Post some trivia about your life....

[mysticsvt]

I told this chic I was gonna marry her when I was obliterated one night. She hated me and thought I was a typical asshole military male. She ended up leaving the party that night directly after I told her that. Must have been 17 years ago....she's my wife now.

 

[IronSnake]

That's not scary at all...

Yep. Could've killed me in so many different ways. It's been in my hand since, and still is to this day.

 

[GodStang]

I kick myself for that quite often. There have been several other ideas that either got poached or someone beat me to it.

Nobody at Kenne Bell would ever admit this, but in 2008 I started looking at cooling methods for the blower housings as part of my college thesis. At first I looked into air cooled and determined it wouldn't do squat and was a terrible idea, then started looking at a water jacket. I swapped a few emails with KB, then called and spoke to one of their engineers for a little while. He basically said there's no need to improve on their existing platform because it was more efficient than the competition. Then, lo and behold, their liquid cooled line comes out two years later.

When they came out with the bigger 2.8L and Whipples 3.4L I complained to them many times that it is pointless with out a bigger inlet and it needs to be addressed. A year or two later the Mammoth and Crusher came out and low and behold I was correct.

 

[CV355]

When they came out with the bigger 2.8L and Whipples 3.4L I complained to them many times that it is pointless with out a bigger inlet and it needs to be addressed. A year or two later the Mammoth and Crusher came out and low and behold I was correct.

I'm not alone!! HAHA. Don't get me wrong, I still love KBs, and despite the company's overall sense of arrogance, they make one hell of a good product and have excellent technical write ups on their site.

There have been a few instances in industry where I've made a suggestion and the product magically hits the market a year or two later. But, for what the products are, I'm just glad they now exist. No sense in me developing a product from scratch when another company has almost all of the tooling already made. The one that will come back to bite me would be revolutionary in the manufacturing world- flexible fixturing. I started on a case study for it in 2015 and it got shot down due to "politics." We tested granular vacuum interlock devices, including home-made versions, and decided they were too unpredictable. So, I sketched up some ideas, put together a project plan for a proof of principle, including what would have been proprietary material layering and electrorheological bladders, and.... it went nowhere. It could have been huge. Know any investors? I still have the magic formula stashed away in ye old brain.

 

[Blown 89]

When I was an infant my mother was carjacked with me in the back seat. My mother exercised her 2nd amendment rights and most likely saved my life.

I once told John McEnroe to **** off thinking he was a prank caller, Jenna Jaimeson once talked me out of her husband's job offer, and I accidentally broke a tennis racquet that won a Wimbledon championship moments after it was given to me.

 

[RedVenom48]

I am the great great great ( probably one or two more) grand nephew of John Wilkes Booth. His brother Edwin is my great great great great (etc) grandfather (through my fathers mother's family).

Nothing more than a trivial note for me as Ive never met anyone from the Booth family. Glad to know my relative (Edwin) was a unionist. MERICA!!!

 

[Machdup1]

In 1984, I missed high school graduation because I was getting laid. I honestly don't know if I actually graduated HS.

Earlier in the day I was at a party with my normal crew of friends and some random hottie (who I had never really even met) told me she wanted to bang. Being the accommodating young man that I was, I hung back and everyone else left for graduation, leaving us alone at a friends pool cabana and we went at it a couple of times. So we are naked doing the dance with no pants when an ex-girlfriend show up with a bottle of champagne looking to get back together. She finds us naked, banging and leaves disappointed. LOL. We continue and and about 15 minutes later everyone I know from HS showed up to party at the Cabana. She is left naked under a cover and I get up, naked, in front of everyone I know and proceed to get dressed. I then started partying and never saw the random hottie ever again. As I recall, we partied like crazy that night and ended up trading some hash for some blow and had a killer night.

 

[mysticsvt]

I have a beautiful little piece of paper from my 3rd grade Principle. It was a suspension letter for 10 days that came with one hell of an ass beating from my mom. Apparently it's frowned upon to bring beer to school in your Dukes of Hazard thermos. The best part was the Principle/Parent meeting. After he had his say my mother said..."That paddle in the corner with holes and names on it, if I EVER hear of you using THAT on my son I will be down immediately to use it on YOU..ARE WE CLEAR? That was awesome.

 

[Outlaw99]

Lex, your post reminds me about about a fascinating fact about my family.

I am a decendant of the Hatfield & McCoy fued. We were always told this as kids growing up, but only in the last few years has it been verified by birth records. My grandfather's father, who was Danel McCoy, is the son of a cousin to Randal McCoy. My father passed a bible down to me, that was passed from Danel, to my grandfather. It belonged to Fannie McCoy. When she was a child, that bible was given to her and she wrote in it. Its very old. Fannie McCoy was one of Randals surviving daughters.

I just recently joined the Hatfield McCoy registry and plan on taking the DNA test. I also plan to visit Pike county and see the sites and museums and graves. I am considering donating that bible.



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[PaxtonShelby]

When I was an infant my mother was carjacked with me in the back seat. My mother exercised her 2nd amendment rights and most likely saved my life.

