jamesq | Ten Things You Didn't Know About Me

I'm a trained assassin for the Canadian Government. This isn't as hard as it might seem because we are Canadians. I can usually turn people around with a stern talking too and a "tsk tsk".
I've been known to compel Michaela Conlin into making the most interesting chipmunk noises.
The first person to climb Olympus Mons? That was me.
I played drums for Steppenwolf during their 1990 world tour.
My career as a porn star was cut tragically short after a fiction burn incident with Jenna Haze.
I hold the world record for blowing the largest bubble of bubble-gum (1.3 meters in diameter).
The World Etymology Council acknowledges that I invented the term "going postal" back in 1993.
I was pen pals with Prince Rainier III of Monaco.
During the 67th Academy Awards, I was a seat filler (i.e. I kept seats occupied when the star was away so that the their would be empty seats seen when the camera panned across the audience). I met George Peppard, Jessica Tandy, Peter Cushing, Donald Pleasence and Raul Julia!
I wrote Starlost slash fiction under the pseudonym Lady Bird Cordwainer.

This was hard because I'm actually one of the most boring people in existence.

I come from a long line of bullshitters and tall-tale-tellers. OK, maybe that's not such a secret.
I stole a copy of The Star fleet Technical Manual (the original one, not a reprint) from The Olde Booke Shoppe (a used book store that used to exist in Cowtown forever, but finally went out of business a few years ago). I was 17 at the time. I still have it.
I've been madly in love twice. Sadly, neither worked out.
I was on my high school's junior football team. It was probably the last time I tried to be part of the in-crowd in my life.
My picture was on the front page of the Calgary Sun during it's first week of publication (sometime in 1980). This was when I was in Junior High. I won a prize for solving word search puzzles. Someday I'm going to go down to the library and find it and make a copy.
My great^n uncle was Louis Cyr, the world's strongest man.
The last time I was lost was when I was a child. There have been times as an adult when I wasn't sure how to get from point A to point B, but I've always know where I was.
I was prescribed Ritalin when I was a kid. After two weeks my Mom stopped giving it to me. Better to have a hyperactive son then a zombie, she said.
I collect the 1973 RCMP Quarter - I have somewhere between 400 and 500 of them.
I was named for an uncle Jim on both my father and mother's side of the family. To prevent confusion in names I was always Jamie or James. No, you can't call me Jamie.