The Never Ending Toadfish Interview Cycle!

[Sibling Lambicus the Toluous]

1 China or India (or neither), which will be the next superpower?
I think China will get more powerful on the world stage, but I don't see any one particular country filling the "superpower void" any time soon.

2 What did you want to be when you grew up.

An architect.

3 What went wrong?

I realized that it was the engineers who got to do all the things I thought sounded "fun" (I'd be much happier designing the structure of a building than figuring out how to make it pretty AND useful)... then I found out that I liked transportation better than structural design.





1. Do you like to cook?

2. How/Where/When did you learn to cook?

3. What's your "signature dish"?

[Kiyoodle the Gambrinous]

1. Do you like to cook?

I'm not really sure if I like it. I quite enjoy it from time to time, but am mostly lazy to do so. And the fridge is mostly empty (or filled with alcohol), so there's not much to cook from.

2. How/Where/When did you learn to cook?

My mother gave me some recipes, and I just do what I can to make good food out of that.

3. What's your "signature dish"?

Dry spaghetti. Sometimes with some cheese on it. It's the cheapest way to eat. And I am a student.



1. Which one of Bob Marley's children would you say is the best artist?

2. Would you like to be a millionnaire? Why, why not?

3. Have you been attacked by something pink and fluffy during Easter?

[Opsa]

1. Which one of Bob Marley's children would you say is the best artist?

Let's see, I remember there's a Ziggy and a Bunny... But I don't know which is the best artist. I loved Bob Marley, though.


2. Would you like to be a millionnaire? Why, why not?

Yes, because it would be very temporary. I would be a millionnaire for about a week. That's how long it would take for me to pay off my house and buy a monastery for us. Then I'd be back to my present country mouse lifestyle.

3. Have you been attacked by something pink and fluffy during Easter?

If purple is the new pink, then yes. The Easter Bunny gave the Opsalette a fluffy purple monkey yesterday and it has attacked me several times. It used to have a voicebox that shreiked when you touched it, but early this morning she gave it a tracheotomy and sewed it back up very nicely. Now it is slightly less obnoxious.

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1) How do you calm yourself when you get upset?

2) Do you consider yourself a hypochondriac?

3) What is your favorite frogurt flavor?

[Kiyoodle the Gambrinous]

1) How do you calm yourself when you get upset?

I start with a few cigarettes, move to hitting the wall with my head, then have a few more cigarettes, then get drunk, and end up hitting the floor with my head.

But normally I stay with the cigarettes and maybe do something, where I can vent my upsetness out. Like screaming or sports. Or hitting something.

2) Do you consider yourself a hypochondriac?

No. I am more the opposite. I deny my illness and wait till the last moment to solve it.

3) What is your favorite frogurt flavor?

I don't know. They don't make the beer-flavoured ones yet.

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1. If in trouble, what would be the first thing you'd do?

2. Do you like hitting people?

3. Have you ever thrown something out of the window because of being upset? What was it?

and an extra question:

4. What is your favorite frogurt flavor?

[Sibling Chatty]

1. If in trouble, what would be the first thing you'd do?

Think it all through, then snarl at people.

2. Do you like hitting people?

With my hands?? NO. With a clue-by-four? As needed.

3. Have you ever thrown something out of the window because of being upset? What was it?

Yes. An alarm clock. I had an early geology class my junior year of university. I paid a FORTUNE for this alarm clock because it was supposed to be loud enough to wake me. After trying for a week to get it to work, it FINALLY alarmed. At 3 AM. And wouldn't stop. So I took it apart with a hammer and a screwdriver, and threw it out the window. At 7:00 the next morning, it was gone.

and an extra question:

4. What is your favorite frogurt flavor?

Farkleberry Suprise



1. Are you able to fall asleep easily at night, or only when you're supposed to be awake?

2. Do you like to wear hats?

3. Would you rather be rich or good looking?

And an extra question:


4. What is your favorite frogurt flavor?

[Sibling Lambicus the Toluous]

1. Are you able to fall asleep easily at night, or only when you're supposed to be awake?
Falling asleep is usually easy.  Not sleeping through my alarm clock tends to be more problematic.

2. Do you like to wear hats?
I like wearing hats better than sunburns and heatstroke.

I tend to wear hats for protection, not fashion.


3. Would you rather be rich or good looking?

Rich, probably.  I don't know if my ethics would let me translate good looks into money, but I'd have less of a problem buying the good looks.   

And an extra question:


4. What is your favorite frogurt flavor?

Won't touch that stuff - it's cursed.   


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1. What was your favourite aminal at the zoo when you were little?

2. What's your favourite animal at the zoo now?

3. Which animal annoys you the most at the zoo?

Bonus question:

4. What's your favourite Frogurt flavour?

[anthrobabe]

1. What was your favourite aminal at the zoo when you were little?

The Lion-- his name was KC (yep Kit Cat) he was so lovely. The lion house was horrible though- he lived on concrete for years and I'll never forget the day the new lion exhibit opened and this beautiful boy stuck his head out the door and had to be coaxed outside onto the grass by his keeper because he didn't know what freaking grass was- we all wept! He died at the ripe old age of 22 ( male lions typically live 12 to 14 years) in 1998.

