Universal Monster Army

This one is simple and fun. Tell us ten things that we don't know about you.

Here's mine:

1. Im left-handed.
2. I have an obsession with teashades.
3. I can't snap my fingers.
4. I feel uncomfortable borrowing things from people. If someone loans me something, I get in a rush to return it.
5. I have a kitten that looks like a leopard (bengal cat).
6. I put mayo on French fries.
7. I was once stalked (in real life) by a guy who had an imaginary girlfriend and a scat fetish.
8. I can draw competently, but I paint horribly.
9. I sometimes misuse, mispronounce, or use non-existent words... much to the amusement (and confusion) of people around me.
10. If it's an insect, and it bites or stings, I have a crippling phobia of it. If it's in the house, it is imperative to kill it, or I will not sleep.

1.I'm left handed
2.Been married to the same person for 22 years
3.Drive a 1959 Hearse
4.I'm a huge fan of the Addams Family.
5.What's not to like about the Munsters?
6.Boris Karloff was the Greatest Actor of all time.
7.Spooky houses are the ideal living environment.
8.Cats are evil psycho killing machines, so I have 3 of them.
9.Antique suits of Armor are the perfect home decor
10.Haloween should be in ones heart all year round.

1.  I used to be an incredibly dominant pitcher in a seriously competitive Wiffle Ball League (didn't lose a game in the 3 years I competed).  I started out with a sinker/ rising fastball mix, then developed a sweeping slider and a nose to toes curveball with a screwball mixed in.  If my team scored 2 runs, we were a mortal lock.  We always scored 2 runs or more.
2.  I like pickled herring.
3.  I can't stand tomatoes unless they're chopped finely or pureed.
4.  I can draw a little. 
5.  I have been told many times I should be an attorney or a talk show host (I have no plans to do either).
6.  My wife wants me to write Romance Novels.
7.  I had braces PUT ON my teeth when I was 19.
8.  I am a big fan of wedgies (giving them)-----just not for a long time.
9.  I never had a 'girls are icky' stage.  I practiced 'my look' in the mirror for hours the night before my 1st day of Kindergarten.
10. I use analogies in essentially every discussion/ debate topic I'm in-----especially at work in meetings.  Sometimes they're ridiculous-------but most people love them.

1. I'm right handed
2. I've been married for 31 years
3. I drowned in a lake when I was 12, and was resuscitated by a stranger
4. which brings me to the fact that I cannot swim and refer to lakes, rivers, and oceans as "blue death"
5.I once got a giant novelty pencil, with a hook on the end that secured a mini pennant, stuck in my throat when I was chewing on it
6. I have been a nail biter for 40+ years
7. I was once the only Cheeseasaurus Rex costumed character in the metro Atlanta area for a year (official Kraft business- not in my personal life)
8.I LOVE Monsters!!
9.I  had my first cup of coffee at the age of 47 (iced)- because I never eat or drink anything HOT......yikes
10. I would watch re-runs of Dawson's Creek- anytime/anywhere

1. I dropped out of art school in NY, to attend art school in Chicago
2. I was born and raised in Chicago
3. I only have one kidney.
4. I have a dog named oreo, and a cat named luna
5. Im 24 and have collected monster toys since i was 1994,, so not that long
6. I just got a fancy flat TV
7. i collect taxidermy and other weird items.
8. I have a large majority of my body tattooed
9. My father and I look like twins
10. My favorite monster toy is the telco motionettes my dad bought me from kmart in the early 90s... we werent getting out of there without them.

1. Although my wife always thinks I'm kidding, I honestly believe that since I was young, I've always been attracted to Asian women because I watched so many Godzilla movies.  (although my wife is from the Philippines, not Japan.)
2. Although I like the smell of it brewing, I hate coffee.  (I drink diet Coke like it's water though.)
3. I apparently have a "twin" at one of the local flea markets that sells old coins.  On many occasions people have started to chat with me thinking that I was this other guy.
4. I've tried to learn the flute,piano, and guitar and failed at all three.  The only thing I CAN play is the radio.
5. Growing up, I never had much of an interest at all in westerns and war movies.  In recent years though, I've been watching them a lot.
6. When I was a kid, I would only eat the crust from pizza and spaghetti with butter and cheese.  I wouldn't go near tomato sauce. That issue is long gone and could easily eat pizza daily.
7. Prefer the the Monkees over the Beatles.
8. I don't care for NOSFERATU, Laurel & Hardy, pineapple, or watching sports (except for the Olympics every 4 years).
9. I have an extreme pet peeve of people that are so oblivious to the fact that they are blocking aisles with their shopping carts.
10. I have never ridden on a motorcycle, shot a real gun (other than a BB gun), or used drugs illegally (but I could tell quite a story about my one legal experience in Amsterdam in 1987).

Rob

1. I played the trombone for 9 years and still have one in the house somewhere
2. I didn't learn to skate until I was over 30 years old
3. I dearly want to own a classic Volkswagon Westphalia camper van
4. I couldn't speak another language if you held a gun to my head
5. I am distantly related to Randy Bachman of Guess Who/ BTO fame, though I've never met the man
6. I used to study archaeology
7. I hate the smell of sauted mushrooms
8. I have visited fourteen countries
9. I spent several years as a kid in and out of hospitals for various thingies
10. I have the least mechanical skill of anyone I know

 thrhrt thrhrt

Here is my list:
    1.  I can take almost any type of "bug" except spiders and centipedes!
    2.  I play et, Bass guitar and a little harmonica.
    3.  I was told by my 9th grade English teacher that I should go into acting!  She also was one of the 1st to encourage James Dean.  He listened, I didn't.
    4.  I was once told by a singer in the Cincinnati Opera to give up singing in my church's choir, follow his instruction and I would soon be able to sing in an Opera company - but I don't like opera!
    5.  I cry at almost every good movie/TV show that involves our troops that have fought for our country and freedom.
    6.  I been wonderfully married to the same beautiful woman for 32 1/2 years!  Man what a saint she is!!!  Not a bad track record for a girl who was 17 when we married!
    7.  We celebrated the coming of 2011 for my not being taken to the E.R. over the holiday for the 1st time in about 5 yrs.
    8.  Because of my disability, I haven't driven a car in almost 5 years!
    9.  I once developed a cartoon character based on a water spot on our living room ceiling.
  10.  I've been fascinated by Halloween makeup since I was in the 7th grade.  My wife once said that I had more makeup than she did!

thrhrt thrhrt

1. I'm left-handed
2. I collect Barbies, as well monsters and medieval weapons
3. My wife and friends and I once nearly got drafted to appear in a haunted trail one halloween. They thought we were part of the show when we showed up in costume.
4. I love hot tea. Rooibos and Earl Grey are my favorites.
5. I am an excellent shot with the crossbow and blowgun.
6. I love listening to tribal and primitive stuff.
7. I LOVE dinosaurs
8. Who ever said that above was right: Antique armor does make for great decor.. It's also a bold fashion statement.
9. I have over 80 hats, caps, and helmets. And I wear them.
10. Driving terrifies me so I don't do it. That and I have Zombie nightmares.

Skeletons of the Opera Ghost

1. Played Drums for 8 years until HS Graduation and then put away the sticks, until Christmas day when we got a kit for my 3 yr old.
2. Dark Shadows and Twilight Zone gave me severe nightmares when I was a kid, and was forced to stop watching them for about a year
3. I've a mortal fear of heights and snakes, and was fine with the Ocean until Jaws
4. I'm co-owner of a 1966 Reproduction Batmobile, from the ground up.
5. Love pinups and women from the 30s and 40s era, and often feel like a man out of his era
6. All Alcohol and excessive heat give me a headache
7. Talked my parents into buying me a 2nd Aurora Dracula model 6 mos after the 1st by telling them it was a kit of him coming out of the coffin.
8. Married twice
9. Had my first child, Mykhail, at age 46
10. I met Lana Clarkson 2 weeks before her Murder by Phil Spector

Quote from: Dr. Madd on January 03, 2011, 11:47:49 AM
1. I'm left-handed
2. I collect Barbies, as well monsters and medieval weapons
3. My wife and friends and I once nearly got drafted to appear in a haunted trail one halloween. They thought we were part of the show when we showed up in costume.
4. I love hot tea. Rooibos and Earl Grey are my favorites.
5. I am an excellent shot with the crossbow and blowgun.
6. I love listening to tribal and primitive stuff.
7. I LOVE dinosaurs
8. Who ever said that above was right: Antique armor does make for great decor.. It's also a bold fashion statement.
9. I have over 80 hats, caps, and helmets. And I wear them.
10. Driving terrifies me so I don't do it. That and I have Zombie nightmares.

8) EARL GREY...^whoo...whoo!  Who in their right mind doesn't love it??  thrhrt  uuummm!  Let's start with two Units!

Quote from: Uncula on January 03, 2011, 12:40:08 PM
8) EARL GREY...^whoo...whoo!  Who in their right mind doesn't love it??  thrhrt  uuummm!  Let's start with two Units!

Rooibos and Lapsang suchong are great, too.

01.  I'm a loner, Dottie. A rebel.
02.  I am not an elephant! I am not an animal! I am a human being! I am a man!
03.  Excuse me... I dislike being touched... an Eastern prejudice.
04.  You don't understand. Every night when the moon is full, I turn into a wolf.
05.  I am your father.
06.  Don't worry, the whole world's my hiding place. I can stand there amongst them in the day and night and laugh at them.
07.  One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach, all the damn vampires.
08.  I'm not Regan.
09.  I am Dracula.
10.  Crazy, am I? We'll see whether I'm crazy or not.

I just have to say I love this topic...obviously the coolest people come to UMA  ;)

Some of these may already be known about me, but here goes anyway:

1.   I've fallen off a 40 foot bridge and stood up immediately after landing on my back.  My landing pad was a rock-strewn mud puddle, littered with railroad spikes.

2.   I was a Professional Wrestler on & off for several years - I never became famous and did not get rich.

3.   I've been married for 23 years.

4.   I held the Indiana State Benchpress Record (a long time ago) by breaking the record, set by Tom Zupancic, former strength coach for the Indianapolis Colts.

5.   I have an OCD-type deal where I sometimes, time stoplights, commercials, etc.  Plus, I sometimes count my steps as I'm walking.

6.   I once won a body painting contest, held at the Muncie Mall.  Garfield creator, Jim Davis, competed in it also.

7.   I have an unfinished tattoo of KING KONG on my right shoulder/arm.

8.   I love Mexican & Tex/Mex food.

9.   I don't really drink alcohol very often.

10. I've never seen a ghost - at least, I don't think I have...

Let's see: Ten things about me.

1. I am not overweight--I'm under tall.  If my height and weight were proportional, I'd have to be
     about 10 feet tall.
2. I have no musical ability.  This, despite my parents insisting on music lessons.
3. I have no artistic ability.  I Cannot draw, sculpt, paint, or carve.  I'm even lousy at connect the dots.
4. I read a lot, but not as much as I used to:  I'm down to 75-80 books a year.
5. Ridiculously over educated.  BA in History/anthropology. MA in History. 
      And I work in a plasma center.
6. Lousy at math.  Loved science, but I could not figure out numbers.
7. I wear trifocals. (Maybe related to #4)
8. Amateur astronomer. (never a chance at being a pro--see #6)
9. I have not seen a movie in a theater in years.  The last one: Troy
10. Really pretty boring.

1.I'm right handed
2. I can do the Xena warrior princess call/which also Arabs do..
3.I collect Gnomes
4.I have Glaucoma
5. I hate cats
6.I'm a stoner
7.I'm double jointed in my left hand
8.I have had a gun pointed at my face(point blank)
9.I have seen some strange things, that some may call "Supernatural"
10.I play Text RPGs online

1. I have been married to my wife for 26 years.
2. I listen to an old time radio show every night as I'm falling asleep.
3. I like to paint.  ;D
4. I'm secure enough in my manhood to cry when the occasion warrants it.
5. I try to read books that are way over my head, and then get frustrated that I can't understand them.
6. I hate my job, but am grateful to have it.
7. Usually have to take some assistance to get to sleep at night.
8. Treasure my family and friends.
9. Will usually get too vociferous defending my favorite artists, musicians, authors and actors.
10. Have trouble wrapping my brain around the fact that God found me worthy of saving.

1. As a very small child held up in an uncle's arms, watched one of the first Earth satellites traverse the night sky.
2. Have worn one of William Gillette's "Sherlock Holmes" dressing gowns.
3. Have been involved with the woman I'm married to for 28 (!) years, and intend to keep going.
4. Love The Beatles, saw them on Sullivan, and feel the strongest kinship with George.
5. Honestly believe that Rabbi Yeshua ben Yosef from Nazareth was in a unique way the son of the living God.
6. Worked a graveyard shift one night at "The Pit" of Ground Zero, just a few days after 9/11.
7. First word I spoke after "Mommy" and "Daddy," was "Choo-Choo" (we lived by the tracks.)
8. Feel genuinely blessed to have performed the sublime words of such writers as William Shakespeare, Rod Serling, and Robert Browning.
9. Once got a small royalty check of Buster Keaton's to his widow.
10. (To be continued...)

Firstly Craig, as an avid Keaton fan I'm begging you to expound on the check story.

1) I'm awed by Jesus Christ

2) I'm still passionately in love with my wife Nancy

3) I generally hate any movie made after 1985

4) I adore early film stars such as Laurel and Hardy, Buster Keaton, Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, etc.

5) I'm obsessed with Hollywood/Los Angeles history.

6) I despise peas, insects, eating outside (see "insects"), living in Florida, heat and humidity (see "living in Florida") and the Baltimore Ravens (Hi OG!!).

7) I want to own a Drive-In theater and show exclusively a mixture of classic films and schlock.

8.) I love classic American Muscle Cars.

9) There's no time or occasion where I feel it's inappropriate to eat a hot dog (and NO....I do NOT care how they're made, so don't bother telling me).

10) I don't belong in this era or place.

 :D  The more I read here, the more I know that this is where I belong!!  See, ALL THE ABOVE! thrhrt

Quote from: Scatter on January 04, 2011, 01:11:04 AM
Firstly Craig, as an avid Keaton fan I'm begging you to expound on the check story.

1) I'm awed by Jesus Christ


4) I adore early film stars such as Laurel and Hardy, Buster Keaton, Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, etc.

Scatter, I *knew* you were one righteous dude!!   ;D

"Firstly Craig, as an avid Keaton fan I'm begging you to expound on the check story."

Scat-

I met Patty Tobias at a FILM FORUM Keaton fest years ago, when she was just starting her fan group, "The Damfinos." Hearing that I was a classic radio fan, she asked if I knew of copies of Buster's rare radio appearances. I didn't, but said that as a member I'd call AFTRA and see if they had any record of it.

They didn't - but said, "Hey, do you know how to contact Buster's widow? There's a small residual check here for him." Through Patty, I got that to Eleanor (who has since died herself, I think.)

Best,
-Craig

P.S. - And just recently, I finally found the radio show itself for Patty!

1. I'm biracial, usually labeled as "other" growing up in the 70's/80's

2. I have been married over 2 years to my beautiful wife, although we've been together for over 7 years (took me awhile...)

3. We have a beautiful 5 month old daughter...she is Daddy's Girl!

4. I enjoy DIY projects and building my tool collection (just an average family handyman though...)

5. I have been teaching elementary school for 15 years. Met First Lady Michelle Obama and First Lady of Mexico Margarita Zavala when they came to my school and participated in my class to promote healthy eating.

6. I love reading: fiction as a kid, race and gender issues in my 20's and military history, history, philosophy, DIY books in my 30's (not much time anymore)

7. I enjoy studying and playing old Avalon Hill /SPI wargames. It's kind of like military chess, set in a historical period. Love chess as well (again...time is limited)

8. I like to write and enjoy spoken word performances

9. Love drinking wine with my wife...used to swim in Remy when I was partying hard, but wine is more my speed now. Malbecs, Shiraz, Bordeaux, Cabernet...

