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| thegreatsporkwielder |
 Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 3:20 pm |
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False, of course!!! *whistles innocently*
Well, it's not TERRIBLY illegal, like stealing or anything, but I jumped off a dock into a lake....and it was on private property, so I was trespassing.
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| Overhill |
| Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 3:39 pm |
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Yep, to a number of circuses. Twice to the Shriners. The first one was when I was about 8. When my kids were about the same age, I took them again, and it was showering and, anyway, the Shriners didn't ride around in their little cars.
I also went to the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey one with my grandmother when I was 28. She told everyone how we were parked next to the elephants. Lots of traditional multi-generation family action, pyramids of people and children being trained in the circus arts. You wondered how many years these families had been working together, and what countries were they all from. (The train passes through my town now, and once a year it parks on the overpass and you see the sleeping train early in the morning on your way to work. In Portland, OR, the elephants would go in parade from the train station over a bridge to cross the Willamette River to get to the performance arena.)
Then there was one more that I took the kids to. It was in a high school gym, and it had its "tame and shabby" white tiger for people to stand near for their pictures, but the people and their pet acts were awesome. One was a clown with a stuffed toy stuffed elephant that would run and do tricks when his back was turned, and freeze whenever the clown saw him. (At the end, the costume came off, and it was a small dog!)
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| Pennfana |
| Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 3:45 pm |
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Edit: GAH, once again I've taken too long to type a response. 
About Columbus Day: sort of true, sort of false. Of course, it's not a holiday up here, so I'm not entirely sure if that counts...
This year, though, it happens to fall on the date for Thanksgiving up here, which makes it sort of true.
I've only been to one circus that I remember. As I was only about five or six at the time I don't remember it well, but I do remember that my parents got angry at me because I had almost finished my cotton candy when the stick it came on somehow got stuck on some other kid's back. I had no idea how it happened, but they thought I'd done it on purpose.
I remember the elephants, though. I'd never seen one up close before and they gave me nightmares for years.
The most illegal thing I've ever been involved with happened in the December when I was 18. I was out with a bunch of my friends; we were just driving around after seeing a movie. To this day I don't know who came up with the idea (or how), but we ended up driving to someone's house (we all knew him, he was a real jerk) and one of the guys sneaked up and stole a Christmas light from one of the strings of lights around the window. Unfortunately, it was one of those light arrangements where if one bulb is removed or burns out, the whole string goes out.
You can guess how fast he ran back to the van. The bulb was returned the next day, taped anonymously to the guy's locker at school.
I think I wrote a filk of "The Call" by the Backstreet Boys to commemmorate this; I'm not exactly a fan of theirs--I can't stand them most of the time--but the girl who was driving the van was (and still is), and that's the song that was playing at the time.
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| hp4freek |
| Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 5:25 pm |
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Mostly true. I do love the winter, I think it's all the bundling up you get to do. But I'll miss going to the park, feeding ducks, all the fun summer activities. And since I live in TX, there isn't any snow to play with, and not many winter activities, it's just cold.
I've been to the circus many times when I was younger. Every year they come to town, I always say I'm going to get tickets and go, but always end up forgetting.
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| thegreatsporkwielder |
| Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 6:02 pm |
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Yeah, baby! I'm from Michigan. Yay for snow!
The person below me loves pumpkin pie. (I'm in a Thanksgiving-y mood!) |
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| Verity Brown |
| Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 8:20 pm |
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I do! It's always been one of my favorites.
I like winter and snow, but I'm not sure how much snow we will get here. We're about two hours south of where we used to live, and now we're just on the edge of "The South," so I really don't know. But then, in the Midwest you never know for sure if there will be snow in any given winter anyway. I grew up in the Rockies and we had snow *every* winter. So this hit-and-miss thing is hard on me.
I've always loved the circus, and I can't even count how many times I've gone to it. When my oldest son was younger, we lived in a city where the Shriner Circus was always on the weekend near his birthday, so we always went for his birthday while we lived there.
I remember a trespassing incident from my childhood. Some friends and I went over to the Catholic elementary school playground to play on a rather nifty piece of equipment--it was sort of like a merry-go-round, but the center was suspended from a tall pole, so it could move freely all around the pole. Finally an adult came out and told us that it was private property and we weren't allowed to play there. Being a very rules-oriented child, I was absolutely *traumatized* to find out that I had been breaking the law. 
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| pigwig |
| Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 8:28 pm |
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I much prefer mint to cinnamon, so false.
Well, I guess the only thing I've done is illegal by association. My friends smoke 'herb,' and I was in the room. So, that's the closet I've gotten to being naughty. 
