Game: Ask the Person Below You

I honestly have never seen Star Trek, but the Klingon officer I suppose.

How come you don't like Star Wars? (okay so I'm asking the person above me)

On an artistic level, it helped to move films and culture from the substantive to the "iconic" (something I call Warholism). I see this as a hugely negative trend in my lifetime, which is likely to be rejected (with the rest of Postmodernism) by the coming generation. Aside from that, I found them all a little superficial. I only saw the first three, though, and didn't hate any of them.

Why do you like them? (Question open to all).

Good music and character design (Darth Vader/Stormtroopers) and I saw A New Hope in theatres when I was seven or something and it blew my mind. I still think they are good movies beyond just nostalgic appeal too. Not the prequel trilogy though, it's horrible, honestly horrible.

How much do you like gossiping about people you know?

I agree about the music but not the character development. Still, to each his own.

I like gossiping with someone I trust. Otherwise it seems tawdry and I avoid it.

Do you care whether you have a funeral service?

I don't care much, but I would like to have one.

And I meant character costumes and things like Vader being an asthmatic voiced by James Earl Jones, I agree that the development is pretty trite, though I like Luke.

If you really liked someone and you were gently rebuffed how many times would you (not obnoxiously) try again before giving up entirely?

Try once more, but wait about six months. You have to make her think she was right to say no, and to be moved by what a steadfast guy you are to have handled it so well. Just don't get too easily a friend in the meantime. You still dig her that way, and she needs to see it. Then if she doesn't break down after six months, have nothing to do with her at all, forever, or until she begs. That's how it works.

Would you start attending a church service because you thought it was a good way to meet people interested in serious romantic relationships?

I'm not interested in serious relationships, but I attended a church talent show my coworker was involved in because he invited me and was a very nice guy, and I was shocked at how many pretty girls were in attendance. I wanted to join a discipleship when i was in Victoria to learn more about Christianity in a social setting too so yeh, the cute religious girls are a bonus.

And she's on hold for a few years now at least, until I get back there and 'run into' her by 'accident'.

Do you think that in most relationships one person doesn't particularly care, while the other cares quite a lot (about their being together)?

I wouldn't say "most" relationships are like that but than it is probably more common than one would like to think.

Would you stay with someone you weren't really into anymore because you didn't want to have to deal with breaking up with them?

I would stay with her until someone better came along, or if I really disliked being with her I would just end it and deal with the breakup.

What temperature do you like your room to be at when you sleep and how do you control temperature with blankets/clothing to achieve a perfect temperature (as in, lots of clothing lots of blankets, lots of clothing no blankets, lots of blankets no clothing, etc)?

I like it to be very cold when I sleep so I keep my bedroom window open and sometimes turn on my fan depending on how warm it is outside.

What be your ideal place to go for your honeymoon?

id guess an ideal sleeping temperature would be somewhere in the 50s, low 60s at most.

I would say a 3-4 week bike trip around Ireland but that's just me and im only half the equation.

clopin---I loved that scene where lieutenant dan came back for forrest's wedding and was walking and he had a fiancé!

that's consistent with my favorite thing about the movie, how forrest's enduring love for the people in his life, redeemed them. this was especially true for jenny. in fact, I think the movie was as much, if not more, about her than forrest.

im reading (very slowwwwwwwwwwwly) a Charles dickens biography and it struck me recently, I don't know anyone whose last name is dickens. and then I started thinking, I don't know any hemingways, poes, hawthornes, austens, brontes or bucks either. I do know however some Clemens, hardys, irvings and a few others.

do you know some people who share any famous authors' last names?

I share Joel Chandler Harris' last name.

Do you think the Br'er Rabbit stories are racist?

No, although some have used them to try to humiliate others. Those idiots are to blame, and not the stories.

Do you think the chef on the Muppets was a slur on Swedes?

i suspect there are liberals here and in Sweden who would think so, but for my part no. I just saw him as an exaggerative (and very funny) caricature in the same way the musicians, scientists and statler and waldorf were.

who is the funniest muppet?

Haha Miss Piggy, but I'm not well versed in the muppets. Also if any group deserve to be slurred it's the Swedes.

Was taking out Colonal Gadaffi the right move?