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2. Truthfully, no. I've had some foods I was indifferent to become foods I enjoy, and a few foods I genuinely didn't like became palatable, but that which I hated at five I still hate (lima beans, wax beans, lentils and beets, FYI). 3. There would probably have been a bit of controversy, but I suspect it wouldn't have been as bad as the scene in Mississippi with the fake prom stunt. The cool kids usually threw their own 'cool kids' prom at our school anyway, the *colourful expletive here*. ____________________ 1) Repeating Squinky's last #1 question, do you have a favourite piece of music in a time signature other than Common Time (i.e. 4/4, and yeah, I suppose waltzes count, though it would be nice if you could manage a number higher than four beats to the bar ). 2) What's your favourite piece of music with controversial or political themes, and do you suspect it's a bit preachy, or just insightful? 3) What, if any, piece of music goes through your head when someone or someones start talking or acting sexually/suggestively in your presence? |
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04-11-2010, 04:04 AM | #3123 | |
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2. Email from Deirdra. 3. Discovering I'm the inheritor of a sizable fortune with which I could pay off these mounting debts and rebuild my life. Barring that, the only other thing I can think of is X-rated. Sorry. ____________________ 1. What do you think of Matt Smith's first proper performance as The Doctor? 2. What do you think of Karen Gillan's first performance as companion Amy Pond? 3. What do you think of the premise of an alien escaped convict living in a forgotten room in your own home for over a decade while you wait for your childhood hero to return? |
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04-13-2010, 01:49 AM | #3124 |
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My answer to all three is "awesome". I think this new era of Doctor Who is going to be the best sci-fi show ever. The acting's great, but more importantly the scripts are just overflowing with ideas. There are some ideas which are so cool that if there was nothing to an episode but that one idea it would still be a really good episode. Moffat stuffs three or four such ideas into every episode he writes. And this first episode he's not writing has Winston Churchill trying to use the bloodthirsty Daleks as weapons to win the war. Sounds great, no?
As an aside, I was talking to someone who said she didn't enjoy the first episode of this season. (Whereupon her entire family informed her she was nuts.) She said it felt like it was "trying too hard" with all its many crazy plot points. I said that with the episode being twenty minutes longer than the usual, they could afford to set up the characters and have cracks in the skin of the universe and save the world with a cell phone and have things which can only be seen out of the corner of your eye and have a shape-shifter who turns into the mental images of coma patients and still have time for food. She looked at me in disbelief: "It was a longer episode than usual? It was too short!" So I guess she didn't dislike it that much. ==============================================
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04-14-2010, 02:16 PM | #3125 |
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1. I'd guess yes, although probably not live action.
2. Hmm. Well, Andromeda is probably the only show I quit after sticking with it for 2 seasons. 3. Oh shit, save Andromeda? Supposedly the original show runner staying on would've done that. ____ 1. Predict the name of a new musical sub-genre that could possibly evolve in the near future; what would that sound like? 2. Which place on Earth is the emergence of the new sound most likely to occur? 3. Which social strata would engage in the recording of such music, and would any sweeping geo-political changes be required to precipitate its rise?
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04-14-2010, 06:42 PM | #3126 |
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1. Mariachi steampunk. It won't just be a genre of music; it'll be a way of life.
2. East Vancouver, after it gets over its current fixation with Balkan brass. 3. First and second-generation Canadian hippies of diverse ethnic backgrounds with too much free time on their hands. By then, record labels will be all but dead, allowing the music to rise through the power of social networking alone. --- 1. What does your ideal office look like? 2. If you had to sell an abstract concept of your choice in a can, which would it be? 3. What will be the name of your favourite mariachi steampunk song?
