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how do you know you are truly an oddball?

Fallyn posted on Oct 28, 2007 | views: 692 | Tags: odd, normal, best, no odd at all, weird, STRANGE, scales, how do you know
okay.

Hermans Hermits music gives me goosebumps. (in a good way)

i like Elvis's movies.

i like rogers and hammerstein musicals.

i also like edgar allan poe, andy warhol,  but those are more....."normal odd"
i mean......but.....hermans hermits? and ELVIS? i wonder if there is really something wrong with my perception of "good stuff"

what else do i like that really isn't technically aesthetically  tasteful.

i mean.... grr. what do i mean.

like...some stuff is high brow and cool.
and some stuff is decidedly low brow.

not necessarily not cool.
but elvis movies are definitely not "cool" in any sense of the word..and for some reason i love them.

and weird is subjective........but....some things are "weirder" than others.

like necrophilia......which i do not have. ...but i'm making a point.

that's definitely in the realm of "NOT NORMAL"

but how not normal is it to love graveyards?

is there a scale?

and if necrophilia is on the far end of the scale......is there "weirder" on that scale?

and what would fall on the "normal" end?

ice cream?

where on the scale would NOT liking ice cream fall?

maybe i just think too much.

or not enough.......or about the wrong things.



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  • moonriver said on Oct 28, 2007....
    fallyn, your post is giving me a monumental headache...lol.

    but you do have valid questions. think of the complex terrain of human behavior as something like a wide and shallow basin (type of landform) with an unusual shape. most people are within the basin, enjoying its flat and predictable terrain.

    at one end of the basin are steep slopes that lead to a barely-known plateau with unknown dangers but rich wildlife. people often explore its fringes, but only a few decide to climb all the way to the plateau and live there. maybe you and i belong to these type of adventurous people... :-) you like hermans hermits, i like tiny tim with his outrageously small ukulele... ya know, "tiptoe... thru the tulips..."

    at the other end of the basin is a deep gorge that leads to rapids and a cataract that ends in a flat barren desert.  people also explore the fringes, but those who dare swim in the dangerous waters are soon carried away, never to return. hard drugs, necrophilia and serial murder are at the very edge of the cataract. i'll never go there, and you shouldn't too... :-)

    ice cream is right smack in the middle of the basin. sometimes i go there to eat ice cream, but more often i stay in the peripheries and try recipes for, say, fruit bat stew.

    rodgers and hammerstein musicals are right smack in the middle too, if you ask me. ya know, king and i, sound of music...

    your post gave me a headache, but it's great, actually. after thinking about it and writing this comment, i think the headache is gone now...lol.

  • Fallyn said on Oct 28, 2007....
    *laughing*....i think the fact that i HAD a headache inspired me to write it.

    i am on a site......and it matches you with people who have similar personalities to your own.

    well, nearly EVERY person i'm matched with at more than 75 percent describes themselves with the words, odd, weird, quirky, eccentric.....or some other word like this

    so....if THAT many people are describing themselves as such.......it makes me feel less unique.....but the truth is....this is a small percentage of people and like me they feel quite odd compared to the "normal" people around them.....and probably....like me.....grew up with the constant "you are SO strange" ringing in their ears.

    so...anyway....my goodness.  :p



  • Fallyn said on Oct 28, 2007....
    oh...and tiny tim gives me the creeps.......but i VERY much understand your point.
  • destinydiva said on Oct 28, 2007....
    hiya fallyn~ hey my ex....well his best mate is Damon Noone ...who is no other than Peter Noones Brother!!!  we were really close friends with Damnon and his Wife, and I got to meet Peter at a concert a couple of years ago, he is such a nice guy!!
    we were selling the merchandise for him outside the concert hall. Was a pretty cool experieince!!  :-)
    xx

    your post made me giggle!!   I am weird too!!  cus I enjoyed herman and the hermits!!  I love elvis movies and I am a devoted fan of the sound of music :-)

    hmmmm  okay, now I am questionning my taste :-) xx

    nice to meet you :-) xx
  • Fallyn said on Oct 28, 2007....
    *giggling* that is AWESOME!

    i'm made fun of to no end for loving elvis movies.

    which is sad, cause then i have no one to watch them with. :p
  • moonriver said on Oct 28, 2007....
    fallyn, if you're late 50's or older, elvis movies are de-rigeur. if you're 30-ish or younger, like destiny, then elvis movies are super-cool. if you're in your 40's and early 50's (like me), and you're crazy about elvis movies, then you *are* indeed crazy...lol.

    destiny, i think all brits of all ages are fond of hermans hermits...lol.

