1. As I count, my wall and door to this very room have 14 combined dings and holes from flying remotes and fists. The wall in the other room has an entire body-sized hole resulting from a FT line dunk on a Little Tykes hoop.

 

2. I pulled a 4.0 last semester, for those of you know that know me...quite surprising.

 

3. I have only met 1 SoxTalk poster in real life.

 

4. I do not own a pair of jeans and wear shorts to school year round.

 

5. Since weight seems to be a trend: I have lost 12 pounds in 2 months by quitting pop.

OMG THAT'S ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OMG THAT'S ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

But I'm the only one you've connected with.

Wow, I guess I'm not really that interesting b/c I can't think of stuff off the top of my head that's all that great, but here goes a try:

 

1) Finished this (first) semester of college w/ a 3.35 GPA

2) Am the only person in my family of 5 that was not born in the Chicago-land area

3) Want to be an ER doctor

4) Will be in my fraternity hell/initiation week next week... yea!

5) Have won my fantasy football league 2 years in a row w/ a combined 24-6 record those two years

Edited December 28, 200619 yr by dasox24

5: I'm an alcoholic (Not a dangerous one, though. I'm the most fun drunk that's ever lived).

 

4: I love to smoke weed (I think only Rowand44 knows).

 

3: I have a tattoo of a severed head on my left shoulder.

 

2: I actually like watching beheadings at www.ogrish.com (Yes, I know, I'm sick).

 

1: I have a crush on Steff. I love it when she goes off on somebody. And she's just really intelligent and smart overall.

Edited December 28, 200619 yr by Jordan4life_2006

5: I'm an alcoholic (Not a dangerous one, though. I'm the most fun drunk that's ever lived).

 

4: I love to smoke weed (I think only Rowand44 knows).

 

3: I have a tattoo of a severed head on my left shoulder.

 

2: I actually like watching beheadings at www.ogrish.com (Yes, I know, I'm sick).

 

1: I have a crush on Steff. I love it when she goes off on somebody. And she's just really intelligent and smart overall.

Gotta love the 2am confessional.

1.) I applied to 9 colleges (Knox, IL Wesleyan, Susquehanna, University of Chicago, Valpo, North Park, Beloit College, Gustavus Adulphus, and St Olaf College) and got into all 9. I chose St. Olaf (turning down 2 full rides).

2.) I once broke a weight bearing bone in my ankle, but didn't find out until years later when I got an unrelated X-ray.

3.) My favorite animal ever was a walrus named Olga at the Brookfield Zoo.

4.) I was the only student on my college's Committee on the Status of Women for two years.

5.) I have lived in 3 states, 3 countries, and been on 4 continents.

1) My Grandfather was a famous Television and Movie Star (Ozzie and Harriet; Hazel; 30 Seconds Over Tokyo; She’s Working Her Way Through College) to name a few

2) I was in the film “Hair Spray” by John Waters

3) While on the set of “Hair Spray,” Vitamin C promised to take me to her prom and did not fulfill that promise.

4) I met Southsider2k5 and Kapkomet and their wives at a Ranger’s game a couple years back.

5) Despite being perceived a “conservative” on Soxtalk, I’m rather liberal in real life.

1. I've only met one member from soxtalk.

2. My dad was born in Ireland and didn't come to Chicago until he was 22.

3. I have four hamsters (Peanut, Fuzzy, Squeeky and Stinky IV) - the only pets I have ever had were hamsters.

4. I am a huge Queen fan and am stoked about Johnny Depp being pegged to play Freddy Mercury in a movie being made by Robert Deniro's company in conjuction with Brian May and Roger Taylor.

5. My husband owns 15 cars and yes we live in the city - all but two are where we live.

 

Rooftop - my aunt lives in Cal Park (my grandparents' old house)

5 more things you don't know about me...

 

5. On a weekday I spend more time in Chicago, than I do Michigan City.

 

4. Before I dated my wife, I dated her best friend. I met both of them at basketball sectionals my senior year of HS.

 

3. My crowning achievement in broadcasting was calling the Indiana state HS final 4 from the Hoosier Dome in 1994.

 

2. I once got drunk while broadcasting a college football game from the visiting owners pressbox at the Hoosier Dome.

 

1. And staying with the Indiana theme, I once got a guy who ended up being an NHL goon so mad, that he got thrown out of a hockey game and sat up in the Allen County War Memorial Collesium pressbox the rest of the game looking for me to kick my ass.

1. I married my high school sweetheart...14 years and counting

 

2. In college, I met Tom Petty and he let me play a song with him during his soundcheck. (I played

drums back then)

 

3. I broke a window during sex once

 

4. I've been verbally berated in public by Stephen King

 

5. I survived growing up with EvilMonkey!!!!!!! (That alone deserves a )

4. I've been verbally berated in public by Stephen King

That is a story I'd love to hear sometime, in another thread.

1) My Grandfather was a famous Television and Movie Star (Ozzie and Harriet; Hazel; 30 Seconds Over Tokyo; She’s Working Her Way Through College) to name a few

2) I was in the film “Hair Spray” by John Waters

3) While on the set of “Hair Spray,” Vitamin C promised to take me to her prom and did not fulfill that promise.

