The Never Ending Toadfish Interview Cycle!

[Swatopluk]

1. Do you ever think of your cell phone as an electronic leash?
I don't have one, so I can't tell.

2. What is the first movie you remember seeing?
Either Panamericana (an old documentary about the road) or Pete's Dragon

3. Mickey Mouse. Cute or annoying?
Cute in the original, annoying in its more modern incarnations

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1. Any intention of relocating should climate change be on the rapid and uncomfortable side where you live?

2. How much rains falls during the year on average where you live?

3. How far to the next evangelical church and does that influence you life?

[Sibling Chatty]

1. Any intention of relocating should climate change be on the rapid and uncomfortable side where you live?

Nope. Here to stay. Even if the seas rise quite a bit, we're far enough inland to be safe for a while.

2. How much rains falls during the year on average where you live?

It 38.5 inches, according to the Internet

3. How far to the next evangelical church and does that influence you life?

We're about a block from the Methodists, three blocks from the Baptists. The entire town is only a mile and a half long, about a half mile wide, and it has 14 churches.

It doesn't influence me, and there are several of them that would really like to have me come lead the music, but I insist their board be apprised of the fact that Dan and I aren't married before we talk further. That puts an end to THAT.


1. Which is your favorite season?

2. Would you rather have a toothache or an earache?

3. You're being banished. You'll have sufficient food, shelter and clothing. You can take no more than 10 personal items with you, and there will be no electricity or batteries. What do you take?

[Kiyoodle the Gambrinous]

1. Which is your favorite season?

Spring (when it gets warmer), Summer and Fall (before it gets cold). I like all the seasons as long as I'm somewhere warm and in good company.

2. Would you rather have a toothache or an earache?

Honestly, none of both.
But if I had to chose, probably toothache. I hate dentists, but a toothache is in most cases easily curable (just rip the tooth out), especially with my ear problems history - had a Middle Ear Infection three times already and was warned that a fourth could leave me deaf.

3. You're being banished. You'll have sufficient food, shelter and clothing. You can take no more than 10 personal items with you, and there will be no electricity or batteries. What do you take?

Ten bottles of whiskey.

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1. You are rising money for charity. Which charity will you use the money for?

2. Would you consider yourself an internet-addict?

3. Is addiction natural to the human race?

[Swatopluk]

1. You are rising money for charity. Which charity will you use the money for?
My father is head of a charity for blind people in Jordan and Israel, so that would my first thought.

2. Would you consider yourself an internet-addict?
Unqualified Yes

3. Is addiction natural to the human race?
Undoubtedly and not only with humans. But many addictions (especially those not based on material things) may be "unintended" by the biological "design". If one implants electrodes in a rat's brain that will let them have an orgasm when they press a button, they all turn Barbarella (remember the scene with the organ?) until total (and even fatal) bodily exhaustion sets in.

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1. How far from your place is the next natural hill/mount/etc. higher than 500m?

2. How far from your place is the next natural waterway?

3. Is net fishing unfair in comparision to fishing with rods (or handheld harpoons/spears)?

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

1. How far from your place is the next natural hill/mount/etc. higher than 500m?

I would guess about 30 miles to the very tall ones, though some goodly sized ones are as close as 10-15.

This might give you an idea.

2. How far from your place is the next natural waterway?
About eight miles.

3. Is net fishing unfair in comparision to fishing with rods (or handheld harpoons/spears)?
Depends. If the nets can hold four jumbo jets, and are held the the sea floor with huge cement doors, then yes. If they are big enough to catch whale sharks, then yes. Other then that, as long as one takes pains to avoid catching non-target species, not so much.
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1) Who are you going to watch/vote for (possibly) in '08?

2) How 'bout them Yankees?

3) How many internet faces can you think of? (EG, >:3, :3, , et.)

[Sibling Lambicus the Toluous]

1) Who are you going to watch/vote for (possibly) in '08?

I'm not in the US, so I won't be voting in the election you're likely talking about.

