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Let’s just say if it was legally possibly to marry a liquid… :stuck_out_tongue:

Thanks :slight_smile:

Name: eleanor rigby
Age: 42
Occupation: ICU/stepdown RN
Marital status: yes
Describe your personality using four words: ask me again tomorrow
Three favorite things: reading, intelligent conversation, chocolate chip cookies
One special talent: I couldn’t even begin to guess
Which two emoticons describe you best: :slight_smile: :rolleyes:
One thing that might surprise us about you: Well, then it wouldn’t be a surprise, would it?
This is a good idea, and I wish I had thought of it when I joined. Good luck sorting everyone out!

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[li]Name: Jenny[/li][li]Age: 33[/li][li]Occupation: full-time technical writer (I count three of us so far…we’re takin’ over!), part-time grad student (though I think I’m considered full-time this semester)[/li][li]Marital status: single, but recently started seeing someone (so recently that I still mention it any chance I get :D)[/li][li]Describe your personality using four words: smart, funny, kind, talented[/li][li]Three favorite things: books, music, the new BF[/li][li]One special talent: singing[/li][li]Which two emoticons describe you best: :smiley: ;)[/li][li]One thing that might surprise us about you: I don’t think anyone here knows me well enough to be surprised by anything about me. :slight_smile: (Um, that wasn’t meant to be the surprising thing…meh, you know what I meant!)[/li][/ul]

Name: Ashleigh
Age: 22
Occupation: student/ABA therapist
Marital status: single
Describe your personality using four words: shy, focused, funny, perverted
Three favorite things: running, pajama pants, cereal
One special talent: I memorized The Raven in seventh grade.
Which two emoticons describe you best: :slight_smile: :slight_smile:
One thing that might surprise us about you: I just gave my eighth pint of blood two days ago. Hooray, gallon club!

Name: My first name is Alex; I’ll let you guess my last.
Age: 15
Occupation: Student
Marital status: Want to go out?
Describe your personality using four words: Introverted, Sensing, Thinking, Judging
Three favorite things: Band - They Might Be Giants Food - Ground beef Color - Red
One special talent: I can kick myself in the head
Which two emoticons describe you best: :expressionless: (mundane) would describe rather well since I am not often particularly often very happy or sad, just eternally neutral. And when it comes to girls (which have been a big part of my internal life recently) a combination of :smack: :confused: :frowning: would be nice.
One thing that might surprise us about you: I normally read rather slowly. (If you knew me, this would be surprising. I read probably a couple hundred times more than most kids in my school. I only know two classmates who read anywhere near as much as me.)

Thanks - I’ve decided, after seeing the stress that some of my friends have gone through trying to make a relationship work on top of schoolwork, etc, it’s just not worth it. (Plus, the insanely small size of my college guarantees that everything eventually turns into an utter soap-opera disaster).

Name: Dangermom
Age: 31
Occupation: SAHM and librarian
Marital status: Married, 2 small kids
Describe your personality using four words: cheerfully oddball Mormon booklover
Three favorite things (in no particular order): books, fabric, fresh air
One special talent: I can wiggle one ear
Which two emoticons describe you best: :eek: :stuck_out_tongue:
One thing that might surprise us about you: Pathetically, I can’t think of anything right now. Something will probably hit tomorrow.

Name: emekthian
Age: 15
Occupation: Sponging off my parents for as long as they’re legally obligated to allow me to (i.e. high school student)
Marital status: single
Describe your personality using four words: Quiet like serial killer
Three favorite things: mechanical pencils, the Russian language, Alcohol 120%
One special talent: I can twirl my pen around my fingers like Boris in the movie Goldeneye
Which two emoticons describe you best: (:>|) :smiley:

One thing that might surprise us about you: I’m not bisexual or gay, but I’ve made hundreds of people at my school, on other message boards, and in my family think I am because of my prediliction to make jokes about sex toys having sex with guys.

