3 Things you didn't know about me

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Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 5:41 am

Nanny Ogg wrote:

Cyanide smells but not everyone can smell it, depends on genetics

Ah... Nannu ogg, sorry I'm way behind on this thread. Yes! only a small percentage of the population of the world can smell it. It is the scent of 'bitter almonds'. Always amazed me but it is true. (Medical examiners across the globe attest to it consistantly)

mod edit: fixed quote coding -Ima

Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 6:06 am

Okay, here we go:

I once drank a glass of used dish-washing water in a bet to win a crate of beer.
Once a doctor told me that I must be dead because he couldn't find my pulse.
I got arrested in Heathrow airport for threatening an officer with a book after he took away my lighters.

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@ eamonn 1

Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 1:49 pm

rootuser wrote:

I once drank a glass of used dish-washing water in a bet to win a crate of beer. Entirely possible, especially if you had already drunk a few glasses of "suds"
Once a doctor told me that I must be dead because he couldn't find my pulse.There are doctors who joke like that, so possibly true
I got arrested in Heathrow airport for threatening an officer with a book after he took away my lighters. That leaves this one

As for mine:

1- True. I took bagpipe lessons. I could not, however, sustain enough air in the bag to keep the tone going, until my teacher put corks in the ends of the drones. Then I could get one note out of it. I was quite good on the practice chanter, though.

2-True. The actual “victim” of the inescapable handcuffs was one Hilda the Handcuff Queen. My great-grandfather was an engineer and an amateur magician, and a friend of Thurston Howard (and of Edgar A. Guest, the poet). This was a family story, and I never really believed it until I found an article in a 1908 issue of Houdini Magazine. The incident with Houdini is documented in The Secret Life of Houdini (My great-grandfather did not have the same last name as I do, BTW.)

3-False. Well, I always sing the National Anthem at games, but I haven’t attended a game in over four years. And I’ve never been the soloist. I have sung solos, but not on that level

Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 2:06 pm

sheila_blyge wrote:

1. One of my very closest friends has walked through Heathrow Airport security with an AK47 and plastic explosives... neither of which were picked up by the security devices.

2. My hair is long enough to sit on.

3. As a student, my fellow engineering students dismantled a lecturer's car, transported the parts between them in the elevator, and re-assembled it on the roof of the educational establishment we attended.

Yes, Chibuike, it's funny how everyone accepted the weapons through Heathrow... although it was legit, and he was flanked by security agents, as they were testing the security devices.

And Jojo.. you have an advantage, as you know my hair is long! Razz

So, yes, 3 is false, although it did actually happen once, it was a mini as far as I recall, but it was a completely different set of students, and I had nothing to do with it.

This is fun. Thing is, with everyone elses, I want them ALL to be true! It's so funny Very Happy

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Root user, it's a hard choice but I am going to go with #1

I have never broken a bone falling up the stairs.

Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 4:00 pm

no one else going to have a go at mine?
will let you know when I get home from work later

Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 4:02 pm

I'm going to get into the action.
1.I once stopped to help a broken down bus and it turn out to be Kenny Rogers tour bus.
2. I've been cliff diving.
3. I've used to go to AA meetings with serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.

Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 4:08 pm

Streaded I'm going with no. 3 I bet your afraid of hights.
@ Root I agree with Titania. and say 3

Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 4:11 pm

correct packman Wink

and for yours I go for 1

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@ packman 2

@ rootuser 3

Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 5:57 pm

@pacman Has to be number 3 otherwise you would be missing an arm.

Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 6:10 pm

Doodle Bug is right... I cant swim.

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I never met the Queen

Worked at The Old Bailey

Went around Cape Horn

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I know which one of Reapies is NOT a lie, cause you'd mentioned it a while back. But, which of the other two is the lie....hmm.

Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 8:46 pm

Pacman. you really went to AA meetings with Dahmer? Did he bring any bbq ribs?

Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 9:05 pm

I thank god never hung around with him. we just happened to go to the same tuesday meeting.

Trophy Videos · Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 12:03 am

^^I'll bet Jeffrey didn't spill his guts in those meetings..

runs and hides in packman's closet.

Doodle Bug - I'll guess number 2 for you, Worked in The Old Bailey.
I have no reason to think this...just guessing.

Ok, have a go at my 3 things: All About Pants

1-I once bent over a fax machine while fixing it in an office, and split my pants wide open in the back, right in front of the secretary and my boss. My response - "Oh, I'm so embarrassed! HaHaHa!"

2-I dropped my pants in a customer's business, ran to the sink in a closet, and ran cold water over my knee. I started swearing loudly.
When I heard the footsteps come down the stairs, I started to laugh uncontrolably, thinking about what this guy is going to say first. When I saw his puzzled look, and he said, "WTF are you doing!!??" I cracked up, and said, "I'm laughing because I knew you were gonna say that!"

3-Even when plastered out of my mind in the past, I have never put my pants on backwards.

Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 2:15 am

eamonn wrote:

^^^^

3, never heard of him/her (so therefore he/she doesn't exist)

I have one of his Lp's, he's real:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jellybean_Benitez

Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 5:58 am

Reaper wrote:

1. I have almost no sense of smell
2. I met Kylie Minogue when I was 8.
3. My Grandfather invented anti-scratch coating on sunglasses and sold it to OPSM.

Number 2 is a lie. I met her when I was 12. Laughing

I was born with almost no sense of smell, I can smell strong chemicals like acetone and I, thankfully, can detect natural gas and strong food when it's in front of me, but nothing much else.

My grandfather was involved in research and experimenting with anti-scratch coating and he represented the firms when he came to Australia where he first sold the stuff to OPSM.

Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 6:33 am

Okay, here we go:

Yes, I really did drink the dish-washing water, and I got the beer.

And yes, the doctor told me that I had to be dead, and it wasn't mean that much as a joke. Thing was that my pulse was very very weak, and simply couldn't be felt.

But I did not get arrested in Heathrow airport (or any other airport) for threatening an officer with a book. I had my lighters taken multiple times in Heathrow (although they are very ineffective and never find the spare lighters I still have with me) and then explained to the officer that if I wanted I could easier kidnap a plane with my book (exceeding 1000 pages) than with a lighter. So, no threats involved, just arguing about stupid security-regulations.

So, #3 in my case was a fairy-tale.

I am preparing another set, I got two already, one missing.

@SlapHappy: #3

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