What makes you unique?

[stephbg]

Rules:
Post 3 things you've done that you believe nobody else on your F-list has done.
Indulge in remorse if someone calls you out on a listed item.

1) Obtained research funding to buy chocolate
2) Acted as production photographer for Rove
3) Fit a double bass into a Datsun Sunny

Comments

[fred-mouse.livejournal.com]

#3 reminds me of the music group I was in, that fit something like a tuba, 6 violins and a keyboard in the back of a VW stationwagon. Not something I can claim to have done on my own though.

[stephbg.livejournal.com]

The full list includes:

1 double bass in soft bag
1 electric bass in hard case
1 bass player in a suit
1 Cube bass speaker/amp
1 set of mystery musician stuff (music, pegs, tuners, hamsters etc) in a bag
1 driver in a state of mild anxiety

Must know!

[rdmasters.livejournal.com]

What is the story behind the chocolate? Tell!

(FWIW, my list is at http://www.lympago.com/cgi-bin/Blah/Blah.pl?b=robburble,m=1214518481,s=0)

Re: Must know!

[stephbg.livejournal.com]

Second year Psych, I think, I had some hypothesis about time perception with and without reward, based on the saying "A watched pot never boils". The reward in question was a chocolate bar placed strategically at eye level during the tests. I managed to extract $30 from the department to buy a bulk box of chocolate.

Too few subjects for actual science, but 6 out of 7 in the experimental group displayed a beautifully extended sense of time whilst in anticipation of a reward. Unfortunately the 7th person cut right across the results and screwed the stats :-(

Re: Must know!

[rdmasters.livejournal.com]

A very cool experiment. I wonder what the results would have been like with a decent sample set...

[(Anonymous)]

My list could of course be so much more interesting if it wasn't being publicly displayed on the internet. This is the tame version.

1) Taken six tabs of acid in one sitting;
2) Saved a friend from being beaten senseless by two bikies who had just been released from prison;
3) Had willing and enthusiastic sex with someone running a fairly high fever (who initiated it). I thought I was going to pull out a charred stump. Very odd sensation.

[(Anonymous)]

Um. I didn't check if I was logged in, so that wasn't meant to be anonymous. Now that it is, you can have fun guessing who I am. It shouldn't be too hard.

[anthanum.livejournal.com]

I have a fairly good idea :)

[anthanum.livejournal.com]

My list:

1. Made an all anchovy pizza
2. Been a VIP guest of the People's Republic of China.
3. Stood around talking politics with Sir Charles Court while he peeled prawns for me.

[rdmasters.livejournal.com]

The couple of times I met the late Sir Charles, he seemed pretty OK. I never got him to peel prawns for me, though!

I miss people of his calibre in politics. Someone who could politely and reasonably disagree with his opponents.

[anthanum.livejournal.com]

Back in the day I used to work for his accounting firm, and he came across as a very charismatic and majestic sort of a man - I am on the other side of the political fence to him, but upon meeting him and talking with him I could really understand why people would want to vote for him. He just had a certain "calm awe" about him.

And yes, a very polite, reasonable and considerate man in my limited personal experience of him.

[rdmasters.livejournal.com]

Drifting even further off-topic, I believe that when we started trading Statesmen (like SCC) for Politicians (like, say RC, BB, or JH), we, as a society, lost out badly.

So, you worked for him, and he was a patron of the scout group I spent the first half of my life in. And in both, made an impression on each of us that shows surprising consistency.