From the Department of Random Files

[mousme]

Tell me something I don't know.

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[alcinoe.livejournal.com]

I can tell you something you probably don't know about me, I sorta think that is the only thing I know that you don't, LOL Smartie pants. :)
I lived without electricity or running water or central heat for 3 years in New Hampshire when I was young.

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Dude, OMG. How the hell did that happen? I didn't think that could happen in the US if you weren't an illegal immigrant. ^^;

Maybe I'm just too accustomed to Canada...

[alcinoe.livejournal.com]

For financial reasons, my father packed us up to move to Ossipee NH. The land he purchased was not serviced by electricity. In order to get it, we would have had to pay for the poles to be run from the nearest electric pole which was several miles away. We heated water on our wood stove, and for a good part lugged water up from our spring in the back. We also grew most of our own food and kept pigs, chickens and turkeys.

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Wow. And that's even before Fox made that sort of thing fashionable. You can totally use that as bragging rights to say you were ahead of the times. ;)

You have lived through some pretty interesting times, in the Chinese curse sense of the term.

[swestrup]

My mom was born and grew up in Alberta and she didn't have electricity or running water until she was twelve. As a result, she never wanted to go camping when we were kids. She said she roughed it for 12 years, and that was enough.

[mousme.livejournal.com]

I suspect, though, that your mother is considerably older than alcinoe, hence my surprise that the latter would have grown up under such circumstances. I think you'd be hard-pressed to find too many families living that way in Alberta these days, unless my information about Alberta is way off.

[swestrup]

Well certainly the last time I visited the family farm, it had full electricity and running water, although the house my Mom grew up in still didn't. Its now (or was then -- 20 years ago) used as a storage shed.

[odheirre.livejournal.com]

Something I just learned.

Ernest Hemingway and James Joyce not only knew each other, but were good friends - Hemingway treated a lot of his friends poorly, but liked Joyce to the end.

And in the movie The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway though Spencer Tracy was (paraphrasing) a fat actor playing the role of a thin Cuban.

Bah, Hemingway said it better.

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Hee! That's awesome. I love both authors, so this is a neat piece of trivia to have. Thanks. :)

[longpig.livejournal.com]

I can't do a cartwheel. :(

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Aww... *pat pat*

I used to be able to, but I think now I'd fall on my ass. I've never been able to do a proper handstand either. :)

[owldaughter.livejournal.com]

I have five different editions of Jane Eyre.

The ship my aunt and uncle were on during WWII to send them away from the UK was torpedoed and sank. All the kids were OK.

[prolixfootle.livejournal.com]

Hrm. I have five different versions of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Dear God...

And I thought my father was compulsive about having various editions of his books...

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Five? Do they each serve a different purpose? Were they gifts? I'm curious now.

Surviving a torpedoing. Now *that's* a story to tell your grandkids.

[elanya.livejournal.com]

I have to pee, and then I am going to take a shower!

...you didn't say it had to be something *interesting* :)

[mousme.livejournal.com]

No, I most certainly did not. Mostly I was comment-whoring. ;)

[sorceror.livejournal.com]

The maximum acceleration that the human body can stand is approximately 6G. You can go up to 9G if you're wearing a specially-designed gravity suit.

Oh, wait. Does it have to be something remotely related to me? Well then:

I went to high school with a guy who ended up in the Matthew Good Band.

I went to university with a guy who ended up as an astronaut.

[mousme.livejournal.com]

It can be anything you want. :)