Continued from
Round 5 - Xben gets the next Q.
Having started this thread way, way back in 2004 (I think), I'm pretty stoked that it's lasted all the way to Round Six! Thanks all for playing, it's awesome getting to know everyone a bit more.
Here's a list of links to the others -
Round One Round Two Round Three Round Four Round Five
All right! First question in the new round...
For my birthday a few weeks ago which of these gifts did I not receive (or buy with birthday money):
a. LSH Archives #13
b. Legion of Super-Heroes: The Curse HC
c. Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus vol. 1
d. Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus vol. 2
e.. a DVD of a film I don't really like that much
f. a DVD of a film I'd never heard of
g. the latest issue of The Flash
h. a new shirt
i. new pants
j. "The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond" by GK Chesterton
k. Amazing Spider-Man Masterworks vol 7 (TPB)
l. "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card
m. Actually, I received all of these - it was a good birthday
c. Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus vol. 1
l. "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card
Both incorrect. I received both - Jack Kirby I bought myself with birthday money, "Ender's Game" I was given, as well as its four sequels. I read the Omnibus, and enjoyed it. Haven't touched "Ender's Game" yet - my wife snatched it up first.
g. the latest issue of The Flash
Not it. My wife not only ventured to the comic shop to get it as a little extra for me, but also had to even track down the comic shop as it had recently moved.
k. Amazing Spider-Man Masterworks vol 7 (TPB)
Got that as well. I really enjoy those early Spider-Man's.
j. "The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond" by GK Chesterton
Got that too. But I couldn't find it to have during a work-trip that I'm currently on this week! It's gotta be in the house somewhere...
m. Actually, I received all of these - it was a good birthday
Got a new shirt, didn't get new pants! You win, IB.
Cool! Lucky guess. Thanks Xben. Sure sounds like you had an awesome birthday. Any particular fave out of the gifts you did win?
I haven't been cooking as often as I'd like. What is the last dish I cooked/prepared?
a) Paella
b) Chicken Parmigiana
c) Lemon Chicken
d) Shrimp in Tomato-Coconut Cream
e) Chocolate-Filled Pancakes
f) Steamed Vegetables in Cream Sauce
g) Beef and Vegetable Curry
h) Gambas
i) Nachos with Ground Beef
j) Sweet and Sour Pork
k) Rosemary Chicken
l) Fish in Butter Sauce
m) Beef Tacos
n) Sukiyaki
o) Carbonara with Bacon and Ham
p) "Birthday" Noodles
q) Kung Pao Chicken
r) Curried Egg Salad
s) Cream of Squash
t) Roasted Vegetables in Olive Oil
u) Tuna-Basil Pesto
v) Lychee Fruit Cocktail
w) Asian-Style Poached Fish
x) Shrimp and Vegetable Tempura
y) Pizza with Shrimp and Peas
z) Chicken and Fish Jambalaya
Nope. I made beef tacos for Blaze last month on one of our dates, but I've cooked since then.
e) Chocolate-Filled Pancakes
I haven't read everything I received yet, but I was pretty happy to get the latest Legion Archives so soon after it'd been released. I was also pretty happy to finally crack into the Jack Kirby material. My wife found the GK Chesterton book while I was away, so that should be fun too.
Xben, sounds like you're going to have some fun reading times soon. That's awesome, I know you're a big fan of the Jack Kirby stories
No to both. We haven't had any birthdays celebrated at home recently, so no birthday noodles.
The chocolate-filled pancakes were one of the last dishes I made, but not the last.
Blaze also kindly reminded me that I neglected to add as a choice one of the last dishes I prepared - Chili Crab. But it still wasn't the LAST dish I made.
a) Paella
b) Chicken Parmigiana
c) Lemon Chicken
d) Shrimp in Tomato-Coconut Cream
f) Steamed Vegetables in Cream Sauce
g) Beef and Vegetable Curry
h) Gambas
i) Nachos with Ground Beef
j) Sweet and Sour Pork
k) Rosemary Chicken
l) Fish in Butter Sauce
n) Sukiyaki
o) Carbonara with Bacon and Ham
q) Kung Pao Chicken
r) Curried Egg Salad
s) Cream of Squash
t) Roasted Vegetables in Olive Oil
u) Tuna-Basil Pesto
v) Lychee Fruit Cocktail
w) Asian-Style Poached Fish
x) Shrimp and Vegetable Tempura
y) Pizza with Shrimp and Peas
z) Chicken and Fish Jambalaya
Nope! I think I've only made that dish twice, none of them recently.
a) Paella
b) Chicken Parmigiana
c) Lemon Chicken
d) Shrimp in Tomato-Coconut Cream
f) Steamed Vegetables in Cream Sauce
g) Beef and Vegetable Curry
h) Gambas
i) Nachos with Ground Beef
j) Sweet and Sour Pork
k) Rosemary Chicken
l) Fish in Butter Sauce
n) Sukiyaki
o) Carbonara with Bacon and Ham
r) Curried Egg Salad
s) Cream of Squash
t) Roasted Vegetables in Olive Oil
u) Tuna-Basil Pesto
v) Lychee Fruit Cocktail
w) Asian-Style Poached Fish
x) Shrimp and Vegetable Tempura
y) Pizza with Shrimp and Peas
z) Chicken and Fish Jambalaya
Only made that once. My folks had that on their first date so I plan to make that every anniversary hereon.
b) Chicken Parmigiana
c) Lemon Chicken
d) Shrimp in Tomato-Coconut Cream
f) Steamed Vegetables in Cream Sauce
g) Beef and Vegetable Curry
h) Gambas
i) Nachos with Ground Beef
j) Sweet and Sour Pork
k) Rosemary Chicken
l) Fish in Butter Sauce
n) Sukiyaki
o) Carbonara with Bacon and Ham
r) Curried Egg Salad
s) Cream of Squash
t) Roasted Vegetables in Olive Oil
u) Tuna-Basil Pesto
v) Lychee Fruit Cocktail
w) Asian-Style Poached Fish
x) Shrimp and Vegetable Tempura
y) Pizza with Shrimp and Peas
z) Chicken and Fish Jambalaya
o) Carbonara with Bacon and Ham
z) Chicken and Fish Jambalaya
Originally posted by Novel Ty:
o) Carbonara with Bacon and Ham
Haven't made that one in a while.
Originally posted by Xben:
z) Chicken and Fish Jambalaya
Ditto, though Blaze and my friends all love this sweet, spicky, sticky dish.
b) Chicken Parmigiana
c) Lemon Chicken
d) Shrimp in Tomato-Coconut Cream
f) Steamed Vegetables in Cream Sauce
g) Beef and Vegetable Curry
h) Gambas
i) Nachos with Ground Beef
j) Sweet and Sour Pork
k) Rosemary Chicken
l) Fish in Butter Sauce
n) Sukiyaki
r) Curried Egg Salad
s) Cream of Squash
t) Roasted Vegetables in Olive Oil
u) Tuna-Basil Pesto
v) Lychee Fruit Cocktail
w) Asian-Style Poached Fish
x) Shrimp and Vegetable Tempura
y) Pizza with Shrimp and Peas
d) Shrimp in Tomato-Coconut Cream
No, although Blaze and I did make that dish a few weeks ago. It wasn't the latest.
It was good, though - had some nice Thai flavors.
b) Chicken Parmigiana
c) Lemon Chicken
f) Steamed Vegetables in Cream Sauce
g) Beef and Vegetable Curry
h) Gambas
i) Nachos with Ground Beef
j) Sweet and Sour Pork
k) Rosemary Chicken
l) Fish in Butter Sauce
n) Sukiyaki
r) Curried Egg Salad
s) Cream of Squash
t) Roasted Vegetables in Olive Oil
u) Tuna-Basil Pesto
v) Lychee Fruit Cocktail
w) Asian-Style Poached Fish
x) Shrimp and Vegetable Tempura
y) Pizza with Shrimp and Peas
w) Asian-Style Poached Fish
Originally posted by Quislet, Esq:
u) Tuna-Basil Pesto
No, I used to make this for one of my exes though. I think I also made this for Blaze one, so Blaze can't be jealous
Originally posted by Novel Ty:
w) Asian-Style Poached Fish
This is a family favorite, but I haven't made it in a while. The honey-ginger-soy sauce-Philippine lime combo sauce always works wonders!
b) Chicken Parmigiana
c) Lemon Chicken
f) Steamed Vegetables in Cream Sauce
g) Beef and Vegetable Curry
h) Gambas
i) Nachos with Ground Beef
j) Sweet and Sour Pork
k) Rosemary Chicken
l) Fish in Butter Sauce
n) Sukiyaki
r) Curried Egg Salad
s) Cream of Squash
t) Roasted Vegetables in Olive Oil
v) Lychee Fruit Cocktail
x) Shrimp and Vegetable Tempura
y) Pizza with Shrimp and Peas
y) Pizza with Shrimp and Peas
Only made that once, a long time ago, but I'd like to make it again!
b) Chicken Parmigiana
c) Lemon Chicken
f) Steamed Vegetables in Cream Sauce
g) Beef and Vegetable Curry
h) Gambas
i) Nachos with Ground Beef
j) Sweet and Sour Pork
k) Rosemary Chicken
l) Fish in Butter Sauce
n) Sukiyaki
r) Curried Egg Salad
s) Cream of Squash
t) Roasted Vegetables in Olive Oil
v) Lychee Fruit Cocktail
x) Shrimp and Vegetable Tempura
Blaze actually cooked that one for me! But it wasn't the most recent.
b) Chicken Parmigiana
c) Lemon Chicken
f) Steamed Vegetables in Cream Sauce
g) Beef and Vegetable Curry
h) Gambas
i) Nachos with Ground Beef
j) Sweet and Sour Pork
l) Fish in Butter Sauce
n) Sukiyaki
r) Curried Egg Salad
s) Cream of Squash
t) Roasted Vegetables in Olive Oil
v) Lychee Fruit Cocktail
x) Shrimp and Vegetable Tempura
x) Shrimp and Vegetable Tempura
Alas, no. I've never actually made shrimp tempura before, just vegetable (radish and eggplant).
b) Chicken Parmigiana
c) Lemon Chicken
f) Steamed Vegetables in Cream Sauce
g) Beef and Vegetable Curry
h) Gambas
i) Nachos with Ground Beef
j) Sweet and Sour Pork
l) Fish in Butter Sauce
n) Sukiyaki
r) Curried Egg Salad
s) Cream of Squash
t) Roasted Vegetables in Olive Oil
v) Lychee Fruit Cocktail
Originally posted by He Who Wanders:
n) Sukiyaki
Oops, missed this. This is a family favorite (and my friends love it too) and one of the first dishes I ever learned, but I haven't made it recently.
b) Chicken Parmigiana
c) Lemon Chicken
f) Steamed Vegetables in Cream Sauce
g) Beef and Vegetable Curry
h) Gambas
i) Nachos with Ground Beef
j) Sweet and Sour Pork
l) Fish in Butter Sauce
r) Curried Egg Salad
s) Cream of Squash
t) Roasted Vegetables in Olive Oil
v) Lychee Fruit Cocktail
g) Beef and Vegetable Curry
So after I posted this, I tried a new dish - pork and apple casserole. But that shouldn't invalidate the Q
Originally posted by Novel Ty:
j) Sweet and Sour Pork
Another family fave, but I haven't made it in a while.
Originally posted by Blacula:
g) Beef and Vegetable Curry
I made one with fish curry powder from Indonesia, but that was a few months ago.
Originally posted by Xben:
b) Chicken Parmigiana
Another dish Blaze and I tried to cook (although we cheated by not baking it), but again, that was a few months ago.
c) Lemon Chicken
f) Steamed Vegetables in Cream Sauce
h) Gambas
i) Nachos with Ground Beef
l) Fish in Butter Sauce
r) Curried Egg Salad
s) Cream of Squash
t) Roasted Vegetables in Olive Oil
v) Lychee Fruit Cocktail
I have no idea what
h) Gambas
are so this is your chance to explain to me while you tell me I'm wrong.
Spicy shrimp in an oil-based sauce
My version uses tomato sauce.
http://www.pinoyrecipe.net/filipino-spicy-gambas-recipe-spicy-prawns/ This was the first recipe I ever learned (or was it the second?),, but I haven't made it recently.
c) Lemon Chicken
f) Steamed Vegetables in Cream Sauce
i) Nachos with Ground Beef
l) Fish in Butter Sauce
r) Curried Egg Salad
s) Cream of Squash
t) Roasted Vegetables in Olive Oil
v) Lychee Fruit Cocktail
f) Steamed Vegetables in Cream Sauce
Originally posted by Quislet, Esq:
f) Steamed Vegetables in Cream Sauce
Made this once with fresh vegetables from the valley, but that was after Holy Week.
Originally posted by He Who Wanders:
c) Lemon Chicken
IIRC I've only made this once too, which is odd since it's one of my favorite dishes.
i) Nachos with Ground Beef
l) Fish in Butter Sauce
r) Curried Egg Salad
s) Cream of Squash
t) Roasted Vegetables in Olive Oil
v) Lychee Fruit Cocktail
I learned that recipe from my grandma, but I haven't made it in a while.
i) Nachos with Ground Beef
l) Fish in Butter Sauce
r) Curried Egg Salad
t) Roasted Vegetables in Olive Oil
v) Lychee Fruit Cocktail
That was an odd little recipe I tried once, and never got around to doing again.
i) Nachos with Ground Beef
l) Fish in Butter Sauce
t) Roasted Vegetables in Olive Oil
v) Lychee Fruit Cocktail
i) Nachos with Ground Beef
You got it, Xben. At the time this question was posted, the last dish I made was nachos with ground beef. The beef was cooked using my taco recipe, and I poured yogurt, cheese dip and salsa over the nacho mix.
You're up!
Here's a bunch of movies, most of which I've seen recently (either in the theatre, on TV, DVD, or whatever)
Pick a) Which film I've seen most recently
and b) Which film I'm planning on watching tomorrow evening
1. Red Dog
2. Hugo
3. Men in Black 3
4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
5. Mad About Mambo
6. A Few Good Men
7. Amazing Spider-Man
8. Avengers
9. The Muppets
10. The Dish
11. Prometheus
12. Ice Age: Continental Drift
13. Music & Lyrics
a) Amazing Spider-Man
b) Ice Age: Continental Drift
Most recent: 11. Prometheus
Watching next: 1. Red Dog
Out of the 4 guessed so far, 1 is a correct guess, but it is in the wrong position.
Most recent: 8. Avengers
Next: 7. Amazing Spider-Man
Originally posted by Xben:
Here's a bunch of movies, most of which I've seen recently (either in the theatre, on TV, DVD, or whatever)
Pick a) Which film I've seen most recently
and b) Which film I'm planning on watching tomorrow evening
1. Red Dog
2. Hugo
3. Men in Black 3
4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
5. Mad About Mambo
6. A Few Good Men
7. Amazing Spider-Man
8. Avengers
9. The Muppets
10. The Dish
11. Prometheus
12. Ice Age: Continental Drift
13. Music & Lyrics
Most recent: 5. Mad About Mambo
Next: 7. Amazing Spider-Man
Still only one correct answer guessed - but now it is in the right position!
If you guys get this question in the next 9 hours, the answers will still be true.
Most Recent: Men in Black 3
Next: 7. Amazing Spider-Man
I think IB has it, but in case he doesn't...
Most recent: 8. Avengers
Next: 7. Amazing Spider-Man
IB does indeed have it. Seeing Spider-Man tonight with my wife at the drive-in of all places.
Lucky guess. How was MIB 3, Xben?
Okay, let's stick with fewer choices this time
PS - Blaze doesn't know this, so feel free to answer, Blaze!
Kinetix is my favorite Legionnaire. But who is my favorite Justice Leaguer, my favorite Teen Titan, and my favorite JSAer?
Justice League
1 - Ice
2 - Doctor Light
3 - Wonder Woman
Teen Titan
1 - Argent
2 - Flamebird
3 - Kole
JSA
1 - Stargirl
2 - Cyclone
3 - Power Girl
2 - Doctor Light
2 - Flamebird
2 - Cyclone
1. Ice
3. Kole
3. Cyclone
Whew! Had to google those characters!
1. Ice
1. Argent
1. Stargirl
Aw Blaze, thanks for doing all that research
All these characters are in my Top 3-5 for each team, btw.
Among the guesses above, each poster has correctly guessed ONE answer each.
Among the guesses above, there is also one correct guess for the JLA, one for the Titans, and one for the JSA.
2 - Doctor Light
3 - Kole
1 - Stargirl
You got it, Xben (looking back I think my 2 clues put together made this the only possible answer!)
Back over to you.
Re JSA, I had to think hard on whether Cyclone or Stargirl was my real fave. But Courtney edged Maxine out because of her greater character development.
About Men in Black 3:
Men in Black III: Entertaining, yet not Entirely Satisfying (and so not really surprising) Um, a question.
Which is not true around me right now?
1. My wife is sleeping on the couch
2. The cat is sleeping on my wife
3. The heater is on
4. The Stargate: Atlantis DVD I'm trying to watch isn't playing properly
5. I can hear music coming from my kids' room
6. The room is a bit of a mess
7. The blinds are drawn
8. The clock is ticking
9. The laptop is in the lap
10. There are four lights on in the room
11. My boots are sitting carelessly in one corner of the room
12. There are three fish sitting in two bowls in the room
13. Or they are all true
Well, they aren't all true anymore, but they were when I wrote it. Well done, Blaze.
I watch the following TV shows except:
1. True Blood
2. Gossip Girl
3. Walking Dead
4. Rome
5. Spartacus
6. The Tudors
7. Game of Thrones
Woah! That was fast. Have you been spying on me Xben?
(I'm currently downloading season 1, episode 1 though)
No spying - just a complete guess. And returning the favor of guessing mine so quickly as well!
Err, okay...
Today, I...
a. am sick
b. had a grilled ham & cheese sandwich for dinner
c. started to discuss Amazing Spider-Man with a friend, but didn't get to finish
d. saw a woman performing very impressive hula-hooping tricks
e. discovered that the city library has moved locations
f. sneaked a visit to the comic shop in the middle of some important errands
g. rode on a bus
h. hung up laundry
i. read a manga graphic novel / self help book about principles for finding a satisfying career
j. didn't watch any TV
They are all true but one of them. Which one is NOT true.
j. didn't watch any TV
Originally posted by Blaze:
I watch the following TV shows except:
1. True Blood
2. Gossip Girl
3. Walking Dead
4. Rome
5. Spartacus
6. The Tudors
7. Game of Thrones
Nice Q hon. Among these I would have had to have guessed between 3, 4, and 6. Although given that I knew you watched 7 and 5 (and I know what you like watching most
)... I might have guessed 3 via process of elimination.
Unfortunaely, I am sick.
Also, I didn't watch any TV. Unless you count me being in the room for a bit while my kids were watching "Alice in Wonderland" on DVD (which I don't).
e. discovered that the city library has moved locations
Hope you're well now, Xben.
c. started to discuss Amazing Spider-Man with a friend, but didn't get to finish
No, still sick, which is why I am sitting at home looking at this website.
And c. is not the answer.
i. read a manga graphic novel / self help book about principles for finding a satisfying career
f. sneaked a visit to the comic shop in the middle of some important errands
Get well soon, Xben!
I did do i - my wife bought it for me somewhere for $.20. It was a breezy quick read. I'm not really into Manga, so it was a bit unusual for me, but in my sickness it was an enjoyable read.
f. is the correct answer. I walked by the Comic Shop at one point, but didn't go inside.
Thanks for the well wishes, IB.
The manga art style can be quite jarring, if it's your first time reading.
Which of these have I not had any formal classes or instruction in (by formal, I mean learned from someone who was paid to teach)?
a) Krav Maga
b) Tae Kwon Do
c) Swimming
d) Muay Thai
e) Cooking
f) Arithmetic
g) Chinese calligraphy
h) Writing
i) Weightlifting
j) Pottery
Quis has it. All I know about cooking has been learned online, by experimenting, or through asking my grandparents and other people I know who like to cook.
For most of the others, it's just been one or two classes but always from someone paid to teach me.
You're up Quis!
Keeping with an educational theme, what was the last class I took?
1) Creative Writing
2) Yoga for Relaxation
3) Oil Painting
4) Divorce Mediation
5) Zumba
6) Conversational Spanish
7) Blogging for Business
8) Massage Therapy
9) US History From the Civil War to World War 2
10) Proust for Beginners
11) Attracting a Life Partner
12) Sailing
13) It's been so long since I took a class, I've forgotten what it was.
Since I know you've been going to the gym lately...
2) Yoga for Relaxation
Yes, I am going to the gym, but I have not taken Yoga for Relaxation.
13) It's been so long since I took a class, I've forgotten what it was.
11) Attracting a Life Partner
Just be yourself?
It has been a year or two since I last took a class, but I do remember which one I took,
I was looking at the catalogue of a local adult ed group for real courses to fake people out. Attracting a Life Partner was one such course. It was for women only. And was canceled. Oh well. Obviously (by now) I did not take that class.
Guessing 4) Divorce Mediation since it's career-related?
13) It's been so long since I took a class, I've forgotten what it was.
Nope, I did not take Divorce Mediation.
Blaze, that answer was already guessed and is still incorrect.
Guessing another class you might have at your gym -
5) Zumba
10) Proust for Beginners
I have no idea what is Proust...
Originally posted by Quislet, Esq:
Keeping with an educational theme, what was the last class I took?
1) Creative Writing
<strike>2) Yoga for Relaxation</strike>
3) Oil Painting
<strike>4) Divorce Mediation
5) Zumba</strike>
6) Conversational Spanish
7) Blogging for Business
8) Massage Therapy
9) US History From the Civil War to World War 2
<strike>10) Proust for Beginners
11) Attracting a Life Partner</strike>
12) Sailing
<strike>13) It's been so long since I took a class, I've forgotten what it was.</strike>
I have not taken a Zumba class, although it looks fun. Novelty, Proust is Marcel Proust a French novelist. His monumental 7 part book is "In Search of Lost Time" (previously translated as "Rememberance of Things Past") I have never read any Proust myself and have not taken any classes about him or his writing.
Nope, but the city of Boston has a program for kids to learn how to sail for only a dollar a week.
6) Conversational Spanish?
Hablo Espanol muy muy muy poco. And that is the extent of my conversational Spanish. Maybe if I had taken a class, I'd know more.
Oh boy... what are we doing? Classes? Hmm...
Novel Ty,
I guess I wasn't clear. I have not taken a class in Conversational Spanish.
My question is still unanswered.
I have never had a Creative Writing class.
Hmm...
7) Blogging for Business
Not blogging
Three answers left. Get 'em now before they are gone.
9) US History From the Civil War to World War 2
I love History, But I haven't taken a class on history since college. And I have had plenty of law school classes after that, so it can't be the last class I took.
Not Massage Therapy. Next poster should get it.
Oil Painting, then. When did you take it, Quis?
I took it a couple of years ago. I didn't like it and I don't think I was any good.
I'm awful at all "traditional" art too. I think I'm just terribly sloppy.
I'll think of a question in the next day or so.
There are several countries I would really love to visit before the world ends.
Which of these is foremost on the list?
a) Mongolia
b) Myanmar
c) Ethiopia
d) Vanuatu
e) New Zealand
f) Greece
g) Spain
h) Iceland
i) Brazil
j) Peru
k) Egypt
l) Tunisia
m) Mexico
n) Israel
Iceland is a must-see, but I don't plan to spend more than 4 days there when I finally do get to go. It's not the one among the above that I absoluetely MUST visit before I die.
e) New Zealand
If this isn't on your list, it really needs to be.
New Zealand IS on the list, but if I had to pick just one, it wouldn't be it. Can't wait to go bungee jumping, and see that place where they shot part of Lord of the Rings (blanking on the name right now - I think it's Milford Sound?).
Greece is also on my list, but not the first one. I'm all stoked up to hit Santorini, Athens and all the temples though. And Greek food!
Re Iceland above, I'm mostly interested ins eeing the geysers and glaciers
Originally posted by Quislet, Esq:
i) Brazil
Totally on the list. blaze and I wanna hit Rio, see the Christ the Redeemer statue, the Amazon, and take part in one of Brazil's famous festivals. But it's not THE one.
Originally posted by Kent Shakespeare:
k) Egypt
Egypt is also non-negotiable, but not THE one. (Can't wait to see the desert, the pyramids, and the Sphinx though...)
Originally posted by Novel Ty:
d) Vanuatu
Vanuatu is a country I've recently become fascinated with, ever since I read about the giant banyan tree and the active volcano! But it's not THE one either.
Originally posted by Invisible Brainiac:
There are several countries I would really love to visit before the world ends.
Which of these is foremost on the list?
a) Mongolia
b) Myanmar
c) Ethiopia
<strike>d) Vanuatu
e) New Zealand
f) Greece</strike>
g) Spain
<strike>h) Iceland
i) Brazil</strike>
j) Peru
<strike>k) Egypt</strike>
l) Tunisia
m) Mexico
n) Israel
m) Mexico
Thanks for updating the list, Quis!
Originally posted by Xben:
a) Mongolia
I DO want to get lost in the Mongolian wilderness (Mongolia has the lowest population density of any country!), taste real Mongolian cuisine, and attend a Mongolian festival (the big 3 sports are wrestling, horseback riding and archery), but it's not THE one.
Originally posted by Quislet, Esq:
m) Mexico
I will come back and haunt the world if I do not get to see Mexico's ruins before I die, and I really want to try authentic Mexican cuisine (closest I got was San Diego), but it's not THE one either.
OK, how about b) Myanmar?
Originally posted by Xben:
OK, how about b) Myanmar?
I want to see the fabled thousand pagodas of Myanmar one day, but Thailand, Laos and Malaysia take priority in Southeast Asia.
Originally posted by Quislet, Esq:
g) Spain
Barcelona, Madrid... Spain and its wonderful sights and cuisine are near the top (Spain has the 2nd most UNESCO World Heritage sites of any country!), but Spain isn't THE one.
That leaves -
c) Ethiopia
j) Peru
l) Tunisia
n) Israel
I adore ancient ruins (which is why I picked Cambodia to visit after graduation), and what could be more breathtaking than an entire lost city?
Machu Picchu is the main reason I'd love to visit Peru, but there are many others such as Chan Chan and Chavin de Huantar. I'd also love to see the Andes and the native festivals. The food is a great - with 8 different climates in Peru, there are a lot of dishes to sample.
Over to you, Quis!
My dislike of tomatoes is well known. But that is just the tip of the iceberg for this fussy eater. Among the following, which is the one food I will eat with no problems?
1) Cheese
2) Eggs
3) Squash
4) Peppers
5) Split Pea Soup
6) Green Beans
7) Tacos
8) Low Mein Noodles
9) Chicken Pot Pie
10) Cod Fish
I'm assuming you won't eat anything with tomato sauces either, so...
2) Eggs
IB, you are correct..... in assuming that I also don't do tomato sauces. So no pizza, no lasagna, no spaghetti sauce. And no ketchup either
As for eggs, I'll eat the white of a hard boiled egg, but not the yolk. So, I do have somewhat of a problem with eating eggs.
Peppers. Bleck! enough said.
And no to low mein noodles. I like my noodles plain with butter only.
The only way/time I eat squash is when it is a squash pie. Otherwise I don't touch the stuff.
This one didn't last to the bitter end.
I do like green beans and have no problem eating them.
I was going to pick cheese, but since green is my favorite color...
I thought the correct answer would be a "basic" food, unlike Chicken Pot Pie which may contain many ingredients, and definitely not Tacos, which usually contain cheese and tomatoes
Continuing the food theme...
I also used to be a picky eater, but am much more willing to try weird food now. And I eat lots and lots of veggies.
Which of these foods have I not tried?
a) Crocodile meat
b) Balut (boiled fertilized duck egg containing a partially developed embryo)
c) Bitter gourd (ampalaya)
d) Volcanic black eggs
e) Shark meat
f) Jellyfish
g) Dog meat
h) Kangaroo
i) Silk worm
j) Sea cucumber
Wow, you've eaten a lot of exotic food!
Errr a) Crocodile meat?
Wow! You know me too well. I've never tried dog meat before (that I know of, anyway!)
The volcanic eggs were from Hakone, Japan.
Kangaroo and crocodile meat were in Australia.
SIlk worms in China.
Shark meat and Balut here in the Philippines; ditto sea cucumber and jellyfish (Chinese-style food).
Which of the following is a lie?
a) during my 1st session in my new gym, a doctor introduced himself to me in the sauna
b) i was only able to get my membership card after a month
c) i tried to cancel my 1-year gym membership after my first session
d) i almost dropped the barbell while doing chest presses but someone helped me out
e) i can lift heavier weights now vs last year
f) i'm lazy to do leg exercises
Hmph! What are you doing talking to doctors in the sauna?
And I can't guess because I know exactly what the right answer is!
c) i tried to cancel my 1-year gym membership after my first session
Oh, he offered free
consultation.
C is true. I even wrote a letter explaining my intention to withdraw from the contract. Apparently, pre-termination isn't allowed so I'm locked in for a year.
b) i was only able to get my membership card after a month
e) i can lift heavier weights now vs last year
B is true. It took them 1 month to produce my membership card!
Xben has it. Due to a 2-month gym hiatus, my maximum weight now was my minimum a year ago.
Well, good on ya, Blaze, for the improvement.
Years ago, I gave in to temptation and bought an issue of the "Epi-Log" from the comic shop. This was a magazine that featured episode guides of TV shows. This issue featured two long-running police shows from the 1970's and 1980's that I used to watch (including a full page color photo of each on one of the covers).
What were the two shows?
(actually, as I double check, turns out one of the shows was also on in the 1960's)
Neither correct, although you've picked two shows that started roughly at the same times as the correct shows. Both of the correct shows ran for longer than the same-time-period ones that you guessed.
Originally posted by Xben:
Well, good on ya, Blaze, for the improvement.
Years ago, I gave in to temptation and bought an issue of the "Epi-Log" from the comic shop. This was a magazine that featured episode guides of TV shows. This issue featured two long-running police shows from the 1970's and 1980's that I used to watch (including a full page color photo of each on one of the covers).
What were the two shows?
(actually, as I double check, turns out one of the shows was also on in the 1960's)
Dragnet & Cagney & Lacey
Hawaii 5-0 and... Charlie's Angels?
The Older Show (that started in the 1960's) has been guessed correctly.
The newer show has not. It is definitely a police show, not a private investigator one (like Charlie's Angels). It debuted the same year as Cagney & Lacey and was part of, I think, the overall same trend in TV.
Hawaii 5-0 and Hill Street Blues?
That is it. And with that, big imposing color pictures of Jack Lord on one cover and Daniel J. Travanti & Veronica Hamel on the other.
What do you think about the new Hawaii 5-0 series, Xben?
Pugad Baboy is a comic strip about a community of obese people in Manila. Its popularity comes not from that, though - it's a pretty incisive and hilarious commentary on life in the Philippines (pop culture, the government, social issues, and a sprinkling of adventure and action).
Oh, and their mascot is an intelligent talking dog who drinks beer.
Which of these storylines have I not read?
1) 2078 - the Pugad Baboy residents are mysteriously transported to 2078, and see a Philippines that is quite different from the present day
2) The Malunggay Conflict - two neighbors go to war over a malunggay tree on the border of their properties. Somewhat of a satire on the Gulf War.
3) Ang Hiwaga ng Duenas - The Pugad Baboy residents visit the province of Iloilo, where they are attacked by various mystical creatures who want to eat them
4) Maidnappers - the Pugad Baboy residents must deal with the kidnapping of two of their maids - and one of them has a terribly sarcastic wit which can drive the most peaceful of men to violence!
5) Pirata - the talking dog Polgas befriends a Muslim pirate and breaks up a pirate ring
6) Oplan Paglalanse - a gang of vigilantes foils the money-making plans of the corrupt local police district
7) Col. Manyakis - a philandering soldier has the tables turned on him when his immediate superior turns out to have the hots for him!
8) James Bab - the local good-for-nothing finds himself in a world of trouble when he signs up to train as a secret agent
9) The Olongapo Caper - a fun vacation in Subic turns into a mission to rescue the captives of a human trafficking ring
10) Benigno Ramos: Bounty Hunter - what is an ex-con bounty hunter to do when his employers turn out to be hunting him too?
3) Ang Hiwaga ng Duenas - The Pugad Baboy residents visit the province of Iloilo, where they are attacked by various mystical creatures who want to eat them.
Nope, I read that one. It's pretty hilarious - they take out the monsters with garlic pizza, and the true mastermind is revealed to be Lucifer, who is a screaming queen and prefers to be addressed as Lady Lucy.
8) James Bab - the local good-for-nothing finds himself in a world of trouble when he signs up to train as a secret agent
Nope, I read that too. James Bab's secret weapon was a peashooter, and his clumsy attempts at spying got him mistaken for a Peeping Tom.
5) Pirata - the talking dog Polgas befriends a Muslim pirate and breaks up a pirate ring
4) Maidnappers - the Pugad Baboy residents must deal with the kidnapping of two of their maids - and one of them has a terribly sarcastic wit which can drive the most peaceful of men to violence!
Maidnappers is hilarious - the Sungcal family maid and the maid of their relative Gwen from the States are kidnapped, after they use Gwen's credit card at a gay bar.
The kidnappers almost off them both because the Sungcal family maid keeps insulting them with her biting wit.
Novel Ty has it - Pirata is not in one of the regular compilations, and I haven't been able to snag a copy of it yet.
Back to you, Novel Ty!
I had pasta today. What type?
A. Angelhair
B. Bolognaise
C. Capellini
D. Ditalini
E. Farfalle
F. Fettuccine
G. Gnocchi
H. Farfalle
I. Linguini
J. Spaghetti
K. Canelloni
L. Lasagna
M. Mandala
N. None of the above.
No to Angelhair, no to Linguini. Guess again.
I don't even know what Ditalini is... So no.
Nope, I did not have Garfield the cat's favourite dish!
I'll guess E. Farfalle.
B. Bolognaise
C. Capellini
E. Farfalle
F. Fettuccine
G. Gnocchi
H. Farfalle
J. Spaghetti
M. Mandala
N. None of the above.
No bow-tie pasta for me IB. Try again.
How about the common spaghetti?
Not Spaghetti or Gnocchi. Try again!
How about Farfalle? *PS, Gnocchi is very tasty! Only time I got to try it was at a restaurant in Maldives...
B. Bolognaise
C. Capellini
E. Farfalle
F. Fettuccine
H. Farfalle
M. Mandala
N. None of the above
F. Fettuccine
Hmmm... Farfalle is on the list twice.
It's not Farfalle
I had Fettuccine Carbonara that day. I wanted something soothing. Back to you Quis.
Monday, I start a temporary job assignment at...
1) Ropes & Gray LLP
2) Harvard University
3) the Irish Consulate
4) Fidelity Investments
5) Boston University
6) Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP
7) John Hancock
8) the City of Boston
9) Sam Adams Brewery
10) Work? Work is for peasants!
Not the Irish Consulate, But I stopped to help this guy looking at the subway map and he was headed to the Irish Consulate.
Not the City of Boston either. I think the city is bound by union rules and probably can't hire temps.
I worked for John Hancock in the past (starting as a temp, then being hired full time) BUt I won't be working there on Monday.
6) Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP
I will not be working at either of Boston's top law firms even if Novel Ty changes their names.
Have you tried though?
2) Harvard University
Not working for Harvard University.
As for working for a law firm, I found that I prefer the study of law to the practice of law.
That leaves:
4) Fidelity Investments
5) Boston University
9) Sam Adams Brewery
10) Work? Work is for peasants!
Hmm... I'll take number 4?
And then there were 3 choices.
I work for Fidelity Investments when I was going to law school.
Remaining choices:
5) Boston University
9) Sam Adams Brewery
10) Work? Work is for peasants!
10) Work? Work is for peasants!
We have a winner. Novel Ty does all that work of whittling it down and Invisible Brainiac saunters by and nabs it.
I am working for Boston University helping with enrollment. Basically helping the students get new ids. The new ids store the student's fingerprint on a microchip. At their new dining hall, they need to tap their card and their finger on a scanner to have access. This is so one student with a meal plan can't "share" his/her card with other students.
LOL, new ids? But they get to keep their egos and superegos?
Some college students only have superegos. (and not in the way Freud meant superego)
I wouldn't be surprised if some of them only had ids too!
Blaze and I have our own little nicknames for each other. What are they? (first nickname is what Blaze calls me, second nickname is what I call Blaze)
a) stud, hunk
b) cutie, sweetie
c) knight, hero
d) Superman, Batman
e) Thor, Iron Man
f) tiger, wolf
g) vampire, devil
h) cowboy, pirate
i) sweet ham, honeycured
j) honey, honey
k) baby, baby
l) Ian, Chace
No, we never call each other cutie and sweetie.
We do call each other honey, but those aren't our prime nicknames.
Nope, we may be animalistic but we don't call each other that. I do call him mountain goat since he was born and raised up in the mountains, while he calls me black sheep because apparently my teasing him is a sign of my black heart
Nah, we have big enough egos that we don't like comparing ourselves to celebrities
Although Ian Somerhalder and Chace Crawford are Blaze's greatest man crushes, we do not compare ourselves to them. And to be fair to Blaze, I must note that we do not use the names of my man crushes either (hello, Johnron Tanada!)
No, those terms of endearment were taken from the Pugad Baboy comics series... but we don't use them.
Originally posted by Invisible Brainiac:
I wouldn't be surprised if some of them only had ids too!
Blaze and I have our own little nicknames for each other. What are they? (first nickname is what Blaze calls me, second nickname is what I call Blaze)
a) stud, hunk
<strike>b) cutie, sweetie</strike>
c) knight, hero
d) Superman, Batman
<strike>e) Thor, Iron Man
f) tiger, wolf</strike>
g) vampire, devil
h) cowboy, pirate
<strike>i) sweet ham, honeycured
j) honey, honey</strike>
k) baby, baby
[strike]l) Ian, Chace[strike]
c) knight, hero
You got it, Quis!
Blaze started calling me vampire because my voice reminds him of the vampires on True Blood, apparently. I especially like teasing him with it while he's at the office - I'll call him up and go all low and husky, and he squirms in his seat because everyone there can hear him. And he can't do anything about it when he gets
I call him devil because we gave him flame powers in LMB lore, and because he's very naughty and always tries to get me into mischief. He's especially naughty when we cook - our prep time always doubles the recipe's time because we get awfully distracted. And like a devil, he's very horny!
Saturday I was at my brother's for a cook-out and to meet my new great-nephew Michael. Of the following people, which one was not there?
1) Jimmy
2) Maria
3) Barbara
4) Grace
5) Paul
6) Alex
7) Elissa
8) Kara
9) Mariana
10) David
11) Daniel
12) Ken
13) Denise
14) Gabriella
15) Emily
16) Lorraine
Nope, Denise is my sister-in-law and it was at her (and my brother's) house the cook out was at.
Nope, my little great niece was a fish in my brother's swimming pool.
Originally posted by Invisible Brainiac:
Nope, we may be animalistic but we don't call each other that. I do call him mountain goat since he was born and raised up in the mountains, while he calls me black sheep because apparently my teasing him is a sign of my black heart and because you sounded like a bleating sheep when you were teasing me!
Originally posted by Invisible Brainiac:
You got it, Quis!
Blaze started calling me vampire because my voice reminds him of the vampires on True Blood, apparently. I especially like teasing him with it while he's at the office - I'll call him up and go all low and husky, and he squirms in his seat because everyone there can hear him. And he can't do anything about it when he gets Hon, you forgot to add that you look gorgeous like vampires too!
1) Jimmy
Hmph! Should I tell them what you say when you lose your temper while I'm teasing you?
Awwww. And you look simply tempting, my hot little devil!
Originally posted by Quislet, Esq:
Saturday I was at my brother's for a cook-out and to meet my new great-nephew Michael. Of the following people, which one was not there?
<strike>1) Jimmy</strike>
2) Maria
3) Barbara
4) Grace
<strike>5) Paul</strike>
6) Alex
<strike>7) Elissa</strike>
8) Kara
<strike>9) Mariana</strike>
10) David
11) Daniel
12) Ken
<strike>13) Denise</strike>
14) Gabriella
15) Emily
16) Lorraine
Jimmy is my nephew and the proud father of young Michael.
Elissa is my niece and just graduated as a physician's assistant. The cook-out was partly a congratualtions to her.
And actually there were 2 Pauls at the cook-out. My brother-in-law and one of my niece's boyfriend
Perhaps I will draw your family tree based on your descriptions, Quis
Congrats to Elissa!
10) David
Both my great nephews David & Daniel were at the cook-out.
IB, there were also 2 Michaels at the cook-out. The guest of honor and my brother Michael. And if you want a big family tree, my mother was one of 10 children. So, I have cousins up the Wazoo.
And I thought my family was bad... course, the family keeps track of all the progeny of my grandfather and HIS relatives, and my grandpa was one of 12...
Was the guest-of-honor Michael a visiting relative?
6) Alex
The guest of honor Michael is my latest great nephew, only four months old.
Maria is his mother (and wife of my nephew Jimmy), so she was there.
my great nephew Alex was not there though. (I didn't ask why)
All the remaining answers I am related to by blood, except for one.
Wow, happy birthday to the younger Michael!
Just curious, which one was the one you were not related to?
As for my Q,
Which of these fruit have I never eaten?
1) Dragonfruit
2) Strawberry
3) Raspberry
4) Apple
5) Jackfruit
6) Kiwi
7) Watermelon
8) Mandarin Orange
9) Passionfruit
10) Peach
11) Cherry
12) Mango
13) Lychee
14) Papaya
15) Coconut
7) Watermelon
As for the person at the cook-out that I am not related to, that just might be my next question.
Kiwi is pretty hard to get where I live, so I goble it up when I do encounter it.
Watermelon is a very common fruit and a great way to cool off on a hot day!
I have had passionfruit juice, but among all the fruit on the list, passionfruit is the only one I've never actually eaten (that is, chomped down on the whole fruit).
So, back to Novel Ty!
Yeah, it's not easy to get that in the bayans
Keeping with the fruit theme, which 3 of these fruits did I have for breakfast?
a) Apricot
b) Blueberries
c) Cranberries
d) Dates
e) Elderberries
f) Fig
g) Grapefruit
h) Honeydew
i) Indian gooseberry
j) Jackfruit
k) Kiwifruit
l) Lemon
m) Mango
n) Nectarine
o) Orange
p) Papaya
q) Kamquats
r) Raspberries
s) Strawberries
t) Tangerine
Oh, definitely not
Mangos, bananas, pineapple and coconuts easy though!
Hmmm...
m) Mango
p) Papaya
j) jackfruit
b) Blueberries
g) Grapefruit
s) Strawberries
Nobody has got it correct. And I don't think I can take jackfruit for breakfast. After meals maybe, but not on its own.
m) Mango
o) Orange
p) Papaya
That's a nice combination IB. I had mango for lunch today in a salad, but not that day. Guess again.
Sounds like you eat a lot of fruit, Novel Ty!
Hmm...
o) Orange
p) Papaya
h) Honeydew
a) Apricot
b) Blueberries
c) Cranberries
d) Dates
e) Elderberries
f) Fig
g) Grapefruit
h) Honeydew
i) Indian gooseberry
k) Kiwifruit
l) Lemon
n) Nectarine
o) Orange
p) Papaya
q) Kamquats
r) Raspberries
s) Strawberries
t) Tangerine
Novel Ty, when you said that nobody has got it correct, were you saying that all six of those guesses were incorrect or just those combinations of guesses?
k) Kiwifruit
h) Honeydew
s) Strawberries
r) Raspberries
s) Strawberries
t) Tangerine
Just the combos, Quis. And nobody has got the combos correct. I'll eliminate a fruit a day... and out this round is the Orange.
p) Papaya
h) Honeydew
t) Tangerine
Remaining fruit:
a) Apricot
b) Blueberries
c) Cranberries
d) Dates
e) Elderberries
f) Fig
g) Grapefruit
h) Honeydew
i) Indian gooseberry
k) Kiwifruit
l) Lemon
n) Nectarine
p) Papaya
q) Kamquats
r) Raspberries
s) Strawberries
t) Tangerine
a) Apricot
c) Cranberries
t) Tangerine
Almost there? Maybe. No Papayas for me sadly. Try again.
h) honeydew
n) Nectarine
t) tangerine
Remaining fruit:
a) Apricot
b) Blueberries
c) Cranberries
d) Dates
e) Elderberries
f) Fig
g) Grapefruit
h) Honeydew
i) Indian gooseberry
k) Kiwifruit
l) Lemon
n) Nectarine
q) Kamquats
r) Raspberries
s) Strawberries
t) Tangerine
a) Apricot
c) Cranberries
i) Indian gooseberry
b) Blueberries
h) Honeydew
s) Strawberries
I don't even know what an Indian Gooseberry is, so I did not eat that. No one has got the combo yet. Here's the question in full for a new page:
Keeping with the fruit theme, which 3 of these fruits did I have for breakfast?
a) Apricot
b) Blueberries
c) Cranberries
d) Dates
e) Elderberries
f) Fig
g) Grapefruit
h) Honeydew
i) Indian gooseberry
j) Jackfruit
k) Kiwifruit
l) Lemon
m) Mango
n) Nectarine
o) Orange
p) Papaya
q) Kamquats
r) Raspberries
s) Strawberries
t) Tangerine
h) Honeydew
n) nectarine
s) strawberry
Remaining fruit:
a) Apricot
b) Blueberries
c) Cranberries
d) Dates
e) Elderberries
f) Fig
g) Grapefruit
h) Honeydew
k) Kiwifruit
l) Lemon
n) Nectarine
q) Kamquats
r) Raspberries
s) Strawberries
t) Tangerine
n) Nectarine
q) Kamquats
r) Raspberries
I love Kamquats, which are a weird cross between an orange and a lime and tastes like a honey orange. But I didn't have that that day. Nobody has got the correct 3 fruits yet.
h) Honeydew
n) nectarine
g) grapefruit
Remaining fruit:
a) Apricot
b) Blueberries
c) Cranberries
d) Dates
e) Elderberries
f) Fig
g) Grapefruit
h) Honeydew
k) Kiwifruit
l) Lemon
n) Nectarine
r) Raspberries
s) Strawberries
t) Tangerine
b) Blueberries
r) Raspberries
s) Strawberries
IB, I got rid of your double post.
c) Cranberries
d) Dates
f) Fig
I don't really like figs. They just seem too cruncy. I don't eat them if I get a choice. So that's not it. Nobody has got the correct combo yet!
c) Cranberries
d) Dates
e) Elderberries
Originally posted by Quislet, Esq:
IB, I got rid of your double post.
