by gekko at 7:20 PM as a "Meemies" poast

Squeezed from UV:

You Are an Orange

You have a zest for life, especially for anything colorful, wild, or dramatic. You have a unique take on the world, and you're not afraid to be a little funky. You are a bit reserved toward people who don't know you well. You have a thick skin, which can protect you from anything that goes wrong in your life. Once someone does get to know you, they totally get and appreciate you. Your friends see you as a bright person with a refreshing take on life.

I thought chocolate was a fruit!

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by gekko at 1:54 PM as a "Meemies" poast

Paula didn't tag me, but I was bored so I figured I'd do it anyway. I cannot, however, take piccies of my fridge things because a) I'm at work and 2) I can't find my camera anyway. So I figured I'd draw the pictures.

Anyhoo. To make this a smidgen more interesting, I'm not going to actually tell you what these are. You'll have to guess from my fabulous art.

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by gekko at 11:43 AM as a "Meemies" poast

*And probably didn't care if you never learned, but here it is anyway.

This came through e-mail with instructions to send it back to the person who sent it, but also send copies to others with instructions to fill out and pass it on. I sent my responses back to the sender, but instead of bcc'ing it to unsuspecting peeps, I figured I'd post it on the blog. E-mail is just so nineties, you know?

Friends Survey

Read through the comments below about your friend and then follow the instructions at the bottom. Have fun!

1. What time is it?
11:45am

2. What's your full name?
gekko "excellent" lizard

3. What are you most afraid of?
running out of chocolate

4. What was the last movie that you saw in a theater?
Sweeney Todd (w/Johnny Depp)

5. Place of birth:
beneath a rock somewhere in Columbus, OH

6. Favorite food
Sushi (chocolate isn't food so much as it is a basic right)

7. What's your natural hair color?
muskrat

8. Ever been to Alaska?
No

9. Ever been toilet paper rolling?
Yes.

10. Love someone so much it made you cry?
Yes

11. Been in a car accident?
Yes

12. Croutons or bacon bits:
Yes.

13. Favorite day of the week:
Humpday

14. Favorite restaurant:
Shogun (Japanese/Sushi)

15. Favorite Flower:
Don't have one

16. favorite sports to watch
peanut rolling

17. Favorite drink:
Espresso

18. Favorite ice cream:
Caramel de Leche

19. Disney or Warner Brothers:
Sure!

20. Ever been on a ship?
Yes.

21. What color is your bedroom carpet?
Kind of a beige with motes of gray and brown

22. How many times did you fail your driver's test?
Never.

23. Before this one, from whom did you get your last e-mail?
My friend Dick

24. What do you do when you are bored?
Bait hypersensitive idiots on Usenet

25. Bedtime:
9:01pm

26. Who will respond to this [post] the quickest?
Prolly Mark

27. Who is the person you sent this to that is least likely to respond?
Pres. Bush

28. Who is the person that you are most curious to see their responses?
Barack Obama

29. Favorite TV show:
NCIS

30. Last person you went to dinner with:
Daughter

31. Who do you think will be President?
Same one I vote for every election: Snoopy

32. What are your favorite colors?
Bl(e)ue

33. How many tattoos do you have?
Nada. But I have a birthmark in the shape of the state of Texas

34. How many pets do you have?
Fleas don't count, do they?

35. Which came first, the chicken or the egg
No one ever asks about the sperm. You notice?

36. What do you want to do before you die?
Get a good night's sleep.

37. Have you ever been to Hawaii
No

38. Have you been to countries outside the U.S.
Yes

39. How many people are you sending this [post] to?
billions.

40. Time this survey ended:
11:55am

Now, here's what you're supposed to do... please do not spoil the fun. Copy/paste, delete my answers and type in your answers, and post on your own blog, or in the comments.

The theory is that you will learn a lot of little known facts about those who know you. Aren't you glad you're a part of this?

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by gekko at 11:14 PM as a "Meemies" poast

One a them blog filler games, where you get tagged, do something bloggy, then have to tag others, yadda. I stole this from UV.

Rules: Share 7 random and/or weird facts about yourself on your blog, blah blah. I won't be tagging peeps, even tho the real rules say I have to. Fuck the rules, I say.

1. If I lose my contact lenses I will be blind because I'm too vain to wear glasses.
2. I actually like broccoli
3. I hide chocolate bars and then surprise and delight myself finding them.
4. I do not own a pair of Uggs, nor do I want to.
5. I like my laser level more than I like Burberry shooz
6. I think Johnny Depp is hawt!
7. I have no tattoos, but have thought a lot about getting one.

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by gekko at 10:16 AM as a "Meemies" poast

Happy New Year to all my faithful reader!

The Recipe For gekko

3 parts Sass 2 parts Love 1 part Courage Splash of Daring Finish off with dark chocolate

Snarfed from Miz UV.

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by gekko at 8:12 PM as a "Meemies" poast

You Are an Espresso

At your best, you are: straight shooting, ambitious, and energetic At your worst, you are: anxious and high strung You drink coffee when: anytime you're not sleeping Your caffeine addiction level: high

Brewed over at Paula's.

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by gekko at 2:10 PM as a "Meemies" poast

I do not know who Megara is, but I rather like her.

Which Disney Heroine Are You?

Megara Take this quiz!

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by gekko at 1:36 PM as a "Meemies" poast

But I needed a fresh entry.

Swiped from Jefe.

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by gekko at 2:05 PM as a "Meemies" poast

Your House: RAVENCLAW!

Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw, If you've a ready mind, Where those of wit and learning, Will always find their kind.

Ravenclaws are known for their intelligence, ingenuity, and lifelong thirst for knowledge.

Take The Sorting Hat Test

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by gekko at 1:04 PM as a "Meemies" poast

Hip has a Cadaver Quiz. After answering twenty questions, they tote up your worth.

$4340.00The Cadaver Calculator - Find out how much your body is worth

Mingle² - Online Dating

Hrmph. Well, since that won't really dent my debts, I guess offing myself isn't a good option at the mo'. They didn't ask about how many gold teeth I have, though.

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by gekko at 11:04 AM as a "Meemies" poast

Anna of Cleves got the royal shaft. She came all the way to England to become the fourth wife of Henry VIII. Once married to Anna, he refused to consummate the marriage, and called her the "Flanders Mare". Talk about a burn, considering that by this time, Henry was the fattest man in England and had a rotting syphilis sore on his leg.

Anna was miffed, but she was too sensible to let it ruin her fun. She was given an annulment and a fat yearly allowance, and she threw extravagant parties and dined on delicacies for the rest of her life.

Linky-lurve thingie:
Snarfled from A Cool Change, who swiped it from Jenna.

