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04/27/2009 05:56:20 PM · #26 |
Originally posted by farfel53:
I, too, survived the 70's, 3 of them stoned, 3 years of it in the Navy (NOT the same 3 years!). I survived a fall off the mountainside at Taormina, Sicily. I survived a stint as a fundamentalist Baptist. I survived cancer, 9 years so far! |
Oh, I forgot surviving Cancer, both me and my wife! And, having 4 kids and 11 grandchildren:) |
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04/27/2009 05:57:18 PM · #27 |
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04/27/2009 06:37:28 PM · #28 |
Originally posted by OdysseyF22:
The "Electric Outlet" incident when I was 7.
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OMG - me too. Were you pretending to drive and stick a metal key in the outlet?
Others for me - Junior High, divorce, driving in the snow in the state of Washington and having teenagers hasn't quite killed me yet but if I had a nickel every time I told one of them "I swear you are killing me" I would be a wealthy, wealthy woman! |
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04/27/2009 06:40:27 PM · #29 |
Cutting my hand on a table saw 16 years ago (and I am a hair dresser). Two and half years of physical therapy and 4 surgeries later...it functions...I call it my gimp hand or bionic hand (it cost about 1.5 million to restore)...alot of people don't have a clue that I did it and I use my hands right in front of their eyes...cut all five fingers, have an artificial joint in the middle finger...functions pretty well considering the alternative would be no fingers....
oh, and I survived raising my 2 daughters... hormone factories that they were (said in the most loving of terms!!!) truly they have grown to be very good people...independent and self-sufficient!!! |
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04/27/2009 06:41:38 PM · #30 |
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04/27/2009 07:06:50 PM · #31 |
Originally posted by alanfreed:
...and Celine Dion. Others? |
I survived the play Cat's, a 5 hour party where Kenny G stunk up the airwaves and I nearly lost to a bout of River Dance. Fortunately it was only a shortened program of the dreaded Celtic Hopscotch that I suffered but honestly...it was the laughter that almost did me in.
ETA: George Bush (between his 8 years of service and the economy), Billy Joel and the few Adam Sandler movies I've seen. All three still might get me yet.
Message edited by author 2009-04-27 19:17:54. |
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04/27/2009 07:18:25 PM · #32 |
My 21st birthday, it was a riot. Damage caused was in excess of $1 million.
My first trip to Melborne, that was a real blast
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04/27/2009 07:33:28 PM · #33 |
Rabies - long story
Anytime I dance = even longer story
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04/27/2009 07:44:28 PM · #34 |
Originally posted by alanfreed:
With the new Swine Flu worries, I've been thinking about other things I have survived in the past. So far, I've come up with the SARS epidemic, the Bird Flu, and Celine Dion. Others? |
Celine Dion is an easy one, try living with a Barry Manilow fanatic. I think thats grounds for uncontested divorce with the little woman being confined to a rubber room. |
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04/27/2009 07:49:31 PM · #35 |
| A lightning strike in a DC 10 which shut down all three engines at 1,000 feet ... followed by an emergency ... er ... landing. Yes that's it! "Landing" was the official term the airline used. |
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04/27/2009 07:53:10 PM · #36 |
Originally posted by JulietNN:
Rabies - long story
Anytime I dance = even longer story |
haha! share:) |
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04/27/2009 07:55:44 PM · #37 |
Originally posted by 3DsArcher:
My 21st birthday, it was a riot. Damage caused was in excess of $1 million.
