I played a game at a party once called, "Betcha Never." Everyone is given three pennies and then they have to say "betcha never..." and then something that they have actually done that they are pretty sure no one else in the room has done. If someone else in the room has done it, then they have to give up a penny. The person to lose his last penny wins.
It made me find out some amazing things about the people at the party.
So, coins aside, if you were at a party like this, what you say?
One that I said that kept me a penny was "betcha never sang during Mass at the Basilica of Sacre Couer in Paris."
Posted by TheHumanTarget (Member # 7129) on :
I've played this, but it usually involved copious amounts of alcohol and a truth/dare type element.
Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
we called it "never have I ever".
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
We usually called it ten fingers, because you start with ten fingers out, and drop one every time you've done soemthing. Not usually alcohol involved, but there usually were many things listed that I wouldn't discuss on hatrack.
Posted by DaisyMae (Member # 9722) on :
So... Leaving out alcohol and anything explicit... what would you say?
Posted by FlyingCow (Member # 2150) on :
Generally, in my experience, these games got very sexually explicit very quickly.
Just sayin'.
Posted by pfresh85 (Member # 8085) on :
Betcha never sat around in Yoyogi-koen in Tokyo drinking fruity alcoholic beverages. Posted by TheHumanTarget (Member # 7129) on :
Betcha never played hide and seek in a bay full of Pershing II nuclear missiles.
Posted by DaisyMae (Member # 9722) on :
I am asking for a measure of self-control here.
The party I played it at was a baby shower attended entirely by Mormons. I never linked the game to anything less innocent.
This is, you see, my effort at getting to know others better and to test to see if there is actually something I could post that might get a response.
Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :
Betcha never spent the night at Grand Central Station in NYC.
-Bok
Posted by Feer (Member # 9846) on :
Betcha never rode on a mattress chained to a station wagon while holding on to a rope tied to the tail pipe, going 40 on a dirt road.
Posted by cmc (Member # 9549) on :
( ← wants to hang out with Feer)
Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
Betcha never interviewed a Black Panther on a Moonie-sponsored lecture tour.
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
Betcha never (accidentally) drop-kicked a toddler while wearing a giant mouse suit
----
Edited to add:
(<--- has spent the night at Union Station in Chicago, but not GCS in NY )
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
Betcha never got chased out of a cemetary by the police.
Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
CT wins
Posted by Snail (Member # 9958) on :
Betcha never had a giraffe do a poo on your car.
Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :
We played this in high school, only it was called "I've never", and, as mentioned, involved heavy drinking. The questions were typically about who's done the freakiest sexual stuff.
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
quote:Originally posted by katharina: Betcha never got chased out of a cemetary by the police.
Hah! Lose a penny!
Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :
quote:Originally posted by ClaudiaTherese: (<--- has spent the night at Union Station in Chicago, but not GCS in NY )
If you have to stay somewhere like that for the night, Grand Central is a beautiful place... Aside from the drunks, security folks, and lack of anything comfortable to rest on.
-Bok
Posted by TheHumanTarget (Member # 7129) on :
Betcha never stole the Congresswoman from Guam's parking spot.
Posted by Feer (Member # 9846) on :
What the heck?
Posted by TheHumanTarget (Member # 7129) on :
quote:What the heck?
What?
Posted by Feer (Member # 9846) on :
Can i hear the story on this one?
Posted by TheHumanTarget (Member # 7129) on :
Let's just say that we were both in a hurry and I got there first. She couldn't have the vehicle towed because it was a federal vehicle. Instead she blocked us in and left a note on the windshield asking us to come see her when we wanted to leave. She explained in no uncertain terms that it would never happen again or she would make our stay on the island...less than hospitable.
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
Betcha never showed a horse.
Eww grammar that's awful.
Posted by Feer (Member # 9846) on :
Wow... I'm Kinda jealous.
Posted by Mama Squirrel (Member # 4155) on :
Betch never sang a duet at your high school graduation.
Posted by Nighthawk (Member # 4176) on :
Betcha never knocked yourself unconscious for three hours.
