20 Questions!!!

[Shodan]

Hi everyone, I'm so excited I'm starting my first thread,
This one was inspired by another thread just like it I visited on the Garbage mb.

Basically its a neat way to say a lil bit about ourselves, so we can see the different things we're into and some of the stuff we have in common, Everyone MUST join, Lol just kidding, but I'm sure itll be some fun!

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1. Name: Natalie
2. Age: 18, born 13/Nov/1985
3. Nationality: Aussie, mate, Lol (our olympics beat u all! and the aussies won the paralympics, yay!)
4. Fave Colour: Blue? Black? Purple? Red? I can never decide that one.
5. Hair: Short, rinsed Blue/Black with Red foils (I'll have to put my photo up)
6. Fave Clothes: Black jacket, white frilly shirt and black leggings (oh yes, style is in me, Lol)
7. Fave Movie: Perfect Blue (japanese anime)
8. Fave Book: Umm... Looking for Alibrandi
9. Fave Song: Push It by Garbage
10. Fave Band: Garbage (duh, Lol)
11. Fave Tv Show: Futurama
12. Hobbies: Japanese anime, Xbox & PC games, Driving my Holden Barina
13. Fave Food: Italian, anything italian
14. Fave Accomplishment: Getting my first job, HR Officer
15. Occupation: HR Officer
16. Family size: Me, my mum, my bro & sis
17. Fave Drink: Blue Lagoon (18 is the legal age in Aus btw).
18. Most Reknowned for: My sick sense of humour, and my videogame collection
19. Fave Talent: My drawing, and videogame skillz, Lol
20. Something weird about you: I once tried doing a wheel-stand (standing on two back wheels on my chair) in the middle of an Ice rink, and obviously fell backwards and hit my head (smart, this was just last month) I also turned 13 on a Black Friday! Explains a bit really, Lol

C'mon everyone have a go!!!

[Betsy]

Ok...I'll play

1. Name: Betsy
2. Age: 19 with 20 years experience
3. nationality: A bit of a mutt
4. Fave color: Black, the national color of NYC
5. Hair: Short, messy bed-head most of the time
6. Fave Clothes: Clean ones
7. Fave Book: Anything by Dr. Suess
8. Fave song; Whatever is on at the moment
9. Fave Movie: Whichever one is still at the movie rental place when I go
10. Fave Band: A wedding band (*sigh*)
11. Fave TV Show: I don't watch teevee
12. Hobbies: Gadabout
13. Fave food: Anything that someone else cooks for me
14. fave accomplishment: Just one?
15. Occupation: See #12
16. family Size: One dog, two cats
17. Fave drink: depends on the moment
18. Most reknowned for: you don't want to know
19. Fave talent: see #12
20. Something weird: hahahahahahaha

Betsy

[Sofie]

1. Name: Hanne Sofie
2. Age: 48, born 25/jan/1956
3. Nationality: danish
4. Fave Colour: white
5. Hair: Yes
6. Fave Clothes: anything soft and comfortable (well, almost anything)
7. Fave Movie: Koyaanisqatsi
8. Fave Book: Beth Brant, A Gathering of Spirit
9. Fave Song: Kom og varm dig ved min side
10. Fave Band: none
11. Fave Tv Show: none (no teevee)
12. Hobbies: designing,
13. Fave Food: porridge
14. Fave Accomplishment: none
15. Occupation: gardener
16. Family size: Me
17. Fave Drink: milk, coffee
18. Most Reknowned for: not talking
19. Fave Talent: designing
20. Something weird: hmm :) (blush)

Sof i e

[Meresa]

1. Name: Meresa
2. Age: 777 (in mermaid years), born May 30
3. Nationality: Texan (naturalized)
4. Fave Colour: Purple
5. Hair: red (the best shade money can buy)
6. Fave Clothes: My 3mm wetsuit with a speedo underneath
7. Fave Movie: Dr. Strangelove
8. Fave Book: Larry Niven, The Integral Trees
9. Fave Song: One Love (Bob Marley)
10. Fave Band: Monkees
11. Fave Tv Show: UFO (1970)
12. Hobbies: Sewing, diving, making mermaid tails
13. Fave Food: Calamari
14. Fave Accomplishment: Held my breath underwater for 3 minutes and 16 seconds. (3:40 above water)
15. Occupation: Nucular Engineer
16. Family size: Big
17. Fave Drink: Green tea, Coca-cola (mmmmm........ caffffeeiiiiinnnnnne........)
18. Most Reknowned for: My sarcasm
19. Fave Talent: Being a smartass
20. Something weird: Robert Tilton Ministries -Oh you mean something weird about me! Well how many people do you know that live in an aquarium?