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by gekko at 2:51 PM as a "Meemies" poast

I amMystique (64%)

Sometimes motherly, sometimes a beautiful companion, but most of the time a deceiving vixen.


Click here to take the Super Villain Personality Test

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by gekko at 3:05 PM as a "Meemies" poast

Jefty tagged me, curse his boiled hide!

1. Add a direct link to your post below the name of the person who tagged you. Include the city/state and country you're in.

Nicole (Sydney, Australia)
velverse (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
LB (San Giovanni in Marignano, Italy)
Selba (Jakarta, Indonesia)
Olivia (London, England)
ML (Utah, USA)
Lotus (Toronto, Canada)
tanabata (Saitama, Japan)
Andi (Dallas [ish], Texas, United States)
Todd (Louisville, Kentucky, United States)
miss kendra (los angeles, california, u.s.a)
Jiggs Casey (Berkeley, CA, USA! USA! USA!)
Tits McGee (New England, USA)
Kat (Ontario, Canada)
Cheezy (London, England)
Paula (Orange County, California, U.S.)
Jeff (Colorado, USA)
gekko(Arizona, USA)

2. List out your top 5 favorite places to eat at your location.

Shogun: Best known for their sushi (against stiff competition), they also feature tepanyaki, tempura, and more traditional Japanese dishes. I love their eel bowls. It's always busy, and you can usually expect to wait unless you slip in right at 5pm. They'll keep you happy with freshly steamed edamame, though. Yum!

PF Chang's Asian Bistro Trendy, crowded, overhyped, but I love the food there. Food with an Asian flair, rich and flavorful. I love the lettuce wraps and pad thai -- no one seems to be able to do it as well as PF Changs or their daughter fast food place Pei Wei's. Honey Chicken, or Orange Peel Chicken are tops. But nothing beats theor Oolong Marinated Sea Bass.

Carlos O'Brien's, a Mexican restaurant in the original American tradition. Standard Mexican-American faire, plentiful portions, well-prepared. What I like best about 'em, though, is the chips and salsa. The salsa is fresh-made from scratch, and the chips are the lightest I've ever encountered. Gently oily, delicately salted, they serve to carry the yummy salsa to your mouth, not overpower you with corn meal.

Richardson's Cuisine of New MexicoOne of those tucked-away neighborhood haunts, Richardson's is crowded and dark. It's been popular in this city for over 15 years. It doesn't feature standard Mexican food per se, but the smokier, chipotle-driven flavors created in New Mexico. Southwestern, and innovative.

Einstein Bros It's a bagel shop. Not extraordinary as bagel-shaped food goes, but certainly credible for something not lovingly prepared by a mozel in Brooklyn. What I love about this particular place is that it's within walking distance and has outdoor seating. Every Saturday morning, weather permitting, I walk the dogs to Einstein Bros. Rope 'em to a table, get my Spinach Florentine and shmear, cuppa coffee, and a doggy bagel and dine al fresco, people watching. The pups love it because they get lots of attention and also get to bark at the designer rats on leashes some of the hoity-toitier peeps bring with 'em.

3. Tag 5 other people (preferably from other countries/states) and let them know they've been tagged.

Norma (Ohio, USA)
Jenna (Georgia, USA)
Wayne (Pennsylvania, USA) (although, he never does these things)
The Other Donna (Florida, USA)
Arleen (Florida, USA)

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by gekko at 5:13 PM as a "Meemies" poast

In a meemy kinda mood ...

Name a CD you own that no one else on your friends list does.
Guaranteed -- pick one:
Mike Condello Presents Wallace & Ladmo's Greatest Hits, or
Bibbidi Bobbidi Bach, More Favorite Disney Tunes in the Style of Great Classical Composers

Name a book you own that no one else on your friends list does.
Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats, or possibly Vegan Planet

Name a movie you own on DVD/VHS/whatever that no one else on your friends list does.
ChikFlik: Under the Tuscan Sun

Name a place that you have visited that no one else on your friends list has.
The ancient city of Dan in Northern Israel.
The Titan Missile Base in Green Valley, AZ
The Kartchner Caverns near Benson, AZ

Name a piece of technology or any sort of tool you own that you think no one else on your friends list has.
hand crank egg beaters?
an old Palm V and its charge cradle?
A 21" Black & Decker HedgeHog© electric hedge trimmer?
A Motorola KRZR cell phone?

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by gekko at 4:58 PM as a "Meemies" poast

I mean, duh.

I am 7% Idiot.

I am not annoying at all. In fact most people come to me for advice. Of course they annoy the hell out of me. But what can I do? I am smarter than most people.

Take the
Idiot Test
@ FualiDotCom

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by gekko at 1:36 PM as a "Meemies" poast

Paula gets George. I end up with Weird Al.

In 1959 (the year you were born)

Dwight Eisenhower is president of the US
Fidel Castro takes power in Cuba
Alaska is admitted as the 49th state
Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500 stock car race
Tibet's Dalai Lama escapes to India
Hawaii admitted as the 50th state
Soviet premiere Krushchev begins unprecedented visit to US
The Barbie doll debuts
John McEnroe, Kyle MacLachlan, Tom Arnold, Perry Farrell, Kevin Spacey, and Weird Al Yankovic are born
A plane crash kills Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and The Big Bopper - becomes known as "The Day The Music Died"
Los Angeles Dodgers win the World Series
Baltimore Colts win the NFL championship
Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup
Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein is published
The Twilight Zone debuts on TV

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by gekko at 10:07 AM as a "Meemies" poast

Stole this from the alleged Pottymouth Jeff:.

1. What's your favorite color ? Blue

2. Who's your favorite Beatle ? Herbie

3. What's your favorite cooking spice ? Gaaahrlic

4. What's your favorite book ? Mine. Soon's it's written

5. Favorite explorer ? Version 7.0, I think

6. Favorite post it note size ? The heart-shaped ones, about 2"

7. Favorite Barbara Streisand movie ? Isn't there one where her character died? That one.

8. Favorite adjective ? Fucking

9. Favorite car ? 2002 Miata <sniffle>

10. Favorite Rat Packer ? Oh, Sammy, babe. Sammy.

11. Favorite Brat Packer ? Erm?

12. Favorite Green Bay Packer ? Uh?

13. Favorite City ? San Francisco <-- what Kos sed

14. Favorite song ? "On My Own", from les Mis

15. Favorite adhesive ? Loctite©

16. Favorite ex of Liz Taylor's ? Richard Burton

17. Favorite Brady ? Bobby -- he was most impish

18. Favorite Christmas Carol ? O Holy Night

19. Favorite animated monkey ? Grape Ape (Beagley Beagley innit)

20. Favorite Writing Implement ? Montblanc Meisterstück 149

21. Favorite soap ? Aveeno Body Wash

22. Favorite vegetable ? asparagus

23. Favorite superhero ? Batgirl

24. Favorite Brian Dennehey movie ? Ratatouille (cuz the name sounds scrumptious)

25. Favorite prehistoric family ? Rubbles

26. Favorite TV Show ? Boston Legal

27. Favorite movie villain ? Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg

28. Favorite candy ? Godiva Dark

29. Favorite movie ? The Fifth Element

30. Favorite berry ? Rasp

31. Favorite breakfast cereal ? I'm cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs©

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by gekko at 6:37 PM as a "Meemies" poast

Too troo, but the quiz was binary. Some a my answers would've been between the two choices given.