Posted by vonk (Member # 9027) on :
Why is this making me want to sing "Down By the Bay"?
Edit: "Betcha never saw a whale with a polka dot tail..." There it is. Odd connection. Nevermind.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Betcha never were a successful plaintiff in a landmark civil rights case decided by the Supreme Court.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
quote:Originally posted by Goody Scrivener:
quote:Originally posted by katharina: Betcha never got chased out of a cemetary by the police.
Hah! Lose a penny!
Yup. I've done that one too.
Posted by vonk (Member # 9027) on :
Betcha never did nothing that no one else has done.
Posted by GaalDornick (Member # 8880) on :
Warning: link contains sexual references.
Posted by Speed (Member # 5162) on :
Betcha never had dinner with Jimmy "The Superfly" Snuka and his son Jimmy "Deuce Shade" Snuka Jr.
Posted by Liz B (Member # 8238) on :
Betcha never tickled someone till they puked.
(Oh, and I'm fairly certain I drank in Yoyogi koen, but the beverages were not fruity. Unless hops are a fruit. )
Posted by pfresh85 (Member # 8085) on :
Then I still win, because these beverages were fruity. Apple in fact. Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
quote:Betcha never tickled someone till they puked.
Two of my brothers did that to another brother. >.<
Posted by Luet13 (Member # 9274) on :
Betcha never slept on the floor of a warehouse in Madison, Wisconsin after seeing a DIY hardcore punk/metal show then ate breakfast at Denny's with twenty dirty punk rockers who started drinking at 10am.
Posted by RunningBear (Member # 8477) on :
Betcha never had 250,000 volts of electricity running through your arm.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Betcha never married my husband.
Posted by porcelain girl (Member # 1080) on :
betcha never jumped and rolled out of a moving car...to get a cute boy to give you a ride instead.
HA. stupid.
Posted by porcelain girl (Member # 1080) on :
betcha never peed in your dad's mailbox.
(this was actually my brother. i couldn't reach.)
Posted by Javert (Member # 3076) on :
quote:Originally posted by Speed: Betcha never had dinner with Jimmy "The Superfly" Snuka and his son Jimmy "Deuce Shade" Snuka Jr.
Nope, I never...but betcha never met Rodney "Yokozuna" Anoa'i before he passed.
Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
Betcha never got kicked out of the White House...
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
We called it 10 Fingers as well.
Betcha never rode an elephant.
Posted by RunningBear (Member # 8477) on :
I got you there Lyrhawn
Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
I'm pretty sure I win.
* Betcha never asked a Pentagon tour guide where they keep the aliens...
* Betcha never touched Krystal Meyers' hair
* Betcha never sang the Star Wars Gangsta Rap (while dancing) for a documentary sort of thing
Posted by Mr.Funny (Member # 4467) on :
quote:Originally posted by RunningBear: Betcha never had 250,000 volts of electricity running through your arm.
Actually, that's fairly common for anyone who has had a run-in with a Van de Graaf generator. I think most, if not all, of my physics class has had that happen to them (including myself).
Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
* Betcha never ate a 26" pizza
* Betcha never stepped on the REO Speedwagon guitar tech's index finger
* Betcha never lived on a deserted island for a week
* Betcha never got kicked out of the Science Center (three times)
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
quote:Originally posted by RunningBear: I got you there Lyrhawn
Is it cheating to make it as specific as possible?
Betcha never rode an elephant...in a hotel parking lot
Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
* Betcha never walked into Wal-Mart and started freaking out about the release of Cinderella 3 followed by a rant about Diet Sprite
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
I walked into a K-mart and freaked out about the release of Land Before Time XII.
And if the rant was about how awesome Diet Sprite is, then I'd say that's a fair approximation.
Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
No, I was upset about how pointless it is to make diet versions of sodas that are basically diet already.
Posted by Fyfe (Member # 937) on :
Betcha never read a bodice-ripper out loud onto tape for your going-blind grandmother.
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
quote:Originally posted by SteveRogers: No, I was upset about how pointless it is to make diet versions of sodas that are basically diet already.
But it tastes so much better!
