[Maquisard]

1. Twice, I think. Said no thanks on both occasions.
2. Hm. I'd wanna be a pro in . .. American football.
3. Wood floors.
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1. What time of day are you usually most alert?
2. Do you need a lot of coffee to keep going?
3. Does it often happen to some people to mistakenly believe you're serious when you're actually joking?

[bulldog]

Originally Posted by Maquisard

1. What time of day are you usually most alert?
2. Do you need a lot of coffee to keep going?
3. Does it often happen to some people to mistakenly believe you're serious when you're actually joking?

1. Most of the time it is mornings, but since the baby has come it is more like mid- day

2. Not anymore.... it's sleep that I need.

3. Sometimes, it depends on what the topic is.

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1. Do you go out to restaurants often?
2. Which one is your favorite?
3.Why is it your favorite?

[tsa]

Originally Posted by bulldog

1. Do you go out to restaurants often?
2. Which one is your favorite?
3.Why is it your favorite?

1. I did until my friends started breeding. Now we mostly eat at one of us.

2. At the moment it's SamSam, because the food is good and the atmosphere too. Not too classy, not shabby, just right. The picture on the website gives a good impression.

3. I just answered that!

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1. At what time do you usually get up?

2. At what time do you usually go to bed?

3. Do you often watch TV?

[bulldog]

Originally Posted by tsa

1. At what time do you usually get up?

2. At what time do you usually go to bed?

3. Do you often watch TV?

1. around 3:30am then back to bed then back up at 5:30am.

2. 9pm Mon - Fri I try and stay up a little later on the weekend

3. yes, I love my shows

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1. Favorite color?

2. Can you Sew?

3. Can you cook ?

[Squinky]

1. Burnt Sienna.
2. I learned how briefly in a home ec class, but quickly forgot. I can knit, however.
3. Yeah, as long as I'm not too tired.

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1. Are children inherently good, evil, or neutral?
2. Do you have or want kids? Why/why not?
3. Where do babies come from?

[RLacey]

1. I'm not sure that it's possible to generalise about that, but I'd lean towards suggesting that children are not inherently any of those things.
2. I'd be an utterly useless parent (I can barely manage my own life), and I'm not great at dealing with young children, so the answer would have to be "no" to wanting them. As for having them, I'm sure we can all take a wild stab in the dark as to what my answer is...
3. Dumbo tells me that it's all about the storks. And who am I to disagree with Disney?
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1. We've only gone out three times and already you're telling me you just want to be friends?
2. Does this mean we get to kick some puffy white mad scientist butt?
3. Is 'pronto' a real word?

[With thanks to Sam & Max Hit the Road.]

[Merricat]

1. We've only gone out three times and already you're telling me you just want to be friends?
2. Does this mean we get to kick some puffy white mad scientist butt?
3. Is 'pronto' a real word?

1. Usually I can tell on the first date if it's not going to work, but in this case, I mistook the gleam of insanity for the gleam of intelligence. Sorry.
2. Yes, as long as we're wearing protective gloves. You never know where those puffy white mad scientists have been.
3. No word is real if you say it over and over again until it loses all meaning.


1. Do you like fashion, or do you just grab whatever is clean?
2. Do you like experimental films?
3. Are you familiar with Pandora? (not the mythical character, but the internet radio project)

[Giligan]

1. Both. I grab whatever fashion is clean. I am a gamer, after all.
2. Nope. If it's not a mainstream sequel with a massive budget, I'm out.
3. I'm afraid not. Internet radio's a bit out of my scene, if there could be said to be such a thing.

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1. Do you like indie films, or are you one of the people who consider them, on average, to be horrendous crud?
2. Why does the earth go 'round?
3. If you had to be either an Army officer for two years, or a deck officer on a bulk carrier/tanker/cargo ship for five years, which would you go for?

[Hammerite]

1. At their best, they can be refreshingly different and interesting - at their worst, they can be pretentious crap.
2. It doesn't. It's flat.
3. Deck officer. I'd like to travel a bit.
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1. Do you like experimental music?
2. If you were to turn the TV off during adverts - could it be classed as stealing?
3. I have no formed future plan whatsoever - is that OK?

[Squinky]

1. That depends on whether said experiment sounds good to my ears. Also sort of depends what genre it's in, e.g. if it's jazz, I'll pretty much automatically like it.
2. Well, you're still paying for cable... aren't you?
3. I suppose so. I mean, when I was your age, I knew almost exactly what I wanted to do with my life, but I was in the minority, and most people I knew at the time who didn't know what they wanted turned out fine in the end.

