share a little of yourself

Bloodstalker · Post by **Bloodstalker** » Tue Oct 16, 2001 11:38 am

been a long time since they were any good....sigh.

Sailor Saturn · Post by **Sailor Saturn** » Tue Oct 16, 2001 11:38 am

Originally posted by Bloodstalker:
I Am a......Washington Redskins fan...there I said you, happy now?

Hmm...which is worse? Being a Washington Redskins fan or a Dallas Cowboys fan?

Shadow Sandrock · Post by **Shadow Sandrock** » Tue Oct 16, 2001 11:39 am

Originally posted by Sailor Saturn:
Hmm...which is worse? Being a Washington Redskins fan or a Dallas Cowboys fan?

Neither. We all have the right to like our own teams.

Ned Flanders · Post by **Ned Flanders** » Tue Oct 16, 2001 2:54 pm

As long as the subject is hot, it isn't too often an entire football game becomes a satire. Redskins vs. Cowboys on monday night football. I don't which was funnier, watching three and a half hours of football ineptitude or the oakland A's kicking the baseball all over the field and bickering like the kids they are. Man, I grew up a boston red sox fan(thought I might share something on topic), so I hate the NY Yankees but their comeback was impressive. How many games in the postseason have they won but not neccessarily earned. How many times do the teams they play just bicker with one another and committ errors. Man, I can't believe I'm admitting the Yankees are athletic excellence but they are. I made myself sick. Anyone seen Yshania, she's got Jameson Irish Whishkey.

Yshania · Post by **Yshania** » Tue Oct 16, 2001 3:12 pm

Hey Ned

*unscrews cap and pours a large one*

btw...

she's got Jameson Irish Whishkey

I like it

the intentional spelling mistake

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Shadow Sandrock · Post by **Shadow Sandrock** » Tue Oct 16, 2001 3:23 pm

*watches thread become just like the breathing room topic...*

*slips up to bar counter* Sprite, please.

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Tue Oct 16, 2001 3:37 pm

Originally posted by Ned Flanders:
I'd like to ask all of you to share a little about yourself. Please include a bizarre nuance, something you're not especially proud of, but not completely embarrased or humiliated by.

Some little quirks about me:

I have a fabulous memory for numbers - I remember 12-15 (sometimes more) figures after having just heard them once. On the other hand, I have a horrible face memory - I'm the kind of person who introduces myself 3 times to the same guy at a party, everytime with the same chirping "Oh, we haven't met - I'm..." I really know how to make people feel important

When I had been working at the lab where I work a few months, I was going to a dinner with my professor and some people from other places, who I had not met before. When I thought I had introduced myself to everybody, I noticed one person who I hadn't seen before, so I stepped towards him and introduced myself while vividly shaking his hand. His reply when I told him my name was:
"I know - I see you every Thursday at the clinic meetings. I have just put a suit on".

Turned out he was a colleague of mine who I had met at least 20 times...

EDIT: A little hot on the icons, are we Fable, hm?

LMAO

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Ned Flanders · Post by **Ned Flanders** » Tue Oct 16, 2001 3:48 pm

posted by Ysh

I like it the intentional spelling mistake

You're welcome. I mean, thank you. Whatever, my glass is empty.

posted by shadow sandrock

*watches thread become just like the breathing room topic...*

and I haven't touched Jameson since, but now, it's happening again.

posted by C Elegans

Some little quirks about me:

I have a fabulous memory for numbers - I remember 12-15 (sometimes more) figures after having just heard them once. On the other hand, I have a horrible face memory - I'm the kind of person who introduces myself 3 times to the same guy at a party, everytime with the same chirping "Oh, we haven't met - I'm..." I really know how to make people feel important

And you are...?

Nice to see someone return to topic. I've got that same bug for numbers but also for faces. I remember people months down the line even if I only saw them once. The bug for numbers is with phone numbers. I've got hundreds in my memory. Some I haven't even dialed since I was a child but I still know them and who the numbers belong to.

My father, since he doesn't post here has a bizarre thing with numbers as well. Give him any two numbers between 1 and 9,999 he will add, subtract, or multiply them within three seconds with 100% accuracy. He doesn't even understand why he can do it, he just can and he'll openly admit he hates mathematics/arithmetic. He can't do the division though; that would be incredible.

Delacroix · Post by **Delacroix** » Tue Oct 16, 2001 3:49 pm

Some strange things about me:
I only eat fish and vegetables as a heath opition, in other hand I smoke 1 box of cigarrete a day.
Don't know why, I have a strange body flexibility, My friends love to test bizarre contorcionism. (Always against my will).

T'lainya · Post by **T'lainya** » Tue Oct 16, 2001 5:08 pm

@ Ned

I like old B Sci Fi and horror films, especially pre 1960

There's something about B movies ...