Posted by Rappin' Ronnie Reagan (Member # 5626) on :
quote:Originally posted by SteveRogers: No, I was upset about how pointless it is to make diet versions of sodas that are basically diet already.
Huh? Sprite has over 100 calories per can. How is that "basically diet"?
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
quote: * Betcha never stepped on the REO Speedwagon guitar tech's index finger
JT Stryker said he isn't sure if he's done that, but he has stepped on Mellencamp, Metallica and Def Leppard's tech guy's index finger, and he can ask if it's possible his dad ever worked for REO Speedwagon.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
quote:Is it cheating to make it as specific as possible?
I'd say so.
I'll bet you were never me. Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
quote:Originally posted by Fyfe: Betcha never read a bodice-ripper out loud onto tape for your going-blind grandmother.
Posted by Dead_Horse (Member # 3027) on :
quote: Betcha never read a bodice-ripper out loud onto tape for your going-blind grandmother.
Fyfe - You have my undying admiration. I have a hard time reading those silently to myself, much less out loud for someone else to hear. You are amazing! Way above and beyond....
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
quote:Originally posted by mr_porteiro_head:
quote:Is it cheating to make it as specific as possible?
I'd say so.
I'll bet you were never me.
Well for that one I don't think it was violating the spirit of the game. If I had wanted to get VERY specific I would have said "in Midland Michigan, at this specific hotel, on this specific date, with this specific elephant and with these specific people."
Generally one would figure if you're going to ride an elephant it's at like, I don't know, probably in Africa or India, or if not, then at a zoo or circus or fair or something.
A hotel parking lot strikes me as more unique, and therefore fair game.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
quote:Originally posted by Lyrhawn: Betcha never rode an elephant.
quote:Originally posted by RunningBear: I got you there Lyrhawn
Me too. (But it was a zoo, not a hotel parking lot.)
quote:Originally posted by Mr.Funny:
quote:Originally posted by RunningBear: Betcha never had 250,000 volts of electricity running through your arm.
Actually, that's fairly common for anyone who has had a run-in with a Van de Graaf generator. I think most, if not all, of my physics class has had that happen to them (including myself).
Me too.
Betcha never had a chunk of your finger removed by a very large parrot.
Posted by Eaquae Legit (Member # 3063) on :
****grossness warning alert****
Betcha never showered feces down someone's throat.
(more extra space so people don't need to read if they want to avoid it)
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
What about a grocery parking lot? That wasn't me though, that was Sidda in Divine Secrets of the YAYA Sisterhood.
Posted by DaisyMae (Member # 9722) on :
Yes, it is cheating to be too specific.
No "Betcha never watched Scrubs on my living room couch last night," kinda crap.
Although I did do that.
Betcha never touched Gwen Stefani's shoe while she was performing.
Betcha you were never MTV's website picture for 2 months.
Posted by Kacie_lala33 (Member # 9784) on :
Betcha never swamwith/playedwith/rode a dolphin!!!
Posted by DaisyMae (Member # 9722) on :
quote:Originally posted by Eaquae Legit: ****grossness warning alert****
Betcha never showered feces down someone's throat.
(more extra space so people don't need to read if they want to avoid it)
I'm curious, but I will not ask.
That is disgusting.
You're right. I have never done that.
Posted by RunningBear (Member # 8477) on :
With the Van De Graff generator I believe it is not actually conducting through your body... At least it shouldn't be, according to what I have heard. I always thought it was just aligning your magnetic field with its own.
Posted by Nighthawk (Member # 4176) on :
Betcha never calculated 2^256... by hand.
Posted by RunningBear (Member # 8477) on :
Betcha never drank red bull.... during a marathon.
Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :
The way I've played this game its called "I've never". You say something that you've never done and then everyone who has done it has to put in a penny. (There was a drinking version of this on Lost). In that version, the least experienced person wins. Your version where you have to come up with stuff no one else has done has a very different bias where the most experienced person wins. I also think its lots easier to come up with stuff that no one else has done.
Betcha never been invited to speak at the AVS meeting?
