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this site is full of clutzes

I have actually caught a Cat on a fishing line with the hook, please don't ask.
I broke 4 bones in my foot while walking, and mom was convinced it wasn't broke:%)
And my favorite for the day:
I have put a staple through my finger, where I needed the staple remover to remove it, while fighting with the staple to unjam it:%)
Oh and I too have had shocking experiences with my fish tanks, especially the night when the 20 drained into the livingroom, and I was trying to unplug the pumps:%)(BZZZZ daggum, what was that, BZZZZ, daggummit, I need to unplug that pump, thankfully I hadn't removed my shoes first)

Last edited by heidi at 28-Jan-2005 19:15

"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom." Thomas Carlyle

One night, I dreamt that I was given a horse with a perfect white circle on his forehead. The next day, I went with my parents to a Tennessee Walking Horse ranch, just to see the gorgeous horses. It turns out, the night before a colt had been born. He was a pretty chesnut with, yup, you guessed it. A perfect white circle on his forehead. I wanted to get him so bad, even though I knew it was really stupid and impractical. We were meant to be.

I can also bend my index fingers back to make an almost 45 degree angle with the back of my hand.

Err, I had more, and I swear I'm more interesting than this, but I've forgotten it all now.

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They shade the glow of it with their mossy-misty costumes,
They wear masks of silk, porcelain, brass, and silver,
So as not to mislead with their own, ordinary faces.

Not much but here it goes.....

1) Have suffered nitrogen narcosis while diving

2) Have entered a burning building numerous times

3) Have fell through the floor of a burning building and landed in the basement

4) Have had the ceiling of a burning building fall on me

5) Have been burnt 4 times while fighting fires

6) Have lived through 2 motorcycle crashes (neither of them my fault)

7) Have seen airbags inflate while extricating a person from a car (got burned on that also by the heat of the airbag)

8) Have seen a flashover in a structure fire


Not all that unusual, but not a common thing for the average person to see/experience with most of them.

*ive gotten hit in the head with a hockey stick(merican one)

*me and my cousins always play rugby league everytime where at each others houses

*getting falconed by a baseball

*getting into a fight because i look different

*fights breaking out while me and my cousins were playing football

*having the most amount of bench time for baseball

*changing positions for soccer every game

*getting over 20 hair cuts in one year

Last edited by rabbit at 29-Jan-2005 20:02

I don't remember my snake bite because I was only 2 at the time, but the story as my mother tells it is that there was a bucket standing in long grass and I stepped into the bucket. Must have stepped on the snake too, because it lashed out and struck the bucket. Its fangs went through and hit my ankle and I screamed, mum ran over and saw what had happened, nearly fainted (especially when she saw what kind of snake it was) and rushed me to hospital.

The doctors found that no venom had actually entered my bloodstream, because the snake had ejected it all when it hit the bucket. I don't know whether they gave me antivenom or not, I imagine they would have just to be sure.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. - Oscar Wilde

Ouch JB.

I was struck by a rattle snake at age 7. I stepped in a turtle hole in some sand dunes in FL. It's common for the snakes to use them as dens.

I was lucky, as the snake hit me with a dry bite. The docs think it had just made a kill prior and didn't have any venom when it struck me.

Last edited by Shannen at 03-Feb-2005 03:43

I find that story very difficult to believe, Just Beginning.
Even if the snake managed to bite through the bucket (It's pretty much impossible for an elapid to bite through something so large and flat), how did it manage to bite you on the leg? Wouldn't your leg have been in the centre of the bucket?

The doctors found that no venom had actually entered my bloodstream

Because it travels through the lymphatic system, not the blood stream.


This isn't a personal attack by the way.
Snake stories really get to me.
Probably the main reason why snakes are hated so much in this country

Oh dear god. Don't even get me started. I am a teenager... I do very, very unusual things. I have mellowed down quite a bit since all of these events, but they still remain close and fond to my heart.

I've had to have my stomach pumped twice-- for things that weren't alcohol or illegal substances

I tricked my friends into believing I was pregnant when I was 12...

I drank a "smoothie" of any random things my friends found in the refridgerator (refer to the stomach pumping incidents)

Been thrown off moving cars into snow banks (that's so fun)...

Had a fishhook stuck in MY lip...

Been hit in the face with a clawhammer (no kidding)...

I started howling at a zoo and got all the wolves going...

I sang "lullabies" to my bichir when he was sick...

I skateboarded (cardboard box for me-- he had a real skateboard) down stairs with my friend... I fell on my face and it hurt really really bad...