I doubt the government here will survive to '08, but I've got a bit of freedom in my voting in the next federal election: my riding is pretty well locked up by the Conservatives, so how I vote won't have much of a bearing on who's elected to represent my neighbors and me.

Instead, I can use my vote to "say something" - I can concentrate on issues without worrying about whether the person I'm voting for has any sort of governance skills.  All my vote will count for is a slight increase in the overall popular vote for one party, which will hopefully send a signal to whatever party gets in.

So... the short answer is: I'm not sure yet.   

2) How 'bout them Yankees?

Baseball is an amazing invention: it took the ingenuity of the Americans to condense all the boredom of a three-day cricket test into a single afternoon.   

3) How many internet faces can you think of? (EG, >:3, :3, , et.)
Too many to count, plus the only one that matters:

d8=

^ the "your beaver wears a hard hat and safety goggles" smiley.


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1. Which do you prefer: plane, train or automobile?


2. What languages do you know other than English?


3. Have you ever learned a martial art?

[goat starer]

1. Which do you prefer: plane, train or automobile?

I will look terrible but it is the car (Goats environmental credibility goes south!). time to think. your own music. and above all driving is fun.


2. What languages do you know other than English?

passable french and I made some laughable attempts to speak german in Berlin recently. I also know how to say "I am a hedgehog" in Spanish which is a surprisingly effective chat up line.


3. Have you ever learned a martial art?

You mean like sex? or listening when the other person is talking? oh sorry Martial  Well I kick donkey with a bullpup and flashbangs on Counterstrike Source.

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1. Ever thought of visiting Bradford?

2. Is goats milk nice?

3. Is my obsession with goats worrying you?

[Sibling Lambicus the Toluous]

1. Ever thought of visiting Bradford?

Not only have I thought of it, I've done it many times... if you mean this Bradford. I imagine as a goat, you might like to eat the town's mascot:



2. Is goats milk nice?

Never had it, except in cheese form.  I don't have anything in particular against it, though.

3. Is my obsession with goats worrying you?

Is my obsession with people worrying you?   


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1. What do you think of Gwilly the Carrot?

2. What is your town mascot?

3. Who would win in a fight between your town mascot and Gwilly the Carrot?

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

1. What do you think of Gwilly the Carrot?
I think he'd be nice in a tuna sammitch

2. What is your town mascot?
A man on a bucking horse? That's what's plastered all over town during the farmer's markets and the spring festivals. (Creative, I know. But heck, I live in a tiny little oakie town.)

3. Who would win in a fight between your town mascot and Gwilly the Carrot?
Mine. Gwilly would be mashed.
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1) Tea or juice?
2) Coffee or soda
3)What do you think is going to happen with the 15 British sailors the Iranian government's got captive?

[Swatopluk]

1) Tea or juice?
Tea in the morning, juice later in the day

2) Coffee or soda
Soda, coffee upsets my stomach

3)What do you think is going to happen with the 15 British sailors the Iranian government's got captive?
They are probably going to end as a Bush pretense

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1. Ever brawled as an adult?
2. Did you ever have to take an emitive?
3. Do you have/had/will have siblings (in the biological sense)?

[Sibling Chatty]

1. Ever brawled as an adult?

Yep. The person I was 'taking care of'  (I had her power of attorney, as she was both physically and mentally ill, as well as a Xanax addict) had gone back to her former psychiatrist and gotten Xanax again. We had worked for over a year, and lots of appointments and hospitalizations to get her OFF Xanax, and there she was, bombed out of her misd and lying to me. I got her handbag to take away the  Xanax, and she attacked me. (I'd just gotten out of the hospital from having stomach and liver surgery, still had over 15 inches of open wound--out of 49 inches of incision.) She gut-punched me and clawed at the open wound, ripping off the bandages and dragging out part of the wet-to-dry dressing.

