Just for fun - tell something odd about yourself

[gurneyhalleck1]

That's so cool. My wife and I, both in our late 30's, are two geeks who go on Star Trek, X-Files, Kolchak the Night Stalker, Columbo, Star Trek TNG, and all sorts of other marathons on DVD....

I have been slowly but surely making my way through all 1225 episodes of Dark Shadows.

 

[Mark_Sam]

Something my friends recently pointed out: everytime someone ask me a time-related question, I HAVE to look at my wrist watch, no matter what. "What time is it?", "How old are you?", "When did the Reformation start?" ...

 

[Lost Squirrel]

Socks at night, yes! Even the warmest weather I must sleep with a comforter - I love the weight of it covering me.

Hubby's favorite pastime is watching Battlestar Galactica and now the Fringe and Big Bang Theory and calling that quality time. Apparently, I AM Leonard in my particulatirities.

I have a passion for Indian cuisine, but hate to cook.

When I was a youngster, I wanted to be an altar server, but girls were still not allowed at our parish (RCC). In response, I had the entire mass memorized and could recall elevating a sand dollar and (this had to have been a sin) reciting the words of institution. There is more irreverence to the story - i wore an ornate gold and crimson tree skirt. Hey, I was only a kid, but perhaps that explains a lot today!

My mom for forced me to stop watching CNN and tune in to MTV so I could actually converse with kids at school.

Strange kid grew up to be a strange adult. Ugh.

 

[bulldog129]

My great-great... uncle was John Smith of Jamestown.

There is a town named after one of my great-great grandfathers.
Unfortunately, the town has since died.

During the Civil War, my family fought on both sides. The story goes that at one battle, two brothers met on opposite sides of the battlefield. They took one look at each other and walked away.

 

[hopeinGod]

I was raised within an intense blue collar lifestyle north of Pittsburgh, PA, where steel work was the reigning career. Clothing fashion has never interested me, as I remain casual to the core. Although I am not into wearing suits, I am not as bad as my father who attended all functions in jeans, even funerals.

 

[Lost Squirrel]

Then greetings from the Yo, OH Steel Valley!
As far as I can recall, that has ALWAYS been the battle cries of my mom & grandmother - getting the men into something other than their mill work clothes.

 

[joyfulthanks]

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[Flipper]

That's so cool. My wife and I, both in our late 30's, are two geeks who go on Star Trek, X-Files, Kolchak the Night Stalker, Columbo, Star Trek TNG, and all sorts of other marathons on DVD....

Netflix has made it easier! Yup, though now we have to wait until the kiddos have gone to bed. All day marathons are now a thing of the past...

Just started watching Kolchak - still can't get over him being the dad in A Christmas Story.

 

[gurneyhalleck1]

the new, modern, not-so-hot Sci Fi Channel Battlestar, or the cool 70's original?

Socks at night, yes! Even the warmest weather I must sleep with a comforter - I love the weight of it covering me.

Hubby's favorite pastime is watching Battlestar Galactica and now the Fringe and Big Bang Theory and calling that quality time. Apparently, I AM Leonard in my particulatirities.

I have a passion for Indian cuisine, but hate to cook.

When I was a youngster, I wanted to be an altar server, but girls were still not allowed at our parish (RCC). In response, I had the entire mass memorized and could recall elevating a sand dollar and (this had to have been a sin) reciting the words of institution. There is more irreverence to the story - i wore an ornate gold and crimson tree skirt. Hey, I was only a kid, but perhaps that explains a lot today!

My mom for forced me to stop watching CNN and tune in to MTV so I could actually converse with kids at school.

Strange kid grew up to be a strange adult. Ugh.

 

[gurneyhalleck1]

Kolchak is the greatest. I miss the way the 1970's did such a great job making fun characters. Kolchak wore those same crazy white pants, the cheesy straw hat, white tennis shoes, and blue blazer every episode. Columbo (another of my all-time favs) wore the same crumpled raincoat and desheveled hair! They had a trademark, a fun gimmick, a predictable personality. Fun. Nowdays everyone is sexy, suave, dangerous, and dark.

Netflix has made it easier! Yup, though now we have to wait until the kiddos have gone to bed. All day marathons are now a thing of the past...

Just started watching Kolchak - still can't get over him being the dad in A Christmas Story.

 

[Flipper]

the new, modern, not-so-hot Sci Fi Channel Battlestar, or the cool 70's original?

I take it you don't like the new version? I actually enjoy both (and have both DVD box sets), if you look at them as separate entities and not one as a re-boot of the other.

That being said, thinking of a show my son likes -- Original Voltron hands down. That new Voltron Force thing is just bad.

 

[Lost Squirrel]

I've never seen the original, but hubby said he enjoyed each in their own way. He had a surgery a few months back and was on a marathon of the ENTIRE series before he returned to work!

 

[black coffee]

Howdy. Interesing....

I just turned 30, and still don't have a cell phone.

and I don't eat sweets.

 

[Lost Squirrel]

Howdy. Interesing....

I just turned 30, and still don't have a cell phone.

and I don't eat sweets.

BRAVO on both accounts!!!!!

Although I do take a ribbing from our seniors in the congregation who text and have smart phones (these are some real smart cookies). I still have a flip phone and cannot/do not want to text.

 

[black coffee]

I caught an assistant priest "i-phoning" it during a homily once. The guy is in his late 80's, and does EVERYTHING on his phone.

 

[Nicaenum]

Since I think I'll be lurking on TC a bit, I thought I'd add.

I'm terrified of balloons. Seriously. I can't stand to be around them. The sound of them popping gets me seriously high-strung. It makes me feel so silly at birthday parties.

 

[alexnbethmom]

i was just talking about this last night with darev and the kids, i don't even know what made me think of it....

anybody under the age of, say, 40, probably won't even know what i'm talking about - but it used to be that tv stations had a set "broadcast day", and around 2 or 3 in the morning, they would say something like "KTTV has completed it's broadcast day.....(and then a bunch of stuff about how they broadcast).....KTTV will resume broadcasting at 6AM...." etc and so forth.....then they would play the national anthem amid scenes of the flag waving, and then it would abruptly go to "snow", meaning "static" (think carol anne in poltergeist)....

i would absolutely FREAK OUT when i would hear them say that they were ending their broadcast day, or hear the national anthem, because i knew the snow was coming, and that absolutely SCARED ME TO DEATH!!! i totally thought the house or the world was going to blow up or something....

thankfully tv stations don't do that anymore - or i would probably still freak out about it, lol....

 

[black coffee]

didn't some channels have an image of an indian?

 

[alexnbethmom]

didn't some channels have an image of an indian?

i believe so - and some stations used a "color bar" with a high pitched noise/hum - i hated that one too - didn't matter if it was the color bar or the snow, it freaked me out, lol....

 

[Lost Squirrel]

i believe so - and some stations used a "color bar" with a high pitched noise/hum - i hated that one too - didn't matter if it was the color bar or the snow, it freaked me out, lol....

We had the test pattern and hum. I HATED that!!!