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Name: VampyChick. Call me Vampy.
Age: 19
Occupation: Full-time student
Marital status: Perpetually single.
Describe your personality using four words: Patience of a squirrel.
Three favorite things: good books, sleep, my kitten (George)
One special talent: I can pick things up with my toes. Does that count?
Which two emoticons describe you best: :smack: :dubious:
One thing that might surprise us about you: I danced ballet for nine years.

Daithi Lacha, have you heard Loreena McKennit’s sung version of The Stolen Child? It’s lovely, but I fear it would make you bawl.


Name: Joey Sweredoski
Age: 19
Occupation: Deli lackey
Marital status: Single
Describe your personality using four words: Mellow, level-headed, warped, curious
Three favorite things: Hunter S Thompson quotes, Pizza, Familt Guy
One special talent: I’ve been known to look at things differently than most people. Does that count?
Which two emoticons describe you best: :stuck_out_tongue: :dubious:
One thing that might surprise us about you: My future :cool:

Name: Kilvert’s Pagan
Age: 46
Occupation: CIO of a health insurance company
Marital status: happily married
Describe your personality using four words: unpredictable creative extroverted and funny
Three favorite things: my kids (unless that counts as two), experimental rock, Medicine Bow Pass
One special talent: Playing keyboards by ear
Which two emoticons describe you best: :wink: :dubious:
One thing that might surprise us about you: I’m not as trite and boring in real life

Name: Dare_Devil007_ (You may call me DD)
Age: 15 years and two months
Occupation: Tenth-grade student
Marital status: Single
Describe your personality using four words: Between introverted and extroverted
Three favorite things: My dog, my family and movies
One special talent: Uh…I can remember things really quickly, but I don’t have photographic memory.
Which two emoticons describe you best: :dubious: and :rolleyes:
One thing that might surprise us about you: I’m not really that depressing all the time. I can be quite chipper once you get to know me.

Remind me not to piss you off, then :slight_smile:

Name: Harborwolf
Age: 27
Occupation: deli clerk
Marital status: engaged to doper name Alias
Describe your personality using four words: funny, sincere, vitamin enriched
Three favorite things: Hockey, books, learning
One special talent: Being unable to think of a special talent
Which two emoticons describe you best: :smack: :dubious:
One thing that might surprise us about you: I’m almost entirely normal.

Name: Amazingrace
Age: 19
Occupation: Full-time University student
Marital status: As good as engaged
Describe your personality using four words: opinionated, excitable, easily distracted
Three favorite things: My down comforter, Saturdays, travel
One special talent: I can play the bassoon
Which two emoticons describe you best: :eek: and :o
One thing that might surprise us about you: I’ve seen Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory upwards of 100 times.

Name: fishbicycle
Age: 46
Occupation: Radio announcer, producer, musician
Marital status: Married, with kitties
Describe your personality using four words: He one mojo filter
Three favorite things: My wife, my 12,000 records, my job
One special talent: I’ve played several instruments professionally for over 30 years, by ear.
Which two emoticons describe you best: I don’t do emoticons.
One thing that might surprise us about you: Once I climbed down the cliff of Niagara gorge and stood at the bottom of the falls, drank a Bud, and climbed back up. Without getting caught.

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Name: Iscariot (not really, but it’s my nickname)
Age: 16
Occupation: School, but I draw for money.
Marital Status: None
Personality using four words: Sarcastic, bitter, witty,
Three favorite things: My bass, My Pink Floyd CD collection (yes, I know I’m cheating), and my art portfolio.
One special talent: Memorizing songs after I’ve heard it once, then being able to play the melody.
Two emoticons that describe me best: :dubious: and :frowning: .
One thing that might surprise us about you: I’ve listened to DSOTM at least 100 ti-- oh wait, something that WOULD surprise you… Ok, then. I’m an Atreyu freak.

Name: ccwaterback
Age: 49 1/2
Occupation: working class hero
Marital status: right handed
Describe your personality using four words: delicious, provocative, nonconformist, nocturnal
Three favorite things: banana pudding, left boobie, right boobie
One special talent: known only by the females in my life
Which two emoticons describe you best: :confused: :eek:
One thing that might surprise us about you: I live in a van, down by the river

Ha! I can open pop cans with mine!

Name: Stonebow
Age: 26
Occupation: college admin (special events coordinator), etiquette consultant
Marital status: married (to the lovely FaerieBeth)
Describe your personality using four words: shy, introspective, witty, spooky
Three favorite things: sex, books, food (in that order)
One special talent: ask FaerieBeth (clue: it’s fuckin’)
Which two emoticons describe you best: :eek: :eek: (10 points to whoever gets the reference)
One thing that might surprise us about you: I can make suits of armor, though I’m a pretty poor fighter

Name: Ken’
Age: The big 3-0
Occupation: analyitcal radiopharmacutical chemist
Marital status: As good as divorced and looking
Describe your personality using four words: wacky, sweet, fun, spicey
Three favorite things: good friends, a good woman and pizza
One special talent: I frequently do math faster in my head than people with calculators
Which two emoticons describe you best: :smiley: :wink:
One thing that might surprise us about you: I’m double jointed

I’ve never tried. I’ll experiment and get back to you on that.

Name: Happy Scrappy Hero Pup, of course!

**Age: ** 30 chronologically.

Occupation: Lobbyist, soon-to-be law student.

Marital status: Read the Pit.

Describe your personality using four words: Boisterous, snappy, honest, loyal.

**Three favorite things: ** Rowing, martial arts, XBox.

One special talent: With respect to the language restrictions in IMHO, let’s just say… rendering the Hitachi Magic Wand obsolete.

Which two emoticons describe you best: That one with the stuff and that other one that does the thing.

One thing that might surprise us about you: I’m spectacularly famous in my world.

Name: mle

Age: 25, for another 2.5 weeks

Occupation: Red tape

Marital status: Live-in superhero, nothing official, 2 kitties

Describe personality using four words: curious plant pie frog

Three favorite things: Books, sex, travel

One special talent: I can read really, really fast.

Two emoticons: :dubious: :stuck_out_tongue:

Something that might surprise: I just got my driver’s license 4 months ago, and I’m nearly 26!

Name: Detritus
Age: 29
Occupation: Nothing I would’ve dreamed of doing, but something I have found I enjoy.
Marital status: Married (no young’uns)
Describe your personality using four words: I’m such a Scorpio!
Three favorite things (in no particular order): reading, my hubby, and the wealth of knowledge/pit of depravity that is the Internet
One special talent: Way too much talent to pinpoint just one!
Which two emoticons describe you best: :stuck_out_tongue: :wink:
One thing that might surprise us about you: The only reason anyone would be surprised by anything about me is that they haven’t been around me long enough. More danger of TMI than likelihood of surprise.

I know it very well. The Waterboys have a good rendition of it, too. I can’t even say the lines
“He’ll no more hear the lowing
Of the calves on the warm hillside”
without my voice my voice cracking. I can’t figure out why, either.
Say, there’s a good IMHO thread: poetry/prose that really gets to you…

:eek: And she left you?!

She doesn’t deserve you. But you knew that.