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Topic: ~Tart & Tangy~ Random Thursday Questions
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| keltoi | Posted – 9/14/2007 12:49:01 AM | show profile AD--Edith Pilaf? Any relations to Condileeza Rice? |
| nika | Posted – 9/14/2007 1:36:41 AM | show profile 1. What do you covet? Enough money to retire... 2. Have you ever sent a meal back at a restaurant? I try really hard not to. 3. Time to toot your own horn---tell us something wonderful aout yourself! I'm gorgeous, baby, simply gorgeous! 4. What would constitute the perfect day for you? Skiing in the morning, sailing in the afternoon, and a round of golf at sunset. 5. What would you title your autobiography? Flash Flash, Sweetie, Flash Flash! 6. What are some of the stranger jobs you've held? Telemarketer. Oh god, it was hell. I still have nightmares. 7. Have you ever stolen anything? Yep. In grade 6, my friends and I thought that it was super cool to steal pens from Staples. Never got caught, though. 8. What are some of your oddities? I'm a total germ freak... it's gotten a bit out of hand at times! 9. What memory is so embarrassing that it still makes you cringe each time you think of it? I was out clubbing, I guess I must have been 21 or 22. Completely wasted, I pissed myself in the middle of the dancefloor and just kept on dancing. 10. What assumptions do you find yourself making about people? I'm incredibly naive, so I'm constantly assuming that people always act with good intentions. Which usually comes back to bite me in the ass. ~Bonus Question~ How many times a day would you estimate you think about sex? Too many to count. |
| Donna Chang | Posted – 9/14/2007 12:11:07 PM | show profile kelt, I must have been hungry at the time or maybe just simply still recovering my eye surgery. |
| Janetblueyes | Posted – 9/14/2007 1:39:50 PM | show profile Foto- I took the job with the proctologist because I was poor and in college and he was offering $15 per hour, which was good money back then. I was also considering a career in medicine, so I figured that working with a doctor would be a good learning experience. During the procedure I assisted with, I was both dry heaving and laughing hysterically. If I had not quit, I most likely would have been fired. What happens in the anus, should stay in the anus! |
| wineaux | Posted – 9/14/2007 2:58:52 PM | show profile NikonGirl...you reminded me of another oddity I have. I throw stuff at the tv all of the time. Whatever I have nearby caan easily be a victim if the fierce need seizes me. Once I was on the phone, watching J. Stewart, and they showed Cheney with his sarcastic snarl, and thenn they brought up a clip of him in the early 90's talking about what a quagmire going into Iraq would be. Before I could even really think, my arm whipped the cordless right at the screen. Broke the phone, but thankfully not the tv. In my defense,Cordless phones really do suck. You toss them just a couple of times and they just never work the same again. But then again, our vp really does suck, so who or what's really to blame for my little temper tantrums? |
| HisGirlFriday | Posted – 9/14/2007 3:24:53 PM | show profile Oooh - Ooooh - I yell at the TV too. During the news and also, for some reason, during Casablanca. It's one of my favorite films and I can't help myself - Ilsa NEVER should have gone away with Victor and no matter how hard I try I can't keep my mouth shut. "Oh yes, that's right, honey! You think Victor really cares about you? NO! It's all about his *cause* - he never loved you!!!! BITCH!!!" Really. I've tried to stop and I can't. |
| mad fingers | Posted – 9/14/2007 4:25:41 PM | show profile HGF: Of course Victor loved her. He took her along to keep her safe, or at least safer than she would have been had she stayed behind. He knew she was in love with Rick, she knew she was in love with Rick and Rick knew she was in love with Rick, but like he said, "Where I'm going, you can't follow," etc., etc. and he was probably right. I seem to recall Ingrid's character left Gary Cooper behind in For Whom the Bell Tolls as well, whereas Lauren Bacall's character in To Have and Have Not, said "Sure I'll get on the plane," but she didn't. Okay, now you can throw something at this post. |
| crimedog | Posted – 9/14/2007 5:56:41 PM | show profile 'For Audrey Tautou to offer me her hand in matrimony.' Bleak - send her a gnome.. |
