Name things you have done that 99% of people on this forum haven't done.

[RogueVasion]

1. Ummm, on a serious note for me...I went to the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee in 7th grade. I never made it to TV, I was off on the written round by 1 point. Just missed that darn threshold. But I did tie for 98th and had a blast in Washington D.C.

2. Also, a plane from Japan to Detroit was held for nearly an hour because I was the last one to board the plane and I was carrying most of my family's luggage. As a result, they inspected everything.... And to top that off, I got stopped again in Detroit for the tripod in my laptop bag. They had no clue where or what it was, so they sent me for questioning. If they told me in advance, I would've been able to make both our lives easier (it was lodged in the bottom of the bag and they though it was a pipe bomb). God, do I hate airport security.

 

[flyfish29]

1. witness a Bible fly out of a shelf by itself (with a witness)
2. witness a swarm of thousands of bees in the same room
3. feel hot hands (maybe the devil's) through my shirt in the same room
4. build a landscaping business with 40 accounts at the age of 8
5. get kicked out of 2 schools in the same year
6. spend my birthday in a restraint belt in a mental hospital
7. duck under a flame thrower attack and live to talk about it
8. watched someone take their last breath (cancer)
9. have sex with 2 girls on the same day in separate situations
10. sex on a fire escape on a busy street
11. be the first in my family to attend/graduate college
12. hold multiple patents
13. do a wheelie in a Mustang GT
14. fingerbang a girl at the rose parade

Your parents must be so proud...I am just not saying which one they are proud of!

 

[tennismanclay]

You plan on playing in Kalamazoo?

That was back in the 12's. Im 15 now, ive been out almost 2 years with osgood schlatters in my knees, which broke both of them. Hopefully i can get back into it, its been a tough few years.
Maybe in the future.

-Clay

 

[CaptMurdock]

Okay, try these....

1. Took the entrance exam for the game show Jeopardy -- and passed
2. Met in person five of the ten actors who've played Doctor Who

That's all I can think of for now. I think I've lead a boring life.

 

[darkwing]

Faced 9 felony charges for pulling a prank on a Mac lab at my high school.
Got expelled from high school.
Had 9 felony charges dismissed.
Got a speeding ticket for 175 mph in a 70.
Put a rental car into reverse and slammed into a cab driver who got out of his car to bang on my window when he thought I cut him off.
Evaded the cab driver after a 10 minute chase around town.
Got a college degree at age 17.
Wrote my first computer game when I was 6 on an Apple II (crappy game).
Been dating a girl for over 2 and 1/2 years who I have known for three years, and marrying her next month. She's never let me lay a hand on her as she's waiting for everything until marriage. Everything.

 

[iCantwait]

I gather that this is Aus-speak for "kill this post please"??

more like 'disappear', 'get washed out to sea' or 'get taken away by the japanese'

wikipedia it before you call racism

 

[kdum8]

Got a speeding ticket for 175 mph in a 70.

wow what to say..... what were you driving when you were caught at 175 mph? I managed 165mph once in a Mitsubishi Evolution IX, but there were no cops around.

 

[Chappers]

1. emigrated 3 times.
2. car surfed
3. bitten by rather toxic spider (exact type and model unknown)
4. swam in giant shoal of small jellyfish - got stung but it was worth it.
5. teach science to 8th graders (pretty dangerous)

 

[iBookG4user]

1. I guess scoring 153 on an IQ test (Just found out my score because we took one in my psychology class, apparently that is the 99.79 percentile, go figure.)

2. Won 12 bowling tournaments, including a junior regional title. And also have several bowling scholarships.

3. Posted on this forum more than 99% of the users

4. Type text messages with proper grammar and spellings.

5. I Spell out MacBook (Pro/Air) and do not use the abbreviation. The same goes for other Apple abbreviations.

 

[Surely]

1. witness a Bible fly out of a shelf by itself (with a witness)
2. witness a swarm of thousands of bees in the same room
3. feel hot hands (maybe the devil's) through my shirt in the same room
4. build a landscaping business with 40 accounts at the age of 8
5. get kicked out of 2 schools in the same year
6. spend my birthday in a restraint belt in a mental hospital
7. duck under a flame thrower attack and live to talk about it
8. watched someone take their last breath (cancer)
9. have sex with 2 girls on the same day in separate situations
10. sex on a fire escape on a busy street
11. be the first in my family to attend/graduate college
12. hold multiple patents
13. do a wheelie in a Mustang GT
14. fingerbang a girl at the rose parade

I think that #6 probably negates/explains #'s 1 and 3.

 

[TuffLuffJimmy]

I think that #6 probably negates/explains #'s 1 and 3.

My thoughts exactly. I was going to post something like, "well you're crazy" after reading the first three, but he really said that himself.

