Tell me something weird about you

[lazarus]

Here's mine:

I'm a hard core atheist and skeptic, but I love old country gospel and gospel quartet music.

I'm listening to Hank Sr's "I Saw the Light" right now. Just beautiful.

[BootinUp]

1. I like Journey, lol

you know the band from the late 70's early 80's, and while not an atheist, I don't believe that organized religion is helping the world much these days.

[President Fredo]

2. I was appointed President of the United States.

Without possessing a single qualification for the job. Family connections? Priceless.

[Blue-Jay]

3. Weird? I love "Western" movies.

The Magnificent Seven is one of my favorites, as are the Sergio Leone "spaghetti westerns". The original Gunfight At The OK Corral is also priceless to me.

[lazarus]

5. That's not weird

The Eastwood/Leone films are classics.

[Blue-Jay]

8. Not weird? OK. Here we go.

I absorbed a twin during my fetal months and as a result I have a baby arm growing out of my back. It waves goodbye to people that it likes. I call him "Manny". Sometimes I have him sign legal documents for me.

[lazarus]

13. okay

that's weird. :P

[Paradise]

6. did ya have ta say 'spaghetti'?

(is that weird enough?) :silly:

[misterphelps]

11. You may be eaten by a grue??

Is that from an old computer game? Sounds very familiar

[Blue-Jay]

17. Finally!

Yes. It's from the old text version of Zork. I can't believe nobody noticed it before.

ZORK!

[LiberalManiacfromOC]

45. I loved Zork!!!!!!

ZORK!

[LiberalManiacfromOC]

46. apparently I loved it enough to post three times

:shrug:

[LiberalManiacfromOC]

47. stupid posting error

[DS1]

4. My shoulders hurt all the time

:cry:

[Deja Q]

7. What ISN'T weird about me?

O8)

[Maddy McCall]

9. I like teaching about gross stuff

Like the Assyrians cutting off ears, hands, and disemboweling opponents.

Like Soto's dog Bruto.

Stuff like that.

[blue neen]

10. I sometimes smell things that aren't anywhere around,

mainly cigars! Weird, huh?

[Maddy McCall]

12. I do that, too! I smell chocolate and fruit.

[blue neen]

14. I wish my brain would conjure up good smells like that,

but it's ususally something nasty like the cigars or tar or bleach.

[JitterbugPerfume]

15. I have turned my back on everything

our father taught us by becoming a Democrat according to my sister


I shop at Goodwill stores

[lazarus]

16. I love Goodwill stores

We have a thrift store near here called "Possibities" that is just fantastic. Huge, great prices, etc.

[JitterbugPerfume]

21. cool

I find first editiom books antique glass and all kinds of treasures at Goodwill and thrift shops

[blue neen]

23. Our local Salvation Army thrift store is great.

I love to go there. Sometimes they have brand new clothes with the tags still on them! And, it's for a good cause.

[SarahB]

19. I can confuse smells.

Sometimes coffee brewing smells like tuna fish. When I was pregnant, I couldn't eat chocolate because to me it smelled and tasted like dirt (and I love chocolate normally).

[Jokinomx]

32. It may be a loved one that has passed and is trying to let you know he

is still around and in your life. I could be completely mistaken..but, I would bet a dollar to a donut that someone in your family used to smoke cigars and has passed to the "other" side....:-)

Now that is weird ... but more common than people realize...

:kick:

[Jokinomx]

34. Whats weird about me... is that I believe that what I posted in post 32 is

possible...:-)

[JohnKleeb]

18. I have one eye open sometimes when I sleep

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

20. Oh geez where do I start?

Brushing my teeth makes my nose run.

I can only eat one food at a time on my plate. I eat that entire food, then move on to the next food item, then the next. No bites of this, then bites of that for me.

Food I am eating CANNOT touch unless it was meant to. (ie: rice and beans, mmmm!)

At home, I use a different utensil for each different food I eat.

I can't stand to get my hands dirty so badly, I'll do almost anything to avoid it.

I have strange, sudden thoughts of falling off buildings or out of an airplane. They pop up when I least expect them and I start to breathe hard and feel scared. I try hard to think of other things to make them go away.

I am extremely claustrophobic.

Can't stand tags on clothing or other itchy things on me. I cut off tags on shirts, pants, etc. Can't stand the seam on the toe of socks.

