Very serious questions.

[lapietra]

I'm so flippin' addicted to these....

1. Favorite breakfast food.

2. Something your friends all tease you about.

3. Name at least five (more is okay) human qualities you admire and/or love.

4. High school celebrity crush?

5. Favorite radio station(s) - and why?

6. If you could have the career of your dreams, but it meant (through some cruel trick of the universe or maybe a requirement of the career) that you would never meet & marry the love of your life - would you do it?

7. What's your best beloved item of furniture?

8. Favorite dish made with beans. (Extra points if you include a recipe.)

9. If you could choose one unparalleled talent, what would it be? Why? (Note - this doesn't have to be an artistic talent.)

10. You just won the lottery - 100 mil. What do you do with the money?

[beckstra]

1. Favorite breakfast food.

strawberry cottage cheese blintzes

2. Something your friends all tease you about.

the way I go on about the mall security gaurds...

3. Name at least five (more is okay) human qualities you admire and/or love.

integrity, perseverance, patience, gentleness, servitude

4. High school celebrity crush?

Johnathon Brandis...woo that boy was fine!

5. Favorite radio station(s) - and why?

106.9 The City, cause I like watered-down rock as much as the next chick...

6. If you could have the career of your dreams, but it meant (through some cruel trick of the universe or maybe a requirement of the career) that you would never meet & marry the love of your life - would you do it?

no

7. What's your best beloved item of furniture?

my bed (frame and all)

8. Favorite dish made with beans. (Extra points if you include a recipe.)

green bean casserole

9. If you could choose one unparalleled talent, what would it be? Why? (Note - this doesn't have to be an artistic talent.)

being able to draw characatures...cause that dude just died, and I wanna be the next Hurtzfield or whatever his name was

10. You just won the lottery - 100 mil. What do you do with the money?

Tithe, pay off debts, buy new house & car for each member of the family, buy off old movieplex & turn it into a youth church, & invest the rest wisely

[zenbabe]

1. Favorite breakfast food.
- Breakfast burrito with sausage

2. Something your friends all tease you about.
-the strange crap that happens to me on a daily basis

3. Name at least five (more is okay) human qualities you admire and/or love.
-Sense of humor, honesty, compassion,adventure,open minded, hates the raiders

4. High school celebrity crush?
- Dillon from 90210

5. Favorite radio station(s) - and why?
- 91x-alternative, great morning show, 93.3, cause im a hip hop queen, 101.5, classic rock, gets you through the day

6. If you could have the career of your dreams, but it meant (through some cruel trick of the universe or maybe a requirement of the career) that you would never meet & marry the love of your life - would you do it?
- I suppose I would, I don't really believe in soul mates, I think there are tons of people out there that would fit perfectly, its just a timing game, if I never knew the love of my life, it wouldn't be something that would be missed and my life would be so different, that I would meet someone else on the path I was on..

7. What's your best beloved item of furniture?
-My comfy couch, and my yoga ball

8. Favorite dish made with beans. (Extra points if you include a recipe.)
-Bean dip!!

9. If you could choose one unparalleled talent, what would it be? Why? (Note - this doesn't have to be an artistic talent.)
I would be the best billiards player in the world, so I could clean up in vegas! And be one of those cool chicks that kicks ass at pool.

10. You just won the lottery - 100 mil. What do you do with the money?
-Go on a wild spending spree for me and all of my friends/family, pay off all their credit card bills, buy them all a house, dontate to charity, quit my job, travel till I am bored of it, open a resturant, adopt poor kids, buy michael jacksons neverland ranch, influence anyone I could to kick bush out of office.

[noxxville]

1. Favorite breakfast food.

toast. plain old toast. with butter.

2. Something your friends all tease you about.

My poor customer service skills. My boss actually bought me the "I'm just one big ****ing ray of sunshine, aren't I?" shirt.

3. Name at least five (more is okay) human qualities you admire and/or love.

playfulness
integrity
skepticism
compassion
loyalty

4. High school celebrity crush?

I can't belive I'm admitting this.....Candace Bergen.

5. Favorite radio station(s) - and why?

None. Radio overplays songs to the point where I begin to loathe songs I used to love.

6. If you could have the career of your dreams, but it meant (through some cruel trick of the universe or maybe a requirement of the career) that you would never meet & marry the love of your life - would you do it?

never.

