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I"ll start:
I once ate in the Westernmost Cracker Barrel in the entire United States.
Kingman, Arizona. I did it.
My friend and I were driving from the Las Vegas airport to the Grand Canyon, where he worked. We stopped for dinner at the Cracker Barrel in Kingman, and our waitress came over to us and said, "Did you know that this is the western-most Cracker Barrel in the country?"
And I thought to myself, "Oh. Okay."
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)And I stood on the Southernmost point of the US
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,189 posts)(Except they don't actually tell you that it's not really the Southernmost point of the Continental US.....the Naval Base on the end of Key West is actually where the true southernmost point is. But of course that is not open to the public.)
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)In Hawaii!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ka_Lae
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,189 posts)Hawaii is on my bucket list for sure.
Callmecrazy
(3,065 posts)I installed solar panels at that NAS last January.
So I guess my accomplishment is that I stood at the actual southernmost point of the Continental U.S.
madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)Seriously!
You probably were invited to the moderators hot tub with admins!!
dr.strangelove
(4,851 posts)I watched for years as people dumped trash in the lot because we have no trash bins on the Metro North trains and they removed the ones at the stations except at the main platform. Those that exit the train at the rear of the train like me carry garbage off the train, and many just dropped it on the ground. I complained about 100 times and finally they put a garbage and recycle bin at the rear stairs. I think I deserve a cookie or at least to get my homework hung up on the fridge with a gold star on it.
backtoblue
(11,344 posts)Dr. Strange
(25,921 posts)Your move.
backtoblue
(11,344 posts)at band camp...
Dr. Strange
(25,921 posts)backtoblue
(11,344 posts)THAT is actually an accomplishment lol
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)pipi_k
(21,020 posts)this involves a piccolo...
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)I can make very convincing Owl and Cuckoo sounds by folding my hands together, blowing through the aperture between the thumbs and moving my left hand to vary the pitch.
I was best in school at bird noises, but I don't like bragging about it.
pipi_k
(21,020 posts)I can take a blade of grass, position it between my two thumbs, blow, and make it sound like a charging elephant.
Oh, and one really cool thing I discovered about hand held shower sprays...
if you aim it directly at your back end as a fart is coming out, it sounds a lot like a drowning duck.
Gorp
(716 posts)I also played "Frenzy" to the point where all of the walls became reflective and anything you fired was going to come zinging back at you. I made it to levels I didn't know existed. That's from back when we had arcades.
rrneck
(17,671 posts)brought down sharply on the side of an individual serving restaurant creamer, I successfully completed 97 consecutive "flips" back to the upright position.
lastlib
(23,265 posts)...no need to churn it yourself!
rrneck
(17,671 posts)Feel the burn!
ETA My buddy was doing the same thing and the server just walked up, opened it for him, and walked away.
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)I like places with servers like that. You can get that at some of your better Waffle Houses.
ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)backtoblue
(11,344 posts)ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)nolabear
(41,990 posts)Earth_First
(14,910 posts)Those were the days, however for me it was 94-98
ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)Once again, I see why I like you.
Only I think mine were between 1967 and 1972. (A confession...my last one was a couple of years ago. It was still fun.)
RevStPatrick
(2,208 posts)...to the ELP song "Pirates" even though I haven't heard it in 25 years.
I just proved that to myself...
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)[IMG][/IMG]
the tip end of Key West. just because.
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)for a road trip.
Sometimes, it's the best reason.
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)and, yes . . . it is the best reason.
srican69
(1,426 posts)Well actually its not quite true. In fact I've never been to the four corners monument ..
but why let facts get in the way of an interesting story?
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)Last edited Thu Feb 21, 2013, 07:18 PM - Edit history (1)
in South Dakota. Wind Cave was discovered in the 1800s when a small hole in the ground was found to blow out a stream of wind so powerful that it blew off a man's hat. The tour guide first took us to the old "historic" entrance to the long cave and talked about the fact the cave would alternately suck in air and blow it out depending on the barometric pressure outside and just as he said that that day was a blowing out day, a kid blew out one of the loudest farts I've ever heard. Everyone started laughing and the kid's older brother said he'd been saving that fart all morning for the right opportunity.
BarbaRosa
(2,684 posts)fizzgig
(24,146 posts)sleepy hollow and the first xfiles movie. no, they're not in their boxes, they got played with.
tavernier
(12,396 posts)the CN tower, the Empire State Building, the Sears Building, the Tower of London, Blarney Castle and Pikes Peak; and never spit off the side of any of them.
I was tempted though.
lastlib
(23,265 posts)for all the value that degree has now, I could just as well wipe my ass with it.
nolabear
(41,990 posts)Tying a cherry stem in a knot with my tongue, folding a dollar so you can make George smile or frown by tilting it, balancing a salt shaker on its edge on a single grain of salt, playing coin-spin "marbles", etc.
