Meme: Things I've done that you probably haven't

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I just got a significant chunk of work eaten by a BSOD, so I'm consoling myself by making a silly post before I redo the bloody thing. I think I'm going to have a hard time with this meme, because several of the weirder things I've done in my life I've done in the company of various people on my flist. Anyway, it might tell some people something they didn't know about me.

• Cut up all the washing on the washing line with scissors in order to see how much trouble I would get into
• Drawn a Mendelian cross involving six characteristics because I was bored during the school holidays
• "Mooned" a group of a couple of hundred teenagers in order to raise money for charity
• Kept pet stick insects and named them all with gender-neutral names
• Been becalmed while crewing a 30' yacht in the middle of the North Sea in October
• Watched the Tall Ships race coming into Port Philip Bay (in Australia)
• Written the script of a pantomime that was performed by a local am-dram group
• Smuggled my brother into a French conversation lesson (at an all-girls school)
• Watched Cyrano de Bergerac more than a dozen times and cried my eyes out on every occasion
• Been told by someone of a different religion from mine that my actions helped to bring God into his life

Right, back to that figure, I think.

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[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Watched the Tall Ships race coming into Port Philip Bay (in Australia)

Saw the tall ships come into Liverpool. Subsequently met a girl who had been crewing that day while touring a four masted barque at Melbourne Maritime Musueum. A few minutes later we were admiring the view from the fore topmast yard.

Watched Cyrano de Bergerac more than a dozen times and cried my eyes out on every occasion

Have watched it many times and while not quite crying my eyes out I get rather sniffly.

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I love the Tall Ships; it's an ambition of mine to crew a stage one day, and I don't as a rule dream about planned adventures like that. I like your story about the barque, too, that must have been wonderful.

I'm quite pleased to be non-unique about loving Cyrano de Bergerac, too!

[pthalo]

Cut up all the washing on the washing line with scissors in order to see how much trouble I would get into

No, but I cut up a blanket when I was six, to see what would happen. Got in trouble, of course.

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I cut up a blanket when I was six, to see what would happen. Got in trouble, of course.
Yay, we were fellow foolish children. <3

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

Why did you want to get in trouble? When was that?

I like the brother-in-a-girls-school part, too. And the God bit. & :-)

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Why did you want to get in trouble?
Because I was a stupid brat, mainly. My parents were very kind and principled about making absolutely sure that I understood that I wouldn't get into trouble if I accidentally broke things, or did things wrong because I didn't know any better. So I wanted to know what would happen if I actually deliberately did something destructive which I obviously knew I shouldn't. Plus, I had a thing for cutting things with big scissors and I'd run out of the dead daffodils I was supposed to be cutting.

When was that?
When I was quite little, three or four I think.

I like the brother-in-a-girls-school part
Combination of crazy cross-dressing brother + slightly dopey French conversation assistante = opportunities for devilment. *grin*

And the God bit.
I like that too, I mean, of all the flattering things someone could say to me! Though it feels as if it might be tending slightly towards blasphemy, to be honest.

[hatam-soferet.livejournal.com]

I was thinking about this meme. One of the bits involved you :) I might do it later. W wants the computer now (yes, in a household with two people and four computers, only one of them actually works at present).

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I was thinking about this meme. One of the bits involved you :)
Should I worry?! I think you'll probably have an easier time with this meme than I did because you've done lots of incredibly original things in your life.

in a household with two people and four computers, only one of them actually works at present
Ugh, that's got to be pretty annoying. I hope you get the virus or whatever's wrong with yours sorted out.

[hatam-soferet.livejournal.com]

They're all sort of the same, though. I never did things like cutting up the washing just to see what would happen. That's pretty original!

[beckyzoole.livejournal.com]

You reminded me of the praying mantis I once had, with a gender-neutral name! (BTW, I am now jealous. I love Cyrano extremely, crying whenever I read it, but I have never seen it performed.)

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the praying mantis I once had, with a gender-neutral name!
Ooh, cool that you kept a mantis. I gave up on the stick insects mainly because handling their bodies when they'd died creeped me out. Which probably goes to show I'm not suited to real pets, I think.

I love Cyrano extremely, crying whenever I read it, but I have never seen it performed.
Wow, not even the film? I have seen it on stage several times, mostly in translation though. But most of the repetitions have been the film. I've got to the point where part of why I cry over it is when they cut favourite lines or butcher the translation. Seeing it on stage I agree relies on someone choosing to put it on in your area, but you really ought to rent the film if you haven't seen it. (I know a lot of people are put off because they don't like Depardieu, but he's really outstanding in this rôle.)

Cyrano

[beckyzoole.livejournal.com]

I've seen Steve Martin's take on it (was that movie called Roxanne? I think it was...), but, no, I've never even seen a film version. I know, I do need to rent it. Mon panache. Sob.

[darcydodo]

Hmm, I think I knew at least half of those. Including the first one, because you love telling that story. :)

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I think I knew at least half of those
This does not surprise me, because I know you know lots about me!

Including the first one, because you love telling that story. :)
I do, it's a good story. And the story about how my little brother ended up in hospital as a result of my playing 'neurosurgery' with him.