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Six thru ten, anyone?

cooby Nov 18 2013 09:55 AM

This is kinda fun! 6. Three out of my four great grandfathers were named William 7. I can still read Gregg Shorthand 8. My favorite animals are foxes 9. I can tell the difference between Aida and hardanger at a glance. 10. I love fun-design socks

themetfairy Nov 18 2013 10:35 AM Re: Six thru ten, anyone?

cooby - my son attends Marist, and their mascot is the red fox :) 6. I was editor of my high school newspaper. 7. I have a JD. I haven't practiced law since moving to New Jersey, but I keep my license current to keep my options open. I'm looking into getting in my CLE credits so that if the right job opportunity comes along I can take advantage of it. 8. I had my daughter's name picked out years before she was conceived. With both boys, though, D-Dad and I came to agreement about middle names quickly but argued until close to the end about their first names. He'd have lists of names and I'd have lists, and there would be absolutely no intersection; in the end, both boys got names that neither of us hated (although the names have grown on us over the years). 9. I met D-Dad during Freshman Orientation. There was a free seat across from me at the cafeteria during lunch and he took it. We started talking, and after lunch I showed him a store where he could purchase a cork board for his room that he said he was looking for. Since I was 17 at the time, I can say that we have been together my entire adult life. 10. I hate driving. Truly hate it - it stresses me out tremendously.

Vic Sage Nov 18 2013 01:35 PM Re: Six thru ten, anyone?

6. I met my wife on a blind date (luckily, she didn't know it was a date); 7. I've had a full beard and mustache since 1980, making my facial hair older than some of you. Of course it's more salt than pepper at this point, and i plan to shave it off when i retire (I hit 65 in only 13 more years!) as a symbol of my new-found freedom; 8. If you are a movie or tv show without either explosions, robots, stylized violence, showtunes, and/or attractive naked women, the chances of my liking you is slim (particularly if you were based on a book by Henry James, Jane Austen, EM Forster, Edith Wharton or anybody named Bronte -- in which case even nudity won't save you); 9. I had to take a health ed test in my guidance counselor's office in order to get my HS diploma; then I dropped out of college for a semester, after my freshman year, but went back eventually. 5 years later, I went to law school and graduated on time. Grateful for not putting them through that shit again, my parents thru me a graduation party at Rusty's restaurant; 10. I have an extensive collection of sf-based paraphanalia (movies, books, toys, etc), as well as over 8,000 comics, a bunch of original movie 1-sheets... and a saintly wife who has not a scintilla of interest in any of this stuff yet lets our home and personal finances be overwhelmed by it.

batmagadanleadoff Nov 18 2013 01:55 PM Re: Six thru ten, anyone?

Vic Sage wrote: 8. If you are a movie or tv show without either explosions, robots, stylized violence, showtunes, and/or attractive naked women, the chances of my liking you is slim.... This might be the most surprising, among many surprising, revelations in this and the related thread. Not too many American pre-late '60's movies that would include naked women, attractive or not. I suppose that the category of "stylized violence" is subjective enough to allow for the inclusion of just about any movie, though.

RealityChuck Nov 18 2013 02:14 PM Re: Six thru ten, anyone?

6. I lettered in tennis in high school. 7. I was at Yankee Stadium when Roger Maris hit #61*; it was the first MLB game I attended. 8. My great great grandmother was a high-class prostitute in Paris. Her last name, Noe, was the same as my wife's maiden name. 9. I used to host a daily sports call-in show on cable TV. 10. I'm an official cyberprep author.

Vic Sage Nov 18 2013 02:18 PM Re: Six thru ten, anyone?

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Vic Sage wrote: 8. If you are a movie or tv show without either explosions, robots, stylized violence, showtunes, and/or attractive naked women, the chances of my liking you is slim.... This might be the most surprising, among many surprising, revelations in this and the related thread. Not too many American pre-late '60's movies that would include naked women, attractive or not. I suppose that the category of "stylized violence" is subjective enough to allow for the inclusion of just about any movie, though. perhaps i overstate, but not much. even with regard to older films, i prefer genre stuff (westerns, war, sf/fantasy, musicals, comedies) to straight drama. But yeah, i'll take SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS or CITIZEN KANE, despite their lack of those genre elements, over the "coffee table" movies of Merchant/Ivory for example.

