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dickgloucester made me do this, honest guv.YOU'RE ON MY FRIENDS LIST and so I want to know 36 things about you. I don't care if we never talk, or if we already know everything about each other. Short and sweet is fine ... You're on my list, so I want to know you better!
BE HONEST! COPY FROM HERE THEN SEND DIRECTLY TO ME IN A COMMENT, THEN REPOST THE EMPTY QUESTIONS.
(Please note this is entirely optional and failing to answer will not affect your grades, or indeed anything else.)
1) Are you currently in a serious relationship?
A.
2) What was your dream growing up?
A.
3) What talent do you wish you had?
A.
4) If I bought you a drink what would it be?
A.
5) Favourite vegetable?
A.
6) What was the last book you read?
A.
7) What zodiac sign are you?
A.
8) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Explain where.
A.
9) Worst Habit?
A.
10) If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride?
A.
11) What is your favourite sport?
A.
12) Do you have a Negative or Optimistic attitude?
A.
13) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
A.
14) Worst thing to ever happen to you?
A.
15) Tell me one weird fact about you.
A.
16) Do you have any pets?
A.
17) What if I showed up at your house unexpectedly?
A.
18) What was your first impression of me? (hmmm...careful!)
A.
19) Do you think clowns are cute or scary?
A.
20) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
A.
21) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
A.
22) What colour eyes do you have?
A.
23) Ever been arrested?
A.
24) Bottle or can soda?
A.
25) If you won £10,000 today, what would you do with it?
A.
27) What's your favourite place to "hang" at?
A.
28) Do you believe in ghosts?
A.
29) Favourite thing to do in your spare time?
A.
30) Do you swear a lot?
A.
31) Biggest pet peeve?
A.
32) In one word, how would you describe yourself?
A.
33) Do you believe/appreciate romance?
A.
35) Do you believe in God?
A.
36) Will you repost this?
A.
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A.Yes
2) What was your dream growing up?
A. They tended to be rather odd and occasionally involved cannibles ;)
3) What talent do you wish you had?
A.Stick-to-it-ness/not procrastination. Does that count as a talent?
4) If I bought you a drink what would it be?
A. A lime and lemonade, hopefully, or some sort of delicious juice.
5) Favourite vegetable?
A. Carrot, but it should not be cooked almost ever.
6) What was the last book you read?
A. A clockwork orange.
7) What zodiac sign are you?
A. Sagitarius, though a day later I'd be Capricorn.
8) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Explain where.
A. Pierced ears.
9) Worst Habit?
A. Forgetting about things I'm supposed to be doing or staying up too late.
10) If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride?
A. No, because my back probably would not be up to it, but I would certainly walk with you :)
11) What is your favourite sport?
A. Tennis.
12) Do you have a Negative or Optimistic attitude?
A. Overall optimistic.
13) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
A. Have a long overdue chat, hopefully, after telling the appropriate people to free us.
14) Worst thing to ever happen to you?
A. I don't think anything hugely bad has happened to me personally. Is depression a thing? I've broken a wrist and been bullied, I suppose...
15) Tell me one weird fact about you.
A. I love playing console games even though I'm awful at them and enjoy watching other people play them.
16) Do you have any pets?
A.A wonderful cat, but sadly he is at home in london.
17) What if I showed up at your house unexpectedly?
A. I would be very happy to see you and probably offer you tea and hugs.
18) What was your first impression of me? (hmmm...careful!)
A. Tall and welcoming and 'oh, that's who she was talking about.'
19) Do you think clowns are cute or scary?
A. Neither really. More cute, but that depends on the clown.
20) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
A.Nicer skin, I think.
21) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
A.Probably your crime partner :)
22) What colour eyes do you have?
A. Brown.
23) Ever been arrested?
A.No.
24) Bottle or can soda?
A. Bottle.
25) If you won £10,000 today, what would you do with it?
A. Put some in an isa and help out family dept and buy lots of yarn and things my friends want/need, help out the familes with recent losses I know.
27) What's your favourite place to "hang" at?
A. Anywhere with comfortable seating, friends and not too much background noise.
28) Do you believe in ghosts?
A. No.
29) Favourite thing to do in your spare time?
A. Play board games and talk to friends and music and read and... I'm indesicive, but these sorts of things :p
30) Do you swear a lot?
A. No.
31) Biggest pet peeve?
A. Most of them are americanish language things, such as people saying 'I could care less' and 'I gifted you something'.
32) In one word, how would you describe yourself?