| voracious reader | Posted – 9/14/2007 6:21:05 PM | show profile 1. What do you covet? Waking up in the morning and being vertical. 2.Have you ever sent a meal back at a restaurant?With a cast iron stomach and little interest in food, I've sent a meal back exactly once --- and that was recently. I asked for a chicken ceasar salad. I tasted the salad and nearly puked. There was absolutely no cheese on it whatsoever. The owner said their receipe was not the "creamy style." I said, "Creamy or not,it must have cheese." The salad came back mixed with a drop of cheese, but all I tasted was some awful oil flavor. I really couldn't eat it at all. I was terribly embarrassed in front of my son, but I truly couldn't eat the meal. I apologized on the way out to the waiter and the owner. I still feel guilty! 3. Time to toot my own horn---tell us something wonderful about yourself! My husband and I made three perfect kids. Really!!!!! 4.What would constitue the perfect day? One day, pushing my grandchildren's strollers and then dancing at their weddings! 5. What would you title your autobiography? Shit Happens, How I Learned How to Smile Anyway! 6. What are some of the stranger jobs you've held? Booking new baby photo appointments for photographers. 7. Have you ever stolen anything? Nope. 8. What are some of your oddities? I love pistachio ice cream, but without pistachio nuts. However, I also LOVE eating pistachio nuts, go figure. 9. What memory is so embarrassing that it still makes you cringe each time you think of it? Walking to school, now I'm giving away my age, I stepped off the curb and walked into horse shit from the "junk man's" horse. I hear stepping in horse shit is good luck :), but it still was quite embarrassing!!! 10. What assumptions do you find yourself making about people? When I was much younger I believed that people were inherently nice. Sadly, I now believe there are nice people as well as not nice people. Bonus Question How many times a day would you estimate you think about sex? According to my husband, not enough!!!! |
| foto | Posted – 9/14/2007 7:42:48 PM | show profile Janet, I think THAT should should be the title of your autobiography!!! |
| writesonwater | Posted – 9/14/2007 9:28:12 PM | show profile Foto- foto -- which part a good title? I see: Poor and In College Good Money Back Then A Good Learning Experience Dry Heaving and Laughing Hysterically If I Had Not Quit, I Most Likely Would Have Been Fired |
| Janetblueyes | Posted – 9/14/2007 9:55:16 PM | show profile I think foto means: "What Happens in the Anus, Should Stay in the Anus" A memoir by Emma Roid |
| UGoGirl | Posted – 9/14/2007 10:14:36 PM | show profile Hee hee... like those titles writesonwater! |
| writesonwater | Posted – 9/15/2007 2:51:45 AM | show profile | email poster Yeah, Janet -- i figured that was what he meant! ;) thought I'd exhaust every other possibility as a creative exercise. see, piece of cake to come up with a title, eh, Ugo? ;) |
| pamelabeth | Posted – 9/17/2007 12:40:00 AM | show profile | email poster 1. What do you covet? the cheap-but-nice apartments that a few of my friends have managed to stumble into here in NYC. 2. Have you ever sent a meal back at a restaurant? once there was a cockroach in my indian food. (and no, that's not the title of my autobiography...) 3. Time to toot your own horn---tell us something wonderful about yourself! i make friends easily and love bringing people together. 4. What would constitute the perfect day for you? i'll borrow groove's perfect day while i think about my own. mine might involve the ocean, warm weather, good and loving sex, happy family, and a professional award...? 5. What would you title your autobiography? i wouldn't write it anytime soon, so hard to say right now. 6. What are some of the stranger jobs you've held? housecleaner (you'd know that's funny if you saw my place); signature gatherer for a political polling agency later accused of fraud (*i* didn't forge signatures, but maybe, apparently, some others did?) 7. Have you ever stolen anything? no 8. What are some of your oddities? can't really tell how much time has passed (always think it's less than it is); prefer to eat foods on my plate separately rather than mixing them (boyfriend says it's odd...); no sense of direction; don't like to wear my glasses... 9. What memory is so embarrassing that it still makes you cringe each time you think of it? oy--there are some 10. What assumptions do you find yourself making about people? that they're concerned about the same things i am. (oh, and to the poster who was suprised by the '04 election--god, me too. shocked. and i cried.) |