Helps to have grown up in a café/bar. John Boehner got nothin' on this bear!
EnviroBat
(5,290 posts)for 6 years. It's time to move on, but change scares me. Just today, one of our vendors approached me about a position with their company. The job would require travel, but not farther than one state away, and the opportunity to promote a software product that I'm passionate about. I wouldn't be sitting in this gray cubicle everyday watching complete idiots being promoted to "leadership" positions. Maybe I'll take him up on the offer...
TexasBushwhacker
(20,208 posts)If it's sales and it's 100% commission, I wouldn't recommend it. Oh, don't forget about benefits.
triguy46
(6,028 posts)and can retire in 541 days. yes I'm counting. each day. In all this time no one has yet figured out that I'm not good at what I do. But I have developed the abilities to deflect, obscure, partially complete, delay, forget, ignore, mis-direct and other skills essential for being a successful senior executive. Those might be my meaningless accomplishments.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)It was back in the early 60s and I was a kid, sick at home with the flu. I haven't tried it since.
Sweet Freedom
(3,995 posts)and I learned that from a Catholic nun.
Xyzse
(8,217 posts)I signed the chit with a 30+% tip, but turned it over and kept it in place with a penny.
grilled onions
(1,957 posts)I once won a boat cushion when I didn't even have access to a row boat! On my first vacation I put a quarter into the slot of the vibrating bed and the only buzz I got was thinking about the quarter I lost when the damn thing didn't even work. I dethroned the queen of "around the world" a classroom challenge on rainy days in math and every year I failed math. Now I require both shoes off to balance my checkbook. The only time I ever answered the telephone(not a toy in those days) by saying "County Jail" it was my doctor on the other end. I felt like quite an ass at the time.
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EastKYLiberal
(429 posts)Rosslyn metro station in DC.
kwassa
(23,340 posts)The one that never works?
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)1st Chair All State Symphony three years in a row (81-84).
My particular instrument is rarely (if ever) played by more than one member in any symphony... hence, any chair placing is a de-facto first chair placing.
harmonicon
(12,008 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Bass Clarinet...
Bucky
(54,041 posts)It was outside in front of Liberty Hall in Philly. The tour guide told us it hadn't be rung in 200 years because of the big crack in it. I was 13 and I was all like, "fuck that, I'm gonna be the only person in 20th century to ring this sucker" and then I rolled up my program, waited for the security guard to look the other way, leaned over the guard rail, and smacked the hell out of it. It more sorta womp-pinged than rang, per se, but it was like touching history. I never felt more connected to the Founding Fathers than I did at that moment.
srican69
(1,426 posts)I was an engineer on a Bulk Carrier ( We we shipping Iron ore from Tubarao to some place in Japan I cant remember)
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,678 posts)pink-o
(4,056 posts)Stephen Colbert has us beat, since he can interchange it!
Are you left or right handed, my dear CP? (I'm right handed and pretty left-brained.)
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,678 posts)But I can be a bit ambidextrous!
Kali
(55,019 posts)Glorfindel
(9,732 posts)I can still list them. What's more, I can list the line of descent from William the Conquerer to Queen Elizabeth II, which is quite different and more complicated. About as useful as knowing all the vice-presidents of the USA, which I don't.
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,481 posts)...you majored in government transparency?
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)liberal arts
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,189 posts)discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,481 posts)discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,481 posts)...a particular installment of the Tonight Show. Johnny Carson's guest was Vanna White. Johnny asked about the name of her position on Wheel of Fortune. Vanna explained that was a "Letter Turner".
Johnny asked what qualifications she had for that job.
...a few seconds of silence...
Vanna answered very deadpan, "I know all the letters."
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,806 posts)Oh, say can you see by
the dawn's early light what
so proudly we hailed at
the twilight's last gleaming? Whose
broad stripes and bright stars through
the perilous fight, o'er
the ramparts we watched were
so gallantly streaming? And
the rocket's red glare, the
bombs bursting in air, gave
proof through the night that
our flag was still there, Oh,
say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave o'er
the land of the free and
the home of the brave?
benld74
(9,909 posts)I also purchased a Starbucks coffee while in the Forbidden City.
Drank some 'snake wine'
Got propositioned by a working class miss in Guangzhou.(no thanks was the reply from me)
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)I lived in Beijing for a year in 198-84. There weren't Starbuck there then.