10. Love to travel (again, pre baby days!)

1. I'm presently a youth counselor.

2. Oklahoma born, U.S. Army (Cold War) veteran

3. I'm a spiritual, bleeding heart,  tree hugging wacko who believes Divine Love is the only real power in the Universe.

4. I love animals, but partial to cats.

5. Predisposed to love horror/fantasy/sci-fi. Enjoy monster & imagi-movies from the silent era to the 1980's.

6. Love classical, jazz, blues & rock music.

7. Divorced, but still love my ex, who passed last year.

8. Sing in public occasionally, sang lead vocals on rock CD for a friend/local Chicago artist in 2001.

9. Dallas Cowboys & KC Royals fan for life.

10. Hate ham & most red meat (baggage from childhood), unless it's in chili.

Quote from: Pauspy on January 02, 2011, 05:42:36 PM

5. I am distantly related to Randy Bachman of Guess Who/ BTO fame, though I've never met the man

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Years ago, we were on vacation in Winnepeg. My mom broke her glasses, we found the nearest optometrists, & were waited on by Tim Bachman! I still have his autograph. I think they're brothers...

This has been very interesting reading! I'd love to follow up on some of these items with some of you. But I figure I need to contribute first, so here we go:

1. I enjoy writing, have had articles on comic books published in Back Issue magazine, co-author a blog on comics and 70s pop culture (see my signature) with a friend, and just started my first fiction project in 15 years. I can't say much, but it involves the Frankenstein Monster, zombies, and alchemists...

2. In college I worked as a veterinary assistant. This was the most interesting and enlightening job I've ever had. it also made me a firm believer in the existence of the soul.

3. I met my husband playing an on-line game called City of Heroes.

4. Despite my blue eyes, brown hair, and light skin, I am one-quarter Native American (Sac and Fox).

5. I am co-inventor on a patent for a synthetic DNA probe.

6. I have a competitive streak: Many years ago, after breaking a bone in my foot, I went out and bought larger cleats so I could play in a softball playoff game.

7. I haven't traveled a lot, but I've been to both Iceland and Australia.

8. I'm a fairly talented mimic and can do a variety of accents and impersonations.

9. I would eat BBQ and/or Mexican food every day if I weren't concerned about my health.

10. I love dogs but haven't been able to bring myself to let another one into my life since I lost my last two a few years ago.

1. I've been married to my darling wife 41 years this comming 2/14. Yea Valentine's Day.

2. Worked 40 years at the New York Stock Exchange, retiring 2 1/2 years ago.

3. Had long hair, wore bell-bottem pants in the 60's. Kind of hippie looking.

4. Entered the 1964 FMOF make-up contest, didn't win. Val Warren won and I believe Rick Baker came in second.

5. Made 8mm monster movies with friends on the block in the early 60's. Showed them in someone's basement and charged admission.

6. Wanted to be a monster make-up man in the movies.

7.Always wanted to get the Don Post Calendar masks when they first came out in the 60's but could not afford them then.

8.Wish I still had all the monster stuff that I had when I was a kid.

9.Pulled a windowwasher hanging by only one of his straps back into my office at work. Close call.

10. Very glad I found the UMA website.

Quote from: LundyAfterMidnight on January 04, 2011, 02:03:34 PM

Quote from: Pauspy on January 02, 2011, 05:42:36 PM

5. I am distantly related to Randy Bachman of Guess Who/ BTO fame, though I've never met the man

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Years ago, we were on vacation in Winnepeg. My mom broke her glasses, we found the nearest optometrists, & were waited on by Tim Bachman! I still have his autograph. I think they're brothers...

Yep Tim left the original BTO in 1974. Left Randy and Robbie as the Bachman parts of the band-btw if you're interested, Randy Bachman and Fred Turner have released a new album just called "Bachman and Turner", if you like classic gear-head rock  ;D

Quote from: Illoman on January 04, 2011, 09:03:03 AM
Scatter, I *knew* you were one righteous dude!!   ;D

Backatcha brotha!!

Quote from: Wich2 on January 04, 2011, 10:34:04 AM
"Firstly Craig, as an avid Keaton fan I'm begging you to expound on the check story."

Scat-

I met Patty Tobias at a FILM FORUM Keaton fest years ago, when she was just starting her fan group, "The Damfinos." Hearing that I was a classic radio fan, she asked if I knew of copies of Buster's rare radio appearances. I didn't, but said that as a member I'd call AFTRA and see if they had any record of it.

They didn't - but said, "Hey, do you know how to contact Buster's widow? There's a small residual check here for him." Through Patty, I got that to Eleanor (who has since died herself, I think.)

Best,
-Craig

P.S. - And just recently, I finally found the radio show itself for Patty!

Cool!! Thanks Craig!! Keaton was pure genius. Goodness only knows what more he could have given us had he been able to finance and produce his own films like Chaplin (rather than having the Studios sticking their decidedly un-funny noses into his later work).

Hello, All...

I'm Left handed, and a MEGA-KLUTZ
An Anglican
A retired Library Worker who reads everything I can get my hands on.

I ADORE cats, and regularly donate bags of cat chow to the local shelter
I'm absolutely terrified of any kind of worm or catapillar or grub, and could probably outshriek Elsa Lanchester and Una O'Connor combined
I drink tons of black coffee, love Chinese and Thai food and use Vietnamese Chili Sauce instead of Ketchup

I love to write, collect photographs, and regularly sketch the PROJECT RUNWAY Challenges.  I am also, unfortunately, a packrat.
I have a liking for Liturgical Needlepoint, and once worked on my church's kneelers..(the backgrounds)
I dress like an old-time beatnick, go barefoot and am a gentle combination of Southern California Democrat and British Monarchist.  (meaning that I get cheesed off a lot, but am extremely decorous about how I express it.)

My not so secret wish is to get a genuine Colin Clive autograph before I die.....after which I shall get it from the original source.  (smile)
"E"

This is a very interesting thread! Great stuff here. My turn:

1. Created the UMA on November 6th, 2002. My life has never been the same since.

2. I'm 48 yrs old. Happily married for 13 yrs with two wonderful boys 11 and 5 yrs old. Staying married has had its challenges though.

3. I used to live the rock-n-roll life back in the late 80's. I was a lead vocalist in a shock rock band named Vile and then Mondo Trasho.  Played hard, drank hard, and fell hard before finally hanging it up in 1997. Saved by the Grace of God in 2001.

4. I'm a mall walker sometimes walking 4 - 6 miles every morning at the Mall Of America.

5. I own my own company in the lawn and landscaping trade.

6. I love watching the NBA despite all of its blemishes and some of the overpaid hoodlums. Longtime Lakers fan! Still hoping the Timberwolves will compete one day with the rest of the playoff teams.

7. Drink my coffee black, am addicted to TAB soda pop, and appreciate a fine handcrafted ale usually every night.

8. Love sushi, love Mexican food, love McDonald's on occasion (filet-o-fish rocks!), and appreciate fine dining at expensive restaurants (when I can afford it).

9. I hate Minnesota winters and I hate snow. Would trade places with Scatter anytime. Gimme some of that Florida humidity you loathe!  ;)

10. I occasionally like to retreat into my man-cave for weeks at a time. Can be a loner at times. Then suddenly .. I need to be around people again. I'm weird like that.

9. I hate Minnesota winters and I hate snow. Would trade places with Scatter anytime. Gimme some of that Florida humidity you loathe! 

Finally, another person who Hates snow....  :laugh:  which I must add, it' supposed to snow this wknd here...whoopee whoopee yay :(

Quote from: fmofmpls on January 05, 2011, 04:26:09 PM

10. I occasionally like to retreat into my man-cave for weeks at a time. Can be a loner at times. Then suddenly .. I need to be around people again. I'm weird like that.

Terry, working in retail makes me hate everybody most of the time! LOL!!! That's why I so appreciate my cyber buddies: you guys and gals are *almost* real!  ;)
Disappearing into a man cave for weeks on end sounds like heaven to me!!

I've noticed that several UMA members are left-handed - if it's true that a lot of left-hamded people are geniuses, that says something about this great army.

I'm wrong-handed, by the way...

Quote from: Unknown Primate on January 05, 2011, 10:53:50 PM
I've noticed that several UMA members are left-handed - if it's true that a lot of left-hamded people are geniuses, that says something about this great army.

I'm wrong-handed, by the way...

;D Is that a "Left Handed" pat on the back, UP?  LOL  ::)  ::)  thrhrt

thrhrt I have thought a lot about people who are left-handed and how a larger percentage of them are geniuses; compared to how a smaller percentage of right-handed people are geniuses.

My conclusion is based in a large part on two major points which I've observed:
     1.  Many people who are left-handed are dyslexic or they see written letters in reverse order such as - they may see the word "drum" but understand its spelling as "durm".
     2.  Many "left-handeds" have trouble performing tasks in an "ordinary" manner i.e. when writting in "script" they usually can't write in a forward slant but have a backwards slant.
These points remind me of the old addage that says, "Those who can, DO!  Those who can't do. TEACH!!"
In other words, if you find fulfilment in your ability to do things in an "ordinary manner", then you live out your life producing things like:
     1.  By going into manufacturing
     2.  Becoming a Draftsman
     3.  Go into movie/TV production by becoming a Grip, Best Boy etc.
Those who can't do things in an "ordinary" manner find fulfillment in "inventing" things like:
     1.  Designing manufacturing processes so that cars can get better milage, are more appealing to people and cost less for the manufacturer
     2.  Plot the stars and predict stellar movement and the formation of nebula
     3.  Become a fiction writer an invent a "new world" from nothing to something, or a Director and see a vision of the screenplay that resonates with the audience

This is my conclusion.  It might be right or....it might be a wrong premise or conclusion entirely.  thrhrt  ???

Quote from: fmofmpls on January 05, 2011, 04:26:09 PM
This is a very interesting thread! Great stuff here. My turn:


9. I hate Minnesota winters and I hate snow. Would trade places with Scatter anytime. Gimme some of that Florida humidity you loathe!  ;)

:o Unless your serious, don't ask him or he might show up tomorrow with a moving van!!!  :laugh:  :laugh:  thrhrt

Number one....First and foremost I am a nerd. But, my Beautiful Wife always says I am a hot nerd. Lol.
2. In have been playing drums since I was thirteen, and which I was influenced by KISS, BOWIE and ALICE COOPER.
3. I was born in upstate N.Y., Rochester.
4. Collecting any vintage pin-up photos are another obsession I have, besides the countless other obsessions.
5. I love the color(s) black, orange and lime green. But, I always wear black, and, no, I am not goth. :D
6. My Wife is my closest best friend, and will always be.
7. The holy grail of my collectibles, is a KISS pinball machine.
8. I prefer UNIVERSAL STUDIOS over Disneyland.
9. People who say " theses ones" annoy the crap out of me.
10. My secret career obsession is to be a voice-over actor.

    Mine too, Marsattacks666!
"My secret career obsession is to be a voice-over actor."

8) Great choice. I just wish I could figure out how to start!  I P.M.ed Joe Moe and he gave some good advice but so far, I'm out of luck.  :'(   thrhrt

1. I was not born in the US
2. I lived in Tokyo when I was a kid
3. I been wounded in combat  twice
4. ! have 3 evil cats
5. i have traveled to over 100 countries
6. I speak French and Spanish
7. I have every Aurora figure kit either boxed or built up
8. I have every Billiken figure kit boxed
9. I collect tikis and Hawaiiana
10. I make a mean mai Tai

Quote from: Uncula on January 06, 2011, 08:56:30 AM
    Mine too, Marsattacks666!
"My secret career obsession is to be a voice-over actor."

8) Great choice. I just wish I could figure out how to start!  I P.M.ed Joe Moe and he gave some good advice but so far, I'm out of luck.  :'(   thrhrt

I just wanted to throw my two-cents in here (and that's about all my advice is worth!): I studied voice acting in San Francisco for about a year at a professional studio. While I learned a lot, I eventually came to feel I was being scammed, as the teacher/owner kept telling me I was almost ready to make my demo, but would then suggest another $300+ class to take. This was happening to many of us, and between the cost and the frustration, I quit. I sort of wish I hadn't now!

But the thing is, with the improvements in technology, you may be able to make your own high-quality demo. One of the things you should try to figure out before you do so, is what type of voice talent are you? Is your voice best suited to doing characters, like for cartoons or video games? Do you have the kind of natural, smooth voice that works well in narrating movies, or reading books? Can you do a little of both? Figure out what your key market is and shape your demo to that.

If you can work with someone to refine your abilities, to teach you how to breathe in front of the mic, how to respond to direction, how to pump up or pull back your performance, that would be very useful. Even regular acting classes are helpful in this regard. There are a few books on the market but nothing beats one on one feedback.

The video game market is a great place for character VO actors. They need all kinds of voices, from heroic to goofy to non-human. The nice thing is, a lot of work can be done remotely now, so you don't have to travel so much. Look at trade magazines and look online. I've never used any of the online job agencies, but places like voices.com may be helpful.

Now you guys have got me thinking about trying to be a VO actor again!  :)

Quote from: Unknown Primate on January 03, 2011, 06:27:25 PM
Some of these may already be known about me, but here goes anyway:

1.   I've fallen off a 40 foot bridge and stood up immediately after landing on my back.  My landing pad was a rock-strewn mud puddle, littered with railroad spikes.

2.   I was a Professional Wrestler on & off for several years - I never became famous and did not get rich.

3.   I've been married for 23 years.

4.   I held the Indiana State Benchpress Record (a long time ago) by breaking the record, set by Tom Zupancic, former strength coach for the Indianapolis Colts.

5.   I have an OCD-type deal where I sometimes, time stoplights, commercials, etc.  Plus, I sometimes count my steps as I'm walking.

6.   I once won a body painting contest, held at the Muncie Mall.  Garfield creator, Jim Davis, competed in it also.

7.   I have an unfinished tattoo of KING KONG on my right shoulder/arm.

8.   I love Mexican & Tex/Mex food.

9.   I don't really drink alcohol very often.

10. I've never seen a ghost - at least, I don't think I have...

You wrestled? under what name?

Quote from: Dr. Madd on January 08, 2011, 02:51:41 AM

You wrestled? under what name?

Golden Gorilla
The Butcher
Mad Mark Mahoney ( incidently, Mark...I made Mad Mark Mahoney on my last wrestling video game, i had)

is that it, or is there more...I cant remember now. :)

Quote from: Moonshadow on January 06, 2011, 11:05:16 AM
I just wanted to throw my two-cents in here (and that's about all my advice is worth!): I studied voice acting in San Francisco for about a year at a professional studio. While I learned a lot, I eventually came to feel I was being scammed, as the teacher/owner kept telling me I was almost ready to make my demo, but would then suggest another $300+ class to take. This was happening to many of us, and between the cost and the frustration, I quit. I sort of wish I hadn't now!

But the thing is, with the improvements in technology, you may be able to make your own high-quality demo. One of the things you should try to figure out before you do so, is what type of voice talent are you? Is your voice best suited to doing characters, like for cartoons or video games? Do you have the kind of natural, smooth voice that works well in narrating movies, or reading books? Can you do a little of both? Figure out what your key market is and shape your demo to that.

If you can work with someone to refine your abilities, to teach you how to breathe in front of the mic, how to respond to direction, how to pump up or pull back your performance, that would be very useful. Even regular acting classes are helpful in this regard. There are a few books on the market but nothing beats one on one feedback.

The video game market is a great place for character VO actors. They need all kinds of voices, from heroic to goofy to non-human. The nice thing is, a lot of work can be done remotely now, so you don't have to travel so much. Look at trade magazines and look online. I've never used any of the online job agencies, but places like voices.com may be helpful.

