Toadfish Monastery

1. What's your favourite mode of transportation?

Ship or boat

2. What languages do you speak, besides English?

COBOL, BASIC, Pascal, C,

3. Hang gliding, bungee jumping, or waiting in the car?

Definitely waiting in the car.

Hang gliding = aeroplane without either a fuselage or engine, yeah, right.

Bungee jumping = tying a rubber band around my ankles and jumping off a high place, I don't think so...

Also not keen on:

Skydiving = jumping out of a perfectly serviceable aeroplane, what a good idea.  NOT.

Skiing = strapping two planks of wood to my feet and hurtling down the side of a mountain a sixty mile an hour, I can think of cheaper ways of breaking my leg if I really want to.

OTOH, I never even thought twice about being thrown off the front of an aircraft carrier by a steam catapult, so go figure... 

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1. Something sweet or cheese and port/Tokay/red wine?

2. Creamy Camembert or aged Gorgonzola?

3. Passionfruit & strawberry Pavlova or Lemon tart?

1. Something sweet or cheese and port/Tokay/red wine?

Hmm, can't have wine/alcohol because of the carcinoid; have to be careful about sweets because of the diabetes (because of the medication for the carcinoid).

Sweet it is, preferably with chocolate, the darker chocolate the better.

2. Creamy Camembert or aged Gorgonzola?

No aged cheeses allowed (flippin' carcinoid again, thanks God, if you're listening, I <font=extreme sarcasm> REALLY <delete/font> appreciate the excellent state of my health. ONE genetic illness wasn't enough, oh, NOOOO, let's try 4 or 5 at a time.)

So, Camembert it is.

3. Passionfruit & strawberry Pavlova or Lemon tart?

Passionfruit and Strawberry over Lemon any day.

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1. Favorite fiction author?

2. If you were required to attend University level courses in a completely different field from your usual interests, what field would you choose?

3. Can you roll your tongue?

1. Favorite fiction author?

Is Pratchett a fiction author? If yes, it's him then.

2. If you were required to attend University level courses in a completely different field from your usual interests, what field would you choose?


Probably psychlogy. That's a field that has alaways interested.

3. Can you roll your tongue?

Roll roll roll... Yes I can...

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1. What was the worst hang-over you ever had?

2. Have you ever smashed something due to being very angry?

3. Have you ever hurt yourself on purpose?

1. What was the worst hang-over you ever had?
Never been drunk enough for the classical thing. After-effects of dental surgery probably come closest.

2. Have you ever smashed something due to being very angry?
Yes, though nothing particularly costly

3. Have you ever hurt yourself on purpose?
I used to slap myself in the face regularly for doing stupid things

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1. Most boring book you ever read?

2. Most annoying movie you never saw?

3. Most annoying question you ever had to answer (apart from this game)?

1. Most boring book you ever read?

Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks. Pompous overblown drivel!

2. Most annoying movie you never saw?

Saving Private Ryan. starts with a brilliant portrayal of the horrors of D-day and then degenerates into a boys own story of plucky yet sentimental americans. Awful (especially when compared to Band of Brothers). bring back the days when the second world war was enough of a story without adding 'human interest'. I feel sure the real tales had some human interest already.

had I seen U-571 I am sure it would have jumped into first place easily.

3. Most annoying question you ever had to answer (apart from this game)?

can you direct me to the university (american tourist in the middle of oxford)

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1) what was the worst day of your life?

2) is there an old girlfriend / boyfriend that you would take back?

3) Monkfish or Prawns?

1) what was the worst day of your life?

I guess when I cut my fingers nearly off... or something like that. I tend to edit my 'worst days' from memory. 

2) is there an old girlfriend / boyfriend that you would take back?

Absolutely! I'm VERY dense when it comes to interpersonal sexual relations, and she was feeding me so many opportunities, but _I_ being 5 times more dense than a neutron star failed to 'get it' in time... she eventually married her 'compromise choice'.  *sigh*  We really clicked, conversationally.  And, I've come to learn, that good conversation is to be treasured above all else-- you can talk ANYtime, regardless of your physical condition(s).  *bigger-sigh*

3) Monkfish or Prawns?
Oh, monkfish, most definitely!  Tastes a lot like lobster.... <grin>

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1. Do you dream in color? Are you sure? <grin>

2. What's the highest place you've ever been? (above sea-level, to keep it world-wide)

3. Mountain climbing, or desert-treking?  On foot, or powered? (feel free to combine both or ignore one or the other pair. <grin>)

1. Do you dream in color? Are you sure? <grin>

Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. I'm not really sure, because I have problems remebering my dreams, but I recall some being black and white (mostly those where something bad happens) and some being in colour (the happier ones)

2. What's the highest place you've ever been? (above sea-level, to keep it world-wide)

Is plane an option? If yes then in a plane, but not sure how high it was (but I guess it was the highest I ever came)

3. Mountain climbing, or desert-treking?  On foot, or powered? (feel free to combine both or ignore one or the other pair. <grin>)

Depends on the fact, if there is a pub at the end. If yes, then it really doesn't matter.

