Toadfish Monastery

What do you consider was your greatest achievement?

Arrr, the last time me crew mutinied, I were cast adrift in an open boat 4200 miles from the nearest port. Detonating the remote controlled bomb I'd left behind on me ship gave me a great sense o' satisfaction, as I were already on the only lifeboat.

Do you like Mondays?

Aye. That bloke Friday has a nice one too.

Have you ever met...'The Dark Avenger'?

3. Gah! That stupid bastid still owes me for a peg leg.

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1. Maggits or weevils?

2. Temperature: below 30F or above 90F?

3. Glass or pewter tankards?

1. Maggits or weevils?

weevils look rather sweet; I like the kind of constant motion and general heaving in my bag of flour. Maggits jest look ugh.

2. Temperature: below 30F or above 90F?

Above 90F. Any opportunity to take my clothes off. Below 30F and I worry about bits of me snapping off.


3. Glass or pewter tankards?

Glass. I like to see the poison before I swallow it. And I can't stand the taste of metal polish.

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1. If you had four legs what would you do with them?

2. Black&White TV/Film or colour?

3. Describe your attitude to irrelevant minors.

1. If you had four legs what would you do with them?
Run! Run Joe, Run! Run for your life...!

2. Black&White TV/Film or colour?
I do like B/W but if I have to choose colo(u)r.

3. Describe your attitude to irrelevant minors.
Friendly if they are not annoying, patient if they are (because murder of children is frowned upon in our society ).

1. Cheney crashed in his chopper, he the only survivor, he is badly injured and these precious seconds can save his life, you are a photographer and the only person around, the question is: do you use colo(u)r film or B&W?

2. No, seriously, what lense would you use?

3. Digital or film?

1. Cheney crashed in his chopper, he the only survivor, he is badly injured and these precious seconds can save his life, you are a photographer and the only person around, the question is: do you use colo(u)r film or B&W?

I'd probably be carrying color, so I would e-mail Kodak to send me some B&W, preferably by slow tortoise. Of course, I would NOT give away the subject of the impending shoot.

2. No, seriously, what lense would you use?

Telephoto, because I wouldn't get too near that rancid bag of ill wind, dead or alive. The stupid might be contagious.

3. Digital or film?

Digital, because I could just download it and sell it to multiple sources--to pay for the party!!



1. Pineapple or papaya?

2. Blue jeans or black tie?

3. if you had to have one or the other, would you rather suffer from a head cold or a head ache?

1. Pineapple or papaya?
Neither!

2. Blue jeans or black tie?
Blue jeans. I hate ties.

3. if you had to have one or the other, would you rather suffer from a head cold or a head ache?
Cold

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1. Halls of Montezuma or the shores of Tripoli?

2. Do you prefer to be bored or scared to death?

3. What did you have for dinner yesterday?

1. Halls of Montezuma or the shores of Tripoli?
I've gone off Tripoli since they stopped doing that Pistachio flavour ice cream...so it will have to be Monte.

2. Do you prefer to be bored or scared to death?
Oh, to be given the choice!

3. What did you have for dinner yesterday?
Fish Head Stew...as usual!

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1. What would you add to Fish Head Stew to improve the recipe? (please, Oh PLEASE!).

2. Who is your favourite Great Master?

3. Who was your favourite teacher at school?

1. What would you add to Fish Head Stew to improve the recipe? (please, Oh PLEASE!).

A large amount of either chilli powder or curry paste can usually cover up a large multitude of sins.  On second thoughts, with FHS, you probably would be better to use both, plus tons of garlic and brandy... and caustic soda couldn't hurt, either.

2. Who is your favourite Great Master?

Well, I always thought Michelangelo was reasonably talented for a Holywood actor.  Oh, sorry, that was Charlton Heston, wasn't it?

3. Who was your favourite teacher at school?

Eddy De Jong, our senior Physics Master.  He was a great teacher, had a real love of the subject and was able to impart enthusiasm for it despite the childish curriculum we had to follow (I was reading about quantum mechanics at the time in the formal curriculum we had to study billiard ball collisions - good grief!)  His experiments NEVER worked, but he managed to impart more leaning out of our working out why they didn't than we would ever have gained if they had.  Somehow he managed to teach us what we needed to know to pass the exams, while also actually teaching us a great deal more about the subject and getting into the real meaty stuff of the current leading edge physics the time.

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1. Who is you favourite comedian or comedy act?

2. Adventure holiday or luxury all the way?

3. You are entertaining an overseas visitor for a few days, what relatively nearby attraction do you just have to take them to?

1. Who is you favourite comedian or comedy act?
An Argentinian group of musical comedy called Les Luthiers, sadly for the english speakers the scripts have heavy use of puns & double entendres to be translated successfully. In english I like George Carlin.

2. Adventure holiday or luxury all the way?
Adventure now that I can, in 30 years I'll do luxury (if I can afford it).

3. You are entertaining an overseas visitor for a few days, what relatively nearby attraction do you just have to take them to?
Well, being in Florida everybody wants to either see the bloody parks in Orlando or kill their feet doing shopping. More interesting destinies like Saint Augustine or the keys can be more expensive, but perhaps -if money is not in question- diving on the coral reefs.

1. Cubism or pointillism?
2. Pyramids or temples?
3. Doric, Phrygian or Mixolydian?

ok, modal or tonal?

oookay, gregorian chant or Mary had a little lamb?

1. Cubism or pointillism?

Pointillism, but more Pissaro or Lemmen than Seurat.

