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Title: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: jmlynch1 on May 19, 2012, 11:42:01 AM
I can only wink my left eye.
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: DQ12 on May 19, 2012, 11:47:07 AM
I used to be able to put my feet behind my head.  I'd lay down on my back and just lift my feet right over my head and kind of lock them there.  In Mrs. Macintyre's third grade class, people would get me to do it, and then everyone would spin me around on my back.  Everyone really enjoyed it.
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: Dugout DickStone on May 19, 2012, 12:55:44 PM
Blue eyes
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: SdK on May 19, 2012, 03:05:50 PM
Never been tripped
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Post by: Gooch on May 19, 2012, 04:30:39 PM
I can't whistle
Title: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: HeinBallz on May 19, 2012, 05:38:55 PM
When I was young, I decided I liked ksu because of the color  purple as my favorite ninja turtle was Donatello.


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Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: TheHamburglar on May 19, 2012, 08:33:43 PM
Tonight I'm grilling for myself for the first time. Just bought a meat thermometer and everything.
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: Lynchmobrules on May 19, 2012, 09:11:53 PM
I can only wink my left eye.

Me too.

Also double jointed in both pinkies.
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: kim carnes on May 19, 2012, 09:21:01 PM
Tonight I'm grilling for myself for the first time. Just bought a meat thermometer and everything.

what the eff
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: Winters on May 19, 2012, 09:27:01 PM
I can sleepwalk with my eyes open
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: steve dave on May 19, 2012, 09:31:52 PM
Tonight I'm grilling for myself for the first time. Just bought a meat thermometer and everything.

what the eff

I've never grilled just for myself now that I think about it
Title: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: felix rex on May 19, 2012, 09:36:34 PM
Tonight I'm grilling for myself for the first time. Just bought a meat thermometer and everything.

what the eff

I've never grilled just for myself now that I think about it

I do it pretty much every night when my wife is traveling abroad to go ignite Arab Springs and such what. It's creepy how great it feels.
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: steve dave on May 19, 2012, 09:42:54 PM
I always go out when my wife is out of town.  I love friending up the townie bartenders and regulars. 
Title: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: felix rex on May 19, 2012, 09:46:21 PM
I always go out when my wife is out of town.  I love friending up the townie bartenders and regulars.

I also enjoy this. Not mutually exclusive.
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: p1k3 on May 19, 2012, 09:46:38 PM
Im pretty good at disc golf
Title: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: felix rex on May 19, 2012, 09:54:15 PM
Im pretty good at disc golf


I was once in a country where there was an "in".  Unashamed at how much I learned to enjoy it (non-frisbee reasons aside).
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: SdK on May 20, 2012, 01:47:11 AM
Tonight I'm grilling for myself for the first time. Just bought a meat thermometer and everything.

I grill for myself all the time. Thermometer though? Who the hell are you? If you need a thermometer, you don't need to be grilling....



don't need to be grilling
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: jdagg2003 on May 20, 2012, 03:36:04 AM
I'm pretty good at six degrees of separation with Bands
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Post by: FP TC etc. on May 20, 2012, 05:15:23 PM
I've won trophies in disc golf tournaments.
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Post by: AppleJack on May 20, 2012, 05:20:48 PM
Bill Medley of The Righteous Brothers is in my family tree  :surprised:
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: DQ12 on May 20, 2012, 07:53:18 PM
I was a second team all-kc metro bowler my sophomore year of high school.
Title: Re: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: michigancat on May 20, 2012, 08:10:21 PM
I was a second team all-kc metro bowler my sophomore year of high school.

I had high average in the KSU frat bowling league one year.
Title: Re: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: DQ12 on May 20, 2012, 08:15:12 PM
I was a second team all-kc metro bowler my sophomore year of high school.

I had high average in the KSU frat bowling league one year.
What was it?
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: Perry on May 20, 2012, 08:27:46 PM
I can lick my elbow. I can also lock my hands together behind my back and bring them over my head to the front without letting go or hurting myself (would do this at school to impress and/or freak out people, had lots of requests to do this throughout high school). Could also put feet behind my head when I was younger, can still get one of them up there but no longer both.
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: Poster formerly known as jthutch on May 20, 2012, 09:10:29 PM
I have hitch hikers thumb,  I can bend my thumb backwards to a 90 degree angle.
Title: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: HeinBallz on May 20, 2012, 09:27:06 PM
My second cousin was Haus Cartwright from bananza - Dan Blocker.


