The Never Ending Toadfish Interview Cycle!

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

1. Hypothesis: There are 2 movies that you want to see at a film festival, both of which won't be available again for some time. One is reputed to be a major serious film on a somber topic, the other is projected to be the next "lighthearted feel-good, FUN movie of the century".  Which one do you go see?
That sounds like a choice between Dancer in the dark and Amelie. I'll choose the lighthearted, in fact I have two or three somber ones on queue that I haven't had the gut to watch yet.

2. There are three options for snack time. You can have vanilla ice cream, raisin cake or bananas and berries. Which do you choose?
Vainilla ice cream although it would be better if it were strawberry.

3. Ralph Vaughn Williams or Willie Nelson?
Vaughan Williams all the way, love all his symphonic stuff.

1. Ok, a serious one, respond in all honesty, do you think that under specific conditions you could kill someone?

2. If yes, which conditions? If not, what conditions are required for you to do your worse?

3. Do you listen to music when you are angry? If yes, which music?

[Kiyoodle the Gambrinous]

1. Ok, a serious one, respond in all honesty, do you think that under specific conditions you could kill someone?

I think I would, if it would be utterly necessary.

2. If yes, which conditions? If not, what conditions are required for you to do your worse?

I think that if I were in the position, when somebody is endangering my family, in a way that it would be to kill or to be killed, I would be able to do it.
The other situation would be, if a person I love is suffering a lot, dying away, to cut his/her pain. I don't know if I would be able to kill that person (try to kill someone you love), but I think I would at least try.

3. Do you listen to music when you are angry? If yes, which music?

I listen to music almost all the time, so even when I'm angry. Which music is depending on the level of angriness. Sometimes I need to vent my anger, so I listed to hard rock and similiar, sometimes I need to calm down, so I listen to the type of music I calm down with.

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1. Water with or without bubbles?

2. Do you prefer warm breakfast (eggs, sausages and similiar), cold breakfast (slice of bread) or no breakfast at all (just a quick coffee before leaving home)?

3. Do you swear a lot while driving? (if not a driver, then as a pedestrian watching drivers)

[goat starer]

Sure!! I like to go places, and not understanding is my default position. Can I bring my dog?

I think they generally frown on Dogs in Kashmiri restaurants. It is partly a cultural thing and partly about hygiene.

Now please return to what you were doing..........

[Swatopluk]

1. Water with or without bubbles?
For drinking purposes with please

2. Do you prefer warm breakfast (eggs, sausages and similiar), cold breakfast (slice of bread) or no breakfast at all (just a quick coffee before leaving home)?
Cold breakfast (except for the tea) usually bread based

3. Do you swear a lot while driving? (if not a driver, then as a pedestrian watching drivers)
Occasionally (not aloud). Swearing time is in front of the computer.

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1.Do you consume erotic (not prawn) literature/movies/related?

2.The clothed or the naked Maya? (Goya not Gibson)

3.Would you refuse to vote for a politician because (s)he played a nude role in his/her youth (we had a case or two over here where the opponent tried to smear with that)?

[Bluenose]

1.Do you consume erotic (not prawn) literature/movies/related?

Occasionally

2.The clothed or the naked Maya? (Goya not Gibson)

Naked

3.Would you refuse to vote for a politician because (s)he played a nude role in his/her youth (we had a case or two over here where the opponent tried to smear with that)?

No, what possible connection could there be with a person's ability to act as an elected representative and the roles they played, nude or otherwise, in their youth or even last week, for that matter?  I fail to see how anyone can make in issue of this.



1. What is your favourite "comfort food"?

2. Do you remember your First Kiss and if so, with whom was it?

3. Do you still know/keep in touch with the person in Q2?

[Sibling Chatty]

1. What is your favourite "comfort food"?

Cooked type, it's "Roasty Noodles" where you cook the roast with onions until it's brown and savoury, then cook the wide-cut egg noodles in the roast juices. (Must have massive amounts of protein, more that mac & cheese will give.) Snacky type, it's Cheetos. (Southern US'ians will know what I mean.) CRUNCHY Cheetos.

2. Do you remember your First Kiss and if so, with whom was it?

Yes, I do. His name was Larry Emmons, and we dated off and on for over 7 years. Both his mother and his sister were continually frustrated with me for not encouraging the issue to go farther.

3. Do you still know/keep in touch with the person in Q2?

Yes. His Mom and mine have been friends for years.  The families keep in touch. His wife took almost 20 years to get over being jealous whenever I was around. I postponed my first cancer surgery to do the flowers for his Dad's funeral...I had previously done his sister's funeral flowers as well...it's a whole "family" thing. His wife has finally accepted the concept that I DO NOT want her husband, after I told her that IF I had wanted him, I would have had him to start.



1. City, small town or country? (Prefer, not where do you...)

2. Rice or potatoes?

3. Elvis or Buddy?

[beagle]

1. City, small town or country? (Prefer, not where do you...)

Country, then suburbia, then city. I liked cities in my twenties but now I like green bits and peace and quiet.
Living in Cambridgeshire there's plenty of open space, but I still miss the dense trees of suburban Surrey. If I had the money I'd live (but probably not for long) in Midsomer Murders territory (if that's shown in the U.S.).


2. Rice or potatoes?

Potatoes.