I can't stand wearing shoes or socks.

I wear a watch and jewelry during the day but take them off as soon as I get home. It makes me feel claustrophobic.

If I am eating alone, I HAVE to have something to read. No exception.

The temperature, light to dark ratio, noise level, bedclothes and my clothing and position have to be just right or I cannot fall asleep.

I cannot read if a TV is on.

Yes. I am very strange. This is just a partial list.

[blue neen]

22. The things you are describing sound like what the experts call

problems with "sensory integration."

I don't mean that in a bad way. That's what the doctors told me when I said I smell strange things.

[Glenda]

26. Maybe she's just a Highly Sensitive Person

Me - when I get home from work, I have to immediately undo my bra.

[blue neen]

30. Yeah, that's basically what it means, you're right.

I have to take my rings off and my earrings, immediately.

[salvorhardin]

25. Eating alone & reading

Woo! I know what you mean. If I don't have something to read, then I have to have some kind of 'talk' show on like Air America or NPR All Things Considered -- but not music! Watching something comes in a distant third, but I'll do that if I can't do the other two (nothing to read, or nothing that floats my boat on the radio). What can I say? The flickering lights distract me from eating.

The thing I hate most while eating is actually having another person there. Like watching TV or a movie while eating, I find trying to keep up the conversation distracts me from eating.

[lazarus]

38. I'm right there

I love going out to eat with just a book for company.

[mitchum]

33. I share your "foods can't touch" quirk...

my mom bought me a segmented tray when I was a kid, just so she could get some peace :)

[AlCzervik]

36. Me too, no food shall ooze into each other...yuck!

I got some really nice asian divided plates/trays from a sushi restaurant in my neighborhood. They gave some nice little square condiment dish thingees to go with them.

[LiberalManiacfromOC]

48. We have a lot in common

Brushing my teeth makes my nose run.

I also have strange, sudden thoughts of falling off buildings or out of an airplane. Especially in the middle of class when my teacher is giving a lecture. I usually start sweating.

I cannnot stand tags on clothing AT ALL or other itchy things on me. I hate tags SO MUCH.

If I am eating alone, I HAVE to have something to read. The TV is acceptable if, and only if, the Daily Show is on.

The temperature, light to dark ratio, noise level, bedclothes and my clothing and position have to be just right or I cannot fall asleep. I cannot fall asleep unless I have a sheet covering my butt and my quads (the muscles below your butt but above your knees) but nothing else. Also, I have to be face down with my arms under my pillow.

I cannot read if a TV is on.

I MUST take of my watch after I get home. Otherwise I think bugs are crawling out of onto my arms. *shudders*

That's what we have in common but I also:

Am antisocial (clinically)

Need to chew on something while I do my homework.

Carry around a knife in my house when I'm alone because I hear voices.

Hear songs in my head at really loud volumes at random times during the day. It usually happens when I'm talking to friends.

I forgot, I can't do anything if my door is open. I feel like someone is watching me
I'm also weird.... but I think it's mostly due to insanity :silly:

[HEyHEY]

24. REfusal to eat certain food if not prepared traditionally

Honestly, my friends laugh about it, but I WON'T order a club sandwhich from a place that doesn't cut it in quarters...things like that.

[mitchum]

27. I have the same quirk as you...

huge collection of the music, but I personally don't believe it. An aesthetic appreciation instead of a "spiritual" one

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

28. I have a panic button.

Many moons ago, as a younger man, I went sailing. In a moment of carelessness I stepped into the hold of the boat, where the hatch had been slid open, and fell into it, falling onto the boom with my mid chest (the boom is the long horizontal spar off the main mast, that provides the horizontal attachment for the main sail). Hurt like a mofo, and hurt for weeks to laugh and deep breathe. (I haven't had any need for a chest x-ray since that time but I have little doubt I gave myself a small rib fracture or two doing this.)

Anyway, what must have happened is that I fractured my xiphoid, which is the little nubbin in the middle in between your ribs at the bottom of the front and center of your ribcage (#4 in the pic), and it must have healed sticking forward a little. Now, depending on how much weight I'm carrying, it's a little "panic button" that is a great annoyance to me but a source of much amusement for my wife and dogs to push on.

