The Never Ending Toadfish Interview Cycle!

[Kiyoodle the Gambrinous]

1. What is your favorite color?

Difficult to say. I think I don't really have a favourite colour, but I'd go with the colour of most of my clothes, which is I thikn beige...

2. What is your purpose (you may answer philosophically)?

My purpose is to spread love and happiness around the world.

And have a few drink while doing that.

3. Do you think you have a lasting impact?

Not really.

But I got a few people drunk along the way, so maybe that is the impact of my work.

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1. Acapela or unplugged?

2. Your favourite traditional music?

3. Do you own any antiquity?

[Swatopluk]

1. A capella or unplugged?
For myself? Better a full symphonic orchestra, so nobody will hear my singing

2. Your favourite traditional music?
Orthodox chant, preferably Bulgarian but Russian does too

3. Do you own any antiquity?
Does a fragment of a dinosaur teeth count?

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1) Are you happy?

2) What would improve your condition?

3) Anything nonpolitical in sight to worsen it?

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

1) Are you happy?
Pretty happy, I'd like to think.

2) What would improve your condition?
Yup. Getting into my college, getting a full ride for debate, and getting to state in it, too.

3) Anything nonpolitical in sight to worsen it?
Crappy topics, not getting in and having to stay here for two more years (bleh) and not breaking at state qualifications.
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1.Favorite photgrapher/other artist?

2. Do you like/understand abstract art?

3. Muffin or scones for breakfast?

[Kiyoodle the Gambrinous]

1.Favorite photgrapher/other artist?

I couldn't say. I don't know much about photographers or artists... But from what I've seen lately I really liked the works of Banksy (www.banksy.co.uk) and Slavimir Stojanovic (http://www.slavimirstojanovic.com), the first is a street artist, the other is a graphic designer.

2. Do you like/understand abstract art?

I like it, but mostly don't understand it.

3. Muffin or scones for breakfast?

My breakfast mostly consists of a cup of tea and a cigarette, so I have slight difficulties answering this one, but I guess I'd prefer muffins.

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1. ^Sup or _Sub?

2. Designer clothes or ordinary stuff?

3. Crosswords or Sudoku?

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

1. ^Sup or _Sub?

Oh, most definitely _sub.  I have a long history on THIS VERY BORD to prove it. 

Stems from old proofreading training, I suppose.  Words are supposed to line up at the bottom (more or less) and nothing (or nearly nothing) floats above the sacred line.

2. Designer clothes or ordinary stuff?

Being well beyond caring about how I look, I go for comfort.  I've found that designer cloths are rarely (if ever) comfortable.

3. Crosswords or Sudoku?

Neither.  Don't like those sorts of puzzles--even if you offered me money.

I like nice mechanical ones, where I must take something apart to figure out what is wrong. 

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1. Ever read comic books? Still? Favorite, if so?

2. What do you think of the term "graphic novel"? Pretentious?  Appropriate? Not descriptive enough?

3. Have you noticed the extraordinary number of movies coming out that are based on a comic book?  What do you think about that? 

[Bluenose]

1. Ever read comic books? Still? Favorite, if so?

Not for a long time, but when I was a kid my definite favourite was The Phantom.

2. What do you think of the term "graphic novel"? Pretentious?  Appropriate? Not descriptive enough?

The term doesn't mean anything to me.  I assume you don't mean graphic in the sense of violent or gory, so I assume that it must refer to something like an extended comic.  Never seen any, so they are not on my radar.  Of course, my lack of awareness is more likely to be related to my reading habits and book selections - I don't usually browse the entire book shop, only areas of particular interest.

3. Have you noticed the extraordinary number of movies coming out that are based on a comic book?  What do you think about that?

I have noticed.  I suspect it is simply an extension of Hollywood's preference for recycling proven ideas rather than coming up with new ones.  After all, making movies out of successful books has been a Hollywood mainstay for ever, so using comics in the same vein should be no surprise.



