50 Random Questions About Yourself

[Danoz]

1.What's your favorite Dr. Seuss book?

How the Grinch Stole Christmas. I remember reading this while watching the cartoon when I was a kid.

2.If you could live in any home on a television series, what would it be?

I'm assuming this has to be some sort of family-style sitcom (Full House, Family matters, etc) since there really isn't a “home” in something like “Firefly.” I would have to say “Wonder Years.” I always loved that show and there was always something very real about it.

3.What's the longest you've gone without sleep?

Solid 48 hours over exam week once. I remember being in a daze while taking my Japanese exam (final exam of the semester at 7 in the morning) having seen the sunrise for the second day in a row without so much as a nap. I proceeded to my dorm and slept until late evening... took me awhile to get back on schedule after that.

4.What's your favorite Barry Manilow song?

... Oh, Mandy.

5.Who's your favorite Muppet?

Kermit, of course. We 're talking about the most well-intentioned, benevolent little frog in the entire world who wants to do nothing more than “make millions of people happy.”

6.What's the habit you're proudest of breaking?

All of my insidious habits are still firmly intact .

7.What's your favorite Web site?

My “iGoogle” tells me everything I need to know about the day in a matter of seconds.

8.What's your favorite school supply?

My completely nerdy “Neo Alphasmart” portable word-processing unit.

9.Who's your favorite TV attorney?

I don't have one.... I have trouble getting into law shows.

10.What was your most recent trip of more than 50 miles?

Flew homefor the 4th of July and a friend's bachelor party just last weekened.

11.What's the best bargain you've ever found at a garage sale or thrift store?

I have a one dollar overshirt I bought for my Halloween “newsie” costume that I still wear with some regularity.

12.Where were you on September 11, 2001?

High school. Specifically I was in choir-- they still had us move from period to period watching the TV the entire time. I remember football practice was canceled and my cousin Dominic drove me home after school.

13.What's your favorite tree?

Bonzai

14.What's the most interesting biography you've read?

I really enjoyed Winston Churchill's biography.

15.What do you order when you eat Chinese food?

Broccoli chicken and egg rolls.

16.What's the best costume you've ever worn?

When I was a kid I went out for Halloween as Data of the Enterprise with full make-up (yup, I am awesome). However, my “Pirates of Penzance” costume tops the charts.

17.What's your least favorite word?

Guesstimate. No real reason.

18.If you had to be named after one of the 50 states, which would it be?

Strange question. I sort of like “Texas J. Porter.” People could call me “Tex,” for short .

19.Who's your favorite Care Bear?

I honestly cannot name even a single Care Bear.

20.Describe something that's happened to you for which you have no explanation.

I exist. I honestly have no explanation.

21.If you could travel anywhere in Africa, where would it be?

Egypt. I really would like to see the pyramids someday.

22.What did you have for lunch yesterday?

Homemade pizza! Annie and I cooked all afternoon!

23.Where do you go for advice?

My father, hands down.

24.Which do you use more often, the dictionary or the thesaurus?

Thesaurus.

25.Have you ever been snorkeling? Scuba diving?

Unfortunately, neither.

26.Have you ever been stung by a bee?

Yes. And then I killed it... not really a fair punishment for a minor irritation...

27.What's the sickest you've ever been?

Freshman year I went to a high school dance, started to feel sick, and ended up at the hospital with flu and dehydration. I was bed-ridden for about a week.

28.What's your favorite form of exercise?

Lifting weights-- though recently I've really enjoyed playing with my cousins when I'm in Canton.

29.What's your favorite Cyndi Lauper song?

This questionnaire just forfeited all of its credibility.

30.What did you do for your 13th birthday?

Pretty sure I had a party at my house. I remember my friend Becky and some of her friends being there.

31.Are you afraid of heights?

Not really at all. I suppose I would change my mind if I started to fall.

32.Have you ever taken dance lessons?

Nope.

33.What's your favorite newspaper?

Seeing as how I read the Washington Post everyday now, it would be tough for me to say something else.

34.What's your favorite Broadway musical?

My Fair Lady

35.What's the most memorable class you've ever taken?

Ohh good question. Comparative Politics with Dennis Hart. We had to create, as a class, the fictional nation-state of “Freedonia” and draft resolutions from the perspective of their diverse provinces.

36.What's your favorite knock-knock joke?

Stewie Griffin: Knock-knock!
Brian Griffin: [sigh] Who's there?
Stewie Griffin: Your friend, Stewie. And he's always gonna be there for you

37.What's your favorite commercial?

It's old school, but seeing as how my dad still references the “Wassaaaaap” commercial in regular conversation-- I'm going with that one.

38.If you could go to Disney World with any celebrity alive today, who would it be?

I've always had a flair for Kirsten Dunst.

39.Do you prefer baths or showers?

Showers.

40.Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight?

People do this? I actually hate gum. I'll chew it for about 30 seconds if I think I absolutely need it, but other than that it's pretty rare.

41.What's your favorite breakfast food?

Grandma Jenny's yeast-risen Belgian Waffles.

42.Who's your favorite game show host?

Drew Carey!

43.If you could have a super power, what would it be?

While I'm sure this answer would change with my mood, I'd like to be a changling (so I could turn into anything I wanted). And also be immortal.

44.Do you like guacamole?

I do. In fact, I think Chipoltle may be in order tomorrow.

45.Have you ever been in a food fight?

In Middle School I started a food fight and got a full week of detention for it.

46.Name five songs to which you know all the lyrics. (Better yet, sing them.)

Real Good Man, Here's a Quarter, My Town, Dust on the Bottle, Life Marches on

47.What's your favorite infomercial?

Why would I have a favorite infomercial?!?

48.What's the longest you've ever waited in line?

I spent 15 hours at an airport once waiting on standby for a flight from Orlando to Baltimore.

49.What's on the cover of your address book or day planner?

I don't have one, I use Outlook.

50.Have you ever taken a picture in one of those little booths?

I have not, making this a rather anti-climatic ending to this quiz.

 

[cardinal biggles]

1.What's your favorite Dr. Seuss book?

As much as I love the Grinch and while Scrambled Eggs Super and On Beyond Zebra are childhood favorites, I have to go with the simplicity and sheer hilarity of Hop On Pop.

2.If you could live in any home on a television series, what would it be?

Again, assuming we're not counting outer space shows and stuff, I'd choose the house from The Brady Bunch. Nice and open, and I love that staircase.

3.What's the longest you've gone without sleep?

Somewhere between 36 and 48 hours during finals week, spring semester of my freshman year. Was aided by some caffeine-laced chewing gum. Went nuts and chased a girl around with a broom.

4.What's your favorite Barry Manilow song?

"Can't Smile Without You." Especially when it was 'covered' in Hellboy II by Ron Perlman and Doug Jones.

5.Who's your favorite Muppet?

The Swedish Chef

6.What's the habit you're proudest of breaking?

Impulsive spending.

7.What's your favorite Web site?

That I can mention here? Homestar Runner

8.What's your favorite school supply?

My Dr. Grip ballpoint pen.

9.Who's your favorite TV attorney?

Alan Shore

10.What was your most recent trip of more than 50 miles?

I met my parents halfway between my place and their place, and then drove my brother home; he'd been visiting them when his car gave up the ghost, but he still had to get back for work. Round trip of around 250 miles or so.

11.What's the best bargain you've ever found at a garage sale or thrift store?

A lot of old hardback books still in good shape, and with their dust jackets. Not that I think they'd fetch anything, but I like them for the sentimental value. (ones I'm personally proud of are Woodward & Bernstein's All the President's Men and The Final Days;The Godfather; and Herman Wouk's The Winds of War and War and Remembrance)

12.Where were you on September 11, 2001?

Scene Design, during my senior year of college. It was a 10:00 class and I'd overslept, so I missed the live news coverage of the planes hitting the World Trade Center; I was probably frantically running to class as the south tower collapsed. I found out while waiting for a meeting about the fall play to begin.

13.What's your favorite tree?

Oak

14.What's the most interesting biography you've read?

Truman, by David McCullough

15.What do you order when you eat Chinese food?

Shrimp chow mein, pork fried rice, an egg roll, wonton soup, and "chicken on a stick"

16.What's the best costume you've ever worn?

A knight costume, for my middle school's "Medieval History Day." Complete with coconut shells. I went by the name Sir Loin of Beef.

17.What's your least favorite word?

I don't really have one.

18.If you had to be named after one of the 50 states, which would it be?

Indiana.

19.Who's your favorite Care Bear?

Good Luck Bear.

20.Describe something that's happened to you for which you have no explanation.

Nothing. There's an explanation for everything.

21.If you could travel anywhere in Africa, where would it be?

