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If you ate shellfish, you could try Louisiana gumbo. All the taste and none of the slime!
Yes, I saw Doctor Zhivago before I read Pasternak's book. As I said somewhere else, they are both excellent (the book a bit better) but fundanentally different somehow.
If you were diagnosed with lung cancer, with less than a year to live, would you tell your friends? (Family doesn't count).
maybe I could do the gumbo without the shellfish...smiles...I have a recipe for roasted okra that I was looking forward to trying before the sad okra stories ensued.
I read watership down (which is one of my favorite books), the hunger games, insurgent, the fault in our stars, and the princess bride, all after seeing the movies.
I can see not telling my friends, yet at the same time, they are all so busy with their married and parenting and work lives, that I think telling them might be really helpful in making it so that I could spend time with them before I pass on. so id probably tell.
what are your three all time favorite cartoon strips?
Humor: Calvin & Hobbes, Mutts, and Zits (it kills me to leave out Peanuts--can I do four?)
Adventure serials: Milton Caniff's original Terry and the Pirates, Dick Tracy through the '50 or early '60s, and Alex Raymond's original Flash Gordon (though I could see Modesty Blaise replacing Flash Gordon maybe)
What was the first comic book you remember buying?
Hummm... My mother was anti-comic-book, but I bought a boxed set of paperbacks that followed the first adventures of Spiderman and The Hulk as I recall.
What is your darkest desire?
To use Kim Kardasian's *ss as a writing desk while she's standing up.
There, PD, that's got to make you smile. :)
If you could relive one year of your life (without being able to change anything--just to experience it again), which would it be? In other words, how old would you be?
Six probably, I loved grade 1.
Okay, so in the absence of another question from Clopin, I'll ask: if you had to choose (you know, hypothetically) would you take a son or a daughter?
Daughter, I'm a guy and I think sons and fathers tend to fight more often than daughters and fathers. Probably because men try to mold their sons into people like them, I guess.
What's your favorite artistic medium (as a consumer)? Speculate on the reason a little too.
Son if I have to pick, I want both though.
Literature by far, I think it's the most personal and also very didactic. Then music, then a long gap before film and painting/drawing, then whatever else.
Would you rather be blind or deaf and dumb?
Well, maybe not surprisingly, the written word. It's because with writing, the actual art takes place somewhere between the writer, who is encoding a certain vision or meaning or aesthetic into language, and the reader, who is decoding the message in his or her own moment of experience. This happens with all art to some extent, but with writing-reading, the actual experience of art seems to happen much closer to the recipient. The relationship between writer and reader seems more interactive. This is why I don't enjoy books on tapes. To me, it feels like someone else is doing the decoding.
Deaf and dumb by far.
Would you read (and pay for) a book by a confessed and convicted serial killer?
Phew hard one. Deaf and dumb because being blind would still be a bigger inconvenience in day to day life I think. Though I'd miss music hugely of course.
I like literature most 'cause you can pretty much half-sleep through any other medium and kind of claim to have at least experienced it. Reading is powered solely by your attention, though.
What's the most you've gotten away with, in any sense of the phrase, during the course of a salaried job? I'm asking because I'm 'working' as I type this, haha.
If I wanted to read it, yes.
Would you grant Charles Manson parole?
Whoops, sorry Pompey.
I don't think the book would be interesting so no.
Same question I just asked.
As a telemarketer doing debt consolidation I used to make my quota of transfers and then piss around doing crossword puzzles all day... I was still pretty productive though so whatever.Quote:
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That's it, in most of my jobs you're always sort of watched.
There are things that happened in the in the early 80s that ought to stay there. Let's just leave it at that. :)Quote:
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No parole for Manson.
Should those teachers who helped their kids cheat on standardized tests really have gotten 20 years for racketeering?
Wait what? Twenty years? No... that's insane.
Execution for politicians who betray the public and for white collar criminals?
Yeah, it just happened in Georgia. With no possibility of parole (I think). And of our media's attitude is, now that'll teach 'em! Completely nuts.