I punched her in the jaw with a roundhouse right that knocked her about 8 feet across the room. My home nurse came in about that time, and spent the next hour getting her committed to a mental hospital, then having attempted murder charges filed on her to make sure she stayed.

It wasn't pretty.

Oh, and I fought off a mugger when I was about 25. I was doing strength training with my brother at the time, and was keeping up with him pretty well, so I wasn't weak. I punched the mugger in the face and broke his nose, then kneed him in the groin. Then when he was down, yes, I kicked him. (Don't ever threaten a florist with a dull knife. We know what they look like.) He turned out to be a serial rapist, wanted for at least 9 or 10 attacks.


2. Did you ever have to take an emitive?

Only to 'get ahead' of food poisoning. I had been the last one to eat at a wedding because I was working with the photographer and then cutting the cake, so about 2 hours after everyone else ate, I got to. A couple hours later, people started getting sick. Ambulances, etc.--food poisoning. So, I asked if they could help me just throw it up then, before it got worse. I was only in the hospital for 2 days, some people were there a week.

3. Do you have/had/will have siblings (in the biological sense)?

One sister, died when she was 20, I was 18.

Two brothers, one is 8 years younger, one is 12 years younger.



1. When writing (not typing, but actual handwriting), what do you prefer to use? Pencil, fountain pen? Ballpoint? (Biro, stick type, better quality?) Gel pen? Marker? Crayon? And what color ink/gel/whatever do you prefer?

2. What's on your grocery list?

3. We're going swimming!! Do you prefer a lake, a river, a pool or the ocean?

[Swatopluk]

1. When writing (not typing, but actual handwriting), what do you prefer to use? Pencil, fountain pen? Ballpoint? (Biro, stick type, better quality?) Gel pen? Marker? Crayon? And what color ink/gel/whatever do you prefer?
Fineliner (black or red), pencil if removability is desired

2. What's on your grocery list?
At the moment only yoghurt (everything else seems to be in stock)

3. We're going swimming!! Do you prefer a lake, a river, a pool or the ocean?
Public swimming baths (but is has gotten too expensive), ocean (but not with sandy beach)

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1. Do you like moose aux chocolat ?

2. Do wind turbines spoil the view?

3. Do you smoke, have done so in the past or consider doing it in the future?

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

1. Do you like moose aux chocolat Wink?
Ermm....?

2. Do wind turbines spoil the view?
I've never thought so.

3. Do you smoke, have done so in the past or consider doing it in the future?
No. Not unless you count years and years of second-hand exposure.
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1) Got a gmail?
2) What's your favorite recipe for?
3) Favorite news source?

[Opsa]

1) Got a gmail?
I had to look up "gmail". Does that answer your question?


2) What's your favorite recipe for?
Spinach souffle. I got it from my mom, but somehow hers always tastes better than mine.


3) Favorite news source?
The Daily Show with John Stewart. I watch NBC nightly news, but Stewart's is definitely more enjoyable.





1) What's your favorite flower scent?

2) What's your favorite food aroma?

3) What smell brings back memories for you?

Love,
Stinky

[Aggie]

1) What's your favorite flower scent?

Wild rose. Even better is fairy-slipper orchid, although I rarely get the chance. Also mock orange, lilac, and hyacinth (at a distance - too powerful up close!).

2) What's your favorite food aroma?

Roasting garlic, all in all.  But I loooooove smells, so they are almost as enjoyable as the taste - one I especially savour is the first wafts of goodness that start about 3 blocks from Chinatown!  Oh, and fresh durian will stop me in my tracks from a few aisles over and draw me in for a sniff.

3) What smell brings back memories for you?

A mix of diesel exhaust and decaying garbage/gutter always makes me perk my nose up.... sounds terrible but reminds me of travelling in exotic places!



I'm going to keep on theme somewhat....

A) Favorite flower to eat?


B) Favorite non-flower, non-vegetable, non-herb plant smell?  (so, anything that you wouldn't normally eat or use - mine is the smell of tomato vines)


C) Favorite too-stinky BAD smell?