Now you guys have got me thinking about trying to be a VO actor again!  :)

When I spoke to Joe, he said that I should make my own Demo, find a local agency and their requirements and send them my demo.  As for the rest, I told him that way back when I was in my 11th grade English class, my teacher told me that I should go into television, radio or movies!  She was also one of the first people to encourage the legendary James Dean to go into acting!  In 12th grade, I got my broadcasting license and was a D.J. for about a year before I went to college.

I was in two school plays in High School and later I was in Summer Stock at a local theater.  In my local church, I acted and directed approximately 30 plays.  The last was an Easter play about the two thevies that were crucified with Jesus.  I was very avant guard, minimalistic.  No props, empty stage.  Just two men speaking to each other and the audience.  I directed and costarred.  Around 30 minutes with our arms stretched out!  :o

I could go on about the type of training I've had (my wife would say "...and on and on and on...!) but that's enough.  As far as the TYPE of talent I have done both.  I taped part of the KJV Bible for church use for "shut-ins" and I've done characters (think kind of like Disney's Goofy), a mean, old man {think of Walter Brennon) and used various, regional voicings.  8)

If you are still with me you must have a lot of patience or else nothing better to do!  I'm done!

Uncula -  thrhrt

PS. I was Left handed as a kid, but the Neo Nazi Nuns saw to it that I became right handed. I still bat, play hockey and golf left handed.

Quote from: Uncula on January 06, 2011, 02:37:35 AM
:o Unless your serious, don't ask him or he might show up tomorrow with a moving van!!!  :laugh:  :laugh:  thrhrt

I'm doing a Google search trying to get his address right now............if his house is comparable to mine, I'm trading with him whether he likes it or not.

It strikes me how many UMA members (and therefore classic "monster" fans) are also people who profess a strong faith (and those who are not, accept the personal beliefs of others graciously). I often thought this was a weird quirk of mine but I gess I'm not alone. We ALL have weird quirks!!   ;D

Myself, included. I also happen to be a somewhat devout Christian, and a hardline conservative- a second amendment advocate.. Does that surprise you?

Oh, Doctor!  Ouch!!!  I'm a practicing Anglo/Episcopalian...(Anglican in style, Episcopalian in inclusiveness).  I'm also a proud and enthusiastic California Kennedy Democrat.  About amendments, I will say nothing... except that the Lord help us all to be prudent.
"E"  ededed  :-X

1. Much like Dr. Madd, driving terrifies me and I have never had a liscense
2. I have vertigo. It came out of nowhere 6 years ago and has gotten better, but never gone away.
3. I am finally pursuing my dream and will be doing illustrating for a small comic book company this year.
4. I would much rather watch movies with guys in rubber monster suits over modern CGI monsters anyday
5. I think Bride of Frankenstein is the best movie ever made-period.
6. I have a great interest in paleontology,cryptozoology and UFOs, but real ghosts scare the crap out of me.
7. I am a staunch conservative and favor smaller government with less involvement in citizen's lives.
8. I love history and especially enjoy "speculative" history-the "what ifs" what if the Roman Empire never fell, what if Hitler won WW2. etc.
9. My love of monsters, drawing and model kits was fueled by my Mom and Dad and my grandparents as a kid. They were always supportive of my interests.
10. Corny as it sounds, I really think my wife is an earth bound angel that I am very lucky to be married to.

[mod]People please try to avoid the specifics of religion and politics. Once you start to get into specific opinions and ideas, you're getting awfully close to crossing THAT line. I'm sure there's plenty of other things about yourselves to share.[/mod]

Rob

Abso naffing lutely OK by me, and "mea culpa" for answering the post.

"E" :-X

no offense meant. I'm just pointing out how diverse we all are.

Quote from: Uncula on January 08, 2011, 04:26:50 AM
When I spoke to Joe, he said that I should make my own Demo, find a local agency and their requirements and send them my demo.  As for the rest, I told him that way back when I was in my 11th grade English class, my teacher told me that I should go into television, radio or movies!  She was also one of the first people to encourage the legendary James Dean to go into acting!  In 12th grade, I got my broadcasting license and was a D.J. for about a year before I went to college.

I was in two school plays in High School and later I was in Summer Stock at a local theater.  In my local church, I acted and directed approximately 30 plays.  The last was an Easter play about the two thevies that were crucified with Jesus.  I was very avant guard, minimalistic.  No props, empty stage.  Just two men speaking to each other and the audience.  I directed and costarred.  Around 30 minutes with our arms stretched out!  :o

I could go on about the type of training I've had (my wife would say "...and on and on and on...!) but that's enough.  As far as the TYPE of talent I have done both.  I taped part of the KJV Bible for church use for "shut-ins" and I've done characters (think kind of like Disney's Goofy), a mean, old man {think of Walter Brennon) and used various, regional voicings.  8)

If you are still with me you must have a lot of patience or else nothing better to do!  I'm done!

Uncula -  thrhrt

Uncula, you sound like a perfect fit for voice acting! You already have some acting experience, and through your radio work you'll know how to work with the mic. You absolutely should pursue this. I wish you the best of luck!

Quote from: hammerfan on January 08, 2011, 07:55:43 AM
PS. I was Left handed as a kid, but the Neo Nazi Nuns saw to it that I became right handed. I still bat, play hockey and golf left handed.

My Dad did the same thing to me. He's left-handed, and has always thought it was a burden. So when he saw me using my left hand as an infant, he would always push that hand back and get me to use my right hand. I'm still mostly right-handed but sometimes I do feel like there's a bit of confusion in my motor skills.  ???

I can vouch for Don's voice through some very cool phone calls (BTW Don, we're about due, aren't we??).......I'd kill for that mellifluous baritone.

Quote from: Dr. Madd on January 08, 2011, 06:37:15 PM
no offense meant. I'm just pointing out how diverse we all are.

Yes, our diversity is one of our greatest assets here at the UMA.

I wasn't actually pointing to any one specific post by anyone in particular.  Sometimes it's what the next person may say in response to someone's statement(s) that becomes problematic.  This is a great thread and I've been enjoying it immensely.  I just don't want it to go sour.


:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

Rob

There was a belief that the left hand'side was associated with evil.
http://www.anythinglefthanded.co.uk/lh-info/myths.html (http://www.anythinglefthanded.co.uk/lh-info/myths.html)

The root of the word "sinister" means "from the left".  My mother-in-law, who was herself left-handed, tried to discourage my daughter, who is left-handed,  from using her left hand when she was a baby.

Rob

My son Jordan's a lefty. Can't imagine actually giving a crap. Superstitious idiocy.

Quote from: Scatter on January 08, 2011, 10:28:16 PM
My son Jordan's a lefty. Can't imagine actually giving a crap. Superstitious idiocy.

There is also the fact that the majority of many things (like scissors, desks, computer mouse, guitars, golf clubs, etc.) are made for right-handed people, especially years ago.  You either have to search out the specially made stuff or try to work on being ambidextrous.  I have a feling that my mother-in-law was trying to help my daughter avoid this situation. 

People use and say superstitious things everyday, often without even realizing it.  If someone sneezes, people often say, "God bless you."  The modern rationalization for this is that the heart "skips a beat" when you sneeze.  It goes further back to a time when people thought that when you sneezed, your soul temporarily left your body and you could then be possessed by evil spirits.  My guess is that people say the spray of a sneeze and thought that what they were seeing was the person's soul/spirit.  That's just my theory though.

Rob

Quote from: monsterphile on January 08, 2011, 10:36:59 PM
There is also the fact that the majority of many things (like scissors, desks, computer mouse, guitars, golf clubs, etc.) are made for right-handed people, especially years ago.  You either have to search out the specially made stuff or try to work on being ambidextrous.  I have a feling that my mother-in-law was trying to help my daughter avoid this situation. 

People use and say superstitious things everyday, often without even realizing it.  If someone sneezes, people often say, "God bless you."  The modern rationalization for this is that the heart "skips a beat" when you sneeze.  It goes further back to a time when people thought that when you sneezed, your soul temporarily left your body and you could then be possessed by evil spirits.  My guess is that people say the spray of a sneeze and thought that what they were seeing was the person's soul/spirit.  That's just my theory though.

Rob

Apologies Rob, I certainly wasn't referring to a specific case, and MOST certainly wasn't commenting on your mother-in-law. Just commenting on Fester's post about the role that superstition played in this in years past. I can see the practical difficulties which might cause someone to want to re-train someone back in the day, but that wasn't my point. I was specifically referring to those folks driven solely by superstition. Again, sorry if I inadvertently offended you. It certainly wasn't my intent.

My understanding of the "God Bless You" after sneezing was that sneezing fits were an early symptom of bubonic plague, and therefore the blessing became customary in Medievel Europe due to the prevalance of plague.

Quote from: Scatter on January 08, 2011, 10:43:16 PM
Apologies Rob, I certainly wasn't referring to a specific case, and MOST certainly wasn't commenting on your mother-in-law. Just commenting on Fester's post about the role that superstition played in this in years past. I can see the practical difficulties which might cause someone to want to re-train someone back in the day, but that wasn't my point. I was specifically referring to those folks driven solely by superstition. Again, sorry if I inadvertently offended you. It certainly wasn't my intent.

My understanding of the "God Bless You" after sneezing was that sneezing fits were an early symptom of bubonic plague, and therefore the blessing became customary in Medievel Europe due to the prevalance of plague.

Oh, I didn't think that you were indicating my mother-in-law at all and neither was I for that matter.  :P  She passed away about 7-8 years ago, but while she was alive, despite being my mother-in-law (Dun-Dun-Dun!!), she was a wonderful woman and I got along with her just fine.  Mother-in-law jokes didn't apply to me.  lol

As for the origin of "God Bless You" a little more digging turns up that no one knows for sure.

http://www.snopes.com/language/phrases/blessyou.asp (http://www.snopes.com/language/phrases/blessyou.asp)

Now I'm going to go walk under a ladder right behind that black cat that I saw in my broken mirror.   :D

Quote from: monsterphile on January 08, 2011, 10:36:59 PM
There is also the fact that the majority of many things (like scissors, desks, computer mouse, guitars, golf clubs, etc.) are made for right-handed people, especially years ago.  You either have to search out the specially made stuff or try to work on being ambidextrous.  I have a feling that my mother-in-law was trying to help my daughter avoid this situation. 

That was my Dad's reason for 'converting' me. Although perhaps he also suspected that I could wind up an evil criminal mastermind if I were to be left-handed.  >:D

  1. I'm a lefty.
  2. I've owned four Dodge Chargers. (68, 68, 69, 71)
  3. I don't eat eggs.
  4. My great uncle was Karloff's gardener in the mid to late 30s.
  5. Melmacian coins were given my wife's maiden name.
  6. I was lucky enough to see Bo Jackson play "live" both baseball and football.
  7. I saw NOTLD, Dawn, Day and Land in the movie theater - each during their original releases.
  8. I've never seen Gone With The Wind.
  9. I don't wear wristwatches.
10. I taught TV personality ALF to belch on command.

Quote from: Moonshadow on January 08, 2011, 11:15:47 PM
That was my Dad's reason for 'converting' me. Although perhaps he also suspected that I could wind up an evil criminal mastermind if I were to be left-handed.  >:D

I am right handed so I didn't need to be "converted".  However, I used to work for GM on the factory floor and to do my job (without becoming too tired), I learned to do each job two different ways with each hand.  So I could do a job 4 different ways!!  8)  My General foreman (who was a friend of mine outside of work) once told me that he and the plant manager were behind me (and his words) "marveling" at the way I did my job.  The plant manager said that I Looked "like a machine".  :o  I can do almost any thing left handed except swing a baseball bat!  :-[  thrhrt

01. My favorite band is The Cramps. (Or maybe Cancerslug)
02. I won't curse in front of women.
03. My favorite TV show is 'Gilmore Girls'
04. I've seen The Kids In The Hall live twice
05. I'm a bowler. 188 average.
06. I miss the elegance of railway travel.
07. I badly want to host my own local TV horror host show.
08. I whistle "Bad Reputation" by The Reverend Horton Heat daily
09. Ever see personalized M&Ms? Yeah, I used to be in charge of that.
10. Danny R's cousin cuts my hair.  8)

Quote from: Scatter on January 08, 2011, 07:48:43 PM
I can vouch for Don's voice through some very cool phone calls (BTW Don, we're about due, aren't we??).......I'd kill for that mellifluous baritone.

You are right Gary, we are due to talk!  I've been thinking about it for a couple of days but didn't want to "bug" you to often!  Seeing that I don't really like "bugs".  ::)  thrhrt

  I used to whistle songs all the time.  For awhile, I worked at a Christian owned lock factory "Best Lock, International" (which had a lock featured in the Christmas movie "Prancer" were bad guys locked up the raindeer.  If you watch it, you have to look fast when the young girl finds him and you'll see the lock with the logo "Best" on the lock).  I worked in "final inspection" in an area that was fairly quiet.  I began to whistle Christian Hymns and other songs when all of a sudden I would hear, "I love that song Don, Do you know "______ _____ ___", different Christian songs which I would whistle and then get 2 or 3 more requests at a time!! :o  8)  thrhrt

Quote from: Cinemacabre on January 08, 2011, 11:20:26 PM

  4. My great uncle was Karloff's gardener in the mid to late 30s.

Did he help bury Boris' old friends? I read that folks who were down on their luck and were friends with Boris often ended up cremated and put in his garden so they'd be close to him!

Pretty sure you're thinking of Bing Crosby in Dr. Cook's Garden.  8)

Quote from: Uncula on January 09, 2011, 12:03:05 AM
You are right Gary, we are due to talk!  I've been thinking about it for a couple of days but didn't want to "bug" you to often!  Seeing that I don't really like "bugs".  ::)  thrhrt

Whatchootalkin'bout Willis?? You BETTA call!!

Quote from: Uncula on January 09, 2011, 12:23:15 AM
  I used to whistle songs all the time.  For awhile, I worked at a Christian owned lock factory "Best Lock, International" (which had a lock featured in the Christmas movie "Prancer" were bad guys locked up the raindeer.  If you watch it, you have to look fast when the young girl finds him and you'll see the lock with the logo "Best" on the lock).  I worked in "final inspection" in an area that was fairly quiet.  I began to whistle Christian Hymns and other songs when all of a sudden I would hear, "I love that song Don, Do you know "______ _____ ___", different Christian songs which I would whistle and then get 2 or 3 more requests at a time!! :o  8)  thrhrt

I can't whistle a tune. I've been trying for 46 years. Can't do it. Now, I can blow out your eardrum using my fingers in any combination to whistle, but the act of simply pursing the lips and whistling a tune sadly eludes me.

Same here, Scatter.  I can't whistle worth a tinker's darn.  Can't read music, either.  I was a choir singer for 40 years, until the asthma got me, and I did everything by ear.  Doesn't bother me, though.  Judy Garland couldn't sight read either, and she turned out fine!

Elisabeth  ededed, who still loves Vivaldi's GLORIA.

Music that I like:  1.  The Eagles    8)   
                          2.  Credence Clearwater Revival
                          3.  Bread
                          4.  Bach
                          5.  Beethoven
                          6.  Phillips, Craig and Dean   8)
                          7.  Rachmaninoff  8)  8)  8)
                          8.  Chopin
                          9.  Holtz
                        10.  Elton John
  And many more!!!  ::)  thrhrt

"Rachmaninoff"

That's Classical Music--I can tell: there are no lyrics!"

Rachmaninoff's  Second Piano Concerto still cracks me up!