I once told John McEnroe to **** off thinking he was a prank caller, Jenna Jaimeson once talked me out of her husband's job offer, and I accidentally broke a tennis racquet that won a Wimbledon championship moments after it was given to me.

Ok - each one of those great facts absolutely requires additional explanation !

 

[PaxtonShelby]

I have a beautiful little piece of paper from my 3rd grade Principle. It was a suspension letter for 10 days that came with one hell of an ass beating from my mom. Apparently it's frowned upon to bring beer to school in your Dukes of Hazard thermos. The best part was the Principle/Parent meeting. After he had his say my mother said..."That paddle in the corner with holes and names on it, if I EVER hear of you using THAT on my son I will be down immediately to use it on YOU..ARE WE CLEAR? That was awesome.

Haha that’s great! But you absolutely deserved the paddling at school AND the one you got at home!

 

[Blown 89]

Ok - each one of those great facts absolutely requires additional explanation !

- I used to work with a retired Wimbledon champion, or finalist, I don't remember. The phone rang one day and the person on the other end announced themselves as John McEnroe. I thought it was a prank call and said "**** off" and promptly hung up the phone. The fitness side of the club called when they were bored and pranked us so I thought it was them. My boss asked who it was then laughed, handed me a book full of ATP pro's phone numbers and told me to call Mr. McEnroe back and apologize to him as he was expecting his call. He was a good sport and asked me not to tell him to **** off again and I handed the phone over.

There are over*insert age* tournaments for retired pros and the above pro was back from wining the geezer/past champions Wimbledon invitational and was selling off his old raqcuets to change brands. He gave me the racquet he used to win the title with a week pior as it's what I played with at the time. Being Arizona at noon in the dead of the summer I was drenched in sweat and the racquet slipped out of my hand on my first shot, crashed in to the court, and cracked. Oops.



- At the time I was friends with Jenna Jameson's first husband. I knew he was an adult actor but being early-internet I didn't know who she was and only knew her as Jay's girlfriend Jenna. Long story short he offered me a job over the weekend as I was involved in video production at the time. He was short on the details but I assumed it was for basic grip work and Jenna was shaking her head telling me not to do it. In what is possibly the worst career move ever I declined as I had something else to do that weekend. Turns out the shoot was for gay porn which she wasn't a fan of for a number of reasons. That was the one and only time he ever offered me work and I kick myself for not saying yes and getting my foot into such a lucrative industry.

On a side note, that was the night I found out who Jenna really was. I said, "While we're on the subject, I read an article about this girl, they called her the Michael Jordan of porn. Her name was Jenn....Jenn something" motioning toward Jenna for a hint, "OH Jenna Jameson. Have you ever heard of her?" Their jaws both dropped to the floors and Jenna fell on to the booth at the restaurant and nearly rolled under the table laughing. Jay goes, "You're an idiot. She is Jenna Jameson." I didn't believe her and she said she had a spread in Penthouse drop that week so I drove to the Qwik-e-mart and picked up my first nudie magazine. Sure as shit, Jay's girlfriend was inside. I still have that magazine. It's the only adult mag I've ever bought. She was pretty normal back then so I never thought too much about her.

Keep in mind this was in the late 90's and very early 2000's or so and porn on the internet was mostly amateurs and house wives in tiny low res files and video so the only way to get exposure to big stars like her was to rent VHS tapes or buy magazines, neither of which I've ever done. He produced porn and I asked him if he thought the internet would change the industry. I'll never forget but he said, "No way. What are people going to do, bring their computers [reference computer size back then] into the bathrooms and jerk off? Magazines will be around forever." Lol, he couldn't have been more wrong.

 

[PaxtonShelby]

Great stuff brochacho! Thanks for sharing! Jenna was crazy hot back in the day - probably still is now!

 

[Coiled03]

Great stuff brochacho! Thanks for sharing! Jenna was crazy hot back in the day - probably still is now!

She's not now. But prime Jenna was insanely hot....at least in my opinion.

Anyhow, not sure what qualifies as trivia here, so I'll add a few random facts:
1) I've been to every Indianapolis 500 since 1982, and all of those with my dad.
2) I've been to every state in the lower 48...maybe not all that impressive, or unique, I don't know.
3) I probably had a decent chance to play tennis professionally. Not like a sure fire, 100% chance, but decent. But, in an epic life choice fail, I went back to school instead. It hasn't turned out terribly for me. But now when I play, I wonder what might've been.

 

[Blown 89]

3) I probably had a decent chance to play tennis professionally. Not like a sure fire, 100% chance, but decent. But, in an epic life choice fail, I went back to school instead. It hasn't turned out terribly for me. But now when I play, I wonder what might've been.

Did you play in IL? If so when?

 

[Coiled03]

Did you play in IL? If so when?

Yeah. Late 80s, early 90s.

