October 16th, 2007
Rapid everything movement
Well, Justine, that’s sort the best one liner I could come up with.
I know, I know it’s two lines.
But it has a geeky pun about sleep-walking, I figured you might like that.
Though I’m not that sure anymore…
I’ve been re-reading through everyone’s comments this last week, trying to figure out what sort of people you are… it’s not easy based purely on text. I realised that I know so little about you, especially considering I chat to some of you on, at least, a weekly basis.
And so, I have questions for all of you, and I want answers…
…please… and feel free to elaborate at will.
- Your top two films of all time, what are they?
- Tell me two songs you like, and two you don’t.
- Please, confirm the month of your birth.
- What is your super-power?
- What is your ‘kryptonite’?
- Tea?
- You’re trapped in a room and you have to eat your way out. Luckily, the walls are made of….?
- Board games or video games?
- Did you pack this yourself?
- You have a den, you have a password, what is it?
- Are you a morning person?
OK that’s it grilling over.
Thanks Justine.
Sean on 
Maddie on
As you just wanting answers from Justine (who’s idea was clearly great by the way) or everyone?
*are.
let’s face it, i do not check my spelling before i hit post comment. i must remember to sort out my typos!
Maddie: I’m guessing everyone willing. Also, I’m still looking for that story, haven’t found it yet.
Adam: I’ll get back to you when I can get on a computer with a proper keyboard — id est, one with a Dvorak layout, and not this impossible Qwerty. I cannot type worth a darn on this thing.
Justine: amazing idea! I love puns like that, they make me warm and fuzzy, in the left hemisphere of my brain.
1. “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen” and… actually, I don’t like movies all that much. “The Specials” was the second movie that popped into mind. I like that one, so I’ll list it.
2. I like “The Night That Paddy Murphy Died” by Great Big Sea and “Tossed Away” by The Heart Throbs. I didn’t want to mention anything by TMBG, BNL, TMJ, TDM, CUSM, or the Pixies since those choices seemed too obvious. I like bands with acronyms. I don’t like “My Love” by Westlife (I had to look up the name… I was just going to say “that whiny song by Westlife” but that would be casting a broad net wouldn’t it) or “Congratulations” by Cliff Richard.
3. March.
4. Dog charisma.
5. “Congratulations” by Cliff Richard.
6. Yes please.
7. Communion wafers.
8. Both, although I am now jonesing for a bit of face to face miniature wargaming.
9. Yes. I have no-one else to blame.
10. “I lived in a cake”
11. Definitely not.
This is an interesting comic to stumble upon in my workday
Gives me something to think and giggle over instead of my co-workers
I really hate to pick on this, but it’s “somnambulism,” not “sonambulism,” so it should be a “somnambulance.”
Your top two films of all time, what are they?
1/ Tell me two songs you like, and two you don’t.
Silver Chair - Emotion Sickness.
Tool - Pushit (live)
I hate pretty much anything that is in the Top 40 or played on commercial Radio.
2/ Please, confirm the month of your birth.
may
3/ What is your super-power?
I have an amazing ability to annoy ppl.
4/ What is your ‘kryptonite’?
Hydroflouric Acid???
5/ Tea?
Earl Grey, or real Chai Tea
6/You ‘re trapped in a room and you have to eat your way out. Luckily, the walls are made of….?
Non toxic stuff….
7/ Board games or video games?
Both, tho strip monoply is the best board game of all time.
8/ Did you pack this yourself?
Do I get a cavity search if I say no??? *wink*
9/ You have a den, you have a password, what is it?
It is more of a degrading dance then a word.
10/ Are you a morning person?
Only if I arrive in it awake.
I so can’t count.
aw, well shucks.
I HEART PUNS!
you are brilliant, and i easily amused.
although myself, a mystery? i never would have thought it, but it intrigues me. flattered that you want to know more.
1. eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, and donnie darko. i LOVE weird movies that dont make a alot of sense and mess with your head and make you think and have little plot. i saw hairspray the other day, hated it with a passion.
2. i cant choose. i am utterly entirely obsessed with music, and choosing 2 songs would make the rest of them feel bad. generally im an indie type of person and i dont like commercial radio.
3. may
4. umm…musical nerdiness.
5. if you tickled me, you would find out. also, sentences that do not make sense, hypocritical as that may be.
6. never! loyal to/reliant on coffee.
