The Never Ending Toadfish Interview Cycle!

[anthrobabe]

1. How much water (not other beverages, water) do you drink in a day?
I drink about 2 glasses of just water a day.

2. Do you use sunscreen/sunblock products?
yes, fairly regularly- I still have lots of sun damage from younger "laying out days"- so it's more to keep it from getting worse than anything else.

3. Do you have any birthmarks? What and where?
I never knew I had a birthmark until I was an adult and then Joe said- hey do you know that birthmark on your butt looks sort of like an amoeba? Don't know how I missed it all those years, and don't know why mom or someone never said anything either. It is covered by any sort of bathing suit or undergarment, but still it is their and once pointed out to me it really looked huge and glaring.

[Swatopluk]

1. How much water (not other beverages, water) do you drink in a day?
If tea doesn't count, none.

2. Do you use sunscreen/sunblock products?
No, since I turn brick-colour when exposed long before the UV can cause sunburn, I don't need it (and it does not help for that)

3. Do you have any birthmarks? What and where?
None, that I know off. I have remarkably few skin anomalies for my age according to the dermatologist.

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1. Should Dubya and accomplices be put on trial before US courts or outside the US (international or local)?
If you think that they should not be put on trial, write a 4711 word essay explaining your choice

2. Do you prefer wild or "cultivated" berries?

3. Rembrandt or Vermeer?

[Swatopluk]

Sorry, crossposting. But you forgot to bring new questions anyway .

[anthrobabe]

Yes, Thank you-- I was distracted.

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

1. Should Dubya and accomplices be put on trial before US courts or outside the US (international or local)?
If you think that they should not be put on trial, write a 4711 word essay explaining your choice
I'm not really sure. I've heard a lot of noise moving that way recently, but I have yet to see definite evidence on Shrubya's intentions. Cheney, yes. Throw that guy to the wolves.

2. Do you prefer wild or "cultivated" berries?
If I cultivated them, than I'd rather eat cultivates berries. If not, wild then.

3. Rembrandt or Vermeer?
Vermeer, I think. He does more with lighting than Rembrandt seems to have, though Rembrandt is awesome too.
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1. Do you feel that mocking terrorists is an important aspect in defeating them? (a la http://kris-wilson.deviantart.com/art/Osama-64676409 and http://youtube.com/watch?v=juaIEpgm2xU)

2. Do you feel that the current way to 'defeat' them (IE loosing scads of rights) send the right message?

3. Are we doing enough of the right things to defeat them properly?

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

1. Do you feel that mocking terrorists is an important aspect in defeating them?
Perhaps not in itself but it certainly lifts the spirits of the rest.

2. Do you feel that the current way to 'defeat' them (IE loosing scads of rights) send the right message?
Only if you believe that to fight the devil you need to use his methods. Terrorizing civilians (no matter if here or there) only helps the Machiavellians of this world.

3. Are we doing enough of the right things to defeat them properly?
Not in a long shot. Terrorism is the child of inequality and despair. If you have a society with enough civil liberties, little or no poverty/unemployment, and no discrimination, it is very hard to recruit* (what for?). When you look at the large terrorist organizations you'll notice that they provide things that the state does not**. Instead of bombing them to hell with all the collateral damage involved, provide services to those in the areas of influence. If a government is observant will notice very quickly who opposes such help, etc. As things stand now, the current so-called 'war on terror' is fueling the next generation of terrorists.

* Home grown terrorism in the 1st world, is rare and usually instigated by individuals on the fringe of society and/or with some pseudo religious framework.

** Hezbollah, provides a number of social services including schools and day care to the populations in their areas of influence; back home in Colombia the FARC entice new recruits by offering a salary (the effective unemployment is above 50%).

1. If someone built a city in the middle of the sea would you go live there?

2. How can corporations be motivated to do the right thing?

3. Is it possible to make true art and make money of it while alive?

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

1. If someone built a city in the middle of the sea would you go live there?
Maybe. Depends on who's running it and a few other things.

2. How can corporations be motivated to do the right thing?
I'm not really sure, other than for us to patronize those that do--even if it's a little more expensive because of that

3. Is it possible to make true art and make money of it while alive?
I can't answer that.
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1. Would you be willing to pay a little more for goods if they come from a company that treats it's employees and source people right?

2. What's the best deal you've ever gotten?

3. Who's your favorite photographer?

[Opsa]

(Answered on Talk Like a Pirate Day)

1. Would you be willing to pay a little more for goods if they come from a company that treats it's employees and source people right?