2. What's your favourite animal at the zoo now?

That baby boy gorilla, Mosi! Oh and his father Fossey. And Mahale the chimpanzee. Oh heck all the great apes.

3. Which animal annoys you the most at the zoo?

The human visitors!

Bonus question:

4. What's your favourite Frogurt flavour?

I've been off the stuff and on the wagon now for about a year. Still go to the FA meetings though.

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1) If you could live anywhere else in the universe,would you and where?

2) What is your first real memory?

3) Are you an only child? Or not?

Bonus question:

What is your favorite frogurt flavor?

[Kiyoodle the Gambrinous]

1) If you could live anywhere else in the universe,would you and where?

Why should I? I'm quite satisfied with this place so far.

2) What is your first real memory?

I don't really know. But definitelly one of memories I remember from my childhood was kissing a girl under the bed, while playing hide & seek. (I've always loved the girls...)

3) Are you an only child? Or not?

I have an older sister that used to torture me, especially mentally. Today she says that she has just been preparing me for marriage.

Bonus question:

What is your favorite frogurt flavor?

I have already answered that one above..

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1. What are your nightmares mostly about?

2. You woke up from a nightmare. After a few seconds you realize that the monsters that you dreamed about are standing next to your bed and waiting to attack you. What do you do?

3. What are your happy dreams mostly about?

bonus: you know the drill. Frogurt?

[The Meromorph]

1. What are your nightmares mostly about?

Two themes:
1) Inability to move properly, while pursued by people with no faces.
2) My father is still alive.

2. You woke up from a nightmare. After a few seconds you realize that the monsters that you dreamed about are standing next to your bed and waiting to attack you. What do you do?

Say 'Hullo, Dad." Then kill it.

3. What are your happy dreams mostly about?

Joyful, inventive, and delightful sex.


bonus: you know the drill. Frogurt?

Blackberry.

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Is there anything you will not do under any circumstances?

Why do you think people like you?

Do you expect your children will help you in your old age?

[Kiyoodle the Gambrinous]

Is there anything you will not do under any circumstances?

Depends on the circumstances. I'd probably say that I would never have sex with a man, but who knows?

Why do you think people like you?

What is there not to like?

Do you expect your children will help you in your old age?

I would be more concerned about reaching the "old age". With my current lifestyle, it will be very difficult...

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1. Shorts or slips?

2. Do you blush/get embarassed/feel ashamed when other people talk about sex or when you have to talk about it?

3. Is there a question you would refuse to answer?

[Bluenose]

1. Shorts or slips?

Shorts

2. Do you blush/get embarassed/feel ashamed when other people talk about sex or when you have to talk about it?

Not these days.  One of the advantages of getting older is that you lose a bit of that self consciousness that attends you when you are younger.  Of course there are disadvantages, especially in the aches and pains department, but let's not go there...

3. Is there a question you would refuse to answer?

No comment.



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1. What is you favourite bridge, and what do you like about it?

2. You have been invited to a potluck dinner where you do not know most of the guests, what meal do you take?

3. A long time friend who lives on the other side of the world is going to be in town for week and has dropped a broad hint that s/he would appreciate an invite to stay at your place, unfortunately s/he is bringing her/his spouse who is an unmitigated bore.  Do you invite them to stay?

Bonus question: Is passionfruit frogurt the nectar of the gods?

[Sibling Chatty]

1. What is you favourite bridge, and what do you like about it?

The bridge into Corpus Christi, Texas, coming from the north.

I like it because it's the first "big bridge" I remember--and I remember it being built, AND because they finally built it and replaced the drawbridge partially based on the fact that having the bridge drawn for long flotillas of barges was not safe for, say...pregnant women trying to give birth in the back of ambulances on the way to the closest hospital, circa November 1952, for instance.

2. You have been invited to a potluck dinner where you do not know most of the guests, what meal do you take?

Cajun red beans and rice (RBR), with the beans prepared with no meat, and half the rice made with butter, half without, then the sausage to the side.

OR

Cream cheese and black olive spread with lots of yummy crispy, crunchy things to put it on, but in the 'with bacon crumbles' and the 'without' versions. (AT that point vegans are on their own. I can do the RBR totally vegan, but the cream cheese is intrinsically un-vegan.)

I'm doing this with the RBR on the 26th, but probably won't divide the rice, as Caldwell, Texas isn't known for much in the way of vegan residents, and I think I know both vegetarians.

3. A long time friend who lives on the other side of the world is going to be in town for week and has dropped a broad hint that s/he would appreciate an invite to stay at your place, unfortunately s/he is bringing her/his spouse who is an unmitigated bore.  Do you invite them to stay?

