10 things I've done that you probably haven't

[Lady Willow]

This is from another forum which is a great getting-to-know-ya thread!!!



Here's mine to start the ball rolling;




1) Snorkelled on the Great Barrier Reef at the exact time of the year when the tide was at it lowest and the reef was actually ABOVE the water line... really spacey!

2) Played pool with Whitesnake

3) Watched the sun rise over Ulhuru whilst eating vegan waffles

4) Made a glitter ball (it was crap!)

5) Am mortgage free and don't owe anybody a penny

6) Was on the front page of the national newspapers

7) Had a little fish swim in my cossie whilst in the Red Sea

8) Ate breakfast several times whilst Paul McCartney & his wife and baby ate at the next table whilst holdaying in the Maldives

9) Did the smelliest fart you ever smelled after climbing to the top of Mount Sinai to watch the sun rise ... and pretended it wasn't me

10) Once lived with 9 rescued cats

[mrsflibble]

ok there are many things I wouldn't list on a public forum but here's a few.
1) drove to scotland and back on a provisional license, and navigated myself 'cos my hubby's hopeless without motorways
2) found an abalone shell in the sea near Bandol, Provence
3) stroked a stingray at the sealife centre in Weston Super Mare
4) got my hubby and his mum talking again after 3 years of silence
5) survived two heart attacks, coma and have come out with only a little short term memory problem
6) knitted a mouse with an ear on its back (<----- "Claude")
7) I can ask "when does the train arrive" in japanese, but can not understand the answer (can also ask when the dog, cat and egg arrive too )
8) I've read the first 5 books of the old testament despite not being religious; I read them to see what all the fuss is about. Kind of like one would read a novel.
9) when I was working in Ladbrokes at the age of 18 I instructed a french man on how to fill in a betting slip in his native tongue
10) I served Jeremy Spake (click here if you don't remember him) when I worked in a co-op and made a right tit of myself by saying "omigod you're him arn't you?!"

[Milims]

Not sure if I can come up with a whole 10 - but here goes
1 I was the nanny to the grand children of the chairman of a 1st division football team
2 I was the only matron in a private school who wore shocking pink 4" heeled shoes
3 I've been the only female electrician on an entire building site
4 I've had christmas cards form a "Carry on" films star
5 I can fill a 3' balloon with smaller ballons and confetti that explodes on command
6 I once said a terrible thing when I was trying to sell a lady large pink clematis
7 I've sung on the telly
8 (really scaping the barrel now) I was discovered to be the best at the forfeits on the dwyle flonking team
9 I've just discovered how to make flavoured popcorn with a popcorn maker
10 I have a recipe for jellied moose nose!

[Lady Willow]

Not sure if I can come up with a whole 10 - but here goes
5 I can fill a 3' balloon with smaller ballons and confetti that explodes on command

I bow before your feet of great and wise one!!!





What the bugggery bollox is a dwyle flonking??????

[mrsflibble]

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

[Turf cutter man]

right here goes


1) I have dived while 5 mantarays circle past...within inches

2)had my photo taken/met with Les Dawson

3) grew sku*nk/canab!s for 10 years...now that was self-sufficent Nb I m not condoing nor do have anything to do with it now!!!!

4)danced naked alone in an empty warehouse... why? because I could
5 rode to vienna and back by Lambretta from near london....that you had to bump start most of the time.

6)been kissed on each cheek by a giraffe...sent a tingle down my spine

7)lost a good friend at 19 hit with a baseball bat....made me realise the fragility of life and to live it to the full

8) had my photo taken with Iron Maiden att the local Sports Centre...remember when gigs were in sports centres and town halls??

9) Won the wellie throwing comp at the inter cub scout olynpics 1974

10)realised that meat production is a main cause of global warming and so become veggie

[Millymollymandy]

Are you two related? Cos Lady Willow posted that a few minutes ago, and now it's suddenly been posted by turf cutter man!

[Milims]

Not sure if I can come up with a whole 10 - but here goes
5 I can fill a 3' balloon with smaller ballons and confetti that explodes on command

I bow before your feet of great and wise one!!!

It's amazing what you can do with 1ft of drain pipe, some latex, some paper and some wicked sparkery!
Dwyle Flonking - apparently an ancient form of cricket!