7. What's your best beloved item of furniture?

my dresser. I spent 5 months here before i actualy got off my butt and bought one. I never realized how handy having a dresser is.

8. Favorite dish made with beans. (Extra points if you include a recipe.)

black bean soup

9. If you could choose one unparalleled talent, what would it be? Why? (Note - this doesn't have to be an artistic talent.)

makng people laugh. the worlds just better when people are laughing.

10. You just won the lottery - 100 mil. What do you do with the money?

Cover my cousin's college (I have no brothers or sisters). Buy my mother a house and car. start a scholarship fund for orphaned children. Hand a large chunk to the Marine Mammal Center. Take every kid in a cancer ward to disneyworld. Dye my hair blue. buy the cat a new playhouse. get some footy pajamas. replace my car with something more efficient. buy a tuba. become a zookeeper. buy one of the real godzilla suits from the movies. get a kiddie pool. change my last name.

[dinzdale]

1. Favorite breakfast food.
Breakfast is for girls.....Coffee and Cigs for a guy like me.

2. Something your friends all tease you about.
Big Nose, Short Legs, Flatulence, Chain Smoking, Coffee Drinking, Unexpected Nudity....
Let's face it there's a lot of ammo but it's only used against me because they're fvcking jealous.

3. Name at least five (more is okay) human qualities you admire and/or love.
Laughter, Comeraderie, Friendship, Listening, Kindness

4. High school celebrity crush?
Rhoda Morgenstern (Valerie Harper)

5. Favorite radio station(s) - and why?
610 Sports Radio, 101 in the morinings (I miss Stevens and Pruett)

6. If you could have the career of your dreams, but it meant (through some cruel trick of the universe or maybe a requirement of the career) that you would never meet & marry the love of your life - would you do it?
I dont think I ever will do the second, so I might as well do the first bit.

7. What's your best beloved item of furniture?
Sofa Sogood

8. Favorite dish made with beans. (Extra points if you include a recipe.)
Chili - I know I'm not a Texan who would kill me for adding beans but I love it with those dark kidney beans.

9. If you could choose one unparalleled talent, what would it be? Why? (Note - this doesn't have to be an artistic talent.)
I only dont have a sports career through arthritis at 20 yrs old....just give me a chance to see how good I could have been.

10. You just won the lottery - 100 mil. What do you do with the money?
Leave and start over.

[rmr]

1. Favorite breakfast food.

Eggs Benedict, wooooooo I love it!!!

2. Something your friends all tease you about.
My spelling :(


3. Name at least five (more is okay) human qualities you admire and/or love.
Loyalty, Wit, Charisma, Courage, Self-Confidence, Selflessness

4. High school celebrity crush?
mmmmmmm, I think it was, why is this so hard for me, ummmmmm Don Johnson maybe??


5. Favorite radio station(s) - and why?
Wxrt -- the best here in Chicago...otherwise, I live Virgin Radio


6. If you could have the career of your dreams, but it meant (through some cruel trick of the universe or maybe a requirement of the career) that you would never meet & marry the love of your life - would you do it?
Nope, I'm too romantic.


7. What's your best beloved item of furniture?
An antique chest I have with a marble top....it's so awesome.


8. Favorite dish made with beans. (Extra points if you include a recipe.)
My Chicken Black Bean Chili....it's soooo good, I'll give you the recipe if you like!!


9. If you could choose one unparalleled talent, what would it be? Why? (Note - this doesn't have to be an artistic talent.)
I'd be able to sing, I think would be wonderful to know how to sing.


10. You just won the lottery - 100 mil. What do you do with the money?
Party like it's 1999 everyday of the year

[AllegroNg]

1. Favorite breakfast food.

Total Brown Sugar and Oat Cereal

2. Something your friends all tease you about.

Calling myself blonde when infact I've been "red" for several months now

3. Name at least five (more is okay) human qualities you admire and/or love.

Humor, intelligence, rationality, hair

4. High school celebrity crush?

Jm J. Bullock. I know he is. I don't wanna talk about it.

5. Favorite radio station(s) - and why?

99.5 - Hit station coz I grew up that way, R/B, classical music

6. If you could have the career of your dreams, but it meant (through some cruel trick of the universe or maybe a requirement of the career) that you would never meet & marry the love of your life - would you do it?

