I am loving all these stranger than fiction facts about all of you.

vig you fell into the niagra river but not over the falls. what season?

Melody I was laughing with the hair story. Can you dye and perm in the same day?

All of your stories are so good...

This is the best one I can tell in public, lol...

I was 4 and at a Christmas party. And Soupy Sales asked me to to the Hokey Pokey. No way was I going with that guy, he was creepy. Maybe if there were other kids already dancing, I'd have gone, but I was the first kid he came up to and I told my mom not to make me go.



Now if it had been Tiny Tim I'd have gone in a heartbeat, because Tiny Tim was my uncle - or so I thought.

My Uncle Buddy once came down stairs with a wig and a eukelele singing Tiptoe through the Tullips. Hey, it was good enough to fool me but then I was 4.

C'mon Mel, I wanna hear the hammer and chisel story.

Pleeease???

I won a whistling contest on the Officer Don Show when I was seven. This was a kids show broadcast at the local TV station. Officer Don actually lived about two miles from me I later found out.

We had to eat a plate full of crackers and the first person who could whistle won. I crammed all the crackers in at once and chomped and chewed as fast as I could. I was able to get a feeble little whistle out before anyone else so I won a goodie bag.

They wanted me to have my picture taken with Orville the Dragon (a puppet) but I was afraid of him!!!

That was my five minutes of fame.

Wow, and I go on the internet, on youtube, and I see all these free flying people who form beautiful formations, and I even saw people sky dive and do fancy footwork with skateboards.

They don't throw up????? lol

I spent a weekend with a bunch of skinny-dipping hippies when I was 16. My cousin had a farm in MO on the AR border. The Arkansas River ran through his land, and he made a beach area. He had a huge party for the Summer Solstice, and people came from all over the country to attend.

I was on the beach hanging out ( ) with all the naked folks when we see two canoes approaching from upstream. Each canoe carried an elderly couple. As they passed us by, the women gasped. One man in the canoe said "Where ARE we?" Before anyone could answer, the man in the other canoe said "HEAVEN!"

I was 7 months pregnant and had that beached whale look.

1. I was sitting in a chair, it was after the pre-show and before the Grammy's. My DH had gone to the car to get a muffin for me. It seemed to take a long time so I looked at my watch. Suddenly a woman screamed, "Oh my gosh, are you timing your contractions??!!

2. Everyone is milling around the entrance hall. Bruce Jenner (then, a celebrity because of his incredible Olympics track performance) was standing in front of me, a blond beauty on his arm. He proceeded to talk to her wondering if I was pregnant or fat. I stood there blinking and looking stupid.

3. We had seats up in the balcony. People were only allowed to get up during commercial time so when I knew it was almost time to use the restroom, I got out of my seat and headed toward the exit.

I tripped on my two left feet and started to run forward in an attempt to catch my balance. I could hear the collective gasp and I will NEVER forget the faces of the two men that were directly in my path.

4. The line to use the ladies room was long, probably 30-40 women in line. No problem, there was no urgency.

I heard a woman holler, "Hey you, the woman at the back of the line!" Everyone looked at me.Then she said, "I remember what it was like to be pregnant! You get to go to the front of the line."