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Tell us one thing you have done that no one else here has.
« on: October 06, 2017, 08:11:22 AM »
I have slept on top of a Mayan pyramid.

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Re: Tell us one thing you have done that no one else here has.
« Reply #1 on: October 06, 2017, 08:22:00 AM »
I worked at a place where on of my primary duties was to daily move millions of moths into a small room, heat the room up until they died, and then shovel their corpses into an incinerator.

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« Reply #2 on: October 06, 2017, 08:22:46 AM »
I have slept on top of a Mayan pyramid.
Gotcha.
I did that at Tikal several years ago. I don't think they allow it there anymore.

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« Reply #3 on: October 06, 2017, 08:23:38 AM »
I worked at a place where on of my primary duties was to daily move millions of moths into a small room, heat the room up until they died, and then shovel their corpses into an incinerator.

Wait....what?

I think this one needs a story.

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« Reply #4 on: October 06, 2017, 08:31:35 AM »
I suspect quite a few thing related to biology field work...but a good example would be, climbed into a golden eagle nest and hand-captured the nestlings for processing.

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« Reply #5 on: October 06, 2017, 08:33:52 AM »
Climbed from the passenger seat to the roof of a moving car and laid face forward, holding on to the windows, while the driver took belly dropping hills and 60 mph country road straightaways.
I know no one else here has done that because no one else here is that stupid.

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« Reply #6 on: October 06, 2017, 08:47:22 AM »
I worked at a place where on of my primary duties was to daily move millions of moths into a small room, heat the room up until they died, and then shovel their corpses into an incinerator.

Wait....what?

I think this one needs a story.


I was working at an insectary where we bread parasitic wasps that were sold to farmers as organic, environmentally friendly pest control.  The parasitic wasps needed hosts in which to lay their eggs.  The moths were bred on site, and the wasps would only infest a small percentage of them while they were larvae.  The clean larvae were moved into a grow room to eventually hatch into moths, which we kept alive until they bred.  After breeding it was my job to kill them.

The adult moths were kept in three foot by three foot trays about two or three  inches deep, stacked eight ft high . . . usually about 40 or so stacks.  I had to pile the trays onto a squeaky old cart, then bring them to the kill room.  This was all done in the poorly buzzing florescent light lit unpainted concrete back of the building.  I'd turn on the heat for a couple minutes, open all the trays, dump out the dead moths from the trays (stacked for reuse later), then shovel them into the incinerator . . . and then do it all over again.  All day long, every two or three days.  God help you if you dropped a tray of live moths . . . that was a multi-hour operation with a vacuum cleaner.

One of the guys I worked with once took some double sided tape, spelled "HELP ME" on one of the concrete walls, and then threw a shovel full of live moths onto it . . . so that when I walked by they were all still wriggling.  The whole place really had a kinda Nazi concentration camp vibe and was kinda fucked up.  I only lasted there a couple months.

Not good karma.

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« Reply #7 on: October 06, 2017, 09:03:10 AM »
Last November, I drove 100 miles home with nine free deer carcasses in my Hyundai Accent and spent several hours in my garage afterwards cutting them up, bones included.

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« Reply #8 on: October 06, 2017, 09:06:54 AM »
Last November, I drove 100 miles home with nine free deer carcasses in my Hyundai Accent and spent several hours in my garage afterwards cutting them up, bones included.

You fit nine deer in an Accent??? IN an Accent?? No roof rack, no trailer hitch rack?

I'm guessing the windows were down.

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« Reply #9 on: October 06, 2017, 09:11:19 AM »
Years ago I worked as a legal assistant.  One of the opposing parties had made a claim about the use of the word "Anonymous" in the title of a group.  My job was to write to all of the groups who use the word Anonymous, like Narcotics Anonymous, Sex Addicts Anonymous, etc. and collect all of their literature to show that the word was already in use in many groups.  (this was pre-internet days)
I received replies in un-marked envelopes and collected them as evidence.  As the mail came in, the legal secretary who was aware of this project thought it was hilarious and said, "You're one sick chick!" 

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« Reply #10 on: October 06, 2017, 09:12:56 AM »
Uh...

I have had sex in a gypsy caravan wagon in Poland?

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« Reply #11 on: October 06, 2017, 09:13:40 AM »
I drove my car to the track, ran a 10 second quarter mile, and drove home.

