The Incremental Question and Answer Thread

Mundane Pointless Stuff I Must Share (MPSIMS)
#1

Not another thread where you just have to answer a bunch of questions about yourself. No, this time you get to also ask and answer a question of your own.

I’ll start by asking, and answering one question. The second person has to answer that question, plus add a new question, and answer it. The third person has to answer the first two questions, plus add a third question, and answer it.

Etc.

If there are simultaneous responses, the next person gets to choose which one to respond to, and the unchosen question may be repeated by someone else.

Ok, I’ll start:

Q: What’s your least favorite musical instrument?
A: Bagpipes

#2

Ok, I’ll play.

Q: What’s your least favorite musical instrument?

Saxaphone.

And mine:

Q: What’s your favorite genre of book?

A: Sci-fi/fantasy.

#3

Count me in before the list gets too long

Q: What’s your least favorite musical instrument?
A: theremin (spooky!)

Q: What’s your favorite genre?
A: Sci-fi/fantasy also

New question and my answer
Q: What’s the dumbest thing you ever said to your boss?
A: I don’t do it your way because your way doesn’t work!

#4

Q: What’s your least favorite musical instrument?
A: Steel Guitar

Q: What’s your favorite genre of book?
A: Varies - sometimes historical nonfiction, sometimes fantasy

Q: What’s the dumbest thing you ever said to your boss?
A: I’m giving you my two week notice. (That was a year and a half ago)

And my question:
Q: Are you at work or at home while replying to this thread?
A: At work

#5

Q: What’s your least favorite musical instrument?
A: Flutaphone

Q: What’s your favorite genre of book?
A: Mystery or Horror

Q: What’s the dumbest thing you ever said to your boss?
A: I really like my job.

Q: Are you at work or at home while replying to this thread?
A: At work

And my question:
Q: How long is your commute to work?
A: About 45 mins. on the subway

#6

Q: What’s your least favorite musical instrument?
A: Badly played drums

Q: What’s your favorite genre of book?
A: Si-fi/fantasy

Q: What’s the dumbest thing you ever said to your boss?
A: I’ll keep working if you’ll give me one day off a week.

Q: Are you at work or at home while replying to this thread?
A: At home

Q: How long is your commute to work?
A: not currently employed

My question is:
Q: What kind of pets do you have?
A: 8 cats - Gwen, Bill, Yogi, Mr. Spock, Sugar Magnolia, Cricket, Valentino & Lt. Dax.

#7

Q: What is your least favorite musical instrument?
A: Clarinet. You play it for two years and see how you like it.

Q: What is your favorite genre of book?
A: Romance.

Q: What is the dumbest thing you ever said to your boss?
A: Yes it is alcoholic, do you want one?

Q: Are you at work or at home?
A: Home.

Q: How long is your commute?
A: Ten minutes.

New Question:
What is your favorite flavor of ice cream?
A: Mint chocolate chip.

#8

Q: What’s your least favorite musical instrument?
A: At times, the piano, the flute, or the trumpet.

Q: What’s your favorite genre of book?
A: Overblown intellectual drivel

Q: What’s the dumbest thing you ever said to your boss?
A: Everything I said in the interview, because it was blag from start to finish

Q: Are you at work or at home while replying to this thread?
A: Home

Q: How long is your commute to work?
A: Currently 30 minutes. In my new job, 250-300 miles of driving a week.

Q: How old were you when you had your first library card?
A: Three

#9

Q: What’s your least favorite musical instrument?
A: Tamborine

Q: What’s your favorite genre of book?
A: Mystery/Thriller

Q: What’s the dumbest thing you ever said to your boss?
A: “You tell me to do things one way & he (other equally ranked boss) tells me to do it another way. I’m tired of being in the middle of your pissing contest…”

Q: Are you at work or at home while replying to this thread?
A: Work, for another 35 minutes

Q: How long is your commute to work?
A: 5-10 minutes

Q: How old were you when you had your first library card?
A: Four, I think.

Q: Name one of your top 5 favorite movies.
A: The Silence of the Lambs

#10

Three simulposts, I guess I’ll go with the first new question.