MFS62 Nov 18 2013 09:27 PM Re: Six thru ten, anyone? Edited 2 time(s), most recently on Nov 18 2013 09:49 PM

[crossout:1du18rth]6. I designed the Edsel 7. I was a financial analyst for Enron 8. I was Michael Jackson's Plastic Surgeon. 9. I was substance abuse counselor for Lindsay Lohan. 10. I wrote the software for the Obamacare enrollment system. Hmm, maybe that's why I root for the Mets.[/crossout:1du18rth] OK, some real ones: 6. A few days before my college graduation in 1965, I went to pick up my college ring. I asked someone out for a first date. Two years later, when I returned from the Army, I married her. 7. I haven't taken off the college ring since. 8. When I was walking down Pennsylvania Avenue late on a Saturday night, I almost got run over by one of President Johnson's daughters, driving her Corvette Sting Ray through the White House gate. Apparently, she was trying to beat curfew. Couldn't see which daughter it was, but I had read one of them drove one. 9. I finished my Masters in Project Management from the George Washington University Graduate School of Business in the year 2000. 10. I have a genuine Jackie Robinson Brooklyn Dodgers jersey from 1955. (NO, I'm not related to the Wilpons.) Later

Frayed Knot Nov 18 2013 09:32 PM Re: Six thru ten, anyone?

6) I was born a poor black child 7) I don't like all these Kennedy assassination retrospectives because, well because my alibi isn't exactly air-tight for that weekend. 8) Heart's song 'Magic Man' ... they were signing about me 9) Due to a long ago incident involving Marie Osmond and a goat, I'm not allowed in the state of Utah 10) For a variety of reasons, Jamie Lee Curtis no longer returns my phone calls.

Lefty Specialist Nov 19 2013 06:36 AM Re: Six thru ten, anyone?

6) I had an AK-47 pointed at me by a nervous 18-year-old security guard in Kuwait in 1992. The closest I've ever come to peeing my pants as an adult. 7) In 2005, actually met Chris Stevens, the ambassador who was killed at Benghazi. Nice guy, who was working with the State Department on literacy programs at the time. 8) I have written 3 books for children. Two trivia books under my own name, and a history of the World Series under the pseudonym 'Terry Wilson', which is my middle name plus Mookie's last name. 9) Attended Mets Fantasy camp in 2002. The most fun you can have with your clothes on. Hit a ground ball to deep short off Bob Apodaca but alas, I couldn't beat it out. 10) I'm pathological about seafood. Don't eat it and can't stand to be anywhere near it. My family, friends and co-workers know this and don't order it in my presence.

Edgy MD Nov 19 2013 07:10 AM Re: Six thru ten, anyone?

Luci was the Sting Ray-drivin' Johnson:

John Cougar Lunchbucket Nov 19 2013 08:40 AM Re: Six thru ten, anyone?

6. When I was born, I was given a different name than I have now. My mom changed her mind after a week, saying there was too many Roberts already in the neighborhood. 7. Like Krusty the Clown, I have a superfluous nipple (2 in fact). 8. I partially tore my achilles tendon playing frisbee. Later that week I was at a Mets game, which not only was Hideo Nomo's debut, but one of my first dates with Wifey Bucket, when the right fielder tossed a foul ball to the field-level stands where we were seated. I alertly reached across the row to my right and caught the ball before it hit Wifey Bucket in the head, but while doing so, tore the tendon further. Eventually, it required surgery. 9. I am deeply conflicted about running another Klassik Rawk World Championship and look to you for guidance. 10. My tremendous skill at the trombone (plus proximity to Washington DC) got me invited to take part in the "All-American College Marching Band" that played at Reagan's 1985 inauguration. We rehearsed for a week under famed USC band director Art Bartner but the actual inauguration day was so cold they canceled the parade and and moved the event to the Capital Centre in Landover.

Mets – Willets Point Nov 19 2013 09:02 AM Re: Six thru ten, anyone?

