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[Shmuppers]

What was that like?

We actually talked about video games!

I was honestly terrified at the time because he was my idol, but if I were to describe what his personality is like it would be crass, but not unintelligent. It was such an honor to spend some time with him.

 

[RumblingRosco]

Only played about 10 hours in my entire life on a PS2. Maybe 20 hours on an OG Xbox and 20-40 hours on a 360. Never played a PS3, PS4, or XBO.

Earned over $325,000 in scholarships, grants, and fellowships from the start of undergrad to the end of grad school.

 

[Stasis]

Bringing this back to respond to quotes and because it deserves it. Fun thread.

That is an amazing story. That needs a movie or something.

This needs to be made into a book

Also, my username is a rearranged version of my real name. This dude was my ancestor.

This is a great story. I totally believe it. (wait, that wasn't sarcasm. I really do believe it!)

All true! Thanks guys. Wish this was when smartphones existed. I really have nothing in terms of actual video or photo documentary. Just memories from myself and my father.

SolVanderlyn, that's extremely interesting man!

This was a legit interesting/crazy/happy/sad story.

Correctomundo's post was ace too. Beyond amazing how "weird" our brains can function sometimes.

Yep, sad too. Some mornings he'd be really into it and we'd have fun. Some were depressing. He always refused further assistance... and we offered a lot. My dad's a psychoanalyst who was previously a social worker in his younger days. He was up for almost anything. I really do wonder about him: "Ray" (Never believed it was his real name... vibe was that he fucked up and moved on from a family and changed it).

Mcdonalds on canal street?

Corner of 6th and 3rd. Apparently still there, although much nicer! We used to watch the b-ball games across the street. In my late teens I'd actually play there with old friends.

I took my gf there on our third visit to NYC after we started dating (Quebecer) and told her the story. Kinda surreal going back, even if it's different. Area feels the same.

Edit: I grew up/lived on 9th between 5th and 6th. Dad was there until a few years back when he finally sold.

 

[tearsofash]

I used to cook drugs. Mostly hallucinogens.

 

[Soapbox Killer]

I sell drugs to the community

One day this will not be funny but it is not this day!

"HA HA, I threw that shit before I walked in the room!"

 

[LookAtMeGo]

I have no body hair except around my nipples.

 

[Dhruv_hanom]

I have two extra ribs

 

[Alcoremortis]

George Clooney came to my high school to film part of a movie and I missed seeing him because I had a chemistry lab.

 

[Rogan]

I won 170K with blackjack after I was living on the streets for a year.

 

[RickFrick'n]

I haven't had a bed in my bedroom for well over a year. I've been sleeping on the ground with a blanket for padding and warmth.
It's not that bad, all in all! My posture's actually improved, and I have much more floor space.

 

[faridmon]

- I went to 67 gigs this year so far and planning to go to another 26 whatever left of this year
- I am an architect but cannot draw.
- I like cleaning dishes and find it therapeutic. In fact, if it wasn't weird at all, I would ask my co-workers and friends if they need help in cleaning dishes.

 

[BlueBadger]

I'm from Vancouver and I've never smoked weed.

And I've sung with Michael Buble 3 times X_X

 

[lord pie]

I very briefly got on US TV. I was accidentally having a lightsaber fight with a child. It was directly infront of the original movies' Darth Vader and Chewey costumes...


(I was in Boston at the time. My flatmate in New Zealand saw it on CNN (iirc) and recognised me)

 

[Gamepad]

Got my first job back in 1995 so I bought a brand new Vespa PX 125 T5 (123 cc, 12 hp, top speed 95 km/h or 59 mph) with my first paycheck and drove from Gothenburg, Sweden, to Rome, Italy during my vacation in july the same year. About 3000 kilometers or 1865 miles one way.

Why I did it? Because I always wanted to visit Italy and because flying is boring.

 

[velociraptor]

There is NO end to my appetite.

I hate this feeling. I'm never satisfied or full. I just want to eat and eat and eat and eat and eat

 

[sleverfunk]

I like pineapples on pizza.

