Weird facts about you... — Forum Archive

28 Jun 2006, 14:18

Let's start a thread about the weird or funny facts about you :wink:

I learned something last week that I sure wasn't aware of.

Apparently I'm related to Madonna (!), and that's dead serious. I knew her mother was french-canadian, but not that close :p

So she's my cousin, but let's be real here, it's a long shot probably 4th or 5th degree. Cousin of an aunt, etc etc...

Nevertheless, I will be curious to check my familly tree once I put my hand on it (once of my uncle is doing it for years)..

Now that's funny :evil4:

28 Jun 2006, 14:29

i'm not related to Madonna. :D

28 Jun 2006, 14:30

I don't have anything funny, but I do have a somewhat less distant but definitely much less famous relation. Only Americans will appreciate it, though. My great uncle (mother's uncle) played RB in the NFL for 10 years (9 with the 49ers, 1 with the Cardinals). He held the 49ers team record for touchdowns, till Jerry Rice demolished it.
I have some French Canadian blood in me, so maybe I'm related to Madonna too? :)

28 Jun 2006, 14:30

i have a niece that is 9 months Older than me she refuses to call me Uncle frank :laugh:

as far as famouse relations? i have been told that i was related to george c. scott by marrage, he seems to have married a 2nd or 3rd cousin of my mothers, or something like that, not even sure its true :shrug:

28 Jun 2006, 14:32

i once almost torn my toe off when running barefooted and colliding with a tonka truck.

28 Jun 2006, 14:33

Supposidely General Sheridan of the US Civil War is my great uncle. . .other than that, no real great people in my family tree that I know of.

JHC

28 Jun 2006, 14:39

I have freakly bendy legs, and can fit my whole fist in my mouth. Those are probably the weirdest facts about me. :crazy: :crazy: :crazy:

28 Jun 2006, 14:45

ghost rider wrote: i once almost torn my toe off when running barefooted and colliding with a tonka truck.

OW!!!!

:lol: ... but OW!

28 Jun 2006, 14:51

Somehow I'm related to Jim Kerr from Simple Minds.... :nervous:

I'm ashamed...

28 Jun 2006, 14:54

Christopher Owens wrote: Somehow I'm related to Jim Kerr from Simple Minds....

I'm ashamed...

Oh come on, he wore spandex an' all... :lol:

28 Jun 2006, 14:58

Comrade Shampanyov, Gentleman wrote:

Christopher Owens wrote: Somehow I'm related to Jim Kerr from Simple Minds....

I'm ashamed...

Oh come on, he wore spandex an' all...

But the songs.............

Oh the shame.

28 Jun 2006, 14:59

Christopher Owens wrote:

Comrade Shampanyov, Gentleman wrote:

Christopher Owens wrote: Somehow I'm related to Jim Kerr from Simple Minds....

I'm ashamed...

Oh come on, he wore spandex an' all...

But the songs.............

Oh the shame.

Seems you'd like to forget about him then....

28 Jun 2006, 15:01

Comrade Shampanyov, Gentleman wrote:

Seems you'd like to forget about him then....

Yep.

And cheers for reminding me of that song. :barf:

28 Jun 2006, 15:17

A lot of people in my family were born on October 24th.

28 Jun 2006, 15:33

My mother is one of 22 children, same father (we assume!) and mother. Last one was born when my grandfather was 82, and she was 48. Unbelievably, he was born in 1876, and won a VC. :laugh:

28 Jun 2006, 15:45

Burt Reynolds wrote: My mother is one of 22 children, same father (we assume!) and mother. Last one was born when my grandfather was 82, and she was 48. Unbelievably, he was born in 1876, and won a VC.

He was 82? How old was his wife?

Curious of Portland.

28 Jun 2006, 15:47

Comrade Shampanyov, Gentleman wrote:

Burt Reynolds wrote: My mother is one of 22 children, same father (we assume!) and mother. Last one was born when my grandfather was 82, and she was 48. Unbelievably, he was born in 1876, and won a VC.

He was 82? How old was his wife?

Curious of Portland.

48! re-read!

