Poppinjay

When I do, it's amazing. Mostly dairy products bring it on.


Are you going to watch the Sopranos season debut? I am, in fact I now know the entire story line of the first episode (HBO accidently put it on their On Demand screen).

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Lucifer

I've been there....



I'm not going to watch, because I've never gotten into the Soprano's. I don't know why not, it's the sort of thing I'd like, I've just never gotten into it.


What is the next movie you plan on seeing?

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Grasshopper Green

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

I hate this time of year as far as movie going goes. I love going to movies, but all the shit movies are released right about now. This looks like a good one to see amidst the crap.

What's for dinner tonight? I haven't decided yet, but I have a feeling it might be cookies.

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Charlatan

I am having a gin and tonic for dinner tonight... I need to forget this week. I am making pasta for my wife and daughter.


I am watching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles... what was the last animated (kids) series you watched?

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Poppinjay

Spongebob Squarepants



I had a granola bar for breakfast. What are you having?

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Lucifer

Peanut butter and raspberry jam on english muffins, OJ (with strawberries and bananas) and lots of coffee. Let the weekend begin!


they plowed my street last night (first time since beginning of February). How is your city's road crew doing?

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Dragonknight

The base where I stay posted bulletins up saying to move our vehicles off the street so that they can re-pave the road on a certian day. Yeah the date came and went, roads still the same. Who knows when it will get done.

So you have a free plane ticket with room and board, where are you going?

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777

I'll go the London Museum everyday and check out all the artifact the British Empire has collected over the last few hundred years.

What did you do for your last Brithday? The guys and me went out for Boa and Dumplings last night. Had a great time.

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Grasshopper Green

I had a pretty bad birthday party...really, it was a flop. It was horrible. Did I mention that it sucked?

I'll probably watch a movie at home tonight. What are your plans for this evening?

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SirLance

Attending John Cleese's one man show.

Do you contribute to any charites? Which ones and why did you pick them.

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Grasshopper Green

I started giving money to the National Institute of Mental Health after my brother died, in hopes that perhaps they may help one person who otherwise would be in my shoes.

I also give to Childrens Miracle Network regularly. I think it's a good charity, and kids pull on my heartstrings.

Hot or cold? I personally like hot. I know you can put on extra layers, blah blah, but I love wearing just a tank top and shorts.

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Gilda

Cold. You can cover up with clothes, and there's no need for sunscreen all the time if you have very pale skin.

If you could have tickets to any event, what would it be and why?

Gilda

777

Gilda, you forgot to answer your own question.

That's a tough one... My firm is throwing a convention/seminar in San Diego in April. And the Real Estate Wealth Expo (Trump Expo) in Los Angeles in on the same weekend! Los Angeles or San Diego? Choices.

What's your snack food of choice? If there's any nuts, or trail mix near me, it won't be there for long. That's for sure.

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Roger Zelazny

Dragonknight

UMMM trail mix, yeah I could devour a pound or so of it for sure.

What is the first thing you noticed about your SO? I noticed that my wife is gorgeous.

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Poppinjay

How can that be asnwered any other way? Ditto. Whenever I put up her picture in a new workplace, female cow-orkers will see it and remark with great surprise, "she's PRETTY!"

What? Am I some kind of elephant man that I can't have a beautiful SO?

Today is the first day of the rest of your life. What do you do differently starting today? I'm thinking I need to be more frugal.

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Fly

i wouldn't change a fuckin' thing.

things are all good just how it is.


hard taco shells or soft taco shells?

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Lucifer

Soft. The hard shells crumble too easily.


You have to move cross country. Do you hire professionals to move you (less hassle but more expensive) or rent a U-Haul and do it yourself (more hassle, but less expensive)?

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maleficent

hire someone... my time and aggravation are worth something... plus my back is in such bad shape - shlepping wouldn't be good.

What's the last thing that you cooked?

I made lamb meatballs with cumin and a nice yogurt and mind dipping sauce - quite tasty...

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Grasshopper Green

I made scrambled eggs for breakfast. The last thing that took more than a few minutes though, were some enchiladas. Mmmm...enchiladas.

Do you burn candles or incence regularly? I love scented candles and I have them in my living room, kitchen, and bedroom.

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Gilda

Sorry, I just found this thread and didn't want to read through a thousand posts before posting, so I wasn't aware of that rule.

Only in our tea room/shrine, where we use it as a part of the tea ceremony or prayer. Outside of there, my paranoid nature regarding fire hazards will not allow open flames anywhere in our home.

What luxury that you regularly indulge in would you find it most difficult to part with? I'm not sure I'd be able to cope with giving up recreational reading.

Gilda

fresnelly

Sweet/salty, fattening foods. This is a more important struggle for me, now that I'm in my 30's.

What's your mildest sexual fantasy? I'd like to make sweet, sweet love to a Land's End or L.L Bean model.

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Fly

shit.........


i missed that too........

will,from here on out,start to do the same.......

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Gilda

Hmmm. Assuming that this means something I'd like to do, but never have, I'd have to say sex in an elevator.

If you could spend one day with anyone you like that you haven't had the chance to spend time with, who would it be, and what would you want to do? I'd want to take my youngest sister, Molly, to Disneyland.

Gilda

AVoiceOfReason

My friend Allan from New York City. He and I used to get to see each other when he'd come to his mother-in-law's house in Tulsa, but he divorced that wife, so he doesn't come down this way anymore. If we met in NYC, we'd hit a museum or two, and a record store or two, and just generally hang out.

The buffet says "All You Can Eat." What do you want on it? Me, I like crab legs and shrimp on mine.

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maleficent

If the crab legs are actual crab legs, and the shrimp is properly cooked, you will have to fight me for it - -however, eggs benedict if it's brunch, might be a nice change of pace... and bloody mary's -- lots of bloody marys... There used to be a brunch at the UN Plaza hotel in NYC - some chain took it over in recent years, but their brunch used to have awesome sushi and some of the best caviar ever... mmmm ....mmmmm... good..

I have an incredibly stiff muscle in my right shoulder, so much that it hurts to move my head... .. that I think I threw out my left shoulder trying to get the ben gay cream in the right spot - i missed.. so now i'm in double pain... What ache or pain do you have today?

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Charlatan

Mal, you need to get some guy to come over to your place and work the kinks out of your shoulder...

I have some minor aches and brusing from Kendo this weekend. I hadn't been in two weeks and my muscles (two days later) are complaining.


My wife and kids have March Break this week. I have to work while they hang out. Are you doing anything for March Break? If not, what was the last thing you did for March Break?

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TivaBella

I don't have kids so March Break is nothing unusual. However I worked in a Library last March, so mostly I cringed with fear. Have you ever been near a library in March Break? Try it sometime. You too will be terrorized.

Where did you go on your last vacation? I was in Miami last week for the first time. It won't be the last!

Gilda

We went to Universal Orlando for a week, stayed in the Portofino Bay hotel, and got to skip to the head of the line at all the best rides, and walked barefoot on the beach at the end of the day.

If you could climb into a story and live it from the POV of one of the characters, what story would it be, and what character would you live it as?

I'd want to be Golden Age Black Canary. She was strong, independent, and tended to get captured and tied up a lot.

Gilda

JumpinJesus

I would crawl into The Little Prince because I'd love to have a feeling of such wondrous naive wisdom. I can't think of another protagonist whose innocence lends to such an enlightened state of mind as his.


When did you truly realize that the planet on which we live was - cosmologically speaking - a fairly insignificant rock in the universe and how did it make you feel?

for me, it was when I was stargazing one summer night in our backyard when I was around 14. I remember looking up at the sky and seeing all the stars and it was like an epiphany. It both frightened and fascinated me at the same moment. Frightened that my egocentric world was fairly insignificant and fascinated that the universe was so expansive.

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Poppinjay

6th grade field trip to the planetarium at UNC. That was the first time I ever got the third rock from the sun feeling. To this day, one of my most calming meditative thoughts is to imagine that I'm an infinitely fast ion, and I can go from galaxy to galaxy in a matter of minutes to explore other worlds.

Do you use butter or some kind of sustitute? I use Fleischmann's olive oil spread. Tres yummy.

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AVoiceOfReason

I use whatever the wife puts in the 'fridge. It's Shedd Spread most of the time, which I think is margarine, but I'm not sure.

It's getting near tax-time, and I'm still not motivated to look at my stuff. Do you look forward to getting a tax refund check each year? I get mad if I have a refund coming, because it means I overpaid the goverment and they don't give me any interest on my money.

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Carno

I don't really care since the government already owns my ass, but it is nice to get a lump of money.


Which is the better of the two, Subway or Quizno's? What's your favorite place to get a sub?

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Charlatan

I haven't had a sub in years. I think the last one I had was at a Subway but my favourite Sub is the roast beef sub (with extra cheese and mustard) from Mr. Sub.


I have a craving for a hamburger. What would hit the spot with you right now?

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Poppinjay

Mac and cheese, which I am eating and it is hitting the spot nicely. I'll get some new arteries at Target after work.


Have you ever had a summer time "burnin' in love with a blue jean girl" experience? Mine was named Amy, it was 1985.

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I think the Apocalypse is happening all around us. We go on eating desserts and watching TV. I know I do. I wish we were more capable of sustained passion and sustained resistance. We should be screaming and what we do is gossip. -Lydia Millet

Charlatan

Yes I have... Her name was Maggie.

My wife and son just called me from the CN Tower. What's the tallest building you've ever been in? Was it impressive?

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Poppinjay

John Hancock building, I was unimpressed because it was all glassed off at the top. That, and Chicago is really flat except for the small downtown cluster of skyscrapers.

The Empire State Building, now that some ballsy tallness. They let you go outside, and when I went there at the age of 21, there wasn't even much to keep you from jumping off.

City life, or backwoods country road? I'd go with the road, depending on where it leads.

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I think the Apocalypse is happening all around us. We go on eating desserts and watching TV. I know I do. I wish we were more capable of sustained passion and sustained resistance. We should be screaming and what we do is gossip. -Lydia Millet

SSJTWIZTA

City Life.

I've lived in the country for far too long, a little peace & quiet is great...but to much is to much.

If you somehow ran across a time machine, and only had a one way ticket so to speak. would you stay in the present or travel to someplace in the future/past and stay forever? if you would, what year/location would you travel to?

fresnelly

I'd have to say the past. As much as I'd like to see the future, it would be frustrating to see it, but not be able to report back to the present, in order to stave off disaster or share beneficial knowledge. By going back in time, I could do exactly that.

When would I travel to? The end of the year 2000 to prevent the accidental death of a loved one, and other horrible events.

What past historical fashion would you like to see back in style? I say: Enough of the 80's, bring back the late 1940's!

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Poppinjay

I'd want to bring back the 20's. The days of F. Scott, Babbit. When what is today considered a mansion was simply a bungalow.

Who do you think the President of the US will be come 2009? I'm guessing McCain.

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I think the Apocalypse is happening all around us. We go on eating desserts and watching TV. I know I do. I wish we were more capable of sustained passion and sustained resistance. We should be screaming and what we do is gossip. -Lydia Millet

Charlatan

I don't think it is going to be anyone that we are even considering right now. It will be a dark horse.

(by the way, I want to see the fashions of the 30s come back in style).


I ate fried chicken today. When was the last time you ate fried chicken?

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