Joining the Top 100 Bandwagon...100 things About Me

100. Jack Diddley is not my real name.
99. Skip is not my real name.
98. I have been known on radio as Jonathan Hanley, Dr. J. Michael Klembottom, Steve Elliot, and Madame Julia.
97. I have gotten intoxicated on the radio for a drunk driving police demonstration (several times).
96. I was sent to Viet Nam in the early seventies.
96. I was also sent to Thailand, Japan, Phillipines, Taiwan and many other places while in the service.
95. I watched an “Egg Baseball” demonstration at a sex resort in Taiwan.
94. My 11th grade counselor talked me out of my dream occupation in 1966.
93. I am now working toward making a living at my dream occupation.
92. My 11th grade counselor is dead.
91. I have been married 3 times, divorced twice.
90. I had a quintuple bi-pass operation in 1996.
89. I had 4 angioplastys between 1986 and 1996,
88. I had a heart attack in 1986.
87. I should have been a professional bowler.
86. My grandparents came over on a boat from Denmark.
85. My ex-inlaws thought owning an RV was evil.
84. I used to be 6 feet tall...I am now 5’ 11 3/4”.
83. I still “talk” to my best friend from high school almost everyday (via email).
82. I had a crush on Linda Chiaputti (my best friend’s girl friend in high school).
81. I once had a 20 minute conversation with Mark Hamill at a restaurant I was managing while he was waiting for a table.
80. I also met Carol Kane, Steve Martin, John Madden, Fess Parker, Rick Moranis, Lou Ferrigno, J.D. Cannon, Kirk Cameron’s sister, John Ritter, REO Speedwagon, and George Fenneman at the same restaurant I worked.
79. My little fingers are deformed.
78. I chopped off the tip of my left index finger in a bicycle chain when I was four.
77. I rode my first Harley ever 5 years ago when I picked it up from the dealer.
76. My mother used to tap dance when she was 4 years old.
75. My mother is the same age as Shirley Temple.
74. I had a crush on Shirley Temple.
73. I had a crush on Annette funicello.
72. I have a crush on Jamie Leigh Curtis.
71. My first car (in 1966) was a 1956 Pontiac station wagon...I hated it.
72. My second car was a 1961 (in 1967) MGA...I loved it.
71. My first sexual experience was...nevemind, too personal!
70. I worked as a DJ and program director is small town local radio for 15 years.
69. In 1975, I had a lot curly hair, people accused me of looking like Gabe Kaplan.
68. My hair started to noticebly fall out in 1975.
67. In 1976 I vowed to never augment my falling hair.
66. In 2000, I shaved my head.
65. In 2004, I let it grow back.
64. We own a Greyhound, A Boxer, and a Dauschund.
63. I didn’t eat a tomato or a mushroom until I was 25 (now, I love them).
62. I have always wanted to have blue eyes (they’re brown).
61. I went to college on and off for 5 years, I never graduated.
60. I have extreme insect and spider fear.
59. I make the best guacamole you have ever tasted.
58. I make the best Shrimp Scampi you have ever tasted (the list is long).
57. My favorite drink is Jack Daniels and Coke.
56. My second favorite drink is Jack Daniels with a Corona chaser (or two).
55. Did I tell you I make the best biscuits and gravy?
54. I lived in Hawaii for most of the early 70s.
53. My sister (3 years younger) said to me late last year, “You were in Viet Nam...why didn’t I know that?”
52. I think I breathed Agent Orange.
51. I too cry at the end of E.T.
50. My favorite comedic actor is Peter Sellars.
49. I had a crush on Claudia Cardinale.
48. I once “pirated” HBO and got paranoid one night while stoned on pot that they were monitoring me from a van on the street.
47. I once thought that aliens were swimming in from the ocean (while stoned on pot in Hawaii), it was really lobster divers.
46. I was scared of clowns when I was a young child.
45. I don’t believe there is any such thing as “Bi-sexual”.
44. I had a little black dog named Pudgy when I was a child (named after Betty Boop’s dog).
43. Our first first house when I was young was in Pacoima...now a gangster ghetto in the east SF Valley.
42. A 4-engine airliner crashed into the field next to my classroom in the 2nd grade only 100 feet away...it was the same crash that killed Richie Valens cousin. I still haven’t gotten over it, I have dreams about it still (48 years ago).
41. My first job was at Mc Donalds in Canoga Park in 1966.
40. I once met Buster Keaton.
39. I was born in South Dakota and raised in the San Fernando Valley (the porn capital of the world).
38. I don’t like every Beatle song.
37. I think Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan are highly overrated.
36. I had a crush on Hayley Mills.
35. My high game in bowling is 275.
34. I could care less about any professional sport!
33. I would rather cook than have sex.
32. I had a migraine headache during my SAT’s (1966), and I think it changed my life forever.
31. I have been all over the South Pacific but never to Europe or Africa.
30. I would like to move to another country.
29. I have one 25 year old daughter named Jenifer and one 23 year old son named Jimmy.
28. I had braces during my senior picture in high school, and I think it changed my life forever.
27. I think that people who don’t use turn signals should be put in jail and given 40 lashes with a bamboo stick...maybe they would have the courtesy to signal then.
26. I think that all violent criminals should be given their own island, together, and left there forever.
25. I used to be affraid of the dark until I was an adult.
24. I still get freaked out about the Exorcist.
23. My father had a stroke 15 years ago and can’t talk, I know he would like to say things to me now.
22. I couldn’t wait to get out of high school.
21. I had a crush on Sandra Katzman in the 9th grade (she never knew).
20. I believe the space program is a complete waste of money in todays world.
19. I was in a 9th grade typing class when Kennedy was shot...we were Democrats at the time.
18. After my vascetomy in 1992, my friend took me to a bar and I got mildly intoxicated then went home and my ex-wife yelled at me.
17. I love popcorn with real butter and RC Cola.
16. I enjoy giving massages more than receiving them.
15. I have a huge fear of being eaten by things in the ocean.
14. I am very unlucky at games of chance.
13. I have a shitty attitude in general about life.
12. But, I am either very optimistic or very naive (or both).
11. I never met my Dad’s dad.
10. Sarah Jessica Parker, Angelina Jolie, Brittany Spears...I don’t get it!
9. Anne Heche...were you just trying to piss off an old boyfriend for all those years?
8. I fly like Peter Pan in my dreams a lot.
7. I once had a crush on Janet Leigh.
6. I used to have lunch once a month with Bob Applegate (Christina’s father).
5. Adam Sandler...i just don’t get it!
4. The first ime I got stoned, my friends forced me to smoke hash then listen to C.S & N’.s first album over and over gain.
3. I had a Collie named Corky.
2. I could eat (my homemade) tacos for every meal.
1. James Raymond Hansen, II