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What is your favorite Alcoholic beverage?
Coffee with some sort of appropriate alcohol mixed into it like brandy, rum, kahlua, whiskey, etc.
What do you think of people who don't vote?
A part of me can understand that impulse. There are times when voting feels like a meaningless gesture that doesn't really accomplish anything.
What do you do on a typical Friday night?
The same thing I do every night haha, nothing. Well nothing that involves other people (in person) anyway.
Lately, not much.
What is your most prized possession?
My razor sharp wit!
Who is your favorite character from JRR Tolkien?
That is a tough one but I have to go with Beorn
What is your favorite pizza topping?
Most places offer a "deluxe" option, which is usually most or all of sausage, pepperoni, onions, peppers, mushrooms, and olives. That usually works for me.
The most unusual pizza topping I've had was pineapple and jalapeno, which was pretty darn good. It was the regular order of the two coworkers I ate with once on a temp job, and I've never found anyone else interested in trying it.
What's your favorite ice cream flavor?
Chocolate Chip
What is the last movie you saw?
Fury.
I'm a sucker for WWII movies.
Last movie you watched that made you cry?
The Green Mile
Last horror movie watched?
World War Z. (It was a long flight).
What was the first movie that made you cry?
Benji?
What movie can you watch over and over?
I have to say Jaws, I just love that movie.
What is the most exotic pet you have, or had?
Five hermit crabs, one of which crunched up and ate the other four one night, while I slept the sleep of a kindergartener.
Would you rather eat a rat's brain or a dog's testes? (C'mon, c'mon, it's one or the other...)
A dog's testes. They always seem to licking them.
What's the worst tasting thing you have ever eaten?
My dad told me once that they tried brussels sprouts on me when I was very young, and his permanent definition of a nanosecond is the amount of time it stayed in my mouth. He recalls me getting good distance on it, too.
What's your favorite breakfast cereal?
Count Chocula
If you could have free soup or free sandwiches for the rest of your life which would you choose?
Definitely free sandwiches
Where is the farthest you have travelled from where you live?
That's a tough one. I'll go with soup, because the best soups can be a lot more complex and expensive than the best sandwiches. So I'll do the cheaper and easier one myself.
If you could have a free lifetime subscription to one magazine, what would it be?
As of now, I live in two places on opposite ends of the earth, and I've traveled as far as possible from both of them without going into space.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dark Muse
Oh, Ranger Rick, Fishing Facts, maybe Cat Fancy if it's not about something dirty. It's kind of hard to say.Quote:
Originally Posted by Calidore
What was the scariest moment of your life?
When the Genetic Bomb called "BiPolar", a gift from my absentee father, went off in 1994
Are you really serious about playing these games?
Can't be too serious about games or they stop being fun.
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men, anyway?
The Shadow knows but he ain't saying.
According to Plutarch, the ship that Theseus used when he sailed to Crete to defeat the Minotaur was kept for centuries as a relic in Athens. As parts of the ship decayed, they were replaced. Eventually no original component survived. This, Plutarch says, excited debate in the philosophical schools about whether it was the same ship. Whether or not the story of Theseus has some kind of historicity, was the fully repaired ship the same one that the Athenians originally preserved?
That's hard. I don't know. I tried to find a similar debate concerning really old, damaged paintings which are retouched until they no longer contain the same paint, applied by the same hand, but I wasn't sure how to search for it.
I would say that it's not the same ship, but it's a pretty convincing effigy, and it doesn't matter anyway.
Can the word effigy be applied to non human replications, or am I wrong in doing so? (is my question)
Damned Aristotelian! :)
I think most definitions will tell you that effigies are made to representations of (or maybe "especially of") people. But it doesn't matter in the case of the ship, because you could just say "reproduction."