Thanks, Quis!
h) honeydew
g) grapefruit
t) tangerine
Remaining fruit:
a) Apricot
b) Blueberries
c) Cranberries
d) Dates
e) Elderberries
g) Grapefruit
h) Honeydew
k) Kiwifruit
l) Lemon
n) Nectarine
r) Raspberries
s) Strawberries
t) Tangerine
I have no idea what is an elderberry either, so that's not it. Nobody has got the correct combo yet.
a) Apricot
c) Cranberries
d) Dates
Grapefruit
Nectarine
Tangerine
Remaining fruit:
a) Apricot
b) Blueberries
c) Cranberries
d) Dates
g) Grapefruit
h) Honeydew
k) Kiwifruit
l) Lemon
n) Nectarine
r) Raspberries
s) Strawberries
t) Tangerine
a) Apricot
n) Nectarine
t) Tangerine
I'll have to say a lot of times it's just 1 away from the answer, but then by the next round, nobody gets the answer. It's not the Tangerine definitely. That should send xben back to the drawing board and I'll give a freebie, all three answers have been mentioned at least once, but not all together at the same time.
So removing Tangerine and Lemon (never been guessed) from the list leaves us with...
a) Apricot
b) Blueberries
c) Cranberries
d) Dates
g) Grapefruit
h) Honeydew
k) Kiwifruit
n) Nectarine
r) Raspberries
s) Strawberries
I'll guess...
Blueberries
Cranberries
Strawberries
Blueberries
Strawberries
Raspberries
I'm assuming that was a no for both of us?
How about
Apricots
Blueberries
Cranberries
?
Oh, I didn't see your answer above IB's, but that's a no. Well, let's see if I can remember what I had that day - Apricot Muesli (with dried apricots) with milk, topped with crasins and fresh blueberries. So that means it's back to Xben!
Wow, can't believe it.
OK, I've recently returned from Kalgoorlie (a country city several hours east of Perth) where I was
a. on holidays (vacation)
b. meeting up with some potential contacts for development work
c. making a movie
d. accompanying my wife as she did some medical work
e. planning a future journey
f. visiting a relative
g. lost
h. satisfying my long held desire to see one of the largest mine sites in the Southern hemisphere
i. taking photographs
j. none of the above
d. accompanying my wife as she did some medical work
h. satisfying my long held desire to see one of the largest mine sites in the Southern hemisphere
b. meeting up with some potential contacts for development work
Novelty has it. I was part of a small crew making a dramatic film for an indigenous community in the area.
Ooooh... OK. And to stay on topic on Western Australia... which town outside of the Swan River valley have I ever visited?
A. Albany, to visit the wind farms
B. Broome, to pay respects at the Japanese Cemetary
C. Coolgardie, for a toilet break en route to Adelaid
D. Doodlakine, for the concert at the pub
E. Esperance, to wind surf
F. Frank Hann, to study Echidna populations
G. Geraldton, just for lunch
H. Port Hedland, to visit the port, of course
I. Off the coast of Cape Inscription, in a yatch
J. Jilbadji, for survival training
K. Kalgoorlie, on a work visit to the mines
L. Laverton, to attend a wedding
M. Margaret River, to visit a mate on his ranch
N. Northam, to interview a train buff
E. Esperance, to wind surf
K. Kalgoorlie, on a work visit to the mines
L. Laverton, to attend a wedding
Never been to Esperance, so I have no idea how great the waves there are, but I hear it's superb.
Xben was in Kalgoorlie, not me! Never been there either.
Laverton is in the middle of the outback that's hours from anywhere. I don't even know anyone there, let alone attend a wedding there.
Try again.
B. Broome, to pay respects at the Japanese Cemetary
N. Northam, to interview a train buff
Never been to Broome or Northam. Try again.
M. Margaret River, to visit a mate on his ranch
Remaining choices:
A. Albany, to visit the wind farms
C. Coolgardie, for a toilet break en route to Adelaid
D. Doodlakine, for the concert at the pub
F. Frank Hann, to study Echidna populations
G. Geraldton, just for lunch
H. Port Hedland, to visit the port, of course
I. Off the coast of Cape Inscription, in a yatch
J. Jilbadji, for survival training
M. Margaret River, to visit a mate on his ranch
H. Port Hedland, to visit the port, of course
I hear the wine in the Margaret River area is lovely, but I have never been there to taste it in person.
I would love to check out the port in Port Hedland (or is that South Hedland? I don't remember which), but I've not been there either. One of these days.
Try again.
I. Off the coast of Cape Inscription, in a yatch
I wish I could go sailing in the Indian ocean. But no, never been on a yatch off the coast of anywhere in Australia.
A. Albany, to visit the wind farms
Remaining choices:
C. Coolgardie, for a toilet break en route to Adelaid
D. Doodlakine, for the concert at the pub
F. Frank Hann, to study Echidna populations
G. Geraldton, just for lunch
J. Jilbadji, for survival training
G. Geraldton, just for lunch
Originally posted by Invisible Brainiac:
A. Albany, to visit the wind farms
Remaining choices:
C. Coolgardie, for a toilet break en route to Adelaid
D. Doodlakine, for the concert at the pub
F. Frank Hann, to study Echidna populations
G. Geraldton, just for lunch
J. Jilbadji, for survival training
D. Doodlakine, for the concert at the pub
I never knew there was wind farms in Albany until I researched for this question.
Doodlakine does have a rather famous concert at a pub according to the local travel guide, but I've not been there.
Jilbadji and Frank Hann are both way way out in the outback, and I don't think I'll survive there.
Never been to Coolgardie either.
Which means it's back to Xben. Believe it or not, the last time I was in Perth, I was so bored that I just drove for hours out into the outback, had lunch at the middle of nowhere and turned back again. Middle of nowhere just happened to be Geraldton...
Funny story about Geraldton!
OK, which two of these DC series was not a one-time favorite of mine...
1. L.E.G.I.O.N.
2. Suicide Squad
3. Sun Devils
4. Ambush Bug
5. Atari Force
6. Thriller
7. Justice Society of America (Len Strazewski version)
8. Starman (Jack Knight)
9. Starman (Will Payton)
5. Atari Force
6. Thriller
8. Starman (Jack Knight)
1. L.E.G.I.O.N.
Nobody has it correct, but one of you has one correct.
7. Justice Society of America (Len Strazewski version)
8. Starman (Jack Knight)
2. Suicide Squad
3. Sun Devils
Nobody has the right combination.
I loved Sun Devils when I was young - I've never been able to get rid of the series in all the times I've cleaned house since then, even though I assume I would not enjoy it as much now as I did then. It was the series that put Dan Jurgens on the map for me - used to love that guy's penciling.
8. Starman (Jack Knight)
2. Suicide Squad
Not correct. James Robinson's Starman doesn't sit very well in my memory now, but when it was coming out, I was an avid reader for the first 2-3 years.
7. Justice Society of America (Len Strazewski version)
4. Ambush Bug
7. Justice Society of America (Len Strazewski version)
1. L.E.G.I.O.N.
Nope. I really enjoyed that version of JSA, and was disappointed when it was suddenly cancelled. Had no idea of the "controversy" surrounding that decision at the time.
1. L.E.G.I.O.N.
9. Starman (Will Payton)
Remaining choices:
1. L.E.G.I.O.N.
2. Suicide Squad
4. Ambush Bug
5. Atari Force
6. Thriller
9. Starman (Will Payton)
1. L.E.G.I.O.N.
5. Atari Force
Nope. I was a big LEGION fan - one of my favorite books.
5. Atari Force
6. Thriller
4. Ambush Bug
5. Atari Force
Remaining choices:
2. Suicide Squad
4. Ambush Bug
5. Atari Force
6. Thriller
9. Starman (Will Payton)
Nope. I loved Thriller as well, although I only had the first four issues for the longest time. Still like that short run, although I haven't read past #7.
2. Suicide Squad
5. Atari Force
Atari Force
Starman (Will Payton)
Dave Hackett has it. I read an issue or two of Atari Force, but never got into it, and I never read the Will Payton Starman run.
Cool. I was in Saint John to play Heroclix not long ago. I had a Phantom Zone villains team lined up but in the last minute I second guessed myself and ran another theme instead (and subsequently got my ass kicked). What team did I run?
1) Avengers
2) LSH
3) JLI
4) Fantastic Four
5) League of Assassins
6) SHIELD
7) X-Men
8) Suicide Squad
9) Batman Family
10) Fatal Five
11) Batman and the Outsiders
12) JSA
13) Detectives
14) Shadowpact
15) Gotham Villains
No, no and no. I've run Suicide Squad in casual games but haven't put together a tournament team yet. Guess I'm still waiting for Rick Flag. I ran LSH last year and Batman the year before. Both did pretty well, certainly better than this year's team.
1) Avengers
<strike> 2) LSH</strike>
3) JLI
4) Fantastic Four
5) League of Assassins
6) SHIELD
7) X-Men
<strike>8) Suicide Squad</strike>
<strike>9) Batman Family</strike>
10) Fatal Five
11) Batman and the Outsiders
12) JSA
13) Detectives
14) Shadowpact
15) Gotham Villains
11) Batman and the Outsiders
I ran an Outsiders team a few years ago, but those figures desperately need remakes to be competitive these days. I've run a few mystical themed teams, but never Shadowpact specifically. The closest to JSA I've run is an All-Star Squadron team, but that wasn't at this tournament.
1) Avengers
<strike>2) LSH</strike>
3) JLI
4) Fantastic Four
5) League of Assassins
6) SHIELD
7) X-Men
<strike>8) Suicide Squad
9) Batman Family</strike>
10) Fatal Five
<strike>11) Batman and the Outsiders
12) JSA</strike>
13) Detectives
<strike>14) Shadowpact</strike>
15) Gotham Villains
I have never played Gothan Villans or JLI.
I did in fact play Talia, Bronze Tiger, Ra's and a bunch of League Elite, Man-Bat Assassins and League Assassins. It was impressive looking to have a huge swarm on the board, but my opponents JLA just cut through them like butter thanks to Green Lantern and the new Flash.
It's funny you all know me well enough not to pick any Marvel teams.
xBen is up!
What movie, a favorite from my childhood, did my kids watch this morning?
a. Herbie Goes Bananas
b. 101 Dalmatians (cartoon)
c. The Cat from Outer Space
d. Hot Lead & Cold Feet
e. Apple Dumpling Gamg
f. The Aristocats
g. The Absent-Minded Professor
h. Seven Chances (by Buster Keaton)
i. Superman, the Movie
j. The Black Hole
k. Condorman
l. The Secret of NIMH
Nope. That is an old favorite, but I haven't introduced it to the kids yet. A couple of bits that would probably be a bit scary for the younger ones.
g. The Absent-Minded Professor
Originally posted by Dave Hackett:
It's funny you all know me well enough not to pick any Marvel teams.
I confess that I almost did, then I thought better of it.
c. The Cat from Outer Space
After I picked this for my guess, I noticed that you have Whizzy for an avatar.
You got it, Quis! I always loved cats. And that movie was my first real "favourite" as a child. Interestingly, I originally came to be aware of it after reading a comic adaptation that was serialized in the Sunday comics.
What is next on my Netflix Queue?
1) House (1st season)
2) Triumph of the Will
3) Glee (season 2)
4) Metropolis
5) The Tudors (1st season)
6) Doctor Who (Series 5)
7) The Matrix
8) The Adventures of Tintin
9) Paris is Burning
10) The Artist
11) Invader Zim
12) Supernatural (1st season)
How about...
2) Triumph of the Will
(the only one I've seen other than Doctor Who)
Originally posted by Quislet, Esq:
What is next on my Netflix Queue?
1) House (1st season)
<strike>2) Triumph of the Will</strike>
3) Glee (season 2)
4) Metropolis
5) The Tudors (1st season)
6) Doctor Who (Series 5)
7) The Matrix
8) The Adventures of Tintin
9) Paris is Burning
10) The Artist
11) Invader Zim
12) Supernatural (1st season)
Nope. I saw Triumph of the Will a few months ago via streamming. I found it kind of boring.
Well, no accounting for Nazi taste, I guess. How about "The Matrix" (which of course, I have seen as well)?
Saw Paris is Burning years ago. Not planning on seeing it again anytime soon.
Xben, I thought you've only seen Triumph of the Will & Dr. Who. Now you are saying you've also seen the Matrix. Well you are one up on me in that regard. I haven't seen the Matrix and won't be seeing it when my next Netflix arrives.
Saw Metropolis years ago. Maybe I should watch it again. But I be watching something else before that.
5) The Tudors (1st season)
Yeah, I missed seeing you'd written "The Matrix" on my first glance through your list.
How about "The Artist"?
8) The Adventures of Tintin
I hear the Tudors has some nudity in it. But I assume it involves hetero coupling, so I'm not so interested.
The Artist sounds really interesting. I'll have to add it to my queue.
I'm all caught up on my Dr. Who.
I love the Tintin books, but I am scared that this movie will not do them justice.
Guess again everybody!
I was talking to my trainer about Invader Zim the other day. Seeing as I own the DVD, I don't need to get it from Netflix.
12) Supernatural (1st season)
Ah! I don't have to repost the list on the new page.
Kent has it. I'm on disc 4 now. It's OK. Not sure if I will watch all the seasons, but I have the rest of season 1 and all of season 2 in my queue.
mix and match time! Each one from Column A corresponds to only one from Column B. As this is more complicated than usual, I'll confirm actual correct answers as we go along (rather than saying, 'Ibby has one right," I'll say which one).
A.
1. I once was thrown out of...
2. I once had the official tour of...
3. I once walked to the top of...
4. I have poked around without permission in...
5. I once had to step over a dead body in...
6. My cell phone went off at an embarrassing moment in...
7. I once attended a staff party in...
8. The closest I have ever, to the best of my knowledge, been close to a sitting president of the USA was right next to...
a. Notre-Dame Basilica, Montreal.
b. the state Capitol, Albany, NY
c. the Berlin Hauptbahnhoff (main train station)
d. The US Capitol, Washington, DC
e. a Cold War-era US Army bunker in the Bronx
f. the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC
g. Glastonbury Tor, England
h. The White House, Washington, DC
ADDED: The final correct answer must list all 8 correct answers.
Are your exam questions like this, Kent?
1 e
2 h
3 a
4 b
5 c
6 f
7 g
8 d
Ibby has correct:
2 h
April 2008. It was a couple days after Pope Benny's visit, and already pics of him and W were up in the gallery.
5 c
June 1990. I thought I was stepping over a passed out homeless person, leaving the men's room. While waiting for my mom, the paramedics came and took him away... sheet over face. Weird that he plopped down and died while I was in the can.
8 d.
March 1991. Daddy Bush's motorcade went by, as I exited a building across the street, having left a congressional panel with then-Sen. Paul Simon (bow-tie guy, not the musician).
As a TA, Ibby, I do not make exams. But if I did... no matching, no multiple choice. Mostly essay; that's where you show your own thought.
Hear, hear to that. Multiple choice exams are mostly about pattern recognition, and rarely about understanding.
1 b
3 g
4 e
6 a
7 f
2 h
5 c
8 d
Ibby has correct:
3g.
September 1991. It was a longer walk than I had imagined. It was a beautiful late afternoon; I lingered around until early evening. As an Arthurian buff, it was an amazing thing to do.
4e.
There was an underground tunnel system designed to facilitate evac and control in the event of a nuke war. This facility, long abandoned, was in the basement of another institution, sealed off due to asbestos contamination rather than security (it was all obsolete. If one followed one tunnel to its end, the doors were padlocked; i'd seen the other end previously without knowing where the doors went or why they existed).
6a.
I was a driver for a student trip, so all participants had m cell #. We had an agreed-iupon meet0up point, so i was not expecting a call. On the one night of the week the church is open and free to all, for the public to watch a formal mass, my phone went off! someone wanted to double-check the meet-up time/place.
almost done already! Next person should have it.
I reached Glastonbury Tor, and have promptly placed it on my places-to-visit list. It looks quite amazing.
1 f
7 b
2 h
3 g
4 e
5 c
6 a
8 d
1f.
March 1991. I was hanging with some acquaintances from NYC one evening. We were walking across Washington, from east of the Capitol all the way to the LM. We decided at some point to start singing the entirety of "Pink Floyd - The Wall." We were finishing up as we walked up the final few steps into the LM, and as we finished my peers let out a loud howl. We were pretty much alone there, but out of nowhere stepped a security guard,who ordered us all out.
7b.
Ihad a friend who worked in the PR dept for then-gov Mario Cuomo. Myself and another friend got to attend the office Xmas party (Mario wasn't there).
Go, Ibby!
You sure had a lot of colorful trips, Kent!
Which of these is false?
1) A piece of scrap metal fell off a truck and blew out the tires of the van I was driving in Los Angeles.
2) I pushed Blaze off a tree in Subic Bay, Philippines.
3) I snuck into a temple in Hanoi, Vietnam, after midnight during their mid-Autumn Festival.
4) A cashier laughed at a joke I made in Philadelphia.
5) A local asked to borrow my workout book in the Maldives.
6) I got to hold an Arctic fox while visiting an ice city in Harbin, China.
7) A local asked to take me home in Jakarta, Indonesia.
8) I spent about a week each living in college dorms in both New York and Washington D.C.
9) A deer bit me in Nara, Japan.
10) I met up with an old college classmate in the burial caves of Sagada, Philippines.
11) I got splashed on by a giant catfish in Lake Tonle Sap, Cambodia.
12) I rubbed guano on my ex-girlfriend's shoulder in the Biak-na-Bato caves, Philippines.
13) I argued with a waitress who took my ginseng chicken away before I was done in Seoul, South Korea.
14) Since none of my companions were brave enough, I ended up doing the reverse bungy in Singapore with two total strangers.
15) I ended up babysitting two kids while seeing the terracotta warriors in Xian, China.
9) A deer bit me in Nara, Japan.
13) I argued with a waitress who took my ginseng chicken away before I was done in Seoul, South Korea.
3) I snuck into a temple in Hanoi, Vietnam, after midnight during their mid-Autumn Festival.
14) Since none of my companions were brave enough, I ended up doing the reverse bungy in Singapore with two total strangers.
Originally posted by Kent Shakespeare:
9) A deer bit me in Nara, Japan.
That is true. I guess it got mad I didn't feed it a cookie right away. Luckily, it bit me through my shirt and jacket, which I promptly poured alcohol on.
Originally posted by Xben:
13) I argued with a waitress who took my ginseng chicken away before I was done in Seoul, South Korea.
That is true, though not strictly an argument. I merely rebuked her gently - but boy was she in a hurry!
Originally posted by Quislet, Esq:
3) I snuck into a temple in Hanoi, Vietnam, after midnight during their mid-Autumn Festival.
That is true; I visited during the festive ceremony and a local invited me to have a drink and snacks with him by the lake. We were quite adventurous and snuck into the temple on the lake for a quick look.
Originally posted by Novelty:
14) Since none of my companions were brave enough, I ended up doing the reverse bungy in Singapore with two total strangers.
Also true. Everyone said they were too full. Luckily, there were 2 other groups of people with only one person in each group who wanted to ride. I enjoyed the hell out of it anyway.
5) A local asked to borrow my workout book in the Maldives.
Originally posted by Invisible Brainiac:
You sure had a lot of colorful trips, Kent!
Which of these is false?
1) A piece of scrap metal fell off a truck and blew out the tires of the van I was driving in Los Angeles.
2) I pushed Blaze off a tree in Subic Bay, Philippines.
<strike>3) I snuck into a temple in Hanoi, Vietnam, after midnight during their mid-Autumn Festival. </strike>
4) A cashier laughed at a joke I made in Philadelphia.
5) A local asked to borrow my workout book in the Maldives.
6) I got to hold an Arctic fox while visiting an ice city in Harbin, China.
7) A local asked to take me home in Jakarta, Indonesia.
8) I spent about a week each living in college dorms in both New York and Washington D.C.
<strike>9) A deer bit me in Nara, Japan.</strike>
10) I met up with an old college classmate in the burial caves of Sagada, Philippines.
11) I got splashed on by a giant catfish in Lake Tonle Sap, Cambodia.
12) I rubbed guano on my ex-girlfriend's shoulder in the Biak-na-Bato caves, Philippines.
<strike>13) I argued with a waitress who took my ginseng chicken away before I was done in Seoul, South Korea.
14) Since none of my companions were brave enough, I ended up doing the reverse bungy in Singapore with two total strangers. </strike>
15) I ended up babysitting two kids while seeing the terracotta warriors in Xian, China.
15) I ended up babysitting two kids while seeing the terracotta warriors in Xian, China.
1) A piece of scrap metal fell off a truck and blew out the tires of the van I was driving in Los Angeles.
Originally posted by Xben:
5) A local asked to borrow my workout book in the Maldives.
True. I gave him a photocopy of the first 5 workouts. He also wanted to keep in touch via email...
Originally posted by Quislet, Esq:
I ended up babysitting two kids while seeing the terracotta warriors in Xian, China.
True. They were fellow tourists and took a liking to me. Luckily, their parents thought I was okay.
Originally posted by Kent Shakespeare:
1) A piece of scrap metal fell off a truck and blew out the tires of the van I was driving in Los Angeles.
True. The other truck was driven by a guy without a license. Cops said it was lucky I didn't try to brake, and swerved instead, or else we could have turned turtle.
6) I got to hold an Arctic fox while visiting an ice city in Harbin, China.
True as well. It was just a pup, I think. Just a little bit bigger than your average shih tzu.
Originally posted by Invisible Brainiac:
Originally posted by Quislet, Esq:
[b]I ended up babysitting two kids while seeing the terracotta warriors in Xian, China.
Little did they know.
2) I pushed Blaze off a tree in Subic Bay, Philippines.
I suspect that Blaze pushed you off the tree.
Originally posted by Quislet, Esq:
Originally posted by Invisible Brainiac:
[b]
Originally posted by Quislet, Esq:
[b]I ended up babysitting two kids while seeing the terracotta warriors in Xian, China.
True. They were fellow tourists and took a liking to me. Luckily, their parents thought I was okay. [/b]
That's why I used a fake name
Originally posted by Quislet, Esq:
2) I pushed Blaze off a tree in Subic Bay, Philippines.
I suspect that Blaze pushed you off the tree.
Also true. We went on the ride twice, so we took turns
10) I met up with an old college classmate in the burial caves of Sagada, Philippines.
remaining:
Which of these is false?
4) A cashier laughed at a joke I made in Philadelphia.
7) A local asked to take me home in Jakarta, Indonesia.
8) I spent about a week each living in college dorms in both New York and Washington D.C.
11) I got splashed on by a giant catfish in Lake Tonle Sap, Cambodia.
12) I rubbed guano on my ex-girlfriend's shoulder in the Biak-na-Bato caves, Philippines.
11) I got splashed on by a giant catfish in Lake Tonle Sap, Cambodia.
12) I rubbed guano on my ex-girlfriend's shoulder in the Biak-na-Bato caves, Philippines.
Originally posted by Quislet, Esq:
2) I pushed Blaze off a tree in Subic Bay, Philippines.
I suspect that Blaze pushed you off the tree.
Hey Quis! How could you ever think that?!
4) A cashier laughed at a joke I made in Philadelphia.
In my experience, Philly cashiers tend to be a fairly miserable lot.
Originally posted by Blaze:
Originally posted by Quislet, Esq:
[b]2) I pushed Blaze off a tree in Subic Bay, Philippines.
I suspect that Blaze pushed you off the tree.
Well, I know how annoying IB can be and figured at some point you would lose your patience with him.
Originally posted by Exnihil:
4) A cashier laughed at a joke I made in Philadelphia.
In my experience, Philly cashiers tend to be a fairly miserable lot. I guess I met a rare cheery one, because this is true
Originally posted by Quislet, Esq:
10) I met up with an old college classmate in the burial caves of Sagada, Philippines.
Also true. We didn't plan to meet up, and I was surprised to find her there!
Originally posted by Kent Shakespeare:
11) I got splashed on by a giant catfish in Lake Tonle Sap, Cambodia.
The floating village we visited bred some catfish, and trying to take a picture of one got me a little bit wet.
Originally posted by Xben:
12) I rubbed guano on my ex-girlfriend's shoulder in the Biak-na-Bato caves, Philippines.
I only playfully threatened to do so, she got dirty enough on her own while we crawled through the caves. So this is the false statement, and Xben has it!
Originally posted by Quislet, Esq:
Originally posted by Blaze:
[b]
Originally posted by Quislet, Esq:
[b]2) I pushed Blaze off a tree in Subic Bay, Philippines.
I suspect that Blaze pushed you off the tree.
Hey Quis! How could you ever think that?!
[/b]
Perhaps I should make Blaze sign a pre-nup in case that ever really happens
All right, who has always been my favorite DC (non-Legion) and favorite Marvel female superheros? You have to guess both. (With the Marvel ones, there are actually two possibilities I'd accept)
Batgirl (Barbara Gordon)
Black Canary
Elasti-Girl
Katana
Starfire
Supergirl
Vixen
Wonder Girl (Donna Troy)
Wonder Woman
Zatanna
Black Widow
Captain Marvel (Monica)
Invisible Girl / Woman
Ms. Marvel
Phoenix
Rogue
Shadowcat
She-Hulk
Storm
Wasp
Originally posted by Quislet, Esq:
Originally posted by Blaze:
[b]
Originally posted by Quislet, Esq:
[b]2) I pushed Blaze off a tree in Subic Bay, Philippines.
I suspect that Blaze pushed you off the tree.
Hey Quis! How could you ever think that?!
[/b]
But not enough to push him off a tree. Maybe from a 338-meter building. We plan to bungy jump at Macau Tower.
PS. Don't tell him I plan to push him off the building. Maybe he'll really make good his threat to have me sign a pre-nup!
Wonder Girl (Donna Troy)
Wasp
None right so far. In fact, nobody has any right so far.
Wonder Woman
Ms. Marvel
Question with eliminated choices out:
Originally posted by Xben:
All right, who has always been my favorite DC (non-Legion) and favorite Marvel female superheros? You have to guess both. (With the Marvel ones, there are actually two possibilities I'd accept)
Batgirl (Barbara Gordon)
Black Canary
Elasti-Girl
Katana
Supergirl
Vixen
Wonder Woman
Zatanna
Black Widow
Captain Marvel (Monica)
Invisible Girl / Woman
Ms. Marvel
Phoenix
Rogue
Shadowcat
She-Hulk
Nope for both. Hints: two of my characters would be normally considered to be far less powerful than the ones you have guessed here, IB. The third would probably be seen as more powerful.
Katana
Shadowcat
I have to say that I find the new 52 Katana to be creepy and disturbing. I miss the old Katana.
Guessing Batgirl and Black Widow then
These last two guesses have one correct between them.
IB, I thiink Xben means that of Katana, Batgirl, Shadowcat, and Black Widow, one of those is correct.
So my guess
Katana
Captain Marvel (Monica)
Thanks Quis, I understood. I picked two of them so we could more easily figure out which of the four is the correct one.
I knew that's what you were after, IB, so I figured I'd wait for another guess to be made before I responded.
As it is, I can say that in this previous round of guesses, there are no correct answers!
So much for trying to make it more difficult...
Black Widow
Black Canary
And you have it. The other acceptable character would have been Phoenix.
A Black Widow and Black Canary team-up would have been really interesting.
My favorite video game series is the Suikoden series (of which Blaze knows almost nothing about
). My all-time favorite in the series is Suikoden 2. Player parties consist of up to 6 characters. Can you name my top 3 favorite party members in that game? Hero of the game is excluded, for obvious reasons.
Don't worry, I'll eliminate wrong choices pretty quickly; more than one at a time for the first few guesses.
a) Nanami
b) Viktor
c) Georg
d) Ayda
e) Eilie
f) Rina
g) Bolgan
h) Tengaar
i) Oulan
j) Jeane
k) Killey
l) Clive
m) Mukumuku
n) Yoshino
o) Simone
p) Flik
q) Miklotov
r) Tomo
s) Sierra
t) Kahn
u) Lorelai
v) Viki
w) Luc
x) Valeria
y) Anita
z) Hai Yo
In case anyone wants to put a face to the name, here's a
character guide .
Sorry hon, wild guess. Don't know a tad about Suikoden.
s) Sierra
v) Viki
z) Hai Yo
I know
No need to be sorry at all hon.
Although the vampire Sierra is a gifted lightning magician, and her physical attacks do 50% more damage automatically, she's not among my faves.
Although Viki is one of only two of the 108 Stars of Destiny to appear in all 5 games, she's more useful in the 3rd and 5th installments. She's too slow in the 2nd.
Hai Yo is the army chef, and is a hilarious character in battle because he does this jumping dance thing... but he's not a fave.
How about:
a) Nanami
f) Rina
p) Flik
Nanami is the hero's adoptive sister, and is one of the fastest characters in the game. She's also one of the most awesome and fun characters - think a ditzier version of Kinetix. However, since she is a required party member, I gravitated towards some optional fighters.
Blue Lightning Flik has both high strength and great magic... but I find him a bit too overused.
Rina is a fortune-telling magician with some of the best magic in the game, and can attack long-range via her playing cards... and she IS one of my favorite characters!
So that's one down
Whew! 2 to go.
o) Simone
x) Valeria
To make it a bit easier, I've added some descriptions below:
Originally posted by Invisible Brainiac:
My favorite video game series is the Suikoden series (of which Blaze knows almost nothing about ). My all-time favorite in the series is Suikoden 2. Player parties consist of up to 6 characters. Can you name my top 3 favorite party members in that game? Hero of the game is excluded, for obvious reasons.
b) Viktor - the Bear, a physical powerhouse with a talking sword
c) Georg - veteran general of a half dozen wars
d) Ayda - forest ranger and sharpshooting archer
e) Eilie - spunky knife-thrower with a crush on the hero
[b]f) Rina - sexy fortune-telling magician (correct answer)g) Bolgan - fire-breathing circus strongman
h) Tengaar - magician who pushes her poor boyfriend around
i) Oulan - female bodyguard who's a brick wall
j) Jeane - sexy, mysterious and ageless rune mistress
k) Killey - treasure hunter with a unique fashion sense
l) Clive - mysterious gunman on a quest to hunt a woman
m) Mukumuku - lovable flying squirrel
n) Yoshino - dutiful wife and naginata-wielder
o) Simone - vain narcissistic male aristocrat who throws roses
q) Miklotov - hot-blooded and compassionate knight
r) Tomo - young spear-fighter who's a master of defensive magic
t) Kahn - vampire hunter and life magician
u) Lorelai - tough treasure hunter who outsmarts most of her male competitors
w) Luc - young wind magician who's the most powerful in the game
x) Valeria - general and master fencer; rival of anita
y) Anita - master fencer and rival of Valeria who'll go home with anyone when she's drunk
In case anyone wants to put a face to the name, here's a
character guide .[/b]
Just to clarify, the final answer must include all THREE characters!
Originally posted by Blaze:
Whew! 2 to go.
o) Simone
x) Valeria
Although Simone's weapon - a bouquet of roses - cracks me up every time he uses it, his lack of magical versatility (only able to use one type of magic at a time, whereas Rina, for example, can use three) doesn't make him a favorite.
Valeria is one of the most powerful physical fighters, with a unique ability that lets her deal double damage every round... but she is not one of my top faves.
Ok, here's another try:
f) Rina - sexy fortune-telling magician
j) Jeane - sexy, mysterious and ageless rune mistress
k) Killey - treasure hunter with a unique fashion sense
Although Jeane is probably my favorite player character of all time, and almost never left my party... she wasn't playable in Suikoden 2! But she was a fixture in my party for the 4th and 5th games, partly because of her amazing lightning magic affinity, sky-high magic stat, mysterious and alluring background, and her sexy voice and
costume . Alas, since she's not playable in Suikoden 2... she's not a correct answer.
Killey is one of the best characters in the game hands-down; he comes with three free rune slots allowing you to customize him to become the games single best damage dealer (only a handful of characters have three free rune slots and the stats to abuse them). But he's not that big a fave either.
f) Rina - sexy fortune-telling magician
l) Clive - mysterious gunman on a quest to hunt a woman
y) Anita - master fencer and rival of Valeria who'll go home with anyone when she's drunk
Clive is one of the fastest, and has such high accuracy that he not only hits multiple enemies a lot, but also critical hits loads. With the right setup he can decimate an entire enemy party by himself... but he's not a top favorite.
Anita is another favorite because she's almost as powerful as Valeria AND has better magic... but she's not a top fave, either.
Reposting:
Originally posted by Invisible Brainiac:
My favorite video game series is the Suikoden series (of which Blaze knows almost nothing about ). My all-time favorite in the series is Suikoden 2. Player parties consist of up to 6 characters. Can you name my top 3 favorite party members in that game? Hero of the game is excluded, for obvious reasons.
b) Viktor - the Bear, a physical powerhouse with a talking sword
c) Georg - veteran general of a half dozen wars
d) Ayda - forest ranger and sharpshooting archer
e) Eilie - spunky knife-thrower with a crush on the hero
[b]f) Rina - sexy fortune-telling magician (correct answer)g) Bolgan - fire-breathing circus strongman
h) Tengaar - magician who pushes her poor boyfriend around
i) Oulan - female bodyguard who's a brick wall
m) Mukumuku - lovable flying squirrel
n) Yoshino - dutiful wife and naginata-wielder
q) Miklotov - hot-blooded and compassionate knight
r) Tomo - young spear-fighter who's a master of defensive magic
t) Kahn - vampire hunter and life magician
u) Lorelai - tough treasure hunter who outsmarts most of her male competitors
w) Luc - young wind magician who's the most powerful in the game
In case anyone wants to put a face to the name, here's a
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f) Rina - sexy fortune-telling magician
h) Tengaar - magician who pushes her poor boyfriend around
m) Mukumuku - lovable flying squirrel
Tengaar is equal in magical power to Rina; I like having both of them in my party where Tengaar holds Earth and Fire magic while Rina uses Lightning and Water. But Tengaar's not quite a top fave.
Mukumuku (and his posse!) are adorable and it's hilarious beating the final boss with them... but they are so not among my faves.
f) Rina - sexy fortune-telling magician
e) Eilie - spunky knife-thrower with a crush on the hero
r) Tomo - young spear-fighter who's a master of defensive magic
Tomo is one of the top Earth magicians in the game and hits surprisingly hard. Whenever she's in my party I use her as my main defensive spellcaster... but she's not a top fave.
Eilie is a good long-range fighter with enough speed and accuracy to critical hit and multi-hit a lot; she usually ends up killing from 2 to 4 enemies per round in my game. She's also good with Fire magic... and she is also one of my favorite characters!
That leaves one character to guess.
d) Ayda - forest ranger and sharpshooting archer
u) Lorelai - tough treasure hunter who outsmarts most of her male competitors
w) Luc - young wind magician who's the most powerful in the game
Ayda is fast and almost as good as Eilie is, and another common member of my party, but she's not a top fave.
Lorelai has stats generally comparable to Eilie, though her more powerful weapon allows her to do a bit more damage; but not a top fave.
Luc is amazing; his magic stat is roughly twice the average and while most people can only use their most powerful spells once, he can go up to 3 or 4 times! But I don't usually go for pure magician types so he's not a top fave either.
I have an inkling that it's Kahn although i posted 3 answers
b) Viktor - the Bear, a physical powerhouse with a talking sword
q) Miklotov - hot-blooded and compassionate knight
t) Kahn - vampire hunter and life magician
Viktor's cool and is a lot smarter than his gung-ho attitude would have you think... but he's not one of my top 3. Maybe top 5...
Miklotov's another good character and a solid rock (can equip some of the best armor in the game)... but not quite up there.
Kahn is a great character, decently strong and one of the best life magic users in the game... but not a top 3 fave either.
this game is making me sad
g) Bolgan - fire-breathing circus strongman
i) Oulan - female bodyguard who's a brick wall
n) Yoshino - dutiful wife and naginata-wielder
Why are you sad?
you don't have to know everything about me right away...
One of those is right
And it's not fire-breathing Bolgan, who's slow as mud, can't hit the side of a barn and has no magical ability whatsoever.
i) Oulan - female bodyguard who's a brick wall
Oulan is as strong as most men in the game, and has an ability that lets her deal double damage every round. She's also a brick wall against both physical and magical attacks, and when equipped properly can laugh off even the most powerful...
and she is one of my top faves
Ok, so your faves are:
f) Rina - sexy fortune-telling magician
e) Eilie - spunky knife-thrower with a crush on the hero
i) Oulan - female bodyguard who's a brick wall
Eilie Rina Oulan Don't they make a great trio?
Over to you, Blaze.
I'm currently addicted to the book, A Game of Thrones. Could you name my 3 favorite characters?
a. Tyrion Lannister - the imp
b. Cersei Baratheon - Queen of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros
c. Jaime Lannister - the Kingslayer
d. Catelyn Stark - Lady of Winterfell
e. Daenerys Targaryen - exiled princess of the Targaryen dynasty
f. Lord Petyr Baelish - Master of Coin in King Robert Baratheon's Small Council
g. Ser Jorah Mormont - exiled knight
h. Jon Snow - bastard son of Ned Stark who joins the Night's Watch
i. Tywin Lannister - Lord of Casterly Rock
j. Ser Davos Seaworth - also known as "The Onion Knight"
k. Bran Stark - second son and fourth child of Eddard and Catelyn Stark
l. Robb Stark - eldest son of Eddard and Catelyn Stark and the heir to Winterfell
m. Sansa Stark - first daughter and second child of Eddard and Catelyn Stark
n. Arya Stark - younger daughter and third child of Lord Eddard and Catelyn Stark of Winterfell
o. Joffrey Baratheon - Crown Prince of the Seven Kingdoms
p. Samwell Tarly - eldest son and former heir of Lord Randyll Tarly, is a new recruit to the Night's Watch
q. Sandor Clegane - nicknamed "The Hound"
r. Margaery Tyrell - only daughter of Lord Mace Tyrell
s. Stannis Baratheon - Lord of Dragonstone, the elder of Robert Baratheon's younger brothers
t. Melisandre - A priestess of R'hllor in service to Stannis Baratheon
u. Jeor Mormont - 997th Lord Commander of the Night's Watch
v. Shae - young camp follower in whom Tyrion Lannister takes particular interes
w. Lord Varys - eunuch known as "The Spider"
x. Eddard "Ned" Stark - Lord of Winterfell
y. Robert Baratheon - became king of the Seven Kingdoms after leading a rebellion against Aerys II Targaryen
z. Ser Loras Tyrell - known as the "Knight of Flowers"
For a complete list of characters
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...use_Targaryen.2C_retainers_and_bannermen For pictures
http://www.listal.com/list/game-of-thrones-memo812
I know next to nothing about Game of Thrones, but...
f. Lord Petyr Baelish - Master of Coin in King Robert Baratheon's Small Council
l. Robb Stark - eldest son of Eddard and Catelyn Stark and the heir to Winterfell
z. Ser Loras Tyrell - known as the "Knight of Flowers"
Lord Petyr Baelish is a trickster and a coward. He will stop at nothing to further his own interests--power and wealth. I don't like the man.
Robb Stark's sense of duty and responsibility are admirable. In his early teens, he became Lord of Winterfell, waged and won many battles, and proclaimed King in the North. Not one of my favorites though.
Ser Loras Tyrell is an excellent knight. He is stunningly handsome, vain, and cunning. Loras is in a secret relationship with Renly Baratheon and eventually supported his claim for the throne. He is indeed my favorite!
ahh, one down
not surprised you picked the handsome gay knight
Hm...
x. Eddard "Ned" Star
h. Jon Snow
c. Jaime Lannister
x. Eddard "Ned" Stark is an honest and honorable man, a welcome sight in King's Landing's dirty politics. His demise began with the death of King Robert Baratheon. He is not a favorite.
h. Jon Snow is the bastard son of Eddard Stark who eventually took the Black. Not a favorite either.
c. Jaime Lannister is all brawns but no brains. His sight reminds me of a "prince charming" they often say in fairy tales. Jaime is in an incestual relationship with her sister, Cersei Lannister. Not my favorite.
I'll guess:
e. Daenerys Targaryen
g. Ser Jorah Mormont
u. Jeor Mormont
So the remaining choices:
a. Tyrion Lannister - the imp
b. Cersei Baratheon - Queen of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros
d. Catelyn Stark - Lady of Winterfell
e. Daenerys Targaryen - exiled princess of the Targaryen dynasty
g. Ser Jorah Mormont - exiled knight
i. Tywin Lannister - Lord of Casterly Rock
j. Ser Davos Seaworth - also known as "The Onion Knight"
k. Bran Stark - second son and fourth child of Eddard and Catelyn Stark
m. Sansa Stark - first daughter and second child of Eddard and Catelyn Stark
n. Arya Stark - younger daughter and third child of Lord Eddard and Catelyn Stark of Winterfell
o. Joffrey Baratheon - Crown Prince of the Seven Kingdoms
p. Samwell Tarly - eldest son and former heir of Lord Randyll Tarly, is a new recruit to the Night's Watch
q. Sandor Clegane - nicknamed "The Hound"
r. Margaery Tyrell - only daughter of Lord Mace Tyrell
s. Stannis Baratheon - Lord of Dragonstone, the elder of Robert Baratheon's younger brothers
t. Melisandre - A priestess of R'hllor in service to Stannis Baratheon
u. Jeor Mormont - 997th Lord Commander of the Night's Watch
v. Shae - young camp follower in whom Tyrion Lannister takes particular interes
w. Lord Varys - eunuch known as "The Spider"
y. Robert Baratheon - became king of the Seven Kingdoms after leading a rebellion against Aerys II Targaryen
e. Daenerys Targaryen - she simply wants to return to her "home" and reclaim what is rightfully hers. With the aid of her 3 dragons and loyal followers, she might just be able to. I like her but not among the top 3.
g. Ser Jorah Mormont - exiled knight and the first member of the Queensguard of Daenerys Targaryen. Not a favorite.
u. Jeor Mormont - Lord Commander of the Knight's Watch. Not a favorite.
d. Catelyn Stark - Lady of Winterfell
k. Bran Stark - second son and fourth child of Eddard and Catelyn Stark
m. Sansa Stark - first daughter and second child of Eddard and Catelyn Stark
d. Catelyn Stark - she had her share of mistakes but I forgive her, she's just being a true mother to her children. Not a favorite.
k. Bran Stark - crippled yet wise beyond his years. I like him but not enough to belong to the top 3.
m. Sansa Stark - the good daughter who is fascinated by the glitz and glamour of the court and of the capital. She dreams to be the queen of the realm one day. Not a favorite.
a. Tyrion Lannister - the imp
t. Melisandre - A priestess of R'hllor in service to Stannis Baratheon
v. Shae - young camp follower in whom Tyrion Lannister takes particular interes
a. Tyrion Lannister - full of wit. what he lacks in physical appearance, he makes up for intellectual prowess. he learned to accept the bitter truths and made it his sword and shield against his enemies. yes hon, he is a favorite!
t. Melisandre - skilled in the dark arts. i don't like her.
v. Shae - the prostitute. not a favorite.
Yay! 2 down.
j. Ser Davos Seaworth - also known as "The Onion Knight"
p. Samwell Tarly - eldest son and former heir of Lord Randyll Tarly, is a new recruit to the Night's Watch
q. Sandor Clegane - nicknamed "The Hound"
j. Ser Davos Seaworth - a smuggler and a trusted adviser to Stannis. Not a favorite.
p. Samwell Tarly - bullied for being a fat and coward boy. He has no interest in fighting but has been a reliable aide to Maester Aemon. Not a favorite.
q. Sandor Clegane - his burned face was due to his brother's ill temper during their childhood. Not a favorite.
n. Arya Stark - younger daughter and third child
r. Margaery Tyrell - only daughter of Lord Mace Tyrell
Choices:
b. Cersei Baratheon - Queen of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros
i. Tywin Lannister - Lord of Casterly Rock
n. Arya Stark - younger daughter and third child of Lord Eddard and Catelyn Stark of Winterfell
o. Joffrey Baratheon - Crown Prince of the Seven Kingdoms
r. Margaery Tyrell - only daughter of Lord Mace Tyrell
s. Stannis Baratheon - Lord of Dragonstone, the elder of Robert Baratheon's younger brothers
w. Lord Varys - eunuch known as "The Spider"
y. Robert Baratheon - became king of the Seven Kingdoms after leading a rebellion against Aerys II Targaryen
n. Arya Stark - the tomboy who used common sense to get her to relative safety. she's currently among the top 3 favorites!
good work hon.
Tyrion Lannister
Arya Stark
Ser Loras Tyrell
Above answers are correct. Your turn.
Yay! Glad I guessed right ^^
Okay, going back to Suikoden then...
Each Suikoden game has 108 characters, so there are lots of questions to be asked
Which of these Suikoden 2 characters is my least favorite in battle?
a) Shiro - the white wolf
b) Bob - the werewolf with a gruff exterior and shy interior
c) Abizboah - the giant kraken
d) Hoi - the impersonating thief
e) Millie - she keep a giant man-eating groundhog as a pet!
f) Chaco - the winged teen
g) Sigfried - pervy unicorn
h) Gadget - the intelligent robot
i) Nina - the lovestruck school girl
j) Sasuke - the speedy young ninja
k) Karen - the shy dancer with a seemingly dual personality
l) Gabocha - the hero-worshipping Kobold
g) Sigfried - pervy unicorn
Sigfried (yes, the name is spelled that way) is fairly strong, has good magic and an affinity for lightning. Though he takes two spots in your party and ultimately isn't the most optimal use of said slots... he isn't my least favorite fighter.
h) Gadget - the intelligent robot
Although Gadget has a strong physical defense, his other stats are mediocre and his magic is nonexistent. He can't equip armor, use items, or use magic... and thus he is my least favorite fighter.
Over to you, Novel Ty!
Something else else October themed then...
