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Fight Boredom! Post a lounge thread - "12 things"
« on: June 19, 2008, 09:43:29 PM »
A fairly classic lounge thread theme -- Post 12 things about yourself that most people don't know.

1. I really hate to fly, though Im fascinated with the art of flight.
2. Ive been accused of being "A servant of Satan" by a roadside missionary at a bus station.
3. Ive only gotten drunk to the point of sick once. Take it from me -- 151 and bacon double cheeseburgers don't mix.
4. I really dislike peas and most beans (like lima and pinto, not green and wax)
5. Im a people watcher. Ive gone to airports just to watch and mock them behind their backs.
6. One of my passions is old coin-operated arcade games.
7. My lineage in the USA goes back to the second ship after the Mayflower
8. I'm left handed and dyslexic
9. Pets and children are attracted to me. I really don't know why. I must radiate "harmless".
A. I'm a pack rat. I will save anything for the proverbial 'rainy day'
B. I'm one of the last people under 40 who buys crossword puzzle books and Pinochle cards
C. English Muffin + Cream Cheese + sausage + honey = yum.


your turn..... And... GO!!!

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Re: Fight Boredom! Post a lounge thread - "12 things"
« Reply #1 on: June 19, 2008, 09:58:50 PM »
I can't think of twelve things.  I'm an open book.  Ask me anything!

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Re: Fight Boredom! Post a lounge thread - "12 things"
« Reply #2 on: June 19, 2008, 10:08:22 PM »
12 things, huh? Okay.

1. I haven't drank any domestic beer except Amber Bock for about a year now.
2. I can't drive stick to save my life.
3. I hate asparagus
4. Even though I work in the evening, I don't hardly get crap done after 5PM.
5. The last tenant in my apartment was a crackhead and apparently a sexual offender. Nice, huh?
6. I don't put out my cigarettes all the way... I usually just knock the "cherry" off in the ashtray and leave it.. my wife hates that.
7. I got two tattoos I would like to get redone if I had the time.
8. I love the smell of fresh cut grass. Better than the smell of chocolate.
9. I am a people watcher too, but usually...... it's to make fun of them.
10. I will NEVER wear briefs... been wearing boxers since I was 12.
11. I can belch the alphabet. Hidden talent of mine.
12. I have a complex where I will only buy brand named stuff... I hate going somewhere like Sav-A-Lot and buying groceries, even though it saves me 15 to 20 bucks a week.... my folks usually bought generic when I was little and I always hated eating friggin' Cocoa Rounds for breakfast instead of Cocoa Puffs with Sonny's ass on the box. lol

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Re: Fight Boredom! Post a lounge thread - "12 things"
« Reply #3 on: June 19, 2008, 10:40:20 PM »
12 things about me that most people don't know:

1) After 2 years of not smoking cigarettes, I picked them up again.

2) "I ain't as good as I once was ... " applies on so many levels these days.

3) If I got shit faced and laid one good time I'd probably feel better.

4) I emptied my 38 into the letterman jacket of my last boyfriend.  Thankfully, he wasn't wearing it at the time.

5) City girl refugee gone country (last 18 years at least).

6) I love broccoli, okra, squash, zucchini and chicken livers.

7) I love my BIL like a brother.  Who else can I talk to about the finer points of bodily functions?

8) I'm sarcastic and opinionated and those are my good qualities.

9) I love poker, especially Texas Hold'em.

10)  My house plants are dying of neglect, even the cacti.

11) I have a crazy sense of humor and love to laugh.

12) 1 beer and I'm talkative; 2 beers and some music, I'm dancing; 3 beers and I'm on the internetz baring my soul.

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Re: Fight Boredom! Post a lounge thread - "12 things"
« Reply #4 on: June 19, 2008, 10:45:09 PM »
12 things about me that most people don't know:


12) 1 beer and I'm talkative; 2 beers and some music, I'm dancing; 3 beers and I'm on the internetz baring my soul.


