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Freshly-baked Toll House cookies with Blue Bell Homemade Vanilla ice cream.
Arthur Picked Blue Marshmallows,
What is your favorite comfort food?
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From: The Pyngwyn Colonies of Planet Hyustyn | Registered: Aug 2005
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or you can do the confusion 'til your head falls off
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Matzoh ball soup. No contest.
And Potatoes Belong Mashed
Are you going out tonight or staying in?
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in. I'm dead tired. Had a few tacos and a margarita at a nice little Mexican place downtown, picked up some veggies at the market, and now I'm in for the night.
APBM
Any weekend plans?
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I work Saturdays, so that's what I'll be doing. (No biggie. I tutor, which I enjoy.) On Sunday, I'll go to church, then hang out with some artist friends at a coffee shop.
APBM,
What time do you usually turn in?
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From: The Stasis Zone | Registered: Jul 2003
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Generally, I go to bed between midnight and 2 AM. Very unhealthy, considering I get up at 6AM.
Alarm, Pillow, Bed, Morning,
Assuming a responsibility-free weekend, how late could you feasibly sleep in?
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I haven't slept past 6 a.m. in decades, whatever time I go to bed. It's hard-wired and puts me at odds with most of the population, although I'd probably get on fine with roosters.
Almond, Pistachio, Betel, Macadamia,
This has nothing to do with nuts, but what's your worst car breakdown story?
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On a road trip to the Cheseapeake area, my car died just on the other side of the Delaware toll booths on I-95. As a toll road, here is only one company licensed to tow, so I was stuck with them. I called some friends for a ride; they drove down 4 hours to pick me up in the wee hours.
A few days later, the tow company said it was all fixed and gave me the bill - $500ish. I took the train down, got there - and they had in the mean time added in another $100 or so. I had to walk to an ATM in Maryland on a chilly February day, get the money, go back, and get my car.
about 5-10 miles later, on a busy commercial highway (US1, at the edge of Wilmington), the car died again - same problem.
this time, I had to pay $70 to get it towed to a dealership within sight of where I broke down; that was anther $800, a week later.
This was in 1997, and vowed never to return to Delaware. So far, I've been able to keep that vow.
All Pontiacs Beat Mercuries,
same Q
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Spring Break, 2008. Three kids and Easter baskets, plus a significant amount of Easter basket stuff that the kids aren't supposed to see, plus 8 days worth of clothes, road trip activities, etc. are packed into every cubic inch of our Volkswagen Passat (Revenge of the Nazis edition). The car made it from DC to SC without a problem. Unfortunately our destination was Alabama via Atlanta.
After the car's very useful diagnostic computer system said "STOP the car now!" we were able to run the engine long enough to get us up the hills of I-85 so that we could coast down, eventually to a gas station.
It's Saturday on the interstate, 40 miles from a VW dealer or a rental car. We waited a couple of hours or so until the tow truck and the Enterprise car arrived.
We had to rent a (big) car for the entire remainder of the week-long trip because the breakdown was 350 miles from our ultimate destination.
We had to return home via SC to pick up our car, though we seriously considered abandoning it and just buying a new car in Alabama. We wouldn't normally have traveled back through Atlanta or SC.
Rental car + tow: $850 Repair bill: $1,800 (The "check engine" light was still on when we picked up the car.)
The end of our nine years of fahrvergnuegen when we sold traded the VW in for a Honda three months later: Pricele$$.
APBM:
What's the most recent charitable act or volunteer activity that you've participated in?
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Junior year of high school, the math teacher gave weekly quizes. I would get 100 each week. Finally on one quiz, he deducted 5 points because I didn't dot the i in my name.
Adams Polk Buchanon Madison,
What movie have you seen the most times?
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I was teaching Calc I to freshmen at Va Tech. On the end of the year assessment one of the students wrote about my class "if I only had one day to live, I would want to come to this class, because every day in here seems like the longest day of my life."
APBM
Damnit, Quis! -- Bladerunner.
What's the longest flight you've ever taken?
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I think it would be Paris to Houston, which, as I recall, took a little longer than Houston to Paris.
APBM,
Have you ever had a pet other than a dog or cat?
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I doted on our two gerbils when I was a kid. Also my brother's parakeet.
IYHO (In Your Humble Opinion) how many pets are just the right number?
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What has been the most spectacular public event you have witnessed?
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Ralph Nader, speaking before an SRO crowd at Memorial Coliseum, August 2000.
Apologies Permit Bigger Mistakes
Pumpkin carving. Yes or no? Traditional or post Martha-Stewart elaborate-style?
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