CDC's List of Unique Experiences/Characteristics

[riffraff]

I was born with a bent foot.

 

they put a cast on at my dads insistence from the getgo, (my dad was not a doctor:)),and changed it periodically as I grew.  

 

My foot straightened out.  I've had no issue.

 

ive sailed from California to England.  I drank an estimated two years worth during that trip which took about three months including a four week wait in Miami beach and Fort Lauderdale where it really went off the rails.

 

a few months later I fear and loathing styled it to Amsterdam and back (from newquay, England) over a four day period.  Memories are vague.

 

within a few months of that I was home and broke at 28.  Loser.  I quit the bad, met a girl (stranger) was married within a year and ten years later (still together), I got three kids which is kinda freaky if you knew me back then.

 

i listen to the good the bad and the ugly soundtrack regularly.  It kicks ass and helps me remember my dad.

 

i had a dream, a premonition? When I was about 11.  I used to cut a neighbours lawn every Saturday.  I would talk quite a bit with the old guy and have a Diet Pepsi.  Started when I was ten.  Anyway one night I dreamed I was speaking to his wife Rose. She was lending out an upstairs window.  Larry was not in the dream.  When I woke up the next morning and went up the stairs my mom was at the top of the stairs hanging up the phone. She turned to look at me, but I already knew before she started to talk.  Larry was gone.

 

a couple of my buddies BASE jump.  i was arms reach from one when he jumped off the chief.  My instincts tell me that's a bad idea.

 

when I was 19 I was refused the right to enter the uk coming from Turkey as a backpacker.  I spent the night at London heathrow airports detention facility and slept in a bed with paper sheets an had a Peruvian room mate for the night.  I was escorted on to a plane the following morning right to my seat! Wtf!?!  I was met by a Turkish official and escorted down a series of hallways into a room with two Turkish military dudes.  Of course they were smoking but no backgammon table in sight oddly enough.  Anyways I made it out of that situation obviously.  That's the condensed version.

 

also not supposed to go back to Indonesia.

[Mainly Mattias]

21 minutes ago, riffraff said:

a couple of my buddies BASE jump.  i was arms reach from one when he jumped off the chief.  My instincts tell me that's a bad idea.

is that the same thing as jumping with the flying squirrel apparatus?  I have a friend who wants to get into that.

[Twilight Sparkle]

5 hours ago, Cerridwen said:

In Reno? Just to watch him die?

And that's what tortures him X3

[Dr.Strangelove]

I had a lengthy military career spanning  two branches (army/navy) which ended with me being placed on the Permanent Disability Retired List.

I met my wife in kindergarten

I can eat taco bell with no side effects

I used to spend my summers as a kid with my grandparents near Prince George

I'm a dual citizen

I once found a scorpion and named him Gino , decided to participate in scorpion fights R.I.P Gino

I  sat in the same section as GFY at a game during last years playoffs

I like fruitcake

 

[The Bookie]

3 hours ago, riffraff said:

a few months later I fear and loathing styled it to Amsterdam and back (from newquay, England) over a four day period.  Memories are vague.

Did the exact reverse of this, Amsterdam to Newquay in a haze, in 2001. The night that I got into what I thought was the sleepy little seaside village of Newquay, England beat Germany on German soil for the first time since the 60s (this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Germany_v_England_football_match) and the entire town burst into a raging party. (it'd be the equivalent of a foreigner arriving in Tofino to surf while the 2010 gold medal game was being played, but they don't even know the Olympics are happening I guess)

[riffraff]

8 hours ago, Mainly Mattias said:

is that the same thing as jumping with the flying squirrel apparatus?  I have a friend who wants to get into that.

Squirrel suits were developed over time. But I believe when BASE jumping first started people jumped in whatever.

 

both my friends have squirrel suits. And again there are entry level suits and more dynamic ones based wing fabric area etc.

 

from what I've learned most base jumpers get about 100 solo sky dives under their belt prior to a BASE jump.

 

the one guy has been a skydive instructor for years and years and has thousands of dives but had almost stopped BASE jumping due to being a father of three now.  I think he's only BASE jumped twice since the kids and that was when his wife was away.

[riffraff]

5 hours ago, The Bookie said:

Did the exact reverse of this, Amsterdam to Newquay in a haze, in 2001. The night that I got into what I thought was the sleepy little seaside village of Newquay, England beat Germany on German soil for the first time since the 60s (this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Germany_v_England_football_match) and the entire town burst into a raging party. (it'd be the equivalent of a foreigner arriving in Tofino to surf while the 2010 gold medal game was being played, but they don't even know the Olympics are happening I guess)

Newquay is major party town in the summer months. I was there from July to October. There is a significant and immediate drop off in September.

 

a couple local brothers and I had been surfing for an average of four times a week for those months and decided that Amsterdam would be a good change of scenery for a quick break. Lol.  We wanted to drive to Prague but the vehicle was borrowed and we didn't have the time.  It was an old royal post delivery van which topped out at 110kmh and took a long run to get to that speed. Sure made the fast highways of Europe an adventure.  I was the only one with a liscence so I did all the driving.  We say three abreast (the only bench seat). And due to right hand drive the guy in the left had to do the shoulder checking for merges.  Bloody euros doing 160 minimum.

[RUPERTKBD]

I once "saved" Doug Gilmour from a fat chick that was trying to drag him off to some house party.