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by gekko at 7:22 AM as a "Meemies" poast

Just like Cheezy, I am

You are The Wheel of Fortune

Good fortune and happiness but sometimes a species of intoxication with success

The Wheel of Fortune is all about big things, luck, change, fortune. Almost always good fortune. You are lucky in all things that you do and happy with the things that come to you. Be careful that success does not go to your head however. Sometimes luck can change.

What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.

Lucky? Crashing my sweet Miata is lucky? Hokay, maybe in a Loki lucky way. :-) Hey, maybe I'm destined for a Jag!

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by gekko at 7:58 PM as a "Meemies" poast

Following the crowd. Hope there's a book about sheep on this list.

1. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown) READ
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) READ
3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee) READ
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell) AGAIN & AGAIN
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien) AGAIN & AGAIN
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien) AGAIN & AGAIN
7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien) AGAIN & AGAIN
8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery) READ (whole series)
9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling) WANT TO
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown) READ
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling) WANT TO
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden) READ
16. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Rowling) READING
17. Fall on Your Knees(Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. The Stand (Stephen King) AGAIN & AGAIN
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling) WANT TO
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte) READ
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien) AGAIN & AGAIN
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger) READ
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) READ
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel) READ (loved it)
26. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams) AGAIN & AGAIN
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte) READ
28. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis) AGAIN & AGAIN
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck) READ
30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom) READ
31. Dune (Frank Herbert) READ
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand) READ
34. 1984 (Orwell) READ
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley) READ
36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett) READ
37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)
39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel) READ
42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella) READ
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. The Bible AGAIN & AGAIN
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas) READ
48. Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt)
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck) READ
50. She's Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens) READ
53. Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card) READ
54. Great Expectations (Dickens) READ
55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling) WANT TO
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough) READ
59. The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood) READ
60. The Time Traveller's Wife (Audrew Niffenegger) READ
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) TRIED
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand) READ
63. War and Peace (Tolsoy) TRIED
64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice) READ
65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
67. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brashares) READ
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller) READ
69. Les Miserables (Hugo) READ
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery) READ
71. Bridget Jones' Diary (Fielding) SAW MOVIE
72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
73. Shogun (James Clavell) AGAIN & AGAIN
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje) READ
75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett) READ
76. Tigana (Guy Gavriel Kay)
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
78. The World According To Garp (John Irving)
79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
80. Charlotte's Web (E.B. White) READ
81. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)
82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck) READ
83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier) READ
84. Wizard's First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
85. Emma (Jane Austen)
86. Watership Down (Richard Adams) AGAIN & AGAIN
87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley) READ
88. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
89. Blindness (Jose Saramago)
90. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)
91. In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)
92. Lord of the Flies (Golding) READ
93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum) READ
96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
100. Ulysses (James Joyce) TRIED

Tha's it. Since, like, everyone on the planet has done this meme before I did, I won't bother listing the names.

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by gekko at 2:37 PM as a "Meemies" poast

Thanks Jenna. She got it from Mark.

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by gekko at 12:39 PM as a "Meemies" poast

I had serious trouble with Question 6. And several were like, "Umm, are those the ONLY choices?" But it's pretty much deadnuts on.

You Are a Liberal Republican

When you tell people that you're Republican, they rarely believe you. That's because you're socially liberal - likely pro-choice and pro-gay rights. You're also not so afraid of big goverment, as long as it benefits people and not politicians. You are the most likely of any Republican type to swing over to the Democrat side sometimes.

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by gekko at 10:21 AM as a "Meemies" poast

I'm not sayin' I'd lick Joe the Troll ten times, but I lurves a man who is low calorie. He claims Sour Grapes apparently had some'at to do with this intensely inane bit of trivia:

[UPDATED]
I like this one better, especially #4 (it's true, and I have the Blob to prove it!) #5 (don't piss me off!) and, well, maybe someone will be impressed by #6.

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by gekko at 8:14 PM as a "Meemies" poast

I'm altering the actual meme because one of the questions asked is one we've done before.

1. What was your first job?
  I'm not going to count babysitting (or lawnmowing or stuff like that). My first real job was when I was 19 years old, as a waitress for a little truck stop cafe in a teensy little hick kind of highway town near the town I lived. I was a waitress for an entire week. The regulars liked me; they sipped their thirty-cent coffees (free refills) and left dollars for me for a tip. No, I did not show them my tits. I quit because the boss tried to have sex with me, though.

2. Do you remember your first crush?
 Yep. I'll forgo mentioning his name. I'm sure he's reading this blog. Or maybe not. It was a boy in middle school and then through high school. Played football, ran track, and he and I vied for placement in the top 10% of the class in high school. We were in all the honors classes together. <sigh>. He was gorgeous. I beat him -- I ranked #5 and he was #6. I got to wear honor cords at grad and he did not. Neener.

3. What is the first thing you do in the morning?
Um. Open my eyes? Okay, not fair. Pet the dogs? Or were you looking for something like "pee"?

The next question is the one I changed.
4. What was the first really bad thing you ever did?

Shoplifting, in junior high. Stole a hot pink bikini from a department store.

5. Where is the first place you visited on the net today?
PJ's blog, of course! Where else?

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by gekko at 9:15 AM as a "Meemies" poast

I did not much like the answer choices in this quiz. Too limiting, and too stereotypical girly. But the result was pretty cool.

You Are Psyche!

Eternally in search of purpose and insight. You're curious and creative with a total sense of wonder. Totally empathetic, you pick up on other's moods easily. Just be sure to pamper yourself as well!

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by gekko at 9:09 AM as a "Meemies" poast

Your Inner European is French!

Smart and sophisticated. You have the best of everything - at least, *you* think so.

* "Just shoot me now!"

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by gekko at 9:25 AM as a "Meemies" poast

What is your earliest memory? Why do you think you have remembered that particular event or thing?

There is a discussion going on over at UV's about spanking. Not the sexy kind, you pre-verts, but the kind parents dole out to kids.

