10 Things to know about Me . . .

[Edward]

From Acronym Finder:
Policy Based Routing
Permit by Rule
Polished-Bore Receptacle

Some of those seem almost appropriate.

[Gutter Monkey]

Originally Posted by Edward

Polished-Bore Receptacle

I'll accept that one.

I couldn't remember whether the abbrev. for 'personal best record' was pbr or just pb. Sporting terms aren't really my forte.

[unfrufru]

now whether it was a PB depends on whether they were 11 years older or younger than u.

older - boy toy
younger - paedy monkey

[op shop girl]

11 years? Darn, and here I am stuck with only a nine and half year gap.
Older guy, that is. I'm yet to find any appealing 11 year olds, but I'll keep an eye out. It would be much easier to be the mature older woman if your boyfriend hasn't hit puberty yet.

[smooth]

1. I fell down a set of concrete stairs when I was 2 and split my lip open - I still have the scar.

2. In primary school I fooled a girl in my class into believing that Arnold Schwartzanegger was my uncle.

3. I currently have a large celebrity crush on Vince Vaughn - hot hot hot.

4. I eat chocolate in some kind of form at least once a day - I think I am addicted.

5. I enjoy occasional recreational use of party drugs and I don't give a shit if people look down on me for it.

6. I once drove a car after I had been drinking with a full car load of people and one extra. A cop passed by and saw that the car was overloaded, and pulled me over. He asked me why I had an extra person in the car and I told him it was because "I was the designated driver and wanted to make sure all my drunk friends got home safely". By some stroke of luck, he didn't breathalise me and let me off with a warning because I was "sensible for staying sober to drive my friends home". I got off scot free, but the experience was enough to teach me a lesson to never drink drive again.

7. I have every single album that Bon Jovi has released since 1983.

8. I once stayed awake for 41 hours straight.

9. I am addicted to Neighbours.

10. I am pretty happy with my life at the moment.

[Renee_Turner]

Originally Posted by smooth

I once stayed awake for 41 hours straight.

Hee, finally someone else in the 'near insane' league with myself.

[unfrufru]

i've done 3 days. not sure of exact hours cause i was slightly mental with uni work and normal work and dad being in intensive care at the time.

i also fell down some stairs and my tooth went straight through my bottom lip. u can still kinda see the scar but cause my lips are so big its kinda hard to tell. but i did get the day off school and my strict catholic parents relented and bought me a smash hits magazine to shut me up. seeing as i never heard any other radio station apart from 2WS it was a tad redundant but i blame that incident for me working where i am today,

[hails]

Originally Posted by smooth

5. I enjoy occasional recreational use of party drugs and I don't give a shit if people look down on me for it.

hahaha i was waiting for this. all these people saying "never done drugs nope nada not for me no way"...was waiting for someone to go "I DO DRUGS AND I LIKE 'EM!!!!"

[smooth]

Originally Posted by hails

hahaha i was waiting for this. all these people saying "never done drugs nope nada not for me no way"...was waiting for someone to go "I DO DRUGS AND I LIKE 'EM!!!!"

I've been watching too much Human Traffic

[Alisso]

1. I've never broken a bone, required hospitalisation, had stitches, or suffered from a disease more serious than bronchitis (*touch wood*).

2. When I was younger, I used to sleepwalk. Mum found me circling the kitchen table once. I haven't been informed of any sleepwalking incidents in recent years, but that could just be cause no one's telling me about it.

3. I like a drink or three on occasion, but I don't smoke and I don't use recreational drugs. I don't have a moral objection to them, I just prefer to avoid taking drugs that haven't been through a stringent quality control process *g*

4. I was already certain at the age of seven that I was never going to marry and I was definately not having kids. As yet, nothing has changed my mind about these things.

5. Without intending to, I've managed to start a collection of original artworks from under-appreciated/unknown artists. So far, each piece has been given to me by the artist themselves. When they get famous, I expect to have to increase my insurance *G*

6. I talk to inanimate objects, food as it cooks, and plants.

7. My father died after a bike accident when I was four. Bike helmets weren't common then, and when he came off his bike, he hit his head on the road, and died in hospital a few days later. This left my mother with me, my two year old brother, and my two teenage half-sisters from Dad's previous marriage. How she survived that, I'm not quite sure. I have one really vivid memory of the day of the accident, and being held back from following Mum onto the road.

8. Oddly enough, I can't ride a bike. I used to, but I never took the training wheels off. They put me on a bike at camp in year six, despite my protests, and I ended up in a concrete ditch with the bike on top of me.

9. I took ballet lessons when I was young, picked up tap as well after a while, and then dropped ballet cause tap was more fun. I never saw the point of jazz ballet.