In my musical "career", I have opened for Trooper, Idle Eyes, Doug and the Slugs, Matt Minglewood, Delbert McClinton and McLean & McLean. (Twice) It's an eclectic mix...

I played in a National Midget Hockey Championship in 1978. Didn't win. (Winning team got to travel to Bratislava for Worlds)

[ShakyWalton]

I worked in radio for almost 20 years..years ago in Edmonton during Klondike Days Alan Thicke and his wife Gloria Loring were in town as parade marshals,,Alan was hosting Thicke of the Night and Gloria was in some soap opera back then .Gloria left for LA before Alan and during a reception Alan asked me what was there to do that night..well we ended up going to the pub with  a few others...one of the girls with us was  a desk clerk at the hotel where Thicke was staying...after our night of drinking Alan talked the girl into going back to the hotel and have a hot tub...,,from what we heard later they were both recorded on the security cam indulging themselves..as I recall she lost her job and Alan divorced soon after..doesnt surprise me..often wonder what became of that film..lol...Alan liked a goodtime.

[Gurn]

"couple of my buddies BASE jump.  i was arms reach from one when he jumped off the chief.  My instincts tell me that's a bad idea. "

 

Most of the time there is a bad downdraft on that cliff, you were right about bad idea.

[otherwise]

On 2015-11-26, 4:33:13, Mr.DirtyDangles said:

Siiic you will live 4 times a long

lol no like a 1/4 as long. I've only had 6 birthdays.

[Mr.DirtyDangles]

9 minutes ago, otherwise said:

lol no like a 1/4 as long. I've only had 6 birthdays.

Exactly so you have one every 4 years ...glass is half full bro half full  ; )

[Mr.DirtyDangles]

18 hours ago, riffraff said:

 

 

also not supposed to go back to Indonesia.

Details ? lol

[Alflives]

I have travelled our galaxy.  I might add extensively.  Never have I come across a larger rat - anywhere - than in Boston. Oh!  And Surrey Sky train station

[riffraff]

On November 26, 2015 at 4:22:22 PM, Mr.DirtyDangles said:

I have a reoccurring memory of an event that happened when I was just 9 months old. Was ripped out of my dad's arms while we were swimming close to the shore in Anaheim.  A strong current dragged me out to sea. I vividly recall bobbing up n down while dad was frantically swimming towards me,  I could see ma on the shore line she looked so far away.  I remember not being afraid?

Was climbing the massive 100+ ft trees in Burnaby Park when I was around 7-8 ? Fell from nearly the top of one hitting almost every branch on the way down and managed to never get to the bottom. Tree saved my life lol

 At 16  I was working repairing light ballasts in huge warehouses.  I fell from 35 feet off of the scaffold I was on. I watched my harness let go of the safety loop and on the way down I thought to myself  "when you land push back with your legs."  So I did and actually walked away with no injuries ?

During a shake down run when I was 27 I rolled my 71 corolla rally on a mountain back road at a descent clip.  Throttle spring linkage to the kick down on the carb decided to fail which resulted in wide open throttle on a sweeping left hand 30 degree gravel bend  !! We hit the embankment on the driver side at about 100kph and it corkscrewed me into the air landing on the roof after traveling about 10 meters through the air upside down ?  Walked out of the wreck with my co pilot and we flipped the car over and drove the tank home.

My ma always said "One of theses days you'll come home with your head under your arm and say, but MA it was an accident !"

Boy was she wrong

 

 

There was a time where I totally would have gone copilot in your car.

 

but now........

 

have you ever made a girl cry in fear on a drive?

I met this old timer who used to race Ford prototypes decades ago.  As well he raced cars in general for for Ford.  Anyway he told me this story of being at some hoity toity dinner party and the guy hosting the party had a Maserati.  They went for a drive together in the Maserati and the old timer made the owner repeatedly projectile vomit in fear....it was so awesome they way he told it describing how he pushed that car to the max.

 

[brilac]

My characteristics:

I'm left handed.

I am a cat person.  I call my cat precious, pumpkin, Sally Cat, Sally Sal Sal. 

I like drink wine or champagne while watching hockey.

I am spare of the moment.  I really don't like to plan. 

I get excited over the simplist things.

I don't say much in my day to day life.  I am more of a thinker than a talker. 

[Mr.DirtyDangles]

3 hours ago, riffraff said:

There was a time where I totally would have gone copilot in your car.

 

but now........

 

have you ever made a girl cry in fear on a drive?

I met this old timer who used to race Ford prototypes decades ago.  As well he raced cars in general for for Ford.  Anyway he told me this story of being at some hoity toity dinner party and the guy hosting the party had a Maserati.  They went for a drive together in the Maserati and the old timer made the owner repeatedly projectile vomit in fear....it was so awesome they way he told it describing how he pushed that car to the max.

 

Went for a test drive in an 86 cobra GT with mom, happened to pull up next to a 93 mazda rx7 turbo on the way back, no joke had  to steam clean the passenger seat after i paid for it and drove it home lol

I miss this car sooo much

[Twilight Sparkle]

10 hours ago, brilac said:

 

I like drink wine or champagne while watching hockey.

 

im like on the liquor all the time too, bud. high five!

[Qwags]

Once had mononucleosis, but am good now.

[smithers joe]

they say, that the second thing you lose when you get old, is your memory....i can't remember, what the first thing was...