@alice In 2010 I went with an organization to Togo, west Africa. We visited a church where the pastors wife prepared a cat for us to eat. We eat what we are served, but it was truly awful.

@alice I once pulled a steel cart I welded myself up a mountain hill, turning a 30 minute hike into a 2 hour ordeal.

Half way up one of the axles lost all its nuts so the wheel would keep falling off.

The way down was worse.

@alice I have broken my *left* arm four and a half times before I was 18. The half was from it needing to be re-broken after two weeks of healing because my dad didn't think I (*he* - he was showing me a judo throw and didn't let me fall properly) actually broke it

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A coworker of mine was a state champion kickboxer back in the day.
For many years we'd put on our gloves & spar in our work's parking garage for exercise. He broke my nose on accident once.

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My name isn't Fritz Adalis. When I signed up for Twitter, it told me my email address was already registered. I figured I forgot, so I reset the password, and the account wasn't registered in my name. I realized that Fritz Adalis is much cooler than my actual name so I kept it.

@alice When I was in grade school, I used to do this trick where I folded my right pinky up so the tip of it poked out in the hole formed by making a fist, near my thumb. I then put my left hand under my right fist, pinky hidden, and show the whole mess to some other kid. I'd wiggle the pinky (having introduced it as "want to see a trick?") then triumphantly pull my left hand away, leaving the phantom pinky poking out of my right hand, still wiggling.

It got a pretty good reaction much of the time. I don't think it messed up my hand, either, weirdly.

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My handle is a nickname I picked up a previous job, from someone who had a good sense of humor when it came to getting stuck behind me and my 2ish-lb EDC kit going through the security checkpoint at the end of the day.