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So that was your fault!!! :D
Survived learning to ride a BSA Bantam super ;) without a helmet of course cos it mucked up my hairdo and didn't go with my babydoll dress (and they weren't legal then) and falling off numerous times. Lemme tell you that babydoll dresses and jandals don't provide a lot of protection when you hit the road!! Hitchhiked around the country in my holidays (aged about 17) Wasn't till I got picked up by a 'dodgy character who made interesting suggestions' that I decided that it probably wasn't the brightest thing to do. I was lucky that I had an angel on my shoulder and was able to jump out of the car when it stopped at a traffic light, with the motorbike none of the injuries were too major. |
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04/27/2009 08:18:27 PM · #38 |
| Quiting smoking 76 days. O wait maybe it should be my husband writing this :) |
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04/27/2009 08:31:20 PM · #39 |
Originally posted by Spazmo99:
Zombie attacks. |
Message edited by author 2009-04-27 20:31:44. |
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04/27/2009 08:31:57 PM · #40 |
| I've got you all beat...I survived having to live with myself. I deserve a medal. |
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04/27/2009 08:38:26 PM · #41 |
Oh...that's what it was. Huh? I can't hear you.
Message edited by author 2009-04-27 22:09:55. |
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04/27/2009 08:48:08 PM · #42 |
| well, I just did my part and annihilated a few hundred infected people in Left 4 Dead. TAKE THAT INFECTED! |
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04/27/2009 08:51:33 PM · #43 |
| im not quite done living through, but hopefully shall survive, a 3 month old puppy. one of us is going to kill the other, not sure who though... |
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04/27/2009 10:02:48 PM · #44 |
Fun thread! I wonder how many of you spoke too soon. ;D
So far, I've survived 50+ years of great ideas, poor judgment, and accidents too numerous to mention.
I think the most scared I've ever been was the first time I got caught inside in huge waves. I may have been closer to death before, but those were things that were over in milliseconds. Those waves held me under water and thrashed me for a long, long time. It's amazing how terrifying a giant wave can be when you're sitting on a little board right in front of it and there's no way for you to get away. Your instincts say to paddle away from the wave, but that's about the worst thing you can do. Your best move is to paddle as hard and fast as you can into the wave and try to make it over or through the wave before it breaks. But what happens when you just barely make it over one huge wall of water and the wave behind that one is twice as big and already starting to break? That's about when panic starts looking appealing and you begin to regret all those times you skipped out on church. Time actually slows to a crawl and lets you examine your entire life in minute detail. It's tons of fun. You should all try it some time.
Oh, and don't ride a black motorcycle on the freeway at night wearing all black clothes and a black helmet. Bad idea!
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04/27/2009 10:13:24 PM · #45 |
Jeez....I hardly know where to start....
An emotionally distant father, an elitist upbringing, serious asthma, over a million miles in various assorted high performance cars over more than three decades that included numerous "incidents", a drug habit, a first wife that was the devil incarnate, looters during Hurricane Agnes when the Susquehanna rose 27 feet over its banks, Hurricane Hugo which we missed the center of by stopping two hours before it blew across the route we were taking at 135mph two hours south of where we stopped for the night, scuba diving as turistas in Acapulco, my own neglect of my physical condition for over 35 years.....
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04/27/2009 10:18:34 PM · #46 |
I survived beating up some canadian guy in 1977 does that count.
Edit to add- I only did it because of the Swine Flu scare of 1976. (I survived that too).
Message edited by author 2009-04-27 22:20:15. |
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04/27/2009 10:20:58 PM · #47 |
Of all the high school antics that probably could have turned out A LOT worse, there's one memory when I was 11 that sticks in my mind probably because my mom is a constant reminder.
I was doing a demonstration for some kind of 4H badge or something on how to cook, freeze, then reheat french toast. mmmmmmm... anyway, the toaster that was reheating the frozen french toast started to burn it so I took a metal fork with the intention to dig it out. Well, before I could get the fork in the toaster(and it was very very close) I heard (very audibly) several dozens moms and dads have a small heart attack... I pulled the fork back out of surprise and the french toast popped up.
Not sure how badly it would have hurt me, but I can still hear that noise from the audience like it was yesterday. |
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04/27/2009 10:22:49 PM · #48 |
Originally posted by vxpra:
I survived beating up some canadian guy in 1977 does that count.
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... be very careful, them Canadians have long memories. :O)
Ray |
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04/27/2009 10:26:29 PM · #49 |
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04/27/2009 10:27:44 PM · #50 |
Originally posted by 3DsArcher:
The Update button |
***knock on wood*** |
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