Little Known Facts About Yourself

[Nanda]

My first cousin is Obama's campaign manager in illinois.

[Smoke]

Originally Posted by cardero

I dislike eating, bathing, brushing teeth, exercising, sexual actions, clipping nails, sleeping (but enjoy dreaming) shaving, anything having to do with maintaining and keeping up with the body. I do all of the above but wish I could have that time back to focus on more creative, productive, personal endeavors.

I hate all that (except for the sex), too. John laughs at me because I read while I brush my teeth, but it's so boring otherwise.

[Phasmid]

- I like my tea with milk and 2 sugars
- My favourite genre of film and TV is Sci-Fi
- My favourite author is Terry Pratchett
- My favourite book is Pyramids by Terry Pratchett
- I love my family and friends but they really irritate me sometimes
- I have to gell my hair or I look like I've glued spring chicks to my scalp
- I ride a Yamaha TW 125
- I have a secret man-crush on Weird Al' Yankovic
- I have a strange sensation under my right rib cage, which has me concerned

[Sunstone]

While in high school, I worked part-time in a funeral home.

It was a good business to be in, but we kept getting stiffed. (*chuckle*snort*)


I paid for my college room and board to study philosophy, comparative religion, and anthropology by fighting fires for the city.

One very early summer morning, I was riding on the back of a firetruck when my pants, which in my rush I hadn't properly fastened, fell down. I looked over my shoulder and was horrified to see a whole family in a station wagon closely following the firetruck to the fire. Everyone of them was wide-eyed.

That's the real reason those firetrucks you see have signs on them that say, "Stay back 500 feet."


I've been on television three times. After the first time I was on TV, I suddenly understood what Andy Warhol had been talking about when he said, "In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes."


My second wife described me as, "Ruthless, stoic, taciturn, and arrogant." After I left her, I set out to prove her wrong. But it took years to change myself. That revealed to me how difficult it is to change.


I want a dog. A big dog. But I don't have any land for it to roam on. And I do not believe in leashes.


I'm a horrible, lazy housekeeper and I've had to hire someone to come clean the place. But now that she's been cleaning for me, I tend to keep it better maintained than before.

My housekeeper asked me if there were any drawers or places she shouldn't look in. I told her she was welcomed to look wherever her job or curiosity took her.


I like to sketch nudes and portraits. I wield a mean 2B pencil. But I always fall in love with my models.


I was 12 years old the last time I went hunting. I shot a rabbit, watched it die, and decided not to unnecessarily kill again.

When I was 10, I was good enough with a .22 rifle that I could place a bullet through a squirrel's eye at 60 feet.


I decided to become celibate about a dozen years ago -- after my second marriage. The first two or so years were the toughest: I backslide three or four times. But then, I got to enjoying it.


I'm the only one I know who has gone to strip clubs to meditate. To me, that seems like a no-brainer, but I sometimes suspect no one else understands it. My preferred places to meditate, however, are not in strip clubs, but beside water -- a stream or lake. I've spent whole days meditating beside one lake or another, in many kinds of weather.


I've learned over the years that envy and jealousy are huge causes of unhappiness. But I think that to deal with them we sometimes need to understand we are profoundly alone in this world -- and that's not a truth some people prefer when it comes down to a choice between that truth on the one hand and suffering from envy or jealousy on the other.

[Don Penguinoini]

You dont meditate in strip clubs ?? You have a lot to learn young one.

[Sunstone]

Originally Posted by penguino

You dont meditate in strip clubs ??

On the contrary, strip clubs are great places to meditate. They are places were it is very easy to observe desire and see its nature.

[Bouncing Ball]

I work at an IT company and browse RF during work often.
I can beat Mystic at guitar Hero.
I also like to sketch nudes, but I haven't found any yet... And I can't really sketch either...
I like to collect thing, but only brainpuzzles and 200 euro notes (I still haven't got any though)
I live in a house with 2 friends.
I was volunteer at a youth center, yet with the amount of free drinks we got there you could hardly call it volunteerwork. Or work actually.. Just drinks.
I originally studied for mathteacher, but kids... So I went into IT..
I have achieved the status that nobody dares to play "risk" against me any more.. So I sit there along playing with the armyguy and horses seeing an angry face whenever I try to help someone..
I lent my spare mobile phone to my friend and he broke it.
I am the most optimistic person you can find.

[angellous_evangellous]

Originally Posted by Sunstone

I'm the only one I know who has gone to strip clubs to meditate. To me, that seems like a no-brainer, but I sometimes suspect no one else understands it.

That really is the key, Phil.

[Sunstone]

Originally Posted by angellous_evangellous

That really is the key, Phil.

I was wondering if anyone would get the pun.

[9-10ths_Penguin]

- I can't get enough history now, but in grade 8, I got 8% in my history class.

- my first major car repair job was a head gasket on my first car, a 1989 Plymouth Reliant. It was my parents' car, and when the head gasket blew, they let me have it and fix it up instead of sending it to the wrecker's.

- my second major car repair job was a head gasket on my first car, about a month after I finished it the first time. It was then that I found out that head bolts are often designed to stretch when you torque them down and because of that, they can't be re-used.

- I'm a Canadian born and raised, but I've never held a hockey stick and worn skates at the same time.