The Never Ending Toadfish Interview Cycle!

[Sibling Chatty]

Bad Zono/mato!! You didn't answer!!

OK, I will...

1. What are you going to do tomorrow?

Go to MDA, get a shot, pick up my records, go to the place that's doing the Indium-111 study, fill out paperwork, go to another hospital to see my friend Kate, who may be dying, coming home to get ready to go see my BRAND NEW DOCTOR!! 'Cause I fire MDA tomorrow.

2. What's the longest period of time you have spent alone, not seeing or speaking to anybody?

About 3 weeks. I didn't really miss anyone in my life at that time very much, either.

3. Do you have any personal customs, like always drawing the left curtain first, or always walking around a table in the same direction, even though it apparently makes no difference? If so, why?

Nope, just never wanted to be that 'set' in my ways. To not be willing to change isn't good when life doesn't just hand you lemons, it pitches the damn things at your head.

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1. Do you consider the US (under the current administration) a danger to the rest of the world?

2. Which last-half of the 20th century President of the US will history remember most kindly? (Eisenhauer through Clinton)

3. What's the ugliest part of your body? (Apologies to Zappa.)

[Swatopluk]

1. Do you consider the US (under the current administration) a danger to the rest of the world?
Alas! Unqualified yes
2. Which last-half of the 20th century President of the US will history remember most kindly? (Eisenhauer through Clinton)
As a person? Carter, I presume. As a politician it could be LBJ for the civil rights (the blame for Vietnam will be shared with several others).
3. What's the ugliest part of your body? (Apologies to Zappa.)
That wart behind my second toe on the left foot (withstands all treatment for decades now)

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1. How often do you brush your teeth (per day?)?

2. How long does it take?

3. How often do you change your toothbrush?

[Kiyoodle the Gambrinous]

1. How often do you brush your teeth (per day?)?

Two to three times.

2. How long does it take?

Not long enough, I'm afraid.

3. How often do you change your toothbrush?

I try to change it every three months.

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1. Would you prefer going to the dentist or dying a slow death?

2. How can we get rid of all the dentists with minimum cost and effort?

3. Do you prefer dentists or lawyers?

[Swatopluk]

1. Would you prefer going to the dentist or dying a slow death?
Dentist is faster
2. How can we get rid of all the dentists with minimum cost and effort?
make teeth illegal
3. Do you prefer dentists or lawyers?
Hm, lawyers contain more fat but dentists taste too much like isopropanol.

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1. Favorite means of transport?
2. do you prefer sour or sweet? (in modest amounts)
3. do you like spicy food or do you prefer "flat"?

[Aggie]

1. Favorite means of transport?
Bicycle over reasonable distances, helicopter is fun, too, but I tend to get sleepy in choppers (not the pilot!).

2. do you prefer sour or sweet? (in modest amounts)
Tough call - I generally prefer 'savoury', and both sweet or sour make good modifications.  I try to eat all the tastes if possible, but I'll give the edge to sweet, especially for fruit.  I do like a properly soured kimchi, though - I once had kimchi cousin-in-law's that was sublimely sour and refreshing, with a slight lemony taste.

3. do you like spicy food or do you prefer "flat"?
SPICY!  If I have to eat 'flat' food for more than a couple of days, I go into capsaicin withdrawals and will resort to munching frozen habaneros or whatever else is at hand.

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1) Where would you rather journey to (assume first-class travel conditions) - the depths of the ocean or the edge of the solar system?

2) What childhood-hated foods have you re-taught yourself to eat as an adult?

3) Any foods that you still cannot eat or can't bring yourself to eat anymore (allergies don't count)?

[Griffin NoName]

Bad Zono/mato!! You didn't answer!!

Couldn't. There were no questions. Which I rectified. Later. 

[Swatopluk]

1) Where would you rather journey to (assume first-class travel conditions) - the depths of the ocean or the edge of the solar system?
Deep Ocean, outer space can be so boring after the first awe wears off

2) What childhood-hated foods have you re-taught yourself to eat as an adult?
A few vegetables, tea

3) Any foods that you still cannot eat or can't bring yourself to eat anymore (allergies don't count)?
Still a lot of vegetables including most of the cabbage and allium family (but nothing against onion aroma as long as there are no solid pieces)

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1. Singing in the rain or dancing in the snow?

2. Do you like dancing (either watching or doing it yourself)?

3. Do you sing and at what level (quality and voice level [bass, soprano etc.])?

[Bluenose]

1. Singing in the rain or dancing in the snow?

Singing in the rain.  Snow is just fine to look at, preferably through a well insulated window, while drinking hot chocolate or mulled wine, but I wouldn't want to actually go out in it!  Urrk!

2. Do you like dancing (either watching or doing it yourself)?

Sometimes I like to dance, depends on my mood and the music.  Generally, watching dancing does not do much for me.

3. Do you sing and at what level (quality and voice level [bass, soprano etc.])?

Yes, I sing bass.  Until I found I just did not have the time to attend rehearsal every Monday night (conflicted too much with early starts and used to wreck me for the rest of the week) I was a member of the Melbournaires a men's barbershop chorus.  Although barbershop is not exactly my favourite form of music (although I like most sorts) it is fun to sing, especially when you get those close harmonies just right.  Singing bass, you can hear the other parts build on your foundation and it can be just spine tingling when it goes just so.  Previously as a boy I had a fair to good soprano voice and it was the family wisdom after my voice broke that I could not sing.  It was many years later when I attended a session with the Melbournaires that I found out my problem was I was trying to sing in the wrong register.  I am not a twenty feet below ground bass, but singing the lower notes generally (except for the odd really low note) was a revelation to me.  I was told I had a pretty good voice, but I don't think I am any great singer...



