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

I own two airbrushes and used to paint with them in college.

Though sadly my place I'm living in now is more "clean" so paint on the walls and carpet is not a good thing. I'm hoping that the next place we move to has a garage :D
 
Hmmm, I'm sure I've done a lot of things other people haven't but I can't really think of any good ones...

1. Swallowed a bumble bee (NOT on purpose!)
2. Been to Disney World six times
3. Almost fell off a roller coaster at Adventureland (no lie)
4. Been chased by the cops, lol (I'm sure more than 1% of people here have...right?)
5. Eaten lunch at the top of the World Trade Center
6. Sliced my leg open on a license plate
7. Met the King of Jordan before he died while I was in the same the hospital as him (eh, who cares)
8. Never had a mac computer until a few months ago
9. Sort of met Tiger Woods (never shook his hand or anything, but he talked a little to everyone around him as he was signing autographs)
 
1) Carried a score sign at a PGA Tour event
2) Taken a college accounting course (and decided to make it my major)
3) Became an Eagle Scout (best thing I ever did, employers love it, even colleges and graduate schools like it, plus I had some pretty good times white water rafting, hiking, and shooting guns)
 
Won a Halloween "most original costume" prize for dressing up as a voting booth.

Owned a Chesapeake Bay retriever, while actually living along an inlet of that bay.

Learned to read before ever laying eyes on a television set.

Helped drive a VW home the hard way, curled up in the passenger side well with a vise grip on the busted accelerator cable, pulling and easing off per the driver's instructions.

Listened to the clip-clop sound of a horse pulling the milkman's wagon into our driveway.

Walked down 53 flights of stairs in the dark during the 1965 blackout of eastern Canada and USA.

Traveled alone from New York to Mexico at age 17, on a tedious slew of bus connections.

Kneaded the little button of orange food coloring into the margarine spread we used while butter was rationed in the USA during World War II.

Paid the wage tax surcharge (under protest) that was laid on to help finance the Vietnam War.

Survived standing in a kitchen while a lightning bolt hit the electric meter 8 or 9 feet away and set the back of the house on fire.
 
Rowed at Henley:cool:

Fallen out of a 25m tree and lived

Caught a HUGE Carp with a broken bucket and stuck it in a friends bath for a day-trust me it was a monster....

Been cautioned by a pilot for wearing pjamas on and pretending to listen to music on the plane with nothing plugged into the headphones:D

Been sick on a parking meter

Designed and built an electric guitar from clear acrylic and zebrawood
 
- Climbed mount Everest all alone at the age of 11 months, with nothing but a yellow mountain goat to keep me company.

- I shot the sheriff, at the age of 3, did 5 years in prison for it, I did NOT, however, shoot no deputy.

- Survived an attack by a great white shark named Webster, at the age of 9.
Funny story, years later Webster wrote me an apology letter saying how he was going through a rough patch at the time...

- Climbed Everest for the 2nd time when I was 10 years and 3 months old, forgot my pencil sharpener.

- In December 2006 I met Steve Jobs on the streets of LA, he saw me reaching for my mobile to make a call, asking if he can borrow it, so I said, "just a second, i Phone first, then i Phone 3 G (my good mate Three Fingers Gary), then i Phone 3GS (Gary's sister) and you can have it", he ran off the second I finished my sentence, haven't seen him since...

- I know Harry Potter in real life, we grew up together, I didn't get accepted to Hogwarts though, so I went to Law School instead.

- Made my first million by the age of 16, selling lemonade on a 3 legged lemonade stand.

- Sold said lemonade stand to Jamba Juice for 23m dollars, making me the first person to ever sell a 3 legged lemonade stand to Jamba Juice for 23m dollars.

- I've never eaten an eggplant.
 
It strikes me that the bulk of recent posts in this thread belong in the "20 Things You May Not KNow About Me" thread...

most of what's been posted recently is pretty mundane.
 
The criterion for posting was whether the item would be quite rare among MacRumor members, not whether it was a world-shattering experience.

As I'm among the older members of the forum, I put in some stuff from "ancient history," things that teenagers would not have experienced personally. Going for that 99% stat, not the thriller rating :)

And as for some of the other posts you may possibly not have found all that exciting, maybe you should try giving birth, or passing kidney stones, before categorizing such events as mundane.
 
LizKat said:
Helped drive a VW home the hard way, curled up in the passenger side well with a vise grip on the busted accelerator cable, pulling and easing off per the driver's instructions.
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The dreaded broken accelerator VW cable. I've done this on a '66 VW bus and it was not a fun experience. No vice grips, just bare hands with cable wrapped around hand, hunkered down low, pulling, trying to get a view out the windshield. Was also during rush hour and had to go about 40 miles. Hand was practically bloody by the time I got home. Not fun.
 
Been in Chinese quarantine for Swine Flu.
Took pictures of it.
Got out of it alive.
Do those count as three different ones? :D
 
The things I've done but I haven't listed make me more interesting than that Dos Equis guy that kinda looks like Tommy Chong--but I'd rather crack open a Schmidt.
 
Spent first 4 weeks wages on my first mac - Aug 05
Saw 300 giant turtles beach, lay eggs and swim away in Crete.
Use an 'Electric Flash Power Unit Console 5000' as a coffee table.
Had first (rhymes with barley) experience with the Fun Loving Criminals.
 
a couple are the same as my brother's..

1) Stood at the edge of the 'triangular rock' that hangs out over the edge of Kaieteur Falls in Guyana. The highest single drop water fall in the world at 741 feet
2) ran with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain with my two brothers for my bachelor party,
3) drove the ice highway to Tuktoyaktuk on the edge of the Arctic Ocean/Beaufort Sea, a full 24 hours drive north of the Arctic Circle. It was the halfway point of a six day, 7000km non-stop three brother drive from Edmonton to as far north as we could get.. and back..
P.S. Thank you unlimited mileage on the rental..!
4) stung by a jellyfish swimming over to Young island from Indian Bay, St. Vincent
5) sat in Estadio Tiburcio Carías Andino stadium in Tegucigalpa, Honduras watching Olimpa beat Marathón in the playoffs
 
I sliced my right index finger open when i was slicing apples. Yes the whole finger and it required stitches.
 
1) had a gf
2) fell asleep on a couch in mansion nightclub in miami beach
3) had imaginary friends named dimmie, jimmie, simmie, zummie, and zim. (it was the same person whose name would change periodically)
 
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