Hi there! I thought this might be a fun new topic idea. Do you have a sixth (or seventh) toe? Do you collect rare bronze forks from Malaysia? Are you perhaps Stalin's long lost, yet never forgotten child? Well, we wanna know! Everyone is different and my favorite part of isketch is meeting all of you(well, ok it's my second favorite part...........). So if there's something that makes you unique, here's the place to post it.

You May Not Know This But...........I wanted to be Joan Jett when I was little.

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When I get real bored, I like to drive down town and get a great parking spot, then sit in my car and count how many people ask me if i'm leaving.

YMNKTB (thought it'd be easier. xD) my middle name is chinese. it means 'morning happiness.' i was born at 9am. my parents were overjoyed because my middle sister, Michelle died when she was seven months old of SIDS. (this was before i was born.) my mother had had her tubes tied because she hadn't wanted any other children. she got surgery to get them untied, then had me.

my poor, poor parents, having to deal with such a stubborn, difficult kid. xD

this is my chinese name:


the first character, on the top, is the last name. the other two characters are my chinese "first name," 'morning happiness.' (some people have only one-character names.) that's the name that i would be most commonly called at this age. unless it's by relatives, but that takes way too much explanation so i'll leave it there.

my chinese name is pronounced "Fong Jzoi Yun." i'm not going to go into the tonal parts. xD. the 'Jz' sound can't be represented in the English language, and very few English speakers can pronounce the sound. it requires putting the tip of your tongue to the back of your upper teeth.

so. that makes my Englishified middle name "Choi-Yan." i'm still slightly embarrassed of it from time to time, but i've stopped caring.

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Ok, there isn't a lot that's interesting about me. But.. erm..

You may not know this but... I won a Blue Peter Badge. Haha. No, seriously. When I was younger I was in a local production of ALW's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat. I think I was about 9 at the time. So that was why they awarded a badge to me. I've also performed with the Halle Orchestra twice.

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SarahNarya - YAY!

Okay.. a little few things about me, following on from Sarah's theatre one.

In theatre I've been, among other things:

Rizzo
Mary Madelene (oh the irony)
The voice of Audrey II in Little Shop.

I've met Michael Barrymore :S

I've given out fliers at the Edinburgh Festival until 5am.

My sister was born when I was 15.

Erm... I can roll my tongue.

Fender probably knows all of those lol

I can fold my tongue in half, and I have two uvulas (that dangly thing at the top of your throat).

That's about it. lol.

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I have nothing interesting really, other than my Great Grandfather was Julius Raecke, a physician and psychiatrist that at the beggining of his career worked with Mr Freud himself. He was the first one to describe and scientifically research multiple sclerosis (c. 1914), he identified hypochondria as an illness and he did a bunch more. I've been trying to get a copy of his book for years "Grundriss der Psychiatrie". He even has a syndrome named after him. That's as far as my interesting stuff goes.

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I was born in the same hospital as a famous musician.

I have been on tv numerous times (mostly the news)

I have never shot anyone - contrary to popular belief (well unless you count a few thousand paintball rounds)

My grandfather's photo is on display in the Dublin Museum.

My wife's aunt is Slim Dusty's widow.

I once stood down a senior officer, then assumed control and coordinated a rescue of 90 octogenarians (6 in wheelchairs) from a pleasure cruiser.

I have rescued a truck driver from a flood.

I have been seen on tv telling a cameraman to f♥ck off. I was walking through waist deep swirling flood water with a toddler in my arms and this idiot decides its a great shot - so turns on his spotlight and I lose my night vision.

Thats just some for now.

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Nice thread, aero. :) I can think of plenty for AJ.. But I won't embarrass her. You may not know this, but AJ is my sister.. *gasp* [insert dramatic music here].

I was born with crossed eyes, and 3 types of conditions of it (don't worry, I have 2 eyes, not 3!). Esotropia, hypertropia and an associated condition called Amblyopia. Ambloyopia is quite funky, because it means that you're not entirely using both eyes together. My eyes are individually the opposite in terms of vision too because of it. When I look at things close up (like reading a book, etc), I naturally look out of my right eye to do it). Then when I need to look far away, my eye switches to using my left (stronger eye). I do it without thinking about it, it comes that naturally (I don't even realise it unless I stop to notice what exactly my eyes are doing).

My long sighted eye (left eye) is getting very weak now, but I'm not allowed to wear glasses. Basically, when I wear the glasses, because the lens are close to my eye, it makes me want to use my right eye (the short sighted one) to look, and it does it for when I'm looking at things far away (though the glasses), which isn't the eye I'd normally use without the glasses. So it hurts a lot, and my eyes fight:P. I also find it impossible to put in contacts because my eyes are tiny. So I'll probably end up doing laser surgery in just one eye, lol.

And there you have it, that's the funkiest thing about me! :D I quite like it because I know to have all three conditions is unique. Of course, I've had 3 surgeries as a kid to fix them, and though my eyes are straight (one is slightly squinty still) the actual conditions are *still* there, you just can't see them. And because of it, I can do a few weird things with my eyes, which is good for scaring little kids! :) (and no, I didn't just smile about that ;D)

And because of my eyes, I had botox in it nearly two years ago (for medical reasons). Which I still seem to find amusing. I'm still living with a side effect though; I'm seeing double vision when I look at people to my left. That was supposed to go within 2-4 months (when the botox wears off), and it's still here after nearly 2 years. Ha! My doctors think I'm slightly freakish because of it. XD

lol, I could write a book about my eyes O_o. Sorry for the long post! Well done if you read all that, heh.