| writesonwater | Posted – 9/17/2007 12:49:53 AM | show profile pam, that election seemed like such a dividing line for perception. i don't think i've gotten over realizing more than half the voters didn't seem to have it. bitter, bitter pill. |
| HisGirlFriday | Posted – 9/17/2007 10:42:20 AM | show profile mad: (You'll regert getting me started on this! :) But did Victor *love* her? No he didn't - he loved his cause, he loved being important - he cared for her, the same way one might care whether a plant or a pet dies. There was no passion, no desire. Sure, he stayed with her when she was sick in - cripes ... uh, wherever the hell it was - but that's only because if he left her people would think he was a louse - not becase he really cared. Of course she couldn't go away with him because the movie was part of the US war propaganda machine, but that's another rant. :) |
| mad fingers | Posted – 9/17/2007 3:53:45 PM | show profile HGF: I will agree to disagree with you on this. I think his love for her may have been more paternal than passionate, but I still think he loved her. |
| jjones | Posted – 9/17/2007 5:36:58 PM | show profile 1. What do you covet? Oh, I am very covetous. Ten million dollars. An investment portfolio that would create a regular income for me so I wouldn't have to work. A car that isn't 17 years old. A hot little bod that I can show or hide as I please. Christian Bale. Having the Queer Eyes decorate my apartment with furniture from Room & Board. A writing career. To have written fabu books. Or at least one fabu book. Six dogs and a farm in Vermont. 2. Have you ever sent a meal back at a restaurant? I usually try not to do this. But I think I have. Sent a very rare steak back twice and of course it came back leathery. Send a vile cheese omelet back at a nasty diner in Midtown. 3. Time to toot your own horn---tell us something wonderful aout yourself! Very tough for me. I have extremely low self-esteem. I bought some new clothes over the weekend. I lost a little weight and I look H-O-T. 4. What would constitute the perfect day for you? Wake up early, effortlessly. My husband goes off to work. I lie in bed and write all day, losing myself in what I am doing so time disappears. Then I take the dog for a long meditative walk in which incomplete ideas from my morning writing session complete themselves for me. I return home, do some yoga, some meditation, maybe a nice long, hot bath. Spend the afternoon/evening lying on the couch reading. And cook an easy, fabulous, healthy, delicious dinner. Eat with husband. Watch something nice on TV. Get in bed all warm and happy and satisfied and drift off to sleep. 5. What would you title your autobiography? Go Away 6. What are some of the stranger jobs you've held? Receptionist for a company that made ink for corrugated cardboard boxes. 7. Have you ever stolen anything? Oh yeah. I'm a big thief. Stole gum when I was a kid. Got caught stealing Maybelline makeup from Sears when I was a teenager. I then stopped stealing from stores and moved on to employers. Have stolen endless quantities of Post-Its, pens, printer paper (I once stole 11 reams, one by one, over several days), paper clips, pens, mouses, keyboards, a transcriber, even cash, a computer monitor, a computer, etc. And, of course, I fudge my taxes. 8. What are some of your oddities? See above. Also, I pick my nose. Not so much since I started doing nasal irrigation. 