Fairly Unusual Things About You

1. I like mathematics. That tends to put me in the minority in any circle not dedicated to math.

2. For a while, I was my own uncle. Extra points to those who can figure how.

My eccentricities.

1) I tend view the landscapes form the perspective of above.
2) When I was younger I experienced unpredictable unintentional premonitions of future events, and perceptions of things beyond my knowledge. No experiences in recent years.
3) I am one of the last Mime performers that do skit Mime like Red Skelton and Marcel Marceau.
4) Artist, photographer, carpenter, plumber, electrician, mechanic, published poet and translator of ancient Chines poetry, comedian - stand up comedy, geologist, soil scientist, commercial gardener, herbalist, antique restoration, maybe a few more.

In high school, I could walk on my hands.
No one could beat me in a race.
But I was a lousy gymnast.

Skwim said:

Nope. I've had a good half dozen piano teachers, the last one being exceptional. And when I realized she couldn't help me I gave up on the thing. I have no interest in any other instrument. Want to by a beautiful, walnut, one owner, 5' 9" medium grand?

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Oh hell no I have have a guitar with 6 strings and that is as complex as I wanna get this late in life!!!! Lol

- I have never eaten a hamburger
- I like walking on all fours from time to time (In private)
- Love having friends, but have so few of them

It Aint Necessarily So said:

Simian crease: (single, uninterupted lifeline) View attachment 19932
Type AB blood
Left-handed
Never tweeted or texted in my life, and don't own a cell phone.
800 on my math SAT (1969)
Anagram of my first and last names: Length pleases

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Glen Plethasse?

I used to be scared ****less of spiders, now I love them and hold them so much people call me spiderman

Polymath257 said:

2. For a while, I was my own uncle. Extra points to those who can figure how.

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You're from Alabama?

Revoltingest said:

You're from Alabama?

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Nope. Kansas. But location not relevant.

Polymath257 said:

Nope. Kansas. But location not relevant.

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I did not know that Kansasistan swung that way.

Polymath257 said:

2. For a while, I was my own uncle. Extra points to those who can figure how.

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You had an older brother who was like a father to you?

What's true is that I live on an island and in high school I earned 29 AP credit hours.

I wish I could say that what follows was also true:

I am a dynamic figure, often seen scaling walls and crushing ice. I have been known to remodel train stations on my lunch breaks, making them more efficient in the area of heat retention. I translate ethnic slurs for Cuban refugees, I write award-winning operas, I manage time efficiently. Occasionally, I tread water for three days in a row.

I woo women with my sensuous and godlike trombone playing, I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed, and I cook Thirty-Minute Brownies in twenty minutes. I am an expert in stucco, a veteran in love, and an outlaw in Peru.

Using only a hoe and a large glass of water, I once single-handedly defended a small village in the Amazon Basin from a horde of ferocious army ants. I play bluegrass cello, I was scouted by the Mets, I am the subject of numerous documentaries. When I'm bored, I build large suspension bridges in my yard. I enjoy urban hang gliding. On Wednesdays, after school, I repair electrical appliances free of charge.

I am an abstract artist, a concrete analyst, and a ruthless bookie. Critics worldwide swoon over my original line of corduroy evening wear. I don't perspire. I am a private citizen, yet I receive fan mail. I have been caller number nine and have won the weekend passes. Last summer I toured New Jersey with a traveling centrifugal-force demonstration. I bat 400. My deft floral arrangements have earned me fame in international botany circles. Children trust me.

I can hurl tennis rackets at small moving objects with deadly accuracy. I once read Paradise Lost, Moby Dick, and David Copperfield in one day and still had time to refurbish an entire dining room that evening. I know the exact location of every food item in the supermarket. I have performed several covert operations for the CIA. I sleep once a week; when I do sleep, I sleep in a chair. While on vacation in Canada, I successfully negotiated with a group of terrorists who had seized a small bakery. The laws of physics do not apply to me.

I balance, I weave, I dodge, I frolic, and my bills are all paid. On weekends, to let off steam, I participate in full-contact origami. Years ago I discovered the meaning of life but forgot to write it down. I have made extraordinary four course meals using only a mouli and a toaster oven. I breed prizewinning clams. I have won bullfights in San Juan, cliff-diving competitions in Sri Lanka, and spelling bees at the Kremlin. I have played Hamlet, I have performed open-heart surgery, and I have spoken with Elvis.

But I have not yet gone to college.

Skwim said:

I've had a good half dozen piano teachers, the last one being exceptional. And when I realized she couldn't help me I gave up on the thing.

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Did she tell you that it's not played by blowing into it?

Debater Slayer said:

What are some fairly unusual things about you, at least compared to those in your social circle?

Off the top of my head, these are mine (without anything connected to religion or politics):

• Since August 2011, I've only watched four movies, each only once. I haven't watched any TV shows in that period. Both are purely due to lack of interest.

• I (intentionally) don't have a TV, and I dislike satellite TV.

• For some reason I don't gain or lose weight regardless of my diet, activity or lack thereof, or anything else. Since 2012, I've only gained one kilogram (or about 2.2 pounds). This includes times when I mostly lived on fast food for at least two months and others when my appetite was barely existent.

• I'm purposely fairly distant from most people around me except for only a few—not on bad terms with anyone, but also only close to few.

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Ive been in the same college for ten years and finally graduating with a two year associates just to hang it on my wall since I cant work

I cant plan anything more than two days in advance at the least. Something ALWAYS goes wrong, cancelled, called in to work, or change of plans. I plan things within two days all goes perfect

70% change I get heads when flipping the coin on the back of my hand about 40ish tails if I drop it on the floor. Little more on heads if on carpet.

I have no tv, no radio, no laptop (on tablet), over fifty vhs tapes wihout a player to watch them

Because of frontal lobe seizures I sometimes start clapping like a monkey wanting a bannana (i call them stupid seizures)

I proof read all my RF post but never went by without at least two errors.

I am the geeky nerd who lived in the library during school hours, university afterwards also spent most of my time
in library, a social loaner, live alone with my cat, (sorry the Cat lives with her human / me)
apparently "overqualified" whatever that means ... collected and restored old clocks since I was 10, work as a biomedical engineer, maintaining life support equipment... lost 40% of my brain in a car accident, founded HIS of NZ .. Restored my 65 MG ... (still a nerdy geek) ...

It Aint Necessarily So said:

Did she tell you that it's not played by blowing into it?

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Polymath257 said:

For a while, I was my own uncle. Extra points to those who can figure how.

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Were you adopted by your grandparents?

Unusual things about me:

1. I have an IQ of 149
2. I have a crippling social phobia
3. One of my eyes (my right) cannot look upward
4. I am the youngest of 8 siblings, 4 of whom I didn't know existed until I was in my 30s
5. I grind my teeth together during my sleep