Music I like:

1. Johan Pachelbel's canon in D- One of my favorite songs
2.  Bach's toccata en Fugue
3. Die Valkyrie- Wagner
4. Back and Forth- Dr. Steel
5. Loverboy- The Cog is dead
6. Cup of Brown Joy- Professor Elemental
7. A piece of my mind- Mr. B the Gentleman rhymer
8. Airship Pirates- Abney Park
9. Simple Man- Charlie Daniels band
10. The soundtrack to Sweeney todd and Young Frankenstein

Ten "things" about me...
1. I am totally left handed, blue eyes, dark hair (turning gray)
2. Czechoslovakian Bohunk
3. Pretended I was Tarzan from age 8 to 14. Sharpened sticks on the sidewalk for knives.
4. Play guitar upside down left-handed (low strings on the bottom where they belong)
5. Die hard Vikings fan
6. Quit smoking and drinking for 12 years then started both again.
7. Heart is broken but still love monsters.
8. Love my Mac too.
9. Knew the intro from 50s Superman by third grade (Faster than a speeding bullet...more powerful than a locomotive!)
10. Love Chinese food.
11. Speak Mangani, Francais and Esperanto (kind of)
Me in a nutshell.
pk

Mangani!

Given item number 3 on your list, that makes perfect sense to me. ::)

Ten songs I really love....

1.Dont worry,Be Happy-Bobby McFerrin
2.Viva Las Vegas-Elvis
3.Ring of fire- Cash
4.In my room-Beach Boys
5.Tonight- Genesis
6.All night long-Lionel Ritchie
7.Comfortably Numb-Pink Floyd
8.East bound and down-Jerry Reed
9.Holy Diver-DIO
10.Rocky mountain high-John Denver

Oh, we're doing songs now?!? Well, then whoop, whoop!

Songs I could listen to over and over and over and over and over...........get the point. Lol!

1.  What's Inside A Girl?: The CRAMPS
2.  Rise Above: Black Flag
3.  Rapture: Blondie
4.  I love living the City: FEAR
5.  Spoonful: Howlin' Wolf
6.  Down On The Street: Iggy (Pop) and the Stooges
7.  Ebony Eyes: Bob Welch
8.  Angel of Death: SLAYER
9.  Hello Walls: Faron Young
10. Die When You Die: G.G. Allin

Ok....I'm in...

1. Monster Mash
2. It's Not Unusal - Tom Jones
3. Under Pressure - Queen
4. Legs - ZZ Top
5. Man I feel like a Woman - Shania Twain
6. Thriller - Michael Jackson
7. Bad Moon Rising - CCR
8. History of Rock n Roll Part 2 -  Gary Glitter
9. Opening Theme Phantom Musical/ Angel of Music
10. Star Wars MT Theme & Raiders of the Lost Ark MT

ok-  1. Monster mash- B.P.
        2. Radio-rancid
         3. Generator-bad religion
         4. Mahler 1
         5. Les. Preludes- Liszt
          6. King of fools- social distortion
          7. mommy's little monster-social distortion
          8. magic carpet ride-steppenwolf
          9. Hoboken- op. ivy
           10. outta space- billy preston

Were on track, were off track, were off track again. I believe there is a posting in the Music section for the  10 Songs You Like The Most.

1) Way Down-Elvis Presley
2) Werewolves Of London-Warren Zevon
3) Long Cool Woman-The Hollies
4) Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye-The Casinos
5) One For My Baby-Sinatra
6) And I Love You So-Elvis Presley
7) Crying-Roy Orbison
8) Nessun Dorma-Paul Potts
9) Come Together-Beatles
10) Black Dog-Zeppelin

As far as horror themed songs.

1. Monster Mash
2. Grim Grinning Ghosts
3. Addams Family Theme
4. Munsters theme
5. Ghost and Mr. Chicken Theme
6. Ghostbusters
7.Thriller
8.Werewolves of London
9. I put a spell on you
10. Time warp

You should really start a new thread about Top Ten Songs (in fact, there may be one already) rather than take over this thread.

Quote from: monsterphile on January 11, 2011, 08:27:53 PM
You should really start a new thread about Top Ten Songs (in fact, there may be one already) rather than take over this thread.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm?!? >:D >:D >:D

nobody was taking over the thread...the title says ten things about you...well, music is about us...we were just moving it along..
didnt mean to rub anyone the wrong way *cough* kidagain*cough*  :laugh:

     10 things about me:
        1.  I've studied computers since 1979.
        2.  Every time I even touch my wife's computer, it messes up!   :o
        3.  I had to come very close to dieing before the Dr.'s could figure out WHY I was dieing!!  >:(
        4.  I am going to be prescreened for a liver transplant!  ???
        5.  I've lost 30 lbs.in the last 8 weeks - but it was all water and no fat.  :'(
        6.  I started losing my hair when I was in 8th grade!  ::)
        7.  I was the first freshman in my high school to be invited into the Dance Band!  8)  8)
        8.  When I was a senior in high school, my oldest sister was one of my teachers.  NO I didn't get "special" treatment  :(
        9.  I'm the only one I know whose friend thought that he was going blind because he had forgotten to turn on his car headlights after dark!  ???
      10.  Abraham Lincoln is not one of my favorite U.S. Presidents!  :o
        plus 1 - 11. I'm not overly fond of bats!  >:D  thrhrt

Hey Dr. just saying there is a post in the  music thread for that, of course music is part of everyone but if you look at the first post of this thread  you get the idea of what is being asked. If it wasen't for Uncula's  last post I would have thrown myself on the ground and started kicking and screaming. lol

10 more...

1.  I love BIG dogs.  English Mastiffs, Newfies, Great Danes, Rottweilers, Bullmastiffs.
2.  I survived being thrown from the bed of a pickup truck that rolled trying to make a turn after going 90 mph, though my athletic future was eventually ended with the damage.
3.  I have worked in the human services field for 17 years and have a background in Psychology.
4.  I am not a morning person.
5.  The theme to JAWS precluded my introduction at my wedding reception.  They turned the lights down real low and started the music very softly, building to a crescendo... I wanted 1 foot of fog to cover the dance floor and have my bulldog Cal run out there with a shark fin strapped to his back-----but my wife nixed it.
6.  I have never lost at Stratego. 
7.  I haven't PLAYED Stratego in 30 years.
8.  Hair grew on my chest the moment I 1st saw Caroline Munro in The Golden Voyage of Sinbad.
9.  I used to go out with buddies who pretended to be my entourage.  We all did this improv.  I was a fictitious movie producer/ director (though I DID use the name Andy Milligan) and I would get girls to audition as scream queens out at clubs.  We even set up contacts for filming dates.  You might be suprised at how well this worked. ;).  I feel awful just remembering it all again. 8)
10.  I played the role of Samson in a 6th grade Theology play---the pictures are beyond embarrassing.

Quote from: Dr.Teufel Geist on January 12, 2011, 04:16:13 AM
nobody was taking over the thread...the title says ten things about you...well, music is about us...we were just moving it along..
didnt mean to rub anyone the wrong way *cough* kidagain*cough*  :laugh:

Thank you, I am in agreement with you, Doc.

Quote from: Kidagain on January 12, 2011, 06:49:27 AM
Hey Dr. just saying there is a post in the  music thread for that, of course music is part of everyone but if you look at the first post of this thread  you get the idea of what is being asked. If it wasen't for Uncula's  last post I would have thrown myself on the ground and started kicking and screaming. lol

yeah, I wonder who started that thread  :laugh:
like I said...it was meant as no offense to the originator of the thread...and most didnt seem to have a problem with it.  ;D

1.I played Mercutio in "Romeo and Juliet" 7th grade play
2.I was in a special ed class in kindergarten, because of my huge Dutch accent
3. got a black eye from a piece of pavement , during a rock fight in 1st grade.
4.I love apple fritters
5.Had a horrible bicycle wreck when I was 13
6.nearly drowned in a lake, when I was 16
7.first can of beer, at age 12...made me sick and I threw up
8.never have been arrested
9.I dont drive
10.I dont hunt or fish(which everyone thinks people who live in the country and south,do)

Quote from: Dr.Teufel Geist on January 12, 2011, 06:51:34 PM
yeah, I wonder who started that thread  :laugh:
like I said...it was meant as no offense to the originator of the thread...and most didnt seem to have a problem with it.  ;D

1.I played Mercutio in "Romeo and Juliet" 7th grade play
2.I was in a special ed class in kindergarten, because of my huge Dutch accent
3. got a black eye from a piece of pavement , during a rock fight in 1st grade. See #2   :o
4.I love apple fritters
5.Had a horrible bicycle wreck when I was 13
6.nearly drowned in a lake, when I was 16
7.first can of beer, at age 12...made me sick and I threw up
8.never have been arrested
9.I dont drive
10.I dont hunt or fish(which everyone thinks people who live in the country and south,do)

1. I'm French.
2. I'm left handed.
3. I broke my left ankle 5 times.
4. I'm addicted to ginger ale.
5. I hate mushrooms.
6. I'm jogging every day.
7. I have never met Napoleon.
8. I still own all my beta video cassettes.
9. I don't own a beta player/recorder.
10. UMA is now my second home.

This thread was far too interesting to go to waste....What odd and delightful people we have here....I think I'll fit in nicely.

Ten Things About Me:

1. I really like to cook, and actually am pretty darn good at it.
2. I've met Danzig, Jerry Only, and Michale Graves from the Misfits, but have yet to meet Doyle.
3. My first speaking lines as an actor were with Al Pacino in a movie called "You Don't Know Jack", and yes, they were cut out of the film :(
4. I'm a certified massage therapist and personal trainer, and have a lot of anatomy training (all the better to make my Bride when the time is right).
5. I paint movie monsters and horror and Halloween themed art (and some pin up girls here and there).
6. There are certain foods that I refuse to eat because they make me queasy (snails, frog legs, pickled herring, and brussel sprouts are a few).
7. I believe in the golden rule.
8. Most of the stuff I like would be considered a bit/a lot retro (as my screen name and website would imply)....cars, art, movies, etc.
9. I like heavy metal music (Sabbath, Priest, Iron Maiden, Slough Feg, and Motorhead  to name a few....the older I get, the more I like classical music).
10. I use to own a bunch of cool monster toys (like the AHI monsters, the monster old maid cards, and lots of other neat stuff) that ended up getting broken or found their way in a garbage can). If only I knew now that I knew then (and had a time machine).

1. Although i look whiteish I have more ingredients in me than the Kernal's secret herbs and spices.
2. It's rumored in my family although i have never seen proof that i'm related to Alexander the Great, Sitting Bull and Vlad the Impaler. ( like i said rumored!)
3. I wanted to be a professional artist since before i was 5 years old.
4. I have never seen myself as a good looking guy.
5. Seems like I'm a person everyone knows.
6. I have thick skin. Really i do. My Doctor told me so.
7. never been married and not sure if I've ever been truly in love.
8. My family house is haunted.
9. i can solve a rubik's cube.
10. Although i have always thought i liked all the Universal Monsters the same I've recently discovered I lean more toward Frankenstein.

1. As editor-in-chief of Jersey City State College's student newspaper The Gothic Times, I was the only editor to carry the "Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-In" column in the entire state of New Jersey.
2. I started going bald at 16; as a result, I've never been "carded."
3. I saw "Star Wars" the day it opened in 1977, but already knew the story because I bought and read the movie novelization (ghost-written by sci-fi author Alan Dean Foster) in December 1976.
4. I've spent the night in a coffin. I wasn't alone. It was cramped, but not bad, otherwise.
5. My father's family is related to both Voevode Vlad Dracula and Countess Erzabeta Batori.
6. The Cziraky Estate in Hungary is now a hotel.
7. My family crest features an albino wolf walking on its hind legs. Werewolf?
8. As a student at Emerson College in Boston, for Halloween 1980 I dressed as Sweeney Todd-- with an actual, open straight razor in my hands the whole night. No one was cut, including me!
9. I won the very first Chiller Theatre Expo (a.k.a. Horror-Thon) costume contest in Oct. 1990, dressed as Leatherface. First prize: $100!
10. I've been published in every magazine that late Cinefantastique publisher Fred Clarke ever released, including the one-shot Visions.

All very cool and interestiing.....Ten things about everyone of you.

When I first read the title of this threat, I thought that I would be hard pressed to come up with ten interesting things .. now, I see that it will be difficult to stop at ten.

Seeing Uncula's posts in this threat made me cry ... I barely knew him. He was such a fine man and I hope that he's reading the forum in heaven.

R.I.P.

I'll post at some point ...

OMGosh!! I forgot about this topic! :)  :) :)
I was sooo scared to look back and see what I posted! I never read anything I have ever posted because I get embarrassed! But I read everyone's lists and sloooowly looked at mine and I started laughing so hard, because it's probably the same list I would make now! Man, I'm goofy.
I also teared up at Uncula's words. He was a kind and wonderful friend. We had so much fun on Facebook....a couple of sillyhearts posting all kinds of stuff to each other. I miss him.
FLOWER---- You are way too mysterious  :)  List! List! List!

Charp ~ I'll do ten things at a time until you start to beg me to stop.

1. I love animals .. cats and shaggy dogs top my list.
2. I hate that people mess with DNA and come up with mutant cats such as the Devon Rex or Munchins.
3. I have no problems with mutts but I do have issues with designer mutts and people who willingly pay four figures for one ... The Animal Shelters and rescue groups have great pets for a modest price.
4. I love all types of music except Rap.
5. My piano lessons were money spent in vain
6. I would like, at some time to take drum lessons again but not right now.
7. I don't care if anyone agrees or disagrees with me .. but since I respect the option of others, they have to respect mine too.
8. I don't care for Led Zeppelin, it can be played in the house but I'd appreciate a fair warning so that I can be somewhere else.
9. I like things to be clean but they can't always be company clean & I doubt if any one would consider calling the Board of Health at my house keeping.
10. I like sending ecards from ActionCat.

My second list of ten ~

1. I alway try to be positive .. I'll tell you when I like your new haircut but will be mum when I don't like your new haircut.
2. I've picked old ladies off the sidewalk on their way to therapy and try to do some kind of good deal every day .. even if it's only picking up a piece of paper to recycle.
3. I don't judge books by their covers but do trust my inner voice when I feel that someone or something is off in any way.
4. I don't relish using relish.
5. I don't like ketchup (this can get you hanged in certain states).
6. I hate broccoli.
7. Football is my favorite sport to watch ..
8. My top three NFL teams are the New York Jets/New Orleans Saints/New York Giants
9. My parents were from Brooklyn, so I've been bred to hate the New York Yankees and to cheer for the NY Mets.
10. My favorite Hockey team is the New York Rangers.

1 I talk to toys. All the time. When I'm depressed I have no desire to talk it out with people so I get one of my toys and pour my heart out to them. They're great listeners.

2 My dream job is robotics engineer. I just don't know if I'm smart enough.

3 I am fascinated with artificial life and stories involving robots, golems, toys coming to life or anything involving artificial beings.

4 Electronic pets probably saved my life

5 I prefer puppets, costumes and animatronics to CGI where creature effects are concerned but grudgingly acknowledge that some things would be impossible to do without CGI

6 When I was growing up I wanted to make monsters for the movies for a living

7 I was also fascinated with Bigfoot and in fact still am.

8 I prefer toys and robots to people. As a kid I took a lot of abuse both from my father and my classmates. I could always turn to my toys and they were a great comfort.

9 I hate being human and would transfer into a robotic body in an instant were it an option

10 When I watch monster movies I always root for the monsters

You guys can stop me at any time ~

1. I love British Comedies ... Dame Judi Dench and Penelope Keith are two of my favorite British Actresses.
2. I love BBC shows such as Blake's 7, Dr. Who, BallyKissAngel, Love Hurts, Lovejoy Mysteries and many more.
3. I love and support PBS stations.
4. I love home renovation shows and have since the original "This Old House"
5. I'm not good at crafts or building things but can do a good 'temporary fix' on most things using masting tape.
6. I'm missing the basic curiousity gene and when people tell me things such as they have a cottage, I don't think to ask where or any questions .. I just tell them how nice.
7. I dog and cat sit for friends.
8. I hate cigarette smoke.
9. I don't like that people drink & drive or drink and take medications.
10. I'm a hippie .. I firmly believe in allowing people to dig their own holes and that karma will kick in when you least expect it.