A. Eclectic.
33) Do you believe/appreciate romance?
A. Yes and yes.
35) Do you believe in God?
A. Not particularly.
36) Will you repost this?
A. Almost certainly not.
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1) Are you currently in a serious relationship?
A. Yes. Four, to be exact.
2) What was your dream growing up?
A. To earm wings.
3) What talent do you wish you had?
A. Music would be nice. Math would be useful.
4) If I bought you a drink what would it be?
A. Ginger ale.
5) Favorite vegetable?
A. Corn on the cob.
6) What was the last book you read?
A. Daughter of the Empire by Raymond E. Feist
7) What zodiac sign are you?
A. Scorpio
8) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Explain where.
A. No. I tried piercing my left earlobe once but it wouldn't close around the stud.
9) Worst Habit?
A. Smoking
10) If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride?
A. Question would be could you fit in my car?
11) What is your favorite sport?
A. Fishing
12) Do you have a Negative or Optimistic attitude?
A. I am a supranegative dark-matter contingency cop.
13) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
A. Call maintenance on the phone in the box, then sit in a corner and tell jokes until they open up the car.
14) Worst thing to ever happen to you?
A. The swimming pool thing was kind of a bummer.
15) Tell me one weird fact about you.
A. Another one? Okay. I'm severely lepidoptraphobic.
16) Do you have any pets?
A. Yes
17) What if i showed up at your house unexpectedly?
A. I would be surprised.
18) What was your first impression of me? (hmmm...careful!)
A. You I felt bad that you felt so bad about yourself.
19) Do you think clowns are cute or scary?
A. Tim Curry made a marvelously evil clown. Other than that, I'm indifferent.
20) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
A. Get a chin.
21) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
A. Depends on the crime and the cause.
22) What color eyes do you have?
A. Bluegraygreen. Depends on what I wear.
23) Ever been arrested?
A. No
24) Bottle or can soda?
A. Bottle
25) If you won $10,000 today, what would you do with it?
A. Pay off the car loan
27) What's your favorite place to hang at?
A. Haven't found a strong enough rope for that.
28) Do you believe in ghosts?
A. Yes. Ask Alice.
29) Favorite thing to do in your spare time?
A. Yak on the computer.
30) Do you swear a lot?
A. What the @^(&&^ kind of *)@&# question is that? Not really.
31) Biggest pet peeve?
A. I don't have any peeves. I have a dog.
32) In one word, how would you describe yourself?
A. Warped.
33) Do you believe/appreciate romance?
A. Yes
35) Do you believe in God?
A. Yes
36) Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same for you?
A. Weeeellll....okay
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A. Yes.
2) What was your dream growing up?
A. To have my own TV show.
3) What talent do you wish you had?
A. Being telegenic.
4) If I bought you a drink what would it be?
A. Something sugar-free.
5) Favourite vegetable?
A. Artichoke.
6) What was the last book you read?
A. One of Taunya Huff's "Blood" series.
7) What zodiac sign are you?
A. Cancer.
8) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Explain where.
A. None.
9) Worst Habit?
A. Playing with my hair.
10) If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride?
A. Of course!
11) What is your favourite sport?
A. Eating
12) Do you have a Negative or Optimistic attitude?
A. Optimistic
13) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
A. Work with you to get the elevator repaired
14) Worst thing to ever happen to you?
A. My maternal grandfather's fatal heart attack. I was the "responsible" person in the house (one day after my 16th birthday), and my name was the last thing he said.
15) Tell me one weird fact about you.
A. I can talk backwards
16) Do you have any pets?
A. Yes; a Bichon Frise named "Lady."
17) What if I showed up at your house unexpectedly?
A. I'd probably freak, but then I freak whenever someone shows up unexpectedly.
18) What was your first impression of me? (hmmm...careful!)
A. You were much quieter than I expected you to be.
19) Do you think clowns are cute or scary?
A. Neither.
20) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
A. I'd have a narrower and more symmetric face.
21) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
A. Crime partner.
22) What colour eyes do you have?
A. Blue
23) Ever been arrested?
A. No
24) Bottle or can soda?
A. If possible, bottle; if not, can.
25) If you won £10,000 today, what would you do with it?
A. Use it to buy myself a new car.
27) What's your favourite place to "hang" at?
A. Grand Central Starport.
28) Do you believe in ghosts?
A. Not sure.
29) Favourite thing to do in your spare time?
A. What's spare time?
30) Do you swear a lot?
A. At home, sometimes; at work, no.
31) Biggest pet peeve?