Q: What’s your least favorite musical instrument?
A: Can’t think of one

Q: What’s your favorite genre of book?
A: Si-fi

Q: What’s the dumbest thing you ever said to your boss?
A: I don’t care how you used to do it in the old days

Q: Are you at work or at home while replying to this thread?
A: At work

Q: How long is your commute to work?
A: 20 min in good traffic
Q: What kind of pets do you have?
A: 2 dogs, Mickey and Jasmine, 1 cat, Brat, 3 Degus, Pompey, Antigone and Octavia, 1 cockatiel, Mac and 7 fish no names (3 angels and 4 Danios)

#11

Q: What’s your least favorite musical instrument?
A: Toy piano. *Waaay * overrated for the under-5 set.

Q: What’s your favorite genre of book?
A: Philosophical tome.

Q: What’s the dumbest thing you ever said to your boss?
A: “Sure, I can do that by tomorrow.”

Q: Are you at work or at home while replying to this thread?
A: Who’s got time for the SDMB at home?

Q: How long is your commute to work?
A: 20 minutes, walking.

Q: What is your favorite flavor of ice cream?
A: Mint chocolate chip. Good choice, LilyValy! All I had to do was cut and paste.

Q: How old were you when you had your first library card?
A: About 8.

Q: Name one of your top 5 favorite movies.
A: Metropolitan.

Q: What kind of pets do you have?
A: Pet peeves.

Q: What are your plans for this evening?
A: Quiz night at the George and Dragon.

#12

Q: What’s your least favorite musical instrument?
A: Xylophone (to listen to).

Q: What’s your favorite genre of book?
A: Legal/political/psychological thriller.

Q: What’s the dumbest thing you ever said to your boss?
A: Said quite sarcastically: “Oh, no, Bob, you decide whether I stay for two weeks or leave today … after all, you’re the boss.” (But he deserved it; I don’t think I’ve ever said anything dumb to a boss that I cared about.)

Q: Are you at work or at home while replying to this thread?
A: Home.

Q: How long is your commute to work?
A: 10-minute drive.

Q: What is your favorite flavor of ice cream?
A: Chocolate.

Q: How old were you when you had your first library card?
A: I have no idea. Seems like I always had one.

Q: Name one of your top 5 favorite movies.
A: Die Hard

Q: What kind of pets do you have?
A: None since August.

Q: What are your plans for this evening?
A: Watching TV. That’s about it.

Q: If you could travel anywhere for free, where would you go first?
A: Back to the Yorkshire town I used to live in.

#13

Q: What’s your least favorite musical instrument?
A: Those damn blocks they use in Kabuki theatre.
Q: What’s your favorite genre of book?
A: My guilty pleasure, true crime.
Q: What’s the dumbest thing you ever said to your boss?
A: Well, it was more of a hand gesture than something I said…
Q: Are you at work or at home while replying to this thread?
A: At home. No Internet fun allowed at work!

Q: How long is your commute to work?
A: Fifteen minute drive, 45 minute walk.

Q: What is your favorite flavor of ice cream?
A: ONE? I have to pick ONE?? panicked look

Q: How old were you when you had your first library card?
A: 8.

Q: Name one of your top 5 favorite movies.
A: Drowning Mona

Q: What kind of pets do you have?
A: My 3 cats live w/ my folks for now, so mostly spiders.

Q: What are your plans for this evening?
A: Watching the storms and avoiding the Prez on tv w/ *Buckaroo Banzai * on dvd.

Q:What/when was the first concert you personally paid to see?
A: Queensryche, 1990

#14

Bugger, I missed one!!

A: That’d be Montreal in the spring.

#15

Q: What’s your least favorite musical instrument?
A: Badly played violin

Q: What’s your favorite genre of book?
A: Mysteries

Q: What’s the dumbest thing you ever said to your boss?
A: Sure, I can handle an additional program in my department (the program from &((&#)

Q: Are you at work or at home while replying to this thread?
A: Home.

Q: How long is your commute to work?
A: 10-minute bus ride.

Q: What is your favorite flavor of ice cream?
A: Mamey.

Q: How old were you when you had your first library card?
A: Mid-thirties. Library where I grew up didn’t use cards. Does college count? I used my college ID for the library from the time I was a freshman to my mid-thirties when I wasn’t associated with a university anymore.

Q: Name one of your top 5 favorite movies.
A: Roman Holiday

Q: What kind of pets do you have?
A: None since Fluffy the fish died September 2001.

Q: What are your plans for this evening?
A: Outdoor concert if it’s not cancelled due to rain.

Q: If you could travel anywhere for free, where would you go first?
A: Berlin.

Q: What was the first concert you paid to see?
A: Not sure; might have been Gordon Lightfoot, late '70s(?).