 

[velociraptor]

I had a rare condition as a baby called Kawasaki Disease in which the blood vessels throughout the body become inflamed, in my case I had severe inflammation of the coronary arteries and was very close to death. I had to take daily medication until I was 10 years old to cure it. My Mom told me that it was so rare at the time that the doctors asked her if they could take pictures of my symptoms for their records.

Not really unbelievable I guess but it's all I could think of.

What is your daily medication?

 

[Geist-]

I'm very smart but lack motivation.

Spoiler

At least that's what people tell me.

But for real, I have a little bit of Spanish, French, Italian, Filipino, Chinese, English, and Native American in my blood. This is not ancient ancestry, but relatively recent relatives (past 100 years). My family just loved marrying outside of race/nationality.

 

[Rexatality]

I'm very smart but lack motivation.

Spoiler

At least that's what people tell me.

Great minds think alike, huh?

 

[mrklaw]

My name is Bronson

Well your name is quite Bronson-ly

 

[The Pope]

Im the Pope.

 

[King Al B]

Im related to one of the captains on the Nina,Pinta,Santa Maria.

Ive never been on an antibiotic.

I have only thrown-up 2 times.

If i get stumped trying to build or fix something, ill think about while falling asleep and wake up with a solution.

 

[MBR]

All true! Thanks guys. Wish this was when smartphones existed. I really have nothing in terms of actual video or photo documentary. Just memories from myself and my father.

Was it in some newspaper? If so a library might have it archived on microfilm or something. Hard to know the date though maybe.

 

[The First Guardian]

When I was 15 I went to talk to an older girl and she rejected me pretty quickly and I just responded: "I'm gay anyway". No fucking one laughed. The most embarrassing moment of my life. Still can't believe I did that

 

[Gnome Scat]

My math tutor engineered the first U.S. spy satellite.

 

[Subpar Scrub]

I have an alt account that I barely use.

Spoiler

Called EviLore

 

[2MF]

I have been psychologically tortured by a (likely) sociopath.

OK, I guess it's not that unbelievable, since that's what they do.

 

[Vamp]

I used to be a magician.

 

[Summer Haze]

What is your daily medication?

I can't remember it's name, I stopped taking it when I was 10. I'm now 26.

 

[Auto-Reply]

I have existed from the morning of the world and I shall exist until the last star falls from the night.

 

[Rainbow In The Dark]

I have 2 different voices in my head and they often have entire conversations with each other.

I was laughing at this post, but then realized this happens to me too...

 

[BlueDevil]

Me and my family are Mexican immigrant that come from a low socioeconomic background, yet I was able to get into a top ten university and amass over $350,000 in scholarships

 

[DirtyLarry]

I rhymed with the WuTang clan in a cipher in Washington Square Park in 1993.

It was one of the early 4 20 demonstrations at the park.
Me and my boy were there who was my partner in rhyme.
Needless to say we were feeling very good considering the nature of the demonstration.

We had just heard Protect Ya Neck for the first time about two weeks prior on the Stretch in Bobbito show, but had no idea what they looked like, etc.

So this huge crew of dudes come walking into the park. All in black hoodies and timbs and black pants, but all with a Gold Leaf W sticker on various parts of their clothes.

The tallest cat (turns out it was Method Man) had a boom box and was playing some of the illest instrumentals I had ever heard.

Myself and my boy got right up in the mix as they started killing it. They basically rhymed for at last 20 minutes and were performing joints off of Enter The WuTang, but no one had heard them yet.
Eventually A freestyle session broke out and my boy kind of pushed me up.

I believe it was Inspectah Deck who kept looking at me like what the fuck is this white boy even doing here? I was literally standing right next to Method Man bopping.

He jokingly passed the mic to me expecting I would absolutely not take it.
I did.

I got pounds from about 5 of them when it was all said and done. Still have that gold leaf W sticker on one of my sketchbooks.

Just to accompany the story, here is a promotional shot that was not used for myself and my partners never released EP. I got a lawyer and read over the contract we were offered and it was the classic Industry Rule #4080 contract. I never signed it, so our EP (and video that was guarnateed as part of the contract), was obviously never released.

