A Fun Little Meme Exercise

[rusty_armour]

I got tagged for a meme exercise by espirk. Some of you will probably know at least some of these random facts about me. I apologize to those of you who have remained blissfully ignorant up till now. *g*

Rules of the Meme: Write a journal entry for this meme with six random facts about yourself. Then pick six of your friends list and tag them - no tag backs. These rules should be included in your entry.

1. I can swim. Believe it or not, I actually took lessons as a baby. As a teen, I got to the Bronze Medallion level before calling it quits.
2. I was supposed to be born on Hitler's birthday, but was born on his alleged suicide day instead.
3. At one point I had five wisdom teeth.
4. I probably own more books, videos and DVDs on Sherlock Holmes than any other subject.
5. I have a fear of drowning.
6. I supposedly ignored my sister for the first year of her life. I was around two at the time. I think she'll eventually get around to forgiving me.

Tagging:

alysscarlet
anitamaid
grondfic
jackycomelately
puckrobin
sorne

Comments

[grondfic.livejournal.com]

AARRGGH!

Tagged for Random Facts! I haven't any good'uns like wot you have got.

Can I burn in the brimstone pits of Hell instead? Pretty-please?

[rusty-armour.livejournal.com]

Uh, I don't think you have to do anything that drastic to get out of Random Facts! *g* How about we just consider the exercise optional? I certainly wasn't expecting everyone I tagged to participate. I figured I might get responses from one or two of you.

[puckrobin.livejournal.com]

I have to figure out if there are six people I can send this too, without repeating some on your list. Or even 6 facts I feel content to share. But I can say I apparently have never had any wisdom teeth.

[rusty-armour.livejournal.com]

I think you can probably repeat people on my list. If I understand the rules correctly, the only thing you aren't allowed to do is tag the person who tagged you. Of course, as I told grondfic, this exercise is purely optional. If you're interested and you have the time then do it. Otherwise, I wouldn't worry about it. :-)

If you don't have any wisdom teeth at all then you're even freakier than I am! *g* Maybe they just haven't come in yet...

[espirk.livejournal.com]

I love the random facts! I learned much. For example, I didn't know that you *can* swim, but that you also have a fear of drowning... That's interesting! And the Sherlock Holmes collection -- I never knew!

Thanks for sharing :o)

[rusty-armour.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know it's pretty strange to be able to swim and yet be afraid of drowning. Maybe it stems back to my childhood or something. I know I was once swimming under a raft and almost got trapped when it moved (It was a small out-of-ground pool and the raft took up most of it), but that's about the only semi-traumatizing event I can think of. Maybe I blocked out the real one. *g*

I assumed that just about everyone knew I was a Sherlock Holmes fanatic, but I guess it never came up in conversation for us because we were too busy discussing other fandoms, like The X-Files. I first started reading Sherlock Holmes stories when I was about 13 and I've been hooked on the Great Detective ever since.

[puckrobin.livejournal.com]

Speaking of our mutual friend at 221 B Baker St., did you know that the Toronto Reference Library has devoted their exhibition gallery to the treasures of the Conan Doyle room? They have posters from the Rathbone films, a bunch of other movies, books, magazines (including Beeton's Christmas Annual from 1887) on display.

Allen

P.S.: And on another subject of related interest, Richard Donner is now co-writing Action Comics starring Superman, featuring a version of the character much in line with his films.

[rusty-armour.livejournal.com]

Ooooooooooh! Thanks for the heads up about that exhibit at the Toronto Reference Library! I'll definitely have to check that out! :-)

It's cool that Richard Donner is co-writing Action Comics, especially if their version of Superman is a lot like the one from the films. Speaking of Donner, I saw The Omen for the first time last night on TVO. I really enjoyed it. I can see why the Salkinds asked Donner to direct Superman after seeing that.