2 Little known facts about myself.
 

I have an odd ability to sing really, really fast. Think Busta Rhymes meets John Popper of Blues Traveler.

I can bend my thumb all the way back to my wrist. Not really useful, but it freaks out my girlfriend.


Now it's your turn, lets hear 2 little know facts about yourself! :thumbsup:

I have an uncanny ability to learn from other people's mistakes.

I was born almost 3 months early. If I would have been born before 1970 or so, I would have died.

I love cheesy romance novels.

I am very good/creative with make-up--though I rarely wear it myself.

I was born in a hospital with a tin roof in Swaziland.

In said hospital, I had my first shot of brandy at a day old before I was circumsized.

My birthday is the same day that the slaves were freed in Texas (Juneteenth)

Despite being an ass at times, deep down I'm a hopeless romantic when it comes to the girls I love.

I am pregnant.:)

I like putting puzzles together and just bought a new one at Barnes and Noble today.

Congrats! I did not know that.

I have a minor cleft palette (internal) that required surgery when I was 9 years old to make me understandable when I spoke.

I didn't 'meet' my father until i was three years old, after me, my mom, and my sister were in a serious car accident.

I was born five months premature based upon the wedding license.

My sisters' kids still think they have a "fun" auntie, rather than an eccentric one.

Congrats Nikki!

I've lost 20 pounds and gained muscle in my Body for Life 12 week program! (once I get some pix, I'll post them)

I have a great idea to make money, and my boss has bought into it, we'll be marketing this idea in about 4 weeks! Hopefully earning a fat paycheck from it! (more details to follow).

I was born full term, but only weighed 4 lbs, 4 oz.

I was born without tonsils.

- I tend to be insecure at times, but I put on an act so it appears that I'm strong and confidant.. that way I can protect myself.

- I have a large obsession with lotion.

I am the King of procrastonation.

I'll be back later for the second little known fact.

I've never eaten an entire banana. I don't think i've even had more than a single bite.

I couldn't ride a horse for 9 years because i would giggle too much to stay on the saddle when we began to trot.

I was also 4 and 4... apparently if I was full term I was going to rip my mom open. Something like 11 lbs was my projected full term size.

I used to own a business selling Afghani jewelry (and I collected it, previously).

I was not allowed to listen to the radio (or dance) until I moved out of my parent's house at 17. Even then they didn't want me to, but I *rebelled* on my own housing dollah.

I was the smallest of my siblings at birth but am the largest by a significant margin now that we are all full grown.

I have what appears to be alopecia areata -- localized hair loss. My eyebrows and the hair on my legs will go through cycles of loss and regrowth, but never the hair on my head or other parts of my body.

I've dug my feet in the sand in every continent expect Antarctica.

I watched Mt St Helens blow up from my backyard when I was a kid.

Pictures posted of me here have always put me beside people shorter than I am, but in reality I'm only 5'11". I would've been much bigger if I hadn't been on steroids.

I also have terrible joints. My left knee has arthritis that can actually cause me to limp if the weather's really bad and I don't brace it. My knuckles are terrible too and I think my right knee is going the same the same way. Despite that, I want to do a job that's physical in nature; I'm not satisfied unless I've worked hard for my pay.

I played the cowardly lion in my high-school Wizard of Oz.

The first concert I ever saw was Raffi.

I am nearsighted and have an astigmatism; so when I take off my glasses at night, all the streetlights and stoplights -- and even the stars -- turn into little snowflakes. Cool.

My favorite pizza is garlic, jalapeno, olive, and tomato.

I have a surgicaly corrected bilateral cleft lip.

I cannot listen to "Puff the Magic Dragon" without breaking into tears.

I have two ideas for business and only need to find the money to invest to get them started.

In August I will be travelling to Spain/Portugal where I plan to get engaged to the woman I love. (I've already bought the ring)

I shoplifted candy as a child.

I use to draw pictures of naked women and sell them for 75 cents in grade 4.

I have held 15 jobs and only quit 3.
My hair is mood-reflective; darker when I'm happy, lighter when I'm stressed (at the lowest point in my life, I had blond streaks). And no, it's not artificial choices, just a weird happenstance.

I don't have, have never had, and will never have, wisdom teeth.

I hate change, so I forced myself to move across the country. I don't regret the move, I just wish it wasn't so far sometimes. I still hate change, but I'm learning to not hate it so much.

Congrats Nikki!

I've almost been killed 4 times and I've dreamed about my gravestone when I was only 6.

that's awesome, congratulations...

I was born in Rota, Spain and evidently have dual citizenship (according to my parents I'm a citizen of both countries... I honestly don't know).

Mustard makes me vomit... The smell alone makes me feel sick to my stomach.

I am 6'6" - making me 4 inches taller than my father, 7 inches taller than my sister and 8 inches taller than my mother.

I am violently afraid of the dark.

I've had 4 sets of wisdom teeth (3 1/2 of them have been extracted)

Im really actually a shy person

My thumbnails grow bumpy.

My hands are larger than most people's, including men.

I was adopted by my parents when I was 2 weeks old.

Despite having an irrational fear of flying, I have flown ~400,000 miles in the last 10 years.

I was kidnapped when I was 5 by my aunt and uncle and taken to Mexico for a few weeks

My dad was arrested for robbing a jewelry store while he was on duty. (LAPD)

thread killer! :lol:

Thread killer or thread winner?

I vote for winner -- how can you top that? Though obviously Nikki's happy news is a clear candidate for winner as well. :)

I am disenfranchised.

I don't believe in marriage.

Why are you disenfranchised?

I hit an eight foot tall bull (~1,000lbs) moose with my little Subaru. I received no injuries and my car was completely repaired in four weeks. Lucky, eh?

I'm the President of my college Debate Society.

