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I just thought I'd resurrect this thread so any newer members can share some weird and wonderful facts about themselves!

1. When I was in primary school I got aspeaking show on a local gardening show (beachgrove Garden) when they came to my school.
2. I once accidentally threw a friend at a desk.
3. When I was little I walked past a mirror on Halloween and scared myself.
4. To get a Blue Peter badge, I wrote a poem about a boy who wanted a Blue peter badge and sent it in. I got one.
5. I believe I have found my nemesis. (And we have the same last name )
6. I got lost on a hill about a year ago and my girlfriend contracted mild hypothermia.
7. My great-uncle survived the Titanic.
8. I once fell off a rope swing and knocked myself out.
9. I attended the 21st World Scout Jamboree last year, which had 40000 attendees from all over the world.
10. I have won the English prize at school for 5 years in a row, and I am determined to get all 6 years.

OK, here's mine...

1) My mother tried to kill me with a knife seven years ago.
2) My father cut a man's arm off at the elbow when he was younger (about forty years ago). And no, he is not a surgeon.
3) I have to know the time. If I leave the house having forgotten to put my watch on (which is exceptionally rare), I will go back for it even if it means I'm going to be late.
4) I can solve a standard Rubik's cube in under two minutes.
5) I fancy Betty Rubble from The Flintstones cartoon.
6) I suffered from sleep paralysis once and it was the most terrifying experience of my life to date.
7) I once shared a lift with Rik Mayall.
8 ) I have had the pleasure of seeing Michael Jay's cups and balls routine live.
9) When I was 11 years-old I was the second fastest runner in my year at school. These days, I can't run for the bus.
10) I once slammed a door over my bare foot and it took the nail straight off my toe.

Hey i know some of them .... not fair .... i feel cheated of ten things now ...

F x

Great thread - totally missed this one

Ok heres 10 things about me

1. I am a chef,have been for 20 years...man and boy

2. I work for music artists and bands cooking and travelling with them whilst touring the Uk & Europe.

3. I lived in South Dakota USA ( Dances with wolves country ) for a few years and worked as a cowboy on a cattle/soya bean ranch - milked cattle twice a day,john deer combine harvesters the full works and my nearset neighbours was an armish community 7 miles away - the nearset bar was 12 miles away!!

4. Whilst living in SD or Sou Dak as the locals call it I survied a F4 tornado that hit a small town called Spencer - 6 other people were not so lucky The most frightening night of my life,that night still haunts me in my dreams.

5. Point 4 aside i still love to walk in the rain and thunderstorms.

6. I have never broken a bone in my body or ever had an operation

7. I worked as a doorman on the world famous Cream/Nation in liverpool and in matthew street.

8. My grandfather was a Regimental Sergeant Major in the Kings regiment and was demoted and worked his way back to the rank several times for sticking up for his men - A true rebel

9. I attened the same school as Kenny Everett and Cherie Blair ( not at the same time they was there )

10. I have no phobias.

Bonus

11. I have appeared in many TV shows as a walk on - Corrie several times,Ruby in the smoke,Bradford riots,PC World adverts,Northern Lights and a few others.

1. I'm a vegetarian for no political reason other than I hate to eat meat (no bing)

2. I'm allergic to pork

3. I'm homeschooled

4. umm.... I'm deathly allergic to peanuts and shellfish

5. I am really afraid of not being able to move my arms so no straight jackets for me

6. I'm close to getting my eagle scout

7. I'm a first degree black belt in tae kwon do

8. umm........I really hate coin in bottle magic tricks.

9. I am good and addicted to poker (real life not online) but no one wants to play seeing as I do card magic

10. I look exactly like my avatar.


This is a sloppy looking post but... Oh and I'm a bit of a grammar and spelling freek sometimes...

Right, erm...

1. I have an honours degree in biology and a diploma in cartooning.

2. Ever since I was about four or five, I've been nervous of standing in front of windows after dark if the curtains are still open, for fear that someone outside will shoot me through the window.

3. When I was little I had two imaginary friends called Don and Sally. They lived inside the bathroom scales. My other imaginary friend was a lion called Leo, who still exists. (He says hello.)

4. I'm very allergic to paracetamol, and extremely sensitive to even low levels of caffeine.

5. I have a serious phobia of heights. The scariest thing in the world is going up a ladder. Escalators are scary too.

6. When I was a teenager I built a Hero Jr robot from a kit. I still have it. It would probably still work if I charged it up.

7. I have several medals and a plaque for winning spelling and writing competitions when I was in school.

8. I'm an occult philosopher and a solo ceremonial witch (not Wiccan). However, my magical powers were stripped from me about fifteen years ago. At the time I thought it was a punishment, but now I realise it was to force me to study more theory. I think I'm nearly ready to get back to practical work again.

9. I know Esperanto, and have some rather rusty Latin and ancient Egyptian. I've studied a little Japanese but can only remember a few words.

10. I'm far from teetotal, but I've never, ever been drunk. The closest I've been was being a little giggly after a champagne-tasting afternoon.

Ok...
1. I have no toenails on my big toes. (Ingrowing, operation to remove them, fun!)
2. I used to do ventriloquism in my room as a kid. Made my own puppet out of a toy dog. I was fairly rubbish.
3. Ainsley Harriott has mistaken me for a pregnant woman, asking me when it was due. I was just a really fat teenager.
4. I've done an army assault course. I couldn't move for the next few days.
5. I have bits of paper saying I can converse in English, Welsh, German and Japanese.
6. I have been able to have a pretty much flawless three-way conversation with myself when I was younger. No, I wasn't crazy...
7. I can swallow whole marshmallows, chips and similar soft yet mildly bulky foods with ease, yet I cannot swallow a tablet.
8. I can juggle (averagely) and can use the Diabolo.
9. I have a personal rule of drinking twice a year. And that's it.
10. I have been used as a make-shift car-jack, by using 2 fenceposts and making a seesaw with the car on one side and myself on the other.

1. My middle name is Apollo….I was born just before the 69 moon landing (most folk just think I’m a Battlestar Galactica nut….. Which I am…. Any Starbuck’s out there?)

2. I once chased and cornered a bag snatcher…. only to discover he was a really, huge, hairy, bloke with white drool flapping from his lips…. Error..error..error…

3. After a beach party I drunkenly went night swimming waay, waaay, too far out in the sea. A huge , triangular fin appeared and slowly swept past me…. (turned out to be a basking shark, but as I neglected to have a copy of ‘The Bumper Book of Harmless Oceanic Giants’ in my trunks, I merely had a heart attack instead… and probably broke the front crawl speed record 2 secs later)

4. For 2 years I recorded and watched every single film on terrestial tv…. even the american, ‘made for tv’ dross….

5. My first proper job was making and operating the games on ‘The Crystal Maze’

6. Biggest regret is not taking the chance to go to New Zealand and work on ‘Lord of the Rings’

7. My one and only time on a horse ended in a gallop on the beach. I sat breathless and exhilarated in the saddle feeling the salty, spray from the sea on my skin and lips….. Until I realised the wind was actually blowing another horse’s pee into my face……. Sigh…

8. After 9/11 I got a rush of blood to the head and joined the London Fire Brigade..

9. Laurel and Hardy can cheer me up and make me roar with laughter even when I’m really down in the dumps.

10. One of the above statements is false….

Not to be vain or anything, but I forgot these before...

I'm one-eighth Cherokee.

I once had my own TV show (Library Story Time on local cable).

If I had it all to do over again, I would probably be a pathologist.