<p>O.K. Here is what we have so far in the physical realm, our extreme sports list-
-stupid motorcycle tricks
-jumping out of a perfectly good air-o-plane
-whatever dmd is doing with that penny (be careful,the ATF monitors this board)
-tail feather shaking
-our own Picabo
-natural childbirth
-high altitude mid-wifery (probably slowed the mile high club down that flight ;))</p>
<pre><code> -weightlifting
-whatever carolyn did to that pig
-drag racing
-SCUBA
</code></pre>
<p>and the scariest of all-:eek:
We’re not talking “Coal Miner’s Daughter” here, are we? I’d rather go to the prom with Carrie White.</p>
<p>My accomplishments are few, and useless - I once organized a trip to Italy for 12, I appeared on stage as a slave girl in Aida (a very dumpy slave girl, but at least I didn’t have to follow the horse), and I make a mean osso buco. I have delivered a few babies, and sewn up a few wounds, sung the Hallelujah Chorus more times than I can count, and I can drive a tractor. I love science fiction and fantasy books, the more formulaic and trashier the better. I have eaten at the French Laundry, and didn’t like it, even though they gave me a special birthday cookie - I have also eaten at the restaurant at the Chateau Eza, which was magical. My margaritas are killer.</p>
<p>Shouldn’t Curmudegeon wear boots. or at least steel toes - don’t you have to run fence?</p>
<p>Oh, and I forget my greatest accomplishment - I was carded at the entrance to a Napa Valley winery on my 41st birthday (same day as the FL meal), I think a blind woman was guarding the door. When DH and my friends went off into gales of laughter, the poor lady asked what was so funny, my friend gasped “It’s her birthday”, and the blind winery lady said “Oh, is she 21 today?”. We just had to leave, I was unbearable for the rest of the trip.</p>
<p>cangel, we mended fence today. Me in my Top-siders, W in her muck boots. Mud does not adhere well to T-s soles. It’s been wet. What can I say? I will wear boots tommorrow. I feel sufficiently chagrined. :o</p>
<p>DMD, if you can get your poodle to SCUBA dive, then we can talk about serious hook.</p>
<p>Cangel, I could offend any number of people by recommending trashy & formulaic science ficition titles that you might have missed. Unfortunately, this is one of those rare times that I’m going to let decorum win.</p>
<p>I have a brand new hook! Just got back last night from a medical/construction/Christian ed mission trip to Roatan, Honduras. My job was to drive the supply truck (4 wheel drive) up steep dusty or muddy hills, haul workers, wood and contaminated sand, and take the Saint of Spirits (we ARE Episcopalians!) on beer and wine runs. Truly amazing to work with the local people and see their happiness and joy in the face of unbelievable povery and living conditions. Not too thrilled with the worm pill I have to take later this week… And here I am, back home, making sure I didn’t miss anything on CC… </p>
<p>Other quirks- still doing some competitive distance running although older and slower. I am the Queen of the Blackberry and have a terrible habit of reading and sending email while driving.</p>
<p>Hey guys, Coureur is only PARTLY right. Yes, 1983 was the last year pennies were pure copper. And yes, it is a reaction of copper with an acid. But the acid is NOT sulfuric acid.</p>
<p>And my poodle will put her head underwater for cheese (I throw it in the water), blowing bubbles as she goes, but she only swam for the first time yesterday. She’s only 17 months old. (I got her when the kids went to college.)</p>
<p>…so I guessed at the acid, and did a Google search; came up with:</p>
<p>‘The reaction of a copper penny and concentrated nitric acid is shown. Red-brown nitrogen dioxide is generated and some of the copper dissolves to form a blue solution of copper(II) nitrate.’</p>
<p>Are contestants allowed to google while taking tests? (no calculators, no electronic devices, books, notebooks, or any other aids will be allowed on this test. Proctors take note ;)</p>
<p>I can spell backward, not just words but whole sentences. This “unusual” talent developed in elementary school when I was bored. My kids keep trying to convince me to apply for “stupid human tricks” on Letterman.</p>
<p>I have an uncanny sense of direction. </p>
<p>Every house and apartment I’ve ever lived in faces east. Is that unusual enough to be a hook?</p>
<ol>
<li>Wear tiger-striped reading glasses.</li>
<li>Gave birth to two children without using drugs, and then nursed them so long my pediatrician said the only person in her practice who surpassed me was from the “remote Scottish Highlands”.</li>
<li>Have been and still am the only marketing person tolerated by engineers.
Think this is because a) verbal skills are sufficient to keep up with their banter b) technical skills are so poor I never tell them how to solve the problem, only what the lucrative problems are.</li>
<li>Unfortunately have no idea how to solve that chemistry problem, Google or no Google.</li>
</ol>
<p>I’m betting no one on CC shares my hook. I have a double uvula (sounds kind of dirty doesn’t it?) Once a year in h.s. health class, I had to keep my mouth wide open while 25-30 girls waited patiently in line for their turn to stare down the back of my throat! Talk about diversity - how many applicants do you think have double u’s? (:</p>
<p>I was chosen out of the audience at the Hoop-De-Doo Revue at Walt Disney World to be the Can Can Girl on stage. My daughter has been in awe of me ever since LOL</p>
<p>Trait without number, I have had the same best friend for the past 13 years and we talk every day on the phone 2-3 times. She is a SAHM with 5 kids, I have 2 kids and work really long days in high tech.</p>