For god's sake no! Marrying a man is one thing, but marrying a career???

7. What's your best beloved item of furniture?

The floor (I hate sitting down)

8. Favorite dish made with beans. (Extra points if you include a recipe.)

Whichever one's in the garbage disposal:-D

9. If you could choose one unparalleled talent, what would it be? Why? (Note - this doesn't have to be an artistic talent.)

Patience

10. You just won the lottery - 100 mil. What do you do with the money?

Pay off everyone's debts, keep 20 mil for survival, give the rest away

[dickieC]

I'm so flippin' addicted to these....

1. Favorite breakfast food.

Sainsbury's Apricot Wheats cereal. Discovered them about six months ago and have eaten them constantly since.

2. Something your friends all tease you about.

Being an absent-minded academic. I was told this evening that I had posted a half-written postcard from New York to two friends in London.

3. Name at least five (more is okay) human qualities you admire and/or love.

Sincerity, fidelity, love, gentleness, compassion.

4. High school celebrity crush?

Caren Keating, the Blue Peter presenter. Mm-hmm.

5. Favorite radio station(s) - and why?

Don't really have one. I surf until I find something to drive to.

6. If you could have the career of your dreams, but it meant (through some cruel trick of the universe or maybe a requirement of the career) that you would never meet & marry the love of your life - would you do it?

Probably, yes. Sorry ladies. I would give a hell of a lot to be a fellow of an Oxbridge college.

7. What's your best beloved item of furniture?

My gorgeous orange sofa. A big ray of sunshine in my life every morning.

8. Favorite dish made with beans. (Extra points if you include a recipe.)

Bisteca latina. Lots of beef and many beans. Maybe that's why no-one wants to sleep with me?

9. If you could choose one unparalleled talent, what would it be? Why? (Note - this doesn't have to be an artistic talent.)

I would quite like to be able to dance ballroom style. As it said in my third-year school music report "Richard has a poor sense of rhythm".

10. You just won the lottery - 100 mil. What do you do with the money?

Have a long hard think about the list of charities I'd give it to. I'd make a public set of donations to underline the fatuous nature of lotteries - why do people play the thing, when they know they are more likely to be struck by lightning, yet justify it by saying "ah yes, but some of it goes to good causes". Why not just give Oxfam a pound? [/rant]

[Frieda]

1. Favorite breakfast food.
cheese sandwich, orange juice & vitamin pills

2. Something your friends all tease you about.
my geekness

3. Name at least five (more is okay) human qualities you admire and/or love.
sense of humor, loyalty, honesty, independence, intelligence

4. High school celebrity crush?
Billy Warlock (Eddie Kramer, Baywatch) edited to add: Billy W (http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/5513/bwatch.html)

5. Favorite radio station(s) - and why?
Radio 538. they have traffic & police laser gun warnings

6. If you could have the career of your dreams, but it meant (through some cruel trick of the universe or maybe a requirement of the career) that you would never meet & marry the love of your life - would you do it?
nope

7. What's your best beloved item of furniture?
the toilet. wouldn't want to have to do without it!

8. Favorite dish made with beans. (Extra points if you include a recipe.)
i throw beans in my pasta.. is that weird?

9. If you could choose one unparalleled talent, what would it be? Why? (Note - this doesn't have to be an artistic talent.)
i'm with angie, patience

10. You just won the lottery - 100 mil. What do you do with the money?
buy a house, new car, travel around the world, give some to charity, invest some, travel around the world again

[amanda]

1. Favorite breakfast food.

All of them. Anytime of the day. I love breakfast.

2. Something your friends all tease you about.

Japanese people tend to regard teasing to be rude, especially to a guest in their country. They DO giggle a bit when I pronounce something incorrectly, though.
When I do have friends that are willing to poke fun, it's usually because I get excited over some of the seemingly smallest things. (ooh! Water! Boats! Lemme see, lemme see!!).
That and I'm a geek who gives a damn.

3. Name at least five (more is okay) human qualities you admire and/or love.

Playfulness, intelligence both mentally and emotionally, quick wit, intregity when it's tough, truth to one's self, objectivity, lucidity. Self- reliablity. Adventureness on any level. Happiness. Ability to be tickled. Imagination. Creativity. Perception.