I once ate 2 pounds of jiao-zi (dumplings) while my friends watched.
cliffordu
(30,994 posts)and this fall and winter, from Seattle to LA.
triguy46
(6,028 posts)Wife and I rode across England 10 yrs ago.
cliffordu
(30,994 posts)I'd like to ride the same route as the giro, but I'm too old.....
triguy46
(6,028 posts)Hired bag transport so each morning the bags were picked up and taken to next b and b. All we had to do was ride. Saw more sheep than people. It was in the north, near scotland. Long day was only 35 miles. A couple days had some stout climbs. But over all easy. Did I mention the pubs?
cliffordu
(30,994 posts)The running joke on this last ride was that it was a dash between liquor stores......
midwest irish
(155 posts)I mean, I wasnt performing there or anything. I was on a tour and sang a few notes while we walked around. So Im gonna add that to the CV.
Callmecrazy
(3,065 posts)I was playing video poker and turned $5.00 into $11,000.00 in about twenty minutes.
True story.
Spike89
(1,569 posts)I was on a commercial fishing boat in Southern Oregon and decided it was time to go home even though my Dad was planning on heading home in two days. I left in the morning with a cardboard sign and $3 in my pocket and a 17-year-old's energy. I got a couple short rides, but mostly walked up the Oregon coast. Towns are all 27 miles apart from Gold Beach to Florence for a total of about 128 miles. I didn't stop once, and even with the short rides I got, it took me about 20 hours to get there. (obviously, at just better than 6 mph, most of it was walking). I'd seriously overestimated the amount of traffic and the willingness of tourists (the majority of what little traffic there was) to pick up a scraggly teenage boy.
I got a ride in Florence at about 3 am from a crazy trucker who drove me into Eugene (50 miles or so), then I walked the remaining 15 miles to my house arriving at about 7 or 8 am. I was dead tired and totally stoned from the pot (the crazy trucker guy smoked pot almost non-stop and I felt obliged to smoke along with him).
In the end, I beat my Dad and sister home from the boat by more than 24 hours, but after the marathon sleepfest, it amounted to a few hours for an awful lot of effort.
kwassa
(23,340 posts)I just lied.
We took a few side routes, later coming back to I-10.
side trip to San Antonio and Austin, sidetrip through Lafayette through the bayous into a back route to New Orleans.
and the coast road in Biloxi.
We did drive all the way to Fort Lauderdale, where I deposited my ex, never to see her again. Her choice place to move.
Stuart G
(38,439 posts)well.,..I didn't get to stay long anywhre..,...but I sure did go far..
..Chciago, to Glacier National Park, to Banf and Jasper National Parks.., to Vancouvor to San Franciso to Reno..and back to Chicago....summer..1973..It was driven in a 1971 Dodge Dart...with stick shift...ok,,not exactly easy on those hills.................
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)learned in 5th grade to the tune of Pop Goes the Weasel. Sr. William Marie would be proud.
triguy46
(6,028 posts)I was a summer 'hand' on a pipeline crew in 1972 when they drew for my age cohort. A co-college student summer ditch digger drew a 5. He packed his bag, caught a bus home. Never heard of him again. I appreciate those that went, I mean them no disrespect. I will never win the powerball. I won my lottery in 1972.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)noamnety
(20,234 posts)I got a $5 card in a rebate deal and used it for 7 separate transactions and tried to run it down to exactly 0. Yesterday I screwed up though - I knew I had 24 cents left on it, and bananas are 24 cents at target.
My downfall was that while I was there, I used a $2 coupon for a $1.99 bottle of ketchup, and they applied the extra penny to the banana, so I only got charged 23 cents.
Generic Brad
(14,275 posts)I ate only one. The other 1190 were released.
I get kind of obsessed about fishing.
R B Garr
(16,966 posts)It took me three summers and some separate day trips to do it. Not that it can't be done sooner, of course, it just worked out that we took three separate trips each in June lasting about 5 days driving around California and then some separate day trips to see some of the missions that were within about a 2 to 3-hour drive each. It was a very worthwhile experience. After the first few missions, it became a goal to see all of them. Very educational and enriching.
http://www.missionscalifornia.com/california-missions-map.html
What a great thread idea! Thank you.
eShirl
(18,496 posts)680 verbal, 630 math
liberal N proud
(60,339 posts)Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)(southern tip of the Big Island, Hawaii), the southwesternmost part of Canada, the only town in Washington State that is accessible by land from Canada but not directly from the rest of Washington State (Point Roberts), the easternmost train station in Japan (Higashi Nemuro in Hokkaido), and the Japanese train station that was closest to the sea (which was later wiped out by the 2011 tsunami).
sinkingfeeling
(51,469 posts)applegrove
(118,745 posts)Rincewind
(1,205 posts)HeiressofBickworth
(2,682 posts)An entry from childhood: In the late 40's, professional photographers were pushing the idea of photo Christmas cards. They had billboards up all across the US advertising photo Christmas cards -- the picture was me.
