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Post by billisonboard on Sept 20, 2014 17:50:25 GMT -5
Hiking all sections of the Pacific Crest Trail in Washington State. (Disclaimer: Done over multiple summers, not in one straight stretch).
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Post by Malarky on Sept 20, 2014 18:15:11 GMT -5
I bungy jumped off Kawarau bridge in Queenstown, New Zealand with the original company that started it all. Actually, I was too scared to jump, I was pushed.
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Post by Nazgul Girl on Sept 20, 2014 18:25:32 GMT -5
Hmmmm. I played the witch in Hansel and Gretel when I was in the 6th grade, and did a wonderful job ! People remembered it when I was in college ! ( " I saw you in Hansel and Gretel ! " ) I sang the songs and had a great witch voice.
I was told that I was " very original " by my wonderful kindergarten teacher.
I was pretty sure that I should star in a book with the Black Stallion.
I was on a show called " High School Bowl" ( knowledge, not bowling ) and did very well.
I was in a choir that went to South America one summer, between h.s. and college. There was a riot at the theater in Buenos Aires while we were performing. AntiAmerican and all that. This was in 1970. Times have changed, and I loved Argentinians and Buenos Aires then and now.
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Post by Malarky on Sept 20, 2014 18:30:12 GMT -5
I also once won a contest at a Happy Hour event. I could smoke a cigarette, drink a beer, hula hoop and carry on a conversation all at the same time. I have such mad, useless skills.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2014 18:35:23 GMT -5
I also once won a contest at a Happy Hour event. I could smoke a cigarette, drink a beer, hula hoop and carry on a conversation all at the same time. I have such mad, useless skills.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2014 18:37:22 GMT -5
I also once won a contest at a Happy Hour event. I could smoke a cigarette, drink a beer, hula hoop and carry on a conversation all at the same time. I have such mad, useless skills. When I saw that you had posted to this thread, I clicked on it again. I just knew it would be something worth reading.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2014 20:11:54 GMT -5
I hold the record among my friends as being the only one who knows how to bail pEEps out of jail in three different states I found out how to keep myself OUT of jail in Colorado. Thankfully the cops were nice enough to let me and my boyfriend at the time get dressed before making us get out of the truck.
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Post by Opti on Sept 20, 2014 20:21:28 GMT -5
You need to start planning your comeback re-peak. Pick an age and figure out what you want those accomplishments to be.
What grade is 11 years old? That's might have been the height of my musical career or at least reputation... -rofl-Damn, no school heart throbs for me so far, ever. Personally I count the day in 5th grade I got mad at the big kid and made him go fetch the ball or something. We had a stare down. Later I learned most people assumed he was a suburban Mafiso's son. What grade is 11 years old? Um...5th. For me anyway. Well, technically, I began that stellar year at 10. My first double digit year, which should have been a very clear sign that it was going to be a stellar year impacting my future forever. How could I NOT have seen that?? Lucky you dodging that Mafioso revenge bullet! Although, it has been strongly rumored that Frank Sinatra got a huge boost in HIS musical career from them, as have many others. Perhaps the respect afforded you from winning the stare down could have served you well. As for a re peak comeback? No. You can never go home again. Well, I guess I could try but I think Kenny still has that restraining order. OK, I'll spell it out for ya. You can do a Barbara Streisand, John Travolta, etc. Just because you hit some peak at a 11 doesn't mean you couldn't do a better new peak at 50, 60 or 75 years old. (And you were probably being sarcastic, forgetting Optimist needs or during periods of low sleep. -faint-That is all.)
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Post by mmhmm on Sept 20, 2014 20:25:18 GMT -5
Oooh! I forgot! I kissed the Blarney stone!
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Post by Opti on Sept 20, 2014 20:28:25 GMT -5
I'll have to adjust this thread to include amusing accomplishments.
I think I have one for the EE crowd. It concerns getting locked out of a family run hotel in Germany because I was sent out for beer apparently right before they locked the doors at 10 or 11PM. It also led to up me deciding to just stay up all night because we were supposed to leave the hotel at 4AM by bus to fly back home(USA USA...)
I did not make 50 hours straight, up and awake, caving somewhere between 48 and 49.5 hours awake. Is that an almost accomplishment?
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Post by Opti on Sept 20, 2014 20:31:34 GMT -5
Oooh! I forgot! I kissed the Blarney stone! Obviously, that's how you caught the 'I want to be a nurse' disease...
How many people have kissed that rock anyway? Some people are afraid of public bathroom toilets. Shouldn't there be health warnings at the Blarney stone?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2014 20:34:15 GMT -5
I'll have to adjust this thread to include amusing accomplishments.
I think I have one for the EE crowd. It concerns getting locked out of a family run hotel in Germany because I was sent out for beer apparently right before they locked the doors at 10 or 11PM. It also led to up me deciding to just stay up all night because we were supposed to leave the hotel at 4AM by bus to fly back home(USA USA...)