28 Jun 2006, 15:56

Burt Reynolds wrote:

Comrade Shampanyov, Gentleman wrote:

Burt Reynolds wrote: My mother is one of 22 children, same father (we assume!) and mother. Last one was born when my grandfather was 82, and she was 48. Unbelievably, he was born in 1876, and won a VC.

He was 82? How old was his wife?

Curious of Portland.

48! re-read!

Ohhh... I thought it might mean your mum was 48 when the last was born.

So a 34 year age gap eh?

Musta been before the days of Dateline then. :ignore:

28 Jun 2006, 15:58

Comrade Shampanyov, Gentleman wrote:

Burt Reynolds wrote:

Comrade Shampanyov, Gentleman wrote:

Burt Reynolds wrote: My mother is one of 22 children, same father (we assume!) and mother. Last one was born when my grandfather was 82, and she was 48. Unbelievably, he was born in 1876, and won a VC.

He was 82? How old was his wife?

Curious of Portland.

48! re-read!

Ohhh... I thought it might mean your mum was 48 when the last was born.

So a 34 year age gap eh?

Musta been before the days of Dateline then.

LOL. I can see where this is going. :laugh:

28 Jun 2006, 16:00

Burt Reynolds wrote:

Comrade Shampanyov, Gentleman wrote:

Burt Reynolds wrote:

Comrade Shampanyov, Gentleman wrote:

Burt Reynolds wrote: My mother is one of 22 children, same father (we assume!) and mother. Last one was born when my grandfather was 82, and she was 48. Unbelievably, he was born in 1876, and won a VC.

He was 82? How old was his wife?

Curious of Portland.

48! re-read!

Ohhh... I thought it might mean your mum was 48 when the last was born.

So a 34 year age gap eh?

Musta been before the days of Dateline then.

LOL. I can see where this is going.

:evil4:

28 Jun 2006, 17:18

I'm only 149 centimetres tall (and I stopped growing when I was 12). People think my mum and I are sisters. When I first received eyeshadow as a present when I was 6 or 7, I put it on my eyebrows! I was a premature baby, having born two months before my due date. I have an uncle who is 43 years old, who has never moved out of his mum's house to get his own flat ever in his life. I write slash fanfiction, and I've been reading such material since I was 13, and writing it since I was 14.

28 Jun 2006, 17:28

I can put both of my feet behind my head.

28 Jun 2006, 17:33

According to my mum I'm a distant descendant of Andrew Jackson but through his adopted son (Andrew Jackson Jnr), dunno if it's true or not.

He's the president on the twenty dollar bill I think.

28 Jun 2006, 17:39

I am the Longest recorded labour in Bangor hospital, 43 hours. They dumped my mum in ambulance to take her to Mutantards to trail me out. I arrived in the ambulance rather than be born there ( tho the bastards still registered me there) and spent my first few minutes of life in a biscuit tin :D

28 Jun 2006, 17:59

[brown]Ally[/brown] wrote: According to my mum I'm a distant descendant of Andrew Jackson but through his adopted son (Andrew Jackson Jnr), dunno if it's true or not.

He's the president on the twenty dollar bill I think.

Yep.

28 Jun 2006, 18:02

Comrade Shampanyov, Gentleman wrote: Yep.

Does this mean I'm entitled to a room in the White House if it's true? :evil4:

28 Jun 2006, 18:02

And while I was looking for that, I found this... check it out. :lol:

28 Jun 2006, 18:06

I could tell you some unusual facts about me, but then I'd have to kill you :evil4:

And I'm betting you want to stay alive :p

28 Jun 2006, 18:12

During the 1828 election, his opponents referred to him as a "Jackass". Jackson liked the name and used the jackass as a symbol for a while, but it died out. However, it later became the symbol for the Democratic Party. [4]

Didn't know this was the origin of the donkey as a symbol of the democratic party. Quite funny, that andrew jackson dude.

28 Jun 2006, 18:17

Both my state and Cozzie's claim Andrew Jackson as a "native son" on account of his having grown up on the border (born on the voyage over from England, I think). :shrug:

Strangely, there is no such debate between SC and NC regarding Samuel L. Jackson :D