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  1. D'Ellyn Dottir

    D'Ellyn Dottir Very Well-Known Member
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    • walked on the wing of an F-15 fighter jet
    • taught riflery
    • rented space to a BDSM workshop
    • voted Republican
    • knew someone who built a pipe organ in his barracks room
    • lived next to a federal prison
    • helped a friend win the Miss America pageant
    • went on a hot air balloon
    • rode in a barrel race
    • was a TV reporter in Florida
    • had stoplight green eyes
    • slept with 5 French soldiers on a train to Paris
    :):cool::D:rolleyes:
    Which of these things do you think is / are true? Which are fiction?
     
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    I'll bite....I say there all tru because you seem to have led a non start life
     
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    Not sure what a non start life is, although if I did I might have tried it, LOL. Not all on the list are true.;)
     
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    sorry fdidn't check spelling...should have said non standard life.
     
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    Ah, okay, well, yes, I guess my like has been non standard, whatever standard is supposed to look like. :D
     
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    I'd say all but #3 and #10.
     
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    Sorry @Shirley Martin . :cool: Not sure if you meant all but 3 & 10 are truth or fiction. I'll assume you meant those were fiction. But I have indeed rented space to a BDSM safety workshop when I was a managing director of a community center, and did two field reporting internships at ABC affiliate WEAR-TV Pensacola in the last year of my bachelor's degree.

    Anyone else have a guess? ;)
     
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    I'm going for true on #12, because I slept with about 20 Austrian elite alpine soldiers on a train going to Salzburg. Not very exciting, as the train picked them up somewhere in the Alps in the middle of the night and they were dirty and smelly and tired and all they wanted to do is sleep, so we ALL slept.........not together.
     
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    So.... I'm going to guess that you have done all of the above except knew someone who built a pipe organ in his barracks room. I'm pretty sure you have voted Republican because you are one smart lady. :)
     
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    LOL @Mary Robi, yes, that's similar to my experience.
     
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    Actually, I did interview a young airman at the base in Germany who mail ordered the parts for a pipe organ out of every paycheck. Took him nearly his entire 2 year tour there to get them all. I wrote a story about for the Stars & Stripes newspaper.

    Thank you, I have voted Republican, but will keep to myself which one(s).
     
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    Was he able to bring it home with him?
     
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    Yep. It was considered part of his personal property and shipped like any piece of furniture when he PCS'ed. He did have to disassemble it a bit to get it out the door. LOL
     
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    False would be "had spotlight green eyes." You should still have green eyes, not had. Also "taught riflery" doesn't seem to fit.
     
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    My first pair of hard contacts were a bright emerald green. After a while, though wearing contacts caused my sinuses to close up and I had to stop wearing them.

    When I was a camp counselor during college summers up in the mountains outside of Colorado Springs, I was one of several who taught teen girls target shooting. Not much of the skill has stuck with me since then.
     
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