The Never Ending Toadfish Interview Cycle!

[Sibling Lambicus the Toluous]

1. Is it windy?

Depends.

Oh - you mean here and now specifically?  I'm inside, so no.  Though it's not terribly windy outside right now.

2. Is snow a good thing?

Yes.

At least it's much better than the half-inch of ice that coated my driveway earlier in the week, which had to be chiseled off.

3. What do you think of participatory budgeting?

Not sure.  I hadn't heard the term before, but looking at your link I got a bit of the willies from terms like "budget matrix" - it makes it sound similar to some Alternative Evaluation methods I know that seem very transparent, logical and accountable, but are very easy to manipulate by the administrator in ways that aren't easily noticable.


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1. What is your biggest strength?


2. What is your biggest weakness?


3. What can you bring to this position that would make you stand out from the other candidates?

[Swatopluk]

1. What is your biggest strength?
I am the son of your boss.

2. What is your biggest weakness?
I don't know your relationship to his boss.

3. What can you bring to this position that would make you stand out from the other candidates?
See answer to question 1

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1. 1st amendment in outer space too?

2. What about the 2nd ?

3. What would Pat Robertson do, if actually live was discovered on Mars (or the the little furry creatures from Alpha Centauri would send missionaries to Earth)?

[Opsa]

1. 1st amendment in outer space too?

No, space being outside US and any other earth laws.

2. What about the 2nd Undecided ?

I think they should all make up their minds.

3. What would Pat Robertson do, if actually live was discovered on Mars (or the the little furry creatures from Alpha Centauri would send missionaries to Earth)?

If Pat Robertson discovered that he was live on Mars, he'd know once and for all that he was not of Earth and therefore had no business messing with earth laws (see #1)
If the little furry creatures from Alpha Centauri sent missionaries here, I would listen closely to their religious ideas and tell them to avoid that lunatic on Mars.

If the creatures went to Mars anyway and met Pat Robertson, they would probably be sorry they hadn't listened to me and if they came back to apologize, I would ask them to join our monastery.





1) If you saw Liza Minelli lying by the side of the road, what would you do?

2) What's your favorite bath soap?

3) Your favorite music or silence?

[Kiyoodle the Gambrinous]

1) If you saw Liza Minelli lying by the side of the road, what would you do?

Now or 40 years ago?

2) What's your favorite bath soap?

The one that makes all those beautiful bubbles...

3) Your favorite music or silence?

I don't have a preferred music style, if that's what you mean. But I've been listening to drum 'n bass and reggae (mostly roots) a lot lately.

Silence is not an option in my life. I hate silence. I can't live with it, I always need some sounds around. I can concentrate more easily that way (people always wondered how I can actually study in the University pub back in Germany, a pub that was always full and very loud).

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1. Which politician would you like to meet?

2. Which dead politician would you like to meet?

3. What would you tell them?

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

1. Which politician would you like to meet?
Living ones? Ugh. None in particular.

2. Which dead politician would you like to meet?
Thomas More or Democritus.
3. What would you tell them?
No idea. How much I admire them? Possibly try to have a discussion with them on something interesting?
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1.Favorite legal case in history/present?

2. What, if any, extra ciricular activities did you partcipate in high school and/or college?

3. Sausage or bacon for breakfast?

[Sibling Chatty]

1.Favorite legal case in history/present?

The Crown vs Thomas More (My all time favorite play is Man For All Seasons.)

2. What, if any, extra ciricular activities did you partcipate in high school and/or college?

HS--Band, orchestra, choir, theatre and all the speech and drama tournaments. Also played varsity volleyball until I broke my foot 3 times in one season.

College--Choir, theatre and all the forensic events, once again. Tutored at the State "School" (juvenile offenders, aka Kid Prison).


3. Sausage or bacon for breakfast?

Sausage. Or bacon. Both, since I can't have the eggs. Do you have multigrain toast?
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1] You MUST have a smelly candle burning in the same room. Do you want vanilla, pine, apple cinnamon or musk?

2] Favorite berry? (NOT Chuck. I mean of the fruit variety, like blue or straw or black or mul...)

3] If Mama says NO, who do you ask??

[Swatopluk]

1] You MUST have a smelly candle burning in the same room. Do you want vanilla, pine, apple cinnamon or musk?
Pine would probably be the least (ob)noxious

2] Favorite berry? (NOT Chuck. I mean of the fruit variety, like blue or straw or black or mul...)
Molte (cloudberry)

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3] If Mama says NO, who do you ask??
Why in that case ask?

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1. Have you ever insulted your computer? If yes, regularly?

2. Have you apologized later? [actually not uncommon ] If no to 1), would you?

3. Do you have a nickname for your computer/car/other device?

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

1. Have you ever insulted your computer? If yes, regularly?

I scream and yell at occasionally, when it does something particularly stupid. However, I usually am yelling at the AUTHOR of the problem, be it the stupid programming, electronic engineering or thelike.  That is, I direct my wrath to the HUMAN element behind my frustration.