7. ice cream
8. self-confessed zelda nerd
9. depends what you’ve just found in it
10. probably something that sucks up to me. you know, one of those ones like, justine is the coolest. like you did when you were 8.
11. my morning starts at about midday, as my teachers are well aware.
anytime. thanks adam!
Somnambulance! I CRIED TEARS OF LAUGHTER!
1. This is a difficult choice, but I think I must choose A Clockwork Orange and Evil Dead II.
2. At the moment I like Till My Head Falls Off by They Might Be Giants and Echoes by Pink Floyd (which is my favorite song of all time). I stopped listening to the radio years ago (mainly because I don’t have a car), so the songs I don’t like are both on commercials that annoy me: Can’t Get You out of My Head by Kylie Minogue and Thnks fr th Mmrs by Fall Out Boy.
3. August, in fact I share a birthday with Kevin Smith, Butch Patrick (who played Eddie Munster), and Carol O’Connor (who played Archie Bunker).
4. I have several. My least useful is my ability to communicate with cats…because even though I can talk to them they don’t really do what I say. My most useful is my super eyebrow power, which allows me to control minds and make hilarious faces.
5. Bad covers of Beatles songs.
6. No, I only drink the blood of lawn gnomes.
7. Pepperoni Pizza
8. Video Games
9. No. Last night I was visited by three spirits. The first was the Ghost of Christmas Past, who showed me a Christmas from my childhood when I was a much less bitter and cynical person. The second was the Ghost of Christmas Present, who showed me some friends of mine celebrating without me and talking about me behind my back. The third spirit was the Ghost of Christmas Future, who showed me the world I will leave behind me when I die unless I change my miserly ways. Before departing the Ghost of Christmas Future offered to pack my luggage for me and I gladly accepted. When I left the house with the luggage I did happen to notice a conspicuous ticking emanating from the case but I decided it was probably nothing.
10. Raymond Luxury Yacht, pronounced Throat-Wobbler Mangrove.
11. That depends: are you referring to morning as in the time of day or morning as relative to a person’s sleep cycle i.e. when someone has just woken up? If it is the former then no, any time the sun is out I am not at my best, but if you mean the latter then yes, because I am usually in a fine mood after waking up from a refreshing 12 hours of sleep.
1. Your top two films of all time, what are they?
Casablanca
Fight Club
2. Tell me two songs you like, and two you don’t.
I like:
Red Right Ankle-Decemberists
First Day of My Life-Bright Eyes
I don’t like:
Fergalicious-Fergie
Thriller- Michael Jackson
3. Please, confirm the month of your birth.
August
4. What is your super-power?
I glow in the dark
5. What is your ‘kryptonite’?
mushrooms
6. Tea?
green with lemon
7. You ‘re trapped in a room and you have to eat your way out. Luckily, the walls are made of….?
Jello!
8. Board games or video games?
Board Games
9. Did you pack this yourself?
Most certainly
10. You have a den, you have a password, what is it?
philanthropic
11. Are you a morning person?
must be
Are you open to correcting the spelling on made-up word?
“somnambulance” vs “sonambulance”
I love oil films and how they reflect rainbowed light.
I love Soup of Earl. All other music is annoying.
March. I’m a Pisces.
My mind is supercharged.
My mind has a short attention span unless I’m doing something worthless.
Tea? Yes please, black tea with milk and sugar.
I’d lie in a room of chocolate until the walls melted, then lick myself off.
Massive online games with no hall monitors.
Did you pack this yourself? Pack what?
I have to look my passwords up. I post-it them to my computer screen.
I’m a morning person until 3pm, then I get tired.
I feel like I’m on MySpace, answering these questions.
I’m still laughing about this one. Somnambulance! So good!
I showed it to a friend, who read it, laughed, then turned to me and said: “If a Chinese spins in circles really fast, is he dis-Oriented?” To which I replied:” If a European wrecks his car, was it Occidental?” And the conversation just when down hill from there.
On to the Meme!
1. All the films mentioned so far have been wonderful (especially yours, The Great Joe). To them, I must add Un Chien Andalou, and The Separation, by Robert Morgan. (You never said they had to be long films!)
2. How about bands, can we do bands? How about albums, that’s more specific, and honestly is the work for many bands, with the song being only a piece. I like Apocalyptica’s Cult, and Pink Floyd’s Meddle. I don’t like… well, I don’t know any names of the albums I don’t like, because I don’t buy albums I don’t like. Pop country, and pop rap. Really, as others have already said, pop music in general (unless it’s that good pop music, from back in the day. You know the stuff.)