Which of the following is my favourite monster?
A. Zombies
B. Big Bad Werewolf
C. Crazy Witches
D. Dracula
E. Elmo
F. Frankenstein
G. Ghosts, ghouls and goblins
H. Hungry Skeletons
I. Invisible Man
J. Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde
K. King Kong
L. Loch Ness
M. The Mummy
N. None of the above
Count Dracula isn't my favourite monster although the Count of Sesame Street ranks up there! Try again.
King Kong - Giant gorillas are always fun!
Elmo is probably my least favourite on that list.
Kong is nice, but not my favourite either.
Guess again.
I always hated Elmo too, for some reason. Just got on my nerves, especially with him always referring to himself as "Elmo".
J. Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde
I always hated Elmo too, for some reason. Just got on my nerves, especially with him always referring to himself as "Elmo".
J. Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde
Originally posted by Novelty:
Something else else October themed then...
Which of the following is my favourite monster?
A. Zombies
B. Big Bad Werewolf
C. Crazy Witches
<strike>D. Dracula
E. Elmo</strike>
F. Frankenstein
G. Ghosts, ghouls and goblins
H. Hungry Skeletons
I. Invisible Man
J. Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde
<strike>K. King Kong</strike>
L. Loch Ness
M. The Mummy
N. None of the above
M. The Mummy
Not Jekyl and Hyde and not preserved dead bodies. Try again guys.
One of those in the list, but not Frankenmonster or the Invisible Man, although the IM is like my second fav. Try again.
Not witches, not werewolves... but the Loch Ness monster indeed! Back to you XBen.
I've continued to read the Adventures-era to my three daughters. We just finished "The Super-Stalag of Space" two parter. Three questions, one for each daughter:
1. Which Legion "tragedy" does my oldest daughter (age 10) regularly express her hope that it will be undone?
a. The loss of one of Triplicate Girl's bodies
b. Bouncing Boy losing his powers
c. Star Boy's expulsion
d. The loss of Lightning Lad's arm
e. The Super-Sacrifice of Kid Psycho!
2. Who is my middle daughter's (age 8) favorite character?
a. Saturn Girl
b. Triplicate Girl / Duo Damsel
c. Light Lass
d. Dream Girl
e. Sun Boy
3. My youngest daughter (age 6) was pretty freaked out by the death of Weight Wizard in the Super-Stalag story (he's the guy who gets eaten by a plant).
a. True
b. False
Winner must get all 3 correct.
a. The loss of one of Triplicate Girl's bodies
d. Dream Girl
a. True
Not correct.
The loss of one of Triplicate Girls' bodies is not what my oldest regularly talks about hoping will be undone.
1. e. The Super-Sacrifice of Kid Psycho!
2. c. Light Lass
3. b. false
d. The loss of Lightning Lad's arm
d. Dream Girl
a. True
Incorrect. Light Lass is not my middle daughter's favorite character.
I'm going away soon, away from internet, so I'm going to give some bigger hints.
So far, for Questions 1 & 2, nobody has guessed a correct answer.
1.
b. Bouncing Boy losing his powers
2.
a. Saturn Girl
3.
a. True
Not correct - but my hint from before is no longer true.
Seeing as you are trying to clear this one quickly I'll answer again....
b. Bouncing Boy losing his powers
b. Triplicate Girl / Duo Damsel
a. True
You have one out of three correct, which is less than the previous guess.
b. Bouncing Boy losing his powers
a. Saturn Girl
b. False
And that is it!
I don't think Bouncing Boy losing his powers is really stressing my daughter out that much, but she keeps talking about it.
Whenever there is any danger to Saturn Girl, my other daughter always threatens to refuse to read any more stories.
And the youngest one wasn't phased at all by the giant carnivore of a plant.
Adventure #350-351, with the return of Lightning Lad's arm, Bouncing Boy's powers, Matter-Eater Lad's slimness, and Star Boy and Dream Girl to the team should make them happy.
I recently came across a tattoo site the had a pile of my work, uncredited and with no backlinks.
How many of my drawings were stolen?
(just pick a number between 4 and 20)
Man! Hope those people realize stealing ain't cool.
16?
You both guessed too high...
And Ibby, they are not hosting themselves so I reported them to their webhost with proof the images were actually mine.
And I reverse searched some other work on the site and discovered I'm not the only uncredited artist there.
10
Glad you were able to report em, VL. Hope they take your work down pronto!
Quis has it, they had 11 pieces of my work...you are up!!!
Ibby, actually I would much rather they kept the work up, listed my name as the artist and provided a link to my own website.
Who did I take to my high school prom?
1) Ann Howe
2) Beth Bocko
3) Laurie Ross
4) Julie Davison
5) Sean Doyle
6) Richard Wilder
7) Mary Ann Summers
8) Greg Hines
9) Ricky Hughes
10) I did not go to my high school prom
3) Laurie Ross
That does make sense, VL. Publicity is good as long as it's credited to you.
Laurie was a neighbor and one of the girls I played with when I was a young child. But I did not take her to my high school prom.
10) I did not go to my high school prom
And Viridis Lament has it. I did not go to my high school prom or any other school dance.
Beth Bocko was my first best friend. All the other people listed are people I know, except for Mary Ann Summers.
I like this question, so I'm stealing it...
Who did I take to my High School Prom?
1. Cheryl Nolan
2. Heather Campbell
3. Charlene Nolan
4. Beth Parrot
5. Tammy McDonald
6. Judy Nolan
7. Melissa Grace
8. Kim Vokey
Sorry guys, real life interfered
Ibby has it.
Which of these Philippine cities/towns have I not been in?
a) Cauayan
b) Bacolod
c) Cebu
d) Sagada
e) Baguio
f) Vigan
g) Laoag
h) Davao
i) Puerto Prinsesa
j) Iloilo
k) Kalibo
l) Legazpi
m) Naga
n) Angeles
I've been to Kalibo, as it is a gateway to the beautiful beaches of Boracay.
I've been to Puerto Prinsesa, and have visited the Subterranean River (one of the new 7 wonders of the world) located there.
I've been to Sagada, and had a blast navigating through its burial caves - 7 hours, in fact.
I've been to Angeles - the city has some of the best local food in the country. Try the sisig, or fried ground pork head. Tastier than it sounds.
f) Vigan
And is a) the same as Cagayan (as in "de Oro")?
Originally posted by Novelty:
f) Vigan
And is a) the same as Cagayan (as in "de Oro")?
No, Cauayan is in a different province. There's also a Cagayan (province) in the north... and a Cagayan de Oro city in the south
And I have been to Vigan, just for a day. I wouldn't mind going back, as the city is a UNESCO World Heritage site filled with old Spanish houses.
I've been to Legazpi as well, to visit the almost perfectly cone-shaped Mayon Volcano.
I've also been to Naga, it was our gateway to the Bicol region. The food is spicy and hearty, and I had a blast wakeboarding.
j) Iloilo? All I know is that they speak funny there...
Are you Filipino, Novelty? you sure know a lot about the country!
I've been to Iloilo, and you're right about the "funnyness" since they have their own dialect that's pretty hard to follow. The seafood is inexpensive and GREAT.
I've been to Bacolod, known countrywide for its amazing BBQed chicken. The people there also have their own language and they have this very gentle, lulling way of talking.
Reposting for a new page.
Which Philippine city have I not yet been to?
Remaining choices:
c) Cebu
e) Baguio
g) Laoag
h) Davao
Been there as well. There's a great church just outisde the city, in Paoay. Other popular destinations are the ones related to former President Marcos - including a mansion by a lake, his preserved body(!) and the hotel called Fort Ilocandia.
c) Cebu
someone has it now
I've been to Baguio. My family used to go there every year for the cool weather (sadly, it will never be cold enough to snow in the Philippines, but cold is relative for us - anything below 15 degrees is quite chilly). I always loved picking pine cones, blowing on dandelions, hiking, eating strawberries and roasting hotdogs in the fireplace.
I've been to Cebu, a couple of times on vacation, once on a week-long activity where we built houses for Gawad Kalinga, and once on business. They have great food too!
Novelty has it, as I have never been to Davao. Hoping to go next year.
Over to you Novelty!
IB, will you travel to General Santos and/or Zamboanga? I know there are a few really nice resorts outside of Davao that I've been itching to get to though. And apologies for copying your question, but:
I've been to all the South East Asian capital cities except four. Which four? Please don't spoil it for the others IB. And at one point I was down to 3... urgh, I forgot that one of them moved their capital city *grumble grumble*
a) Bandar Seri Begawan
b) Siem Reap
c) Jakarta
d) Vientiane
e) Kuala Lumpur
f) Manila
g) Yangon
h) Singapore
i) Bangkok
j) Hanoi
k) Phnom Penh
l) Palangkaraya
m) Luang Prabang
n) Dili
o) Kota Kinabalu
p) Makati
q) Naypyidaw
r) Phuket
s) Ho Chi Minh City
No worries, Novelty
Not soon, but definitely on my bucket list. And can I just say I am ENVIOUS of all the places you've been... I want to go to all of those! Mind if I ask, how long did it take you to get to all those? I feel like it's taking me forever to travel... Mostly because of my family and their restrictions. Don't get me wrong, they've brought me to a lot of places but I hate not being able to go when I please...
Blaze, on the other hand, has no such restrictions and has been to like 5 countries in 2 years.
Oh, as for my guess...
a) Bandar Seri Begawan
d) Vientiane
n) Dili
q) Naypyidaw
You did not get all 4 correct.
Naypyidaw is one that I've not been to, so that's correct. I think Obama is there today. And they moved the capital city there recently so blegh.
So that's one, three more to go.
a) Bandar Seri Begawan
d) Vientiane
k) Phnom Penh
n) Dili
Dili isn't a SEA capital city though as it geographically isn't in Asia...
Try again
Really? Most of the sources I've read include Timor-Leste as part of Asia.
a) Bandar Seri Begawan
d) Vientiane
k) Phnom Penh
c) Jakarta
You still haven't got all 4.
I was last in Jakarta when Barack Obama was there. It was fun. When I wanted to look out the window at whether it was raining, all I had to do was turn on CNN to see the weather outside the window...
a) Bandar Seri Begawan
d) Vientiane
k) Phnom Penh
q) Naypyidaw
Let me just say you have Naypyidaw correct. Those crafty Burmese and their new capital city. You still don't have all 4 though...
e) Kuala Lumpur
h) Singapore
j) Hanoi
f) Manila
LOL, I was in Manila a few years back. Not some place I'd be in a hurry to go back, but it was fun there. So no, you're still off 4.
e) Kuala Lumpur
h) Singapore
j) Hanoi
d) Vientiane
Remaining choices:
a) Bandar Seri Begawan
b) Siem Reap
d) Vientiane
e) Kuala Lumpur
g) Yangon
h) Singapore
i) Bangkok
j) Hanoi
k) Phnom Penh
l) Palangkaraya
m) Luang Prabang
o) Kota Kinabalu
p) Makati
r) Phuket
s) Ho Chi Minh City
You have two correct answers there. You need 4 though! Guess again?
I wonder, Novelty... are you including FORMER capitals in your count?
j) Hanoi
d) Vientiane
q) Naypyidaw
a) Bandar Seri Begawan
You still don't have all 4 correct. Since it's only you that's playing:
Remaining choices:
a) Bandar Seri Begawan
d) Vientiane
e) Kuala Lumpur
h) Singapore
i) Bangkok
j) Hanoi
k) Phnom Penh
Pick 3 more together with q) Naypyidaw.
e) Kuala Lumpur
h) Singapore
i) Bangkok
+ Naypyidaw?
Which would totally not have been my guess for a while, since Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia are all among the top tourist destinations in the region...
Nope, still not the 4 I'm looking for. Was in KL last month in transit to Cambodia. Guess again.
Remaining choices:
a) Bandar Seri Begawan
d) Vientiane
h) Singapore
i) Bangkok
j) Hanoi
k) Phnom Penh
Pick 3 more together with q) Naypyidaw.
a) Bandar Seri Begawan
d) Vientiane
j) Hanoi
+ q) Naypyidaw.
You still haven't got all 4. Hanoi is one of the 4. I've been to HCM City, but not Hanoi.
I'll guess...
Bandar Seri Begawan
Vientiane
+
Hanoi
Naypyidaw
LOL, those are the same guesses, and you still don't have all 4 correct.
I *LIVE* in BSB.
Ah, and here I thought you were possibly Australian
Vientiane
Phnom Penh
+
Hanoi
Naypyidaw
Magandang gabi pare! LOL. That's it. On to you!
Napaka misteryoso mo naman LOL. So are you a Brunei native, or a Filipino who lives in Brunei?
Bagaimana cuaca brunei sekarang?
So I'm guessing you went direct to Siem Reap when you hit Cambodia. Did you also hit Ho Chi Minh City and Luang Prabang, while bypassing their countries' respective capitals?
Lessee... one of my life goals is to eventually visit all UNESCO World Heritage sites and all the countries in the world. Well, at least all the countries in the world...
I've been to all these UNESCO sites except 3. Which are they?
a) Vigan
b) Statue of Liberty
c) Sydney Opera House
d) Nara Deer Park
e) Tubbataha Reefs
f) Puerto Princesa Subterranean River
g) Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor (and its Terracotta Warriors)
h) Angkor
i) Borobudur
j) Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto
k) Kinabalu Park
l) Halong Bay
m) Independence Hall, Philadelphia
n) The Greater Blue Mountains Area
o) Great Wall of China
p) Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras
b) Statue of Liberty
c) Sydney Opera House
d) Nara Deer Park
c) Sydney Opera House
m) Independence Hall, Philadelphia
j) Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto
Nope and nope.
I've been to the Sydney Opera House. Alas, that was a time when digital cameras were not yet in vogue, so I have precious few pictures of that trip.
I've been to Nara Deer Park, and got bittn by a deer who really wanted the cookie I was holding.
g) Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor (and its Terracotta Warriors)
h) Angkor
i) Borobudur
I've been to the Angkor Archeological Park. To this day, that remains my most memorable trip ever. Climbing through those ancient temples (The Bayon Temple, Angkor Wat, Preah Khan, Ta Prohm, Pre Rup, Neak Pean...) almost made me wish I'd taken up Archeology instead.
e) Tubbataha Reefs
m) Independence Hall, Philadelphia
n) The Greater Blue Mountains Area
Nope. I've been to Independence Hall, though sadly my picture of the Liberty Bell isn't all that good. I do have a nice souvenir though.
Remaning choices:
a) Vigan
b) Statue of Liberty
e) Tubbataha Reefs
f) Puerto Princesa Subterranean River
g) Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor (and its Terracotta Warriors)
i) Borobudur
j) Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto
k) Kinabalu Park
l) Halong Bay
m) Independence Hall, Philadelphia
n) The Greater Blue Mountains Area
o) Great Wall of China
p) Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras
a) Vigan
e) Tubbataha Reefs
n) The Greater Blue Mountains Area
Nope. I've been to the charming town of Vigan with its tastely fried meat pastries and old-style Spanish houses and cobblestone streets. Spent just half a day there, and would love to go back.
I have also been to the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor. Was tempted to play bowling with the Warriors, but I don't think they'd be happy about that!
Remaining choices:
b) Statue of Liberty
e) Tubbataha Reefs
f) Puerto Princesa Subterranean River
i) Borobudur
j) Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto
k) Kinabalu Park
l) Halong Bay
m) Independence Hall, Philadelphia
n) The Greater Blue Mountains Area
o) Great Wall of China
p) Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras
b) Statue of Liberty
e) Tubbataha Reefs
p) Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras
Nope, I've been to the magnificent Lady Liberty. Didn't get to go to the top, but did get to see the museum and the grounds.
I've likewise been to the Rice Terraces, though sadly we only spent a few hours there on our way back from Sagada. Would love to spend a weekend there to soak up the local culture (and weather!)
Remaining choices:
e) Tubbataha Reefs
f) Puerto Princesa Subterranean River
i) Borobudur
j) Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto
k) Kinabalu Park
l) Halong Bay
n) The Greater Blue Mountains Area
o) Great Wall of China
j) Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto
n) The Greater Blue Mountains Area
o) Great Wall of China
e) Tubbataha Reefs
k) Kinabalu Park
n) The Greater Blue Mountains Area
I've been to the Great Wall. Sadly, a lot of visitors peed on the walls so parts of it smelled... but the sight itself was breathtaking.
I've been to the Greater Blue Mountains in Australia. My memories are a bit hazy but I do recall a long ride up the mountain in a cable car, and lots of green all around. Don't know why they called them "blue" mountains.
Remaining choices:
e) Tubbataha Reefs
f) Puerto Princesa Subterranean River
i) Borobudur
j) Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto
k) Kinabalu Park
l) Halong Bay
e) Tubbataha Reefs
i) Borobudur
l) Halong Bay
I've been to Halong Bay as well. The view and the caves are comparable to Guilin in China, though I enjoyed Guilin more probably because it was sunny when we went there. It was quite overcast in Halong Bay, though.
Remaining choices:
e) Tubbataha Reefs
f) Puerto Princesa Subterranean River
i) Borobudur
j) Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto
k) Kinabalu Park
e) Tubbataha Reefs
i) Borobudur
k) Kinabalu Park
That is correct!
I've been to some of the monuments in Ancient Kyoto, and really want to return there as I've barely scratched the surface of what that rich city has to offer.
I've been to the Puerto Princesa Subterranean River and enjoyed quite a boat ride through the caves (quite interesting that it's pretty much the only option that hasn't been guessed).
I'll be visiting the magnificent Borobudur and its nearby counterpart Prambanan just before New Year, while the natural beauty of Kinabalu Park is set for February 2013. Tubbataha Reefs will have to wait until I become a certified scuba diver, though.
Back to you Quis!
Seeing how multiple answer questions are becoming popular, When I was young which was my favorite wild animal, favorite prehistoric animal, and favorite state.
1) Elephant
2) Giraffe
3) Tiger
4) Penguin
5) Hippotamus
6) Rhinocerus
7) Lion
8) Monkey
9) Polar Bear
a) Brontosaurus
b) Tyrannosaurus Rex
c) Wooly Mammoth
d) Stegosaurus
e) Triceratops
f) Pterodactyl
g) Sabre-tooth Tiger
A) Kentucky
B) Idaho
C) Massachusetts
D) Hawaii
E) California
F) New Hampshire
G) Texas
H) Oregon
I) Delaware
J) Alaska
1) Elephant
a) Brontosaurus
A) Kentucky
5) Hippotamus
c) Wooly Mammoth
I) Delaware
Of those 6 answers/guesses, one is correct.
1) Elephant
b) Tyrannosaurus Rex
A) Kentucky
Still only one right answer. Is the right answer Elephant or Kentucky?
1) Elephant
g) Sabre-tooth Tiger
C) Massachusetts
A) Kentucky
2) Giraffe
f) Pterodactyl
6) Rhinocerus
e) Triceratops
A) Kentucky
Originally posted by Quislet, Esq:
Seeing how multiple answer questions are becoming popular, When I was young which was my favorite wild animal, favorite prehistoric animal, and favorite state.
<strike>1) Elephant</strike>
2) Giraffe
3) Tiger
4) Penguin
5) Hippotamus
6) Rhinocerus
7) Lion
8) Monkey
9) Polar Bear
a) Brontosaurus
b) Tyrannosaurus Rex
c) Wooly Mammoth
d) Stegosaurus
e) Triceratops
f) Pterodactyl
g) Sabre-tooth Tiger
A) Kentucky
Of those six answers, 2 are correct. ne of those correct answers being Kentucky
A) Kentucky
f) Pterodactyl
8) Monkey
You have Kentucky. That is all.
And the reason Kentucky was my favorite state was because I loved the Daniel Boone TV show and he settled (for Europeans) Kentucky
A) Kentucky
e) Triceratops
7) Lion
I was going to ask why Kentucky. At first I thought it might have to do with KFC, but quickly dismissed that theory
A) Kentucky
d) Stegosaurus
6) Rhino
Kentucky remains true. And one of the other 4 answers/guesses is also true.
A) Kentucky
e) Stegosaurus
9) Polar Bear
So close. One answer away.
5) Hippotamus
A) Kentucky
e) Stegosaurus
Still just one answer away.
A) Kentucky
e) Stegosaurus
2) Giraffe
That is correct.
I loved the long neck of a giraffe. I also loved the ridges and end spikes of a stegasaurus.
Somehow I had a hunch I should choose giraffe over tiger.
Let's go for a simpler question -
Pick my favorite from each of the following two lists -
Rat
Ox
Tiger
Rabbit
Dragon
Snake
Horse
Goat
Monkey
Rooster
Dog
Pig
(Yes, it's the Chinese Zodiac!)
And...
Air
Earth
Fire
Water
(Yes, the four classical elements!)
Originally posted by Invisible Brainiac:
Somehow I had a hunch I should choose giraffe over tiger.
Let's go for a simpler question -
Pick my favorite from each of the following two lists -
Rat
Ox
Tiger
Rabbit
Dragon
Snake
Horse
Goat
<strike>Monkey</strike>
Rooster
Dog
Pig
(Yes, it's the Chinese Zodiac!)
And...
Air
Earth
[strike]Fire[/strike}
Water
(Yes, the four classical elements!)
Rabbit
Water
At least one of those is correct.
Air is indeed correct! Tiger is not.
Pick my favorite from each of the following two lists -
Rat
Ox
Rabbit
Dragon
Snake
Horse
Goat
Monkey
Dog
Pig
(Yes, it's the Chinese Zodiac!)
Nope, not the serpentine sign.
Bingo!
The Rabbit is my favorite partly because it is my star sign, and partly because I just love bunnies.
Air is my favorite element because I've always wanted to fly, and that is probably a big part of why I am a big fan of Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Over to you Quis.
Hmmm I can't think of anything so, I am opening it up to the next poster.
I'll jump in!
I like that prom question that's turned up a few times, so I'll adapt that one...
Which two of the following things were not true about my high school senior prom date?
a. She was the daughter of my 11th grade math teacher
b. She was the daughter of my city's mayor
c. She later became my girlfriend
d. She played the title role in our high school play, "Cinderella"
e. Until I asked her, she wasn't planning on going to the prom
f. She'd won a school prize for a short story she'd written in 10th grade
g. She was voted "nicest smile" in the high school yearbook during our senior year
b. She was the daughter of my city's mayor
e. Until I asked her, she wasn't planning on going to the prom
e. Until I asked her, she wasn't planning on going to the prom
f. She'd won a school prize for a short story she'd written in 10th grade
One of those answers is correct.
I'll jump in!
I like that prom question that's turned up a few times, so I'll adapt that one...
Which two of the following things were not true about my high school senior prom date?
a. She was the daughter of my 11th grade math teacher
b. She was the daughter of my city's mayor
c. She later became my girlfriend
d. She played the title role in our high school play, "Cinderella"
e. Until I asked her, she wasn't planning on going to the prom
f. She'd won a school prize for a short story she'd written in 10th grade
g. She was voted "nicest smile" in the high school yearbook during our senior year
b. She was the daughter of my city's mayor
c. She later became my girlfriend
b. She was the daughter of my city's mayor
f. She'd won a school prize for a short story she'd written in 10th grade
One of those, also, is correct.
And for another hint,
e. Until I asked her, she wasn't planning on going to the prom
is true, and thus not correct.
b. She was the daughter of my city's mayor
g. She was voted "nicest smile" in the high school yearbook during our senior year
b. She was the daughter of my city's mayor
a. She was the daughter of my 11th grade math teacher
Nobody has the right answers yet.
Another hint: She was the daughter of my home city's mayor. Helped us therefore to cheap deal on a limousine.
by logical deduction, the correct answer has tobe:
f. She'd won a school prize for a short story she'd written in 10th grade
c. She later became my girlfriend
I didn't check your deductive process, but you are correct! She was the daughter of both my math teacher and the city's mayor (same person) and played the lead in "Cinderella" (Rodger & Hammerstein version - in which I played the Prince's father) which is how I got to know her really. But we never dated. And that short story thing was totally made up as well.
So your are up, Mr. Esquire.
Which is not true?
1) I have a scar on my wrist
2) I was an uncle when I was 7 years old
3) I went to an all-boys high school
4) I did not get my drivers license until I was in college
5) I took Latin as my foreign language requirement in high school
6) I remember my sister singing to me while I was in my crib
7) I did not learn to ride a bicycle until I was in the 5th grade
8) I have been to Scotland
9) I toured the Hershey chocolate factory
10) I have done all of those things
10) I have done all of those things
Nope, there is one thing I have not done.
5) I took Latin as my foreign language requirement in high school
That is the correct answer. My all-boys high school offered Latin. I took Italian and Spanish. I now regret not taking Latin.
I suppose Latin is quite useful in the practice of law, huh?
Slightly. But it is the basis for a bunch of languages and parts of English.
I wish I had had more foreign language units myself. I had one Japanese class and a lot of Mandarin, but wish I could have learned some Spanish or French too.
My question...
Which of these ingredients have I never put in an omelette before?
1) Potatoes
2) Carrots
3) Ham
4) Sausages
5) Tomatoes
6) Tuna
7) Cheddar Cheese
8) Shrimp
9) Bell Peppers
10) Parmesan Cheese
11) Garlic
12) Onions
13) Mushrooms
14) Bacon
I've used carrots, and surprisingly they do give a fairly noticeable taste.
I usually mix tuna in with my omelettes. They make a great combination.
My question...
Which of these ingredients have I never put in an omelette before?
1) Potatoes
3) Ham
4) Sausages
5) Tomatoes
7) Cheddar Cheese
8) Shrimp
9) Bell Peppers
10) Parmesan Cheese
11) Garlic
12) Onions
13) Mushrooms
14) Bacon
11) Garlic
I usually put small amounts of garlic for the flavor.
No to all 3 of the above. Potatoes surprisingly add quite a nice bit of texture and some flavor, and are good if you want a really filling meal.
Tomatoes are a staple in my omelettes. Sometimes I even forego the ketchup.
I rarely include sausages in my omelettes, but Blaze and I once made a mega-omelette with almost everything on it and added sausages just because.
My question...
Which of these ingredients have I never put in an omelette before?
3) Ham
7) Cheddar Cheese
8) Shrimp
9) Bell Peppers
10) Parmesan Cheese
11) Garlic
12) Onions
13) Mushrooms
14) Bacon
11) Garlic[/quote]
Onions are incorrect, they are also a staple in my omelettes.
Which of these ingredients have I never put in an omelette before?
3) Ham
7) Cheddar Cheese
8) Shrimp
9) Bell Peppers
10) Parmesan Cheese
13) Mushrooms
14) Bacon
8) Shrimp
And that is correct! I've never cooked an omelette with shrimp in it, and I honestly also can't recall ever eating an omelette with shrimp.
over to you Quis.
Friday night I will be......
1) going to see a play
2) playing Scrabble with my sister
3) volunteering at a homeless shelter
4) tutoring a kid in history
5) making dinner for a friend
6) starting a second part-time job
7) going to the gym
8) indulging in a Pinky & the Brain marathon
9) flying to Savannah to stay with my brother for a week
10) doing the same thing I do every Friday night - surf the web
7) going to the gym
Although I think that's Thursday night...
I hope to go to the gym Friday morning
1) going to see a play
I'm going to go with you gettin' some culture. XD
Conjure Lass gets it. I have been invited to see a play.
Your turn to ask the question Conjure Lass
Yaaaay! Go me!
Okay, so: what is my profession?
A: Teacher
B: Secretary
C: Engineer
D: Graphic Designer
E: Mortician
F: Nursing Assistant
G: Electrician
H: Chef
I: Accountant
J: Painter
I assumed it was Soceress Supreme.
But I'll guess
D: Graphic Designer
Nope! I can't even draw a stick figure. Lol!
Yaaaay! Go me!
Okay, so: what is my profession?
A: Teacher
B: Secretary
C: Engineer
D: Graphic Designer
E: Mortician
F: Nursing Assistant
G: Electrician
H: Chef
I: Accountant
J: Painter
H: Chef
I always wanted to be a chef, but nope! And I'm flattered that you'd think I was smart enough to be an engineer. Nope to both! And should I be doing that cross out thing? I'm so clueless, forgive me! XD
we usually do the cross out when we have to repost the list on a new page. Whoever reposts it should do the cross out (or just remove that answer)
And because it sticks out like a sore thumb and even though I think it is the wrong answer:
E: Mortician
*wink* My job does stick out like a sore thumb. See! Always go with instinct! lol! You're up!
I've learned that in doing multiple choice questions, never have the answer be one that sticks out.
OK so what play did I see Friday?
1) Hamlet
2) The Glass Menagerie
3) Metamorphosis
4) Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
5) The Hypochondriac
6) The Insanity of Mary Girard
7) Social Creatures
8) Jersey Boys
8) Mildred Fierce
9) Spank! The Fifty Shades Parody
10) The Importance of being Ernest
6) The Insanity of Mary Girard
Sadly there aren't many jobs i could think of that don't make being a mortician stand ou. Lol.
I'm going for 5: the hypochondriac.
Conjure Lass, stop reading my mind!
I did see The Hypochondriac by Moliere. It was funny. The guy that translated it into English did so so that it rhymed. The actress who played the maid did an outstanding job.
HAHA! I'm sorry! I need to go buy a lottery ticket or something. Yeesh. Okaaaaay...let's see...
What is my favorite book?
A: Wicked, Gregory Maguire
B: The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri
C: Guilty Pleasures, Laurel K. Hamilton
D: The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett
E: Dracula, Bram Stoker
F: The Awakening, Kate Chopin
G: Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
H: What Dreams May Come, Richard Matheson
I: The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
J: Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
K: Master and Commander, Patrick O'Brian
L: The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle
J: Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
J: Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
LMAO! Now you're reading MY mind. That is, in fact, my favorite book. Crowley is probably one of my most-loved characters of all time. I'm so predictable. XD
It was actually the one on the list that I thought "oooo I want to read that!"
I almost picked Dracula because of your profession.
BRB.
What are my top two favorite movies:
1) Star Trek 5 the Undiscovered Country
2) Romy and Michelle's High school Reunion
3) the Last of the Mohicans
4) Wait Until Dark
5) Sorority Boys
6) the Cradle Will Rock
7) the Orphanage "El Orfanato"
8) Hedwig and the Angry Inch
9) Searching for Bobby Fischer
10) Network
11) Beautiful Losers
12) 3 Days of the Condor
13) All the President's Men
14) Blade Runner
15) North by Northwest
16) Bullets over Broadway
17) Rosemary's Baby
18) Manhattan Murder Mystery
19) Aliens
20) Rope
21) the Apartment
22) Star Wars the Empire Strikes Back
23) In the Name of the Father
24) Dangerous Liaisons
25) the Age of Innocence
ok I will let you off there. Happy Hunting!
9) Searching for Bobby Fischer
19) Aliens
no and no. But I do love both of those movies! Actually this list is like a top 25 of my favorite moves.
Hmmmmm...
I'm going for:
15: North by Northwest
22: Empire Strikes Back
23) In the Name of the Father
24) Dangerous Liaisons
Hmmmmm...
I'm going for:
15: North by Northwest
22: Empire Strikes Back
North by Northwest is great! and the Empire Strikes Back is my favorite of the Star Wars ... although I am not a Star Wars fan .. <gasp>. but neither are my top two.
try again though.
23) In the Name of the Father
24) Dangerous Liaisons
oh man ... the scene at the end when Daniel Day Lewis
walks over the seats "I'm walkin' out tha front door like a free maaan."
gives me chills everytime! but no it's not one of the top two.
Dangerous Liasons is also pretty good ... I love the scene at the end when Glen Closs
smashes everything off her desk and catches her house on fire
he he
but nope neither are the top two.
What are my top two favorite movies:
1) Star Trek 5 the Undiscovered Country
2) Romy and Michelle's High school Reunion
3) the Last of the Mohicans
4) Wait Until Dark
5) Sorority Boys
6) the Cradle Will Rock
7) the Orphanage "El Orfanato"
8) Hedwig and the Angry Inch
9) Searching for Bobby Fischer
10) Network
11) Beautiful Losers
12) 3 Days of the Condor
13) All the President's Men
14) Blade Runner
15) North by Northwest
16) Bullets over Broadway
17) Rosemary's Baby
18) Manhattan Murder Mystery
19) Aliens
20) Rope
21) the Apartment
22) Star Wars the Empire Strikes Back
23) In the Name of the Father
24) Dangerous Liaisons
25) the Age of Innocence
ok I will let you off there. Happy Hunting!
2) Romy and Michelle's High school Reunion
17) Rosemary's Baby
no and no. I think I like Rosemary's Baby just for the pretty views of Manhattan apartments.
Well, it's been narrowed down a bit. Hmmm...
1) Star Trek 5 the Undiscovered Country
3) the Last of the Mohicans
I remember the opening scene of Last of the Mohicans, when they were chasing that deer? I was exhausted FOR them.
5) Sorority Boys (I am thinking this is probably a wrong answer)
14) Blade Runner
I know virtually none of these movies so am just picking at random.
13) All the President's Men
8) Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Well, it's been narrowed down a bit. Hmmm...
1) Star Trek 5 the Undiscovered Country
3) the Last of the Mohicans
I remember the opening scene of Last of the Mohicans, when they were chasing that deer? I was exhausted FOR them.
Star Trek 5 is my favorite trek movie but not a winner tonight.
the Last of the Mohicans used to be my favorite movie growing up ... I watched it over and over again but it's not now.
5) Sorority Boys (I am thinking this is probably a wrong answer)
14) Blade Runner
Sorority Boys is my favorite comedy ... I crack up in tears ... and suffocate whenever I watch it. I even smile when thinking about it but no ... its not the top 2.
Blade Runner is cool but not in the top 2 either.
I know virtually none of these movies so am just picking at random.
13) All the President's Men
8) Hedwig and the Angry Inch
All the President's Men I thought was better in concept than execution ... and Hedwig may be the blip on this list because I liked it but its nowhere near one of my favorites.
keep trying!
Good lord, we haven't even gotten one??
25) the Age of Innocence
11) Beautiful Losers
I don't even know half of these movies. XD
no
nobody knows me at all!!!!!!
Beautiful Losers ... is probably my favorite documentary ... its precious.
Age of Innocence was amazing .. I love me some Scorcese beautifulness.
Anyway .... keep trying.
Don't think of it that way. XD Think of it as you being mysterious.
20) Rope
21) the Apartment
way to hang in there.
but no and no. haha! Rope is pretty good ... about two guys who want to commit the perfect crime because they think they're smarter than everyone else.
and 21) the Apartment ... is the only one on the list I haven't seen but I am dying to see it ...
I am telepathy resistant.
1) Star Trek 5 the Undiscovered Country
2) Romy and Michelle's High school Reunion
3) the Last of the Mohicans
4) Wait Until Dark
5) Sorority Boys
6) the Cradle Will Rock
7) the Orphanage "El Orfanato"
8) Hedwig and the Angry Inch
9) Searching for Bobby Fischer
10) Network
11) Beautiful Losers
12) 3 Days of the Condor
13) All the President's Men
14) Blade Runner
15) North by Northwest
16) Bullets over Broadway
17) Rosemary's Baby
18) Manhattan Murder Mystery
19) Aliens
20) Rope
21) the Apartment
22) Star Wars the Empire Strikes Back
23) In the Name of the Father
24) Dangerous Liaisons
25) the Age of Innocence
7) the Orphanage "El Orfanato"
18) Manhattan Murder Mystery
This is the last guess in which both answer could be wrong.
Oops, I was wrong there. I thought after this guess there would just be 3 answers left, but there will be 4.
4) Wait Until Dark
16) Bullets over Broadway
7) the Orphanage "El Orfanato"
18) Manhattan Murder Mystery
This is the last guess in which both answer could be wrong.
Oops, I was wrong there. I thought after this guess there would just be 3 answers left, but there will be 4.
Manhattan Murder Mystery ... also better in concept than execution but stil has soem very great moments.
The Orphanage is getting closer ..... .
and
BAM!!! we got one!
I love this old Aufdrey Hepburn movie ... we watched it in 4th grade for some reason and ... it still is one of my current top two faves. It's so full of tension and it's all done in her apartment or across the street. she plays a blind woman who has somehow got a wrong piece of luggage from the airport ... that contains something all these criminals want ... they stop by at various pint and tension ensues!
16) Bullets over Broadway
This one is very very close to the other movie in the top two.
To make you all feel better ... I played this with Kid Gravity for about an hour and a half recently ... (which gave me the idea) and he didn't guess the right responses either. I think he finally got Wait Until Dark but not the other one.
4) Wait Until Dark
10) Network
oh MAN! so close. Network is often called the greatest film ever made ... and has some amazingly long one shot monologues by Faye Dunaway ... she can do some dialogue.
but not the one I'm thinking of.
1) Star Trek 5 the Undiscovered Country
2) Romy and Michelle's High school Reunion
3) the Last of the Mohicans
4) Wait Until Dark
5) Sorority Boys
6) the Cradle Will Rock
7) the Orphanage "El Orfanato"
8) Hedwig and the Angry Inch
9) Searching for Bobby Fischer
10) Network
11) Beautiful Losers
12) 3 Days of the Condor
13) All the President's Men
14) Blade Runner
15) North by Northwest
16) Bullets over Broadway
17) Rosemary's Baby
18) Manhattan Murder Mystery
19) Aliens
20) Rope
21) the Apartment
22) Star Wars the Empire Strikes Back
23) In the Name of the Father
24) Dangerous Liaisons
25) the Age of Innocence
4) Wait Until Dark
12) 3 Days of the Condor
Are you doing this on purpose?
I don't know what to do in this situation ...
Is there a guide for when no one gets it?
Here's the best trailer I could find ..
http://www.reelz.com/trailer-clips/56913/cradle-will-rock-trailer/It dosn't do it justice ... but it is much better than the other trailer ... which made it seem like Forest Gump.
Well, the next person to guess should get it. I've already guessed twice in a row, so I'm not going to guess.
Does it count as guessing at this point? xD
4 Wait until dark
6 The cradle will rock
Lookit that. I totally held on til the bitter end.
you win. way to crawl across the finish line.
You're up Conjure Lass!!!!
I really like movies that are like plays ... if you hadn't guessed ... and I really like thrillers. witty humor and farces.
Wait Until Dark really is fantastic!
Oh yeesh, sorry this took so long!!
Name 3 things on this list that I do not collect.
1: Books
2: Stamps
3: My Little Ponies
4: Comic Books
5: Calendars
6: Pencils
7: Frogs
8: Postcards
9: Colorforms
10: Stickers
11: Barbies
12: Blankets
13: Finger Puppets
14: Perfume
15: DVDs
16: Anime Figures
17: Flags
18: Crystal figurines
19: Hats
20: Fabric
21: Soundtracks
22: Eyeshadow
23: Paintings
24: Records
25: Greeting cards
7: Frogs
23: Paintings
11: Barbies
7: I actually do have an army of stuffed frogs in the spare bedroom!
8: I go to estate auctions and buy paintings. XD
11: You are correct! I do not collect Barbie. She always annoyed me as a girl.
Name 3 things on this list that I do not collect.
1: Books
2: Stamps
3: My Little Ponies
4: Comic Books
5: Calendars
6: Pencils
7: Frogs
8: Postcards
9: Colorforms
10: Stickers
11: Barbies
12: Blankets
13: Finger Puppets
14: Perfume
15: DVDs
16: Anime Figures
17: Flags
18: Crystal figurines
19: Hats
20: Fabric
21: Soundtracks
22: Eyeshadow
23: Paintings
24: Records
25: Greeting cards
24: Records
15: DVDS
21: Soundtracks
11: Barbies
14: Perfume
3: My Little Ponies
24: Records
15: DVDS
21: Soundtracks
Nope, nope, and nope. I do, in fact, have large collections of all of those. I love my old school Neil Diamond records.
14: Perfume
3: My Little Ponies
Nope and nope! I have about thirty perfumes and...WAY more MLPs than a grown woman should have.
Keep trying!
11: Barbies
2: Stamps
17: Flags
5: Calendars
6: Pencils
13: Finger Puppets
Glad to see we have a few more players now ^^
Removing items that we know are wrong: (maybe we should also remove Comics from the list? :p)
1: Books
2: Stamps
4: Comic Books
5: Calendars
6: Pencils
8: Postcards
9: Colorforms
10: Stickers
11: Barbies
12: Blankets
13: Finger Puppets
16: Anime Figures
17: Flags
18: Crystal figurines
19: Hats
20: Fabric
22: Eyeshadow
25: Greeting cards
I'll guess
19: Hats
18: Crystal Figurines
2: Stamps
Name 3 things on this list that I do not collect.
1: Books
2: Stamps
3: My Little Ponies
4: Comic Books
5: Calendars
6: Pencils
7: Frogs
8: Postcards
9: Colorforms
10: Stickers
11: Barbies
12: Blankets
13: Finger Puppets
14: Perfume
15: DVDs
16: Anime Figures
17: Flags
18: Crystal figurines
19: Hats
20: Fabric
21: Soundtracks
22: Eyeshadow
23: Paintings
24: Records
25: Greeting cards
2: Stamps is correct! Of all the boring things I collect, stamps is not one of them! XD
17: Flags: I do collect those. I have all sorts of world flags that I keep in holders on my dressers and things.
5: Calendars: I have...somewhere around 100 calendars from a 25 year span. I keep them every year and have since I was a kid.
6: Pencils: Yeeeep. I buy them everywhere I go and ask people to get them for me when they travel.
13: Finger Puppets: I think other people collect these for me, but I have dozens. Little monsters, little dogs, cats, pandas, people...
19: Hats: I DO NOT WEAR HATS BUT COLLECT THEM ANYWAY. I always seem to think that I'm going to look good in hats and simply don't. But I collect them and put them in the windowsills during the spring for colorful lifts.
18: Crytal Figurines: My mom collects these for me. She's given me one on my birthday and christmas every year since I was around 7. So I have lots and keep them on a little shelf in my spare bedroom. I hate dusting them. XD
You guys are close! *cheers you on*
2: Stamps
11: Barbies
20: Fabric
Rats, I thought hats would be a sure thing since somehow I didn't think you wore them. I don't know why, I just had this impression that you don't.
2: Stamps
11: Barbies
8: Postcards
Name 3 things on this list that I do not collect.
1: Books
2: Stamps
3: My Little Ponies
4: Comic Books
5: Calendars
6: Pencils
7: Frogs
8: Postcards
9: Colorforms
10: Stickers
11: Barbies
12: Blankets
13: Finger Puppets
14: Perfume
15: DVDs
16: Anime Figures
17: Flags
18: Crystal figurines
19: Hats
20: Fabric
21: Soundtracks
22: Eyeshadow
23: Paintings
24: Records
25: Greeting cards
I do in fact collect both fabric and postcards! We're getting down to the last choices now! Sorry it took me so long to get my butt back in here. I forgot! XD *begs forgiveness*
2: Stamps
11: Barbies
22: Eyeshadow
25: Greeting cards
2: Stamps
11: Barbies
2: Stamps
11: Barbies
1: Books
I know I have a lot of books, but I don't collect them.
2: Stamps
11: Barbies
9: Colorforms
HAHA! My bad guys, I completely forgot I was playing! I'm terrible. *DIES*
Ibby has it! I threw Colorforms in there because it seems like something I would collect, but don't. Liked them as a kid though!
You're up IB!
Hey now, if you die you won't be able to keep playing the game!
Let's see...
Which of these is not true?
a) On a trip to Mt. Pulag to see the "sea of clouds", I wasn't able to use the "toilet" because someone did their business on the toilet seat.
b) I snuck a camera into a traditional Japanese onsen so I could take a picture of the beautiful outdoor bath.
c) I impressed a local with my Mandarin while asking for directions in Shanghai.
d) A Mexican without a driver's license caused the tire of the van I was driving to blow up on the California freeway.
e) I marveled at a tiny plant inexplicably growing through a crack in one of the upper floors of Angkor Wat.
f) Blaze and I tried our first German beer (along with many cocktails!) on the beautiful beaches of Puerto Galera, resulting in us napping on the beach until sunrise.
g) We had an encounter with a waitress in Seoul who tried to take away my mom's chicken soup before she was done eating.
h) When I was on the Villingili beach in the Maldives I saw a family cleaning a slaughtered animal for some sort of ceremony.
i) We met a Filipina waitress at a seafood restaurant in Kota Kinabalu who gave us free softdrinks.
j) Because all my companions chickened out, I talked two strangers into riding the reverse bungy with me in Singapore.
k) I spent a night getting to know a local boy (who is also of Chinese ethnicity) in West Hollywood while eating Asian food.
l) I was roomies with an Alaskan, and then a Peruvian, while in New York and Washington D.C. for a student conference.
m) I saw my first condom while shopping with my family in Sydney.
n) I broke the heart of a boy I met in Vietnam while celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival on the shores of Hoan Kiem Lake.
o) Half a dozen local girls took pictures of me in Prambanan temple because I helped them practice their English.
p) I ditched my friends to climb up the bell tower of the St. Augustine Church in Paoay, one of the 4 Baroque Churches of the Philippines recognized by UNESCO.
p) I ditched my friends to climb up the bell tower of the St. Augustine Church in Paoay, one of the 4 Baroque Churches of the Philippines recognized by UNESCO.
That happened. Sometimes I get impatient when with a group, so I head out on my own to see more. The bell tower is fairly safe to climb up. Had a devil of a time positioning my camera so I could get a shot of myself!
m) I saw my first condom while shopping with my family in Sydney.
c) I impressed a local with my Mandarin while asking for directions in Shanghai.
Gosh, that was fast. Quis has it - I saw a sign for a shop called Condom Kingdom, but we didn't go in so I didn't see an actual condom.
over to you, Quis!
Last week I saw a play. What was the play?
1) Tuck Everlasting
2) A Raisin in the Sun
3) Wicked
4) Stones in his Pocket
5) Clybourne Park
6) Reflection of a Rock Lobster
7) Spank! The Fifty Shades Parody
8) Two Gentlemen of Verona
9) She Kills Monsters
10) Mildred Fierce
8) Two Gentlemen of Verona
Nope. No Shakespeare for me.
7) Spank! The Fifty Shades Parody
Before I read Fifty Shades of Grey (which I will never do)? Are you crazy? Guess again
I will most likely never ever see Wicked. I read the book and hated it.
