Ten Things About You

[Unknown Primate]

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

To the grave, baby - to the grave  .

[Flower]

 

[Wich2]

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

[McDougals House of Horror]

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!

[Unknown Primate]

Good point, Mac! 

[Count_Zirock]

10. 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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[Flower]

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. 

[dlhenderson]

-   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.

[Flower]

   - The first thing I wanted to be "when I grew up" was a midget. That didn't work out.

[Hepcat]

I 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.

[Universal Steve]

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

[skully]

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.

[Hepcat]

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!

That's scary!

[skully]

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.

[Universal Steve]

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.