Y'arrrggggghhhh, I believes in rewarding them that knows how ter treat their crew.

2. What's the best deal you've ever gotten?

I be a barrrrgggain shopper from day one. I once paid only 4 gold dubloons ($4. actually) fer a whole queen sized sheet set with quilt! Methinks the price was missing a zero at the end, but the cashier didn't flinch when she rung it up, so i didn't have ter run er through.

3. Who's your favorite photographer?

A blaggard named George deVincent, whom I worked for as darkroom technician back in me lubber days. Hell of a salt, really. Some of his photos are here: http://www.dcvote.org/trellis/denial/osaycanyousee.cfm

         

1) Will yer dare to Talk Loik a Poirate to a total stranger today?

2) Can yer tell a scalliwag a yardarm's length away?

3) Ale or rum?

[Pachyderm]

1) Will yer dare to Talk Loik a Poirate to a total stranger today?

Course Oi will. Oi allus taalks normal, it be the landlubbers whut  don't.

2) Can yer tell a scalliwag a yardarm's length away?

Oi be a pirate Capting. oi can tell a scalliwag at a few leagues, nivver mind a yarrdaarrm.

3) Ale or rum?

Ahh, Oi sees yer little mistake there, Opas, it be ale and rum....


1. Why is there only one Monopolies Commission?

2. What is  your favourite colour?

What is the air speed velocity of a fully laden swallow?

[Sibling Chatty]

1. Why is there only one Monopolies Commission?

It's government, innit? There's yer answer.

2. What is  your favourite colour?

Blue. Or maybe blue, or else blue.

What is the air speed velocity of a fully laden swallow?

ARRR...ye dint put the number, ye lazy blaggard, so it's nae a proper question!! And Oi dinna ha' t'answer it!!

 

1. What do you do to cheer yourself up when you're depressed?

2. Do you like asparagus?

3. what color are your favorite socks? Solid or a print?

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

1. What do you do to cheer yourself up when you're depressed?
I find something to do that takes my mind off it, and contemplate why I'm depressed when I'm far enough mentally.

2. Do you like asparagus?
Oooh yes! With butter, salt, pepper and parmasan.

3. what color are your favorite socks? Solid or a print?
Black and green stripey ones.
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1. Favorite meal?
2. Favorite restaurant?
3. When does fall arrive in your neck of the woods?

[Opsa]

1. Favorite meal?
#25 Baked Brie with garlic and black pepper on toasted french bread. Sigh.

2. Favorite restaurant?
The Lost Dog Cafe, home of the above meal. http://www.lostdogcafe.com/
The food and beer list are excellent, and they help find homes for lost animals.

3. When does fall arrive in your neck of the woods?
This Sunday, the 23rd of September. The weather is still quite warm here, but the landscape is becoming more golden and the dogwood trees are going maroon. Our peak foliage color here is normally around the second week of October. The current drought may affect the show this year.

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1) What is your favorite thing to do in autumn?

2) Do you experience a strong spiritual connection to nature?

3) Maple syrup- yes or no?

[beagle]

1) What is your favorite thing to do in autumn?

Hibernate.


2) Do you experience a strong spiritual connection to nature?

Hmm. Nature's that stuff the other side of the double-glazing, right?


3) Maple syrup- yes or no?

More maybe. Don't think I've ever tried it.  If it's remotely like golden syrup then I'll risk it in my porridge.

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1)  Favourite composer?


2)  Favourite artist?


3)  Favourite writer?

[Swatopluk]

1)  Favourite composer?
Mussorgsky and some other Russians of the non-Tschaikovsky tradition

2)  Favourite artist?
Shishkin, Escher


3)  Favourite writer?
Terry Pratchett
My favorite book is by Kipling though: Stalky&Co

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1. Do you expect snow in the winter where you live?
2. Are you good at producing parodies?
3. Do you have or want to have children?

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

1. Do you expect snow in the winter where you live?
No. If we got snow it would be very, very, very bad for the crops. We've had a light dusting of snow once in the decade I've lived here.

2. Are you good at producing parodies?
I'd like to think so.

3. Do you have or want to have children?
I'm of two minds on this.
A) Little kids are adorable, and babies are even cuter. And I like mommy-ing anyway.
B) Kids are brats, particularly after about the age of six. It doesn't get any better at all until they're about 14 or so.

So I think I'll just spoil my sisters' kids and such, and then return them after a while.
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1. Best show/concert you've ever been to?

2. What is your opinion about the various 'social networking' sites?

3. Are you on one?