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04-16-2010, 02:13 AM | #3127 | |
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2. Beauty tinged with sadness. 3. "The incredible tequila powered locomotive machine". ___________ Questions 1. When was the last time you were really angry and why? 2. If you could only have baths or showers from this day forth, which would you choose? 3. How does the first verse, or chorus, of "The incredible tequila powered locomotive machine" go? (tune not necessary). |
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2. You mean accidentally, of course. As in, 'they didn't deliberately set out to make their series go *sproing*--it just turned out like that'. Umm... I can't think of any that come to mind. I usually like it when series get a little weird. That's when I start watching, really. I don't think of it as 'going wrong'; I think of it as 'they're getting it right, at last'. 3. Hire David Kemper, Rockne O'Bannon, Brian Henson, Ben Browder, Claudia Black, Gigi Edgley, as much of the rest of the old crew as possible, rebuild the Moya set, and then get the heck out of the way while Farscape returns from the ashes and makes this fanboy extremely happy. Barring that, I'd write it myself. I practically was when i started the first draft of my Ashes novel. Quote:
2. Toronto. Anyone who plays at the Molson Amphitheatre already has some idea of what this sounds like anyway. 3. Mostly kids would change the colour of their emo clothing from black to purple, but really, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference. Quote:
2. In a can, huh? I've been trying to sell abstract concept my whole life, but I never thought of putting them in a can. Maybe that's what I've been doing wrong all this time. Wrong packaging. I think I will have to give this some thought, but if you want a quick answer, how's about Cream of Consciousness Soup ? 3. /Edit>Rewind>Dance, Gringo, Dance or Die! Quote:
2. Probably showers, though I would miss all those wild bath parties with the coeds. 3. I was making time with my senorita She was making time with Jose I was determined to win her She seemed to think I was Gaining too much weight So I decided I needed some courage And I bought a bottle of gold I shared it with my senorita And I think that she's finally sold. She calls me Her incredible tequila powered locomotive machine of love And she swears that she loves me with the voice of a dove I know I can never leave the only lover I'm thinking of But tequila makes me sleepy so I'm going to bed up above. aye aye aye... ____________________ 1) What do you think the odds are that this fresh Windows install is actually going to last more than three days? 2) What should I do first: Recovery Point, Motherboard Drivers, or Windows Update? 3) If the computer dies again, do you think I should hit it repeatedly with a mallet until it's a pile of rubble, and then go back to sending email by smoke signal? |
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04-17-2010, 11:51 AM | #3129 | |
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2. Pull the network cable before you do anything else. Then install Windows and the drivers. Then make a recovery point. Then put the cable back in and hope you can do all the upgrades before you get infected again. 3. Yes. --- 1. What would you like to do again that you used to do a lot when you were a kid? 2. Why don't you do it now? 3. What do you do now that you would like to do as a kid? 3a. Why didn't you do it then? |
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04-17-2010, 01:20 PM | #3130 | ||
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(I also have a recording of Silent Night in 5/8, but that doesn't count, as it's me and my sister playing my arrangement of the song. There are also odd meters in some parts of the soundtrack for the game mentioned in my sig.) 2. I have many CDs with Christian music in my CD-collection. That can certainly be considered controversial. Pick a favourite? As you can tell, I'm not so good at that, but considering the followup-question, I pick Michael Card's Ancient Faith CD. Preachy and insightful. 3. That would depend on the circumstance. I tend to make very far-fetched connections to songs popping up in my head at various time. (Or having random songs get stuck.) But just to give an answer, I'll say "You Can Leave Your Hat On", just because it's a cool song. Quote:
3. I) I play music. II) I play computer games. III) I make computer games. 3a. I) I hadn't learnt how to yet. II) I didn't have the games to play. III) Didn't have the tools or skills. -- And now to think of some new questions, while listening to Circlesongs… 1. Why don't you listen to more music? 2. Why don't you listen to more music live? 3. Why don't you play more music? (Oops. It became a triple music question.)
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2. Haven't found the right outlet/production for me that fits my current life situation. 3. Martial arts/self defence classes. (Okay, so I'm not doing them now now, for mostly financial reasons, but I have taken some as an adult.) 3a. Parents wouldn't let me -- they saw them as too violent. Quote:
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2. Exercise it off, or stew alone in my apartment. Usually the latter. 3. Something between 0 and 7, depending on what kind of mood I'm in. --- 1. Who do you think would win in a tuba duel: me or Trumgottist? 2. Where do you think would be a good place for my band to tour? 3. How many acquaintances do you have?