This should be my final list and hope that I'm not longer a mystery ~

1. I don't believe in Voodoo, so black magic can't touch me.
2. I like to travel by train more than by airplane
3. I like Marcia Ball & Irma Thomas
4. A couple of my favorite movies are Zulu & Bell, Book & Candle ...
5. I enjoy going to movie theaters .. especially seeing old classic movies on the big screen
6. I believe in asking permission  not forgiveness and respect the property and rights of others.
7. I love pizza, hot dogs, ice cream and other kid fare.
8. I would love to have (and share) a time machine.
9. I think that Fennec Foxes are cool.
10. I'll never forgive Valentinian III for having Flaviou Aetius murdered.

Flower- I am now 100 percent sure that you are as cool and interesting as I thought you were!  ahem...except for the ketchup/relish thing.
We have a lot in common, but I can only deal with one spoiled cat....if there were more animals around here, I would have to apologize to them daily due to Caddie's antics. He's a real piece of furry work!
Bravo on your list, but sorry to hear that there will be no Liszt from you! HA! I think I'm sooo funny! My grandson rolls his eyes daily over my pun attempts!
But seriously, I bet you can play that piano way better than you think   :)

Yes .. I'm often shunned by ketchup/relish people .. I'm used to it by now.

I do love mustards and mayos .... http://www.mustardmaker.com/ (http://www.mustardmaker.com/)

Also, I love sales and coupons .. I'm all smiles and cheers when the weekly flyers arrive.

Oh yeah- Mustard is the best condiment ever! But there is a time and plce for its brothers (ketchup & mayo) and its weird cousin relish.
I don't seek out coupons, but my daughter (the dentist) is a coupon freak! She even clips them for things I buy (old people stuff) and gives them to me  :)

My dearest BFF .. I don't want to know what "old people stuff' .. err ... what your daughter expects you to buy for the old people.

Hahahaha! She always gives me coupons for Advil, cleaning products and un-glamorous toiletries. Especially stuff like weird shampoos for gray hair/scalp itch- which I do not yet need.....or do I...
Anyways, I gladly accept them and use a few now and then. I will not be using the Fiber tablet coupons until next year  :)

Oh oh I want to play
Let's see
1. I am 22 years old and have never driven a car in my life
2. I watched my first Universal Monster movie when I was 17
3. I am in desperate need for a haircut
4. I am currently working up the nerve to talk to the pretty girl in my psychology class
5. My six month old niece is trying to kill me
6. While I think Picard is the superior captain, overall I prefer The Original Series
7. I have dreams of opening my own arcade
8. I am currently learning to write software and I have several games planned
9. I actually thought Daredevil was a pretty solid film
10. I think I might be addicted to Mountain Dew

I'm going to be honest, I didn't think coming up with ten things about myself would be this difficult.

Hey nospillblood,

Ask out that young lady in your psychology class....and do it now before some other dude works up the courage first!

Quote from: nospillblood on September 18, 2012, 06:56:23 PM
Oh oh I want to play
Let's see
1. I am 22 years old and have never driven a car in my life
2. I watched my first Universal Monster movie when I was 17
3. I am in desperate need for a haircut
4. I am currently working up the nerve to talk to the pretty girl in my psychology class
5. My six month old niece is trying to kill me
6. While I think Picard is the superior captain, overall I prefer The Original Series
7. I have dreams of opening my own arcade
8. I am currently learning to write software and I have several games planned
9. I actually thought Daredevil was a pretty solid film
10. I think I might be addicted to Mountain Dew

I'm going to be honest, I didn't think coming up with ten things about myself would be this difficult.

Ask her out now!

1. I'm dead
2.I'm possessed.
3. I'm insane.
4 I'm one of those guys you might see on the news if I get pissed on again.
5.I drink way too much
6. I can't practically give away my my $ collection I have for sale.
7 No way can I work another 14 years to "retirement"
8. Not much of a people person
9. I like violent revenge movies
10. ??????????? chain_saw

Quote from: Flower on September 18, 2012, 02:32:34 PM
BallyKissAngel

I freakin' loved that show!  I was bummed when it left the air.

Quote from: Wicked Lester on September 18, 2012, 09:31:45 PM
1. I'm dead
2.I'm possessed.
3. I'm insane.

1. My favorite color is clear.
2. I like chocolate ice cream that tastes like vanilla and is white.
3. I once drank the tequila worm...that's the last thing I remember
4. I collect comics, toe nails, horror figures, and 80's toys
5. I can't live without beer, air, or beer
6. I play D & D
7. I have OCD
7. I have OCD
7. I have OCD
8. I have multiple personalities
1. My favorite color is black
2. I listen to all music
3. I used to have a spike hair cut
4. I see only red and green colors.
9. My favorite show is Family Guy
1. My favorite color is green
2. I like Christmas
3. I've rode a giraffe
10. I have know idea where I've been for the last 47 seconds.

Ten Things About Me You Might Already Know If You've Paid Attention To ANY of My Previous Posts:
1. I was an extra in the crowd scene at the very end of the '76 "King Kong" remake.
2. Joe Bob Briggs is a close personal friend of mine.
3. I'm featured in the short documentary "Exit: The Last Jersey Drive-In," about the closing of the last drive-in theater in NJ in Sept. 1991.
4. I published my own sci-fi/horror/fantasy film fanzine, "Let It Bleed," from 1994-97.
5. I attended the second performance of the infamous Broadway flop "Carrie: The Musical," which closed after three performances.
6. I'm notorious for my vocal impersonations of Sam Kinison, Lou Costello, Michael Keaton as Beetlejuice, and The Emperor from "Star Wars."
7. Whenever my adrenaline spikes, I've been know to exhibit amazing strength. Therefore, I've never struck anyone other than in self-defense. The last time this happened, I hospitalized three people who tried to mug me.
8. I have an extensive swordcane collection.
9. My favorite flavor is chocolate. Especially dark chocolate.
10. I've tasted human blood that wasn't my own. Hey, it was the '70s!

Quote from: Wicked Lester on September 18, 2012, 09:31:45 PM
1. I'm dead
2.I'm possessed.
3. I'm insane.
4 I'm one of those guys you might see on the news if I get pissed on again.
5.I drink way too much
6. I can't practically give away my my $ collection I have for sale.
7 No way can I work another 14 years to "retirement"
8. Not much of a people person
9. I like violent revenge movies
10. ??????????? chain_saw

11. WL is loved on UMA ..

Quote from: Count_Zirock on September 19, 2012, 04:40:32 AM
Ten Things About Me You Might Already Know If You've Paid Attention To ANY of My Previous Posts:
1. I was an extra in the crowd scene at the very end of the '76 "King Kong" remake.
2. Joe Bob Briggs is a close personal friend of mine.
3. I'm featured in the short documentary "Exit: The Last Jersey Drive-In," about the closing of the last drive-in theater in NJ in Sept. 1991.
4. I published my own sci-fi/horror/fantasy film fanzine, "Let It Bleed," from 1994-97.
5. I attended the second performance of the infamous Broadway flop "Carrie: The Musical," which closed after three performances.
6. I'm notorious for my vocal impersonations of Sam Kinison, Lou Costello, Michael Keaton as Beetlejuice, and The Emperor from "Star Wars."
7. Whenever my adrenaline spikes, I've been know to exhibit amazing strength. Therefore, I've never struck anyone other than in self-defense. The last time this happened, I hospitalized three people who tried to mug me.
8. I have an extensive swordcane collection.
9. My favorite flavor is chocolate. Especially dark chocolate.
10. I've tasted human blood that wasn't my own. Hey, it was the '70s!

Wow, very impressive!  I love Joe Bob Briggs....I remember watching MonsterVision on TNT when I was a youngin.  That was the last hosted horror movie show that was available in my area. 

Agghh!!! This just gets better & better!  Keep it up peeps! I almost wish some of you would list 50 things!  (W.L., C.Z. & B.Shadow) HA!! I love this stuff!
nospillblood- we are all rotting for you......er, I mean rooting for you!

1. I'm a stockbroker.

2, I like ancient history. I'm particularly fond of the Roman Empire and often wonder whether the world would be a better place today had it endured and slowly expanded for another 1000 years.

3. I don't drink, smoke or take drugs. That's not because I'm such a goody-goody. It's because I'm determined to rebel from the norm. It's just another way I alienate myself from society. I guess I just want to feel smugly superior to "everybody else".

4. I don't just dabble. I'm a hardcore collector. DC and other comics, sport and non-sport cards, premium coins, model kits, slot car kits, board games, lunch boxes, sparkle paint sets, milk and pop bottles, etc, etc.

5. I'm fit. I'm a compulsive stair climber and walker. But I love muscle cars, drag racing, stock car racing and slot car racing too.

6. I like a lot of "bad" foods - pizza, fried chicken, hamburgers, corn dogs, BBQ ribs, steak and lobster with drawn butter, fish & chips, breaded shrimp, kugelis, perogies, grilled cheese sandwiches, BLT sandwiches, Lucky Charms, Count Chocula, Trix, Sugar Frosted Flakes, potato chips, Vachon Passion Flakies, chocolate bars, milkshakes, Coke, bubble gum, etc, etc. But remember, I'm still fit!

7. I'm a big fan of Lithuanian basketball, the London Knights, the Western Mustangs, the Edmonton Eskimos and the Chicago Blackhawks, and to a lesser extent, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, Cleveland Indians, Detroit Tigers, Oakland Athletics, Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Mets, New York Jets and the Oakland Raiders. I'm a hated enemy of the Montreal Canadiens, New York Yankees, San Francisco 49ers and the New England Patriots.

8. I love both travelling by train and would like to build an outdoor garden railroad some day.

9. Not only do I like cats, I really like foxes and all members of the weasel family as well.

10. I'm a stereophile with a wonderful sound system. I'm still addicted to vinyl and treasure my high end turntable. My favourite bands include the Rolling Stones, Doors, Animals, Cream, Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Who, Kinks, Blondie and garage rock and blues rock in general.

8)

1. I am a twin. Am I the evil one? Well I guess it depends on who you ask
2. Married for 12 years
3. My oldest son built and painted his own Aurora monster models (Revell remakes) from age 5 to 6
4. My youngest son likes "smooky" things like daddy
5. My dad sparked my interest in Monster things at a tender young age from working in a haunted house, records, books, monster movies, toys, and Halloween costumes
6. I have won multiple costume contests with prizes ranging from a tub of bubble gum to $500 dollars and vintage toys, I once won a limbo contest while in costume
7. I collect monsters, lunchboxes, games, vintage Star Wars, vintage Masters of the Universe, GI*JOE, Marvel Secret Wars, Robert E. Howard stuff, Conan, comic books, coins, vintage Halloween, newspapers with WWII, Pearl Harbor, JFK assassination, first man on the moon, World Trade Center 9/11, books, and other various ephemera of my youth
8. My backyard is the mountain and I enjoy camping, hiking, backpacking, spelunking, rock climbing, mountaineering, canyoneering, and hunting
9. My dad collects pirates as well as monsters, my brother collects reptiles (herpetologist) as well as monsters
10. My wife rolls her eyes at my monster obsession but tolerates me well

Quote from: Ghost on September 19, 2012, 03:11:40 PM
6. I have won multiple costume contests with prizes ranging from a tub of bubble gum to $500 dollars and vintage toys....

What kind of bubble gum? How long did it take you to chew through it?

Quote from: Ghost on September 19, 2012, 03:11:40 PM
7. I collect monsters, lunchboxes, games, vintage Star Wars, vintage Masters of the Universe, GI*JOE, Marvel Secret Wars, Robert E. Howard stuff, Conan, comic books, coins, vintage Halloween, newspapers with WWII, Pearl Harbor, JFK assassination, first man on the moon, World Trade Center 9/11, books, and other various ephemera of my youth.

I'd like to see your lunch boxes among other things.

Quote from: Ghost on September 19, 2012, 03:11:40 PM
8. My backyard is the mountain and I enjoy camping, hiking, backpacking, spelunking, rock climbing, mountaineering, canyoneering, and hunting.

Which mountain and what range?

???

Quote from: Hepcat on September 19, 2012, 03:29:07 PM
What kind of bubble gum? How long did it take you to chew through it?

Dubble Bubble gum bucket. I don't think I ever finished it.

Quote from: Hepcat on September 19, 2012, 03:29:07 PM
I'd like to see your lunch boxes among other things.

Not my actually lunchboxes in the photos (from the web) but these are the ones I have.

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(http://image.retrojunk.com/b3b_4248cd23f6.jpg)
(http://image.retrojunk.com/867_490d240500.jpg)
(http://image.retrojunk.com/dc1_7c84e2c91d.jpg)
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51w1a1Hqh%2BL._SY450_.jpg)

I really want this one

(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ycn9JrHRaFU/TwYZV127MII/AAAAAAAACCM/DyyDnLHJqu4/s1600/the+munsters.jpeg)

my brother has these

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(http://image.retrojunk.com/2a8_822a1055ab.jpg)

Quote from: Hepcat on September 19, 2012, 03:29:07 PM
Which mountain and what range?

In the Rocky Mountains, Wasatch range, Utah

Quote from: Ghost on September 19, 2012, 03:56:48 PM
Dubble Bubble gum bucket. I don't think I ever finished it.

Well then send the remainder to CreepysFan and myself! We'll chew through it, guaranteed!

;)

I have the Dragon's Lair, Famous Monsters and Secret of Nimh lunch boxes as well. And I too would like to add the Munsters one to my collection!

:)

Quote from: Ghost on September 19, 2012, 03:56:48 PM
Dubble Bubble gum bucket. I don't think I ever finished it.

Not my actually lunchboxes in the photos (from the web) but these are the ones I have.

(http://image.retrojunk.com/4f1_89ad49151f.jpg)
(http://image.retrojunk.com/b3b_4248cd23f6.jpg)
(http://image.retrojunk.com/867_490d240500.jpg)
(http://image.retrojunk.com/dc1_7c84e2c91d.jpg)
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51w1a1Hqh%2BL._SY450_.jpg)

I really want this one

(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ycn9JrHRaFU/TwYZV127MII/AAAAAAAACCM/DyyDnLHJqu4/s1600/the+munsters.jpeg)

my brother has these

(http://image.retrojunk.com/18e_af756aac92.jpg)
(http://image.retrojunk.com/2a8_822a1055ab.jpg)

In the Rocky Mountains, Wasatch range, Utah

I have a ton of lunch boxes as well.

Is there a lunch boxes- only thread? I would love love love to see all these collections together! That MOTU lunch box is wowsville!! I love the colors!

1. I'm a huge fan of the adults-only cartoon series "Drawn Together."
2. I love restaurant reality shows like "Restaurant: Impossible," "Restaurant Stakeout," and "Bar Rescue."
3. I love tattoos and tattoo art, but can't be tattooed because I have psoriasis.
4. I love cats and dogs, but only own cats now that I live in an apartment.
5. My brother still lives in NJ and also loves monster movies, but doesn't collect anything but sports memorabilia.
6. I'm not a sports fan, at all.
7. I used to collect movie soundtrack albums, but stopped when most movies started sucking. The soundtracks I love the most: "The Odd Couple" and "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World!"
8. I was once paid for a magazine article with a silver mylar repro of the original "Night of the Living Dead" poster, signed by all the surviving cast and crew. I never wrote for that magazine again.
9. I was on the Horror Committee of Joe Bob Briggs' Board of Drive-In Experts for his fanzine "We Are the Weird" (later renamed "The Joe Bob Report").
10. Although an atheist, I'm also an ordained minister in the Church of Gospel Ministry of Chula Vista, CA. I've officiated at three weddings and one vow renewal ceremony.