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1. Are you doing pretty much what you thought you'd be doing by now when you were in high school? (And if you're in high school, what do you want to do later in life?)
2. Would you rather teach a class of five-year-olds or a class of twenty-year-olds (in any subject of your expertise/interest), and why?
3. Have you ever been someone's apprentice? If so, describe; if not, would you want to?

[Giligan]

Good questions. I'll pass on asking questions.

1. The latter. For what is now approaching years, I've wanted to be a video game artist/animator. Although I wanted to go to a marine college before that.
2. I'll take the twenty-year olds. I'm not sure what I could possibly teach a five-year old.
3. Sure. I've looked into being a gunsmithing apprentice. Odd, yes, I know. It never became a reality anyway.

[lumi]

Originally Posted by Squinky

1. Are you doing pretty much what you thought you'd be doing by now when you were in high school? (And if you're in high school, what do you want to do later in life?)
2. Would you rather teach a class of five-year-olds or a class of twenty-year-olds (in any subject of your expertise/interest), and why?
3. Have you ever been someone's apprentice? If so, describe; if not, would you want to?

1. Not even close. I'm going for a very different career now, and I'm not nearly as successful as I thought I'd be.
2. Definitely the twenty-year-olds. I can't work with kids, and I want to talk about more complex things.
3. I have not. It's not something that interests me, but I'd take the opportunity to develop faster right now.

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1. How often do you blink?
2. Do you find out where a product was manufactured before buying it?
3. Do you do anything for April Fool's Day?

[tsa]

Originally Posted by lumi

1. How often do you blink?
2. Do you find out where a product was manufactured before buying it?
3. Do you do anything for April Fool's Day?

1. I never blink!

2. Usually I find it out before buying food. It's unnecessary to buy, for instance, tomatoes from Spain when they also grow them here in NL.

3. That day usually passes without me noticing it's a special day, so no. I do look at /. to see what they came up with this year. That's usually fun.

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1. Would you like to have children?

2. Aren't children bad for the environment?

3. Do you believe in violence as a means of solving problems?

[Squinky]

1. Yes. Medium rare, please.
2. Now that I think about it, they do make too many carbon emissions...
3. Only when children are involved.

(Real answers to the above are as follows: when I'm in a proper place in my life to do so, no worse than any other human being, and absolutely not.)

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1. Name a special day for you that isn't really special to anyone else.
2. Name a special day for everyone else that isn't really special to you.
3. What makes a day special, anyway?

[tsa]

I like your first answers much better Squinky

[Squinky]

Because they're funny, or because you're a heartless monster and agree with them?

[tsa]

Both.

[Merricat]

I didn't really care for children until I had one.

1. Name a special day for you that isn't really special to anyone else.
2. Name a special day for everyone else that isn't really special to you.
3. What makes a day special, anyway?

1. It's hard to find a day that is special to only me...the closest I can come to is September 13, which is the day that my husband proposed; it is special to only we two (awwww).
2. Saint Patrick's Day is a holiday that holds no particular charm for me; I don't feel the attraction of celebrating my heritage by drinking alarming amounts of green beer. Green beer is just a terrible idea in general, in my opinion.
3. Any day Will doesn't teach but is paid anyway is a special day for me.

1. Do people really deam in black and white?
2. What is the worst song you've ever had stuck in your head?
3. Do you read books over and over, or are you a strictly one-read person?

[Jelena]

Originally Posted by Merricat

1. Do people really deam in black and white?
2. What is the worst song you've ever had stuck in your head?
3. Do you read books over and over, or are you a strictly one-read person?

1. Hrm...trying to recall if the dream I dreamed last night was in colour or not, but I can't remember.
2. It has to be this one. A horrible entry in the Swedish Eurovision Contest try outs this year.
3. I have a book I've read a couple of times with ten years apart. It's The Little Drummer Girl by John le Carré. It's time to read it again now that I'm past 40.

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1. What kind of food is typical Easter food where you live?
2. Are you particular about traditions or do you like to try new ways of celebrating holidays?
3. If I invited you over for my Swedish/Lebanese smorgasboard, would you come?

[lumi]

Originally Posted by Jelena

1. What kind of food is typical Easter food where you live?
2. Are you particular about traditions or do you like to try new ways of celebrating holidays?
3. If I invited you over for my Swedish/Lebanese smorgasboard, would you come?

1. I don't know of any traditional Easter food other than chocolate bunnies.
2. I like being with family and having a feast. I don't really need to add anything to that.
3. If you could pay for the boat trip, because I hate flying.

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1. How do you feel at airports?
2. What's your least favorite joint to crack?
3. Do you prefer looking at art or discussing it?