Egypt

22.What did you have for lunch yesterday?

Chili

23.Where do you go for advice?

My parents. And when that fails, MODMAN.

24.Which do you use more often, the dictionary or the thesaurus?

Dictionary.

25.Have you ever been snorkeling? Scuba diving?

Don't swim.

26.Have you ever been stung by a bee?

Yes. Twice

27.What's the sickest you've ever been?

I was out of school for nearly a month during second grade thanks to a nasty bout of pneumonia.

28.What's your favorite form of exercise?

Walking

29.What's your favorite Cyndi Lauper song?

"Time After Time"

30.What did you do for your 13th birthday?

Probably the same thing I usually do — me and my family at home.

31.Are you afraid of heights?

Yes and no; I have no problem going up ladders, but at some point I'll look down and feel disoriented for a moment.

32.Have you ever taken dance lessons?

No.

33.What's your favorite newspaper?

The New York Times

34.What's your favorite Broadway musical?

My Fair Lady

35.What's the most memorable class you've ever taken?

A Jane Austen seminar during my junior year of college.

36.What's your favorite knock-knock joke?

Knock-knock
Who's there?
Banana
Banana who?
Knock-knock
Who's there?
Banana
Banana who?
Knock-knock
Who's there?
Orange
Orange who?
Orange you glad I didn't say banana again?
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37.What's your favorite commercial?

Apple's "1984" commercial

38.If you could go to Disney World with any celebrity alive today, who would it be?

Jewel Staite.

39.Do you prefer baths or showers?

Showers.

40.Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight?

I stopped chewing gum after a piece took out one of my dental fillings.

41.What's your favorite breakfast food?

Scrapple.

42.Who's your favorite game show host?

Alex Trebek, followed by the late Gene Rayburn (Match Game)

43.If you could have a super power, what would it be?

Telekinesis.

44.Do you like guacamole?

Nope. I'm more of a salsa man.

45.Have you ever been in a food fight?

At a youth group lock-in. It involved using PVC pipes as blow darts to fire cheez balls at people.

46.Name five songs to which you know all the lyrics. (Better yet, sing them.)

Fairytale of New York; Bohemian Rhapsody; Give a Little Bit; God Only Knows; Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)

47.What's your favorite infomercial?

Ron Popeil's Showtime Rotisserie... gotta love that steam heating tray. Keeps two vegetables piping hot!

48.What's the longest you've ever waited in line?

Maybe an hour; both times they were to get into the theater to see one of the Star Wars prequels.

49.What's on the cover of your address book or day planner?

Don't have one. I use an old Palm Vx

50.Have you ever taken a picture in one of those little booths?

Nope.

 

[Vulcan Princess]

1.What's your favorite Dr. Seuss book?

Fox in Socks. I remember when I was a kid getting an immense kick out of my dad reading it to me and tripping over the tongue twisters. I always wondered what a tweedle-beetle was, and why they were battling in tweedle-battle bottles on poodles eating noodles.

2.If you could live in any home on a television series, what would it be?

I think it would be fun to live in S.A.R.A.H., the smart house on the show Eureka.

3.What's the longest you've gone without sleep?

23 hours, the night of my high school graduation. (There was an all-night after graduation party hosted by the school. It was kind of fun, but I found that I don’t do well on lack of sleep. It makes me irritable and headachy.)

4.What's your favorite Barry Manilow song?

I can’t say that I have one.

5.Who's your favorite Muppet?

I’m rather partial to Kermit the frog. He’s so friendly.

6.What's the habit you're proudest of breaking?

I used to bite my nails, but I haven’t for years.

7.What's your favorite Web site?

Yahoo!

8.What's your favorite school supply?

I love highlighters. They’re so cheerful and colorful.

9.Who's your favorite TV attorney?

Lionel Hutz from The Simpsons. He’s so funny.

10.What was your most recent trip of more than 50 miles?

I went to a family reunion last summer.

11.What's the best bargain you've ever found at a garage sale or thrift store?

Almost everything I own comes from thrift stores. I got a pair of nearly new designer jeans for $6 once. Great find.

12.Where were you on September 11, 2001?

I was having foot surgery. I was in the Air Force ROTC at the time, and when I got home from surgery, I got a call from my CO telling me that until further notice, we weren’t to wear our uniforms unless we were on base. (So we wouldn’t be a target.) It was kind of scary.

13.What's your favorite tree?

Redwood.

14.What's the most interesting biography you've read?

“My Grandfather’s Son”, the autobiography of Clarence Thomas.

15.What do you order when you eat Chinese food?

Veggie fried rice, broccoli, and egg rolls.

16.What's the best costume you've ever worn?

I was a tube of toothpaste for Halloween when I was in 8th grade.

17.What's your least favorite word?

I really, really hate the f-word.

18.If you had to be named after one of the 50 states, which would it be?

Probably Georgia or Virginia, since they’re actual female names.

19.Who's your favorite Care Bear?

I don’t know any of their names.

20.Describe something that's happened to you for which you have no explanation.

I’m pretty good at coming up with explanations for everything that happens to me. They’re not always good explanations, but they’re explanations nonetheless.

21.If you could travel anywhere in Africa, where would it be?

Egypt. I want to see the pyramids and the sphinx.

22.What did you have for lunch yesterday?

A veggie sandwich on a bagel. It was tasty.

23.Where do you go for advice?

It depends on the problem I have.

24.Which do you use more often, the dictionary or the thesaurus?

Dictionary.

25.Have you ever been snorkeling? Scuba diving?

No.

26.Have you ever been stung by a bee?

Yes. I was in the deep end of the swimming pool and I put my hand on the pool deck to push myself out. There was a bee under my finger, and when I accidentally squished it, I got stung. I had to swim all the way to the other end of the pool to get out.

27.What's the sickest you've ever been?

I had scarlet fever when I was 14.

28.What's your favorite form of exercise?

Swimming or ballet.

29.What's your favorite Cyndi Lauper song?

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun. I sing it when I do karaoke.

30.What did you do for your 13th birthday?

I don’t remember.

31.Are you afraid of heights?

Yes, but the fear developed recently.

32.Have you ever taken dance lessons?

Yes. Ballet, ballroom, swing, and Latin.

33.What's your favorite newspaper?

Wall Street Journal.

34.What's your favorite Broadway musical?

Les Miserables

35.What's the most memorable class you've ever taken?

Introduction to Informal Logic. I liked this class so much that I switched my minor from music to philosophy.

36.What's your favorite knock-knock joke?

I don’t really like knock-knock jokes.

37.What's your favorite commercial?

There’s this beer commercial that parodies Carmina Burona, singing about how it’s a big ad. It’s hilarious.

38.If you could go to Disney World with any celebrity alive today, who would it be?

Does Mickey Mouse count?

39.Do you prefer baths or showers?

Showers.

40.Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight?

I’m sure it would, but there’s no way I would chew day-old dusty gum.

41.What's your favorite breakfast food?

Hash browns. They’re delicious, but so unhealthy.

42.Who's your favorite game show host?

Alex Trebec.

43.If you could have a super power, what would it be?

I would like to be able to read minds.

44.Do you like guacamole?

I love it. It’s zillions of times better if it’s homemade. The store-bought stuff is too salty.

45.Have you ever been in a food fight?

No, but my sister threw a plate of spaghetti at me once. She got grounded.

46.Name five songs to which you know all the lyrics. (Better yet, sing them.)

American Pie, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, Amazing Grace, Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder, She Said Yes

47.What's your favorite infomercial?

I can’t stand infomercials.

48.What's the longest you've ever waited in line?

I waited in line for 3 hours at the DMV when I got my driver’s license.

49.What's on the cover of your address book or day planner?

A full mane of beautiful red hair. (I keep my schedule in my head.)

50.Have you ever taken a picture in one of those little booths?

Yes.

 

[Hermiod]

1.What's your favorite Dr. Seuss book?

Never read any of them.

2.If you could live in any home on a television series, what would it be?

Stately Wayne Manor of course.

3.What's the longest you've gone without sleep?

About 48 hours. I had to finish my project for my degree. Most of that was spent on the help file (an old fashioned Windows help file) and the only software I had to do it with wouldn't let you save and come back to it, you had to write it all in one go.

4.What's your favorite Barry Manilow song?

Don't know.


5.Who's your favorite Muppet?

Errrr, if we're including Sesame Street characters then Oscar the Grouch.

6.What's the habit you're proudest of breaking?

No idea.

7.What's your favorite Web site?

Wikipedia.

8.What's your favorite school supply?

A well made pencil.


9.Who's your favorite TV attorney?

Daniel Jackson ?

10.What was your most recent trip of more than 50 miles?

