What did you want to be when you grew up?

10 years ago

A professional tennis player.
... and an astronaut.

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10 years ago

Electronic engineer until about 1980, and then a programmer.

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HeySal

10 years ago

A scientist. Mostly an archaeologist or astronomer - earth sciences. I am close to scientists with my website, but didn't have the math to do it. I was told I was terrible at math. When in college my Logic and Astronomy professors sat me down and told me I should be in physics. Freaked me out so bad I almost quit school. Went into a branch of cognitive sciences instead.

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10 years ago

There's something about growing up and the OT Forum that doesn't quite make sense.

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10 years ago

The only things I can remember wanting as a kid when I grew up was pubes as I was a late developer, and to be taller. Luckily, I got both.

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What did you want to be when you grew up?

A bigger person. Oh, and to shag that bird out of Baywatch.

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  tagiscom 10 years ago
  
  hmmmm, this thread is going down hill a bit, (l won't mention the Big M, ad,s).
  
  But for me, l made a vow when l was about 15, that l was going to become rich!
  
  Almost there, well odd's on! :rolleyes:
  
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10 years ago

Still tryin' to decide.

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10 years ago

play guitar as well as dave edmunds

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jacktackett

10 years ago

I see great minds think a like - I wanted to be an Astronaut and,or an astronomer.

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Banned 10 years ago

My teacher told me I could be president. That was just mean.

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10 years ago

anything but an IMer, and I mean ANYTHING! Like to waste half your life seated at a computer, it just sucks.

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Brady Partridge

10 years ago

I wanted to be a paleontologist, then a cartoonist, then an oil painter, then a screenplay writer, and then finally settled on being a novelist.

Novel writing is the most rewarding form of writing there is. But it took me a while, a long while, to realize it.

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10 years ago

A football player but ... I ahd to make something else

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Ricardo Furtado

10 years ago

I wanted to rule the world...hehehhehe.

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- tagiscom 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Ricardo Furtado
  
  I wanted to rule the world...hehehhehe.
  
  There's no turning back! He, he!
  
  Even while we sleep, blah, blah!
  
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lanfear63 10 years ago

Originally Posted by Ricardo Furtado

I wanted to rule the world...hehehhehe.

My cat wanted to rule the world, but just as it was about to implement it's evil plan I shut the bedroom door on it.
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- Dennis Gaskill 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by lanfear63
  
  My cat wanted to rule the world, but just as it was about to implement it's evil plan I shut the bedroom door on it.
  
  My big-headed mouse wanted to rule the world, along with his skinny sidekick, Pinky. I wonder what happened to those two.
  
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  lanfear63 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill
  
  My big-headed mouse wanted to rule the world, along with his skinny sidekick, Pinky. I wonder what happened to those two.
  
  Pinky And Perky were Pigs, proof below!
  
  FREDDIE &THE DREAMERS WITH PINKY & PERKY -...
  
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  Paul Myers 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by lanfear63
  
  Pinky And Perky were Pigs, proof below!
  
  Unless I miss my guess, he's talking about Pinky and the Brain.
  
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  Dennis Gaskill 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by lanfear63
  
  Pinky And Perky were Pigs, proof below!
  
  Originally Posted by Paul Myers
  
  Unless I miss my guess, he's talking about Pinky and the Brain.
  
  Ah lanfear, sorry sir, but Paul is correct. Twas Pinky and the Brain I was referring to.
  
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  lanfear63 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill
  
  Ah lanfear, sorry sir, but Paul is correct. Twas Pinky and the Brain I was referring to.
  
  A pale imitation of the real superstars of the sixties. Where are you now Pinky & Perky, they stole your concept!
  
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  Dennis Gaskill 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by lanfear63
  
  A pale imitation of the real superstars of the sixties. Where are you now Pinky & Perky, they stole your concept!
  
  To tell you the truth, I'd never heard of Pinky and Perky until this thread.
  
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  lanfear63 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill
  
  To tell you the truth, I'd never heard of Pinky and Perky until this thread.
  
  So had I, well forgotten them anyway, actually found them very annoying as a kid. But we only had 2 channels to watch, so we watched any old crap.
  
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  Paul Myers 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by lanfear63
  
  But we only had 2 channels to watch, so we watched any old crap.
  
  And now, through the magic of YouTube, you can watch different old crap!
  
  pinky and the brain - YouTube
  
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Dan Riffle

10 years ago

I wanted to be the world's most pompous, self-righteous, egotistical, self-aggrandizing vacuum salesman who ever lived.

However, I heard about this guy from Wooster, Ohio and just gave up.

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lanfear63

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Dan Riffle

I wanted to be the world's most pompous, self-righteous, egotistical, self-aggrandizing vacuum salesman who ever lived.