I've been know to pound the keyboard on rare occasions-- is why I favor a more robust version.   Currently writing on a microsoft natural 'board.  Mostly because my favorite vendor, Logitec does not have a corded natural version currently.  They make a corporate version that I like, and it sometimes comes up for sale in the "remaindered" bins.  (The box is always marked "not for resale".)

2. Have you apologized later? [actually not uncommon ] If no to 1), would you?

Nope.  And, no-- no one hears my rants but me.  When in a public place, I swallow my anger.

3. Do you have a nickname for your computer/car/other device?

Nope. I do not anthropomorphize inanimate objects.

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1. Do you practice "brand loyalty"? Or, do you choose your items "new" each time, on the merits and features of the item in question?

2. How did you get involved with PC's and the internet in the first place?

3. Do you ever wonder about the Internet? How it came to be, if anyone --really, is in control of it?  Do you like this, or would you rather there was some sort of "oversight" group? (are you sure there isn't?) 

[Swatopluk]

1. Do you practice "brand loyalty"? Or, do you choose your items "new" each time, on the merits and features of the item in question?

Let's say that if I was pleased with a brand, I'll give it preferred treatment the next time. But I have no problems to switch usually, if it doesn't please me anymore.

2. How did you get involved with PC's and the internet in the first place?
PC: PASCAL programming at school
Internet: Together with email while working on my diploma thesis

3. Do you ever wonder about the Internet? How it came to be, if anyone --really, is in control of it?  Do you like this, or would you rather there was some sort of "oversight" group? (are you sure there isn't?)   

I think certain aspects are controlled and this will vastly increase in the future. I doubt that the days of the "free internet" will last. The censorship will (in the West) be less official/governmental but rest with he providers (though these can be quite political).

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1. Who'll be the next president of the US of A (provided the election fraud is limited)?

2. Any proposals for the "Southern Border Problem"?

3. What (apart from just leaving) can/should/will the US do in the larger Middle East and especially Iraq?

[Kiyoodle the Gambrinous]

1. Who'll be the next president of the US of A (provided the election fraud is limited)?

I hope it's Hillary, don't know why. But I'd really like to see Ahnold up there, that'd be quite entertaining.

2. Any proposals for the "Southern Border Problem"?

Move more to the North.

3. What (apart from just leaving) can/should/will the US do in the larger Middle East and especially Iraq?

Send more soldiers down there. Until there are no other people left there than US-citizens. And then invade.

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1. Should Ahnold run for President soon, later or never?

3. Have you ever won a larger amount by playing hazardous games (like roulette, cards, betting etc.)?

4. Where did the question no. 2 go?

[Swatopluk]

1. Should Ahnold run for President soon, later or never?
The constitution bans him from running (no double-entendre implied). Don't think it will be changed.
There are much worse candidates but I don't consider it the best option either (some prejudices against Austrians running countries they were not born in  )

3. Have you ever won a larger amount by playing hazardous games (like roulette, cards, betting etc.)?
Nope (nor lost either)

4. Where did the question no. 2 go?
It was taken away for questioning

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1. Who framed Roger Squirrel?

2. Clobbing seal babies or putting (lighted) fire-crackers in (living) pets?

3. What would the RSPCA say?

[Kiyoodle the Gambrinous]

1. Who framed Roger Squirrel?

Roger the Rabbit did it.

2. Clobbing seal babies or putting (lighted) fire-crackers in (living) pets?

Microwaving kittens.

3. What would the RSPCA say?

They can't say anything, too busy with people clubbing seal babies and putting fire-crackers in pets.

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1. Do you have a disturbed mind?

2. Your favourite pun?

3. Are you gullible?

[goat starer]

1. Do you have a disturbed mind?

oh yes. I am a bundle of neuroses!

2. Your favourite pun?

one with cherries and cinnamon.... oh pun!

3. Are you gullible?

nope. I have been described at work as having an "outstanding bullshit detector"

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1) when I complete my profiles of participants based on your answers on here what will yours look like?

2) Will your interview cycle profile really reflect your peresonality?

3) Are you worried?

[Swatopluk]

1) when I complete my profiles of participants based on your answers on here what will yours look like?
Dreadful

2) Will your interview cycle profile really reflect your peresonality?
I hope the worst strains (of personality) don't

3) Are you worried?
Me, Worry?

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1. With what probability could a seal baby clobbing and pet exploding amendment (making it mandatory)be smuggled into a bill undetected?

2. Would Bush veto it, if Dobosn, Falwell and Robertson endorsed it (the contents of the bill)?

3. Would Cheney demand the executive power to be extended to microwaving kittens for national security?

[The Meromorph]

This thread has been wandering a bit, but this, while funny, is a bit too far.
Please return to personal, rather than political, commentary. 
Even though our beloved Comrade Goat has trouble separating the two! 


It's not as if we don't have enough political threads bouncing around...