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Bullwinkle925 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-08 03:20 PM
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Embarrasing fact about yourself you'd care to share?
Mine . . . . .

It has been soooooo long since I've been responsible for checking the air in my tires that now I am completely baffled by the process.

Re-learning such a simple task is on my list of New Years Resolutions!!

sigh

I HATE BEING SINGLE AGAIN!!
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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-08 03:28 PM
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1. Not having the gumption to vacuum on a regular basis
including in the hall leading to the little box

(KipperKat ain't that messy, thankfully :P)
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Guava Jelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-08 03:31 PM
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2. Top Ramen gives me terrible gas

:D
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AwakeAtLast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-08 04:06 PM
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3. I always have my tires checked when I get the oil changed
Whether I have a gauge or not, if they're doing something to the car, they can do that too! :D

Embarassing.....embarassing.....uh I haven't gotten dressed today. :blush:

I do have a good explanation - all of my houseguests are gone and I am on day #2 of a migraine. It is getting a little better, though.

:hi:
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gmoney Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-08 04:07 PM
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4. My real first name is Tripp
Oh, the shame...
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VaYallaDawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-08 04:08 PM
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5. Here's one in a similar vein.
Many years ago, when my parents had just recently married, my dad went away on a business trip and told my mother to be sure and have the air in the tires changed while he was gone.

Yes, she fell for it. It was a family joke for 50 years.
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skygazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-08 04:18 PM
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6. I suffer from erectile dysfunction
Oh, wait.... I'm not a guy.



Never mind......
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geardaddy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-08 04:20 PM
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7. My farts stink.
http://www.avatarist.com/avatars/Funny/banana!-dance.gif
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SoxFan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-08 04:29 PM
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8. I have enough trouble debunking the bullshit rumors
Part of what sucks about holding public office is the fact that every crank, screwball, and freelance douchebag in town sees a big bullseye on your back.

Right now, I have a an anonymous Brave Knight of the Keyboard accusing me of receiving disability benefits for mental health issues. Now, I've been pretty open about my fight with depression, but I have never been on disability or received any sort of government benefit. All this shit does is stigmatize legitimate mental health needs even more.

Sorry to threadjack.
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-31-08 02:12 AM
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48. I'm sorry to hear it.
Keep your spirits high and look to Dennis Kucinich for an example that no matter what, the truth DOES work. :thumbsup:
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azmouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-08 04:33 PM
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9. I've been known to clip my fingernails in the familyroom instead of the bathroom.
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lightningandsnow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-08 04:36 PM
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10. I can't draw.
At all.

Even my stick figures are deformed.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-08 07:25 PM
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11. I will kick your ass and force you to draw the perfect stick figure, AspieGrrl
yes INDEED
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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-08 09:51 PM
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40. Drawing well isn't a requirement for telling a story
:D



http://www.dennisworden.com/comicspageA.htm
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-08 07:26 PM
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12. I do not share embarrassing facts.
They are embarrassing; that's why I don't share them.
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-08 09:16 PM
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31. I can't believe you just told us that!
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-08 07:27 PM
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13. For a long time, I thought you put the oil
in your car in the same hole as the one you check the dipstick in.
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kayakjohnny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-08 07:42 PM
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16. That is such a great one! OMG... the messes you must've made over the years.
You were probably like, "Now why in the fuck don't they just make this hole a little bigger". That's a really cool quirk. I bet you're not the only one that's happened to over the years.
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-08 07:44 PM
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17. Well I actually never put the oil in that spot.
I am not a "car" person, and my Dad wasn't either. I never had my own car until I graduated from college so the first time I had to put some oil in, I was about to put it in the dipstick hole until my neighbor saw what I was doing and showed me how to fill it up!
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kayakjohnny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-08 08:02 PM
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19. Still very cool. Thank goodness for neighbors, huh? I actually wouldn't have hurt anything
if you'd have carried on.
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Lady President Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-31-08 01:22 PM
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57. It isn't?
I admit it, I'm pushy 40 and have never put oil in a car. It really isn't the dipstick hole? I always just assumed that was the place. I learned something new today!
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Spacemom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-08 07:27 PM
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14. I have a cafe au lait birthmark
on my right butt cheek :blush:
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kayakjohnny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-08 07:37 PM
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15. I have a tendency to share personal embarrassments with complete strangers
on the internet.

Ooops. Dang. See?
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Solon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-08 07:45 PM
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18. I have a really short...
fuse. Typical Irish temper.

What, did you expect me to mention something else? ;)
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mcctatas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-08 08:04 PM
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20. I can't swim or tell my left from my right without holding up my hands
to see which one makes the 'L'
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soleiri Donating Member (913 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-08 08:33 PM
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23. I do the L hand thing too
either that or "right hand over the heart ready begin".