I went to Ipswich for a job interview in 2000.

11.What's the best bargain you've ever found at a garage sale or thrift store?

Nothing.

12.Where were you on September 11, 2001?

At work.

13.What's your favorite tree?

Whatever the trees are down Shaftesbury Avenue.

14.What's the most interesting biography you've read?

Patrick Vieira's. He shares my opinion of Ruud van Nistelrooy.

15.What do you order when you eat Chinese food?

I don't do the American lots of little boxes thing.

16.What's the best costume you've ever worn?


Probably my very Darth Vader-esque King Herod costume when I was in the nativity when I was five.

17.What's your least favorite word?

"Somewhat". I tend to use it somewhat frequently.

18.If you had to be named after one of the 50 states, which would it be?

Nebraska. Just because nobody else is going to pick it.

19.Who's your favorite Care Bear?


Is there one called "I Don't" ?

20.Describe something that's happened to you for which you have no explanation.

I'm tempted to give an answer that will get me in trouble here.


21.If you could travel anywhere in Africa, where would it be?

South Africa to see the World Cup Final next year.

22.What did you have for lunch yesterday?


Chicken sandwiches.

23.Where do you go for advice?

The Internet.

24.Which do you use more often, the dictionary or the thesaurus?

Dictionary.


25.Have you ever been snorkeling? Scuba diving?

No.


26.Have you ever been stung by a bee?

Yes, though thankfully I do not share my sister's allergy to bee stings.


27.What's the sickest you've ever been?

I have had some sort of serious form of the flu twice in my life. Once when I was close to finishing school and again in 2003. The first time was probably worse as I'm told I was found slumped by my fridge having apparently fallen over, bringing all the fridge magnets down with me.

28.What's your favorite form of exercise?

Walking.

29.What's your favorite Cyndi Lauper song?

Cyndi Lauper can bite me.


30.What did you do for your 13th birthday?

I don't remember. Probably just went to school.


31.Are you afraid of heights?

Yes.


32.Have you ever taken dance lessons?

No.

33.What's your favorite newspaper?


I don't read newspapers.


34.What's your favorite Broadway musical?

Singin' in the Rain.

35.What's the most memorable class you've ever taken?

History class in Year 9. Mrs. Abbot was the best teacher I've ever had. She obviously liked me back because she cheered when I told her and my mother that I was going to carry on at GCSE.


36.What's your favorite knock-knock joke?

I don't know any.


37.What's your favorite commercial?

Not sure, but I do like the Ford one where the father dances along his way home carrying his baby with him.

38.If you could go to Disney World with any celebrity alive today, who would it be?

Kari Byron.

39.Do you prefer baths or showers?

Showers.


40.Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight?

I don't chew gum.


41.What's your favorite breakfast food?

Weetabix.

42.Who's your favorite game show host?

I don't watch gameshows.


43.If you could have a super power, what would it be?

Flight.

44.Do you like guacamole?

No.


45.Have you ever been in a food fight?

No.


46.Name five songs to which you know all the lyrics. (Better yet, sing them.)

Faith No More's Epic.
Alter Bridge's Metallingus.
Living Color's Cult of Personality.
Foo Fighters' Times Like These.
Jonathan Coulton and GlaDOS's Still Alive.


47.What's your favorite infomercial?

No idea.


48.What's the longest you've ever waited in line?

Probably about an hour or so waiting for the Tube going back home from Arsenal one afternoon.

49.What's on the cover of your address book or day planner?

I use Mobile Me.

50.Have you ever taken a picture in one of those little booths?

Yes.

 

[Kestra]

10.What was your most recent trip of more than 50 miles?

I went to Ipswich for a job interview in 2000.

"Well I can't exactly say no after he's gone all the way to Ipswich."

"'All the way to Ipswich?' Victoria, for your hand in marriage, I'd cross oceans or continents."

Okay sorry, I couldn't help myself. That's all I could think of when I read the name. I'm not reading fifty answers about everyone, though. There are better ways to get to know people!

 

[Gryffindorian]

From time to time, I get an email survey like this from a friend. This is fun.

Answers on Monday ...

 

[Hermiod]

10.What was your most recent trip of more than 50 miles?

I went to Ipswich for a job interview in 2000.

"Well I can't exactly say no after he's gone all the way to Ipswich."

"'All the way to Ipswich?' Victoria, for your hand in marriage, I'd cross oceans or continents."

Okay sorry, I couldn't help myself. That's all I could think of when I read the name. I'm not reading fifty answers about everyone, though. There are better ways to get to know people!

If we've established anything by now it's that I wouldn't cross the street for someone's hand in marriage.

 

[Kestra]

^^^ Stop ruining my lovely Stardust moment! Not that Victoria was worth it, either.

 

[Krieg1981]

1.What's your favorite Dr. Seuss book?

Go Dog Go.

2.If you could live in any home on a television series, what would it be?

The Robin's Nest from Magnum, P.I.

3.What's the longest you've gone without sleep?

When I was 18, my buddies and I ate a shitload of black pyramid acid and didn't sleep for about 48 hours.

4.What's your favorite Barry Manilow song?

There be no such thing.

5.Who's your favorite Muppet?

Animal. They say he and I play the drums in a similar fashion.

6.What's the habit you're proudest of breaking?

I quit Smoking a year and a half ago.

7.What's your favorite Web site?

http://www.shipspotting.com/

8.What's your favorite school supply?

Skateboard.

9.Who's your favorite TV attorney?

Denny Crane.......Cuckoo for cocoa puffs!

10.What was your most recent trip of more than 50 miles?

Drove to my current home from my new home, about 300 miles last week.

11.What's the best bargain you've ever found at a garage sale or thrift store?

I found a First World War Imperial German steel helmet being used as a flower pot holder at an estate sale. It wasn't for sale, bu the lady sold it to me for $5 anyway! It even had the original 1918 headliner!

12.Where were you on September 11, 2001?

Asleep. I woke up, and as soon as the picture came up, the second plane hit the tower. I thought, what movie is this?

13.What's your favorite tree?

Norwegian Maple.

14.What's the most interesting biography you've read?

I read an interesting biography of Carolus Linnaeus recently.

15.What do you order when you eat Chinese food?

Either Kung Pow Shrimp, maybe some Egg Drop Soup.

16.What's the best costume you've ever worn?

When I was 4 I was General Douglas MacArthur, complete with sunglasses ans a corn cob pipe! And yes, it was my idea.

17.What's your least favorite word?
Like.

18.If you had to be named after one of the 50 states, which would it be?

Washington.

19.Who's your favorite Care Bear?

I have no idea.

20.Describe something that's happened to you for which you have no explanation.

I saw a ghost in Bing Crosby's house. No shit. I saw a guy wearing a suit, with a fedora hat walking up the stairs. I followed him up, and found myself alone upstairs. Well, unless he jumped out a window or something!

21.If you could travel anywhere in Africa, where would it be?

Too hot. Pass.

22.What did you have for lunch yesterday?

Chicken Salad sandwich!

23.Where do you go for advice?

My Uncle Tony.

24.Which do you use more often, the dictionary or the thesaurus?

Thesaurus.

25.Have you ever been snorkeling? Scuba diving?

Neither. Although I'd love to wreck dive.

26.Have you ever been stung by a bee?

Yes. It was a minor irritant.

27.What's the sickest you've ever been?

I almost died of pneumonia when I was 13. Thats about it.

28.What's your favorite form of exercise?

Skateboarding/biking

29.What's your favorite Cyndi Lauper song?
Um.... no.

30.What did you do for your 13th birthday?
I don't remember.

31.Are you afraid of heights?

I'm not fond of them.

32.Have you ever taken dance lessons?

Nope.

33.What's your favorite newspaper?

Used to the the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Now it's the Seattle Times.

34.What's your favorite Broadway musical?

None.

35.What's the most memorable class you've ever taken?

I took an excellent Western Civilization course in College. Good teacher, plenty of idiot students to pity.

36.What's your favorite knock-knock joke?

Jesus, I don't know.

37.What's your favorite commercial?

Those Bruce Campbell Old Spice commercials.

38.If you could go to Disney World with any celebrity alive today, who would it be?

I'd take Regina Spektor.

39.Do you prefer baths or showers?

Showers.

40.Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight?

If you do this, you should be put to death.

41.What's your favorite breakfast food?

Æbleskivers!

42.Who's your favorite game show host?

Richard Dawson.

43.If you could have a super power, what would it be?

I wouldn't mind having super strength to crush my enemies.

44.Do you like guacamole?

Indeed.

45.Have you ever been in a food fight?

No, actually.

46.Name five songs to which you know all the lyrics. (Better yet, sing them.)