Ok most of you know this but ill post anyway.
Ive done quiet a bit of tv work in my adult years, also as a child ill start with the childhood ones and work up here goes.

When i was 8 i was on a tv advert for clarkes shoes.
I was an extra in the bill three times.
Ive been on talk shows as a planted actress many times eg kilroy trisha and the vanessa show.
Planted actresses make the conversations start rolling ect so the chat show chat dont dry up ect.
I was in channel fours wife swap.
Ive done modelling for the larger lady in ann summers catalouges and various other magazines.
I do currently have other things i may be doing in the future.
Well thats me over to the next

nothing as exciting as you lot but.....
i've been dancing since i was 3 and long to be a choreographer professionally(not just for the am dram stuff i do at the moment)

i can put both legs behind my head

i am an only child

i've met darren brown(he was very nice) and when my friend asked for his signature he said "whats your name?" and my friend replyed "you should know that"! lame i know!

i grew up with lots of pets (3 dogs,3cats,3 goats,3 ponys)

and to top it all off i have to look after the blooming things whilst my parents are away which is next week, so i will be house sitting with no computer for a week.... so i wont be around

oh and my blokes band will be famous one day,lol

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Give me all the peace and joy in your mind.

Wow, interesting topic, aerochick.

Okay, so.

YMNKTB:

I was born in India, but I grew up in Thailand; I'm studying in Scotland, but I spent my first year of uni in England; next year I'm going to France to teach English; I've never been to the US, but I sound American; although I spell the British way.
I've helped to physically build a school in rural Nepal.
I've starved 24 hours for charity.
I like eating toast with Nutella and cheddar.

Thassit =)

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Wow, you've done a bit haven't you. With your background, you'd fit right in if you ever go to canada! Especially the whole speaking/spelling bit lol.

This an international forum or what?

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Would I? Good! Coz I don't fit in in India or Thailand XD

I'd love to go to Canada!

and yes, iSketch is international, and so the forum is too (I assume this is the the largest, most well-maintened iSketch forum)

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Dunno if the largest, certainly not the only one that is isketch related, but we sure try on the well maintained department.

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YMNKTB: i'm a banana. i'm yellow (chinese) on the outside, but i'm a white person on the inside. ;)

oi, Canada... yeah. we need to buy a new igloo soon, ours is leaking a little bit.

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LOL Gracie - keep taking the tablets - the men in white coats will be there for you soon.

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Yeah eh? Who needs freezers eh? just hang it from tall tree outside, away from the polar bears. Pass the seal blubber and a moosehead...

UH! something interesting about me. Well not really. I've done polar bear dives on january first in the frozen ottawa river at -32 centigrade...

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YMNKTB: a ridiculous amount of people, especially Americans, believe me when i say that i live in an igloo. it's extremely amusing.

and why is everyone else under the impression that Canadians say 'eh' ?! i didn't start saying it until people said that Canadians always said 'eh' . hardly anyone says 'eh,' it just depends on the person. it's a really stupid generalization.

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You mean you don't live in an igloo?

OMG there goes my whole perception of Canada.



YMNKTB: I actually DO SAY G'Day. A lot.

YMNKTB: Nobody in Australia actually puts "another shrimp on the barbie" - We call 'em prawns here.

YMNKTB: We export Fosters Lager in shiploads because the only ones in Oz that drink it are the poor misguided foreign visitors, who think it's the Australian way to go. Well. Them and the occasional alcoholic who can't afford VB.

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YMNKTB ...

I am related to Bobby and Jackie Charlton.

I once met Judge Dredd.

Claims to fame!!

Gracie: the Jzoi isn't Pinyin spelling though is it? I can't figure out which sound you mean, but I may be able to pronounce it.

Which brings me to my YMNKTB: I haven't yet found a sound in any human language that I haven't been able to pronounce (though some are really hard!). I just checked out the Pirahã language to make sure. They have a sound where you flap your tongue against the alveolar ridge into your lower lip. (The alveolar ridge is the upper gum ridge, the ridge about half an inch behind your upper teeth). Yeah, I'm a linguistics hobbyist.

YMNKTB: I was out-climbed by a 70 year old Austrian man. Al right, he lived in the mountains but man, he was agile! He was a local farmer and he wanted to show us the mountain.

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YMNKTB: my drama teacher at high school was Dawn French

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Really?! How lucky were you! She's hilarious. Was she an awesome drama teacher? XD

I don't like Dawn French. But then, I don't like anything Lenny Henry's been in

boom boom

BM I wanna know why your grandfathers pic is in the museum?

Silly interesting facts about me?

My great (umpteenth) grandfather was Henry Hudson.

My step-brother died of SIDS, at 33 years old. That's what they listed on the death certificate. He was playing poker at work on lunch, put his head down on his folded arms and died. His heart just stopped. His workmates thought he was napping so they let him be. No one knows for sure if he might have survived if they had done CPR.

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