I have been tagged by The Curmudgeon. Eight Random facts about me are apparently required so here goes…
1. I once microwaved my mobile phone to stop an argument at a party. I had tried reasoning with them but it wasn’t working, I microwaved the phone, end of argument.
2. I was nearly ejected from the houses of parliament for mentioning some of the nastier things about Winston Churchill as the guided tour went by his statue. Every other time I have been there before or since I have been protesting outside.
3. The last time I had to have stitches was when I managed to hit myself on the head with an iron bar.
4. I once drunkenly fell alseep between two parked cars in Itaewon, Seoul, South Korea. I was woken up a little later, covered in snow, by the somewhat bemused owner of one of the cars. The same weekend I also fell asleep in the only gay bar in Seoul (but I am not gay).
5. Weather doesn’t bother me at all, hot, cold, dry or wet.
6. If I was 10 years younger and could start uni again I would do geology or zoology.
7. I have a list of people who have agreed to go out with me for a celebratory pint when Maggie Thatcher dies.
8. I am right-handed and left-footed. However, I deal cards with my left hand and skateboard (NB – I don’t really skateboard, I just mean if I try to things like that) as if I was right-footed. Someone once said that this makes me ‘ambivalent’.
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Ok, I hereby tag Graeme Anfinson, The Fanonite (even though he probably won’t do it), Mickey Z, Peacechick, Flimsy Sanity, Kim Ayres, Dave on fire and Keir Neuringer (even though he probably won’t do it either).
#3 for me was a weed wacker. One of those serrated blades that you swing like a golf club. Probably should’ve made a note of that clothes line before a’wackin’ the weeds, eh.
#7(ish) I could NOT help feeling/thinking “it was nowhere near soon enough” when her brother, Reagan, finally kicked it.
#2 LOL! Excellent!
thanks.
you’d be surprised how few people like maggie here. that said, there will be almost unbearable sycophancy when she does go, sickbags on standby.
I like your blog, please don’t tag me.
I found it researching a subject you posted about.
I’m having a discussion at my blog, pointing to the direction of Spiked Online. I’m sure you have info to add.
this is the first tag i ever responded to and the only reason is that i think the guy who tagged me is so incredibly talented i couldnt resist it.
he makes me howl with laughter most times he writes. thats the only reason.
In the words of Monty Python: Brian can’t come out today because he’s been a very naughty boy! (Said in a high pitched uppity voice). I love all those movies and I think you probably have lived a life very closely linked to any of them. Peace.
It reminds me of when I was down in South Panama in the Noriega days when the army trucks would roll south to the Columbian border. When those trucks came by, you scrambled off the road.
mike, your comments… thanks. should they have been the other way round in terms of the posts?
I will post something. I checked out curmudgeon, I’m going to have to bookmark that one.
Interesting things when you’ve been to interesting places. I’d say you did rather well with the gun segment. Hat off to you for that.
thanks