Tuesday Afternoon(The Moody Blues), The Hordes of Nebulah(Darkthrone), Aero Zeppelin(Nirvana), Hag(The Breeders), The Philosopher(Death)

47.What's your favorite infomercial?

Again, no.

48.What's the longest you've ever waited in line?

Hours and hours in line to be horribly dissapointed with Star Trek V, The Final Frontier.

49.What's on the cover of your address book or day planner?

What's that?

50.Have you ever taken a picture in one of those little booths?

Absolutely not!

 

[Possum]

1.What's your favorite Dr. Seuss book?

I always preferred P.D. Eastman of "Are You My Mother" and "Go, Dog, Go" fame.

2.If you could live in any home on a television series, what would it be?
The house in the Addams Family

3.What's the longest you've gone without sleep?

Probably around 40-48 hours.

4.What's your favorite Barry Manilow song?

Only one of his I know is Mandy. Can't say I wouldn't turn it if it came on the radio.

5.Who's your favorite Muppet?

Grover without a doubt.

6.What's the habit you're proudest of breaking?

Well I went for a few months without drinking any kind of pop just to see if I could. But I've started up again.

7.What's your favorite Web site?

Internet Movie Database

8.What's your favorite school supply?

Number 2 pencil

9.Who's your favorite TV attorney?

Denny Craine

10.What was your most recent trip of more than 50 miles?

Ames, Ia

11.What's the best bargain you've ever found at a garage sale or thrift store?

Paid 50 cents for a copy of the White Album by the Beatles, knew it was a reissue. Got it home, took it out of the cover (no shrinkwrap) and it was on white vinyl. It is worth about $40 bucks or so.

12.Where were you on September 11, 2001?

Driving into the K-mart parking lot when I heard it on the radio. I was going in to start orientation as it was my first day on the job.

13.What's your favorite tree?

Linden

14.What's the most interesting biography you've read?

David McCullough's "Mornings on Horseback" about the youthful Theodore Roosevelt. It ends before he goes to Washington.

15.What do you order when you eat Chinese food?

Dumplings and fried rice.

16.What's the best costume you've ever worn?

I've never really had a good costume I don't think.

17.What's your least favorite word?

Can't really think of one offhand.

18.If you had to be named after one of the 50 states, which would it be?

Kentucky- I could go by Tuck.

19.Who's your favorite Care Bear?

I'm a girl and I never had any interest.

20.Describe something that's happened to you for which you have no explanation.

Offutt Airforce Base has an airshow every year. My parents' house is in the flight pattern- about 35 miles away. Last summer three or four Stealth Bombers were going over (we were out on the deck) and way up higher (so it appeared) than the Stealth Bombers was another sort of aircraft, kind of egg shaped, white, and it appeared to have very narrow stubby wings. I would love to know what it was.

21.If you could travel anywhere in Africa, where would it be?

Liberia

22.What did you have for lunch yesterday?

Tuna fish sandwich

23.Where do you go for advice?

My mother or friends.

24.Which do you use more often, the dictionary or the thesaurus?

Dictionary.

25.Have you ever been snorkeling? Scuba diving?

No. But I do love swimming

26.Have you ever been stung by a bee?

Yes, got into a bee's nest and was stung about 5 or 6 times.

27.What's the sickest you've ever been?

Last year, I had some sort of flu or stomach virus. I lost 20 pounds in two days.

28.What's your favorite form of exercise?

Walking.

29.What's your favorite Cyndi Lauper song?

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun. I saw her once when she opened for Cher. A late friend and I went on a spontaneous trip to Minnesota to see Cher perform.

30.What did you do for your 13th birthday?

No clue. Probably went out with a couple of friends and my parents to Pizza Hut.

31.Are you afraid of heights?

Yes. I onetime almost got stuck on the steel shelving in Kmart while stocking years ago. I was standing up on top of the steel where the excess papertowels and such are stacked and nearly couldn't make myself get down.

32.Have you ever taken dance lessons?

No. I would consider square dancing if it came back in popularity. About 25 years ago it was popular in this area and my parents went weekly. My older brother met his wife square dancing, oddly enough.

33.What's your favorite newspaper?

The New York Times.

34.What's your favorite Broadway musical?

Les Mis. First one I saw on a school trip to the Orpheum.

35.What's the most memorable class you've ever taken?

I really liked a Field Biology class I took one summer to fulfill some credits. If I had taken it sooner I might have went into horticulture.

36.What's your favorite knock-knock joke?

Probably the silly orange one.

37.What's your favorite commercial?

Currently I like the William Shatner Priceline ones. I get a laugh out of him.

38.If you could go to Disney World with any celebrity alive today, who would it be?

To be Star Trek themed- Karl Urban looks like he'd be a hoot.

39.Do you prefer baths or showers?

Showers.


40.Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight?

Or does your mother say 'don't chew it' and you swallow it in spite?
Can you catch it on your tonsils and heave it left and right?
Does your chewing gum lose its' flavor on the bedpost overnight?
Lonnie Donegan I believe (and the lyrics are from memory)

41.What's your favorite breakfast food?

Biscuits and gravy

42.Who's your favorite game show host?

Alex Trebek with a moustache

43.If you could have a super power, what would it be?

Invisibility

44.Do you like guacamole?

I can eat it but don't choose it if I have a choice of adding it to a food.

45.Have you ever been in a food fight?

Yes, working food service at Iowa State Dining, in the dishroom. It involved throwing leftover jello.

46.Name five songs to which you know all the lyrics. (Better yet, sing them.)

Subterranean Homesick Blues, Dylan
Twilight, ELO
Make It Happy, Lyle Lovett
Holiday, Green Day
and working on I've Been Everywhere by Hank Snow

47.What's your favorite infomercial?

The Time Life one for a country music compilation from about ten years ago. I had a friend who would watch it when it was on and I always think of her singing along and doing the finger snaps to "On the Wings a Dove" if I happen to hear the song

48.What's the longest you've ever waited in line?

No clue

49.What's on the cover of your address book or day planner?

I don't have one

50.Have you ever taken a picture in one of those little booths?

No
_____

 

[Miss Chicken]

1.What's your favorite Dr. Seuss book?

The one about the creatures that had or didn't have stars on their bellies (I can't remember the title_

2.If you could live in any home on a television series, what would it be?

The House of the Addams Family.

3.What's the longest you've gone without sleep?

it would have been about 26 hours from late in the evening (Australian time) of 9/11 when I watch the second plane hitting the Twins Towers until I went to sleep late the next evening,

4.What's your favorite Barry Manilow song?

None

5.Who's your favorite Muppet?

Animal

6.What's the habit you're proudest of breaking?

I quit smoking 16 years ago after smoking for about 18 years. I went could turkey.

7.What's your favorite Web site?

Trekbbs

8.What's your favorite school supply?

None in particular

9.Who's your favorite TV attorney?

Lindsay McDonald.

10.What was your most recent trip of more than 50 miles?

I went away for three days to a seaside town of Bicheno with my two sisters and my best friend earlier this year. Bicheno is 176 km from Hobart.

11.What's the best bargain you've ever found at a garage sale or thrift store?



12.Where were you on September 11, 2001?

I was getting ready for bed when I turned on the TV in my bedroom to see the late news. This was just as the second plane hit the Towers.

13.What's your favorite tree?

Magnolia.

14.What's the most interesting biography you've read?

A biography of Alberto Santos-Dumont, the first man to fly a heavier-than-air craft in Europe.

15.What do you order when you eat Chinese food?

Cashew chicken


16.What's the best costume you've ever worn?

None really.

17.What's your least favorite word?

Retard or spaz

18.If you had to be named after one of the 50 states, which would it be?

Indiana (because I like Indiana Jones)

19.Who's your favorite Care Bear?

No idea

20.Describe something that's happened to you for which you have no explanation.

Can't think of anything

21.If you could travel anywhere in Africa, where would it be?

I would love to see thr Masai Mara.

22.What did you have for lunch yesterday?

Salami and tomato sandwich

23.Where do you go for advice?

Personal matters - usually my best friend.

24.Which do you use more often, the dictionary or the thesaurus?

Dictionary.

25.Have you ever been snorkeling? Scuba diving?

No.

26.Have you ever been stung by a bee?

Yes but far worse than that I sat down an a bullants nest when I was four years old and was bitten several dozen times.

27.What's the sickest you've ever been?

I had pneumonia in 1978.

28.What's your favorite form of exercise?

Walking.

29.What's your favorite Cyndi Lauper song?

None.

30.What did you do for your 13th birthday?

Don'e remember it was 38 years ago.

31.Are you afraid of heights?

No.

32.Have you ever taken dance lessons?

