The Never Ending Toadfish Interview Cycle!

[goat starer]

nice to see you around kanoloa but questions?

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Given that Kanaloa hasn't showed up yet I'll start the questions to keep things going.

1. Was Kanaloa kidnapped?

2. Are the squidlings involved?

3. What is that muffled sound?

[Sibling Chatty]

1. Was Kanaloa kidnapped?

Only by Life. It keeps moving on, no matter how much you want to just hang out at the Monastery.

2. Are the squidlings involved?

My sweet baby squidlings?? How could you ASK such a question?? (OF course they are, they're squidlings, it's their bound duty to be involved in EVERYTHING.)

3. What is that muffled sound?

What?? I have a head cold, ALL sounds are muffled.



1. Are the leprechauns in your neighborhood extremely particular about what shade of green?

2. Do you miss the Fluffysnakies of DOOOOM color of pink?

3. Has anyone seen my mind? I seem to have lost it. Again.

[Kiyoodle the Gambrinous]

1. Are the leprechauns in your neighborhood extremely particular about what shade of green?

Yes, they don't want to be mistaken for the Absinth Green Fairies.

2. Do you miss the Fluffysnakies of DOOOOM color of pink?

Of course I do. Life's not been the same since I've seen that colour.

3. Has anyone seen my mind? I seem to have lost it. Again.

It probably ran off with mine. I seem to miss it as well.

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1. What do we need brains for anyway?

2. Do you have your pants on?

3. Are you paranoid?

[Swatopluk]

1. What do we need brains for anyway?
To translate the TV input into consumerist choices

2. Do you have your pants on?
Yes

3. Are you paranoid?
You are asking too many questions, stranger!

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1. Does pure ethanol do the job? (except spoiling the grammar of course)

2. Horror or Prawn (in literature, movies, art etc,)?

3. Do you own the house you live in or do you have to pay rent (house or flat)?

[anthrobabe]

1) Does pure ethanol do the job?...
sure, well not in coffee but otherwise, sure

2)Horror of Prawn?
Horror- not into Prawn really. I'm a child of the 80's and no one did horror like the 80's ( now I didn't say it was all good Horror- just 80's Horror)

2)Own or rent?
I'm buying a fantastic deluxe 16x80 mobile home- complete with hot and cold running water. Ok I'm being sarcastic a bit here- I am buying the trailer- and yes I live in the southern USA( no smart comments!)- it's ok, it's livable, the park where I well park it is pretty nice we have a lake and such so overall is could be a much worse living situation.

sorry- rambling....

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1) Do you feel it necessary to pluck or pull nostril hair, either from your nose or anothers?

2) American football or Football as played elsewhere ( Soccer here in the USA)?

3) Have you ever eaten fried green tomatos?

[Kiyoodle the Gambrinous]

1) Do you feel it necessary to pluck or pull nostril hair, either from your nose or anothers?

I think shaving them might do the job.

2) American football or Football as played elsewhere ( Soccer here in the USA)?

Of course the way football is played everywhere else. I don't think American Football should be called football anyway. It's more like Rugby in armor.

3) Have you ever eaten fried green tomatos?

No, but I've eaten fried red tomatos once. Can't remember much of it anymore, it's been a long time...

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1. Is horse piss tastier than the American Budweiser?

2. Potatoes, rice or french fries?

3. What is your favourite cocktail (alcoholic or non-alcoholic)? If possible, provide a recipe...

[goat starer]

1. Is horse piss tastier than the American Budweiser?

Its a guess but I would say probably yes. the only thing that might possibly be worse than american budweiser is horse piss from a horse that has done nothing but drink american budweiser for several weeks. Even then you might find the process improves the flavour!

2. Potatoes, rice or french fries?

mashed potatoes with sausages, rice with curry, chips with steak

3. What is your favourite cocktail (alcoholic or non-alcoholic)? If possible, provide a recipe...

one I had in Berlin a few weeks ago won this hands down...

Death in the Afternoon

Pernod
Champagne
and that is it!


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1) Do you like caves?

2) what is your guiltiest pleasure?

3) Do you play computer games? If so what is your all time favorite?

