[GAME] Answer to Ask

Answer: A drama. A very very very good drama. On HBO. By Aaron Sorkin.

Ask: After reading that last sentence fragment, need I say more?

Answer: No. I watched most of the first season and found it very preachy (and I say that as a big West Wing fan), so I haven’t been back to see it again.

Ask: Would you have voted for Josiah Bartlet for President?

No, his health wasn’t that good, and Washington or Adams were what was called for, for the time, IMHO.

Ask: What’s your favorite board game?

Answer: Game of Thrones: Home Game (of Thrones)

Ask: Would you play it?

Answer: Lifelong gamer: I’ll play just about anything. Haven’t played that yet, though.

Ask: What’s your favorite month of the year?

Answer: June, and I’m not just saying that. :slight_smile:

Ask: How much do you love fire - worship it or just adore it?

Answer: I like it just fine - at a campfire, for instance, or during a beach cookout - but I neither worship or adore it.

Ask: Do your loved ones worry about your borderline pyromania?

Answer: No, it’s an unrequited longing. :frowning:

Ask: Do you have any pagan affinities?

Answer: Actually, I do enjoy visiting those Burmese ruins. Myanmar is beautiful city, on the shores of the Irrawaddy River. You can just FEEL the 11th-13th century Buddhist history in the Pagan Ruins.

Ask: How often do you partake of blood sacrifice and Aztecan Rituals to appease the gods?

Answer: To appease Madame Pepperwinkle, maybe, but I’m Presbyterian. We substitute grape juice for wine at communion.

Ask: What’s the first song you actually remember hearing?

Answer: Handel’s Water Music, in an elementary school music class. I’ve loved it ever since.

Ask: After water and fireworks, what should Handel have written music for next?

Answer: Children. After the Fireworks, he arrange a special production of the Messiah for the Foundling Hospital. The next year he had a carriage accident which cost him his sight and health, so Night wouldn’t be a bad choice either.

Ask: Do you play any musical instrument(s)? I wish I did.

Answer: Violin.

Ask: Have you ever been to jail/prison? If so, describe your experience.

Answer: Yes, but it was to visit clients. The partners sometimes would send me to do something like this if the visit was more in the nature of an errand. It’s still scary. I had to go through a couple of what I call ‘air locks’ before I could get to the rooms they set aside for these visits. The last time I went was to the Riverfront Prison in Camden. That really sucked - for the client. He’d gotten busted for stealing some copper cable I think, but it was one of those enhanced sentence deals since he’d had prior convictions and the judge was a complete fucking asshole and buried him essentially.

Ask: Have you ever done volunteer work and if so, what was the most rewarding?

Answer: Lots of volunteer work over the years - for the Boy Scouts, a local food bank, a local homeless-aid group, the bar association, my church, and others. I like political volunteering best, though, trying to get someone I like and support elected.

Ask: Have you volunteered for a political campaign in the past five years?

Answer: Yes, I was part of a door-to-door campaign to register voters for the 2012 presidential election.

Ask: As a Doper, I assume you are knowledgable and aware of the issues at hand when you go to vote. However, do you ever make an effort to make sure fellow voters (probably friends and family) are also educated on the matters that need attention?

Answer: Yes, now and then. In particular, since I’m a law-talkin’ dude, I’m often asked by friends and family which local judges deserve a vote (we elect judges in this state, all the way up to and including the state supreme court).

Ask: What do you think would be a better way to select state judges?

Answer: I’m for elections. The only better way that comes to my admittedly warped mind is the Sorting Hat from Harry Potter. (“Ooh, this one isn’t fit to judge bad potatoes in Hufflepuff!”)

Ask: Do you think the former planet Pluto got a raw deal in its reclassification?

Answer: I don’t see why. Its moon are almost as big as it. If it doesn’t meet planetary criteria it can’t be.

Ask: Would you prefer to have the Sorting Hat classify planets?

Answer: No. They should just have asked me - Pluto was a planet when I was a kid, and it still oughta be, dammit!

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Ask: Did you see The Adjustment Bureau, and if so, did you like it (as I did, when I saw it last night)?