Ten unusual things I've done
Feb. 23rd, 2005 06:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
infrogmationI'm modifying the LJ meme from "10 things I've done that you havn't", as I think the list is more interesting with some items that a few others have likely done as well.
1) Participated in New Orleans Carnival parades as a spectator, a costumed marcher, a float rider, and a musician.
2) Sent telegrams.
3) Ridden a in train drawn by a steam locomotive that was in regular passanger service, not a tourist attraction.
4) Slept in a hammock. "Slept with" someone in a hammock.
5) Excavated an archeaological site.
6) Visited towns where my appearance was so alien that local children ran away screaming.
7) Lived in a country with no television stations.
8) Performed marriages.
9) Repaired wind-up phonographs.
10) Borrowed a ladder to climb in a window in order to do a radio show.
1) Participated in New Orleans Carnival parades as a spectator, a costumed marcher, a float rider, and a musician.
2) Sent telegrams.
3) Ridden a in train drawn by a steam locomotive that was in regular passanger service, not a tourist attraction.
4) Slept in a hammock. "Slept with" someone in a hammock.
5) Excavated an archeaological site.
6) Visited towns where my appearance was so alien that local children ran away screaming.
7) Lived in a country with no television stations.
8) Performed marriages.
9) Repaired wind-up phonographs.
10) Borrowed a ladder to climb in a window in order to do a radio show.
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10 old timey things
Date: 2005-02-23 03:35 pm (UTC)http://www.livejournal.com/community/zeitghosts/44267.html
Re: 10 old timey things
Date: 2025-02-18 01:17 am (UTC)10 Retronian things you've done
Here's a take off on the "10 things I've done that you havn't" LJ meme. Here are 10 early 20th century things I've done in the late 20th &/or early 21st century.
1) Leaned to type on a mechanical typewriter.
2) Sent telegrams.
3) Ridden a in train drawn by a steam locomotive that was in regular passanger service, not a tourist attraction.
4) Ridden an electric streetcar to work.
5) Purchased milk in returnable glass bottles. (Alas, not delivered to my doorstep.)
6) Danced with friends to music played on a cylinder phonograph.
7) Repaired wind-up phonographs.
8) Seen silent films on a theater screen with live piano (and once orchestra) accompanyment.
9) Sang along with the theather audience to a "follow the bouncing ball" short.
10) Played live music for people dancing the Charleston.
hrm...
Date: 2005-02-23 04:29 pm (UTC)Re: hrm...
Date: 2005-02-23 06:24 pm (UTC)Re: hrm...
Date: 2005-02-23 06:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-23 04:33 pm (UTC)Dig it
Date: 2005-02-23 06:26 pm (UTC)BTW, back stories for any of my points above are availible for the asking.
Re: Dig it
Date: 2005-02-23 06:57 pm (UTC)The beauty of excavating Grant's home/grounds was the luxury of written history to explain much of what we found. As we would come across an unidentifiable piece of broken glass the archaeologist overseeing the project would closely look at the piece and confidently announce "whisky bottle". It became an on-going joke.
What about you? Where did you do archaeology?
Re: Dig it
Date: 2005-02-23 07:43 pm (UTC)I've visited lots of Mesoamerican sites, but the only place I did actual digging was a little site south of San Pedro Sula called Siboney Calabazas. I also took part in a minor surface gathering in a field at La Travacia, which was the second most important site in Honduras before United Fruit bulldozed it.
Re: Dig it
Date: 2005-02-23 08:06 pm (UTC)How long were you there?
alikenesses
Date: 2005-02-23 05:19 pm (UTC)sent telegrams
"slept with" someone... standing in a New Orleans alley (good thing a kind friend was our lookout!)
cleaned/remodeled a house (and the inch of grease in the kitchen was quite archeaological, I must say!)
performed marriages
borrowed a key from a musician to do my radio show
Re: alikenesses
Date: 2005-02-23 06:23 pm (UTC)Hopalujah!
I almost put "Started a religion" on the list.
This Mardi Gras I finally ran into someone trying to tell me that someone else was the one who started the "Church of the Great Green Frog" at Mardi Gras. Schizims and alternative versions of history continue to grow apace! What further proof could be offered that this is a "real" religion?
Re: alikenesses
Date: 2005-02-24 03:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-23 05:37 pm (UTC)