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Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: EMAWmeister on May 20, 2012, 09:45:22 PM
I have hitch hikers thumb,  I can bend my thumb backwards to a 90 degree angle.

I can do this, but with my pinky.
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: Stevesie60 on May 20, 2012, 11:24:27 PM
I am very close to seeing all of AFI's top 100 movies of all time.
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: SwiftCat on May 21, 2012, 12:23:00 AM
I can click my tongue really loud.

I alternate between hair that goes past my eyebrows to buzzcut. Grow it out shave it off.
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: Trim on May 21, 2012, 07:09:05 AM
I have hitch hikers thumb,  I can bend my thumb backwards to a 90 degree angle.

My left one does this. Can't bend forward much. Bandsaw accident.
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: steve dave on May 21, 2012, 07:56:10 AM
One set of my great grandparents were deaf mutes
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: wes mantooth on May 21, 2012, 08:36:29 AM
My second cousin was Haus Cartwright from bananza - Dan Blocker.


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 :surprised:
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on May 21, 2012, 09:09:25 AM
I grew 3' inches in college. I feel like that's rare for a human. I also like popcorn kernels. I'll only pop a bag of popcorn for half the time, drain the popcorn with hot sauce, eat the popcorn and chew on the kernels.
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on May 21, 2012, 09:13:11 AM
Tonight I'm grilling for myself for the first time. Just bought a meat thermometer and everything.

I grill for myself all the time. Thermometer though? Who the hell are you? If you need a thermometer, you don't need to be grilling....



don't need to be grilling

Don't listen to this garbage. I don't use a meat thermometer as often as I should, but food-borne illness is nothing to mess with. Better safe than sorry.
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: hemmy on May 21, 2012, 10:22:08 AM
I have OCD when it comes to locking doors. No joke, I check that it is locked like 38 times.
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: michigancat on May 21, 2012, 10:23:53 AM
I was a second team all-kc metro bowler my sophomore year of high school.

I had high average in the KSU frat bowling league one year.
What was it?

don't remember. somewhere around 175.
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: hemmy on May 21, 2012, 10:27:19 AM
I am a "book it" 150 bowler. I can't do better than that, and I also can't do worse. Every game I have played in the last 4 years has been ~ 150
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: Bloodfart on May 21, 2012, 11:49:45 AM
I bowled a 275 in 8th grade.  :gocho:  Still have the patch the league gave me somewhere.  I also have my own ball.  Purple marble of course.  :cool:
Title: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: puniraptor on May 21, 2012, 12:30:12 PM
These are indeed mild. Good work, goEMAW.com
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: PowercatPat on May 21, 2012, 12:43:00 PM
I am 5'9", white, and can grab a 10 ft rim.
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: DQ12 on May 21, 2012, 01:45:23 PM
I illegally operated a forklift for a couple months during the summer after my senior year of high school.

Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on May 21, 2012, 01:49:49 PM
I illegally operated a forklift for a couple months during the summer after my senior year of high school.

I have done this as well. I bet OSHA would have been pissed if they found out about it.
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: DQ12 on May 21, 2012, 01:51:38 PM
I illegally operated a forklift for a couple months during the summer after my senior year of high school.

I have done this as well. I bet OSHA would have been pissed if they found out about it.
It was so much fun.  The things handle like shopping carts.
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on May 21, 2012, 01:54:04 PM
I illegally operated a forklift for a couple months during the summer after my senior year of high school.

I have done this as well. I bet OSHA would have been pissed if they found out about it.
It was so much fun.  The things handle like shopping carts.

Yeah, they are very nice in tight spaces. You have to watch the back end, though, as it has a tendency to swing around awfully fast.

The other forklift operators and I would run forklift races around the warehouse grounds when the boss wasn't around. It was a lot of fun, but not really fair because one of the forklifts was just faster than the others.
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: DQ12 on May 21, 2012, 02:11:41 PM
I illegally operated a forklift for a couple months during the summer after my senior year of high school.