4. High school celebrity crush?

hmmm...I really can't remember. Timothy Hutton for a while. edited to add: I remembered- Alan Alda. I STILL have a crush on him.

5. Favorite radio station(s) - and why?
Same as Peg- I listen to my CD's most of the time, but I'm a NPR junkie when I 'm in the states. Now I'm a BBC junkie.

6. If you could have the career of your dreams, but it meant (through some cruel trick of the universe or maybe a requirement of the career) that you would never meet & marry the love of your life - would you do it?

Four requirements for that supposed "love of my life": right place, right time, right person and, what I have just learned, moving in a similar direction. If those aren't met, then it's a no go. Pure and simple.

The same is true for my "career of my dreams": right place, right time, right mix of people, and moving in a direction I want to go.

I'm not one to marry my work. If I found something that would require that of me, then I would try not to, but in the end, probably would. I'm not sure of the converse would be true for one person- I've given much to a "love of my life" and found only emptiness on the other end.

Live and learn. Or you don't live long.

7. What's your best beloved item of furniture?
My computer, Minerva. She works hard and complains only little.

8. Favorite dish made with beans. (Extra points if you include a recipe.)
Hummus

9. If you could choose one unparalleled talent, what would it be? Why? (Note - this doesn't have to be an artistic talent.)

Nada- parallels are there to inspire us to reach higher.

10. You just won the lottery - 100 mil. What do you do with the money?

Some of that money has already been promised for returning a favor. The leftover bits would cure some ills, pay off some bandits, have a smattering of fun, learn a thing or two and try to change the world (hopefully) to a bit better one than the one I've found here.

Then leave it to it's own devices.

But I think I'll do that anyway, with or without the 100 mil.

[lapietra]

As usual - I LOVE reading your answers. You guys are so delightfully interesting.

1. Favorite breakfast food.
Hard to choose. Breakfast's my favorite meal. Currently it's softly scrambled eggs topped with goat cheese & some of that cheap salty black caviar...Orowheat's "Winter Wheat" toast and a cup of strong smooth coffee.

2. Something your friends all tease you about.
I sometimes lose touch with reality a bit... think Phoebe from "Friends", or that chick from "Uncommon Women and Others". Or, um, Spicoli from "Fast Times". (I didn't get called "Stoner" in high school for nuthin'.)

3. Name at least five (more is okay) human qualities you admire and/or love.
Honesty, courage, integrity, sense of humor/playfulness, intelligence, compassion, sincerity, loyalty, gentleness. Patience. Dependability. (Have I left anything out? :))

4. High school celebrity crush?
There were a few... Alan Alda - John Cleese - oh, I had a huge crush on Anthony Andrews for awhile (Brideshead Revisited) and, of course, Sting. :)

5. Favorite radio station(s) - and why?
It's been KCRW (http://www.kcrw.org) for awhile now - a publicly supported radio station that has a number of eclectic music shows, book reviews, regular NPR broadcasts & other interesting things. Usually leave it on all day when I'm at home... unless I'm listening to cds.

6. If you could have the career of your dreams, but it meant (through some cruel trick of the universe or maybe a requirement of the career) that you would never meet & marry the love of your life - would you do it?
If I knew for certain that I would never meet & marry the love of my life, no way. No sense in being alive otherwise.

7. What's your best beloved item of furniture?
A chair and footstool that used to be my grandfather's. It's kind of falling apart, but it's still one of the most comfortable chairs I've ever sat in. I'll probably have it reupholstered eventually...

8. Favorite dish made with beans. (Extra points if you include a recipe.)
Yup. Hummus. (and, I know peas aren't exactly beans...but I *love* Matter Paneer...)

9. If you could choose one unparalleled talent, what would it be? Why? (Note - this doesn't have to be an artistic talent.)
(Why do I ask such difficult questions? Good grief.)
After much rumination... I think it would have to be the ability to make all the kind people I meet feel good about themselves and their lives, and the not-so-kind people want to do things differently.

10. You just won the lottery - 100 mil. What do you do with the money?
Pay off my student loan debts; buy my grandparents a nice, comfortable house; buy my mom & stepdad a houseboat; pay my dad & stepmom's rent until they figure out where they want to live :D; give my friends big chunks of dough so they can relax a little; make huge contributions to entities that educate the public about animal birth control & no-kill shelters around the country; more contributions to arts education and public TV and radio; buy a really nice little Jag convertible & a house in San Francisco. Stick the rest in a bank, have my mom take care of it (she's a bank manager) and pursue my singing career in the way I'd *really* like to. And do outrageously generous things whenever the whim struck me.

