of NOT KISSING A BOY AT MIDNIGHT. I'm gonna start putting my energy into holidays that I actually like. Like 4th of July.

::goes back to sunbathing in Doritos bag bikini::

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 01 January | 13:35

Ooooo!! Do you get to kiss cute boys on the 4th of July?

posted by Frisbee Girl 01 January | 13:39

I usually do, actually. So YES 4th of July is now the new day where you kiss anyone you can. But not at midnight- during the fireworks.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 01 January | 14:05

I really need to get on the ball with all of these kissing holidays. I can't believe I've been missing out on all of this action all of these years.

posted by Frisbee Girl 01 January | 14:16

Yea, me too! Next year, baby... I am going to be READY FOR NEW YEARS do you hear me??

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 01 January | 14:40

Now, does the making out cause the fireworks or vice versa?

posted by sciurus 01 January | 14:50

Good question.

posted by Frisbee Girl 01 January | 15:08

The fireworks bring about the making out.

Thus sayeth me, Queen of The 4th Of July.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 01 January | 17:35

At the very least, the fireworks certainly do not detract from the making of the out.

posted by Frisbee Girl 01 January | 20:00

If they do, they must immediately cease.

Thus sayeth me, Queen of The 4th of July.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 01 January | 22:22

Kirsty MacColl's Tropical Brainstorm is a fantastic album.

posted by mosch 01 January | 22:37

Hey, who invited all of you onto our private love getaway island anyway?

sciurus, honey, can you go get the gun? And bring back the suntan oil? I have to roll over and I don't want to burn.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 01 January | 22:41

I'm the DJ you hired. Queues up some Tosca.

posted by mosch 01 January | 22:43

Play that shit and die. Play something I've heard of.

Thus sayeth me, Queen of the Love Getaway Island.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 01 January | 22:44

Let's not talk smack on Tosca, shall we, Miss "Yay Hanson!!"?

*cough*

posted by Frisbee Girl 01 January | 22:49

And for that matter, dearest sweetness and light, who bought the island?

*looks at mosch*

Ready, DJ?

posted by Frisbee Girl 01 January | 22:52

I'd play something you've heard of, but I'm all out of Hanson and Justin Timberlake.

posted by mosch 01 January | 22:52

I was born ready, Frisbee Girl!

posted by mosch 01 January | 22:52

Oh, I have plenty!

::hands mosch copied CDs of every Hanson album every made::

Ballads first, please; I need to romance sciurus. Oh, sciiiiiiiurus.....

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 01 January | 22:53

I was born ready, Frisbee Girl!

That goes without saying: I knew I could count on you.

posted by Frisbee Girl 01 January | 22:55

I'm not liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiistening to either of you.

::begins to fashion Doritos bag evening gown in attempt to win sciurus' heart::

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 01 January | 23:37

cherié, my heart has been yours since the moment we met. Here's the suntan oil.

*busts out scattergun to skeer off varmints*

posted by sciurus 02 January | 08:45

*quietly points out that sciurus is holding a Super Soaker*

posted by Frisbee Girl 02 January | 11:49

Well go on, then, melt Wicked Witch!!!

ooooo, burn.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 02 January | 14:48

*climbs out of pool*

Was that my cue for the "and your little dog, too?" line?

posted by Frisbee Girl 02 January | 16:53

::hides Twinkie under the bed::

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 02 January | 18:17

Frisbee Girl gets a free pass, she's the one loaning the island. That's not to say that gives her the right to go around scaring harmless little doggies.

*sprays Fris with Super Soaker*

Damn its hot here.

*sprays self with Super Soaker*

posted by sciurus 03 January | 07:35

::pushes Frisee Girl and sciurus into the pool::

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 03 January | 07:44

Psh, I didn't scare the pup, I was just following Princess' cue.

*splashes TPS*

posted by Frisbee Girl 03 January | 08:01

*falls asleep in inflatable pool chair with inflatable cooler full or Orange Crush by my side*

posted by sciurus 03 January | 08:15

Late to the party as usual, but an inveterate joiner, so here goes:

1. I gave up smoking because of the cost and because I want to see my kids grow up, but not a day goes by when I don't want one.
2. I haven't spoken to my eldest daughter for nearly two years and I won't do so until she apologises for what she did to me, but I am scared that I may never see her again.
3. I sometimes travel on the train to work wearing my earphones, but not listening to anything just to make sure I don't have to talk to a stranger.
4. While some friends and I had a contest in high school to see who could get the most detentions in one term, I never did anything bad enough to get the cane, because I was terrified of it and knew I would cry.
5. Despite the above, I was suspended from high school once.
6. I cannot remember what I need to get from the shop if there are more than 3 items - I have to write a list, but I can remember tiny details of my life from many years ago. Often, these tiny details will come to me at odd moments and I will cringe at embarrasment for the stupid thigns I have done.
7. I'm tired.

posted by dg 03 January | 08:16

Frisbee Girl, you thinking what I'm thinking?

::slips into pool, silently swims over to sunbathing sciurus::

On three- one, two, THREE!

::SPLASH::

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 03 January | 09:05

THAT'S IT.