4 beers and you might bare something else on the Internets.  :naughty:

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Re: Fight Boredom! Post a lounge thread - "12 things"
« Reply #5 on: June 19, 2008, 10:46:04 PM »
12 things about me that most people don't know:


12) 1 beer and I'm talkative; 2 beers and some music, I'm dancing; 3 beers and I'm on the internetz baring my soul.


4 beers and you might bare something else on the Internets.  :naughty:

13) I post naked.

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Re: Fight Boredom! Post a lounge thread - "12 things"
« Reply #6 on: June 19, 2008, 10:48:03 PM »
12 things about me that most people don't know:


12) 1 beer and I'm talkative; 2 beers and some music, I'm dancing; 3 beers and I'm on the internetz baring my soul.


4 beers and you might bare something else on the Internets.  :naughty:

13) I post naked.



:picsneeded:

 :-)

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Re: Fight Boredom! Post a lounge thread - "12 things"
« Reply #7 on: June 19, 2008, 10:49:54 PM »
I can't think of twelve things.  I'm an open book.  Ask me anything!
On what page do you really get going?  Or chapter if you can't nail it down to a page.
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Re: Fight Boredom! Post a lounge thread - "12 things"
« Reply #8 on: June 19, 2008, 10:59:07 PM »
12 Things Most People Would Never Suspect:

1.  When work stresses me out, I walk out of my office and go work as a nursing assistant, so I can remember why I am in the work that I am and to remember that the paperwork and executive office is bullshit, its the people that matter.

2.  I grew up on an isolated dirt farm without indoor plumbing, electricity and our heat (in MN) was from a metal barrel with four pig iron legs welded to it, laid on its side and filled with firewood we cut and split ourselves. 

3.  My nickname as a child was Poochie.

4.  My other nicknames include:  Junebug, Junester, Bug, Angel, Baby and my personal favorite:  Scarlett (from an old song "like Scarlett O'Hara she loved none but wanted them all)

5.  I can hitch and drive a span of mules.

6.  I can and have driven:  18 wheelers, bulldozers, backhoes, tractors of all shapes and sized, combines, swathers, dump trucks, road graders, motorcycles and swathers to name just a few.

7.  In my wilder days, I would get sick every time I smoked pot. In fact I threw up all over my amorous date once.

8.  I have held the hand and comforted many dying people in my line of work.

9.  I believe in ghosts.

10.  I was married to Freeper and never even thought of straying! 

11. I cry at sentimental things.

12.  I introduce my best friend as my brother and he is actually an old boyfriend I met twenty plus years ago and dated for ten years!

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Re: Fight Boredom! Post a lounge thread - "12 things"
« Reply #9 on: June 20, 2008, 03:49:32 AM »
There are reasons that I have not already told you those 12 things..... :lmao:

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Re: Fight Boredom! Post a lounge thread - "12 things"
« Reply #10 on: June 20, 2008, 07:29:07 AM »
Ok, I'll play.

1) I am addicted to Guitar Hero.
2) I have a mad crush on Brian Kilmeade from Fox and Friends.
3) I secretly hope to run into former 'frenemies' so that they can see how awesome my life is.
4) I can watch movies that would make normal people cry and not shed a tear; but a dead mommy storyline on a teen soap will turn me to mush in a nanosecond.
5) I can use a gazetteer.
6) Some days, I like my in-laws better than my husband. (Not often, but occasionally.)
7) I am a HUGE NKOTB fan and shelled out a lot of money to see them this coming October.
8) I used to be able to recite the dialogue from the Star Wars Trilogy verbatim.
9) I still like to color in coloring books
10) I think work is for chumps.
11) I sucked my thumb until I was 10.
12) I (used to) write fanfiction for the X-Files.