3. Elvis or Buddy?

Elvis, but, and this is heresy, I sometimes prefer covers to the originals.

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1  CDs or MP3s?

2  Your two favourite films/movies.

3  The best Miss Marple? Joan Hickson, Margaret Rutherford, Helen Hayes, Angela Lansbury or Geraldine McEwan?

[Swatopluk]

1  CDs or MP3s?
More used to CDs

2  Your two favourite films/movies.
Shifting from time to time.
The Cruel Sea and The Way to the Stars are clearly high on the list

3  The best Miss Marple? Joan Hickson, Margaret Rutherford, Helen Hayes, Angela Lansbury or Geraldine McEwan?
Who could beat MR in this?

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1. How far is the next public phone from where you are?

2. Same for letter box? (not the one you receive letters in)

3. If you own/drive/etc a car: Diesel or gasoline?

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

1. How far is the next public phone from where you are?
About 2-3 blocks in a shopping mall.

2. Same for letter box? (not the one you receive letters in)
2-3 blocks in the opposite direction.

3. If you own/drive/etc a car: Diesel or gasoline?
Our cars are gas but the idea of using diesel is attractive (apparently making biodiesel out of waste cooking oil isn't as complicated) if the maker isn't VW (quality issues lately). Mercedes and BMW have some offerings there but I can't afford them, and I have no plans to buy a truck.

1. Would you consider buying solar panels (photovoltaic or for heating water)?

2. Do you monitor how many miles-km/gallon-liter is your car doing?

3. If you could buy a 1 person vehicle as efficient as a motorcycle but less noisy and as safe as a car, would you?

[Swatopluk]

1. Would you consider buying solar panels (photovoltaic or for heating water)?
Not at the moment because the warm water comes directly from the plant (power-heat-coupling)
Otherwise I would

2. Do you monitor how many miles-km/gallon-liter is your car doing?
Not owning one I don't (and over here the view is liter/km). I would monitor it, if I had one.

3. If you could buy a 1 person vehicle as efficient as a motorcycle but less noisy and as safe as a car, would you?
I wait for a modern version of this.

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1. What is your name (I won't take Ponder Stibbons for an answer) ?

2. What is your task?

3. What is the favorite color of the capital of Assyria?

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

1. What is your name (I won't take Ponder Stibbons for an answer)
Kit

2. What is your task?
To bother, bother, bother, bother, bother, bother, bother, bother, bother Snape!

3. What is the favorite color of the capital of Assyria? Damascus Purple
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1. Do you have automatonophobia?
2.If you could pick any job title (such as Official Naptaker) what would it be?
3. Are you tired of silly questions?

[Griffin NoName]

1. Do you have automatonophobia?
Fine with ventriloquists's dummies and wax statues. Am pretty scared of the statue in Don Giovanni (if that counts) and terrified of Daleks.

2.If you could pick any job title (such as Official Naptaker) what would it be?

Gossip and Superstar.

3. Are you tired of silly questions?

I like silly questions best when mixed up with sensible ones.

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1. Who won the war?

2. Was R.D.Laing a good thing?

3. What do you consider your greatest contribution to humanity?

[beagle]

1. Who won the war?

Ha. You don't fool me with questions like that. I've seen "The History Boys". I know that if I want a place at Oxbridge then I have to make my answer stand out. Therefore the correct answer is Lower Volta, for obvious reasons.

More seriously? The USA and USSR. The first through the transfer of assets from the British Empire at the start, the concomitant industrialisation and establishment of bases throughout the world. The USSR through the occupation of Eastern Europe and the establishment of a stereotypical bogeyman fascist westerner with which to frighten the proles.

You could argue the end of Empire was "a good thing" for Africa and Asia, but like the late Queen Mother, my personal view is that the explosive decolonisation carried out for cash and U.S. pressure reasons was undertaken too rapidly; without time for a controlled tranfer to a non-corrupt local civil service in most cases.

2. Was R.D.Laing a good thing?

My ability to comment intelligently on this issue is best demonstrated by the fact I thought R.D.Laing was an American singer. What's the correct answer?


3. What do you consider your greatest contribution to humanity?

A C++ memory manager written about 1995. Its day will come.


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1   Will Gordon Brown get to be PM?

2   Is the U.S. going into recession?

3   Why does Tony Blair let bad things happen?

[Swatopluk]

1   Will Gordon Brown get to be PM?
Of Scotland?

2   Is the U.S. going into recession?
Yes, but it will hurt the wrong people again

3   Why does Tony Blair let bad things happen?
a) he is  a poodle
b) he doesn't doodle
c) he doesn't care about the whole caboodle

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1. Why is there no rhyme for monster?

2. Who is your favorite candidate for US president (declared or undeclared but not Gore)?

3. Do you prefer dogs, cats, fish or reptiles for pets?

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

1. Why is there no rhyme for monster?
Because English is weird

2. Who is your favorite candidate for US president (declared or undeclared but not Gore)?
I'm not really happy with anyone at all. I thought about McCain, but he's cuddled up too much with theocons. Barak has potentially lost my my vote with his didging of questions--granted, it was on homosexuality, and that got Pace into hot water, but he could at least say that he has no desire to answer. Yeesh. Be striaghtforward.

3. Do you prefer dogs, cats, fish or reptiles for pets?
Cats, and possibly fish. I don't have the attention span for dogs, etc.