I have done this as well. I bet OSHA would have been pissed if they found out about it.
It was so much fun.  The things handle like shopping carts.

Yeah, they are very nice in tight spaces. You have to watch the back end, though, as it has a tendency to swing around awfully fast.

The other forklift operators and I would run forklift races around the warehouse grounds when the boss wasn't around. It was a lot of fun, but not really fair because one of the forklifts was just faster than the others.
I worked at two warehouses that summer.  I got the job through what was basically a warehouse/factory temp agency.  The first warehouse only had two forklifts (both sit down).  The second one had a ton of them.  Ingersol Rand...doorknobs, locks, tons of stuff.  Anyways, huge warehouse.  Probably 70 employees on the warehouse floor.

My first day when they were deciding what to do with me, I was like "yeah I can drive fork-lifts..." and they were like "but you're not certified."  Didn't even know I needed to be certified.

Doorknob warehouse.  Lot of great stories from that place.  I love telling them.
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: SabiNation on May 21, 2012, 07:42:28 PM


Doorknob warehouse.  Lot of great stories from that place.  I love telling them.

Can confirm.

But don't worry Dlew56, because I love hearing them even more
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: Ghost of Stan Parrish on May 21, 2012, 08:35:51 PM
I still have a VCR hooked up to my tv.
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: Stevesie60 on May 21, 2012, 08:37:44 PM
I still have a VCR hooked up to my tv.

I just unhooked mine yesterday. It was like losing an old friend.
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: _33 on May 21, 2012, 08:42:35 PM
I can't take naps because it's hard to fall asleep at night if I do.
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: WillieWatanabe on May 21, 2012, 09:03:27 PM
I can't take naps because it's hard to fall asleep at night if I do.

Oooooo, Call Ripley's!



I've had the same pillow all of my life(that i can remember.) Still use it, and sleep much better when i have it.
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: pissclams on May 21, 2012, 09:37:23 PM
I've had the same pillow all of my life(that i can remember.) Still use it, and sleep much better when i have it.

that's disgusting.  fwiw. 
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: Pendergast on May 21, 2012, 09:48:28 PM
I'm related to this guy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ross_(Cherokee_chief) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ross_(Cherokee_chief))
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: _33 on May 21, 2012, 10:30:49 PM
I'm related to this guy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ross_(Cherokee_chief) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ross_(Cherokee_chief))

I'm related to this guy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Bill

Sorry about killing all the bison and stuff.   :frown:
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: jmlynch1 on May 21, 2012, 10:34:20 PM
I'm related to this guy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ross_(Cherokee_chief) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ross_(Cherokee_chief))

I'm related to this guy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Bill

Sorry about killing all the bison and stuff.   :frown:
I'm related to her:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocahontas
and am super pissed at catdude33
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: AbeFroman on May 21, 2012, 10:50:22 PM
I grew up in England and Guam. Somehow ended up in Kansas after all that.
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: wetwillie on May 21, 2012, 11:11:48 PM
My last name is impossible to know  the spelling of when spoken over the phone.
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Post by: Panjandrum on May 21, 2012, 11:19:03 PM
I once met Pharrell Williams' dad at a wedding, and he gave me a N.E.R.D. hat after I proved that I was a fan.
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: Matt Siebrant's Left Hand on May 22, 2012, 02:18:26 AM
My left nut hangs considerably lower than my right.
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: WillieWatanabe on May 22, 2012, 06:23:30 AM
I've had the same pillow all of my life(that i can remember.) Still use it, and sleep much better when i have it.

that's disgusting.  fwiw. 

its obvious i don't care at this point.
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: Trim on May 22, 2012, 06:51:32 AM
My left nut hangs considerably lower than my right.

Me too.
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: Saulbadguy on May 22, 2012, 07:00:29 AM
I went to the Titanic artifact exhibit at Union Station this weekend and was given a "boarding pass" of a victim that was not only the richest man on the Titanic, but also a distant relative.
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: Stevesie60 on May 22, 2012, 08:10:25 AM
I went to the Titanic artifact exhibit at Union Station this weekend and was given a "boarding pass" of a victim that was not only the richest man on the Titanic, but also a distant relative.