[Ellendra]

Lets see if I can get 10:

1. Had dinner with Timothy Zahn, one of THE BEST sci-fi authors alive, and he'd make the top 10 of all sci-fi authors who ever lived.

2. Spent 7 months at a wilderness survival school.

3. Lived in a tipi for 7 months while at wilderness survival school.

4. Had a live cardinal (the bird, not the catholic) perch on my finger and sing.

5. Had a baby sparrow cuddle up in my hand while waiting for its mommy to find it. He wouldn't sit anywhere else!

6. Petted a live 8-foot long shark.

7. Helped translate at a charity clinic in a tiny little village in Guatemala.

8. Wrote a paper on primitive food preservation techniques that astounded a historian who read it. (Working on getting that published.)

9. Started my own business at age 18, and was reasonably successfull at it.

10. Gave a stock tip that doubled within 2 weeks.

[jampot]

thats cool ok ill give it a try

1) i've fished for pirahnas whilst standing in the water with them and caiman swiming round me

2)survived cancer and subsequent septacimia(sp?) bfore reaching 21 and only "come away with" short term memory probs

3) treked in the himalayan foothills less than a year after finishing chemo

4) swallowed a wobbly tooth

5)learned old macdonalds farm in makaton ( www.makaton.org )

6)hanglided over Rio de janeiro

7)sucsessfully driven a tractor and trailer (but not a car )

8)bought a gypsy vardo to do up and hopefully on day travel in

9)made my first sloe gin last year

10)nearly thought of 10 things (tee hee)

[Brij]

Mine aren't going to be half as good as yours! But I'm young yet...

1) met Ozzy Osbourne

2) got a bit of Christmas tree in my foot that expressed itself a few months later

3) got called "not-mama" by my little bro (who was learning to talk at the time)

4) spent a summer making advent calendars

5) collected sun-dried worms (my mum hated it!) because i liked how they rattled in jam-jars

6) double-knitted a pair of socks (except for the heel turn and toe decreases) without knitting them together

7) eaten fondu-ed shark

8) swallowed a small titanium ball (the top of a tongue stud)

and the grand finale...

9) left my mum's fallen-out toenails (long distance running, 'nuff said!) under my pillow for the tooth fairy.

10) received money for said toenails!

[lsm1066]

Let's see

1) Been an American Football referee (I was the first female official in the UK!)

2) Run a pub (proper beer direct from the cask, with only lager and Guinness on pumps - the only one in Swindon)

3) Sung as a soloist at the Royal Albert and Festival Halls

4) Cut a 40 foot lawn with a pair of pinking shears

5) Learnt The Mikado to be sung from memory in 6 hours

6) Put my knee through a rock in a downhill ski race (ouch!)

7) Built a harpsichord

8) Accepted a marriage proposal within a month of our first meeting (we've now been married for 14 and a bit years)

9) Turned down a 100k a year job

10) Been stalked by Jon Culshaw

Gosh! I got to 10!!!!!!!
Lynne

[ocailleagh]

Ok...I think I can manage ten...

1. Diffused an argument between James Marsters (Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and his management while he was on tour with his then band and then spent a good few hours chatting with him. (My friend's band was supporting his and his management didn't want him to socialise post-gig)

2. Played a nun (I'm male for those of you who don't know).

3. Performed a drag act.

4. Appeared on 'Casualty'-as an extra, but still...

5. Talked a drunken teenager down from a bridge just before he jumped...

6. Danced naked outside during the solar eclipse of '99...I was very very drunk...

7. Learned to read before starting school-apparently, I used to read the paper to my mother.

8. Got married and divorced by the time I was 22.

9. Won first prize in an art contest in primary school, yet I have very little artistic talent!

10. Seen a faery...I'm not going to try and explain

[andyt]

Now then,

1) Am on my 2nd stepdad & 3rd mother-in law(metaphorically speaking)!

2)Regularly dig up flint arrowheads from my garden.

3)Banned from Austria for ten years.

4)Got drunk in Corfu with the Catholic priest from Lockerbie.

5)Laid in bed & listened to bottles of home brew exploding.

6)Woke up in the middle of the night, with my nose 2" away from a Jack Russels rear end.

[andyt]

To continue.....
7)Ran a bar in Athens
8)Worked at a outdoor disco on the Algarve.
9)Got totally wasted on Tangiers beach.
10)Observed a fish lift in the Highlands.