1. What is your favourite movie adaption of a book/story/comic?  (E.g. The Sentinel/2001: a Space Odyssey)

2. What is your favourite use of music in a movie?  (e.g. the Blue Danube Waltz in 2001: A Space Odyssey)

3. Can you think of an example when the movie was better than the book/story/comic? (E.g. 2001: A Space Odyssey)

Supplementary question 1: How many times have you seen 2001: A Space Odyssey?

Supplementary question 2: Do you think I am overly obsessed with 2001: A Space Odyssey?
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[goat starer]

1. What is your favourite movie adaption of a book/story/comic?  (E.g. The Sentinel/2001: a Space Odyssey)

Sin City. The best transfer from graphic novel  to silver screen. Fantastic cinematography, great acting and thoroughly engrossing. Elijah Wood as the nutty serial killer cannibal was great.

2. What is your favourite use of music in a movie?  (e.g. the Blue Danube Waltz in 2001: A Space Odyssey)

Barbers Adadgio in Platoon

3. Can you think of an example when the movie was better than the book/story/comic? (E.g. 2001: A Space Odyssey)

there are plenty where the book was written after the film but the only one that springs to mind the other way round is Fight Club.

Supplementary question 1: How many times have you seen 2001: A Space Odyssey?

how many questions do you want??  ? I would have thought about 10 times

Supplementary question 2: Do you think I am overly obsessed with 2001: A Space Odyssey?

I'm afraid. I'm afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I'm a... fraid. Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January 1992. My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If you'd like to hear it I can sing it for you.

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1) thought of any memorable last words you would like to use?

2) what would you like to be your epitath?

3) how morbid is this?
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[Swatopluk]

1) thought of any memorable last words you would like to use?
Now comes the tricky part

2) what would you like to be your epitath?
Didn't make it into the buried anonymous?
Epitaphs are a bit out of fashion around here (I wouldn't be surprised, if they were banned)

3) how morbid is this?
Not more morbid than thinking about composing one's own funeral music
A line of it could also serve as epitaph.

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1) Do you believe in an afterlife?
2) Does that influence your thoughts on death?
3) Would relative immortality (not dying unless killed) appeal to you?

[Opsa]

1) Do you believe in an afterlife?

I want dearly for there to be an afterlife. I want to meet you and Leonardo daVinci and take long walks that don't need to end for centuries because in eternity, I hear they always wait dinner for you. But I am too skeptical a person to say that I completely believe in afterlife. I just hope for it.


2) Does that influence your thoughts on death?

Death is so unknown to me that I don't know what to think of it. I do beleive in it, though. I'm not that skeptical.

3) Would relative immortality (not dying unless killed) appeal to you?

I think not. For one thing, bodies wear out, even synthetic ones. For another thing, minds can wear down. I predict a future of insane people running around in wearing-out synthetic bodies and it's not a pretty sight.

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1) You look fabulous. What's your secret?

2) Rice cakes: food or packaging material?

3) Is it possible to love everyone?

[Swatopluk]

1) You look fabulous. What's your secret?
Eh, you are looking at a mirror.

2) Rice cakes: a) food or b) packaging material?
They use popcorn over here. That means that the answer is b)

3) Is it possible to love everyone?
Not for a normal human being. If you mean, whether everyone could be loved by somebody, then you would be probably right.

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1) Ever seriously considered emigrating (if yes, from where to where)?

2) Did you ever consider seriously to run for public office (I don't mean physical fast movement towards an office building)?

3) Do you have party loyalty or do you decide anew everytime without looking for "precedent"?

[Kiyoodle the Gambrinous]

1) Ever seriously considered emigrating (if yes, from where to where)?

Not really. I've never considered myself a citizen of one country, I see myself more like a citizen of the world and emigrating would mean for me leaving earth, and I'm not planning that till I have travelled the earth and discovered all of her beauties (or at least a greater part).

2) Did you ever consider seriously to run for public office (I don't mean physical fast movement towards an office building)?

No. But give me a molotov cocktail and I'll do the other one.

3) Do you have party loyalty or do you decide anew everytime without looking for "precedent"?