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2. New Orleans 3. Acquaintances as in people I like but who are not friends? I guess around 200 or so. --- 1. What machine you have do you like most? 2. Who do you like most in the world? 3. What abstract concept is dearest to you? |
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2. I owe, I owe, so it's off to work I go. 3. I write novels, which 3a. I only tried to do as a child, in a sort of crayon-comics-in-the-margins kind of way. I was a graphic novellist from the earliest days. Quote:
2. I don't have the time or money to get out and hear bands as much as I used to, and my wife doesn't like noisy, crowded venues much, which takes away from the fun of small venues. We're going to see the Barenaked Ladies in a week or so. Meanwhile, I have a growing collection of live DVDs. I love my rock concerts. 3. Mainly because I wince at how rusty I've gotten, and I've never loved playing my instruments enough to want to hear bum notes over and over again without some short term goals and a bit of incentive, like band mates looking on and such. I'm a songwriter, not a true musician. Quote:
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2. ONTARIO!!! 3. I can probably count those on my fingers and toes, but I don't. It's teh close friends that I pay the most attention to. Quote:
2. Ooooooo.... a trick question. I can't answer that and be fair to the small handful I love. 3. Creativity. ____________________ 1) If you accidentally erased something that effectively wiped out your entire MP3 collection, would you rather start recollecting it all over again, or would you use data recovery software that renamed all of your files, forcing you to go back in and rename everything, including the files that lost their meta data? 2) If you had forgotten to contact your doctor about renewing your sleeping pill prescription, would you save your last sleeping pill for the next weeknight, or would you take it tonight and try to catch up on what little rest you're likely to get this weekend? 3) If your boss told you he was planning on giving you more responsibility in a job that is already making you crazy, would you hang in there hoping to get the bills paid off, or would you run for the hills and hope to find some other way of getting the bills paid (like gov't assistance, etc...)? |
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04-18-2010, 04:36 AM | #3135 |
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1. I'd rather download everything all over again. That would actually be interesting to do anyway. I wonder what I would crave most/reacquire first.
2. Tonight. I'd like to feel rested going into the workweek. And then, one day in, I'd be a wreck and just sludge through the rest of it. 3. I guess I'd start actively seeking an alternative, whilst sticking to it as long as possible. At least I'd like to think that's what I'd do. ___ 1. You're on the Texas education board deciding what goes into the next generation of textbooks for all of the U.S.A. Who do you effectively write out of history? 2. Conversely, who do you focus disproportionate attention on? 3. What country-wide changes would you institute to make the Texas thingy position not as important and wide-reaching?
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04-18-2010, 05:52 PM | #3136 | |
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2) Robert E. Lee, of course! 3) If it ain't broke, don't fix it! _______________________________________ 1) Can you spot satire when you see it? 2) Has creating lists on this board changed, or did I just forget? 3) What country-wide changes would you institute to make the Texas thingy position not as important and wide-reaching? (passing this forward for Maquisard to get a decent answer.)
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1. I'd like to think so, but I'm occasionally wrong, so it's nice to have the little smiley faces there to point me in the right direction. Or something.
2. I'm feeling too listless to answer your question right now. 3. Convince Texas that it wants to separate from the rest of the country, Quebec-style. --- 1. What real thing in the world do you wish was merely satire? 2. What satire do you wish was a real thing in the world? 3. Do you give a poop what Roger Ebert thinks about video games?
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04-19-2010, 08:54 PM | #3138 |
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1. WAR! Whoooaaaa, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing!
2. The Ministery of Silly Walks. 3. I don't even know who you are talking about so what do I care about him and his opinions? -- I just woke up, so here are some wake-up questions: 1. What do you do directly after you realize that you aren't sleeping anymore? 2. When do you have the most difficulties getting up? 3. Do you like reading in bed? |
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2. George W. Bush, the Greatest American President of the last decade. 3. Finish building the immigrant fence for them the way they want it... all the way around. Quote:
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2. World Peace. 3. No. Roger is being a snob and doesn't get the importance of interactivity as a form of immersion and catharsis, and thus fails to see that, though the dramatic tools and the overall shape are different, the intent is still the same. Quote:
2. Work days. 3. Yes, but I don't do it often. ____________________ 1) What should I make for dinner: a) chili; b) hamburgers; c) chicken and chorizos with rice? 2) If you woke up after one day of work and felt exhausted to the point of nausea, would you stay home or go to work, knowing the bills need to be paid? 3) Have you ever looked in the mirror and saw a complete stranger staring back at you? |
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2) Sings: "I should be sleeping like a log." But seriously, there's nothing to gain by ignoring the warnings of the body. It'll just come back and bite you, so if you're ill, stay home and get better. It'll pay off in the long run. 3) Not that I can recall, no. -- 1) Do you sleep the right amount each night? 2) How much is that? 3) Do you ask the man (or woman) in the mirror to change his (or her) ways? (And if so, do you think you'll succeed?)
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