n things meme
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chickenfeet40 things you may not know about me inspired by similar posts from, inter alia, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
scarlet_demon and cassandre:
1. I had 24 stitches in my face after a car crash.
2. John Conteh threatened to punch me out.
3. So did Dennis Skinner.
4. I had to take out a High Court action to change the articles of association of a company, all of whose shareholders were dead.
5. The dead shareholders included Ramsay MacDonald and Philip Snowden.
6. In my cricket playing days I bowled right arm but batted left handed.
7. I once drank four pints of beer through a straw.
8. My maternal grandfather was at the Somme and Dunkirk.
9. When I was a kid I shared a hospital room with a girl who had been blinded by a firework.
10. I have gone temporarily blind twice.
11. I have never broken a bone (of my own).
12. Books I have read in both English and French include Sartre’s “L’Age de Raison”, Gide’s “La Porte Etroite” and Tom Sharpe’s “Blott on the Landscape”.
13. I flew the Toronto/Melbourne round trip four times in eight weeks.
14. I have played rugby against teams from the Czech Republic and Tahiti.
15. I have cooked kangaroo.
16. I have camped above treeline in winter.
17. I have skied on Christmas Day.
18. I worked as a sandblaster one summer.
19. I had a cousin who went to jail for bigamy.
20. At school, my clarinet teacher said he would write my report as soon as he learned to spell “pathetic”.
21. The only gun I have ever fired was a “Brown Bess” musket.
22. I debated with Michael Ramsay, the former Archbishop of Canterbury.
23. I never really had a pet until we got Leela five years ago.
24. I really do have a pair of large yellow chicken feet and I have walked all over downtown Seattle in them.
25.lemur_catta and I went to buy perfume at Nordstrom wearing vampire fangs.
26. Over the years I have accumulated two million frequent flyer points.
27. I have had my tonsils and adenoids removed.
28. Some people know me better in r/l by one of my on-line aliases (not this one).
29. I used to be a serious tournament bridge player.
30. I used to hitchhike a lot.
31. Once upon a time I could drink a cup of tea while holding it with my feet.
32. I used to do lights and sound for amateur theatricals.
33. I took public exams in mathematics every year from 1972-1978 inclusive.
34. I am allergic to penicillin.
35. I used to run an operation making crisp flavours.
36. I am usually up by 6am.
37. I am not allowed to donate blood because I worked in England for a few months in the early ‘90s.
38. I had a friend at primary school who was accidentally shot and killed by his brother.
39. I am extremely short-sighted.
40. I gave a prominent Irish politician a lift from Waterford to Dublin.
scarlet_demon and cassandre:1. I had 24 stitches in my face after a car crash.
2. John Conteh threatened to punch me out.
3. So did Dennis Skinner.
4. I had to take out a High Court action to change the articles of association of a company, all of whose shareholders were dead.
5. The dead shareholders included Ramsay MacDonald and Philip Snowden.
6. In my cricket playing days I bowled right arm but batted left handed.
7. I once drank four pints of beer through a straw.
8. My maternal grandfather was at the Somme and Dunkirk.
9. When I was a kid I shared a hospital room with a girl who had been blinded by a firework.
10. I have gone temporarily blind twice.
11. I have never broken a bone (of my own).
12. Books I have read in both English and French include Sartre’s “L’Age de Raison”, Gide’s “La Porte Etroite” and Tom Sharpe’s “Blott on the Landscape”.
13. I flew the Toronto/Melbourne round trip four times in eight weeks.
14. I have played rugby against teams from the Czech Republic and Tahiti.
15. I have cooked kangaroo.
16. I have camped above treeline in winter.
17. I have skied on Christmas Day.
18. I worked as a sandblaster one summer.
19. I had a cousin who went to jail for bigamy.
20. At school, my clarinet teacher said he would write my report as soon as he learned to spell “pathetic”.
21. The only gun I have ever fired was a “Brown Bess” musket.
22. I debated with Michael Ramsay, the former Archbishop of Canterbury.
23. I never really had a pet until we got Leela five years ago.
24. I really do have a pair of large yellow chicken feet and I have walked all over downtown Seattle in them.
25.
lemur_catta and I went to buy perfume at Nordstrom wearing vampire fangs.26. Over the years I have accumulated two million frequent flyer points.
27. I have had my tonsils and adenoids removed.
28. Some people know me better in r/l by one of my on-line aliases (not this one).
29. I used to be a serious tournament bridge player.
30. I used to hitchhike a lot.
31. Once upon a time I could drink a cup of tea while holding it with my feet.
32. I used to do lights and sound for amateur theatricals.
33. I took public exams in mathematics every year from 1972-1978 inclusive.
34. I am allergic to penicillin.
35. I used to run an operation making crisp flavours.
36. I am usually up by 6am.
37. I am not allowed to donate blood because I worked in England for a few months in the early ‘90s.
38. I had a friend at primary school who was accidentally shot and killed by his brother.
39. I am extremely short-sighted.
40. I gave a prominent Irish politician a lift from Waterford to Dublin.
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Date: 2004-09-08 02:39 pm (UTC)Barbeque? Jerky? Wine and butter? Linguine with Kangaroo sauce?
Oh, and does it taste good?
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Date: 2004-09-08 03:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-08 03:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-08 04:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-08 08:00 pm (UTC)Sorry about the delay, but thank you for the text message. I will most likely pick your brains once I think more clearly. Thank you again.
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Date: 2004-09-09 12:47 am (UTC)Some questions, does #13 mean that you are officially entitled to describe yourself as a masochist? #39: do you wear contacts? #2: who is John Conteh, and will you hate me now I've admitted my ignorance?
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Date: 2004-09-09 04:07 am (UTC)#39 - yes
Conteh - former world light heavyweight champion.
...and how could I ever hate you?
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Date: 2004-09-09 06:00 am (UTC)And here you are proving that you really do get up early.
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Date: 2004-09-09 12:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-09 04:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-09 09:34 pm (UTC)Me neither (despite the fact that I was a strict vegetarian at the time).
Which Irish politician?
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Date: 2004-09-10 05:17 am (UTC)