[Bluenose]

1) Do you like caves?

Yep, big time.  Once visited the cave at Margaret River in Western Australia that has the world's longest straw stalictite (about 6m from memory), georgeous.  However, my favourite caves are Wombeyan Caves in NSW.

2) what is your guiltiest pleasure?

Chucking a "sickie".

3) Do you play computer games? If so what is your all time favorite?

Not much these days, but my all time fave was Space Quest II

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1. Favourite hard cheese?

2. Soft cheese?

3. Blue cheese?

If you don't like cheese or can't eat it, then tell us your favourite red wine, white wine and sparkling wine?

[Sibling Chatty]

1. Favourite hard cheese?

2. Soft cheese?

3. Blue cheese?

If you don't like cheese or can't eat it, then tell us your favourite red wine, white wine and sparkling wine?

Boy, make my life weird. SUPPOSEDLY, I can't have aged cheeses. I can't have wine either. Carcinoid syndrome, ya know...

BUT!!

1) My favorite cheese of all times is a really good Swiss. Or a really nice, smoky Provolone. No, the Swiss, or a smooth, nutty Baby Swiss. Ok, a Lancre cheese, but NOT the Lancre Blue. Pterry seems to have given Lancre the ability to produce a Quirm-type cheese.

2) Soft cheese?? AAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLL of them. OK, Feta. (My Greek friend, Patty, introduced me to REAL Greek feta, brought home from Greece by Tia Dorothea, and it beats the HELL outta any not-really-Greek feta you've ever tasted. Tia's family produces feta for the 'carriage trade' restaurants in Athens, and has olive orchards.)
LOTS of feta.

3) Blue cheese? Has mold. That's what the blue is. I have mold allergies. Yes, I used to make a killer blue cheese sauce for pasta (as given to the Cardinal Queequeg character at Omnia), the key word being killer...for me!!

I don't want to be breathless, I don't eat blue cheese!!



1. What do you eat on your hamburger? (List everything, including cheeses, vegetables, sauces, and anything else that might be available, including preferred bun, and is that bun toasted, warmed, steamed or just plain old cold bread?)

2. Do you still have any of your favorite toys or other items from childhood? What are they?

3. Is  Congressman Joseph Lieberman, (Idiot, Connecticut) a total sell-out SOB, or just another rank opportunist?

[goat starer]

1. What do you eat on your hamburger? (List everything, including cheeses, vegetables, sauces, and anything else that might be available, including preferred bun, and is that bun toasted, warmed, steamed or just plain old cold bread?)

burger should be in a white pain rustique with pickles, mature cheddar OR stilton, rocket and a chunky tomato sauce.

2. Do you still have any of your favorite toys or other items from childhood? What are they?

hndreds of them. My favorite has to be Commie Bunny. A rabbit won at a blue peter bring and buy sale at the local Conservative club. He came with a blue rosette which was quickly switched for a red ribbon and soviet cap badge

3. Is  Congressman Joseph Lieberman, (Idiot, Connecticut) a total sell-out SOB, or just another rank opportunist?

according to his own site he is a "thoughtful, principled, and effective legislator" so I would imagine he is a useless waste of space 

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1) Walking or cycling?
2) Would you eat / have you eaten insects?
3) Sharks - deeply misunderstood or evil killers of the sea?

[Swatopluk]

1) Walking or cycling?
Walking (the bike is not safe and I won't spend money to buy a new one)

2) Would you eat / have you eaten insects?
If they are not recognisable anymore, why not? Not that I know of.

3) Sharks - deeply misunderstood or evil killers of the sea?
Evil is the wrong category but they can be pretty nasty (especially among each other).
They cannibalize their siblings even before born! They still don't deserve the negative hype as maneaters.
I personally prefer wolves and orcas.

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1. Buster Keaton or Charlie Chaplin?
2. Beatles or Stones?
3. Situational Comic or Wordy Wit?

[Bluenose]

1. What do you eat on your hamburger? (List everything, including cheeses, vegetables, sauces, and anything else that might be available, including preferred bun, and is that bun toasted, warmed, steamed or just plain old cold bread?)

Can't resist a hamburger question.