Quote from: Hepcat on September 19, 2012, 04:11:05 PM
Well then send the remainder to CreepysFan and myself! We'll chew through it, guaranteed!

;)

I won the bubble gum in 1996 so yeah I don't have it anymore but will send a box of rocks that probably have the same consistency if you need some chewing to do.

1. As an elective course in college, I took a class in Anti-Terrorism, taught by a retired CIA operative.
2. I went to a critic's screening in NYC for "Godzilla 1985," and the only other critic there was the NY Daily News' The Phantom of the Movies.
3. At a college critics' screening of "Starman," John Carpenter told me he made the car in "Christine" inherently evil instead of haunted by its former owner, because he didn't want to shoot any scenes of a rotted corpse behind the steering wheel after making "The Fog."
4. At a college critics' screening of "Gung Ho," director Ron Howard told me he wants to make a really scary horror movie one day, but he's afraid he'll screw it up.
5. I still don't understand most of what went on in "Videodrome."
6. The neighborhood I grew up in was a Mafia haven, and is written about in the non-fiction true-crime book "To Drop a Dime."
7. I remember when movies longer than 2 1/2 hours had intermissions. The last one I saw in a theater was Roman Polanski's "Tess."
8. I wrote a six-part series on the Universal Monsters for "Horror Biz" magazine.
9. My mother started collecting Tinker Bell toys at the age of 77.
10. This will be the last list I do in this thread.

Wrote this in January, 2011:


Let's see: Ten things about me.

1. I am not overweight--I'm under tall.  If my height and weight were proportional,
       I'd have to be about 10 feet tall.
2. I have no musical ability.  This, despite my parents insisting on music lessons.
3. I have no artistic ability.  I Cannot draw, sculpt, paint, or carve.  I'm even lousy at connect the dots.
4. I read a lot, but not as much as I used to:  I'm down to 75-80 books a year.
5. Ridiculously over educated.  BA in History/anthropology. MA in History.
      And I work in a plasma center.
6. Lousy at math.  Loved science, but I could not figure out numbers.
7. I wear trifocals. (Maybe related to #4)
8. Amateur astronomer. (never a chance at being a pro--see #6)
9. I have not seen a movie in a theater in years.  The last one: Troy
10. Really pretty boring.

Nothing much has changed.

1. I love trying new beers and cigars
2. I workout everyday and am a personal trainer
3. I try an eat organically as much as possible
4. I haven't used smokeless tobacco in over 3 years
5. I love History and Art
6. I can't do math to save my life
7. My favorite store is Barnes and Noble
8. I'm part owner of a comic store (I just take care of online stuff)
9. I believe in the ancient aliens theory
10. I'm not religious but believe in God and am spiritual and believe in reincarnation and karma

Man, I dig the diversity of this crowd!

Quote from: Hepcat on September 19, 2012, 04:11:05 PM
Well then send the remainder to CreepysFan and myself! We'll chew through it, guaranteed!

;)

Quote from: Unknown Primate on September 19, 2012, 11:59:31 PM
Man, I dig the diversity of this crowd!

Absolutely...but one thing we all have in common is monsters and good hearts!

Right on!

Quote from: Ghost on September 19, 2012, 07:32:04 PM
I won the bubble gum in 1996 so yeah I don't have it anymore but will send a box of rocks that probably have the same consistency if you need some chewing to do.

I'd propose then that you beg, buy or borrow another bucket and share it with your Pals here at UMA! It would be shameful to have any go to waste again.

:)

Quote from: Unknown Primate on September 19, 2012, 11:59:31 PM
Man, I dig the diversity of this crowd!

I agree. Everyone here is so strange and creepy... and I absolutely love it.

And I have class again on Monday, so I think I'll chat her up then. Thanks for the words of encouragement everyone!

An interesting detail here. Nicole, who started this thread, was a very active member on this board with 1706 posts up until 5 January 2011. I joined on 6 January 2011. Nicole made only one more post after I joined on 21 January 2011. Coincidence? Or do you think there's a causal connection here?

???

Quote from: Hepcat on September 20, 2012, 01:33:58 PM
An interesting detail here. Nicole, who started this thread, was a very active member on this board with 1706 posts up until 5 January 2011. I joined on 6 January 2011. Nicole made only one more post after I joined on 21 January 2011. Coincidence? Or do you think there's a causal connection here?

???

Well you're a pretty cool cat so I don't imagine you caused her to leave. Is it possible that she was a past life of yours?

Quote from: Hepcat on September 20, 2012, 01:33:58 PM
An interesting detail here. Nicole, who started this thread, was a very active member on this board with 1706 posts up until 5 January 2011. I joined on 6 January 2011. Nicole made only one more post after I joined on 21 January 2011. Coincidence? Or do you think there's a causal connection here?

???

Maybe you need to change your litterbox?

You could attempt to PM or email Nicole and maybe she'll return ...  :D

i have always found it odd that members are active for so long then just disappear??

ok top ten about me..
1, i play the drums most days to soul music
2, i have collected soul and reggae music since the age of 7 and still do.
3, i am learning to sculpt just wish i had more room..
4, i keep kio carp and marine fish
5, i am a life long r, harryhausen fan
6,  i love art and people who have real talent
7, i dont watch much tv and hate talent shows,
8, i am a brown belt in karate almost black
9, i love the early sci-fi and cliffhanger serials
10, thats all folks !!!

Quote from: Hepcat on September 20, 2012, 01:33:58 PM
An interesting detail here. Nicole, who started this thread, was a very active member on this board with 1706 posts up until 5 January 2011. I joined on 6 January 2011. Nicole made only one more post after I joined on 21 January 2011. Coincidence? Or do you think there's a causal connection here?

???

And I had Nicole in a Christmas exchange once-------and one of the goodies I packed for her was a black cat with glowing eyes.  True story. 8)

Quote from: Fester on September 19, 2012, 10:45:36 PM
Wrote this in January, 2011:


Let's see: Ten things about me.

1. I am not overweight--I'm under tall.  If my height and weight were proportional,
       I'd have to be about 10 feet tall.
2. I have no musical ability.  This, despite my parents insisting on music lessons.
3. I have no artistic ability.  I Cannot draw, sculpt, paint, or carve.  I'm even lousy at connect the dots.
4. I read a lot, but not as much as I used to:  I'm down to 75-80  books a year.
5. Ridiculously over educated.  BA in History/anthropology. MA in History.
      And I work in a plasma center.
6. Lousy at math.  Loved science, but I could not figure out numbers.
7. I wear trifocals. (Maybe related to #4)
8. Amateur astronomer. (never a chance at being a pro--see #6)
9. I have not seen a movie in a theater in years.  The last one: Troy
10. Really pretty boring.

Nothing much has changed.

Hey, Dave... don't sell yourself short.  You used lotsa numbers in that thread.  :o

Yeah, but I didn't understand them ::)

1. Cadbury Cream Eggs have me by the balls.

2. Aside from monters and comics I'm a gear head. I love motorcycles and anything related.

3. I require a good amount of "me time" Whether it's reading, writing, playing an instrument or just listining to music or a movie in the background while dusting my collection, once a week I like a nurse a drink and just be alone.

4. I believe that Respect and Courtesy are the highest laws. I don't care who you worship or don't where you came from, the color of your skin, sexual preference or anything else, it doesn't phase me in the least...having said that if I hold a door open for you and you don't say "thank you" I will more than likely try to pile drive you through a coffee table...that drives me friggin bannanas!

5. I used to suffer with really bad anxiety. I don't anymore :)

6. I could screw up a relationship with the girl of my dreams in about 10 seconds flat. I've become a bit of a serial dater my own mom say's...and I quote "It's because you have become a shallow a--" thanks mom! :) Seriously though I need to work on this, not getting any younger.

7. I have 5 tattoos and one of them is in script over my heart and reads "Strength Beyond Strength", I love those words and it's the title to my favorite Pantera song. (R.I.P Dime!)

8. I am a rabid Philadelphia Eagles fan. I also live about 10 minutes from Giant Stadium......life hasnt been easy!

9. I go to the gym almost every day after work and I'm a firm believer in exercise. I also found that being stronger has helped make me a better motorcyclist--with that if I skip the gym too many days in a row or don't ride my bike for a few days...I start getting a little annoyed.

10. I am almost never satisfied with myself. Which is probably why I gravitate towards things that can almost never be "completed" I can always do better in the gym, I can always do better on my bike, have a bigger collection of monster goodness, do a better job with band or at work etc. I'm competitive with myself almost to a fault.

BONUS: I found the UMA while recovering from shoulder labrum surgery. I sat on the couch in a sling for endless hours bored to death...I will never forget how seeing that splash page for the first time really helped me out. Once again...monsters to the rescue.

1) I've been in the Guinness Book of World Records.
2) I do not eat meat, and am a pretty big fan of animal rights & rescue.
3) Which brings me to #3, I have a cheese addiciton to aged cheddar. Anything 7+ years. I hear a block of 40 year aged was just found in my state. I will find it, even if it's older than I am. I may be a vegetarian, but I am still from Wisconsin. I can't help it. (I don't love WI.)
4) I have three dogs and a cat. Beulah, Boris, Tiny Elvis & 'Scilla. (The cat is Boris.)
5) I think chicken soup smell like body odor and I sometimes confuse the smell of coffee with poop. My sense of smell may be a bit askew.
6) I LOVE a good sense of humor, but I love a better sense of proper spelling, puncuation and grammar. The lazy age of internet & text has loosened me up a little though.
7) I have a lot of tattoos and freckles & red hair.
8) I graduated with a major in Communication (PR/Ad emphasis), Art minor.
9) My favorite movies are Tank Girl, Shaun of the Dead, the Amateurs, Frankenstein/Bride of, and I know there's a 5th, but can't remember.
10) I have a bad memory. ;)

Quote from: charp13 on January 11, 2011, 02:03:52 PM
ok-  1. Monster mash- B.P.
        2. Radio-rancid
         3. Generator-bad religion
         4. Mahler 1
         5. Les. Preludes- Liszt
          6. King of fools- social distortion
          7. mommy's little monster-social distortion
          8. magic carpet ride-steppenwolf
          9. Hoboken- op. ivy
           10. outta space- billy preston

Mostly awesome.

Quote from: BigShadow on September 20, 2012, 12:12:35 AM
Absolutely...but one thing we all have in common is monsters and good hearts!

That's true. At the beginning of the thread I felt out of place for being a right-handed, left wing Agnostic! haha

Awesome stuff Voodoo

I was going to say I'm a pretty big animal guy myself...actually I live in a development and alot of deer and other critters roam around in here between the condos. I'm hoping management doesnt catch on as to why they all hang out on my back patio now.....that "no feeding" sign just isn't registering lol, these creatures eat like kings at my pad!

Quote from: voodoodaul on September 22, 2012, 01:02:44 AM
That's true. At the beginning of the thread I felt out of place for being a right-handed, left wing Agnostic! haha

Nah.
You are a member of this Karass
As are we all--held together by the same Wampeter.

As Bokonon put it in the The Fifty-third Calypso:

    Oh, a sleeping drunkard
    Up in Central Park,
    And a lion-hunter
    In the jungle dark,
    And a Chinese dentist,
    And a British queen--
    All fit together
    In the same machine.
    Nice, nice, very nice;
    Nice, nice, very nice;
    Nice, nice, very nice--
    So many different people
    In the same device.

Quote from: voodoodaul on September 22, 2012, 12:46:13 AM1) I've been in the Guinness Book of World Records.

For what, if I may ask?

Quote from: voodoodaul on September 22, 2012, 12:46:13 AM3) I have a cheese addiciton to aged cheddar. Anything 7+ years. I hear a block of 40 year aged was just found in my state. I will find it, even if it's older than I am. I may be a vegetarian, but I am still from Wisconsin. I can't help it. (I don't love WI.)

Aged cheddar is awesome!

Quote from: voodoodaul on September 22, 2012, 12:46:13 AM6) I LOVE a good sense of humor, but I love a better sense of proper spelling, puncuation and grammar. The lazy age of internet & text has loosened me up a little though.

One of my pet peeves, as well. That's why I hate texting. All those abbreviations just enrage me! Call me and talk to me, don't throw a bunch of meaningless symbols at me. It takes less time, and I'm not afraid of being "overheard." Like anyone gives a crap what I'm saying into my cellular thingy.

Quote from: BlackLagoon on September 22, 2012, 01:10:23 AM
Awesome stuff Voodoo

I was going to say I'm a pretty big animal guy myself...actually I live in a development and alot of deer and other critters roam around in here between the condos. I'm hoping management doesnt catch on as to why they all hang out on my back patio now.....that "no feeding" sign just isn't registering lol, these creatures eat like kings at my pad!

You are awesome! Unfortunately, I live next door to a crazy who thinks that raccoons are 'city animals who live off people'  and was amazed to see them at her cottage.  Have you seen these?

(http://www.thegrocer.co.uk/files/ImageGallery/Independents/cstore-screme-egg.jpg)

Quote from: Sean on September 21, 2012, 08:40:44 PM
And I had Nicole in a Christmas exchange once-------and one of the goodies I packed for her was a black cat with glowing eyes.

That may explain it right there. She was positively freaked out when her black cat started posting on the forum. She probably thought that there was a force beyond her understanding at work and that her sanity and soul would be endangered if she continued to post.

hmjfym

Quote from: voodoodaul on September 22, 2012, 12:46:13 AM
1) I've been in the Guinness Book of World Records.

More details please.

Quote from: voodoodaul on September 22, 2012, 12:46:13 AM
I don't love WI.

Hopefully it's not Texas, California or Florida you prefer.

???

Quote from: Flower on September 22, 2012, 07:22:54 AM
You are awesome! Unfortunately, I live next door to a crazy who thinks that raccoons are 'city animals who live off people'  and was amazed to see them at her cottage.  Have you seen these?

(http://www.thegrocer.co.uk/files/ImageGallery/Independents/cstore-screme-egg.jpg)

Thanks Flower...ah your neighbor is full of bologna. They never get near my garbage or anything, usually I just throw some fruit, vegetables and bread out back and they're fine. The old man across the way puts out a bunch of veggies and this one rabbit knows just where to go and sits right at his sliding door and eats. I can't seem to attract him like he does...not only that, when he brings the food outside he whistles for the rabbit and I swear in about 30 seconds he makes an appearance--I gotta get a pic of him he is a BIG boy!

Unfortunately Flower...yes I have seen the Scream eggs...bitter sweet man, bitter sweet.  8)

I love animals, too...  Zombie Razz

Oh, it's so terrible...I was in the GBWR in 2010 for being one of seven hundred and some odd WALDOS from Where's Waldo. haha

Screme Eggs taste just like the regular. I only eat the inside anyway.

I don't prefer Texas, or Florida...but didn't mind CA. I think my smart mouth would get me in a lot of trouble with Texans. I probably wouldn't make it out of that state.

Quote from: BlackLagoon on September 22, 2012, 01:10:23 AM
Awesome stuff Voodoo

I was going to say I'm a pretty big animal guy myself...actually I live in a development and alot of deer and other critters roam around in here between the condos. I'm hoping management doesnt catch on as to why they all hang out on my back patio now.....that "no feeding" sign just isn't registering lol, these creatures eat like kings at my pad!