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Re: Fight Boredom! Post a lounge thread - "12 things"
« Reply #11 on: June 20, 2008, 07:37:51 AM »
1. I love my head being scratched.
2. I have had double knee surgery.
3. I was a figure skater and appeared in the movie Ice Castles.
4. I played classical guitar when I was a kid, but the only guitar I pick up these days is guitar hero.
5. I think I probably spend too much time online.
6. I feel like a woman half my age.
7. I get really pissed off at inconsiderate drivers who think they should not have to wait in traffic.
8. My grandpa nicknamed me 'gorgeous', but when he said it he would say "theeeere's georgeous".
9. My other grandpa was a moonshiner.
10. I have a fascination with the field of abnormal psychology.
11. I am German, Polish, Czech, Norwegian, Swiss, British, Scot, Irish, and Dutch.
12. My kids have taught me a lot about life and what's important.
 
 
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Re: Fight Boredom! Post a lounge thread - "12 things"
« Reply #12 on: June 20, 2008, 08:10:29 AM »
This is what people in real life, but not on the internet, know about franksolich:

(01) franksolich has a teapot once owned and used by George Bernard Shaw.
(02) franksolich has no right elbow, it having been destroyed January 20, 1993.
(03) franksolich was given a key to the City of Indianapolis.
(04) franksolich met, in person, Pope Paul VI, in Rome, first-hand and up close.
(05) franksolich actually has an heir (besides the six nephews), although not related by blood or affinity, only practicality.
(06) franksolich had tea with H.R.H. the Duchess of Gloucester.
(07) franksolich once got a cable from H.R.H. the Grand Duke of Luxembourg.
(08) franksolich has always paid his own way, no loans, no grants, no nothing.
(09) franksolich still uses a typewriter, an IBM Selectric II.
(10) franksolich has been to Boston more times than to any other major American city.
(11) franksolich used to have a collection of more than 100 clocks, all more than 75 years old.
(12) franksolich had cholera while running around the socialist paradises of the workers and peasants with free medical care for all, and having survived that with only the help of aspirin and minute morphine, considers that the Greatest Accomplishment of his life.
(13) franksolich uses a guest-book, for visitors to sign, as a surreptitious-but-elegant means of getting people's names because he can't hear them tell him their names.

That is all.
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Re: Fight Boredom! Post a lounge thread - "12 things"
« Reply #13 on: June 20, 2008, 08:13:57 AM »
I'll try, but not sure if I can come up with 12!

1. I've lived in 7 states, and it wasn't due to military moves.

2. My childhood dream was to work at a zoo with a job like Joan Embry's.

3.  I've never been to California, and plan on never going there.

4.  My honeymoon was at Disney World.

5.  My dad was a test pilot at Edwards AFB and then an astronaut.

6.  My mom was a first generation immigrant from Germany.

7.  On my dad's side, I can trace my American roots back to the colonies.

8.  I don't have a passport.

9.  If, while eating a meal, I take a bit of something that is "off" texturally, I'm done eating.  I can't eat any more.

10.  I think snakes are cool.

11.  Spiders, on the other hand, not so much!  :-)

12.  My husband is also my best friend.

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Re: Fight Boredom! Post a lounge thread - "12 things"
« Reply #14 on: June 20, 2008, 08:14:40 AM »
Please add the following to my list:

13. Schadenfreude would have loved to have shared even one franksolich experience in her lifetime.
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Re: Fight Boredom! Post a lounge thread - "12 things"
« Reply #15 on: June 20, 2008, 08:19:26 AM »
Please add the following to my list:

13. Schadenfreude would have loved to have shared even one franksolich experience in her lifetime.

Well, you're always free, madam, to sign my guest-book.

It even has the signature of a notorious mass-murderer (from Kansas) in it, although the guy was like 85 years old when he signed it, about 60 years after the crime.
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Re: Fight Boredom! Post a lounge thread - "12 things"
« Reply #16 on: June 20, 2008, 08:39:49 AM »
Please add the following to my list:

13. Schadenfreude would have loved to have shared even one franksolich experience in her lifetime.

Well, you're always free, madam, to sign my guest-book.

It even has the signature of a notorious mass-murderer (from Kansas) in it, although the guy was like 85 years old when he signed it, about 60 years after the crime.


Do you keep a diary or journal, Frank?   I swear, I'd love to read  your life story.

