Your life list, non-sportswriting version

solid, very solid.

 

Yo, Longshanks Rasputin, it's been done on this thread. And what movie or book is that from?

 

i'm still going with standing on a corner in winslow, ariz.

 

And here I thought I had lived such a full life until I came across this post :'(
Anyway, here's mine:
1. Stayed up all night and saw the sun rise every decade I've been alive (some of those nights were a little rougher than others, shall we say).
2. Quit smoking cold turkey, which would be my greatest accomplishment except for...
3. Fell in love with someone who turned out to be my wife, best friend and biggest fan.

 

Did the same thing in Winslow, Ariz., FOF. Even called my wife, just to prompt the question, "Where are you?"

Thanks for the reminder. Along the same lines as Jean Beliveau, I had Darius Rucker say hello to my wife from the PGA West range one year at the Bob Hope and Alice Cooper chat with her the next.

 

You've mentioned him before on the board before, I think. We went to the same high school and college. Shared a beer or two with him at a letterman's dinner a couple of years back. Great guy.

 

May as well.....

In the U.S., I have been to nine states and D.C. In addition, I have been to Great Britain, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Spain, Greece, Singapore, Australia and Malaysia.

I can speak English, French, Italian and German. I took Latin in middle and high school.

I was a well-payed choirboy before my voice broke, and went to the the Royal Northern College of Music to pursue a classical singing career. I apeared on five different albums.

I was the PA announcer for my American college's baseball team.

I paid off a large amount of my student overdraft through betting on sports.

I appeared on Sky Sports News in Britain as an expert guest. It was the first time some of my family had seen me since I moved to the U.S. I also appeared as a guest on NPR's Marketplace.

I was a season-ticket holder behind the goal at my home town's soccer club, and sang my heart out at every game.

During high school summer holidays, I worked in a book warehouse. The job paid for my first set of golf clubs, and over 100 rounds of golf after we clocked off at 3:30 p.m.

When I was growing up, I would read the manuscripts my mother brought home from work.

I never learned to drive until I came to America aged 22.

 

So, I take it you are British? Never knew that, though it would describe your fanaticism for soccer.

I forgot to mention in my post:
Age 19: Dug graves for a summer

 

shocking ... grave robbing i'd believe.

 

The best days at work that summer were funeral days, because all you had to do was dig the hole and then hang out for about 5 hours and fill it back in.
I have some strange stories from that job.

 

start a thread.

 

I/we were taking turns trying to revive someone who had been underwater for more than 20 minutes. She never showed any vital signs from the time she was recovered until the helicopter landed to life-flight her out of the gorge.