1) Tuck Everlasting
Before I read Fifty Shades of Grey (which I will never do)? Are you crazy? Guess again
I dunno, I watch videos poking fun at Twilight even though I wouldn't touch the series with a ten-foot intertron pole...
6) Reflection of a Rock Lobster
Last week I saw a play. What was the play?
1) Tuck Everlasting
2) A Raisin in the Sun
3) Wicked
4) Stones in his Pocket
5) Clybourne Park
6) Reflection of a Rock Lobster
7) Spank! The Fifty Shades Parody
8) Two Gentlemen of Verona
9) She Kills Monsters
10) Mildred Fierce
It still has not been guessed
I probably would like Mildred Fierce if ever I go see it. Full of campy drag fun.
I did not see She Kills Monsters.
I did see Clybourne Park. Clybourne Park is somewhat based upon A Raisin in the Sun. The first act is set in the 1950s where a white husband & wife are selling their house in an all white neighborhood and moving after the suicide of their son. They are selling the house to a black family. Racism ensues.
The second act is set in 2000. The neighborhood has become all black. The same house is being sold to a white couple who have plans to totally redo the house. Reverse racism ensues.
It was very good. There are 6 characters in each act and each actor plays different characters in each act. I thought the actress who played the black maid, Marvelyn McFarlane, was very good with expressing her character's mood through her facial expressions.
The play was very good. One criticism I heard after seeing the play was that the play is kind of racist itself in saying/implying that the neighborhood became run down and crime infested after all the white families moved away and all the black families moved in.
I recently bought a new desktop computer (the old one was 8 years old...time to upgrade indeed!).
What were the final two programs I installed to complete my setup?
1) Photoshop CS4
2) Poser 7
3) Sculptris
4) Carrera
5) Adobe Bridge
6) Google Chrome
7) Firefox
8) Waterfox
9) Open Office
10) Tixaxis
11) Civilization 5
12) Greenshot
13) Rainmeter
14) DVDstyler
15) Code Lobster
16) Web-O-Rama
17) iTunes
18) Goldwave
19) Windows Mail
20) Thunderbird
7) Firefox
15) Code Lobster
Neither of those.
Firefox was one of the earliest programs I installed, needed something better than IE as soon as possible.
Code Lobster is what I use to write and compile my PHP code for web design so was installed early on as well
3) Sculptris
12) Greenshot
Sculptris is a 3D modelling program. It is not one of the last two programs installed.
Greenshot is a screen capture utility. It isn't the one I usually use, but it had some nice features for freeware, so I figured I'd give it a try. It was also not one of the last two.
I recently bought a new desktop computer (the old one was 8 years old...time to upgrade indeed!).
What were the final two programs I installed to complete my setup?
1) Photoshop CS4
2) Poser 7
3) Sculptris
4) Carrera
5) Adobe Bridge
6) Google Chrome
7) Firefox
8) Waterfox
9) Open Office
10) Tixaxis
11) Civilization 5
12) Greenshot
13) Rainmeter
14) DVDstyler
15) Code Lobster
16) Web-O-Rama
17) iTunes
18) Goldwave
19) Windows Mail
20) Thunderbird
5) Adobe Bridge
13) Rainmeter
Bridge is for image management.
Rainmeter is for monitors computer systems and custom interfaces (working on a Legion based on now)
Both of those were installed early on.
11) Civilization 5
14) DVDstyler
Wow, from no one getting even one of them to both going in one shot!
Civ 5 is a game of course.
DVDstyler is a freeware movie software.
You are up Quis
Yesterday I...
1) went to the Massachusetts Historical Society's exhibit on Abolition
2) took a walk in the Arnold Arboretum
3) washed all of my dirty clothes
4) went to a book club meeting
5) went to see "Oz the Great and Powerful"
6) attended a lecture at Harvard on the Current State of the Humanist Movement
7) gave Belinda a bath
8) went to a gay speed date event
9) attended the Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education class entitled "The Goodrideg decision and its effect on Massachuseets law after 9 years"
10) stayed in my pajamas all day watching TV.
11) posted a quiz on the website Sporcle
12) met an old freind for lunch
13) had the unluckiest day of my life
14) visited a friend in the hospital
15) went to the library to pick up a book on reserve
2) took a walk in the Arnold Arboretum
Not yet. Hopefully in a couple of months when the lilacs are in bloom
13) had the unluckiest day of my life
Yesterday I...
1) went to the Massachusetts Historical Society's exhibit on Abolition
2) took a walk in the Arnold Arboretum
3) washed all of my dirty clothes
4) went to a book club meeting
5) went to see "Oz the Great and Powerful"
6) attended a lecture at Harvard on the Current State of the Humanist Movement
7) gave Belinda a bath
8) went to a gay speed date event
9) attended the Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education class entitled "The Goodrideg decision and its effect on Massachuseets law after 9 years"
10) stayed in my pajamas all day watching TV.
11) posted a quiz on the website Sporcle
12) met an old freind for lunch
13) had the unluckiest day of my life
14) visited a friend in the hospital
15) went to the library to pick up a book on reserve
Nothing unlucky happened to me yesterday
4) went to a book club meeting
11) posted a quiz on the website Sporcle
I'm picking this mostly because Quis posting a Quiz amuses me for some bizare reason
Nope, Nope, & nope.
Book Club meeting is next Monday. I did post a quiz on Sporcle, but that was last week (it was the same quiz I posted here a long time ago - Their First Words). And though they say you should bath your cat, I have not given Belinda a bath. If I ever do, I imagine it will be a traumatic experience for both of us.
8) went to a gay speed date event
I've always wanted to go to one but, I am in a relationship. so that wouldn't go over well.
10) stayed in my pajamas all day watching TV.
No speed date for me (even though I am not in a relationship)
Sunday, I almost spent the whole day in my pajamas, but the question was what did I do on Saturday. HEck that answer would be wrong even for Sunday
15) went to the library to pick up a book on reserve
I do have a book on reserve, but I am waiting for a second to be ready and pick them both up
12) met an old freind for lunch
Yesterday I...
1) went to the Massachusetts Historical Society's exhibit on Abolition
2) took a walk in the Arnold Arboretum
3) washed all of my dirty clothes
4) went to a book club meeting
5) went to see "Oz the Great and Powerful"
6) attended a lecture at Harvard on the Current State of the Humanist Movement
7) gave Belinda a bath
8) went to a gay speed date event
9) attended the Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education class entitled "The Goodridge decision and its effect on Massachuseets law after 9 years"
10) stayed in my pajamas all day watching TV.
11) posted a quiz on the website Sporcle
12) met an old freind for lunch
13) had the unluckiest day of my life
14) visited a friend in the hospital
15) went to the library to pick up a book on reserve
I didn't meet an old friend (spelt right this time) for lunch. About a month ago I did have lunch with my best friend from elementary school. Looking back, he was my first crush. He lives with his husband in New Hampshire.
1) went to the Massachusetts Historical Society's exhibit on Abolition
Even though I find Saturday to be the worst day for this activity..
5) went to see "Oz the Great and Powerful"
9) attended the Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education class entitled "The Goodridge decision and its effect on Massachuseets law after 9 years"
I don't know if Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education has a class about the Goodridge decision.
OZ looks kind of cool, but I probably won't go see it.
But I did like the Massachusetts Historical Society's exhibit on abolition. Did you know you could buy 9 Sharp rifles for only $234.00?
So I think that's Power Boy's cue?
Btw, I think it's kind of cool that your best friend turned out to be gay, too. I've often wondered if some of my old friends were.
Yes, but it is hard to type with these giant lynx paws.
Tomorrow, I ...
1) Have a job interview.
2) Have to purchase a plane ticket.
3) Am going to eat pizza.
4) Have to finish a paper.
5) Have to speak at a conference.
6) Have to teach a class.
7) Have a class on teaching.
8) Am going to a happy hour.
9) Have to apply for a grant.
10) Am getting my flat cleaned.
11) Will make popcorn.
12) Will catch a cold.
13) Will perform for dozens of children, with sock puppets.
No. I but I did start a new job recently!
1) Have a job interview.
2) Have to purchase a plane ticket.
3) Am going to eat pizza.
4) Have to finish a paper.
5) Have to speak at a conference.
6) Have to teach a class.
7) Have a class on teaching.
8) Am going to a happy hour.
9) Have to apply for a grant.
10) Am getting my flat cleaned.
11) Will make popcorn.
12) Will catch a cold.
13) Will perform for dozens of children, with sock puppets.
6) Have to teach a class.
Not tomorrow!
But I do teach!
5) Have to speak at a conference.
If you do, remember to say "Sprock" at least once.
I don't ... not (today). I do sometimes though, it is really exhausting.
I did go to one talk where a guy kept talking about fracking ... it was annoying though. he was a US guy trying to be funny to an international audience ... i dont think the audience got the joke ... other people dont use the f word as much.
if i were to talk about fracking I hope it would be a BSG joke instead of an fword joke.
2) Have to purchase a plane ticket.
4) Have to finish a paper.
9) Have to apply for a grant.
no, but I must buy a plane ticket soon. maybe tomorrow. (not the original tomorrow)
4) Have to finish a paper.
I have so many to finish but nope.
9) Have to apply for a grant.
probably should start but no, I wasn't thinking of that.
10) Am getting my flat cleaned.
1) Have a job interview.
2) Have to purchase a plane ticket.
3) Am going to eat pizza.
4) Have to finish a paper.
5) Have to speak at a conference.
6) Have to teach a class.
7) Have a class on teaching.
8) Am going to a happy hour.
9) Have to apply for a grant.
10) Am getting my flat cleaned.
11) Will make popcorn.
12) Will catch a cold.
13) Will perform for dozens of children, with sock puppets.
I got my flat cleaned last week! I get it done once every 3 months or so and they get it so much cleaner than I can.
13) Will perform for dozens of children, with sock puppets.
3) Am going to eat pizza.
8) Am going to a happy hour.
7) Have a class on teaching.
13) Will perform for dozens of children, with sock puppets.
nope. Although I think I would be really good. haha!
3) Am going to eat pizza.
I wish. Peebs is on a diet. I did find a good place recently.
8) Am going to a happy hour.
I wish. Peebs is on a diet. Peebs loves happy hour.
7) Have a class on teaching.
YES!!!! I DID!!! the course is such a farce. I feel bad for the instructor, who is really nice but so far the class has been a comedy of errors! Not to mention, I am so behind on my assignments. But so is the rest of the class.
I am thinking of writing play about my experience ... because it is such a satire.
YOU'RE UP EX!!! can't wait for your questions!
OK, this is going back a few weeks but - for this past Valentine's Day - Mrs. Nihil gave me a comic-themed gift.
What did she give me?
A. A bag of customized M&M's (stamped with super-hero logos)
B. A bag of customized candy hearts (stamped with little slogans like "You're Super", "My Hero", etc.)
C. An Alex Ross print of the Joker hugging Harley Quinn
D. A Roy Lichtenstein print homaging an old romance comic cover
E. A risque "Tijuana Bible" comic from the 1930's
F. Alan Moore's risque book, "Lost Girls"
G. A copy of Amazing Spider-Man Annual #21 (the Wedding Issue)
H. A copy of Frederic Wertham's "Seduction of the Innocent"
I. A pair of Batman underwear (for me to wear)
J. A pair of Batgirl underwear (for her to wear)
D. A Roy Lichtenstein print homaging an old romance comic cover
E. A risque "Tijuana Bible" comic from the 1930's
D. A Roy Lichtenstein print homaging an old romance comic cover
No, though I'm not quite in the vocal anti-Lichtenstein camp that's sprung up, I can't say that I'm a fan, either.
E. A risque "Tijuana Bible" comic from the 1930's
No... but jeez, I wish! I'll bet those things are darned hard to come by.
So, if not those two, what
did Mrs. X give me this past Valentines Day?
OK, this is going back a few weeks but - for this past Valentine's Day - Mrs. Nihil gave me a comic-themed gift.
What did she give me?
A. A bag of customized M&M's (stamped with super-hero logos)
B. A bag of customized candy hearts (stamped with little slogans like "You're Super", "My Hero", etc.)
C. An Alex Ross print of the Joker hugging Harley Quinn
D. A Roy Lichtenstein print homaging an old romance comic cover
E. A risque "Tijuana Bible" comic from the 1930's
F. Alan Moore's risque book, "Lost Girls"
G. A copy of Amazing Spider-Man Annual #21 (the Wedding Issue)
H. A copy of Frederic Wertham's "Seduction of the Innocent"
I. A pair of Batman underwear (for me to wear)
J. A pair of Batgirl underwear (for her to wear)
B. A bag of customized candy hearts (stamped with little slogans like "You're Super", "My Hero", etc.)
C. An Alex Ross print of the Joker hugging Harley Quinn
I. A pair of Batman underwear (for me to wear)
If that's correct, you'll have to model it to all of us. LOL.
G. A copy of Amazing Spider-Man Annual #21 (the Wedding Issue)
No, I received neither a bag of chalky little hearts, nor an Alex Ross Print (though I did use that image for a Valentine's card I made for
her years back), nor the Spider-Man Wedding issue (which a buddy of mine actually got for his Spider-Man loving fiance a decade back), nor a set a Batman briefs (sorry, Nov!
)
So what
was my comic-themed gift that Mrs. X so thoughtfully gave?
A. A bag of customized M&M's (stamped with super-hero logos)
B. A bag of customized candy hearts (stamped with little slogans like "You're Super", "My Hero", etc.)C. An Alex Ross print of the Joker hugging Harley QuinnD. A Roy Lichtenstein print homaging an old romance comic coverE. A risque "Tijuana Bible" comic from the 1930'sF. Alan Moore's risque book, "Lost Girls"
G. A copy of Amazing Spider-Man Annual #21 (the Wedding Issue)H. A copy of Frederic Wertham's "Seduction of the Innocent"
I. A pair of Batman underwear (for me to wear)J. A pair of Batgirl underwear (for her to wear)
J. A pair of Batgirl underwear (for her to wear)
A. A bag of customized M&M's (stamped with super-hero logos)
Down to the wire, because I received neither the "gift that keeps on giving"... nor the ladies' underwear.
So which of the two remaining,
did I receive for Valentines Day?
A. A bag of customized M&M's (stamped with super-hero logos)B. A bag of customized candy hearts (stamped with little slogans like "You're Super", "My Hero", etc.)C. An Alex Ross print of the Joker hugging Harley QuinnD. A Roy Lichtenstein print homaging an old romance comic coverE. A risque "Tijuana Bible" comic from the 1930'sF. Alan Moore's risque book, "Lost Girls"
G. A copy of Amazing Spider-Man Annual #21 (the Wedding Issue)H. A copy of Frederic Wertham's "Seduction of the Innocent"
I. A pair of Batman underwear (for me to wear)J. A pair of Batgirl underwear (for her to wear)
H. A copy of Frederic Wertham's "Seduction of the Innocent"
...and, bingo!
Yeah, although Dr. Wertham's book obviously has zero romantic implication (although, I have to admit I smirked at the coincidence of receiving a "Seduction" on Valentines), it was more the thought behind it that was really sweet.
You see, Mrs. X has next to no interest in comic books... but that doesn't stop me from rambling on ad nauseum about them, so much so that - after 15 plus years - I was sure she pays no attention anymore.
I must have mentioned the whole Wertham saga at some point, and said that I'd really like to read that book someday. Well, Mrs. X's gift was her way of saying, "See... I do listen to you."
Viridis is up!
Well I have a bunch of art projects ongoing (as usual) and will probably end up scraping them before completion (as usual).
But all of these except 1 is in progress right now.
Which one am I NOT working on?
1. New header images for my websites
2. Legion photomanipulated group shot
3. Adding superheroes to "Artsy" photos to hang in my home
4. 3D model of the mission monitor room
5. 3D model of the Time institute
6. Emerald Empress vs Red Hulk
7. Emerald Empress vs Connor (from Assassin's Creed 3 video game)
8. Designing my Business Cards
2. Legion photomanipulated group shot
Knowing how many different art styles you like to try out, I'm thinking that perhaps your specific interest in photomanipulations might have already been fully explored.
Nope that one is underway.
I recently encountered a photo (not sure if on a photography group on reddit or stock art group on deviantart, but I digress)
of a group of young ladies (early 20's) with a nice variety of bodies types and hair colours.
They all looked very happy even though they seemed to have lost their clothes somewhere.
So I said to myself "Oh Great Viridis, he who is long on pride but short on sense, may we see fit to grant these poor lass' some cloths to cover thier asses?"
And so I answered me with "Yea, and them them be Ladies from the Legion for that is but fit and good. Also stop talking yourself in the third person, it makes you sound crazy(er)"
And so it came to pass that I downloaded the picture, put it though processing (not as dirty as it sounds) and seperated the girls from the background and each other.
Still have to figure out who will be who...I might do a poll for that actually.
3. Adding superheroes to "Artsy" photos to hang in my home
3. Adding superheroes to "Artsy" photos to hang in my home
Nope, this is in progress as well.
Disdemona picked out a dozen or so "stock" black and white photos she liked. I've been picking one person in each photo to colourize and turn into a superhero.
So far I've completed one of "Swift" (from the Authority) and am currently working on one of "The Flash" and another of "Retro Girl" (Powers)
4. 3D model of the mission monitor room
7. Emerald Empress vs Connor (from Assassin's Creed 3 video game)
4. 3D model of the mission monitor room
Only have a but load of reference pics and the various parts ploted on graph paper, but I'm hoping to complete this one within a few months
7. Emerald Empress vs Connor (from Assassin's Creed 3 video game)
Technically this is completed, it was for a (timed) contest and the image was submitted. Since submitting though I've started to add colour so this is still not the correct answer
5. 3D model of the Time institute
5. 3D model of the Time institute
While screen-shoting references for the Monitor room I encountered tons of awesome images of the inside of the Time Institute....so this one is in the same stage of completion.
I actually plan to pair the images across a dual monitor and incorporate them into a Rainmeter theme....provided I actually finish either of them
Well I have a bunch of art projects ongoing (as usual) and will probably end up scraping them before completion (as usual).
But all of these except 1 is in progress right now.
Which one am I NOT working on?
1. New header images for my websites
2. Legion photomanipulated group shot
3. Adding superheroes to "Artsy" photos to hang in my home
4. 3D model of the mission monitor room
5. 3D model of the Time institute
6. Emerald Empress vs Red Hulk
7.Emerald Empress vs Connor (from Assassin's Creed 3 video game)
8. Designing my Business Cards
6. Emerald Empress vs Red Hulk
1. New header images for my websites
And I'll round it out with:
8. Designing my Business Cards
6. Emerald Empress vs Red Hulk
This one is the same as the empress vs connor except it was an earlier entry in the same contest. empress vs hulk got me to the second round. empress vs connor didn't get me to the third.
8. Designing my Business Cards
Pretty much finished, just need to get my logos registered as trademarks and add the text
1. New header images for my websites
And we have a winner. I'm currently building some custom wordpress themes for my sites, but haven't even started to consider anything on the graphical end of things.
Your question Peebs
Great!
Name two styles of self defense I have taken classes in:
1) running away
2) Kendo
3) Tai Kwan Do
4) Ninjutsu
5) Pepper Spray
6) Shooting guns
7) Karate
8) Judo
9) Kung Fu
10) Krav Maga
11) boxing
12) kickboxing
14) Fencing
15) tasers
16) Vulcan nerve pinches
17) Bat'leth
18) screaming for help
19) begging for my life
20) bribery
21) specialized whistling for animals to come rescue me
22) mind control
3) Tai Kwan Do
14) Fencing
I took 7) Karate. For many years actually. More on that later.
no to the rest. Krav Maga sounds intense.
my buddy keeps trying to get me to join his fencing club ... which I want to do but ... I'm afraid I would freak out and get frustrated by the finesse and dexterity required ... and then go cave man style at everyone.
Except you have to borrow the sweaty gear/clothes for fencing and think that might freak me out.
Now you all know why I have such a fondness for Karate Chops and saying "HIYAH!" which means yes ... with a little extra sauce on top.
Great!
Name two styles of self defense I have taken classes in:
1) running away
2) Kendo
3) Tai Kwan Do
4) Ninjutsu
5) Pepper Spray
6) Shooting guns
7) Karate
8) Judo
9) Kung Fu
10) Krav Maga
11) boxing
12) kickboxing
14) Fencing
15) tasers
16) Vulcan nerve pinches
17) Bat'leth
18) screaming for help
19) begging for my life
20) bribery
21) specialized whistling for animals to come rescue me
22) mind control
7) Karate
2) Kendo
Don't let Keith Giffen know you like karate. He may try to kill you.
ooooo KG it is on! Hi Yah!!!
Not Kendo, I almost took a Kendo class because it was part Kendo and part ninjutsu ... also I learned a bit of weapons at Karate camp ... and loved it, throwing stars, staves, we got to play with all kinds of weapons! It was so much fun, I think maybe I should take a Kendo class. Also, the one I was looking at was a bit of philosophy as well ... similar to my Karate class which had a good deal of philosophy added every class ... which made a huge difference than just kicking the crap out of each other 2 or 3 times a week.
ahhh hhah.
Karate and Judo it is. I took a combined course for many many years.
It was a nice class with a lecture before on certain philosophies ... and then practice.
This was the class with which I went to Karate camp and we got to try out all kinds of weapons ... and some people even walked across hot coals. haha.
I advanced really quickly and finally had to quit because I was in classes with a bunch of much older much stronger folks. I kept going home bruised and beat up after awhile.
I also was pretty tired of it after a while, it was at least two classes a week for years ...
I think the biggest thing it taught me though, was not to fight.
over to you VL!!!
heh, I like this question so I'm gonna steal it (with some modifications)
Which 3 fighting styles have I trained in?
1. Greco-Roman Wrestling
2. Shootfighting
3. Capoeira
4. Karate
5. Shaolin Wushu
6. Tae Kwon Do
7. Aikido
8. Wing Chun
9. Jeet Kune Do
10. Gracie Jiu-Jitsu
11. Krav Maga
12. Escrima
13. Muay Thai
14. Okichitaw
3. Capoeira
4. Karate
11. Krav Maga
Capoeira...nope. Even when I was young I don't think I was agile enough for that style
Krav Maga...nope. Like you Peebs I think it looks pretty intense though
Karate...Yes, this was the first martial art I studied, during my last few years of high school and first year of university.
Stopped lessons mostly due to a lack of finances and when my situation was a little better I had found something MUCH more fun
Two more to find
4. Karate
7. Aikido
1. Greco-Roman Wrestling
7. Aikido - nope all I know about aikido is that it is the Martial Art that Steven Segal studied
8. Greco-Roman Wrestling - yes there is another one down. I studied G-R in high school, was the regional champion for my weight class and eventually spun it off into "professional" wrestling (which is actually acting, but whatever)
So two down, Karate and Greco-Roman Wrestling....
who is going to get the last one?
heh, I like this question so I'm gonna steal it (with some modifications)
Which 3 fighting styles have I trained in?
1. Greco-Roman Wrestling
2. Shootfighting
3. Capoeira
4. Karate
5. Shaolin Wushu
Tae Kwon Do
7. Aikido
8. Wing Chun
9. Jeet Kune Do
10. Gracie Jiu-Jitsu
11. Krav Maga
12. Escrima
13. Muay Thai
14. Okichitaw
1. Greco-Roman Wrestling
4. Karate
10. Gracie Jiu-Jitsu
1. Greco-Roman Wrestling
4. Karate
5. Shaolin Wushu
1. Greco-Roman Wrestling
4. Karate
13. Muay Thai
10. Gracie Jiu-Jitsu is a brutally effective fighting style. The majority of MMA champions have studied one form of Jiu-Jitsu or another....but I don't know that one
5. Shaolin Wushu is a form of Kung Fu and the closest I've come to studying it is playing Mortal Kombat
13. Muay Thai is the answer. I learned that for years and was working on my first Black Belt when my finances and health said I had to give it up in 2004.
Ibby has the next question
Wow VL, didn't know you were such a martial arts enthusiast. I've always wanted to master an art, but recently have found myself dabbling in the ever-so-practical Krav Maga. Sadly, lately I don't feel like I have the time or ability to commit to a regular schedule...
New Q coming up in a bit.
Which 2 of these cocktails have I never tried?
a) The Slammer
b) Weng-Weng
c) AMF (Adios Motherf*cker)
d) Soco Shake Slammer
e) Lumumba
f) The Mindoro Sling
g) Vodka Cola
h) Lychee Martini
i) Bad Trip
j) White Russian
k) Mojito
l) Swinger
m) Screw Driver
n) Surferboy
o) Squeeze Me
d) Soco Shake Slammer
g) Vodka Cola
@Ibby...not so much so anymore...:(
f) The Mindoro Sling
i) Bad Trip
@VL - I know how you feel. I only get to swim once a week now, whereas as a fresh grad I was in the pool four times a week
One of the six drinks guessed above is correct.
The Lumumba is a favorite of Blaze's and mine. Had it twice on a 3-night stay at the beach. Love the chocolate-y taste and the shaved ice!
The Soco Shake Slammer is another favorite; it's served at our go-to bar with the boys. Sometimes it's the only drink we'll have all night. It's THAT good.
The Bad Trip is a bright green drink designed to get you drunk right away - useful for when you have a "bad trip" (or when your day just absolutely STINKS).
Which 2 of these cocktails have I never tried?
a) The Slammer
b) Weng-Weng
c) AMF (Adios Motherf*cker)
d) Soco Shake Slammer
e) Lumumba
f) The Mindoro Sling
g) Vodka Cola
h) Lychee Martini
i) Bad Trip
j) White Russian
k) Mojito
l) Swinger
m) Screw Driver
n) Surferboy
o) Squeeze Me
g) Vodka Cola
m) Screw Driver
I did indeed have many Screwdrivers before, and boy did they make my mind twist.
I've had Mojitos before. Love the refreshing minty flavor.
With wrong choices deleted:
Which 2 of these cocktails have I never tried?
a) The Slammer
b) Weng-Weng
c) AMF (Adios Motherf*cker)
f) The Mindoro Sling
g) Vodka Cola
h) Lychee Martini
j) White Russian
l) Swinger
n) Surferboy
o) Squeeze Me
g) Vodka Cola
j) White Russian
c) AMF (Adios Motherf*cker)
g) Vodka Cola
I had my first White Russian in a nice little restaurant on Pub Street, Siem Reap, Cambodia. Made a nice contrast to the humid air outside. Loved seeing all the backpackers from all over the world.
I had my AMF during a night out in West Hollywood. My friend was right - one of those drinks can keep you buzzed an entire night! Four (count em, four!) different types of alcohol mixed together, yikes!
With wrong choices deleted:
Which 2 of these cocktails have I never tried?
a) The Slammer
b) Weng-Weng
f) The Mindoro Sling
g) Vodka Cola
h) Lychee Martini
l) Swinger
n) Surferboy
o) Squeeze Me
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g) Vodka Cola
n) Surferboy
g) Vodka Cola
h) Lychee Martini
h) Lychee Martini
l) Swinger
I did indeed have the Mindoro Sling at the beach. It's the signature drink there (apple juice is a key ingredient), but Blaze and I prefer the Lumumba.
I have had lychee martinis before, specifically at a bar where women had free unlimited drinks. A friend couldn't finish hers and passed them on to me.
With wrong choices deleted:
Which 2 of these cocktails have I never tried?
a) The Slammer
b) Weng-Weng
g) Vodka Cola
l) Swinger
n) Surferboy
o) Squeeze Me
[/quote] [/quote]
g) Vodka Cola
o) Squeeze Me
I did have the Surferboy and the Squeeze Me. Along with the Soco Shake Slammer, Blaze and I had all 3 in one night. As you can imagine, we were very drunk the next day. Both these two were green as well, and the Squeeze Me in particular was very cold.
With wrong choices deleted:
Which 2 of these cocktails have I never tried?
a) The Slammer
b) Weng-Weng
g) Vodka Cola
l) Swinger
We have a winner! Quislet is correct.
I had The Slammer when my friend's Indian boyfriend visited. He got so drunk he ended up doing pushups in the parking lot.
The Weng-Weng is a nice orange-colored drink. Blaze and I had one while watching the sun set over the Metro.
Last month my book club read a graphic novel that I suggested. Which was it?
1) Maus
2) Contract with God
3) V for Vendetta
4) Barefoot Gen
5) Fables
6) Ultimates vol. 1
7) Preacher vol. 1
8) Y: the Last Man
9) Ghost World
10) Understanding Comics
11) the graphic novel got voted down because no one want to read a "comic book"
You wandered into the correct answer.
We actually read Contract with God and The Plot. Both by Will Eisner
Wow! I'm psychic.
Yesterday, I played which video clip for my freshman comp students?
"Antigone" (1961)
"Death of a Salesman" starring Dustin Hoffman
"Don't Stop" by Fleetwood Mac
"Dove: Evolution" - TV commercial
"Galaxy Quest Chompers/That's Not Right"
"Hotel California" by The Eagles
"Howl" by Allen Ginsberg
"I Love Lucy" - chocolate factory scene
"The Mad Ones" by Jack Kerouac
"Somebody to Love"/"White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane
"Sultans of Swing" by Dire Straits
"What About Love?" by Heart
"Your Daddy Don't Know" by Toronto
Note: I have played almost all of these in my classes at one point or another.
I've used a clip of "Howl" in my classes before, but not in a few years.
Try again.
"I Love Lucy" - chocolate factory scene
I've used the chocolate factory scene a lot, because "I Love Lucy" is the subject of a wonderful student research paper in
our textbook. But I used it last Friday, not two days ago.
"Sultans of Swing" by Dire Straits
I played "Sultans of Swing" last semester because it was referenced in one of our readings. But I didn't play it this semester.
"Don't Stop" by Fleetwood Mac
And . . . Virie's the winner!
On Friday, I played "Don't Stop" by Fleetwood Mac and then pulled up the Wikipedia pages of both the group and Christine McVie (keyboard player/singer/songwriter). Both pages have been flagged for lacking sufficient sources and verification, and, in McVie's case, possibly libelous material. (Hers has been flagged for three and half years!)
The Lesson: Why you should not use Wikipedia as source in academic papers.
(Aside: Here's my "feeling old" moment of the week. None of my students, who are all about 18-19 years old, knew that this song had been used as Bill Clinton's presidential campaign theme or that the group had reunited to perform at his inauguration 20 years ago. However, since Fleetwood Mac (sans Christine) is coming to Kansas City shortly, I'm hoping some students connect the group to the video and realize that academic writing is all about making connections.)
My last guess: "Your Daddy Don't Know" by Toronto
I actually used "Your Daddy Don't Know" for the same reason last year. The Wikipedia article had multiple issues, including the misspelling of guitarist Sheron Alton's name (since corrected).
Well I am finally taking two days off from work (actually I'm being forced to take the time off, but thats another story)
Random guess time...I normally clock 84 hours in a two week period.
How many hours of overtime did I put in for this pay period?
Hmmm. So your average workweek is about 42 hours. I'm going to say you might have worked an extra 28 or 29 hours in one week...hmmm...
How about 57 in a two week period.
57 hours of overtime in two weeks is still not enough
...EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.
All right, how about 70? Good lord, if you worked that much I will personally bake you cookies.
sweet, looks like I'm getting cookies...I still worked more overtime than 70 hours
*jaw drops*
What flavor, good sir? I'll bring them up to Chicago in August! XD!!
I'm pretty open to cookie flavours, though I'm a fan of chocolate
My chocolate chip are legendary. I'll add a reminder in my phone to do so.
Bumping up for the new page
Here's the question
Well I am finally taking two days off from work (actually I'm being forced to take the time off, but thats another story)
Random guess time...I normally clock 84 hours in a two week period.
How many hours of overtime did I put in for this pay period?
Last guess was 70 hours in two weeks and it is not high enough
Now the number is too high
And we has a winner.
Since I started this new position I've been putting in a fair amount of overtime, but this pay period was the last cycle to finish getting things ready for the maintenance shutdown.
So I worked my regular 84 hours + One 6 hour day, Four 12 hour days and Two 13 hour days for a total of 164 hours in two weeks.
You have the next question HWW
Wow, I hope you love what you do, Virie.
My classes aren't all about music videos. Sometimes we talk about actual writing stuff. Which of the following is the focus of this week's lessons in Comp I?
Argument
Audience and purpose
Citing and documenting sources
Commas
Critique and critical thinking
Dangling modifiers
Evaluations
Informative essays
Interviewing
Logos, pathos, and ethos
Memoir
Peer review
Revision
Thesis statements
Wordiness, hedging, and redundancy
HWW, can't say I love my current job but it needs to be done...and I do back to my old one by mid-june at the latest.
And I guess
Citing and documenting sources (though I think that was last weeks lesson)
You got it!
Yes, this week is all about in-text citations and the works cited page. I have a fun exercise (well, fun for me at least) in which I'll give them a list of sources to take home and construct a works cited page around; then I'll have volunteers come up to the computer and type in entries. As a class, we'll fix whatever's wrong.
(Last week's lesson was about finding and evaluating sources.)
And I DO love my job.
Sweet! (and I love my regular job, its this temporary one I don't like so much...deal with management to much)
This should be an easy one...
What video game did I buy today?
1. Tomb Raider
2. Bioshock Infinite
3. Injustice: Gods Among Us
4. Gears of War: Judgement
5. Civilization 5
6. Tropico 4
7. Defiance
8. Aliens: Colonial Marines
3. Injustice: Gods Among Us
4. Gears of War: Judgement
Quis has it in one...
I ended up buying the "Collector's Edition" which I usually don't do, but this came with a kick ass statue and some extra content. I'll post some pics of it later
There are some names I just really like. Which of these names am I meh about?
1) Sebastian
2) Rebecca
3) Stephen
4) Veronica
5) Franklin
6) Joshua
7) Abigail
8) Timothy
9) Ian
10) Samantha
I like both those names. if fact, when my sister was pregnant with her 2nd child, I was hoping for a girl because they had picked Rebecca as the name for a girl. It was a girl, but my niece goes by Becky
Franklin is the meh name for me. No offense meant towards those people named Franklin.
Your turn He WHo Wanders.
Wow, what a string of spot-on guesses! Guess we're all getting to know each other quite a bit huh?
But I really do appreciate how we're all sharing a little bit of ourselves here
Hang around LW long enough, and you, too, will be able to read minds and/or predict the future.
Be back in a day or so with a new question.
Which of the following did NOT happen to me today?
A. I was given a car.
B. My car passed inspection.
C. My car did not pass inspection.
D. I visited with may aunt and uncle.
E. I saw five wrecks on the highway.
F. I had a brake light fixed.
G. I had ball joints replaced.
H. I went to a coffee shop to grade papers.
I. I ate at Taco Bell
J. I ate at Wendy's.
I: I ate at Taco Bell.
I'd like to think (for the sake of your digestion) you didn't eat fast food twice in one day. XD
I actually did eat at Taco Bell. (Sorry!)
B. My car passed inspection.
E. I saw five wrecks on the highway.
Both of those things actually happened.
How about
A. I was given a car.
Actually, that happened, too.
C. My car did not pass inspection.
^rats, that was what I was gonna guess
D. I visited with may aunt and uncle.
F. I had a brake light fixed.
G. I had ball joints replaced.?
Yesterday was quite an interesting day. After my old car died two weeks ago, my aunt and uncle let me borrow one of theirs and then gave it me. (Yes, gave.) I drove yesterday to their home (60 miles away) to make it official. (On the way, a heavy snowstorm started. Five cars ended up in the ditch or worse.)
Of course, I had to get the car inspected, but the first mechanic I took it to (on my uncle's recommendation) told me it wouldn't pass inspection because the ball joints and a brake light needed replacing. Estimate for the ball joints: $454.
So, I drove back to my town and took the car to my regular mechanic. Guess what? There's no problem with the ball joints. They replaced the brake light and gave me a new inspection.
I ate at Wendy's on my way up to visit my aunt and uncle and later went to a coffee shop to grade papers. The coffee shop doesn't mind if I bring in outside food, so I popped into Taco Bell, as well.
So, everything on that list happened, except G. You're up, Novelty.
At first I thought B and C may have been intended as a "trick" question, then thought it would be too obvious, but then maybe they were intende dto seem obvious... and then my brain started hurting.
Yes, hurting your brain was intentional.
Well, I just figured that HWW doesn't have any artificial body parts to replace, so that must have been it!
Travelling question: I just bought tickets to fly to this country whose name starts with the letter "S". Name that country.
Sadly, I'm not going to Europe. I knew the question was too easy for IBby though - the Lion City it is. Back to you pare.
Since I know where you live, pare...
Blaze and I want to get married in a certain country. We plan to find work/ get transferred / fake our deaths and sneak in, then make our new home there.
What country is it?
I don't know, but any plans having to do with faking your own death should probably not be posted on a bbs.
And if you're talking about the US, that would include joking about it.
I don't know, but any plans having to do with faking your own death should probably not be posted on a bbs.
And if you're talking about the US, that would include joking about it.
I was planning on mind wiping all of ya...
Not Iceland. We plan to visit on our honeymoon, but think it'd be too cold for us to live there year round.
Not Singapore, it's not all that gay friendly.
"Not all that gay friendly"?!?!
Last I heard Singapore had a ways to go to even get up to "gay non-lethal".
"Not all that gay friendly"?!?!
Last I heard Singapore had a ways to go to even get up to "gay non-lethal".
Compare to neighbors Brunei or Malaysia though...
Not Australia either. I'm pretty sure gay marriage isn't yet fully legalized in Australia.
Oh, I always thought Blaze was a ate. My bad!
Erm... New Zealand???
Hehe! It's only here on Legion World where Blaze and I can be open about who we really are.
Nope, not New Zealand either! I'm pretty sure they haven't quite gotten around to legalizing gay marriage yet - though we'd still live to visit.
New Zealand passed it two weeks ago, though it doesn't take effect till August.
"Not all that gay friendly"?!?!
Last I heard Singapore had a ways to go to even get up to "gay non-lethal".
Compare to neighbors Brunei or Malaysia though...
While semantically the word would technically apply, I wouldn't consider one person "better" if he only wanted to cut off my hand as opposed to his neighbor wanting to add both legs.
As for a guess, I'll go with Spain
New Zealand passed it two weeks ago, though it doesn't take effect till August.
"Not all that gay friendly"?!?!
Last I heard Singapore had a ways to go to even get up to "gay non-lethal".
Compare to neighbors Brunei or Malaysia though...
While semantically the word would technically apply, I wouldn't consider one person "better" if he only wanted to cut off my hand as opposed to his neighbor wanting to add both legs.
Thanks for the NZ info.
To be fair, laws penalizing gay sex are enforced much more loosely in Singapore, than in Brunei or Malaysia.
Spain is not it, as we have our sights set on a country with a cooler climate.
The USA is a top choice, but ultimately we decided to target another country.
Nope! It's a rather small country so we' prefer to visit it from time o time, rather than live there.
Blaze and I want to get married in a certain country. We plan to find work/ get transferred / fake our deaths and sneak in, then make our new home there.
What country is it?
It is not
Iceland
Singapore
Australia
New Zealand
Spain
USA
Netherlands
It is a very gay-friendly country.
Not Portugal either. We'd like to visit, but we'd prefer some place cooler to live in.
Iceland?
That answer was so good, I thought of it twice.
Sweden?
Novel Ty has it - it is indeed France!
The recent steps taken towards legalizing gay marriage in the country have bumped it way up in our list of places we wanna live in. Combine that with breathtaking sights (Paris, Versailles, Marseilles, Mont St. Michel, Bordeaux), and the proximity to many other European countries (Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Spain, Germany, Switzerland etc.) and we are sure we wanna live there.
Viva la pomme de terres! I think I'm killing the language.
French is obviously a language I can't speak. Which European language did I take as a second language in school?
A. Albanian
B. Basque
C. Czech
D. Danish
E. English
F. Finnish
G. German
H. Hungarian
I. Italian
J. Jewish/Hebrew
K. Koine Greek
L. Latin
M. Manx
N. Norwegian
O. Occitan
P. Polish
R. Russian
S. Spanish
T. Turkish
U. Ukrainian
Just because it seems really out of place to me....
E. English
Not English which I did as a first language.
Non Italiana. Nicht Deutsch. No español. (That's not italian, not german, not spanish for those who don't speak italian/german/spanish)
Try again!
Which European language did I take as a second language in school?
A. Albanian
B. Basque
C. Czech
D. Danish
F. Finnish
H. Hungarian
J. Jewish/Hebrew
K. Koine Greek
L. Latin
M. Manx
N. Norwegian
O. Occitan
P. Polish
R. Russian
T. Turkish
U. Ukrainian
Not Latin or Hebrew. Not Russki (Russian) or Magyar (Hungarian) either. Try again
Not one of the classics, so not Greek either, although I was very good friends with 3 Greek girls in college and picked up a bit of the language.
Finnish is one of those language that's easy to pronounce, but horrible to learn (unless you use it daily). That's not what I did as a second language.
Which European language did I take as a second language in school?
A. Albanian
B. Basque
C. Czech
D. Danish
M. Manx
N. Norwegian
O. Occitan
P. Polish
T. Turkish
U. Ukrainian
Well, it's not Polish for the two persons who guessed it. It's not Danish either although it's amazing how much of the written form of that I can understand when I was in the original Legoland (hint - it's very close to English).
Guess again.
My grandmother stayed on Man for a spell, but I wasn't born then.
It's not Ukrainian or Turkish either. Try again!
Basque??? Why Basque???
Mr. Esq. has it with Norsk. It's on my Facebook profile as well, so I wondered why nobody got it immediately! Back to you Quis.
Why not Basque? Besides its small geographic distribution and low number of native speakers... Seemed as decent a guess as any.
Which DC book do I not get currently?
1) Demon Knights
2)The Savage Hawkman
3) Teen Titans
4) Firestorm
5) Wonder Woman
6) World's Finest
7) JLA Dark
8) Batgirl
9) Superboy
10) Dial H
I read both Firestorm and JLA Dark, although I am thinking of dropping them.
I do not collect Savage Hawkman. I did give it a try, but dropped the title after 6 months.
Your question PB
Thanks!
I have been super busy with work ... sigh!
It is a bit hard to come up with a question if you have no life!
I started taking a new class, what is the subject:
a) architecture history
b) biostatistics
c) krav maga
d) kickboxing
e) life drawing
f) jiu jitsu
g) capoeira
h) Urban economics
i) contemporary dance
j) research methods
k) internet search engines
none of the above.
I have taken life drawing, recently, and before many years ago but ... not now.
A lot of my colleagues seem to be taking contemporary dance.
not kick boxing, although, to give you a hint, there is a kick boxing class in the room before my class.
nope. I wish! I think I need to train for quite some time before I can try that.
YES! It is Jiu Jitsu ... I love it ... but I have so many bruises on me.
I'm doing it twice a week and am knackered the rest of the week from it. The first day I got hit in the head with a bottle.
I did go to a meeting recently about starting a research methods course.
your turn Xben!
OK, related question, but from the past:
Which of these topics did I not study when I was back in College?
Acting
Bleak House
Calculus
Choir
Dance
Fiction Writing Workshop
Film Production
Japanese Art History
Movement for Actors
Philosophy
Physics
Scriptwriting
Social Psychology
Vectors, Matrices, & Vector Value Functions
Actually, I studied all of these
Physics
PB, I figured it was Jiu Jitsu after your clue and saying my other answer was wrong. But I didn't think it was right for me to take two guesses in a row.
When I was registering for courses for the first semester of my last year, I was on line (literally on a line, not on a computer) for a "Vibrations and Waves" course, even though I had already fulfilled all my Math / Science requirements for my degree. I thought it'd be interesting. But it was a long line. And next to me was a very short line for Physics 101. Partly out of impatience, partly out of a desire to prove to myself I could do it, I hopped out of one line and onto the other, and signed up for the Physics class.
I did all right, but I decided afterwords I never wanted to work so hard doing anything so incidental to core interests again.
And of course, to do Physics, I had to also do or have done Calculus. Fortunately, I had taken that the previous year.
Did that too, just as a 101 class (like many of these things). I enjoyed it quite a bit, including doing a bunch of research on how people behave when they are romantically attracted to someone. Interesting how many experiments have been done out there on unsuspecting people who thought they were just randomly meeting some attractive person.
No, did that as well, for four semesters (one credit each semester).
Vectors, Matrices, & Vector Value Functions?
OK, related question, but from the past:
Which of these topics did I not study when I was back in College?
Acting
Bleak House
Calculus
Choir
Dance
Fiction Writing Workshop
Film Production
Japanese Art History
Movement for Actors
Philosophy
Physics
Scriptwriting
Social Psychology
Vectors, Matrices, & Vector Value Functions
Actually, I studied all of these
Actually, I studied all of these
Actually, I studied all of these. My major was film, but it started off as a theatre, with a brief thought that maybe it'd be English (hence the English 101 class that focused entirely on the Dickens novel "Bleak House.")
Most of the rest, well that's a Liberal Arts education for you.
So Quislet is up.
Below is a list of people I grew up with (last names left off for privacy) Who was never my friend?
1) Beth
2) Julie
3) Laurie
4) Sean
5) Richard
6) Mike
7) Ricky
8) Robert
9) Greg
10) David
Nope, Ricky lived across the street. We tried to run a lemonade stand together, but ended up fighting. Still we were friends.
It has got to be "Beth". If that IS her real name.
Below is a list of people I grew up with (last names left off for privacy) Who was never my friend?
1) Beth
2) Julie
3) Laurie
4) Sean
5) Richard
6) Mike
7) Ricky
8) Robert
9) Greg
10) David
Well, Sean was my best friend in 5th-8th grade and in retrospect, my first crush. I met up with him recently and discovered that although I considered him my best friend, he just considered me a friend.
Greg, I hung around in High School with.
Laurie was one of my friends when I was little
As was Beth. Beth was my first best friend. Plus she made me throw a rock at a car.
Richard was my friend from like middle school on. There really weren't any kids my age right around my house, but I'd head over to Richard's street and play with him, his brothers, and the other kids in that neighborhood.
Julie lived across the street. And when I was real young (before starting school and for the first couple of grades) it was me, Julie, Laurie, & Beth. I know it bothered my dad that I was playing with girls and not boys.
Yup!! Mike was my brother's friend. They both being 7 years older than me.
Mike is correct lancesrealm, but He Who Wanders guessed it first
One of my geekiest hobbies is to research the Number One hits (from Billboard Magazine) on the birthdays of people I know. Someone actually came up with a theory once that whatever song is Number One for the week you were born has some influence on your life. While I've never found any personal "proof" of this theory, it's fun to speculate.
Each of the following songs was Number One on the birthdate of a member of my writing critique group, except one. Which one?
8/31/40 - "'I'll Never Smile Again" by Tommy Dorsey
1/24/43 - "There Are Such Things" by Tommy Dorsey
12/2/46 - "Rumors Are Flying" by Frankie Carle
4/3/47 - "Heartaches" by Ted Weems
1/3/61 - "Wonderland by Night" by Bert Kaempfert
4/16/62 - "Good Luck Charm" by Elvis Presley
9/25/63 - "Blue Velvet" by Bobby Vinton
4/10/67 - "Something else else Stupid" by Nancy Sinatra and Frank Sinatra
10/18/71 - "Maggie May"/"Reason to Believe" by Rod Stewart
4/9/72 - "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" by Roberta Flack
12/8/81 - "Physical" by Olivia Newton-John
4/3/47 - "Heartaches" by Ted Weems
9/25/63 - "Blue Velvet" by Bobby Vinton
"Heartaches" was Number One on the birthday of Denny, who writes high fantasy. I will be sharing a table with him at a convention later today.
"Blue Velvet" was Number One on my own birthday! So that answer, too, is incorrect.
4/16/62 - "Good Luck Charm" by Elvis Presley
I knew it wasn't Blue Velvet...
1/24/43 - "There Are Such Things" by Tommy Dorsey
"Good Luck Charm" was Number One on the birthday of Ken, who writes thrillers and really good ones.
"There Are Such Things" was Number One on the birthday of A.T., who writes gay romance.
Both of those are incorrect.
4/9/72 - "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" by Roberta Flack
"The First Time . . ." was Number One on the birthday of Cybelle, who writes horror. However, she leads another critiquing group and is not part of mine.
Take it away, Virie.
I burned a new cd today for my commute.
Which one of the following songs is NOT on the disk
1. Keelhauled by Alestorm
2. All Those Tristful Winters by Elysian Fields
3. Zombie by Cranberries
4. I, Caligvia by Ex Deo
5. It Turns to Rust by Kataklysm
6. Sleepless by Cradle of Filth
7. Spaceman by Bif Naked
8. Smoke on the Water by Six Feet Under
9. Propaganda by Sepultura
10. Wild Eyes by Parkway Drive
I'm so out of touch with music these days that I recognize exactly one of those songs (though I suppose No. 8 is a cover of Deep Purple).
I'll pick the one I recognize:
3. Zombie by Cranberries
Don't worry HWW, I think most of that stuff is unrecognizable to poeple here
(Its mostly Death Metal and Black Metal)
Also, yup no. 8 is a cover of the Deep Purple song
Finally, Zombie is on the disc so guess again!
OK, then I'll go with No. 8.
5. It Turns to Rust by Kataklysm
Smoke on the Water by Six Feet Under is on the disk. I've been a fan of thier vocalist (Chris Barnes) since the early '90's
It Turns to Rust by Kataklysm is on the disk. Katalysm have been one of my favorite bands since I first heard them in '02 or '03 and are Canadian to boot
Spaceman by Bif Naked is also on disk. Not exactly in line with the other music here but she rocks pretty hard (plus despite her unconventional appearance, I find her hella hot!)
1. Keelhauled by Alestorm
I, Caligvia by Ex Deo is a side project by the vocalist of Kataklysm that he calls "Epic Roman Metal" and by Jove it's a fitting name. I freaking love this song and it is on disk.
Keelhauled by Alestorm is in a genre called "Pirate Metal".
I like the band and the song but I did NOT put it on the disk.
Your question HWW!
Which of the following is not the middle name of a family member of mine, living or dead?
Ann
Clair
David
Ethan
Everett
Irell
Kate
Kathleen
Lee
LeRoy
Marie
Michael
Robert
Veryl
Veryl was the middle name of my granduncle. He fought in WWI and later died at 39 of appendicitis.
LeRoy was my father's middle name; David is my brother's.
Robert is the middle name of my ex-uncle. Though technically no longer a family member, he was for many years.
Michael is the middle name of my cousin's son (which makes him my first cousin once removed, I guess).
So, all of those guesses are incorrect.
Everett was my other granduncle who also fought in WWI.
Clair was my maternal grandfather's middle name; Ann is the middle name of my aunt.
Ethan is actually the first name of my first cousin once removed (the same little tyke whose middle name is Michael).
Your turn, Ibby.
I'm sure your granduncles had some interesting war stories, HWW.
When I was a kid, I particularly disliked one color. Which was it?
a) Brown
b) Black
c) Pink
d) Orange
e) Violet
f) Green
g) Red
h) Blue
i) gray
j) Yellow
k) White
l) Gold
Nope, and nope.
Orange was my fourth favorite color (yes, I actually took time to rank them).
Yellow has always been meh for me, but I never took an active dislike to it.
My granduncles might have had interesting war stories, but I never met them. One died nearly 30 years before I was born and the other, who died when I was 13, lived far away. But I have gotten to know his niece (another first cousin once removed of mine), and she's told me a lot of interesting things about him.
My guess:
k) White
Glad to hear his niece has been passing on some of the old war stories. A daughter of my dsd's cousin has also been sharing some interesting stories of our great-grandpa. Does make me appreciate the family more.
White and brown are both OK colors for me. They're so ubiquitous that I'm glad I don't hate them!
I'm sure your granduncles had some interesting war stories, HWW.
When I was a kid, I particularly disliked one color. Which was it?
a) Brown
b) Black
c) Pink
d) Orange
e) Violet
f) Green
g) Red
h) Blue
i) gray
j) Yellow
k) White
l) Gold
f) Green
NOTE: Viridis Lament guessed pink on the previous page.
I never hated pink. I used to play with paper clips, and the pink one was the girlfriend of the hero...
... who was green. Green has always been my favorite color, and Green Lantern had always been my favorite hero.
Gray was OK, a tad boring but OK.
Xben has it - I loathed red as a kid. I always hated it that the leaders in many cartoons wore red. They represented the aggressive, loud, obnoxious, too-good-to-be-true kids that I resented.
Over to Xben!
Two questions for the price of one, both drawing from the same list of potential answers
1. In the process of moving right now, and what prized item did I discover seems to be missing from my comic collection?
2. Which of these books have I never actually owned?
a. All-Star Superman tpb vol. 2
b. Amazing Spider-Man Marvel Masterworks vol. 1 TPB
c. Astro City - Life in the Big City
d. Bone vol. 2 - The Great Cow Race - color tpb
e. DC: One Million tpb
f. Jack Kirby Fourth World Omnibus vol. 3 tpb
g. Legion Lost HC (DnA)
h. Showcase Presents the Flash vol. 1
i. Superman: Kryptonite Nevermore HC
j. Superman: Secret Origin #3 signed by Stuart Immomen
Winner is the first one to post both correct answers.
1. Superman: Secret Origin #3 signed by Stuart Immomen
2. Legion Lost HC (DnA)
No correct answers guessed so far
Nope.
Big hint - nobody's guessed any correct answers, even for the wrong question.
Nobody has it.
Hint: I love All-Star Superman, and both trade paperback volumes are sitting safely on my shelf.
And it goes to Viridis Lament.
I realized in the moving process that I couldn't find my "Life in the Big City" book of Astro City, which is absolutely one of my favorite comics ever, but since then I think I discovered that I loaned it to a friend.
And I don't own nor never have owned the Superman Kryptonite Nevermore story, though I hope to get it in paperback at some point.
I plan on doing some stuff around the house today.
All of this is on my "To Do" list, but which 2 tasks am I tackling today?
1. Disconnect, clean out and reconnect dishwasher
2. Re-do shingles on part of my roof
3. Clean out my woodstove and move it to the garage
4. Put together a toddler bed for my daughter
5. Install door on storage space under stairs
6. Clean out my car and put on new wipers
7. Cut and put up trim in hallway
8. Put a closet in one of the bedrooms
9. Set-up my automatic watering system for my greenhouse
10. Climb under my house to re-pitch a drainage pipe
5. Install door on storage space under stairs
6. Clean out my car and put on new wipers
One of those three answers has one of the tasks
4. Put together a toddler bed for my daughter
6. Clean out my car and put on new wipers
One of the correct options has been picked more than once.
The other has not been picked at all
But the "today" referenced in the question was not originally today, so the answer may be different now. Relatively speaking.
Ibby has it.
Both jobs were done BTW
I had a feeling 1 was particularly urgent. You sure are busy, VL.
Blaze and I drew up a list of target countries to visit. Which two of these countries are among our top 3 in terms of priority?
a) Iceland
b) Egypt
c) Tanzania
d) Italy
e) South Korea
f) New Zealand
g) Peru
h) Mexico
i) Nepal
j) Myanmar
k) Brazil
l) India
m) Canada
n) Sri Lanka
I'm not too busy Ibby, and when we bought the house it was a fixer-upper...I was prepared for this sort of stuff lol
Now, on to your question...
a) Iceland
g) Peru
I'm really impressed though, I wouldn't know how to do half of what's on your list. I do think I could learn, but I'd get a lot of bruises on the way.
hehe, but I`m much older that you...I`ve had more time to pick up random skills....and the learning came with many bruises and cuts along the way
And I guess when you really have to learn, you really have to
Nobody else has guessed yet, but your guess isn't correct
Neither of those 2 answers above are correct.
However, one of the 6 countries guessed so far is one of the 2 correct answers.
Not the correct combination either.
A clue: while South Korea is a priority for Blaze, it's not on OUR combined list as I've been there before (and I don't really like Koreans, unlike Blaze who finds many of them handsome for some reason :p)
Not the correct combination either.
I had a feeling 1 was particularly urgent. You sure are busy, VL.
Blaze and I drew up a list of target countries to visit. Which two of these countries are among our top 3 in terms of priority?
a) Iceland
b) Egypt
c) Tanzania
d) Italy
e) South Korea
f) New Zealand
g) Peru
h) Mexico
i) Nepal
j) Myanmar
k) Brazil
l) India
m) Canada
n) Sri Lanka
d) Italy
k) Brazil
Not the right combination, either.
Tanzania isn't one of the correct answers: we'd love to go there, but are saving up to do Tanzania and Kenya in one sweep, and maybe Ethiopia as well. (that's gonna take a while...)
Blaze and I drew up a list of target countries to visit. Which two of these countries are among our top 3 in terms of priority?
a) Iceland
b) Egypt
c) Tanzania
d) Italy
e) South Korea[/
f) New Zealand
g) Peru
h) Mexico
i) Nepal
j) Myanmar
k) Brazil
l) India
m) Canada
n) Sri Lanka
Not the correct combination either.
I've been to Canada before; while I would love to go back, it isn't at the top of the priority list. And if things push through, Blaze might go there with his Canadian uncle and his (the uncle's) Filipino wife.
Not the correct combination either.
Throwing out New Zealand as an incorrect choice: it's on the list, just not that high up in priority. The Batanes province in the Philippines has been likened to New Zealand in terms of scenery, so we'll stick to the cheaper alternative first.
Blaze and I drew up a list of target countries to visit. Which two of these countries are among our top 3 in terms of priority?
a) Iceland
b) Egypt
c) Tanzania
d) Italy
e) South Korea[/
f) New Zealand
g) Peru
h) Mexico
i) Nepal
j) Myanmar
k) Brazil
l) India
m) Canada
n) Sri Lanka
Neither of these two guesses is the correct combination.
Italy is likewise not one of our top three. We both dearly love it, but we're still more than a year away from saving up enough to head over there for a couple weeks. Blaze loves Rome, and we'd want to stay long enough to hit the Vatican, Venice, Pisa, Pompeii/Herculaneum and Florence at the minimum.
Not the correct combination either.
Eliminating Mexico; again, it's on the list but not an immediate priority. Mexico is a large country and we'd like to spend quite a bit of time there.
Blaze and I drew up a list of target countries to visit. Which two of these countries are among our top 3 in terms of priority?
a) Iceland
b) Egypt
c) Tanzania
d) Italy
e) South Korea[/
f) New Zealand
g) Peru
h) Mexico
i) Nepal
j) Myanmar
k) Brazil
l) India
m) Canada
n) Sri Lanka
[/quote]
Not the correct combination either.
Not the correct combination either.
Iceland is a top pick, but it's not an immediate priority simply because it's too far away. (I did join a contest at work to get a chance to join a conference there, but alas wasn't chosen).
Blaze and I drew up a list of target countries to visit. Which two of these countries are among our top 3 in terms of priority?
b) Egypt
g) Peru
i) Nepal
j) Myanmar
k) Brazil
l) India
n) Sri Lanka
Not the correct combination either.
Neither is the correct combination.
Sri Lanka is near the top of our list, but it sits at 4th place due to a combination of several factors. The most important one is lack of available flights from the Philippines.
Blaze and I drew up a list of target countries to visit. Which two of these countries are among our top 3 in terms of priority?
b) Egypt
g) Peru
i) Nepal
j) Myanmar
k) Brazil
l) India
[/quote]
Not the correct combination either.
Egypt is a wrong choice; we're waiting until we have enough time and money so we can do Jordan, Israel and Egypt in one fell swoop.
Blaze and I drew up a list of target countries to visit. Which two of these countries are among our top 3 in terms of priority?
g) Peru
i) Nepal
j) Myanmar
k) Brazil
l) India
Not the correct combination either.
Not the correct combination either.
Brazil is likewise a wrong choice. With such a big country and with so many sights to see, we're saving it for later (but our goal is to visit within the next 5 years).
Blaze and I drew up a list of target countries to visit. Which two of these countries are among our top 3 in terms of priority?
g) Peru
i) Nepal
j) Myanmar
l) India
Not the correct combination either.
Not the correct combination either.
Not the correct combination either.
Not the correct combination either.
And that is correct. Myanmar, India and Japan are the top 3 destinations on our list because on balance, they are the easieast to get to and generally cheaper than, say, Europe or South America.
Over to you Novelty!
Hmmm...
I just started playing a Lord of the Rings game. What race did I choose?
A. Ainur
B. Balrogs
C. Ents
D. Dwarves
E. Eagles
F. Faeries
G. Goblins
H. Hobbits
I. Elves
J. Wargs
K. Trolls
L. Uruk-hais
M. Men of Gondor
N. Men of Numenor
O. Orcs
P. Men of Rohan
Hmmm...
I just started playing a Lord of the Rings game. What race did I choose?
I. Elves
No and no to Elves and Dwarves! Try again.
What made you guys think I'm playing as a good guy? Not Gondorians or Ents! Try again.
Not Orcs or Goblins, try again!
L. Uruk-hais
Hmmm...
I just started playing a Lord of the Rings game. What race did I choose?
A. Ainur
B. Balrogs
E. Eagles
F. Faeries
H. Hobbits
J. Wargs
K. Trolls
L. Uruk-hais
N. Men of Numenor
P. Men of Rohan
Not Uruks either. Try again.
Not Trolls, not Ainur.. try again!
B. Balrogs
Hmmm...
I just started playing a Lord of the Rings game. What race did I choose?
E. Eagles
F. Faeries
H. Hobbits
J. Wargs
N. Men of Numenor
P. Men of Rohan
[/quote]
No and no. That leaves us with 5.
I just started playing a Lord of the Rings game. What race did I choose?
E. Eagles
F. Faeries
H. Hobbits
J. Wargs
P. Men of Rohan
No and no. That leaves us with 3.
I just started playing a Lord of the Rings game. What race did I choose?
E. Eagles
H. Hobbits
P. Men of Rohan
I can't believe we are down to the last 3. Misdirection does go a long way!
No. Not Rohan. 2 more left - Hobbits or Eagles?
Might as well take Eagles
The game in question was Decipher's Lord of the Rings TCG. I normally play Hobbits when I play the TCG, and I run them with Nazguls. Over to you ibby.
Cool. Interesting combo.
Be back with a new Q in a bit!
Which 2 of these places in the Philippines have I not yet visited?
a) The Chocolate Hills of Bohol
b) The Puerto Prinsesa Subterranean River
c) Vigan
d) The Church of Paoay
e) Batanes
f) The Sumaguing-Lumiang Cave Connection, Sagada
g) Baguio City
h) Puerto Galera
i) Mayon Volcano
j) Mount Pulag
k) Boracay
l) Cagayan de Oro City
d) The Church of Paoay
k) Boracay
b) The Puerto Prinsesa Subterranean River
You know you get one more guess Novelty.
In any case, none of these combinations are correct. and I have been to Boracay twice already.
Which 2 of these places in the Philippines have I not yet visited?
a) The Chocolate Hills of Bohol
b) The Puerto Prinsesa Subterranean River
c) Vigan
d) The Church of Paoay
e) Batanes
f) The Sumaguing-Lumiang Cave Connection, Sagada
g) Baguio City
h) Puerto Galera
i) Mayon Volcano
j) Mount Pulag
k) Boracay
l) Cagayan de Oro City
i) Mayon Volcano
c) Vigan
I know I get two guesses, but you never said I had to guess 2 places at the same time...
j) Mount Pulag
b) The Puerto Prinsesa Subterranean River
There.
*shrug* I never said you had to, but then you can't win the round if you only guess one correct answer when I'm asking for two.
Nobody has the correct combination yet.
I did indeed go to Vigan. Just stayed for an afternoon, but it was enough time to walk along the old Spanish-era street.
i) Mayon Volcano
b) The Puerto Prinsesa Subterranean River
l) Cagayan de Oro City
i) Mayon Volcano
I did visit Mayon Volcano - climbed up to Base 1 in fact. I have a very nice picture at a spot overlooking the city of Legazpi below.
Which 2 of these places in the Philippines have I not yet visited?
a) The Chocolate Hills of Bohol
b) The Puerto Prinsesa Subterranean River
d) The Church of Paoay
e) Batanes
f) The Sumaguing-Lumiang Cave Connection, Sagada
g) Baguio City
h) Puerto Galera
j) Mount Pulag
l) Cagayan de Oro City
l) Cagayan de Oro City
e) Batanes
And that is the correct combination! Never been to Batanes, the northernmost province; nor to Cagayan de Oro in the south, known for its proximity to white water rafting destinations (but I have tickets to go there next year).
Over to you, BB!
My first guess was the extremes but got thrown off by your first response to Mayon. BTW: Of those, I've been to Mayon (to the top), Baguio, and Bohol. Also Makati but I walked REALLY quickly so as to not catch anything.
So, this game is supposed to tell others about ourselves?
Which one of these have I not complained about to my doctor in the last year?
1) Itchy shins
2) Eye floaters
3) Tingly fingertips
4) Erectile dysfunction
5) Pain in left midsection
6) Pain in lower right back
7) Sore big toe on right foot
8) Perpetual "full" feeling (no gas)
9) Headaches, dizziness, forgetfulness
10) Extreme sleepiness after eating even small amounts
You've certainly been to a lot of places around the world, BB! I assume you were in the Philippines for pleasure, since you just dashed through Makati (it's not much better now; horribly congested).
4) Erectile dysfunction
You win, never had that problem (yet).
Your turn.
Hopefully, it shall never be a problem for you.
Which of these have I never tasted before?
a) Bintang
b) Asahi
c) Blue Moon
d) Hoegaarden
e) San Miguel
f) Heineken
g) Tiger
h) Red Horse
i) Pilsner Urquell
j) Kirin
k) Guinness
l) Angkor
m) Stella Artois
n) Colt 45
Tasted that in Long Beach, CA. I love the flavor! It's very unique, at least so far among the beers I've tasted.
Novelty has it - I've never tried the Pilsner Urquell brand.
Quis, San Miguel is a famous Filipino brand. It's very cheap, with one bottle costing less than one American dollar.
San Miguel is a bit too strong for me (says the guy who's allergic to beer). Angkor though, tastes like water!
I just ordered pizza for dinner today. What three toppings did I order?
A. Artichoke
B. Bacon
C. Chorizo
D. Dried Shrimp
E. Extra Cheese
F. Feta Cheese
G. Ground Beef
H. Ham
I. Italian Sausage
J. Jalapenos
K. King Prawn
L. Lettuce
M. Mushroom
N. New Potatoes
O. Olives
P. Pineapple
Q. Queensland Veal
R. Red Chilli
S. Smoked Salmon
T. Tomatoes
F. Feta Cheese
H. Ham
O. Olives
H. Ham
M. Mushroom
P. Pineapple
Guinness on the other hand has a very nice full taste.
San Miguel is a bit too strong for me (says the guy who's allergic to beer). Angkor though, tastes like water!
I think that's why Cambodia imports a lot of San Miguel
Nobody has got the correct combination yet. Pineapple was not one of the toppings that I chose.
But San Miguel is expensive there compared to kababayan... Angkor was like cheap.
G. Ground Beef
M. Mushroom
K. King Prawn
I remember when we went to Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia and a friend went looking for San Miguel. I was like, you can get that at home (and at a cheaper price)! Try something new for a change!
KK is Carlsberg/Heineken territory? I think?
And not the correct combo. No King Prawn that day on my pizza...
Not sure, but I don't remember finding any San Miguel in KK.
G. Ground Beef
M. Mushroom
O. Olives
A. Artichoke
B. Bacon
C. Chorizo
D. Dried Shrimp
E. Extra Cheese
F. Feta Cheese
G. Ground Beef
H. Ham
I. Italian Sausage
J. Jalapenos
L. Lettuce
M. Mushroom
N. New Potatoes
O. Olives
Q. Queensland Veal
R. Red Chilli
S. Smoked Salmon
T. Tomatoes
I. Italian Sausage
E. Extra Cheese
M. Mushroom
Nobody has the correct combination yet. I don't go for Extra Cheese these days, so that's not it.
G. Ground Beef
M. Mushroom
T. Tomatoes
That sounds interesting Ibby, but no. I don't usually order Tomatoes on my pizza either.
G. Ground Beef
M. Mushroom
N. New Potatoes
A. Artichoke
B. Bacon
C. Chorizo
D. Dried Shrimp
F. Feta Cheese
G. Ground Beef
H. Ham
I. Italian Sausage
J. Jalapenos
L. Lettuce
M. Mushroom
N. New Potatoes
O. Olives
Q. Queensland Veal
R. Red Chilli
S. Smoked Salmon
I don't think anyone puts new potatoes on pizzas, ibby, try again...
Mmmm... Italian Sausage. Exnihil will approve of that... but I didn't have that on my pizza that day...
G. Ground Beef
M. Mushroom
D. Dried Shrimp
A. Artichoke
B. Bacon
C. Chorizo
D. Dried Shrimp
F. Feta Cheese
G. Ground Beef
H. Ham
J. Jalapenos
L. Lettuce
M. Mushroom
O. Olives
Q. Queensland Veal
R. Red Chilli
S. Smoked Salmon
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Is it just you and me Ibby? No dried shrimp either, sorry.
Seems so, Novelty.
G. Ground Beef
M. Mushroom
H. Ham
A. Artichoke
B. Bacon
C. Chorizo
F. Feta Cheese
G. Ground Beef
H. Ham
J. Jalapenos
L. Lettuce
M. Mushroom
O. Olives
Q. Queensland Veal
R. Red Chilli
S. Smoked Salmon
C. Chorizo
O. Olives
J. Jalapenos
Still no one has got the correct combination. And I wish I could order Portuguese sausages (aka Chorizo) on my pizzas, but alas, I'm not in Portugal... or Brazil or any of those places that serve portuguese sausage.
G. Ground Beef
M. Mushrooms
J. Jalapenos
A. Artichoke
B. Bacon
F. Feta Cheese
G. Ground Beef
H. Ham
J. Jalapenos
L. Lettuce
M. Mushroom
O. Olives
Q. Queensland Veal
R. Red Chilli
S. Smoked Salmon
[/quote]
Mmmmm Jalepenos! Nope. Can't get those here... guess again.
G. Ground Beef
M. Mushrooms
B. Bacon
A. Artichoke
B. Bacon
F. Feta Cheese
G. Ground Beef
H. Ham
L. Lettuce
M. Mushroom
O. Olives
Q. Queensland Veal
R. Red Chilli
S. Smoked Salmon
Gosh, where has Novelty gone? Maybe he's ordered another pizza?
LOL, I did, lol. Not bacon, try again!
Now I want to order a pizza too!
G. Ground Beef
M. Mushrooms
F. Feta Cheese
A. Artichoke
F. Feta Cheese
G. Ground Beef
H. Ham
L. Lettuce
M. Mushroom
O. Olives
Q. Queensland Veal
R. Red Chilli
S. Smoked Salmon
Not Feta Cheese either. Try again.
G. Ground Beef
M. Mushrooms
H. Ham
A. Artichoke
G. Ground Beef
H. Ham
L. Lettuce
M. Mushroom
O. Olives
Q. Queensland Veal
R. Red Chilli
S. Smoked Salmon
[/quote]
G. Ground Beef
M. Mushrooms
S. Smoked Salmon
A. Artichoke
G. Ground Beef
L. Lettuce
M. Mushroom
O. Olives
Q. Queensland Veal
R. Red Chilli
S. Smoked Salmon
Not the right combo either, although Mushrooms is correct! Guess again.
M. Mushrooms
S. Smoked Salmon
O. Olives
There you go! Your question next... not that anyone was playing.
Whew! I assumed ground beef was right, until your latest response. That's a pretty good set of toppings, and now I'm hungry.
Eh, it only takes two people to play a game so I don't mind at all if only one person guesses
Let's talk world cities. Which city have I NOT visited yet?
a) Shanghai
b) Philadelphia
c) Male
d) Hanoi
e) Bandung
f) Vancouver
g) Baguio
h) Sydney
i) Hong Kong
j) Singapore
k) Kota Kinabalu
l) Siem Reap
m) Bangkok
n) Yogyakarta
o) San Diego
p) New York
q) Osaka
r) Kyoto
s) Seoul
Gosh, doesn't anyone want to play anymore?
Would more people play if I cut the choices?
Which city have I NOT visited yet?
a) Shanghai, China
b) Philadelphia, USAc) Male, Maldives
d) Hanoi, Vietnam
e) Bandung, Indonesiaf) Vancouver, Canada
g) Baguio, Philippines
h) Sydney, Australia
i) Hong Kong, Chinaj) Singapore, Singaporek) Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
l) Siem Reap, Cambodia
m) Bangkok, Thailand
n) Yogyakarta, Indonesia
o) San Diego, USA
p) New York, USA
q) Osaka, Japanr) Kyoto, Japan
s) Seoul, South Korea
Incorrect guesses, all of the above!
Oh hon, I was there for 3 days way back in 2004. Let's go back
Been there! Sydney was the first place I ever saw two guys kiss each other. (both were cute, too!)
Was there for a day during the 4th of July weekend, went to the Old Town, toured an aircraft carrier, and had a really tasty Mexican meal.
Was there for about a week. Man, I really wanna go back.
Which city have I NOT visited yet?
a) Shanghai, China
c) Male, Maldives
d) Hanoi, Vietnam
g) Baguio, Philippines
k) Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
l) Siem Reap, Cambodia
m) Bangkok, Thailand
n) Yogyakarta, Indonesia
r) Kyoto, Japan
s) Seoul, South Korea
Nope, was there for a whole week
Really crowded place, you could walk from end to end in less than an hour. Food was great, though the only "local" food I was able to taste was the curry. Ah well.
Lotsa Filipinos there too. Filipinos are everywhere.
r) Kyoto, Japan
I'm just waiting for the "oh, actually I
was there too. Oh dear, I've been to them all" post at the end.
Now, now, that would be cheating!
I've been to Kyoto too, but only for a little more than half a day (Nara took up the other half). Hardly enough time for such a magnificent city...
Which city have I NOT visited yet?
a) Shanghai, China
d) Hanoi, Vietnam
g) Baguio, Philippines
k) Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
l) Siem Reap, Cambodia
m) Bangkok, Thailand
n) Yogyakarta, Indonesia
s) Seoul, South Korea
k) Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
Nope, went there with friends earlier this year. A pleasant place, with some pretty good food, but the main draw IMO is nearby Mount Kinabalu.
Been here a few years back. We were there during the winter and the weather was divine. We did get tired of the Korean cuisine after a few days though.
This wasn't a trick question! My family used to vacation there every year. Also passed through earlier this year to get to some of the mountains up north.
Stayed there for 3 days, and had the time of my life exploring the ruins of Angkor. One of the places I would definitely visit again!
Which city have I NOT visited yet?
a) Shanghai, China
d) Hanoi, Vietnam
m) Bangkok, Thailand
n) Yogyakarta, Indonesia
[/quote]
Been to the "cultural center" called Yogyakarta earlier this year. Besides being the jump-off point for Borobudur and Prambanan, Yogyakarta has its own share of old palaces and temples (and the food was great!)
Down to 3 choices!
Been to Shanghai - 3 nights or so, on a stopover to the ice city of Harbin, right smack at the border between China and Russia. Both are fascinating in their own right, I can still remember the biting cold in Shanghai (which was warmer than the negative 20 degree weather in Harbin!)
Right, that doesn't leave much. So I'll pick one and leave the lucky winner with a no brainer.:)
m) Bangkok, Thailand
But you ARE the lucky winner! I visited Hanoi on a Ho Chi Minh City-Siem Reap-Hanoi tour, and had a blast hanging with the locals during the Mid-autumn Festival (one even invited me to have a simple dinner with him by Hoan Kiem Lake).
Bangkok, I am due to visit with Blaze for the first time ever (for both of us)! I'm really excited, been wanting to go there for years!
So thothkins, over to you.
yikes, this might have been the only question since I've joined. A moment to go back and look at others...
Nearly all our questions are in this same format
The number of choices vary, as does the number of correct answers (some require you to pick the correct 2 or 3 answers!) Kent did a matching game once where you had to match 1-8 with a-h, but few of us do that since it takes a lot of time
A nice easy, read short, one to get me started.
With Halloween approaching more quickly than a jet powered broomstick, the cat and her familiar, thothkins, have been watching horror movies.
In tribute to the Italian thread, thothkins has looked out a film with some Dario Argento input for this evening. But which one?
a) Dawn of the Dead
b) Suspira
c) Deep Red
d) Demons 1
e) Demons 2
f) Tenebre
alas not. I have it, but I fear it's a very edited version. So, I'm going to get a proper one before I watch it again.
That was last weekend. In a ravening glut of Zombie movies it stands out s one of the best.
(pretty good movie, alright!)
f) Tenebre
I'm going with
b) Suspira
because its awesome!!
Both Tenebre and Suspira are excellent. Unfortunately I no longer own Tenebre as it got lost somewhere along the way. Suspira is getting saved for next week.
that leaves us with...
d) Demons 1
e) Demons 2
Then i'll take
e) Demons 2
Yay! And only minutes away from putting it on. Great timing.
Your turn Viridis
What was the last video game I played?
1) Pure
2) Civilization 5
3) Injustice: Gods Among Us
4) Blur
5) Game of Thrones
6) XCOM
7) Lego Harry Potter: years 1 to 4
8) Rock Band Blitz
3) Injustice: Gods Among Us
Quis got it right of the hippity hop.
Blur is best described as Mario Kart with real cars, lots of fun
You are up Quis
Who do I NOT work with?
1) Carol
2) Nancy
3) Jill
4) Matt
5) Lori
6) Elizabeth
7) Michelle
8) Meredith
9) Don
10) Maudeclia
11) Dolly
12) Robyn
13) Gerlinde
14) Glenda
15) Rocky
Lori is the person I work most closely with. And when I see Dolly in the morning I usually say something other than "Hello Dolly"
Thothkins has it. I have never worked with anyone named Meredith. One place I did work, I replaced a woman named Meredith, but I never worked with her.
I got round to some baking last Sunday for the first time in ages. But what did I bake?
a) Oat, apple and cinnamon cookies
b) Raspberry Muffins
c) Almond slices
d) Vanilla butter biscuits
e) Florentines
f) Apple tart
g) Chocolate Cake
d) vanilla butter bsicuits. because i want some!
just typing that lot made me hungry. But it's a "no" to the vanilla butter biscuits.
a) Oat, apple and cinnamon cookies
so nearly so, but I'm making those this weekend.
I don't think you made
e) Florentines
but I love them and they are a running joke between me and Mr. Peebs.
so I will say:
e) Florentines
I did not make Florentines. At the risk of falling foul of your in-joke I did have some a fortnight ago.
the joke is that i love them, and Mr. Peebs hates them ... and I am always asking him to make them. and giving him suggestions for inventive new florentine recipes.
He has not given in yet but I keep asking ... not really a funny joke.
but now we know even* more about you, so it completely belongs in this thread
* I mean "even" in a nice way, not in a stalking you through your choice of baked goods sort of way
I'll go with
c) Almond slices
I admire people who bake. That's because I don't have the patience to follow baking instructions so carefully. I prefer cooking dishes which allow me to experiment and to retouch as needed
Yay! Almond slices it is. Yummy and fluffy with a little jam in the middle.
O'er to you Invisible Brainiac
Now I'm very hungry.
Which of the following dishes have I not cooked for my family?
a) Shrimp Gambas
b) Beef Sukiyaki
c) Sweet and Sour Pork
d) Asian Simmered Fish
e) "Birthday" Noodles
f) Chili Con Carne
g) Cream of Squash
h) Chicken in Peach Sauce
i) Shrimp Risotto
j) Beef Tacos
k) Singaporean Chili Crab
Nope, that's one of my specialties (least they tell me so) and every time I cook more than one dish, that is one of them
h) Chicken in Peach Sauce
Cooked that quite a few times. Blaze likes it a lot, and so does my sister.
I was thinking sauces might be trickier to pull off, therefore done by fewer people.
d) Asian Simmered Fish as it seems geographically broad.
I personally find sauces easier because you have more wiggle room with them. Put too much pepper? Add some water or a potato to balance it out.
Done Asian-style Simmered Fish many times - I have over half a dozen variations of the dish. Soy sauce, honey, ginger and a citrus fruit (Philippine lime, lemon, "normal" limes, orange) usually.
Which of the following dishes have I not cooked for my family?
a) Shrimp Gambas
b) Beef Sukiyaki
c) Sweet and Sour Pork
e) "Birthday" Noodles
f) Chili Con Carne
i) Shrimp Risotto
j) Beef Tacos
k) Singaporean Chili Crab
I have had on occasion Sauce Monsters that never quite balance out because I've tinkered too much.
Perseverance Lad continues...
j) Beef Tacos
That does happen to me occasionally too
Beef Tacos are my mom's favorite, but my friends and my team at the office like 'em too! We have a recipe for the beef that makes it really flavorful.
I usually serve them alongside homemade salsa. Even tried adding mangoes to it once.
e) "Birthday" Noodles
why you would have anything other than cake on a birthday is a mystery to me. Must have Marzipan though... mmmmm...marzipan...
Birthday cake is a cultural thing, as are "Birthday" noodles which have (in my culture) been around for thousands of years.
As you've probably guessed, I have made those before. My dad in particular likes them.
Made that one exactly once for my family and once for Blaze
My sister liked how moist it was.
PS marzipan is good too. But my family is partial to mocha cakes
Sharing some pics (not mine :p):
birthday noodlesHizon's mocha cakes
Which of the following dishes have I not cooked for my family?
a) Shrimp Gambas
b) Beef Sukiyaki
c) Sweet and Sour Pork
f) Chili Con Carne
k) Singaporean Chili Crab
a) Shrimp Gambas
Normally when something is listed twice like "Shrimp", it can be a clue. But then there are exceptions...
Yes, there are. Shrimp Gambas was the very first dish I cooked for my family
Indeed! My grandpa taught me how to make chili con carne, but I've never actually made it myself (too time-consuming).
As for the others, Beef Sukiyaki and Sweet and Sour Pork were also among the first few dishes I ever learned to cook and both are family favorites. I've only made Singaporean Chili Crab once as I'm not much of a crab lover, and the sauce came out of a jar.
Over to you thothkins!
Whew! At least it wasn;t quite down to the last one.
Ah the beauty of nature. I saw the following animal in my garden this morning:-
a) Deer
b) Hedgehog
c) Squirrel
d) Fox
e) Bird
f) Rabbit
Ibby got it right first time. Now that's what I have to aspire to for these things.
I opened the curtains and saw a blur of fur and tail. It paused for a moment revealing itself to be a grey squirrel, or squiggle as I call them, and then darted away.
Ah. squirrels. Cute little woodland creatures.
Be back with a new question in a bit.
Which of these fruit have I not eaten in the last 3 months?
a) Strawberry
b) Mandarin Orange
c) Grapefruit
d) Pineapple
e) Peach
f) Apple
g) Mango
h) Grapes
i) Watermelon
j) Blueberry
k) Lychee
l) Kiwi
m) Rambutan
n) Mangosteen
Nope. Mangosteen's pretty interesting - it's a large big fruit but when you cut it open you'll see you can only eat a bit of it.
Raw blueberries aren't very common here, but blueberry cheesecake is. Had some of that a few weeks ago.
well, if you're going to count cheesecake
e) Peach
I'm counting the real blueberry bits on the cheesecake that I had.
and I just had peaches last week.
k) Lychee
these are a bit harder to get where I am.
I can imagine! But you've. Tried some before I guess?
I made a tasty dessert with them last month.We usually eat them here with jelly and almond juice.
Yes, but I'm sure it's been much longer than 6 months.
d) Pineapple
I have definitely had pineapple many times in the last few months - as recently as last week in fact.
Which of these fruit have I not eaten in the last 3 months?
a) Strawberry
b) Mandarin Orange
c) Grapefruit
f) Apple
g) Mango
h) Grapes
i) Watermelon
l) Kiwi
m) Rambutan
Nope, I have that almost every day
Nope, had some a couple weeks ago. I love when they give out grapes in the office, we always have huge servings.
Had some a little more than a month ago. Surprisingly tasty! The fruit's kinda like jelly.
I had some yummy f) Apples today.
Since I'm going to be guessing every last *!$& option in these things, I wanted to make it interactive once in a while
You only guessed up to second to the last in one of my earlier questions
I had a yummy apple yesterday too! I eat at least 4 apples a week in fact.
Which of these fruit have I not eaten in the last 3 months?
a) Strawberry
c) Grapefruit
g) Mango
i) Watermelon
l) Kiwi
a) Strawberry
I had these only yesterday in a lovely sauce. There was a hint of trifle around them.
"Hint" being interchangeable with "large helping"
Last strawberries I had were with a bowl of delicious coffee creme brulee
We should form a dessert club, thothkins. I daresay you know a lot more about desserts than I do (I had to google what "trifle" means in a dessert context.)
I always think that people should get their just desserts.
l) Kiwi
Nope. A lot of my teammates don't eat kiwi, so everytime the office gives them out I go home with 6-8 pieces of it.
3 choices left...
If it turns out to be grapefruit, I will, of course, pretend it was going to be my next guess too
It was indeed grapefruit, so Novelty gets it
I can't recall ever seeing grapefruit in the grocery here.
Mango is a very common fruit in the tropical Philippines, and is a common sight in salads or raw.
Watermelon is a favorite of Blaze and he always orders watermelon-flavored shakes. I prefer eating it whole, though it's not a big favorite as the tase is milder compared to a lot of other fruits.
Welcome back, Novelty. Thothkins and I will be waiting your question eagerly
Yeah Grapefruit. I thought so all along...shuffles feet...whistles innocently...
Nice of you to let others have a shot at asking the next Q, thothkins
I'm so selfless that way
So, I've PMed Novelty that he has the next question. Let's wait another week or so
Ibby: Lets wait another week or so. Look at the fruits of our labours here.
Thothkins: Do.Not.Mention.Fruit. %&*! thread...
What if I mention vegetables instead?
Ack, I was away... Erm...
Question: Which is my favourite planet?
A: Alderaan
B: Braal
C: Cragg
D: Dagobah
E: Earth
F: Formic
G: Geonosis
H: Hyneria
I: Imsk
J: Jupiter
K: Krypton
L: Lallor
M: Mars
N: Nebulon
O: Osiris
P: Pluto
Q: Quintessa
Visit scenic Dagobah. Take a deep >cough< breath of all >wheeze<, sorry, of all the lovely >splutter, cough< marsh gasses >cough, cough, cough<
A Jedi he will never be. Unless death from pneumonia cured. I was going to go with a) but some people are so touchy for such a long time.
Welcome back Novelty!
Hmm...
A. Alderaan
Alderaan may be the home of Princess Leia in Star Wars, but it's not my favourite planet. Guess again.
Thothkins guessed Dagobah on the other page.
I guess Imsk, planet of living action figures
Sorry, missed out the Dagobah, but that's not my favourite planet. Sure, Luke trained there under Yoda, but it's a swamp planet.
I may like Cosmic Boy, but I doubt I'll like his homeworld where everything is designed for people with magnetic powers.
Next
E. Earth (since we, you know, live here and all :p)
And you missed my guess on Imsk
Sorry for missing your guess Quis, but Vi's homeworld isn't my favourite. I do like things big!
Earth is a nice planet and all and I do like it, but I've gotten used to living on it. I wish I could live on some other world...
Guess again guys!
K is for Krypton, font of superheroes across the multiverse. Although the charm of visiting lots of rubble wears off about the same time as the radiation poisoning kicks in.
Ack, I was away... Erm...
Question: Which is my favourite planet?
A: Alderaan
B: Braal
C: Cragg
D: Dagobah
E: Earth
F: Formic
G: Geonosis
H: Hyneria
I: Imsk
J: Jupiter
K: Krypton
L: Lallor
M: Mars
N: Nebulon
O: Osiris
P: Pluto
Q: Quintessa
I don't know if the "like things big" was a hint or not, but I'll guess the homeworld of Colossal Boy
M: Mars
Krypton has exploded... and the version of the planet shown in the last movie was a horrible place anyways. So no, not that.
Mars is slightly better than Krypton, but it's also dead and lifeless... and I'm not sure I wanna meet White Martians and whatnot. So not that either.
BTW, the "like things big" isn't a hint. Planets are, by definition big! Except Mars, which is probably one of the smallest planet in the list.
Guess again.
J. Jupiter
don't get stupider.
Jupiter is big, but meh, it doesn't have Saturn's rings or a stupid name like Uranus. It's just a ball of mostly hot air. Not my sort of thing. Guess again!
Ack, I was away... Erm...
Question: Which is my favourite planet?
A: Alderaan
B: Braal
C: Cragg
D: Dagobah
E: Earth
F: Formic
G: Geonosis
H: Hyneria
I: Imsk
J: Jupiter
K: Krypton
L: Lallor
M: Mars
N: Nebulon
O: Osiris
P: Pluto
Q: Quintessa
L: Lallor
C: Cragg
Is this a typo on Cargg? if so I choo choo choose you because good things come in threes (unlike the Lonely Lumberjack who comes in trees
)
Yeah, that's a typo on Cargg, and no, that's not my favourite planet, triple sun or not.
Lallor is a bit way off in terms of distance from the United Planets and the answer to the question. Sorry Quis, but Lallor is not it.
Hyneria is the only planet on the list from Farscape, but a planet where the inhabitants are all fish-like muppets with helium flatulance? Urgh, definitely not my favourite.
Guess again!
P: Pluto?
Ack, I was away... Erm...
Question: Which is my favourite planet?
A: Alderaan
B: Braal
C: Cragg
D: Dagobah
E: Earth
F: Formic
G: Geonosis
H: Hyneria
I: Imsk
J: Jupiter
K: Krypton
L: Lallor
M: Mars
N: Nebulon
O: Osiris
P: Pluto
Q: Quintessa
Nice to see everyone has as much success with these things as I normally do
I pick Osiris.
Geonosis is the Star Wars planet with the clones? I don't even remember what happened there, so it's not my favourite.
Pluto isn't a planet according to the International Atomic Union. So it can't be my favourite planet...
Osiris is a real planet, HD 209458 b is its actual name (I had to look that up) that's bigger than Jupiter and takes 3.5 Earth days to make an orbit around its sun. Nope, way too hot to be my favourite, although it's big!
Guess again!
Seriously guys?
Quintessa is the Transformers race of deadly shark-like creatues. Not my cup of tea.
Formic is the home planet of the bugs in Ender's Game ( I watched the movie). It's supposed to be waterless and is more or less a huge ant hill. Not a planet I would like.
Do try again.
I guess that leaves us with
N: Nebulon
LOL, trust you guys to get to the last item on the list. Yes, Nebulon, also known as Nebulos (comic) and Master (Japanese). Home of the Headmasters, Targetmasters and Powermasters. One of my absolutely favourite Transformers series, and therefore my favourite planet.
You're up thothkins.
Never heard of it
Right, Christmas time rapidly approaches with the speed of a pimped up sleigh.
So what three movies with a Christmas component have I seen most often? Not necessarily my favourites, but ones I seem to see a lot of. You can guess up to three movies and the person who guesses the last of the three gets to do the next post.
While I was putting together the list I noticed Brazil was on it. An excellent movie that I have seen several times. Did I remember it as set around Christmas...um, no.
A Christmas Carol
Scrooge
It's a Wonderful Life
Miracle on 34th Street
White Christmas
Mickey's Christmas Carol
Santa Claus The Movie
Ernest Saves Christmas
Scrooged
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Home Alone
All I Want for Christmas
The Muppet Christmas Carol
Eyes Wide Shut
Die Hard
Die Harder
Black Christmas
Gremlins
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas
The Polar Express
Bad Santa
Trading Places
Deck the Halls
Hogfather
While You Were Sleeping
A Christmas Carol
It's a Wonderful Life
Miracle on 34th Street
No on those three. I've seen It's a Wonderful Life a few times, but he's such a moaner.
I haven't actually seen most of these, so I'll just keep guessing the ones I'm familiar with first
Mickey's Christmas Carol
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
The Muppet Christmas Carol
So what three movies with a Christmas component have I seen most often? Not necessarily my favourites, but ones I seem to see a lot of. You can guess up to three movies and the person who guesses the last of the three gets to do the next post.
Scrooge
White Christmas
Mickey's Christmas Carol
Santa Claus The Movie
Ernest Saves Christmas
Scrooged
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Home Alone
All I Want for Christmas
The Muppet Christmas Carol
Eyes Wide Shut
Die Hard
Die Harder
Black Christmas
Gremlins
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas
The Polar Express
Bad Santa
Trading Places
Deck the Halls
Hogfather
While You Were Sleeping
The Muppet's Christmas Carol is one. It's a fall back movie for those years where the Christmas spirit is obviously busy showing other people their error of their ways before me.