Name: Hyperelastic
Age: 35
Occupation: Aerospace Structural Engineer
Marital status: Married
Describe your personality using four words: I can’t do that
Three favorite things: My wife and my two kids.
One special talent: I can apply the principle of virtual work with the best of them
Which two emoticons describe you best: :dubious: :cool:
One thing that might surprise us about you: I’m a Buddhist

Name: David
Age: 41
Occupation: Cop
Marital status: Unhappily married (hopefully, not for too much longer)
Describe your personality using four words: Codependent,
Three favorite things:
One special talent:
Which two emoticons describe you best:
One thing that might surprise us about you:

I swear that I did not hit submit!!

Let’s try that again.

Name: David
Age: 41
Occupation: Cop
Marital status: Unhappily married (hopefully, not for too much longer)
Describe your personality using four words: Codependent, analytical, romantic, storyteller
Three favorite things: Heroism, honor, romance (I’ve never really experienced any romance in my life, but I still love the idea of it).
One special talent: Calligraphy
Which two emoticons describe you best: :rolleyes: :eek:
One thing that might surprise us about you: I investigate UFO reports.

Name: TheLoadedDog (just call me TLD)
Age: 34
Occupation: Postal Worker
Marital status: Living in sin
Describe your personality using four words: Conservative yet strangely goofy
Three favorite things: Trains, beer, titties
One special talent: You’d better ask my lady about that. :wink:
Which two emoticons describe you best: :smack: :smiley:
One thing that might surprise us about you: I own a copy of It’s Raining Men

Name: Mike
Age: 26
Occupation: Customer Service, but more than that
Marital status: single
Describe your personality using four words: Reserved, reflective, funny, skeptical
Three favorite things: música latina, my cats, my private time
One special talent: language acquisition
Which two emoticons describe you best: :confused:, :dubious:
One thing that might surprise us about you: I’m a secret agent working for the Colombian government.

Name: Chuck
Age: 33
Occupation: Videogame designer
Marital status: Seeing someone great
Describe your personality using four words: I am a Cancer.
Three favorite things: my friends, my family, and my Powerbook
One special talent: smoking.
Which two emoticons describe you best: I don’t like them.
One thing that might surprise us about you: I’m trying to learn Japanese and how to play the banjo.

Name: truthbot
Age: 47
Occupation: retired
Marital status: single
Describe your personality using four words: caring, thoughtful, introvert, kind
Three favorite things: animals, paint, helping people
One special talent: turning crap into treasures
Which two emoticons describe you best: :wink: , :cool:
One thing that might surprise us about you: I’m a tree-hugger. A greenie to the end.

[QUOTE=Stonebow]
Which two emoticons describe you best: :eek: :eek: (10 points to whoever gets the reference)

That would be a reference to the infamous +2 Dildo of Smiting, the world-reknowned 18"DHIBJD :smiley: :smiley: .

I’d like to donate my points to Amnesty International. :smiley:

Oops. That would be an 18"DHIBJD :eek: :eek: !

:eek:

Just…stand very calmly over there and don’t make any sudden moves, OK?

Name: Lisa
Age: thirty-something
Occupation: professional job seeker
Marital status: so not married
Describe your personality using four words: Don’t ask me now.
Three favorite things: Walking barefoot in sand, summer thunderstorms, seeing the ocean
One special talent: jewelry design
Which two emoticons describe you best: :rolleyes: :cool:
One thing that might surprise us about you: I have been blessed with genetically perfect saliva (so my dentist tells me)

Name: Colin
Age: 27
Occupation: newspaper marketing analyst
Marital status: single and looking, but not very hard
Describe your personality using four words: smart, steady, witty …umm…clueless?
Three favorite things: music, friends, quoting Simpsons with said friends
One special talent: If you ask me when a certain event in my life happened (particularly in the 1990’s), I can guess the day within a week or so
Which two emoticons describe you best: :frowning: :smack:
One thing that might surprise us about you: At 27, I’ve gotten drunk exactly once and have never tried any illegal substances.