First make your roll.  I use a plain white bread recipe (NO sugar) and roll the top of the bun liberally in sesame seeds, the bun is made fairly flat, that is not too tall and fairly wide.

Then make your patty.  I use about 500g (~1lb) premium ground lean beef from my local butcher.  One very finely chopped onion. Two crushed garlic cloves. 1/2 teaspoon mixed herbs. One egg.  One generous splash of Worcestershire sauce.  One generous splash of Thai sweet chili sauce.  Pinch of salt.  Pepper to taste.  Mix all ingredients in a bowl using your hands.  If that is too "eew gross" then use a wooden spoon.  Make into generous sized patties and cook over moderate heat turning once.

While the patties are cooking, cook a couple of slices of bacon and a fried egg per hamburger.

Slice the roll and lightly toast.  Lightly butter.  Place some shredded lettuce (iceburg, not any of that bitter rubbish here) on the bottom piece of bun, then a couple of slices of nice ripe homegrown tomatoes and a slice or two of canned beetroot.  Once the meat is cooked place a patty on the salad, give it a squirt of good quality tomato ketchup and then put a slice of good quality cheddar over it then the bacon and the egg.  Add salt and pepper to taste and then put the top on the bun.

Delicious and very messy.  It is not possible to have a tidy hamburger and a good hamburger at the same time IMO.

Now back to the Interview Cycle:

1. Buster Keaton or Charlie Chaplin?

Buster every time.

2. Beatles or Stones?

Different parts of me are arguing about this question but I think the Beatles have by a fine margin.

3. Situational Comic or Wordy Wit?

Probably wordy wit more often than not, although more like the Goons, or Monty Python rather than American political humour.



1.  Do you play in the Pirates, if so, what is your favourite thread there?

2.  What is the first thing you check when you log onto the HOT Forums?

3.  Do you get twitchy if you haven't posted here for a couple of days?

[Swatopluk]

1.  Do you play in the Pirates, if so, what is your favourite thread there?
Is it enough that I play Sid Meier's Pirates (Pirates Gold to be exact) on a regular base?

2.  What is the first thing you check when you log onto the HOT Forums?
New replies to your posts than unread posts since last visit.

3.  Do you get twitchy if you haven't posted here for a couple of days?
I am short of founding Posters Anonymous

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1. Do you read a daily newspaper (print form)? If yes, which, if no, what else.

2. Do you read "holy texts"/scripture on a regular base?
If yes, out of faith or out of interest?

3. What's your pet's name or what would it be if you had one (or two or three or more)?

[Sibling Lambicus the Toluous]

1. Do you read a daily newspaper (print form)? If yes, which, if no, what else.
Not daily.

I get our "local news" community paper delivered, but it's three times a week.  I tend to read an actual "paper" newspaper only if I'm taking the train into the city for something, which doesn't happen too often.

2. Do you read "holy texts"/scripture on a regular base?
If yes, out of faith or out of interest?
Yes.  I'm working my way through the Bible at the moment.  My original goal was to do it every night before bed, but in practice it usually ends up being three or four nights a week.

I definitely don't read it out of faith (and perhaps unfortunately, the more I read, the more I sympathize with Mark Twain's position on Christianity and the Bible).

At this point, I do it partly out of interest, partly out of habit, but mostly because of some promises I've made, which I think I've gone into here before (though I may not have - I can't remember for sure).

3. What's your pet's name or what would it be if you had one (or two or three or more)?
I don't have a pet at present.

If I had the right sort of dog for the name (i.e. a little white fluffy dog like my wife wants to get), I'd go for "Asta", after the dog in The Thin Man.

Other names near the top of the list would be Huxley (after T.H. Huxley, "Darwin's Bulldog") or Rusty (just 'cause I like the name)... but it would depend on the personality of the dog.

While I was growing up, I had a turtle named "Pokey", a budgie named "Tweetie" and several goldfish named "Jaws".  I was an unoriginal child.   


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1. What was the first "big trip" that you remember taking as a child?

2. What's the craziest thing you've ever done?

3. Your group is putting on a play.  Which would you want to do: Acting, writing, directing, or running the lights... and why?