Home Alone
The Polar Express
Trading Places
So what three movies with a Christmas component have I seen most often? Not necessarily my favourites, but ones I seem to see a lot of. You can guess up to three movies and the person who guesses the last of the three gets to do the next post.
Scrooge
White Christmas
Santa Claus The Movie
Ernest Saves Christmas
Scrooged
Home Alone
All I Want for Christmas
The Muppet Christmas Carol
Eyes Wide Shut
Die Hard
Die Harder
Black Christmas
Gremlins
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas
The Polar Express
Bad Santa
Trading Places
Deck the Halls
Hogfather
While You Were Sleeping
Trading Places is on every year where I am. I imagine that Home Alone is too, but Trading Places is on later in the day so I've more chance of seeing it.
Just 1 to go.
Wow, I am being quite lucky so far! I bet the last movie will be among the last to be guessed then
Scrooge
Ernest Saves Christmas
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
So what three movies with a Christmas component have I seen most often? Not necessarily my favourites, but ones I seem to see a lot of. You can guess up to three movies and the person who guesses the last of the three gets to do the next post.
Scrooge
White Christmas
Santa Claus The Movie
Ernest Saves Christmas
Scrooged
All I Want for Christmas
The Muppet Christmas Carol
Eyes Wide Shut
Die Hard
Die Harder
Black Christmas
Gremlins
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Bad Santa
Trading Places
Deck the Halls
Hogfather
While You Were Sleeping
Could be. You're upholding the proud LW tradition nicely with none right from those three.
All I Want for Christmas
White Christmas
Scrooged
So what three movies with a Christmas component have I seen most often? Not necessarily my favourites, but ones I seem to see a lot of. You can guess up to three movies and the person who guesses the last of the three gets to do the next post.
White Christmas
Santa Claus The Movie
Scrooged
All I Want for Christmas
The Muppet Christmas Carol
Eyes Wide Shut
Die Hard
Die Harder
Black Christmas
Gremlins
Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Bad Santa
Trading Places
Deck the Halls
Hogfather
While You Were Sleeping
Yay! Scrooged. I don't always see it all. I sometimes don;t get to see all of what's left. But every year, without fail, it will cross my path. Generally in time for the depressing deceased homeless guy scene
But don't let that put you off
There's a heart warming monologue later on that is always worth listening to.
Gremlins I remember as a fun movie, but I haven;t seen in a very long time. Die Hard movies are also always on, but don;t have the same lasting appeal for me.
Any Christmas movie with added saccharine is not something I enjoy.
As a reward for your perseverance Ibby, why don't you ask a question now?
I think any movie based on Dickens' A Christmas Carol already has a good head start for being great
Thank you thothkins, don't mind if I do.
I've read a lot of Legion stories, but my actual physical collection of comic books is a bit more limmited.
I do not actually OWN any physical copies of comic books featuring which of the
3 Legion characters below?
a) Myron Marks
b) Policy Pam
c) Nightwind
d) Particon
e) Iresa
f) Cera Kesh
g) Celese Rockfish
h) Theena
i) Marte Allon
j) Dev-Em
k) Gas Girl
l) King Jonn
m) Janice Warren
n) Starlight
o) Douglas Nolan
p) Alisia Frake
q) Tyroc
r) X-Bomb Betty
s) Harmonia Li
t) Stun
u) Absorbancy Boy
v) Charma
w) Green Boy
x) Infectious Lass
y) Ambassador Jeryl
z) Monica Sade
If you're lucky it's
p) Alisia Frake
as the Relfecto story continues to baffle.
a) Myron Marks
v) Charma
Captain Frake is right, I don't own any of the original Reflecto/Ultra Boy with amnesia stories.
I do have two issues featuring Charma,
and I have the issue featuring Myron Marks and his pigeons.
It's a good question. Everyone will have come in at different points. Earlier issues are presumably harder to get. You may really not like certain boots - Threeboot or Glorithverse.
Let's see... Charam appeared postboot and Myron Marks appeared in Adventure Comics.
I'll go with Celeste Rockfish and Monica Sade from the 5YG
Nope, I have issues where both appeared.
Boy, Monica Sade sure is bad-ass. I think she could have been a Legionnaire if she wasn't shown to be willing to kill.
Celeste made quite an impression on me in the issues I own where she appeared too. She was pretty powerful.
I've read a lot of Legion stories, but my actual physical collection of comic books is a bit more limmited.
I do not actually OWN any physical copies of comic books featuring which of the 3 Legion characters below?
a) Myron Marks
b) Policy Pam
c) Nightwind
d) Particon
e) Iresa
f) Cera Kesh
g) Celese Rockfish
h) Theena
i) Marte Allon
j) Dev-Em
k) Gas Girl
l) King Jonn
m) Janice Warren
n) Starlight
o) Douglas Nolan
p) Alisia Frake
q) Tyroc
r) X-Bomb Betty
s) Harmonia Li
t) Stun
u) Absorbancy Boy
v) Charma
w) Green Boy
x) Infectious Lass
y) Ambassador Jeryl
z) Monica Sade
p) Alisia Frake
e) Iresa
m) Janice Warren
Nope, I have the issue where Cham romanced Janice Warren. She's quite beautiful isn't she? And if she is the counterpart of Princess Elwinda... wow, some people sure are lucky. Rich and beautiful in TWO universes?
I also have the one and only (I think) appearance of Iresa. She seemed quite nice, I wonder how many dates she and Chuck had?
Absorbency Boy (I suspect you may have Earth Man issues, but none under the original name)
Tyroc appeared in the 5YG, so I'll go with Harmonia Li.
Absorbancy Boy was a trick choice - I have issues where Earth-Man appeared, and since he used to be Absorbancy Boy I am counting them as the same character.
I have an issue where Harmonia Li appeared as well.
I've read a lot of Legion stories, but my actual physical collection of comic books is a bit more limmited.
I do not actually OWN any physical copies of comic books featuring which of the 3 Legion characters below?
a) Myron Marks
b) Policy Pam
c) Nightwind
d) Particon
e) Iresa
f) Cera Kesh
g) Celese Rockfish
h) Theena
i) Marte Allon
j) Dev-Em
k) Gas Girl
l) King Jonn
m) Janice Warren
n) Starlight
o) Douglas Nolan
p) Alisia Frake
q) Tyroc
r) X-Bomb Betty
s) Harmonia Li
t) Stun
u) Absorbancy Boy
v) Charma
w) Green Boy
x) Infectious Lass
y) Ambassador Jeryl
z) Monica Sade
Douglas Nolan wasn't too far away from Frake, so I'll pick him. I'll pick Green Boy too.
I have issues where both Douglas Nolan (who appeared as early as the Adventure Era, and also Postboot) and Green Boy appeared. Try again!
Bah, I missed Douglas in post boot.
What about Theena and Stun?
p) Alisia Frake
w) Green Boy
b) Policy Pam
I have some issues from the early Threeboot, where Theena is featured heavily.
I have at least one issue featuring UP Militia student Stun.
I have the issue where Green Boy appeared, Quis.
I do not, however, own any issue where Policy Pam appeared. So that's the 2nd character guessed.
I've read a lot of Legion stories, but my actual physical collection of comic books is a bit more limmited.
I do not actually OWN any physical copies of comic books featuring which of the 3 Legion characters below?
a) Myron Marks
b) Policy Pam
c) Nightwind
d) Particon
e) Iresa
f) Cera Kesh
g) Celese Rockfish
h) Theena
i) Marte Allon
j) Dev-Em
k) Gas Girl
l) King Jonn
m) Janice Warren
n) Starlight
o) Douglas Nolan
p) Alisia Frake
q) Tyroc
r) X-Bomb Betty
s) Harmonia Li
t) Stun
u) Absorbancy Boy
v) Charma
w) Green Boy
x) Infectious Lass
y) Ambassador Jeryl
z) Monica Sade
p) Alisia Frake
b) Policy Pam
r) X-Bomb Betty
I have the one and only issue where X-Bomb Betty appeared.
I wonder if she'll blow herself up when she uses her power?
p) Alisia Frake
b) Policy Pam
d) Particon
No, I have several issues where Particon was featured. Her role in the Mordru three-parter made me quite a fan.
I've read a lot of Legion stories, but my actual physical collection of comic books is a bit more limmited.
I do not actually OWN any physical copies of comic books featuring which of the 3 Legion characters below?
a) Myron Marks
b) Policy Pam
c) Nightwind
d) Particon
e) Iresa
f) Cera Kesh
g) Celese Rockfish
h) Theena
i) Marte Allon
j) Dev-Em
k) Gas Girl
l) King Jonn
m) Janice Warren
n) Starlight
o) Douglas Nolan
p) Alisia Frake
q) Tyroc
r) X-Bomb Betty
s) Harmonia Li
t) Stun
u) Absorbancy Boy
v) Charma
w) Green Boy
x) Infectious Lass
y) Ambassador Jeryl
z) Monica Sade
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p) Alisia Frake
b) Policy Pam
y) Ambassador Jeryl
I have issues featuring Starlight. And may I say, her boss Starfinger is one of the most infuriating villains ever!
I have issues featuring Ambassador Jeryl. The SW6 Legion saved her butt once!
I've read a lot of Legion stories, but my actual physical collection of comic books is a bit more limmited.
I do not actually OWN any physical copies of comic books featuring which of the 3 Legion characters below?
a) Myron Marks
b) Policy Pam
c) Nightwind
d) Particon
e) Iresa
f) Cera Kesh
g) Celese Rockfish
h) Theena
i) Marte Allon
j) Dev-Em
k) Gas Girl
l) King Jonn
m) Janice Warren
n) Starlight
o) Douglas Nolan
p) Alisia Frake
q) Tyroc
r) X-Bomb Betty
s) Harmonia Li
t) Stun
u) Absorbancy Boy
v) Charma
w) Green Boy
x) Infectious Lass
y) Ambassador Jeryl
z) Monica Sade
I have issues featuring Dev-Em. he's powerful and all but I don't like him very much.
I have issues featuring Gas Girl as well. She always was a cool character, though there was one time Postboot where she was depicted as a bald girl with gassy hair - that look didn't work so well for me.
Next poster has a 1/6th chance of guessing correctly!
I've read a lot of Legion stories, but my actual physical collection of comic books is a bit more limmited.
I do not actually OWN any physical copies of comic books featuring which of the 3 Legion characters below?
b) Policy Pam
c) Nightwind
f) Cera Kesh
i) Marte Allon
l) King Jonn
p) Alisia Frake
q) Tyroc
x) Infectious Lass
Nightwind is one of my favorites among the "never really joined the team during the main issues" characters, and I do own issues where she appeared.
As an aside, I found it sad that we weren't really shown any strong reactions to her death in v4, despite her having supposedly been a Legionnaire for much of the 5 Year Gap.
I'll go with q) Tyroc although he did appear in the 5YG.
Nope! I also do have at least one issue where Tyroc was in his original white costume which showed a lot of skin!
Yes, it was King Jonn of Pasnic. Over to you thothkins.
I think there should be a small pause for Post Quiz Traumatic Disorder therapy before the next question.
Didn't King Jonn pop up in the 5YG when they were fighting Khunds and thingies (issues in the teens)? I had ruled him out as you mentioned liking Celeste.
I believe he did, but I simply don't have any issues where he showed up. Celeste's appearances spanned a longer portion of the series than he did.
For Trivia questions maybe, but it can't be too hard to ask a question about yourself like is needed in this thread?
I have issues when talking about myself. It all started when I ... >slap<
Besides, it's recovering from going through practically whole lists every time (well, for me it certainly is
)
On the plus side, if you ask a question it will be US who have to go through a whole list
I'll make it a short list to ease the misery for others. My cat is very impressed with it's new Christmas toy (annoyingly it wasn't one I bought). It's a:-
a) set of little rubber balls that bounce at speed everywhere.
b) set of slightly larger plastic balls with little bells inside
c) a tiger patterned feathery tail thingy, but with a tiger patterned handle that the cat prefers to chase.
d) An odd abstract fish mobile on a string with a long handle.
e) a laser light with little shapes for the cat to chase.
f) a dvd full of Catertainment videos - fish and birds.
g) An odd piglet type thing bought in Turkey. But it's on elastic.
h) A little fluffy kitten you that mews when you press it.
i) A long soft grey cord of material with a little feather at one end and a little rod on the other (also acts as a toy)
I will probably shorten my next list too
c) a tiger patterned feathery tail thingy, but with a tiger patterned handle that the cat prefers to chase.
No. She does have this. The toy is the feathery thingy but after a single game with that, where she was very interested, she completely prefers the tiger patterned rod part of it. No interest in the toy part at all. It's not her favourite.
g) An odd piglet type thing bought in Turkey. But it's on elastic.
No, this was a holiday gift. Despite all my attempts at turning it into an entertaining puppet with cartoon voices, the cat is unamused.
h) A little fluffy kitten you that mews when you press it.
The little fluffy kitten that mews is actually some sort of Christmas decoration. I think. It's the only time they see the light of day. Anyway, the noise they make is realistic enough for the cat to investigate, but that is all. This is not a favourite.
Your cat must be happy to have so many playthings to choose from
Hopefully she is not going after your legs anymore?
b) set of slightly larger plastic balls with little bells inside
b) I get more exercise throwing the little balls with bells around than the cat gets ever chasing them. At least I didn't buy those.
e) a laser light with little shapes for the cat to chase.
I'll make it a short list to ease the misery for others. My cat is very impressed with it's new Christmas toy (annoyingly it wasn't one I bought). It's a:-
a) set of little rubber balls that bounce at speed everywhere.
d) An odd abstract fish mobile on a string with a long handle.
f) a dvd full of Catertainment videos - fish and birds.
i) A long soft grey cord of material with a little feather at one end and a little rod on the other (also acts as a toy)
d) An odd abstract fish mobile on a string with a long handle.
d) the abstract fish thingy was a toy I proudly brought back from the shops. It has a string part and little fish sections for clawing. It has a rod part too allowing lots of distance and it was utterly ignored by the cat. I say utterly ignored, but dismissed as feeble by the cat would be more appropriate.
But Ibby is correct with d) The laser light toy. It's from Spain and I strongly doubt this was ever a proper cat toy. Leaving aside the obvious stupidity of allowing children/ idiot family members access lights to play with cats.
For a start, the little shapes are a smiley face, a star etc. and not a bird or a mouse or anything cat related.
However, like reflecting your watch face or a CD against a wall, the cat loves it and it's now part of her daily routine.
While I'm clearing up the cat toys around the computer desk, Ibby will entertain you with a question...
I guess your cat prefers things she can see but not touch
Be back with a new Q in a bit.
I'm not sure all the dead critters agree with that
If they ever got turned into zombies, you had better hide your cat.
I have been asked out by the following, except for:
a) A Chinese-Indonesian with old-fashioned Chinese parents
b) A Chinese-American with old-fashioned Chinese parents
c) A Chinese-Filipino with old-fashioned Chinese parents
d) A Vietnamese who couldn't speak any English at all
e) A Singaporean who lives in the Philippines
f) A half-Japanese who already had a boyfriend at the time
g) A Canadian who lives in Japan
h) A forty-year old Frenchman who said I was "beautiful"
a) A Chinese-Indonesian with old-fashioned Chinese parents
That one happened. He didn't speak English very well so I got to practice my Mandarin while he introduced himself.
a) A Chinese-Indonesian with old-fashioned Chinese parents
Gasp! Are thothkins and Novelty clones? Or were they classmates in high school and thothkins is copying Novelty's answers out of sheer force of habit?
That happened, as I told Novelty above.
I have been asked out by the following, except for:
a) A Chinese-Indonesian with old-fashioned Chinese parents
b) A Chinese-American with old-fashioned Chinese parents
c) A Chinese-Filipino with old-fashioned Chinese parents
d) A Vietnamese who couldn't speak any English at all
e) A Singaporean who lives in the Philippines
f) A half-Japanese who already had a boyfriend at the time
g) A Canadian who lives in Japan
h) A forty-year old Frenchman who said I was "beautiful"
I'm no clone, as sure as my name is thothkins-5476!
b) A Chinese-American with old-fashioned Chinese parents
That one happened too. Turns out his extended family kept getting on his case for not having a girlfriend yet.
c) A Chinese-Filipino with old-fashioned Chinese parents
Now bear in mind Ibby that by having three options close together, one of them should be the right answer. Anything else makes these three teases.
I guess I'm a tease then, as this has happened
I've actually had two Chinese-Filipinos ask me out. Neither of them has told their parents.
(The Chinese-American told HIS parents. He was also going on and on about wanting a stable relationship, but then he kept getting into one-night stands so I'd rather not believe everything he says :p)
f) A half-Japanese who already had a boyfriend at the time
This was true as well. I didn't know at the time that he was in a relationship. Tsk. Good thing we only went out once.
I have been asked out by the following, except for:
a) A Chinese-Indonesian with old-fashioned Chinese parents
b) A Chinese-American with old-fashioned Chinese parents
c) A Chinese-Filipino with old-fashioned Chinese parents
d) A Vietnamese who couldn't speak any English at all
e) A Singaporean who lives in the Philippines
f) A half-Japanese who already had a boyfriend at the time
g) A Canadian who lives in Japan
h) A forty-year old Frenchman who said I was "beautiful"
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e) A Singaporean who lives in the Philippines
I have met quite a few Singaporeans, and one has asked me out...
... but he didn't live in the Philippines.
Yahoo! Over to you Novelty!
Who is my favourite Sesame Street muppet?
Abby Cadabby
Bert
Cookie
Don Music
Ernie
Forgetful Jones
Grover
Herry
Ingrid and Humphrey
Mr. Johnson
Kermit
Little Bird
Mama Bear
Natasha
Oscar
Prairie Dawn
Queenie
Rosita
Snuffy
Telly
Uncle Sam
Velma Blank
Wolf, Big Bad
Xylophone
Yip-yips
Zoe
Heh, this list was difficult to construct.
Share it Maybe?
http://youtu.be/-qTIGg3I5y8Not Cookie Monster...
Not Super Grover, although he's hillarious.
http://youtu.be/29QqgBVln-IOscar is a grouch and hates Christmas, so not him either:
http://youtu.be/k3Cdqx1qFX8
It's not easy being green...
http://youtu.be/hpiIWMWWVcoNope, not the frog.
Edit: Are you guys watching the videos? Should I continue them?
Snuffy?
Yeah, I watch the videos when I get the chance and they're nice and make me all nostalgic so PLEASE continue 'em
Who is my favourite Sesame Street muppet?
Abby Cadabby
Bert
Don Music
Ernie
Forgetful Jones
Herry
Ingrid and Humphrey
Mr. Johnson
Little Bird
Mama Bear
Natasha
Prairie Dawn
Queenie
Rosita
Snuffy
Telly
Uncle Sam
Velma Blank
Wolf, Big Bad
Xylophone
Yip-yips
Zoe
Heh, this list was difficult to construct.
Ernie! and yes, please keep the videos coming.
Not ernie hee hee hee hee hee. And here's a video that's has sexual overtones, so I don't think they play it anymore:
http://youtu.be/Mh85R-S-dh8 "When I squeeze you, you make noise" LOL.
And I'm not Anne Hathaway, I don't want a Snuffleupagus for Christmas. And this song has sexual overtones too. LOL.
http://youtu.be/e_8foNzuFgY
Nope, not the guy doing the pigeon
http://youtu.be/VDJsgtoizj8Try again.
Oh, I love Ernie and Bert!
Mr. Johnson?
I always pity Mr. Johnson, but no, not him either:
http://youtu.be/tSKJdLItaN8Try him again.
Forgetful Jones?
PS love the videos - they still entertain me despite me being way past the show's target age
Who is my favourite Sesame Street muppet?
Abby Cadabby
Don Music
Forgetful Jones
Herry
Ingrid and Humphrey
Little Bird
Mama Bear
Natasha
Prairie Dawn
Queenie
Rosita
Telly
Uncle Sam
Velma Blank
Wolf, Big Bad
Xylophone
Yip-yips
Zoe
Heh, this list was difficult to construct.
Aaaaaaaa-klahoma!
http://youtu.be/cQ9g62YE1N4 But no, not Mr. Jones. Guess again!
Not Ms Dawn, but you can enjoy her video here:
http://youtu.be/_qfuWJzo82kGuess again.
Praire Dawn's a great relatively new addition to the series!
Telly?
She's also an old character from the 70s. And it's not Telly either. I don't even remember him much:
http://youtu.be/B9n7IQ3lwKwGuess again.
Oh, I must have gotten my characters mixed up. I know one of the females is a newer character.
Zoe?
If you don't know who Zoe is, here's a video of her:
http://youtu.be/7v9hFWy86OkI don't even remember her since she was introduced around the time of 'around the corner', so she's not my fav. Guess again.
Hmm... Little Bird?
Who is my favourite Sesame Street muppet?
Abby Cadabby
Don Music
Herry
Ingrid and Humphrey
Little Bird
Mama Bear
Natasha
Queenie
Rosita
Uncle Sam
Velma Blank
Wolf, Big Bad
Xylophone
Yip-yips
Heh, this list was difficult to construct.
[/quote]
You got it! She was the subject of my first Sesame Street book!
Cool!! When you said Little Bird was the subject of your first book, at first I thought you wrote a book - did you?
Which of these statements is not true?
a) In one weekend in Bangkok, I was approached by a Filipino, a Japanese, a Thai, a Frenchman, a Singaporean, a Malaysian, an Indian, a Canadian and an Eastern European.
b) A local invited me to dinner by the lakeside in Hanoi during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
c) I spent $11 on an AMF in West Hollywood, but it was so strong it lasted me the whole night.
d) I was forced to buy multiple layers of thick socks because of the biting cold in Harbin, China.
e) I saw a goat being slaughtered on a beach in the Maldives.
f) In Los Angeles, the van I was driving hit a piece of metal that fell off a truck being driven by illegal immigrant.
g) We feasted on catfish and shrimp in Malaysia just a week before the whole Sabah incident happened.
h) Right after my flight from Cebu landed, I promptly went home and packed so I could join my friends for an 8-hour drive north to Vigan.
i) I lost my IPod in one of the temples of Angkor in Cambodia.
j) I spent the New Year teaching an Australian and an Indonesian how to play cards while a Brazilian serenaded us with his guitar.
k) I snuck into a Japanese
onsen while nobody was there so I could take a picture of the outdoor bath.
l) After spending almost 6 hours in the caves of Sagada, we were so hungry we didn't stop to change out of our smelly clothes before going to a dinner buffet.
i) I lost my IPod in one of the temples of Angkor in Cambodia.
If only for the picture of you disturbing everyone there to ask if they had seen it
Oh, that happened. I like to think my ipod is now nestling in the lap of some Buddha statue.
Come on, only 9 choices left. That isn't so much.
Which of these statements is not true?
a) In one weekend in Bangkok, I was approached by a Filipino, a Japanese, a Thai, a Frenchman, a Singaporean, a Malaysian, an Indian, a Canadian and an Eastern European.
b) A local invited me to dinner by the lakeside in Hanoi during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
c) I spent $11 on an AMF in West Hollywood, but it was so strong it lasted me the whole night.
d) I was forced to buy multiple layers of thick socks because of the biting cold in Harbin, China.
e) I saw a goat being slaughtered on a beach in the Maldives.
f) In Los Angeles, the van I was driving hit a piece of metal that fell off a truck being driven by illegal immigrant.
g) We feasted on catfish and shrimp in Malaysia just a week before the whole Sabah incident happened.
h) Right after my flight from Cebu landed, I promptly went home and packed so I could join my friends for an 8-hour drive north to Vigan.
j) I spent the New Year teaching an Australian and an Indonesian how to play cards while a Brazilian serenaded us with his guitar.
k) I snuck into a Japanese onsen while nobody was there so I could take a picture of the outdoor bath.
l) After spending almost 6 hours in the caves of Sagada, we were so hungry we didn't stop to change out of our smelly clothes before going to a dinner buffet.
Still no players? Ok, let's remove two choices:
Which of these statements is not true?
b) A local invited me to dinner by the lakeside in Hanoi during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
c) I spent $11 on an AMF in West Hollywood, but it was so strong it lasted me the whole night.
d) I was forced to buy multiple layers of thick socks because of the biting cold in Harbin, China.
e) I saw a goat being slaughtered on a beach in the Maldives.
g) We feasted on catfish and shrimp in Malaysia just a week before the whole Sabah incident happened.
h) Right after my flight from Cebu landed, I promptly went home and packed so I could join my friends for an 8-hour drive north to Vigan.
j) I spent the New Year teaching an Australian and an Indonesian how to play cards while a Brazilian serenaded us with his guitar.
k) I snuck into a Japanese onsen while nobody was there so I could take a picture of the outdoor bath.
l) After spending almost 6 hours in the caves of Sagada, we were so hungry we didn't stop to change out of our smelly clothes before going to a dinner buffet.
*muses* perhaps a change in question will reignite interest in the game!
For our high school "spiritual retreat", I sponsored a close friend. This involved printing out full-body pictures of Legionnaires on colored paper and handing them out to people to write messages on.
Which Legion character was among those I printed out?
1) Gigi Cusimano
2) Spider-Girl
3) Nightwind
4) RJ Brande
5) Tenzil Kem
6) Particon
7) Shvaughn Erin
8) Infectious Lass
9) Inferno (Sandy Anderson)
10) Lori Morning
11) Radion
12) Proty
13) Splitter
14) Mordru
15) Evolvo
Nope. IIRC Postboot Nightwind hadn't beroduced yet and I didn't have any good pics of Preboot Nightwind
Not Tenzil. I couldn't find a good shot of him. I did put him on the cover of the box I used to compile the letters though.
Not her either! Neither my friend nor I particularly liked her, and anyway most of her solo shots involved her scowling or burning people. Not very conducive for a spiritual retreat
Nope. No good full-body shots of Sussa were available to me then.
For our high school "spiritual retreat", I sponsored a close friend. This involved printing out full-body pictures of Legionnaires on colored paper and handing them out to people to write messages on.
Which Legion character was among those I printed out?
1) Gigi Cusimano
4) RJ Brande
6) Particon
7) Shvaughn Erin
8) Infectious Lass
10) Lori Morning
11) Radion
12) Proty
13) Splitter
14) Mordru
15) Evolvo
I was thinking of her Who's Who appearance...
Mordru!
Nope! Not a good choice for a retreat!
Awww, but Mordru is a very spiritual character, if only to turn it to his own evil ends
Proty!
Nope! My friend didn't particularly like featureless blobs
I thought there would be a few comments had it been proty
Lori!
That little annoyance? No!
For our high school "spiritual retreat", I sponsored a close friend. This involved printing out full-body pictures of Legionnaires on colored paper and handing them out to people to write messages on.
Which Legion character was among those I printed out?
1) Gigi Cusimano
4) RJ Brande
6) Particon
7) Shvaughn Erin
8) Infectious Lass
11) Radion
13) Splitter
15) Evolvo
Nope. Didn't find a good shot of her either.
He would have been a good choice, but no
15) Evolvo has a passing link to spiritual enlightenment, so let's go there. Why not, nearly gone everywhere else...
Nope! We didn't particularly like Evolvo either
Yahoo! and it wasn't even the last guess!
I included Shvaughn (and Chuck Taine) because at the time, both had been heavily involved as supporting characters in the team books. Shvaughn spent quite some time stranded with the Team 20 Legionnaires. I got a pretty good solo scan for her from Legion 14.
Over to you thothy.
How goes the thinking, thothkins?
I thought yesterday. Next thought is due... gee I'd have to think about it.
To regular thread readers, the gap between questions isn't a delay as such. It's just that I assume that my last answer will be the correct one and I timetable it accordingly. >cough<
Which Legion story did I read recently and have no memory of having read it before:-
Adventure 346 - The try out issue for Jeckie, doomed man, doomed man and doomed man.
Superboy 98 - Superboy and Ultra Boy give everyone in Smallville cancer by X-raying everything in sight all issue.
Adventure 373 - The Legion don't cash in on the Flash by offering membership to the Tornado Twins
Adventure 310 - Unsettling 5th dimensional psycho wipes out the Legion in a tale that somehow got past the code.
Adventure 312 - Yes Kids, summoning lightning is fine if it's to resurrect your friends.
Adventure 313 - The girls still speak to the boys after being quarantines "for their own good".
Adventure 318 - Sun Boy displays his super power of being an ass, this time as leader.
I'm pretty much the only regular reader besides yourself so no worries
and a little thought is okay!
Superboy' 98?
What?! There are sentients out there who lead unfulfilled lives? Lives with Legion post sized holes in them? Madness!
Not Superboy '98 about which I'm sure I've a post to do somewhere...
I'll guess Adventure 318, and assume your disdain for Sun Boy wiped out your memory of this issue
Yes, would love to read your thoughts on Superboy 98
It's too bad you weren't here when the Archives rereads were in full swing!
Not that one, although you're so right in guessing it was put in deliberately to mock Morgna
I've yet to get really into one of the archive or big comics reviews, but one day...
I knew it!
Although I disliked Morgna's womanizing, for some reason I liked him a wee bit more than other womanizers like Roy Harper. Maybe it's because Dirk didn't start out as a womanizer in the Adventure Era. As for Roy, I don't think he started out as one but I didn't read his earlier appearances.
Guessing Adventure 373. I read the Tornado Twins issue too and it seems like the least memorable one of all those you listed.
I'm going through a few Adventure issues, and he's fine until he blatantly gets rid of Polar Boy from the tryouts
I see their subsequent bromance as Dirk constantly getting to rub Brek's nose in the fact he was a Sub. I think Dirk associates with him because it may make him look good (although on Tharr and 5yg earth the opposite happened.)
Not Adventure 373 that had the Tornado Twins really demoralising the Legion. Serves them right for the way they treated their applicants
XS will always be Tornado Girl for me >sniff< although the red Flash outfit would maybe make her Red Tornado when she gets older.
Karma
Agree though, the early Legion issues had the Legionnaires be unreasonably harsh to poor applicants.
rocks!
Perhaps the blatant sexism made you forget Adventure 313?
It's well known that all genders possess cooties making them incompatible. The ladies knew this which is why they faked a crimson plague just so they could get away.
But no, it's not this issue.
Adventure 310. If you don't have any memory of a story where the entire Legion (except Superboy of course, because he's speeeeeeecial) dies, you probably really haven't read it before!
That the one! You can imagine my initial shock at the first casualty. But I just thought it would be a quick revival. Then the bodies really start piling up!
Never mind dark Legion stories decades later, this one takes out the entire team in novel, disturbing ways.
I must have read the synopsis in the Legion index and I remembered the villains name, but they didn't do the story justice.
Over to you Ibby!
I totally agree with you there! It's one thing to read that the entire Legion dies in some synopsis, but quite another to actually see them being murdered one by one. Being turned to stone, getting electrocuted, poison gas, random explosions, gigantic meteors... And most of them don't die in battle. Whew! Mr. Mxyzptlk was hardly ever that vicious.
Let's see...
I just made a list of my top 12 favorite Postboot Legionnaires. Which two did not make the cut?
1) Kinetix
2) Brainiac 5
3) Live Wire
4) XS
5) Gates
6) Saturn Girl
7) Apparition
8) Triad
9) Wildfire
10) Umbra
11) Chameleon
12) Monstress
13) Kid Quantum II
14) Shrinking Violet
Nope!
Eliminating some choices:
Brainy is easily one of my favorite Postboot Legionnaires, though he didn't get that status until after DNA came along and struck a nice balance between his intellectual snobbishness and his compassion for his friends.
Violet had been a favorite even before the DNA period. I enjoyed reading her shy-yet-tough personality and her struggle with the Emerald Eye.
I just made a list of my top 12 favorite Postboot Legionnaires. Which two did not make the cut?
1) Kinetix
3) Live Wire
4) XS
5) Gates
6) Saturn Girl
7) Apparition
8) Triad
9) Wildfire
10) Umbra
11) Chameleon
12) Monstress
13) Kid Quantum II
I was trying to pick off the ones I'd read some negative commentary about. Vi as Leviathan, Brainy as an ass (Dirk on leave?), Monstress (just generally until DnA) & Kid Q (in The Legion). So much for that plan.
Saturn Girl and Umbra.
Nope!
Although Saturn Girl spent a lot of time whining about her powers and her lack of a relationship, and was one of the top contenders for dubious distinction of panel hog, I still liked her enough to include her in my top 12.
I think most, if not all, of the Postboot Legionnaires had their negative spells. I can think of aspects of each that I didn't like, but still ended up liking them all on average. Except Kid Quantum I, who was created to die and was given a very obnoxious personality!
I just made a list of my top 12 favorite Postboot Legionnaires. Which two did not make the cut?
1) Kinetix
3) Live Wire
4) XS
5) Gates
7) Apparition
8) Triad
9) Wildfire
10) Umbra
11) Chameleon
12) Monstress
13) Kid Quantum II
Apparition - who wasn't even there really in the issues I've read.
Cham - who had a different personality to the one I knew.
Nope!
Although there was a brief spell where Tinya was annoying (always whining about being an intangible spirit - though it's understandable) she had a very strong start in the Postboot and I did like DNA's portrayal of her.
I just made a list of my top 12 favorite Postboot Legionnaires. Which two did not make the cut?
1) Kinetix
3) Live Wire
4) XS
5) Gates
8) Triad
9) Wildfire
10) Umbra
11) Chameleon
12) Monstress
13) Kid Quantum II
Hint, thothkins has already guessed one of the 2 correct answers.
Nope!
Cham became a favorite after Legion Lost. Though he's arguably one of the team's most alien, I somehow found him one of the most relatable (and fun!).
I just made a list of my top 12 favorite Postboot Legionnaires. Which two did not make the cut?
1) Kinetix
3) Live Wire
4) XS
5) Gates
8) Triad
9) Wildfire
10) Umbra
12) Monstress
13) Kid Quantum II
Nope!
I'll come out and say it - DNA's writing made me a huge fan of Monstress. I cried when she died, and though it was well-written I've always been sorry that she died.
I just made a list of my top 12 favorite Postboot Legionnaires. Which two did not make the cut?
1) Kinetix
3) Live Wire
4) XS
5) Gates
8) Triad
9) Wildfire
10) Umbra
13) Kid Quantum II
Hint, thothkins has already guessed one of the 2 correct answers.
You mean I was supposed to get them
both right? together? at the same time? simultaneously? without cheating with a time bubble? With
my track record? It would need three of me for that many guesses....hey, there's an idea...
Triad - something to do with personality changes in post boot?
Kid Q Two - apparently became a pain when made leader?
Eh, you'll get there eventually
Some people say Kid Q II became a pain, but I didn't agree. Yeah, maybe she showed up a little too much but then she WAS leader...
I just made a list of my top 12 favorite Postboot Legionnaires. Which two did not make the cut?
1) Kinetix
3) Live Wire
4) XS
5) Gates
8) Triad
9) Wildfire
10) Umbra
I never really liked Wildfire all that much Preboot, but I thought the Postboot version was very refreshing. He was still brash, but a lot less cocky and arrogant. So, Wildfire is definitely in my top 12.
I just made a list of my top 12 favorite Postboot Legionnaires. Which two did not make the cut?
1) Kinetix
3) Live Wire
4) XS
5) Gates
8) Triad
10) Umbra
I think most of you guys know me quite well. Three of the names on this list haven't been guessed yet
Let's cross off a couple of (obviously wrong) names:
I just made a list of my top 12 favorite Postboot Legionnaires. Which two did not make the cut?
1) Kinetix
3) Live Wire
4) XS
5) Gates
8) Triad
10) Umbra
Gosh! With only four choices left, it should be pretty easy to pick the correct two!
With only four choices left, it should be pretty easy
Oh that's great. Pile on that pressure...
Tsk, you're not even trying.
Trying's about all I do in these things.
I was going to complete you on your tenacity, but not this time I guess
I'm trying terribly to be tenacious but I trip over all the tough Ts.
Practice makes perfect. One guess at a time, that is.
XS & Umbra?
(Although, I
, so it hurts my soul to say such a thing!)
Aww Cali! I love
too, so much so that she's on my list AND is heavily featured in my Fic (see my sig, shameless plug!)
Here we go, only 3 left.
I just made a list of my top 12 favorite Postboot Legionnaires. Which two did not make the cut?
3) Live Wire
8) Triad
10) Umbra
Umbra & Live Wire? (which I think is probably the worst reboot rename, just sayin')
Nope! Not the right combo.
It's not the best name, but I liked it anyway. Maybe because I knew Garth as Live Wire before I ever knew him as Lightning Lad.
See, that wasn't so hard?
Live Wire snuck his way into being a favorite of mine. I'm not sure when, I think it was during the Team20/30 split. And it was cemented during Legion Lost.
Triad and Umbra were both close bets for the list, but Umbra's early meanness caused her to lose out. As did Triad Purple's overly volatile personality.
Over to you thothkins.
I would have got it wrong had I guessed with four remaining
Next question...shortly.
That's thothkins for you, ever so humble!
And had I gone for "Oh, I wish I'd come in much earlier, because I'd have got it right away"?
I think my point is made. Circumstance can make you honest. Or numerous forum posts that google won't remove despite the change in the law!
Oh hang on, I've just made a point. Right after telling everyone I think the point was completely, utterly, totally, irrefutably made too.
Bah! I'm going back to thinking of a question. A question that shall be here...shortlier.
This is becoming quite an illuminating discussion on your confidence in your guessing skills. Perhaps you would have guessed XS and Umbra instead, or even XS and Live Wire!
And with that I am sharing this article -
http://www.popsci.com/article/science/are-lucky-streaks-real-science-says-yes
I used to have confidence in guessing. But that was before I discovered this forum.
Now? Well, I meet up with some other posters once a month for our therapy group: The Legion of Substitute Spacopolists.
There's me, Forfeit Lad, Who Wants to be a Pauper Lass, Guess Again Gus...
This film was made of our uncanny abilities
I suppose it would be inappropriate to invite you to a casino.
Bratpack movies came up in a conversation a couple of weeks ago. I ended up having to watch one I hadn't seen. It was:-
1. The Breakfast Club
2: St Elmo's Fire
3. Class
4. Pretty in Pink
5. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
6. Less than Zero
7. Some kind of Wonderful
5 Fast Times at Ridgemont High?
Oh how I envy those who can guess correctly without going to the very last choice
It was indeed Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Apparently it's based on a book by a reporter who went undercover back into high school.
It has a young Sean Penn, Anthony Edwards, Nicolas Cage and Judge Reinhold in it.
Over to you Ibby!
Wow. As this was totally random, I can only surmise that a Luck Lord felt kindly towards me. Sadly, this will probably be my last lucky guess in a few months
Did you like it?
Be back with a new Q in a bit!
Thanks for asking.
As a film it was a little loose plot wise in places, but captured some of realism of that age group, without the heaps of angst that a number of the others on the list had. I guess that mainly due to the source material. It's closer to a few other teen coming of age/romantic comedies of the same period.
There may also be an age when looking back on bratpack movies is a little creepy
As the two female leads both undress in their roles, I was wondering if the film was actually made by the French
Oh, the lead in Some Kind of Wonderful is also in this one. Eric Stoltz.
Of course, what's the point of "getting to know each other" if we don't REALLY get to know each other?
An angst-light film sounds like just the thing. I hate watching tele-dramas, real life is depressing enough as it is.
I have to admit I haven't watched any of the films you mentioned, except the Breakfast Club. And that one, only snippets (I was on the computer while my dad was watching it). I have mixed feelings about my own high school experience so I rarely watch movies focusing on high school age characters
And I owe a question, so here goes...
In the Suikoden series of games, the magic system is based on runes. You attach a rune to a character and it gives them the ability to cast spells, execute advanced physical attacks, or access special effects.
Which of the below is my most-used rune in Suikoden II (i.e. I've given it to the largest number of playable characters - there are over 70 playables in total!)
a) Wind (cast wind spells - sleep, healing, attack and magic reflect)
b) Thunder (more powerful Lightning spells; specializes in powerful single-target spells)
c) Fury (character receives permanent Berserk status)
d) Prosperity (doubles amount of money received)
e) Kite (shuriken users gain a special attack that hits all enemies for 0.5 normal damage)
f) Barrier (10% chance of immunity to magic attacks)
g) Kindness (character gains +1 attack for every half hour spent in the active party)
h) Fire Sealing (character receives immunity to fire)
i) Double-Beat (character attacks twice, but receives double damage if counter-attacked)
j) Falcon (2 times normal damage, accuracy reduced by 10%)
k) Charm (50% chance of an enemy defending the character from physical attacks)
l) Bright Shield (cast spells - powerful healing magic and offense)
I don't know why, but I like the idea of "Kite" so that's my guess.
Nope, not this run named after a bird of prey. I prefer hitting enemies one at a time.
I do love the games' long-range attackers though. They're a diverse bunch, equally split between males and females. Some of them are really good at magic, and some of the weapons are hilarious! Besides knives, bows and arrows, a ball-and-chain and a gun, we have rocks, a boomerang, a blowpipe, a slingshot, ninja stars, Tarot cards, and even a bouquet of roses!
In the Suikoden series of games, the magic system is based on runes. You attach a rune to a character and it gives them the ability to cast spells, execute advanced physical attacks, or access special effects.
Which of the below is my most-used rune in Suikoden II (i.e. I've given it to the largest number of playable characters - there are over 70 playables in total!)
a) Wind (cast wind spells - sleep, healing, attack and magic reflect)
b) Thunder (more powerful Lightning spells; specializes in powerful single-target spells)
c) Fury (character receives permanent Berserk status)
d) Prosperity (doubles amount of money received)
f) Barrier (10% chance of immunity to magic attacks)
g) Kindness (character gains +1 attack for every half hour spent in the active party)
h) Fire Sealing (character receives immunity to fire)
i) Double-Beat (character attacks twice, but receives double damage if counter-attacked)
j) Falcon (2 times normal damage, accuracy reduced by 10%)
k) Charm (50% chance of an enemy defending the character from physical attacks)
l) Bright Shield (cast spells - powerful healing magic and offense)
l) Bright Shield (cast spells - powerful healing magic and offense)
sort of Kinetix like?
Nope! Trick choice, the Bright Shield rune is a unique rune attached to your main character. It's ridiculously useful - it's weakest spell allows you to heal your entire party. That's the 3rd level spell for the Water rune, in comparison. During the early part of the game, if you didn't use the Bright Shield rune, there was no way to heal your entire party from certain death during some boss battles. It's most powerful spell is the single greatest damage dealing spell in the entire game.
Oddly enough, Kinetix is associated with healing, but the only times I've actually seen her heal people are -
a) Using the Moon of Kol to heal her mom, and this was before she got her powers
b) Using some healing arts to ease Triad's headache in Legionnaires 39
c) Healing M'Onel from being shot, but this was using her hypertaxis energy
Besides that, she was never actually shown to possess healing powers!
I can only assume putting trick choices in is for the other players. I was going to go with something else last time, and now I'm skipping it again to channel my inner Ranzz with...
b) Thunder (more powerful Lightning spells; specializes in powerful single-target spells)
Oh, the trick choices are for nobody in particular
Though posters who have played the game definitely have a slight advantage.
Nope, it's not the Thunder rune (though it comes close). I have it on 10 of my playable characters. The only reason I didn't put it on more is that not everyone has the magical stats or affinity to use it well.
In the Suikoden series of games, the magic system is based on runes. You attach a rune to a character and it gives them the ability to cast spells, execute advanced physical attacks, or access special effects.
Which of the below is my most-used rune in Suikoden II (i.e. I've given it to the largest number of playable characters - there are over 70 playables in total!)
a) Wind (cast wind spells - sleep, healing, attack and magic reflect)
c) Fury (character receives permanent Berserk status)
d) Prosperity (doubles amount of money received)
f) Barrier (10% chance of immunity to magic attacks)
g) Kindness (character gains +1 attack for every half hour spent in the active party)
h) Fire Sealing (character receives immunity to fire)
i) Double-Beat (character attacks twice, but receives double damage if counter-attacked)
j) Falcon (2 times normal damage, accuracy reduced by 10%)
k) Charm (50% chance of an enemy defending the character from physical attacks)
Obviously "h) Fire Sealing (character receives immunity to fire)" is best cuz anyone who wants to hang with me needs to be fireproofed!
Heck yeah! I'd definitely pay lots to fireproof myself so I can hang out with you. But no, I prefer using offensive and magical runes. I only used the Fire Sealing rune on one character, whose unique rune does double damage to enemies but does 1/2 damage to himself.
In the Suikoden series of games, the magic system is based on runes. You attach a rune to a character and it gives them the ability to cast spells, execute advanced physical attacks, or access special effects.
Which of the below is my most-used rune in Suikoden II (i.e. I've given it to the largest number of playable characters - there are over 70 playables in total!)
a) Wind (cast wind spells - sleep, healing, attack and magic reflect)
c) Fury (character receives permanent Berserk status)
d) Prosperity (doubles amount of money received)
f) Barrier (10% chance of immunity to magic attacks)
g) Kindness (character gains +1 attack for every half hour spent in the active party)
i) Double-Beat (character attacks twice, but receives double damage if counter-attacked)
j) Falcon (2 times normal damage, accuracy reduced by 10%)
k) Charm (50% chance of an enemy defending the character from physical attacks)
Nope, it's not the Thunder rune (though it comes close).
Look everyone! Look! I got close! Look!
Right. I'm going to trust my instinct, if only so that I may disown it later.
f) Barrier (10% chance of immunity to magic attacks)
Kinetix-like but generally pretty handy to be used across multiple characters.
I may love Kinetix, but her powers don't dictate my gaming choices
I actually only used it for like 30 minutes, then decided against. A 10% chance isn't really all that much, and physical attacks are more common than magical ones. The game also has a mechanism where, if you have your characters stay in the bath for around 5 minutes, they become "toasty". This lets them heal 10 HP every round in battle, and 10 HP for every step you take while walking. Whee! I love free healing
In the Suikoden series of games, the magic system is based on runes. You attach a rune to a character and it gives them the ability to cast spells, execute advanced physical attacks, or access special effects.