No.

33.What's your favorite newspaper?

Tasmanian Mercury.

34.What's your favorite Broadway musical?

I hate musicals because my mothert used to force me to go with her to see musicals (at the cinema) when I was a child.

35.What's the most memorable class you've ever taken?

Library cataloging (ie. how to assign Dewey numbers).

36.What's your favorite knock-knock joke?

The Doctor Who knock-knock joke

37.What's your favorite commercial?

That one about the cat-herders.

38.If you could go to Disney World with any celebrity alive today, who would it be?

I wouldn't go to Disney World.

39.Do you prefer baths or showers?

Showers.

40.Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight?

No idea.

41.What's your favorite breakfast food?

Weetbix

42.Who's your favorite game show host?

I don't like game shows

43.If you could have a super power, what would it be?

Invisibility

44.Do you like guacamole?

Never tried it.

45.Have you ever been in a food fight?

Nope.

46.Name five songs to which you know all the lyrics. (Better yet, sing them.)

Probably none.

47.What's your favorite infomercial?

Never watch them/

48.What's the longest you've ever waited in line?

maybe an hour when my sons wanted to go aboard an American warship.

49.What's on the cover of your address book or day planner?

I don't have one. I only use my computer.

50.Have you ever taken a picture in one of those little booths?

Yes, with my sister when I was a teenager.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

This thread reminds me of the famous Proust Questionnaire.

http://www.chick.net/proust/question.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proust_questionnaire

Definitely something we should try here one day.

 

[captcalhoun]

1.What's your favorite Dr. Seuss book?

never read one

2.If you could live in any home on a television series, what would it be?

the mansion the Tracys live in in Thunderbirds

3.What's the longest you've gone without sleep?

around 22 hours when i babysat one new year's. went to bed around 4:30AM and got up again around 7:30

4.What's your favorite Barry Manilow song?

none

5.Who's your favorite Muppet?

Fozzy or Gonzo

6.What's the habit you're proudest of breaking?

not broke any

7.What's your favorite Web site?

this one

8.What's your favorite school supply?

????

9.Who's your favorite TV attorney?

uh... Alec Callender in May to December?

10.What was your most recent trip of more than 50 miles?

Went to London to the Star Trek Adventure in... 2002 IIRC...

11.What's the best bargain you've ever found at a garage sale or thrift store?

don't tend to visit them.

12.Where were you on September 11, 2001?

work

13.What's your favorite tree?

what kinda stupid questionaire is this?

14.What's the most interesting biography you've read?

never read one

15.What do you order when you eat Chinese food?

don't eat Chinese

16.What's the best costume you've ever worn?


jeans, Punisher t-shirt and trainers. saw 'The Punisher' wearing it.

17.What's your least favorite word?

Staycation

18.If you had to be named after one of the 50 states, which would it be?

Alaska or Alabama and then i can be 'Al' for short.

19.Who's your favorite Care Bear?


I can't name a Care Bear.

20.Describe something that's happened to you for which you have no explanation.

dunno.

21.If you could travel anywhere in Africa, where would it be?

Probably the Pyramids

22.What did you have for lunch yesterday?


Roast Lamb and veggies

23.Where do you go for advice?

prolly me mum

24.Which do you use more often, the dictionary or the thesaurus?

neither

25.Have you ever been snorkeling? Scuba diving?

nope.

26.Have you ever been stung by a bee?

nope

27.What's the sickest you've ever been?

never been that bad... oh, well had german measles once

28.What's your favorite form of exercise?

walking

29.What's your favorite Cyndi Lauper song?

what?

30.What did you do for your 13th birthday?

no idea..

31.Are you afraid of heights?

no, i'm afraid of falling.

32.Have you ever taken dance lessons?

no

33.What's your favorite newspaper?


Daily Mirror

34.What's your favorite Broadway musical?

i ain't gay!

35.What's the most memorable class you've ever taken?

the history class at the end of term one year where we watched the first hour of Wayne's World

36.What's your favorite knock-knock joke?

Knock Knock
Who's there?
Doctor
Doctor Who?
How'd you guess?

37.What's your favorite commercial?

the transforming dancing Citreon one

38.If you could go to Disney World with any celebrity alive today, who would it be?

Jennifer Garner

39.Do you prefer baths or showers?

don't care

40.Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight?

don't chew gum

41.What's your favorite breakfast food?

Shreddies

42.Who's your favorite game show host?

don't watch many

43.If you could have a super power, what would it be?

Flight

44.Do you like guacamole?

never had it

45.Have you ever been in a food fight?

no

46.Name five songs to which you know all the lyrics. (Better yet, sing them.)

don't.

47.What's your favorite infomercial?

what's an infomercial?

48.What's the longest you've ever waited in line?

twenty minutes in the bank doing banking for work.

49.What's on the cover of your address book or day planner?

don't have one

50.Have you ever taken a picture in one of those little booths?

yes.

 

[jamestyler]

1.What's your favorite Dr. Seuss book?
I've never read any.

2.If you could live in any home on a television series, what would it be?
Frasier Cranes home. As long as it came fully furnished.

3.What's the longest you've gone without sleep?
A few days - when running a bar over the holidays a few years back we had a two week long party that continued between our shifts. I'm not sure how many days it took for the first sleep, but me and two others locked ourselves in the living room of the house as we couldn't go on any more.

4.What's your favorite Barry Manilow song?
I hate Manilow.

5.Who's your favorite Muppet?
I also hate muppets. If I had to choose, the two grumpy spectator types.

6.What's the habit you're proudest of breaking?
Shamelessly flirting.

7.What's your favorite Web site?
My own one, it's not as good or informative as others but I can say what I like there which either entertains or upsets people.

8.What's your favorite school supply?
I still have a load of books I took from the school - mostly history books I saved from being binned.

9.Who's your favorite TV attorney?
...Denny Crane.

10.What was your most recent trip of more than 50 miles?
Taking my daughter to my hometown and doing some PR there.

11.What's the best bargain you've ever found at a garage sale or thrift store?
A pair of mens biker boots for a tenner in a charity shop in Fife. They went well with my black kilt. Though annoyed traditional Scots.

12.Where were you on September 11, 2001?
I never left the house on that day. The woman I lived with went to work, I ws glued to the news channels.

13.What's your favorite tree?
A cimable one.

14.What's the most interesting biography you've read?
Mick Foley's. He's maybe not the most interesting, but he has a nice way of telling a story and has lots of stories to tell. Far more entertaining than most.

15.What do you order when you eat Chinese food?
Chicken fried rice. Every time. No idea why, but I never deviate.

16.What's the best costume you've ever worn?
Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I've worn a lot of costumes over the years, but I had guys hitting on me not realising I had a penis. Made for good entertainment. And I looked amazing as a blonde.

17.What's your least favorite word?
Fake.

18.If you had to be named after one of the 50 states, which would it be?
Arizona. Its the only one that sounds like a name to me.

19.Who's your favorite Care Bear?
I couldn't tell you. I've only had one exposure to Care Bears. I was in hospital for a week, had a lot of drugs in my system and just saw pretty colours.

20.Describe something that's happened to you for which you have no explanation.
Custody battle. I was a good father when together or seperated, then one day I just got a text telling me I wasn't seeing her any more. I can theorise and speculate, get a good idea why, but when asked the questions always been dodged or ignored.

21.If you could travel anywhere in Africa, where would it be?
My mate Gopals hometown. He's so connected to that place that I'd love to see where he grew up and how he became who he is.

22.What did you have for lunch yesterday?
Shamelessly I had an unhealthy load of chips - just so I could have the barbeque sauce.

23.Where do you go for advice?
If it's important, nowhere. I trust myself.

24.Which do you use more often, the dictionary or the thesaurus?
Thesaurus. I like options.

25.Have you ever been snorkeling? Scuba diving?
No, I'm not comfortable in the water, which made me reconsider an idea to join the Navy. No idea why I thought it'd be a good career idea considering I refuse to even swim.

26.Have you ever been stung by a bee?
When I was a kid, a few times. Never bugged me and made me think that guy in My Girl was a bit of a pussy. I shall not be killed by a bee.

27.What's the sickest you've ever been?
It'd ether be when I did some damage to my neck and couldn't get out of bed, or if not physically then one of the low points. Depression used to take me to really weird places mentally, though I can deal with it a lot better these days and just make bad jokes non stop.

28.What's your favorite form of exercise?
Bench press. It always feels like the thing I'm getting the most from, though I love a lot of work I do in the gym - even if I hate bicep work.

29.What's your favorite Cyndi Lauper song?
I only know the one from the Goonies with Lou Albano in the video.