3. March! (Pisces, if that’s what you’re looking for. (Seraphine, I think that means something, about the way we should get along, I just don’t remember what. What say we make something up, shall we?))
4. A brain that remembers the most obscure, inane facts, but never anything that might be useful.
5. A brain that remembers the most obscure, inane facts, but never anything that might be useful.
6. And coffee (well, I am an American!), but I prefer tea. I found this great blend a while back that inspired me, and have since been buying bulk loose-leaf and blending my own. Best recipe: Three parts Assam, two parts Keemun, one part Lapsang souchong (or less, this stuff’s potent). Yay tea!
7. Cheese! But not that crappy over-processed American grossness. I mean like nice, sheep’s milk farmer’s cheese. Or Wensleydale! That’s my favourite.
8. Board games mostly. Ever played anything from Steve Jackson Games? (Munchkin!)
9. Again and again… it takes so much longer to get anywhere when you walk. But on the bright-side, the packing is easier if you have to carry it all, because you’ll bring far less.
10. “Verbum de transmissu”?
11. Not any way you slice it. I like mornings, so long as they involve big stacks of pancakes, lots of tea or coffee, and don’t start until the after noon.
oh and just to tack a comment on the end, if you figured i might like that, you’ve pretty much figured me out
1. Your top two films of all time, what are they?
Umm..love Bruce almighty, and the other is between madagascar and fiddler on the roof. (so not entirely childish.
2. Tell me two songs you like, and two you don’t.
love What’s up - Four Non Blondes and so many others i can’t list them. ooh, i know. Science fiction double feature show-Spokesman. it’s my mates band, they’re amazing.
hate Umbrella - Rihanna (she made it rain) and i can’t think of the another one i absolutly detest, so i can’t think of one i just don’t like either.
3. Please, confirm the month of your birth. October!! 15 next week!
4. What is your super-power? Writing. or making this really hight-pitched meowing noise. or reading two different webcomcis whilst also running about 6 msn conversations.
5. What is your ‘kryptonite’? Sports, i guess. occassionally people as well. and Arguments. oh, but my main one has to be-getting yelled at. if a teacher yells at me i start crying. i’m so sad *rolls eyes*
6. Tea? Earl grey, milky with lost of sugar. or, coffee with too much sugar to taste it but all the caffeiney goodness.
7. You ‘re trapped in a room and you have to eat your way out. Luckily, the walls are made of….? ooh, tosted marmite sandwiches, Brie and chocolate digestives. or, alternativly, entirely ice cream..ooh, or a madeline special, giant-size. (you should ask me if you’re interested as to what that is.)
8. Board games or video games? Board games. i’m determined to beat my gran.
9. Did you pack this yourself? Interesting story, actually… Yeah, i pasked this myself. i have no idea what you’re referring to, but i packed it damn it! unless it’s bad. then my sister did it.
10. You have a den, you have a password, what is it? Popsicle or Youare beautiful. i like high self esteem for my den members.
11. Are you a morning person? i have to be. up at 7.30 mon-fri, 7.45 ish on saturday and half 9ish sunday. i never get a lie in
So, there you have it. me. Anything else you want to know, Adam? and are you going to answer these so we can learn about you? hmmmm?
1. Your top two films of all time, what are they?
Labyrinth and Spirited Away, just because they are films I can watch again and again and again and again, oh and ‘Withnail and I’ but that is now three.
2. Tell me two songs you like, and two you don’t.
Playhouses by TV on the Radio and 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover by Paul Simon
How Deep is Your Love by The Bee Gees and Hips Don’t Lie by Shakira
3. Please, confirm the month of your birth.
January
4. What is your super-power?
Making such good cakes that my enemies become too fat to fight me.
5. What is your ‘kryptonite’?
Bad manners. Not the band, not that I’m that keen on them either.
6. Tea?
As long as I don’t have to make it, I’ll have a brew.
7. You ‘re trapped in a room and you have to eat your way out. Luckily, the walls are made of….?
Stilton
8. Board games or video games?
Board games. At least you can still play Backgammon in a powercut.
9. Did you pack this yourself?
Always.
10. You have a den, you have a password, what is it?
The gloves are off.