My wife is pregnant.
I enjoy doing puzzles with my daughter - we need to buy a new one.

I have a stork bite birthmark on the back of my neck and a strawberry birthmark on my mons.

Even though I am 32, I still have one baby tooth in my mouth and only recently started to cut the adult tooth that is quite late coming in.

I broke the ischium ring off of my pelvis (the loop at the bottom that you sit on) when I was 17 and got t-boned by a '79 Beemer. It's the only bone I ever broke, but it was a doozy.

I can't sleep with my own bedroom door closed. It completely freaks me out. It's still hard when it's not my own bedroom.

I was a father at 18:eek:

and love to tinker with my muscle car to the point where I break it.

I brush my teeth in the shower. I figure water is already running, why get out and go to the sink?

I was supposed to be a boy. My parents were convinced of this. My name was Paul Karl and I had blue everything in my room. Then I was born and my parents were confused.

I often imagine that I am in a kung fu movie when I walk down the street, picturing attacks by random passers-by and the elaborate fighting scenes that would ensue.

I used to be really scared of spiders more that anything else in the world until, one day, I thought about how centipedes and millipedes have WAY too many legs. Just thinking about them FREAKS. ME. OUT.

I do that too! Another one I do sometimes when I'm the passenger in a car (and bored) is imagine myself running at super speed along side the car trying to keep up and dodge all the obstacles.

I was (am? the doc said I was the youngest he'd seen) one of the youngest people to get a gold crown (on my tooth, not royalty) when I was 7 or 8.

I'd forgot about that. I do something similar, sortof. :crazy: I like to imagine that I'm walking down the street or driving the car explaining our modern society and it's inventions to a historical figure or to Sherlock Holmes.

I was deaf in my right ear for about 24 years until several months ago I had a stapedectomy performed on my inner right ear and now I can partially hear sounds, speech and various other tones.

I won a 2006 Chevy Silverado Regular Cab Truck a year ago when I visited a GM car dealership and pressed the onstar button during the GM OnStar Hot Button contest and received a "Congrats, you won a new car!"

I talk way more online than I do in real life.

I can multiply any two digit number by 11 in my head really fast.

11*73= ?

Do it!!

Great news! I can't even imagine what a great change that must be for you.

803

If you're curious what the trick is, it's pretty simple. You take the two digit number, add the digits together, and stick it in between. In this case...

11*73=?
7+3 = 10 so you carry the 1 and get 803

Here's an example without carrying
11*23 = 253

Now everyone can do it!

Is that really any faster than adding a 0 (multiplying by 10), and adding the two digit number?
11*73=?
730 + 73 = 803

or

11*23=?
230 + 23 = 253

Don't look at me. I'm mathematically illiterate. That's just the way that I was taught.

Neither my wife, my daughters, brother in laws, sister in laws, or any of my wifes family has seen me without a beard and mustache.

Every Sunday I read Miss Manners in the paper.

Somehow...this gives me a mental image of the bearded Rockogre, wearing a black leather biker vest and a bandana, sitting in a solarium, surrounded by potted ferns, sipping tea from the finest Waterford china, with his pinkie out.

I don't really know why...but that image amuses me. Uproariously.

Didn't really see that one coming, did you?

Glad I'm entertaining someone.
Oh, and we actually do have some Waterford Crystal, but I only get to use it on the holidays.

That is very hard to picture.....but hilarious when accomplished. :lol:


#1: I'm not a complete woman.....I have had my gall bladder removed.
#2: I have never been to a bar.

1. I just ate too much lasagna

2. my stomach hurts.

I would say that it's faster the way I described, although I don't have proof. The way you described requires two separate operations: multiplication and addition. The method I described is simply addition, which is what makes it a shortcut. Back when I first learned this trick in school, we went around doing flashcards, and I was able to calculate the answer in less than a second. I don't think I'd be able to do it that faster using your way, but that might just because I'm used to the other way of thinking.

My mother was 14 when she gave birth to me. She gave me up for adoption, which I think was a very wise move on her part.

I have been on 145 different roller coasters in the United States without incident, yet spinning rides (like Disneyland's teacups) make me hurl.

I am a trained opera singer.

When I'm driving in my car alone I sing Nine Inch Nails songs to a big-band beat, and I recommend this to anybody.

i can read even the worst handwritting ever... freaks me out-how i can do that!

i can piss people off so easily especially if am over bored listening to their crap!

1) I was once a petty thief.
2) I have a scar on my right cheek. The story about it goes: In 1987, I was at a YMCA children's summer camp. I went with my group to a petting farm. I fell on a sharp stick. The stick went clean through my cheek. I was rushed to the hospital and had several dozen stitches. I still remember the events pretty well, but usually have to look at a mirror to remember which cheek the scar's on.

I was born 3 months early also, but in 1957,
I was in an incubator for 2 months.

I broke my neck watersking 24 years ago.

I've eaten cat.

I enjoy the Father of the Bride movies with Steve Martin.

Please don't tell anyone.

I had both large toenails completely removed to fix a severe ingrown toenail problem. They've grown back but the procedure has left me with 3 distinct toenails on each big toe: the main one and a smaller one growing perpendicular on either side of each toenail.

When I was about 4 or 5 years old, I peed down the heating vents in my bedroom floor. When winter came and the heater was turned on, I remember my parents complaining about the awful smell coming from the vents. I never told them what I did.

1. I've had an out of body experience without using drugs.
2. I can make 30 minute pies in 10 minutes.

I forgot to mention...it's delicious. I mean I felt bad, and I didn't know what it was when I was eating it, but man it was good. It was prepared a lot like duck, though I'd probably prepare it more like rabbit. It's perfectly legal in Southeast Asia. What?

I still pick my nose.

I do tricks on little kids bikes.