30.What did you do for your 13th birthday?
I can barely remember my 25th birthday. My memory doesn't go that far back.

31.Are you afraid of heights?
I used to be scared. I think I've demoted it to uncomfortale with...

32.Have you ever taken dance lessons?
No. But I should have before I did Grease for my final year production in school.

33.What's your favorite newspaper?
I'd say the Guardian, but I don't tend to pick up newspapers any more, just read online and then it's mostly BBC News. I do like the Paisley Express for it's pages and pages of misery and the East Fife Mail as they've run plenty of stories on me.
34.What's your favorite Broadway musical?
It's not Broadway, but Hedwig demands a mention.

35.What's the most memorable class you've ever taken?
I'd say law in journalism. I always remember what I can and can't say, other classes I've drifted through.

36.What's your favorite knock-knock joke?
I can't mention it on this board, rules and all. It was an odd joke I came up with that caused my girlfriend to have a laughing fit.

37.What's your favorite commercial?
"....wear the fox hat."

38.If you could go to Disney World with any celebrity alive today, who would it be?
Mickey Rourke. Terrific combimation.

39.Do you prefer baths or showers?
Showers.

40.Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight?
I'll ask my F when she gets home. She's never left it on the bed post but I do find it lying in odd places.

41.What's your favorite breakfast food?
Pasta with tuna.

42.Who's your favorite game show host?
Right now... Charlie Brooker.

43.If you could have a super power, what would it be?
I wouldn't, I prefer the Batman route of gadgets and determination.

44.Do you like guacamole?
Hate it.

45.Have you ever been in a food fight?
Jimmy don't share food.

46.Name five songs to which you know all the lyrics. (Better yet, sing them.)
Midnight Radio, Need a Jobby, Kickapoo, Fight, Halo

47.What's your favorite infomercial?
That one with the brick layer gadget

48.What's the longest you've ever waited in line?
An hour to see some gig with my sister. Velvet Revolver, I think it was.

49.What's on the cover of your address book or day planner?
The closest I have is my notebook which is filled with useless information for a story I decided I write ages ago - I can't help but work out pointless details and the front page has a load of numbers as I was figuring out dates etc.

50.Have you ever taken a picture in one of those little booths?
Outside of taking ID photos, only once with the girl I lived with in Dundee. My hair looked awesome.

 

[Deranged Nasat]

Oooh, randomness. Let me try...

1.What's your favorite Dr. Seuss book?
I can't recall with certainty, but I think the title is probably "Green Eggs and Ham". You know, the one about green eggs and ham...

2.If you could live in any home on a television series, what would it be?
I don't know (I have an awful suspicion you'll be getting several of those)

3.What's the longest you've gone without sleep?
About 18 hours (I require lots of sleep, and seriously could not handle anything longer than that).

4.What's your favorite Barry Manilow song?
I don't know.

5.Who's your favorite Muppet?
Miss Piggy, probably...

6.What's the habit you're proudest of breaking?
Biting my fingernails.

7.What's your favorite Web site?
TV Tropes, probably (it really needs a big Trek literature section though)

8.What's your favorite school supply?
Anything and everything I could get away with pinching (from school, I mean, not from shops or anything...)

9.Who's your favorite TV attorney?
I don't know (sorry)

10.What was your most recent trip of more than 50 miles?
A visit to my grandparents a month or so ago.

11.What's the best bargain you've ever found at a garage sale or thrift store?
I don't know (was there a point to me taking this again? )

12.Where were you on September 11, 2001?
School, home at 3, the usual when you're 11 (originally put 12 by mistake, for some reason).

13.What's your favorite tree?
Species or individual tree? Either way...I don't know...

14.What's the most interesting biography you've read?
I sadly haven't read many.

15.What do you order when you eat Chinese food?
Satai chicken. Mmmm...

16.What's the best costume you've ever worn?
Sadly, I've not really worn any.

17.What's your least favorite word?
Yob. Arrrrrrgh!!!!! HATE THAT WORD.

18.If you had to be named after one of the 50 states, which would it be?
Arizona

19.Who's your favorite Care Bear?
I don't know the Care Bears. I do know Homer Simpson's "Intensive care Bear", if it helps, but he's scary...

20.Describe something that's happened to you for which you have no explanation.
I seem to sense and experience the world VERY differently from everyone around me. It causes quite a few barriers to effective communication. People tend to respond with hostility (quite illogically in my mind) if I try to discuss it with them, so that's not much help. I know and understand how I relate to my surroundings, and over the years I've come to understand how other people experience it differently, but I still have no explanation. Note that I'm, not talking about differences in opinion or outlook or whathaveyou, I mean differences in sensory input, the way my body and mind process things and interact with my surroundings.

21.If you could travel anywhere in Africa, where would it be?
The Cliffs of Bandiagara.

22.What did you have for lunch yesterday?
I might have skipped it, which was bad of me. I have a problem lately with forgetting to eat, and people keep having to remind me.

23.Where do you go for advice?
Nowhere. Other people, I've found, sadly aren't very good at giving me useful advice when it comes to big problems. Oddly, other people often seek me out for advice.

24.Which do you use more often, the dictionary or the thesaurus?
Dictionary

25.Have you ever been snorkeling? Scuba diving?
No and no.

26.Have you ever been stung by a bee?
No. Wasps, yes. The dead wasp was the worst. Stupid wasp, dying on top of a climbing frame with your sting up in the air like that...

27.What's the sickest you've ever been?
I've only ever been truly ill once, I had flu at about age 12 or 13. I've been depressed often, if that counts (I mean true depression, not "depressed").

28.What's your favorite form of exercise?
Working

29.What's your favorite Cyndi Lauper song?
Time After Time.

30.What did you do for your 13th birthday?
Same as any birthday...nothing really.

31.Are you afraid of heights?
Yes, in an odd way. See the "how will you die?" thread for more information....

32.Have you ever taken dance lessons?
No.

33.What's your favorite newspaper?
I don't read them anymore. All a waste of paper and ink.

34.What's your favorite Broadway musical?
Sadly, never been.

35.What's the most memorable class you've ever taken?
None were truly memorable.

36.What's your favorite knock-knock joke?
I can't remember it...

37.What's your favorite commercial?
"Milk so good...the cows want it back"

38.If you could go to Disney World with any celebrity alive today, who would it be?
Urgh, celebrities...I'll cancel, thanks

39.Do you prefer baths or showers?
Baths

40.Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight?
I don't chew gum.

41.What's your favorite breakfast food?
I don't know.

42.Who's your favorite game show host?
Don't watch game shows.

43.If you could have a super power, what would it be?
The power to cancel out anyone else's superpowers.

44.Do you like guacamole?
I don't believe I've ever tried it.

45.Have you ever been in a food fight?
Well, when I was 9, yes.

46.Name five songs to which you know all the lyrics. (Better yet, sing them.)
No.

47.What's your favorite infomercial?
Infomercial? Don't laugh, but what's that? A commercial with information in it? Don't they all have that?

48.What's the longest you've ever waited in line?
Two and a quarter hours at a book signing

49.What's on the cover of your address book or day planner?
A picture of a Dodo.

50.Have you ever taken a picture in one of those little booths?
Only for ID stuff.

 

[Vulcan Princess]

Wow, a lot of people have never tried guacamole. It's the best thing to put on tortilla chips. It's super easy to make, too.

Amazing guacamole a la Vulcan Princess:
Take 1 avocado, peel, and mash. Add 1 tsp (approx. I never measure) lemon or lime juice, and 1/4 cup (again, approx.) mild salsa. Mix and serve with tortilla chips or on burritos, enchiladas, etc.

 

[The Boy Who Cried Worf]

1.What's your favorite Dr. Seuss book?

I never liked Dr. Seuss. I always thought it was strange that books they give to kids to learn how to read had a lot of made up words in them.

2.If you could live in any home on a television series, what would it be?

???

3.What's the longest you've gone without sleep?

About 48 hours. When I was young I was on medication that completely messed up my sleep cycle.

4.What's your favorite Barry Manilow song?

Can't Smile Without You


5.Who's your favorite Muppet?

Ralph the Dog. Don't know why.

6.What's the habit you're proudest of breaking?

All of my insidious habits are still firmly intact . Ditto

7.What's your favorite Web site?

Trek BBS is the one I visit most often these days so I'd have to go with that one.

8.What's your favorite school supply?

My Trapper Keeper. It's been a while since I was in school.

9.Who's your favorite TV attorney?[/B]

Never really watched any law shows.

10.What was your most recent trip of more than 50 miles?

Went to las Vegas in May with the girlfriend for a wedding. A couple of hundred miles.

11.What's the best bargain you've ever found at a garage sale or thrift store?