Aside from some memories that may be false of events I had to have been too young to really remember (mom breaking a glass in the kitchen and cutting her finger while I sat in my high chair, f'rex), one of my earliest memories was of being swatted on my rear end by my Mom.

I was mouthing off, being the quintessential brat, filled with the power of me, screeching rudely at my friends and my mother during my birthday party -- I think I was turning four, maybe five. I remember so clearly, Mom telling me to settle down, to be quiet. I remember her setting me aside for a time, but that had no affect on my behavior. It was my birthday, therefore I was the star, the princess. So when I marched away from my post in the corner and mouthed off again, Mom took me by the arm, swung me around, and there, in front of my friends, delivered a fairly loud, but benign whap to my fanny. It didn't hurt, physically. It shocked the hell out of me, though. It embarrassed me, horribly, too.

And it taught me a lesson, which is probably why I remember it so clearly.

The lesson was this: if you don't want to be demeaned publicly again, then listen the first time you're told to behave.

I can't say I was a perfect child from then on out; Mom felt moved to apply the right hand of righteous justice on at least two other occasions. But I don't think I ever behaved rudely to my guests and my mother again.

Funny, but I did not learn to hit other people, and I did not grow up to become an axe murderer.

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by gekko at 6:55 PM as a "Meemies" poast

Seven things about drivers that piss me off:

1. Ms./Mr. Hot Stuff Aggression Bitches. Usually twenty-somethings in cars they think are hot, coming up fast on your ass, swerving around you and zipping off into traffic. The ones you really want to see pulled over up ahead, y'know? Contrast this with ...

2. Slow freaks. Parking their asses in the left lane. That'd be the ones moving slower than the rest of the traffic, keeping at or below the speed limit. In our state, the law is "reasonable and prudent", and five to seven over the limit is accepted by the cops. What these control freaks do, though, is cause other drivers to move around them. They create traffic interruptions.

3. Taking up two parking spaces. Trust me, honey, you'll feel far more comfortable not taking your Ferrari out of the garage. Just leave it home, 'k? Then there'll be two more whole spaces for the rest of us who got dinged by your brat shoving the grocery cart into our cars.

4. Turning your car into a sub-woofer. Dude. I want to hear my music. I have my iPod canal earphones jammed all the way in and I still can't hear my music, thanks to your tribal need to "own" the airwaves.

5. Cellphones. Texters. TEXTING, fuck sake! Get off my road, jackasses.

6. Parking on the sidewalk. If there's not enough space on the side of the road, then go home.

7. Hummers, H2s, and H3s. They are an abomination in the sight of the Lord. They must all be burned.

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by gekko at 3:33 PM as a "Meemies" poast

A- Available or single? Make me an offer ...

B- Best Friend? Yes, please, if they're not very expensive.

C- Cake or Pie? Cranberry-Apple Pie, baby.

D- Drink of Choice? Green Tea

E- Essential Item? Cell phone

F- Favorite Color? Bloo

G- Gummi Bears or Worms? What ever happened to Dots?

H- Hometown? Here.

I- Indulgence? Chocolate Sex.

J- January or February? Feb. Best month of the year 'round Here.

K- Kids and names? Grown kids. The Girl and The Boy.

L- Life is incomplete without? Chocolate Sex.

M- Marriage Date? Isn't dating while married forbidden?

N- Number of Siblings? 2.5

O- Oranges or apples? Apples.

P- Phobias/Fears? Those alien brain-eating crab thingies that Khan slipped into Chekov's ear.

Q- Favorite Quote? "Ooh! Shiny thing. Gotta run!" ??

R- Reason to Smile? Chocolate Sex.

S- Season? Spring.

T- Tag three people! With Dyno©-label maker, or a Taser©?

U- Unknown Fact About Me? If I tell you, it would hardly be unknown, now, would it?

V- Vegetable you hate? Brocolli.

W- Worst habit? Chocolate Sex.

X- X-Rays you’ve had? Teeth 'n boobs.

Y- Your favorite food? The basic four: Dark chocolate, 70% Cacao Chocolate, Chocolate Espresso Beans, and Milk Chocolate.

Z- Zodiac? The Lionesse

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by gekko at 9:33 AM as a "Meemies" poast

Don't tell Sylvia!

Your Ideal Pet is a Bird

You're both very smart, very expressive, and very temperamental. You're as likely to bite your bird as it is to bite you.

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by gekko at 9:28 AM as a "Meemies" poast

I don't think of myself as such, but I believe others may see me that way. The price of being someone's boss, innit.

I lurves Freddy Mercury's voice, don't you?

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by gekko at 1:40 PM as a "Meemies" poast

It's like they're prophetic, or something!

My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is: Her Excellency Gekko the Waspish of Witchampton Under Buzzard Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title

I did this 'cuz Kos the Kow did it.

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by gekko at 7:51 AM as a "Meemies" poast

Swiped from The Scrapple King:

That kind of, sort of surprises me -- I have lived in the southwest most of my life. I spent a sliver of my growing-up years in the Northeast, however, many of my good friends and relatives are from that neck a the woods. I married a New Yorker and spend time with his family.

Maybe it shouldn't surprise me; there are just so many transplants from the northeast here in the desert. And, when I do business, I engage in teleconference calls with people from Chicawga, so it's no wonder that my accent will be blurred and mixed.

I have noticed that I'll tend to sound like whoever I've been listening to the most.

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by gekko at 12:57 PM as a "Meemies" poast

Buncha peeps doing it. I snarfed it from Paula.

Stuff I've done is bold-faced.

