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Five Things You Didn't Know About Me...

Five Things You Didn't Know About Me ...by Paula Neal Mooney 1 - Oprah touched me and talked to me. I went to a taping of her show about dating in the 80s. Oprah shook my hand afterward, and during the show she teased my friend and I for moving our seats down front. "Y'all tryin' to get some dates!" Oprah teased. 2 - I slept with a staple in my finger all night when I was a little girl. My mom found it and freaked out and thank goodness I didn't get lockjaw. 3 - I tried to pledge Delta Sigma Theta in college but they rejected me. I was all prepared for the crazy questions they asked my friend who pledged, but during my interview their den mother was there so it was pretty tame and I was pretty lame. Someone told me they usually select darker-skinned girls; others say this is untrue. Still, I should've pledged Alpha Kappa Alpha... 4 - There's a tiny "hereditary hole" at the top of each of my ears, appendages that I can wiggle... 5 - I declared...

Nobody Loves Me...Nobody Tagged Me for Five Things

Nobody Loves Me, Nobody Tagged Me For Five Things... by Paula Neal Mooney So there's this game called "Five Things" floating around the blogosphere. The gist of "Five Things" is that bloggers tag their blogging friends to reveal "Five Things You May Not Know About Me" on their blogs. I've been reading about all these folks getting tagged by their cyber-buddies to play "Five Things" while waiting like the gangly, clumsy kid I was in this pic on July 31, 1975, in the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago (thank you in heaven, Mommy, for writing detailed and intriguing descriptions on the back of our photos). I feel like the 6-year-old I was, waiting for some super-athlete to choose me for his team in grade school. Five Things is growing and growing, as a quick peek into Google blog search has revealed. Loek Bakker "tagged" Joe McKendrick , whose fellow ZDNet bloggers Ed Bott and Mary Jo Foley also played Five Things ....