I would claim Logophobia. ;)

Quote from: voodoodaul on September 22, 2012, 12:46:13 AM
1) I've been in the Guinness Book of World Records.
2) I do not eat meat, and am a pretty big fan of animal rights & rescue.
3) Which brings me to #3, I have a cheese addiciton to aged cheddar. Anything 7+ years. I hear a block of 40 year aged was just found in my state. I will find it, even if it's older than I am. I may be a vegetarian, but I am still from Wisconsin. I can't help it. (I don't love WI.)
4) I have three dogs and a cat. Beulah, Boris, Tiny Elvis & 'Scilla. (The cat is Boris.)
5) I think chicken soup smell like body odor and I sometimes confuse the smell of coffee with poop. My sense of smell may be a bit askew.
6) I LOVE a good sense of humor, but I love a better sense of proper spelling, puncuation and grammar. The lazy age of internet & text has loosened me up a little though.
7) I have a lot of tattoos and freckles & red hair.
8) I graduated with a major in Communication (PR/Ad emphasis), Art minor.
9) My favorite movies are Tank Girl, Shaun of the Dead, the Amateurs, Frankenstein/Bride of, and I know there's a 5th, but can't remember.
10) I have a bad memory. ;)

coffee totally smells like POOP sometimes, mainly dog poop. I tell people that all the time and everyone looks at me like im crazy..... :o

Quote from: frankenstein73 on September 23, 2012, 02:09:56 AMcoffee totally smells like POOP sometimes, mainly dog poop. I tell people that all the time and everyone looks at me like im crazy..... :o

That's the cheap-crap coffee. Since I switched from Maxwell House to Gevalia Traditional Roast, even my mother, who doesn't like coffee, likes the smell of it while it's brewing. My dad would be appalled, though. There was no better coffee than Maxwell House, as far as he was concerned. None, I tells ya!

not to me, The expensive stuff smells more like it to me than the cheap stuff. cant handle walking by a designer coffee shop.

I pictured this in my head as i read your post, lol!

Pulp Fiction Coffee (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QGnWnFWoxA#ws)

Of course, the most expensive coffee in the world, kopi luwak, literally is poop! Coffee cherries are eaten by the Asian Palm Civet, and the seeds (beans) inside pass through the animals' digestive tracts. The beans are then picked out of the droppings, washed, and dried. It's said this process produces the smoothest, least bitter coffee known to man. And, I firmly believe, it provides unceasing laughter for the Asian Palm Civets. "Hey, Artie, you know what those hairless apes do with our poop? You ain't gonna believe this, even after I tell ya!"

It's important to get the right amount of coffee to water when brewing it. I used to really love Kona coffee and never understood all the fuss over Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee ... I'm fine with Maxwell house and it's at good price point too.

Another thing ... I don't understand why people 'need' to get drunk to enjoy sports, music or anything else.

Quote from: voodoodaul on September 22, 2012, 09:26:56 PMI don't prefer Texas, or Florida...but didn't mind CA. I think my smart mouth would get me in a lot of trouble with Texans. I probably wouldn't make it out of that state.

California is too hot, and has too many non-monster crazies (whole earth types etc.) and self-involved movie star People magazine types.

cl:)

Ooooooh! I would go to California in a heartbeat! I've only been twice, but I love that beautiful place!  :) 
Poop coffee? Wow. I'd try it if it were on ice....and free!

My friend has a dog that whines and begs her for coffee .. she can't have a cup without him whimpering ...

Quote from: charp13 on September 23, 2012, 11:02:02 AM
Ooooooh! I would go to California in a heartbeat! I've only been twice, but I love that beautiful place!  :) 

Yes, but you're an admitted weather wimp.

California, the place that invented race riots (Watts), Crips, Bloods, Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt. Granted, California also gave the world Ed "Big Daddy" Roth and the Doors, but what good has come out of the place since 1968?

???

Quote from: Hepcat on September 23, 2012, 01:47:03 PM
Yes, but you're an admitted weather wimp.

California, the place that invented race riots (Watts), Crips, Bloods, Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt. Granted, California also gave the world Ed "Big Daddy" Roth and the Doors, but what good has come out of the place since 1968?

???

Hep, those are some pretty funny generalities.
 
California did not invent race riots--it merely had big ones.  There were plenty of prior race riots, including two in your neck of the woods.  The Anti-Greek riots (1918) and The Christie Pitts riot (1933) were in Toronto.  Then there were the anti Asian riots in Vancouver (1907)  But, that's BC for you . . . ;D

Gangs?  The Italian gangs are still pretty influential in Toronto, aren't they?  And I know there are Canadian Crips and Bloods in Toronto.
Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt? Well that's bad enough.  But Ontario exported  Jim Carrey,  Corey Haim, and Howie Mandell.  I was goung to mention Shatner--but he was from Montreal, and that's a whole other problem! ;D

Most of what you mentioned as good and bad in California were basically products of Los Angeles. And that is just one small part of California.  Kind of like judging all of Canada after getting mugged on Younge Street. ::) 
I lived in California for three years.  I'd Never move back. However, there are plenty of very nice places to visit, especially in the Northern half of the state. 

Just don't get me started on Wisconsin!!

Quote from: Fester on September 23, 2012, 04:25:32 PM
California did not invent race riots--it merely had big ones.  There were plenty of prior race riots, including two in your neck of the woods.  The Anti-Greek riots (1918) and The Christie Pitts riot (1933) were in Toronto.  Then there were the anti Asian riots in Vancouver (1907)  But, that's BC for you . . . ;D

No, California didn't invent the concept of race riots. California just staged a really good one to show the rest of the world how these things should be done. All the previous ones were candy ass by California standards. California in essence perfected the concept.

Quote from: Fester on September 23, 2012, 04:25:32 PM
And I know there are Canadian Crips and Bloods in Toronto.

And that's one of the main reasons I'm so incensed with the place! They're the ones who exported the concept of Crips and Bloods to the feeble minded as far as Toronto! Half the insanity in North America originates in California. That's why it's called the land of fruits and nuts.

Quote from: Fester on September 23, 2012, 04:25:32 PM
Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt? Well that's bad enough.  But Ontario exported  Jim Carrey,  Corey Haim, and Howie Mandell.  I was goung to mention Shatner--but he was from Montreal, and that's a whole other problem! ;D

You've not noticed how these fellows all seem to wind up in California?

Quote from: Fester on September 23, 2012, 04:25:32 PM
Just don't get me started on Wisconsin!!

When I think of Wisconsin I think of hundreds of lakes with monstrous man-eating pike, beachside summer resorts, blizzards, numerous small dairies with home milk delivery, really good cheddar cheese, Schlitz, Blatz, Miller High Life and Old Milwaukee beer, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad and the Wisconsin Central Railroad, manufacturing industries and badgers. Nothing hippy dippy about any of those things.

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%202/badger.jpg)

:o 

Quote from: frankenstein73 on September 23, 2012, 02:09:56 AM
coffee totally smells like POOP sometimes, mainly dog poop. I tell people that all the time and everyone looks at me like im crazy..... :o

NO WAY! You're totally right on. Dog poop. I smell coffee and SWEAR one of the dogs sh*t in the house. I spent time hunting for it!

Okay, Ol' Wisco isn't SO bad...but seriously, it's too cold for me. It's in the 60's this week and I've been in like 2-3 shirts, two usually sweaters, and sometimes a scarf. I'm ALWAYS cold. I don't even shake hands with strangers anymore because you can only hear the word "corpse" so many times before you just start smiling and waving instead. It's mortifying.

Wisconsin cold? Don't be silly. Try Frobisher Bay. Complaining about cold in the lower 49 States is beyond wimpy.

::)

If and when I ever retire (and I may never), I'm going to move north so that I can sneer at the sissies who seek warmer climes. Toronto isn't nearly cold enough for a tom as rugged as me.

;)

Quote from: Hepcat on September 24, 2012, 07:53:03 PM
No, California didn't invent the concept of race riots. California just staged a really good one to show the rest of the world how these things should be done. All the previous ones were candy ass by California standards. California in essence perfected the concept.

And that's one of the main reasons I'm so incensed with the place! They're the ones who exported the concept of Crips and Bloods to the feeble minded as far as Toronto! Half the insanity in North America originates in California. That's why it's called the land of fruits and nuts.

You've not noticed how these fellows all seem to wind up in California?

When I think of Wisconsin I think of lakes, blizzards, the Wisconsin Central Railway, manufacturing industries  and badgers. Nothing hippy dippy about any of those things.

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%202/badger.jpg)

:o

I felt like this this morning.

No need to flame California.  I don't regret leaving California for North Carolina, but there are still things I love about the place.  I also wouldn't move back, but I wouldn't mind visting every couple of years.

Hmmmmm. Alright then. Let me start a list of what I like about California:

1. Jack in the Box Restaurants

2. Fat Burger Restaurants

3. Oakland Raiders

4. Oakland Athletics

5. San Francisco Giants

6. Southern Pacific Railroad

7. Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway

Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, Pete Millar, the Doors, Big Brother & the Holding Company, surfing, Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello and beach movies, but like I say all these things were  in the distant past.

Any other suggestions?

???

(http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/in-n-out1.jpeg)

Quote from: Hepcat on September 25, 2012, 07:30:55 PM
Hmmmmm. Alright then. Let me start a list of what I like about California:

1. Jack in the Box Restaurants

2. Fat Burger Restaurants

3. Oakland Raiders

4. Oakland Athletics

5. San Francisco Giants

6. Southern Pacific Railroad

7. Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway

Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, Pete Millar, the Doors, Big Brother & the Holding Company, surfing, Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello and beach movies, but like I say all these things were  in the distant past.

Any other suggestions?

???

Universal Studios Hollywood, home of the Bates House.
Disneyland
Knott's Scary Farm
Sacramento State Railroad Museum
The Winchester Mansion
The ghost town of Bodie
Keannu Reeves lives elsewhere.

CALIFORNIA UBER ALLES!!!!

Quote from: Moonshadow on September 29, 2012, 12:44:03 AM
CALIFORNIA UBER ALLES!!!!

Dead Kennedys!

I have no love or hate for California .. perhaps it's a necessary evil.

Love Cobb salads ... Hate trendy California cuisine where you get a pretty plate with almost nothing to eat.


Another thing about me is that I don't believe in blackmail and hate liars.

I am not curious (or jealous) regarding other people and rarely ask remotely personal questions and don't share personal details of my life .. this has prompted people to create fanastys about me ... SIGH .. I just happen to lack the 'curious gene' and it bewilders some people that I never ask questions about the location of cottages or other details of someone else's life.

I don't gossip and will walk away from people who start shoveling bull about others.

I"m also careful about getting or sending viruses and will automatically delete emails from people that I don't know.

Quote from: marsattacks666 on September 29, 2012, 03:26:38 AM

Dead Kennedys!

Nice.

1. I have three university degrees.  History, Politics and Physics(last a 1.1 from
2. I'm Scots but don't care much for Alcohol.
3. I play Guitar, Piano, Drums,Harmonica and Violin.
4.I cannot sing.
5. I have played more than 1000 gigs.
6. I have co-written 4 text books on physics.and 100's of songs.
7 I saw my first Horror Film aged 8 (Bride of Frankenstein).
8. I drive an Aston Martin DB9 & A mini
9. I have no phobias
10. I'm an Atheist .

Quote from: ridulus on December 06, 2012, 11:49:05 AM

10. I'm an Atheist .

Are you also one of those dyslexic atheists who refuse to believe in Dog?

1.  I'm diabetic.  Diagnosed in Feb. of 2008.
2.  Caffine doesn't affect me.  I have had a cups of coffee just before going to bed and fell asleep just fine.
3.  I repair copiers for a living.
4.  My taste in music runs from classical to heavy metal.
5.  I can read a book, or anything really, turned upside down as easily as I can right side up and I do this every so often to keep in practice.
6.  I don't like seafood.
7.  I moved from California in 2005 and really don't want to move back.
8.  I like history and one book I own is titled Modern and Contempory European History published in 1925--which I have read 3 times.
9.  I enjoy and own the movie The Slime People.
10.  I think Babylon 5 was the best TV show ever!!!

Zackuth.
               Great taste in music.  I sometimes like reading material turned inside down.  ;D

Marsattacks666,

     Thanks, I do have a wide variety. 

Quote from: Zackuth on December 15, 2012, 10:15:04 AM
Marsattacks666,

     Thanks, I do have a wide variety.

;D

I lack the napping gene and can't sleep during the day unless I'm very sick.

*Just thought that everyone needed to know that

Napping and sleeping are dirty words, Flower.

Yes but I live with four cats and a male who can sleep standing up ...

I knew it! I knew it! I'M THE GOOD ONE ...  8)

Ahh, well that explains it!   :P    :D

Here comes my second 10  :)

1.   I HATE wearing shoes
2.   I love Van Cliburn playing Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto 1 in B flat minor
3.   I'm the youngest person on our block, but I've lived there the longest

4.   I've got a passion for coffee, NAVY style...(Black, and strong enough to dissolve a spoon).  I also like Frappecinos with two shots of Espresso.

5.   I admire Tim Gunn, Amelia Earhart, FDR, Sally Ride and Neil Armstrong.  I also admire ELIZABETH I, GEORGE VI and his daughter, ELIZABETH II

6.  I'm currently reading THE GREENE MURDER CASE (Philo Vance), THE WRIGHTSVILLE MURDERS (Ellery Queen) and VALLEY OF DECISION by Marcia Davenport.

7.  I visit our local STARBUCKS three or four times a week...It's a hangout for Senior Veterans, and they're great to be around.  Kind of like having my Dad back.

8.  A favourite lunch is a whole wheat pita, stuffed with garlic Hummus and sliced chicken breast.

9.  I love deep, blood red nail polish, but I also wear nude

19.  I am on my 5th copy  of the Franz Waxman BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN CD

"E" ededed

I guess that "honorable mention" for me would be...

  Reading, Studying, Thinking, Debating and Learning....
  My admiration for George Marshall, Ronald Reagan, Winston Churchill, Dwight D. Eisenhower & George S. Patton is limitless...
  My politics are right- center...
 


       

Quote from: Elisabeth on June 04, 2013, 01:23:38 AM

9.  I love deep, blood red nail polish, but I also wear nude

Wear nude?  I thought the idea of nude was not wearing. :P

I've stopped counting my comments in this thread ..

Some people that I've always admired .. in no order ... Julius Caesar, Flavius Aetius, Robert E. Lee, David Ben-Gurion, Golda Meir, George Bernard Shaw, Noel Coward ..  :D

Quote from: Flower on June 27, 2013, 02:06:34 PM
I've stopped counting my comments in this thread ..

Some people that I've always admired .. in no order ... Julius Caesar, Flavius Aetius, Robert E. Lee, David Ben-Gurionm, Golda Meir, George Bernard Shaw, Noel Coward ..  :D

Your right, Flower. If we sit and really think about ourselves then it would probably go on forever.

Quote from: Flower on June 27, 2013, 02:06:34 PM
I've stopped counting my comments in this thread ..

Some people that I've always admired .. in no order ... Julius Caesar, Flavius Aetius, Robert E. Lee, David Ben-Gurion, Golda Meir, George Bernard Shaw, Noel Coward ..  :D

Some I've admired (also in no particular order):
Abraham Lincoln
Ben Franklin
Otto von Bismark
Nickola Tesla
Thomas Edison
Alexander the Great
Leonardo da Vinci
my parents

Haunted Hearse...

Nude polish is for when I break a nail:  It makes it less obvious....   ;D   Other than that, its blood red, neon fuchsia or grape jelly purple!

