I've never seen them, but I'll get there some day.
How many times have you been thrown out of a bar or restaurant?
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I've never seen them, but I'll get there some day.
How many times have you been thrown out of a bar or restaurant?
Never kicked out but I once skipped out on my tab and the bouncer caught up with me and made me pay.
How many Nabokov books have you read?
Never heard of Nabokov
How many fictional detectives do you follow?
Oh Jeez, are they on Twitter, too?
If you were boss of the world, how old would people have to be to vote?
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Twenty. And these two posts make me think that I might be in the 'ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer' thread. Never heard of Nabokov?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pompey Bum
How many hours did you sleep last night?
ive read just one nabokov, Lolita. it was a little different than what I was thinking, almost hoping it would be...maybe more along the lines of Belinda, by anne rice.
I really enjoyed a contemporary book called, reading Lolita in Tehran. its about this female English teacher who found herself on the wrong side of the government so to speak and yet continued to meet with her female students, teaching/reading literature that would get them all into trouble if they were found out.
~7 1/2 hours of sleep last night...which is a little light for me.
how many times do you shave/trim throughout the week?
I've read The Defense, Pale Fire and Lolita and I still don't really like Nabokov. I own Ada or Ardor and his autobiography and I still plan to read Invitation to a Beheading, Pnin and his collected stories before I decide finally that I just don't like his books. Haha he's the author I most want to like but just... don't.
I have read Reading Lolita in Tehran though and I did enjoy it!
I shave whenever I feel like it, sometimes not a lot (and I look like a complete moron with facial hair of any kind so this is very bad) but generally if I want to look reasonably presentable I need to shave at least twice a week, but probably three times. My facial hair is a light blond/red though so it's not incredibly noticeable anyway.
How many times do you stay up an entire night in any given month (if it's less than once give a reasonable decimal)?
Sometimes when my bipolar goes whacky I can be up for as much as 72 hours, but it doesn't happen that often. Say 1 time in three months.
Do you dream in color?
Yes, I do, do some people not?
It was a scientific claim that humans dreamed in black and white, but I dream in vivid color.
What is your worst nightmare?
Going into a house where I'm not supposed to be and finding something really bad: sometimes the living corpse of a child, and sometimes the devil.
Hey, isn't this "How Many"?
How many times have you swum in the nude?
Never, actually.
Same question haha
I used to skinny dip in Walden Pound at night (after they kicked everyone out) and also on Cape Cod with the wild Irish "summer wetbacks" my buddy and I used to pick up. So lots of times.
How many times have you seen a movie, then snuck into another movie at the same complex?
Zero. i can hardly remember there being a single movie out in theatres that I wanted to see, let alone two at the same time.
How many items of physical media do you own (books, dvd's, cd's, records, etc) when you add them all together?
Man, I thought I was the Puritan! :)
I don't know. I gave most of that stuff away already.
How many vinyl records have you ever purchased?
Yes it seems that in fanciful moral quandaries I take a more lax position but when it comes to real deeds I'm saintly ;)
Around fifty from about eight years ago, I initially thought they would be fun to collect but I've since decided that I can't afford to spend all of my money on cumbersome physical media (you'll have to kill me before I stop buying books though) and I was becoming sort of obsessed with cartridges and playback and reducing static and everything else that goes with vinyl to the point that most of my listening experience was straining after imperfections in playback so I could weed them out... It was hurting my enjoyment of the music.
How many hours of sleep do you generally need to feel refreshed?
Eight or nine, but I'm semi-conscious--usually praying or meditating-- for the last couple hours.
What is the ideal number of hours to sleep in?
You mean past your normal time of waking up? Maybe one or two at most.
How many average high school kids all on a team would it take to beat you in a typical night of Jeopardy?
Three
How many card games do you play?
None for many years.
How many times have you been saved from a real predicament by a "good Samaritan?"
Many times, there are good samaritans watching, even when you think they don't notice what is happening.
How many times, if any, did you change your degree?
Twice
How many rats does it take to change a lightbulb?
I suspect one rat could change a light bulb if the bulb were configured to be possible for a rat to screw on or off by itself and the rat was given sufficient prompting/conditioning by it's trainer.
How many nobel prize winning authors have you read?
In my day the answer was: two, but don't ask me how they got in there.
A lot of Nobel Prize winners, Clopin.
How many times a month do you mow the lawn (in the summer)?
We don't really have lawns where I come from since property is absurdly expensive and the town is situated in a national park and can't get too big.
How many minutes or hours do you lie with the lights off unable to fall asleep before you say '**** it' and start reading or uh... browsing litnet?
I hang out with my wife or read in bed until I fall asleep--no problems doing that these days. I wake up one or two hours before I get up, but usually pray or meditate then, so I tend not to swear. :)
How many times a month do you sweep or vacuum the house?
I don't really live in a house and my suite is pretty much a room, attached to a room, attached to a kitchen. I sweep my room probably once a month.
How many times have you been seasick?
Never. I haven't spent much time at sea and all the small crossings I've made (Dover to Calais, Gibralter to Tangier, etc) have been smooth.
What is the most dis dusting parasite you have ever hosted?
Well this is sort of gross but I have pinworms right this second and I need to get a prescription to murder them. I'm sure I got them from spending so much time with disgusting (but cute) little kids.
How many baby back ribs could you eat in a rib eating contest?
Okay, I should have said "exotic" not "disgusting." :) Good luck with the little fellers, though.
None. Eating babies is cruel. Actually I love baby back ribs, although I always sort of feel like a hyena at the kill when I eat them. But I'm sure I could eat a lot if pressed.
How many weddings have you been invited to this year?
Only one, my aunt's. I'm not quite old enough to have many married friends and there are only nine or so people in the world who would invite me to their wedding anyway.
How many dollars should be spent on an engagement ring?
None. Engagement rings should not happen. Right when a couple really needs money for really real things, they are expected to go buy a diamond. It is just too stupid to even think about.
How many times have you lost all respect for someone you once considered a friend?
That is also my view on engagement rings and objectively the correct answer.
Mmmhhmm it's hard for me to answer this. I often like people without having much respect for their intellectual capacity and I very rarely place people above myself in any regard to be respected in the first place. I'm going to say it has happened twice, one is a guy who I met in eighth grade and who I still consider myself friendly with (i'm not so sure he feels that we are friends) and the other is a girl I dated when I was sixteen and now I think is a bit of an idiot. I don't hate either of them though.
Same question.
It's only happened with two or three people. Two of them were controlling their personalities with prescribed medication and decided to take themselves off without telling their doctors, apparently because it interfered with their sex drives. The people underneath were almost unrecognizable and aggressively inimical. The third one is just an old friend whose life took a different course. I wouldn't say that I've lost all respect, but I don't want to know her anymore.
How many cats have you owned?
Haha 'many cats' ;)
To which I am allergic, but whatever.
How many types of cereal do you really like?
none
How many sick days off of work or school do you have on average?
365.
How many times do you wake up during a typical night?
Zero, it's getting to sleep in the first place which is the problem.
How many minutes would you ideally spend cuddling a significant other every night?
Ideally? It would be like Gaia and Uranus (sans Kronos, one hopes).
How many nations are represented by the books you have read in the last year or so? I don't need you to list them, and I'm not trying to open up the trite and huffy old LitNet debate. I'm just curious about the number.
Oh man well if i remember correctly I'm covering sixteen odd, counting England and Ireland separately. There are quite likely one or two more I'm forgetting.
How many litnet posters would you trust to have your back in a fistfight with PikeBishop and 'several notable scholars'?