Betcha never slept in a graveyard in Austria?
Betcha never ridden under the Flamme Rouge in the Tour de France.
Betcha never road a bicycle all night to catch a ferry.
Posted by Qaz (Member # 10298) on :
Betcha never put on a cowboy hat and performed "Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Write COBOL" for a group of programmers.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
I'll betcha didn't get a goose egg for Easter when you were a kid.
Posted by RunningBear (Member # 8477) on :
I got an ostrich egg one time.
That scared the bejesus out of me.
Posted by Raventhief (Member # 9002) on :
I'd say I've done about half these things.
Betcha never stabbed yourself in the neck with a saxaphone during rehersal.
Betcha never been knocked down, jumped on, spat at, hit over the head, stood on, and dogpiled upon on stage for an audience of about 400 then had your picture in the paper the next day! (I love my job)
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
quote:Betcha never stabbed yourself in the neck with a saxaphone during rehersal.
You lose.
Posted by porcelain girl (Member # 1080) on :
betcha never performed a sophisticated strip tease to Careless Whisper by Wham!
(Rabbit - i was always more familiar with your version, too.)
Posted by CaySedai (Member # 6459) on :
quote:Originally posted by Fyfe: Betcha never read a bodice-ripper out loud onto tape for your going-blind grandmother.
Fyfe: did you use voices like we do when reading books for kids?
(will figure out my "betcha never" later, after changing keyboards)
Posted by Shigosei (Member # 3831) on :
I think that at the very least, the things you say have to be general enough that someone could have theoretically done them.
Betcha never threw something at an actor during a performance of one of Shakespeare's plays at the Globe theater.
Betcha never watched Bush and Kerry debate in person.
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
quote:Originally posted by mr_porteiro_head:
quote:Betcha never stabbed yourself in the neck with a saxaphone during rehersal.
You lose.
Twice over.
Posted by CaySedai (Member # 6459) on :
Okay, now I can type.
Betcha never typed a whole sentence without spaces, then backspaced with the arrow key and used a needle-nose pliers inserting into the spacebar hole) to put spaces in (because somebody broke the spacebar. !!! Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Betcha never gave birth to a kid who was born with the cord wrapped around her neck, then her ankle, then her neck again. (That was a new one even for my doctor! She also wiggled out of TWO scalp electrode monitors, which was a new one for the entire staff of the hospital, apparently.)
Posted by Tinros (Member # 8328) on :
Betcha weren't born choking on your own feces. (They had to put me on a tilt board and pound on my back til I could breathe)
Betcha never watched Yellowstone's Steamboat Geyser have its biggest eruption in over a century.
Betcha never had an ulcer in your throat. (some people may have had that one)
Posted by anti_maven (Member # 9789) on :
Betcha never been to a garden party with Queen Elizabeth II.
Betcha never ran 100m in the Berlin Olympische Stadion as in homage to Jesse Owens.
Betcha never been asked to leave the Berlin Olympishe Stadion by an armed security guard. Ahem.
Betcha never been escorted from a bar while dressed as a woman to stop you being beaten up by drunken Marines...
I'll stop now. I think I may have said too much Posted by Snail (Member # 9958) on :
Betcha never interviewed the Finnish minister of Justice.
Betcha never been stalked by an albino reindeer.
Betcha never had your suspenders break and your trousers drop while you were on stage.
Betcha never had to do an army marching drill with skis on your legs.
Posted by RunningBear (Member # 8477) on :
Betcha never had a senator sign your homework. (actually, a signing machine...)
Posted by tt&t (Member # 5600) on :
quote:Originally posted by breyerchic04: Betcha never showed a horse.
Showed a horse what, exactly? kidding. And you lose. Hundreds of times over
Betcha never ridden a horse while you were standing up. Without falling off. With photographic evidence.
Betcha never eaten a huhu beetle alive, crunch crunch, for ten bucks*.
*Not actually me, my little sister.
Posted by Fyfe (Member # 937) on :
quote: Fyfe: did you use voices like we do when reading books for kids?