[Shodan]

Is that like an asylum, Lol cuz my house is like that, Lol

SO um, ... ur the 1st!

Why are peoples shy about weirdness? I MEAN BESIIIDES THE OBVIOUS, Lol

Is the nuclear engineer part sarcastic? How do we tell the difference between u and ur sarcasm? Lol, my uncles have a ball egging each other on...

Betsy, accomplishments? Just one??? Are you being modest or boastful with thatun? Lol, and if I don't wanna know bout ur most reknowned for... Then I don wanna know, Lol

Sof, what do you design? That must be an accomplishment, I'm just on my L's so driving from point A to B without a crash is a good enough accomplishment for me! Hair... yes? Haha you made a funny, Lol, a sarcastic sense of humour, I like!

What are your pets names?
I had a rat named Terry (and now a friend named terry who's a ratbag, Lol)
A bird named Kerry (only lasted a week, she couldn't grip anything with her claws, so she fell off her perch at nite, It be sad, if it weren't stupidly funny)
Another bird (Quarian) named Jerry, He lasted a good few years, till we let him outta his cage, and my bro and sis chased him around until he hit a mirror (ouch)
And my cat Dennis (incidentally, we thought he was a girl when he was born, so his name was Lilly, after the cricketer Dennis Lilly!)
Finally a Dog named toby, (who grew up with kittens, so he thinks he's a cat, Lol)

[miriam]

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Name: Miriam Johanna van der Have
Age: 29, born 1 nov 1958 (uhh…)
Nationality: Dutch
Fave Colour: Light blue and black
Hair: A lot of scalp hair, most of it brown with some gray, no armpit hair, no pubic hair
Fave Clothes: As long as it is black or light blue
Fave Movie: Blues Brothers
Fave Book: My notebook (and Heinlein’s Job: A Comedy of Justice (http://www.wegrokit.com/job_a_comedy_of_justice.htm) )
Fave Song: Any Gershwin song (and all the 15585 songs on my iPod)
Fave Band: Blues Brothers or Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings
Fave Tv Show: Star Trek Next Generation
Hobbies: Graphic design, photography
Fave Food: Erwtensoep (http://www.coquinaria.nl/english/recipes/Dutchpeasoup.htm) (typical Dutch!)
Fave Accomplishment: Raising my two daughters to become decent human beings (still working on it)
Occupation: Consultant for the graphic arts industry and entrepreneur
Family size: 4 - Me, Saskia, Simone (10) and Suzanne (7)
Fave Drink: Red wine (In a couple of days I will go to France!)
Most Reknowned for: ?
Fave Talent: Surviving AIS
Something weird about you: More? Same sex marriage, no pubic hair, erwtensoep, Star Trek, Blues Brothers… that should be weird enough! Okay, one more: I drive a Volvo S80/2.9 (http://www.volvocars.com/Showroom/S80/)
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Groeten, Miriam

[Shodan]

WE BOTH LOVE STAR TREK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Personally, I love voyager, and how janeway just likes to piss off the borg I think, Lol

Love ur fav colours too, I really should consider them for my next hair colour (I can use any colour foils on black hair, it looks fantastic, I'm bored with red, Lol)
AND theres nothing weird about a same sex marriage:cool:

Whats that fav food u like? I haven't heard of it...

and thats a heck of a lotta mp3s on ur ipod, I just want a mini one (I love the colours, Lol)

[claraJane]

1. Name: Mrs Clara Jane Spalding

2. Age: 52

3. Nationality: USA

4. Fave Colour: red

5. Fine, wavy, dark red

6. Fave Clothes: blue jeans and a Bohemian top

7. Fave Movie: LOTR

8. Fave Book: Bible

9. Fave Song: Refuge - Judy Rogers

10. Fave Band: Enya

11. Fave Tv Show: Connections

12. Hobbies: Walking, thrift shops, geneaology

13. Fave Food: Wiener Schnitzel

14. Fave Accomplishment: Survival

15. Occupation: Ender's Game

16. Family size: 3 - my husband & me, & our cat

17. Fave Drink: Edelkure (noble harvest South African wine)

18. Most Reknowned for: ?

19. Fave Talent: knowing what roads lead to project failure

20. Something weird about you: no sweat glands below the neck

[Jules]