New question:
Q: How far do you live from where you were born?
A: About 350 miles.

#16

Q: What’s your least favorite musical instrument?
A: Oboe

Q: What’s your favorite genre of book?
A: Horror

Q: What’s the dumbest thing you ever said to your boss?
A: You have one fine daughter.

Q: Are you at work or at home while replying to this thread?
A: Home.

Q: How long is your commute to work?
A: 15 minutes

Q: What is your favorite flavor of ice cream?
A: cookies n creme

Q: How old were you when you had your first library card?
A: 15

Q: Name one of your top 5 favorite movies.
A: The Goonies

Q: What kind of pets do you have?
A: two shi tzus

Q: What are your plans for this evening?
A: Poker night with the boys

Q: If you could travel anywhere for free, where would you go first?
A: Helsinki

Q: What was the first concert you paid to see?
A: Pedro the Lion.

Q: How far do you live from where you were born?
A: About a half hour

New Question:
What’s the last CD you bought (or legally downloaded)?
Buelah - Yoko and John Ralston - Needle Bed

#17

Q: What’s your least favorite musical instrument?
A: Don’t have one.

Q: What’s your favorite genre of book?
A: Fantasy. GOOD fantasy.

Q: What’s the dumbest thing you ever said to your boss?
A: (haven’t had a boss yet)

Q: Are you at work or at home while replying to this thread?
A: Neither. (At camp, in my dorm room.)

Q: How long is your commute to work?
A: ‘Work’: 10 minutes. Work: (unemployed).

(‘Work’ - they give my parents a discount for helping out here.)

Q: What is your favorite flavor of ice cream?
A: Mint chocolate chip.

Q: How old were you when you had your first library card?
A: I don’t remember. Five or six, probably.

Q: Name one of your top 5 favorite movies.
A: Spirited Away

Q: What kind of pets do you have?
A: One golden retriever and one siamese cat.

Q: What are your plans for this evening?
A: Posting here, maybe playing some video games later, and the 11PM meeting.

Q: If you could travel anywhere for free, where would you go first?
A: Japan

Q: What was the first concert you paid to see?
A: Never have. Either my parents paid (usually for something classical in order to broaden my horizons or some such) or I didn’t go. Not a big concert person.

Q: How far do you live from where you were born?
A: Um, the distance between northern Michigan and Long Island, whatever that is.

Q: What’s the last CD you bought (or legally downloaded)?
A: Never bought any CDs.

New question: What’s your favorite kind of music?
A: Video game and anime soundtracks; modern rock.

#18

Q: What’s your least favorite musical instrument?
A: electric guitar (I don’t like the sound of fingers sliding over metal strings.)

Q: What’s your favorite genre of book?
A: My favorite would be anything that I can be absorbed in within the first two pages… everything else sits in a box until I get bored with reading what I’ve read a dozen times before.

Q: What’s the dumbest thing you ever said to your boss?
A: It’s so nice to see a couple in love with each other after 16 years of marriage. (A week later she took a significant amount of time off of work to deal with serious marital problems. :smack: )

Q: Are you at work or at home while replying to this thread?
A: Home.

Q: How long is your commute to work?
A: 5 minutes if the lights go my way… 8 if they don’t.

Q: What is your favorite flavor of ice cream?
A: coffee flavored ice cream with brownies chopped up and mixed in

Q: How old were you when you had your first library card?
A: probably 7 or 8

Q: Name one of your top 5 favorite movies.
A: Bring It On

Q: What kind of pets do you have?
A: one bobtailed cat and a dog that I insist belongs to one or the other of my siblings

Q: What are your plans for this evening?
A: to figure out if the cops are serious about ticketing or arresting people who camp at the river this weekend in preparation for the 4th fireworks… eh, we’ll probably go anyways

Q: If you could travel anywhere for free, where would you go first?
A: Portland, OR

Q: What was the first concert you paid to see?
A: I paid for… none… first concert I attended was Boyz II Men in '95

Q: How far do you live from where you were born?
A: 912.3 miles

Q: What’s the last CD you bought (or legally downloaded)?
A: bought… erm… maybe a single of some sort 5+ years ago. I usually wait for gift-receiving (I mean giving) holidays and ask someone to buy me an album I want.

Q: What’s your favorite kind of music?
A: Pop… unless it’s rap… or Hilary Duff : puke smiley :

New Question
Q: If you could experience the life of another person for a week, who would you choose to be?
A: Matt Damon’s girlfriend :smiley: