The Syndicate

Yay Cam!!!

Favorite comfort food?
Do you like chocolate? White, milk or dark?
What is your favorite way to spoil yourself?
Favorite moive?
Favorite TV show?
Favorite book?
Favorite mafia game?
Favorite mafia role?
What do you want to be when you grow up?
Where would you like to travel to and why?

lol - I'm glad you had fun TH. It was fun getting to know you better as well!

Turnip Head wrote:will definitely be hittin you up with those South Park mafia ideas

bea wrote:What is your favorite way to spoil yourself?
What is your favorite way to spoil someone else?
Do you have a special someone?
Are you looking for a special someone? (I'm not asking for me - I'm very happy in my married state - but you know - couples always ask about how to make other couples )
It's pretty obvious I've had drinks right? Cuz it should be.

I think I answered this one earlier! A nice long toke is my favorite way to spoil myself
Favorite way to spoil someone else? I like cooking for friends, or treating them out to lunch
There is currently no special someone. I am always looking. </3

bea wrote:What is your favorite color?
What is your favorite music to listen to to get pumped up?
What is your favorite music to listen to when you unwind?
What is your favorite music to listen to when you have a big fat bowl and no distractions?
Are you a wake and baker? Or are you more of a smoker who thinks "This is my reward for getting through today." - Or are you somewhere in the middle?

Royal blue.

Pumped Up: Zeppelin, Pearl Jam, Weezer, blink, Phoenix, Black Keys
Unwind: The National, Frightened Rabbit, Yukon Blonde, River City Extension, 90s rock
Chillin: Sigur Ros, M83, Matthew Good, Dave Matthews, Red Hot Chili Peppers

I wake and bake occasionally. I usually only smoke at night, or before bed because it helps me go to sleep tbh. But sometimes the best way to deal with a hangover on Sunday morning is to smoke a bowl and watch some football (not in the spring though )

bea wrote:Do you think smoking or booze or anything else - helps or hurts your writing process? Why?

Okay, so I like to write sober, but I'm a much sharper editor while I'm high. I catch things I didn't think about before. Ive also learned that if I'm inebriated while writing the first draft, almost none of it ends up useable. If I'm stuck on how to start writing a scene, I might have a few drinks first, definitely helps to get the ball rolling even if I have to edit it later

The brainstorm/outlining phase will likely involve, at different times, all 3 states of mind also, coffee. Always coffee.

yay South Park!! I already have ideas....can't wait to see what you give me.


for me smoking was always the "sweet sweet reward." I made it through the shitty day, so now I get to puff puff happy.

I get the writing sober - and editing better high. My bff girl version always knows when I'm drinking because I spell better drunk than sober.


Might I recomend some david bowie for some chill times too. (And not at all to pimp my game, just David has his moments )

Turnip Head wrote:

Roxy wrote:

Turnips wrote: Splints, the fake role PM is absolutely legendary as far as I'm concerned. I just remember how paranoid LittleTiger and I were, in our BTSC... to the point that we were sending PM's accusing EACH OTHER lol. That was nuts!

Reys fake role PM is as famous as MP's fake parchment from Sword of Truth good times!
muppets needs a sequel for sure! That game was so fun and as an outed baddie I was happy to live longer than some civs and other baddies!

were you ever anouted baddie in a game?
Do you think rabbit needs a sequel to sword of Truth?
Do you think splints wil follow through witha sequel to Muppets when she has yet to send me her ideas for roles for our AHS game? lol

Yep, I've been an outted baddie twice. Once was when I chose to out myself for strategic reasons and I ended up winning. The other time was in Angel Mafia (hosted by LR and Illy). The other mafia team had rolechecked me and one of them info dumped on me right before he was lynched. I tried my best to convince everyone that he was lying but it didnt work because the civ's ninja kill only worked on baddies so I had no chance. Most pointless infodump of all time. My team later won a rez and rezzed me even though everyone knew I was a baddie I somehow survived a few days longer.

I didn't get to play rabbits Sword of Truth game, but it sounds like it was a lot of fun, so there should definitely be a sequel so I can play

Sounds like we need to pressure splints to get in the ball!!! Hehehe

Maybe splints will follow through if she has a "record keeper of the spreadsheets" to nudge her along? IDK. I'd like to see the muppets sequel happen as I missed the first one. Wouldn't feel right without splintsy and lorab though. And getting those two's schedules to hook up sounds about as easy to happen as Moses parting the Red Sea tbh.


That said, as EPIC as SOT was, I'm still scarred from it. I learned the HARD way about Else. I forgave him and I still love him but man, that was harsh.

TH - south park mafia sounds interesting! PM me your ideas? Maybe we can work it up for the next hosting poll? I mean....if ya wanna.... *bats eyes*

Oh - more questions!

What is your favorite way to spoil yourself?
What is your favorite way to spoil someone else?
Do you have a special someone?
Are you looking for a special someone? (I'm not asking for me - I'm very happy in my married state - but you know - couples always ask about how to make other couples )
It's pretty obvious I've had drinks right? Cuz it should be.

What is your favorite color?
What is your favorite music to listen to to get pumped up?
What is your favorite music to listen to when you unwind?
What is your favorite music to listen to when you have a big fat bowl and no distractions?
Are you a wake and baker? Or are you more of a smoker who thinks "This is my reward for getting through today." - Or are you somewhere in the middle?

Do you think smoking or booze or anything else - helps or hurts your writing process? Why?

Turnip Head wrote:

bea wrote:What new ideas do you have for hosting games? Would you like a co-host?

Mostly some mechanics ideas. I had been working on a Hobbit themed game but Russti beat me to the punch! Maybe I'll save it for later.

I have a bunch of notes for a South Park mafia and a Star Trek mafia. I also want to host a game based on the Craigslist killer :O everyone would have identities, back stories, and things they want to buy and sell. It would be crazy I also have ideas for more games based on the Funny or Die philosophy.

If I do ever host, I would love to have a cohost. Are you offering??

Lizzy wrote:But back to business.
1. Do you feel like an adult yet?
2. What does being an adult mean anyway?
3. Do you believe in multiculturalism?
4. Which one of the following can you handle decently: sports, politics, religion?
5. How are you today?
6. Do you have any recurring dreams?
7. What's the biggest fish you've ever caught?
8. What's the song stuck in your head at the moment?
9. How do you feel about cherry picking?

1. God, no.
2. I think being an adult means you're capable of caring and providing for someone(s) other than yourself, i.e. starting a family. I am nowhere near ready for that... Theres still a ton of mistakes I plan on making before then
3. Absolutely!
4. Well I love sports and could talk about them all day. Except for soccer, which I don't enjoy watching and hate hearing about, but it's the one sport I'm any good at actually playing. I wish I was better informed about politics but I have lots of opinions/ideas, none of which I enjoy talking or arguing about. My thoughts on religion change all the time and I'm not comfortable discussing religion with most people.
5. I'm in a good mood today! Although I'm hungry and don't know what I feel like eating.
6. I have a recurring nightmare that one or more of my teeth fall out. It's like my biggest fear my dreams tend to be pretty wonky though.
7. I caught a baby nurse shark once at Big Carlos Pass, it was almost two feet long!
8. "Future Starts Slow" by The Kills
9.

A Person wrote:Do you like anime? Do you have favorites?
What program do you use to open .pdf files?
If you had to be a breed of dog which one would you be?

I've not watched much anime. I want to get into it, but have no idea which types of anime I would enjoy, and no idea where to start.
Adobe Reader
Husky

Sure! I love hosting. Prolly more than playing tbh.

juliets wrote:

Turnip Head wrote:Hi bea!!!!
12) I hosted a mafia game a few years ago on The Piano with my buddies aapje, sanderling and Sparrow. I would love to host again. I have lots of ideas.

aapje is your buddy? He is my buddy too! And bea's! I think that means we're all related.

1. TH, I saw you mention mafia is a lot different today than when you played it before. Can you explain what those differences are?

I'll quit asking you things, I promise.

Are aapje and I still friends? Could you ask him for me TH? We kinda had this thing Monday....apparently we were both Irish....

Wouldn't that be awesome if we were all related somehow? Of course, it means we'd have the Tranq and Typh as like cousin's or something. Would that be awesome or awful?

Not a question: But I happen to know for a fact that aapje can be found periodically on the rev mafia IRC channel.

What new ideas do you have for hosting games? Would you like a co-host?

Lizzy wrote::O I missed Llama.

TH, I'll have to think of some decent cvestions, but for now I'd just like to say that if we ever have the chance, it would be my pleasure to get high with you.

I would like to second this feel.

TH!!! :

1) Favorite Comfort Food?
2) You were born in the C-bus? I was born and raised a short drive north and east of there!! (I knew there was a reason I liked you, Ohio peeps know their own. )
3) What is your favorite memory from your childhood?
4) What would we be surpised to learn about you?
5) Where is your favorite place to travel?
6) What place have you always wanted to travel to but haven't yet?
7) What is your favorite way to spoil yourself?
8) How goes the screenwriting? What is most challenging about it as a career? What is the most rewarding?
10) Who are your writing influences? Do you think that shows in the work you do?
11) If you weren't becoming a screenwriter, what do you think you'd like to do for a living?
12) Have you hosted any mafia games? Would you like to?

thellama73 wrote:

bea wrote: Also - I enjoyed the spirited debate and hope I wasn't too off putting. :o

YOu could never be off-putting, bea.

awe...shuckies....

llama - that's quite a diverse background of degrees! You are a real Renaissance man.

Also - I enjoyed the spirited debate and hope I wasn't too off putting. :o

FZ. wrote:Bea, you have to agree with me more

Nothing is black or white. There are things I agree with llama on, like women sometimes using their situation to harm men. In my opinion, this hurts other women as much as it hurts men, because a woman who lies about being sexually harassed, does not only ruin the life of the man she accused, but makes it so much harder for women who really were, to be treated fairly instead of going through the trauma over again. Thus, decreasing the chance of women coming forward and complaining when it is justified. Such is the case with women using pregnancy to manipulate bosses concerning different job issues , consequently making bosses less inclined to hire women in the first place.

Still, in my humble opinion, saying that women have reached an equality is just shutting your eyes to what's happening all around us.

fx - I Do agree with you lots.

I agree with llama too in all those 1 in a million cases.. I agree those cases hurt women as much as men. I completely disagree that they are as common as llama says they are and I invite him to prove to me that in the cases he sites the men get fucked over more than the women. . I think llama's men are the exception to the rule - maybe the exception that proves the rule, but the exception nonetheless.

I agree that nothing is black or white - and I agree that looking at ALL rape and cusdity cases as to how the woman is either right or wrong is exemplifying everything wrong about the fact that it's some how the woman's fault. She got pregnant. She got knocked up. she got raped. She dressed too sluty. SHE DID SOMETHING THAT GOT HER IN THAT SITUATION. Now somehow some one wants to make decisions about what happens to her body after the fact. Maybe - maybe it was concentual. maybe maybe the dad is getting effed over here. And I *feel* for that scenario. But to make THAT scenario the way it goes down? Not as often as those of us that want to believe in equal rights would have us believe. Maybe the very the fact that MANY unwanted pregancies are - just that UNWANTED - makes me a little sick inside.

I want all the pregancies to be wanted. I want all the kittahs to be mine. But I'm no fool. I know that MANY of them are unwanted. I do really wish more dad's would stand up and say I want this life.
but you and I and llama knows - this again is the exception. not the norm.

No mater how much any of us wish it were.


I want to keep all the kittahs. And my husband always tells me - no YOU CAN'T HAVE ALL THE KITTAHS. I would be the same way with babies if a) I were rich and b) could have all the unwanted kiddies.

Maybe - I want something so sacred to be - ideally - between both of the people involved in creating the life, but I also understand that sometimes women aren't given much of a choice. Baby killer or unwanted mommy.

Ive reread more of this and decided that I'm officially too irish to understand which of you I agree with. :P eff you llama and fz for comfusing me. :P

also - re - my italiced part - I personally think a life created does mean that both the father and the mother get an opinion. I would be sad if a mother terminated a pregnacy against a father's wishies. If I were pregnant - keeping the baby would be something that both my husband and I would decide. The father, in my opnion has rights. I think it's shameful from men to assume they don't have rights just because women have learned to be protective of their persons, their rights and thier bodies. To me - the auto assumtion of the "loss of their rights" feels a bit like "well - I look good if I fight for a lost cause."


and if I'm wrong - please prove me wrong. I'd VERY MUCH love to be wrong in all my assumptions about men

thellama73 wrote:

FZ. wrote: What type of group would you say you associated yourself with in high school? Were you an outsider or a part of the popular circles?
I didn't go to high school, but I was a pretty introverted kid. I had a few friends but mostly kept to myself or hung out with my sister.

If you weren't a writer, what would you do? or like to do even if you're not skilled for it?
I tried to be a composer for a while. I would have liked to do that, because music is great.

what would you like to learn that you haven't yet?
God, everything. Chemistry, about fifty languages, architecture, painting, botany, medicine, and on and on.

Is there a research question that you'd like to study or explore?
Not really. As an economist, I have done a lot of this sort of thing and the conclusion it has led me to is to be skeptical of empiricism.

Who would you rather meat for lunch: Karl Marx, or Bill Gates?
I am going to take your typo literally and say I would eat Karl Marx, because Communism is my most hated thing in the whole world.

Oh, and a comment about an answer you gave Bea earlier: I think women, even though they've come a long way in terms of rights, still make less money compared to men in the same position, are far less likely to be in high ranks and management positions in almost all fields, even though they constitute at least 50% of the population, so saying there's been progress is one thing, but saying we've reached equality in opportunities and rights is another, and is sadly wrong.
Just wanted to throw my two cents.
That's fine. I disagree. There are still people who discriminate against women, true, but there are also people who discriminate against men, or white people, or Americans. No one is ever going to be totally free from prejudice. The "women make less than men for doing the same job" is a bogus statistic, just drawn from comparing the average wages of men and women, which says nothing about "the same job." There may be reasons other than discrimination that fewer women are in management positions. I think it is wrong to assume discrimination without evidence.

