<p>Over30 - I guess I have a parallel talent to yours. I can write backwards with my left hand.</p>
<p>Tabbyz, I can do the same clover AND I canalso tie a marachino cherry stem into a knot. Amazing, the stupid human tricks bored waitresses teach one another…</p>
<p>I’ve been to Roatan, Honduras. Can twist my tongue over backwards both ways (full 360).</p>
<p>C; I wished we lived closer so I could get a good visual of the pig business. The visual I have isn’t working…</p>
<p>I am double jointed.
( actually just very loose ligaments- I am very good at yoga 
)</p>
<p>Gee, SBmom, maybe we’re twins separated at birth! what with our ESP and talented tongues :)</p>
<p>Well, this is a VERY competitive pool, but here goes:</p>
<p>worked as a potato bag inspector (Union member); raised sheep (the two colleges I applied to first time around are -coincidentally- names of breeds of sheep. It always gets me when kids apply to 10 or more colleges. Don’t they know there’s a limit to the number of breeds of sheep?; was an ‘emancipated minor’ and got my B.A. when I was still 20; have met three presidential candidates (but no president); and I’m a handweaver. </p>
<p>Let me know if anyone unearths a hook in any of this. Seems to me the sheep thing is looming a bit large.</p>
<p>OptimizerDad: I think googling may count as cheating, but yes, that’s the reaction. (Note to any chemistry teacher thinking about trying it: the gas produced is NASTY. Either do it under a hood, or put a wet towel over the top of the reaction container, which is preferably a fairly large beaker. Heat is also produced.)</p>
<p>lefthandhandofsheepdog,hmmmm… raised sheep…hand weaver…hook…looming. I am beginning to get a fuzzy feeling there may be a theme in there somewhere.</p>
<p>Dmd77:
I vaguely remembered NO2 as a brownish, evil-smelling gas from my high-school days. I must admit that I had no idea about the color of (cupric?)(cuprous?) nitrate.</p>
<p>with all these hooks, pls let me know your top choices for parent grad school, since I’ll have to apply elsewhere. Perhaps someone knows the name of college #3001 on the USNWR.
:)</p>
<p>tabbyz,
I think you, curmudgeon & I must be triplets then.</p>
<p>Don’t forget BassDad - you are quadruplets so should get your 15 minutes of fame…</p>
<p>Alumomther, You are right; I am sure being a quad is an effective hook.</p>
<p>Also, I am your nursing twin. So maybe we are quints?</p>
<p>Just my luck. The only woman I ever met who can actually do the cherry stem trick and she turns out to be my sister.</p>
<p>BassDad,</p>
<p>LOL!!!</p>
<p>My hook? I love to volunteer, and have “encouraged” my Ds. I have been able to take our volunteering into the political arena, therefore meeting many people, getting some good internships for my Ds, and doing good work at the same time. My mom calls me mentor mom.
My H’s hook is that he is Irish and a member of a golf club with some very influencial members. So somebody always knows somebody. We live in a city that is pretty big in some ways, but like a village in others, so connections matter.</p>
<p>p- I can do the cherry stem trick AND get the spoon to stick to my nose!!!</p>
<p>MODS - time to bust this thread…tricks and spoons must be against common deceny AND policy.</p>
<p>
mootmom - are you my wife posing as a CC poster???</p>
<p>All kidding aside, that fact about you will automatically raise your USP&DR host rating a few points.</p>
<p>Well, I came to this thread late. I have no hooks to speak of, and am a very boring person…</p>
<p>I think I’ve come far given that I came from a very conservative family and married into one too - one foot in the late 1800s and one foot in the twenty-first century. Reconciling the two, living in a sort of made-up peace, I guess, that’s my hook. I am also a woman and a techie who went to college in the 1970s, so I was a part of a very very small, self-conscious, minority.</p>