Thread: What makes you unique?

I shave with a straight razor all my friends think I'm nuts for doing it, but there's my weirdness right there for ya.

Originally Posted by Doc

need I say more!

I prefer a visit to the reflexologist - you guys really do have basic acupuncture on your side of the pond!

There's nothing really unique about me - 2 nipples, 10 fingers and 10 toes, average intelligence, average looks.

I do have an uncanny ability to completely trash any lawnmower I touch though.

James.

Forgot to mention, I only have 9 and a half fingers! A little different huh?

Originally Posted by Jimbo

There's nothing really unique about me - 2 nipples, 10 fingers and 10 toes, average intelligence, average looks.

I do have an uncanny ability to completely trash any lawnmower I touch though.

James.

Average ? hum ? You give yourself too much credit


Well my great uncle (something like that) was Judge John Fournet who was right hand man to Huey P. Long -- Governor of Louisiana --- and I think was present at his assassination. Huey Long was a considerable figure in Louisiana politics and the U.S. for that matter ---- close to a dictator and some believe assassinated for that reason.

Justin

Originally Posted by JMS

Forgot to mention, I only have 9 and a half fingers! A little different huh?

I knew there was something different about you Mark, I just couldn't put my finger on it

Originally Posted by jaegerhund

Average ? hum ? You give yourself too much credit


Well my great uncle (something like that) was Judge John Fournet who was right hand man to Huey P. Long -- Governor of Louisiana --- and I think was present at his assassination. Huey Long was a considerable figure in Louisiana politics and the U.S. for that matter ---- close to a dictator and some believe assassinated for that reason.

Justin

Hey, I just saw a movie called All the Kings Men with Sean Penn as a guy called Willie Stark - apparently a character loosely based on Long??

James.

Originally Posted by gugi

You guys are killing me - I love these britishisms. You probably have to explain 'minging' for the folk on this side of the pond.

Francisco Scaramanga was the villain in the Bond movie "The Man With the Golden Gun." He had a third nipple.

As for my uniqueness;
- I don't spend nickels
- Sometime between the ages of 6 and 8 I forgot how to ride a bike
and
- I know a lot about Bond films.

Originally Posted by Jimbo

I knew there was something different about you Mark, I just couldn't put my finger on it



Hey, I just saw a movie called All the Kings Men with Sean Penn as a guy called Willie Stark - apparently a character loosely based on Long??

James.

I've never seen that movie so I wouldn't know James ----

Justin

Originally Posted by gugi

Oh, you can't leave it like this - we need pictures!!!

No. There's hardly anything to see anyway. My wife knows its a nipple and you guys do now. Not even my parents know. Well I dunno, they probably do but they never mentioned it.

Originally Posted by gugi

You guys are killing me - I love these britishisms. You probably have to explain 'minging' for the folk on this side of the pond.

I always thought of it more like a Scottishism... I could be wrong.

North of the border it is pronounced with no second 'g'. A simple glottal stop is whats called for. 'Ming-in'. Something that is mingin is very unsavoury, disgusting repulsive.... you get the idea. Similar to scottish words such as boufin (bow-fin) and the phrase 'gie's me the boak' (geez me the boke). This phrase means 'it makes my stomache churn'.

An ugly girl can be called a 'minger', particularly in central scotland. This gives rise to an army of young teenage minger neds all sprogged up underage (see Glasgow)

Sandy

Well if this whole third nipple thing keeps going, I'm pretty unique because I have two!

As far as relations, I'm directly related on my mom's side to U.S. Grant, the civil war general. Also, before everyone came over on the boat, a great grandfather was a prussian archduke something or other.

I'm unique in other ways that most people don't believe. I used to race BMX, then MX, now I like to fence. People typically describe me as a nerdy type person because I "know all the answers to life's computer problems" (it's 42). Of course I don't, but my clients swear I do. I'm also a pretty handy guy, comfortable in almost any shop with any tool. Anyway, people usually don't believe all that and I can't blame them- they're usually pretty boring people