I did not make 50 hours straight, up and awake, caving somewhere between 48 and 49.5 hours awake. Is that an almost accomplishment? Sure. It's right up there with the 3 days straight that me, my cousin and 2 of our friends decided to stay awake playing the game of Life. I cannot drink more than one cup of coffee a day anymore and if anyone brings that goddamn game anywhere within a 5 mile radius of me I am going to beat the shit out of them with it. It got so absurd we started making up our own rules and stupid stories with it. God, there wasn't enough coffee and cigarettes to save me from that hell.
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Post by mmhmm on Sept 20, 2014 20:34:49 GMT -5
Oooh! I forgot! I kissed the Blarney stone! Obviously, that's how you caught the 'I want to be a nurse' disease...
How many people have kissed that rock anyway? Some people are afraid of public bathroom toilets. Shouldn't there be health warnings at the Blarney stone?
No clue! I remember my grandmother telling me I'd eat a peck o' dirt before I died. I figure germs can't be that much worse than dirt (which gotta be fulla germs).
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Post by mmhmm on Sept 20, 2014 20:36:31 GMT -5
I also climbed Lion Rock in Sri Lanka. The rest of my lazy family sat at the foot of it waiting for me to come down!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2014 20:39:11 GMT -5
Probably quitting smoking. Sounds so stupid but one of the hardest things for me ever.
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Post by ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ on Sept 20, 2014 20:47:16 GMT -5
I baptized the baby Jesus in my first grade Christmas nativity play. I got the honor of playing Mary - at about 7 or 8 yrs old.
I was in our big parade at age 13, as a majorette. (What I to this day call the 3 hrs of hell twirling and tossing the baton while keeping in sync at a far-too-slow pace due to floats stopping or marching bands stopping to do their routines en route.)
Won an award in college for one of my art pieces entered into a competition. The piece also sold at a charity auction which followed.
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Post by Tennesseer on Sept 20, 2014 20:54:42 GMT -5
Hmmmm. I played the witch in Hansel and Gretel when I was in the 6th grade, and did a wonderful job ! People remembered it when I was in college ! ( " I saw you in Hansel and Gretel ! " ) I sang the songs and had a great witch voice. I was told that I was " very original " by my wonderful kindergarten teacher. I was pretty sure that I should star in a book with the Black Stallion. I was on a show called " High School Bowl" ( knowledge, not bowling ) and did very well. I was in a choir that went to South America one summer, between h.s. and college. There was a riot at the theater in Buenos Aires while we were performing. AntiAmerican and all that. This was in 1970. Times have changed, and I loved Argentinians and Buenos Aires then and now. Was the choir 'Up With People'? They performed for my high school back in 1968 or 69.
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Post by Tennesseer on Sept 20, 2014 20:58:20 GMT -5
I baptized the baby Jesus in my first grade Christmas nativity play. I got the honor of playing Mary - at about 7 or 8 yrs old.
I was in our big parade at age 13, as a majorette. (What I to this day call the 3 hrs of hell twirling and tossing the baton while keeping in sync at a far-too-slow pace due to floats stopping or marching bands stopping to do their routines en route.)
Won an award in college for one of my art pieces entered into a competition. The piece also sold at a charity auction which followed.I got the baptizer role because my parents' real names were Mary and Joseph. The nuns knew I was not cut out to be Jesus.
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Post by tallguy on Sept 20, 2014 20:59:08 GMT -5
Never been there. I did stand on top of both the Pyramid of the Sun and the Pyramid of the Moon in Teotihuacan. (Not as impressive individually, perhaps, but there WERE two of 'em!)
And the rest of my lazy family was...2300 miles away. Guess I can't blame them for not climbing, huh?
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Post by Nazgul Girl on Sept 20, 2014 21:01:31 GMT -5
Hmmmm. I played the witch in Hansel and Gretel when I was in the 6th grade, and did a wonderful job ! People remembered it when I was in college ! ( " I saw you in Hansel and Gretel ! " ) I sang the songs and had a great witch voice. I was told that I was " very original " by my wonderful kindergarten teacher. I was pretty sure that I should star in a book with the Black Stallion. I was on a show called " High School Bowl" ( knowledge, not bowling ) and did very well. I was in a choir that went to South America one summer, between h.s. and college. There was a riot at the theater in Buenos Aires while we were performing. AntiAmerican and all that. This was in 1970. Times have changed, and I loved Argentinians and Buenos Aires then and now. Was the choir 'Up With People'? They performed for my high school back in 1968 or 69. Hi, Tenneseer, no it was Youth for Understanding Chorale. We were youth and we were bringing understanding to the world ! Ah yes. Those were the days.
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Post by Nazgul Girl on Sept 20, 2014 21:04:13 GMT -5
Up With People had a very good chorus, also, though. I heard them perform once, also.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2014 21:11:04 GMT -5
Oh I was a pumpkin in 3rd grade. "Oh me , oh my, oh dear. They'll never see me over here". My lines.
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Post by mamasita99 on Sept 21, 2014 6:05:46 GMT -5
Oh I was a pumpkin in 3rd grade. "Oh me , oh my, oh dear. They'll never see me over here". My lines. OH! You brought back my famous lines from our 3rd grade play. I was an elf named Little Bright Eyes, I guess because I had blue eyes. I remember most vividly trying to find bright red dress shoes for the play but my feet had already outgrown children's sizes so I had to get some old lady shoes. It was very traumatic. "I'll be one (a spy for Santa), I'm Little Bright Eyes. I'll think and I'll hide and I'll find out who is playing all the little dirty tricks on you".