A. People who call me "Mrs."
32) In one word, how would you describe yourself?
A. Nerdy.
33) Do you believe/appreciate romance?
A. Yes.
35) Do you believe in God?
A. Yes.
36) Will you repost this?
A. Probably.
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1) Are you currently in a serious relationship?
A. hopefully this diamond ring on my finger means that I am...
2) What was your dream growing up?
A. to be a marine biologist
3) What talent do you wish you had?
A. be a musician
4) If I bought you a drink what would it be?
A. chocolate peanut butter banana milkshake: I've only had it once and it was delicious!
5) Favourite vegetable?
A. cucumber
6) What was the last book you read?
A. 'The Phantom of the Opera' by Gaston Leroux
7) What zodiac sign are you?
A. Cancer
8) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Explain where.
A. ears only
9) Worst Habit?
A. anal retentive
10) If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride?
A. um, no, and I do have an idea of what you look like, but if had met face to face before, then I would
11) What is your favourite sport?
A. take a guess... ;-) track and field!
12) Do you have a Negative or Optimistic attitude?
A. depends on the day
13) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
A. talk it up
14) Worst thing to ever happen to you?
A. many a things that I still reprimand myself for doing
15) Tell me one weird fact about you.
A. I have a webbed toe
16) Do you have any pets?
A. personally, no. family does: three dogs total
17) What if I showed up at your house unexpectedly?
A. cool. what brings you to Massachusetts?
18) What was your first impression of me? (hmmm...careful!)
A. I honestly don't remember. Probably 'Cool! Another newbie!'
19) Do you think clowns are cute or scary?
A. depending on the situation. If one was entertaining me: cute. If one was chasing me with a knife: scary.
20) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
A. removal of acne
21) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
A. probably partner in crime
22) What colour eyes do you have?
A. mainly green
23) Ever been arrested?
A. I've been a good girl
24) Bottle or can soda?
A. bottle: the more rare of the two
25) If you won £10,000 today, what would you do with it?
A. pay off line of credit and some of school loans
27) What's your favourite place to "hang" at?
A. home
28) Do you believe in ghosts?
A. somewhat, but never seen one
29) Favourite thing to do in your spare time?
A. run
30) Do you swear a lot?
A. when I'm mad I do
31) Biggest pet peeve?
A. people who purposely act stupid to get attention
32) In one word, how would you describe yourself?
A. overthinker
33) Do you believe/appreciate romance?
A. yes
35) Do you believe in God?
A. yes
36) Will you repost this?
A. we'll see
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A. Yes ... unless the cat's ousted me again.
2) What was your dream growing up?
A. To go into space (rather than to fall into a hole)
3) What talent do you wish you had?
A. Either to sign or to draw -- probably the latter -- I see thungs in my head, but can't get them down.
4) If I bought you a drink what would it be?
A. Silver dragon
5) Favourite vegetable?
A. The English garden pea
6) What was the last book you read?
A. A CSI novel
7) What zodiac sign are you?
A. On a cusp
8) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Explain where.
A. Neither. DN fancy the metal-item-in-artificial-orifice route; might tat if I saw excellent design and knew safepractitioner.
9) Worst Habit?
A. Too many to name
10) If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride?
A. If I had a car, yes. Piggyback -- sorry, Zan: No.
11) What is your favourite sport?
A. To watch : Gridiron; To play : pro-am napping
12) Do you have a Negative or Optimistic attitude?
A. That depends on the subject
13) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
A. Find paper and pencil, and start writing
14) Worst thing to ever happen to you?
A. Getting drawn in by the Reptile
15) Tell me one weird fact about you.
A.
16) Do you have any pets?
A. Not now
17) What if I showed up at your house unexpectedly?
A. Come in, have something to eat; are you staying the night ?
18) What was your first impression of me? (hmmm...careful!)
A. Tall, dark, and ....
19) Do you think clowns are cute or scary?
A. Scary rather than cute, but they've a living to earn. Now, in a horror flick ---
20) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
A. Keep my hair
21) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
A. Need you ask
22) What colour eyes do you have?
A. Pass. They seem to vary between blue, gray and pale green, depending on the ambient light
23) Ever been arrested?
A. Yes
24) Bottle or can soda?
A. Bottle
25) If you won £10,000 today, what would you do with it?
A. Pay debts, roof the house, high-end laptop
27) What's your favourite place to "hang" at?
A. Home (or yours)
28) Do you believe in ghosts?
