Off topic - but pick one out of five

[HawkeyeCubP]

Originally Posted by JugglingReferee

Here are mine:
1) I have received a speeding ticket trying to get to a game on time.
2) I was once involved with the Seminary, but I left.
3) There is royal blood in my ancestry.
4) I have done provincial championships in 2 sports and at 3 different levels.
5) I have received a speeding ticket trying to get home from a game quicker.

I can't believe no one has gone after you yet.

I'm gonna go with....1.

[26 Year Gap]

# 3 for Hawkeye & JR.

[HawkeyeCubP]

Originally Posted by 26 Year Gap

# 3 for Hawkeye & JR.

Ah, good old Dad. My grandparents did indeed own the original Dairy Queen in Muscatine, IA, and I was somewhat raised in a highchair by the register for a time, and he did indeed invent the Mr. Misty Freeze (this was, of course, long before I was born).

[JugglingReferee]

Originally Posted by HawkeyeCubP

I can't believe no one has gone after you yet.

I'm gonna go with....1.

Wow! Very good! I thought for sure the ticket going to a game is a common occurance; and that the royal blood claim is a stretch.

[HawkeyeCubP]

Originally Posted by JugglingReferee

Wow! Very good! I thought for sure the ticket going to the game would be picked, or the royal blood claim.

Woo-hoo!

What do I win?!

[Texas Aggie]

You going to the Alamo Bowl? I hope for a repeat of 1985.

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

Anyway, I'll start. I'll post the answer after a while.

Which one of these "facts" about me is not true?
1) I've been to the summit of Mt. Hood
2) I flunked my Army pre-induction physical
3) I'm related to Monica Lewinsky
4) My grandfather worked for Al Capone
5) I once was detained for questioning by the FBI

Remember, only one of these statements if false. Which one?

Believe it or not, the false one is #1. Even though I've lived in Oregon for 35 years, I've never gone mountain climbing.

#2 - In 1969, right after college, I took my pre-induction physical and flunked due to a migraine condition.
#3 - Yes, we are very distantly related. My mother's family are Lewinskys. (I'm also related to that really hot actress, Gina Gershon, on my father's side)
#4 - I grew up in Chicago and my grandfather on my mother's side was a "bag man" for the Capone organization in the 20s and 30s - he collected and paid off on the numbers and sports betting. He finished his career in Tahoe and then Vegas working at the casinos. He really taught me all about gambling, including the "real" meaning of the point spread,which is not what most people think it is.
#5 - In 1968, I was visiting my then girlfriend at Purdue. There was some "campus unrest" at the time and I had out-of-state (Illinois) plates on my car. The FBI stopped me and took me into the local police station for questioning because I looked like a hippie. After checking with my girlfriend, they let me go. That was really strange because I actually was a "campus radical" at my school (Northern Illinois) and I published an "underground" newspaper. I guess their records weren't that thorough.

[Mark Dexter]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

That was really strange because I actually was a "campus radical" at my school (Northern Illinois) and I published an "underground" newspaper. I guess their records weren't that thorough.

Nah - the records were right. J. Edgar Hoover just had a soft spot for you because of the fishnets!

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by Mark Dexter

Nah - the records were right. J. Edgar Hoover just had a soft spot for you because of the fishnets!

Hey - don't talk like that about my pal Edna.

[Mark Padgett]

I forgot some - all true:

1) I had dinner with Jimmy Carter
2) I worked parking cars at a mob-owned restaurant
3) I entered high school at age 12
4) My wife participated in the Miss Oregon pageant
5) My first car was a '65 Mustang

[Texas Aggie]

I couldn't begin to guess on all you guy's, but here's mine.

1. I appeared on a major network TV show with a TV/Movie superstar.
2. I was a member of the 12th Man kickoff team at Texas A&M.
3. I am a member of the bar of the United States Supreme Court.
4. I have a cousin who starred in a major network show during the 1970s who littered the lockers of junior high boys all over the country.
5. My wife is a direct descendant of a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

[26 Year Gap]

Originally Posted by Texas Aggie

I couldn't begin to guess on all you guy's, but here's mine.

1. I appeared on a major network TV show with a TV/Movie superstar.
2. I was a member of the 12th Man kickoff team at Texas A&M.
3. I am a member of the bar of the United States Supreme Court.
4. I have a cousin who starred in a major network show during the 1970s who littered the lockers of junior high boys all over the country.
5. My wife is a direct descendant of a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Guessing that #1 & #4 are somehow tied together, I will go for #3.

[HawkeyeCubP]

1. I've been at the last 6 football Bowl Games the University of Iowa has won.
2. I participated in Hands Across America.
3. My father invented Dairy Queen's "Mr. Misty Freeze."
4. I once worked a varsity basketball game wearing black women's short-(panty)hose.
5. I began my officiating career with shoulder-length bleached-blonde dreadlocks.

[Junker]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

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#3 - (I'm also related to that really hot actress, Gina Gershon, on my father's side)

So we have talked enough on the board that you'll hook me up with her right? I'll get you my email if you need it. HER I'd like to see in the fishnets!

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by Junker

So we have talked enough on the board that you'll hook me up with her right? I'll get you my email if you need it. HER I'd like to see in the fishnets!

I've never met her, but I hope that if I ever do, we'd be kissing cousins. BTW - I went to HS with Jerry Colangelo's sister, FWIW.