That is more than mildly interesting.
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on May 22, 2012, 09:17:06 AM
I've probably met more celebs than anyone here. Bob Saget, Chris Berman, Stuart Scott, Weezer, 311, Trent Green, Shaq, Desperate Housewives cast, Brad Pitt (swoon), Kobe, Mariah Carey, Citizen Cope, ect.  :gocho:
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: slobber on May 22, 2012, 09:22:20 AM
I can wiggle my ears and I can stick my tongue into my nostrils about a 1/8 of an inch. If I ever make it to a goemawpak, and any of you guys are 'shrooming, I promise you that you will at least find these two facts mildly interesting.
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: Dr. Feelgood on May 22, 2012, 10:12:19 AM
my second cousin is/was an international soccer superstar
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: michigancat on May 22, 2012, 10:12:46 AM
Meeting celebrities is extremely boring and a waste of time.
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: Saulbadguy on May 22, 2012, 10:15:25 AM
Meeting celebrities is extremely boring and a waste of time.
That's not a fact about yourself.
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on May 22, 2012, 10:36:38 AM
Meeting celebrities is extremely boring and a waste of time.
MC's above it ppl. That's mildy interesting, I guess.
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: michigancat on May 22, 2012, 10:38:08 AM
Meeting celebrities is extremely boring and a waste of time.
That's not a fact about yourself.

FMP:

I think Meeting celebrities is extremely boring and a waste of time.
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: ben ji on May 22, 2012, 01:07:32 PM
My Uncle's father in law was a star football player for the Katz in the 1930's and was drafted by the Eagles. He turned down their contract offer to begin farming.

I have a cousin who was an all american kick returner and appeared on a nationally televised gameshow.

I am somehow related to former House Representative Sheila Frahm.

Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: HeinBallz on May 22, 2012, 02:39:13 PM
My left nut hangs considerably lower than my right.

That's pretty common.  Typically, which berry hangs the lowest is entirely dependent on which way your twig typically rest.
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: Trim on May 22, 2012, 02:50:59 PM
My left nut hangs considerably lower than my right.

That's pretty common.  Typically, which berry hangs the lowest is entirely dependent on which way your twig typically rest.

Sometimes it's cancer.
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: michigancat on May 22, 2012, 02:55:59 PM
Is having relatives that were mildly interesting a mildly interesting fact about yourself?
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: HeinBallz on May 22, 2012, 03:03:48 PM
Is having relatives that were mildly interesting a mildly interesting fact about yourself?

I would say having relatives that were somewhat interesting would be a mildly interesting fact about you.
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: Tobias on May 22, 2012, 06:45:56 PM
cancer lover bait thread
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: tnuss on May 23, 2012, 01:33:20 AM


I was born on the day after perihelion a while back.
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: Merk on May 23, 2012, 04:41:43 PM
I only have a birthday once every 4 years.
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Post by: Teddy_Westside on May 23, 2012, 05:15:10 PM
I'm a triplet.
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Post by: EMAWmeister on May 24, 2012, 10:56:13 AM
My uncle dated Hannah Storm (Storen at the time) while in college.
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: BMWWcat on May 24, 2012, 02:10:06 PM
I'm 5'-5" tall... :bang:
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: Stevesie60 on May 24, 2012, 05:06:59 PM
Whenever I take the stairs, I count how many stairs there are. If there are 13, I skip the last one.
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on May 24, 2012, 05:19:52 PM
I can tell who's coming in the room off of the sound/noise of your foot steps.
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: Gooch on May 24, 2012, 07:30:22 PM
I can tell who's coming in the room off of the sound/noise of your foot steps.
But yet completely unaware of people going to town with a Sharpie on your face.
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on May 24, 2012, 07:32:44 PM
I can tell who's coming in the room off of the sound/noise of your foot steps.
But yet completely unaware of people going to town with a Sharpie on your face.
  :thumbs:
Title: Re: Mildly Interesting Facts About Yourself (myself)
Post by: slobber on May 25, 2012, 09:11:48 AM
Whenever I take the stairs, I count how many stairs there are. If there are 13, I skip the last one.
That reminded me of something I am awesome at. If I am walking somewhere, I can tell you how many steps, with 2-3 steps, it is going to take for me to get there, even if I have never walked that path before. I have only done this when the number of steps is less than 200.