Can they both sleep on the same sofa? Do they mind sharing it with the dog?

Actually, I wouldn't mind. Dan is so good with boring people that he can both entertain them and find SOMETHING that they can talk about, or at least take the male bores out to look at the power tools, or radio stuff, or lawn tractor. And we have LOTS of books and tapes and DVDs, so being bored isn't happening, because I can tune out anybody. (A bonus to my ill health. I can and WILL declare naptime at any given moment. Rarely when driving, but you never know.)

Our last boring guest got dropped at the George Herbert Walker Bush Presidential Library, and told to call when he was through hero-worshipping.

Bonus question: Is passionfruit frogurt the nectar of the gods?

Not a passionfruit fan.

(This lie-up represents the contents of my brain.)

1) Does interracial marriage register on your mental radar, or do you just see 'humans' instead of races?

2) It's your day to choose the entertainment. All things being optimal (weather, finances) do you go to the amusement park, the zoo/aquarium or to the beach/swimming pool?

3) You have the choice of desserts: Fresh berries with Chantilly cream, chocolate mousse or Tres Leches cake. (No frogurt, sorry.) Whatcha gonna eat?

Bonus question: Is it permissable to call a strawberry frogurt bar with a carob coating "health food"?

[Swatopluk]

1) Does interracial marriage register on your mental radar, or do you just see 'humans' instead of races?
No problem at all as long as no side gets abusive (the latter more about culture than "race"). There could of course be "impractical" matches (of the pygmy meets giant variety) but that's not for me to decide.

2) It's your day to choose the entertainment. All things being optimal (weather, finances) do you go to the amusement park, the zoo/aquarium or to the beach/swimming pool?
Zoo/Aquarium especially around here (Berlin, even without Knutmania), swimming pool would be the second option. Me not liking "amusement" parks, me not liking Disney culture!

3) You have the choice of desserts: Fresh berries with Chantilly cream, chocolate mousse or Tres Leches cake. (No frogurt, sorry.) Whatcha gonna eat?
Berries, if I can omit the cream. Do three leeches a cake make?

Bonus question: Is it permissable to call a strawberry frogurt bar with a carob coating "health food"?

I had to look up frogurt and at first thought it was a joke on mashed frogs with milk.
Yoghurt in any form should be semi-liquid. If there is no extra sugar in it, it can count as health food.

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1. Who brought up that frogurt thing in the first place and for what reasons?

2. When will the frogurt thing go away?

3. What about frogurt sushi?

Bonus question: are the Democrats soft on frogurt?

[Sibling Chatty]

1. Who brought up that frogurt thing in the first place and for what reasons?

Don't look at me!! I'm all about the Cake, the Depp and the Fluffysnakies of DOOOOOM. Ask the Mad Monkess of Virginia.

2. When will the frogurt thing go away?

You never know. Frogurt is sneaky. It sits there looking like ice cream, and can jump out at you at any time!!

3. What about frogurt sushi?

Only applicable if made with fugu.

Bonus question: are the Democrats soft on frogurt?

Everybody's soft on frogurt. It doesn't harden up as well as a good ice cream or gelato.

By the way, leches are milks. Leeches are useless relatives, who eat all your cake. CAKE!!



1) Do you have any irrational fears?

2) As a child, where did you feel most secure?

3) You have a chance to spend a month, expenses paid, in another country. Your choices are North Korea, Bangladesh, Iraq and Ethiopia. Where will you go, or will you?

Bonus Question: Is Opsanus Tau over her frogurt thing?

[Opsa]

Ye gawds, how did you know I'd peek in next? You're scary phenomenal!



1) Do you have any irrational fears?

Yes, indeed I do. I can usually rationalize them and thus erase them, given time. My last one was a sudden fear of flying (in airplanes) during the last high terrorist alert. I am still trying to work that one out. An older sibling of mine insists it was irrational.

2) As a child, where did you feel most secure?

Oh, at my grandparent's big old victorian house in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. It was so old and creaky and re-assuring and they filled it with love and patience. I miss them.

3) You have a chance to spend a month, expenses paid, in another country. Your choices are North Korea, Bangladesh, Iraq and Ethiopia. Where will you go, or will you?

Do I have to fly there? Okay, let's say I'd go by boat. Either way I don't think I'd go to any of those places. The suffering would be too great for me to handle. I am inordinately sensitive to human suffering. I don't deny it, but I feel it in a personal way. I read and watch the news every day. That's about all I can take.

Bonus Question: Is Opsanus Tau over her frogurt thing?

Okay, okay. I'm over it. Thank you so much for your indulgence. You're very kind.

Now, on to gelato!





1) Do you feel more sorry for the dead soldier or for his/her family?

2) Do you feel more sorry for the family of the victims or for the family of the gunman?

3) What, besides frogurt, chocolate, alcohol, drugs or gelato helps to cheer you up when you're feeling sorrowful?


P.S. FROGURT! heeheehee...