01. Bought everyone in the bar a drink
02. Swum with wild dolphins
03. Climbed a mountain
04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
05. Been inside the Great Pyramid
06. Held a tarantula
07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
08. Said "I love you" and meant it
09. Hugged a tree
10. Bungee jumped
11. Visited Paris
12. Watched a lightning storm at sea
13. Stayed up all night long and seen the sun rise
14. Seen the Northern Lights
15. Gone to a huge sports game
16. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
17. Grown and eaten your own vegetables
18. Touched an iceberg
19. Slept under the stars
20. Changed a baby's diaper
21. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
22. Watched a meteor shower
23. Gotten drunk on champagne
24. Given more than you can afford to charity
25. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
26. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
27. Had a food fight
28. Bet on a winning horse
29. Asked out a stranger
30. Had a snowball fight
31. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
32. Held a lamb
33. Seen a total eclipse
34. Ridden a roller coaster
35. Hit a home run
36. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking
37. Adopted an accent for an entire day
38. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
39. Had two hard drives for your computer
40. Visited all 50 states
41. Taken care of someone who was drunk
42. Had amazing friends
43. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
44. Watched wild whales
45. Stolen a sign
46. Backpacked in Europe
47. Taken a road-trip
48. Gone rock climbing
49. Taken a midnight walk on the beach
50. Gone sky diving
51. Visited Ireland
52. Been heartbroken longer than you were actually in love
53. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger's table and had a meal with them
54. Visited Japan
55. Milked a cow
56. Alphabetized your CDs (I should though!)
57. Pretended to be a superhero
58. Sung karaoke
59. Lounged around in bed all day
60. Played touch football
61. Gone scuba diving
62. Kissed in the rain
63. Played in the mud
64. Played in the rain
65. Gone to a drive-in theater
66. Visited the Great Wall of China
67. Started a business
68. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
69. Toured ancient sites
70. Taken a martial arts class
71. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight
72. Gotten married
73. Been in a movie
74. Crashed a party
75. Gotten divorced
76. Gone without food for 5 days
77. Made cookies from scratch
78. Won first prize in a costume contest
79. Ridden a gondola in Venice
80. Gotten a tattoo
81. Rafted the Snake River
82. Been on television news programs as an "expert"
83. Received flowers for no reason
84. Performed on stage
85. Been to Las Vegas
86. Recorded music
87. Eaten shark
88. Kissed on the first date
89. Gone to Thailand
90. Bought a house
91. Been in a combat zone
92. Buried one/both of your parents
93. Been on a cruise ship
94. Spoken more than one language fluently
95. Performed in Rocky Horror
96. Raised children
97. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour
99. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
100. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over
101. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
102. Sung loudly in the car, and didn't stop when you knew someone was looking
103. Had plastic surgery
104. Survived an accident that you shouldn't have survived
105. Written articles for a large publication
106. Lost 100 pounds (close to it)note: 60 pounds
107. Held someone while they were having a flashback
108. Piloted an airplane
109. Touched a stingray
110. Broken someone's heart
111. Helped an animal give birth
112. Won money on a T.V. game show
113. Broken a bone
114. Gone on an African photo safari
115. Had a facial part pierced other than your ears
116. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol
117. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
118. Ridden a horse
119. Had major surgery note: I do not consider tubal ligation or a boob lift to be major
120. Had a snake as a pet
121. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
122. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours
123. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states
124. Visited all 7 continents
125. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
126. Eaten kangaroo meat
127. Eaten sushi
128. Had your picture in the newspaper
129. Changed someone's mind about something you care deeply about
130. Gone back to school
131. Parasailed note: piloted an ultralight aircraft
132. Touched a cockroach
133. Eaten fried green tomatoes
134. Read The Iliad - and the Odyssey
135. Selected one "important" author who you missed in school, and read
136. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
137. Skipped all your school reunions
138. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language
139. Been elected to public office
140. Written your own computer language
141. Thought to yourself that you're living your dream
142. Had to put someone you love into hospice care
143. Built your own PC from parts
144. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn't know you
145. Had a booth at a street fair
146. Dyed your hair
147. Been a DJ
148. Shaved your head
149. Caused a car accident
150. Saved someone's life

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by gekko at 5:37 PM as a "Meemies" poast

I scored 19 out of 30. But I'm hardly a boob/butt/shoulder kinda gal.

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by gekko at 3:33 PM as a "Meemies" poast

Which OS are You?

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by gekko at 8:08 PM as a "Meemies" poast

Most of it's fairly close. That last bit isn't. I am lazy, yes. I work very hard at being lazy, finding ways to get out of having to do something by finding a better, more automated way to get it done. Getting stuck in a rut can be true, but I really don't depend on others that much.

You Have a Phlegmatic Temperament

Mild mannered and laid back, you take life at a slow pace. You are very consistent - both in emotions and actions. You tend to absorb set backs easily. You are cool and collected. It is difficult to offend you. You can remain composed and unemotional. You are a great friend and lover. You don't demand much of others. While you are quiet, you have a subtle wit that your friends know well. At your worst, you are lazy and unwilling to work at anything. You often get stuck in a rut, without aspirations or dreams. You can get too dependent on others, setting yourself up for abandonment.

Nabbed from Kos, who swiped it from Paula.

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by gekko at 10:56 AM as a "Meemies" poast

Asbestos Dust grabbed a meme from Nox.

Do this:

Grab the nearest book. *
Open the book to page 123.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post that text and the following three sentences, along with the stuff below on your blog, along with the instructions

[*] 'nearest' means you can't rummage around for a 'cool' or 'intellectual' book. Really, whatever your hand falls on first.

To freeze a sprinter, the shutter must open and close before the image of the runner perceptibly changes position on the camera's image plane. Therefore, the faster the subject runs, the faster the shutter speed you will need to stop the action and avoid a blurred image.

A second factor affecting the final image is the camera-to-subject distance.

One elevator door was half-open on an empty shaft, from which drifted hissing wind. The door was coated to look like wood, but a dent at kneel level showed it was black metal. While he squatted, fingering the edge of the depression, something clicked: a second elevator door beside him rolled open.

"Hey, good-lookin'!" the blond driver yells, her hair flapping in the wind. "Don't go! I think I love you!" Laughing, her friends pull her hat off.

Several people put their arms around me and said keep coming back!

Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794), the revolutionary leader, was himself executed in July 1794. This destruction came not from outside the system; it was produced by the system. As in the later Russian Revolution the revolutionaries on their humanist base had only two options--anarchy or repression.

In a large skillet brown meat, half at a time, in hot oil. Drain off fat. In a 3 1/2- to 4-quart slow cooker combine undrained tomatoes, beef broth, onion, jalapeno or serrano peppers, garlic, cornmeal, chili power, brown sugar, oregano, cumin, and black pepper.

Let anyone who will not believe it, go thither and inquire for himself. There was once an ass whose master had made him carry sacks to the mill for many a long year, but whose strength began at last to fail, so that each day as it came, found him less capable of work. Then his master began to think of turning him out, but the ass, guessing that something was in the wind that boded him no good, ran away, taking the road to Bremen; for there he thought he might get an engagement as town musician.

The bus company? They got another one. Line coach Douglas Fowlkes recalled that the media wrote about the losing streak so much that it was always at the forefront of the players' minds: "When are they going to win?"

There are also V-shaped dividers that are smaller than the frames; these go in front, to allow a deeper decolletage. In 1958, with the sexual revolution only a few years off, some of the customs inherited from the nineteenth century still survived. Despite the fact that most women now wore girdles, there were still corsets being worn -- and not simply by a few elderly ladies, since Mademoiselle Etienne;s handbook contains instructions for making children's corsets.

What makes this awful is that the nearest book I have at hand is a book I picked up for a quarter simply because I wanted to have the title visible on my desk here at work. The book itself is worthless, unreadable trash.

