{"id":87,"date":"2009-01-27T17:18:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T17:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallioncornell.wordpress.com\/2009\/01\/27\/25-things-about-me-plus-two-bonus-things"},"modified":"2026-07-01T12:32:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T18:32:52","slug":"25-things-about-me-plus-two-bonus-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/25-things-about-me-plus-two-bonus-things\/","title":{"rendered":"25 Things About Me – Plus Two Bonus Things!"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s this weird dealie<\/span> going around on Facebook<\/span> where if you’re tagged by your friends “you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you.” So I wrote it, and, not wanting to waste it just on Facebook<\/span> folks, I thought I’d share it with the public at large. However, since many of you who read this blog have already read the same note on Facebook<\/span>, I thought I’d add a couple of interesting things to it. Or, at least, a couple of things. Whether they’re interesting or not is up to you.<\/p>\n

Plus most of this crap I’ve covered in the blog already anyway.
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1. I won the district wide spelling bee for the Las<\/span> Virgenes<\/span> School District in seventh grade. Bad spelling drives me up a wall.<\/p>\n

2. When I was three years old, I took a dump in Howard Hughes’ swimming pool in Florida. We were staying there because my dad was working for him, and my brother told me if you pee in a pool, the chlorine makes it disappear. I figured if it worked for number one, it would work for number two, but no such luck.<\/p>\n

3. I’m fifteen inches taller than my wife. (And ten months younger.)<\/p>\n

4. I’ve found that bungee jumping is the only thing in life where the anticipation is not nearly as bad as the actual experience.<\/p>\n

5. I think the word “moist” is funny for reasons that defy explanation.<\/p>\n

6. I have no sideburns. I can grow a beard, but it doesn’t connect above my ear. So I usually stick to a goatee.<\/p>\n

7. I used to be able to belch the entire alphabet in one belch. Those days are done.<\/p>\n

8. I can stick my whole fist in my mouth. That’s even more remarkable when you realize that I have very large hands. And large feet. (That’s as far as I’m going with this.)<\/p>\n

9. I have a British driver’s license that doesn’t expire until the year 2038.<\/p>\n

10. There is a 44-year-old Navy veteran named Andrew Fullen<\/span> in Chicago who thinks I am Glen A. Larson, the creator of Manimal<\/span>, Magnum P.I., and Battlestar<\/span> Galactica<\/span>. This man hates me with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns. I have never met him.<\/p>\n

11. I once made Maximillian<\/span> Schell<\/span> say the words “wazoo city, babe.”<\/p>\n

12. I think a messy trumpet is always funny.<\/p>\n

13. About ten years ago, my then-two-year-old daughter once almost ripped the pearls off of Barbara Bush’s neck.<\/p>\n

14. As a little kid, I got Jaclyn Smith’s autograph on the set of Charlie’s Angels. I also saw the original model for the Battlestar<\/span> Galactica<\/span>, despite not being Glen A. Larson, the show’s<\/span> creator.<\/p>\n

15. I’ve only walked out of one movie in my entire life – Adam Sandler’s<\/span> “You Don’t Mess With The Zohan<\/span>.”<\/p>\n

16. I grew up in a household filled with incontinent dogs.<\/p>\n

17. I once saw<\/span> Jamie Farr in a supermarket. He was looking at soup cans.<\/p>\n

18. For about four years running, I had the high score on Indiana Jones Pinball at the Jackson Hole Arcade. For all I know, I still have it, but it’s been over a decade since I’ve been back to check.<\/p>\n

19. I played right field for a long stream of little league T-ball and baseball teams. One coach told me it was because I “had a strong arm.” Yeah, right.<\/p>\n

20. I think the Boy Scouts of America is a terrorist organization.<\/p>\n

21. If I were on death row, my last meal would be barbecued crab legs from Joe’s Crab Shack.<\/p>\n

22. I have been fired four times in my life, but only lost my job twice as a result. Go figure.<\/p>\n

23. My first girlfriend ever is now a bisexual polygamist.<\/p>\n

24. I once wrote an anonymous love poem to a sheep that got published in a university anthology.<\/p>\n

25. I’m not a “huggy<\/span>” person. Or a “kissy<\/span>” person. Not that I don’t like hugs and kisses, mind you; I just prefer them in the proper context.<\/p>\n

AND NOW, FOR YOUR EXTRA BLOG BONUS…<\/p>\n

26. I learned how to play the tin whistle for while walking through Thurso, Scotland for weeks while my car was in the shop. I’m actually pretty good at it.<\/p>\n

27. I once walked around the Paramount lot with nothing more than a clipboard and a pencil and gained entry to the sets of Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/span> and Cheers<\/span>. You can go anywhere if you look like you know what you’re doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There'sthis weird dealie<\/span> going around on Facebook<\/span> where if you're tagged by your friends \"you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you.\" So I wrote it, and, not wanting to waste it just on Facebook<\/span> folks, I thought I'd share it with the public at large. ... Read more<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4800,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/4800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}