Yes. I mean, I had to. There were some whiny shrill people and some gruff-voiced people. It was all very awkward; I have been reading books onto tape for my aunt since I was fourteen or so, but the most risque they had ever been up to that point was Ron and Lavender making out all over the Gryffindor common room. When my parents brought home Julie Garwood's timeless masterpiece The Bride and told me my grandmother really wanted to have it on tape but couldn't get it anywhere because it was so trashy no one had ever recorded an audio version, my brain exploded with horror. You know how many sex scenes in that book? FIVE. FIVE.
*brain is scarred with horror forever*
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
quote:Originally posted by Lyrhawn: Betcha never rode an elephant.
You lost that bet. I did.
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
See Kylie, I didn't expect you to be around. And I was pretty sure kwsni hadn't, though it was possible.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
quote:Originally posted by Eaquae Legit: ****grossness warning alert****
Betcha never showered feces down someone's throat.
(more extra space so people don't need to read if they want to avoid it)
Okay, I'll bite. What's the story here?
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
quote:Originally posted by Noemon: Okay, I'll bite.
*turns green*
Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
Wow, more elephant riders here than I would have guessed.
edit: 2 more!
[ April 18, 2007, 10:59 AM: Message edited by: Morbo ]
Posted by TheHumanTarget (Member # 7129) on :
Betcha never received a compliment from Jimmy Carter about your coat.
Posted by Eaquae Legit (Member # 3063) on :
Noemon (and anybody else) how about you email me if you're curious? I'm pretty sure most people here don't want me posting that story.
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
quote:Originally posted by Lyrhawn:
quote:Originally posted by mr_porteiro_head:
quote:Betcha never stabbed yourself in the neck with a saxaphone during rehersal.
You lose.
Twice over.
Three times. I bet everyone who's played sax has done it at least once, so this was a poor bet.
Posted by anti_maven (Member # 9789) on :
Hatrack = The Legions of Hannibal
Or so it would seem. I've never ridden an elephant, I feel all lonely now
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
quote:Originally posted by Eaquae Legit: Noemon (and anybody else) how about you email me if you're curious? I'm pretty sure most people here don't want me posting that story.
I hope that wasn't in reaction to my post. I was just referring to the notion of biting down . . .
Posted by anti_maven (Member # 9789) on :
quote:Originally posted by rivka:
quote:Originally posted by Noemon: Okay, I'll bite.
*turns green*
OH NOES!! Bad Rivka! Bad bad Rivka.
*grabs bottle of mind bleach*
Posted by Snail (Member # 9958) on :
Betcha never had the customs officers at the JFK airport burst out in laughter as they X-ray your luggage.
Posted by vonk (Member # 9027) on :
Betcha never broke your moms tailbone on the way out the baby chute.
Betcha never drank five 40s in one sitting (long time ago, bad idea)
Betcha never quoted HS Thompson's entire "You know a dope fiend when..." speech over the PA on a mission trip.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
quote:Originally posted by anti_maven:
quote:Originally posted by rivka:
quote:Originally posted by Noemon: Okay, I'll bite.
*turns green*
OH NOES!! Bad Rivka! Bad bad Rivka.
*grabs bottle of mind bleach*
Hey, I'm not the one biting stuff. Yell at Noemon.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
I was not unaware of the possibility of someone writing what rivka did when I composed my last post.
Count me among the legion of elephant riders, by the way.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
quote:Originally posted by Noemon: I was not unaware of the possibility of someone writing what rivka did when I composed my last post.
See! It's totally his fault.
I was set up!
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
EL, I'll email you tonight. Or you could just send it to the email in my profile.
Posted by TheHumanTarget (Member # 7129) on :
Betcha never hung out with members of Chumbawumba.
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
Betcha never spent an afternoon in a ghost town with a native of the island of Yap.
Posted by Eaquae Legit (Member # 3063) on :
Edit: To Rivka: Oh, no. Just my general wariness in posting the worst of the work horror stories. I've found most people don't like hearing them. I actually waited a whole day before posting at all because I wasn't sure.
I have also ridden an elephant. Twice at least.