I originally tagged Mark. David's had his go but didn't tag anyone, so I'll hit up Lily.

[UPDATED] I corrected the instructions (thanks Ant'ny!)
and am tracking it as best I can.

Known titles:

• Nox: Photojournalism: The Professional's Approach.


• Asbestos Dust: Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delaney


• gekko: Chocolate Lizards, Cole Thompson


• Mark: Narcotics Anonymous


• Ant'ny: How Then Shall We Live, by Francis Shaeffer


• UV: title unknown


• Nobody (Jen): Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales


• Jeff Kos: Confidence: How Winning
  Streaks & Losing Streaks Begin & End, by Rosabeth Moss Kanter


• David Rochester: A History of Corsets and Bras" by Beatrice Fontanel


• Lily: Cyrano, in french, no less!"


• IncaRunner6: something about Darwin?


• ArkadianRiver: next

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by gekko at 10:56 AM as a "Meemies" poast

Asbestos Dust grabbed a meme from Nox.

Do this:

Grab the nearest book. *
Open the book to page 123.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post that text and the following three sentences, along with the stuff below on your blog, along with the instructions

[*] 'nearest' means you can't rummage around for a 'cool' or 'intellectual' book. Really, whatever your hand falls on first.

To freeze a sprinter, the shutter must open and close before the image of the runner perceptibly changes position on the camera's image plane. Therefore, the faster the subject runs, the faster the shutter speed you will need to stop the action and avoid a blurred image.

A second factor affecting the final image is the camera-to-subject distance.

One elevator door was half-open on an empty shaft, from which drifted hissing wind. The door was coated to look like wood, but a dent at kneel level showed it was black metal. While he squatted, fingering the edge of the depression, something clicked: a second elevator door beside him rolled open.

"Hey, good-lookin'!" the blond driver yells, her hair flapping in the wind. "Don't go! I think I love you!" Laughing, her friends pull her hat off.

Several people put their arms around me and said keep coming back!

Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794), the revolutionary leader, was himself executed in July 1794. This destruction came not from outside the system; it was produced by the system. As in the later Russian Revolution the revolutionaries on their humanist base had only two options--anarchy or repression.

In a large skillet brown meat, half at a time, in hot oil. Drain off fat. In a 3 1/2- to 4-quart slow cooker combine undrained tomatoes, beef broth, onion, jalapeno or serrano peppers, garlic, cornmeal, chili power, brown sugar, oregano, cumin, and black pepper.

Let anyone who will not believe it, go thither and inquire for himself. There was once an ass whose master had made him carry sacks to the mill for many a long year, but whose strength began at last to fail, so that each day as it came, found him less capable of work. Then his master began to think of turning him out, but the ass, guessing that something was in the wind that boded him no good, ran away, taking the road to Bremen; for there he thought he might get an engagement as town musician.

The bus company? They got another one. Line coach Douglas Fowlkes recalled that the media wrote about the losing streak so much that it was always at the forefront of the players' minds: "When are they going to win?"

There are also V-shaped dividers that are smaller than the frames; these go in front, to allow a deeper decolletage. In 1958, with the sexual revolution only a few years off, some of the customs inherited from the nineteenth century still survived. Despite the fact that most women now wore girdles, there were still corsets being worn -- and not simply by a few elderly ladies, since Mademoiselle Etienne;s handbook contains instructions for making children's corsets.

What makes this awful is that the nearest book I have at hand is a book I picked up for a quarter simply because I wanted to have the title visible on my desk here at work. The book itself is worthless, unreadable trash.

I originally tagged Mark. David's had his go but didn't tag anyone, so I'll hit up Lily.

[UPDATED] I corrected the instructions (thanks Ant'ny!)
and am tracking it as best I can.

Known titles:

• Nox: Photojournalism: The Professional's Approach.


• Asbestos Dust: Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delaney


• gekko: Chocolate Lizards, Cole Thompson


• Mark: Narcotics Anonymous


• Ant'ny: How Then Shall We Live, by Francis Shaeffer


• UV: title unknown


• Nobody (Jen): Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales


• Jeff Kos: Confidence: How Winning
  Streaks & Losing Streaks Begin & End, by Rosabeth Moss Kanter


• David Rochester: A History of Corsets and Bras" by Beatrice Fontanel


• Lily: Cyrano, in french, no less!"


• IncaRunner6: something about Darwin?


• ArkadianRiver: next

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by gekko at 10:31 AM as a "Meemies" poast

Got tagged by Looney:

1. One book that changed your life?

Hate to be, like, predictable, but the Bible changed my life. In many ways. Not all of them good.

2. One book you have read more than once?

The Hobbit.

3. One book you would want on a desert island?

A really, really large anthology of literature spanning 19th thru 21st century

4. One book that made you laugh?

Hitchhiker's Guide.

5. One book that made you cry?

Old Yeller, man. Long time ago.

6. One book you wish had been written?

How I Became Empress Of All, by gekko

7. One book you wish had never been written?

The dekalogy that L. Ron Hubbard wrote. Waste a paper.

8. One book you are currently reading?

Premonition (City of God Series) by Randy Ingermanson

9. One book you've been meaning to read?

Baudolino, Umberto Eco

10. Now tag 5 people:

Sylvia, Stan, Dick Harper, Ray, and Wayne

[updated: fixed title in #5. Thanks, Jeff]

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by gekko at 12:15 PM as a "Meemies" poast

That pushy broad, PJ made me take this test.

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by gekko at 9:00 AM as a "Meemies" poast

Well, now. There I go again!

You Are Most Like Ronald Reagan

People tend to think you're a god - or that you almost ruined the country. But even if people do disagree with you, they still fall victim to your charms!

nabbed from Paula.

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by gekko at 7:40 PM as a "Meemies" poast

Yoinked from Paula

GRUB-OLOGY

What is your salad dressing of choice? balsamic vinaigrette.
What is your favorite fast food restaurant? Baja Grill or Chipotles
What is your favorite sit down restaurant? Shogun Japanese Restaurant.
On average, what size tip do you leave at a restaurant? 15-20%.
What food could you eat every day for two weeks and not get sick of? Noodles.
Name three foods you detest above all others. Coconut, sauerkraut, sauerkraut
What is your favorite dish to order in a Chinese restaurant? Black bean catfish thing.
What are your pizza toppings of choice? Pepperoni, mushrooms.
What do you like to put on your toast? I Can't Believe It's Not Butter, Lite.
What is your favorite type of gum? Dentyne.

