What is the most unusual or the weirdest thing you can

[Acts 2:38 girl]

Cool!  I just found out something neat about our family.  We have five "Saints" (legal thanks to the Catholic church) in our family.  I also found out DH and I are related!   (Yeah it's wierd - and not only by marriage!   )  His Great grandmother and mine were sisters.  Pretty cool!

[deniski]

I was once married to a guy named Dave.  We got divorced and then both remarried later.  He

[NightOwl]

Wow--this is AMAZING!  No, I dont mean the offbeat things people have written in this thread, but the fact that only about a dozen members of this board have had unusual life experiences or have weird family members. :J

I'd have guessed there were many more among us who have led unpredictable lives in some way or another.  (Of course, the alternative explanation is that those NOT saying anything actually have secrets TOO DARK TO SHARE!  Now THAT leads to some interesting speculation...)  (Hmmm---I guess Topcat fits into this latter category :Z  )

[julecav]

I went to school with Paul Teutel Jr. from American Chopper.  We were never in the same circle but he was a nice guy.  DH gave me strep throat in kindergarten from kissing me on the school bus.  Eddie Cahill (Rachels assistant on Friends and the goalie in the movie Miracle)is the nephew of Bridgies godmother I guess I can say I knew him before he got famous.  I dislocated my kneecap reaching into the trunk of my car and I broke my ankle walking in the front yard.  I gave birth to a 9 1/2 lb. baby with only 20 minutes of labor and 1 push.  DH just fixed the heat in Steve Buschemi's summerhouse and was invited to stop by in the summer for a pool party.  The house used to belong to Harvey Keitel.  Robert Dinero owns the house and property behind DH's office but he hasn't met him yet.

Wow I'm more interesting than I thought :>}

[Camperroo]

This is a great thread!  Ok let's see when I was little I use to tell kids my mom and uncle were famous...cause my Uncles name was Ed Sullivan and my mom was Peggy Fleming!!!  I have a weird sense of intuition, I often wind up calling my best friend just as she is calling me and we both get a busy signal!!!!!  I've also dreamed things that actually occur a couple of days later...unfortunately scary stuff like a plane accident, etc.

Our house has the ghost of a child in it.  My husband and I when we first moved in use to hear "mommy" called out or right beside our ears except our DD was only 3 and DS an infant.  DD was always within eyesight and DS couldn't talk yet.  Our house is 110 years old so not sure what the deal is with a young child perhaps taking ill and dying in the house, except when we broke through a wall to remodel we found an old cabinet hidden and my husband thought we had struck gold!!!  Was convinced money was hidden in it but when he pulled things out of it we found very old medicine bottles the kinds with the small brown bottles with corks in it.  One of them still had these purplish pills in it and was marked poison!!!!  Another that was apparently used for croup...the directions on it were unbelieveable it said to use as a poultice first and then if needed to mix in water and drink, etc.   Found another old bottle that was used to hold....leaches!!  Yuck!!  These were all turn of the century bottles.  Anyway we hope that some poor little one wasn't sick and died here...but one night I was lying in bed and right next to my ear I heard "mommy" I jumped a mile thinking it our then toddler but turned my head to see no one there.  Freaked me out.  One day I decided to have a talk with our little guest because one afternoon we watched our then 3 yr. old DD walk into our den and it literally looked like someone had shoved her she fell forward so hard for no apparent reason.  I was afraid our little houseguest was jealous of the kids. Sounds crazy I know, but it's what we went through.  So I had a little talk with our "guest" and told her she was always welcome in our home and that we promised to take very good care of it always and that our children were part of the home too and to please let them be.  I swear things have been peaceful here ever since.  

Famous...well my cousin dated Matt LeBlanc through most of junior high and high school.  Have great photos of him with her at a prom and he had a perm!!!!  Also back in Newton where he lived he was always called Matthew...hated being call Matt and his last name was pronouned LeBlank not the fancier version of LeBlanc. All in all he was a good kid and always good to his mom.  I remember when he left here to move to NY to try and get some commercials, etc.  He left construction work here and a lot of friends teased him about becoming a "model"  I well remember his early struggles of yucky apartments, no money, etc.  My cousin would occassionally send him some cash to help him out. They remained friends for a long time. He even called her when she was out in CA for business to meet up with her, as he was just starting Friends then.  He came here several months ago to celebrate his wedding with family and friends who couldn't make the big Hawaii trip and he drove down my cousin's old street to go by her house, but her folks sold the place two years ago, but the other neighbors saw him.  He has stayed very loyal to his Boston area friends.  Bet those guys that teased him for leaving construction work to become a so called "model" aren't laughing now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   His sense of humor is very similar to his Joey character but he's definitely no dummy.

