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  1. Liz82884
    Liz
    4 years ago

    I was the Ladies World Conker Champion 2002-2003! Sadly only Brits and a very few others know what conkers are or what the game entails, or I might have been world famous!

  2. Tiffany62902
    Tiffany
    4 years ago

    My family has a worm composting bin as of the beginning of this month. Like a half pound of worms…500 maybe? It has been exciting trying to help the planet and eventually our garden!

  3. Carrie Lee95809
    Carrie Lee
    4 years ago

    Earlier this year I took a long and scary step out of my comfort zone and entered my drawings in a local art exhibition. Due to Covid, of course, it was an online event but still daunting nonetheless..

  4. sunnypatti48317
    sunnypatti48317
    4 years ago

    I make a darned good tomato pie! So good that I can’t go to a family event without bringing one (or two), regardless of what time of year it is. My husband wants us to sell them when we get our business going… that’s how good he thinks they are, and he’s a properly trained chef!

  5. Dusty Su 14325
    Dusty Su
    4 years ago

    I am about to make my 51st complete house move. I am 60-years-young! That’s a lot of moving.

  6. Don Jones69078
    Don Jones
    4 years ago

    I talk to my dog – sometimes long conversations. She hasn’t answered yet. So the wheels haven’t fallen of the trolley (yet)!

    1. Liz82884
      Liz
      4 years ago

      Doesn’t everybody talk to their pet??? I have conversations all day long with my cat. He doesn’t reply much but he often sits and listens intently. Sometimes he offers a comment, but sadly I don’t always understand. Perhaps your dog is considering her proper answer!

    2. sunnypatti48317
      sunnypatti48317
      4 years ago

      I love talking to my dog and cat! They are the best listeners 🙂

  7. Cathie
    Cathie
    4 years ago

    Ok, this is on the level of a mother bird throwing her fledging out of the nest and my son is now in his 30s so here goes….
    When my son was in 8th or 9th grade we were fishing in a small boat out on a Canadian lake as a family. My hubby had just bought me a new closed face reel…which to fisherman is an embarrassment… none the less I learned on a close faced reel and it is my comfort zone.
    So my hubby put it on my rod and away we go.
    On one of my casts, the reel went flying off into the lake; it was very clear lake and I could see it shining down about 12 feet or so.
    I began to strip to my undies when my hubby said – WHAT ARE YOU DOING –
    I said – getting my new reel.
    He said no way (as there were other boats around – not close but around)
    So I decided my son could swim down to get it – to which I got an incredulous look. But he did strip to his skivvies and dove in.
    He came up to the side of the boat and said its too deep I can’t get it.
    To which the story goes, I placed my foot on his head, said…”you run cross country – you have enough breath go get my new reel”… and then proceeded to push him back into the water.
    Well he dives down and then comes up like the lady of the lake holding Excalibur with the reel in his hand, breaking the surface 1st.
    He gained a lot of confidence that day – I got my reel back, and my hubby just shook his head…and then confessed it was a 2nd-hand refurbished reel –
    After a moment, we all broke out laughing as my son climbed back into the boat.
    The story has been told to all family members who also find it funny, and very Cathie-like.
    I hope you find it a bit amusing too –

  8. d
    dcdeb
    4 years ago

    Been told i have a good sense of humor.

  9. B
    BasicMarsh
    4 years ago

    I have literally “bumped” into and actually spoken to several famous people here and there — airports, city streets, etc. The number one incident was Ringo Starr in London in 1972, Bart Starr (Green Bay quarterback in the 60s) in Salt Lake City in the 90s, Julian Bond in D.C., Ed Bradley (60 Minutes reporter) at Atlanta airport, Rich Little (comedian/impersonator) in Hollywood, Sarah Jaroz (singer) at an airport, and John Sebastian (Lovin’ Spoonful) at Disneyland.

  10. Antoinette88615
    Antoinette
    4 years ago

    I use to have a horse and I rode barrel racing in rodeos!

  11. HelenH72309
    Mica
    4 years ago

    I haven’t brushed or even finger-combed my hair since day before yesterday. … Time to take out the pony tail and start!

