Visiting relatives. There are some whom I enjoy seeing anytime, but there are some whom I would rather not. And they’re always there at Christmas.
Least favorite food item on a Christmas dinner table?
My family had a tradition of going to a movie on Christmas day, then going out for Chinese food (the only restaurants that were open, besides the kosher delis). My father always ordered Sweet and Sour chicken. I hated it.
A few years ago, I bought some sweet and sour sauce, and tried in on Morningstar Farms fake “Chik’n Nuggets,” and it was pretty good, so I assume if I hadn’t become a vegetarian, I eventually would have developed a taste for Sweet and Sour chicken, and it was just a kid thing, but at the time, it was always “yucky.”
LF food item from someone who eats a more traditional Christmas dinner.
I betray my southern heritage in saying I hate sweet potatoes, but now I can legitimately turn them down because of diabetes.
LF holiday trip you ever took
Went to my friends house for the Holidays back in he mid 70’s-family fights and drinks at a cheap strip bar in El Cajon.
Least favorite Christmas gift this year
I actually like 'em all, but if I had to pick one… a game expansion set (I don’t like the original game all that much).
Merry Christmas, everyone!
LF thing about shoveling snow?
You sweat under your clothes that you put on to stay warm, so they are damp under your outer clothes, and your outer clothes sometimes get damp on the outside, because snow gets on them, even if it isn’t currently snowing, and all the heat you are radiating melts it, so you a sopping mess when you are done.
LF TV commercial that tries to get you to donate money to a cause.
Not sure if this would count, but the pledge drives on PBS that won’t return to the movie/concert/performance/whatever until they get X number of callers making pledges. It’s true that PBS doesn’t air commercials, but commercial breaks last 3 minutes or so; these pledge breaks last from 10 to 20 minutes.
Least favorite news event of 2017?
The flood in Houston.
LF city large city to be stuck using public transportation.
Detroit has some of the worst public transportation among large cities. Perhaps not so surprising in the homeland of Henry Ford.
LF tv show in the 1980’s
Alf
LF movie in the Eighties?
The Honorary Consul. With Richard Gere and Michael Caine, it looked like it might be a good “political intrigue” film. But it bogged down, got confusing, and had no clear plot. In the end, it was just plain boring.
Least favorite movie of the 1970s?
Love Story. Lord, I hate that movie. I could probably go to lists of bad movies and dig up something obscure with terrible FX that was made on a shoestring in someone’s garage, and is worse than Love Story, but for a full-fledged Hollywood movie, that quite a few people actually like (maybe they were dropped on their heads as babies), this is just astoundingly terrible.
The guy who wrote Love Story wrote an even more wretched lump of words called Man, Woman, and Child, but the film version of that came out in 1983.
There is actually a film which is also a Hollywood movie with real talent (Kim Hunter) in it, that came out in the 70s, called Bad Ronald, and it is an even sorrier mess than Love Story, but I didn’t count it, because it’s a TV movie.
LF movie by your favorite actor or actress.
“Man Trouble.” Not awful but, yeah, my least favorite Jack Nicholson role
LF way to find out you’ve been dumped by your SO
Giant screen at the Superbowl.
LF place to get a cramp
None of them are good, but the right hamstring seems to have the most effect on my function. I was watching the Wilfred Benitez/Davey Moore fight the other day. Benitez got a leg cramp early on, tried to shake it off, but ended up getting TKOed in the second round.
ETA: least favorite movie you’ve seen in a theater.
Star Trek V - which doesn’t actually exist
LF person named Pat
Pat Buchanan
LF flavor of pudding.
Vanilla. Yuck.
LF lounge singer
Dude I went to HS with, whose name I don’t want to post, but suffice to say, he was the Ed Wood of lounge singers. He had a brief heyday, where he was in demand because people had to see for themselves just how bad he was. Sadly, I think the joke was on him, and I don’t think he got what was going on.
He was in a touring company cast of Mame with Morgan Brittany, which I saw, and it was terrible. He’s Chinese, but he played Ito, the Japanese butler. My gawd was it awful-- and that’s a hard show to screw up.
LF parlour game.
Charades. My sister loved it, and so we played it often, but I didn’t like it, and hated having to participate.
Least favorite board game?