16 posts tagged “qotd”
What are your three favorite snacks?
Submitted by Sunscreem.
1). Ice Cream -- to be exact, Ben & Jerry's Coffee Heath Bar Crunch
2). chocolate -- preferably dark
3). my nachos -- made with Garden of Eden Blue Corn Tortilla Chips, black refried beans, home-made salsa, avacado, lots 'o CHEESE, & light sour cream.
What are your favorite weird food combinations?
Submitted by Dulce.
I think I may have a few that others think are weird:
- chocolate and potato chips
- hot tamales(candy) & popcorn (I generally like salty & sweet food combinations)
- curry sauce and "chips" (ie: french fries -- this is a hold-over from living in Great Britian)
- ranch sauce on pizza (this is becoming more common but I believe it began in New Mexico in the early 90s -- it even was on the menu as a pizza accompanyment at many resturants)
- Mayo & french fries (a hold-over from Brussels)
What's the best way to get on your good side?
Submitted by Manon-It-All.
Make me laugh. You may be an asshole, but if you make me laugh I'll easily overlook your character flaws.
What's something you did when you were younger that you still haven't confessed to your parents?
Submitted by Bizz.
I was bored and chopped my hair when I was 5 or 6. I knew I would be in big trouble when my parents found out, so I paid a silly neighbor girl, Robin, 50 cents to say she did it. Robin was always getting into trouble, and had chopped her own hair a month earlier, so the story was believable. Of course she got in trouble for chopping my hair and spilled the true story to her & my parents, but they didn't believe her.
How did you find out the secret behind Santa Claus?
Submitted by Carinish.
I was in second grade at Evans Elementary in Tempe, Ariz., which at the time was a bilingual public school. We were rehearsing Posadas, which is the ritual reenactment of Mary and Joseph's search for a place to stay, but instead of going house to house we went from classroom to classroom. We had a substitute because our teacher, like Mary, was going to have a baby.
One of my fellow students brought-up why we were celebrating Posadas because he didn't celebrate Christmas. And the teacher said something like "because this is a Mexican tradition celebrated by many of your friends' families. Some of your friend's also believe in Santa Claus, but you all are old enough now to know that there is no Santa Claus and it's your parents who give you the gifts"
I went home and immediately interrogated my parents.
What's the most klutzy thing you've ever done?
Submitted by Jecka.
I'm a HUGE klutz, but I had a particularily "Lucy" day earlier this spring which beats all other klutzy moments.
I awoke a bit anxious because I had an interview that day for a job I really wanted. Like all days, it started with making a pot of coffee. With full coffee carafe in hand, I opened the cupboard to get a mug, and a shelf broke propelling a glass towards my face. My reaction was to use the carafe full of hot "joe" as sheild against the flying glass. With arm holding carafe-sheild extended, the two glass objects colided & broke resulting in a large amount of shattered glass and spilt coffee. A few burns & cuts on my hand, but my face was fine.
After clean-up, I went to the bathroom very disgruntled about the whole situation, primarily because I did not get my coffee fix. After a quick coffee-removing shower, I dressed and was putting on a nice professional face with my glasses resting on top of my head. I bent down to get something and my glasses flew off my head, hit the shower door, breaking the frames. So I hastily found some supper glue, sloppily glued my glasses together, and went to the interview.
I didn't get the job.
What's your favorite heartbreak song?
Submitted by esta86.
My song choice is stolen from Ironic1 ; I promise to write something original on my next post! This is the best, and probably only, Thanksgiving breakup song!
What's your method for calculating a tip?
Minnesota tax is 7.5%, so I just double the tax ammount and leave 15%. It's a decent tip, little math.
If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you live? Why?
Submitted by abcdefg81.
When I lived in Edinburgh 10 years ago, I went to the Isle of Arran for a weekend and stayed a week. Lochranza, at the time, was a beautiful sleepy village where Scottish Gaelic was spoken by the friendly locals. There's a castle in ruins that once was inhabited by Robert the Bruce and the cave where Robert saw the spider is also supposedly on the island.
There is so much wildlife on and around this small island: puffins, seals, sharks, palm trees (really), birds galore, highland cows, highland sheep. There's also a celtic stone circle, hiking galore, and great food. I went to the best Scottish ceilidh in Lochranza. It was a true ceilidh in that the Lochranza community participated. Traditionally, cailidhs were talent shows meant to entertain one another and I actually was "tsked" at this one for not participating. I also went to a more common ceilidh in Lochranza, with a great Scottish ceilidh band and wonderful old scottish men that were trying their hardest to teach me the dances.
Visiting Lochranza was like steppng back in time. I think it would be a great place to raise a child without the complexities of modern culture. I probably wouldn't want to live there forever, but a couple summers would be ideal.
How did you pick your Vox name? Does it mean something?
Submitted by LeendaDLL.
Purple is my nickname and internet alias but someone else here had it already; they out voxed me. Collecting PEZ dispensers is another passion of mine, so Purple PEZ is an appropriate handle.
