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I am a closet extremist

Not very many peo­ple know that. Hav­ing kids puts that side of me under ground. I may think base jump­ing rocks, but I don’t want Grem­lin think­ing that right now. He’s got enough scars as it is.

This morn­ing I was SO jeal­ous. Do you know of Jeff Corliss? Remem­ber he was the guy that got busted try­ing to base jump off the Empire State Build­ing a month or so ago. I have ALWAYS wanted to base jump. What a rush…  The idea of run­ning right off a cliff and free-falling is…well, just plain cool.

Well, this guy is get­ting ready to jump out of an air­plane with­out a para­chute! He’s plan­ning on using one of these:

I first saw this in a movie and I’ve wanted one ever since. Jeff has been prac­tic­ing a ton (over 1,000 jumps), but he’s hav­ing a lit­tle trou­ble with the land­ing. He’s still hav­ing to use a para­chute at the end. I guess tomor­row he’ll be on the Today show. I thought it was going to show him “attempt­ing” to land, but he’s only show­ing how to free fall with this suit.

Wuss…

What side of you are you hid­ing in the closet?

(No kinky stuff, Stacey…we already know how warped you are! )

Tags: extremist, Jeff Corliss

9 Responses to “I am a closet extremist”

1. ms. can't be wrong says:

   February 25, 2008 at 8:43 pm

   I think I’m hid­ing my rocker side. I want to live on the tour bus. Stay up until the wee hours of the morn­ing. Play Gui­tar Hero in my spare time (I’m try­ing to con­vince Hubs I need the Aero­smith ver­sion com­ing out this sum­mer)!
   The big hold up to this one is that I have trou­ble stay­ing awake to see the 10 p.m. newscast.

   My other choice would be a career in the med­ical field. I’m think­ing heart sur­geon! Rip­ping someone’s chest open and repair­ing their most vital of organs. That’s so cool!
   Bad news, you have to start at the bot­tom. Although blood, bones, mus­cle and tis­sue ROCK! Poop and puke make me more nau­se­ated than a preg­nant woman on a tilt-a-whirl!

   So I guess I’ll stick with the excit­ing world of adver­tis­ing where my expo­sure to late night, poop, and puke are limited.

   But, I’m still beg­ging for Gui­tar Hero!

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2. Charmed says:

   February 25, 2008 at 8:51 pm

   I would be hid­ing my rac­ing side. I love to go fast. I love dri­ving fast, push­ing the car to the limit and beyond. As a teen, I used to race my lit­tle 4 cylin­der toy­ota so much, I broke the speedometer.

   Now, though, as the mom of 5 sons, I must hide that side. I must keep that side hid­den until they are all mar­ried, and on their own insur­ance policies.

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3. Stacey says:

   February 25, 2008 at 9:20 pm

   JenGi JenGi JenGi.…you’d look so cute in that lit­tle suit, you need one! Absolutely! Me? Well clearly you’ve been snoop­ing around my closet already, but here’s one: I’d love to drive a lit­tle trac­tor with one of those scoop­ing blades on the front. You know, the kind that scoop up flat missionary-turned-mommy types that think they can jump out of air­planes wear­ing lit­tle suits with wings. Now THAT would be a rush. (oooooh what now?!) xoxo

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4. Stacey says:

   February 25, 2008 at 9:20 pm

   Pic­ture? Where? When?

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5. Nathan says:

   February 25, 2008 at 10:27 pm

   I’m going to plead the fifth on this one.

   My rep­u­ta­tion is on the line. Ha!

   If any­one else gets crazy with their answers then maybe I’ll see about putting my feet in the water.

   Cheers.

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6. Misty Dawn says:

   February 26, 2008 at 12:02 am

   Oh man that would be cool! I remem­ber when I was very young (pri­mary school), I wanted to be able to do every­thing my daddy did. Well, we went fish­ing, and then Dad decided to jump off the very high cliff into the water. I thought it was really cool and wanted to do it too. But, Dad was afraid since I was so lit­tle that I wouldn’t jump out far enough and that I would hit the rocks. So, I asked “Well Daddy, will you toss me then?” Yeah, it didn’t go over well when I went to school that Mon­day, the teacher asked what we did over the week­end, and I replied “My daddy threw me off a cliff!”

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7. Bubba's Sis says:

   February 26, 2008 at 12:08 am

   Oooo — I think I have a rocker side, too. With a tat­too! My kids would be appalled!

   Now, jump­ing out of air­planes in your Rocky-the-Flying-Squirrel suit? That’s just plain ol’ crazy.

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8. D... says:

   February 26, 2008 at 4:22 pm

   I guess I’m a closet freak. My hubby has designed 2 tat­toos for me ( I am still tat-less tho). And I wouldn’t mind get­ting my ear car­ti­lage (top part) pierced.

   You? Are brave! I would never have the nerve to jump out of an air­plane, much less wear­ing that get-up.

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9. trinity says:

   February 27, 2008 at 5:52 am

   Owww… I have a height para­noid!! LOL… I just can’t do that… nooo…

   How are you Jen, I hope you are get­ting better..I am still pray­ing for you…

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