A. Yes
29) Favourite thing to do in your spare time?
A. Read/write
30) Do you swear a lot?
A. Of course I ***** don't
31) Biggest pet peeve?
A. Politicians who want you to believe them; i fact, obvious liars of all persuasions
32) In one word, how would you describe yourself?
A. Nyrond
33) Do you believe/appreciate romance?
A. Yes
35) Do you believe in God?
A. Yes
36) Will you repost this?
A. Probably not
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A. No
2) What was your dream growing up?
A. To be a teacher
3) What talent do you wish you had?
A. Ability to learn to speak a language well
4) If I bought you a drink what would it be?
A. Pint of cider, please
5) Favourite vegetable?
A. Sweetcorn
6) What was the last book you read?
A. Defender by C J Cherryh (I'm rereading the series).
7) What zodiac sign are you?
A. Scorpio
8) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Explain where.
A. Did have ears pierced, but let them close again.
9) Worst Habit?
A. Laziness
10) If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride?
A. If I drove, yes.
11) What is your favourite sport?
A. Swimming
12) Do you have a Negative or Optimistic attitude?
A. Optimist by nature, negative due to experience (and Depression)
13) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
A. Assuming there was no urgent need to escape, chat about life, the universe and everything
14) Worst thing to ever happen to you?
A. Losing my job
15) Tell me one weird fact about you.
A. Can't think of anything appropriate, but that's by my standards of weird
16) Do you have any pets?
A. No
17) What if I showed up at your house unexpectedly?
A. You'd find it a mess, and I'd be embarassed
18) What was your first impression of me? (hmmm...careful!)
A. Tall, rather ugly, chatted a lot, sounded interesting, as far as I can remember.
19) Do you think clowns are cute or scary?
A. Neither
20) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
A. My gut (trying to do it, indeed)
21) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
A. Conscience, sorry
22) What colour eyes do you have?
A. According to the mirror, a dull turquoisy colour
23) Ever been arrested?
A. Yes
24) Bottle or can soda?
A. Bottle, it's cheaper by volume
25) If you won £10,000 today, what would you do with it?
A. Get some bits done to my flat
27) What's your favourite place to "hang" at?
A. 'Ton meetings, shame they're only one night a month
28) Do you believe in ghosts?
A. Yes, but not in life after death
29) Favourite thing to do in your spare time?
A. Swimming, I guess
30) Do you swear a lot?
A. More than I should, certainly
31) Biggest pet peeve?
A. People who don't think
32) In one word, how would you describe yourself?
A. Heteroclyte
33) Do you believe/appreciate romance?
A. Supose so
35) Do you believe in God?
A. Currently, on the balance of the evidence I have, no
36) Will you repost this?
A. Apparently
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(Anonymous) 2008-01-30 12:34 pm (UTC)(link)A. I'm not even in a silly relationship
2) What was your dream growing up?
A. To be a successful jobbing actor. On the evidence I have yet to finish growing up.
3) What talent do you wish you had?
A. Singing. And drawing. And computer programming.
4) If I bought you a drink what would it be?
A. Calvados with a cider chaser.
5) Favourite vegetable?
A. The humble potato.
6) What was the last book you read?
A. The last one I finished was THE JENNIFER MORGUE by C. Stross.
7) What zodiac sign are you?
A. Leo.
8) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Explain where.
A. None.
9) Worst Habit?
A. Laziness
10) If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride?
A. No, my back is bad enough as it is.
11) What is your favourite sport?
A. I have no favourite sport either to look at or participate in. I am unsporty.
12) Do you have a Negative or Optimistic attitude?
A. Yes.
13) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
A. Try to get you to compose a filk if we were there long enough.
14) Worst thing to ever happen to you?
A. Ummm. Errr... No great big bad things. Just lots of little sad things.
15) Tell me one weird fact about you.
A. My eyebrows meet in the middle. My grandma always told me you couldn't trust men whose eyebrows meet in the middle.
16) Do you have any pets?
A. Sadly, no. Not in my crowded council bed sit.
17) What if I showed up at your house unexpectedly?
A. I'd say: let's go to the pub round the corner, the flat's a mess.
18) What was your first impression of me? (hmmm...careful!)
A. Tall git... Ah, so *that* is the famous Xander Nyrond!
19) Do you think clowns are cute or scary?
A. Scary is more fun.
20) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
A. My belly.
21) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
A. Your conscience you evil fellow.
22) What colour eyes do you have?
A. Hazel.
23) Ever been arrested?
A. Nope.
24) Bottle or can soda?
