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1) Kids at school called me Jovo-cop
2) I have bigger nipples than any girl I have dated
3) As a kid I had to put my right foot on the big slabs and the left on the little one
4) I have knocked myself unconcoius on a tree branch on more than one occasion
5)When I had my appendix out, I woke up in the recovery room with 3 naked nurses
7) I used to talk so fast I couldnt understand myself
8 ) I jumped off my house roof when I was 15 to find out if it would really break my legs - I didnt
9) When I was 12 I used to walk the streets doing moves from Street fighter -- HADO-KEN!! Then Id get my ass kicked by a real person
10) a poltergeist almost beat me up when I was 19

1. I fractured my skull when I was 6, and almost died
2. I've performed in over 20 plays at our local music hall
3. I once met Mel Smith and Griff Rhys-Jones on the London Underground
4. I dated a girl in my late teens who committed suicide 3 weeks after we parted company (unrelated to me ditching her, btw)
5. My artwork has appeared on Tony Hart's 'Gallery'
6. I wrote my first mainstream computer game at 9 years old, which was published on a magazine's 'cover-cassette'
7. I lived for 2 days in an igloo carved out of a snowdrift near Dinas Mawdwy
8. I have a gastric reflux disorder
9. In defiance of (8), I can down a pint of Guiness in 3 'gulps'-about 4 seconds
10. My mother met Douglas Barder, and knew Charlie Chaplins grandad (who lived in Spain)

And here's 10 more egotistical things that you MAY know, but are less secretive about me:
1. I own and run a rather successful magic shop as a part time hobby
2. I have written and released my own magic material
3. This year, I drove into what I thought was a 'puddle', and turned out to be a 3 foot deep flood, and filled my car with water. It still drives fine.
4. I am a web designer/graphic designer/programmer as my 'main' bread and butter job, and my first commercial website went online in 1990
5. I am amonst the few TM members who have been here the longest and still post frequently
6. I married my lovely assistant, Deb, last year in August, and I live with her very happily in Wales
7. I have many cyber and non-cyber friends, and have a life outside of magic and the internet
8. I am stubborn, arrogant and outspoken, and I admit to it
9. For all my sins, I am hairier than the honey monster
10. I am actually quite well educated, and am a qualified (well, I have the certificates) copywriter, and I have a national diploma in electronics

I.D wrote:5)When I had my appendix out, I woke up in the recovery room with 3 naked nurses

back up.... more information please...

seige wrote:6. I wrote my first mainstream computer game at 9 years old, which was published on a magazine's 'cover-cassette'

Excelent did you do any others? I have a very small history in computer games, I'll try and think of 10 things soon!

I.D wrote:10) a poltergeist almost beat me up when I was 19

did his punch fail to make contact?

i don't have that many interesting things.
i juggle various things and an working on a possible act for next years BJC (i'll post a video at some point, see what you think)
I'm about to graduate from hull uni with a maths degree (i hope!)
i had a hernia repair last year that had about 4 doctors going "you're not quite in the age range for this you know!" or "ooo, that's big"
I'm sporting a rather manly scar above my eye that was inflicted by a friend mistaking me for someone else, that dude has a bit of a punch. my reaction to it was just to laugh at him though, perhaps i was drunk.
I'm currently trying to deal with an alcohol problem

kems wrote:

seige wrote:6. I wrote my first mainstream computer game at 9 years old, which was published on a magazine's 'cover-cassette'

Excelent did you do any others? I have a very small history in computer games, I'll try and think of 10 things soon!

Yeah, I wrote a few, but they were unpublished.

I also wrote a music 'tracker' for the Atari ST, which was published, and I was offered a job on a development team. Sadly, I was only 16, and still at school!

Ok, i'll give it a go:

1. I was once involved in a hit and run
2. I nearly died 3 times when i was being born.
3. I have only one testicle.
4. Thanks to number 3, i too have had to have chemotherapy.
5. When i was about 3, i tried to kill my sister.
6. According to my nan, i used to be able to remember being born.
6. I have had premonitions about my grandad dying, my cat getting run over by a car, and that whale getting stuck up the Thames.
7. I have a deformed rib cage, meaning that i am one rib short on the left, and half a rib short on the right.
8. I got kicked out of a club once for not paying for some drinks (by accident, of course!)
9. My grandads cousin was famous Welsh rugby player, Barry John.
10. When asked at the age of 7 what one object i would take into space, i said 'My Uncle'.

edit: ooops, i put no.6 twice. Oh well, cant decide which one to get rid of!