It's important to acknowledge that there are areas where women have vast institutional advantages over men as well. Women are given child custody by default, even if they are the worse parent. Women are able to falsely accuse men of rape, ruining the man's life, often without consequence to themselves. Women are able to terminate men's children without consulting them. Women host panel discussions called "Are Men Necessary" to everyone's amusement (can you imagine "Are Women Necessary?" "Are Jews Necessary?" "Are Blacks Necessary?") So equal treatment goes both ways.

None of this has anything to do with "rights," by the way.

how does it not have to do with rights?


re bolded part 1 I don't under stand how this is a bogus statisic? the fact that women make less per hour than men do per hour for each job they do is WELL documented. If I'm missing studies that prove that wrong over the past 20 plus yeasrs PLEASE give me links. I'd LOVE to hear that women are getting a bit more in paychecks than men are for the same job.

re bold the second. I'm flat out not kosher with what you just said. It implies that every woman that says she is raped is not kosher. It also implies that every woman who's ever said she was raped was awarded every bit of court findings she should be awarded AND OR/MAY have been given those findings because SOLEY they were women. . When you and I BOTH know "she asked for it." is just as much a defense that men make that's bullshitty as anything a woman does.

Talk to me in specifics - in our most modern age - that's the fairest way to go - to BOTH men and women.

Mongoose wrote:Why do birds suddenly appear, every time that you're near? (Is it because you walk around with birdseed in your pocket?)

or just like you they long to be looser to him.

I can see the similarities goosey -

that distinction does make LOTS of sense.

I still think A Prayer for Owen Meany - is a good read for you.

It is hands down, my personal "Greatest Novel of the 20th Century"

Please do me this one favor - promise me you will read it.

thellama73 wrote:

bea wrote:
37: What is this "ban on bossy?" I think I already hate it for the name alone.

I have an extremely long rant on this that I don't have time to get into now. Basically, a group of celebrity women are saying the word "bossy" should be banned because it is used to belittle women and prevent them from becoming leaders. This annoys me for many reasons (the irony of bossily telling people not to call them bossy, for one) but particularly because my experience in the workplace is that women do extremely well, have an easier time finding jobs (I don't know any unemployed women) get promoted, make lots of money, and are treated with nothing but respect, and yet they still complain about oppression. When a man fails at something, it is because of a character flaw. When a woman fails at something, it is always the fault of a man.
I diss agree with lots of this - but I am too far gone to *right now* say which parts I disagree with. Most clearly.

54 - why is lo mein better than chow mein?

Because of the taste.

how is one taste different from the other? I always go rice.

57 - favorite music from 1973?

Jethro Tull - A Passion Play, Yes - Tales from Topographic Oceans, Queen's debut, Bruce Springsteen's debut, etc.

My favorite Jethro Tull is Thick as a brick. I had it in full fold out vinyl glory. It was one of the MANY losses I cried buckets over when my appartment burned to the ground.

66 - are you Ron Swanson?

I am not as manly as him, but politically we are on the same page.

68 - as in Flowers for? Also - what is your middle name?

As in Algernon Blackwood, and my middle name is Michael.

106 - Translate please?

It's stupid pun thta doesn't actually mean anything, but could be translated "Always where under where."

110 - sweet! Did you get to smooze?

Nah, I am not really into their music and they didn't look all that friendly.

Thank you for all the questions, everyone! This is fun!

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thellama73 wrote:

bea wrote: What do you think of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia?

I actually haven't seen it yet.

What is your favorite comfort food?

Biscuits and gravy. Lots of gravy.

What was your inspiration for The Light Fantastic?

An article I read about the history, friendship and eventual feud between Cato Institute co-founders Ed Crane and Charles Koch.

What do you hope readers take away from that book?

I don't know if there is really a message to take away. I just hope they enjoy it and find it a good story.

Which writers most influence your work?

My favorite writers are Victor Hugo, Herman Melville and G. K. Chesterton. I don't know how much direct influence there is there, but they are the bar I measure myself against (and then get very depressed at how short I fall).

1) you should check it out. It's like live action South Park. But still even more awesome. Somehow. (I'm also surely over hyping it.)

2) I assume with lots of sausage? I'm just taking notes for when we meet. Because when it happens I WILL cook for you.

3) The inspiration is more than interesting.

4) there should be more purpose to your writing. I loved the story, but also - I wanted to know - in the end - what I was supposed to take away from it. I want your writing to do for me what "A Prayer for Owen Meany" did for me. I think you have the talent to do that btw.

5) I'm not asking about who you hope to be (though that is important) - I'm asking who is a modern writer you admire - and if you don't have one - find one. soon.

also - linkie!!!!!!

@ llama - re: THE GOOSEY QUESTIONS:

There are questions and comments all around. I just kept tabs and numbers - have fun with this.

re: 31-40

37: What is this "ban on bossy?" I think I already hate it for the name alone.

re: 41-50:

42: Idnk the context but now I'm laughing.
44 - more giggles
46 - I can totally relate - and sometimes I still like the music
54 - why is lo mein better than chow mein?
57 - favorite music from 1973?
61 - effin awesome!
66 - are you Ron Swanson?
68 - as in Flowers for? Also - what is your middle name?
76 - I adore your taste in cheese.

re: 100-1something:

103 - LOL.
106 - Translate please?
109 - I agree - unfortunately those of us that *should* breed do not do so at the rate of those of us that should not.
110 - sweet! Did you get to smooze?
113 - Nice.
117 - good call.
120. Yes.
125 - I could help with that. I have a small passion for men's fashion....

insertnamehere wrote:

thellama73 wrote:

bea wrote:Why do you think South Park has been so steadily declining? Sorry, couldn't resist. I love a good rant.

The creators got too rich and too lazy. They insist on sticking to their one-week production schedule, which worked great in the early days, but now they are not even trying anymore. Go through and count up the number of episodes that are parodies of reality shows/specialty channels. It is astounding. The writing method has become just turning on the TV and parodying whatever happens to be on. Also, they have increasingly relied on one joke to carry a whole episode, which gets really tedious really fast (shake weight is like masturbating, haha, over and over again).

Also, they ruined Cartman, the best character, by transforming him from an obnoxious, racist fat kid who could nevertheless sell a million albums, build his own Shakey's Pizza and win the Civil War, into a pathetic sociopath who is no longer likeable or competent.

Also, they feel the need to be topical to the point of parodying movies they haven't seen, resulting in plagiarism. If you haven't seen a movie, don't parody it. The hyper-topical nature of the shows also means that they don't age well at all.

The reason I get so worked up over this is because of how much I used to love the show. It was once the smartest, funniest show on television and it has devolved into garbage. I feel betrayed.

As someone considering watching the show, what the fuck am I in for here? What seasons should I watch, and which should I skip?

