FWD: FWD: PERSONAL TRIVIA
Okay, I generally don't forward these suckers, but there's enough of a
personal (read narcissistic) element to this that I'll break my own rule.
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Subject: Okay, here's what you're supposed to do. COPY (don't forward) this
entire e-mail and paste it onto a new e-mail that you will send. Change all
of the answers so that they apply to you. Then, send this to a whole bunch
of people you know, INCLUDING the person who sent it to you. The theory is
that you will learn a lot of little known facts about your friends.
1. LIVING ARRANGEMENT?
Rented townhaus, though the rats in the backyard are free. We keep trying to
move, but there appears to be a global conspiracy to keep us put.
2. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING NOW?
Didn't you know? I can't read.
Happily, a volunteer trying to fulfill their community service obligation is
reading me The Professor and the Madman and Confederacy of Dunces (for the
third, maybe fourth time).
3. WHAT'S ON YOUR MOUSE PAD?
I use a Powerbook G3 laptop, so no mousepad.
4. FAVORITE BOARD GAME?
Don't think I have one.
5. FAVORITE MAGAZINE
TechNews, the NAA Magazine of Newspaper Operations. The cartoon in the
back's always a hoot.
6a. FAVORITE SMELLS?
Napalm in the morning. Alternately, gingerbread.
6b. LEAST FAVORITE SMELLS?
Gingerbread. Alternately, napalm in the morning.
7. FAVORITE SOUND?
"Mark, they optioned your novel!"
8. WORST FEELING IN THE WORLD?
Dealing with people with no sense of humor.
9. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU THINK OF WHEN YOU WAKE UP IN THE MORNING?
"Is this the rapture?"
10. FAVORITE COLOR?
Silver, which come to think of it is kind of an absence of color. That
probably speaks volumes about me.
11. HOW MANY RINGS BEFORE YOU ANSWER THE PHONE?
Yeah, right. Like anyone ever calls me.
12. FUTURE CHILD'S NAME?
Junior -- and not "Mark Toner Jr." but "Junior Toner."
13. WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANT IN LIFE?
Sharing laughter with friends and loved ones (cue cheesy music).
14. FAVORITE FOODS?
Sushi. Gnocchi. Just about anything else that ends with an "i" (except maybe
kimchi).
15. CHOCOLATE OR VANILLA?
Sure.
16. DO YOU LIKE TO DRIVE FAST?
Yep. And upside down, too.
17. DO YOU SLEEP WITH A STUFFED ANIMAL?
Depends on whether Aimee's decided to stack all of hers in our bed that
evening.
18. STORMS - COOL OR SCARY?
Cool.
19. WHAT TYPE WAS YOUR FIRST CAR?
1980 Ford Mustang, with bitchin' mag wheels (not my choice, but hey --
chicks dug 'em)
20. IF YOU COULD MEET ONE PERSON DEAD OR ALIVE?
Maybe James Joyce. Maybe David Letterman. Definitely Werner Klemperer (may
he rest in peace).
21. FAVORITE ALCOHOLIC DRINK?
A good Oregon pinot noir. God, that sounds pretentious.
22. WHAT IS YOUR ZODIAC SIGN?
Taurus. But as they used to say in the 70s, I was "born on the cusp," baby.
23. DO YOU EAT THE STEMS OF BROCCOLI?
Anything that George Bush the Elder doesn't like couldn't be half bad.
24. IF YOU COULD HAVE ANY JOB YOU WANTED WHAT WOULD IT BE?
Game show host.
25. IF YOU COULD DYE YOUR HAIR ANY COLOR?
Purple. I wouldn't want to be conspicuous.
26. EVER BEEN IN LOVE?
Yep. (cue sitcom-like "Awwwwww......")
27. IS THE GLASS HALF EMPTY OR HALF FULL?
What glass?
28. FAVORITE MOVIES:
Movies? Is that where you go in the big dark room and they show the pictures
on the wall?
Sorry -- having a toddler can do that to you. Let's see... Raising Arizona,
Heathers, Monty Python and the Holy Grail (my Geek Trilogy). More recently
("recently" being a relative term), the Opposite of Sex, Waiting for
Guffman, Run Lola Run. Classics? Patton, Citizen Kane, Fritz Lang stuff, and
I'm probably forgetting about a million others (again, credit the
toddler/short-term memory thing). And Tangerine (though only Sheila will get
that one).
29. DO YOU TYPE WITH YOUR FINGERS ON THE RIGHT KEYS?
My coworkers are convinced I type with my fists -- I manage to be noisy and
inaccurate at the same time.
30. WHAT'S UNDER YOUR BED?
My clown suit and art supplies.
31. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE NUMBER?
INT (a*b)2 + cos(pi)2, to the 14th decimal place
32. FAVORITE SPORT TO WATCH?
Live, curling. On television, women's billiards (on very late at night on
ESPN2).
33. SAY ONE NICE THING ABOUT THE PERSON WHO SENT THIS TO YOU:
Sheila -- for a lawyer and a Reston native, she turned out alright.
34. PERSON YOU SENT THIS TO WHO IS MOST LIKELY TO RESPOND?
fifi@bustynuns.com
35. PERSON YOU SENT THIS TO WHO IS LEAST LIKELY TO RESPOND?
president@whitehouse.gov
36. FAVORITE THING TO DO IN YOUR SPARE TIME.
Fill out and forward chain e-mails to my friends.
37. LAST BIG TICKET ITEM YOU PURCHASED
Big honkin' SUV. I'm embarrassed by this, but with W. in power it won't be
long before we have another Gulf War and gas prices plummet again. Then I'll
be driving to national parks and leaving the thing idling for weeks at a
time.
38. FAVORITE PLACE YOU'VE VISITED.
Paris. I hear the one that isn't in Nevada is nice, too.
39. FINISH THIS STATEMENT. I KNOW I'M GETTING OLD WHEN.......
...I actually take the time to fill out and forward chain e-mails to my
friends.