I read in the Globe today of the latest craze sweeping across the interweb. This is something apparently started on Facebook, which is called “25 Random Things About Me.”
Proponents contend that such life-lists are an efficient way to bring long-lost high school or college friends up to speed, and to take existing friendships to a deeper level of intimacy by conveying new aspects of their personalities or new information about their experiences. “It’s fun facts to learn about people you thought you knew a lot about already,” Carey said. “It’s your chance to kind of share your heart and what’s going on inside you.”
But not everyone agrees. There are some who worry about both receiving and getting too much information about their friends and acquaintances. Still others think that the concept is flawed from the get go.
A big part of the problem [...] is the number that defines the phenomenon. “There’s probably not 25 really interesting facts about anybody,” he said. “You could get 12 really good ones, and then you start hitting the bottom of the barrel.”
I take this as a challenge. For you, my faithful readers, I give you 25 Random Things About Me:
25. I once had a dog named Sparky for dinner. He was well behaved.
24. I have a haircut that requires very little prep time in the morning.
23. My CIA code name is “Barnaby”
22, I once wrote a fan letter to a pig.
21. I have an MBA.
20. I have forgotten more statistics than you will ever know.
18. I don’t count backwards very well.
17. I once competed in a ski race, and would have won my age group if I was an 87 year-old woman with one leg.
16. I’m a joker. I’m a smoker. I’m a midnight toker. Don’t want to hurt no one.
15. I can bench press my own weight 10 times. I only own a 5 pound weight.
14. I still think that I will begin to develop an accent from the old country when I turn 60.
13. I have seen Blazing Saddles over 20 times, and I am a lawyer. Wait, that’s not me.
12. I can make any food item into a Frittata.
11. I vomited in a cab once. Wanna see?
10. I sometimes keep Netflix movies at home for over a month.
9. I have a loathsome elbow disease.
7. I don’t count backwards very well.
6. I sometimes repeat myself.
5. I was the fifth Beatle.
4. My name is “The Other Gordon”
3. I have the hands of a sturgeon.
2. I almost beat Ken Jennings while watching Jeopardy on my couch. Okay, it was a rerun.
1. I make excellent pot holders. What color would you like?
