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26 Dec 2022, 9:44 am

For example, I once rode on a Hovercraft. What's your claim to unique experience?


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spent time in several recording studios. did some audio restoration work for some folks, including restoration of family heirloom audio tape recording of long-passed family members, rendering their voices clearly audible after decades of being muffled in worn-out tape noise/distortion. i've also taken monophonic audio recordings and spectrally subtracted instruments one-by-one to put on their own individual tracks for later remixing into stereo/surround.



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26 Dec 2022, 11:11 am

MaxE wrote:
For example, I once rode on a Hovercraft. What's your claim to unique experience?

One thing that I have done that most people have not is that I killed 2 deer with the same bullet one time.



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26 Dec 2022, 11:18 am

Texasmoneyman300 wrote:
MaxE wrote:
For example, I once rode on a Hovercraft. What's your claim to unique experience?

One thing that I have done that most people have not is that I killed 2 deer with the same bullet one time.

betcha that was enough deer meat for the winter season at least.



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26 Dec 2022, 11:21 am

Touched live venomous snakes.


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26 Dec 2022, 11:30 am

[as a toddler] stuck a pair of tweezers in a live wall socket and lived to tell the tale.



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26 Dec 2022, 11:31 am

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26 Dec 2022, 11:33 am

how did you survive that without a companion boat with food and supplies on it?



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26 Dec 2022, 11:53 am

auntblabby wrote:
Texasmoneyman300 wrote:
MaxE wrote:
For example, I once rode on a Hovercraft. What's your claim to unique experience?

One thing that I have done that most people have not is that I killed 2 deer with the same bullet one time.

betcha that was enough deer meat for the winter season at least.

Ya it was enough meat auntblabby.One deer typically lasts us for a year.I am about to eat some deer in a few minutes.



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26 Dec 2022, 11:55 am

Misslizard wrote:
Touched live venomous snakes.

I have done that too.I touched at least one to two to maybe 3 live western diamondback rattlesnakes in my life.



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26 Dec 2022, 11:55 am

Texasmoneyman300 wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
Texasmoneyman300 wrote:
MaxE wrote:
For example, I once rode on a Hovercraft. What's your claim to unique experience?

One thing that I have done that most people have not is that I killed 2 deer with the same bullet one time.

betcha that was enough deer meat for the winter season at least.

Ya it was enough meat auntblabby.One deer typically lasts us for a year.I am about to eat some deer in a few minutes.

being a senior citizen who was alive in the 60s i remember back then as if it was yesterday, my dad's making deer sausage in the garage. i can still smell it, the dead deer hanging/exsanguinating in the corner, the sage and other spices, the taste and smell and texture of the cooked sausages.



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26 Dec 2022, 11:57 am

auntblabby wrote:
[as a toddler] stuck a pair of tweezers in a live wall socket and lived to tell the tale.


I stuck a pair of scissors into a wall socket. Huge jolt and I found myself on the other side of the room. I was a teenager and old enough to know better.


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26 Dec 2022, 11:58 am

Trueno wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
[as a toddler] stuck a pair of tweezers in a live wall socket and lived to tell the tale.


I stuck a pair of scissors into a wall socket. Huge jolt and I found myself on the other side of the room. I was a teenager and old enough to know better.

can you tell me why you did it?



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26 Dec 2022, 11:59 am

Not sure if tarot cards count? A lot of people have an interest in tarot cards but it is a rather unique hobby. :)