I don't like winter, but I live in the Boston area. Pretty soon we'll get upwards of 2 feet of snow. I have Seasonal Affected Disorder (depressed in winter), so it's not really winter that hate, but the drop in sunlight.
I LURV pumpkin pie. I make it from scratch, with lots of cool whip on top.
When I lived in Kansas, we'd go to the State Fair, and they had side-show type booths, which is the closest I've been to an actual circus...
And continuing with the holiday themes...
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| hp4freek |
| Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 8:38 pm |
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My in-laws and parents live about 30 minutes apart, so we have a system. It's rather biased to the in-laws, though.
I adore pumpkin pie. My momma makes the best...
The person below me has a holiday birthday (mine's Dec. 19th). |
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| VelvetMouse |
| Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 9:02 pm |
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True! I was born on (American) Thanksgiving, so my birthday is always right around then.
And I think that means I'm required to love pumpkin pie. Although, I have to admit, I like the pumpkin flan that I make even better. 
My finacee's mom lives about half an hour from us; my parents live about 3 hours away... but we do split the holidays between the families, and everyone seems pretty okay with it.
The person below me has a favorite non-"Traditional" dish that they always want on a holiday. (i.e. a food that isn't usually associated with said holiday, but somehow became tradition in your family anyway) |
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| thegreatsporkwielder |
| Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 9:11 pm |
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True! My family ALWAYS does Fondue on New Year's Eve. It's nice because you can just munch all night long instead of having to sit down and eat a meal.
I was born around American Thanksgiving, too! Since it changes every year, my birthday is ON Thanksgiving every once in a while.
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| abyt42 |
| Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 1:37 am |
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If I admit to having more than one Mac, does that make me hopelessly partisan (or just married to a programmer? Or both?) We're a pretty geeky household-- our four year olds showed their teacher how to change the font color on her email. . . . but Macs, all the way. . .
I loathe pumpkin pie. Actually, only pie crust, so the crustless pumpkin "pie" recipe was a real boone. I love cooking for winter-- stews, soups, gratins, roasted root vegetables, stuffed mushrooms, breads. . . . and because of that, we've a host of nontraditional holiday foods. . . . .like Albondigas for Christmas Eve and blintzes for Christmas morning (though that may be perceived as more traditional than not. . .) Mushroom soup for (US) Thanksgiving with brocolli streudel. . . . Okay, now I'm hungry, darnit.
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| LadyWhitehart |
| Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 1:48 am |
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Sad but true and his little brother Shawn too.
Holiday birthdays are a family thing for us. Oldest daughter Columbus Day, middle daughter, Veterans' Day youngest daughter Valentine's Day (almost). I was born the day before Goose Day (Go PA Dutch!) Oh and hubby and I were married on Memorial Day weekend so there another.
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| cperasic |
| Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 4:17 am |
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The person below me is short.
Yep, I think 5'2" qualifies as short.
Holiday birthdays are a family thing for us. Oldest daughter Columbus Day, middle daughter, Veterans' Day youngest daughter Valentine's Day (almost). I was born the day before Goose Day (Go PA Dutch!) Oh and hubby and I were married on Memorial Day weekend so there another.
We were also married on Memorial Day weekend. My bd is March 17th (St. Patrick's day), DH is July 4th, 2 of my three kids are between Thanksgiving and Christmas. My mom is Martin Luther King day we have a fair few others in the family also. Ok I'm done
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| Pennfana |
| Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 5:21 pm |
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Not really. I like some of it, but most of what I listen to tends to be classical, Celtic (and variations thereof), blues and classic rock.
At 5 foot 7, I don't think I qualify as short.
There are no holiday birthdays in my family, but a couple of us come close; my mother's birthday is December 23 and mine's November 3.
My grandfather was the first person in my family to use a Mac, just shortly after they first started being made. Although my dad and my brother are both stubborn Windows users, I prefer the Mac (far fewer things that I can screw up) and I am the proud owner of an iBook G4.
There are two kinds of cookies that I always bake around Christmas; neither of them are really "traditional" for Christmas and both are apparently Dutch in origin; they were my great-grandmother's recipes, and she brought them over when she and my great-grandfather and their kids came to Canada. One kind is what my family calls "rubber cookies" (can't remember the spelling of the Dutch name). There's a lot of honey in the recipe and once these things are cooled and put in the freezer, they become extremely chewy, hence the name. I'm not sure what the real spelling for the name of the second type is, but the variant that my family uses is "spekelaus". Anyone unfamiliar with them by that name might know them as "windmill cookies", like the ones sold by Voortman, though I've got to say that I prefer our recipe.
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| FiaBerns |
| Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 9:24 pm |
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My engagement ring being the one I had admired for weeks before hand at the jeweller's and having not expected it to be the self-same one my beloved had also chosen.
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