P.S. I highly recommend developing a self-appreciation list. Start with childhood, then teen years, then each 10 years. Add anything that you did that makes you feel good about yourself. It's actually quite fun.
harmonicon
(12,008 posts)RudynJack
(1,044 posts)for Hopscotch.
This was back around 1972 give or take 2 years. We played for 36 hours and 40 minutes. The local newscame out and covered it. The whole neighborhood was involved.
We had it all certified and sent it in to Guinness. They wrote us back saying they recognized the record, but it wasn't going to be included in future editions.
So we had a Guinness record, but not so's ya'd know.
DFW
(54,426 posts)My dad was President of the Gridiron Club of Washington, DC, which always puts on a comedy roast for the DC political elite every year in March. After he passed away, Gridiron broke with tradition, and in my dad's honor used some of my songs (they usually only use songs written by Gridiron Club members) in their shows. When Saddam was captured, I wrote "Under The Floormat" to the tune of "Under The Boardwalk," and it was used in one of the Gridiron shows when Bush Lite was there.
Clinton was still president when my dad passed away, and there was a new generation on the Gridiron music committee by the time Obama took office, so I never got to write any Gridiron stuff for a Democratic president. However, I DID get a handwritten note from Clinton saying how much he liked the lyrics I wrote for some of The Freedom Toast's stuff, so that was a nice consolation prize!
Scuba
(53,475 posts)... Queen of the Prom. And i'm still hetero.
uriel1972
(4,261 posts)Dear lack of God I must have hated myself or something in order to play that.
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)a kennedy
(29,694 posts)I went from a 107 to a 142 in one season. Actually I thought it was a pretty good accomplishment.
sinkingfeeling
(51,469 posts)Helen Reddy
(998 posts)"A taste of honey" by Herp Alpert
Grantuspeace
(873 posts)Before the question was asked, I blurted out "Moby Dick" and I was correct!
XRubicon
(2,212 posts)I slept twice, Cheyenne Wyoming and outside Chicago.
Adsos Letter
(19,459 posts)Summer of 2007---My oldest daughter got accepted to Med School in Philly. I put her Honda Civic on a tow dolly behind my pickup and headed out on I-80 smack at the beginning of a heat wave that crossed the US with us (it was 114*+ crossing Nevada).
Got to Philly in time to drive through downtown during the commute, still towing that car, during the worst summer downpour I'd ever experienced.
Spent three days helping her get situated, then drove home via Virgina, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California coast.
Great road trip.
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)when I was living on a commune in southern Oregon, and then lived in it for four months. It was a kit from somewhere in Washington.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,208 posts)Just once though
Kablooie
(18,637 posts)And I have photos to prove it.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,189 posts)Hamilton County, I'm coming for you!
Now my dad, he can recite the 67 counties of Florida by memory. And that's true talent.
Bertha Venation
(21,484 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)Granted, it was only a few feet off the shore of Barrow Alaska, but I did it. In November and it was -15 F, with a wind chill of -60 F.
Now I need to walk on Southern Ocean ice, down next to Antarctica. Only hitch is, last time I checked, it's $11K to get there.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)a bagel shop had a daily trivia question, I knew that salmonella was named after someone named Salmon. Free bagel time!
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,189 posts)Now consider yourself having at least two totally meaningless accomplishments in your life!
bluedigger
(17,087 posts)I was in Air Assault School in 1983 and a gust of wind blew a Chinook helicopter into me as I was trying to hook up a sling load to it. I got hit in the head by a tire and knocked ass over teakettle off the vehicle I was standing on to the ground. When I took my helmet off later it had a six inch dent on the side.
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)from a 1-star program into a Fiesta Bowl victory over Nebraka the same year my speedy running back (that I used almost exclusively as he led my team in receptions) won the Heisman trophy. Then went to coach Arizona State and turned them into a dynasty w/ 2 or 3 more Heisman trophy running backs and maybe 3 national championships w/ the third one won so easily I got bored.
I then left my powerhouse program to coach Colorado State (something that would shock the entire world) for a challenge and to keep my interest. I couldn't fulfill my goal as being the top non-AQ school to win the national championship (Fresno State was the first non-AQ team to be on of the two teams to play for a NC but didn't win) I did win a Heisman trophy for the first time ever w/ a receiver who was my first recruit at CSU and won the trophy his senior season.
I did all this on "Heisman level" difficulty setting on NCAA Football 09. Speed was a huge advantage over other teams making kickoff and punt returns too easy against inferior teams and why it was so easy to win Heisman trophies w/ running backs, especially since my teams always lead the NCAA in rushing attempts.
Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)But, dammit, I keep trying.....
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,189 posts)Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)I really hoped I would log back on and see that post hidden.
Guess another suck jury decision goes down....:
Have a great afternoon, Mr. Carcetti
undeterred
(34,658 posts)I think they finally just got tired of seeing me in there so they passed me.