The Answers: Little Known Facts

Time for the grand reveal. Explain as much as you dare.

1. My favorite sandwich growing up was Velvetta with sweet pickles on white bread. Sweet and salty at the same time. Definitely was a fav. Now I cannot imagine the white bread itself! 2. I like to knit and crochet and have made myself a few cool sweaters this fall/winter. Nope. Damn, I'm so transparent. I should have been more creative. I did use to do cross stitching. 3. I met Keith Richards at a backyard BBQ which was a college graduation and 60th birthday party. My friend Scott was cousin of Keith's wife Patty Hansen (former super model). 4. I once went to a heavy metal club in Brooklyn to see a coworker that was in a band called Intense Mutilation. Yes, I worked with a very conservative guy that liked underground heavy metal music. He formed a "fake" band with a couple of friends and they made poor quality tapes of *noise* not really music and it got fairly well circulated. It was a joke at first but then they had fun with it. They actually found some instruments and recorded a tape. Eventually had a live performance. While I did go to the club...I was somewhat freaked out and was way out of place and ended up leaving before the performance. If it were today...I'd be there and woulda had fun! 5. I use to live in a house that had > 40,000 books in it. http://www.geocities.com/dbookmaam/homesweethome.html There are the pictures. My ex-husband was an obsessive compulsive hoarder. I was fine until the books invaded the general living space and the money issues that come with collecting that much stuff. When I met him he had been collecting since age 13 and had about 25,000 most were in the basement, one bedroom and about 5,000 still at his mom's house in Detroit. We started eBaying his duplicate copies and he started selling on the web which gave him cash influx (actually he spent way more than he had - another big issue) to buy more and more to sell and for himself. The more in then out concept for selling was lost on him. In the 6 years from the time I met him to the time I left him...he took that 25,000 and upped it to 70,000. Yes, 70,000. I only listed 40,000 since we had a full 20 by 10 storage until full to the rafters so it wasn't in the house. The house filled up too room by room until there was no room for me. In the words of Dave Barry, "There is a fine line between hobby and mental illness".

I knew it! Knitting is evil... I tried to take up knitting when I quit smoking the last time and all it did was make me want to smoke MORE! Becky, who's giving it another shot January 23rd...

3. I once found a paper bag with 200,000 dollars in it. This is false. I wi**** were true, but no such luck. Carol

1. The movie "Erin Brokovich" was filmed on my street and our first house payment was paid by the studios for use of our plants and driveway. TRUE- This happened the month we bought our first house, and it was such a fun summer! We got to meet the cas****ch filming, etc., and we got our first payment paid by letting them use our driveway and renting my houseplants! LOL 2. I met members from Journey, Steppenwolf, Lynard Skinard and many more bands at a small backyard party here in town last summer. TRUE- We're friends with an original member of Steppenwolf. We were at a party at his house, and these guys were so cool! They actually have a new band all together- called World Class Rockers. We just saw him last night, in fact- they just played in Hawaii for NYE. 3. I was once slipped the date rape drug by an NBA player, but never did anything to press charges. TRUE- I was newly divorced, had no self esteem, and was in a bad situation. I have had to see this guys' face on tv for years, and I hate it. I should have done something- but I never did. 4. I caught my ex-husband in bed with my best friend and left town that day, never to return. TRUE- The worst day of my life! 5. I was a competitive high school cheerleader, and I won many awards for it. FALSE

1. I met Lloyd Bridges at a beer-garten in Germany True - I was visiting friends in Germany (they had been exchange students in the states) and one night we were out to dinner and I heard American voices behind me. I was so homesick, the actual voices were what got me excited. It wasn't until we were seated, just a couple of tables away, that I realized who it was. And then, I was so flustered, I couldn't think of his name... He was there filming Hot Shots Part Deux in Dusseldorf... We talked to him, sat at his table, had our pictures taken, etc. He was an extremly gracious person. Very tall, too... 2. I've been to a Canadian strip club True - all I can say is, if you're even the LEAST bit shy, conservative or otherwise embarassed about nudity, don't EVER go to a Canadian strip club! 3. I used to work at a barn mucking stalls True - in HS, I actually volunteered at a barn that provides equestrian therapy for mentally and physically handicapped children and adults. I helped groom horses, walk horses during therapy, taught a few of the adult courses, etc. After HS, I spent about a year cleaning stalls and feeding/grooming. Didn't pay much, but it was nice to be out of retail for a while, and you could do a lot of thinking while you worked. 4. My hair was once purple on one side and pink on the other Nope - I'm weird in a lot of ways, but this is one thing I never did. The closest I got was my Junior year in HS when I died my hair a very dark, wine-red 5. I usually read 2-3 paperback novels a week True - I read constantly. In the bathroom, in the shower, in the car while I'm waiting for my DH to pump gas, in the carpool line, lunch break... I also don't sleep well so it's not unusual for me to stay up until 2 or 3am reading. About the ONLY time I don't read 2-3 novels a week (we're talking the best seller, dime-store novels, not War and Peace) is during finals week, when I'm busy studying for classes.

Only time I saw Donny Osmond was on stage when he and his brothers were in concert with the Jackson Five. Dang...shows my age. Sorry, FFFC....the animal story was true...sick...but true...

OMG, Lisa...I CANNOT BELIEVE I'M GONNA SAY THIS... Did you have to rub a pork chop on it or what????

oh no, i just do that for my DH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I read your answer to DH and gave him "the look" and he said "Don't even say it..." Then I suggested using cheese instead (hubby is such a cheese ho'). That lead to a discussion on chicken parmigiana. The mental picture is killing me... Kathy