5 More Things You Didn’t Know About Me (Until Just Now)
Robyn Tippins and Shawn Hessinger tag teamed me with the “5 things” meme. I’d previously been slammed with the 5 things meme bug by Leah Maclean, and I had a tough enough time with that!
But after days of deliberation I’ve come up with 5 more things you didn’t know about me…until just now (assuming you keep reading; please do…)
- I once wrote a book. It was called The Buzzword Bingo Book: The Complete, Definitive Guide to the Underground Workplace Game of Doublespeak. Technically it was co-written, but it’s a long story. I had 15 minutes of fame back in 1998 with buzzword bingo (more like 20-25 minutes actually.) Made it into the Wall Street Journal and everything. Before blogging took off (or even existed?)
- In my senior year of highschool I played football - defensive tackle. I wasn’t particularly good, but the team needed some warm bodies to play. Apparently I was warm enough. More than anything this shows you the vast difference between Canadian and US highschool sports. I don’t think there’s a single highschool in the United States where I would have been big or strong enough to play football.
- I’ve never smoked in my life. I’ve never even tried it, not once. Not a single puff, drag or taste. Never ever. Smoking just never appealed to me (and the peer pressure wasn’t strong enough I guess.) Having said that I was far from a choir boy…
- Actually, I was a choir boy. Way back when I sang in the choir until my voice cracked horribly and I sounded like a dying sheep. That was the end of that. But back in those days the Anglican private school I went to (I’m not Anglican if you’re wondering) took choir pretty seriously. We even toured around.
- I used to listen to Raising Hell by Run DMC nonstop. I’m not much of a rap or hip hop fan these days, but back in Grade 6, 7 and 8 (or thereabouts) Run DMC was it. I still think it’s a great album.
Now that I’ve suitably embarrassed myself I think I’ll leave it at that. This has been a very fun meme but everything has to disappear into the sunset eventually.
I do appreciate Robyn and Shawn thinking about me and tagging me…
Ben, sounds like you were lots of fun in high school. Did you ever pull a Halloween Prank?
Hi Robyn — no Halloween pranks, although one year I went out for Halloween as a toilet. It was an awesome costume. My head came out of the toilet seat and I even found a plastic hat that looked like poo. Gross, but true.
I was a lot of fun…university was better though *smile*
Ben - I’m with you on #3. It’s fun to get to know the not so serious side of all our favorite bloggers!
Glad to see you finally got some time to do this. This time of year is nuts for me too! Take off 3 days and take 3 weeks to catch up
#5 spoke to me as I was a big fan of The Beastie Boys and I loved the mix they did together!
Hey Robyn … Ah The Beastie Boys - now we’re going old school!
It wasn’t easy figuring out these 5 things, but they were fun to write.