200 Things

On a social website to which I used to belong, there was a thread that was called Five Things No One Knows About Me, or some such thing.  Usually, the things I put down were whimsical, although some could just have easily applied to anyone else.  For lack of anything better about which to write, I'm going to try to come up with two hundred things no one knows about me, although some of them I've probably already divulged in these blogs posts.  I hope not to bore you too much:

1.  I have a unicorn hair that remains below the line to which my hair has receded.
2.  I've never seen ET.
3.  I eat my vegetables before my meat at dinners.
4.  I've never been to Mexico or Canada.
5.  I don't divulge my own birthday, but I know famous people who share it.
6.  I don't like gum.
7.  I need bifocals but refuse to get them.
8.  I once snuck into a cadaver room on campus.
9.  I don't like licorice but like Long John's Silver's chicken, which has licorice-flavored batter.
10. I can count to ten in Irish.
11. I read War and Peace in high school, not for a class but for fun.
12. I have no interest in the Far East.
13. I don't understand India or its culture at all.
14. For whatever reason, I like pitchers and ewers.
15. I have trouble with the various tenses of lay and lie.
16. I've never had or been to, nor will I ever attend, a bachelor party.
17. I keep in touch with a retired federal judge.
18. The three books I'm writing have nothing in common except the author and his poor writing.
19. I don't like the color orange, but it was one of the colors of two of my schools.
20. I almost attended all three Big Ten schools whose names begin with an I.
21. I like Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture and designs.
22. I've read nearly all of Isabel Allende's works in Spanish.
23. I can type with all fingers; I'm not a hunt 'n pecker.
24. I can't make coffee.
25. I've only visited seventeen of the United States.
26. I cannot play a single musical instrument.
27. I play chess but not checkers.
28. I've never been to a casino.
29. My vertigo is getting worse as I get older.
30. I've never been west of Overland Park, Kansas.
31. I don't like rollercoasters but don't mind airplanes at all.
32. I had a double hernia at two months old.
33. I can cook turkey with homemade stuffing.
34. I can drum with my fingers.
35. I have more female friends than male friends.
36. I've never played hockey but own ten hockey sweaters.
37. I can read and understand Portuguese and Italian.
38. I can't dive but I can snorkel.
39. I'm no good at algebra.
40. I don't collect autographs.
41. I've met Hollywood celebrities but wasn't impressed.
42. I've been to White O' Morn.
43. I took up golf at age thirty-seven -- and it shows.
44. I never saw Michael Jordan or Wayne Gretzky play in person.
45. I've driven a stick-shift vehicle on the other side of the road in the other side of the car.
46. I spent the night in a phone booth.
47. I visited the site of the battle of Monte Cassino.
48. I still think Rafael Palmeiro was set up by Miguel Tejada.
49. I read Don Quijote in Spanish.
50. I only hit one home run in my baseball career.
51. I helped a Peruvian get political asylum in this country.
52. I've never smoked anything.
53. I once tackled a future NFL quarterback in a pick-up game.
54. I'm allergic to mold.
55. I never watched ER.
56. I've been to less than ten concerts in my lifetime.
57. I can't remember song lyrics or jokes.
58. I've only owned one car in my lifetime.
59. I was the runt of the litter but am the third largest in the family.
60. I have three college degrees.
61. I can't draw.
62. I actually completed my degrees in four years, two years and three years, as anticipated.
63. I don't like most animated films.
64. I once lived in an attic during grad school.
65. I've never won more than $7 from a lottery ticket.
66. I've never strapped on shoulder pads.
67. I am pretty good with locating countries and other geographical features on a map.
68. I never cared for Ronald Reagan, ironically.
69. I prefer clocks with Roman numerals.
70. One of my favorite sports names is Shlomo Glickstein, the Israeli tennis player.
71. I know the capital of Burkina Faso is Ouagadugou.
72. I like John Denver music.
73. I want to fly in a glider and a hang glider, but not parachute.
74. I'll never have a body piercing or a tattoo.
75. I like making lists.
76. For me, pizza without pepperoni isn't pizza.
77. I've never sat in box seats at a ballgame.
78. I've attended a World Cup soccer game.
79. I've never had a cast on my body.


Well, I couldn't make it to two hundred.  Then again, the 1001 Nights of the Arabian Nights aren't actually 1001 nights, either.  I'm just not that interesting.

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