*repeatedly dunks everyone in sight*

posted by sciurus 03 January | 09:19

In Frisbee Girl's defense, Twinkie is not a harmless little doggie. She is a mean, viscious killing machine.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 03 January | 09:49

Yeah right. ;)

posted by sciurus 03 January | 10:27

She really is! She's all cute and cuddly, but try to move her from her enthroned spot on the bed or put her skin lotion on her and she goes into KILL KILL KILL mode. I have the scars to prove it.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 03 January | 11:15

Chicks with scars = hawt.

posted by sciurus 03 January | 11:28

Oh I got scars! :-D

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 03 January | 12:44

Oooh, TPS, maybe you should have sciurus cut her nails for you!

posted by Frisbee Girl 03 January | 12:54

What you think I'm a slave or something?

posted by sciurus 03 January | 13:09

Uh, YAH!

But even I am not that cruel.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 03 January | 13:12

I Quit!

*takes of cabana shorts, throws them to the ground, heads on down the beach*

posted by sciurus 03 January | 13:18

Get him, Twinkie!

::Twinkie starts foaming at the mouth, chasing after sciurus, bites him right on the naked buttcheck::

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 03 January | 13:45

Good dog.

posted by sciurus 03 January | 14:01

Hey you freak, get away from my dog! She's just a baby.

::consoles poor Twinkie::

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 03 January | 14:03

You've trained her well.

posted by sciurus 03 January | 14:14

Hehe, takes after Mommy ;-)

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 03 January | 14:38

I was talking to the dog. ;)

posted by sciurus 03 January | 14:47

{flirty voice} Well I'm.... erm, uh..{/flirty voice}

I have no idea what that means.

::throws up hands in confusion::

Ok, it's almost sunset- sciurus, will you light the fire? I'll get the marshmallows. FRISBEE GIRL, COULD YOU FIND SOME STICKS? Thanks.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 03 January | 15:20

No need to yell, my dear. A quiet request from the dulcet tones of your melodious voice works just fine.

*nods to campfire on beach*

posted by Frisbee Girl 03 January | 15:46

Oh, I thought you were in the mansion, dear, sorry.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 03 January | 15:53

What we have done to this thread is wrong. Just wrong.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 03 January | 15:53

Ooh, a chance to indulge my pyromaniacal tendencies!

*accidentally burns down my island hut*

posted by sciurus 03 January | 18:17

Psh, I didn't scare the pup, I was just following Princess' cue.

Wait a second, how did I get dragged into this??

posted by mudpuppie 03 January | 18:27

Howdy mudpuppie! Grab a brew and an island girl and make yourself at home.

posted by sciurus 03 January | 18:38

Hey mudpuppie, would you like some bikini doritos?

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 03 January | 18:41

Howdy mudpuppie! Grab a brew and an island girl and make yourself at home.
posted by sciurus 03 January | 18:38

Hey mudpuppie, would you like some bikini doritos?
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 03 January | 18:41

Yes and yes.

posted by mudpuppie 03 January | 20:10

1) i'm getting late middle-aged. this really really bothers me deep down.
2) i fucked up EVERYTHING in the last 10 years. i'm afraid i don't have enough time to put a decent life together again.
3) i play guitar damn fucking good.
4) i'm too fat for my height. this is not good for my heart. i refuse to excercise.
5) i have been in nuthouses involuntarily.
6) the last time i was in a nuthouse, deadcowdan and wobh came to visit me.
7) i have been driving with one headlight and one taillight for almost 18 months without getting a ticket.
8) i quit smoking for 4 years. i started again.
9) my television hasn't been on since after katrina hit.
10) i am afraid of everything that moves, and highly suspicious of that which doesn't.

posted by quonsar 03 January | 20:41

8. I am scared that I am becoming scared of things like heights as I get older. I don't want to end up like my Mother, too afraid to do anything exciting.
9. I feel like life is passing me by, but I feel powerless to catch up.
10. I love my kids dearly but, if I could start over again, I don't think I would have any kids.

posted by dg 03 January | 20:46

12. I really like and relate to quonsar.

posted by mudpuppie 03 January | 21:00

13. I am very worried about my mom's health, and I'm not convinced I'm getting the full story from her.

posted by mudpuppie 03 January | 21:02

quonsar, I get your #1/2. I have realised over the past year or so that this is it - life is a one-way trip and I have squandered so many opportunities to do so many things that I will now never get to do. This paralyses me even more and, despite knowing that I am missing even more opportunities all the time, I keep doing it.

I don't like 2006 - can we skip it and go straight to 2007 now?

Also, what mudpuppie said - both 12 and 13.

posted by dg 03 January | 21:08

"You can make a fresh start with your final breath" - Bertolt Brecht

For what it's worth.

