Is it not having to cook? Is it someone dancing attendance on me? Is it not doing the dishes? Actually, it’s all three.
Tell me what you think about all this freakin’ rain in 11 words.
I wish it would come to Saskatchewan, we want it badly.
Describe a dandilion in 18 words.
It blossoms in my flowerbed
And, blooming, shows a yellow head.
It’s fun to poof the seeds instead.
In 39 words, tell me: where did you last leave that thing you lost? You know, the one you’ve been trying to find for hours now?
I actually haven’t lost anything of any relative importance in the last two weeks. However, if I had, and I knew where it was, it wouldn’t be at all lost. Therefore, your entire question is pointless, while refreshingly paradoxical.
In 35 words, describe the sounds coming from your computer speakers right now.
The sounds coming from my speakers right now are voices and instruments of Clannad. I have just watched Last of the Mohicans and I am trying to find several tunes from the film.
Good film.
Describe your childhood in 12 words.
Moved. Moved again. Moved again. One parent, then the other. Sorta sucked.
Describe your favorite insect in 43 words.
The dung beetle eats bits from other animals’ poo. A male dung beetle will find a big ball of poo and roll it many miles to his loved one’s home. Sometimes the poo will be stolen while he is getting his just rewards.
Describe ‘hope’ in 37 words.
Hope was Mel Harris’s character in “thirtysomething.” She was married to Ken Olin’s character, even though Ken Olin is married to Patricia Wettig, who played Timothy Busfield’s wife, in real life. I always found this somewhat bizarre.
What’s your reaction to the Harry Potter hoopla? 15 words.
Where is my book? I’m desperate! Tracking shipping over internet… Where is the FEDEX guy???
Describe your favorite cookie in 21 words.
White chocolate chips and cranberries. Oh. My. God. You can take over the world with these. Absolutely the best cookies ever.
Trickle-down economics in 28 words.
Well, the rich folks get more tax breaks. In THEORY they make more products, which means more jobs, whic means more money for the lower classes.
(a note: I am fuzzy on the theory itself, so my answer may actually be WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!)
In Spring, a young man’s fancy slowly turns…in 44 words.
…to the same thing it turns to every other time of the year. Love? I think not. More like … (ya know, I feel sadly unqualified to address this, being a middle-aged woman, but I’m gonna take a whack at it [so to speak] … boobies.
Your mom’s best recipe: 15 words.
Eggplant parmigiana, with exactly the right amounts of eggplant and parmigiana. And a good sauce.
You people sure you can handle another topic from me?
Tell me when and how the weather in the Northeast will return to normal in 43 words. Be creative!
After an extremely rare Nor’easter on the 4th of July drops 3 feet of snow, the Northeast will finally settle down to sultry 100+ degree days with 90+ percent humidity replete of disease carrying mosquitos until November when another Nor’easter hits the Northeast.
Describe any “hole-in-one” you have experienced in life in 28 words…
Lying across the table- tackled by this pretty girl- we’ve been flirting for a week. She pulls her tongue from my mouth- “Take me home. Fuck me. NOW.”
Describe your first adult experience with extreme weather conditions in 16 words.
Rained so hard that I was soaked just walking down the block. Went home, had cocoa.
Describe an encounter with a wild animal in 26 words.
Lying across the table- tackled by this pretty girl- we’ve been flirting for a week. She pulls her tongue from my mouth- “Take me home. Fuck me. NOW.”
Okay, so that’s 28 words. Still took care of itself nicely.
Racoon looks up with expectant eyes. “Shoo,” we say. It tracks us, and underbrush rustling suggests it has friends. Under duress, we drop taffy. Racoon has problems chewing.
Describe the most irritating incident you’ve had with a stranger in 40 words, separated into two disctinct “acts” of exactly 20 words each.
I was on a rolley chair, I backed up to get something out of the printer and banged into someone.
On the way back, I accidently banged into him again. First time, gave me a look. Second time: “Watch it”
Sum up what this board is all about, and describe it’s purpose in 7 words.
Fighting ignorance, except when persecuting righteous conservatives.
Chastise me for making such a blatantly partisan statement in an inappropriate forum in 23 words.