Lawrence wrote:

I.D wrote:10) a poltergeist almost beat me up when I was 19

did his punch fail to make contact?

You'd think!! but I moved out the way and my friend got punched square in the nose.. I didnt stick around to 'back him up' .. sod that!!

seige wrote:9. For all my sins, I am hairier than the honey monster

i have been called chewbacca on more than one occasion

these are some friends and family oddities i've suddenly remembered..

1. my great grand-dad was a rum-smuggler
2. my great grand-mother was a housekeeper for one of the people who set up/funded arsenal (well, woolich-arsenal back then)...
3. i've actually become kinda friends with two prominent mentalists and done some work for them
4. an idea of mine came very close to appearing on one of Keith Barry's tv shows...
5. my brother had a 2 album record deal
6. my best mate gave tony blair the trots via his chef-skills
7. my mum would of one the pools in the 70s, but that was the one week she didnt do it! and she'd of got all the moolah too...
8. my dad used to babysit prince chaz and andy on the Royal Yacht
9. i've rode my luck for all its worth in magic this year...
10. my dad was in the navy with the drummer from The Shadows

EDIT: my i.q. is a shocking 164...but im really a thick as pig-poo...i've got an usually high visual/spacial awareness...

1) Been Married 6 years and have 2 Kids
2) 2nd Daughter was very premature (2lb 1oz) but shes fine now
3) Worked on the game XCOM Apocalypse
4) Never broken a bone in my body or had an operation!
5) until last month I had never had a blood test
6) I have never been to a real magic shop
7) I have a magic effect released and another due out soon.
when at school i would make decisions based on the digits of my watch.. ie if i look and the second digit and its a 5 I will...
9) not happy at work and at nearly 30 feel i should be doing better than i am.
10) never lost wallet/keys/mobile phone!

seige wrote:4. I am a web designer/graphic designer/programmer as my 'main' bread and butter job, and my first commercial website went online in 1990

1990? You're a time traveller too, eh...

Damn... I have more... family ties!

1. My best buddy went out with Carol Decker, lead singer of T'Pau
2. My older brother's mate was in a support band for the Drifters
3. My younger brother installs stainless steel fabrications in prisons, he worked on Huntley's cell making it safe
4. My dad found a WW2 hand grenade with no pin when he was a lad (1950s) and hooked it up using a tin can nailed to a stick... he became the village hero
5. My father in law is an ex-microbiologist from our local hospitals path-labs. He had the pleasure of doing tests on a cell sample from a VERY famous UK pop-star (my lips are sealed)
6. My grandad (RIP) who was a decorator by trade, delivered a baby at a house he was renovating when the owner suddenly sprang into labour. They named the child after him—Victor, and the child used to call him 'Uncle'
7. My younger brother rode my moped from Shropshire to Barmouth one weekend with his mate on the back. He was 13 years old, and got away with it.
8. My sister has the uncanny and disturbing knack of being able to invert her top eyelids and hold them there unaided for extended periods. Which used to frighten us lots.
9. My younger brother and I were once locked in our local snooker centre overnight, and couldn't get out until the next morning.
10. As a teen, I trapped my brother in a regular 'red' telephone box by wrapping duct tape around it several times. I was told off by the police.

Tomo wrote:

seige wrote:4. I am a web designer/graphic designer/programmer as my 'main' bread and butter job, and my first commercial website went online in 1990

1990? You're a time traveller too, eh...

Nope.

1990. It was a small text-based site done as a project, and included a tiny GIF file logo. Nothing like you'd term a website as such, but totally scrawled by hand.

This may take a few goes to come up with 10...

1. I'm married with 2 step-daughters (this is easily the greatest achievement in my life)
2. My uncle used to live next door to Bill Beaumont
3. My grandmother's maiden name was Nelson and she came from a naval family...
4. I have bats and woodpeckers nesting in my wildlife garden
5. I fractured 4 vertebrae in my back playing rugby
6. I came 4th in a national chess competition
7. My right arm appeared on Panorama
8. I once took minutes for a meeting attended by the Duke of York
9. I appeared in the background in the film "Clockwise"
10.Its taking me a looooong time to pluck up courage to perform any magic for an audience

Well whaddaya know - I got there!

Richard

T'Pau, eh?! That used to be my favourite tape of my parents!

And I.D. - Ha-doken - I still do that from time to time