11. Are you a morning person?
I am the most annoyingly cheerful person in the morning…………… for about an hour, then I remember I hate mornings and go back to bed until noon.
First of all, a correction: Thanks must go to T Campbell and Franzy, for pointing out that I incorrectly spelled a made up word. They are right though, and so I have corrected it.
It’s been great reading your responses. I’m not sure if it’s helped me learn anything more about you other than you all have a keen sense of humour.
My favourite answers mostly belong to the superpower/kryptonite group. Now I’ll have some pretty strange mental images when I think about you all.
For completism, I have answered the questions myself:
1. Your top two films of all time, what are they?
Two? OK. ‘The Princess Bride’, ‘American Splendor’ and ‘The People Under The Stairs’.
2. Tell me two songs you like, and two you don’t.
Like: Fancy claps (Wolf Parade) and Crazy Horses (Osmonds)
Don’t like: Living on a Prayer (Bon Jovi) and The Final Countdown (Europe)
3. Please, confirm the month of your birth.
Also, May… There’s quite a few of us here. Whilst I certainly don’t believe in starsigns, I do believe that the season you are born in has an influence on your personality. Children born in the colder months tend to stay inside more and therefore develop stronger bonds with people and objects. Thosse born in the summer months tend to be outside more and so bond with nature and ideas. It’s not science, just a whimsical theory really.
4. What is your super-power?
X-ray hearing
5. What is your ‘kryptonite’?
Honey-covered spiders that smell of stale bread
6. Tea?
One sugar, plenty of milk
7. You ‘re trapped in a room and you have to eat your way out. Luckily, the walls are made of….?
Deep-fried chilli peppers stuffed with cream cheese. I wouldn’t make it out alive, but I’d die happy.
8. Board games or video games?
We play both kinds here, but if I had to choose, it would be board.
9. Did you pack this yourself?
Crumpled shirts, empty sandwich wrappings, a mouldy orange… yes officer, it appears I did.
10. You have a den, you have a password, what is it?
Zombieshenanigans
11. Are you a morning person?
Not even slightly.
you should have asked a better set of questions then, because i havent learnt that much about you either! not that it matters. you have a fabulous sense of humour as well, but we knew that already. i guess thats why they call them ‘comics’.
and maddie, if i got to wake up at 7:30 on school days, i would be a much happier person.
also, i LOVE spirited away!
why would you be happy justine? 7.30 is too early….
Oh, half past seven can feel like sleeping in really late if you’re used to getting up at, say, half past four…
So glad I don’t do that any more.
Ah. i see your point. i have to say, i complain about sundays on a sunday morning, but i’d kill to not have to be anyway until half ten ALL mornings.
why did you used to have to get up at 4?
Oh, I was working on ecology internship. We were taking observations of these endangered birds, so we had to get out into the woods where they were nesting before they woke up, and they woke up with the sun. It was actually a lot of fun, spending all day tromping through the woods, following these cute little wood-peckers around. But I had to get up wicked early.
Here’s a link to info on the bird, if you’re interested: http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/Infocenter/i3950id.html
so..in laymans terms, you got up early to chase a bird. wow. fun. :p actually, despite the earliness i guess that would be pretty fun.
7:30 would give me an hour sleep in, which would be fine. roo, i admire you greatly.
Oh, don’t admire me… I don’t wake up till eight these days.
ah. see, i lie slightly. i say 7.30 but as my school is just down my road, i usually get up at 7.50, am dressed and ready for school by 8.00 then read the paper till 20 past 8 when i leave for school. i’m one of the laziest school kids i know.
1. Your top two films of all time, what are they?
Meet Joe Black & Tomorrow is another day but i also think that Seven was a fantastic film - it’s difficult to stick to 2.
2. Tell me two songs you like, and two you don’t.
Like:Lazy Sunday Afternoon (Kinks) & Elenor Rigby (Beatles)
Don’t like: Stand by your man in fact almost anything country & the Mavericks I don’t know that title by i think it’s ‘Dance the night away’ i just can’t stand the lyrics.
3. Please, confirm the month of your birth.
May - split personality or multie-taskings - you choose
4. What is your super-power?
Compassion
5. What is your ‘kryptonite’?
Being a know it all
6. Tea?
Yes please
7. You ‘re trapped in a room and you have to eat your way out. Luckily, the walls are made of….?
Potatoes
8. Board games or video games?
Board games - much more fun.