[NightOwl]

Wow, 'Roo, great post!  It  made the hair on the back of my neck stand up :eek:

Somehow, I'm not surprised that Matt LeBlanc is a nice guy in person who remembers his roots and old friends.

[gsm x2]

I can wiggle the little toe on my right foot without the other toes moving, and can play "Iquana eyes" by crossing my eyes, then moving either of them around while one remains crossed.

Near death experiences:  Only two...both from running out of air while SCUBA diving at a depth of 100 feet.  A study in self-control and calmness to exhale constantly while surfacing knowing that there isn't another breath in the tank.
 
Relations to famous or infamous?  Nope.
 
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[wiininkwe]

Strange things in my life...oh my, where to begin!   Not really, but there is a story.  Many of you may already be aware that I am an adoptee, and that I did some searching several years ago to find information about my biological heritage.  After lots of detective work, I stumbled across a brother and a sister that I didn't know that I had.  When my DH and I went for the first time to my 'new' brother's house, to get acquainted, my DH said, "Hey, I've been here before!"  My brother opened the door and the two of them just stood there looking at each other for a minute before saying "Hey, HI, how are you!?"  in unison.  They knew each other.  And then when we found my sister, and were telling her about the things we had learned, and told her about our brother, her husband asked her "Hey, is this the guy named Bob that...." and when she said yes, it turned out that they knew each other too.  Then, during some of our talks, we started to go thru what we were doing during different times of our life.  We discovered that for a period of time during the late 60's and early 70's we all spent a lot of time at a bar that was known for the Blues music of their house band, and on closer look, we realised that we all hung in the same 'regulars' group, sat together at the front of the dance floor, and never knew that we were brother and sisters.
 
Famous people, hmmmmm..  well, a friend of mine was the prez of the International Wayne Newton Fan Club (better known as Wayniacs) and during that time, my DH and I were trying to get a small video productions company off the ground.  My friend asked us to produce a tape for the members of the fan club, so we spent a lot of time going to concerts where Wayne was appearing, taping everything we could.  Went to his B-day party, and even taped on his private jet.   Put the whole thing together, and then were told that Wayne had a copyright on anything with him in it, so couldn't use it.
 
Near death experiences, I was following my DH out onto a pier in West Palm Beach FLA.  The night before there had been a terrible storm, and the waves had really been whipped up.  The Sheriff had ordered that the pier be closed, but then he left, and didn't put any barricades out, so we didn't know.  We stopped to look at the water, and all of a sudden a huge wave came from the opposite side of the breakwater, behind me.  Rick had started to walk away, and just missed getting hit by it, but it swept me off my feet and was washing me right over to the edge.  My feet and legs were hanging over, and I was just about to go, when Rick grabbed my hair and held on, and it was just long enough to let the main force of the wave get by.  The Sheriff had returned with some barricades just in time to see this, and he started yelling on his bullhorn, "Get off that pier or I'll arrest you!!!"   Of course, we were already scrambling to get off, and even if we hadn't he wouldn't have arrested us, because he wouldn't go out there himself.  
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[AustinBoston]

Well lets see. I'm a decendent of the King of France in the late 1600's. The first born of each family is considered a prince. So I guess I'm Prince Starcraft Dad. Now if I can only find my castle.

Please don't tell anyone about this, but as an amature genealogist, I take a kind of morbid pleasure in finding related spouses in the family tree.

I've found a king in England that I'm decended from 43 different ways...that I know of so far.  

My most recent discovery, (and most inbred to date) is on my father's mother's side.  An ancestor from the early 1600's married his first cousin.  His son married his first cousin.  His grandson married his first cousin.  Then it skips a generation, and his great-great grandson married his first cousin.