Even my kids make fun of me.
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kayakjohnny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-08 08:12 PM
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21. Sometimes...I do this...
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NanceGreggs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-08 08:29 PM
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22. I am a world-class procrasinator ...
I could tell you where I think this stems from - but not now. I'll do it some other time.
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kayakjohnny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-08 08:35 PM
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24. Oh, I bet I got ya beat on that. I put the 'pro' in procrastinate.
But thankfully, a lot of it never needed doing any way. The situation changed enough to where that action wasn't actually needed. At least that's my usual justification for it.
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NanceGreggs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-31-08 01:51 AM
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46. I hear ya!
I'm like, "You know, that thing doesn't really need doin' - and if you wait it out, you'll realize that."

It's like if you keep putting off watering the plants, they die - and then they don't need waterin' after all, do they?

See how it works?
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CreekDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-08 09:23 PM
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35. I think 99% of people procrastinate
but are you the watch tv, surf the internet procrastinator or the clean the garage, house, reorganize your life kind of procrastinator? the latter can be pretty useful.
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NanceGreggs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-31-08 01:45 AM
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45. Alas, I am the "unproductive" procrastinator ...
Part of my problem is that I work better and more efficiently under pressure. So if I leave things until the last minute (my job involves very hard deadlines), I get "into it" more so than if I take my lah-di-dah time.

Well, that's my story, and I'm stickin' to it.
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lizziegrace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-08 08:36 PM
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25. I can't boil eggs
and still can't program my weather radio even though I've had to do it a dozen times.

There are many other things much, much more embarrassing, but I refuse to look like the idiot I can be...
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Lars39 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-08 08:38 PM
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26. I bought one of these after I ruined a pan or two:
http://www.amazon.com/Oster-385182-4716-Egg-Cooker/dp/B00006IUUP
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lizziegrace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-08 08:41 PM
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27. I like that...
I might actually be able to cook hard-boiled eggs. :-)
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Lars39 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-08 08:59 PM
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28. They work very well...
it was so good to not have to worry about my pans anymore. :)
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-08 09:13 PM
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29. I like Neil Diamond
yes INDEED
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kayakjohnny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-08 09:18 PM
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32. I think that if Neil himself posted on this thread, he'd say his embarrassement was that
someone who was a fan of his, mentioned it on an embarrassment thread.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-08 09:28 PM
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36. aw it's just out of character for me
I almost exlusively like hard rock :D
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harmonicon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-08 09:14 PM
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30. I'm fat
including man-boobs. I really should lose weight.... I may even start exercising - how crazy would that be?
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kayakjohnny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-08 09:22 PM
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34. As long as they're your own man-boobs, I think everything's still cool.
Once they belong to someone else, I think we're getting into some funky territory here.
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harmonicon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-08 09:30 PM
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37. true
They're all mine. I'd still prefer that they went away. I don't expect to be back in the same shape that I was in when I was 16 or something, but to get back to the same shape I was in at 23 should be possible, I'd think (I say this as I have a giant tin of candy in front of me - not bought by me, but a Christmas gift).
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blockhead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-08 09:20 PM
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33. I like Hall and Oates
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-08 09:40 PM
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38. I'm really George W. Bush
now, that is embarrassing
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From The Ashes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-08 09:51 PM
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39. I like that...
...Rick Roll song. And Celine Dion. :blush:
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Career Prole Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-08 10:24 PM
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41. I'm insecure.
I wear suspenders and a belt. :blush:

(Actually, it's all because my ass wandered off when I was about 48 or so and never came back. I never realized just how big a role the butt plays in keeping one's pants up!)
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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-08 10:35 PM
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42. I'm devilishly handsome but i don't realize it.
n/t
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Aristus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-08 10:41 PM
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43. I am the world's least athletically gifted person.
Show many a sport, any sport, and I can show you new and interesting ways to lose at it.
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-08 10:47 PM
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44. I failed PE.
:rofl:
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W_HAMILTON Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-31-08 05:40 AM
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52. !!!
How do you do that?

I thought at long as you participated, you got a good grade!
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-31-08 12:32 PM
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55. My dreadful run times were interpreted as laziness.
They were actually a function of some health trouble, but PE teachers don't generally get their jobs by being bright. Or sympathetic.
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-31-08 01:53 AM
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47. Geez- What do people NOT know about me?
It's actually refreshing to live as though everyone knows everything about you. It's an interesting experiment ala the Johari Window.
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-31-08 02:33 AM
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49. I accidently sat on my cat once.
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W_HAMILTON Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-31-08 05:42 AM
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53. I have three balls.
Go me.
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nytemare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-31-08 03:50 AM
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50. On occasion, I fall asleep on the toilet.
When I wake up to go during the night. I wake up wondering how the hell I got there.
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Karl_Bonner_1982 Donating Member (701 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-31-08 05:21 AM
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51. My DU name originated from a persistent limerence. NT
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Hell Hath No Fury Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-31-08 11:39 AM
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54. I have hairy toes.
And being a woman, it is not very attractive. :D

All the women in the family have the same issue -- back when we first read The Hobbit we determined that we were probably part Hobbit.

A swipe with a razor solves the problem if I am wearing anything open toed.
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LanternWaste Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-31-08 01:08 PM
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56. I love bubble gum music...
I love bubble gum music... from The Bangles and the Go-Gos to The Archies-- the more saccharin it gets, the better!
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