posted by bmarkey 03 January | 21:11

1. i have only briefly skimmed both this and the other thread, at best.
2. i'm glad it got back on topic so i could add to it, by request of some.
3. i don't know what people do or don't know about me.
4. there is no one person who knows close to everything and few who know the many of the same things.
5. people who have known me for any length of time tend to know that just because i am not in regular contact or contactabled, it not necessarily mean they have diminished in my esteem.
6. i onced placed individual realistic plastic ants in many restricted areas of Disneyland exhibits. No one noticed i had them at all until i went through airport security and set off the metal detector. Aiport security looked into the film canister they were in with the bobby pin i was using to pick them out, stared at me, smiled, and never said anything.
7. i often try not to know things and learn them backwards and inside out because it usually is faster than reading bad manuals and having bad teachers and is generally more fun.
8. the subject of one of my college entrance essay for a prestigious university was about my friend's dog skippy and basically went:
My friend got a beagle puppy from her parents.
"What do you want to name it?" they asked.
"Skippy!" she happily replied.
Skippy immediate ran out into the road and was run over by a car.
The next day, they got her another beagle pup.
"What do you want to name it?"
"Skippy!" she instantly responded.
Skippy was once again met the same fate.
This went on for five puppies.
Her parents named the sixth puppy Blueberry and he is alive to this day.
9. i am adding extras because i am so often remiss in these types of threads.
10. i don't think quonsar necessarily has to worry about the second half of answer 2.
11. i don't think most of our discouraged members need o be so discouraged.
12. there are many things i wish i didn't know.
13. i will at times limit the amount of conscious information i receive.
14. i think the only true evil is spawned of self absorption and apathy in their many forms.
14. i don't think things are impossible, unless we are talking about following a specific contraint of logic.
15. perpetuation of misinformation, whether by partial omission, complete bullshit, or outright untruth, really pisses me off.
16. i have gone to extremes, by any definition, for the sake of justice and principle.
17. it makes me sad it seems dodgygeezer has gone off me, but i no longer give a fuckabee about what matt thinks, except i still want that five dollars back for the trouble and the disingenousness.
18. i have declared a moratorium as of this year on services i use to avail free of charge (with the exception of an elite coterie and members of metachat in general) because too many people confuse having no price with worthlessness.
19. i developed a kiwi allergy from a 12 for a dollar offer at the store. i ate a kiwi a day. on day eight, my throat began to close. i had to try again on day nine just to make sure. it's not serious but i still cannot indulge in kiwi as far as i know.
20. i have almost no room left on my computer.
21. i wrote this very fast and don't plan to read it or remember it.
22. i love it when a plan comes together.

posted by ethylene 04 January | 01:09

27. My shoes smell like dog but I've been nowhere near a dog or anything doglike for weeks.

quonsar, I see your list as a recipe to start playing the blues. You've got all the prerequisites, and no music in the world is better than the blues.

posted by sciurus 04 January | 07:21

last post.

posted by sciurus 04 January | 13:06

Oh come on, in your dreams pal.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 04 January | 14:42

Ah good. Now we're back on track.

posted by sciurus 05 January | 07:27

Yes, yes we are :-D

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 05 January | 11:30

Okay, who wants a footrub?

posted by sciurus 05 January | 11:36

Sneakie freakies you people are.

posted by danostuporstar 05 January | 11:36

Footrub, footrub, me me me. I got my nails painted gold, seeee?

And yes, yes we are.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 05 January | 12:19

Second call for a footrub! Anyone out there?

posted by sciurus 05 January | 12:40

MEEEE MEEEE MEEEE, sciurus, me!

oh you are cruel.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 05 January | 14:31

Last call for a footrub!

posted by sciurus 05 January | 14:42

Hm. Looks like you get the footrub, TPS.

Nice golden piggies.

posted by sciurus 05 January | 14:57

How come you're never on AIM, huh?

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 05 January | 15:45

All the IM ports are blocked through my workplace, and I only have internet access off the job when I "take my laptop out on dates" as a beautiful woman once put it.

posted by sciurus 06 January | 08:09

Gross.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 06 January | 08:45

I can logon to AIM Express for about 20 seconds before getting booted.

posted by sciurus 06 January | 09:14

That must be what happened this morning.

It was still nice to hear from you!

I'm sewing some more sequins on my cheerleader outfit; wanna help?

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 06 January | 20:02

Nah, I'll go bake some brownies. I'm not very good with needle and thread.

posted by sciurus 07 January | 13:08

How about oatmeal cookies? I like those a lot.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 07 January | 19:48

I can make those, but I'm in the mood for brownies. Besides they're already done.

*lays out warm brownies for everyone*

posted by sciurus 07 January | 21:48

Mmmmmm, the place smells so good now!

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 07 January | 23:03

*looks around incredulously*

You guys are still at it?

posted by Frisbee Girl 08 January | 22:34

Drive a little faster, sciurus, she's gaining on us!

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 08 January | 22:52

*releases smoke screen and oil slick*

*takes evasive action*

posted by sciurus 09 January | 07:38

Go go, gadget car!

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 09 January | 10:46

*helicopter pops out of head*

posted by sciurus 09 January | 14:23

That's gotta smart.

posted by Frisbee Girl 09 January | 16:08

If you could have a "Go, Go, Gadget" feature, what would you want? I think I'd want magical "Go, Go, Gadget" arms that will do my chores while I lay back and relax.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 09 January | 22:49

Go Go Gadget Harem!

posted by sciurus 10 January | 07:17

Would you download some porn or hire a big-headed German whore or something? Your desperation for female companionship is dripping all over the threads and making them all sticky.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 10 January | 12:18

dg #3: me too
made my evening train rides 98.7% annoying-drunk-horny-chatty-man free (^_^)

posted by MightyNez 10 January | 12:30

ooh burn.

posted by sciurus 10 January | 12:30

I just tells it like it is.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 10 January | 12:39

Do not make me stop this thread.

posted by Frisbee Girl 10 January | 12:45

FATALITY!

posted by sciurus 10 January | 12:53

Don't be getting all dramatic now.

I'm hungry. I think I'm going to whip up a baked macaroni and cheese.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 10 January | 22:54

I had leftover chili and cottage cheese.

posted by sciurus 11 January | 07:15

Sadly, the baked mac n cheese was pretend :-( I got some great recipes from the NY Times that I have to try soon soon soon soon soon.