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« Reply #12 on: October 06, 2017, 09:16:27 AM »
I peed on the Golden Gate Bridge.  Probably not nearly the only one :)...  I was a young and dumb sailor in the 80s.

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« Reply #13 on: October 06, 2017, 09:20:20 AM »
I once punched a clown.

It's true.

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« Reply #14 on: October 06, 2017, 09:22:54 AM »
Camped overnight on the rim of Wizard Island in Crater Lake.

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« Reply #15 on: October 06, 2017, 09:33:22 AM »
DMT

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« Reply #16 on: October 06, 2017, 09:35:31 AM »
Let no-see-ums (piqūres de brūlots, Culicoides sanguisuga) walk all over my arm until they fed (blood meal).  The things biology grad students do.  ;-)

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« Reply #17 on: October 06, 2017, 09:39:44 AM »
I did competitive ballroom dancing for six years and won multiple ribbons at the gold level.

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« Reply #18 on: October 06, 2017, 09:44:29 AM »
Arranged for a computer software version of a mouse to starve/work itself to death by pressing the lever for food without sufficient reward.

Background: It was a psychology class, we were told the software perfectly mimicked a real mouse and I think 3 of us in the entire class figured out the mouse would keep pressing the lever for food indefinitely if you trained it enough. It was a mimicking of the gambling behavior and was meant to teach us why unreliable rewards actually increase a certain behavior more than certain rewards. Judging by the professor's horrified expression, no one else had ever tested the theory to the extreme like that. In our defense, we were required to train it to a certain level to get our grade, we just explored how far the behavior would go. None of knew each other so we independently concluded that it could probably be trained farther...

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« Reply #19 on: October 06, 2017, 09:49:09 AM »
I once punched a clown.

It's true.

You're not the hero we deserve, but you're the hero we need.

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Re: Tell us one thing you have done that no one else here has.
« Reply #20 on: October 06, 2017, 09:58:24 AM »
Let no-see-ums (piqūres de brūlots, Culicoides sanguisuga) walk all over my arm until they fed (blood meal).  The things biology grad students do.  ;-)

. . . doesn't sound too different from camping trips with Dad.  :P

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« Reply #21 on: October 06, 2017, 09:58:47 AM »
DMT

Nope, me too :)    Though maybe you did it on purpose. If "DMT on purpose", it's yours.
On accident!!! Were you terrified?

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« Reply #22 on: October 06, 2017, 10:03:10 AM »
Last November, I drove 100 miles home with nine free deer carcasses in my Hyundai Accent and spent several hours in my garage afterwards cutting them up, bones included.

You fit nine deer in an Accent??? IN an Accent?? No roof rack, no trailer hitch rack?

I'm guessing the windows were down.
Windows up.  It was a hatchback.  The deer carcasses weren't 100% intact by any means when I got them (legs were separate and some meat stripped off), but it was still a lot.

Our dogs are still feasting on the spoils of that trip.

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« Reply #23 on: October 06, 2017, 10:08:25 AM »
I entered boxing contests in college for prize money to help pay for room and board....only marginally better than stripping.  Almost lost my Army Scholarship (tuition only) over that one.

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« Reply #24 on: October 06, 2017, 10:16:39 AM »
I get paid to watch Netflix and Amazon shows months before the rest of the world.   

I also produced the worlds first Blu Ray and HD DVD surf film and the first gay porn Blu ray.
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« Reply #25 on: October 06, 2017, 10:18:35 AM »
On accident!!! Were you terrified?

I was...surprised. Like, "huh? wha' the?"

My great, great fortune was that the companion who'd accidentally dosed me realized what was happening, identified that to me, and then stayed with me the whole time, serving as a decent guide. It was, in fact, WONDERFUL. I still tear up at the memory, in joy and gratitude.
Good to hear. I figured someone else had, I was kinda fishing :)

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« Reply #26 on: October 06, 2017, 10:21:05 AM »
I spent a day as David Hasselhoff's bodyguard.

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« Reply #27 on: October 06, 2017, 10:35:25 AM »
I was the first one to finish the first public bike-a-thon for charity.  50 mile "Ride for life" in 1969.

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« Reply #28 on: October 06, 2017, 10:42:54 AM »
I have slept on top of a Mayan pyramid.
Gotcha.
I did that at Tikal several years ago. I don't think they allow it there anymore.