2. Pyramids or temples?

Temples. Pyramids are all dark and got ghosties innem.

3. Doric, Phrygian or Mixolydian?

Lydian, actually. Maybe Aeolian.

ok, modal or tonal?

Well, the modern conception of modes describes a system where each mode encompasses the usual diatonic scale but with a different tonic or tonal center. So, I would say...it depends.

oookay, gregorian chant or Mary had a little lamb?

Plato and Aristotle be damned, I MUST have a wider selection!! The ethos of my music cannot be that limited.



1. What is your favorite sandwich?

2. What crunchy accompaniment with it? Fritos? Doritos? Crisps/potato chips? What flavor?

3.Favorite form of chocolate?

1. What is your favorite sandwich?
Bahn mi, hands down.  My $3.13 'lunch out' indulgence, though not weekly anymore.

2. What crunchy accompaniment with it? Fritos? Doritos? Crisps/potato chips? What flavor?
With sandwiches in general - green salad!  Them's snack food....  I can eat a bag if I actually sit down with one*, but they're not allowed to replace 'real food'.

3.Favorite form of chocolate?
Dark, dark, dark....  up to 86% cocoa, preferrably organic & free-trade.  But I'll also take milk chocolate/hazelnut truffles, and Tim Tams are a close contender - BEST COOKIES/BISCUITS EVER.

_{*this is why we can't have junk food in the house... whatever one person can eat casually, the other is prone to finish in one go.  Also applies to fruit - we have arguements over bartlet pears, because she eats 'em all before they are ripe enough for my tastes.} 



#1  Your FAVORITE COOKIE EVER (warning - if it's a homemade cookie, you must provide recipe )


#2  30-word review of aparagus (your opinion)


#3  1500 word short essay on the "Origins of Spirituality".  Just kidding.  Name your latest 'new favorite song'!  Feel free to quote lyrics.

#1  Your FAVORITE COOKIE EVER (warning - if it's a homemade cookie, you must provide recipe  )

the one that you have to have cookies enabled for to get onto this forum


#2  30-word review of aparagus (your opinion)

Asparagus is king amongst vegetables. In soup, steamed, in stir fries the subtle flavour adds to most dishes. Samphire (sea asparagus) is even better but hard to get hold of.


#3  1500 word short essay on the "Origins of Spirituality".  Just kidding.  Name your latest 'new favorite song'!  Feel free to quote lyrics.

The evolution of spiritruality can be traced back to the origins of the mammalian brain...... etc

how new is new? the last thing I brought and liked was the eraser by Thom Yorke.

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1) does writing essays contribute to human knowledge. If so why do we not do it more often?

2) are goats the pinnacle of evolution?

3) will you be attending the topics in herd health conference? (see calendar  )

1) does writing essays contribute to human knowledge. If so why do we not do it more often?

Not necessarily. When I was in school my friend Dai wrote a 1000 word essay which he based almost entirely on Bram Stoker's Dracula...the teacher noticed and Dai got detention!


2) are goats the pinnacle of evolution?

Not on the Gallapagos islands where, rather unsportingly in my opinion, they have been exterminated.


3) will you be attending the topics in herd health conference? (see calendar  Grin)

Are there any topics relating to scurvy or Fish Head Stew? ...if so, yes.

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1. Jean Paul Sartre or Cap'n Cronan?

2. Who would you like to be marooned on a desert island with?

3. What questions would you like to ask Radio 'TalkPort'?

1. Jean Paul Sartre or Cap'n Cronan?

Cap'n Crunch

2. Who would you like to be marooned on a desert island with?

The Dalai Lama

3. What questions would you like to ask Radio 'TalkPort'?

"How do you turn this thing on?"


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1) How do you prefer your rice?

2) Who would you rather be stranded on a desert island  with: Anne Rice or Condoleeza Rice?

3) If you could retrieve one thing from your past it would be what?

1) How do you prefer your rice?

Steamed.  Or boiled.  Or fried.  Rice pudding is pretty good too. And risotto.  Well, to tell the truth I just like rice.

2) Who would you rather be stranded on a desert island with: Anne Rice or Condoleeza Rice?

Condy gets my vote.  That way when the cannibals arrive I reckon I'll have plenty of time to nick off while they get bamboozled when she tries to explain to them why they really don't want to eat anyone and would rather sit down a play a nice game of tiddly winks.

3) If you could retrieve one thing from your past it would be what?

The coloured pencil drawing I did from the photo of Edwin Aldrin standing on the moon - the one with Neil Armstrong and the Lunar Module reflected in his visor.  I was really proud of that drawing and felt it really conveyed the spirit of the times.  Unfortunately my parent tossed it out with a load of other carp when they moved houses when I was in the Navy.

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1. Oysters natural, mournay or Kilpatrick?

2. A rich full-bodied peppery Shiraz or a light crisp chardonnay?

3. Read the book first and then see the movie, or the other way round?

1. Oysters natural, mournay or Kilpatrick?

Yarrr, definitely Sydney Rock Oysters natural with a squeeze of lemon.

2. A rich full-bodied peppery Shiraz or a light crisp chardonnay?

Depends on the meal, but I'd lean towards a nice chardonnay.

3. Read the book first and then see the movie, or the other way round?

I'm a slacker when it comes to reading fiction. I'd much prefer to write my own fiction in the Pirates Section .

I'm a self confessed non-fiction buff when it comes to books, so I tend to watch the movie.

1. Fish and chips or Spaghetti Bolognaise?

2. Vicunas or Llamas?

3. Tutenkhamen or Akhenaten?