What I did eat was a lot of Nerds and edamame. = stomachache, leech.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 11 January | 12:28

Jeez, guys, this is the best you can come up with? Losing steam?

posted by Frisbee Girl 11 January | 14:38

Yes, there's no fire left in our relationship. I'm tired of being on this stinking island and the hermit crabs keep crawling into my hut!

better?

posted by sciurus 11 January | 14:43

It's all about you, Mr. Cranky Pants.

posted by Frisbee Girl 11 January | 14:45

Well maaaaaaybe if you were nicer me, I'd let you move back into the mansion, and I'd stop sending my hermit crab army into your hut!

Onward, crabby soliders!

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 11 January | 16:43

Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven! Vive le resistance!

*fills nut gun with last of ammo*

posted by sciurus 11 January | 17:33

Are you two certain you're not married?

posted by Frisbee Girl 12 January | 06:27

::taps foot, stares at sciurus::

WELL???!!!??

Touchy subject.

::stomps off to mansion::

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 12 January | 11:18

Was that my cue to propose or apologize or something?

*makes friends with remaining hermit crabs*

posted by sciurus 12 January | 12:30

sciurus, there's a boat that leaves for the mainland twice a day should the company of *cough* hermit crabs not be to your liking.

Pardon me while I go check on Bikini Girl.

posted by Frisbee Girl 12 January | 18:35

::wakes up::

Oh no, I fell asleep while sunbathing! And I had my right hand on my stomach!

::checks out tan shadow of hand print on stomach::

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 13 January | 08:38

*skulks into thread smelling of coconut wine and dried kelp*

posted by sciurus 13 January | 14:22

I'm tired of playing island. Let's play something else! Something exciting. sciurus, you decide.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 13 January | 16:15

I used to have an iguana named Gertrude. She was depressed. For a long time she refused to come out of my closet. Then I took her to a pet store and gave her to a guy with a sugar glider in his pocket.

posted by mudpuppie 13 January | 16:22

I once had a kitten whose mom died before she was properly weaned. She used to sleep on my pillow and suck on my earlobe to get to sleep. Early on, I returned from a sleep over and she had been nearly inconsolable. That night she sucked on my ear for hours and purred like a quarry drill.

You can still see the broken vein. I loved that cat.

posted by Frisbee Girl 13 January | 18:48

Your cat gave you ear hickeys. tehehehehe.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 14 January | 10:38

Let's play global thermonuclear war!

posted by sciurus 14 January | 12:06

How about a nice game of chess?

posted by Frisbee Girl 14 January | 12:12

No chess never! I refuse to learn how to play chess.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 16 January | 07:27

*teaches ThePinkSuperhero how to play chess against her will*

posted by dg 16 January | 07:52

Ooooooh, girlina, you must be bored to be digging up this thread at 7:12 in the am.

posted by Frisbee Girl 16 January | 07:52

Pawn to K4.

posted by sciurus 16 January | 09:22

Prawn to Heinz 57.

posted by Feisty 16 January | 11:01

NO CHESS PLEEEEEASE Chess makes my head hurt ::rubs hurting head::

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 16 January | 14:08

How can you not like chess? It is a game that always ends in mating.

posted by sciurus 16 January | 17:27

Have you seen the people who play chess? I highly doubt that.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 16 January | 19:39

Like these babes?

posted by sciurus 17 January | 07:23

Sweet link, sciurus; thanks!

posted by Frisbee Girl 17 January | 09:11

I was thinking more like these guys.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 17 January | 09:57

That game looks awesome.

posted by sciurus 17 January | 11:31

last post.

posted by sciurus 18 January | 12:24

last post.

Here we go again.

(And, TPS, I'm sorry, I really have to go with sciurus on this one. Not only does that game good, but those boys are cute.)

posted by Frisbee Girl 18 January | 12:29

Ok, yea, they do look ultra cute. I tend to go for nerdy boys. AS LONG AS THEY DON'T MAKE ME PLAY CHESS.

And sciurus, REALLY, when will you realize you're never gonna win that game? Retard. lol..

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 18 January | 12:50

TPS, no one can make you play chess. Just sit there and look pretty, that'll do just fine.

posted by Frisbee Girl 19 January | 07:01

::sits, looks pretty, bats eyelashes::

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 19 January | 10:11

I wrote a sonnet about chess once.

posted by sciurus 19 January | 12:05

I did not know this.

posted by Frisbee Girl 19 January | 13:09

Sonnet for Kasparov

As daybreak wakes the grimy checkered street,
failure emerges - as a manic Czar
of Russia shambles past the Bishop’s Bar -
with an automaton’s ungainly feet.

The crumbling curbside has become his seat
of power. Routed in a white queen’s war,
he lost his forces fighting from afar
and endgame, great rooks swarmed to his defeat.