I don't vote. (I am allowed to vote since the age of 18 of course, but I didn't have the opportunity yet, I missed every elections because of some circumstances that couldn't be controlled - mostly I was aboard and had no possibility to get to an embassy to vote there).

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1. Your favourite parfume (or after shave/deodorant/eau de toilette/etc)?

2. Did you ever wish to have wings?

3. Or sharp dog teeth?

[Swatopluk]

1. Your favourite parfume (or after shave/deodorant/eau de toilette/etc)?
No special favorite. Something half-way between Eau de Cologne and pure ethanol perhaps.

2. Did you ever wish to have wings?
Could be but a body-sized flying machine would have more appeal (on the ground, grown wings are so unwieldy)

3. Or sharp dog teeth?
Stronger molars perhaps and sometimes rodent front-teeth

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1. Your favorite pastime?
2. Your favorite bath-time?
3. Your favorite pasta?

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

3. Or sharp dog teeth?
Stronger molars perhaps and sometimes rodent front-teeth

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1. Your favorite pastime?

Reading.  Definitely reading.  Fiction 99%.

2. Your favorite bath-time?

Evening, after I'm dirty enough.  Don't sweat that well (am prone to overheating as result) but don't have the side-effects of old sweat, either.

3. Your favorite pasta?

Cheese Tortellini. In a fresh-mushroom sauce--red sauce, of course.  Not as big fan of cream sauces as I am of a nice medium-spicy red sauce. (and, by medium, I do not mean hot, like jalapeño hot. Spicy as in lots of subtle flavors and aromas.)

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3. Or sharp dog teeth?
Stronger molars perhaps and sometimes rodent front-teeth

What I'd really like is continuously re-growing-in teeth, much like sharks' do or snake's fangs do. Maybe a new set every 10 years or so. Rodent teeth's continuous growth would be okay for front ones, but you'd need to carry around oak-sticks to gnaw on all the time...

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1. PC? Mac? Other?  Windoze? Linux? OS X? Other? Why?

2. records, CD's or MP3s? (or blessed silence?)

3. Ever see sausage being made?  Still want to eat some later?  Compares to politics, yes? (no?)

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

1. PC? Mac? Other?  Windoze? Linux? OS X? Other? Why?
PCs mostly with Windows. I have one with Suse to 'play'. The moment installing stuff becomes a simple thing in Linux and FPS video games are made for Linux I'll move away from Windoze (although I do work with MS development products, but I could use a dual boot for that).

2. records, CD's or MP3s? (or blessed silence?)
MP3s. ~10 hours in one burned CD, 1000 tracks on 1 DVD, or a good amount of my music in a hard disk based mp3 player, what else could I want?

3. Ever see sausage being made?  Still want to eat some later?  Compares to politics, yes? (no?)
Nope, I haven't but I heard about it. I do like certain kinds but I try to avoid them because of the sodium nitrite.
Regarding the question I do see a similarity with mushrooms 
Oh, and the politics reference... sausages are cleanly packaged and while you can argue that candidates are packaged in the same way, it is all so filthy that the equivalent would be like picking your freshly packaged sausages from an septic tank.
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1. Chamber or Orchestral music?

2. What will be first, colonies in the moon or underwater?

3. How easy is for you to go from rational to irrational if provoked. How easy is to go back?

[Swatopluk]

1. Chamber or Orchestral music?
Usually orchestral but with exceptions

2. What will be first, colonies in the moon or underwater?
I'd say the latter, if we are talking about more than a few scientists.

3. How easy is for you to go from rational to irrational if provoked. How easy is to go back?
I tend to explode without outside warning signals. Calming down depends, I think, partially on the time for the build-up. I have some success in replacing violent outbursts with sarcasm where once eardrums were (dezibelly) endangered or the umbrella would have gone to work on people's heads.

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1) Do you think duels with lethal weapons should have a (legal) comeback, if tight controls were applied?

2) Ever had to defend yourself bodily?

3) What kind of birthday gifts do you give preferably? As a receiver, do you like surprises in that?