(November 8, 2018 at 1:40 am)no one Wrote: I'll show you mine, if you show me yours.

Okay.




I hope we don't get in any trouble here. Do you have any photos like this?




Thanks a lot. Lets do this again sometime!

Ten more fun facts about Springy G:

1. My ancestors came from Scotland on the paternal side, Norway on the maternal side.  I've eaten haggis but not lutefisk, and am thinking of asking Iceland for culinary asylum because harðfiskur (dried fish jerky) is at least edible.
   
2. One of my aspirations is to find someone in the city who can tutor me in stage magic, because one of my childhood heroes was Magic Tom Auburn, who appeared regularly on children's TV shows in Montreal.
   
3. I have dragons (paintings, sculptures, prints on cloth) all over the house.
   
4. I type about 100 WPM.
   
5. For unknown reasons I can do uncanny vocal imitations of a few Muppets, including Animal, the Swedish Chef, and Cookie Monster.
   
6. When I was in my 40s I looked almost exactly like Madonna on the Ray of Light album cover.
   
7. I started out right-handed, but over the years became ambidextrous.
   
8. I have a terrible time matching faces to names until I've met someone multiple times, but can remember the proper spelling of their name for decades.
   
9. Every once in a while I do costume design for myself or someone else, for Halloween or a SF/fantasy convention.
   
10. My first computer was a Digicomp-1 plastic computer from the Edmund Scientific catalogue.
    

I like this thread, so I'll add some more:

11. I make the best damned scratch Bloody Mary you've never had. No, you can't have the recipe.
12. I hold a 2nd-degree black belt in Kenpo but am out of practice and my timing is shot. I miss my old dojo in Carson City (shout out to Sifu Marquez).
13. The longest sustained bout of helpless, mind-dissolving laughter I've experienced was the "find the fish" scene in Python's The Meaning of Life. It was so incongruous, unexpected, and weird that I sank to the sticky theater floor and laughed noiselessly for nearly ten minutes. It became alarming.
14. Given a steady diet of east-Asian and Mediterranean dishes, I could happily pass the rest of my life without another meal of "American" food.
15. I grew up in a town called Wahpeton, North Dakota. Our school nickname was (I shit you not) "the Wops". Our mascot was a guy in a purple and gold sheet, said to represent the Wop spirit (none of us knew what the hell that was supposed to mean). The school's basketball team won the state championship when I was in sixth grade. What I mainly remember about that season was how Queen's "We Will Rock You" was appropriated as "We Will Wop You" and brayed obnoxiously at every home game. Again, no one had any idea what the hell that meant. Naturally, Queen's "We Are the Champions" was also sung at top volume, but without embarrassing word swaps. Some time after I graduated, the school nickname was changed to the more acceptable "Huskies".
16. When alone, I spend a lot of time pacing and talking to myself. It creeps out my wife when she walks in on it.
17. My son was diagnosed as having mild Asperger's when he was in 2nd grade. I've always suspected that came from me, though I don't meet the diagnostic threshold to be labeled such myself. Let's just say I tend that way.
18. My one experience under general anesthesia (torn ligaments in my left knee at age 18) remains my best argument against the continued existence of my consciousness after death.
19. I can't sing or dance worth a shit. I wish I could.
20. I like sad, tragic foreign films. My wife despises them.

Carrying on...

12.  I have no martial arts skills beyond swarm punching, which has served me pretty well.

13.  I collect old, original film posters.

14.  I play six musical instruments, none of which are the violin.

15.  I have never been hunting.

16.  I consider Red Skelton to be the funniest American who ever lived.

17.  Fruitcake is better than most people give it credit for.

18.  I own just over 1600 bound books.

19.  I own a pair of stuffed owls.

20.  Fudge is better without nuts.

21.  I wish someone would convince J.K. Rowling to just stop.

22.  I periodically organize Oxfam drives.

Boru

(November 8, 2018 at 1:11 pm)mlmooney89 Wrote: 7. Mind to tell us what happened?

Surgery. Had to have one toe on each foot amputated.

Quote:9. What are your thoughts on Judge Alex?

I don't think I know who he/she is....

Quote:10. What about Bumblebee? He seems to be a favorite after the movies came out.

I never liked Bumblebee, and feel that the movies are an abomination, so...

(November 8, 2018 at 9:31 am)Kit Wrote: 10. I wish I had the discipline to be the writer I know that I can be.

Same here. I have literally no discipline and don't think I ever will have any. 

(November 8, 2018 at 9:59 am)Jörmungandr Wrote: 2.  I'm missing 9 of my 10 fingers due to frostbite in 2008.  I retain the thumb on my left hand.

I'm sorry if it's rude to ask, but how do you type? 

(November 8, 2018 at 10:29 am)Aroura Wrote: 4. I'm a Hufflepuff.

High-five! (Although I used to want to be a ravenclaw. )

(November 8, 2018 at 2:58 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: 17.  Fruitcake is better than most people give it credit for.

no

(November 8, 2018 at 3:14 pm)DodosAreDead Wrote:

(November 8, 2018 at 9:59 am)Jörmungandr Wrote: 2.  I'm missing 9 of my 10 fingers due to frostbite in 2008.  I retain the thumb on my left hand.

I'm sorry if it's rude to ask, but how do you type? 

I type using my left thumb. I was a skilled touch typist prior to the injury, so I instinctively know where the keys are at. Motor memory kicks in and my hand flies back and forth around the keyboard without me having to think about what key I need to type next or where it is.

(November 8, 2018 at 2:58 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: 17.  Fruitcake is better than most people give it credit for.

Homemade fruitcake, adequately doused in rum and/or brandy and then aged for a month, is awesome.   Sometimes you can rescue a good-quality store-bought fruitcake by poking holes in it, wrapping it in cheesecloth, pouring liquor over it, and wrapping it up in heavy foil for at least a week.

(November 8, 2018 at 2:58 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: 14.  I play six musical instruments, none of which are the violin.
18.  I own just over 1600 bound books.
21.  I wish someone would convince J.K. Rowling to just stop.

14. This sounds like one of those puzzles that you have to find out which kid had which instrument and sat at which table but you only get one lined hints. lol
18. Fuck me. I thought I was hot shit with my collection. I just hit 600 bound books. You are my inspiration.
21. Or told her to try again with Deathly Hollows.

(November 8, 2018 at 3:01 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: I don't think I know who he/she is....

He is a sexy judge on TV lol

(November 8, 2018 at 4:09 pm)Astreja Wrote:

(November 8, 2018 at 2:58 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: 17.  Fruitcake is better than most people give it credit for.

Homemade fruitcake, adequately doused in rum and/or brandy and then aged for a month, is awesome.   Sometimes you can rescue a good-quality store-bought fruitcake by poking holes in it, wrapping it in cheesecloth, pouring liquor over it, and wrapping it up in heavy foil for at least a week.

Yes!

Used to work with an old Dutch guy who would soak the fruit for his birthday cake for six months in some firm of alcohol.

Only time I've become light headed from eating cake!