My girlfriend regularly finds clothes for $5 that she can sell on EBay for 10 times that amount.

12.Where were you on September 11, 2001?

On my way to work. They sent us home when we got there because I worked at Bank of America and they feared we would be a target.

13.What's your favorite tree?

Redwood

14.What's the most interesting biography you've read?

Porn star Jerry Butler

15.What do you order when you eat Chinese food?

Beef with Broccoli and Pork Rice Noodle Roll

16.What's the best costume you've ever worn?

Hobo when I was 11

17.What's your least favorite word?

Debt

18.If you had to be named after one of the 50 states, which would it be?

Indiana obviously.

19.Who's your favorite Care Bear?

I honestly cannot name even a single Care Bear.

20.Describe something that's happened to you for which you have no explanation.

My life between 13 and 23.

21.If you could travel anywhere in Africa, where would it be?

Etosha a dry lake in Namibia. I saw a documentary once about all the animals that migrate there. It was very cool.

22.What did you have for lunch yesterday?

Didn't have lunch. I had breakfast and dinner.

23.Where do you go for advice?

My mind and self-help books.

24.Which do you use more often, the dictionary or the thesaurus?

Dictionary

25.Have you ever been snorkeling? Scuba diving?

No, I can't swim.

26.Have you ever been stung by a bee?

No, I am a pussy.

27.What's the sickest you've ever been?

Probably mono when I was six.

28.What's your favorite form of exercise?

Weightlifting

29.What's your favorite Cyndi Lauper song?

Time After Time

30.What did you do for your 13th birthday?

Don't remember, but probably the same thing I did for all the rest of them.

31.Are you afraid of heights?

Yes extremely.

32.Have you ever taken dance lessons?

Nope.

33.What's your favorite newspaper?

Newspapers are a thing of the past.

34.What's your favorite Broadway musical?

I'm not gay.

35.What's the most memorable class you've ever taken?

Probably some philosophy class.

36.What's your favorite knock-knock joke?

"Knock-knock"
"get the hell off my porch"

37.What's your favorite commercial?

Having a favorite commercial is one of the true wastes of good brain cells.

38.If you could go to Disney World with any celebrity alive today, who would it be?

Salma Hayek for obvious reasons, but only if she left her kid at home.

39.Do you prefer baths or showers?

Showers.

40.Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight?

The other day was the first time I chewed gum in like 20 years.

41.What's your favorite breakfast food?

Pancakes from the Pantry in Los Angeles

42.Who's your favorite game show host?

Wink Martindale

43.If you could have a super power, what would it be?

Invulnerability

44.Do you like guacamole?

My girlfriend is laughing at me. I can't stand it.

45.Have you ever been in a food fight?

No

46.Name five songs to which you know all the lyrics. (Better yet, sing them.)

I'm On Fire, Love Will Tear US Apart, Young Lust, Hey Joe, Happy Birthday

47.What's your favorite infomercial?

???

48.What's the longest you've ever waited in line?

A few hours in college waiting for my financial aid.

49.What's on the cover of your address book or day planner?

I don't know anyone and I never do anything.

50.Have you ever taken a picture in one of those little booths?

No, and I find that sad.

 

[Warp Coil]

I have a weakness for random online quizzes like this...


1.What's your favorite Dr. Seuss book?
Probably "Green Eggs and Ham". I honestly don't remember that many of them.

2.If you could live in any home on a television series, what would it be?
The Huxtables' house from "The Cosby Show". I always liked that set for some reason.

3.What's the longest you've gone without sleep?
24 hours, twice. Within a few weeks of one another, actually. Prom night and Grad night.

4.What's your favorite Barry Manilow song?
No such thing exists.

5.Who's your favorite Muppet?
Beaker

6.What's the habit you're proudest of breaking?
Picking at scabs... no wait, I still do that.... hmm...

7.What's your favorite Web site?
TrekBBS.com of course! (well, okay, maybe not...)

8.What's your favorite school supply?
Magic Markers.

9.Who's your favorite TV attorney?
I'm not a huge fan of legal shows, but Denny Crane was amusing

10.What was your most recent trip of more than 50 miles?
Las Vegas, spring 2008

11.What's the best bargain you've ever found at a garage sale or thrift store?
I don't really shop at garage sales and thrift stores... does this make me a snob?

12.Where were you on September 11, 2001?
At home, at first. I went onto campus to go to work, though. And class was cancelled. Weird day.

13.What's your favorite tree?
Palm tree, just because they seem "exotic" in a stereotypical way and I rarely see them.

14.What's the most interesting biography you've read?
I don't really read non-fiction much.

15.What do you order when you eat Chinese food?
Chicken & Broccoli

16.What's the best costume you've ever worn?
My mom made me a home-made Ghostbusters jumpsuit one year. It was awesome.

17.What's your least favorite word?
Adequate. It's one of those words that isn't negative but always seems bad.

18.If you had to be named after one of the 50 states, which would it be?
Indiana. I'll get a whip and a hat and I'll be set.

19.Who's your favorite Care Bear?
I have no idea. I don't even remember what their names were. Lemme use my friend, the Internet, to help.... I'd say Grumpy Bear (?). I really have no idea.

20.Describe something that's happened to you for which you have no explanation.
I'm very emotionally detached from the world, and have a very sarcastic and pessimistic view of society. I have no idea why.

21.If you could travel anywhere in Africa, where would it be?
Egypt for the pyramids and artifacts

22.What did you have for lunch yesterday?
Chicken sandwich. Ask me about my meals on any given day, and you will likely get a similar response.

23.Where do you go for advice?
Sometimes my mom. Occasionally a close friend, but I tend to be the one GIVING advice to most.

24.Which do you use more often, the dictionary or the thesaurus?
Thesaurus

25.Have you ever been snorkeling? Scuba diving?
Negative

26.Have you ever been stung by a bee?
Yes. A few times as a child. It hurt.

27.What's the sickest you've ever been?
I was terribly sick for maybe 2 days... never got out of bed, drifted in and out of consciousness, didn't eat or drink. I dunno what that was but it sucked.

28.What's your favorite form of exercise?
Eliptical crosstrainer

29.What's your favorite Cyndi Lauper song?
No such thing exists.

30.What did you do for your 13th birthday?
I think my mom threw a small surprise party for me... basically just invited some friends over (without me knowing) and having cake.

31.Are you afraid of heights?
Yes, very much so

32.Have you ever taken dance lessons?
No, but lately I've considered it. I have no rhythm. I should find some.

33.What's your favorite newspaper?
I don't read them

34.What's your favorite Broadway musical?
"Spamalot" in LV is the closest thing to a Broadway play I've ever seen. Does that count as one? I've never been to Broadway.

35.What's the most memorable class you've ever taken?
"Abduction and The X-Files". My college had some really obscure and fun classes in summer and winter.

36.What's your favorite knock-knock joke?
Knock-knock jokes suck.

37.What's your favorite commercial?
Some of the Mac vs PC commercials are fun.

38.If you could go to Disney World with any celebrity alive today, who would it be?
Would it be inappropriate to do "adult things" with Katherine Heigl in such a family-friendly place like Disney World?

39.Do you prefer baths or showers?
Shower

40.Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight?
Chewing gum loses its flavor within five minutes.... I just chew the hell out of it

41.What's your favorite breakfast food?
Pancakes...Mmmm....

42.Who's your favorite game show host?
Bob Barker, I miss you!

43.If you could have a super power, what would it be?
Invisibility. Sometimes I feel I have this power already.

44.Do you like guacamole?
Not really

45.Have you ever been in a food fight?
Not really

46.Name five songs to which you know all the lyrics. (Better yet, sing them.)
I'm horrible with song lyrics!

47.What's your favorite infomercial?
I can't bring myself to watch these things.

48.What's the longest you've ever waited in line?
Two hours for Space Mountain, I think

49.What's on the cover of your address book or day planner?
Do people still use these things?!

50.Have you ever taken a picture in one of those little booths?
With friends when I was like 13, yeah

 

[CorporalClegg]

1.What's your favorite Dr. Seuss book?

The Cat in the Hat! It was the first book I read by myself.

2.If you could live in any home on a television series, what would it be?

Howabout House's house? What a roomate...

3.What's the longest you've gone without sleep?

Four days. It was on a dare.

4.What's your favorite Barry Manilow song?

... Oh, Mandy.

5.Who's your favorite Muppet?

Is Yoda considered a Muppet?

6.What's the habit you're proudest of breaking?

Laughing at my own jokes. I don't do that anymore--probably because they just aren't funny.

7.What's your favorite Web site?

Definitely Google.

8.What's your favorite school supply?

Erasers are always handy.

9.Who's your favorite TV attorney?