    1. d
      dcdeb
      4 years ago

      I like this

      1. HelenH72309
        Mica
        4 years ago

        Oh! That’s not true any longer 😁🙃

        1. d
          dcdeb
          4 years ago

          😣😀😀😀😀

    2. O. Christina36171
      O.Christina
      4 years ago

      😂

    3. Antoinette88615
      Antoinette
      4 years ago

      😂

  12. Debra36303
    Debra
    4 years ago

    I was a crazy synchronized swimmer in my youth for about a decade. I once did a double ballet leg for the length of the pool to get a hot-fudge Sundae. Try that. Only your head and pointed lower legs and feet are above the surface and you propel yourself afloat with your hands. Yippee!

    1. Michele17440
      Michele
      4 years ago

      I did water ballet in middle school loved it!

  13. SK78567
    SK
    4 years ago

    I was once in a Marching Kazoo Band. . I met Gary Cooper when I was 4 years old. I have also met Sky King.

    1. Debra36303
      Debra
      4 years ago

      Well SK, I might not be in a marching Kazoo Band, but I hail from Kazoo!

  14. Toni Roberti94639
    Toni
    4 years ago

    I auditioned for a movie once. It was a “look see”. All you had to do was stand on a spot in order for the director to see you. I was dating an actor at the time who refused to go to the audition because he didn’t want me telling him what to do. He had been in NY for several months and did not have an agent and was not going on auditions. When someone told me about the “look see” I thought it would be perfect for him to get started. He was surprised when I told him I went and how easy it was. He decided to go and not only did he get the part but it enabled him to get into 2 unions. He went on to get another movie and was paid scale. I secretly wanted to be an actor too but did not pursue it and had very little experience and was very insecure. He had an 8 by 10 glossy photo with a resume on the back with his summer stock experience and community theater credits. I had an index card with a 2″ square Woolworth photo stapled to it with high school theater experience printed out in pen. The movie was Radio Days with director Woody Allen sitting in the dark in the back of the room.. He was my boyfriends favorite NY director at the time. For me it was a no brainer. I could not let him pass up the opportunity so I made it easy for him on a dare. If I could go with no experience he had no excuse. He was mad but it got him out of bed and to the audition just in time. It was in the basement of St. Pauls Church just blocks from where my boyfriend lived in the Theater District. The next movie he was in was Coming to America. We broke up shortly after that upon entering a cult church that a theater friend introduced him to (another story). He now lives in Atlanta with his wife and daughter and does regional theater. He lived happily ever after.

  15. Chester
    Chester
    4 years ago

    I was once close enough to a mortar blast to hear the whistling before impact – far enough to be safe, close enough to emerge all the more grateful!

    1. HelenH72309
      Mica
      4 years ago

      What was the mortar blast about/for?

      1. Chester
        Chester
        4 years ago

        Suspect it was for “impact” in many shapes and forms. It was a regular occurrence at that particular location in Afghanistan. That one just came particularly close.

  16. Mike S55572
    Mike S
    4 years ago

    For a good number of years I’ve had in mind to write a mystery thriller and I even had the bear outlines of a plot. The main character is a psychologist who is a former Marine and who gets called on cases by a Boston police department sergeant detective who he knew from his days in the military. There is a woman who has multiple personality disorder who, and one of her manifestations, is a serial killer, mostly of rich white men. So the police detective girls are central figure, the psychologist, I call to work on the case with a victim is a male. The suspense grows because the woman with multiple personality disorder comes to our psychologist in her healthy personality bringing her young son in for therapy, and then she herself wants to do individual therapy. If and when I ever finish this book I’ll let you all know.

  17. Y
    Yram
    4 years ago

    I have made over 100 hats on a round loom this past year. I think worms are fascinating!

  18. Holly in Ohio90819
    Holly in Ohio
    4 years ago

    I was once asked by a royal prince to marry him and I turned him down. He asked me again a year later, and I turned him down a second time. We did date a bit. He was nice and very interesting!

    Now don’t get too excited. He was not in line for a throne. He was the youngest of six brothers. And it had been his uncle that had been king, until the country was no longer a monarchy… but yes, he was indeed a bona fide royal prince, and he led an extremely interesting life and excelled at accomplishments. I met him when he was getting his third higher learning degree, and he told me he was after six total degrees, so he could beat the record of his brothers and sister

    1. HelenH72309
      Mica
      4 years ago

      WoW, Holly in Ohio!