9. Did you pack this yourself?
Of course no one else packs like I do except my son
10. You have a den, you have a password, what is it?
No entry
11. Are you a morning person?
Definately a night owl.
This one is for my husband - he hasn’t registered yet!
1. Your top two films of all time, what are they?
One red shoe & Goldfinger or in fact all of the Bond films.
2. Tell me two songs you like, and two you don’t.
Like:You were always on my mind (Elvis) & Nothing Compares (Sinad O’Connor
Don’t like: Can’t think of two songs i don’t like - music lover obviously! Can’t stand rave music of any kind.
3. Please, confirm the month of your birth.
December - same month as Jesus
4. What is your super-power?
Early christian plastic knee caps & a piece of knotted string
5. What is your ‘kryptonite’?
The bubble in a spirit level
6. Tea?
Yes please black no sugar
7. You ‘re trapped in a room and you have to eat your way out. Luckily, the walls are made of….?
smoked salmon
8. Board games or video games?
Board games - more tactile
9. Did you pack this yourself?
No i got the gorilla in the next room to do it
10. You have a den, you have a password, what is it?
Cassandra
11. Are you a morning person?
Yes - only in the afternoon
1. Your top two films of all time, what are they?
This is too difficult to really answer, so I’ll just pick two that I like a lot;
Le Fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
2. Tell me two songs you like, and two you don’t.
Like:
“Photos de voyages” (and everything else) by Francis Cabrel
“Mandelbrot Set” (and everything else) by Jonathan Coulton
Dislike:
“MacArthur Park” most famously sung by Donna Summers
“Nookie” by Limp Bizkit
3. Please, confirm the month of your birth.
July
4. What is your super-power?
Knowing a little bit about a lot of stuff.
5. What is your ‘kryptonite’?
Pop culture.
6. Tea?
“English Breakfast” blend, whatever it actually is, with sugar and milk.
Or coffee. (Chocolatey varieties. The winey ones like Tanzanian Peaberry are too astringent.)
7. You’re trapped in a room and you have to eat your way out. Luckily, the walls are made of….?
Gulab jamun
8. Board games or video games?
Depends entirely on the game. I like simple games without a lot of rules.
(Thus “go” and “Donkey Kong” are better for me than “Monopoly” and “War Craft”.)
9. Did you pack this yourself?
I made my wife do it. I hate packing.
10. You have a den, you have a password, what is it?
Shibboleth
11. Are you a morning person?
It’s always morning somewhere.
1.Movies: State and Maine, and then.. maybe Rushmore or Brazil
2.++songs, –songs: Ode to Crayola by Lemon Demon, Moondance by van Morrison, dislike== That Don’t Impress Me Much by Shania Twain (I think?) and James Blunt, in general.
3. Birth month: September
4. Super-power? The ability to Over-analyze even the most basic of information.
5. What is your ‘kryptonite’? Text on something. For instance, text on those girls shorts, I have to read, text on thumbnails of picture, I must enlarge to read.
6. Tea? Oh, yes.
7. You’re trapped in a room and you have to eat your way out. Luckily, the walls are made of….? Rice Cakes. Easy to down a bunch if the walls are thick, and easy to break through if not.
8. Board games or video games? Both.
9. Did you pack this yourself? Yes, but I did let numerous strangers touch it unattended.
10. You have a den, you have a password, what is it? Callipygian
11. Are you a morning person? It goes in cycles
1. Your top two films of all time, what are they?
REALLY hard question, Prolly Mirrormask, and RENT.
2. Tell me two songs you like, and two you don’t.
I like Faraway Boys by Flogging Molly and I like Goils by Type O negative, I don’t like Soldier Boy, or Fly Away - Tim McGraw
3. Please, confirm the month of your birth.
April
4. What is your super-power?
The ability to do nothing constructive for long periods of time!
5. What is your ‘kryptonite’?
Deadlines/Finals
6. Tea?
Only if it’s Chai or Green
7. You’re trapped in a room and you have to eat your way out. Luckily, the walls are made of….?
Smores
8. Board games or video games?
Both
9. Did you pack this yourself?
Nope, I let the strange dirty man with a foreign accent do it then left it on the street corner all night
10. You have a den, you have a password, what is it?
Swordfish
11. Are you a morning person?
*snore* Uh wuh?