1. Name: Julanne M Tutty
2. Age: 36 born: July 19 1968
3. Nationality:Irish and Polish
4. Fave Colour: Red
5. Hair: long brown hair that gets blond in the summer
6. Fave Clothes: What ever is in style at the time.
7. Fave Movie: Braveheart/ Titanic
8. Fave reads: Aristotle, Copernicus, Darwin, Freud, Kant, Moiere, Shakespeare, Willam Faulkner, Leo Tolstoy, the Bible and anything written about the Titanic ( I have over fifty book on that subject.)
9. Fave Songs: I love music from Beethoven to Ozzy Osbourne
10. Fave Band:Today it is Nickelback
11. Fave Tv Show: Anything on the history ch. or Discovery ch
12. Hobbies: Tornado chasing, Gardening, cooking, Sailing, swimming, traveling, photography, running, internet surfing, reading.
13. Fave Foods: Fish and steak
14. Fave Accomplishment: Making it to 36, or staying in college.
16. Family size: Father and sister
17. Fave Drink:Rum and coke
18. Most Reknowned for: My sense of humour that comes out at the strangest times.
19. Fave Talent: Debating in arguments
20. Something weird about you: I can pee standing up, I love my job. I like cloudy days, I'm always happy,Teenagers love me and don't believe I'm 36. I'm half male half female(Woops you know that already):rolleyes:

p.s. I was only kidding about the tornado chasing:D Although I looove big thunderstorms and lightning with heavy rain!!!

[Peter]

1. Name: Peter Trinkl
2. Age: 51
3. Nationality: Mutt
4: Fave Color: Indigo Blue
5: Hair: Balding Grey
6. Fave Clothes: Blue Jeans and Tee-Shirt
7. Fave Movie: "Potemkin" or "Greed"
8. Fave Reads: Marx, Rimbaud, Woolf, Kerouac, and Shinran
9. Fave Songs: Meditations on Integration, A Love Supreme
10. Fave Band: Any Band with Mingus or Coltrane
11. Fave TV Show: SF HRC Hearing On Intersex
12. Hobbies: Grinding telescope mirrors and playing tenor sax
13. Fave Foods: Fresh Food
14. Fave Accomplishment: Staying alive
15. Occupation: Information Systems
16. Family Size: Me
17. Fave Drink: Tea
18. Most Reknowned For: Nothing
19. Fave Talent: Staring at light bulbs
20. Something Weird About You: I have a table saw in my bedroom. (It's not what you think.)

[Dana Gold]

1. Dana Gold: ( 4 previous name changes )
2. Age: 54
3. Nationality: (?)...American citizen (naturalized) born in Germany with German, Austrian, Czech, Polish heritage.....so....arf, arf!!
4.:Fave colors: Cobalt-blue, Saffron, Copper, Lavender, and Burgundy
5:Hair: long, curly dyed Cola, otherwise would be almost all grey. ( I shed a lot, but grow a lot, too)
6. Fave clothes: Black slacks, lilac top, and white Fisherman's (sandal-type), black suede shoulder-strap purse
7. Fave movies: The English Patient, Artificial Intelligence, Alien series, most all 'film noir' of the 50's
8. Fave reads: Discover magazine, anything by Robin Cook, Tess Gerritsen, and any medical journals.
9. Fave songs (music): anything by Vangelis (especially Rachel's Song), Butterfly by Herbie Hancock....and all Latin Jazz
10. Fave bands: see #9
11. Fave TV shows: X-Files, ER, and Star Trek
12. Hobbies: reading, pondering :thought "experiments", (used to bicycle a lot) and crossword, cryptogram, and other word puzzles, and drawing cartoons.
13. Fave foods: German bread, French cheese, tomato/avocado/green onion medley.....and soups (especially vegetable stews)...and ICE CREAM:D
14. Fave accomplishment: Finally found a "nice place/people" to live (been there 2 yrs; moved 5 times from fall 2000- fall 2002)
15. Occupations: Presently Sr. Health Physics Tech.; been Nurses's Aide, Bio-Med Tech, Bio-Chem Tech, Chemist, Research Associate, and various temp positions: sales associate/telemarketing:eek: ....(between lay-offs/disabilty periods)
16. Family Size: (see # 20....item 2.)
17. Fave drinks: Coca-Cola (especially new C2 brand) and Dietrich's coffee (dark roasted)
18. Most renowned: my intelligence, wit, and emotionality/outspokenness ( what a *&%$# mix!!:rolleyes: )
19. Fave talents: drawing cartoons and abstracts... and writing poetry/short stories....used to play bongos/congas in my early-twenties with Tex-Mex grp (Los Falcones)...boleros, guajiras, and cumbias........just prior to then I was also a "low-rider";) then: ace-deuce Corvair Monza with "glass-packs"
20. Somethings weird: 1. yeah, alright, I'll let you know: in my late teens I honestly (then, but not now) believed I was a human/alien hybrid...with my binoculars, I would scan the dark skies for my "real parents" to come and take me off this wretched planet....I was heavy into UFO's and "space" aliens then and a short time thereafter..and 2. my "family" is WEIRD : from documents received from Germany and my sister letters (in Germany), the "evidence" (due to my "mother's multiple sexual affairs, both prior to and during her 1st marriage) points to the question of whether my "father" was really just that....ahahaha... OR my father had an affair, too, and my mother is not real:confused:
lots of *&%$# secrets in my "family"!!!