I've been stuck in a basketball hoop (when I was young, that is...)

TRIED to jump from a (standing) bike onto a moving four wheeler... that also hurt, really really bad...

During a lockdown drill, my friend and I broke open a tampon machine and threw them at people... (Immature much?)

Man, there's all kinds of stupid things I've done on dares, too. But I won't post them, because they're pretty stupid sounding... Don't wanna demean myself -too- much. Let's just say I have lots of scars with silly/stupid stories
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Ok I'm gonna beat Les by just a little bit, as she has a wonderfully hysterically story to tell

But, going with your hummmm snow angel, I've made a White Sand Angel...same idea just at White Sands New Mexico...Honestly I think your idea is better Mike, I don't know how long it took me to get the sand all out ...

And once on a rafting trip when we stopped for lunch I climbed up the cliff side with some others (football players included) and we were jumping off into the water below (don't do this at home, or heck anywhere else ) When I got to the cliffs edge I got chicken and it took the threat of the guys throwing me in, and grabbing me to make me actually jump, dragging them in after me Heidi

Next

"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom." Thomas Carlyle

Unusual thing?

Well...haha

My family has a cabin upstate, a little North of Timmy. Myself, my dad, sister and brother went on a trip up there with close friends of ours, another dad, a son and a daughter. The two boys are best friends, and me and the other girl are friends too. My sister is kinda left out b/c she's little. lol

Anyway...we were up there a couple months ago, and it was freezing out, like 60*F prolly lower. Me, Hannah (my sister) and Erin (the daughter in the other family) decided we really wanted to go swimming and take a bath in the Lake, but it was sooo cold. My brother and his friend dared us to go in, and I was like you know what? The three of us will jump in the lake, swim to the floating dock, take baths in our bathing suits (w/ the all natural lake soap) and swim across the lake (shortways) which is prolly 1/4 of a mile, and then back. And, it was POURING rain outside.

So, they doubted we'd do it, being wimpy girls. But I said you know what, if we're successful, you guys have dish duty for the rest of the vacation. They stupidly agreed, we shook on it, showed our dads so they couldn't go back on it, and into the lake we go!!!

So the three of us do the dare, which was absolutely crazy at the time if you had seen it, and then come back inside, and offer to set the table. Now, even though they had dish duty, we thought it'd be fun to set the table, so we could use ALL REAL DISHES. Typically we use paper plates up there since we don't have a dishwasher.

They thought we were doing them a favor and just being nice...

hehe yeah right

So they were up washing dishes for hours. Sweet sweet revenge, gotta love it

Story sounds kinda lame here...but it was funny in real life

I'm tired


-Formerly known as the Ferretfish

Let's see...

I've shot a staple through my arm...

I've driven a car through a brick wall...

I've jumped off the top of a 45 foot tall tree...

I've fallen all the way down a mountain...

I've blown up my boss...

I've gone into shock from a cut on my finger...

I've lost a fingerprint...

I've been to Russia...

I've learned to count in 7 different languages (though not very highly)...

I've jumped a boat while driving a jet-ski...

I've drank a gallon of milk in one hour (twice)...

I've sufferred a second-degree chemical burn...

I've been a state finalist in five different contests...

...eh...I'm sure there's more I'll think of later...

EDIT:I'm not really sure how many of those qualify as strange, but I figured they'd at least be interesting...

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Were all of those intentional?

Mike

I've been on a FishProfiles World Tour of the United States that involved sleeping in truck-stops from Canada to Texas and back, and sleeping on moondog's, Tim's and Babelfish's sofas. Is that unusual?


Last edited by whetutu at 23-Jan-2005 01:48

I've had both my big toenails removed.

I'm going to try doing what Billy did

I've had 4 casts on one ankle in less than a year...

I've done over 10 consecutive flips in a row...

I've skiied an entire slope at Okemo while sitting ON the back of my skies...

I've fallen off a ski lift...

I've had surgery on my tounge...

I've been in my hot tub while it's snowing...

I've come "this" close to setting my house on fire 3 times...

I've never made a successful igloo...

I walk better on my hands then on my feet...

Hmm...this is entertaining.


