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James_Shaw

Location: Seattle - The greatest city in the world!, Washington, US

Member Since: Sep 29, 2006

He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day...

James is a dynamic figure, often seen scaling walls or crushing ice. I have been known to remodel train stations on my lunch breaks, making them more efficient in the area of heat retention. I translate ethnic slurs for Korean refugees, I write award-winning operas, I manage time efficiently. Occasionally, I tread water for three days in a row. I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed, and I cook Thirty-Minute Brownies in twenty minutes. I am an expert in domino?s, a veteran in love, and an outlaw in Peru. I breed prizewinning clams for my mother. I have won bullfights in San Juan, cliff-diving competitions in Sri Lanka, and spelling bees at the Kremlin. I have played Hamlet, I have performed open-heart surgery twice. I often fly to Brazil, power-nap, then jog home. If you want to see Elvis & TuPac, come over for dinner. I don't perspire. I am an abstract artist, a concrete methodologist, and a ruthless bookie. Critics worldwide lose consciousness over my original line of hair products & 40-ounce malt liqueur. I am a private citizen, yet I receive fan mail. You could see me on Jerry Springer, Oprah, or Soul Train from time to time. I bat .400. My deft floral arrangements have earned me fame in international botany circles. Children trust me. I can hurl tennis rackets at small moving objects with deadly accuracy. I once read War & Peace, Paradise Lost, Moby Dick, and David Copperfield in one day and still had time to win a 23-hour poker tournament. I know the exact location of every food item in every supermarket. I have performed several covert operations for the CIA. I sleep once a week; when I do sleep, I sleep in a chair with one eye open. While vacationing in Canada, I successfully negotiated with a group of terrorists who had seized a small bakery. I balance, I weave, I dodge, I scream, but all of my bills are paid. On weekends, to let off steam, I participate in full-contact origami. Years ago I discovered the meaning of life but forgot to write it down. I have made extraordinary four course meals using only tofu, spam, and a toaster oven. My IQ = 179... Do not throw stones? Using only a garden hoe and a large glass of water, I once single-handedly defended a small village in the Amazon Basin from a horde of ferocious army ants. I play bluegrass cello, the Seattle Mariners scouted me, I am the subject of numerous documentaries. When I am bored, I build large suspension bridges in my yard. I enjoy urban hang gliding. On Wednesdays, after work, I repair electrical appliances free of charge. The laws of physics do not apply to me.