It wasn't allowed back in 1986 either, but we walked in, eery jungle trails, climbed up and spent the night where they used to do blood sacrifices. Cool pics of the sunrise over the pyramids.
Alcohol was involved.
I have played this game at parties, and never been caught losing with this answer before. Now I have to think if I got something better.

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Re: Tell us one thing you have done that no one else here has.
« Reply #29 on: October 06, 2017, 10:48:37 AM »
Climbed from the passenger seat to the roof of a moving car and laid face forward, holding on to the windows, while the driver took belly dropping hills and 60 mph country road straightaways.
I know no one else here has done that because no one else here is that stupid.

That stupid, or have hands that strong!
Was alcohol involved, or is totally a stupid question?

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« Reply #30 on: October 06, 2017, 10:52:13 AM »
Served as primary prosecution witness to put two child molesters behind bars.

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« Reply #31 on: October 06, 2017, 10:54:35 AM »
Louisville's got me beat pretty bad. Let's try...

I have cooked from steam venting from the peak of a live volcano (boiled water for hot chocolate after sleeping on hot rock).

By the way, that was also the most scared I have ever been. Literally frozen in fear at one point climbing down.

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« Reply #32 on: October 06, 2017, 10:55:47 AM »
Served as primary prosecution witness to put two child molesters behind bars.
Thank you. I have never in my life done anything so useful to humanity.

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« Reply #33 on: October 06, 2017, 11:15:36 AM »
Climbed from the passenger seat to the roof of a moving car and laid face forward, holding on to the windows, while the driver took belly dropping hills and 60 mph country road straightaways.
I know no one else here has done that because no one else here is that stupid.

I've done this in a car at 80 kph (about 50 mph) . . . memories of a misspent youth.

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« Reply #34 on: October 06, 2017, 11:18:45 AM »
Had my shoes stolen while sleeping in a tent in the middle of a field. Had to hike down the mountain in flip flops and legally blind because my glasses were in the shoes.

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« Reply #35 on: October 06, 2017, 11:45:11 AM »
I started a not for profit foundation from scratch to help gender diverse people.

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« Reply #36 on: October 06, 2017, 11:48:48 AM »
Hmmmm.  Drunk navigated 3+ miles across a town I'd never visited, to someone else's apartment I'd spent 15 minutes in, with no street address, telephone number, or last names to go by and only a paper map (pre-cellphone days). 

While studying abroad, a group of us decided to go to Oktoberfest; I mean, it was just a train ride away, so why the hell not?  We had no place to stay (because planning?), but we met some guys on the train over who offered us their floor.  Umm, sure (what could possibly go wrong?*).  So we dropped off all our stuff at their place and walked across town to the fairgrounds.  Only after many hours and many, many beers did I discover that the friend who had gotten us the offer didn't know their address or even their full names.  So, basically, all of our passports and clothes and train tickets and everything were 3 1/2 miles away, with no more specific direction than "that way."  I somehow managed to retrace our steps.

*The most unbelievable part may be that no one got robbed or assaulted, or even seriously hit on; they were just really, really nice guys who were looking out for a bunch of stupid American tourists.  :-)

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« Reply #37 on: October 06, 2017, 12:14:02 PM »
Some fun ones here!

- rode BMX bike off the marina dock in Westlake Village CA
- Backpacked 28days straight in Sierra Nevada Mountains; zero re-supply, zero contact w/outside world
- rode mtb bike up Pikes Peak Barr Trail, the hiking trial. well, mostly pushed.
- Rode mtb back down. had several blowouts on the way down b/c the rim brakes got the rim so hot the tubes melted.
- routinely mowed 45 lawns/wk during Houston summers.
- Mowed 17 laws/day Saturdays, for some weeks after college started and Sat was my only free day to make $$
- tried really hard to open a screw-cap bottle of gin with a bottle opener. I may have been inebriated.
- high centered a rental Jeep in Moab and got lost on the walk back in November at night while on honeymoon
- Identical twin daughters born on the 4th of July
- Drove 1,000 miles in 14hrs in a 500hp Corvette and got 32mpg
- lost my virginity on my wedding night
- Bought a dozen Caped Flying Screaming Monkeys from Amazon because...  self explanatory
- Wore a Utilikilt to an Indian/Cajun wedding/reception
- was mistaken for a homosexual Communist
- Took 24 credit hour load and made 4.0 in 1 semester
- took 6 children + DW camping
- Built an isobaric subwoofer
- built an infinite baffle subwoofer
- removed perfectly functioning AC from vehicles. Twice.
- owned 5 personal vehicles at once, all of which operated perfectly (pre-MMM of course)
- walked 15 miles r/t to work for 3 weeks in 100 degree heat
- was gifted a polished stainless Colt 1911 45ACP for high school graduation.
- ate sushi blindfolded with 85 co-workers in Bolivia

