Irregardless of the fact I’m boring to the point even the skeletons in my closet are yawning, Michelle has tagged me to reveal five things most people don’t know about me. Just for fun I’m listing six: Five are true and one’s a lie. Cast your votes for the falsehood, after which I’ll reveal all—including Michelle’s secret top three. Just kidding on the latter (breathe Michelle) . . . I’m not actually privy to such.
1. I graduated from David Letterman’s alma mater. Since you cannot have a gradepoint average greater than a C, I didn’t qualify for a David Letterman scholarship. And because I have always been kind of your basic B student, I didn’t qualify for too many academic scholarships either. I paid for my education the old fashioned way—work study program and student loans. Go Cardinals!
2. But I did once win a scholarship to sing and dance at a show choir camp. The choreographer was the genius behind the really cool Dr. Pepper commercials way back in the day. Since I’m pretty sure the camps were really fronts for finding new commercial talent, and since they FAILED to cast me doing backflips and singing I’m a pepper—I guess I lacked that certain pizzazz . . . not to mention the fact I’ve never been able to actually do a backflip. I’m over it. I don’t even LIKE Dr. Pepper!
3. I married up. David is way smarter than me. Though I occasionally beat him at a game of scrabble, it is only because I RELIGIOUSLY study the scrabble dictionary.
4. Once in a cold, stark gray cement room with a lone florescent, buzzing overhead light, I was interrogated by the KGB and actually spent three hours in a Russian jail.
5. Including random and complete strangers in second and third-world countries, I’ve been proposed to a total of seven times.
6. I was once invited to dine (black-tie) at the White House . . . which later turned out to be only hors d’oeuvres . . . which even later turned out to be only a tour of the White House Christmas decorations. Even though I paid dearly for the dress our beloved First Family never got to see, it was one of the best weekends of my life.
I tag Ginger, Karen, Molly and Shanygne.
12 comments:
Thanks so much for accepting the challenge. It was so fun to read this! I know which one is a lie. It's number 3 - you are WAY smarter than David :-)
I vote that number 2 is false? (the Dr Pepper one) I'm not really sure, but this is definitely an interesting list! :)
You tagged me?? hahaha Uh-oh!!!
You have so many interesting secrets--hmmmm. Which one is the lie? I originally wanted to say that #1 was in fact a lie, but then you listed #3 and we all know THAT can't be true... although... (don't get mad Beth--haha) the word "irregardless" is not a real word--except maybe in the midwest (hee). I had to retrain Terry, insisting that the correct word was simply "regardless"... But just because I knew this and he didn't, surely didn't mean that Terry married up. I say #3 is a lie!!!
You need to make a movie of all your interesting adventures.
I don't even have a guess... I just want to hear the end to the stories (#4 & 5) if they are true.
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Karen—them's feudin' words! Admittedly "irregardless" has been controversial since the 1920s, but many dictionaries recognize it's casual use.
My spellcheck did reject it—but I overruled it . . . oh the power!:)
For those suffering from boredom and a love for words, an interesting look at the word "irregardless" can be found at OneLook Dictionary Search.
For the record, David's favorite pastime is correcting my midwestern grammar irregularities. :)
Thanks a big stinkin' bunch Beth. I have the biggest mouth of all and everyone knows everything about me already. I do know a couple secrets about Michelle and may need to resort to stealing them as my own, haha. (Thought I didn't know, huh Michelle?) Oh well, the fun begins for me now. How do I start to compete with your incredible life, Beth?
Good job and fun twist you added. Michelle already said it but I too was going to vote #3 as untrue...sorry David but you are the one that scored.
I better get crackin the heat is on and as Kelly said there is no one else to tag. :-)
#3 hands down. Sorry Dave. : ) I don't have anything exciting to share, so mine might be 5 lies and a truth. We'll see.
oh, you are cruel! Now I have to come up with things...
I am guessing that the KGB thing is the false one...although with missions, I suppose it could be true... But I agree with Michelle that you didn't marry up...you are both amazing...
i'm going to say that #3 is false.
Oh a nice bit of information!!! So... irregardless has been in question for that long--sweet! Shows what I know!!!
too fun! Love it - I would have guessed that number 1 was false. And you are SO CLEVER to be creative that way, that although David's IQ may be higher, you are smart in BETTER ways. :)
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