wild_rose
Uncharacteristically optimistic
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The thrill of modern postism!
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« Reply #15 on: July 25, 2007, 01:07:04 PM » |
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I occasionally wear 3-inch heels.
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"[M]y toast just landed jelly side up so I think that bodes well for averting world-ending disasters. I have faith in bread although the toasted aspect may mean you're going to have withstand some heat for a brief time and some aloe jelly will come in handy." --Notaprof, the Great Seer
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« Reply #16 on: July 25, 2007, 01:26:54 PM » |
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I privacy fenced a half acre of land using only hand tools (no premade fence panels), and a hand post hole digger in Georgia clay, during summer, with temperatures ranging from 90-100 degrees and high humidity. <flex>
I also tested for a black belt in mixed martial arts with a sprained ankle.
Not sure either of those are "tough" but they definitely both hurt.
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I'm the bad guy? How'd that happen
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wild_rose
Uncharacteristically optimistic
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« Reply #17 on: July 25, 2007, 01:35:33 PM » |
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I privacy fenced a half acre of land using only hand tools (no premade fence panels), and a hand post hole digger in Georgia clay, during summer, with temperatures ranging from 90-100 degrees and high humidity. <flex>
OK, I am duly impressed. That's like digging in solid brick with a toothpick. |
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"[M]y toast just landed jelly side up so I think that bodes well for averting world-ending disasters. I have faith in bread although the toasted aspect may mean you're going to have withstand some heat for a brief time and some aloe jelly will come in handy." --Notaprof, the Great Seer
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« Reply #18 on: July 25, 2007, 01:37:07 PM » |
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While untenured, I challenged the powers-that-be in our department on ethical violations and personal intimidations.
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Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things. --Diderot
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rowan1
be serious I am a
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na na na na, na na na na , hey hey hey, goodbye
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« Reply #19 on: July 25, 2007, 01:40:04 PM » |
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I can make a roomful of actors feak out with one word.
Ok, that isn't really tough, it is pretty easy in fact.
But, I can hang and focus a 20lb lighting instrument while holding onto the pipe with one arm and screaming for someone to bring back my freaking ladder!
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The time is out of joint—O cursèd spite,
That ever I was born to set it right!
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cc_alan
is a wossname
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Caution! Nekkid zamboni driver ahead.
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« Reply #20 on: July 25, 2007, 01:55:03 PM » |
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I privacy fenced a half acre of land using only hand tools (no premade fence panels), and a hand post hole digger in Georgia clay, during summer, with temperatures ranging from 90-100 degrees and high humidity. <flex>
Carp! That's tough. I had to dig two 2 ft holes in Nebraska clay for a playset and that was enough for me. And now a video of the Fabulous Thunderbirds just for you. I know mirandaf already posted the link earlier but I salute you! Alan |
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Excuse me... which aisle would I find the unicorns and rainbows? No, Alan is a man among men, striding the Earth like a Colossus with a really big bladder, wearing a tool belt.
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oldfullprof
Short!
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Imagine something funny here...
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« Reply #21 on: July 25, 2007, 02:29:06 PM » |
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I did Aikido front rolls and hard falls for six years at the ages of 52 to 58, and only got badly hurt once. I was too stupid to be properly scared. Karate was a breeze after that.
I jumped off a bar backward once in Frankfurt, Germany to impress people. They were. I guess I was at the "Jackass" age.
I gave innumerable Haldol and Thorazine injections to occasionally formidable patients on psych units at various state hospitals in CA, and helped restrain them. I used to come home with scratch marks on the backs of my hands. Try explaining that...
I got in my sociopathic chair's face a few times at Mafia Tech. I don't work there now...
I helped load about 30,000 gas masks onto a train, and helped distribute about 30,000 new ones in 1963 at Ft. Lewis, Wa. We did this in about a week.
Internally I feel like a big chicken though. Hey, no more of these types of situations...
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Take reality personally. It's more fun that way.
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dr_stones
We broke a six-pack in the store to get just one
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пошлите законоведами пушки и деньг
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« Reply #22 on: July 25, 2007, 02:33:58 PM » |
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The last marathon I ran, I finished the last three miles with a broken foot.
I didn't know it at the time.
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"History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme." Samuel "Steroid Free" Clemens
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mirandaf
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« Reply #23 on: July 25, 2007, 02:42:56 PM » |
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Oh! Oldassocprof reminded me of another from childhood. Not sure if this falls into the 'tough' or 'stupid' category: Once, in front of a library, I jumped off a cement bench face-first onto the cement walkway. Ouch. I don't know why it didn't occur to me just to step down off the bench.
Have also done a few belly-flops into pools.
Sometimes I work out by punching a heavy bag.
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oldfullprof
Short!
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« Reply #24 on: July 25, 2007, 02:44:55 PM » |
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Yes...I charged one of those playground poles in second grade. M<y tooth's still chipped.
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Take reality personally. It's more fun that way.
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« Reply #25 on: July 25, 2007, 02:45:18 PM » |
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I've slapped a filled waterbed mattress...more than once.
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"In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo."
-- T.S. Eliot
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« Reply #26 on: July 25, 2007, 02:54:17 PM » |
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You don't want to know.
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a.k.a. gum-chewing monkey in a Tufts University jacket
"Please do not force people who are exhausted to take medication for hallucinations." -- Memo from the Chair, Department of White Privilege Studies, Fiork University
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zarathustra
Because the Chron says I'm a
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Procrastifabulous by nature.
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« Reply #27 on: July 25, 2007, 02:58:38 PM » |
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I've been screamed at by conductors, screamed at myself, lost countless auditions, and my skills/talents dismissed by other professionals, but I've "made it" in my profession (by my definition, anyway). That's a kind of toughness.
My doctors were amazed I hadn't come in for treatment when they discovered a 8-10 cent. endometrioma on one my ovaries (after it ruptured. Ouch). They thought I was pretty tough.
On the other hand, I can cry at the drop of a hat almost at any time. And I get seriously grumpy when taxed physically.
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"...undigested hummus trading real estate for this fire dance.." ~C.S.
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maries
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« Reply #28 on: July 25, 2007, 03:05:20 PM » |
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I wrote a dissertation without novacain.
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dr_crankypants
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« Reply #29 on: July 25, 2007, 03:09:37 PM » |
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I walked uphill, both ways, and in the snow to get to school.
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I'm not ignoring you. I'm playing leapdog with your post.
"Now stop trying to sound funny and smart." -Wowowowowow
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