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Post by toomuchreality on Sept 22, 2014 1:48:46 GMT -5
I won a trophy when I participated in the "media races". (slalom skiing) This was quite an accomplishment because in each of my heats, I was afraid to go, when the light turned green. I'm not a great skier and am afraid of heights, so I stood at the top, looking down and watching my competitor fly down the mountain, through the gates. Eventually I pushed over the start line and slowly made my way down. Each time I finished, without wiping out. My competitor did not. My trophy says "slowest female finisher". I also got a free ski lesson. LOL I still have the trophy. (Event took place in the early '80s)
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Post by steff on Sept 22, 2014 2:19:38 GMT -5
when I was 5 I was in a cheerleading group on the Don Mahoney & Jeana Claire Show (a local Saturday morning kids show in Houston)
when I was 6 I flew from Houston to California and back to Houston alone (with a flight attendant to check on me & someone at the walkway off the plane to pick me up)
was the only girl in our high school group of friends to NOT get knocked up in high school
took both of my brothers to their first concerts
and putting on Thanksgiving dinner for 57 people/family one year...did it alllllll by myself. Then got drunk as shit while everyone else ate dinner because I was sick of the food by then.
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Post by Opti on Sept 22, 2014 3:03:22 GMT -5
I'll have to adjust this thread to include amusing accomplishments.
I think I have one for the EE crowd. It concerns getting locked out of a family run hotel in Germany because I was sent out for beer apparently right before they locked the doors at 10 or 11PM. It also led to up me deciding to just stay up all night because we were supposed to leave the hotel at 4AM by bus to fly back home(USA USA...)
I did not make 50 hours straight, up and awake, caving somewhere between 48 and 49.5 hours awake. Is that an almost accomplishment? The funny thing is when I got home my Mom and sisters tried to talk me out of my 50 hours awake goal, saying it was stupid and I should go to sleep. I think we went to the Dunes(beach in Michigan) with our church the day after I got home from Europe. Of course when I decided 48 hours was two days straight and might as well go to sleep when I still could, guess who decided I should tough it out for the next two hours?
I think I made it to 48.5 hours up straight. I am pissed that I stayed up 26 hours straight for a final upgrade project just prior to my layoff. (The joys of salaried work as a UNIX admin to a global pharma company. )
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Post by Opti on Sept 22, 2014 3:08:01 GMT -5
I won a trophy when I participated in the "media races". (slalom skiing) This was quite an accomplishment because in each of my heats, I was afraid to go, when the light turned green. I'm not a great skier and am afraid of heights, so I stood at the top, looking down and watching my competitor fly down the mountain, through the gates. Eventually I pushed over the start line and slowly made my way down. Each time I finished, without wiping out. My competitor did not. My trophy says "slowest female finisher". I also got a free ski lesson. LOL I still have the trophy. (Event took place in the early '80s) While at the time maybe you didn't like the slowest part of the title, the bottom line is you finished, which *is* important.
I've always wanted to learn to ski, but I am worried I might be in a significant downhill accident when I first learn. Of course I could just practice falling artistically! I did do some cross country skiing as my Mom got into that with her second husband and that was back when her area of Illinois used to be more snow covered and less cold on average.
I, too, have a fear of some heights. Congrats!
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Post by NoNamePerson on Sept 22, 2014 8:34:11 GMT -5
when I was 5 I was in a cheerleading group on the Don Mahoney & Jeana Claire Show (a local Saturday morning kids show in Houston) when I was 6 I flew from Houston to California and back to Houston alone (with a flight attendant to check on me & someone at the walkway off the plane to pick me up) was the only girl in our high school group of friends to NOT get knocked up in high schooltook both of my brothers to their first concerts and putting on Thanksgiving dinner for 57 people/family one year...did it alllllll by myself. Then got drunk as shit while everyone else ate dinner because I was sick of the food by then. OMG. I have a second accomplishment and didn't even realize it. Thanks for the reminder. I was feeling a little down since everyone has done such incredible, earthmoving stuff.
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Post by cronewitch on Sept 22, 2014 15:16:58 GMT -5
I take the credit for saving a babys life. I was a kitchen worker in a small hospital so I delivered meals to rooms too. I asked people what beverage they wanted. The baby was 10 months old in an oxygen tent with pneumonia with a nurse in the room, he didn't talk. So I left the baby milk and grape juice since I didn't know what he wanted to drink. Nurse gave him the grape juice, he loved it, wanted more, refused other food just wanted grape juice. He hadn't wanted any food before but the grape juice revived him. His mom said he had never had grape juice before. They soon sent him home, alive and well because of me.
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Post by HoneyBBQ on Sept 22, 2014 15:19:25 GMT -5
Hiking all sections of the Pacific Crest Trail in Washington State. (Disclaimer: Done over multiple summers, not in one straight stretch). PCT is on my bucket list. As is about 20 more trails, of course. Have you done Wonderland?
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