Betcha you've never been hit in the face with a greased watermelon projectile.
Betcha never broke a toe while swimming.
Posted by Snail (Member # 9958) on :
I've never ridden an elephant. Everybody else got to, but my Mum said that I can't because that'll make me feel queasy and throw up. (This was on the same zoo trip our car got pooed on by a giraffe.)
I'm still bitter.
Posted by Nighthawk (Member # 4176) on :
Betcha never drove a car in to four feet of water.
Betcha never got driven out of Disney World on an ambulance.
Betcha never had a science experiment fill an entire city block with thick, white smoke.
Betcha never been thrown off a commuter train and arrested.
Betcha never been asked a technical question by John Carmack.
Posted by anti_maven (Member # 9789) on :
Rivka, itīs like on a rough sea crossing - you're all ill, but the first to hurl starts a chain reaction....
BTW - betcha never been stopped your own armed police roadblock while you were riding a pushbike...
Still no heffalumps though. Mind you, I'm off to London Zoo at the end of the month with the Toddling Tornado, I hope they still do rides. Note to self, must buy peanuts.
Posted by TheHumanTarget (Member # 7129) on :
Betcha never drove a u-haul into a category 4 hurricane.
Posted by vonk (Member # 9027) on :
quote:Betcha never drove a car in to four feet of water.
You'd lose that bet.
Posted by Nighthawk (Member # 4176) on :
I figured I would.
Posted by vonk (Member # 9027) on :
Must...abide..by..the..T..O..S...
Posted by Olivet (Member # 1104) on :
I have ridden an elephant, and a camel (not at the same time ).
I have been kicked out of a cemetary.
I have jumped from a moving vehicle.
***
Betcha never asked a random State Trouper for his license and registration.
Posted by vonk (Member # 9027) on :
quote:Originally posted by TheHumanTarget:
quote:Yeah, Allison was a good time.
Must...abide..by..the..T..O..S...
Posted by TheHumanTarget (Member # 7129) on :
The phrasing just struck me as odd, and immediately drew my mind into a place where any comment I might make would violate the TOS.
Posted by Feer (Member # 9846) on :
I have ridden on an elephant and jumped out of a moving vehichle as well.
Betcha never hit golf balls off your roof at passing cars.
Posted by vonk (Member # 9027) on :
Oh, gotcha. I was gonna say "Allison was a [female dog]" but didn't want to violate the TOS myself, so went with unreceptable sarcasm instead.
Posted by SC Carver (Member # 8173) on :
Becha never, Done shots of Tuna eye juice, and eaten live shrimp. I would recommend following it up with a shot of something else. (evolves a trip to Korea)
Becha never, Gone to two Pearl Jam concerts with your 70+ year old Grand Mother. (also saw, Aerosmith, Toad the wet sprocket, Dave Mathews, Pink Floyd and others)
I never asked a cop for his license, but I did ask one for a table for four at IHOP one night, (Lots of drinks involved, fortunately he was in a good mood)
I didn't drive in a hurricane, but we did play football in Hurricane Hugo, Class 3. Punter had a -5 yard punt.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
quote:Betcha never broke your moms tailbone on the way out the baby chute.
My daughter did.
Posted by vonk (Member # 9027) on :
I sympathize with her; that's heckuva headache!
My mom said my head looked like purple play-dough the first time she saw me and the doctor said "We've checked three times and we're pretty sure there's no brain damage." Reassuring, huh?
Posted by RunningBear (Member # 8477) on :
Betcha never did a 360 while driving...
stupid ice... Posted by Raventhief (Member # 9002) on :
quote:Originally posted by RunningBear: Betcha never did a 360 while driving...
stupid ice...
Twice. Once on purpose.
Betcha never driven a car you built yourself. (Not a go kart, a car)
Posted by Feer (Member # 9846) on :
Frame and all?
Posted by Olivet (Member # 1104) on :
SC- I passed a trouper sitting in his car with the window rolled down as I approached a convenience store.
I have poor impulse control. *shrugs* He was cute!
