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I've been asked to introduce myself tomorrow to a group of people I've ever met with an anecdotal story - it was suggested some like the story's celebs share on the Graham Norton show..... In a search for inspiration, what would be your anecdotal introduction?
This one time at band camp.....
"I haven't met with any of you before..' pause, point at some random individual 'except you, and that was in prison'.
Under what circumstances? its something I would be very loathe to do under most cicumstances
Either a joke about how I would like to tell them a story about clubbing in the 80s and 90s but can't remember any
But more likely something very bland about bike riding. last weekend I rode my bike to such and such a place.
Under what circumstances?
Specifically, a radio interview....
Make up something absolutely preposterous - it'll break the ice with some laughs (which is the point), it'll say something about your personality (which is also the point), and it won't require anything personal.
Or, if it fits your character, make up something wild but plausible, so people won't be quite sure if you have made it up or not.
This one time at band camp…..
Is of course the winner 🙂
My dad started a new job with an education authority and hand an introduction made for him that became part of the introduction he gave whenever he was at conferences etc -He'd been appointed to be in charge of Art and Design. At the time 'Craft Design and Technology' was a new 'thing'. So between being interviewed and appointed 'Technology' got added to his brief
Then, sometime later it was explained the 'Technology' included Domestic Science and bit by bit extra little responsibilities were getting tagged on before he'd actually arrived and started the job - its seemed like other staff we taking bits of their brief they didn't like and tacking it onto his - special education, education for kids excluded from school and so on.
His first engagement in the job was at a national education conference where he was invited to speak. The chair introduced him...
"This is Maccruiskeen Senior - he's the new advisor for Art, Design, Technology, Special Education etc, etc ... and he's also responsible for all the pregnant teenagers in Greater Manchester"
Pick one of the ‘my neighbour …’ threads on here and recount it with you as the instigator of the forum’s suggestions.
Pick one of the ‘my neighbour …’ threads on here
Maybe not one about PerchyPanther's neighbour 😉
Try : As a child I once ran through a field of wheat and I don't think the farmer was very happy
Or : I did this one thing as a teenager and they actually had to change two laws and introduce a new one just to make it illegal
Back in my early 20’s, I attended a wedding reception with a couple of lads.
Also sat at the table were a slightly older couple.
One of the lads picks up seating card with his name on it. He studies it, rolls it between his fingers and says “mmmm, this would make a nice bit of roach”.
Later that evening, we introduce ourselves to the couple seated across from us.
Enquiring of the gentleman as to what his occupation was, he replied “I’m head of CID”😳
Something along the lines of ...
"The details of my life are quite inconsequential.... Very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a 15-year-old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize; he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes, he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament... My childhood was typical: summers in Rangoon... luge lessons... In the spring, we'd make meat helmets... When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds — pretty standard, really. At the age of 12, I received my first scribe. At the age of 14, a Zoroastrian named Vilmer ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum — it's breathtaking... I suggest you try it."
In third grade, I cheated on my history exam. In fourth grade, I stole my uncle Max's toupee and I glued it on my face when I was Moses in my Hebrew School play. In fifth grade, I knocked my sister Edie down the stairs and I blamed it on the dog. When my mom sent me to the summer camp for fat kids and then they served lunch I got nuts and I pigged out and they kicked me out
But the worst thing I ever done: I mixed up all this fake puke at home and then I went to this movie theater, hid the puke in my jacket, climbed up to the balcony and then, then, I made a noise like this: hua-hua-hua-huaaaaaaa - and then I dumped it over the side, all over the people in the audience. And then, this was horrible, all the people started getting sick and throwing up all over each other. And I never felt so bad in my entire life.
About 30 years ago I gave a prostitute a lift to work after having helped her eject a previous client who didn't want to go home. Drove her in my dad's car, and this accidentally was revealed at my dad's 70th birthday meal...
@maccruiskeen - always wondered whether the Goonies writers (Spielberg came up with the story apparently) got this from Stephen King's novella The Body (made into Stand by Me)?
Easy, it’s a little known fact I helped design the learning simulation software for an very well publicised on Tv military system…
Usually breaks the ice.
"Hi, I'm monkeyboyjc. I'm a mountain biker, husband, lover, peacemaker, racontuer, 007 agent and big hitter on the singletrackworld forum."
On my first day as the only Product Design teacher at a 6th Form College I was replacing a bloke whose first name was Richard.
I was introduced to the staff.
‘This is Jim, he’s the new Dick’
It broke the ice
Hi I'm monkeyboyjc and to relax, every week I take a few minutes on a Tuesday evening to perform my own sperm count
It's important to have a little me time to decompress
Tell them you used to worth at Eaton and Boris Johnson was in your ethics class.
What are you being interviewed for?
I'm 'co-host' on a BBC radio Gloucestershire show (live now)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0bgbht6
Went ok in the end as it had to be by phone due to BBC technology failure - so my ' funny ’ story about a wasp stinging my upper thigh and stripping off my trousers in the shop didn't need to be mentioned and it was an easy interview with the usual um's and erm's instead.
The shop is on until 10pm but the rest of my stuff is prerecorded now.