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Re: Fight Boredom! Post a lounge thread - "12 things"
« Reply #17 on: June 20, 2008, 09:09:47 AM »
I, me, myself.....

12.  make awesome paper airplanes
11.  have never drank a glass of milk
10.  was born with an aversion to watermellon
09.  am half Indian, as in American Indian
08.  am related to Thomas Jefferson's first postmaster general appointment
07.  use to, in school, show interest in girls who weren't popular because I felt sorry for them
06.  had work published in a book and in magazines
05.  have been a parent since I was seventeen years old
04.  always have an active creative outlet
03.  have Type O+ blood
02.  am not shy
01.  wish I had more hair on my head and less on my ears

There!  I did it!

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Re: Fight Boredom! Post a lounge thread - "12 things"
« Reply #18 on: June 20, 2008, 09:36:03 AM »
Do you keep a diary or journal, Frank?   I swear, I'd love to read  your life story.

Don't make too much of these; many of these were by chance random things, such as my being in the wrong place at the right time (usually because I didn't hear the place I was supposed to be).  And it's not like I got intimate with any famous people; it was generally pleasantries, nothing of significance.

I'm sure, for example, that thousands and thousands of people met Pope Paul VI (he was very old and frail when I came along, though) up close or H.R.H. the Duchess of Gloucester.

There was one accidental personality who did spend a great deal of time with me, when I was a teenager, and going to spend my first winter in England.  A friend, a music aficiando, had given me six LPs, recordings of Beethoven, conductor Sir Adrian Boult, which he wished to have autographed, if I could, by the conductor.

I had supposed it would be a ten-minute courtesy call at his home (I didn't just show up at the door; there was correspondence beforehand), but I ended up spending the entire afternoon there.  The home of he and his wife seemed rather small and cramped (although comfortable, in a dowdy sort of way), but because it was winter, perhaps it just seemed that way.

Sir Adrian Boult, very old and frail at the time (this was in 1978), was intrigued that a deaf person would be interested in music (I wasn't, really, but I made it seem that way), and insisted upon demonstrating to me how he scored sheets (I think that's the proper term, but am not sure); there were more sheets of paper around his place than in Alphonse Capote Gore's office.  He even took specially-lined paper and wrote "music" for me.

He also played the piano for me, myself standing at the other end, palms firmly down on the case, so as to "absorb" the music.  And other musical instruments, most noticeably a violin, in which case I had at least my finger-tips on the most "musically-sensitive" part of the instrument, so as to "absorb" the music.

He did this all afternoon, and his wife served tea.

It was wonderful; Sir Adrian Boult was a true gentleman, top-notch, first class all the way.

As for your question, madam, yes, I've kept my written observations; my stay in the socialist paradises of the workers and peasants, for example, is demonstrated by 27 three-ring notebooks full of notes (no photographs, though; I'm not a camera person).  I don't look at such things; they've been stored away for years and years, out of sight, because they make me very sad, very melancholy.

Which is best explained by (14) of "Twelve things people in real life know about one, but people on the internet don't":

(14) franksolich has never wanted anything so badly, so desperately, than to be a middle-class white-collar with wife and children and dog and split-level house and station wagon--franksolich has wanted such things so badly he could taste them, and never in the history of the world was so much labor expended for so little result.
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Re: Fight Boredom! Post a lounge thread - "12 things"
« Reply #19 on: June 20, 2008, 10:49:33 AM »
Well, I hope the "heir" you have realizes the treasure he has in those 27 3-ring binders!

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Re: Fight Boredom! Post a lounge thread - "12 things"
« Reply #20 on: June 20, 2008, 10:51:03 AM »
A fairly classic lounge thread theme -- Post 12 things about yourself that most people don't know.