I think I really startled the guy, but he smiled at me, anyway. The things you can get away with when you're a 19 year old, relatively wholesome-looking girl.
Betcha never rode out an F5 tornado in a trailer park.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
quote:Betcha never rode out an F5 tornado in a trailer park.
I've done it in a trailer home, but it didn't happen to be in a park.
quote: Betcha never did a 360 while driving...
I didn't even need ice -- it was just slick from the rain.
Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :
quote:Originally posted by RunningBear: Betcha never did a 360 while driving...
stupid ice...
Betcha you've never lived in Montana if you think that is an uncommon occurance.
Posted by Olivet (Member # 1104) on :
Also, I think It wasn't a trailer park for me, either. I believe the mobile home was on a few acres of its own. Ginormous oak tree in the back yard (at least, before the tornado...)
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
quote:Originally posted by vonk: I sympathize with her; that's heckuva headache!
My mom said my head looked like purple play-dough the first time she saw me and the doctor said "We've checked three times and we're pretty sure there's no brain damage." Reassuring, huh?
No, she was born so fast she didn't even have a normally-misshapen head. The nurses were all oohing over how beautiful she was the whole time we were there (I pushed three times, I think.)
Her sister is the one who was born with a black eye (she was lying sideways in the canal.)
Posted by brojack17 (Member # 9189) on :
I was stuck in a holding pattern above Houston during that. Three and a half hours for a 45 minute flight. Then when I landed, I almost flodded my car trying to get to Sam Houston Tollway.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
My tornado was in the 70s in rural Oklahoma, but I don't actually know what it was rated. I was also too young to remember it.
Posted by brojack17 (Member # 9189) on :
I've ridden out a few tornadoes. Many in a trailer. I hate those things (trailers and tornadoes).
Posted by RunningBear (Member # 8477) on :
When I pulled the 360 I was in Montana.
Most of the people I know make it about 200 or 300 then go off the road. I over corrected twice and somehow ended up going straight.
Posted by Snail (Member # 9958) on :
quote:Betcha never did a 360 while driving...
I've done this though not in Montana.
But I've never been even near a tornado.
Posted by hansenj (Member # 4034) on :
quote:Betcha never rode an elephant.
I have, too! In Thailand!
I am so amazed/impressed/grossed out by all the stuff you all have done!
Posted by RunningBear (Member # 8477) on :
I was also in Thailand when I rode the elephant.
Betcha never bowed to the emerald buddha.
Posted by Fyfe (Member # 937) on :
Betcha never got complimented on your dish-washing skills by a nun.
Posted by Juxtapose (Member # 8837) on :
Betcha never been stabbed by a spear.
Count me in the Legions of Hannibal.
Posted by TheHumanTarget (Member # 7129) on :
Betcha never arrived somewhere three hours before you left.
Posted by brojack17 (Member # 9189) on :
THT, I hope you are talking about the international date line and not making a reference to the shroom thread .
Betch never been in four natural disasters (Hurricane, Tornado, Flood, Earthquake).
Posted by vonk (Member # 9027) on :
At the same time?! If not, I've been through all four.
Betcha never drove a three-wheeler through a barbed wire fence.
Posted by hansenj (Member # 4034) on :
quote:Betcha never bowed to the emerald buddha.
I've done that, too!
quote:Betcha never arrived somewhere three hours before you left.
And this! When we came home from our honeymoon.
I've been trying to think of one of my own to post, and turns out I haven't done that many unique things outside of on my honeymoon (Oh dear, look the other way OOC fiends).
-Betcha you have never gotten a Thai massage on the beach of an island.
Posted by Feer (Member # 9846) on :
quote:Originally posted by vonk: Betcha never drove a three-wheeler through a barbed wire fence.
I drove a quad into a barbed wire fence. I wasn't going very fast so I kinda just bounced off, flipped the quad.
Betcha never picked up a live scorpion
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
I've also ridden an elephant - into Agra Fort (amazingly impressive).
Betcha never drove across the Nullaboor...
(... and scheduled the drive around oysters in Ceduna, wine in Clare, and resteraunts in Mildura. You gotta have fun!)