[masterofNone]

1. Favorite breakfast food.
You gotta love Lucky Charms as they are magically delicious... but I also have a craving every so often for waffles in maple syrup with bacon and eggs.
2. Something your friends all tease you about.
2-3 years of celibacy
3. Name at least five (more is okay) human qualities you admire and/or love.
Aware, childlike vs childish, curious, non-judgemental yet critical, articulate, passionate.
4. High school celebrity crush?
Jill St John
5. Favorite radio station(s) - and why?
Unitl 9/11 I listened to WJFK (Howard Stern all morning, G.Gordon Liddy middays, Don & Mike afternoon drive, The sports Junkies nights) since - WTOP news
6. If you could have the career of your dreams, but it meant (through some cruel trick of the universe or maybe a requirement of the career) that you would never meet & marry the love of your life - would you do it?
Ahh if life's choices were that straightforward.... Don't you have to choose true love?
7. What's your best beloved item of furniture?
I have an Eames chair knockoff... one day I want a real one
8. Favorite dish made with beans. (Extra points if you include a recipe.)
Rick's half cup/half pound chili - saute 1/2 cup of diced onions in 2 tablespoons of oil. Add 1/2 cup of bell pepper of any color and one chopped pepper of your choice (something hot if you like), diced. Once everything is tender and the onions translucent, brown 1/2 pound of ground pork, 1/2 pound of ground beef, and 1/2 pound of thinly sliced stips of steak. Drain. Add 1 can of tomato sauce and one can of dark kidney beans. Stir. Add 2 tablespoons of vinegar, 2 tablespoons of sugar, two pabelspoons of pepper, two tablepoons of salt, and two tablespoons of chili powder. Stir. Simmer for 30 minutes, taste and season to your liking. Serve with corn bread
9. If you could choose one unparalleled talent, what would it be? Why? (Note - this doesn't have to be an artistic talent.)
I always wanted to be one of two guys - Walt Disney or Jim Henson. Their talents seemed straight forward but in the end they were talented, not at animation or puppetry, but at managing and planning.
10. You just won the lottery - 100 mil. What do you do with the money?Become addicted to cocaine. Try to impress large breasted trashy women how important I am by purchasing cars and houses and expensive watches. Spend all my time playing playstation sports. get shot.... oh wait that's what I'd do if I was a stereotypical rap star...

[chuckie egg]

1. Favorite breakfast food.
I suppose it has to be the traditional full english breakfast

2. Something your friends all tease you about.
I cant think of anything, my friends are very nice people :)

3. Name at least five (more is okay) human qualities you admire and/or love.
Honesty, integrity, loyalty, love, consideration for others

4. High school celebrity crush?
Kriss Kross (remember them)

5. Favorite radio station(s) - and why?
Erm... depends what time of the day it is.

6. If you could have the career of your dreams, but it meant (through some cruel trick of the universe or maybe a requirement of the career) that you would never meet & marry the love of your life - would you do it?
No way

7. What's your best beloved item of furniture?
My lovely bed

8. Favorite dish made with beans. (Extra points if you include a recipe.)
Chilli

9. If you could choose one unparalleled talent, what would it be? Why? (Note - this doesn't have to be an artistic talent.)
To be articulate

10. You just won the lottery - 100 mil. What do you do with the money?
Count it

[AllegroNg]

Dearest ChuckieEgg,
Some of them try to rhyme, but they can't rhyme like this.
Some of them try to rhyme, but they can't rhyme like this.
Some of them try to rhyme, but they can't rhyme like this.
Some of them try to rhyme, but they can't rhyme like this.
Cuz I'm da miggidy miggidy miggidy miggidy mac daddy
Cuz I'm da miggidy miggidy miggidy miggidy mac
Cuz I'm da miggidy miggidy miggidy miggidy mac daddy
Cuz I'm da miggidy miggidy miggidy miggidy mac

(Tho I was more a Boyz II Men fan. I was saving myself for Wanye!!!!)

