Write everything ever done by an ex-SNL member on a slip on paper, put them in a hat, pick one.
Least favorite specific instance that you played D&D, or some other tabletop RPG.
Marathon AD&D session one New Year’s Eve; people were too frazzled and punchy to really do anything worthwhile by dawn.
LF time you played a boxed game like Monopoly?
Marathon Risk game back in high school - we played one continual game for weeks, made treaties where we traded one country per turn to keep getting armies, ran out of the game pieces and used chess pieces, thimbles, coins etc, then I finally decided to go suicide on the first place player, who was also built like Lou Ferrigno. He beat the shit out of me, and I was laughing too much to fend him off.
LF time you played cards
When my cousins tried to teach me poker and I just couldn’t get the hang of it.
LF time you were asked to leave a place?
When I got fired in 2006
LF note somebody left you
Any of several snarky notes my older sister has written me over the years.
LF note you left someone else, and now regret?
I wrote a freakin’ POEM to a girl in high school that never even acknowledged my existence (even after I dropped the poem in her locker). Yeah, I’d like to take that one back.
LF subject in high school
Biology. But to be fair, it wasn’t the subject matter; rather, it was the teacher.
Least favorite activity you had to do in gym class?
Tackle football. Wimps such as I had no place on the field.
Least favorite current buzzword?
“Gaslight” as a verb. I know it’s been in the vocabulary for a long time, but it has recently become part of the buzz canopy, and people who are using it have not seen the movie (either one, but we all know the Ingrid Bergman one is way better). Gaslighting is about trying to drive someone literally crazy by manipulating their environment and subtly enlisting the help of the people around you (usually without their realizing it). In stage one, you get the person to question their memory and perceptions, but the ultimate goal is making them have a nervous breakdown.
I hear people use it as more or less a synonym for bullying that has a psychological component, even if that is just a small part of it, and has no end game.
I want to yell at them to see the damn movie. Back when most people had seen the movie, they were like the vaccinated herd that kept everyone using it correctly, but the vaccination level has dropped below herd immunity, and now no one knows how to use the word.
Or they are all gaslighting me.
LF movie title or character used as a verb or predicate nominative (or plain old adjective), without the word “like.”
The Manchurian Candidate - the notion that somebody can be programmed to carry out an assassination upon hearing a key word became an accepted fact in the minds of many.
LF so-called reality TV show
I’ve watched very few, mainly on the premise that “reality TV” is an oxymoron, but the ones I have tried the hardest to stay away from are the ones that involve very small children in beauty pageants.
Honorable mention to the ones that try to manufacture a romance by eliminating a “contestant” every week until the “winner” gets to fall in love.
LF fictional US president.
President William Haney, played by Dan Aykroyd in My Fellow Americans (1996). The film is a comedy, but Aykroyd plays Haney as particularly unlikable, as he tries to get rid of his two predecessors.
Least favorite Robert De Niro role?
Gotta be in Rocky and Bullwinkle. Blech.
LF James Franco role?
Oz, from Oz The Great and Powerful
LF actor or actress who you think gets roles mainly because of their looks and not their talent
Demi Moore. I’ll admit to liking GI Jane, and I don’t think she’s a completely untalented hack, but I think she got by on her looks when she was younger, and now her career is pretty much for historians. Even people who get their start based on their looks can mature into decent performers after being in the business for a long time, (cf., Elizabeth Taylor), but I don’t think that’s happening to Moore. Plus, in general, I don’t care for her choice of scripts.
LF former child actor currently trying to make it as an adult actor.
Miley Cyrus - jeez kid, good for you discovering what naughty is, but you couldn’t even attract candy vans with that look
LF actor who takes him/herself way too seriously
Dustin Hoffman, and that would have been my answer even before recent allegations proved him to be a plain old jerk.
LF French actor (or actress).
Vincent Perez, the guy who replaced Brandon Lee in The Crow movies.
LF commercial mascot
Joe Camel. Cigarette smoking killed my parents.
LF African nation?