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16 years ago
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1) My first video game was a Pong console. It had 4 games: Pong, Pong with two paddles on each side (one in front of the other), Anti-Pong (you try to catch the ball in the moveable hole in a wall)...and one that I've forgotten.
2) I still have my tonsils.
3) I have been on 3 continents.
4) In 2000 I was a contestant on Win Ben Stein's Money. It was the episode with the Ben Stein voodoo doll.
5) Seeing a discarded plushy makes me really sad.
6) I can play The William Tell Overture with the pops that my jaw makes.
7) I can swim 7 strokes: Crawl, Breast, Side, Butterfly, Back, Underwater, and one I invented myself: Dolphin.
8) When Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope first came out a friend and I snuck out and sat next to the drive-thru theatre where it was playing and listened to the movie soundtrack on our AM radios. We couldn't see the screen...
9) I have studied cemeteries.
10) Sitting down, my belly is bigger than a 60" measuring tape.
11) I know how to ride horses bareback.
12) I am very shy in large groups of people; I prefer to be around only one or a few people in social situations.
13) I have accelerated my truck through a huge redwood tree that fell on the road just in front of me, shattering it into a bazillion pieces of rotted wood.
14) My first fat furry drawing was of a Megatherium when I was about 14.
15) I was a church organist when I was 15.
16) I have been to 16 other countries.
17) I have set foot in 17 other states.
18) I lived in a tent in the Inyo Mountains for a month.
19) My favourite computer games are Heroes of Might and Magic IV and Masters of Orion II.
20) When there are no pedals available, I play part of Bach's Toccata and Fuge in D-Minor with my nose.
21) When I wiggle my nose it's because I'm displeased or because its full of boogers.
22) I was a virgin (as regards people) until I was 22.
23) I have four favourite numbers.
24) Brown is my favourite colour.
25) I won Ben Stein's totebag.
animaster123...1) My first video game was a Pong console. It had 4 games: Pong, Pong with two paddles on each side (one in front of the other), Anti-Pong (you try to catch the ball in the moveable hole in a wall)...and one that I've forgotten.
2) I still have my tonsils.
3) I have been on 3 continents.
4) In 2000 I was a contestant on Win Ben Stein's Money. It was the episode with the Ben Stein voodoo doll.
5) Seeing a discarded plushy makes me really sad.
6) I can play The William Tell Overture with the pops that my jaw makes.
7) I can swim 7 strokes: Crawl, Breast, Side, Butterfly, Back, Underwater, and one I invented myself: Dolphin.
8) When Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope first came out a friend and I snuck out and sat next to the drive-thru theatre where it was playing and listened to the movie soundtrack on our AM radios. We couldn't see the screen...
9) I have studied cemeteries.
10) Sitting down, my belly is bigger than a 60" measuring tape.
11) I know how to ride horses bareback.
12) I am very shy in large groups of people; I prefer to be around only one or a few people in social situations.
13) I have accelerated my truck through a huge redwood tree that fell on the road just in front of me, shattering it into a bazillion pieces of rotted wood.
14) My first fat furry drawing was of a Megatherium when I was about 14.
15) I was a church organist when I was 15.
16) I have been to 16 other countries.
17) I have set foot in 17 other states.
18) I lived in a tent in the Inyo Mountains for a month.
19) My favourite computer games are Heroes of Might and Magic IV and Masters of Orion II.
20) When there are no pedals available, I play part of Bach's Toccata and Fuge in D-Minor with my nose.
21) When I wiggle my nose it's because I'm displeased or because its full of boogers.
22) I was a virgin (as regards people) until I was 22.
23) I have four favourite numbers.
24) Brown is my favourite colour.
25) I won Ben Stein's totebag.
After being on the show, it became obvious to me that they already know which contestant of the 3 will go up against Ben. A test is given when you try out. They have some certain threshold below which people aren't considered. From those who score above the threshold they then pick someone from the lower 1/3 of the scores, someone from the middle 1/3 of the scores, and someone from the upper 1/3 of the scores - and these are the three people who are contestants on a particular show. But whether the one person wins or not against Ben is probably not known.
Both he and Jimmy Kimmel seemed like nice guys. We didn't get to talk to them off the set or anything...Ben did come and shake our hands and meet us at the beginning though.
Jimmy surprised me...I thought he would be a jerk off-camera.
Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee -- make that twenty-three states. Plus DC...
And I don't recommend ramming one's vehicle through a giant tree that has just fallen in one's path.
And if you visit 4 Corners, you get to be in 4 states all at once!