TECH-OLOGY

Number of contacts in your cell phone? 20
Number of contacts in your email address book? hundred.
What is your wallpaper on your computer? Webshots' random -- scenic foresty thing right now.
What is your screensaver on your computer? Picture Slideshow.
Are there naked pictures saved on your computer? Oh yeah.
How many land line phones do you have in your house? 2.
How many televisions are in your house? 1.
What kitchen appliance do you use the least? bread machine.
What is the format of the radio station you listen to the most? Nada.
How many sex toys do you own that require batteries? I use hand crank powered.

BI-OLOGY

What do you consider to be your best physical attribute? My upper left molar. It rocks.
Are you right handed or left handed? Right.
Do you like your smile? I was told it is "devilish"
Have you ever had anything removed from your body? Do two babies count?
Would you like to? My butt.
Do you prefer to read when you go to the bathroom? No.
Which of your five senses do you think is keenest? Taste.
When was the last time you had a cavity? Now
What is the heaviest item you lift regularly? Weights.
Have you ever been knocked unconscious? No. But I've fainted.

MISC-OLOGY

If it were possible, would you want to know the day you were going to die? No.
If you could change your first name, what would you change it to? Xena.
How do you express your artistic side? Computer Graphics.
What color do you think you look best in? Black.
How long do you think you could last in a medium security prison? I'd be queen in a few days.
Have you ever swallowed a non-food item by mistake? A nickel, when I was a kid!
If we weren't bound by society's conventions, do you have a relative you would make a pass at? I know someone I'd adopt, and THEN make a pass at him.
How often do you go to church? once, twice a week (sing in a choir)
Have you ever saved someone's life? They said I did, but I think they were just exaggerating.
Has someone ever saved yours? The Spousal Unit rescued me when I panicked during a night dive.

DARE-OLOGY

For this last section, if you would do it for less or more money, indicate how much.

Would you walk naked for a half mile down a public street for $100,000? No.
Would you kiss a member of the same sex for $100? Yep. I mean, I kiss my Mom for free, hello.
Would you have sex with a member of the same sex for $10,000? If she's hot, yeah.
Would you allow one of your little fingers to be cut off for $200,000? No.
Would you never blog again for $50,000? Sayanora, Blog Peeps!
Would you pose naked in a magazine for $250,000? Sure, why not?
Would you drink an entire bottle of hot sauce for $1000? Yep.
Would you, without fear of punishment, take a human life for $1,000,000? No.
Would you shave your head and get your entire body waxed for $5,000? Sure, why not?
Would you give up watching television for a year for $25,000? What Paula said.

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by gekko at 10:26 AM as a "Meemies" poast

I mean, hello.

I'm a Mazda Miata!

You like to soak up the sun, but your tastes are down to earth. Everyone thinks you're cute. Life is a winding road, and you like to take the curves in stride. Let other people compete in the rat race - you're just here to enjoy the ride.

Take the Which Sports Car Are You? quiz.

Ooh, got me one hot comment!

by gekko at 6:49 PM as a "Meemies" poast

From Paula

Meme 1...

Accent: A drawl, but not as pernounced as what ya'll have in Texas. I call it "southwestern".

Booze: dry red, ever' once in a while. Or a Sapphire Gin and tonic
Chore I Hate: Dusting (kerCHOOO!)
Dog or Cat: Dawgs. Would have cats, too, but the blamed Spousal Unit claims to be allergic. Once even did a pretty good imitation of a seizure, complete with ambulance.
Essential Electronics: Oh yeah, like you can't guess. This, and my iPod ...
Favorite Perfume: Gak. Smelly shit. Ew. Ptui.
Gold or Silver: And platinum!
Hometown: Here.
Insomnia: 'casionaly.
Job Title: Weird Bitch. 'k, seriously -- "Engineering Development Manager"
Kids: Yup. Two a the buggers. Both survived to adulthood.
Living arrangements: As luxurious as I can afford
Most admirable traits: Ummmmmm. Cute. Cute as a bug's ear.
Number of sexual partners: Does my vibrator count?
Overnight hospital stays: Dos -- one for each child.
Phobias: Bugs. <shudder>
Quote: I mean, hello.
Religion: Let's call it "Christianity" cuz that's closest.
Siblings: Bro, two step-sis's
Time I wake up: 3:41 ayem
Unusual talent or skill: Putting people to sleep.
Vegetable I love: Asparagus
Update: Blob! Read it!
Worst habit: Shopping. For darling, darling clothes 'n shooz.
X-rays: Vision? Oh. Um. Back when I had breasts, them.
Yummy foods I make: Kookies! Oatmeal bars! Ribs! Cous cous! Pie!
Zodiac sign: Hear me roar, baby.

Meme 2...

I am: I already said: cute as a bug's ear. Sheesh!
I want: hot weasel sex. Um. Not with a weasel, mind.
I wish: Health and happiness for all the good people.
I hate: pushy bitches other than meself.
I love: foooooood
I miss: "Dark Shadows" and Barnabas Collins.
I fear: Bugs. Is this thing on? Hello?
I hear: dinner calling
I wonder: what you are?
I regret: damned little
I am not: a good dancer
I dance: when dragged by my feet to the dance floor
I sing: car, shower, choir, as I work ...
I cry: at sad news, sad songs, sad movies, and Reader's Digest stories.
I am not always: all that cute.
I make with my hands: Pies.
I write: blogs
I confuse: ??
I should: write a book
I start: new "skins" for my blogs
I finish: sending out invitations to my son's HS graduation
I tag: anyone left over that Paula didn't get

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by gekko at 12:47 PM as a "Meemies" poast

Gosh diddly darn good thing, since tomorrow is only the most holiest day in all a Christiandom, that I scored as a Xian. I mean, phew!

(snarfed from Miz Paula).

My actual beliefs are a bit more complex than what standard, vanilla, run a the mill Christianity typically teaches, but I align most closely with them, and so to a Christian church I go.

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by gekko at 7:11 PM as a "Meemies" poast

Mark tagged me with one a these idiotic things. Idiot that I am, I'm playing along. Kinda.

1: Black and White or Color; how do you prefer your movies?

Are we allowed to use the term "color" these days? Shouldn't there be a term like "Polychromatic Televisionistic American"?

2: What is the one single subject that bores you to near-death?

Other peeps' memes.

3: MP3s, CDs, Tapes or Records: what is your favorite medium for prerecorded music?

iPod.

4: You are handed one first class trip plane ticket to anywhere in the world and ten million dollars cash. All of this is yours provided that you leave and not tell anyone where you are going ... Ever. This includes family, friends, everyone. Would you take the money and ticket and run?

So, I take it, right? I run, right? I spend, right? What's to prevent me from coming back and, like, telling all the peeps I care about, hmmm?

5: Seriously, what do you consider the world's most pressing issue now?

Seriously? The only fat-free, sugar-free chocolate candies around taste like crap and give me the squirts.