Around him castled higher by the state,
pawns have been electronically hewn,
living like kings without their clothes. His knight-

hooded by rank and file, he cannot fight
them down below. Evicted by Deep Blue’s
children he lost a gambit with his fate.

posted by sciurus 19 January | 13:16

Nice!

posted by Frisbee Girl 19 January | 14:20

meh.

posted by sciurus 19 January | 14:23

You're being paged over here, btw.

posted by Frisbee Girl 19 January | 14:28

Heh heh heh, squirrels are gay.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 19 January | 16:30

I own this.

posted by sciurus 20 January | 09:07

Hahah, sooooooo cute.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 20 January | 11:28

::crickets::

posted by Frisbee Girl 22 January | 09:23

last post

posted by sciurus 25 January | 11:13

Diehard.

posted by Frisbee Girl 25 January | 11:36

last post

posted by sciurus 26 January | 09:57

Haven't we gone over this already?

posted by Frisbee Girl 26 January | 10:30

you can't win, you nutty squirrel.

posted by taz 26 January | 10:39

I could win, but at 15:44 today I won't have internet access.

posted by sciurus 26 January | 10:47

Well, out of the goodness of my heart, I could have let that comment stand unanswered... but, naaah.

posted by taz 26 January | 10:56

*snuzzles taz*

posted by Frisbee Girl 26 January | 11:03

I am just honored to have such valiant opponents.

posted by sciurus 26 January | 12:20

As well you should, young grasshopper.

posted by Frisbee Girl 26 January | 14:11

LAST POSTfor me.

posted by sciurus 26 January | 14:51

Ciao!

posted by Frisbee Girl 26 January | 15:17

heh.

posted by taz 26 January | 15:55

Run with it, taz!

Or rather, I should say: 400!!

My work here is done. I blatantly egged them on to get this to 400.

*dusts of hands with great satisfaction*

posted by Frisbee Girl 26 January | 16:23

*pokes head back in thread*

posted by Frisbee Girl 27 January | 03:41

.

posted by arse_hat 27 January | 03:58

!

posted by Frisbee Girl 27 January | 04:18

last post.

posted by sciurus 27 January | 07:39

Broken record.

posted by Frisbee Girl 27 January | 08:03

Your Frisbee Style is impressive, but it is no match for my Broken Record Style.

posted by sciurus 27 January | 11:57

This could be true. However, my Frisbee style surreptiously achieved its goal. This is just a bonus round.

posted by Frisbee Girl 27 January | 14:41

A person comes forth to life and enters into death.
Three out of ten are partners of life,
Three out of ten are partners of death,
And the people whose every movement leads them to the
land of death because they cling to life
Are also three out of ten.

Now,
What is the reason for this?
It is because they cling to life.

Indeed,
I have heard that
One who is good at preserving life
does not avoid tigers and rhinoceroses
when he walks in the hills;
nor does he put on armor and take up weapons
when he enters a battle.
The rhinoceros has no place to jab its horn,
The tiger has no place to fasten its claws,
Weapons have no place to admit their blades.

Now,
What is the reason for this?
Because on him there are no mortal spots.

posted by sciurus 30 January | 07:52

Easy, there, tiger. This is a thread, not a death match.

posted by Frisbee Girl 30 January | 17:15

That's from the Tao Te Ching, btw. My favorite one.

posted by sciurus 31 January | 07:32

Interesting. How many Tao Te Chings are there? Are there standardized versions, similar to the Bible, or is it a free for all?

posted by Frisbee Girl 31 January | 17:41

As far as I know, there is just one, although depending on the current opinion on its historical format the two main sections might be arranged differently. And, of course, you can find lots of different translations.

posted by sciurus 01 February | 07:28

I see.

posted by Frisbee Girl 01 February | 16:42

Right.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 02 February | 15:34

Well, look who stopped on by.

posted by Frisbee Girl 02 February | 15:36

I can't figure out how you guys were able to access this thread during the Metachat outage. Clearly, you are minions of Satan.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 02 February | 15:47

*cues Sympathy For the Devil*

Minion? Aim a little higher, my pretty.

posted by Frisbee Girl 02 February | 15:51

through the wiki, huh?

posted by gaspode 02 February | 15:55

Oh that is plain evil. You people clearly have too much time on your hands.

::dams self for not thinking of it first::

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 02 February | 16:27

You got a permit for that dam, lady? This is a protected river, y'know.

posted by bmarkey 02 February | 16:30

Actually, I've always had access to the thread. [Enhanced abilities noted here.]

TPS, damming yourself sounds painful; is there a special plug you use for such an endeavor?

posted by Frisbee Girl 02 February | 16:46

Bleeech.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 02 February | 17:30

That's the brand of plug?

posted by Frisbee Girl 02 February | 17:59

I just went into the archives and got to it that way. Shouldn't this be closed now?

posted by sciurus 02 February | 19:09

Yea, I think it should be.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 02 February | 19:10

Ah, but see, it's not and, soon enough, we could have this baby up to 500 comments.

posted by Frisbee Girl 02 February | 19:44

*notices lights are on, sticks head in door, waves*

posted by mudpuppie 02 February | 19:50

I'm going to be doing this for the rest of my life, aren't I?

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 02 February | 23:42

yup

posted by arse_hat 02 February | 23:52

I'm going to be doing this for the rest of my life, aren't I?

Damming yourself with 'Bleeech' plugs? If that's what you want, princess.

posted by Frisbee Girl 03 February | 03:31

*Considers making a "last post" comment and then closing the thread to new comments.*

*Decides to be a good boy instead.*

posted by dg 03 February | 04:20

I have a few good stories I could tell, but I don't think anyone else is awake right now.

*sighs*

Oh well.

posted by mudpuppie 03 February | 05:04

Tell us a story, tell us a story!

