FACT! Post 10 facts about yourself

Every forum ever does this, it's the law.

Post 10 'interesting' facts about yourself and we can all revel in how interesting we are. (Now the thread will die on it's arse and I'll pretend it never happened)

Here are mine before bed:

1: I've never broken a bone.

2: The hair on my head is incredibly thick at the back, disproportionately so compared to the top.

3: The first autographs I ever got were from average footballers Barry Vennison, Neil Shipperley and Gordon Watson.

4: I once fainted in a junior school maths lesson.

5: The first DVD I ever bought was Ghostbusters. I subsequently had to swap it for another copy due to an early glitch on the disc.

6: I haven't seen ET or any of the Indiana Jones films.

7: I have a Grade 1 piano certificate.

8: I once cried at senior school when someone threw a Malteser at my head and it really hurt. I spent the rest of the day insisting it was a stone.

9: I was once slightly rude to Tony Robinson.

10: The first film I ever saw at the cinema was the Disney film 'Oliver & Company' in 1988.

Now you go!!

1) I was born in Las Vegas.

2) I raised both of my children by myself since they were ages 1 and 2.

3) I was the Charlotte County (Florida) spelling bee champion in 8th grade.

4) I'm eligible for membership in Mensa, but I don't like eggheads.

5) When I was 15 I tattooed my name (Randy) on my right calf using my mother's sewing machine needle, a disposable razor and some India ink. I learned how to do it by watching a television documentary about prison.

6) I met OJ Simpson when I was 10 and I still have the autograph.

7) Jack Black held the door open for me once on the UCLA campus.

8) A bald eagle once dropped a live fish on my car 3 miles from the nearest water. I thought I was hallucinating.

9) I sat next to one of the Baywatch chicks and John Cusack at a Who concert in L.A. and I also met Pete Townshend backstage.

10) I spent 4 years in the Army and never spent a night in a tent.

Quote: DaButt @ August 18 2008, 1:10 AM BST

5) When I was 15 I tattooed my name (Randy) on my right calf using my mother's sewing machine needle, a disposable razor and some India ink. I learned how to do it by watching a television documentary about prison.

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How well did that work?

Quote: PhQnix @ August 18 2008, 1:16 AM BST

How well did that work?

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That was 1978 and 30 years later it's still there and staring back at me. It hasn't faded a bit.

Fact # 11: The tattoo was originally supposed to say "F**k You." I sobered up a bit after I had the F and part of the U completed and decided to go with "Rock and Roll." But that phrase proved to be too long and painful, so I compromised with my name. It's obvious that the R began its existence as an F.

Quote: DaButt @ August 18 2008, 1:22 AM BST

That was 1978 and 30 years later it's still there and staring back at me. It hasn't faded a bit.

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Wow. I'm a little impressed and a little over-awed. Was it painful?

Quote: PhQnix @ August 18 2008, 1:24 AM BST

Was it painful?

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It hurt a bit, but the most painful experience was hiding it from my parents for 2 years. I wore jeans to the beach for several family vacations.

1) My favourite hangover cure is IRN BRU
2) I've had my heart broken twice
3) I used to have terrible acne all over
4) I have an irrational phobia of a particular animal (which I wont disclose here!!!)
5) I have a tatoo that reads 'Humour First' on my side from when I was 17.
6) I love apple pie.
7) I can't eat eggs as eggs.
8) I love drum and bass (oh yes I do)
9) My idol is Till Lindemann
10) My clan is the McDougal clan.

I CANT SLEEEEEEEEP!

Mine is sooo boring.

1)I am the only child of my mother but the youngest of my fathers and we all look like him…. all his children only ever inherit eye colour and hair colour from the mothers.
2)I've had my hair many colours including pink, purple, blue, and very briefly green but always prefer red.
3)I got kicked out of two GCSE subjects for falling out with the teachers and barely passed the rest yet remain the only girl known from my tutor group who went on to university.
4)I am banned from house of fraiser for dressing up as a chav with another girl and being loud and annoying in one of their stores as part of a invisible theatre piece for Uni. (I still go in when I visit, they have no clue it's me, so much for the ban).
5)I am allergic to glue.
6)My first part was in a chorus line aged 7 for Sweeney Todd: The musical.
7)Ruby is not my real name, it's a "pen/stage" name but in real life I am known as Roo or by a nickname given to me at college based on my real one. Only my mother calls me by my real name. (No I won't post my real one or the nickname).
8)In my first year at uni, I tried to climb a statue dressed as wonder woman.
9)My Career prediction test I was made to take by my school at 14 revealed I would ether be an accountant or a beauty therapist.
10)I hate gold jewellery and can never bring myself to wear it at all.

1. In junior school I always wore gloves to school. ALWAYS!.
2. Also in junior school and perhaps partly because of the above I was considered borderline remedial.
3. I once played rugby against Stuart Barnes.
4. I once beat the Welsh pool champion at pool.
5. I couldn't swim until I was 28.
6. I can spin a pen around my thumb.
7. In 2001 I ran the London Marathon and came 14,730th. My racing number was 19999. Which is
8. I lost my virginity in a field in Malta. (Don't ever say I don't give you comedy opportunities)
9. I have played in the Albert Hall.
10. I spent an evening with Evelyn Glennie playing lateral thinking games. (Google her you uncultured mob). And had lunch with her the next day. And no I didn't.

Quote: roscoff @ August 18 2008, 2:02 AM BST

8. I lost my virginity in a field in Malta. (Don't ever say I don't give you comedy opportunities)

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I can see a new thread title.....

Quote: RubyMae - Glamourous Snowdrop at large. @ August 18 2008, 2:07 AM BST

I can see a new thread title.....

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Your turn then rubes!

I don't think I can get to Malta anytime tonight...

Quote: RubyMae - Glamourous Snowdrop at large. @ August 18 2008, 2:14 AM BST

I don't think I can get to Malta anytime tonight...

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I just think that shows a lack of commitment.

I'm surrounded by fields, why would I need to go to another country to look at them?

Quote: RubyMae - Glamourous Snowdrop at large. @ August 18 2008, 2:18 AM BST

I'm surrounded by fields, why would I need to go to another country to look at them?

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You are the first on-line sheep and I claim my £5.