[mitchum]

29. I won't carry an umbrella because I consider it effete, but I own...

five velvet jackets

Hey, I may be a fop, but I'm not a sissy!

[Guy Fawkes]

31. I am a steel/titanium mix wombat with a gold plated

nose. (What did you think I was going to say?)

[SmileyBoy]

35. I have 31,378 pennies.

That's $313.78 in pennies.

I've been collecting them for years. They're rolled and binded up in groups of 1,000, and the whole collection weighs over 270 lbs.

[LiberalManiacfromOC]

49. I used to have 9,871 pennies

but I donated them to charity. :)

[BlueJazz]

37. A woman wearing a slip turns me on a thousand times more...

than the same woman wearing nothing at all. (Ok, it's not THAT weird..)

[BlackVelvetElvis]

39. I listen to Handel's "Messiah" all year round.

Even in the car.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

43. There are too many to name

1. I hate sandwiches, hot dogs and hamburgers.

2. According to my friends, I put lipstick on funny.

3. I also cut the tags off clothing and take special care to cut off
tag corners at angles so they won't stab me.

4. I LOVE law school.

5. When eating a cookie, I lick the edge of it with my tongue so
crumbs won't drop on my lap (I've been told I'm weird for doing
this).

6. I love going off Daylight Savings Time and having it be dark at
5:00.

7. In restaurants I ask for plain salad with just lettuce, with at
most cucumbers and carrots. I always get stared at funny by the
server.

8. I also take off my watch and jewelry as soon as I get home.

9. I can't sleep if I know there's a spider in the bedroom.

10. I turn over pro-Bush books at bookstores.

[arwalden]

40. I'm Also A Hard Core Atheist... But I Just ADORE Christmastime ...

all the decorations and traditions and music and food and lights and tinsel and sweets and gifts and sights and smells and weather and hustle and bustle.

-- Allen

City sidewalks, busy sidewalks
Dressed in holiday style
In the air there's a feeling like Christmas
Children laughing, people passing
Meeting smile after smile
And on every street corner you hear

Silver bells, silver bells
It's Christmas time in the city
Ring-a-ling, hear them ring
Soon it will be Christmas day

Strings of street lights
Even stop lights
Blink a bright red and green
As the shoppers rush home with their treasures

Hear the snow crunch
See the kids bunch
This is Santa's big scene
And above all the bustle you hear

Silver bells, silver bells
It's Christmas time in the city
Ring-a-ling, hear them ring
Soon it will be Christmas day

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

61. Yet another reason to love you, Allen!

I'm a Christmas freak, too.

[Fridays Child]

41. I grow tiny hairs inside my nostrils.

Swear.

[JohnKleeb]

42. see my Czech-Canadian thread

I go for international teams in international events.

[Swamp Rat]

44. Well, we're two peas in a pod.

I'm a devout heathen but love oldtimey church music, especially Renaissance music.

[SOteric]

50. I can smell heat.

[Karenina]

51. I play oboe.

'nuff said.

[ze_dscherman]

52. I get a hiccup

... if I eat the green part inside the top of a carrot. Almost any time.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

53. I like to crossdress in ballet & aerobics outfits...

..youve heard of "pink tutu Democrats"? ....well I really am one! ;-)

[greekspeak]

54. I chide my boyfreind in German

"Morgan morgan nur nicht heute, sagen alle faule Leute."

Or in English

"Tommorrow yommorrow But Not today say all the lazy people."

[Glenda]

76. As we all should!

hee hee!

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

55. I changed my entire life in one week

I was an old maid schoolteacher, and then went to a Sufi weekend workshop. At said workshop, I met and fell in love with the gentle man who became my husband, was initiated into a Sufi order, and decided to give up my career and move to another state. Still can't figure out why my mother thought I'd gone insane! :)

[baldguy]

56. I have a birthmark on my left forearm.

It's shaped like a mirror image of West Virginia

[bigwillq]

57. The toenail on my left big toe

is about 1/4 of an inch long and I'm trying to let it keep growing.

I want to be in the Guiness Book of World records for the longest toenail.

[Red State Rebel]

58. At 47, I can still do the splits...just born flexible I guess.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

59. I have a lot of skills, but certain simple things escape me:

like wrapping packages, keeping a room neat, and remembering card games from one time to another. My mother does not believe that an Ivy League Ph.D. cannot master the art of wrapping packages or remember how to play "500" from one time to the next, and she thinks I'm just being contrary, but it's true.