Betcha never flew from New Dehli, India to Lahore, Pakistan in the middle of a particularly nasty Kashmiri border skirmish.
Posted by brojack17 (Member # 9189) on :
quote:Originally posted by vonk: At the same time?! If not, I've been through all four.
Betcha never drove a three-wheeler through a barbed wire fence.
Not at the same time. That would be a bad day!
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
Met a gorgeous stranger on the midnight train from Prague to Munich and spent the day with him, promising when parting to meet again back in the States.
Posted by TheHumanTarget (Member # 7129) on :
quote:Betch never been in four natural disasters (Hurricane, Tornado, Flood, Earthquake).
Hurricane, Tornado, Flood, Earthquake, Typhoon, Wildfire...you name a disaster, and I've been there.
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
quote:Originally posted by katharina: Met a gorgeous stranger on the midnight train from Prague to Munich and spent the day with him, promising when parting to meet again back in the States.
Did you meet him?
Posted by Olivet (Member # 1104) on :
Today, a FedEx driver stopped to tell my husband and me that he sees us walking a lot, and we're always holding hands and it gives him hope to see a regular guy with a beautiful woman who loves him.
O_o My Beloved took the 'regular guy' bit with aplomb and said, "Just keep looking, man!"
I'm not saying that that has never happened to anybody, but I've been feeling like a real uggo lately and this was both unexpected (I didn't even comb my hair!) AND the strangest thing that has happened to me in months.
Besides the jagermeister incident, which I'd rather not go into at this time. O_O
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
quote:Did you meet him?
I didn't. He e-mailed me, but I didn't e-mail back because I couldn't decide what to do and then almost a month had passed and it seemed too late.
Also, he was one of three players (including me) in one of the most awkward evenings of my life and we had made the plans before that particular disaster so I was kind of hiding from embarassment.
Posted by brojack17 (Member # 9189) on :
quote:Originally posted by TheHumanTarget:
quote:Betch never been in four natural disasters (Hurricane, Tornado, Flood, Earthquake).
Hurricane, Tornado, Flood, Earthquake, Typhoon, Wildfire...you name a disaster, and I've been there.
So you really are The Human Target! Posted by David G (Member # 8872) on :
Betcha never hit a homerun off of Jim Palmer.
Posted by TheHumanTarget (Member # 7129) on :
Betcha haven't ever blown the cover of a plain-clothes Secret Service agent.
quote:So you really are The Human Target!
What can I say, chaos tends to follow in my wake.
Posted by brojack17 (Member # 9189) on :
quote:Originally posted by TheHumanTarget: Betcha haven't ever blown the cover of a plain-clothes Secret Service agent.
That's a story worth telling.
Posted by TheHumanTarget (Member # 7129) on :
On a way to a meeting with a former President, my friend and I bumped into someone that we knew, but hadn't seen in a while. We started to talk to him and he said that he really couldn't talk right now because he was working. The proverbial lightbulb went off and my friend says (in a moderately loud voice) "When did you start working for the Secret Service?" Some people around us heard him, and 15 minutes later he was gone.
Posted by brojack17 (Member # 9189) on :
gone? Posted by TheHumanTarget (Member # 7129) on :
I'm assuming he was pulled off of the detail for the duration of the evening, because what good is a plain-clothes agent that's been identified to the public. Either way, I didn't see him again.
Posted by Nighthawk (Member # 4176) on :
I'm sure he's reading your email as we speak.
Betcha never got badly beaten in a video game... by a well-known adult film star.
Betcha never had to explain to a police officer why it's perfectly normal that your shirt is covered in fresh blood.
Betcha were never thrown from a moving car... by your mother.
Posted by SoaPiNuReYe (Member # 9144) on :
Betcha never won a countywide rap battle competition.
Posted by gsim1337 (Member # 10168) on :
Betcha never got hugged on your birthday..by the President.
Posted by gsim1337 (Member # 10168) on :
quote: quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Betcha never bowed to the emerald buddha. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I've done that, too!
Ditto, and I've also ridden an elephant in Thailand.
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