 

[Nermal]

Bashed a hole in my head when I was 12 or so. I still have the scar.

 

[iMacZealot]

Took the entrance exam for the game show Jeopardy

Done that.

-- and passed

Haven't done that.

 

[Anonymous Freak]

Vehicles.

I have driven or piloted (verb as appropriate for each

Car (including in a race)
Electric car (including in a race)
Commercial large truck
Train
Self-powered boat (e.g. rowboat,)
Sailboat
Powered boat
Commercial vessel (40 foot tug)
Single-engine private aircraft
Multi-engine commercial aircraft

Note that not all 'commercial' vehicles was I at the controls at in a commercial capacity. The 40 foot tug was owned by the Sea Scouts, and I piloted it the last thirty feet to dock as part of the Sea Scout program. The commercial aircraft was being ferried with no passengers onboard, and I was allowed to take the controls for five minutes and make a turn.

Submarine and spacecraft are on my list. A submarine will just require traveling to the proper place; spacecraft is out of my price range. (Although ten years ago, "price range" wasn't even a factor; so the situation is improving.)

 

[jecapaga]

I think that #6 probably negates/explains #'s 1 and 3.

Yes...number 6, 1 and 3 are interesting. Lets leave it at that.

 

[iCantwait]

Jailbait...

 

[iBookG4user]

*spelling.
*spell (not capitalized)

I hope you feel good about yourself now.

 

[63dot]

I hope you feel good about yourself now.

Don't worry about what that poster said. Some people with high IQs can spell, some can't. Some are good at math, and some aren't. Some can paint, and some are terrible at it. It's really neither here nor there.

I have a friend with a very high IQ who is a great, acclaimed poet, decent prose writer, but is mediocre on guitar. Unfortunately, he likes the guitar the best. Some people are under the theory that one should do what they are absolutely best at, but I think what's more important in this short life, is that you do what you like.

I know plenty of professors, MDs, lawyers, and dentists who did all the schooling but had the primary motivation of pleasing their parents or making a lot of money. These people are truly miserable. If you embark on a career that takes a lot of schooling or training, but you love it, then that's fine.

 

[jwt]

My thoughts exactly. I was going to post something like, "well you're crazy" after reading the first three, but he really said that himself.

I hesitated to include #6 because I thought people would assume that. Anyway, there was a witness to #1. It really did happen. A lot of weird stuff happened in that room. Also, I was not in the hospital because I was crazy--I was there because I was a pissed off teen that would have ended up in prison had my parents not made the hard decision to put me there.

 

[cr2sh]

I once had a NASA badge for Cape Canaveral that read "FLIGHT CREW" that allowed me to go any where on the island I wanted to. I spent the whole week showing it off in restaurants and telling people I was an astronaut training to go to Mars.

 

[bobfitz14]

...4. Type text messages with proper grammar and spellings...

ahh i thought i was the only one who did that granted everyone i text is between like 14-18 years old...

 

[Mr. lax]

ahh i thought i was the only one who did that granted everyone i text is between like 14-18 years old...

Wow, good call. Me too

 

[63dot]

Today, I just tapped a 23rd fret that was high on a 24 fret guitar and got rid of the fret buzz that was bugging me.

I so thought I would have to take this into a professional repair person to get done, but I did this which 99 out of a 100 would have common sense to take to a real pro.

Sometimes the 1 in a 100 things we do are simply stupid. After a business degree, 22 years an entrepreneur, some MBA and JD schooling, I learned that a self employed person with many deductions, or a person with capital gains showing, should not do their own taxes. It's about as dumb as what those Jackass dudes do, but on paper. The people I know who do their own taxes and end up 10s of thousands on the wrong end would rather lose the money and keep the "pride" of having known they do it themselves. It's kind of like the guy I know who is wealthy but cuts his own hair and looks like the Uni-Bomber.

 

[0098386]

4. Type text messages with proper grammar and spellings.

Same here. But my friends, all educated folk in respectable jobs type "txt style" on MSN messenger. And frankly it drives me nuts! Okay I see the point for phones maybe if you're in a rush, but when you can type 30-50wpm you do not need to remove the vowels from an IM conversation. Unless that's how they hit 30-50wpm

 

[redwarrior]

Same here. But my friends, all educated folk in respectable jobs type "txt style" on MSN messenger. And frankly it drives me nuts! Okay I see the point for phones maybe if you're in a rush, but when you can type 30-50wpm you do not need to remove the vowels from an IM conversation. Unless that's how they hit 30-50wpm

I was typing 70wpm when I graduated from high school. Then I went to college and started writing programs in COBOL, Fortran, RPG, and my speed dropped dramatically. I don't write code 10 hours a day anymore, but after 15 years of it, and now 10 years out of it, I'm much better now.