This article has its genesis first here in this discussion:

River,
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Now, if we could just figure out why I'm so weird.

I wrote:

There are some things which can never be determined.

kidding!

Tell me how you are weird and I'll try to help. I'm reminded of an article I've seen done in other communities usually titled something like 'let your freak flag fly" or "i'm a weirdo because...."
and then we all weigh in on how you are a freak.

Because the reality is we are all weird in our own way.

I did the same sort of thing here with the term class whore to prove that we're all, in a way, class whores.

Then later I added:

know I was thinking later about this. I am sooo the wrong person to tell someone that they are weird. I mean, my god, last nite after I typed that I went to a church trivia game party. There was a beach theme so I brought two rubber duckies (one small one peaking from under a shirt pocket looking a bit like a fowl version of a nipple) and a big one (since size does matter) and a hawaiian style shirt and with a one fish two fish tie to loan to anyone not wearing proper attire. BTW Katix wrote about my love for fowl things here. Anyway asking me why you are weird is, I think,
like asking Bill Gates what it's like to be poor,
like asking Paris, Britney and Madonna why they are prudes
and asking Bob Dylan how he got such a clear easily indicepherable voice (which is to say they'd have no idea)

and then over here we had this exchange before I decided this morning to do this list:

katrix

Normal people are boring. Weird people are so much more interesting.
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#26.4 - Tue Aug 19, 2008 10:20 PM EDT
Scott (Scoop) Butki

you know that Austin saying, "keep austin weird." My goal is to keep americ weird though i'm not sure it needs much help from me.
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#26.5 - Wed Aug 20, 2008 12:46 AM EDT
Kavatica

Normal people are boring. Weird people are so much more interesting.

Here here! I have been saying this for years!
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#26.6 - Wed Aug 20, 2008 11:57 AM EDT
Scott (Scoop) Butki

ere here! I have been saying this for years!

Yes but you said it to yourself so that doesn't count:)
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#26.7 - Wed Aug 20, 2008 12:34 PM EDT
Kavatica

No, I said it to other people too, I just don't think they believed me ;)
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#26.8 - Wed Aug 20, 2008 1:09 PM EDT
Scott (Scoop) Butki

I'm often told "You are something else," which puts me in mind of that Joe Pesci line in Good Fellas when he's told he's funny but I choose to take as a compliment.

I used to name the word "unique" as my favorite word - figuring it described me well.
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#26.9 - Wed Aug 20, 2008 1:54 PM EDT
Chris from MN

My goal is to keep americ weird though i'm not sure it needs much help from me.

Heh, no, it surely doesn't.

And, my friend, compared to the truly weird, you are painfully normally weird (like the rest of us :-).

Sorry, that's just the truth. You may think you're on the fringe, but let me tell ya; the fringe lies a whole lot further out than most people realize.
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#26.10 - Wed Aug 20, 2008 4:19 PM EDT
Kavatica

which leads me to Who decides what "normal" is?, anyway ;)