A. Can.
25) If you won £10,000 today, what would you do with it?
A. Put most of it into the building society and buy a new computer.
27) What's your favourite place to "hang" at?
A. I do not 'hang'. It is a frivolous habit of young idlers!
28) Do you believe in ghosts?
A. I am agnostic about them.
29) Favourite thing to do in your spare time?
A. Read. Muck about on the Internet. Game.
30) Do you swear a lot?
A. Fuck no!
31) Biggest pet peeve?
A. Kids riding their bikes on the pavement, often passing as close as half an inch from me.
32) In one word, how would you describe yourself?
A. Pompous.
33) Do you believe/appreciate romance?
A. Belive yes. Appreciate all too rarely.
35) Do you believe in God?
A. Believe yes. Know, no.
36) Will you repost this?
A. Nope.
M.Cule
Wasting time he should be spending writing tonight's game...
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A. Straightforward and caring. We bumped into each other on Eoforyth's page when she was having a rough time. Where is Eoforyth, btw? How is she?
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A. Yes
2) What was your dream growing up?
A. It changed. My first dream job was doctor. Helping people and all that. Then I wanted to be a psychologist, healing the mind instead of the body. Then I figured I can't separate job and private life well enough for that, so I wanted to be a biology researcher. I'm still working towards that one. :)
3) What talent do you wish you had?
A. Drawing. And I wish I could touch people's hearts with my music.
4) If I bought you a drink what would it be?
A. Right now probably some kind of fresh juice.
5) Favourite vegetable?
A. Cucumbers, cauliflower and paprika
6) What was the last book you read?
A. David & Leigh Eddings "The Redemption of Althalus". Wasn't too good, though.
7) What zodiac sign are you?
A. Sagittarius
8) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Explain where.
A. Only normal earrings.
9) Worst Habit?
A. being an insufferable know-it-all. ;)
10) If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride?
A. I don't own a car or any other vehicle that can carry more than one person at a time, so probably not.
11) What is your favourite sport?
A. For watching: ice skating and horse riding.
For doing: swordfighting and swimming
12) Do you have a Negative or Optimistic attitude?
A. Mixture of optimistiv and realistic, I think.
13) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
A. First: panic. Being stuck in an elevator is BAD (and I'm latently claustrophobic). Then: try to call help. Then: make the best we can of the time till help arrives. :)
14) Worst thing to ever happen to you?
A. The fire that killed my dad and my little sister almost ten years ago.
15) Tell me one weird fact about you.
A. I can bake everything that's fancy but I suck at stupid, normal bread.
16) Do you have any pets?
A. No.
17) What if I showed up at your house unexpectedly?
A. I really don't like it when people do that, because my timetable's usually stuffed. If I'd known beforehand I could probably have cleared a lot more time!
Aside from that - invite you in (if i was home) and offer you something to drink & eat, then sit down for a nice chat.
18) What was your first impression of me? (hmmm...careful!)
A. Rather quiet and reserved, but very musical - and thoughtful.
19) Do you think clowns are cute or scary?
A. I'm rather indifferent to clowns...
20) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
A. My hair. It would be curly (you know, big curls, not small ones) and a bit more red-ish.
21) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
A. I'd probably try for conscience, but if it didn't work - partner! :)
22) What colour eyes do you have?
A. brown
23) Ever been arrested?
A. no
24) Bottle or can soda?
A. No soda at all, please.
25) If you won £10,000 today, what would you do with it?
A. Put it into a fond to let it become even more money. Then, when it's enough, buy a house.
27) What's your favourite place to "hang" at?
A. Anywhere I have friends around me, we have enough food and drinks, it's cozy and not too loud. Large living rooms are very good for this. :)
28) Do you believe in ghosts?
A. I'm not sure. Not in poltergeists. But some part of the spirit lingering on for some time... yes, I can imagine that.
29) Favourite thing to do in your spare time?
A. reading, writing, music
30) Do you swear a lot?
A. It happens, but not terribly often, I think.
31) Biggest pet peeve?
A. People who wallow in self-pity all the time instead of doing at least something to change the situation which made them miserable, especially when there are several constructive steps available.
32) In one word, how would you describe yourself?
A. I suck at these one-word things. Fiery?
33) Do you believe/appreciate romance?
A. Yes to both.
35) Do you believe in God?
A. Not as a person, no.
36) Will you repost this?
A. I already did, about a year ago (the questions changed only slightly). If you'd like to fill it out, feel free to. :) There it is