  19. dlaporte0622@hotmail.com
    Pilgrim
    4 years ago

    I am a big fan of Broadway music, and very often pop out with a line from a song in the middle of a conversation. These lines also seem to run through my mind regularly.

  20. Javier Visionquest65209
    Javier Visionquest
    4 years ago

    Some people call me “Mean” Dean referring to the mean, mode, and median. There is nothing extraordinary about me.

    1. Holly in Ohio90819
      Holly in Ohio
      4 years ago

      You have uniqueness! And I bet you could find a fun fact or two if you sit with it a while. You keep bees, for instance!

      How did you get your nickname?

  21. Carla N84768
    Carla
    4 years ago

    Im an occasional character performer. I’m known best for being St Frances Xavier Cabrini at my parish. I’ve also been St Brigid & Peonia Peterson-a delightful Minnesotan with a gutsy New Yorker dialect.

  22. C
    Clare
    4 years ago

    I don’t know that it’s a fun fact for those around me but I have the curiosity of a four year old. I’m forever either asking or looking up the why’s and what fors of new things I come across.

    1. Butterfly66846
      Butterfly
      4 years ago

      Me too, Clare 😊

  23. Sherry32812
    Sherry
    4 years ago

    I’m an artist mostly landscapes. I love Rumi poetry

  24. con71475@yahoo.com
    Carol
    4 years ago

    In the 1970’s I was a blues singer on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. In my late 50s I was a church soloist and member of my church choir. Every year on service Sunday, I was ask to deliver the pitch for new choir members and I always used to begin by saying, “I went from singing in the saloon to singing in the sanctuary and I have not found the audience to be much different. We are all lifted up by song.”

    1. sparrow51014
      sparrow
      4 years ago

      I love this . . .
      so true,
      dear Carol . . .

      1. Holly in Ohio90819
        Holly in Ohio
        4 years ago

        Oh my goodness. That is FABULOUS! Now I totally “get” why your soul is so deep! 🙂

  25. devy39652
    devy
    4 years ago

    I have a sense of humour and love using puns in conversations 😂

    1. Holly in Ohio90819
      Holly in Ohio
      4 years ago

      I love PUNishment. Bring it on, Devy! 😀

    2. O. Christina36171
      O.Christina
      4 years ago

      One at our school was double you I- double el y – double you- double o d. We were asked to spelling the tongue twister as fast as we could, and it was a lot of fun until finally, we succeeded. As it was a foreign language for us all, we exercised until we got it right 🙂

  26. Trish47474
    Trish
    4 years ago

    I’m making sock puppets for my academy mentor’s retirement party & will be honoring her with a skit. The puppets will be a replication of my mentor & my classmates. We have all said such ridiculous things over the last two years!!

    1. Holly in Ohio90819
      Holly in Ohio
      4 years ago

      That sounds precious! Oh that will be fun!!!! 😀

      1. Trish47474
        Trish
        4 years ago

        Holly, you’re such a great cheerleader❤️

  27. Luna Mihee Kwon47269
    Luna Mihee Kwon
    4 years ago

    I’m not horrible at getting my essays done for school, but I tend to procrastinate on the quality of those very essays.

  28. kevinthequaker123
    Kevin
    4 years ago

    I’ve spent a lifetime working with young people, and frequently groups began by sitting in a big circle with everyone sharing their names. When it was time to share my name, I said, “My name is Joseph Kevin Michael Patrick Lee, if you please!” Soon, kids began to playfully challenge one another with who among them could say my name correctly in one breath. Over time, many young people began greeting me with, “Hello Joseph Kevin Michael Patrick Lee if you please!”

  29. Michele17440
    Michele
    4 years ago

    I learned Irish Ceili dancing as an adult, danced for over 11 years with the Timoney’s. Awesome group of people:)

    1. Holly in Ohio90819
      Holly in Ohio
      4 years ago

      Ceilidh is fun! I wish I could do it. Second best would be to watch people doing it! That is fabulous, Michele!


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