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 03 February | 08:19

dg, you can kill the thread any time that you see fit. It strayed far, far off course and out-lived its purpose hundreds of comments ago.

posted by Frisbee Girl 03 February | 08:20

Traitor!

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 03 February | 10:18

*gently removes coffee cup from TPS' tightly clenched fists*

I think it's time we gave you some chamomile, dear.

posted by Frisbee Girl 03 February | 10:26

*loves you all*

posted by gaspode 03 February | 12:26

Dear gaspode,

Hi! How are you? I am fine. Today the weather is very nice and warm.

Please come to San Francisco so I can have you over for a lazy Sunday afternoon supper.

Thank you.

Love,
Frisbee Girl

posted by Frisbee Girl 03 February | 12:48

Dear gaspode,

Are you coming to the February 11th meetup? I hope so. I will have a Valentine just for you. And one for Mr. haspode, too- does he prefer Hello Kitty or Care Bears?

Have a nice day!

Love,
ThePinkSuperhero

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 03 February | 13:23

Dear gaspode,

Hi! How are you? I am fine.

If your husband's name is Mr. haspode, does that mean he's alphabetically superior to you?

Love,
Frisbee Girl

posted by Frisbee Girl 03 February | 13:28

Opps, I meant to say mr. gaspode, of course.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 03 February | 13:56

Dear Frisbee Girl and ThePinkSuperhero,

It was very nice to hear from you both. I am fine! The weather is very warm today and I wish I were outside.

Frisbee Girl, aaawwwwww, if I were coming to San Francisco in the near future I would book an afternoon on the couch, Chez Fris. Unfortunately I have upcoming trips to New Zealand, Atlanta and Vegas and I don't think my boss is going to give me any more time off. Could I have a raincheck, because I want to be in one of those fun photos of the Frisbee living room?

ThePinkSuperhero, I think we will be there, at least for an hour or so. Mr. gaspode is probably more of a Care Bears guy because he is old skool (TM). It will be fun! If you give me a valentine it will be the first one I have ever received.

*kisses to you both*
Love,
gaspode.

Postscript: mr. gaspode is superior to me in many ways (musically, intellectually, and in general coolness) but I maintain alphabetic superiority. I intend to keep it that way.

posted by gaspode 03 February | 14:21

'pode, you and the meester are always welcome at Chez Fris!

posted by Frisbee Girl 03 February | 15:25

Whaaaat, you've never gotten a Valentine?? What is wrong with you Kiwis?????

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 03 February | 16:29

Well, we don't really do the whole "give valentines to your friends" thing. Or (this makes me cringe) to your relatives. WTF? And as for romantic valentines... well we do it, but I don't think it's as popular as here.

And in all honesty, I'm not a fan of valentines in a romantic sense, although I like the giving them to friends thing that some ppl do over here. the mister has never given me one (although the first year we were together he asked me again and again if I was serious when I said I didn't want anything. He has obviously been burned by one of those "say the opposite of what they mean" women in the past. you know, the kind who then expect you to read their mind)

posted by gaspode 03 February | 16:46

God's honest truth: almost every Valentine's Day I've worked, someone has broken up in my section or at my bar.

The thought of someone doing something publically deemed as romantic based on the expectation from a bunch of other people that they should do so, leaves me rather cold. In the larger scheme, I'm no fan of the holiday and think it's a huge psychological and emotional clusterfuck that simply makes lonely, depressed people feel even more ostracized, but people do seem to gobble it up.

posted by Frisbee Girl 03 February | 17:03

Exactly, Fris.

posted by gaspode 03 February | 17:07

On the other hand, some people totally vibe on it in a fun way; so, TPS, please know I wasn't trying to piss on your parade: buddy Valentines are nifty.

posted by Frisbee Girl 03 February | 17:34

Ya, I try to pick up the fun vibe- K-mart has the *cutest* stuffed animals, so I've picked up some for my roommates and pals. Making fun beats sitting around and being like, woooooe is meeeeee, I dooooon't have a boooooyfriend.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 03 February | 17:38

Although that can be fun, too.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 03 February | 17:41

Hee, TPS!

I can't really say I relate as I've yet to feel the empty space that only a significant other can fill. Being single just means I can hog the entire bed and listen to the same song on repeat as many times as I wish.

Both states have their bonuses.

posted by Frisbee Girl 03 February | 17:50

Hogging the entire bed is awesome but it gets kind of tiring after 5-10 years.

posted by matildaben 03 February | 17:53

Yea, I sleep best alone. Well, if "alone" can include my chihuahua. If she's not in the bed with me, I'm just wondering what she's chewing up or pooping on.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 03 February | 17:56

I've yet to tire of hogging the bed; making the bed, however, is another story entirely.

posted by Frisbee Girl 03 February | 19:18

Oh please, if beds were meant to be made...... they would make themselves.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 03 February | 23:26

Hey, can someone pick up some OJ from the store? We ran out.