[TaylorJ]

1. Name:Taylor

2. Age: 40

3. Nationality: German (Nationalized in Norfolk VA.) Adopted by Americans as a toddler. Birth Mom in Germany, Birth Dad lives in Switzerland, both full blooded German.

4. Fav Colors: Metallic Blue

5. Hair, still have some left, though sure is not what it used to be... blond, and graying in areas.

6. Fav Clothes :Levi's, Eddie Bauir, LL Bean. A pair of shorts, sandles and that is it for the summer time, unless I gotta go somewhere, then a tank top added, and maybe jeans instead of shorts.

7. Fav Movies: Jaws, Dead Man Poet Society, Red Violin

8. Fav Read: Mark Twain, Ben Franklin ( strange but true) Read mostly theory books, Ervin Goffman is my favorite.

9. Fav Songs: anything from the late 60's early 70's and classical.
Jim Croce, Van Morrison, Cat Stevens, Alice Copper, Gregg Alman, Bee Gee's (Embarrassing but true), Doors, list goes on...wait this was what song??? Well no one song really, just fav bands and their music.

10. CSI Miami and other forensic shows.

11. See #9

12..Fav Hobbies: Mountain Biking, Photography, Growing Veg. Garden, Camping, Fishing, Drinking Balvine Portwood 21 yr aged, smoking a Cigars with candles lit and writing or reading...that is heaven!

13. Indian "Curry Foods" Mexican Foods, German Foods...and a good Steak off the Grill with Shrimp.

14. Raising my Daughter and Finishing College

15. Social Researcher/ Writer, and for money Special Ed Teacher although going to a Social Worker Job soon.

16. Family Size Wife, and Cat at home. Daughter in college, Step Duaghters (2) out of house, and step Son out of house.

17. Single Barrel Scotches, Fine Wines, C2 coke, Ice Tea, Milk!

18.Most Renowned: Intellegence, my photography.

19. Fav Talents: Playing Guitar and Photography

20. Something wierd..... I have been told all my life everything I do is wierd....hmmm, and yet nothing comes to mind right away :rolleyes:

[Dana Gold]

Juleanne's quote:

" I can pee standing up"

Alright, smarty-pants and show-off.....but do you make the target?:p

:D

[Wyn]

BTW - all true

1. Name: Wayne - Wyn is Wayne without the a & e (androgen and estrogen). My given name at birth by my birth mother was Dennis (I believe she had chosen that name as it would be easy to change to Denise if the time came to do so)
2. Age: 49 (almost - Aug. 01)
3. Nationality: prefer Earthling, but since the question requests a Nation - USA
4. Fave Colour: Green/Blue or any combo thereof, contrasting with white and/or black
5. Hair: light brown, shortish, but growing, some gray. If I grow my beard, it is mostly gray, but my mustache is light brown, neither of which could I grow well until fairly recently (upon female puberty) - a strange aspect of my condition
6. Fave Clothes: Anything comfortable for the weather I'm in.
7. Fave Movie: The Day the Earth Stood Still (for all you Aliens out there!)
8. Fave Book: Have read a lot, but none come to mind as being outstanding - I prefer real life to imagined
9. Fave Song: Immigrant Song (Led Zep) & anything by Vivaldi or Mozart
10. Fave Band: none - prefer anything NEW and melodic, particularly instumentals (Loreena McKennitt). Am getting to know about electronica and it's offshoots - cool stuff
11. Fave Tv Show: don't watch
12. Hobbies: Sailing, Skiing, boat building/woodworking/crafts
13. Fave Food: anything not too filling - but NO BEANS!
14. Fave Accomplishment: Won an international yacht design contest (sail) and recieved a US Patent for the concept - the First practical cruising size multihull (catamaran/trimaran) capable of self-righting, and if built 'properly', is incapable of sinking - know anybody interested in funding the partly built prototype????.
15. Occupation: currently a boat carpenter & rigger, but am working towards making the patent concept a reality and my occupation - boatbuilding
16. Family size: In my house - Me, but I have 4 boys - ages 17, 16,13,12, that live with their mom (my only known blood relatives - I was adopted - part of my current problem (IS) - the cause for my divorce over 10 years ago.
17. Fave Drink: Gin & Tonic, but don't drink much - prefer smoke for escape.
18. Most Reknowned for: A sad case of sticking to reality, a fair sense of humor, and a social liberal, fiscal conservative
19. Fave Talent: drawing (with pencil & paper or CADD), spacial awarness. I can hold my body parallel to the ground while holding on a vertical pole. When I was younger, I used to be able to jump an entire flight of stairs (13 steps), but my knees can't handle that any more.
20. Something weird about you: I live in a Quonset Hut - a steel structure with a round steel roof (very appropriate - a weird bodied person living in a weird house)

