Using the elliptical machine.
Favorite car you ever owned?
1993 Toyota Previa van.
Favorite book you recommend to other people.
Malcolm Gladwell’s “Blink.” Not that I think it’s the greatest book ever, but find it to be an appropriate ‘business-casual’ (i.e. not intellectually dense, but still thought provoking) book recommendation.
Favorite old school mail order catalogue
In futility
Favorite canine actor
Eddie from Frasier-his staredowns with Kelsey Grammer were hilarious.
Your favorite running race that you’ve personally competed in
4X100 relay. I was fastest of the slow kids, but dynamite out of the blocks. So I was lead off after the slowest of the fast kids got injured.
Favorite Ronnie James Dio band/album/project.
Mask of the Great Deceiver, with Kerry Livgren of Kansas
favorite show of defiance
When Henry Ford II tried to buy Ferrari, but Enzo Ferrari just jerked him around, Ford then dumped tons of money into the GT40 project to just to beat him at LeMans out of spite.
Favorite artificial sweetener
Stevia. Yeah yeah, I’m intentionally reading this as ‘sugar substitute’ when the words ‘artificial sweetener’ clearly were used. I always did have trouble following directions but I believe the response fills the spirit of the intent, if not the letter.
Favorite film sequel that has a number or roman numeral in the title
Malcolm X
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A. It’s the first & it’s very useful (despite my not using it even once in this sentence)!
Favorite consonant?
X. X makes everything sound cool. Or Alien, which is also cool.
Favorite dipthong
The one in Portuguese that forms the plural of -ção words, like Refeições. Pronounced “soinsh”.
Favorite silent letter.
F
Favorite ice cream-based dessert
Peanut Buster Parfait.
Favorite TV show that was a spin-off.
NCIS Spun off from JAG
Favorite ST:TOS character?
James T. Kirk, baby, all the way!
Favorite ST:TNG character?
Picard, baby! (Unless 7 of 9 was in that one. Was She? )
Favorite thing to waste $300 you won on a scratcher you found in the clutches of a dead hobo that you may, or may not have just killed.
I’d probably use the $300 to pay some bills; but if you want me to “waste” it, I’d spend the day at the track. Hey, maybe I’d leave with more than $300!
Favorite kind of gambling (sports, cards, dice, horses, slots, etc.)?
Horses. Cheapest per-hour entertainment. A day at the races for a few 2-buck tickets.
Favorite realistic total check-in weight of your flight baggage.