  • Fallyn said on Oct 28, 2007....
    i'm 31. and no one my age that "I" know thinks they are cool.

    there are some of the hermans hermits songs that LITERALLY will send a shiver through me...and i will get goosebumps on my arms.


  • queenparanoia said on Oct 28, 2007....
    i love herma's hermits too and edgar allan poe. nothing weird about that...
     
    Don't know much about history
    Don't know much biology
    Don't know much about science books
    Don't know much about the french I took
    But I do know that I love you
    And I know that if you loved me too
    What a wonderful world this would be
     
     
    dont mind me i'm just singing along!!!!!!!!! =)

  • Fallyn said on Oct 28, 2007....
    *laughing* the ones that do that to me.......are

    leaning on a lamppost.

    there is no milk today

    oh god, theres a couple others.
    but it doesn't even make sense that they do that.
    just STRANGE

  • rupert7 said on Oct 28, 2007....
    I'm into something good

    I was born a pom (limey,Brit,whatever) now a naturalized Aussie. Been here 45 years.

    I am as weird as they come-
  • destinydiva said on Oct 28, 2007....
    ooh mr river! you gave a hint to your age... wow!! :-) x
  • queenparanoia said on Oct 28, 2007....
    i love no milk today too!!! =) such quirky songs!!! =)
  • moonriver said on Oct 28, 2007....
    destiny, destiny, destiny... read my profile. my age is plastered there for all to see... :-)

  • secretlife said on Oct 28, 2007....
    there is no 'normal'....
    we're all 'strange' in our uniquely wonderful ways.
     
    this is what makes life fun.
    embrace it.
  • Mr_Box said on Oct 28, 2007....
    I have no idea who Hermans Hermits are.

    But that doesn't make you odd. Maybe it makes me odd?

    I think everyone has at least one thing that they like or don't like that no one else understands. But that's a good thing. It makes you unique. Like a snowflake.

    If everyone liked the same stuff it would be pretty boring don't you think?

    I personally like meeting people who are into different stuff. They introduce the stuff to me, and occasionally I find something new that I like that I might never have thought about.

    That's the beauty of it.
  • gingersoul said on Oct 28, 2007....

    Fallyn......I don't see why you are odd....and i dont see why you should ask yourself this question...be yourself.....:-)

    I, for example, had to read the lyric of the song that Queen typed to understand who this Hermit was...i had no idea.... I do know and like the song though...does this make me odd?

    I think sometimes we like to think to be special.....different....unique....

    Everybody has some oddity that nakes them different....sometimes there are people absolutely "normal".......those are the scariest one....

    Plus, as Boxy said, if we were all sane or all insane imagine the bore....

     

     

  • Fallyn said on Oct 28, 2007....
    rupert. my sis is married to a kiwi. he has a death wish or something....and i've noticed a lot of people from NZ or Australia are either really brave or really stupid. or some kind of combination of the two.

    mr box....it is totally beautiful!

    my point just was....that odd is subjective ....as are so many other things......i enjoy my uniqueness......i don't think i'm more unique than everyone else.....i just know i'm more unique than most of the people i'm around every day....otherwise they wouldn't all be telling me how strange i am.
  • silverwhisper said on Oct 28, 2007....
    bah, normal is just a setting on the washing machine, fallyn. :>

    ed
  • wakingharmony said on Oct 28, 2007....

    I love Herman Hermits a Gerry & the Pace Makers All that and Rodgers & Hamerstien I think has the Best Cinderella ever with Leslie Anne Warren , Edgar allen Poe genius..Fall of the House of Ushers...I believe I still have a book of his...

  • the_infernal_optimist said on Oct 28, 2007....
    Darnit, ed beat me to my comment.