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: 8. I partially tore my achilles tendon playing frisbee. Later that week I was at a Mets game, which not only was Hideo Nomo's debut, but one of my first dates with Wifey Bucket, when the right fielder tossed a foul ball to the field-level stands where we were seated. I alertly reached across the row to my right and caught the ball before it hit Wifey Bucket in the head, but while doing so, tore the tendon further. Eventually, it required surgery. I believe that it was during your recovery time from this injury that you created the originial Mets By The Numbers website, correct?

John Cougar Lunchbucket Nov 19 2013 09:13 AM Re: Six thru ten, anyone?

Yes, that is true. What a year 1998 was.

metsguyinmichigan Nov 20 2013 08:13 AM Re: Six thru ten, anyone?

After the whole pine cone thing, I have to go easy. 6) Theodore Roosevelt's daughter Ethel once gave me a tour of Sagamore Hill. I was probably a little young to fully appreciate it, but knew it was something very special. 7) I served on my school's version of student council with Alec Baldwin's sister. She's really nice. (I think Berner High in Massapequa is a middle school these days.) 8) I was on the Colbert Report in 2012. Technically it was a clip from when I did a stand-up on C-SPAN. My kids love the show and I was terrified he was going to rip me to shreds. Instead he used something I said to make fun of Mitt Romney 9) I drink too much Diet Coke. 10) I hit the legal drinking age three times. It was 18 when I turned 18, then it got bumped to 20 and the law didn't grandfather people in and when I went to the University of Missouri it was 21. The irony: I didn't really drink then and don't at all now. I just wanted to go see Twisted Sister at Hammerheads or go dancing with friends.

Mets – Willets Point Nov 20 2013 08:36 AM Re: Six thru ten, anyone?

metsguyinmichigan wrote: 8) I was on the Colbert Report in 2012. Technically it was a clip from when I did a stand-up on C-SPAN. My kids love the show and I was terrified he was going to rip me to shreds. Instead he used something I said to make fun of Mitt Romney Can you post a link?

themetfairy Nov 20 2013 09:07 AM Re: Six thru ten, anyone?

metsguyinmichigan wrote: 8) I was on the Colbert Report in 2012. Technically it was a clip from when I did a stand-up on C-SPAN. My kids love the show and I was terrified he was going to rip me to shreds. Instead he used something I said to make fun of Mitt Romney I remember that. I was talking about you to D-Dad the other night and said, "you know, my friend who was on Colbert that time."

metsguyinmichigan Nov 20 2013 09:30 AM Re: Six thru ten, anyone?

Mets – Willets Point wrote: metsguyinmichigan wrote: 8) I was on the Colbert Report in 2012. Technically it was a clip from when I did a stand-up on C-SPAN. My kids love the show and I was terrified he was going to rip me to shreds. Instead he used something I said to make fun of Mitt Romney Can you post a link? Sure! [url]http://www.mlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/03/colbert_report_segment_on_supe.html

metsguyinmichigan Nov 20 2013 09:40 AM Re: Six thru ten, anyone?

themetfairy wrote: 8) I was on the Colbert Report in 2012. Technically it was a clip from when I did a stand-up on C-SPAN. My kids love the show and I was terrified he was going to rip me to shreds. Instead he used something I said to make fun of Mitt Romney I remember that. I was talking about you to D-Dad the other night and said, "you know, my friend who was on Colbert that time." It gives me instant cred with my college students! :) Actually, one of the hard parts about that night was I had four over-excited students standing just out of camera rage. It was an interesting night. The room is mostly filled risers with cameras. I couldn't have extended my arms in either direction without hitting another person doing a stand up. I was answering questions that I heard through an earpiece. It was hot and sweaty in there -- and at the very end of a loooong Super Tuesday. My hair looked awful! Now, the CNN appearance two days before was much different -- make-up, lighting and an empty studio (It was a satellite hook-up.) But the college kids don't care about that one!

themetfairy Nov 20 2013 09:46 AM Re: Six thru ten, anyone?

I remember watching the show that night and excitedly pointing out to D-Dad - "I know that guy! I know that guy!"