Which of the below is my most-used rune in Suikoden II (i.e. I've given it to the largest number of playable characters - there are over 70 playables in total!)
a) Wind (cast wind spells - sleep, healing, attack and magic reflect)
c) Fury (character receives permanent Berserk status)
d) Prosperity (doubles amount of money received)
g) Kindness (character gains +1 attack for every half hour spent in the active party)
i) Double-Beat (character attacks twice, but receives double damage if counter-attacked)
j) Falcon (2 times normal damage, accuracy reduced by 10%)
k) Charm (50% chance of an enemy defending the character from physical attacks)
Trying to ignore the bathing habits of games...
j) Falcon (2 times normal damage, accuracy reduced by 10%)
Nope. The Falcon rune is a unique rune which only 2 characters in that game can have. It's one of the strongest such type of rune; most of the others which double a character's damage also put them out of commission for one turn.
In the Suikoden series of games, the magic system is based on runes. You attach a rune to a character and it gives them the ability to cast spells, execute advanced physical attacks, or access special effects.
Which of the below is my most-used rune in Suikoden II (i.e. I've given it to the largest number of playable characters - there are over 70 playables in total!)
a) Wind (cast wind spells - sleep, healing, attack and magic reflect)
c) Fury (character receives permanent Berserk status)
d) Prosperity (doubles amount of money received)
g) Kindness (character gains +1 attack for every half hour spent in the active party)
i) Double-Beat (character attacks twice, but receives double damage if counter-attacked)
k) Charm (50% chance of an enemy defending the character from physical attacks)
Wind! I like wind.
I like wind too! It's my favorite classical element. Most of the personality tests I take tell me I'm an Air person.
Sadly though, for the Suikoden games I ditch the "basic" elemental runes (Wind, Water, Fire, Lightning, Earth) in favor of their advanced counterparts (Cyclone, Flowing, Rage, Thunder, Mother Earth respectively). And because a programming error made multiple Cyclone runes available, I only have one Cyclone rune and four Wind runes in "active" play.
I use Wind more often in the other games in the series.
In the Suikoden series of games, the magic system is based on runes. You attach a rune to a character and it gives them the ability to cast spells, execute advanced physical attacks, or access special effects.
Which of the below is my most-used rune in Suikoden II (i.e. I've given it to the largest number of playable characters - there are over 70 playables in total!)
c) Fury (character receives permanent Berserk status)
d) Prosperity (doubles amount of money received)
g) Kindness (character gains +1 attack for every half hour spent in the active party)
i) Double-Beat (character attacks twice, but receives double damage if counter-attacked)
k) Charm (50% chance of an enemy defending the character from physical attacks)
d) Prosperity (doubles amount of money received)
Tempting to give everyone in my party that, but there is only 1 of that in the game. And of all the games in the series, Suikoden 2 is the one in which money is not a concern by the end of the game. And that's the only time you can get this rune. So, no.
In the Suikoden series of games, the magic system is based on runes. You attach a rune to a character and it gives them the ability to cast spells, execute advanced physical attacks, or access special effects.
Which of the below is my most-used rune in Suikoden II (i.e. I've given it to the largest number of playable characters - there are over 70 playables in total!)
c) Fury (character receives permanent Berserk status)
g) Kindness (character gains +1 attack for every half hour spent in the active party)
i) Double-Beat (character attacks twice, but receives double damage if counter-attacked)
k) Charm (50% chance of an enemy defending the character from physical attacks)
c) Fury (character receives permanent Berserk status)
Close, it's a powerful rune with no drawbacks and goes great on any physical attacker.
But it's still not it.
In the Suikoden series of games, the magic system is based on runes. You attach a rune to a character and it gives them the ability to cast spells, execute advanced physical attacks, or access special effects.
Which of the below is my most-used rune in Suikoden II (i.e. I've given it to the largest number of playable characters - there are over 70 playables in total!)
g) Kindness (character gains +1 attack for every half hour spent in the active party)
i) Double-Beat (character attacks twice, but receives double damage if counter-attacked)
k) Charm (50% chance of an enemy defending the character from physical attacks)
i) Double-Beat (character attacks twice, but receives double damage if counter-attacked)
Charm - cuz I gots loads of that!
Charm - cuz I gots loads of that!
Yes you do, and you so could give
this gal - Jeane, the Suikoden character who uses the Charm rune - a run for her money. (she's also an ace with Lightning spells!)
But, she's the only one who can use the Charm rune, so not it.
i) Double-Beat (character attacks twice, but receives double damage if counter-attacked)
And thothkins is correct! I favor the Double-Beat rune as attacking twice gives characters more chance to hit criticals or beat up multiple adjacent enemies. It's my most used rune, with Fury coming in a close second.
Over to you, thothkins!
Have you recovered from the stress of all that guessing in the past two weeks, thothkins?
I'm right?! What? Are you sure? I didn't check in under the usually safe assumption someone else would have got it >cough<
Ummm...
The World Cup is on... when it comes to this tournament thothkins prefers to...
1) Follow a national team
2) Follow a player from a favourite club side
3) Follow the tournament favourites
4) Follow star players from big clubs
5) Follow teams with the best/ interesting tactics
6) Follow a favourite coach
7) Follow the team with the most attractive supporters thanks to pervcam shots during the matches.
8) Follow the team with the best World Cup Song
9) Follow a team through the most attractive WAGs
10) Not watch it at all.
I'm glad you got a pleasant surprise upon checking in!
Just because it's an option, but I feel I'll be wrong:
10) Not watch it at all.
2) Follow a player from a favourite club side
Really good to have you playing again, Xben!
no to 10) As I do watch quite a bit of it, although with less familiarity with the players at each one.
2) My favourite club doesn't often have too many players at the tournament, so there's not much to follow. Mainly I just want them not to get injured. This time was a little different, but they've nearly all handed in transfer requests since their world cup squads were announced.
1) Follow a national team
(I know nothing about the World Cup by the way :p)
Nope. My national team really isn't worth following. Besides, arrogant nationalistic chest thumping is very annoying.
5) Follow teams with the best/ interesting tactics
Yay! Ibby has it. While there's plenty of entertainment to be had from a lot of teams, the ones I enjoy most are the ones where there's also a tactical battle going on, or a team with a certain style of play/tactic.
It party comes from being thrilled at seeing a 0-0 draw, while everyone around me was moaning. Partly it's seeing underdogs out think their opponents, leading to lots of upsets. Partly it's because some of those styles of play make for really interesting footy.
Over to you Ibster...
that's very interesting thothkins, and certainly beats blindly following the national team. Which team has been the best at tactics so far?
I'll post a new Q soon
Which of these Postboot Legion issues do I not own a physical copy of?
A) Kid Quantum II and Karate Kid join (L* 60)
B) Umbra recounts her origin and belief that the UP is an imperialistic entity (Legends of the Legion 3)
C) Violet finds out she can grow (L* 52)
D) Invisible Jacques saves Lyle from Charma (L*66)
E) Dirk Morgna breaks out of the hospitak and Kinetix becomes Legion leader for a day (LSH 81)
F) Legion support staff defend the HQ from Proty invaders (L* 35)
G) Legionnaires get stranded on a Blighted moon (LSH Secret Files 2)
H) Thunder joins (LSH 110)
I) Brainy tries to dissect the Metal Men (LSH 95)
J) Apparition goes through psychoanalysis and finds out she's half Carggite (LSH 102)
K) Live Wire proposes to Saturn Girl while an away team encounters their first Robotican Emissary (L*78)
L) XS gets lost in time and saves Lori Morning from becoming a grandma before her time (LSH 75)
D) Invisible Jacques saves Lyle from Charma (L*66)
Nope, I have that. Charma's Postboot powerset really intrigued me. Oh, if only she hadn't gotten greedy, she could be enjoying a life of luxury...
E) Dirk Morgna breaks out of the hospitak and Kinetix becomes Legion leader for a day (LSH 81)
Seems unlikely to me, considering your fondness for Kinetix, but I thought I'd get it out of the way
B) Umbra recounts her origin and belief that the UP is an imperialistic entity (Legends of the Legion 3)
on the off chance that it's not part of the regular series.
It's not part of the series, but I picked it up on a whim. No regrets, although I wasn't too pleased at how single-minded and stubborn Tasmia was.
E) Dirk Morgna breaks out of the hospitak and Kinetix becomes Legion leader for a day (LSH 81)
Seems unlikely to me, considering your fondness for Kinetix, but I thought I'd get it out of the way
Yes, I'm fond of Kinetix, but I didn't start religiously collecting each issue as it came out until... Legion Lost!
I've since gone back and filled in many of the gaps in my collection, but LSH 81 has never been one of those gaps I've filled.
I've read the issue though, and I have to be fair - Kinetix made a terrible leader that issue.
Over to you, Xben!
Well I never. It was the Kinetix one. That would have been the last one I chose. I mean, in a different way from all the other ones where I'm reduced to the last guess.
I have read the entire Postboot Legion run (main series) and several ancillary series and guest star appearances. But there are a little over a dozen issues which I don't own a physical copy of - I borrowed them from my aunt.
Wow, the longshot paid off!
Well, I celebrated my birthday recently, and as usual, I got a few graphic novel / comic gifts thrown into the mix, as well as some other presents (some bought for me, some bought with money / vouchers that were given to me)
So, this is a two part question -
1. Which present listed below did I almost buy with some birthday money, but in the end decided against it?
2. Which one did I receive from someone but I returned because I already own it?
a. Action Comics vol. 2 TPB - Bulletproof
b. Astro City HC - Through Open Doors
c. The Complete Peanuts Box Set - 1979-1980 & 1981-1982
d. Maus vol. 1 TPB
e. Superman for all Seasons TPB
f. Legion Lost - The Culling TPB
g. Quantum Leap DVD box set
h. Mission Impossible Season 4 on iTunes
i. Spider-Man 1 on DVD
j. Spider-Man 3 on DVD
k. Peanut Butter M&M's (yum!)
Belated happy birthday, Xben!
Let's see...
Decided against - e) Superman for all Seasons TPB
Returned - j) Spider-Man 3 on DVD
you had to return Maus becuase you already own it and you almost bought the Complete Peanuts, but thought that you'd get a better deal if you waited for a sale.
Decided against - j
Returnee - e
No correct answers so far.
In addition to the information that you get from IB's clever guessing, I'll also say that I currently own Maus (Vol 1)
Hmm...
Returned - c. The Complete Peanuts Box Set - 1979-1980 & 1981-1982
Decided Against - h. Mission Impossible Season 4 on iTunes
Returned H
Decided against A
None correct, IB.
Repeating the question here:
So, this is a two part question -
1. Which present listed below did I almost buy with some birthday money, but in the end decided against it?
2. Which one did I receive from someone but I returned because I already own it?
a. Action Comics vol. 2 TPB - Bulletproof
b. Astro City HC - Through Open Doors
c. The Complete Peanuts Box Set - 1979-1980 & 1981-1982
d. Maus vol. 1 TPB
e. Superman for all Seasons TPB
f. Legion Lost - The Culling TPB
g. Quantum Leap DVD box set
h. Mission Impossible Season 4 on iTunes
i. Spider-Man 1 on DVD
j. Spider-Man 3 on DVD
k. Peanut Butter M&M's (yum!)
Returned A
And
Decided against... K?
I haven't watched/read most of those choices, but I have heard good things about most of them!
Again no.
My parents sent me the peanut butter M&M's (peanut butter flavored sweets being something of a rarity in Australia).
Decided against - b. Astro City HC - Through Open Doors
Returned - i. Spider-Man 1 on DVD
Peanut butter M&Ms are a bit more common here, but it's really the "normal" and peanut variants which are most common. Almond M&Ms are a bit less common than peanut butter.
And mint M&Ms have appeared in only a few stores.
You are half right! And I loooove Astro City.
Oooh!
So, I'll guess:
Returned - i. Spider-Man 1 on DVD
Decided against - g. Quantum Leap DVD box set
Nope, that Quantum Leap DVD set is on its way.
Returned - i. Spider-Man 1 on DVD
Decided Against - f. Legion Lost - The Culling TPB
Awesome!
I would have decided against getting Legion Lost: The Culling too. It's just not that good, despite using several underused Legionnaires whom I've grown fond of (and Gates, who is my #2 fave of all time).
I'll think of a new question soon.
I'd like to read the rest of Legion Lost at some point, but with the other choices available to me I couldn't stand spending the outrageous amounts of money that graphic novels cost in Australia for it.
Legion Lost 2 was actually decent, except for the Culling portion. Each of the Z cast members had their moments, and the series ended pretty well. It did leave the team trapped in the past, but at least they were all alive. The prophecy of Tyroc's death notwithstanding of course.
Let's try o) Goulash and p) Chicken & Been Jambalaya
All right then, what about
c) "Boneless" Chicken Barbecue
and
d) Paella
Not correct either.
I've made the Jambalaya a couple of times. I really like Cajun food and it was near the top of my list when I started cooking. It helps that rice is a staple here in the Philippines.
"Boneless" Chicken Barbecue is one of my grandpa's specialties. I've never made it at home, but I helped him a couple of times when he cooked it. And of course, I have his recipe.
Which 2 of the following dishes have I never cooked? (those pictures aren't mine by the way :p)
a)
Sweet and Sour Porkb)
Chili Con Carned)
Paellae)
Gambasf)
Sisigg)
Beef Sukiyakih)
Birthday Noodlesi)
Beef Tacosj)
Cream of Squashk)
Chicken in Peach Saucel)
Fish Currym)
Pad Thain)
Baked Tahong (Mussels)o)
Goulash
j) Cream of Squash
k) Chicken in Peach Sauce
Nope.
Cream of Squash is one of my most-requested dishes. Some friends have even asked to take some home.
Which 2 of the following dishes have I never cooked? (those pictures aren't mine by the way :p)
a)
Sweet and Sour Porkb)
Chili Con Carned)
Paellae)
Gambasf)
Sisigg)
Beef Sukiyakih)
Birthday Noodlesi)
Beef Tacosk)
Chicken in Peach Saucel)
Fish Currym)
Pad Thain)
Baked Tahong (Mussels)o)
Goulash
n) Baked Tahong (Mussels)
o) Goulash
I am not guessing Beef Tacos, because for some reason I have some vague sense that I've heard you talk about beef tacos before. No idea if I'm actually right about that or not.
Not correct.
I probably have talked about the tacos before, they are one of my most requested dishes. My mom loves them but never eats them with salsa.
A friend of mine took the taco beef and ate it with rice once.
d) Paella
g) Beef Sukiyaki
Nope.
Paella was the dish my parents had on their first date, so I've made it again on their anniversary.
Which 2 of the following dishes have I never cooked? (those pictures aren't mine by the way :p)
a)
Sweet and Sour Porkb)
Chili Con Carnee)
Gambasf)
Sisigg)
Beef Sukiyakih)
Birthday Noodlesi)
Beef Tacosk)
Chicken in Peach Saucel)
Fish Currym)
Pad Thain)
Baked Tahong (Mussels)o)
Goulash
g) Beef Sukiyaki
h) Birthday Noodles
Birthday Noodles are a traditional dish for, of course, birthdays... and I've made them for my dad's birthday before (he really likes Chinese food).
And my whole family likes Japanese food. Beef Sukiyaki is the second dish I've ever made (not counting omelettes). My sister likes it a bit sweet, but my dad prefers it salty. One of my best friends loves it so much she asked me to make it for Christmas instead of giving her a gift.
Which 2 of the following dishes have I never cooked? (those pictures aren't mine by the way :p)
a)
Sweet and Sour Porkb)
Chili Con Carnee)
Gambasf)
Sisigk)
Chicken in Peach Saucel)
Fish Currym)
Pad Thain)
Baked Tahong (Mussels)o)
Goulash
k) Chicken in Peach Sauce
n) Baked Tahong (Mussels)
Baked Tahong (Mussels) is a fairly common party food here. We take the mussels and top them with grated cheese, garlic, and butter. They go great with beer! I've only made them once, but I plan to make them again soon.
Which 2 of the following dishes have I never cooked? (those pictures aren't mine by the way :p)
a)
Sweet and Sour Porkb)
Chili Con Carnee)
Gambasf)
Sisigk)
Chicken in Peach Saucel)
Fish Currym)
Pad Thaio)
Goulash
e) Gambas
k) Chicken in Peach Sauce
Chicken in Peach Sauce may sound a bit weird, but it can be really tasty when cooked properly. Blaze and I made it at his place on time.
My folks brought home a recipe and ingredient kit from Hungary for goulash, so I made it. I did OK, but my dish wasn't spectacular.
Which 2 of the following dishes have I never cooked? (those pictures aren't mine by the way :p)
a)
Sweet and Sour Porkb)
Chili Con Carnee)
Gambasf)
Sisigl)
Fish Currym)
Pad Thai
b) Chili Con Carne
f) Sisig
Chili Con Carne is another one that I just can't believe you haven't cooked, but then so are the others. So here we go.
Chili con carne is actually a rare dish here. Even restaurants would rarely serve it. But it's one of my grandpa's specialties, and I've helped him make it a couple of times.
I'll add that Gambas is the first dish I ever cooked, except for omelettes. It is now one of my family's faves. Blaze loves it a lot too, he really likes shrimp and tomato sauce and this dish combines both.
a) Sweet and Sour Pork
f) Sisig
Sweet and Sour Pork was also one of the first dishes I cooked. First time I overcooked the pork. Second try I took my time, and the pork came out beautifully. It's been a while since I've made it though.
Three choices left, two of which (I think) have never been guessed.
Which 2 of the following dishes have I never cooked? (those pictures aren't mine by the way :p)
f)
Sisigl)
Fish Currym)
Pad Thai
Ok....
l) Fish Curry
m) Pad Thai
Yup, that's it!
I made fish curry once with curry powder I got from the Maldives.
I've never made sisig because my mom and sister don't eat it. I'm not sure my dad does, either...
Pad thai is somehint I've been wanting to try for a while.
Well, you certainly have done a fair bit in this whole area. It's a great skill--cooking--that I have never developed.
Question:
What Legion Creator (who presumably will be a contestant on a forthcoming Legion Creator Idol) did I see at a convention last weekend and get the autograph of?
(Not listing choices, but will offer hints as we go along)
In unrelated news, authorities are still searching for the person responsible for holding Paul Levitz hostage last weekend.
"He forced me to give him impressions of my toes," sobbed Levitz. "I told him that I don't do impressions. I'm a comics writer. But he just wouldn't listen."
In unrelated news, authorities are still searching for the person responsible for holding Paul Levitz hostage last weekend.
"He forced me to give him impressions of my toes," sobbed Levitz. "I told him that I don't do impressions. I'm a comics writer. But he just wouldn't listen."
Wha?!
I think that's just thothkins' way of guessing Paul Levitz and also guessing if you like famous peoples' toes
I'll guess... Steve Lightle?
Well, you certainly have done a fair bit in this whole area. It's a great skill--cooking--that I have never developed.
I'm quite bad with my hands, so cooking (and writing) are probably the most artsy things I can do. Except for video and photo editing, but I'm much too lazy to learn those. I can't do anything like wrapping dumplings, preparing spring rolls or stuffing chicken though, and I'd make a terrible baker because I like experimenting with ingredients and hate measuring exact quantities. Most of the dishes I've made aren't terribly difficult.
Neither Paul Levitz nor Steve Lightle.
I did briefly meet Paul Levitz the one and only time I got to go to the NYCC a few years ago, back near the beginning of the Retroboot (when I was still enjoying it).
The person whose autograph I got this time is an artist.
Nope. I also grabbed his autograph at the NYCC those years ago.
The artist I met on this occasion is certainly familiar to Legion fans, but is not primarily or especially known for their Legion work (in the way that say, Levitz or Shooter is)
Nope. Again, I saw with him at NYCC. He was pretty chatty, and told me about an idea he had a for a fight between Mon-El and Dev-Em, which would all take place in an instant between panels.
The guy I met this time has only drawn the Legion in one of their regular titles once, as far as I know. Nonetheless, he has drawn the Legion significantly in another project that probably all or most of his on this site are familiar with.
Alan Davis?
Chris Batista's idea sure sounds interesting.
Wow! He's an amazing artist.
New Q up soon
Which of these countries am I least interested in visiting?
a) Bhutan
b) Myanmar
c) Uzbekistan
d) Brunei
e) Nepal
f) Sri Lanka
g) Laos
h) Lebanon
i) Turkmenistan
j) Mongolia
k) Jordan
l) Palau
No,
Turkmenistan is on my list because of the so-called "Door to Hell": a fire that's been burning for over 40 years!
As for
Uzbekistan, I have always been fascinated by its ancient silk road cities. Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva... It's no surprise that all four of Uzbekistan's properties on the
UNESCO World Heritage List are ancient cities with beautiful and well-preserved architecture.
Oh, Jordan is definitely on my list! The beautiful rose-red city of
Petra has captured my imagination from the first time I saw a picture!
Which of these countries am I least interested in visiting?
a) Bhutan
b) Myanmar
d) Brunei
e) Nepal
f) Sri Lanka
g) Laos
h) Lebanon
j) Mongolia
l) Palau
Lebanon is interesting. It has quite a lot of impressive ruins (for such a relatively small country too!)
Byblos, Tyre, Anjar, Baalbek - some of these names were mentioned in the Bible.
Then we have the very impressive-sounding "Ouadi Qadisha (the Holy Valley) and the Forest of the Cedars of God (Horsh Arz el-Rab)". In ancient times the cedars were already very much sought after for use in construction.
I think I'm even more fascinated by Lebanon now that I've read up on it again! Most tours to the region ignore it, choosing instead to visit Israel, Palestine, Jordan and Egypt. When I do end up going (whenever that may be) I just might squeeze Lebanon in.
So I guess the answer isn't Lebanon!
What about a) Bhutan?
Not Lebanon
Not Bhutan either!
Besides the appeal of it being very expensive to get into (Bhutan regulates its tourist industry tightly, as they don't want to have too many people coming in at a time and eroding their culture and damaging their natural resources), there's this little gem called
Taktsang Monastery, or the Tiger's Nest. Legend has it a sage flew to the spot on a tiger's back.
Which of these countries am I least interested in visiting?
b) Myanmar
d) Brunei
e) Nepal
f) Sri Lanka
g) Laos
j) Mongolia
l) Palau
I don't usually prioritize small island countries, because the Philippines has tons of beautiful beaches and plentiful marine life already. But Blaze is fascinated by Palau. And I would like to visit the
Jellyfish Lake, which is filled with thousands of non-stinging jellyfish!
For some reason I found myself fascinated with quiet, laidback and staunchly Buddhist
Luang Prabang. Originally I wanted to include it in my Southeast Asian post-graduation trip, but decided to stick to Cambodia and Vietnam instead. I also thought about doing a Thailand-Laos trip last year, but decided to spend more time in Thailand. I still want to visit Laos one day, though.
Which of these countries am I least interested in visiting?
b) Myanmar
d) Brunei
e) Nepal
f) Sri Lanka
j) Mongolia
Myanmar is actually my next planned destination! From the day I saw this picture of
hot air balloons over Bagan, I knew I would visit one day.
And after that, there's
Shwedagon Pagoda and
Mandalay Hill.
Which of these countries am I least interested in visiting?
d) Brunei
e) Nepal
f) Sri Lanka
j) Mongolia
Not Sri Lanka. Much like Lebanon, Sri Lanka has an astounding number of beautiful sights packed into such a relatively small land area. Only where Lebanon had only 5 UNESCO sites,
Sri Lanka has EIGHT - that's as many as the much larger Indonesia and South Africa, and more than the much larger Algeria (7 sites), Denmark with Greenland (6 sites), Thailand (5 sites) or Kazakhstan (4 sites).
Four of those eight are ancient sacred cities, with my personal favorite (which is top priority for me when I do finally get to visit Sri Lanka) being
Sigiriya, the Lion's Rock..
Which of these countries am I least interested in visiting?
d) Brunei
e) Nepal
j) Mongolia
Oh no, I've already researched an itinerary for Nepal.
It absolutely must include
Kathmandu's Durbar Square,
Patan Durbar Square and
Pokhara.
Which of these countries am I least interested in visiting?
d) Brunei
j) Mongolia
Well, I guess I'll guess Brunei, mostly because I've been to Mongolia and I can't imagine why you wouldn't want to visit there.
You've been to Mongolia? wow, that is awesome! I am really envious... because you are right, I do want to visit there!
Besides the
wide open spaces, the
Golden Eagle Festival also sounds interesting.
Brunei, despite being geographically nearest to me, does not hold much interest. Honestly, I don't think there's much to see there that can't be found in neighboring countries like Malaysia or Indonesia. The
Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin Mosque is quite nice, but I've been to the
Sheikh Zayed Mosque in Abu Dhabi already. And I've already visited the Borneo rainforests in Kota Kinabalu, so visiting them again in Brunei isn't really a big draw for me.
Over to you, Xben.
Yeah, Mongolia was really nice - one of the "less spoiled by tourism" experiences I've had traveling. Now, that was 14 years ago, so who knows what it's like now.
OK, recently my wife, who has never really been into comics, decided that she quite liked...
a. The Flash
b. The X-Men
c. Bone
d. Astro City
e. Life with Archie
f. The Legion of Super-Heroes
g. Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade
h. Ambush Bug
i. Tom Strong
j. Superman, from the John Byrne era
k. Superman vs. Muhammad Ali
l. Superman for all Seasons
m. All-Star Superman
n. None of the above
Your Mongolia experience sounds heavenly, Xben. I'm all stoked to go now. Where else have you been, if you don't mind my asking?
I'll guess your wife likes...
N. None of the Above (just to get it out of the way)
Actually - that's the correct answer! In fact, she recently re-affirmed that she can't really stand comics (aside from maybe Calvin and Hobbes). She reads books far more than me, but doesn't like comics. It seems to be something to do with the fact that she finds it pain to pay attention to what picture she's supposed to look at next.
Well played, IB.
Wow! Lucky guess. If only that luck would come into play when I buy lottery tickets...
Calvin and Hobbes is a good choice, though, if she will only ever read one title.
Let's continue the line of questioning from my last question -
Which of these countries am I least interested in visiting?
a) Tanzania
b) Morocco
c) Mauritius
d) Zambia
e) Rwanda
f) Namibia
g) Angola
h) Madagascar
i) Mali
j) Benin
k) Mozambique
l) Ethiopia
Nope.
Benin is supposedly the birthplace of voodoo, and has a few old royal palaces from the ancient kingdom of Abomey too. I'm very much interested to learn more about the culture.
Zambia might not have all that much, but I still want to visit just for
Victoria Falls.
Which of these countries am I least interested in visiting?
a) Tanzania
b) Morocco
c) Mauritius
e) Rwanda
f) Namibia
g) Angola
h) Madagascar
i) Mali
k) Mozambique
l) Ethiopia
No, I have several reasons to go to Namibia. The top two are:
The abandoned town of Kolmanskopand
The ship graveyard called the Skeleton Coast(might as well try some safaris while I'm at it!)
Which of these countries am I least interested in visiting?
a) Tanzania
b) Morocco
c) Mauritius
e) Rwanda
g) Angola
h) Madagascar
i) Mali
k) Mozambique
l) Ethiopia
I am impressed by your extensive knowledge about these places!
g) Angola
i) ethiopia ... one of my most desired places to go
i) ethiopia ... one of my most desired places to go
It's one of mine too, Peebz. Besides being the only African country to never have been colonized during the Scramble for Africa, Ethiopia's nine
UNESCO World Heritage sites (tied with Morocco for the most in Afirca) are of particular interest - especially
Lalibela and
Aksum.
I am impressed by your extensive knowledge about these places!
g) Angola
Thanks! I spend a lot of time reading up on places around the world. I'm happy to say I know a little bit about every sovereign country. Hopefully, one day, I'll be able to have a little firsthand knowledge about each.
Yes, even... ANGOLA! You are right; it's the least interesting for me among the choices. Despite its fairly large size, it doesn't seem to have quite as many unique sights to offer. It has some
nice views, but nothing all that different from what I could see elsewhere (at least, as far as I have researched).
Over to you, Xben!
Just a little bit about what I'd like to visit in the other choices I gave:
a) Tanzania -
the Serengeti,
Mount Kilimanjarob) Morocco -
its 9 World Heritage sites, including Fez and Marrakech and Essaouira
c) Mauritius - beautiful beaches and the
seven-colored earthse) Rwanda -
seeing gorillas in their natural habitath) Madagascar -
the Avenue of the Baobabs and
Tsingy de Bemaraha (beautiful limestone! and lemurs!)
i) Mali -
Timbuktu (I sincerely hope it will be restored and protected!) and
the Cliffs of Bandiagarak) Mozambique -
Ilha de Mozambique, more for the history than for the grandeur of its architecture
Cool stuff, IB.
I recently finished reading all the Legion Archives with my three daughters.
Which Legionnaire is my 9-year old's favorite character from the series?
IB, you are the one-guess wonder.
Saturn Girl it is.
Wow! But Imra really was impressive in the Adventure Era. Your daughter has good taste!
New Q up soon
Which country am I least interested in visiting?
A) Ireland
B) San Marino
C) Slovenia
D) Georgia
E) Estonia
F) Iceland
G) Luxembourg
H) Austria
I) Serbia
J) Czech Republic
K) Romania
L) Malta
Luxembourg may be small, but it's supposedly an easy day trip (or overnight) from Paris. I also find its
Old City interesting.
Which country am I least interested in visiting?
A) Ireland
B) San Marino
C) Slovenia
D) Georgia
E) Estonia
F) Iceland
H) Austria
I) Serbia
J) Czech Republic
K) Romania
L) Malta
Indeed! When I made this list, Serbia was the one I'm least interested in simply because I couldn't recall any particular standout tourist spots. I know want to visit it though, because of what I've read on
this page. I'm particularly interested in the monasteries.
Over to you, Xben!
As for the other countries...
A) Ireland -
The Giant's CausewayB) San Marino -
Mount TitanoC) Slovenia -
The Skocjan CavesD) Georgia - the beautiful and scenic region of
Upper SvanetiE) Estonia -
Tallinn, one of the best-preserved old towns in Europe
F) Iceland - easily my favorite on this list:
The Blue Lagoon, and its
beautiful national parks plus the aurora borealisH) Austria -
The Austrian AlpsJ) Czech Republic -
Pilsen or Plzen, where the world's first lager was brewed
K) Romania -
TransylvaniaL) Malta -
The Megalithic Temples
What's the last major milestone that my family experienced?
a. My wedding anniversary
b. My birthday
c. My wife's birthday
d. My daughter's birthday
e. My neice's graduation
f. My daughter's confirmation
g. My brother's baptism
h. My parent's 60th wedding annivesary
i. My mother finally finishing her PhD
j. My sister's promotion at work
k. My brother's promotion in the military
No. I did celebrate my birthday recently, but not as recently as the correct answer.
What's the last major milestone that my family experienced?
a. My wedding anniversary
c. My wife's birthday
d. My daughter's birthday
e. My neice's graduation
f. My daughter's confirmation
g. My brother's baptism
h. My parent's 60th wedding annivesary
i. My mother finally finishing her PhD
j. My sister's promotion at work
k. My brother's promotion in the military
Belated happy birthday, Xben!
h. My parent's 60th wedding annivesary
Thanks.
But no, not my parent's 60th.
What's the last major milestone that my family experienced?
a. My wedding anniversary
c. My wife's birthday
d. My daughter's birthday
e. My neice's graduation
f. My daughter's confirmation
g. My brother's baptism
i. My mother finally finishing her PhD
j. My sister's promotion at work
k. My brother's promotion in the military
;. Sister's promotion at work?
No - in fact I don't even have a sister.
What's the last major milestone that my family experienced?
a. My wedding anniversary
c. My wife's birthday
d. My daughter's birthday
e. My niece's graduation
f. My daughter's confirmation
g. My brother's baptism
i. My mother finally finishing her PhD
k. My brother's promotion in the military
f. Daughter's confirmation?
Ooh trick choice
Nope. And in fact, confirmation isn't really part of my family's religious tradition.
(a lot of the wrong choices are based on false premises, I'm afraid. Not trying to be tricky, just trying to come up with some alternate choices)
What's the last major milestone that my family experienced?
a. My wedding anniversary
c. My wife's birthday
d. My daughter's birthday
e. My niece's graduation
g. My brother's baptism
i. My mother finally finishing her PhD
k. My brother's promotion in the military
No worries, even the wrong choices help us get to know each other - which is the game's purpose!
I) mom finally finishing PHD
Nope. Mom finished her PhD years ago, when I was a kid, and has been an English professor ever since.
a. My wedding anniversary
c. My wife's birthday
d. My daughter's birthday
e. My niece's graduation
g. My brother's baptism
k. My brother's promotion in the military
I thought it was my job to guess incorrectly round these here parts...
k. My brother's promotion in the military
Nope. I have two brothers, and neither of them have ever served in the military.
What's the last major milestone that my family experienced?
a. My wedding anniversary
c. My wife's birthday
d. My daughter's birthday
e. My niece's graduation
g. My brother's baptism
Yay! My track record continues.
c. My wife's birthday
Neither correct!
What's the last major milestone that my family experienced?
a. My wedding anniversary
e. My niece's graduation
g. My brother's baptism
a. Your wedding anniversary?
(btw, you missed Peebz' guess, Xben!)
I did miss PB's guess, sorry about that. But that wasn't right either.
The correct answer is my wedding anniversary! We celebrated 13 years about a week ago.
You are up again, IB.
Wonderful! Congratulations on 13 years, Xben.
New Q up soon.
Which of these countries am I least interested in visiting?
a) Trinidad and Tobago
b) Panama
c) Peru
d) Guatemala
e) Bolivia
f) Bahamas
g) Barbados
h) Ecuador
i) Chile
j) Federated States of Micronesia
k) Argentina
l) Vanuatu
No, Vanuatu has the very photogenic active volcano
Mount Yasur. I'd love to get a shot like that.
No. The
Galapagos Islands alone make Ecuador worth visiting!
Which of these countries am I least interested in visiting?
a) Trinidad and Tobago
b) Panama
c) Peru
d) Guatemala
e) Bolivia
f) Bahamas
g) Barbados
i) Chile
j) Federated States of Micronesia
k) Argentina
Bolivia is #2 on my South America wishlist!
How could it not be? Just look at the amazing beauty of the
Salar de Uyuni Salt Flats. The world's largest mirror, reflecting the sky!
No, I would love to visit the UNESCO World Heritage Sites of
Tikal (Ancient Mayan city) and
Antigua Guatemala (more modern Spanish-era city).
Which of these countries am I least interested in visiting?
a) Trinidad and Tobago
b) Panama
c) Peru
f) Bahamas
g) Barbados
i) Chile
j) Federated States of Micronesia
k) Argentina
Nope.
Easter Island is one of Blaze's dream destinations, so of course it's on my bucket list.
Then j) Federated States of Micronesia
c) Peru
because maybe you've been there already.
c) Peru
because maybe you've been there already.
Oh,how I wish! But no, and Peru is at the top of my global bucket wishlist. Every time I see a picture of
Machu Picchu I get the shivers. The city of
Cusco is quite a delight as well.
Then j) Federated States of Micronesia
I'm not so interested in the beaches, but I am quite interested in the ancient ruins - such as those of
Nan Madol. And also in the giant
stone money on Yap.
Which of these countries am I least interested in visiting?
a) Trinidad and Tobago
b) Panama
f) Bahamas
g) Barbados
k) Argentina
Trinidad and Tobago isn't really known for tourism, but
this page, among others, says that T&T has beautiful unspoiled beauty and beaches.
I have also read that T&T has great festivals and vibrant culture. I would love to attend the
Tobago Heritage Festival, a "two week long show of Tobagonian dance, music, story telling, culture and food.".
Which of these countries am I least interested in visiting?
b) Panama
f) Bahamas
g) Barbados
k) Argentina
Nope, lots to see in Panama.
The Panama Canal, for one.
Which of these countries am I least interested in visiting?
f) Bahamas
g) Barbados
k) Argentina
I'm itching to go to Barbados to try some
rum!Which of these countries am I least interested in visiting?
f) Bahamas
k) Argentina
Wow...down the last possible choice. Um...how about
f) Bahamas?
Got it! I've read about the Bahamas and most of what I've read seems to point to beaches and luxurious cruises and the like. I haven't (yet) come across anything unique that has made me really want to visit.
over to you, Xben!
Cool.
OK - out of the last three of IB's questions about countries he's not interested in visiting, I have only been to one of those countries. Which one is it?
Since there are so many choices, I'll let people guess two countries each go to speed it up a bit.
(I couldn't include IB's list of Asian nations since I've been to a number of those)
1) Tanzania
2) Morocco
3) Mauritius
4) Zambia
5) Rwanda
6) Namibia
7) Angola
8) Madagascar
9) Mali
10) Benin
11) Mozambique
12) Ethiopia
13) Ireland
14) San Marino
15) Slovenia
16) Georgia
17) Estonia
18) Iceland
19) Austria
20) Serbia
21) Czech Republic
22) Romania
23) Malta
24) Trinidad and Tobago
25) Panama
26) Peru
27) Guatemala
28) Bolivia
29) Bahamas
30) Barbados
31) Ecuador
32) Chile
33) Federated States of Micronesia
34) Argentina
35) Vanuatu
Peru
or
Austria?
Curious as to which Asian countries you've been, besides Mongolia. Maybe Myanmar and Laos?
21) Czech Republic
22) Romania
Curious as to which Asian countries you've been, besides Mongolia. Maybe Myanmar and Laos?
Or perhaps Nepal and Sri Lanka as well. These four are relatively geographically close to Australia and were among the last choices you guessed when my Asian question was still up.
No correct guesses yet.
Out of your Asian countries, I've been to
b) Myanmar
e) Nepal
h) Lebanon
j) Mongolia
As well as the airport in Brunei
Cool! that's quite a nice list of countries to have visited.
How about...
Ireland
Chile
Nope.
I am up to thirty countries visited / lived in, but other than Nepal when I went for the first time last year, I haven't added anything new for a while.
30's a very respectable number. I hope to visit Nepal next year, though Blaze prefers India and we're also trying for a France/UK trip soon.
Let's try...
Morocco
Argentina
1) Tanzania
2) Morocco
3) Mauritius
4) Zambia
5) Rwanda
6) Namibia
7) Angola
8) Madagascar
9) Mali
10) Benin
11) Mozambique
12) Ethiopia
14) San Marino
15) Slovenia
16) Georgia
17) Estonia
18) Iceland
20) Serbia
23) Malta
24) Trinidad and Tobago
25) Panama
27) Guatemala
28) Bolivia
29) Bahamas
30) Barbados
31) Ecuador
33) Federated States of Micronesia
34) Argentina
35) Vanuatu
No, I have never been to either Morocco or Argentina
Which of these countries have a I visited? (Looking for just one country, but allowed two guesses.)
1) Tanzania
3) Mauritius
4) Zambia
5) Rwanda
6) Namibia
7) Angola
8) Madagascar
9) Mali
10) Benin
11) Mozambique
12) Ethiopia
14) San Marino
15) Slovenia
16) Georgia
17) Estonia
18) Iceland
20) Serbia
23) Malta
24) Trinidad and Tobago
25) Panama
27) Guatemala
28) Bolivia
29) Bahamas
30) Barbados
31) Ecuador
33) Federated States of Micronesia
35) Vanuatu
Nope. My only trip to Scandinavia was Norway a long time ago, and some colleagues went on a work trip to Malta which I might have gone on if my third daughter wasn't being born at the time.
1) Tanzania
3) Mauritius
4) Zambia
5) Rwanda
6) Namibia
7) Angola
8) Madagascar
9) Mali
10) Benin
11) Mozambique
12) Ethiopia
14) San Marino
15) Slovenia
16) Georgia
17) Estonia
20) Serbia
24) Trinidad and Tobago
25) Panama
27) Guatemala
28) Bolivia
29) Bahamas
30) Barbados
31) Ecuador
33) Federated States of Micronesia
35) Vanuatu
Nope, none of those.
Which of these countries have I visited?
Looking for one, but you get two guesses
1) Tanzania
3) Mauritius
4) Zambia
5) Rwanda
6) Namibia
7) Angola
8) Madagascar
9) Mali
10) Benin
11) Mozambique
12) Ethiopia
14) San Marino
15) Slovenia
16) Georgia
24) Trinidad and Tobago
25) Panama
27) Guatemala
30) Barbados
31) Ecuador
33) Federated States of Micronesia
35) Vanuatu
Let's shift continents...
Vanuatu
Tanzania
You got it!
The answer is Tanzania.
Toward the end of my extended honeymoon, my wife and I went to Kenya for a work-related conference in Kenya. When it was over, we were flying back to Perth via South Africa, but we had four days or so to kill before the flight, so we stopped over in Tanzania. Without a plan, we decided when we arrived to spend the time in Zanzibar, which was very interesting and worthwhile. On the last day, we realized too late that since it was a Sunday, there weren't as many ferries back to the mainland, so we had to charter a plane to make sure that we were in time to catch our flight back to Perth.
Sounds like a wonderful adventure, Xben! All's well as long as the final (long) flight is caught. I've missed a flight once myself, in Jakarta. Never again...
I've heard many good things about Zanzibar, and it is now firmly part of my Tanzania wishlist. Sigh, Tanzania...
Which of the following statements is correct?
a) In Chiang Mai, more people I met thought that I was Korean rather than Chinese.
b) I lost my phone in a temple in Siem Reap, Cambodia. I suspect I lost it at either Ta Prohm or at Pre Rup.
c) The skies were clear and beautiful when I tried skydiving in Guam.
d) I attended a student conference in New York and Washington DC ten years ago. My "classmates" included an Egyptian, a Ghanaian, a Nepali, a Swede and a Singaporean.
e) I bought some saffron at the souk in Dubai.
f) I met a Vietnamese local in Hanoi who took me to a restaurant where we ate rice rolls.
g) I wasn't used to the cold in Harbin. The part of my body that hurt most was my nose.
h) On a night out in West Hollywood, my friend and I tried a drink called the Brain-Eraser.
i) The janitor at our hotel in the Maldives asked to borrow my workout book.
j) After visiting Prambanan Temple near Yogyakarta, the tour driver dropped us off at a waiting shed. We were stuck because of the heavy rain.
a) In Chiang Mai, more people I met thought that I was Korean rather than Chinese.
No.In Thailand it was mostly Konnichiwas and Konbanwas that I got. Most of the greets I got were in Japanese. Then Chinese, and third Korean.
i) The janitor at our hotel in the Maldives asked to borrow my workout book.
Good guessing! That is indeed correct. He asked for it while I was working out, so I told him to borrow it later in the evening. Instead, I gave him a photocopy of part of the book.
As for the others, each would be true except for one detail.
Over to you, Xben
What am I trying to sell at the moment?
a. My house
b. My car
c. My piano
d. All my DVD's of "The Office"
e. All of my "New Krypton" Trade paperbacks
f. All of my Doctor Who VHS tapes
g. A big pile of Agatha Christie mystery paperbacks
h. My copy of Adobe CS5 on Disk
i. My Stamp Collection
j. My Star Wars Action Figures from ca1980
k. My wife's wedding dress
g. A big pile of Agatha Christie mystery paperbacks
Nope. Do have those though, but no plans to sell at present.
I love Agatha Christie.
How about c) your piano?
Nope. We have our piano (an electric one), and occasionally, when I have time, I give my oldest daughter lessons on it.
h. My copy of Adobe CS5 on Disk
Nope, not that either. In fact, I don't own such a thing.
What am I trying to sell at the moment?
a. My house
b. My car
d. All my DVD's of "The Office"
e. All of my "New Krypton" Trade paperbacks
f. All of my Doctor Who VHS tapes
i. My Stamp Collection
j. My Star Wars Action Figures from ca1980
k. My wife's wedding dress
Surely you can't be selling your js)? A man's got to hang on to his js) through everything. Well, so my dolly collecting friend tells me anyway as he mocks my solitary Doctor Who Zygon and Doctor Who Mummy dolly.
None of the above, although I'm hoping to put the action figures on sale when I get home to NY next
What am I trying to sell at the moment?
d. All my DVD's of "The Office"
e. All of my "New Krypton" Trade paperbacks
f. All of my Doctor Who VHS tapes
i. My Stamp Collection
k. My wife's wedding dress
No. I might still have something like that back in the USA, as that was a hobby I engaged in for about 15 minutes.
f) Dr Who vhs because technology has moved on and and you may have them all on DVD or as a download from a BBC site (if the beeb do that.)
e. All of my "New Krypton" Trade paperbacks
d. All my DVD's of "The Office"
I sold my Doctor Who VHS tapes a couple of years ago, I'm still holding onto my Office DVD's - but I am selling the New Krypton trades (and in fact, just did!)
IB is up again.
Cool! Congrats on the sale Xben.
Have to admit, I was kicking myself over not guessing the VHS tapes. Very astute of thothkins to pick up on them being obsolete
New Q up soon.
Can't a super powered wrecking machine get a break!
What if I put up a Lord of the Oval-related Q?
Have to admit, I was kicking myself over not guessing the VHS tapes. Very astute of thothkins to pick up on them being obsolete
Aw thanks Ibby. It makes being utterly wrong again much more pleasant.
As I mentioned to Peebz, I thought my next question should be about the
Lord of the Oval novella we had so much fun writing. It is a massive event set in the LMB-verse, and nearly every LMBer appears in it (yes, even you, thothkins and Xben!)
I'm not very good at creating totally new characters, so many of mine are versions of existing ones. Besides my Invisible Brainiac character, we have Blaze who is my real-life boyfriend. Then I have versions of Kinetix, Kid Quantum II (code name: Kairos), Marvin the Martian (Petty Officer Marvin, who used to be a Brood but was transformed into the Looney Tunes character), and Bugs Bunny (Marvin's friend Petty Officer Bugs).
When writing the Novella, I thought of introducing at least two other characters, but the plan didn't push through. Which two of the following would I have "imported" into the LMB-verse?
a) Gates
b) Monstress
c) Doctor Light (Kimiyo Hoshi)
d) XS
e) Nightwind
f) Apparition (Tinya Wazzo)
g) Jubilee
h) Kole
i) Elmer Fudd
j) Beast Boy (Gar Logan)
k) Ice
l) Fire
Has Kinetix already crossed over?
c) Doctor Light
h) Kole
Kinetix is already a proud member of the LMB, and was instrumental in the defense of Weber's World
Not the correct pair of characters.