Silur · Post by **Silur** » Tue Oct 16, 2001 5:12 pm

Ah, "It came from the desert" still holds its own, not to say "The Blob" although that one almost has too much of a budget.

fable · Post by **fable** » Tue Oct 16, 2001 5:18 pm

Originally posted by Ned Flanders:
I have a fabulous memory for numbers - I remember 12-15 (sometimes more) figures after having just heard them once. On the other hand, I have a horrible face memory - I'm the kind of person who introduces myself 3 times to the same guy at a party, everytime with the same chirping "Oh, we haven't met - I'm..." I really know how to make people feel important

I'm the opposite. I'm very good at faces and names (except people I don't like; I forget their names repeatedly), but poor at numbers. It has taken me an unreasonably long period of time to approach normal human speed in figuring a 15% tip on a check. (That's standard for good service in the US.)

This is a lifelong problem. I have to conceptualize abstractions to make them "stick." I've even memorized some phone numbers easily because they remind me of dance steps, or produce certain musical cadences. Any way to get the number into my head.

T'lainya · Post by **T'lainya** » Tue Oct 16, 2001 5:20 pm

@ Silur Or the venemous sting of the Wasp Woman

The Alligator people was a nother

Silur · Post by **Silur** » Tue Oct 16, 2001 5:24 pm

Originally posted by T'lainya:
@ Silur Or the venemous sting of the Wasp Woman The Alligator people was a nother

Not that I've seen any of them, but they do have that aura of quality about them

fable · Post by **fable** » Tue Oct 16, 2001 5:25 pm

Originally posted by T'lainya:
@ Silur Or the venemous sting of the Wasp Woman The Alligator people was a nother

I remember the Wasp Woman. Extremely sexist film, as I recall. Saw it about ten years ago.

Then there was some godawful 50s sci-fi film that has three astronauts (one is comic relief, and arrives with a chimp) on Venus, where all the beautiful girls fall in love with them--except for the evil Queen, who, it turns out, is disfigured (which explains, of course, why she hates men). Zza Zza Gabor played the Queen. May all the gods help anyone else who was in the cast.

T'lainya · Post by **T'lainya** » Tue Oct 16, 2001 5:32 pm

LOL Fable..There were many films like that, all involving the handsome earthmen who always landed ona female dominated planet

Sort of a precursor to some of the original Star Trek episodes

(At least where Capt. Kirk was involved)

I also like the Hammer studios Dracula films

I have a mysterious attraction for that young Peter Cushing

Sailor Saturn · Post by **Sailor Saturn** » Tue Oct 16, 2001 5:32 pm

Originally posted by C Elegans:
Some little quirks about me:

I have a fabulous memory for numbers - I remember 12-15 (sometimes more) figures after having just heard them once. On the other hand, I have a horrible face memory - I'm the kind of person who introduces myself 3 times to the same guy at a party, everytime with the same chirping "Oh, we haven't met - I'm..." I really know how to make people feel important

I have a great memory, in general. I can remember anything I hear or see...except names. It took me about 2 months before I was able to remember what Random Shadow's real name is.

Yet, I can remember the exact beginning of an in-chat RPG that me, Random Shadow, and Panther started last October. What makes this more "impressive" is that it started because of just normal chatting, but turned into an RPG, making the starting point a bit blurred.

Sailor Saturn · Post by **Sailor Saturn** » Tue Oct 16, 2001 5:36 pm

Originally posted by T'lainya:
Sort of a precursor to some of the original Star Trek episodes (At least where Capt. Kirk was involved)

Alas, but Kirk was married to the Enterprise.

Makes you feel sorry for the Enterprise, ne?

There was an ep of TNG in which they went to a female dominated planet, but it was better done. The men dressed in more feminine clothing and wore perfume. *giggles* They were also shorter than human males.

Silur · Post by **Silur** » Tue Oct 16, 2001 5:40 pm

Originally posted by fable:
I remember the Wasp Woman. Extremely sexist film, as I recall. Saw it about ten years ago.

Then there was some godawful 50s sci-fi film that has three astronauts (one is comic relief, and arrives with a chimp) on Venus, where all the beautiful girls fall in love with them--except for the evil Queen, who, it turns out, is disfigured (which explains, of course, why she hates men). Zza Zza Gabor played the Queen. May all the gods help anyone else who was in the cast.

I just had to look it up! It's the "Queen of outer space". Speaking of sexist sci-fi, "Barbarella" with Jane Fonda was an awful plot with more focus on exposure than content.

T'lainya · Post by **T'lainya** » Tue Oct 16, 2001 5:40 pm

Originally posted by Sailor Saturn:
[QB]Alas, but Kirk was married to the Enterprise. Makes you feel sorry for the Enterprise, ne?

[QB]

Entirely true

Although perhaps teh alien females were happy