 

[mysticsvt]

So....when I was younger in the Navy I had this 6 foot Colombian Red Tail Boa named Akasha. I had moved back in the barracks as I was about to transfer to my next duty station. She would mostly find a quiet spot to curl up and I could go days without seeing her, even in a barracks room. So one day I was watching some porn....Jenna no doubt...and as I was going to town....Akasha....made a move for my big toe. She got me good let me tell ya. Scared the ever living daylight out of me. She bit down on my toe and I think she was as scared as I was. Never lost a wood so fast in my life. I chocked it up to misunderstanding and thankful it was toe and not something else. Crazy.....just crazy.

 

[Outlaw99]

- I used to work with a retired Wimbledon champion, or finalist, I don't remember. The phone rang one day and the person on the other end announced themselves as John McEnroe. I thought it was a prank call and said "**** off" and promptly hung up the phone. The fitness side of the club called when they were bored and pranked us so I thought it was them. My boss asked who it was then laughed, handed me a book full of ATP pro's phone numbers and told me to call Mr. McEnroe back and apologize to him as he was expecting his call. He was a good sport and asked me not to tell him to **** off again and I handed the phone over.

There are over*insert age* tournaments for retired pros and the above pro was back from wining the geezer/past champions Wimbledon invitational and was selling off his old raqcuets to change brands. He gave me the racquet he used to win the title with a week pior as it's what I played with at the time. Being Arizona at noon in the dead of the summer I was drenched in sweat and the racquet slipped out of my hand on my first shot, crashed in to the court, and cracked. Oops.



- At the time I was friends with Jenna Jameson's first husband. I knew he was an adult actor but being early-internet I didn't know who she was and only knew her as Jay's girlfriend Jenna. Long story short he offered me a job over the weekend as I was involved in video production at the time. He was short on the details but I assumed it was for basic grip work and Jenna was shaking her head telling me not to do it. In what is possibly the worst career move ever I declined as I had something else to do that weekend. Turns out the shoot was for gay porn which she wasn't a fan of for a number of reasons. That was the one and only time he ever offered me work and I kick myself for not saying yes and getting my foot into such a lucrative industry.

On a side note, that was the night I found out who Jenna really was. I said, "While we're on the subject, I read an article about this girl, they called her the Michael Jordan of porn. Her name was Jenn....Jenn something" motioning toward Jenna for a hint, "OH Jenna Jameson. Have you ever heard of her?" Their jaws both dropped to the floors and Jenna fell on to the booth at the restaurant and nearly rolled under the table laughing. Jay goes, "You're an idiot. She is Jenna Jameson." I didn't believe her and she said she had a spread in Penthouse drop that week so I drove to the Qwik-e-mart and picked up my first nudie magazine. Sure as shit, Jay's girlfriend was inside. I still have that magazine. It's the only adult mag I've ever bought. She was pretty normal back then so I never thought too much about her.

Keep in mind this was in the late 90's and very early 2000's or so and porn on the internet was mostly amateurs and house wives in tiny low res files and video so the only way to get exposure to big stars like her was to rent VHS tapes or buy magazines, neither of which I've ever done. He produced porn and I asked him if he thought the internet would change the industry. I'll never forget but he said, "No way. What are people going to do, bring their computers [reference computer size back then] into the bathrooms and jerk off? Magazines will be around forever." Lol, he couldn't have been more wrong.

Thats an Adam sandler movie waiting to happen.

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[T's03GT]

I'll have to post a few later when I have more time but here's a few quick ones.

-Mark Hamill is my relation through marriage. I have also never watched a single minute of Star Wars.

-I once thought I was going to be kidnapped along with my best friend when I was younger, probably 5 or 6. We were outside playing basketball as usual and a guy came up in a car who claimed to be a door to door salesman. He told us he could take us to the church on the outside of my subdivision where the rest of our friends were supposedly playing. Me, thankfully, thought this would be a good thing I should probably ask my parents about doing before I hop in the car with this dude when I didn't know who he was. I went inside and asked, my dad walked out with a gun or two who knows and we never saw the dude again. I still sketch myself out with that story to this day; there's no telling what could have happened had I just hopped in.

-I'm fairly certain I've had an interaction with a ghost/paranormal before. At the same friend mentioned above's house, they had this huge back room that we had a plastic basketball goal in we'd always **** around on when it would be storming out. Well it was coming a bad storm that day so we were in there. Power kept going on and off, and because of the storm, nobody thought twice about it. Well for some unknown reason, I happened to be staring at the light switch for some time. I, will swear to this, saw the light switch flip up and down a few times with nobody around it whatsoever. Call me crazy, but I know what I saw lol.

-I chipped a bone in my right cheek on a golf cart. I was racing my cousin back to see who would get to drive it back to the house, went to step in too quick and I tripped on the step, smoked my face on the metal that held the roof up, and there went my cheek right into that thing. I've never felt pain like that in my entire life before and hope I never have to again.

I'll have to think of some others at work tonight and come back. I've got some good party stories from my buddies and I over the last few years that I'm sure people would enjoy lol. I've seen and had some crazy shit happen in my little time of being alive.

 

[CompOrange04GT]

I jumped off a van in. A parking lot when I was 8

Fell on my head. I’m told I died.

Don’t remember my life before 8

I now have 7 skulls on my back for the 7 years of my life I don’t remember