[Red Princess]

1. Favorite breakfast food. COFFEE

2. Something your friends all tease you about. being compulsive about just about everything

3. Name at least five (more is okay) human qualities you admire and/or love. sense of humor, honesty, class

4. High school celebrity crush?
Robert Plant

5. Favorite radio station(s) - and why? don't listen to the radio much i find the commercials too intrusive

6. If you could have the career of your dreams, but it meant (through some cruel trick of the universe or maybe a requirement of thecareer) that you would never meet & marry the love of your life - would you do it?
I got the career of my dreams, jury is still out one the other

7. What's your best beloved item of furniture? the adirondack chair on my deck

8. Favorite dish made with beans. (Extra points if you include a recipe.)
black bean soup

9. If you could choose one unparalleled talent, what would it be? Why? (Note - this doesn't have to be an artistic talent.)
I wish i had written The Idylls of the King-it gives me goosebumps to read it

10. You just won the lottery - 100 mil. What do you do with the money?
Travel, go to every art museum i can find all over the world. give some away to people who do not annoy me

[bealeblues]

1. Favorite breakfast food.

IHOP at 3 am after a night drinking and listening to bands

2. Something your friends all tease you about.

we all give each other shit about anything we can think of, so it's nothing in general and everything all at once

3. Name at least five (more is okay) human qualities you admire and/or love.

willingness to at least pretend to be interested in breaking down a 4-3/3-4/56/nickel/dime/etc defense, not thinking i'm insane for listening to shit-kicking old school country on occasion, someone who can make me laugh (it ain't easy), someone who doesn't have the irresistable urge to throw knives at me, and someone who doesn't need to be medicated to get through a day

4. High school celebrity crush?

i don't know if this was from high school or not, but i've always had a thing for meg ryan

5. Favorite radio station(s) - and why?

ummm... not much of a radio listener, but the don and mike show out of DC cracks me up a lot

6. If you could have the career of your dreams, but it meant (through some cruel trick of the universe or maybe a requirement of the career) that you would never meet & marry the love of your life - would you do it?

oh i'm sure i could find a girl who'd love me for being a naked baseball commentator.... who wouldn't love that?

7. What's your best beloved item of furniture?

i like my black leather couch right now

8. Favorite dish made with beans. (Extra points if you include a recipe.)

7 alarm chili--- the stuff that makes you swear you'll never eat it again the next day

9. If you could choose one unparalleled talent, what would it be? Why? (Note - this doesn't have to be an artistic talent.)

the ability to like more people

10. You just won the lottery - 100 mil. What do you do with the money?

pay off my idiot friends' debts (and see if the wives still hate me after that), pay off my own, find some boat somewhere with a good fishin' pole and be off into the sunset....

[Deviate]

1. Favorite breakfast food.
corned beef hash

2. Something your friends all tease you about.
my violent sleeping tendancies

3. Name at least five (more is okay) human qualities you admire and/or love.
loyalty
open-mindedness
vunerability
courage
imagination
tenacity

4. High school celebrity crush?
i don't think i had one

5. Favorite radio station(s) - and why?
89.7 the River, an college station playing a lot of underground bands

6. If you could have the career of your dreams, but it meant (through some cruel trick of the universe or maybe a requirement of the career) that you would never meet & marry the love of your life - would you do it?
nope

7. What's your best beloved item of furniture?
100 year old chaise lounge in red velour

8. Favorite dish made with beans. (Extra points if you include a recipe.)
red beans and rice

9. If you could choose one unparalleled talent, what would it be? Why? (Note - this doesn't have to be an artistic talent.)
flying

10. You just won the lottery - 100 mil. What do you do with the money?
put it in a bank

[dickieC]

Nothing makes me feel like I'm among friends more than the fact that everyone loves their sofas so much. :)

[killjoyloser]

1. Favorite breakfast food.
bearclaws. just pastries in general.

2. Something your friends all tease you about.
i can't hear. i misconstrue everything they say. ie: someone will say, "i like birds" and i will hear, "kill the herd".

3. Name at least five (more is okay) human qualities you admire and/or love.
-sincerity
-patience
-empathy
-loyalty
-dependability

4. High school celebrity crush?
orlando bloom

5. Favorite radio station(s) - and why?
too many to name.

6. If you could have the career of your dreams, but it meant (through some cruel trick of the universe or maybe a requirement of the career) that you would never meet & marry the love of your life - would you do it?

no. wait. i don't know. but i'm leaning more towards the negatory.

