The Never Ending Toadfish Interview Cycle!

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

1. Your favorite movie genre
Sci-fi. When is well done it puts reality into perspective.

2.  Same for books
Hard one. I like from fiction to thrillers and obviously scifi, I guess i'll go with the latter when is well done.

3. Do you prefer books from your own country or other?
I certainly like Garcia Marquez, but I don't really read books from only one country, whatever works.
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1. Tragedy, comedy or tragicomedy?

2. Cinema, theatre or opera?

3. Flute, oboe or clarinet?

[Bluenose]

1. Tragedy, comedy or tragicomedy?

Depends on my mood, when I'm feeling up, a bit if tragedy is good, comedy - so long as it engages the intelellect, I am not  a fan of slap stick - is always a good idea if I'm feeling poorly.  hard to tell, I guess I'll wimp it and go for tragicomedy.

2. Cinema, theatre or opera?

If it cost the same to attend I would go for threatre and opera, in that order, before cinema, but given the reality of things I probably go to the cinema more often tha n anything else.  However, I do not particularly enjoy a lot of modern cinema, so I tend to be selective in what I do see.

3. Flute, oboe or clarinet?

Oh, the oboe!  Love those mellow sounds...

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1. Big city shopping spree or a day at a quaint country market?

2. Slap up first class meal at a top restaurant with magnificent city views or an intimate candle lit meal in a tiny pub with an open fire and "rustic charm".

3. Round the world first class air ticket with accommodation at top hotels six stars all the way, or a three month cruise aboard the Queen Mary II?

[Sibling Chatty]

1. Big city shopping spree or a day at a quaint country market?

Country market. Big cities have 27 stores with all the same crap.

2. Slap up first class meal at a top restaurant with magnificent city views or an intimate candle lit meal in a tiny pub with an open fire and "rustic charm".

Arrrgghhhh...probably the latter, as i'm a weird eater, but I loved going to exquisite restaurants and miss it.

3. Round the world first class air ticket with accommodation at top hotels six stars all the way, or a three month cruise aboard the Queen Mary II?

Get me to the airport on time!! Three months on a boat would put me too far from adequate medical care anyway.

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1. What was your favorite childhood toy?

2. Have you ever started talking about another Toadfish to someone (in real life) as if you know the Todafish personally (in real life)?

3. If you could snap your fingers and "fix" one of the world's problems, what would it be?

[Swatopluk]

1. What was your favorite childhood toy?
A rather rotten teddy bear (not the smooth short hair variant)

2. Have you ever started talking about another Toadfish to someone (in real life) as if you know the Todafish personally (in real life)?
Not extensively. More like "somebody I know has said..."

3. If you could snap your fingers and "fix" one of the world's problems, what would it be?
The obvious inability/unwillingness to think beyond a quite narrow horizon in space and time.
In other word: mental shortsightedness

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1. Prose or poetry (if it is the same author)?

2. Spoken or sung poetry?

3. Rhyme or rhythm?

[The Meromorph]

1. Prose or poetry (if it is the same author)?
I don't know of (m)any people who publish both.
Tom Robbins's prose is prose poetry to me, and I don't think overmuch of his embedded poetry.
So prose.

2. Spoken or sung poetry?

Written. If I had to choose between your options, it would be spoken.
If you count song lyrics as sung poetry, then sung. But it's a very different genre, to me. The music does a lot of the work, and some very different work, and Prosody works very differently (and is a high art in itself), Prosody is what differentiates competence from incompetence in lyric writing (though it can be rescued by a talented singer).

3. Rhyme or rhythm?
A false choice, in my opinion. They do very different things, and rhythm is different from rhythmical and does different things, again.




1. As an adult, do you still have a 'teddy bear'?

2. Do you read most of your 'library' over and over again?

3. Are there any social 'incidents' from long ago that you still cringe internally when you remember them?

[Swatopluk]

1. As an adult, do you still have a 'teddy bear'?
See above (though the relationship is less intimate now )

2. Do you read most of your 'library' over and over again?
A few books yes. To reread all of it would take years

3. Are there any social 'incidents' from long ago that you still cringe internally when you remember them?
Yes, and I cringe so strongly that I won't name any examples

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1. What is your favorite colour?

2. What is your task?

3. Does it really matter what the capital of Assyria is?

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Sorry for the seemingly rude tone of the answers, no intention.
Concerning my questions above
I was thinking about poems that later got music attached (ballads for example)
rhyme vs. rhythm: I thought about the difference of antique poems (no rhyme but a fixed ryhthm), rhymed poetry (usually with a more free or at least variable rhythm), alliterative poetry (dramatic rhythm, no fixed rules) and "modern" poetry (complete freedom)

[Black Bart]

1. My favourite colour is...RED, No Blue, AAARRRRGH!

2. I seek the Holy Grail. (which in my case is assendancy to full Toadfish Monknessness or whatever - or to become a real pirate, whichever happens quicker!)

