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[galactic_hedgehog]

1. While I know how to do it, I haven't successfully driven a stick-shift.
2. I've never eaten ham.
3. I can't use the fora search function.  Oh, wait.  No one can do that.

EDIT: Might Concordancia and I annihilate each other if we met?

[octoprof]

3. I can't use the fora search function.  Oh, wait.  No one can do that.

Yeah, this one's not gonna show how unique you are.

[john_proctor]

Never seen lost
Never had cable (how bout that one?)
Never read the USA Today (apart from the Sports), the Washington Post, or the LA Times
Never even touched a cash register.

Never tasted bacon. 

Really.

Been to Spain (but that's the best 3 dog night song ever recorded)
Ordered a drink in a bar (please, feighn surprise)
Been on dates

True story (paraphrased from William James): the course in Introduction to Philosophy I ever attended, I taught.

[dept_geek]

1. I have never taken a literature course.

Even tho my degree is in geek studies, I haven take 5+ years of college-level lit courses. To the chagrin of my students, I use selected readings as input for their computer programs that have some sort of text analysis.  I find it really funny, they hate it. Therefore, I keep doing it.



edited: I obviously skipped the spelling classes. sigh.

[wareagle]

1.  I have never watched "Friends", "Sex in the City", "Everybody Loves Raymond" or "The Shield".

2.  I never took a speech class, either.  

3.  I never wrote a single paper as an undergraduate.  Not one.

[galactic_hedgehog]

3.  I never wrote a single paper as an undergraduate.  Not one.

Were you supposed to?

[magistra]

I've never taken a math class.

I've never seen American Idol.

I've never read Tolstoy.  Or Dostoyefsky.  Or Moby Dick.

JP: The Washington Post is the best paper ever.  You're only cutting off your own nose there!  Especially if you're a NYTimes reader, come on down.  The view is sooooo much better.

[scheherazade]

1. Never took a foreign language class as an undergrad
2. Never voted for a Republican
3. Have two kids, but never been married (that's right, I'm suburban ghetto)

[polly_mer]

How can Prairie Home Companion go against rural living?

Argh!  I hate Prairie Home Companion.  I can comprehend that it's supposed to be funny and somewhat poignant, but it just strikes a bad chord with me.  It's like reading Dilbert: too true to be funny because what they think are wild exaggerations are only minor variations on people and situations that I have known.

3.  I never wrote a single paper as an undergraduate.  Not one.

I wrote papers even in engineering, physics, and chemistry classes.  How did you manage to get out of it?

[john_proctor]

I've never taken a math class.

I've never seen American Idol.

I've never read Tolstoy.  Or Dostoyefsky.  Or Moby Dick.

JP: The Washington Post is the best paper ever.  You're only cutting off your own nose there!  Especially if you're a NYTimes reader, come on down.  The view is sooooo much better.

I'm with you on Idol.  "I know; I know" about the Post (never been in the area).

No Tolstoy, Dostoevsky or Moby Dick?


Here's more:

Never finished a single book by Tolkien.

Never seen a Harry Potter movie (or read one of the books).

[wareagle]

3.  I never wrote a single paper as an undergraduate.  Not one.

Were you supposed to?

No.  I was in music - we wrote musical compositions or musical analyses, but they weren't papers in the usual sense.

[polly_mer]

I've never taken a math class.

I've never seen American Idol.

I've never read Tolstoy.  Or Dostoyefsky.  Or Moby Dick.

JP: The Washington Post is the best paper ever.  You're only cutting off your own nose there!  Especially if you're a NYTimes reader, come on down.  The view is sooooo much better.

I'm with you on Idol.  "I know; I know" about the Post (never been in the area).

No Tolstoy, Dostoevsky or Moby Dick?


Here's more:

Never finished a single book by Tolkien.

The only reason I have finished a Tolkien book was that The Hobbit was assigned in middle school so I had to finish the stupid thing.

I've never made it past the first chapter of Moby Dick.

I've never learned to swim or ride a bicycle.

[concordancia]

Dostoevsky is actually pretty good. I recommend that you skip the other two.

[octoprof]

I've never learned to swim or ride a bicycle.

My best female friend is the same. It's a mystery to me.

I've never taken a math class.

I've never seen American Idol.

I've never read Tolstoy.  Or Dostoyefsky.  Or Moby Dick.

JP: The Washington Post is the best paper ever.  You're only cutting off your own nose there!  Especially if you're a NYTimes reader, come on down.  The view is sooooo much better.

I'm with you on Idol.  "I know; I know" about the Post (never been in the area).

No Tolstoy, Dostoevsky or Moby Dick?


Here's more:

Never finished a single book by Tolkien.

Oh, how sad! :o)

I have never taken a course in anthropology, archeology, art, or geography.

[magistra]

JP -- I've got you on Tolkien and Rowling.  Not much of an achievement, I suppose.  I know Russian lit is a huge hole, but there it is.  And I hate long books because when I'm really in to something, I can't put it down, which is bad when it's 4am and you're only half way through.

I once read Eugene Onegin, though.  And The Prisoner of Zenda.

Don't worry about not having been in DC.  That's what I love about the paper -- it's good with local, but also national, international, and cultural.  Solid reporting all the way around.