Tomorrow, and most Saturdays:
- take 7 children on an 8 mile walk for breakfast tacos

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« Reply #38 on: October 06, 2017, 12:17:08 PM »
- ate sushi blindfolded with 85 co-workers in Bolivia
Your list is wonderful, but I just can't shake this one.  Is that a thing people do in Bolivia?

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Re: Tell us one thing you have done that no one else here has.
« Reply #39 on: October 06, 2017, 12:19:28 PM »
- ate sushi blindfolded with 85 co-workers in Bolivia

Quite a civilized hostage situation you and your co-workers found yourself in.

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« Reply #40 on: October 06, 2017, 12:33:53 PM »
My NYC rock and roll moment:

Went to a party at the Plaza Hotel in midtown New York City - I'd always wanted to go to the Plaza Hotel(!!)

Drank an awful lot of champagne with the lovely young model I was dating.

Got the great idea to sneak out of the Rose Room and "explore the hotel"....then it gets fuzzy.

Woke up in the morning in the Penthouse Suite on the top floor of the Plaza Hotel, totally confused as to where we were.

.....over time it came back that we somehow got onto the roof of the hotel, and climbed across the balconies until my lady friend discovered the empty penthouse suite had the sliding glass door open........

Of course we didn't sneak out the window, we took the private elevator downstairs, held our hung over heads high, and strolled out the front door......

The bummer was that after that, no date I could take her on could top that one......but I can forever say that I stayed in the Plaza Hotel Penthouse for free!!




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« Reply #41 on: October 06, 2017, 01:08:50 PM »
- ate sushi blindfolded with 85 co-workers in Bolivia

Quite a civilized hostage situation you and your co-workers found yourself in.

Depends on what "sushi" means.

Maybe it was a hostage situation where they fed them raw fish. And sushi was a bit less... civilized.

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« Reply #42 on: October 06, 2017, 01:14:08 PM »
I hovered/landed an SH-60B Seahawk helicopter on various merchant ships to deliver medicine and supplies to survivors of the Achille Lauro cruise ship after it caught on fire late November 1994.

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« Reply #43 on: October 06, 2017, 01:27:51 PM »
- was mistaken for a homosexual Communist

Been there, got the t-shirt. Me and my "homosexual lover" were at a gas station in the backwoods of Arkansas when we were chased by a group of hicks. We only escaped a beating because we went straight to the car and they started on foot -- by the time they got back to their trucks, tires were screeching and we were hauling ass like no one's business. Good times.
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« Reply #44 on: October 06, 2017, 01:39:20 PM »
Had sex a few times at a national historic site.

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« Reply #45 on: October 06, 2017, 01:40:06 PM »
How is it that so many people have been mistaken for homosexual communists? I have never looked at anybody and thought, "mm hm, gay commie..."

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« Reply #46 on: October 06, 2017, 02:00:20 PM »
Pulled the very dead body of drowned man up in a scallop net.

Pulled live people out of the water, and taught them their a couple english words -> "political" and "asylum."


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« Reply #47 on: October 06, 2017, 02:04:38 PM »
Pulled live people out of the water, and taught them their a couple english words -> "political" and "asylum."
SS, I think this has made my little girl-crush grow a bit.

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« Reply #48 on: October 06, 2017, 02:08:38 PM »
How is it that so many people have been mistaken for homosexual communists? I have never looked at anybody and thought, "mm hm, gay commie..."

You just aren't hanging around with the right people. After all, even Obama was a gay Muslim commie. They just tend to leave the Muslim out for me because I am white and we all know that white people can't be Muslim.

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« Reply #49 on: October 06, 2017, 02:12:52 PM »
The funnier thing is that the accusers seem to think it's an insult!

Well, I've never been mistaken for a gay commie, but I bet I would be pretty insulted.

 

Wow, a phone plan for fifteen bucks!