3. No.

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1. Blae mae Ivor the Engine?

2. Where is Captain Cronan's Treasure?

3. What is your 'Porn Star' name (you can work that out by adding the name of your first ever pet animal to your mother's maiden name).

[Kiyoodle the Gambrinous]

1. Blae mae Ivor the Engine?

I have no idea.

2. Where is Captain Cronan's Treasure?

I know it, but I can't share this information with you. I don't want you to steal it from me.

3. What is your 'Porn Star' name (you can work that out by adding the name of your first ever pet animal to your mother's maiden name).

Kiki Felix. (wow, that sounds almost like a porn star name...)

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1. Microeconomy or Macroeconomy?

2. Are you worthy?

3. Do you prefer Luke Skywalker or Han Solo?

[Swatopluk]

1. Microeconomy or Macroeconomy?
As long as it puts good money into my pocket, I don't care

2. Are you worthy?
No

3. Do you prefer Luke Skywalker or Han Solo?
I prefer that long asthmatic guy in the black outfit with helmet (otherwise the latter)

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1. Do you like erotic (not prawn) movies/art?

2. Do you like the Monty Python type of humor?

3. Where is the difference?

[Black Bart]

1. Aye...me drawin of Anne Bonny is a bit saucy!

2. Brought up on it mate, nudge, nudge, wink, wink!

3. Viva la difference?

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1. Have you ever been a Lumberjack?

2. Do you prefer Blondes or Brunettes?

3. Do you like ferrets?

[Sibling Chatty]

1. Have you ever been a Lumberjack?

No, but I have hauled hay.

2. Do you prefer Blondes or Brunettes?

At my age, i'm lucky to have a balding grey hair kinda guy. (Redheads are favourite.)

3. Do you like ferrets?

The critter kind? Not really. The 2 legged, faux-human type? THEM I loathe.
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1] Have you served in your country's military?

2] PC or Mac? Why?

3] If you could extend your life by 20 years beyond normal life expectancy, would you do so?

[Sibling Lambicus the Toluous]

1] Have you served in your country's military?

No.  The closest I've gotten to serving in the military is getting brochures from the recruiting office when I was 20 and out-of-work.

2] PC or Mac? Why?
PC, and in a roundabout way, because of the Chicago fire:

When the Great Chicago Fire happened, fire departments had become commonplace, but not standardized.  Each one had different equipment; each one also likely had good reasons for those differences, but when the firefighters from the surrounding towns rushed into Chicago to help out, they quickly found out that their fire hoses couldn't screw on to Chicago fire hydrants.

The fire departments were forced to make do as best they can - bucket brigades and the like - and a huge portion of Chicago burned to the ground.

In closing, standard is good.  And if you don't have any compelling reason to make a decision between two items, it's best to choose the one that's more popular... if you think you might ever need parts or help for it.

3] If you could extend your life by 20 years beyond normal life expectancy, would you do so?
Just like that with no downside?  Sure.

If I had to do it by killing people for their organs, or by lying in a 20-year coma, that would likely change my answer.  But all else being equal, I've got no problem with watching my great-grandchildren graduate from college.   



1. Sunbathing on the beach or swimming in the ocean?  Why?

2. Star Wars or Star Trek?  Why?

3. Paper or plastic?  Why?

[Swatopluk]

1. Sunbathing on the beach or swimming in the ocean?  Why?
Never a beach friend but swimming in the ocean can be done without

2. Star Wars or Star Trek?  Why?
Star Trek never had appeal for me (Give me Raumpatrouille Orion or Firefly!)
Star Wars was not bad (notice the tempus!)

3. Paper or plastic?  Why?
Depends on what one wants to do with it.
My eye-glasses are actually plastic, paper wouldn't do.
Otherwise I prefer paper e.g. for writing.

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1. barefoot or silk stockings?
2. shoes or boots?
3. t-shirt or shirt?

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

1. barefoot or silk stockings?
Barefoot

2. shoes or boots?
Shoes, provided I don't have to walk between puddles/mud

3. t-shirt or shirt?
T-shirt

1. Prologue, development, climax or denouement?

2. Fins or wings?

3. Trumpet, trombone or french horn?

[Black Bart]

1. Prologue, development, climax or denouement?

Climax every time!

2. Fins or wings?

I've never met a Fin but I do live in Wingland!

3. Trumpet, trombone or french horn?

PHFOOOOOAAARRRR...a nice bit of French Horn!


1. Newts or Toads?

2. Ale or Lager

3. Have you ever danced with the devil by the pale moonlight?