Last edited by Ferretfish at 22-Jan-2005 08:46

-Formerly known as the Ferretfish

OK, lets see;

I have hang glided off a 1,500 foot cliff

I have hang glided over a nude beach, and landed safely (many people crash, because they are too busy looking at the naked people, lol)

I have SCUBA dived with sharks on many different occassions

Have hand fed sharks on some of those dives (was wearing a chain suit)

Have hand fed large stingrays at "Stingray City" as well as other areas

I have been down 2,000 feet in a scientific submersible (5 hour trip, for about 1 hour of bottom time)

I have jumped out of perfectly good airplanes over 100 times

I have been spear fishing in heavily shark infested waters

I have been Stone Crab claw collecting in heavily shark infested waters (more dangerous than the spear fishing, was actually a little scared on this one, lol, fear is the reason I have not done it again, lol)

Speared a 6 foot Cobia (which took me about 2 miles from my dive boat in about 10 mins, will never even think about doing that again, lol)

Climbed an almost verticle 200 foot hill/cliff on my quad, only to flip at the top 10 feet, and roll half way down, cracking my helmet and getting air lifted to the nearest hospital (bummer I don't remember the helicoptor ride)





Last edited by ACIDRAIN at 22-Jan-2005 09:51

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There is always a bigger fish...

I learned the hard way that flour explodes. Was trying to make popcorn, with my sister, back in the day when poppers used oil to pop the popcorn. Oil caught on fire. Sister went hysterical on me. Parents weren't home. Remembered enough from home ec class that you had to smother a grease flour. Couldn't remember what with, so grabbed a full flour canister and dumped it on the fire. It exploded. Black smoke and burnt flour everywhere. Sister and I went into hyper mode to clean up the kitchen before parents came home and mom killed us both. Well, to sum it up, we thought we had done such a good job that our secret was safe. Got up in the morning...mother was sitting at the kitchen table with a cup of coffee and asked what happened last night. Tried to bluff my way out of it, but we had not cleaned as well as we thought we had. Ceiling of the kitchen was covered with swirls were we had whiped, but not good enough. Remember you can cover a grease fire to put it out, or use salt. Never flour....flour explodes.

*giggles*

I'll remember that one!



-Formerly known as the Ferretfish

You people are a danger to yourselves and others.

Mike

errr I lost my hat last winter so whenever it was cold I'd go out with scarves wrapped all around my head...

I've almost been killed by ice/snow twice

I did cat impressions at a talent show and everyone who saw it STILL remembers (that was in October!)

I can blow bubble rings in the pool

I stop breathing when I concentrate too hard. Really scared my piano teacher in high school. But I can hold my breath pretty well too.

Iltat- you did the gallon challenge twice? I've only heard of one person who had done it without barfing. I know I couldn't because I'm lactose intolerant.

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Let's have some fun.

What are some of the unusual things you have done?

I once made a naked snow angel.

I don't recommend this unless you have a hot tub or hot spring nearby. Even then it stings a little.

Mike

To begin with, most of mine were not intentional. I'm not sure if everyone would like me to actually tell the full story behind each thing or not (though I'd be interested in hearing the full stories behind some of these others, such as where you sign up to go on a deep-sea diving vessel )...

Also, I remember it was 6 different things that I was a state finalist for (Maps, Charts and Graphs, Number Sense, MathCOUNTS, National Spelling Bee, National Geography Bee, and High School baseball)...

As for the gallon of milk trick, yes, I've done it twice without throwing up and made over $100 off of the fact that I could do it...

Some more that have occurred to me...

I've been blown up (and across a room)...

I've had an organ removed permanently (and an appendix/tonsils don't qualify as an organ)...

I can pop my ears (the bones, not like when you fly on a plane)...

I've broken my nose 14 times...

I'm from a town of 8 people...

I've had about 15 different colors of hair (plus numerous more shades)...

I can wiggle my ears...

I'm very white and have won numerous dance contests for hip-hop dancing...

I've talked a person into hanging up on me in order for me to help them...

I've held a Diamondback Rattlesnake...

I'm arachnophobic (severely) and have had two pet tarantulas (wild caught)...

I've convinced my apartment manager that I'm gay in order to save money on rent...

I've gone to five high school proms...

I've had my very own Kiwi...at least for a month...

I've played golf in sun, rain, snow, sleet, hail, and lightning...

I've also played baseball in all of the above conditions...

I've been run over by a car...

I've played baseball in winds that topped 90 MPH...

I've been through 10 tornados (including 2 that directly jumped where I was)...

I've been pulled over by the police 45 times...

I've raced a Saleen Mustang while driving a Corvette Z06...

I've fallen out of my own go-kart...

I've argued Catholicism with a bishop...while being interviewed to be an altar server for his mass...

I've argued evolution with a professor that Princeton referred to as "the best biology teacher in the United States"...