Nay--but they're the one's who need long jail terms.
Going to a hockey game on a first date?
Definitely not.
From the title of the book whose author I am contacting on behalf of the bookstore I work at: What makes you feel loved?
Tsk, they need to be strung up.
I would, I'm not a giant hockey fan but it's the only sport where I can watch an entire game and not be bored.
Execution ever, for any reason?
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No - and since when did this turn into the aye or nay thread?
Same question I just asked, haha.
EDIT: nvm answered. Me too.
Getting the threads confused is a tradition of the forum games.
How come no capital punishment?
Oh it's probably because I screwed up somewhere.
Looking at the road we've walked and our lifelong journey together makes me feel loved.
With the right lady, a hockey game might be okay. And it gets things physical from the start.
Do you have any secrets you would never tell another person, no matter how close they were to you? (I'm not asking for the secret).
Secrets? No. Unpleasantries about myself I don't need to burden anyone with? Yes, probably.
How much (on a scale of 1-10) would you recommend marriage? If whoever answers this is not married, how much do you want to get married?
Not married, 8 or 9 out of 10 want to.
I said, because killing's mean! EDIT: thought I typed that somewhere, guess not.
Single most pleasurable moment so far?
Marriage is not for everyone. If you decide to get married, make sure you love each other and that you have a financial plan. Getting along with one another's families is a big plus, but not absolutely necessary (as the other two are). Be prepared to sacrifice and work like hell. I also wouldn't do it if you didn't see it as a fairly permanent arrangement. There are cases where marriages need to end, but don't go in with a "what the hell, we can always get divorced" kind of attitude. And hold on with all your might during the storms.
So, I dunno, an 8?
My most pleasurable moment is none of your business! :)
Your scariest moment?
I've never had any BIG moments, like winning a huge sporting event, or big chess tournament... I've never even graduated from anything. I guess I would have to say any Christmas from about five to eight.
Scariest is almost being run over when I was like eight.
Are divorce courts fair to both parties?
Probably not, but I hear a lot of it depends on the judge. But don't get divorced. You might as well flush your paycheck down the toilet for the rest of your life. Just be prepared to stick with someone through thick and thin. And keep your pecker in your pocket where other women are concerned. You know, just be smart.
How many times have you been knocked unconscious by some kind of trauma?
Never by trauma but once I had a seizure after overdosing on antidepressants. I was at work in the kids room and I collapsed and started shaking and freaked out the little guy nearby :(
You're scaring me re: marriage. Sounds hard.
Weirdest music you've enjoyed?
I like drone a lot so maybe Earth 2. Really weird music doesn't usually do it for me.
Haha and I don't want marriage but do want kids, oh well.
Would you ever be unfaithful in a relationship?
I doubt it, even if I was tempted I'd hold back for fear of losing what I've got.
Have you ever been unfaithful? Be honest!
Yeh but it wasn't really a relationship and I was fourteen the first time and sixteen the second. I planned on being unfaithful once but ended up not doing it, more because it didn't seem likely to happen or convenient, than out of moral consideration though.
Are you particularly patriotic?
No. I don't understand loyalty or love for a country.
Are sunglasses cool?
I need to learn to embrace this attitude.Quote:
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Pinko traitor.
Sunglasses are not cool but they can be practical.
When you wear sunglasses do you find yourself looking at cleavage
More
Less
Unaffected
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I never wear them but I would imagine more.
Do all events have a cause?
Cause has effect
Do mocking birds sing anything original?
Not really an answer... aight, fine.
Yes but mockingly.
Favorite Beethoven piece? If you don't listen to Beethoven you must listen to multiple recordings of all his middle and late works plus the Eroica, then come back and tell us.
Ninth, sorry for being cliche.
Would you be up for some heavy s&m if your partner wanted to?
Sheep, all true aficionados know that the Große Fuge is where it's at.
How heavy is heavy? Actually scratch that just no.
Same question.