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arisbe ([personal profile] arisbe) wrote2005-02-23 12:22 pm

Things You Might Not Have Done

(But let me know if you have.)

Skipped second grade.
Passed a kidney stone before puberty.
Ridden the Coney Island Steeplechase and seen the Flea Circus at Hubert's Museum.
Owned a piece of wood from an Egyptian tomb.
Taken a picture of Senator LBJ.
Seen the rings of Saturn through a little telescope without looking for them.
Played a World's Fair.
Represented the United Arab Republic at a Midwest Model U.N.
Sailed the sewers of Paris.
Tried on the top hat and held the cane of Charles Sanders Peirce, who gave Arisbe its name.

Mine

[identity profile] publius-aelius.livejournal.com 2005-02-23 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Sailed the sewers of Paris.

I did this in 1975--quite illegally, though.

Re: Mine

[identity profile] arisbe.livejournal.com 2005-02-23 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Better that way! Way to go, dude.

Re: Mine

[identity profile] publius-aelius.livejournal.com 2005-02-23 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, and I skipped the FOURTH grade, by the way.

[identity profile] yechezkiel.livejournal.com 2005-02-23 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
what do you mean, 'without looking for them?'

[identity profile] arisbe.livejournal.com 2005-02-23 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Well I was a kid just pointing the damned thing up at the sky pretty much at random, not looking for or at anything in particular and there they were.

[identity profile] gurdonark.livejournal.com 2005-02-23 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I got to represent the Central African Republic once, but it's not as good as UAE!

[identity profile] arisbe.livejournal.com 2005-02-23 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Especially as a propagandist from the Arab States Information Service flew in from New York at their expense to prepare us.

[identity profile] hypomnesis.livejournal.com 2005-02-23 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah totally.

I totally done all that.

Twice, even.

[identity profile] arisbe.livejournal.com 2005-02-23 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
I thought that was you, second from the left.

[identity profile] hypomnesis.livejournal.com 2005-02-25 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I was the one with the clothes. And the hair.

[identity profile] seraphimsigrist.livejournal.com 2005-02-25 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
played a worlds fair?
I worked one summer at one
play was limited to a beer at
the schaffer pavillion or something.

[identity profile] arisbe.livejournal.com 2005-02-25 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't suppose you caught any of the high school bands performing in the NYS Pavilion featured in the MIB movie?

[identity profile] seraphimsigrist.livejournal.com 2005-02-25 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
aha! It was for me the
summer of my first year at
seminary.