I convinced someone that the program "Windows Explorer" was a virus I had just installed on his computer...

I say ya'll'll (e.g. Ya'll'll come to a fork in the road, and ya'll'll wanna take the road that bears left)...

Eh, I guess those'll work for now. Again, these are just memories I have that stick out to me as different, so not sure how most of ya'll'll think about them...

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I have been out twice trying to save beached whales. One didn't make it

Delivered a baby in a hospital corridor, dr. was late.

Held a baby tiger at Oaklawn Farms, which is not far from here.

Had the "mercury" cougar on my lap (well part of him) for a picture. I will have to get that pic scanned sometime...

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If at first you DO succeed, try not to look astonished.

Ohhh on the subject of holding things, I have held a baby fox, baby goats, baby rabbits (the latter just old enough to be help safely)

Sheesh Iltat, depending on which sides you took on the debates with the professor and the bishop, you sound like my friend's dream man.. (no, I am not doing one of those talking about myself and saying my friend things. I have a friend who loves cars (and crazy driving) and dancing, comes from a small(ish) town, etc)

EDIT: some more things come to mind.

I have eaten a bite of "concoction" which consists of a little of everything the dorms are serving on a given day. Mine consisted of pork fat, ranch dressing, chocolate cake, and cinnamony apples. It stayed down (barely)

I chewed 1.5 feet of bubblegum (not the thin bubble tape stuff, this was like .5" diameter at least) at once and managed to blow a bubble.

I wish I could say I participated in a 40-mile orienteering race in January in Southern Indiana (cold!!!), but out team didn't register in time. Next year I will be about to say I have, hopefully. I was training for it until I found out we missed the deadline.

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I have been to War.

-Keith #2

http://www.ozarkgames.com

Uhh not sure if this really counts, but I have a tendancy to break windows by accident.

First was one day before my first birthday, where I broke a window with my head and have a pernament scar under my eye.

Second was when I was 9 and accidently broke the back yard door panel glass when I pounded on it cause by brother locked me out.

Third was when I dropped a shovel and the handle hit my back yard window.

I convinced someone that the program "Windows Explorer" was a virus I had just installed on his computer...

ROFL!!!

-Formerly known as the Ferretfish

Today I kissed an electric fence. It hurt. I do not recommend it.

I have fasted only taking in water for over 24 hours at a time twice.

I have fasted for 32 hours only taking in juice and water.

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OK I have a few more I want to add:

I have taught in a school district where the student population PreK-12 was only 98 kids.

I was almost born on the ferry going to Galveston, Texas (mom was having contractions every 5 minutes.)

Was the first C-Section the doctor who delivered me had ever done.

Have lived where the temps would top out at 130, and not get below a 100 (even at 3 and 4 am) for close to 3 months.

Have bounced between Texas and Mexico 4-5 times in a day numerous times.

My neice and I have the same birthday only 25 yrs different.

I registered for FP on my sis's birthday.

I have worked a shift that was 72 hrs long, where you only get a break to go to the bathroom (no down time).

I've walked barefoot in the snow at the request of someone else.

I've gone swimming on New Year's Eve because there was a pool and that day it was 80. (previous days had been in the 40s) I did 3 laps before I gave in that it was too cold.

I've swam in the Hot Spings in Big Bend (103*F), and then jumped into the Rio Grande (67*F) repeatedly.

I've convinced others (college students) to do it, because it felt great (I was a freshman in high school)

I've gone swimming at midnight in February in the Frio River.

OK I think I'm done for now...dang I've been crazy!!!

"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom." Thomas Carlyle

I registered for FP on my sis's birthday

YEAH!!!


And about that barefoot thing...yeah I kinda did that last night. Played truth or dare with my best friend in the hot tub, during the blizzard. Oh boyy...

And my dad, brother, and neighbor all make snow angels in their bathing suits later that night...

-Formerly known as the Ferretfish

I married a man I met on the Internet

My youngest son was born at home accidentally

I visited a nude beach...

...and went topless

I was once in the Bermuda Triangle on Friday the 13th

I eat pasta every day

I had second degree burns from the sun

I didn't live on my own til is was 33...

...but I've moved 5 times in the past 4 years

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There is water at the bottom of the ocean

Why is it that the Texans can post the crazy stories revolving around stupid temperatures? To go along with Heidi's, I decked a roof of a house on a day when it reached 133 degrees, a record in my county. It was so hot, we literally would drink 32 oz of water in the shade, walk out on the roof, nail down on piece of decking, walk back into the shade, and drink another 32 oz of water...

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