my great uncle wrote colonel bogey, You know , Hitler has only got one ball and so on, but because he was in the army when it was written it is classed as a traditional piece of music and my family has received no royalties from it. Gutted
Your great-uncle was Major
Fredrick Joseph Ricketts (aka Kenneth J Alford)? That is SO cool! Over the years, I've played so many of his compositions so many times, I could probably play them all by memory on various instruments!
I have OCD and am forever counting things.
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If I do something to one side of my body (i.e., scratch my arm) I have to do it to the other side or I feel out of balance.
Big surprise there!:biggrin1: I don't count things, but I thought I was the only one who had to "balance a scratch".
I, like SpeedoGuy, have a fear of heights while on bridges or building balconies but have no issues in airplanes.
If it's really really high up, a bridge or balcony is difficult for me, but generally, my fear of heights is ok if there's a railing. A 40th story balcony is fine, but looking into the valleys at Bryce Canyon was difficult. I love travelling by air (just not getting through the airports!)
Now, for one of my random and useless/obscure facts: I play a number of musical instruments, and for the woodwinds (flute/piccolo, clarinets, saxophones, oboe/english horn, and bassoon) I have memorized approximately 530 standard and auxilliary fingerings for those instruments. That's a lot of useless junk stored in my poor abused neurons.