    Out of my head, you trout-wielding otter! ;-)

    ~Infernal
  • silverwhisper said on Oct 28, 2007....
    [chitters, splashes about and swims off]
  • lfbno7 said on Oct 28, 2007....
    my wife sometimes mentioned how she once got a letter from one of the boys in herman's hermits in response to the fan mail she wrote.

    i like mrs brown you've got a lovely daughter, i'm into something good, no milk today, listen people, just the first few that come to mind.  they were a good band.  in new york city, mrs. brown was number one for over a month.
  • Twylarants said on Oct 28, 2007....
    I like disco music!  There..I said it, and I don't care what anybody thinks!
    I also like butter on my roast beef sandwich, ketchup on my fish, and SpongeBob Squarepants.
    Where do I fall on the "Oddball Scale"?
  • lfbno7 said on Oct 28, 2007....
    holy crap.  butter on roast beef sandwiches?  ketchup on fish?  you are pretty high up on the oddball scale.
  • Twylarants said on Oct 28, 2007....
    Mr7- Why Thank Yew!  My husband says "Feel my pain!"
  • quietone said on Oct 28, 2007....

    LOL I agree...your post gave me a brain cramp!  but I also love the Hermans Hermits...actually they were playing here at a balloon festival a year ago...I couldn't believe it...I was bebopping along to their music and my niece was looking at me like I had 2 heads!  "No Milk Today" "Henery The 8th" I am I am!!

    but back to the point of the scale......well, I have to agree with silverwhisper!!

  • MissMimi said on Oct 28, 2007....
    Well, I will watch Elvis movies with you!  My former neighbor loooooves Elvis.  She and I had a very serious discussion one evening on her front porch about Elvis still being alive.  She seems to believe that it's possible. 

     

    And of the British groups from the sixties.  But you gotta know, I love my Beatles.  I saw a concert with Herman's Hermits, the Dave Clark Five, the Searchers, and Gerry and the Pacemakers back in the seventies.  Yes... Probably before you were born...  I am so freaking old. 


    This is my favorite Herman song:




    Embrace your quirkiness.  Wear it with pride!  Put on your tin foil hat and play your kazoo!
  • Fallyn said on Oct 29, 2007....
    *giggling* i said ODD...not PARANOID. :P

    tinfoil hat indeed.

    nah...it's cool. oddities of tinfoil hats WOOO HOOO!!!

    TWYLA. you are AWESOME cool....*grin* and odd......ketchup on fish was it????
  • desertsienna2 said on Oct 29, 2007....

    Steven Spielberg movies

    old videos by the Clash and U2

    Siouxsie & the Banshees movies

    The Accused was on tonight.  Any movie from the eighties except for the 'Lost Boys'.

    child of the eighties....

  • Fallyn said on Oct 29, 2007....
    i barely remember the early 80's .....definitely a child of the 90's here.
  • quietone said on Oct 29, 2007....
    Mimi ~ oh, boy, that brings back a lot of memories!!  I also love that song!! I liked most all their songs...  :) 
  • Fallyn said on Oct 29, 2007....
    i can't remember if it was listening to the radio with my mom that did it....or if it was my sister that introduced me to hermans hermits.
  • wakingharmony said on Oct 29, 2007....
    Fallyn All lof my Older children listen to all my oldies even though they used to listen to other music. Now my Son 27 calls from washington with pride "Hear whats playin in the back ground Mom? ~~~Wise men say~Only fools rush in~~For I can't help~falling in love with you~~~~Shall I Stay?~Would it be aSin~ If I can't help~Falling in Love with You~~ Weirdness is inheirted~~~~we get it from our parents!!! so watch out I Got 6 out there!! Buy the way whats your real name?? lol Just kiddin hun
  • Fallyn said on Oct 29, 2007....
    *laughing*

    i can only imagine what kind of weirdness my children will bring into the world.
  • pookiedookie said on Oct 30, 2007....

    You had me really going there, next I thought you were going to say you actually liked the monkeys, and what is worse that you still like them*******

    UGH!

  • Fallyn said on Oct 30, 2007....
    i think there might be a monkeys song i like...but more for sentimental reasons probably than anything.

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