Thanks.

posted by mudpuppie 04 February | 02:44

and some drain cleaner. Kitchen sink is running a bit slow.

posted by arse_hat 04 February | 03:19

TPS, some things are worth the effort and a made bed can be a pretty sweet sight at the end of a long day.

posted by Frisbee Girl 04 February | 05:47

I dunno, I don't make my bed, but it's still a sweet sight at the end of a long day.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 04 February | 18:05

I'm a bed-maker too. I didn't used to be, but it's so much nicer to get into a bed that's well made. It's one of the reasons I like hotels :)

posted by gaspode 04 February | 18:07

'pode, I didn't used be either and I don't get bent out of shape about it now, but I sure do love it.

posted by Frisbee Girl 05 February | 11:01

I just love my bed no matter what. Today, while my roommate was cleaning in prep for our Super Bowl party, I laid down on my bed horizontally, wrapped myself up in the covers like a burrito, and took a nap.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 05 February | 21:56

TPS, that nappy time burrito sounds awesome.

However, if the Steelers take this bowl, I will do a big loopy Snoopy dance. Apparently, home town pride dies hard.

posted by Frisbee Girl 05 February | 22:05

It was an awesome nap. Then I woke up and had an awesome Super Bowl gathering. Now I'm at work cursing myself for not bringing in my headphones today- no music for me :-( It's gonna be a long day.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 06 February | 10:06

No 'phones blows. Hard. I feel for you.

posted by Frisbee Girl 06 February | 11:42

I'm feeling even worse for my iPod-less self. A life without an iPod for a public transit commuter is barely worth living :-(

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 06 February | 13:00

My current work bus route involves three different junior highs and high schools and when I first moved here, my bus stop and route to downtown was the San Francisco General Hospital's stop and route of choice for the Psych Ward. Portable music and headphones have never before been so important to my daily commute.

My iPod's on the choke right now, though. Thank goodness for the dinosaur mp3 player. I'd have its babies out of sheer gratitude at this point.

posted by Frisbee Girl 06 February | 17:11

I'm so depressed without my iPod I might just die. It's already bad enough being winter and dreary and blah blah blah. I NEED ME SOME MUSIC!

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 06 February | 17:14

*holds TPS*

Aw, lady, that really breaks my heart a little bit. Hang in there, mamacita.

posted by Frisbee Girl 06 February | 17:24

I just ::sniff sniff:: miss my Ipod ::sniff sniff:: SO MUCH! I have to ride home on the train and stare at people's ugly faces and listen to their inane conversations. MAKES ME CREAAAAZY!

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 06 February | 20:04

Poor little TPS.

posted by Frisbee Girl 06 February | 21:49

Today i've made sure to put my headphones in my bag. Plus, yesterday I was crazy PMSing, and today I got my period, so I feel better (isn't it weird how that works? Plus, my skin goes crazy before, and then, when it comes, all zits go away. So strange).

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 07 February | 08:09

Excellent!

posted by Frisbee Girl 07 February | 10:18

Huh. When did you guys get here?

posted by sciurus 07 February | 13:00

Hiya, Squirrelly Man! How goes it?

posted by Frisbee Girl 07 February | 13:10

I do not want to go running in the snow.

posted by sciurus 07 February | 13:54

Dude. My experience from running in the rain is this. It would need to be life or death before I'd consider running in the snow.

posted by Frisbee Girl 07 February | 14:00

If I don't run I'll mess up my marathon training though. It was fine during anti-winter, but now that it got cold again my inner wimp is kicking in.

posted by sciurus 07 February | 14:16

It's taking me longer to recovery from busting open my knee than I would think it would have taken from a few days off. However, I don't run marathons because I'm pretty wimpy like that.

posted by Frisbee Girl 07 February | 14:41

I've dislocated my knee twice so I know all about recovery time. Just hope you don't get arthritis.

posted by sciurus 07 February | 14:43

That knee will never be the same. That whole leg is pretty much a medical amusement park, as a matter of fact. Arthritis is probably not inevitable, but the least of my concerns, really, but with some proper management, I think it can be workable. And, seriously, this is hardly the worst thing imaginable.

*yawn*

Enough old person talk. How's the lady/ies?

posted by Frisbee Girl 07 February | 14:56

Arthritis is probably not only inevitable

posted by Frisbee Girl 07 February | 15:00

Tired. Slightly depressed. Hungry. Trying to figure out if, "You know what, I'm just not in the mood for dating right now" is a proper excuse for turning down a date. It is the truth, so.....

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 08 February | 07:50

Poor TPS, life's nothing but sour grapes for you lately.

posted by Frisbee Girl 08 February | 08:08

TPS, get yo'se'f a footrub. I'm beginning to believe that a footrub always makes a girl feel better.

posted by sciurus 08 February | 08:17

Speaking of girls, sciurus, you never answered my question about the lady/ladies.

posted by Frisbee Girl 08 February | 08:21

Oh, I thought you were asking Team Vag.

I like her lots and despite fucking up her work computer she is being quite patient with me. She says she thinks I have potential.

posted by sciurus 08 February | 09:22

Excellent, sciurus! It's wonderful to hear some good news amid the sea of sadness here.

posted by Frisbee Girl 08 February | 09:56

Sour grapes indeed, wooooooe is me.

But yaaaaay for sciurus. She sounds like a saint- I would kill anyone who messed up my computer.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 08 February | 10:39

wooooooe is me

I know, pumpkin, but hang in there.

sciurus, dude, if you can fuck up her computer and she still says you have potential, I'd say you've struck gold. That's freakin' fantaaaaastic!

posted by Frisbee Girl 08 February | 12:34

Thanks Fris, I'll try. I'm having a Turkey Burger and Matzo Ball soup for lunch- good food makes me happy :-D

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 08 February | 13:00

Well, keep on eating the good food then. Life's too short to spend it miserable.

posted by Frisbee Girl 08 February | 20:46

Indeed! That's why I had oatmeal cookies for dinner.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 08 February | 23:12

Damn! Oatmeal or not, I'd probably need insulin shots if I had cookies for dinner.