Nope.
Let's eliminate one -
Elmer Fudd would have been funny, but two Looney Tunes characters is enough for now
When participating in the Lord of the Oval Novella, I thought of introducing at least two other characters, but the plan didn't push through. Which two of the following would I have "imported" into the LMB-verse?
a) Gates
b) Monstress
c) Doctor Light (Kimiyo Hoshi)
d) XS
e) Nightwind
f) Apparition (Tinya Wazzo)
g) Jubilee
h) Kole
j) Beast Boy (Gar Logan)
k) Ice
l) Fire
c) Doctor Light (Kimiyo Hoshi)
g) Jubilee
Nope. I love Kimiyo but her powerset almost duplicates IB's.
.. i see
I love all these characters but it won't be that hard
...Lord of the Oval novella we had so much fun writing. It is a massive event set in the LMB-verse, and nearly every LMBer appears in it (yes, even you, thothkins and Xben!)
Hang on. The last post on that thread is November 2012 and I didn't join until well into 2013. Have you been drink driving the time bubble again, Ibby?
h) Kole
l) Fire
I retconned you in, silly
I snuck a mention of you in somewhere during the last battle.
Not the correct combination either.
I like Fire, but the LMB has enough pyrokinetics - including Blaze, who probably wouldn't be too happy at me bringing in someone with a similar powerset.
When participating in the Lord of the Oval Novella, I thought of introducing at least two other characters, but the plan didn't push through. Which two of the following would I have "imported" into the LMB-verse?
a) Gates
b) Monstress
d) XS
e) Nightwind
f) Apparition (Tinya Wazzo)
g) Jubilee
h) Kole
j) Beast Boy (Gar Logan)
k) Ice
Gah! A Retcon! I have become the thing I hate! Mind you, it'll get me an angst driven mini series after that outburst..
h) Kole
e) Windy
b) Monstress
f) Apparition (Tinya Wazzo)
Eh, don't worry. All you have is a one-line mention, like many others who joined after the Novella ended. I had made it my goal to mention almost every LMBer ever, but I didn't want to take anyone's characters anywhere they couldn't get out of.
So of you get an angst-ridden mini it won't be my doing!
Not Monstress. I like her, but her powers are too generic. She'd probably make a hilarious LMBer though.
Not Tinya, when I needed a phaser I would use Pov. The LMB has its own Phantom Girl too, come to think of it. I'll have to check if I used her.
It is indeed Kole and Nightwind! Both underused ladies whose powers are rare among the LMB. Peebz would introduce a Kole who spins pink bubble wrap, but I planning to introduce a crystal-spinning character later. And I have already introduced a wind-user named Maria from Earth who will be my Nightwind.
I skipped them because I already ha too many characters to work with.
Over to you thothkins!
Y'know, this got me thinking, why IS Nightwind called Nightwind? It's not like her powers work only at night, or become stronger at night. And her original costume didn't have much to do with the night. Unless she used it as an evening gown.
There is an old DC character called The Night Wind ... might have something to do with it .. might not.
Oooh. Sounds creepy and mysterious. What Nightwind was going for when she changed her costume.
Oooh. Sounds creepy and mysterious. What Nightwind was going for when she changed her costume.
Sounds creepy and mysterious but was actually given to this Western character after late night bean eating.
Late home this evening because:-
1) I stayed late out of the goodness of my heart.
2) I stayed late because of a work related crisis.
3) The building was shut off until security could clear the seagulls
4) The city centre commonwealth games traffic was designed by the people who create laboratory mice mazes and no one in the city could leave.
5) The cheap signals at the train station broke down as the temperature rose above it's design limit of 65 degrees Fahrenheit.
6) The commonwealth games legacy is that we all have to be fitter by jogging for half an hour each day. I had to wait my turn for an ambulance.
7) I got sunstroke waiting around for a night out to start and got taken home.
5) The cheap signals at the train station broke down as the temperature rose above it's design limit of 65 degrees Fahrenheit.
Got it in one! My frustration must have showed. As soon as they replaced the old signals, we moved immediately from older, robust technology with few breakdowns to newer technology, bought as cheaply as possible that breaks down at the hint of a nice day.
Sorry to hear that, thothkins. Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, and it's very frustrating when it does the opposite.
Whoo Peebz! The lean mean fighting machine is up!!!
the air con failed in today's train! Lose pounds as you commute! A new government health initiative!
I guess they're trying to promote natural air conditioning
Bump up for Peebz too!
It would be natural air conditioning if they had windows that opened...but they don't.
Dual-purpose sauna and train
Got it in one! My frustration must have showed. As soon as they replaced the old signals, we moved immediately from older, robust technology with few breakdowns to newer technology, bought as cheaply as possible that breaks down at the hint of a nice day.
It's always a signal error !!! I used to assume that signal error was polite code for
They need some new signal technology.
I'll try to think up a good question soon.
Name the book I have NOT read in the last year:
1. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
2. Circle of Treason: CIA Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed
3. Good Hunting: An American Spymaster's Story
4. This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral-Plus, Plenty of Valet Parking!- inAmerica's Gilded Capital
5. The Kingdom and the Power: Behind the Scenes at The New York Times: The Institution That Influences the World
6. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: A George Smiley Novel
7. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold: A George Smiley Novel
8. Hard News: Twenty-one Brutal Months at The New York Times and How They Changed the American Media
9. The Honourable Schoolboy: A George Smiley Novel
10. Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
11. Double Down: Game Change 2012
12. Smiley's People
This might be a tough one.
1. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
#6?
I'm sad to say I haven't even heard of most of these
I need to read more
Nope, I've read those. I haven't finished team of rivals yet, i think it is miss-hyped.
IB I am on a Washington DC, spy, politics, news reading frenzy lately.
8?
Certainly sounds like an interesting set of topics to read about. I think I'm going to look up these books you listed.
Nope, I've read those. I haven't finished team of rivals yet,
Aha! So you haven't read it all the way
through in the last year then?
yeah ok, ah'm a guessin', ah'm a guessin'...
7. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold: A George Smiley Novel - for the cunning reason that although it's a George Smiley novel, it's not one of the trilogy that you also mention...
I've read 8 and 7.
7 Spy who came in from the cold has a brutal ending. There is a film but I haven't managed to track it down yet.
8 "Hard News" is fascinating and a bit scary.
I've not finished Team of Rivals. I don't think the people who hyped it ... actually read it.
I'm thinking of a book I have not yet even started. Which dosn't really help since it is a collection of random sameness to choose from. But not so many choices.
I'll give you a freebie ... I've not yet finished:
2. Circle of Treason: CIA Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed
But I read about half and it is not the one I am thinking of. It was good but ... I was reading it on my ipad and ... it got put down in the events of getting a kindle for xmas.
It is the real story of a cia mole ... who turned over loads of agents to the kgb. There is a tv show now based on the true story called the Assets.
omg
it is 5.
5. The Kingdom and the Power: Behind the Scenes at The New York Times: The Institution That Influences the World
That's not even in my Omnicom yet!
Many of the others came highly recommended.
The George Smiley novels are by John Le Carre, spy novels about a guy who used to be a spy ... posing as a diplomat ... which is a super big no no. but they are interesting and have a different take than the james bond or jason bourne type spies.
Most of the news ones and washington books came from running into a very super helpful lady at the book store who was really excited to help me because no one ever asks her about American politics.
Over to YOU IB!
Coolness! Certainly sounds like a lot of interesting books on your list!
New Q up soon.
Which of these Philippine travel spots have I not yet visited?
a)
The Chocolate Hills of Boholb)
The Burial Caves of Sagadac)
Vigan (well-preserved Spanish colonial old town)
d)
Bahay Tsinoy Museum (about Chinese-Filipino history)
e)
Masskara Festival in Bacolod Cityf)
The Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordillerasg)
The Rolling Hills of Batanesh)
Anilao (one of the best dive sites in the country)
i)
The Paoay Churchj)
White Beach, Puerto Galera (one of the gayest beaches in the country)
k)
Cagayan River (and the awesome white water rafting!)
l)
Mount Pulag (and its beautiful sea of clouds)
m)
Puerto Prinsesa Subterranean Rivern)
The Lahar Fields of Mount Pinatubo
m) Puerto Prinsesa Subterranean River - because you've read all those mystery novels where people are bumped off on spelunking "accidents" - Oh, and Maxwell Lord not saving his boss in JLI #11/12
I brought a life jacket, don't worry. It was nice, and the caverns and limestone formations were quite pretty. Thankfully, no mysterious or undiscovered life forms showed up!
Let's remove another choice...
Blaze and I have visited Puerto Galera together twice. The second time, we met this dreamy Filipino with Spanish ancestry. Mmmm. but that's a story for another time...
a) The Chocolate Hills of Bohol - either due to seismic activity putting them out of bounds when you could have gone, or that they were eaten before you got there. They have been replaced, as an attraction, by the giant spoon of Bohol.
I was able to visit. They're quite chocolate-y, though with a slight dusting of dirt...
h) Anilao (one of the best dive sites in the country) either because it's a really deep dive or the Nautilus is picking off visitors from the depths.
It's a deep dive, but I haven't gone that deep. I think I made it to a depth of 30 meters or so.
b) The Burial Caves of Sagada - you were going to go, but the Legion fought Mordru that month and the old wizard brought back the dead Legionnaires. So you were put off.
I don't think any Legionnaires are buried in Sagada. Though having Sun Boy there would be nice, so I wouldn't have to keep holding onto my lantern.
e) Masskara Festival in Bacolod City - because festivals are never on when it's most convenient for you and they refused to alter it to suit your diary. Blatant cheek and you were quite right to boycott it thereafter.
No, I meant that Mordru bringing back
anyone put you off going to burial sites
I was still unemployed then, so the Festival was lucky I was able to arrange my schedule to be there.
No, I meant that Mordru bringing back
anyone put you off going to burial sites
Ah, thanks for the clarification. Yeah, I'd hate to play tag with a reanimated corpse anywhere, but it's even worse in a slippery, wet, dark cave
g) The Rolling Hills of Batanes - because they had rolled away before you could get there.
They haven't yet. I told them to wait for me.
Yay! Over to you thothy
Batanes is the northernmost Phil. province, and frankly a pain to get to. Flights aren't daily, and cost more than a flight to neighboring Indonesia or Singapore sometimes
My favourite footy player growing up was...
a) Mick Channon - great scorer with a trademark windmill arm celebration and a penchant for swearing.
b) Steve Moran - young forward at the time, showing bags of promise before back injuries held back his career.
c) Kevin Keegan - European footy player of the season and a Liverpool legend. Joined smaller Southampton after time playing for Hamburg in a surprise move that shocked everyone.
d) Matthew Le Tissier - naturally gifted player who kept his club in the top division year after year.
e) Nick Holmes - versatile, seemingly ever present member of his team from the '70s through to the '80s.
f) Alan Shearer - another top forward who was sold on for a record to Blackburn who would then go on to win the league. Lots of England caps followed but no club success after he moved too Newcastle.
g) Frank Worthington - sideburned gifted individualist with his socks down at his ankles and an Elvis obsession.
Ibby gets it first time...
>thothkins takes deep breath to selflessly congratulate Ibby (yet) again on such an early correct guess, while feeling strangely transparent
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Congratulations Ibby!
I was just a little too young for a lot of Channon (now better known as a race horse trainer, giving him a great perspective when nagged by people who think footy is everything)
I would have had to have been older still to have Worthington as the fav, as youngsters are best protected from his notorious romp stories, that he kept going for a lot of his career. His autobiography is called One Hump or Two to give you an idea.
Steve Moran didn't fulfill that early promise and a favourite was already in place.
One of the few times I've seen Alan Shearer deal with a member of the public I thought he was a bit of a t00l. Besides, he got away with a few things on the park he shouldn't have, while the media pretended otherwise. Now seen boring half the country into comas on Match of the Day. He was still developing with us, so not a huge favourite anyway.
Honesty would rule out Le Tissier. A huge favourite among fans, and for good reason. Lost lots of respect when admitting to betting on something in his own game. It may have been seemingly minor, but had it gone well it wouldn't have been the last time. In the end he's not playing to win for the fans, if he's betting to hit the ball out the park at a certain moment. It's simply cheating. Rumors from another departing player were worrying about the extent of this sort of thing. Le Tissier undoubtedly would have been my fav player if I were younger, which would have made reading that bit in his book a lot worse.
Keegan's arrival was a statement of intent that the club could do great things. It pretty much stayed a statement of intent but what a great few years. For a small club, they had a dazzling array of internationals approaching the twilight of their careers. He was already a star player, and I definitely followed his career mainly due to the number of column inches he got in the sports pages. He would undoubtedly be my favourite if people hadn't gone on about him quite as much. There's not a bandwagon I've not waved away gratefully into the distance. He worked really, really hard at his fitness which gave him a real edge where he wasn't quite the most naturally talented.
So the favourite was Nick Holmes. He was just always in the team. In a team in a lower division, in a team getting promotion, in a team in a cup final or in a team studded with internationals reaching 2nd in the top league. He was always there, and never looked out of place in the best period the club I support probably ever had. Reliable, dependable, versatile and loyal and a really good, underrated player. Oh, and I don't know any terrible stories about his past, which always helps.
To make myself feel better, I don't think I mentioned the club I support.
Over to Ibbster!
Perhaps I have a little bit of Naltorian on my mother's side. My great, great aunt supposedly had this way of knowing when the kids were about to get up to some mischief...
Sounds like Holmes really deserves to be your fave. Good thing you weren't so invested in Le Tissier. And Keegan sounds like a worthy dude too.
New Q up... soon!
Which was the first movie I ever watched? A) Beauty and the Beast
A) Beauty and the Beast
B) Aladdin
C) The Care Bears in Wonderland
D) The Chipmunk Adventure
E) The Lion King
F) Ducktales: Treasure of the Lost Lamp
G) Scooby Doo and the Ghoul School
H) The Little Mermaid
I) Scooby Doo and the Boo Brothers
J) Cinderella
K) Robin Hood
L) Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
cunningly guessed by Viridis
I'll go for H) The Little Mermaid
I mention that I've never seen any of these, but that will have to keep for the Know Your Respondents to the Know Your Legion Worlders Game thread.
Beauty and the Beast was probably my 8th or so. The first version we had was weird, a lot of the scenes were drafts and not the fully animated version yet. I was so happy when we finally got the "full" version.
Little Mermaid was one of the first, but it was not the first. It was one of my favorites though. Whenever Ariel sang Part of Your World I would get chills.
Which was the first movie I ever watched?
B) Aladdin
C) The Care Bears in Wonderland
D) The Chipmunk Adventure
E) The Lion King
F) Ducktales: Treasure of the Lost Lamp
G) Scooby Doo and the Ghoul School
I) Scooby Doo and the Boo Brothers
J) Cinderella
K) Robin Hood
L) Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
D) The Chipmunk Adventure
Nope. I loved that movie, though. Some fun songs, and the Chipmunks and Chipettes get to go around the world!
Nope. That scene where Mufasa dies always gets to me. I also stopped scaring away the stray cats in the neighborhood after watching this.
Which was the first movie I ever watched?
B) Aladdin
C) The Care Bears in Wonderland
F) Ducktales: Treasure of the Lost Lamp
G) Scooby Doo and the Ghoul School
I) Scooby Doo and the Boo Brothers
J) Cinderella
K) Robin Hood
L) Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
B) Aladdin - and I'm not making any cheap shots about rubbing people up the wrong way ever since. Beside, your partner would beg to differ I'm sure
Blaze gets all tingly whenever he thinks about me rubbing him
No, not Aladdin. I would say I knew I was gay the moment I saw Aladdin in his bare-chested glory, but that's too cliche
Which was the first movie I ever watched?
C) The Care Bears in Wonderland
F) Ducktales: Treasure of the Lost Lamp
G) Scooby Doo and the Ghoul School
I) Scooby Doo and the Boo Brothers
J) Cinderella
K) Robin Hood
L) Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
L) Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
For me, Phantasm is a movie about a floating metal sphere embedding itself in people's heads. Somehow, I don't think they played that to kids.
I don't remember much but that movie was a bit too dark for me. Nope, not it.
F) Ducktales: Treasure of the Lost Lamp - see above post for cheecky remark.
I'd have gone for this one first had I noticed the duplication of lamp rubbing.
Men in white, I think my friend is addicted to rubbing his lamp... won't let go of it until something comes out...
Nope, it was one of the first and I am still very fond of it - it held up well on a recent viewing - but not the first.
Which was the first movie I ever watched?
C) The Care Bears in Wonderland
G) Scooby Doo and the Ghoul School
I) Scooby Doo and the Boo Brothers
J) Cinderella
K) Robin Hood
G) Scooby Doo and the Ghoul School - traumatised you early
Yes, which is why I instead switched to reading Legion comics. Of course, one of the first I read was the death of Lightning Lad.. D'oh!
But no, not the first.
K) Robin Hood - setting you up to rob people at arrow point under the pretense of...no, wait what's the message of Robin Hood again?
Nope. I watched the Disney version where Robin Hood was a fox. I think the human version acts like a fox too.
C) The Care Bears in Wonderland - I can't express enough sympathy if it was this one...
Thanks, but no news for sympathy. It wasn't bad at all. None o that cheesy touchy-feely shooting rainbows out the ass stuff. It was, in fact, fairly epic. I did not have the full movie when I first watched out. I got the second half, finally, almost a decade later
You are up!
For me an epic Care Bears in Wonderland would have them being bumped off by a psychotic Mad Hatter.
Wow! It wasn't quite the last guess. It was the second or third last
New Question shortly...
See, practice makes you improve
Getting to know you,
Getting to know all about you.
Getting to like you,
Getting to hope you like me.
Getting to know you,
Putting it my way,
But nicely,
You are precisely,
My cup of teaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
Geez. I was just needing to ask someone about the next question. There was no need to sing at me. I didn't deserve
that New question, yet oddly familiar, later today.
Which of the below is the first film I have a memory of watching in a cinema. I asked my folks, but the past is a foreign country to us all for this sort of thing. So, I can only pin it down to the memory.
A) It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
B) 2001: A Space Odyssey
C) The Life of Brian
D) Alien
E) The Rescuers
F) Doctor Zhivago
G) The Black Hole
H) The Empire Strikes Back
I) Superman
J) Gone with the Wind
K) Dracula
L) Frankenstein
E) The Rescuers
I asked my folks, but the past is a foreign country to us all for this sort of thing. So, I can only pin it down to the memory.
Two thumbs up for trying to verify the memory! I nominate you to the Legion World Commission on Audit!
Why thank you Ibby.
When I was young, the family had a toy called a
View Master I don't remember ever having a whole rescuers set as in the one below.
When I saw the picture, I thought I'd found Lardy's own view master, before I realised it said Lara.
However, I do recall a few cells of The Rescuers with what remained of of whatever sets had been bought before. I had a wonders of the world one too, although some of the modern ones were a bit dubious my memory cell tells me.
So, no on the Rescuers, which I never ended up seeing.
H) The Empire Strikes Back
Generally considered to be the best of the first trilogy (and automatically better than and of the next trilogy), li'l thothkins didn't think it was quite as good at the time. While it's better crafted in a lot of places, it didn't quite have the same momentum. As a kid, that made a difference.
I was given a lot of movie related Star Wars stuff and it was a real introduction to the work of
Ralph McQuarrie in gorgeous glossy books.
Another thing about going to see The Empire Strikes Back was the short second film you would see before the main feature. The one I saw here was an unsettling surrealist silent short. Its bleakness probably permanently scarred much of the audience.
Not the Empire Strikes Back.
Perhaps the movie that made little thothkins a comics fan is
Superman
Superman was one of those movies where you would walk out feeling a little bit taller and better about everything. It wasn't until I saw Christopher Reeve in other roles later, I really appreciated what he put into Superman . He just made it look so effortless.
So, seconds after that elated feeling, I'm leaving the cinema and run into 2 older kids on the way home. Quite a bit older. There was a moment of sizing each other up, and then we had a chat about the movie. Who could fall out after watching that?
Not Superman.
Loving the memories attached to each movie, thoth!
a) It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Although I didn't see this film at the cinema, it's one I must have seen on TV at a very early age.
Wacky Races cartoons always seemed to be like something I'd seen before, and biplanes and Terry Thomas appearances also seemed strangely familiar. The big giveaway was that in my childhood dreams, parks would every now and then come with densely foliaged giant letters.
When I was older and saw the film again, I was actually a bit disappointed it was only palm trees. It still looks wrong to me.
Not It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
So, here's the scene. A grown up with time on their hands. The Life of Brian is on at the local cinema. It's a comedy. A Monty Python comedy. The grown up wants to see it. But what to do with the child?
Not to worry! Thanks to the AA (Adult Accompaniment) rating the film got, you can just take little junior into see it too!
A google search brings me a site that "We rate, educate, and advocate for kids, families, and schools" Despite opposing everything the site stands for, it does remind me that the Life of Brian had full frontal nudity of men and women*, torture, crucification, swearing, mass suicide and body parts. That's leaving aside all of the religious connotations presented in the film.
While may sound a bit much, what you actually get is a film all about tolerance, optimism, having a laugh at everything and what's
really important once all the power/greed inspired ideas/practices are put to one side. Not a bad lesson for a kid to pick up early.
They give a recommended rating that I was a fraction of when I saw it.
So AA rating's.
For great movies and for those Saturday afternoons when you don't want to pay for a babysitter.
*equality! And not portrayed in the way practically every other film objectifies one gender or another.
Oh yeah, Not the Life of Brian
People moan about the slightest bit of complexity as if it were a terrible thing. More and more I associate with people who, not only haven't read the work, but are parroting someone else's opinion of it.
"Oh, there's too much going on in those foreign movies."
"Oh, the Legion has too many characters, but I'll read X-Men."
If you got the Legion and the X-Men together for one epic crossover, it would be like getting past the first couple of chapters in Doctor Zhivago. At least, that's how it seemed to a younger me. "Who are all these people? Oh, they have three names...right. What's this one's other names again?"
The film is mercifully a bit easier going. It's actually a favorite of my mother. It would always get watched whenever it was on. With there being one TV, that was quite something.
I spent most of the time wondering how anyone could have survived the cold, never mind anything else. Every time I'd see Luke Skywalker struggle on Hoth in the Empire Strikes Back, I'd think "Well, at least his poor family isn't out there with him. Just think of all those poor folk struggling in Zhivago.*"
It's an epic film not only for it's scope, direction, acting and gorgeous setting, but for all the things it teaches along the way. Everyone is flawed, and those flaws are always magnified in any controlling regime.
*actually...yup, thought so...
thothkins packs away the rest of his movie memories in his battered old Lon Chaney make up case...
...for indeed it was Gone with the Wind!
A film with a running time of just under 4 hours, or just under 4 years if you are a child.
I can only guess that my parents wanted to see it really badly, and that babysitting arrangements fell through in some sort of keystone cops comedy epic.
I can't tell you much about Gone With the Wind. I've never seen it since. Not that I was scarred by the experience (4 hours!), but that having seen it, I can't think of any particular reason why I'd want to sit through it again (twitch, relapse, twitch). There are any number of other films I'd only see once.
Having to think back >clink, whirr, thunk< it's the colour that has lasted in my mind. Sumptuous Technicolor, but subdued somehow in my memory.
I've never been partial to films with ballrooms in them, which I put down to this movie.
I imagine that assisting in making this feat of endurance possible were:-
Take a child too young to really have developed tantrum throwing prowess
Ice cream selling usherettes
Little kiosk in the foyer (before such things cost a body part to pay for).
An interval which must have come as a huge relief.
Over to you Ibbster...
I thought it must have been something like that. I was tempted to choose Dracula but it didn't seem like a very good film for babysitting
Would love to hear about the rest of the memories some time!
Would love to hear about the rest of the memories some time!
aw, thanks Ibby. I enjoyed that one, and all thanks to your question before it.
Qlad my Q helped you revisit memory lane, thoth!
I'm jogging down it now thinking of a good Q...
My favorite comic strip is easily Pugad Baboy. It's very Filipino, very witty, and very satirical; sadly, its jokes won't translate well into English. There's just this extra ZING that gets lost in translation.
It took me a while to build my (as of now) complete collection. Which of these was the last story I got?
a) Oplan Paglalanse - the "Walang Payat" Gang (no thin guys) launches a vigilante campaign against crooked cops
b) Maidnappers - two maids get kidnapped by crooks who mistake them for rich kids from the USA
c) Col. Manyakis - "manyak" basically means a sexual predator or a sexually promiscuous person whose attentions are unwanted. Sgt. Tomas' new army superior is just that - a female "manyak".
d) Benigno Ramos: Bounty Hunter - ex-con Igno Ramos (yes, that's his name
) takes on a bounty hunter gig, only to become hunted himself!
e) Aso - talking canine investigator Polgas stumbles upon an illegal mushroom farm and a werewolf!
f) Paraiso - married couple Dagul and Debbie, along with talking dog Polgas, have to fend off Chinese fishermen who use dynamite and cyanide to pollute the pristine waters of Palawan
g) Babman - resident hippie Bab takes on the cowl of Babman, the Pork Knight, to infiltrate a "professional" squatting syndicate
h) The Olongapo Caper - a vacation to Olongapo turns into an operation to rescue victims of a human trafficking group
i) Ang Hiwaga ng Dueñas - in the province of Iloilo, our obese heroes are preyed upon by supernatural beings who wish to feed them to their master
j) Green Heroine - vain Tiny and her gay friend Pao don costumes to take down a group of environmental terrorists
It sounds like a title full of zaniness.
I'll start with c)
Yup, much like our own LMB shenanigans!
C was a hoot. Sgt. Tomas is a womanizer with an overbearing, kickboxing wife. But he didn't like having the tables turned and becoming the butt of his new boss' sexual advances...
Not C.
what about i)?
I found a few
English translations here
Those are decent translations. The grammar could be better, but the meaning is there.
i) was probably the first one of these that I read. The gay character Pao was mistaken for a pregnant woman, and wouldn't admit he was male - so off he goes to be the ghouls' banquet centerpiece. Oops.
I'll go of h) although I'm beginning to wonder if the more mature storylines, actually mean there are more of them left in the shops.
The storylines may tackle mature themes, but the way they are handled doesn't leave a bad taste in the mouth. Like with H, we are spared the details of the trafficking victims' plight, but the writer doesn't gloss over the fact that it's a terrible, terrible thing. The victim does get the chance to beat up her kidnappers in an all-out brawl near the end.
Not H.
I loved A! Very cathartic. Now, not all cops are crooked, but there are some bad eggs in the bunch for sure.
A was one of the earlier ones, so not A.
f) actually, they all sound as though they could have caused upset in any number of places, in a good way.
Ah, Palawan. Such a beautiful place. As far as read order goes this was somewhere in the middle. Despite being of Chinese descent I always identified as Filipino so it wasn't hard to decide who to root for.
Not f.
I never seem to get round to guessing b)
The worst kidnap victim is one with an insulting sense of humor and no gag. And that is what Brosia is. Luckily, the gang saves her before the kidnappers lose it.
One of the earlier stories, and one of my personal faves.
Not B
I've not done j) yet, so j)
J was an exercise in non-linear storytelling - quite a few flashbacks. It is one of the most recent, but still not it.
Interestingly, Pao's gun can turn any man gay for a limited duration. Whoops!
Reposting the question with wrong guesses omitted:
My favorite comic strip is easily Pugad Baboy. It's very Filipino, very witty, and very satirical; sadly, its jokes won't translate well into English. There's just this extra ZING that gets lost in translation.
It took me a while to build my (as of now) complete collection. Which of these was the last story I got?
d) Benigno Ramos: Bounty Hunter - ex-con Igno Ramos (yes, that's his name
) takes on a bounty hunter gig, only to become hunted himself!
e) Aso - talking canine investigator Polgas stumbles upon an illegal mushroom farm and a werewolf!
g) Babman - resident hippie Bab takes on the cowl of Babman, the Pork Knight, to infiltrate a "professional" squatting syndicate
I'll have an e) please*
*since we're talking about illegal mushrooms.
Illegal mushrooms are okay as long as the artist portrays them as eeeevil.
By the way, the werewolf is a good guy.
Not E.
This story was published in full color in one of the Sunday comics collections. It features some of the most impressive fight scenes in the entire strip...
... and is indeed the last one I got!
Over to you thothy!
Time to annoy thothy with my singing again!
Getting to know you... Getting to knooooww all aboooooooooooout youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!
I've been shy this week. I'll try to come up with something shortly.
Thanks thoth. It's nice to be shy once in a while. Sometimes I just go sit in a corner quietly and bury my face in a newspaper whenever someone walks by.
And now we have to think of performances for the company Christmas party. And so I shall practice my singing yet again...
Getting to know you... Getting to knooooww all aboooooooooooout youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!
yeah, yeah... the footy's on. Will fink of one later.
I've just found that I'm missing a couple of issues in the Manga I'm reading. It's:
a) Ghost in the Shell
b) Patlabor
c) Golgo 13
d) Fullmetal Alchemist
e) Akira
f) Saturn Apartments
g) Monster
Ooh, all good choices!
Let's go with...
Fullmetal Alchemist
Not Golgo 13. I'm brief with the answers, so that I don't give it away
Nice strategy
Ghost in the Shell?
Patlabor?
I would love to hear some of the stories behind these. After I guess correctly and all, so as not to ruin your tactics
Not Patlabour. Actually, I think I've picked a little better than I thought at first. I first thought I'd slip with a comment, but there are some similarities across a few of them.
I'm only familiar with a couple myself but will def read up after this.
Akira?
Yipee! It's Akira! Or rather, oh sodding nass. It's Akira. I've read up to issue 21 in the Epic series only to find I don't have 22 or 36 for that matter. I was sure I'd read it all the way through before too. But I guessed I just skipped past the missing ones on my last reread.
As for the others, Alchemist certainly has some interesting story turns, but the art style didn't really work for me.
I read some Golgo 13 quite a while ago, but didn't pick up any more. I just didn't see much of the depth that I've read about it since. I recall thinking I'd read better Euro versions of similar themes. Possibly one to reread. As it's been going on such a long time, the styles are quite retro now.
Speaking of Euro, Monster has some locations there. This is one that I've only read a little of, and out of sequence. Again, I've seen similar themes elsewhere, but I don't think I gave it quite the look it deserved.
Saturn Apartments I've not seen at all. But I thought it was interesting and added it here as a reminder to myself
I think there's a bit of Halo Jones in there.
Which brings me to the last three. I generally prefer the near future tech of manga, which is why the list didn't have any fantasy types really.
I have the late '90s versions of Patlabor, but it was the films that made me go back for a second look.
Ghost in the Shell is a favourite, as much for the hints of an emsemble cast we sometimes see. Certainly for the detailed techno-politically motivated plots. While the lead characters are interesting, It's never been why I read it (note recent anime, where I'm muttering "get on with it" when it's another Kusanagi scene.) Shirow's art was just superb and even more innovative in the sequel.
Which leaves us with Akira, which remains stunning, even when Kaneda is such a jerk. I didn't get it when the first few epic issues came out. I was waiting at a comic shop before going to meet someone, when I took a glance. The format would suggest it was more expensive, and to sacrifice a few mainstream comics for one of something else was always a decision. The film wouldn't have been far away by that point either. I saw that first before I ever got my paws on the back issue I had missed.
The divergence between the mediums is striking and shows that not everything has to stay faithful in order for it to be as good. But, off to get those issues. Who knows what happened to them?
Over to you Ibby...
Awesome! Akira is the one I am most familiar with. I watched the animated movie. It's quite a deep tale as well...
Ghost in the Shell is the one I am next most familiar with, it's a pretty interesting concept.
Will read up on the others. Thanks for sharing, thoth.
Okay, new Q up soon...
When I was younger and questions of sexuality had not yet cropped up, I had a crush on which female hero?
a) Storm
b) Doctor Light (Kimiyo Hoshi)
c) Tsunami
d) Katana
e) Fire
f) Ice
g) Wonder Woman
h) Power Girl
i) Crimson Fox
j) Wasp
k) Invisible Woman
l) Jean Grey
m) Maxima
n) Saturn Girl
o) Kinetix
p) Apparition
q) Dream Girl
r) Starfire
Perhaps a tad too obvious
I always had a profound respect for Dr. Light, but never really a crush.
Obvious? As obvious as 0)?
I loved Zoe, but that was when I was older and I had also started having crushes on some male heroes.
When I was younger and questions of sexuality had not yet cropped up, I had a crush on which female hero?
a) Storm
c) Tsunami
d) Katana
e) Fire
f) Ice
g) Wonder Woman
h) Power Girl
i) Crimson Fox
j) Wasp
k) Invisible Woman
l) Jean Grey
m) Maxima
n) Saturn Girl
p) Apparition
q) Dream Girl
r) Starfire
Nice work! It was indeed sweet, caring and compassionate Ice! I always thought she was amazing and wondered how anyone could think her powers were useless.
Over to you thoth!
right. I'll go with e)...what. I got it right? Sorry. I'm just so used to rattling off guesses
I wasn't sure if you had mentioned Ice during JLIdol, but something rang a bell.
New question when I think of something...
she spent a lot of time on my #2 spot on the list. When ah outlasted Kimiyo she became #1.
Yeah, I thought it was that. That's where I remembered Dr Light from. Nice to see that paying attention pays off
Yes, your guessing quotient went up three sizes that day!
From 0 to 3 then
Aw, you were always at least at a 1
I don't think you ever ended up with only one possible choice left.
Christmas party coming up... performances all around... stress...
Time to practice, ugh! Getting to know yooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
well, I never liked the window frames to have panes anyway. New Q shortly, probably tomorrow...
Oh, it's working! Now if only my voice will hold out until the party. There's no way I can compete with the good singers, so window-breaking shall be my talent.
Oh Hi Dinah! And you must be Larry the lawyer. Yeah, he's over there...
I tripped across a tpb I quite fancy, even though I've read it before, while I was pressie hunting online. Was it...
a) Ghost in the Shell
b) Luther Arkwright
c) Maus
d) Zenith: Phase 1
e) Akira
f) V for Vendetta
g) Legion's Great Darkness saga
h) The Sandman (Volume 1): Preludes & Nocturnes
i) Sin City vol 4
j) Dark Knight Returns
k) Will Eisner's Spirit
l) X-Men Days of Future Past
m) Judge Dredd Apocalypse War
n) Kingdom Come
o) Wanted
p) Cerebus: Church & State
q) Final Crisis
I half expected you to get it on the first try, making a mockery of my longer list
The Dark Knight Returns had quite a buzz around it at the time of it's release. It was in the Sunday supplements here, and there was much talk about the maturity of the art form.
Considering the number of underground comics dealing with real issues, while this had grown men in spandex beating each other up, it was laughable even then.
What it was, was violent. What made it different from the million other violent spandex comics was that it was shown to impact the characters. The brutality was even more effective in the dark, gritty claustrophobic urban setting. There ere also some broad political brush strokes too, as miller pushed the readers buttons.
From a culture weaned on violent futuristic anti heroes, the setting and actions weren't the draw for me. Miller's pacing and art were the hook.
Unfortunately, nearly all the imitators went straight for the bloodshed, without spotting any of the commentary underlying it, as broad as it was.
I picked this up as individual issues a while after it's release. The quality printing of those means I've never been tempted to go with a TPB of it. Not j)
I may be lucky sometimes, but I'm not THAT lucky
In any case, I do enjoy reading the stories behind your choices.
f) V for Vendetta
V for Vendetta takes a good number of British dualities, wraps them up in the Orwellian society we hold up as abhorrent with a little too much denial and teaches us about what it means to be free.
Not bad for a strip that started off in the Warrior anthology. In it's dark near future it shows a number of things we've been up to in the past and present. And we're some of the "good guys", which says a lot about world affairs. It's always assumed it's a reaction against the Conservatism of the 1980s, but it resonates with any number of political parties across the decades. There are things beneath the surface that connect us all.
By the time DC picked up and finished this one off, I'd already read some of the Warrior issues, and my own political thoughts were beyond being totally captivated by the romantic freedom of the work. After all, it doesn't exactly present a working alternative. But there are many cautionary moments in there, the tone is spot on for the times, and rendered all the more bleakly by David Lloyd's art.
I do highly recommend it, but I've never picked up anything beyond the individual issues. I did pay a bit for one of the V masks years ago. I was happy to have one, knowing that they wouldn't ever be too many of them around. Oh pants...
Not f) V for Vendetta
e) Akira, because you mentioned you were missing some issues.
And I still am. I think I warbled on about Akira before, so shall spare you the eye bleeding here. But, gosh, the entire world is so well defined and... >slap<
I'll hopefully be able to pick them up in the new year. It would seem like a waste to pick up the trades, when the set I have is almost complete and already takes up a bit of space.
not e) Akira
c) Maus, which I have heard many good things about.
Having not read the original RAW issues, this is one I picked up as a graphic novel in my late teens.
But, while a lot of the information wasn't new, the way it was depicted on such a human level wasn't nearly as common. Frankly, there's a need for regular reminders of the messages here. The choices made to depict the cast make viewing bearable, while still allowing the vital messages to be pushed through.
The story also has a parallel story of Art's relationship with his father. It's honest, open hearted approach is reminiscent of some of the best underground comix. It's relevance to the historical story makes is all the more touching.
Definitely recommended, but as I already have them, not c) Maus
Eisner is a good story teller. The composition of his work is marvelous and I like the genre of the character. But when his sidekick turned up after a few pages, I just paused, put it down and I've never really gone back to it.
While I've read arguments about the more positive use of the Spirit's sidekick compared to other stereotypes, but it didn't really make any difference to me.
Not k) Will Eisner's Spirit
Taking concepts from parallel world sci fi tales of the 1950s, and melding them Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion stories, Bryan Talbot created a comic book in the 1970s that's still ahead of practically anything else out there.
There's just so much texture and depth in the series. From mysticism, pulp action and revolution, to transcendence, psionics and tyranny of all types. Arkwright shows us alternate worlds where the Great Game of intrigue plays itself out against far greater conflict across universes.
The art remains stunning and, like the story, has many nods that are a treat to unearth.
I picked up my first installment of Luther in a magazine called Near Myths (an issue of which also had a very early Grant Morrison I think). Apart from the odd snippet here and there, it wasn't until I picked up some of the Valkyrie Press issues that I got to read substantial parts of it.
Then Dark Horse reprinted it. Now, it has been combined with the sequel Heart of Empire in one giant book.
The art in Heart of Empire shows Talbot's progress over the years, and it's lovely stuff. The story exists firmly in the framework of the first work, and so doesn't push the boundaries in the same way.
When Alan Moore took Captain Britain to parallel worlds that Claremont would later try to use; When Grant Morrison took Zenith across the Omnihedron and when Marv Wolfman thought of protagonists across Infinite Earth, they were all looking back to the same sources. But Luther Arkwright was the comic they could read it in, and hope to get close to.
Luther Arkwright: Integral is now out and was indeed the one I have my eye on. What's stopping me?
Well, I've read it before and the issues are usually handy. My first digital comic was the Luther Arkright DVD, containing high quality images of the run. I put them into a format my PC could more easily read.
The other small thing, is that there's no real extras in it that I can see (lots on the dvd). Just a fore and afterword, which I barely ever read anyway. Having each series in a separate hardback might have been a better option too, and I have to admit the cover of it doesn't exactly do much for me.
So, still swithering over it. While I was doing so I notice that d) is also out in a run of graphic novels. Since I've only the last phase of it in the original issues, I'm probably going to be picking that up too/ instead.
Over to you Ibbster!
Cool! And thanks as always for the insightful commentary and fun story behind the book, thothster (my what a mouthful).
New Q up soon!
thothster (my what a mouthful).
tact prevents me from responding to that
Not adopting that as a nickname is already a very tactful way of saying what you think about it
I took Blaze out to a buffet lunch yesterday for his birthday. What did we not eat or drink?
1) Lobster miso soup
2) Roast turkey
3) Spinach seafood dumplings
4) Gorgonzola cheese
5) Carrot-pumpkin mash
6) Prawn salad
7) Singapore sling
8) Bavaria beer
9) Jacob's Creek Cabernet Sauvignon
10) Salmon sashimi
11) Bourbon-glazed chicken
12) Fried almond tofu
Nope. That was one of the highlights as turkey is rare here. It was great with the truffle sauce.
Nope. There was a fridge full of that, so of course I nicked a can.
Nope, Blaze's first time to try it. He didn't quite like it.
I don't mind them at all...not that I ever get to have them. Another pint please barman!
4) Gorgonzola cheese
We had that too. I quite like gorgonzola, but Blaze prefers brie.
I took Blaze out to a buffet lunch yesterday for his birthday. What did we not eat or drink?
1) Lobster miso soup
3) Spinach seafood dumplings
5) Carrot-pumpkin mash
6) Prawn salad
9) Jacob's Creek Cabernet Sauvignon
10) Salmon sashimi
11) Bourbon-glazed chicken
12) Fried almond tofu
I like brie a lot too. Not cultural self-incrimination, but I had deep fried brie last week. It was nicer than I thought it was going to be as a starter.
10) Salmon sashimi
We had lots of salmon sashimi. It's one of our faves, ESP as both of us are trying to maintain high protein diets
9) Jacob's Creek Cabernet Sauvignon
Blaze and I prefer white wine to red, just as we prefer dark chocolate to milk or white. Match made in heaven?
But if we had to choose a red, it would likely be a Cabernet Sauvignon. Not that.
Blaze didn't have any but I did. I love pumpkin.
11) Bourbon-glazed chicken
Nope. It went well with the truffle sauce.
Nope. Blaze doesn't eat tofu but I do.
Deep-fries breaded prawn balls in mayo with assorted fruit bits. A common dish in Chinese restos... But not at Blaze's breakfast buffet!
Over to you thothy!
It;s lovely to see you spend quality time together, Ibby. Of course, it's quality time because you've eaten too much to even leave the table, but it's quality time nonetheless.
Had you said it was prawn balls, I'd have known right away. Cause if there's one thing I know, it's that Ibby doesn't like ba...next question soon!
You are right, I don't quite like balls. I prefer sausage
Not forgotten. Just umm... something or t'other.
Don't worry, I have been too swamped at work to notice. Take your time thothy... until I start singing again
...and with there not being enough cheese in the world to stuff into one's ears to block out the "singing", thoth gets thinking.
How wonderful! My singing brings me enjoyment AND makes for a good threat!
I'd not say "good" threat. "Effective" or "persuasive" are words I'd use.
That would make a good question. What word would thothy likely use in this situation?
The know your legion worlders grammar thread
All misspelled entries are Cobie!
I missed a night out at a favourite pub/eaty place on Friday because:-
a) I have another hobby that has meetings on a Friday night.
b) I was already going to another night out/eaty place.
c) I was having guests round to my home for drinks/ eaty things.
d) Friday night is comics reading night.
e) I had to collect people from the airport due to bad weather.
f) I chose to go home because of bad weather
g) I didn't like the person/ people at the night out.
f) I chose to go home because of bad weather
Got it in one. Both trains* & buses were down. Buses came on late in the afternoon, but the timetables for the ones that get me closest to home have an early cut off time.
There are other buses, but it would mean going well out of my way, and after a few drinks in a storm, well...
*I think they just wanted to get as organised as possible for the engineering works they were shutting the whole thing down for on Saturday anyway.
It's always nicer guessing than coming up with questions, so over to you Ibby!
Hope you still had a good meal, thothy.
Next Q coming up soon!
fish & chips bought on the way home. Yummy!
I have a cousin who just loves fish and chips. Says that's all he'll ever eat if he ever visits the UK.
No, wait, that's not the question...
It might be related to my next one, thanks Ibby
Always a pleasure to help someone brainstorm
yes...let's pretend I contributed to that..."brainstorm" you say?... yes ...
Weeeeell, you were the first one to mention fish and chips...
this is true. They appear in my mind a lot, so I overlooked that
Say, why does my home smell like fried, battered fish all of a sudden? (and no, that's not the game question yet!)
Are phone calls not enough? Skype not giving you that "being there" feeling? Try TeleSmell!
It's new from thothInc. That's right, the guys who gave you Tell-It-Like-It-Is Wonderlassos.
TeleSmell! Letting you share all your senses with the people you love!
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That would be a good way to tell your loved ones that they smell bad...
Does this meat smell off to you?
Hey! Can you smell gas? Oh, beans for dinner again
Do you like strawberries? They taste like this.
Just some of the many ways to use telesmell, from thothInc
Which of these have Blaze and I not yet done?
1) Visited a gay spa in another country
2) Gotten stranded on an island during a storm
3) Gone bungee jumping
4) Explored ancient ruins abroad
5) Spent the night on a mountain, above the clouds
6) Gotten body paint all over each other
7) Escaped an angry dog
8) Celebrated a festival with a big foam party
9) Met each others' parents and siblings
10) Rode a camel in the desert
11) Gotten peanut butter and syrup all over each other
12) Cried in each others' arms after watching a sad movie
I'll go with 3) and all down to you scaring Blaze into thinking that the cord could turn out to be Elastic Lad at any moment.
And Blaze doesn't like freckled redheads either, so that would not have been exciting for him.
But we did 3. I went first because I am heavier. He was so cute when he was yelling at the top of his lungs.
yeah, nothing says romance more than plunging from tall things.
1)
We have done that in quite a few Southeast Asian countries. We cannot do that here at home because, well, it's a secret... so we make up for it abroad where people do not know us.
Bah, i thought that you,d mentioned it, but couldn,t remember if it was that you,d done it or not
10
One of our greatest fears is that we will bump into somebody who DOES recognize us. It's happened a couple of times on this gay beach we visited in the Philippines - two people recognized Blaze and one person recognized me. Cue lots of lying and pretending to be just two friends hanging out.
Not 10, we took a desert tour in the UAE and both got to ride a camel. It's a lot more fun than riding a horse! Never realized camels are so tall.
That is true. Blaze, that thoughtful, thoughtful sweetie of mine, surprised me on the first birthday I celebrated after we became a couple by booking a hotel for us. To reward him, I brought along some peanut butter and some chocolate syrup...
Whoops. Forgot to start a new thread as we are past 2000 posts. Time to close and move...