One problem with your answer, Clopin, is that it begs the question: well, at what point did it stop being the same boat? When the first replacement was made? But ships are refitted all the time. When the last change was made? But what if it was only a splinter? At 51%? But what about 50.00000000000000001% or some smaller number? Isn't the answer necessarily arbitrary? A Platonist, on the other hand, would say that it's the same ship, because the ship is the idea of the ship rather than the material it happens to be made from at any given time. I think the problem of Theseus' ship exists today with the USS Constitution, terror of the Atlantic during the War of 1812, which has slowly but surely lost every original component.
Should boxing be outlawed?
I would say at 100% replacement it becomes a reproduction of the original, sorry Plato. But I'm not sure or anything. I definitely wouldn't want to argue with Plato though, he'll slap you into a Socraric dialogue so fast people two thousand years hence will still be laughing at you.
Of course not. Neither should UFC or whatever other stupid thing people want to do to give each other concussions and permanent brain damage.
What's the best team sport sport out of baseball, American football, soccer, Canadian football, hockey and basketball.
Baseball, the proper metaphor for life.
If gladiators could be freely recruited (even if they were only in it because they were desperate for money), should gladiatorial combat to the death be made legal again?
No, and the distinction between circus maximus and modern era blood sports may only be a difference of degree, but it's still an important difference.
Haha should hockey fights be banned? And I don't mean contact scraps, I mean fights where two guys just stop the game and have a fistfight for about thirty seconds.
I think they are banned, aren't they? Hockey players who do that should just be banned from the game the first time it happens. But baseball players should still be allowed to slide at the second baseman with their cleats up. It's a question of degree, right? ;-)
Should the British monarchy be abolished?
Nah, you just get a penalty, but both teams do and it doesn't actually go to 4 on 4 so it's a token gesture.
I don't really care, unless the queen dies and we have to suffer William on our money. No thank you.
Proportional representation or first past the post? (speaking of England).
Well, I don't really feel qualified to be tell the British people how their democracy ought to work. My gut instinct would be to have first past the post elections, and then to run them off. Proportional elections do seem more representative on the whole, but from a practical view, they could give the crazies (Nazis, Stalinists, Maoists) more power than I would like to see them have. I guess I'm cautious about it, but not closed minded.
Little pretzels covered in white chocolate or Cheese Wiz?
Wiz!!!!
What book should I read next?
Death Warmed Over - Kevin J Anderson (A Dan Shamble - Zombie Detective novel)
If you change something and realized it has made no difference, did you really change anything?
Yes. you may not notice the affect.
where are you going on your next vacation?
I think I don't have traditional vacations but im hoping this summer for a day or two of canoeing or kayaking in central new York with an old friend from undergraduate days.
although, I would like to go to Ireland. rather, id like to be in Ireland--im not too keen on the "going/getting there" part.
if you had a chance to rewrite the ending of any one book or movie, how would you change it?
Every fairy tale would NOT end with "and they lived happily ever after!"
If you were offered a role in a movie, who would you like to play?
boy, too many choices! some historical figure, a loner who seeks justice on the behalf of others, a superhero, an explorer, a fatally flawed character in a romance, a brilliant but misunderstood fellow? and on and on...
I lean towards something/somebody on a quest or mission that involves comrades and succeeding with both brains and brawn. maybe Aragorn, or Odysseus.
on another hand---someone on a spiritual journey that involves a lot of soul searching is appealing too, like if pilgrim's progress were made into a movie.
would you rather walk the Appalachian trail, ride bikes coast to coast, paddle the Mississippi, or some other epic physical challenge?
Given those choices (and a younger me), I would rather take the river journey, though probably not along the Mississippi, which is too big and too industrial; maybe along the Saco River in Maine, which I did when I was a teenager. It was wilderness in those days. I hope it still is.
You can spend an all-expenses paid year soaking in the sun (and eating fine foods and wine) on the beaches of the Riviera or backpacking rough around the world with a three friends. But you can only do one. Which is it?
Riviera right now probably since I've been sick pretty much constantly for the last six months and I don't feel up to the backpacking.
Would you rather be exceptionally gifted in the traits and manners of Dionysus, Appollo or Athena?