Meme at Work
Rebecca at Skepchick tagged me (along with five other bloggers/plumbers) with a sort of meme experiment/chain letter thingy. To play along all I needed to do, basically, was complete the following checklist:
One: Link to the person who tagged me: DONE
Two: Post the rules: DONE
Three: Write six random things about yourself. DONE (see below)
1. I fell into an open cesspool, and nearly drowned, at the age of three
2. From approximately the age of five until I was eight, I was terrified of nuns
3. My paternal grandmother was blind
4. I have terrible handwriting
5. Both of my sisters are much smarter than I am
6. Although I swear to Darwin that the above statements are true, I have told the following lies about my past: I went to University in England. I played Lee Harvey Oswald in an episode of Dangerous Curves. I was kicked out of a "Gifted students" program for making a crude joke (Apart from a gift for stretching the truth, I was far from ever being considered a "gifted" student).
Four. Tag six people. DONE (See below)
Yikes (egad, and gadzooks), this was tough one. I didn't want this virus to just make its rounds among the scientific and skeptical communities. No, I needed to make like Typhoid Mary and see how many people from different walks of life I could infect. So, after much internal debate, I went with Eleanor "The smartest person on The McLaughlin Group" Cliff , Harvard Psychologist Steven Pinker, comedic terrorists Tim and Eric, The Dalai Lama, and Elizabeth Fiend
Five. Inform the tagees and the person who tagged me: DONE
Speaking of Skepchick, Jeff Penalty recently had a great post on the site about when the worlds of Creationism and Pee Wee Herman collide
PS. Check out the first comment - sweet reductionist Jeebuz