1. What is your favourite (culinary) herb?

2. What is your favourite spice?

3. Which herb or spice do you really not like at all, but everyone seems bent on giving it to you?

[Opsa]

(I sing alto- let's make a chorus!)


1. What is your favourite (culinary) herb?

Sage. I can eat it an almost anything non-sweet.

2. What is your favourite spice?

Cardamom. Hmmm.... time to dig up the old Finnish Coffee bread recipe!

3. Which herb or spice do you really not like at all, but everyone seems bent on giving it to you?

Cilantro!!! I know that there are ways to make it work right, and I have tasted it working correctly, but let's face it, here on the U.S. east coast we really have no freakin' idea about it's use. Usually I taste it too much, and it tastes like kissing a screen door, and don't ask me how I know what that tastes like.




1) When someone says "I love you", do you believe it?

2) When did you first realize that you were a toadfish?

2) If, after you breathed your last, you found there was nothing else, would you be disappointed?

[Aggie]

2. What is your favourite spice?

Cardamom. Hmmm.... time to dig up the old Finnish Coffee bread recipe!

3. Which herb or spice do you really not like at all, but everyone seems bent on giving it to you?

Cilantro!!! I know that there are ways to make it work right, and I have tasted it working correctly, but let's face it, here on the U.S. east coast we really have no freakin' idea about it's use. Usually I taste it too much, and it tastes like kissing a screen door, and don't ask me how I know what that tastes like.

Mmmm... cardamom & coffee....

I've heard cilantro's smell compared to the smell of bedbugs, so screen door isn't a strech.  I even found a club for you: http://www.ihatecilantro.com/ - oh, they have anti-cilantro haikus!

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Cilantro!!! I know that there are ways to make it work right, and I have tasted it working correctly, but let's face it, here on the U.S. east coast we really have no freakin' idea about it's use. Usually I taste it too much, and it tastes like kissing a screen door, and don't ask me how I know what that tastes like.

I've heard cilantro's smell compared to the smell of bedbugs, so screen door isn't a strech.  I even found a club for you: http://www.ihatecilantro.com/ - oh, they have anti-cilantro haikus!

I don't want to sound impolite but, you don't like cilantro? Perhaps is because I'm hispanic or something but I find it almost essential. I guess the same can be said about me regarding wasabi (I hate it). 
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1) When someone says "I love you", do you believe it?
Given that few people tells me such thing I better believe it...

2) When did you first realize that you were a toadfish?
Mmm... the day I saw the hidden forum in omnia...?

2) If, after you breathed your last, you found there was nothing else, would you be disappointed?
Technically, it is impossible to feel anything if there is nothing else. Now, regarding the idea itself I guess I would feel disappointed, it would mean that we are the children of (mis)fortune, that justice is an abstraction that doesn't really apply, and that I will never experience all those things that for one or other reason I couldn't do in this life.

1. Earthquake, volcano or hurricane/tornado?

2. Humid heat or humid cold?

3. In the evening in an old and remote house: wood creaking or wind wooing?

[Aggie]

I looooooves it, but I know people who don't.  My dad isn't a fan.

[Swatopluk]

1. Earthquake, volcano or hurricane/tornado?
Volcano please, I like the style

2. Humid heat or humid cold?
Absent other choices: cold

3. In the evening in an old and remote house: wood creaking or wind wooing?
wood (as long as it does not indicate that the house is coming down soon)

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1. Vampires or Werewolves (as neighbours)?

2. Lugosi, Karloff or Lee?

3. Will you refuse to answer this question?

[Sibling Chatty]

1. Vampires or Werewolves (as neighbours)?

Vampires. I like dogs, but who wants neighbors that poop on your lawn? Besides, Temperance League is expanding, they might be Black Ribboners!

2. Lugosi, Karloff or Lee?

Lugosi for style, Karloff for talent. Not a Lee fan.

3. Will you refuse to answer this question?

Certainly not!! I try to always answer every question to my fullest and I will certainly attempt to do so with this question.



1) Would you try an experimental procedure that requires you to be isolated for 5-8 days because of radiation?

2) What is your favorite movie of all time?

3) Have you ever disliked a book so much that you wouldn't finish reading it?

[Swatopluk]

1) Would you try an experimental procedure that requires you to be isolated for 5-8 days because of radiation?
Provided there is some form of entertainment available (books, DVDs, CDs etc.) no problem

2) What is your favorite movie of all time?
That's a really tough one. For some time it was Fantasia, at some other time Henry V.(Olivier version) took the title. Currently I simply don't know

3) Have you ever disliked a book so much that you wouldn't finish reading it?
With some books at school I would have but was forced to finish anyway. Otherwise I'd say that it is very rare (and I may finish it years later)

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1) Your favorite movie genre?

2) Same for books (apart from Pratchett  )

3) Do you prefer books/movies from your own country or from another (and name countries in both cases)?