I'll help here - but Llama can agree or disagree with me as needed - Start at the beginning. Keep in mind that the show started out topical and it is it's "niche" - So as you watch the beginning episodes, keep in mind the years they were put out. Quit watching when you think the show jumped the shark. I personally find the first three seasons of South Park to be some of the more amazing TV that was out in the early 90's.

timmer wrote:*sniff*

No one had that many questions for me.

no one had that many for me either.

thellama73 wrote:

bea wrote:Why do you think South Park has been so steadily declining? Sorry, couldn't resist. I love a good rant.

The creators got too rich and too lazy. They insist on sticking to their one-week production schedule, which worked great in the early days, but now they are not even trying anymore. Go through and count up the number of episodes that are parodies of reality shows/specialty channels. It is astounding. The writing method has become just turning on the TV and parodying whatever happens to be on. Also, they have increasingly relied on one joke to carry a whole episode, which gets really tedious really fast (shake weight is like masturbating, haha, over and over again).

Also, they ruined Cartman, the best character, by transforming him from an obnoxious, racist fat kid who could nevertheless sell a million albums, build his own Shakey's Pizza and win the Civil War, into a pathetic sociopath who is no longer likeable or competent.

Also, they feel the need to be topical to the point of parodying movies they haven't seen, resulting in plagiarism. If you haven't seen a movie, don't parody it. The hyper-topical nature of the shows also means that they don't age well at all.

The reason I get so worked up over this is because of how much I used to love the show. It was once the smartest, funniest show on television and it has devolved into garbage. I feel betrayed.

Those are all fair and valid points.

I loved this show too - very hard. I also think it's hard to keep satire running for long lengths of time. People talk about The Simpsons, but they lost their edge ages ago too.

First season of South Park, I was still in college. We had a bar that had the big screen tv they pulled down for football games on Sunday - on South Park night - we were all there watching it on the big screen tv. Those first few seasons were amazing. I think, for me - it started the slow decline when Chef died....but that's just me.

What do you think of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia?

What is your favorite comfort food?

What was your inspiration for The Light Fantastic?

What do you hope readers take away from that book?

Which writers most influence your work?

Why do you think South Park has been so steadily declining? Sorry, couldn't resist. I love a good rant.

addendum to number 14 - and why?

timmer wrote:

1) Favorite Harry Potter Character and why? Favorite Harry Potter book and why? (sorry - your gif made me have to ask that.)
2) I love the story about how you and your wife got together. Heartattack and Vine is my second favorite Tom album - Heart of Saturday Night holds a special special place in my soul) What's your favorite Tom Song?
3) What other music do you enjoy?
4) What did you want to be when you grew up at age 10? At age 18?
5) What do you currently do for a living? Is it what you thought it would be?
6) If you could have any other job besides the one you have now, what would it be?
7) What is the best part of being a Dad? What's the worst part?
8) What is the best part of being a husband? What's the worst part?
9) What is your favorite comfort food?
10) Would you consider a family vacation to AZ? Because I'd love to meet you and your family. I'll even cook. I promise!
11) Favorite mafia role and why?
12) Favorite mafia game and why?
13) Where is that FUCKING FLAG!!!????!!!!!
14) Do you prefer to have civ roles, baddie roles or indy roles?
15) If you hosted a mafia game, what would the theme be? Do you need a co-host?
16) What is one thing no one ever asks you but you always wish someone would? And also what is the answer to that question?

Mongoose wrote:

thellama73 wrote:SpaceDaisy has abdicated her position as chief interrogator, and now I have all the power. I repeat: I. Have. All. The. Power.

Go interrogate timmer now. He has been asking for it.

Lies. If you really had the power, wouldn't you have selected yourself first?

I concur with Goosey.

Mongoose wrote:Did you watch the Oscars?

Favorite time your car ever broke down?

Favorite teachable moment as a teacher?

1) I missed the Oscars this year. I usually miss them, but I'm usually faster at catching up on what I missed than I have been this year. Yes flog me with a noodle.

2) Cars breaking down sucks. But if it has to happen, I'm happy it happened in the middle of no fracking where - with BDH and Daisy and Sockface. I'd never seen desert stars before. I've lived most of my life looking up at night. I lived in the country where you can see many more stars because the city lights aren't around. But all that flat land? With no city lights? A MAZ ING. I only really wish that Daisy and Socky took me up on my offer to get out of the car for a minute to look from horizion to horizion and see all the stars. It was breathtaking. I couldn't quit looking up the sun window and out the windows for more of it. As aweful as the tow truck driver was, as crappy as the walk was from the garage to the wal-mart which was LITERALLY the only thing open after 8 pm in that town. As sucky as it was trying to find someone to make the 3 hour drive down to where we were to pick us up was. My most favorite memory of their whole trip is sitting in wal-mart - teaching BDH to play Euchre. He still thinks we're completely crazy and he so doesn't get the "in the barn" stuffs. - but yea. That was AWESOME.

3) My biggest success was teaching summer school after my first year teaching. I didn't *want* to teach summer school, but a kid who had been resistant to me at the beginning of the year, well...I grew on him. And he needed to pass 9th grade English to graduate as a Senior the next year. I KNEW I needed to take the summer off, that I really shouldn't take on summer school my first year in, but he said "You're the only English teacher I can pass this class with." The kid was working a job opposite hours of when our classes was too. So really - during summer school - I was mostly just trying to keep him awake. He was my teaching victory. He was the one who wanted to hate me sight unseen and by the start of the next year he was my student aid - keeping all my kids in line for me and the teacher that had him in the first English 9 class? That flunked him? Had him again as a Senior. She came to me and said "I don't know what you did to this kid, but he's a whole new kid." He was one of her top students. All I did to him was treat him with respect and listen to him. *shrug* - That's not even my most favorite teachable moment. (though I know when that one was with that kid. I KNOW when I turned his corner.) - it was the other kid I had in summer school.

Summer school had no curriculum. Had no books. I was a first year teacher. So I picked my library for an asston of paperbacks. And I had GREAT ones laying around. For all kinds of reading ranges too. Decent literature no one could say you shouldn't teach.

One of these kids, and while I remember the name of the kid that I taught the class for, I'm sad to say, I don't remember this kid's name - was all "I hate reading." Like the last book he read was waaaaaaaaay below grade level and he read it when he was at that grade level. But he was kinda edgy in his punky dress and attitude so I handed him Brave New World and said "Here - try this one. It's about a society that practices the ideas of "have sex with whomever you want and do all the drugs you'd like."

And he read it. He really read it. And I KNEW he was really reading it when half way through the book he looked up at me and said "You tricked me!!!! But now I can't quit reading it!" My response was "Yes. Yes. I tricked you. And aren't you glad I did?" I was never more proud to be a teacher. For all I know, that's the highest form of literature he was ever exposed to. It may be the one and only time he ever got some Shakespeare even if he didn't know how much of it he was getting.