4) I met Southsider2k5 and Kapkomet and their wives at a Ranger’s game a couple years back.

5) Despite being perceived a “conservative” on Soxtalk, I’m rather liberal in real life.

 

I knew it all along

How can you be conservative and in a John Waters movie?

I knew it all along

How can you be conservative and in a John Waters movie?

 

exactly Best 2 weeks of my life. well, not really, but it was cool meeting Ricki Lake and Vitamin C.

1) i got into the only college i visited.

2) my last name was illegally changed when my great grandpa moved to the states, "to americanize it"

3) i have slept with a few members of the board

4) My little league swing was miodeled after the big hurt, no wonder i sucked.

5) Whenever someone asks where i live, and they don't know where alsip is, all i have to do is say "watertower on 294" and they know.

3) i have slept with a few members of the board

 

 

That'll happen with the "Jims" on the loose

Five more...

 

1. I own every Weird Al Yankovic CD and have seen him in concert 3 times.

2. I own nearly every Stephen King book in both paperback and hardcover.

3. I have 99% of all the He-Man Toys released in the 80s'. I'm missing less than 10 figures and one playset.

4. Once, while driving to work, I hit a cow. I missed the other 20 or so standing in the middle of the road.

5. I was 27 when I finally got my first brand-new, store-bought bicycle.

exactly Best 2 weeks of my life. well, not really, but it was cool meeting Ricki Lake and Vitamin C.

 

How old was Vitamin C, 4?

How old was Vitamin C, 4?

Colleen Fitzpatrick

 

she would have been 17-18

 

Colleen Fitzpatrick

 

she would have been 17-18

 

 

 

 

5 more things...

 

1) I once played the Tinman in our Jr. High's production of "the wizard of oz"

2) I was on tv 3 different times performing with my college band

3) I've been to Gas City, Indiana, and many of the surrounding towns of Upland, IN

4) I saw my first pornographic image at age 5...I can still picture it. (some older kids showed me...yeah, not cool)

5) I've been in roughly 5 fist fights in my life and won them all.

Some more, eh?

 

1. On a sad note, I share a common disability with one Hank Hill. Let's just say I found this out when I was 5, as I was going to the bathroom and blood came out....yeah....the next two weeks were about as fun as pissing fire.

 

2. My dad once had a cricket trapped in his ear.

 

3. I'm half Swiss.

 

4. I graduated at the top of my class.

 

5. I used to help out at WSI.

5. I played "Joe, a Farmhand" in high school Wizard of Oz my Sophomore year

4. I was the lead "Frank Butler" in "Annie Get Your Gun" my Senior year

3. I spent the night on the floor at O'Hare on my way to Spain because of a snowstorm

2. SS2K5 is member #298 and I am #299, but he has 36,000+ posts more than I

1. I cried when the Sox won the Series - my wife laughed at me

OK, since others are adding seconds...

 

6. I have never met any other poster, let alone other Admins or Mods, on this site (at least, that I know of).

 

7. I've been to 9 foreign countries on 3 continents.

 

8. I was in 7 car accidents during my first 4 years of driving, NONE of them being my fault, but only been in one since (I wrecked a squad car in that one, though).

 

9. I've been hit by a car as a pedestrian twice.

 

10. I led the first group ever to hike the new official southern anchor leg of the Continental Divide Trail, from the Mexico border to I-10, in New Mexico.

Edited December 28, 200619 yr by NorthSideSox72

4. Before I dated my wife, I dated her best friend. I met both of them at basketball sectionals my senior year of HS.

I also dated my wife's best friend before dating, and marrying her. I met both of them on the swimming team my Sophomore year in HS.

1. I think Britney Spears still looks good, especially for having two kids.

 

2. Tried to convince a girl to leave her fiancee for me. Long story. Don't judge.

 

3. I was the youngest person diagnosed with the rare condition called Achalasia. It was diagnosed at the age of 19 but had symptoms when I was 15.

 

4. I love watching shows that no other hetero man would admit to watching, i.e. the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader reality series. drool. and Sex and the City.

 

5. I almost died in Dec. 2000 on the operating table. I was put in a medically induced coma for 3 days.

1. I think Britney Spears still looks good, especially for having two kids.

 

2. Tried to convince a girl to leave her fiancee for me. Long story. Don't judge.

 

3. I was the youngest person diagnosed with the rare condition called Achalasia. It was diagnosed at the age of 19 but had symptoms when I was 15.

 

4. I love watching shows that no other hetero man would admit to watching, i.e. the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader reality series. drool. and Sex and the City.

 

5. I almost died in Dec. 2000 on the operating table. I was put in a medically induced coma for 3 days.

 

Well, you're a fireball.

1. On a sad note, I share a common disability with one Hank Hill. Let's just say I found this out when I was 5, as I was going to the bathroom and blood came out....yeah....the next two weeks were about as fun as pissing fire.

In my best Hank Hill voice;

 

"OCCUPIED!!! OCCUPIED!!!"