However, I heard about this guy from Wooster, Ohio and just gave up.

So you became his greatest nemesis! A way to counteract the seething envy within!

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Dan Riffle 10 years ago

Originally Posted by lanfear63

So you became his greatest nemesis! A way to counteract the seething envy within!

Everybody gets this wrong. He is my greatest nemesis. Well, top three or four, anyway. Greatest might be a stretch.

Now that I think about it....

On a scale of the Joker to Batman, he's my equivalent of that screaming child on an airplane when I'm flying back hungover from Las Vegas. Annoying, but nothing a good pair of ear plugs won't handle.
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Claude Whitacre

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Dan Riffle

I wanted to be the world's most pompous, self-righteous, egotistical, self-aggrandizing vacuum salesman who ever lived.

However, I heard about this guy from Wooster, Ohio and just gave up.

Dan; You're not going to believe this!....

But I also sell vacuum cleaners in Wooster Ohio. I can't wait to meet this "world's most pompous, self-righteous, egotistical, self-aggrandizing vacuum salesman", you are talking about.

Originally Posted by Dan Riffle

Everybody gets this wrong. He is my greatest nemesis. Well, top three or four, anyway. Greatest might be a stretch.

Now that I think about it....

On a scale of the Joker to Batman, he's my equivalent of that screaming child on an airplane when I'm flying back hungover from Las Vegas. Annoying, but nothing a good pair of ear plugs won't handle.

Hey! What do you mean "top 3 or 4"? I am your greatest nemesis. Greatest!

I like the screaming kid analogy. Me? I would have gone with a "wet diaper" kind of nemesis.

I wanted to be a Super Hero until I was 45...I mean 11....No...I really mean 45.

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Dennis Gaskill

10 years ago

I wanted to be a little overweight and too tall for my hair.

Success!!!

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Sieg

10 years ago

a watchmaker. havent gave up on it. yet

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lanfear63

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Sieg

a watchmaker. havent gave up on it. yet

Times running out fast though!

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MissTerraK

10 years ago

Ha! When I was very young, I wanted to be a princess, lol!

I've outgrown that, but still haven't outgrown the love of sparkly jewels and do have plenty of those.

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Paul Myers

10 years ago

My brother asked me that once. I said, "Jack Nicholson." He told me that if I grew up, I couldn't be Jack Nicholson.

So, I decided I wasn't going to grow up.

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HeySal

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Paul Myers

My brother asked me that once. I said, "Jack Nicholson." He told me that if I grew up, I couldn't be Jack Nicholson.

So, I decided I wasn't going to grow up.

But ya still flew over.

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Joe Mobley 10 years ago

Originally Posted by MissTerraK

Ha! When I was very young, I wanted to be a princess, lol!

I've outgrown that...

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I doubt it. :rolleyes:

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10 years ago

I know this might sound a little strange, but all I wanted to be was a taxi driver!

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Banned 10 years ago

An Entrepreneur. : )

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Banned 10 years ago

I always wanted to be a bum. Seeing as my wife and mother-in-law call me that all the time, I guess I must have made it. (I meant beach bum though)

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tagiscom 10 years ago

Originally Posted by lived

I always wanted to be a bum. Seeing as my wife and mother-in-law call me that all the time, I guess I must have made it. (I meant beach bum though)

Yep, l am working towards beach bum, (albeit rich one)!

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Brady Partridge

10 years ago

I'm surprised nobody has said a pizza delivery boy. According to porn movies, that's the best job in the world, and porn movies don't lie.

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10 years ago

I wanted to be a teacher. A pre school teacher =)

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Hail Eris

10 years ago

I wanted to be a political speechwriter, but I think I have more fun with sales copy.

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Nick Logan 10 years ago

A Writer, a truck driver, a bus driver
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10 years ago

First I wanted to be a princess but at the age of 8 I decided I wanted to be a nun when I grew up. That stuck until (sorry to be blunt) I learned about sexuality and how you can't *ahem* if you are a nun. Dolphin trainer was after that.

Finally I settled on something in the field of forensics.

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JimDucharme

10 years ago

Up until I was 12 I was going to be a lawyer and then it was radio jock. That's all I wanted to be and I managed it too. For 15 years I worked in broadcast as a jock.

One thing I never wanted to be or at least thought I would never be, is a dad and it has turned out to be the most fantastic, most wonderful thing I could ever be.

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RobinInTexas

10 years ago

It's been so long ago, I forgot. The better choice would have been to find a way to slow down growing up

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JimDucharme 10 years ago

Originally Posted by RobinInTexas

It's been so long ago, I forgot. The better choice would have been to find a way to slow down growing up

Good point Robin. Perhaps the best answer to the question is one word: "Young."

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