Harmon Rabb. He flew Tomcats.

10.What was your most recent trip of more than 50 miles?

Over the weekend I went fishing up on the north end of the Pecos River.

11.What's the best bargain you've ever found at a garage sale or thrift store?

I got a full set of Craftsman wrenches & toolbox for like $40.

12.Where were you on September 11, 2001?

In a British Lit Class reciting Burns.

13.What's your favorite tree?

Birch

14.What's the most interesting biography you've read?

Ben Franklin's Autobiography.

15.What do you order when you eat Chinese food?

Hot & Spicy Chicken

16.What's the best costume you've ever worn?

My dad made up as a 12th century solder's corpse when I was eight. I had a mace in my skull, a broadsword through the chest, a dagger through my hand, and other assorted ailments. It was so good, the word got out and people were comming half-way across town to see it.

17.What's your least favorite word?

Lutefisk! Blah!

18.If you had to be named after one of the 50 states, which would it be?

Washington!

19.Who's your favorite Care Bear?

Uh. What now?

20.Describe something that's happened to you for which you have no explanation.

My awesome hair!

21.If you could travel anywhere in Africa, where would it be?

I want to go to Casablanca. Is Rick's bar still there?

22.What did you have for lunch yesterday?

A chicken salad sandwich at a restaurant in Santa Fe. It was fucking terrible.

23.Where do you go for advice?

The Old Man is always a good place to start.

24.Which do you use more often, the dictionary or the thesaurus?

I use both. Often.

25.Have you ever been snorkeling? Scuba diving?

Nope.

26.Have you ever been stung by a bee?

I was once stung by an entire hive. I even lived to tell about it!

27.What's the sickest you've ever been?

I had Mono my Junior year in high school. Ended up missing nearly a month.

28.What's your favorite form of exercise?

Walking!

29.What's your favorite Cyndi Lauper song?

Time After Time.

30.What did you do for your 13th birthday?

Got stuck in an ice storm.

31.Are you afraid of heights?

Not in the slightest.

32.Have you ever taken dance lessons?

Yes. That's all you're getting.

33.What's your favorite newspaper?

Newspaper? Is that like a blog or something?

34.What's your favorite Broadway musical?

Les Miserables is the only one I've ever seen.

35.What's the most memorable class you've ever taken?

Probably the Social Anthropology class I took sophomore year. The Prof was a crackpot, but she was awesome.

36.What's your favorite knock-knock joke?

I abhor knock knock jokes.

37.What's your favorite commercial?

I abhor commercials too!

38.If you could go to Disney World with any celebrity alive today, who would it be?

Micky Mouse. He probably gets all the deals and knows "just were to go."

39.Do you prefer baths or showers?

Showers

40.Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight?

I don't chew gum.

41.What's your favorite breakfast food?

Breakfast Burritos with lots of Green Chiles.

42.Who's your favorite game show host?

I'm drawing a blank.

43.If you could have a super power, what would it be?

I'm invincible!

44.Do you like guacamole?

Love it! It's like nature's perfect food.

45.Have you ever been in a food fight?

Several

46.Name five songs to which you know all the lyrics. (Better yet, sing them.)

Come Together, Running Down a Dream, Time, Stormy Monday Blues, All Along the Watchtower, Hotel California, and hundreds more. I'm in a friggen band for crying out loud.

47.What's your favorite infomercial?

Anything starring Ron Popeil. That guy's just awesome.

48.What's the longest you've ever waited in line?

If I have to spend more than ten minutes in a line, I skip.

49.What's on the cover of your address book or day planner?

Don't use those things. I'm "free spirited."

50.Have you ever taken a picture in one of those little booths?

Ooohhh Yeeeaaah!!!

Wow, a lot of people have never tried guacamole. It's the best thing to put on tortilla chips. It's super easy to make, too.

Amazing guacamole a la Vulcan Princess:
Take 1 avocado, peel, and mash. Add 1 tsp (approx. I never measure) lemon or lime juice, and 1/4 cup (again, approx.) mild salsa. Mix and serve with tortilla chips or on burritos, enchiladas, etc.

Sure. If you want to be easy about it.

For something a little more exciting use three avocados, two cloves of garlic, two Roma tomatoes, a red onion, one green chile & one jalapeño, a solid pinch of sea salt, some lime zest, and then the whole lime's worth of juice, a half a table spoon of sour cream, and about 2/3 of a shot glass of tequila.

Now that's guacamole.

 

[nevermore]

1.What's your favorite Dr. Seuss book?
The Lorax.

2.If you could live in any home on a television series, what would it be?
Mulder's apartment. Great location, awesome apartment, probably couldn't afford it though.

3.What's the longest you've gone without sleep?
About 4 or 5 days. Finals every semester. I had ... assistance.

4.What's your favorite Barry Manilow song?
Her name was Lola, she was a showgirl With yellow feathers in her hair and a
dress cut down to there...

5.Who's your favorite Muppet?
Animal.

6.What's the habit you're proudest of breaking?
N/A

7.What's your favorite Web site?
Statistically, this one. Really, Hulu.

8.What's your favorite school supply?
GLUE STICK!

9.Who's your favorite TV attorney?
Dan Fielding.

10.What was your most recent trip of more than 50 miles?
Baltimore to Milan (and back) a couple of weeks ago. ~8000 miles.

11.What's the best bargain you've ever found at a garage sale or thrift store?
A mod-style cat 1960's vintage change bank.

12.Where were you on September 11, 2001?
At work at the Baltimore Sun.

13.What's your favorite tree?
Weeping willow.

14.What's the most interesting biography you've read?
I think the only biography I've ever read was of Walt Disney for a book report in like 4th grade.

15.What do you order when you eat Chinese food?
General Tso's.

16.What's the best costume you've ever worn?
Greed. Suit, briefcase, devil wings, devil horns.

17.What's your least favorite word?
Irregardless. Or maybe synergy.

18.If you had to be named after one of the 50 states, which would it be?
Maryland, of course. And conveniently, in a Maryland accent, it's pronounced "Marylin".

19.Who's your favorite Care Bear?
The blue one with the storm cloud.

20.Describe something that's happened to you for which you have no explanation.
I can pretty much explain everything I can recall.

21.If you could travel anywhere in Africa, where would it be?
There are lots of places I would travel to in Africa. I know a bunch of people in Kenya though, so maybe that first.

22.What did you have for lunch yesterday?
I don't eat lunch.

23.Where do you go for advice?
I don't really need any.

24.Which do you use more often, the dictionary or the thesaurus?
Thesaurus.

25.Have you ever been snorkeling? Scuba diving?
Snorkeling.

26.Have you ever been stung by a bee?
Yep.

27.What's the sickest you've ever been?
Walking pneumonia or a really bad flu or something in 2nd grade.

28.What's your favorite form of exercise?
Sex.

29.What's your favorite Cyndi Lauper song?
The Goonies R Good Enough.

30.What did you do for your 13th birthday?
I have no idea.

31.Are you afraid of heights?
Nope.

32.Have you ever taken dance lessons?
Totally against my will, yes.

33.What's your favorite newspaper?
Depends on the section.

34.What's your favorite Broadway musical?
N/A

35.What's the most memorable class you've ever taken?
High school elective on the 1960s. The second half of the semester, the teacher read out loud to us from The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.

36.What's your favorite knock-knock joke?
BILL: "Knock Knock"
DAVE: "Who's there?"
BILL: "Bill McNeal"
DAVE: "Bill McNeal who?"
BILL: "That's really all I have so far."

37.What's your favorite commercial?
Who the fuck watches commercials?

38.If you could go to Disney World with any celebrity alive today, who would it be?
N/A. I would never go to Disney World again.

39.Do you prefer baths or showers?
I prefer to end up clean, so showers.

40.Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight?
Hallelujah, the question is peculiar!

41.What's your favorite breakfast food?
Sausage!

42.Who's your favorite game show host?
Bob Barker.

43.If you could have a super power, what would it be?
Shape changing.

44.Do you like guacamole?
Yes, but only if it's not crap, which most of it is.

45.Have you ever been in a food fight?
No, but I've done pie-in-the-face.

46.Name five songs to which you know all the lyrics. (Better yet, sing them.)
We Didn't Start the Fire, I Got High, Take the Long Way Home, 'Merican, Bomb the World.

47.What's your favorite infomercial?
I have a DVD player and a computer. I don't watch infomercials.

48.What's the longest you've ever waited in line?
About 4 hours at Kings Dominion for the Outer Limits rollercoaster.

49.What's on the cover of your address book or day planner?
My name.

50.Have you ever taken a picture in one of those little booths?
Nope. I own several cameras, which are free to use.