Kevin's Watch

I had a pet boa constrictor named 'Otis' in college.

Wrote a paper in high school (and refined it for a college course) extolling the virtues of Communism and how the US would benefit by moving to that system.

Volunteered as a bodyguard to escort women in and out of family planning clinics.

Surrendered my NRA membership due to their backlash in the wake of Ruby Ridge and Waco ("when you see a federal agent, shoot first).

Turned down a commission to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis.

Turned down membership in MENSA.

Enlisted in both the Navy and the Army, never served a day in either.

At one time, had the largest bladder ever seen in a human.

Could (when such things were important) say the entire Greek alphabet (forwards and backwards) on a match.

Led an entire pledge class to a sheep pen, but didn't make them screw.

I am currently half way to my black belt in shito-ryu style karate-do.
(blue belt)

...will probably stay at that level for a long time...

I used to box.

I'm in the percentage of people that can roll their tongue.

I flew all the way around the world before I was 20, literally.

I have an aversion to pink for not real reason other than..its pink!

One of my nicknames is 'pure evil'.

I invented the phrase, "Buckle up--it's a snap!"

I once performed "Bohemian Rhapsody" on a school bus.

I am also the only person to ever be impeached in a video game. And burned at the stake.

Damelon wrote:I once owned a fish tank.

You are a great, great man.

I am left-handed, but use my right hand for scissors, baseball bats, and guitars.

I have an engineering degree, but have never technically worked as an engineer using that degree.

I co-wrote two articles that have been published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal [Applied Spectroscopy]

I lived in south France for six months while in college (producing the above-mentioned journal articles)

I am named after a NASCAR driver (Mountain Dew, anyone?)

I donate blood often; A- blood is apparently in short supply in my part of the world.

I have always had a facility for easily recalling the spelling of words - if I see it in print, usually I can remember how to spell it. Typing it accurately is another matter...

I am the first person in my extended family to get a college degree, and am the only one with a Masters.

This year, I exceed the age at which my father died.

I have an unusually large tongue (<EDIT>).

My accent is plastic - after a few days calibration in a place with a different accent, I tend to 'go native'.

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I have a wart on the ball of my left foot.

I once played all three witches in Macbeth at the Reno Shakespeare Festival.

I was the captain of my high school's academic team both years we took the championship.

My roommate Charlie and I used to hold a pagan ritual every night of the full moon, banging on my wood and leather drum and dancing around the room (we never got around to buying goat-skin leggings). My friend Liz who had the room below us didn't appreciate it.

I have held a security clearance above Top Secret.

I invented the phrase "captain obvious."

(I feel like we should be drinking)

I used to run a Pokémon website, but one day decided I'd lost interest and deleted everything, leaving a large number of regular visitors and active forum members in the lurch.

I used to run Pokemon tournaments when I worked at a Wizards of the Coast store

Syl wrote:(I feel like we should be drinking)

hear hear

When I was about 13 years old I was playing around at the apartment complex pool, having fun swimming like the Man from Atlantis. At one point I began leaping into the pool with my hands at my sides ready to swim like a dolphin. While diving in the final time I had lost track of which end of the pool I was near and of course dove face first into the shallow end. After smashing my face on the unforgiving concrete bottom of the pool I surged from the water, my face covered in blood. I needed several stitches along the inside of my upper lip. The doctor said I was lucky I didn't break my neck.

For some reason, the image of a crescent moon comes into my head whenever I think about past lives.

My left front tooth is mostly fake. I fell on a slide in fourth grade and busted it almost all the way off.

I too am in the tongue rolling club but I can also bend it into all sorts of weird shapes and touch my nose with it.

To misquote a bit from a Gamera movie:


She will kill us all with her tongue!

I also have a third nipple on the right side. It really only looks like a birthmark but it's a nipple..

Oh and my maiden name is Christensen, my married name was Christianson but after I left my ex I changed it back to Christensen.

Cameraman Jenn wrote:I also have a third nipple on the right side. It really only looks like a birthmark but it's a nipple..

Is it working one, or...nevermind...I don't wanna know. Eek.

I can roll my tongue, but I can't touch my nose with it.

I have a strawberry birthmark, about the size of a nickel, on my upper arm. Every time I see the doctor, she asks me what it is. (Just in case I change my answer, I guess. )

Only once in my life have I ever been so drunk that I saw double.

I almost majored in clarinet in college.

We once lived in a house that was designed so poorly that the only way to get to the bathroom was through my bedroom. Good thing I was only 8 and didn't need much privacy.... And we only stayed there for a few months anyhow.

The walls of my cubicle are purple.

I have read all of Mission Earth.

I invented car air fresheners shaped like pine trees.

I cannot play the guitar anymore.

I like to mess with people.

I have an obsession with unsented hand lotion.

I have a tattoo of a tetris piece.

I have a scar on my cheek where a kid hit me with a wooden duck when I was in daycare.

I invented the little plastic rings around the mouth of water bottles.

I always sing in the shower.

Y'know, all of mine were true.

Just sayin'.