Tough question. I speak French (badly), I have some Spanish (worse) so maybe those two. If you count Great Britain, 3.
How many superheroes do or did you follow?
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Tough question. I speak French (badly), I have some Spanish (worse) so maybe those two. If you count Great Britain, 3.
How many superheroes do or did you follow?
Zero. I tried to follow Superman but was lucky to survive the fall.
How many car crashes have you been in?
Two. I rolled a car belonging to my mother at 19 and I had my station wagon rear ended by a co-worker at 27.
No injuries in the first one (ah, the days of youth!) but I was hurt quite a bit in that rear ending.
How many times have you received a driving ticket?
if we count a car crashing into a mailbox, then one.
if we are talking motor vehicles (so including motocycles), then two.
if we are talking bicycles too---at high speed, three more (and one was into a car! and the other two were in the same race)
how many feet (or meters) high would be the highest youd be willing to jump off from into a safe pool of water below?
Assuming that "safe" means deep enough from wherever I'm diving from, I don't know, maybe twice the height of a regular pool board. I love diving because it feels like flying under water, but I don't get any special thrill from heights. For me it's about the freedom, not adrenalin or risk.
How many times have you been to Washington, DC?
Downtown? Once. Passing on the beltway, maybe 15 times. The downtown thing was our Senior Trip, lasted about a week, usual tourist sites and a few I will never forget in some bad parts of town...
If you live in a small town, how far is it to the nearest city anyone would recognize?
I consider Shreveport a small town (some do not). It's 200 miles to Dallas.
How many miles are you from the nearest ocean?
Papaya: Shreveport only looks like a town because it's next to Bossier City. :)
At the moment, about 26.
How many years does it take until you're "middle aged"?
id guess somewhere between 39-49, with <39 being still "young" and >49 starting to get "old"
major emphasis on the quotation marks because chronology, biology, society and mindset are sometimes very different things.
how many times a week do you use a dictionary?
Constantly. I get complete OED definitions just by tapping words in ebooks, and I often check I already know just for their etymologies.
How many of the Ten Commandments could you name without looking them up?
1) Have no gods before me
2)Honor thy father and mother
3) thou shalt not kill
4) Thou shalt not commit adultery
5) Thou shalt not covet
6) Remember the sabbath day
7) Thou shalt no kill
8) Thou shalt not bear false witness
9) Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain
10) Thou shalt not make graven images
They are not in order, since I do this from memory and I have no idea which order, but I do know them by heart
How many required reading books did you find boring?
If you mean for a literature class, I don't remember finding any boring.
How many anthropology classes did you take in college?
1 and I loved every minute of it.
How many times has it rained this month?
its raining now! ive lost count...id guesstimate 6 days.
how many different fruits can you name? (and what are you three favorite?)
A lot of different fruits, Bounty. My three favorites are:
1. The banana
2. The pineapple
3. The kiwi
The kiwi is also my favorite flightless bird.
How many times have you found a leach on your body?
Lots when I used to swim in ponds on Lasquiti island as a kid.
How many different species of frogs or toads have you captured in the wild?
Three: giant bullfrogs, sleek leopard frogs (that's what we called them anyway), and innumerable little generic frogs (don't know the species). Also plenty of brown warty lawn toads.
Have you ever seen a venomous snake in the wild?
Nah, they are quite rare in Canada, seen and picked up lots of garter snakes though, cute little guys.
How many venomous snakes have you seen in the wild?
Lots. I used to see rattlesnakes (though rarely) in Iowa as a little boy (we spent our summers there); in Africa the green mambas used to hang in the trees over the cafés, the black mambas used to come indoors looking for mice, and the vipers (5 feet long and almost a foot wide) used to cross the roads at night. Oh and spitting cobras, too. I mostly stay in the city in Taiwan, but the habus crawl in and out of the gutters sometimes.
Have you ever seen a feral pig?
Not exactly. My wife and I found two piglets in the wild where an escaped mother hog had her babies. Only these two survived. We raised them and ate them.
What is the strangest animal encounter you remember?
You know, I was hoping that story was going too have a happy ending. :)Quote:
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Well, it's a little upsetting, but I had to behead a cat with a machete back in Africa. It was a stray and my girlfriend, who was trying to adopt it, stupidly picked it up and cuddled it. It bit her, of course, so we got the ol' Peace Corps health manual out and read the protocol for stray cat bites: kill the cat and bring its head to Libreville for rabies testing. The poor cat turned out to be fine. It just didn't feel like being hugged.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pendragon
How many bald eagles have you seen in the wild?
Not a one. yet. They have been sighted in my area, just not yet by me.
Have you ever seen an Osprey?
Yes, while salt water fishing (they were doing the same thing).
How many presidents and/or prime ministers have you seen in person? Which ones?
I saw President of Haiti once - Aristide. After he was overthrown for the second time.
How may people in the largest audience you have ever addressed?
I've seen Lyndon Johnson and Gerald Ford. I think that's it.
About 200-250, when I retired. I spoke for about 30 minutes.
Same question.
Maybe thirty, a class presentation. I can't stand public speaking, or at least I couldn't the last time I tried, but I've become less shy since then and I might do okay now.
Also I've seen plenty of bald eagles, just wanted to let that be known ;)
How many great books have you read which were ostensibly written for children?
Great books? Not that many. I guess the two Alice books count, but most of the rest I'd probably think of as great Children's books that adults can enjoy or love, too.
Did you have any in mind?/Same question
The entire Redwall series.
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I don't know about "great" but a handful stick out in my mind that ive enjoyed. I think a fuzzy line exists too between children, and young adult so that makes pickin' tough too.
charlotte's web, a couple of Winnie the poohs, (does alice in wonderland count?), Charlie and the chocolate factory, misty of Chincoteague, black beauty, and I guess this isn't counting the fairy tales, Disney stories, mother goose, etc.
where does harry potter fall into the mix?
so in the 6-8 range?
my all time favorite book is tom brown's schooldays, which apparently was read in Edwardian England by children. today, its college level material.
how many pages to go in the book you are presently reading?
As of last night, 2000 down, 1416 to go.
How many short books (around 100 pages) have you really loved and what were they?
The death of Ivan Illyich and perhaps Metamorphosis by Kafka. Franny and Zooey (both in equal measure) are long short stories, not quite novellas. Catcher in the rye is not a novella, but pretty damn short. That's my mixed answer?
What is a very long book over 500 pages that you loved? (I'm really liking Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex)
A Suitable Boy, The Quincunx, Journey to the West, Tom Jones, lots of others.
How many animals have you ever shot?
None (I've never fired a gun period), but hunting is on my to do list.
How many times has your home been broken into in your life?
Zero, though when I lived in New Orleans I was literally the only one of my friends who had not had a home or car break, or been robbed at gunpoint. No rapes, thank God, though one girl fought off a home invader armed with a knife. But no problems for me.
How many people do you currently know who are 80 or over?
Only my one remaining grandmother.
How many times would you attempt to shoot a pigeon with a crappy bow and arrow before giving up (if you were nine years old)?
If I were 9, probably until some adult made me stop.
How many lobsters have you eaten this year?
Haha yeh I spent about four hours and only stopped when I had to eat dinner... poor bird, I almost hit it once.
Zero, but I do like lobster.
How many of your meals feature seafood (give a percentage)?
15% I'm not a fan but have been starting to like sushi.
How many pairs of shoes do you own?
I'm a guy, Grover, we would gladly wear the same pair everywhere until they disintegrate on our feet!
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43. I need to reevaluate my shoe parameters.
How many times have you turned on the stove this week?