 

[SargerusBR]

I'm unbelievable lucky in avoiding traffic tickets

 

[WrenchNinja]

M.I.A. is my cousin

 

[JetBlackPanda]

I personally have never seen an episode of the Simpsons

I don't even know what to say about this.

 

[pbsapeer]

I can lick my own elbow

 

[Caronte]

I have full conversations with myself in my head when I'm alone, and for some reason I do it in English despite living in Spain and Spanish being my first language.

 

[Christos]

I have full conversations with myself in my head when I'm alone, and for some reason I do it in English despite living in Spain and Spanish being my first language.

I do that too, it's pretty weird considering I use an american accent while having this conversations.

 

[Malreyn]

I can crack the joints in all my fingers, in both my hands, just by clenching my fists, all at once

 

[Stasis]

Was it in some newspaper? If so a library might have it archived on microfilm or something. Hard to know the date though maybe.

Never occurred to me to look that up! I'll ask my parents if they know the exact date or have any documentation. As I said, though, NYC really was intense back then. Not sure that qualifies as exciting news. If that occurred anywhere near there today it'd be pretty big.

I rhymed with the WuTang clan in a cipher in Washington Square Park in 1993.

It was one of the early 4 20 demonstrations at the park.
Me and my boy were there who was my partner in rhyme.
Needless to say we were feeling very good considering the nature of the demonstration.

We had just heard Protect Ya Neck for the first time about two weeks prior on the Stretch in Bobbito show, but had no idea what they looked like, etc.

So this huge crew of dudes come walking into the park. All in black hoodies and timbs and black pants, but all with a Gold Leaf W sticker on various parts of their clothes.

The tallest cat (turns out it was Method Man) had a boom box and was playing some of the illest instrumentals I had ever heard.

Myself and my boy got right up in the mix as they started killing it. They basically rhymed for at last 20 minutes and were performing joints off of Enter The WuTang, but no one had heard them yet.
Eventually A freestyle session broke out and my boy kind of pushed me up.

I believe it was Inspectah Deck who kept looking at me like what the fuck is this white boy even doing here? I was literally standing right next to Method Man bopping.

He jokingly passed the mic to me expecting I would absolutely not take it.
I did.

I got pounds from about 5 of them when it was all said and done. Still have that gold leaf W sticker on one of my sketchbooks.

Just to accompany the story, here is a promotional shot that was not used for myself and my partners never released EP. I got a lawyer and read over the contract we were offered and it was the classic Industry Rule #4080 contract. I never signed it, so our EP (and video that was guarnateed as part of the contract), was obviously never released.

That's awesome. I ran into them near Union Square walking around with my then gf who had no idea who they were and hated rap. I didn't really know what they looked like either and wouldn't have recognized them on my own but they came into the pizza place we were at and a bunch of school kids lost their shit yelling "wu-tang!" And then Method's unmistakable voice boomed out "hold up hold up!" This was 95-96. Didn't have a camera. I did talk with them a bit, say how much of a fan I was blablabla. Method, Rza, ODB, Raekwon, Ghost and a bunch of other dudes who may or may not have been anyone in the crew. Method was by far the most outgoing and friendly. Wish i had a pic or autograph.

 

[NESpowerhouse]

I am ranked 7th in the world on route 280 in Sonic Adventure 2.

I have also never played a Valve or Bethesda game.

 

[BlueBadger]

I had to get circumcised when I was 16.

 

[Rabbi_Vole]

I receive tomorrow's newspaper a day early which unfairly burdens me with the responsibility of preventing as many crimes and atrocities as I can in a short 24 hour period.

 

[Head of Vengarl]

I am (distantly) related to Bill Nye the Science Guy.

 

[Antlavony]

I moonlighted doing cremations at a local funeral home. Weirdest job ever.

 

[Shadax the wizard]

I was playing mario kart dd at fastest speed back in the day but I thought it was too simple to win so I jokingly challenged myself to beat rainbow road with the controller rotated 180 degrees in my hands. I came in number one on the first try and didn't fall off the track. I was proud on that day.

