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1. I've lived in British Columbia since 1987 but it still doesn't feel like home
2. Although I've never lived there, the south coast of Maine feels like home
3. I've flown with two different pilots who were subsequently killed in crashes attributed to pilot error
4. I flew with another pilot who later shot herself in the head
5. I don't like the name Christopher, it sounds weak to me
6. I wanted to be named Joe
7. I've learned to live with Christopher
8. I've been in three motorcycle crashes, I was street racing in the first one, I was hit by another vehicle in the other two
9. I would die for my children
10. More significantly, I would kill to protect them
11. In particular, I'm very protective of my daughter
12. If you asked everyone who knows me what I'm like they'll tell you that I'm dependable, sarcastic, intelligent, considerate and moody
13. I taught myself to swim at age ten
14. I'm what you might call a survival swimmer
15. I have a hairy rear end
16. When I was twelve I lived with my father
17. I came home after school to find him on the bathroom floor with his wrists slit
18. It happened three times in one week
19. A few days later my father abandoned me
20. I have an extremely difficult relationship with my father
21. I lived with my father because my mother left us both
22. My relationship with my mother isn't much better than my relationship with my father
23. My very first pet was a white mouse I named Whitey
24. I've always wanted a pet monkey
25. If I had a pet monkey I'd name him Spank
26. I once stapled my finger to see what would happen
27. I once sniffed powdered coffee whitener to see what would happen
28. I once tried opium to see what it was like
29. I once auditioned for a porn company to see what would happen
30. I once slept with a post-op transsexual - but I didn't know it until later
31. In the ten years I've been with this company I've received eight commendation letters and four letters of reprimand
32. I dislike my job but I also know that I'm lucky to have it
33. I don't think of myself as religious, agnostic or as an atheist
34. My children aren't baptised because I want them to make their own minds up on the subject
35. My body temperature tends to drop quite a bit when I sleep
36. But other times I'm a little furnace
37. When I was three I got stitches in my forehead from smacking the garage-door handle after riding my tricycle down the steep driveway
38. When I was eleven I got stitches in the side of my head from blindly running into the side of my apartment building while playing hide and seek
39. When I was twenty-one I got stitches in my forehead from jumping off a three-stair-high landing and smacking into the steel door lintel at the bottom
40. I was an angry teenager - a rebel without a clue
41. I used to schmooze my high school teachers to get a passing grade
42. The last time I peed my pants was when I was in grade four. It was winter. Lots of steam
43. I envy Americans their sense of patriotism
44. My favorite childhood comic superhero was Aquaman
45. I lost my virginity at age twelve
46. My biggest personal fear is having my eyes gouged out
47. When I was seventeen I punched my mother's drunk boyfriend in the nose
48. She later married him and moved to Mexico
49. I don't care for hockey
50. I don't care for the social stigma of being a Canadian who doesn't care for hockey
51. When I was seventeen I drank so much one night that I had to get my stomach pumped
52. Wearing only a speedo, I once danced on stage in front of two hundred drunken women
53. I had sex that night
54. She initiated it
55. In the 1980's, I regularly visited my father all four times that he did time in prison
56. It bothers me that he never once said thank you for it
57. I agree with Mark Twain's sentiments on golf
58. On my 21st birthday I threw a party and 120 people showed up
59. I had sex that night
60. She initiated it
61. Thinking back, all of the one-night-stands I've had were when women initiated it
62. When I was sixteen I got serious frostbite on nine of my fingers. All the skin peeled off. It hurt
63. Losing my hair doesn't bother me but losing it in a way that leaves me with a funny-looking hairline does
64. I was once within thirty seconds of abandoning the ship I was delivering during a North Pacific ocean storm - things were tense
65. I am impatient with people who don't know what they are talking about
66. I once secretly grew my toenails out and cut them into points so I could scare my (ex) wife in bed
67. Boy was she surprised
68. I never did it again
69. I am very competitive
70. I'm smart but not as smart as I think I am
71. I don't want to be cremated when I die
72. When I die I want to be encased, naked, in a giant block of clear plastic and donated to a natural history museum
73. My cellphone's ringtone is "Tainted Love"
74. I'm a creature of habit but I hate living in a routine
75. White wine gives me a nasty hangover
76. I can't believe I'll be 42 on my next birthday - how did I get this old so fast?
77. I have a weakness for redheads
78. I have a weakness for big boobs
79. When combined together, the two are my kryptonite
80. Irony follows me around in life like an orphaned puppy
81. I've seen the Rocky Horror Picture Show over 55 times - most of which were between 1979 and 1981
82. I've shaved my armpits twice in my life - it's a long story...
83. Sometimes I wonder if I'm destined for one act of greatness
84. Most of the time I really dislike talking on the telephone
85. I've never had a cavity
86. Both of my parents have rotten teeth
87. I used to think that I was adopted
88. Sometimes I still wonder about it
89. I exercise five days a week
90. I've never seen a UFO, a sasquatch or Elvis
91. Sufism appeals to me but Islam doesn't
92. My knees sound like rusty hinges
93. I'd like to get to europe in 2007
94. I try to make every action in life a conscious one
95. I'm exactly five foot, nine and three-quarter inches tall but I usually round up to five foot ten
96. It bothers me when people refer to prescription medication as their "meds" - no one should be that comfortable with taking medication
97. I try to keep an open mind but sometimes it's a real effort
98. Since my twenties I've had four seperate city newspaper articles written about me
99. I miss my grandmother - she died in 1999
100. I'll be very surprised if anyone comments on any of these things I've listed
101. I'm adding this 101st one because I'm an overachiever
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