9. What memory is so embarrassing that it still makes you cringe each time you think of it? Please see my answer to question No. 9 in Brisk and Bold Random Thursday Questions from 8/23: 9. Have you ever been publicly humiliated? YES! I was in a play during a summer program in high school. We were all supposed to be onstage the whole time. I was wearing a very skimpy costume and I thought I got my period, so I waited until an appropriate moment and ran offstage to go to the bathroom. I ran right into the director, so I had to tell him, "I think I have my period." After the play when he was ragging on our performance and yelling at us, he announced to everyone, "And TK left the stage saying, 'I've got my period!' " I wanted to die. I shuddered in humiliation for years and years remembering that. Worst part: turned out I didn't have my period after all. 10. What assumptions do you find yourself making about people? I have recently revised my assumptions about men. I used to believe the current cultural assumptions that men are not emotional. But now, as I watch all the men I know become fathers and raise children with as much involvement as their mothers, I see how emotional, family-oriented, and paternal they are. ~Bonus Question~ How many times a day would you estimate you think about sex? Not very many. I'm sure I think of money a lot more. Sometimes I play a game with myself on my subway commute and ask myself, "If I had to have sex with someone on this car, whom would it be?" And there isn't always someone I would take... |
| jjones | Posted – 9/17/2007 5:57:59 PM | show profile addendum More oddities: When I change the volume on my TV via remote, I like to do it increments of five. I, too, am intuitive medically, especially about dogs. Somehow I can tell what they need even when they aren't conveying it. Every time I have to drive home to my parents' house out of state, I think I am going to get in an accident and die. And then when it doesn't happen I'm sort of disappointed. I never feel like this when I am leaving their house. |
| foto | Posted – 9/17/2007 9:01:13 PM | show profile I can't believe how many thieves there are in here. I think I better hold onto my wallet! |
| caitlinkelly | Posted – 9/18/2007 12:25:20 AM | show profile 1. Shiny sports cars: Ferraris, Boxsters, Z4s, Solstices, Lotuses, Miatas, Corvettes, Maseratis. I only need one...A really great job. 2. No. 3. I won a National Magazine Award for a funny personal essay about my (not funny) divorce. 4. Waking up totally refreshed in Paris with lots of cash to spend on whatever seems amusing that day. A perfect day I recall was driving in a convertible down Route 100 in Vermont to an antiques show. Another was galloping on horseback through Griffith Park in LA then dancing at Harvelle's blues club that night. Another was sea-kayaking off of Ko Phi Phi in Thailand and eating on the beach under the stars that night. It generally includes access to beauty/history and fun physical acvitities. 5. TK. 6. Nothing weird. 7. Gum? 8. I can never remember the third of anything in a list of three things. I feel disoriented in any house that doesn't have lots of good books and big stacks of interesting magazines. I'm happier in France and Mexico. I have an obsession with fabric (although I don't own a sewing machine) and collect antique textiles. 9. Not for public scrutiny. 10. That they are all working as hard as I am. That they are (as concerned with) and/or are behaving ethically. |
| jjones | Posted – 9/18/2007 2:07:28 PM | show profile And I can't believe... ...how many people DON'T steal. I feel like a degenerate. Something else in the toot-your-own-horn category: I'm 40 and I've got no wrinkles. This seems unremarkable to me except every once in a while I run into an old friend who's got them and I'm like Wow, I must be old. |
| Bleak Spouse | Posted – 9/18/2007 11:48:40 PM | show profile my favorite image from all of these thursday question and answers...is of Wine having to be held back by her adult friends from pulverizing a wise-ass kid on the boardwalk. |
| wineaux | Posted – 9/19/2007 9:12:00 PM | show profile Bleak, I can make the image even funnier with some details. Well, in hindsight I think it's funny. Picture me, ponytailed, in a flowered sundress and glittery flipflops. I'm very girly, and look totally harmless and nice, but I have a very hot temper when provoked. ESPECIALLY when it comes to crap like that. I cannot keep my mouth shut, even when I'm attempting my best behavior in a group. The guy that held me back is a good sized, muscular Mid Westerner, who was, of course, totally appalled that I didn't just walk away and ignore that little punk's remark. My husband was right there, watching my antics, totally amused. He knows there's no stopping the acid mouth when the motor starts running. Off I go................ I suppose I should be embarrassed, but the mother of that kid should be more mortified to have produced such a little ass bag. Ugh........my blood just boils thinking about it. |