[Meresa]

Originally posted by Wyn

7. Fave Movie: The Day the Earth Stood Still (for all you Aliens out there!)


Klaatu barada nikto!!!

[Glenn]

1. Name: Glenn
2. Age: 41 (6/16/63)
3. Nationality: American, but born on an Army base in W Germany
4. Fave Colour: Blue
5. Hair: very little, brown
6. Fave Clothes: none
7. Fave Movie: Rocky Horror
8. Fave Book: Stranger in a Strange Land
9. Fave Song: lots of them, lately Life is a Lemon and I Want My Money Back (Meatloaf)
10. Fave Band: Queen, Meatloaf
11. Fave Tv Show: lately, Law & Order, The 4400
12. Hobbies: Golf, swimming, lots of stuff with music, sewing
13. Fave Food: lasagna
14. Fave Accomplishment: becoming a pilot at age 17
15. Occupation: quality manager, and IT professor
16. Family size: 4 (wife & 2 stepkids)
17. Fave Drink: Pepsi
18. Most Reknowned for: making too many puns
19. Fave Talent: massage
20. Something weird about you: Had a pet Burmese python named Fluffy.

[Dana Gold]

The Day the Earth Stood Still phrase: Klaatu barada nikto and other words spoken in the film were not "hokey" Hollywood phrases:

http://www.dreamerwww.com/fanfilm/fanfilm2.htm

PS: arrows at page bottom will direct you to more pages on the film: history, science, relevance to 50s cold war era etc. (for all us aliens;)

A very good film with the benevolent professor played by Sam Jaffe, who also played the medical director on the 50's TV show Ben Casey.

I wish Gort could've been my "playmate" during childhood:cool: :D

[Shodan]

I find the Godzilla movies hilarious, Lol

(with an important underlying lesson that no-one has figured out yet... YEAH RIGHT!)

[Sofie]

Originally posted by Shodan

Sof, what do you design? That must be an accomplishment, I'm just on my L's so driving from point A to B without a crash is a good enough accomplishment for me!


I like designing almost anything, arranging, changing colors and patterns, decorating. Not everyone likes what I'm doing and I'm a bit clumsy and impatient especially with small things but I like doing them anyway. Sometimes I sew my own clothes. I also like gardening, especially Momoyama and Edo style (oh well, Sofie's own interpretation of these).

Sof

[Shodan]

are you left handed by any chance? I think we've got a creative one in our midst peoples!!!

[Meresa]

Originally posted by Shodan
]Is that like an asylum, Lol cuz my house is like that, Lol


OK. No, I don't really live in an aquarium. But I do spend so much time in the water, that some of my friends have accused me of living in one. B-)

A curious side note, when I lived in MA, I had several fish "friends" in Walden Pond. I would stop off after work for a swim several times a week. I recognized several of them and they would swim up when they saw me in the water. I would "feed" them by stirring up the silt from the bottom. They loved that.


SO um, ... ur the 1st!

Why are peoples shy about weirdness? I MEAN BESIIIDES THE OBVIOUS, Lol

Is the nuclear engineer part sarcastic? How do we tell the difference between u and ur sarcasm? Lol, my uncles have a ball egging each other on...


No, only the spelling is sarcastic. I have a masters degree in Nuclear Engineering from MIT. Really.
But as many people as I hear say "Nucular" I just couldnt resist......

These days I tend more to the Health Physics side though. Dana does similar work although I think she is more at the technical hands on level. (lucky!!)