Everyone is only hip to their own jive, daddy
@ Pompey Bum That's a disgusting question! :)
What kind of job do you think you'd be an expert at?
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Everyone is only hip to their own jive, daddy
@ Pompey Bum That's a disgusting question! :)
What kind of job do you think you'd be an expert at?
The one that I do, which is childcare, and if parenting is a job chalk that up because I already know I will be an expert parent. I also suspect I would be a very good teacher in a field I was passionate about and I think I could make it as some sort of political pundit; I like arguing.
What types of jobs do you think you would be totally incompetent at carrying out?
quick aside. hey everyone---I just started a thread in the general literature section and I hope you will all join in.
I would never make it as a Politician. The intense pressure to make competent dissensions while juggling all special interest groups while changing horses in mid-stream and trying to somehow please everybody would wear me out. Look at our Presidents over the years and how much even a four year term ages them. My mind couldn't deal with it.
If you had your dream job, what would it be?
Floaters are probably not what you are thinking, Pen. They're just little squiggly lines in your vision. Your mind though...yuck! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Pendragon
My dream job would be a food taster for a king who ate nothing but coffee ice cream.
Do you get visual migraines (aka "migraine aura")?
Yeah. I'm in the midst of a migraine cycle right now, and auras are part of them. I need a dark cool room to lie down in.
@Pompey. Yeah I have those eye floaters, but you brought up the subject so I wasn't sure toilet humor wasn't what you had in mind! :)
Do you read every day?
Me too. I'm in the middle of a bad cluster right now. Aren't migraine auras the weirdest thing ever?
Yes, every day, and many hours each day.
Have you ever eaten a snake?
Snake blood in Vietnam, but never the flesh.
Ever eaten dog?
im a vegetarian since the mid 80s but I think even prior to then, I would not have eaten dog meat, or cat, or horse...and it was kinda those revelations that got me asking well why then am I eating cows, and chickens and other critters too.
have you ever gone "streaking?"
No, haha, I don't get out much.
Are you more susceptible to conspiracy theories or snake oil panaceas?
Pretty immune to both, but since some things actually do require conspiracies, I suppose I'm more suceptable to them.
Did you drink the gall and/or venom, too? I did all that nonsense years ago in Taipei. Poor snakes.
Do you change your car's oil yourself or do you take it somewhere?
I used to do it myself, now I have to take it somewhere. Cars get more difficult to do anything yourself every day.
Have you had anything published at any time?
Only if a patent counts.
Are you a procrastinator?
Ask me tomorrow.
Do you own a Ouija board?
Yes I do
Have you ever stolen anything?
Yes
What year (as best you can remember) did you buy cell phone(mobile) or car phone?
Well I never really did, I don't really like phones, but it was decided by others I should have one so one was given to me as a gift roughly in 2004.
What is your favorite music listening device?
id have to say its a tie between my plain ol' computer, where I have tons of music, and the car radio in which I usually have on the local country station.
when I have high speed internet, the computer might take a nod because of a few Pandora stations I listen to.
I have an ipod nano---maybe this summer i'll use it more.
where does your screen name come from---how/why did you pick it?
"Sparrow", was a nickname I came by after a rock climbing incident with a... sparrow.
Don't know if it was in reality a sparrow, might well of been a robin for all I know as I never saw it. The bird in question flew into the side of my head, and just as quickly was gone. My friend said it was a sparrow, so he called me "Sparrow", and it stuck. Perhaps it's my spirit animal.:)
Have you ever had, or currently have a nickname?
I am Uncle Pen to many on here, I was the Wildcat in high school, I go by Raven on my book review blog, I went by Blade since I like knives...
Did you have a class in school or collage you particularly hated?
I don't know about hated but I had one class that I found utterly mind-numbingly boring. It was a pre-requisite for another class I needed/ wanted, but it didn't teach anything I didn't already know. I got a good grade even though I began skipping the class on a regular basis because I couldn't bare sitting through it.
Do you give money to people on the street who ask for it?
I think I usually do...im not in places much where it happens though. the last time was maybe a year and a half ago and the guy actually gave me grief with all how little I gave him (I think it was all the change I had on me at the time, I was just about to go for a run). I should have asked for a refund I think.
what are your favorite lennon, McCartney, Harrison and starr songs post beatles?
Lennon: #9 Dream
McCartney: Mull of Kintyre
Harrison: Peace on Earth
Starr: um, um, um...It Don't Come Easy (which Lennon wrote)?
Aside from The Beatles and The Stones, who was the best "British invasion" band?
Double
Queen
Which music would you not want to hear: soft rock, punk rock, hard rock, rockabilly, or heavy metal?
hard rock - as in classic rock, zeppelin, the who etc...
What was your first musical purchase of music, after, of course children's music?
Hard Day's Night, on vinyl (45rpm). Still got it. It's got Things We Said Today on the b side.
What was your last musical purchase?
boy that answer is lost in memory---it has to be something vinyl from way back in the 70s...maybe the 80s when I was in college.
whats your favorite movie role that liam neeson played?
Schindlers list.
What is the best movie about war(any war)?
Dawn of the Dead. That's what war is.
What was the first R-rated movie you saw?
Blue Lagoon.
How many times have you seen Star Wars?
The original, I think three times. But I could pretty much follow the plot after the second. ;-)
How many rodeos have you ever attended?
2 or 3.
How many languages do you know how to greet someone in?
when I was in grad school, maybe 6-7, now just 2 besides English.
how many states (in America) have you been to/through?
Haven't been in the USA at all.
In how many language do I know how to greet a person? Ten or more, some greetings are pretty much the same in several languages, though, so that would make it closer to twenty.
How many countries have you visited?
Canada, England, Scotland, Wales, France, Holland, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Luxembourg and I wont count layovers in Iceland. so, 10.
I'd love to visit Ireland.
taking the odds of getting someone else besides tony, who already answered:
what's your favorite movie role played by liam neeson?
I like Liam Nesson but dosen't he just sort of play the same role in differnt settings?
Is there any movie you thought the sequel was as good as or better than the original?
He was cute in Love Actually but obviously I'm going to say Qui-Gon Jinn.
What's with Liam Neeson?
Dang, too late.
Dark: Empire Strikes Back was slightly better than Star Wars.
Same question: What's with Liam Neeson?
do you mean my asking about him twice papayahed? or is there actually something going on with him in real life outside our thread?
I asked twice because I think sometimes the questions are either good enough to bear repeating, or I just wanna hear what other people say.
to dark muses question---I thought catching fire (the sequel to hunger games) was fantastic, and yes better than the first. but would you properly call that a sequel since the story is already written and in place?
I thought (in the recent incarnation) that dawn of the planet of the apes was better than rise of the planet of the apes.
im on a roll! I liked x-men days of future past better than x-men first class.
and oh my goodness, star trek: the wrath of khan blows star trek: the motion picture right out of the water!
i'll leave that question out there for everyone else...