Strange Facts About Me
Submitted by lukeprog on Sun, 01/16/2005 - 11:00
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- I gave my dog two middle names.
- I can say the alphabet backwards in 4.50 seconds (4.85 on a bad day).
- I once drew a big 2 in my hair with hair color for no reason. It stayed there for months until it got cut off. Everyone in school and at Wal-Mart (I was a cashier) thought it was a Z.
- I once designed and programmed a puzzle game with 450 levels and 50+ interacting objects. I can't even write a line of javascript today.
- I've read the entire NIV Bible through several times.
- I have been in North Korea after Kim Jong-il locked down the nation.
haha... I'm with you on the last two... only i do the shorts because i'm too lazy to put on pants all the time.
I also just realized that i haven't combed or brushed my hair in 6 years... not once.
How long is your hair?
oh it's a buzzcut... i shave it once every couple of weeks... and by last two i meant the shorts and the $20 dollar clothes.
That's what I figured :-)
I do know a guy from Montana who has about a half-inch of dense, curly hair that he hasn't washed in years, which I don't understand, but whatever.
ugh... even i wash my hair... that is disgusting.
The alphabet (I hope we are talking about the same alphabet, that means the one with 26/27 letters) in 4.50 seconds? Backwards? I can't even say it forwards in less than...[let me try]...7.50 seconds. And backwards:...19.20 seconds.
The dog: which are his two middle names then (if I may ask)?
The clothing: $20, that would be around...15€. Hmmm...that's not very much, and as you are very tall... But I guess shorts aren't that expensive!
Yeah, I actually spent about 5 hours over a period of a couple weeks perfecting my ability to say the alphabet backwards that quickly :-)
My dog's full name is Maxamillion Scott Lee Muehlhauser (my last name is Muehlhauser). Oofta.
Suddenly I don't feel so strange naming my cat Cool Beans.
Heh, great list! :) I have a similar ability with you saying the alphabet backwards.. okay, I can only do it in 5.6 seconds. But that's still pretty cool!
Anyways, nice read, always nice to learn about other Listologists.
Hey, tell us a little more about being in North Korea--that's fascinating.
Johnny Waco
I was in China teaching English and evangelizing. We (20? 30? people) took one day to hop on a bus and pray on bluff that overlooked North Korea for a few hours. While we were praying, a scout on the North Korean border spotted a bunch of white Americans looking out over North Korea and they called the Chinese, who approached us and harassed us. My memory is fuzzy, but eventually we decided we wanted to get closer to North Korea, so we drove down some roads until we got to the border - here it was marked by a long row of giant cement blocks presumably meant to stop vehicles and even tanks from crossing the border. Myself and a few others walked around on the North Korean side of the cement things for a while and then decided to take off before someone came to chase us off (or shoot at us, who knows).
Not as fascinating as I was hoping my mysterious claim would sound, but it was still pretty exciting. I wasn't crawling around in their nuclear arms fascilities like Solid Snake. :-)
Hey, even if it was only a few feet in, you're one of a very few Americans to have been in North Korea in the last decade or two. Were the Chinese threatening? I didn't think N. Korea and China were allies.
Johnny Waco
For some reason, their border police seemed to be working together. On the 'bluff' (a very low bluff, I guess), we could see a NK scout run from his vantage point to a hut where we assume he contacted his superiors, and his superiors told the Chinese border patrol about their concerns; they arrived 10 minutes earlier. Or the scout needed a piss break and we made up all the intrigue in our heads. But he kept coming out, taking a look at us, then running back into the hut. Then the Chinese arrived a few minutes later and checked us and told us to leave.
My son's name is Maximus. We were thinking about Maxamillion though. Just kidding on the "we" part. I didn't give my husband a say in what we were naming him. That kid was coming out of me, I get to name him. haha.
My dog's name is Ringo Starr Owen Fletcher, and I know that's weird lol.