Housepets!

True for the most part. I enjoy the occasional ones like Batman Meets Elmer Fudd and Archie Comics but I'm not really a big comic reader (more into webcomics).

TUBM heard of Hogan's Heroes.

False. Or at least not until now. Typed it into the Google search bar and got a glimpse of what it looks like; seems like something worth checking out.

TUBM has witnessed a well-known historical event in person.

Yeah, but then I've been around for a lotta history.

TUAM has met the leader of some nation.

False. Closest I’ve been is watching Donald Trump’s motorcade pass by in front of my neighborhood a few years ago.

TUBM plays a musical instrument.

Does air guitar count? ...No? Alright, then it's false. Though I've always wanted to learn to play on piano

TUBM has swum in the sea at least once

Yeah, I lived near the ocean many times - prefer fresh water, though.


TUBM has a pet reptile.

No, but I used to!
I love scalies.

TUBM is afraid of both heights and wasps...

Absolutely true. Unnecessarily terrified of both (well maybe not heights themselves, just falling from them. Apparently they’re completely different)

TUBM is currently binge-watching a TV show they haven’t before.

Not really - cut back on the TV during December - too many old christmas movies and shows.

TUBM recently bought some new snow managing equipment.

False. I live in a tropical country

TUBM also lives in a tropical country

Hahaha faaaaalse.
About as opposite as you can get, eh?
Though you might know of the city where I'm located, particularly if you read all the "Series of Unfortunate Events" books growing up.

TUBM also lives in a city that was repeatedly mentioned by an author who doesn't live there, in a story that doesn't take place there, for dubiously symbolic reasons.

Well, Stephan King does mention Portsmouth NH in a couple of his works, including The Stand.

Let's cast a broader net - A famous person was born in the town of TUBM.

True. Did some digging online and apparently Bill and Jay Haas from the PGA tour came from the same place as me.

Of course I’ve long moved away from that place so you’re not likely to find me down there

TUBM is an aspiring artist.

True.... for a certain value of art.
If you don't enjoy extremely noisy, discordant styles of electronic and rock music, you might disagree.

TUBM's latitude is currently somewhere south of 49.8 north-- i.e. they are literally the user below me

True. Latitude is 43.00.

Your state (or country) is green on the Rand-McNally map.

False. But I am right next door to one! Err, next STATE.

TUBM has traveled outside of their home country at least once.

Oh yes. Used to be the family would take trips into different parts of the U.S. (up here in Canada, to be clear, the U.S. qualifies as a different country ) almost every summer. Stopped for a while, but then a few years ago we got to visit some parts of Europe!
Would really like to go back and see more but, for one thing, Covid, and for two thing, expeeeeeeensiiive. And I want to see more of the world, which is also expensive. And has Covid for now. So there's all that to consider.



TUBM has a creative hobby they recently got some new equipment for

True, I did acquire some new cooking equipment.

TUAM enjoys walks.

Very much - although I don't go out much now what with the Covid, with the cold and damp, and my dog's range shrunk to about fifty yards, the incentives have diminished lately.

TUBM has had formal art training.

Not really.

TUBM would like to see this thread revived after about eight months dormancy.

True. I find this thread interesting.

TUBM had Legos when they were kids

No, but I had all those other "building set" packages, even "Lincoln Logs." `course, back when I was a kid was so long ago, they called them "lincoln Logs" not because you built log cabins with them but because Mr. Lincoln made `em!

TUBM saw and read the multi-page insert in the Sunday Gannett newspapers (USA Today, etc.) on the Legos company.
(If you love Legos, YOU HAVE GOT TO GET THIS !!)

False

The person below me likes anime

Not much. My kids introduced me to it back in the 20th century. I enjoyed some of it (Howl's Moving Castle, would be an example, I guess) and, of late I have been enjoying Beastars unitl the more recent strips. (Perhaps, as with Housepets so with Beastars, I tend to want to see more of the original characters rather than the newer cast - More of Bill, Pina, Goshin and Juno and less of Melon, Zagwan, and Kyu; more of Rex, Yelstin, and Daisy and less of Todd, Marion, and Lois.) But that's me.

TUBM just started college.

False, I started my 2nd year at university this month

TUBM has visited Europe or they are from Europe

True! I visited Prague in 2018 -- and that's actually where I met this fine fellow whose face is on my profile and posts, and stole his face to put on my profile and my posts.
...I don't think he ever realized.

TUBM appreciates alliteration more than anybody should probably be permitted to prize it?

True, alliterations are appearing as appealing and arguably are the wordplays I'm most fond of

TUBM traveled by airplane at least once

Unless if you count Flight Simulator, then False.

TUBM owns a motorcycle

Nope, kinda wish I did though since my Aunt owns one.

TUBM is a writer

True-ish? Just as a hobby, and mostly writing songs, but I have got a few original fics out there and at least one overarching setting I'm working on.
I think one of them is on this board somewhere.

TUBM doesn't buy lottery tickets.

Correct. I there is such a thing as luck, then mine's baaaaaDD.

TUBM has harbored a secret desire for decades to play the tuba.

False, one instrument I wanted to play for years is piano, I've always thought they are pretty cool

TUBM can play on one (or more) brass instrument

Used to play an oboe and sax, but those are woodwinds, isn't they? So, I guess, no.


TUBM has encountered a number of juvenile wild animals while out and about over the years.

Unfortunately false, maybe I should go out more often

TUBM has or used to have an arthropod pet

Well, sorta. In the sixth grade, I bought an aquarium at a school fair and filled it with pondwater. Then I went about capturing lots of different fresh water insects - Water Striders, Backswimmers, Water Boatmen, and larvae of mosquitoes, dragonflies, damselflies, caddis flies, and some others. I built a screen dome over the tank so, if any of them became adults, we wouldn't have them flying around in the house. (My parents, who were very tolerant of "wild things" insisted on that limitation.) Casualties were pretty heavy, but a few dragonflies and damselflies survived to become adults, and gain the reward of a free trip to release in the backyard.

I never had a Praying Mantis pet but some of my friends did. We also had a family of Golden Orb Garden spiders behind the garage.

TUAM has been to a horse race. Extra points if you bet on a horse. Extra extra points if you picked a winner (or place or show).

So ... no one wants to "horse around".?

TUAM is going to see the new Mario Bros. movie.

Yeah, I used to be just utterly obsessed with them.

TUBM has, at least once, tried crawling down the stairs on all fours like a weirdo.

No, it never occured to me to do that. But my younger brother did and his experience convinced me that it was a remarkably bad idea.

TUBM has had pet reptiles.

Yes.

TUBM wants to keep this thread going.