Lizzy wrote:<3 and I have been outhugged

1. What is your earliest memory?
2. What did you buy with your first paycheck?
3. What is your guilty pleasure?
4. Nicknames
5. What's the last thing you googled?
6. What would you like to get for your birthday? (you're welcome, BDH)
7. Favourite black tea, green tea and herbal.
8. Best Disney animation.
9. Favourite quote from a movie/song lyric(s)
10. I win

1) My earliest memory is crawling on my great grandmother's lap with Green Eggs and Ham to make her read it to me. I was pre-literate then. Like 3 or 4. I was at that point in my literacy development where I had to hear the same story over and over and over again. (Once you memorize the story you start associating the letters and words to what people are saying.) - She was always the first person I went to. Then after I crawled off her lap - every other person in the livingroom HAD TO TAKE THEIR TURN READING MY STORY!!

2) I don't remember? It's been so long ago. I was very involved in Marching Band in HS. My parents couldn't afford many of the fees associated with it. I'm pretty sure it paid for uniform fees or band camp or something of that nature.

3) I have so many.... I mean I live in the land of decidence and guilty pleasure. I'm all about the too bad for you food, the too bad for you booze the too bad for you well...you get the drift... But yes, I also have things I guess I would be embarassed for people to know about me. There was a time when I watched Days of Our Lives pretty religiously. (Not even joking here - I grew up with it - it was the soap my mom watched and the soap my grandma watched. My grandmother referred to it as "church time" growing up because we had best better behave like we were at mass when it was on.) Also - I like the music of Smashmouth and No Doubt. (like not that "holla back" stuff - I don't even get that. But smashmouth was just good fun and Gwen has a very awesome voice.)

4) Nickname = Bea. My given name is Jennifer Jo. So - I've been Jen and Jenny. My sister and one friend from college both used to refer to me as JJ. I had a friend in college that only called people by their live journal name so I was Georgie to him forever (I was Georgeanne there - it was ironically one of the few places on line that I was not Beatrice828 or some form of it.) But yea, now - My nick name is pretty much Bea. I've met more than one of you IRL and have talked to many more on the phone. IDC if you call me Jen or Bea. I'm ok with Bea. I think of it as the name *I* chose. My newest favorite nickname is Mrs. Simpson though. I really need to get to SS office sometime soon to make that all legal and stuffs.

5) I think pictures of David Tennant. Normally my googling is used as my "easy way to spell check something." so if it wasn't that - it was how to spell some food term like salt*checksgoogle*imbocca.

6) This year? I don't know. (BDH - he's got a pretty great list. He was lucky to marry a foodie. I'm usually happy with any new toy I think I need for the kitchen. We were just remarking the other day how it's funny that *that's* the room of the house we outgrew.) My Warther Knives http://www.warthers.com/ have been on my wish list since I was a little girl. (Also - that place is where I grew up. )

7) Black tea: Earl Grey Herbal: I like the raspberry and blueberry teas. Peppermint is awesome too. Green: I've not had a lot of experience with.

8) You're going to laugh at this, but I don't care. My favorite Disney movie is Marry Poppins. So for me it has the best animation. Also - it was light years ahead of it's time in terms of combining animation with live action. The bit where Gene Kelly dances with Jerry mouse is also an amazing example of combining live action with animation but off the top of my head, I can't remember if Tom and Jerry was Disney or Warner Brothers. I'm thinking it was Warner though. (When I was a newly crowned auntie and carting my baby nephew like *everywhere* with me when his parents needed a sitter - my bbf male version made the half snide remark "Auntie Jenny: Practically Perfect In Every Way." - it's still one of my top 5 favorite complements of all time.)

9) "I was born to speak all mirth and no matter." Shakespeare - Much Ado About Nothing. Before that quote became my standard quote - it was "And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make." - The Beatles. One of my favorite movie quotes of all time though is "Pain heals, chicks dig scars and glory lasts forever" - The Replacements.

10) Who wins? Lets call it a draw.

omg - time ASK QUESTIONS BEORE DAISY REMEMBERS THIS THREAD. I LOVE YOU AL - ASK ME ANYTHING

Lizzy wrote:Beeeeeaaaabeabeebabeee! I almost missed you.

So:
1. What subject(s) did you ace in school?
2. What is the best thing about the US?
3. Do you have any flaws?
4. What is your greatest fear?
5. What do you think about political correctness?
6. What's on the menu tonight?
7. Who got snubbed at the Academy Awards last night?
8. What are you looking forward to the most?
9. Who is your hero? (I spelt it herp initially )
10.

Lizzzzzzyyyeeeee!

1) I always did well in reading and English classes. For as poorly as I spell, I'm a wiz at reading and writing about what I read. I love stories. I aced home ecc. When I took it too. (You should have seen me in that kitchen as well. )
2) I think the best thing about the US is the diversity. In everything. AZ feels like a completely different place than my home state of Ohio. They all feel different from when I would visit my parents in Florida. I've not been up through the Rockies yet, but thanks to driving out here, I did get to see a decent chunk of the country and it's amazing how unique each state is. And yet for all it's differences, by and large the people I meet are genuinely nice decent people. Regardless of color, gender, background or any of the other myriad of things that make us different.
3) TBH, I have more flaws than strengths. I'm like a giant child. I'm aweful managing money (Hence the reason BDH is in charge of our finances.) I hate to clean things. I'm moody. I over eat. I over drink. I'm super picky. To name a few.
4) Loosing BDH.
5) I think it's great in theory but, like communism, humans tend to muck it all up. There's a middle ground between offensive and "vertically challenged" that some people miss. Also there's a time and place for it. Just like there's a time and place for a really bad and offensive joke.
6) Prolly hamburger helper. : I have to work today - then meeting a friend. BDH won't be home till late. By the time I get home, I doubt I'll have much energy for anything else.
7) I missed them. - I'll have to look up who won and get back to you.
8) Our next big goal after the cars are taken care of is to buy a house. That will be exciting. I'm looking forward to our next vacation. (god knows when or where that will be) and I'm looking forward to getting back into teaching.
9) My grandparents are my hero. They raised 8 kids the best they could. They were married (not perfectly and not always happily, but always faithfully) for more than 50 years. In their old age, sometimes when I would go to visit them, I'd catch them sitting on the couch holding hands. That's what I want. I want a life where my husband still wants to hold my hand after 50 years.
10)

like honey and sunshine and happiness.

And also probably Vodka.

Hedgeowl wrote:Whats the first thing you remember cooking by yourself or with someone?

Favorite italian dish? Dessert?

Favorite pizza toppings?

Favorite character in Finding Nemo?

Favorite Disney song?

Do you like hiking?

What do you like/dislike about Arizona?

1) I've been in the kitchen pretty much my whole life. My *earliest* memories in the kitchen were when I was 4 and 5 at Nanny's house (my great-grandmother.) She had this red step stool that had a chair on the top rung and when I spent the night with her or we were over for dinner, she would pull out the steps and I would climb up so I could see what she was doing at the counters. Even if she was just pouring me the frosted shredded wheat, making coffee and toast that was our every Monday morning breakfast. (I spent the night with her every Sunday night till she passed and yes, she did feed the 5 year old coffee with tons of cream and sugar ) I remember dinners where Nanny would make spaghetti but at 4 I didn't like sauce. She would give me the noodles with butter and a little parm cheese. This particular way of eating pasta is still my most favorite way to have it when I need some serious hard core comfort food or I'm just cooking for myself and can't be assed to actually make sauce.