On the other hand, I'm making marinated flank steak, tuna tartare with avocado and preserved lemon and garlic sauteed pea shoots, so I'm hardly feeling as though I got the short end of the stick.

posted by Frisbee Girl 09 February | 00:01

Shit, I had pizza rolls.

posted by sciurus 09 February | 09:59

What the hell is a 'pizza roll'?

posted by Frisbee Girl 09 February | 10:19

Mmm, they're ultra good. You buy them frozen, and then cook 'em up in the oven. So fatty but SO DELISH. woot woot.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 09 February | 10:27

My bad, I should have just Googled it.

posted by Frisbee Girl 09 February | 11:12

Meanwhile, I think I'm having a slice for lunch. Mmmmm pizza.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 09 February | 11:32

There is a taco bar across the street, but i'm gonna tough it out and make spaghetti when i go home.

posted by sciurus 09 February | 11:53

Yea, I've been really bad- haven't brought lunch one day this week. Have run out of good ideas of things to make for lunch- I like to cook on the weekend and bring leftovers for lunch during the week. Any ideas? I'm sorta picky, tehe.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 09 February | 12:15

Oatmeal and raisin cookies. You've got to think big, the world is your oyster!

Also, 500 comments. Wow.

posted by Frisbee Girl 09 February | 12:20

We did it! Yay!

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 09 February | 12:39

I thinking about making my lemon and mushroom risotto again, either that or turning my vegetarian moussaka into a meatatarian version.

posted by sciurus 09 February | 13:20

Damn, s, both of those sound really good! Care to share the recipes?

posted by Frisbee Girl 09 February | 13:22

risotto, don't have a recipe on hand for the moussaka, but i'll try to remember to send it to you.

posted by sciurus 09 February | 13:34

Mushrooms are gross.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 09 February | 14:26

It never would have worked out with us then, TPS.

posted by sciurus 09 February | 14:40

I'm not vying for any of your attentions, sciurus, but I'll take those mushrooms....

posted by Frisbee Girl 09 February | 15:36

You'd ruin one of the world's great love affairs over *mushrooms*? Then I guess you're right.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 09 February | 16:17

one of the world's great love affairs

Well, shit, girl, no wonder you're not in the mood to date right now.

posted by Frisbee Girl 09 February | 19:16

For reals. I just need to make out a little. Just a little. I'm working on it, to be sure.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 09 February | 23:49

You can have my mushrooms when you harvest them from my damp rotting corpse!

posted by sciurus 10 February | 09:04

As far as I'm concerned, that's what mushrooms taste like- damp rotting corpse.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 10 February | 09:56

I lurve you, TPS.

posted by sciurus 10 February | 10:06

Good, at least someone does. Today is not going well. (Work stupidness).

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 10 February | 13:42

But at least it got better. And now it's Saturday yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay. Brunch! and NYC meetup!

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 11 February | 10:55

WooT! Have fun, TPS!

posted by Frisbee Girl 11 February | 13:26

Oh I did ;-)

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 12 February | 12:54

scandal!

posted by sciurus 13 February | 07:19

Scandal indeed! ;-)

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 13 February | 09:50

awright!!!

posted by sciurus 13 February | 10:10

Yaaaaaaaaaaay for scandal. But now how am I to focus on my work? Hmmmmm.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 13 February | 11:02

Well, don't think about his lips or the way his hands hold you and you should be okay.

posted by sciurus 13 February | 12:26

::death glare at sciurus::

Don't think about your girl's soft skin, or the way her little hand fits snugly in yours, or the way she laughs when you wuffle her neck. Nope, don't think on any of those things.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 13 February | 14:03

I don't think I've actually whuffled her yet.

posted by sciurus 13 February | 14:25

Too bad. A girl is never truly fulfilled by her man until she's been whuffled.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 13 February | 14:39

I'm holding off for the right moment.

posted by sciurus 13 February | 17:45

Probably a good idea- don't want to rush things. Once you've whuffled, it's all downhill.....

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 13 February | 19:54

I'm sad for all the MeCha VD breakups. :(

posted by sciurus 14 February | 07:43

No kidding! I think that's the only valid excuse for feeling sorry for yourself on V-Day. Ultra un-fun.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 14 February | 08:00

Awww I just saw that jonmc was one of the V-Day newly single. That makes me double sad :-(

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 14 February | 08:08

.

posted by sciurus 14 February | 09:33

I sent you a Valentine. Can you guess which it is?

posted by sciurus 14 February | 09:34

Does it have the word "whufflicious" in it?

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 14 February | 10:05

We have a winner! I'm so predictable.

posted by sciurus 14 February | 10:16

Hahaha, that's OK- predictable can be good :-D

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 14 February | 10:38

Hows come you're all lowercase now?

posted by sciurus 14 February | 11:33

Weird, I don't know?

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 14 February | 11:46

My Valentine gave me an omelet pan and a griddle for V-day. I made a bear out of construction paper.

posted by sciurus 14 February | 12:19

For reals? Hahahahahahahaha.

Meanwhile, while Googling myself today, I found a bitchy comment this BITCH I hated in college made about me in someone else's MyS

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