Mixed into this (the non-cousin marriages that produced the wives) are people who's ancestors are also ancestors of my father's father, both of my mother's parents, and at least one of PJay's mother's parents.

And I'm looking for more.

This last one caused me to go over the edge, and use Jeff Foxworthy's comment about the family tree not forking.

BTW, by the time you go back 1,000 years, you have so many ancestors that you are likely descended from anyone who's blood still survives, many of them dozens of ways.  At 1,000 years, you have about 17 billion (17,179,869,183 to be precise) ancestors.  That's close to all the people who have ever died.  With the next generation, that number nearly doubles, and doubles again with each additional generation, so that at 2,000 years, you have about 117,156,589,585,013,628,892 (117 quintillion) ancestors.  We're all related.

Austin

[jpreiser]

Please don't tell anyone about this, but as an amature genealogist, I take a kind of morbid pleasure in finding related spouses in the family tree.

I've found a king in England that I'm decended from 43 different ways...that I know of so far.  

My most recent discovery, (and most inbred to date) is on my father's mother's side.  An ancestor from the early 1600's married his first cousin.  His son married his first cousin.  His grandson married his first cousin.  Then it skips a generation, and his great-great grandson married his first cousin.

Mixed into this (the non-cousin marriages that produced the wives) are people who's ancestors are also ancestors of my father's father, both of my mother's parents, and at least one of PJay's mother's parents.

And I'm looking for more.

This last one caused me to go over the edge, and use Jeff Foxworthy's comment about the family tree not forking.

BTW, by the time you go back 1,000 years, you have so many ancestors that you are likely descended from anyone who's blood still survives, many of them dozens of ways.  At 1,000 years, you have about 17 billion (17,179,869,183 to be precise) ancestors.  That's close to all the people who have ever died.  With the next generation, that number nearly doubles, and doubles again with each additional generation, so that at 2,000 years, you have about 117,156,589,585,013,628,892 (117 quintillion) ancestors.  We're all related.

Austin

Wow sounds like you have a family stick instead of a tree...No branches...

[MommaMia]

I can wiggle the little toe on my right foot without the other toes moving, and can play "Iquana eyes" by crossing my eyes, then moving either of them around while one remains crossed.

 
gsm x2

HEHEHE!  That's great I can too!  Kid's think the eyeball thing is hillarious!  Try rolling the one around in great big circles then bonk yourself on the side of the head and "pop" them back straight into position.  Or "ping pong them back and forth! My little ones just about fall out when they watch this!


OOOOOH  I forgot another good thing I can do....

I can flip my eyelids inside out!  It's really gross and creepy looking.  Made one of my kids cry once!  Bad mommy! :Z

[rednekrubbrduck]

this is a cute...and good thread.  Mine are just brushes..but here goes.  HS-dated an Assemblyman's daughter for a brief spell..so I guess u could say I was doing to the gov what they had been doing to us for years.  Also went to HS with a kid who's nick name was "Toast" (don't ask) who was in a movie called "School Ties" with Brandon Frasier.  He had a small part..and u have to get the widescreen version to see him cause he's cut out uf the formatted to fit u're tv version.  In the service, when I was in England, one evening I was working the gate when a sgt came up to sign a gentleman in.  Well, when I checked his license...the address said '1 Buckingham Palace..London".  I looked up at the guy..then double checked the address..and was like "no way".  Turns out he was the Queen's chauffer.  Turns out he owns rental property in the area and the sgt was gonna rent a small house from him.  The sgt said he was really surprised when he called to inquire about the house when they answerred "Hello..Buckingham palace".  Also..while in England..I dated a gal that handled Prince Charles' poop.  She was a lab tech at a hospital in Nottingham when he got injured in a riding accident, and they needed his stool sample for some reason.  Bout it..cept got to do some Presidential support stuff while in (which basically means that I got bossed around by officers and secret service a lot..nothing major)...historically..my dad told me that we had a great great grandgather that was the train engineer that took Custer to his Last Stand so to speak.