6: How would you rectify the world's most pressing issue?

Beat the crap outta food-ologists until they get it right.

7: You are given the chance to go back and change one thing in your life; what would that be?

Eating too much chocolate at puberty, thus preventing my thighs from ballooning up to gargantuan proportions.

8: You are given the chance to go back and change one event in world history, what would that be?

The moment Mark tagged me for this meme.

9: A night at the opera, or a night at the Grand Ole' Opry --Which do you choose?

Oh-peh-ra, thenkew. Country music's fer depressives and coke addicts.

10: What is the one great unsolved crime of all time you'd like to solve?

Mark's murder.

11: One famous author can come to dinner with you. Who would that be, and what would you serve for the meal?

Shakespeare. Pizza.

12: You discover that John Lennon was right, that there is no hell below us, and above us there is only sky -- what's the first immoral thing you might do to celebrate this fact?

I'd have to change the pressing issue and its rectification first. The pressing issue would be "women aren't double-hinged and cannot perform self-cunnilingus." The rectification and celebratory immoral act would then be evident.

And ... I ain't tagging no one. Nyah.

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by gekko at 11:45 AM as a "Meemies" poast

Paula's done it. Now I've done it. You go do mine, too.

Um. Please.

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by gekko at 8:41 AM as a "Meemies" poast

Thanks to Wendy Chatley Green on misc.writing for tipping me off to yet another useless quiz:

Which File Extension are You?

I wanted to be a .pif. Dang. It must've been the "blue hair" response to the Anime question.

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by gekko at 6:04 PM as a "Meemies" poast

I am so fucking angry, I can't see straight. That beyotch, UV, tagged me. I don't do these things. I hate these things. They're STUPID.

Five nutizoidinous habits (Can you spell OCD?) and tag five new peeps (Sounds like fucking CHAIN LETTERS!).

'k.

Habits:

1. Gotta read "Twas The Night Before Christmas" _before_ midnight on Christmas Eve.

2. Getting up at 3:43 ayem on workweek days to work out.

3. In fact, setting my alarm to a time, it has to be an odd-ball time, in an odd number. 6:09. 7:21. 8:03 ... like that.

4. Blue. If it's blue, I'm probably going to want to buy it.

5. Straightening crooked pictures. Gotta. If you live in a house FULL of crookedly hung pictures/paintings, and you invite me over, expect me to be very uncomfortable OR occupied all evening, straightening. Usually surreptitiously.

Peep-tag:
1. Wayne
2. Doyle
3. Peej! Yay!
4. The Deadly Dust (as if he'd do something like this!)
5. The dulcet-toned Miz Jenna

'k? Satisfied?

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by gekko at 7:51 PM as a "Meemies" poast

I don't wear hats. So I'll have to tip my shoe to
UV for this blogthing:

Your Blog Should Be Yellow

You're a cheerful, upbeat blogger who tends to make everyone laugh. You are a great storyteller, and the first to post the latest funny link. You're also friendly and welcoming to everyone who comments on your blog.

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by gekko at 8:06 PM as a "Meemies" poast

UV is making me do what she did, and she got it from Grace who got it from Towse. Gawd only knows where Towse got it from.

First sentences and links from the first poasts of each month in 2005:

January: It's a new year, and I've been idle, more or less, for more than two weeks as I burned accumulated vacation time.

February: OMG!

March: The Cake Baking peeps want over $600 for a wedding cake.

April: The following is something I just now wro ... er, stole from an e-mail.

May: Peeps in the US have probably seen the cutesy little nice, ordinary-sized propeller truck trailer hitch covers.

June: So actor Christian Slater was in jail for grabbing someone's butt.

July: Please think kind thoughts, and send good vibes, prayers, and wishes our way.

August: Here's me, thinking I took the wrong job, man.

September: Could not the esteemed Reverend Jackson please focus some of his inimitable zest and energy on helping the victims and their families?

October: A.Word.A.Day seems to have a few hang-ups, herpetologically speaking:

November: I'm getting kinda hungry with all this talk of killing.

December: Copper's not exactly shy ...

I have NO idea why anyone would find this amusin' or useful, but since UV said I had to, well, I got a compulsion to do it.

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by gekko at 7:29 PM as a "Meemies" poast

Well, dur. I mean, I only read it a bazillion times.

take the WHAT BAD BOOK ARE YOU test.
and go to mewing.net. not as good as reading a good book, but way better than a bad one.

Swiped from all the other bloggers who swiped it.

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by gekko at 8:44 PM as a "Meemies" poast

You are Snoopy!


Which Peanuts Character are You?
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Thanks to Jenna

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by gekko at 9:19 PM as a "Meemies" poast

A hedgehog of my very own! Thanks, Jenna.

Don't you wanna pet him? G'ahead and pet him! Pet him lots!

by gekko at 5:46 PM as a "Meemies" poast

Ooh, got me one hot comment!

by gekko at 1:42 PM as a "Meemies" poast

Ultra's a Secular Humanist, but Arleen is just like me according to this Religion Test.

(My top five results)

# 1. Mainline - Liberal Christian Protestants (100%)

# 2. Liberal Quakers (89%)

# 3. Unitarian Universalism (86%)

# 4. Orthodox Quaker (78%)

# 5. Reform Judaism (74%)

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by gekko at 10:13 AM as a "Meemies" poast

So I'm a leopard-print pattern instead. Prolly 'cause my favorite curse word is "fuck." innit.

What Pattern Are You?

by gekko at 10:18 AM as a "Meemies" poast

My fiend UV had this on her site. She's tea, but I'm the stuff that makes tea drinkable:

I am sweet, like Sugar. I am all sweetness and light; fluffy bunnies and dancing fairies; happiness and joy. Too much of me will make you sick. What Flavour Are You?

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by gekko at 12:47 PM as a "Meemies" poast

Gawd. Even after fessing up to having oral sex. I mean, gawd. Maybe I should go back and re-take it and lie, or something.
The Dante's Inferno Test has sent you to Purgatory!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:

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by gekko at 9:48 AM as a "Meemies" poast

"Which American City Am I?"

Las Vegas
I (apparently) shine bright and partake in all the vices. (Except Al Gore. I mean, ew!) I'd rather burn out than fade away.

All because I like sushi and the color blue???

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by gekko at 3:36 PM as a "Meemies" poast

You are a GRAMMAR GOD!



If your mission in life is not already to
preserve the English tongue, it should be.
Congratulations and thank you!



How grammatically sound are you?
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Ooh, got me one hot comment!

by gekko at 7:57 AM as a "Meemies" poast

Ooh, got me one hot comment!

by gekko at 7:52 AM as a "Meemies" poast

Stolen from UV, who stole it from Marc: