Getting to know you thread

Well, the intellectual tea party does have its merits, and I really would like to chat with Alexander the Great, just so I could say, "Hey, Al-ex" like Nick from Family Ties. But, I think I would go for more of a fun, story telling type tea party, not that I imagine any of my guests drinking tea...

Guest 1: Tommy Vercetti from GTA3 Vice City. It's not that I like crime, but that guy has to have some stories.

Guest 2: Duke from G.I. Joe. He's been in a lot of wars, fought a lot of strange people and fought beside a lot of even more strange people. Besides, Snake Eyes can't talk.

Guest 3: Mark Twain. I think he's the great American story teller. Anyone who can make riverboats interesting is cool in my book.

Guest 4: The captain from Firefly. Witty, soldier and mercenary, not to mention stories of traveling the stars something I would do if only I have physical prowess, mechanical ability and could operate something more complicated than an automatic transmission.

Guest 5: Megatron (Generation 1 naturally). First off, Optimus is at Jeff's party. Second, I'd love to hear about all the plans that failed and how bad he wanted to kill Starscream. Third, at the end of the party, he could transform into a gun, and I'd shoot Duke so that Flint, or better yet Hawk who was a general, would lead GI Joe as we all know he should have.

Could you imagine the sort of bizarre story Mark Twain would right about all that?

Dwayne

 

Star Wars film:
The Empire Strikes Back

Non-Star Wars film:
Superman: The Motion Picture

Book:
The Screwtape Letters

TV show no longer on the air:
Sifl & Olly

Current TV show:
Aqua Teen Hunger Force

Actors/Actresses:
Christopher Reeve

Musical group:
Tom Petty (and the Heartbreakers as well)

Animal:
Deer. 'Specially New Zealand Red Deer with candied apples and cinnamon rice. Them's tasty critters.

Sport/Team to watch:
Whatever my friends are watching.

Sport to play:
I'm not too fond of sports, but caber-tossing looks like it might be fun. One of these days I'd like to learn sword fighting.

Cartoon/Comic from your childhood:
He-Man

Possession:
My identity/individualism

Strange thing that you like:
Any witty and/or sarcastic insult directed at me. The really good ones make me laugh, and who doesn't like laughing?

Bizarre Pet Peeve:
When a certain person parks her car on a flat plane and puts the parking brake on, yet never locks the steering wheel.

Totem Animal:
Gryphon

Movie that you're ashamed you enjoy:
I don't think my answer would fly well here.

Pets:
I currently have no pets, but my favorite was Riley. I swear I heard that dog laugh once.

Color:
Orange

Desert:
Bread pudding

Food:
DJ's Western Burger (Additionally, see entry for "Animal")

Superpower:
To be able to phrase my arguments in such a way that I could convince anyone I talk to (see The Lord of the Rings, Book 3, Chapter 10).

Favorite Scents or Smells:
Burning leaves, and that other aroma I'm thinking of...

Least Favorite Scents or Smells:
The Miller brewery, fear

Favorite Sounds:
The first 4½ minutes or so of Wagner's prelude to Parsifal, love

Least Favorite Sounds:
Destruction, hate

Hands-Off Time Period:
I'd like to go back to December 1976, and watch myself grow up.

5 people, alive or dead, real or fiction, you would invite to a dinner party:
Jesus Christ, John Muir, Marilyn Monroe, Jeff Buckley, and Sigurd Sigmundsson
George Harrison, J.R.R. Tolkien, Beowulf, and Monica Cox on deck

 

Star Wars film:
A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back

Non-Star Wars film:
Matrix, any Indiana Jones movie

Book:
To Kill a Mockingbird

TV show no longer on the air:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Muppet Show

Current TV show:
Friends, Smallville, Angel

Actors/Actresses:
Harrison Ford, Harrison Ford, Harrison Ford
Also....Sandra Bullock, Meg Ryan, Tom Hanks

Musical group:
Whatever is on my CD rack...I listen to a variety. Usually I like eighties music.

Animal:
Cats

Sport/Team to watch:
Packers

Sport to play:
If I would have to play a sport, I would choose volleyball. You stand there and wait for the ball to come to you.

Cartoon/Comic from your childhood:
Scooby Doo, He-Man,

Possession:
My autographs from Carrie Fisher and Billy Dee Williams, my cat, my husband?,my wedding ring

Strange thing that you like:
Jim Carey

Bizarre Pet Peeve:
When people go through my house and move some item so that it is now out of it's place...I always have to go and move it back

Totem Animal:
huh?

Movie that you're ashamed you enjoy:
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

Pets:
my cat, pandas, pengiuns, koalas

Color:
Blue

Desert:
Ice Cream Sandwich(if I'm lucky enough to get a dessert.)

Food:
Spaghetti or anything pasta like, chicken???

Superpower:
To be able to teleport to different parts of the world in three seconds, To be able to know everything

Favorite Scents or Smells:
Lilac Bushes, Jasmine

Least Favorite Scents or Smells:
Going into the bathroom after someone did #2; cigarette smoke; Gary, Indiana(sorry for you guys living there)

Favorite Sounds:
Star Wars main theme being played, cat's purr


Least Favorite Sounds:
Balloons popping, harmonicas, alarm clock

Hands-Off Time Period:
the eighties

5 people, alive or dead, real or fiction, you would invite to a dinner party:
Harrison Ford, Han Solo, Indiana Jones...just kidding

Harrison Ford, Hugh Jackman, Orlando Bloom, James Marsters, and my husband. They can all fight over me. Just kidding.

 

Favorite:
Star Wars film: ANH

Non-Star Wars film: Lawrence of Arabia or The Two Towers

Book: Lord of the Rings or Gormenghast

TV show no longer on the air: Star Trek: DS9

Current TV show: Malcom in the Middle

Actors/Actresses: eh, can't think of any at the moment.

Musical group: They Might Be Giants

Animal: Three Toed Sloth

Sport/Team to watch: is Dance Dance Revolution a sport?

Sport to play: ...

Cartoon/Comic from your childhood: Ninja Turtles

Possession: I just bought a broadsword. OMG, I love it.

Strange thing that you like: Old sewing machines

Bizarre Pet Peeve: Customers. You'd think that since I work in retail, I'd get used to them. But it hasn't happened yet.

Totem Animal (If you were an animal, what do you think it would be): Something tiny and violent, like a ferret.

Movie that you're ashamed you enjoy: The Pest

Pets: Two zebra finches; two goldfish, a betta fish, and an african frog.

Color: olive green

Dessert: fresh fruit

Food: Sushi

If you could have any superpower what would it be: Never needing sleep

Favorite Scents or Smells: vanilla, pine, cucumber-melon, clove cigarettes(unburned), gasoline, gunpowder

Least Favorite Scents or Smells: the mile or so just south of the Hoan bridge, artificial cherry

Favorite Sounds: Classical music, sparrows, silence, crickets

(Added) Least Favorite Sounds: The PA system at work, people talking too loudly about dumb stuff, my screechy pet birds.

If you could travel to any period in time, future or past and observe without interacting or recording, to what time or moment would you go? May 1st, 1886. Haymarket Riots... I would just love to know who threw that bomb...

Dinner party:
Eugene Debs, Victor Berger, Severus Snape, J.R.R. Tolkein, and the Taco Bell Chihuahua.