7. What's your best beloved item of furniture?
my bed

8. Favorite dish made with beans. (Extra points if you include a recipe.)
i dislike beans with a passion.

9. If you could choose one unparalleled talent, what would it be? Why? (Note - this doesn't have to be an artistic talent.)
intuition


10. You just won the lottery - 100 mil. What do you do with the money?
invest half of it. blow the rest of it. actually, invest 3/4 of it and ration the rest out to buy myself and others material things.

[chuckie egg]

Originally posted by chuckie egg
1. Favorite breakfast food.
I suppose it has to be the traditional full english breakfast


A full explanation as requested:

The above usually consists of....

Bacon, fried eggs (or scrambled), mushrooms, tomatos, baked beans, toast on the side, and black pudding if you're lucky! :)
With a selection of either brown sauce or tommy K!

Beverages: Orange juice and Tea.

I think that covers it... feel free to add anything DickieC!

[chuckie egg]

Originally posted by dickieC
Nothing makes me feel like I'm among friends more than the fact that everyone loves their sofas so much. :)

I seems to be a case of 'beds versus sofas' so far the sofas are in the lead... COME ON YOU BEEEEDDS!!!

[amanda]

hehe

I've got neither. Futon mattress on tatamis.
my only pieces of furniture are table and chairs for classes.

I love no furniture.

[1kookykat]

Originally posted by chuckie egg
Bacon, fried eggs (or scrambled), mushrooms, tomatos, baked beans, toast on the side, and black pudding if you're lucky! :)
With a selection of either brown sauce or tommy K!

Would that be toast fried in oil, Ms. egg? (Something we find a bit strange in the States.)

[dickieC]

Originally posted by 1kookykat
Would that be toast fried in oil, Ms. egg? (Something we find a bit strange in the States.)

If I may intervene on behalf of my compatriot....

Toast is not the same as Fried Bread. Fried Bread is not fried in oil but in the fat from the bacon (and everything else). It is very, very bad for you but very very tasty.

Though I am partial to American-style hickory-smoked bacon. If only it weren't so fatty...


Addendum: I was once asked by an American on a train, whilst discussing English Breakfasts, "what those green things were?". This one had me stumped at the time until I realised they meant mushy peas. These are truly revolting, IMHO: they have the consistency of guacamole but taste nothing like peas. There is a famous incident where a British politician, rumoured to be Peter Mandelson, went into a fish-and-chip shop and asked for guacamole with his cod-and-chips. (NB for non-Brits: this probably apocryphal story is told to poke fun at New Labour politicians when they assume working class credentials. Imagine one of Clinton's New Democrat acolytes having a meal in a diner and pretending to be all folksy. Wait a minute, that happens all the time...)

Enough breakfast already. It's 5 in the afternoon.

[Red Princess]

Bread fried in bacon grease? slippery. Am I the only on who knows what egg gravy is? (talk about revolting greasy breakfast foods)

[chuckie egg]

egg gravy?? That sounds interesting!

Dickie... how could I forget fried bread???!?!? :eek:

[dickieC]

Kippers, anyone?

[chuckie egg]

"Smoke me a kipper.... I'll be back for breakfast!"

Red dwarf.

Sorry... this probably means nothing to anyone!

[dickieC]

No, they do have RD in the US now. I think they're even trying to make a feature film of it.

[chuckie egg]

Wow... is it a re-run of our version or have they got different actors?

[dickieC]

The original I believe. They had to make lots and lots of epsiodes before the US networks would consider syndicating it. And only if it got syndicated and built up a US fanbase would anyone consider putting up the finance for a film.

Right, off to lunch....

[Frieda]

there's a dvd box set of red dwarf coming out in february!

[masterofNone]

Wow... is it a re-run of our version or have they got different actors?

it's the original cast. Rimmer and Crichton and the Cat and the prick hologram. They've been running it on PBS for about 3 years. I didn't start watching it faithfully until the last year. Fantastic.

[Zyle]

Originally posted by chuckie egg
"Smoke me a kipper.... I'll be back for breakfast!"

Red dwarf.

Sorry... this probably means nothing to anyone!