"E" ededed

1. I've been playing electric guitar for over 30 yrs.
2. I gigged in bars in a rockin' blues band for 2 yrs.' VERY FUN but all we earned was free beer.
3. Then I had a very peaceful band breakup: all of us guys found a girlfriend & got married.
4. I'm obsessed with costumes, Halloween, horror, making Batman appearances and costume events. Thus, I have a scary number of costumes, which are upgraded & keep changing.
5. LOVE riding motorcyles, but quit after 2 very close calls yrs ago. 'Excited my wife does not care if I buy another one and get back into riding. 'VERY impressed with the Honda CBR 600 and other bikes.
6. hooked on convertible sports cars for life and wish I discovered them many moons ago.
7. I work very hard and play very hard.
8. enjoy gardening & maintaining it.
9. LOVE California living.
10. My wife wants me to try stand up comedy, because I have dozens of different voices and accents, and I can play some intense rockin' blues in between jokes. I'd probably do it with an ice cold six pack of beer. 'Drinkin' on the job, baby!  8)

Quote from: The Batman on June 29, 2013, 03:33:04 PM

5. LOVE riding motorcyles, but quit after 2 very close calls yrs ago. 'Excited my wife does not care if I buy another one and get back into riding. 'VERY impressed with the Honda CBR 600 and other bikes.

I take it that you have an extremely large insurance policy?   ;)

I know very few bands that have had a smooth break up .. Kudos.

I love my garden too .. it's by me, for me and pleases me and I don't care what anyone else thinks of it.

Quote from: Flower on June 29, 2013, 06:30:24 PM
I take it that you have an extremely large insurance policy?   ;)

I know very few bands that have had a smooth break up .. Kudos.

I love my garden too .. it's by me, for me and pleases me and I don't care what anyone else thinks of it.

I agree about your garden. It's a lot of fun to watch 'em thrive. I selected the easiest things to grow that grow very large, yellow sweet brooms, purple and light red bougainvillea, white star jasmine, ivy, honeysuckle, etc.

Yes, peaceful band breakups are quite rare. It helped to have awesome girlfriends and we were a bit tired of Tues and Thurs night rehearsals year-round.

Some of the many influencers of my life (random order):

- My maternal grandmother, Caroline
- Abraham Lincoln
- Jesus, the Christ
- Teddy Roosevelt
- Martin Luther
- Mark Twain
- The Barrymore brothers, Jack and Lionel
- My acting teacher, Stella Adler
- William Shakespeare
- Rod Serling
- The boys from Termite Terrace
- The Beatles (esp. George Harrison)

-Craig

Thought I'd add a second "Ten Things" since I posted the first time 2 and a half years ago.

1.  I once owned 3 dogs at the same time.  Two full-blooded rottweilers (male & female) & a         
     male mixed rottie.

2.  The next dog I owned (and still do) is a YORKIE!!

3.  I once drank 33 draft beers in one sitting, except for getting up to pee twice (and yes, in
     the bathroom!).

4.  When I gave my wife (then, girlfriend) a ring, the local jeweler assured me it was something
     called a pre-engagement or promise ring because I didn't know if I wanted to
     commit at that time.  My girlfriend (now, wife) said gleefully, "Yay!  We're engaged!"  When I
     tried to explain to her it wasn't an actual engagement ring, she assured me that it WAS!
     We were married a year later... and I had a "talk" with the jewelers (two brothers
     I actually knew from the gym I went to - they owned the shop), but everything turned out fine!

5.  I accidently DRANK my wife's contact lenses on our honeymoon.

6.  I was anemic, underweight, sickly & frail from kindergarten till halfway through the 4th grade.

7.  I dated a roller derby chick for awhile.  I also dated a girl wrestler named ""Two-Ton Tessie"
     She didn't weigh two tons, though.  More like 260 or 280.  Later, she had gotten down to
     165.

8.  I wear a 10 a half shoe on my left foot - and a 12 wide on my right.

9.  An alligator tried to come through some boardwalk planks (in The Everglades) to eat me.
     He didn't, though.

10. My 3rd grade teacher, in her very first year of teaching, was also my next door neighbor. 
     She and her husband would come over, play cards and drink beer with my Mom & Dad
     on some weekends.  I held that over her head.

Quote from: Unknown Primate on August 19, 2013, 04:47:49 PM

3.  I once drank 33 draft beers in one sitting, except for getting up to pee twice (and yes, in
     the bathroom!).

In the toilet?

I KNEW you would have to ask that, you sweet-smelling thing, you!   ;D

To the grave, baby - to the grave  :).

 ;)

I've known folks who mistook one porcelain thingie in the bathroom for the other...

Quote from: Unknown Primate on August 19, 2013, 04:47:49 PM
Thought I'd add a second "Ten Things" since I posted the first time 2 and a half years ago.

8.  I wear a 10 a half shoe on my left foot - and a 12 wide on my right.

9.  An alligator tried to come through some boardwalk planks (in The Everglades) to eat me.
     He didn't, though.

U.P., after reading your #8, are you sure the alligator didn't eat at least part of you!

Good point, Mac!  ;D

Quote from: Count_Zirock on September 19, 2012, 10:00:40 PM10. This will be the last list I do in this thread.

Okay, so I lied...sue me!
1. I once helped shoot a four-minute animated film in 72-hours, straight through.
2. I was denied permission to make an animated student film based on "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd," the opening number of "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" (which was cut from the Tim Burton film adaptation) in a letter from Stephen Sondheim himself.
3. I wrote a scathing review of "Carrie: The Musical" that was published in "Castle Rock: The Official Stephen King Newsletter."
4. The interview I conducted with the entire season ten cast of "Mystery Science Theater 3000" wasn't published until after the series had already been cancelled by the Sci-Fi Channel.
5. My hometown, Newark, New Jersey, was recently voted the rudest city in the world!
6. I have never played a computer game on any of the computers I've ever owned.
7. I played Teddy Brewster in my high school's production of "Arsenic & Old Lace," and made up the actor playing Jonathan Brewster to look like Bela Lugosi, because his nose was too big to be credible as Boris Karloff.
8. My favorite colors are black and silver. My high school's colors are blue and gold. Inexplicably, my class' yearbook cover was printed in black & silver instead of blue & gold.
9. I once played Santa Claus for my college's day care center, and not one kid tried to pull my beard.
10. I once submitted a bunch of cartoons to "Screw" magazine back in the '80s, and they were rejected for being "too filthy even for us!"

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More stuff .. forgive if I'm repeating myself.


I'm neither a gossip or a busybody.

I don't ask people lots of questions or personal questions .. if someone wants to tell me something, it's one thing but I don't ask questions of others. I especially don't ask questions if I have no interest on a subject or topic.  I am NOT curious about the lives of others.

I'm allergic to smoke or all kinds and it gets worse with age.

I have a love/hate relationship with rain .. I love the mood it creates, the good it does for the plants, grass, llowers .. etc .. Hate that it inhibits my plans.

I wish that Danial Silva would write at least two Gabriel Allon books a year.

I wish that Mother Nature was kinder to my garden.

I want to have the room to grow melons of all kinds.

I will attempt to grow radishes and raspberries in the Spring.

I like to support the neighborhood kids .. buy their raffle tickets and try to see them play sports when possible.

My animals are very well trained and obedient most of the time.

I don't like to be around drunks.

I hate it when someone destroys the property of others (no matter how small) or when people piss in the street or gardens (of others, I don't care what someone does on their own property).

I have zero tolerance of people who steal or take advantage of others.

I'm not a morning person but other than that, I'm usually in a good mood.  ;)

-   I'm hyper extensible (sometimes called "double-jointed").
-   I was born with strabismus/amblyopia, so I can't triangulate (see 3-D).
-   I have flat feet.
-   The first thing I wanted to be "when I grew up" was a midget. That didn't work out.
-   Somehow I ended up being a college professor (not my intention).
-   I used to be pathologically shy.
-   The first film I remember seeing in a theater was Forbidden Planet.
-   The first concert I attended was The Jimi Hendrix Experience.
-   My wife's great grandfather built Houdini's "glass coffin".
-   She is also related to Suzanna Martin, one of the original Salem "witches".
-   I draw pictures.

Oops, that was eleven. Strike the "I draw pictures" one.

Quote from: dlhenderson on August 26, 2013, 10:05:15 AM
   - The first thing I wanted to be "when I grew up" was a midget. That didn't work out.

;D

Quote from: dlhenderson on August 26, 2013, 10:05:15 AMI was born with strabismus/amblyopia, so I can't triangulate (see 3-D).

3-D vision though is not something one has from birth; it's learned. And you've learned to process the world in 3-D. Otherwise you'd never make any field goals in basketball and you'd constantly be walking into walls and other solid objects.

cl:)

1.  I am a military brat. I have been around the world by the age of 14.

2.  I was born with asthma

3.  I had cancer and beat it due to early detection when I was 34.

4.  This coming April I will have been married 39 years.

5.  I have a fear of snakes because when I was 5 years old in Texas, my friend and I went to his house to get a game. When we were in his room he noticed a lump in his bed. He thought his sister left a doll in his bed so he pulled back the covers quickly and instead of a doll, there was a water moccasin. We got out of there quick!  Apparently what had happened was the trap came off the base sewer lines and the snake got in there and came up through the toilet and into the bed. To this day, even though I have a septic tank, I still look when I sit.

6.  2 months before my 50th birthday in 2007 on Fathers Day I had a heart attack and was dead for 3 minutes. They got me back but they say there was no reason I should be here and all the charts showed I didn't make it.  I was 100% blocked in the main artery and not many come back from that.

7.  I have  been a cable tv technician for 38 years. I have done just about everything including being a supervisor, rewiring towers, building new plant on roads. My job kept changing because the company were always getting sold. When I first came to Maine there was no cable so I got into it on the ground floor when they first came into the state. Even though I am 61 I still climb poles and work outside. Too stubborn to stop.

8. One time I fell 22' from a telephone pole and missed a railroad spike by inches. I cracked my spleen and the hood of my stomach and had internal bleeding and almost died but got lucky and pulled through.

9.  I have a son who had our grandaughter who is 7 months and my daughter had our grandson who is 15 months.  Both a joy. Life is good.

10.  I started my Universal Monster obsession in the first grade. It all started with on of my friends giving me a Aurora Mummy model. I loved it (my parents did not) From there I discovered the Aurora monster models and Famous Monsters Magazine and have been a hopeless collector ever since. I managed to hold onto my original monster models event thought they traveled around the world with me.  I think I am hung up on the monsters because moving every 3 years is rough and you couldn't hold onto friends. The monsters were the only familiar thing I could relate to wherever we went.  I started my website in 1999 and because of it I have a large collection in my Universal Room which has over 2000 items. Also because of the site, I became a published author. I helped an author who contacted me for some Wolfman pictures. I sent them to him and I added notes about the makeup and he liked it. He had me write 4 paragraphs and they published 2 paragraphs plus he named my site as a reference. I am trying to find time to finish repairing the site because of my webhosts new software, I had to change a lot of formats. It is 3/4 done but I have trouble finding time but I will get it.

BONUS #11  Sorry, I am long winded

Universal Steve, I can surely relate.  I too had a "fatal" heart attack at age 55, widow-maker with 100% blockage, they "worked" on me for 20 minutes, on the third try with the defibulator, I took a breath on my own, otherwise they were ready to give up. I was a "lean-buff" 55 year old with an 8 pack, ate the healthiest of foods, exercised like there was no tomorrow, so-called "picture of health", and low-low cholesterol and triglycerides to boot!  Recently have been reading about lipoprotein(a), doctors usually don't test for it (but, they should), one of the emerging factors as to why people with normal to low cholesterol levels have heart attacks.

Quote from: skully on March 20, 2018, 10:18:29 PMI too had a "fatal" heart attack at age 55, widow-maker with 100% blockage, they "worked" on me for 20 minutes, on the third try with the defibulator, I took a breath on my own, otherwise they were ready to give up. I was a "lean-buff" 55 year old with an 8 pack, ate the healthiest of foods, exercised like there was no tomorrow, so-called "picture of health", and low-low cholesterol and triglycerides to boot!

That's scary!

:o

Hep, yes, it is.  The lipoprotein(a) that I referred to is something that is normally not checked too well with typical cholesterol blood tests, it seems to be a particularly "sticky" type of hdl, which is supposed to be the "good" cholesterol, but not this particular part of it.  As of yet, it is very hard to lower, you might be able to do a search on it, more research is truly needed for this, doctors only seem to focus on "average" risk factors associated with heart attacks which are total cholesterol and just your hdl and ldl levels along with triglicerides.  I belong to Life Extension in Florida, and have been studying nutrition for many years, long before I had my heart attack.  I was actually a "health nut" while I was still in high school, and that was a long time ago!!  They called me the "Jack Lalane" of Arrow  (where I was employed), the heart attack happened there, at the start of my shift.  The person that saved me wasn't supposed to be at work on that day, or that shift, but by a miracle he was there. I was on the front page of the newspaper here, along with being on channel 6 Action news in Philadelphia, and on channel 69 news here in the Reading-Allentown area.  A very humbling experience. I continue with body-building exercises and nutrition, I'll probably never stop. Believe me, I scared the "crap" out of everyone at work that day November 9th., 2009 when I fell over dead, they just couldn't comprehend it. As of today, I still train very hard, but my joints are starting to show some "wear and tear" with age, and sometimes I have to reduce the weight, and go for more reps with a slightly lower weight load.

Quote from: skully on March 24, 2018, 02:20:33 AM
Hep, yes, it is.  The lipoprotein(a) that I referred to is something that is normally not checked too well with typical cholesterol blood tests, it seems to be a particularly "sticky" type of hdl, which is supposed to be the "good" cholesterol, but not this particular part of it.  As of yet, it is very hard to lower, you might be able to do a search on it, more research is truly needed for this, doctors only seem to focus on "average" risk factors associated with heart attacks which are total cholesterol and just your hdl and ldl levels along with triglicerides.  I belong to Life Extension in Florida, and have been studying nutrition for many years, long before I had my heart attack.  I was actually a "health nut" while I was still in high school, and that was a long time ago!!  They called me the "Jack Lalane" of Arrow  (where I was employed), the heart attack happened there, at the start of my shift.  The person that saved me wasn't supposed to be at work on that day, or that shift, but by a miracle he was there. I was on the front page of the newspaper here, along with being on channel 6 Action news in Philadelphia, and on channel 69 news here in the Reading-Allentown area.  A very humbling experience. I continue with body-building exercises and nutrition, I'll probably never stop. Believe me, I scared the "crap" out of everyone at work that day November 9th., 2009 when I fell over dead, they just couldn't comprehend it. As of today, I still train very hard, but my joints are starting to show some "wear and tear" with age, and sometimes I have to reduce the weight, and go for more reps with a slightly lower weight load.

Skully, Glad to her you made it but as you know it is a scary ride. I unfortunately am not the picture of health. Luckily, I do not smoke and after the heart attack I lost 86 pounds but stupidly put back on 70 of it.  I am  working on losing it again.  You take care of yourself and pace your workout.  I don't hurry around as much as I used to. I guess the old saying "Slow and Steady wins the race" will apply.

Here's some stuff about me:

1 - I saw Star Wars 13 times in the theater in 1977.
2 - I am a widower and a divorcee
3 - I served in the Army during the Cold War
4 - My fondest remembrance of movies was seeing The Fog and Phantasm on a double bill at the drive-in in 1980
5 - At 54, I still have all my parts - tonsils, appendix, and even wisdom teeth
6 - I fly just about every week for work
7 - I have a vanity plate on my car that reads Ghastly
8 - I was a Civil War reenactor
9 - I have a degree in Economics
10 - I raised 3 wonderful children!!

Universal Steve, Thanks so much for your reply.  Please, Steve, take care of yourself too, nothing is impossible and everything is possible.  I admit, it is scary sometimes, but I just "ride that wave" as high as I possibly can, and let the rest to chance.  No one ever said that life was fair, bad things can surely happen to good people, but it is only your own perception as to what is bad or good, I've always said, fight like there's no tomorrow, because, you just never know.  I feel you are one of the "good" guys, never say never, and fight the good fight, no matter what. Steve, send me an e-mail anytime.