[PittPoliSci]

60. i'm left handed at everything.

I love to say to people "i'm so left wing i'm not even right handed."

But here are some other little known facts about me.

I am a lifeguard
I am a firefighter (volunteer)
I am a Toys R Us employee
I go to Pitt, duh but only to the Greensburg campus, don't really like the city.
I play guitar and bass, and my band is called Mancake. http://www.manicmancake.com
I just had a 2 year relationship end for what I can figure out is no reason at all, so I'm in a very fragile mental state right now.

If you want to know anything else, just send me an instant message (AIM)!

[JohnKleeb]

67. I wish I could be that left :)

I actually hit in baseball right handed but I did try to learn lefty.

[Tom_Foolery]

62. I love women's feet. n/t

[UrbScotty]

63. I live on Uranus. (nt)

[arcane1]

65. so THAT'S who you are!!!!

I was going to say my strange thing was that I have someone living on my...

well, you get it :silly:

[La Lioness Priyanka]

64. i am an atheist but sometime i cry for god

and when i see people starve i think he too cries when he sees what his children are doing to his world.

i am very odd.

[Mizmoon]

66. I never eat the last bite of anything

I think it might be contaminated.

[slinkerwink]

68. I *love* reality shows, and my friends were surprised when they

found out my sordid little domestic dreams of having a cute wife in a nice victorian house with 2.5 kids and a dog. They thought I'd want to jetset all around the world after college.

No, I just want to settle down and have a family.

[redqueen]

69. I like the smell of a sweaty man. n/t

[sundog]

70. I lived out of my car at a point in my life

[mongo]

73. Not so strange

I spent a summer living in my '76 mustang cobra - a tight fit.

My one employee has lived in a camper for years. Now parked on the back of our lot.

[Butterflies]

71. I can't use public telephones

and I clean my office phone every morning (even though I'm the only one who uses it.)

Possible head/hair/ear germs from other people gross me out.

[Behind the Aegis]

72. hmmmm

I have lots of weirdness, but the only thing I can think of now is that I cannot watch needles being injected to people on TV. However, seeing a needle go into someone in real life doesn't bother me at all. I guess it is kinda strange, but I also place pennies at all doorways and I place a line of salt on all doors that lead to the outside of my house (those are both more Witch practices, but I get odd looks when I pour salt at my door).

[mongo]

77. I've put small mirrors facing out

In all of my windows (to reflect back negativity)

[jukes]

74. i'm a violent

pacifist. my inner rage is a constant conflict, but the source of my self-control.

[mongo]

75. I tick like a clock

due to my artificial aortic heart valve.

When I started driving about a month after the surgery, I kept thinking I had left my turn signal on.

[truthbetold]

78. Hrm...

I can curl my tongue so it forms three loops.

I can't just "sit still" unless I'm lying down.

Sometimes I get really focused on how much I'm blinking. Like, am I blinking too much or too little? And it usually takes me a while to stop thinking about it. Same thing with breathing.

I can't stand pauses in conversation that seem "awkward." In fact, my heart will actually race and I'll get panicked if I think a conversation is awkward.

I've been trained so much at work that I will straighten things on shelves at stores if I get bored.

I detest coins. I just throw them in my purse and end up taking them to Coinstar when I get quite a load saved up.

I visualize my own death far too often. It's amazing how many scenarios you can come up with.

I have a horrible inferiority complex. I am depressed without a boyfriend, and am constantly looking for someone to shower me with affection. I'm not in a good period right now, because I'm single.

That's all I can think of for now, I'm sure there are many others...

On edit: Oh, I do a running commentary in my head all day. Just little conversations with that "inner voice." Or I will narrate to myself what I'm doing. I think that probably means I'm crazy.

[AlFrankenFan]

79. Hmmm...I talk to myself way too much

I have an obsession about the time our mail comes and I can't leave my window until I see the mail truck leaves...if you can't tell I'm expecting a few items. And the bad part of it is is our mail comes at different, late times, everyday.

I'm a big fan of Southern rock and I have an accent that I hide from growing up in the South. I'm also a Jew.