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1. What is the most exotic food you have tasted?

2. Did you actually like it?

3. Do you try to live your life to the fullest?

1. What is the most exotic food you have tasted?

Wow, that's are hard one. I'm a self professed foodie, but I can't eat anything resembling offal.

Once when I was on holidays China I went to a Muslim restaurant in Xian which serves a really delicious mutton broth. You had to break this strange bread into a bowl over which mutton soup was poured. Then you had to add some really delicious condiments like picked garlic, chili and a few unknowns, which were all really delicious.

2. Did you actually like it?

It was awesome and I've never seen anything like it. Chinese food follows the standard Cantonese fare where I live. I had no idea there was Muslim Chinese cooking - it was really amazing.

3. Do you try to live your life to the fullest?

Since I've taken up meditation, I find sitting still is just important as being 'on the go'. So for me living life to the fullest is a combination of both.

Q1 What was your Xmas like? How did you celebrate it?

Q2 Where is a special place you can go to unwind?

Q3 What are you currently reading? Good? Bad?

Q1 What was your Xmas like? How did you celebrate it?
Pretty placid, rather skinny. We get Christmas crackers and have a ham. Pretty run of the mill.

Q2 Where is a special place you can go to unwind?
Outside, in my yard, or in the mountains. Anywhere outside, really.

Q3 What are you currently reading? Good? Bad?
Grimms' Complete Fairy Tales. Good, but scary as well.
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1. Favorite season?
2. Do you want to save the fairy shrimp?
3. Who is your favorite writer?

1. Favorite season?

Duck Season, NOOOO, Wabbit Season. No, DUCK Season.
Wabbit Season. Duck Season...

Ok, spring, I think. Or fall. Open Window Season, when it's not too hot, not too cold and not raining.

2. Do you want to save the fairy shrimp?

Who lost 'em this time?? Not me. Maybe Swato fed 'em to the Squidlings...

3. Who is your favorite writer?

Terry Prachett or Harlan Ellison.

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1) What color are your eyes.
2) Do you wear glasses? Should you?
3) Do you think you're vain about your looks? About your brains? About your abilities?

1) What color are your eyes.

I've always thought they were brown, but a girl told me once they are green. SO take your pick...

2) Do you wear glasses? Should you?

Apart from sunglasses, no, I don't.

And I shouldn't.

3) Do you think you're vain about your looks? About your brains? About your abilities?

I'm not vain at all. I don't have to, as I'm the most beautiful, most intelligent person in the world. Being vain would be just a waste of time in my case.

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1. Shouldn't you ben asleep?

2. What do you consider your greatest ability?

3. How much is 1+1?

1. Shouldn't you ben asleep?
To the contrary. I should have gotten up 1.5 hours earlier at least

2. What do you consider your greatest ability?
Hm, the ability to get interested in about everything is a two-edged sword in todays world where extremly narrow in-depth knowledge is valued above everything and each and any distraction considered a waste.

3. How much is 1+1?
According to Peano this is by definition 2. But beacuse the opinion polls are not yet in, I'll abstain from following this lead beacuse it could hurt my reputation, if that answer doesn't run with the base.

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1. Your favorite plush toy?

2. Preemptive nuclear strike against Iran probable in 2007?

3. Kathrina the sequel this year? (hurricane + consequences)

1. Your favorite plush toy?

"Effant", a little plush elephant that trumpets when you squeeze him - given to me by my wife for nothing in particular a few years ago.  (I like elephants)

2. Preemptive nuclear strike against Iran probable in 2007?

Man I hope not, but GW seems capable of anything...

3. Kathrina the sequel this year? (hurricane + consequences)

Probably not.

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BTW, 1+1=10

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1. To where did you last go away on holiday?

2. What place was the biggest disappointment when you actually got to go there, compared to what you always thought beforehand.

3.  Main highway, quick as you can or bumble along the back ways and by ways, stopping here and there when the spirit moves?

1. To where did you last go away on holiday?
Norway, but that already some time ago.

2. What place was the biggest disappointment when you actually got to go there, compared to what you always thought beforehand.
I could name a few museums/exhibitions but have no special place in geographical terms in mind.

3.  Main highway, quick as you can or bumble along the back ways and by ways, stopping here and there when the spirit moves?
Metaphorically more of the latter, otherwise depending on mood and situation

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1. pork, beef or veggies?

2. cold or hot shower?

3. Tolkien or Robert. E. Howard?

1. pork, beef or veggies?
Veggies, veggies, veggies, especially baked potatoes and steamed brussels sprouts.

2. cold or hot shower?
Hot, hot, hot, especially with liquid soap on a soft scrubby.

3. Tolkien or Robert. E. Howard?
Tolkein, Tolkein, Tolkein because I've never read any Howard.

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1) Moe, Larry, Curly, Curly-Joe or Shemp?

2) Laurel or Hardy?

3) Would you be an apostle if the situation arose?