1. I really hate to fly, though Im fascinated with the art of flight.
2. Ive been accused of being "A servant of Satan" by a roadside missionary at a bus station.
3. Ive only gotten drunk to the point of sick once. Take it from me -- 151 and bacon double cheeseburgers don't mix.
4. I really dislike peas and most beans (like lima and pinto, not green and wax)
5. Im a people watcher. Ive gone to airports just to watch and mock them behind their backs.
6. One of my passions is old coin-operated arcade games.
7. My lineage in the USA goes back to the second ship after the Mayflower
8. I'm left handed and dyslexic
9. Pets and children are attracted to me. I really don't know why. I must radiate "harmless".
A. I'm a pack rat. I will save anything for the proverbial 'rainy day'
B. I'm one of the last people under 40 who buys crossword puzzle books and Pinochle cards
C. English Muffin + Cream Cheese + sausage + honey = yum.


your turn..... And... GO!!!

Oh so am I.  :-)

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Re: Fight Boredom! Post a lounge thread - "12 things"
« Reply #21 on: June 20, 2008, 11:03:40 AM »
Oh Frank, sometimes I wonder what God was thinking when He gave me a child with...what seems like some days... extraordinary special needs. How did He think I could handle this? But then I fall back on this meditation by an anonymous soldier (I believe Civil War) and I find comfort in these words.

I asked God for strength, that I might achieve.
I was made weak, that I might learn humbly to obey.

I asked for health, that I might do great things.
I was given infirmity, that I might do better things.

I asked for riches, that I might be happy.
I was given poverty, that I might be wise.

I asked for power, that I might have the praise of men.
I was given weakness, that I might feel the need of God.

I asked for all things that I might enjoy life.
I was given life, that I might enjoy all things.

I got nothing I asked for-but everything I had hoped for.
Almost despite myself, my unspoken words were answered.


I am, among men, most richly blessed.

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Re: Fight Boredom! Post a lounge thread - "12 things"
« Reply #22 on: June 20, 2008, 11:09:15 AM »
Please add the following to my list:

13. Schadenfreude would have loved to have shared even one franksolich experience in her lifetime.

I am sure franksolich feels the same about feeling a Schade moment ;)

He just has to get in line like the rest of us...
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« Reply #23 on: June 20, 2008, 11:10:00 AM »
I really don't think I am important enough to post about 12 things people don't know.  Certainly not important enough to start a thread on it...
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Re: Fight Boredom! Post a lounge thread - "12 things"
« Reply #24 on: June 20, 2008, 11:14:14 AM »

1.  My nick names when I was a child were Gracie by my aunt and Grody by my mom and step dad.  Apparently there was a time when I would wear my favorite pair of pea green underwear for days on end and refuse to shower.

2.  I once peed my pants when I was in 3nd grade at the skating rink.  I was playing pinball and was winning big time so I tried to hold it so I could continue to play.  I continued to skate by the way.   :hyper:  

3.  I had a dog when I was a child that I named Tiger.  I so wanted to be one of the kids from the Brady Bunch that I named my dog after their dog.  One day I went to a friends house and when I came home he was gone.  My parents said he ran away but I later learned that they gave him away because he was PITA.

4.  I got strep and mono a month before my wedding (still had a fever during my wedding).  We went to Crested Butte for our honeymoon but we only stayed for two days because I was still sick and I didn't even get to ski once.

5.  I sometimes cook a bag of frozen peas and eat the whole thing for lunch.

6.  One time I jumped on a guy who was beating up my husband (then boyfriend).  It was in high school and this kid started a fight with him and had him in a choke hold.  I jumped on his back, pulled his hair and even bit him.

7.  I had the crap beat out of me when I was in 7th grade.  I even had to go to the ER.  I had a HUGE black eye, my eye even swelled shut.

8.  I use to play softball (I was the catcher) all during my childhood and I was really good (if I do say so myself).

9.  I love to have my back scratched and ask my husband to scratch it every night.

10.  My first "love" was named Roger.  He was short and obnoxious but he was so cute.

11.  A boy named Mitchell Johnson told me in 3rd grade that if I let him cut some of my hair he would eat it.....so of course I let him.

12.  My house looks orderly and non cluttered but my closets are a mess.