 

[Previous]

This happened during my college years, before I got a job or had any real reason to act professional. I have a DC area code for my phone number.

I was at a friend house one afternoon and got a call from a number I didn't recognize on my cell.
Me: "Hello?"
Voice: "Hello this is Eric Holder calling for Congresswoman Sheila Jackson"
Me: (confused) "...fuck you"
I hang up.

I assumed it was a prank and told my friend what just happened, we both laughed about it and went about our doings.
A few minutes later I got another call from another number. This time it was a woman saying she was calling from the Justice Department asking to speak to Sheila Jackson.
I hang up the phone in a panic before saying anything and started thinking "oh shit oh shit oh shit what have I done."

I few seconds later I got another call from a third number, this time I answer it on speaker phone. A different woman is asking me the same thing. My friend screams "WRONG NUMBER" and hangs up the phone for me. Then I turned my phone off.

I google all the numbers, and sure enough they all checked out. The first one came back as a landline in the name of Eric Holder's wife and the other two as out-going numbers assigned to the Justice Department offices.


TLDR: I said "Fuck You" to Attorney General Eric Holder over the phone.

 

[gulfamashraf]

Got my first job back in 1995 so I bought a brand new Vespa PX 125 T5 (123 cc, 12 hp, top speed 95 km/h or 59 mph) with my first paycheck and drove from Gothenburg, Sweden, to Rome, Italy during my vacation in july the same year. About 3000 kilometers or 1865 miles one way.

Why I did it? Because I always wanted to visit Italy and because flying is boring.

As a proud new owner of a two wheeler my self I find this fascinating.

 

[DirtyLarry]

That's awesome. I ran into them near Union Square walking around with my then gf who had no idea who they were and hated rap. I didn't really know what they looked like either and wouldn't have recognized them on my own but they came into the pizza place we were at and a bunch of school kids lost their shit yelling "wu-tang!" And then Method's unmistakable voice boomed out "hold up hold up!" This was 95-96. Didn't have a camera. I did talk with them a bit, say how much of a fan I was blablabla. Method, Rza, ODB, Raekwon, Ghost and a bunch of other dudes who may or may not have been anyone in the crew. Method was by far the most outgoing and friendly. Wish i had a pic or autograph.

Yeah this was all back pre smartphone days so all I have is a memory. A damn fine one at that.

I left out small details, but the biggest one I left out is the rhyme I did was somewhat my "battle rhyme" so to speak. At the time I had just written it, was proud of it, so figured why not use it not really putting 2+2 together until it was too late. So that definitely added to the tension of the moment quite a bit as I was in essence talking shit about how I was the best compared to everyone else. Luckily most of them took it for what it was, a classic bragging rhyme. Key words being most of them.

It was a pretty fucking tense experience to be honest. And if I was not completely out of my mind at the time I am pretty sure I never would have done it otherwise. I can also say Method Mad was no doubt the most friendly in my experience as well. I remember him basically telling them all to chill and let me rhyme after I started rhyming. For the most part they listened.
There was one dude though who was just part of their crew and didn't rhyme just giving me a death stare the entire time. From about 2 feet away. He was one of the ones who eventually gave me a pound though. I think he did not even respect my rhyme and just appreciated the fact i stood there with him right in my face. Haha

I would seriously pay so much to somehow get a video of the whole thing. A friend of mine who was a photographer at the Source did a photoshoot with them about 6 or 7 years after it happened. None of them remembered it at all except U-God who according to my friend said he had a vague recollection of something like that going down. I guess my 60 or so second rhyme did not leave a lasting impression. I also like to tell myself they too were incredibly high as most of the people there, so that of course has something to do with them having no memories of the incident. I also have to imagine they did that very same "performance" 100's of times if not more.

To be honest that was just as special as getting to rhyme with them. They basically performed 5 or so songs off Enter The Wu in front of about 50 of us live and on the street with no stage and no mics. Just a classic cipher. And they absolutely killed it. That was truly something to behold.