Re: Mini Challenge: 10 Random Facts about YOU.

THE ANSWERS:

1: I've wandered through the mists of Avalon.

True.

After university my wife and I attempted to hike across Canada. The first leg of our journey was across the Avalon Peninsula in Newfoundland where, yes, we got lost in the fog. A few times.


2: I changed my name.

True.

I was born and christened Kyle Alexander Jones, but when I was 18 years old I changed it to Colin Anthony Jones.

3: I have a negative ape index.

True.

An ape index is the ratio between one's height and one's wingspan. Most people have a neutral or 1:1 ape index; I met one fellow with a positive ape index (his reach was more than two inches greater than his height.) I have a half-inch negative ape index. Why would any one care? Rock climbing.

4: I was a Kill hanger

True.

It would be more accurate to say that I was a kiln hanger, but where I worked and where I grew up the "N" was abandoned for the sake of expediency and irony. What a kill hanger does is fill a tobacco kill (kiln), a small building for curing and drying tobacco leaves. I did this job for 5 summers during highschool. Tobacco farming is a nasty job and I could go on and on, but suffice it to say that a kill hanger is like a goalie on a hockey team - there's only one and he's weird.


5: Three of my favourite books, are kids books.

True.

Not my top favourites, but way up there: Le Petit Prince by Anton st.-Exupery, Call of the Wild by Jack London and Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson


6: I ran for Canadian Federal Parliament

True.

Yes I did. I was the Green Party candidate for Haldimand-Norfolk in the 2004 federal election. I earned 1804 votes which was a substantial increase for the party and something I'm quite proud of. I had almost no money and literally ran for office - running from one door to the next to get my message out. Over the month-long campaign I dropped 25 pounds.

7: I was born with three nipples.

False (congratulations to our winner.)

Nope, just two. They're both on the left though. Kidding.

8: In my freshman year at university I lost 15 pounds and gained 15% to my average.

True.

I didn't take highschool very seriously and my marks showed it. I got to university, loved it and raised my average. I also moved in with my then fiancé, now wife, who is a much healthier cook than I was and dropped 15 pounds. I also stopped working on the farm which meant the thinning extended to my muscles as well.


9: If it weren't for modern medicine, I'd be dead a few times over.

True.

Pneumonia twice, a nasty parasitic infection, and a near-drowning.

10:

True.

None have been published, but I'm working on it.

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[torianna16]

i dont get this??

[adventurenox]

It was a very small and very unsuccessful contest. It was supposed to be funny.

[adventurenox]

The contest is closed. Congratulations to PkmnTrainerJ.

Thanks for participating!

[PkmnTrainerJ]

Cool, thanks and how was running for parliment? I've often thought about just running locally.

[adventurenox]

Good. It would have been better if I had some money.

[TheBeatleLoversThree]

My ape index is 7+

[smileyousee]

pretty cool

[torianna16]

oooooh..

[bigLbeast]

it is the running for Canadian Federal Parliament.

[Niennah]

The college weight thing. I have yet to come across anyone who can manage to pull that off... and also I don't know what a negative ape index is nor a kill hanger so... ;) haha, nice vid!