Stoke me a clipper!

Ace rules =)

Edit: oh and on the original breakfast theme, nobody mentioned sausages in the english breakfast. tut tut.

[amanda]

Banger.

there.

[chuckie egg]

!!!!!SAUSAGES!!!!!

I can NOT believe I missed them out!

:bangs head on desk:

[dinzdale]

Alright then to recap:

When waking up in your appartment, please cook your hungover Englishman:

Eggs - fried, scrambled or poached
Bacon - real bacon - not the American crispy fried splinters
Sausages - pork links
Baked Beans
Black Pudding
Mushrooms
Tomatoes - tinned or fried halves
Fried Bread
Bubble and Squeek

Toast (maybe jam)

Tea (milk and sugar)

Optional substitues : Kidneys / Kedgeree / Kippers

Better than Viagra.....

[RuneT]

I absolutely agree there dinz. english bacon is fab. thick, juicy and 5 x 3 inches big. There is nothing like it.

[lapietra]

Good grief.

I'd have to get up at 3:30 in the morning to do all that...

How about some nice scrambled eggs & oatmeal?

:p

[RuneT]

you can make it in 30 minutes if you have some practice, hun! and leave the black pudding. it's really no need for it.

[dinzdale]

LaLa,
if you really loved me would 3:30 be so bad?

p.s Oatmeal is Ok if you have a leaky roof to fix, or you want to decorate a papier machee sculpture, sorry.



Note to Rune: You speak for yourself - Norwegian brekky is more pickled herring, so leave my black pudding alone - thank you.

[rmr]

Are we ignoring each other today Dinz?

[Red Princess]

tell him that you just farted into a walkie talkie for him

[dinzdale]

The walkie talkie is optional if you have a cd burner......

Got to go......hit and run today, as the big boss man is lurking....

Would you make my breakfast Rimmer ?

[bealeblues]

i'll say this-- i saw that oliver's twist bloke making black pudding the other day and i about lost my lunch... now before you get your undies (or lack thereof) in a twist dinz, i also was completely revolted the first time i saw crawfish and was forced to eat them... now, i consider crawfish a delicacy and one of the most charming parts of cajun culture.....

still, black pudding almost makes me yak....

[dinzdale]

Ho Ho Ho.....a swamp monkey questioning what other people eat...

In BRouge they would eat yak if they found one as roadkill. I once pissed off a cajun when the waitress asked what he wanted for side items and I piped up.."Oh they any old shit where he comes from." Seems he was touchee....

[bealeblues]

roadkill yak?? that's meat in yer freezer! (translation: yak... it's what's for dinner)

[LadyCrow]

1. Favorite breakfast food.
-eggs (any way is fine w/me); I make a mean omelette, btw ;)

2. Something your friends all tease you about.
-my obsessive nature about my favorite wrassler

3. Name at least five (more is okay) human qualities you admire and/or love.
-honesty
-determination
-loyalty
-bravery
-(space for hire)

4. High school celebrity crush?
-John Taylor (bass player from Duran Duran; freaking hot as hell, imnsho)

5. Favorite radio station(s) - and why?
-hard rock stations; keeps the old blood pumpin' ;)

6. If you could have the career of your dreams, but it meant (through some cruel trick of the universe or maybe a requirement of the career) that you would never meet & marry the love of your life - would you do it?
-no (and whomever coined the phrase, "It is better to have loved & lost than never to have loved @ all" is full of sheet)

7. What's your best beloved item of furniture?
-the table where I make my jewelry

8. Favorite dish made with beans. (Extra points if you include a recipe.)
-chili; and here's an approriate song to sing (which we've all sung @ one point or another) while eating beans...

"Beans beans they're good for your heart... the more you eat, the more you fart... the more you fart the better you feel, so eat your beans @ every meal" (and the alternative version: Beans beans the magical fruit, the more you eat the more you toot... etc)

9. If you could choose one unparalleled talent, what would it be? Why? (Note - this doesn't have to be an artistic talent.)
-telekinetic ability (akin to Jean Grey from the XMen)

10. You just won the lottery - 100 mil. What do you do with the money?
-pay off all my bills, invest wisely, help my family (& some friends via Anon E. Mouse), buy a house (& all the trimmings), and spend like a fiend @ a few appropriate places

;)