[NightOwl]

this is a cute...and good thread.  Mine are just brushes..but here goes.  HS-dated an Assemblyman's daughter for a brief spell..so I guess u could say I was doing to the gov what they had been doing to us for years.  Also went to HS with a kid who's nick name was "Toast" (don't ask) who was in a movie called "School Ties" with Brandon Frasier.  He had a small part..and u have to get the widescreen version to see him cause he's cut out uf the formatted to fit u're tv version.  In the service, when I was in England, one evening I was working the gate when a sgt came up to sign a gentleman in.  Well, when I checked his license...the address said '1 Buckingham Palace..London".  I looked up at the guy..then double checked the address..and was like "no way".  Turns out he was the Queen's chauffer.  Turns out he owns rental property in the area and the sgt was gonna rent a small house from him.  The sgt said he was really surprised when he called to inquire about the house when they answerred "Hello..Buckingham palace".  Also..while in England..I dated a gal that handled Prince Charles' poop.  She was a lab tech at a hospital in Nottingham when he got injured in a riding accident, and they needed his stool sample for some reason.  Bout it..cept got to do some Presidential support stuff while in (which basically means that I got bossed around by officers and secret service a lot..nothing major)...historically..my dad told me that we had a great great grandgather that was the train engineer that took Custer to his Last Stand so to speak.

Wow, Ian, It is great to see you back--I've missed your special brand of craziness and humor  that kept things moving here.


Funny co-incidence--my grandmother had  three older brothers (they lived in Omaha) who worked for the railroad  (conductors and firemen)  at the time yours did when  Custer and his men came through.  So maybe  our ancestors had met or  KNEW EACH OTHER?

I wish I had thought to ask Gram about things like that in case the brothers ever talked about it to her  later (she wasnt born yet when it happened)

I know also that my grandmother's mother was taken to Fort Kearney, Nebraska to give birth to one of those older brothers because they lived on the prairies then and there  was an INdian raid at about the time the baby was due.

My grandfather Hodgeman's mother  attended the Lincoln-Douglas debates when she was 15 years old and lived to be 98.  (My grandfather was born when she was 45 and she outlived 3 husbands--the last one she married at age 78  was the brother of a fellow named MUlford who wrote the Hopalong Cassidy books)


My father's family are descended from the Ethan Allen family and my mother's family trace back to William Bradford governor  of the original  Mass colony.  (And some of my "other ancestors" were here to meet the boat when it landed at The Rock. :W)

Funny thing about Native American ancestry--I have high cheek bones, dark eyes and dark hair, but we have recently discovered that my blue-eyes blonde husband has much more NA  blood than I do and it is much more recent than mine.  Go figure.

[gsm x2]

HEHEHE! That's great I can too! Kid's think the eyeball thing is hillarious! Try rolling the one around in great big circles then bonk yourself on the side of the head and "pop" them back straight into position. Or "ping pong them back and forth! My little ones just about fall out when they watch this!
 
 
OOOOOH I forgot another good thing I can do....
 
I can flip my eyelids inside out! It's really gross and creepy looking. Made one of my kids cry once! Bad mommy! :Z

OK--this is too weird....I didn't list it, but I can do that too.  At least I used to be able too.  OK--haven't tried it in years.  I can still do it, but I had to use my fingers to flip them back, so it may be years before I TRY that again.  
 
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[rednekrubbrduck]

Wow, Ian, It is great to see you back--I've missed your special brand of craziness and humor  that kept things moving here.


Funny co-incidence--my grandmother had  three older brothers (they lived in Omaha) who worked for the railroad  (conductors and firemen)  at the time yours did when  Custer and his men came through.  So maybe  our ancestors had met or  KNEW EACH OTHER?

Hey..thanks..I'm still here...do more reading then posting now a days.  Almost made a post on u're "jobs going overseas" thread..but tired of rehashing old news..and it's not gonna help me get back into my old line of work (especially since we're now a dime a dozen).  But we're surviving.
 Very Possibly...heck...we may even be kin and not know it (now that would be scarey).  There's a lot about my family tree I don't know about.  At my grandfather's funeral...my great aunt pulled out an old photograph of the siblings with like like 6 brothers and 2 sisters.  Most had passed away (2 in the pre-teen years), one moved to Oklahoma and had gotten into oil.  One sister stayed behind and had gotten married, the other moved with my Grandfather to upstate NY.  The other 3 brothers she wasn't sure of what happenned to.  Don't really know anything about my mother's side of the family cept my grandparents we're from northern Italy and moved to the states to get away from facism (sp) and Mousolini.