Most of my early helping memories revolve more around tasks than they do around actually dishes. "Stir this sauce. - Hey - why are you stopping, I didn't tell you to stop!" Once I could hold a knife (prolly around 7 or 8 or so.) I think I chopped every green pepper, tomato, and onion that ever went into every pasta sauce, every meatloaf, every batch of meatballs ever made. I peeled more potatoes before I was 10 than most people do in a lifetime. Once I was allowed to actually cook things on the stove, I ground hamburger or sausage or this or that. Most of my cooking memories at this point were helping my mom. I did the piece work like a good sous chef, she assembled.

I baked on my own before I cooked though really. Cakes and brownies from the mix. Cookies. Baking is hard and I've never quite learned the skill of learning an oven well enough to be a truly great baker.

I could throw together anything from a box (hamburger helper etc) by the time I was in Jr. High. I could also make spaghetti by about then too. I often took over the making or "starting" of dinner while mom worked. In HS, we both worked, so we split the cooking duties. Still pretty much lots of the same, but I had made a meatloaf on my own (mom's still tastes better. I do the exact same thing, but it just tastes better when mom does it. Same thing with her macaroni salad (Which was Nanny's recipe) )

I got much better at cooking from start to finish once I lived on my own. I bought cook books, (I actually have a small obsession with them though it's been weened since I got out here and lost lots of my library) I tried things that looked interesting to me. I experimented. I spent 20 years being fascinated with what went on in the kitchen at the country club. I was always in their biddness with the "what are you doing now?" "Why does this happen like this?" "How would I do this if I were doing it at home?" "Why do your mashed potatoes taste soooo much better than mine??!!!" I was a little gadfly that they couldn't get rid of w/o throwing food at me and yelling at me. I also quickly became the person they went to when *they* were being experimental "Here - eat this - tell me what you think? I think it's missing something - what's it missing?"

My cooking has exploded since I've been out here. I've been able to recreate things (like the french onion strip steak) that were staples of places I worked and I just missed eating. My hubby also was pleased that he knows what to get me for every birthday, christmas, valentines day and anniversary: Stuff for the kitchen. I got the springform pan so I've been playing with cheesecakes. (:hug: :svs:) I have the cast iron skillet so now that it's seasoned, grandma's pineapple upside down cake will happen sometime soon. I've been learning how to make things I like for cheaper and from scratch like Alfredo sauce. I never buy the jars anymore. It's too quick and easy to just make.

2) Lasagna = love in any Italian family. It's my favorite thing to cook and one of my favorite things to eat. The long hand of Lasagna = love is this. 1) It's all basicly the same thing as a baked ziti or good s'gettie and meat sauce - it just takes twice as long to prepare. So if you are going to go through all the trouble of making it, it should only be for the people you most love and care about. (Or you know, because you have the day off and you love making it. ) Traditionally - it was a dish that was given as a gift - at weddings - at funerals - at times where the people you are giving it to, need a really great "heat and eat" kind of meal.

As for things I currently love - when out dining - I tend to gravitate toward the things I don't make at home. Anything with Pesto springs to mind. (I do cook pesto dishes at home, but haven't yet found the cost effective solution to doing it from scratch vs buying the 4 dollar jarred stuff. The cost of the pine nuts alone...) I also really love ordering veal saltimbocca when I can because it's delicious and veal (like lamb) is something I love to eat but have never cooked with and am a bit afraid of making at home for fear of spending a lot of money on a "learning how to make it" dish.

As far as desserts go - it's the trifecto! Tiramisu, Pizzelles, Italian Wedding cookies. If I had to pick only one - it's Tiramisu u by a small margin. When I first got out here, BDH took me to this little neighborhood festival for St. IDKwhatoftheBlessedIDK. (we have LOTS of saints) but it was this little dego festivle and there as all sorts of dego food there. I'm not joking when I say - while he got this and that and all sorts of different food, I bought the homemade Tiramisu to eat there. The Pizzelles and the Wedding cookies came home with me.

3) You all are going to laugh at me but my favorite way to have pizza is Green peppers, onions, mushrooms and extra cheese. Followed closely by just plain ole cheese.

4) Dory. Duh.

5) The Disney songs all kinda blur together in my head tbh. I guess if I had to pick one - Under the Sea. I like the caylpso.

6) I love to hike. I loved to do it back home. In college, there were lots of state/city parks that were great for running away from the city to just go walk around near trees and stuff. I feel most near God when I'm in nature. I would love to hike a mountain up here, just haven't found the right hiking partner yet.

7) The answer to both of those questions is: The weather. . It really does kinda suck it here for June, July and August. But the rest of the year is amazing! I find that I'm growing more used to the intense heat of the summer (she says when she's in her ACed house - to her ACed car to her ACed job. ) I find that I do get colder during the winter each year. I may have to eventually break down and buy a winter coat at some point. I was heartbroken when I had to buy pants.

I would say that BDH is something I like out here - but I don't like him...I lurrrrvs him so yea.

I like the diversity out here. (I connect to cultures via food first. It's just the way I work) I came from a *very* small town in Ohio. Until after I was out of college (2000 for those keeping score) we never had more than 1 Chinese restaurant in our *county* that I'd never eaten at because my parents never took me there. (Sucks too - because when I finally went there - they were the *bomb dig* of Chinese places.) A sampling of food I never had till I had time to explore larger Ohio cities like Akron or Cleavland: Deli food. Like a real sammich deli. Greek food. Thai food. Mexican food that wasn't Taco Bell. Indian food. Other Mediterranean country's food that *weren't* Greek or Italian - each has their own dishes as well. (I miss you Usbek place. You were my secret treasure with the great saffron rice. I cried when you closed. ) Soul food. Southern cooking. Fall on your face BBQ. Chicago Deep dish Pizza.

The great thing about here is 99.99% of the people who live out here are *from* somewhere else. And they bring with them their home. Their comfort foods, their traditions. I could literally travel the country and I dare say the world via the restaurants out here. At my most favorite local Thai place. I've been there exactly 5 times. Each time I'm there - I'm guessing the owner - has either a) waited on me or when she hasn't wandered into the lobby while I was waiting on my take out. Each time she remembers me. She chats with me. She thanks me for her business. (On my first visit, I told her I was going to work my way through the menu.) I can't believe that in the half a year they've been open, she treats me like a regular after 5 visits. It amazes me.

But that same diversity extends everywhere. Last year, we found an Irish Cultural Center tucked away in the heart of downtown Phoenix because they were having a Bloomsday fest. They have a library and everything!!! There are art museums. There are several Frank Loyd Wright houses out here. Drive a few hours south and you can see Tombstone. (so long as we DON'T take my car. My car has bad luck in Tombstone. ) Travel north and we're at the grand canyon and historic route 66. We have so many (surprisingly) local wineries. There's an amazing craft beer community in this state. And after all this - Vegas is a short drive (like really - it's like 5 hours or something?) away for the weekend if you could actually get bored here. There is a rich "college" community in easy to access towns like Tuscon and Tempe. State parks, Botanical Gardens - two zoos... It's impossible to get into a spot where there's "not anything to do."

There is sooo much freedom here and sooooo much to explore and experience and DO. I LOVE that about this state.

What I don't like is: There is this weird thing the state seems to do regarding extreme right wing conservatism. The people elected into office out here seem to be the antithesis of a decent representation of the diversity of this community. I'm told by locals this is due to the old people vote (there are a LOT of retirement communities out here) but I just can't understand why an area so rich in diversity - so rich in amazing things - would at a government level do the many dumb things they seem to do every few years.

What I don't like is: For as amazing as this freedom is in the big city and the big state. As wonderful as all these new experiences are. I miss my hometown peeps. I don't miss the weather, but I do miss the people. I miss the job that was me getting paid to hang out with my second family. I miss having doctors and lawyers and judges and magistrates and all of the business owners be my friends. I miss going grocery shopping and it taking several hours because you *always* ran into someone you knew while you were shopping and you just had to play catsup for a bit. I miss that feeling that I had when I met someone new that I only needed to talk to them for roughly 3 minutes and we would either a) remember how we knew each other or b) find one person we knew in common. I miss the sister from another mother or the bff t-county version calling me and saying - "Hey- I'm building a fire tonight, come over" and I'd go over and we'd drink some drinks and smoke some smoke and listen to music and look at stars and watch the fire and just be chill together. I miss getting to watch all of my adoptive nieces and nephews (as well as my real ones) grow up. I see pictures for sure and they amaze me. I know I'm missing so much!

My life would be perfect if I could take everyone I love from back home and transplant pretty much my county - out here.

Spacedaisy wrote:If you could take a vacation to anywhere right at this second, where would you go?

Right this second? England. I've always wanted to go there. It is hands down my dream vacation. That said, I could never do a short vaca there. I'd want to stay for a few months and soak everything up.

No - I've not, but I did write a poem about it. That's what I did back then.


best invention: The typewriter.
least favorite chores: Um....all of them? I like to cook, but I really dislike most things involving cleaning. I have a wonderful husband.
what wouldn't I do? Stay at my current job for 30 years.
What can I do? Other people can do it, but I do make a pretty mean lasagna. Really - anyone can do about anything I can do, but no one brings quite the awesome combination cute, clumzy and whip-fast recovery that I bring to the table.

Epignosis wrote:Am I sexy?

Oh, I'm sure Elo thinks so.

I only have eyes for one sexy man...............


















...................David Tennant

Spacedaisy wrote:My main question is.... How did you get to be so awesome?

I come from a long line of awesome. trustry.

Na, seriously though, even though I'm not the most church going person in the world these days, my Roman Catholic upbringing was a pretty important part of my childhood and some of those lessons still guide me. I was always a super fan of the "treat others as you'd have them treat you." lesson. Also, I haven't always had an easy time with how other people treated me in the past. I'm pretty empathetic and sensitive so I try to be mindful that others may be like me.

Also - I like to be helpful.

FZ. wrote:And how are you enjoying the K-site game so far?

It's super fun and your group is so welcoming! I admit though, I find the extended time rough to adjust to. I feel like I spend half the time just second guessing myself. Sometimes I just want to pull the trigger and be done with it so to speak.

Larua is an awesome mod too.

I can't say I'll play there a lot, but I do enjoy you all bunches and will pop in again when the right game strikes my fancy I'm sure.

I'm fascinated by the structure. I might consider hosting a game there just to play with it some. (or you know - host a game here in that style. Something.)

FZ. wrote:Hi

I'm loving all the questions, especially llama's. I'd love to take his brain to a lab and investigate it


Bea!! So this is why you're so busy...
If you could choose whether to die young but with no pain at all, or die old but suffer at the end of life, which would you choose?

Would you like to know when you die, or would you rather it be a surprise?

What's your favorite show which is not on anymore?

What's the weirdest dream you've ever had?

What's your opinion on private schools? If you had the money, would you send your potential children to one, or would you send them to public schools?

lol FZ! I would love to say this is why I'm so busy - but I've not gotten near enough questions! (I really love these sorts of threads. I could do this all day long! )

1) DIe old and with pain. I think when I was younger, I may have felt differently, but having lived with some life and some pain. The pain is worth it. I think of my grandparents and all they got to see before they passed. The Great Depression, WWII, The Civil Rights Movement, The Space Program, Eight children, Nine Grandchildren, Nine Great Grandchildren.

If I picked the other one, I'd a) already be dead and b) missed so much awesomeness. Sure I have aches and pains, but I also have 13 nieces and nephews that I adore. (yes - the maths up there is different. I come from a big Italian family - some of those nieces and nephews are actually cousins. ) I wouldn't have met, fell in love with and married BDH, I wouldn't have had my many furry friends Basho, Neffie, Appollo *sniff* (I miss them), Penny and Clara the two cuttest black and white kittahs you ever did meet. I wouldn't have traveled across the country, I wouldn't have met SVS (which to say was life changing is an understatement). I wouldn't have spent so much time with the people at my old job that I loved like family. So many more wonderful children I wouldn't have gotten to know. I wouldn't have met you. Sure there's pain, but there's also so much awesome. It's worth some hurties.

2) For myself I'd rather it be a surprise. For my loved ones, I'd rather know. Loosing my maternal grandparents was one of the hardest things I've ever had to deal with. It was aweful watching the people I so love, so admired and so looked to to always be there, always be wise get sick, loose their memories of things and pass, but it gave me time to say good-bye to them. It gave me time to make damn sure they knew how much I loved them, how important they were to me and that I'd never forget them. My paternal Grandmother died suddenly when I was young. As I grew older, I heard stories about her and it always makes me sad that I never got the chance to know her as well as I could have had she not died when I was so young.

3) Soap, M*A*S*H*, All in the Family, and the Muppet Show are 4 of my all time favorite TV shows. None of them are currently running. (Well, I hear there's lots of you-tube new Muppet Show stuff, but it's not the same.)

4) I was some sort of political activist and I was with my boyfriend Jeremy. (Who was totally a creation of my brain btw). The police were coming after us for some reason and closing in. I was trying to get him to turn himself in with me when he pulled out a gun and shot himself through the mouth. I can still see his mouth around the gun and the exit wound. It was one of the most disturbing things I've ever seen. I will never forget how shaken and upset I was when I woke up.

5) It would depend on the private school, the public school and my kids. If I had children, I'd be lying if I said the idea of home schooling them hasn't crossed my mind. At least till they were Jr. High age. Private schools in and of themselves aren't bad. Nor are public schools. It just depends on which school is the best fit for my child really. I'd want the school I sent my children to to have many varried opportunities to receive the sort of attention their learning deserves. Class size would be important to me as well as the variety of subjects and extra curricular activities provided. I think that regardless of economic standing (IE I could afford private school) it is also important for my children to see other children of other races, other cultures and other economic points of view. I attended a private Catholic school during the early parts of my Elementary School years (with nuns and everything! - I had an Auntie that paid the tuition.) and a public school after we moved. For me personally, during my younger years the private school moved too fast for me and my grades suffered. By the time I was in HS, I'd dare say public school didn't move fast enough for me and my attention span (and therefore grades) suffered.

timmer wrote:In all honesty, how is it playing mafia with your honeybun? Do you a special "read" on him? Would you saybdh is like his persona? Are you like yours?

(My wife's considering trying at some point)

I tend to enjoy it. We've only been on opposite teams a couple times. He, as well you know, is one of the most evol baddies I've ever seen. Ask LT about the Diggz/Bea team in Caesar mafia sometime

I do read him differently than most people. The first time I was a baddie in wabbit's batman game, Kate and I had the whole team figured out exactly 3 minutes before one of their teammates went kablooie in the thread and outted the whole team. Funny thing is, I can see him as a baddie more easily than I can SVS. She is my mafia blind spot.

BDH (is prolly going to kill me for saying this) is more quiet than his online persona. He's tender and sweet and thoughtful. His online diggzy self comes out in RL, but it's really just only a part of who he is. If that makes sense? IRL, he really can make me laugh more than any other person I've ever met, even if I'm the one he's teasing.

I think I'm like my online persona. It's really hard for me to be anything other than who I am. I am sure there are differences. SVS, Daisy, Alex, BDH, or Booneh could prolly answer that better though.

If your wife enjoys this torture we call mafia, by all means. I'd love to play with her. (woot fresh blood!) I recommend having separate computers though. Sharing is hard. Sometimes I think the laptop was the best thing that ever happened to our relationship.

thellama73 wrote:Disney is currently lobbying for stricter intellectual property protections, arguing that any use of another person's idea without payment is theft. Given that Disney's empire is built on things iike Snow White, Cinderella, Pinocchio, Peter Pan, Robin Hood, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Sleeping Beauty and countless other ideas they didn't come up with or pay for, what do you think of this argument?

I think that the stories themselves are still under public domain, but if we're talking about things like the image rights or the movie rights etc, then I see their point.

Elohcin wrote:Favorite flavor of ice cream?

Favorite thing to do to relax/unwind?

Occupation? And was it what you always wanted to do?

Goshen Dairy's Peppermint Stick Ice Cream. Sadly, the Dairy no longer exists. It was local to my hometown and closed down while I was in college.

Stay in and watch tv with the hubby. Yay Jammie day!!!

I am the assistant manager at a pizza place, working on going back to teaching. I've always wanted to be a librarian.

thellama73 wrote:If you could go into space, would you? If so, to which planet would you most like to travel?

Complete the following sentence: I don't get out of bed for less than $________

Favorite fruit?

Favorite cheese?

Favorite named hairstyle?

Yes - I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid - Gallafray.

I guess I make roughly 100 bucks a day so um....that?

I'm a berry gal. Strawberries, blackberries, blueberries....

I love all cheeses. The only ones I don't eat are Bleu and Limberger.

A Pixie cut.

Mongoose wrote:How are you today?

What is your fave Rolling Stones song?

I am very well today thank you!

toss up between Sympathy for the Devil, Gimmie Shelter and Angie.

BigDamnHero wrote:what do you think of kitty pirates?

Arrrrrr matey! I be lovin' pirate kittahs!!!!!!!

BigDamnHero wrote:

timmer wrote:If you won the Powerball, how much would you give me?
Followup question, could you go buy a Powerball ticket?

If you had to marry one of Chaplin, Keaton or Lloyd which would it be?

insertnamehere wrote:If you won the Powerball, would you give me more money than Timmer?

Bea doesn't handle the finances in the household...I do! So to answer your questions in order:

Zero.
Maybe.
No.


You're welcome!

only questions allowed you!!!!!

insertnamehere wrote:If you won the Powerball, would you give me more money than Timmer?

If I won the powerball I would base how much I gave everyone on how often they have told me how awesome I am.

timmer wrote:If you won the Powerball, how much would you give me?
Followup question, could you go buy a Powerball ticket?

If you had to marry one of Chaplin, Keaton or Lloyd which would it be?

Dunno - depends on how much is left after I pay off my student loans, pay off both our car loans, buy us a house. Get 10 more new kittahs and 1 puppy for Diggz. Set up college funds for my nieces and nephews and sock some money away to take care of my parents when they are no longer able to do so themselves. Oh - and pay for grad school so I could get my Library Science degree. And help diggz go to school for whatever he'd want to study.

chaplin.

thellama73 wrote:

bea wrote:

thellama73 wrote:The Senate is not a branch of government. It's half of one.

Epignosis wrote:

thellama73 wrote:The Senate is not a branch of government. It's half of one.

Finland has a unicameral legislature.

eff that when are you all going to start talking about me???!!! it's my turn damnit!!!!!

If you could fill a bucket with the amount of music you listen to in a given week, how much would the bucket weigh (metric)?

How do you feel about the flavor of aniseed, licorice or fennel, as popular in Absinthe and Italian sausage?

What are the coldest and hottest temperatures you have ever endured?

Any near death experiences?

Do you believe in spooks?

Prolly like a ML. unfortunately I don't listen to as much music as I used to. I have NPR now and NPR is always on my car radio. TV is usually on when Diggz is home.

I love the flavor of aniseed, licorice and fennel. Not all the time and every day, but I love them when I'm supposed to. Pizzelles are in my top three favorite kinds of cookies

Coldest prolly -20 (that was with wind chill factored in) in Akron while I was in college. The entire university shut down for the day. I went outside and in about 30 seconds I thought my lungs were frozen. Hotest like 118 since I've moved to the desert. It's kinda like baking in an oven when you go outside.

No, but once I was involved in an accident that rolled a car several times. I wasn't hurt or anything, but it felt like I was prolly going to die during the 30 seconds I was bouncing around the interior of the Explorer.

I do believe in fairies!! Oh - wait - you said spooks. Nope. I don't believe in spooks.

Vompatti wrote:

bea wrote:

thellama73 wrote:The Senate is not a branch of government. It's half of one.

Epignosis wrote:

thellama73 wrote:The Senate is not a branch of government. It's half of one.

Finland has a unicameral legislature.

eff that when are you all going to start talking about me???!!! it's my turn damnit!!!!!

How do you feel about the government and don't you think global anarcho-communism would be an awesome idea?

The government is a necessary evol. I'm perfectly happy paying them to keep my roads fixed and to provide a military to protect my ass from any one who would want to do me harm. I'm not so happy when they think that gives them the right to tell me who I can and cannot love, which god if any I should worship or anything else of the like.

In terms of anarcho-communism it seems that much like the original intent of communism as well as the experiments with the hippie communes in the 60's fail to recognize it's one fundamental problems. As soon as you add actual humans into the mix, they eff it all up.