10. A couple of years ago I was in Melbourne for one night, seeing a show. I was sitting in Bourke Street Mall with some friends (on the purse *G*) beforehand, when three Christians with a microphone set up on the steps of the post office and started lecturing the commuters on their way home. After ten minutes of slowly building irritation, I kinda snapped and screamed at them for five minutes. The triggering phrase was "Doctors can't heal you, psychiatrists can't help you, only God can heal you"...I believe I actually saw red at this point. I had a scary moment of clarity in the middle of it when I realised what I was doing and that I could hear my voice echoing off the walls around me, and when I left, I got a round of applause *giggles* When I snap, I really SNAP...

[Lou_uk]

Hmmmm.....

1. I took a year off twixt school and university (here in England) - and went to Australia. I originally planned to spend a few months in Melbourne, a few in Sydney, a few elsewhere... but got to Melbourne, got settled and thought, bugger that i'm staying here. the poster known as circus_kid was my room-mate. after the first day of the comedy festival, we spent basically all of our time in the following routine: sleep, get up, eat, go to comedy, eat, sleep, get up, eat, go to comedy..... Until the end of July when I left.

2. like smooth, i too am addicted to neighbours. I'm English though... we love Neighbours here. Hell, it's on TWICE a day, just incase 24 hours without ramsay street is just TOO MUCH to cope with.

3. I can juggle three balls, and one day i WILL be able to unicycle. I tried to learn but Dudley (our unicycle - what was that people were saying about naming inanimate objects?) kept breaking and stuff.. boo. However, I've found a group of people who meet up once a week to practise juggling, unicycling etc, so I'm gonna join them, and finally LEARN dammit. I can't wait. Uni's are COOL.

4. I chose which university to go to based on the fact that it's in the same town as my favourite football team. In fact, the uni is almost next door to the stadium. Luckily, it's also a really good university... i didn't end up at some hellhole just for my love of footy (or "soccer" if you like)

5. I do whatever the comedian/writer Danny Wallace asks me to do. He asked me to join his collective (or "cult" if you like) - I Joined. He asked me to be a citizen of a new country that he decided to start in his flat. I became a Citizen. I really hope all of this power doesn't go to his head... because I can't help but do as he asks. He's my leader and king... I can't disobey! (www.join-me.co.uk and www.citizensrequired.com)

6. I can't help but meet famous people. Not exactly A-List celebs.. but still, people that other people have heard of. It's not like I go about TRYING to do it... I just stumble across it all. I mean, I didn't even LIKE Robbie Williams, and I ended up chatting to him on the phone.... a children's tv artist in the UK is a family friend (which excites everyone aged 10-70 coz they all know who he is!)... I met the guys who sing the home and away theme tune without even knowing who they were... I stumbled across two guys from Jet at a hotel I worked at (again, no idea who they were, kept chatting with them whenever i cleaned their rooms... really nice guys!).... And then I feel like I'm being all "ha, I'm cool!" whenever I mention it.... and I feel guilty, like I'm just showing off, but if someone brings it up....!! Oh well.

7. I lived in Singapore for a few years - went out there just before I was 5 until just after I was 8. It was great - such a nice place to live as a kid - you're too young for the hot weather to make you all sweaty and sticky, and you can just run around in shorts and t-shirt (or a little girly dress, as I did) alllllll year round. And it was really safe as well. Good times, good times!

8. I'm already thinking about where I can stay in Edinburgh for next years festival... how I can afford to go... and how long I'll be able to go there for. Is Comedy Obsession a disease?

9. I'm lucky enough to have the kind of parents who can tell when something is REALLY important to me, and who have the means of making sure that I get the chance to do it, if I really, really need to. For example, my gap year. They knew it was something that I needed to do, and was serious about doing, so they let me, and helped me out loads. The most recent one was that I was just NOT ready to let go of my whole Aussie Life of Comedy experience... and my brother was wanting me to visit him in London... so I got to go down south last weekend in order to see Eddie Perfect's last show in the UK, and got to see Tim and Charlie while I was there, too. Which is great, because after Edinburgh, I still wasn't ready to let go. Now, after London, I am. Just. For now.

10. It was a year ago to the day (well, in England it's still the right day...) that I landed on Australian shores for the first time. And it's been the best year of my life.

[Lou_uk]

Oh yeah, and, umm, I can't say in 2 words what could be said in 200...... ahhhh verbosity... such a curse!

(aka: I never know when the hell to just SHUT UP.)

[Laney]

Originally Posted by Laney

10. I've never done drugs and never smoked. Never even been tempted.

never smoked until thursday. not something i'm heaps proud of, but meh. it smelt so bad that'd be enough of a reason to not do it again...besides the whole cancer thing