Saturday, August 30, 2008

Filler Meme Crapfest

Hey, Maria! Where have all the memes gone? You used to churn out those things like a politician churns out lies.
Savannah posted a book meme recently but I'd already done that one ages ago.
Bummer.
What on earth am I going to do for filler crap without a completely pointless meme to play with?

Sigh …
Better write my own dumb crapfest.
Eyes down for Twenty Dive Questions.

Hokay, the usual meme rules apply: yadda yadda yadda, so feel free to ignore them.
A lot of this is even lamer than usual as I am feeling spectacularly uninspired right now.
I'll post my own answers in a little while.
Have a go yourself if you're feeling so bored that you might otherwise gnaw off your own arm for something better to do.

1. When you were in the womb, what was the weird food your mother craved?

2. If you had to kill a fellow blogger, who would it be and why?
And no weaselling out of it. You've got to choose one of us and pull that trigger. C'mon! Have a little fun!

3. Do you own a pair of "cargo pants"? If so, do you know how fucking stupid you look wearing them?

4. There has to be a "who would you shag" question in these stupid things so let's make it personal: Which ONE resident of our little town of Blogville would you sleep with and why?

5. Possibly linked to the above, which present from a prospective suitor would most impress you?
(a) jewellery
(b) flowers
(c) shoes
(d) a book token

(e) an erotically-shaped vegetable
(f) other (please specify)
I ask merely for information … ahem.

6. Which acting parts were you forced to play on stage back at school?
Be honest; we're looking for embarrassment here. Full stories, please.

7. Hokay kids, let's talk phobias. What totally fucking freaks you out and leaves you whimpering for you mother?

8. Which great opponent of Cartesian dualism resists the reduction of psychological phenomena to a physical state and insists there is no point of contact between the extended and the unextended?

Yes, of course it's Henri Bergson, but can you spot the quote? … (and no, it is NOT Cardinal Fang of the Spanish Inquisition as his version of that particular question stopped at "physical state"). I expect only Phil to get this one.

9. How many fluffy, rubbery, plastic, wind-up, edible or just plain strange creatures inhabit your personal workspace and what are they?

10. Memes are hard work to write. I am SO running out of ideas here … How about: Do you personally find your own genitalia attractive?

11. Here's a topical one as the Olympics have just finished: Naked, greased and sent up to your room: Mark Spitz or Michael Phelps?

12. Great on-screen love affairs. Fess up; which one gets you hot/moist/whatever?

13. Still on movies, who would you have play you in your bipoic?

14. What's your regular coffee shop order?

15. Give it up with two of life's great mysteries.

16. What's the most disgusting thing you've ever eaten? We'll exclude "my own semen" from this for reasons well known to trawlers of my archives.

17. Clowns; do they make you:
(a) Laugh,
(b) Sudder,
(c) Horny?

18. Who was the last person you told to "Fuck off!"?

19. An alphabet of "Who's the best" …
(a) Bond?
(b) Batman?
(c) Monster in Gojira movies (other than the rubbery one himself)?
(d) Member of Village People?
(e) Member of the Banana Splits?
(f) Simpsons supporting cast member?
(g) Beatle?
(h) Magnificent Seven character?
(i) Frasier or Niles?
(j) Character in Doonesebury (my primary source for US politics since around 1970)?
(k) Osmond?
(l) Disney baddie?
(m) Bond Girl?
(n) Bond villian?
(o) Member of the Partridge Family?
(p) Radio DJ?
(q) Non-monotheistic deity?
(r) Fictional deity?
(s) Monkee?
(t) Witch: Samantha off "Bewitched", Hermione Granger or Willow Rosenberg?
(u) M.A.S.H. character?
(v) Flintstone?
(w) Tom or Ray, off Car Talk?
(x) Jackson?
(y) Jedi?
(z) Member of your household?

20. An alphabet of "Who's the crappest" …
(a) Bond?
(b) Batman?
(c) Monster in Gojira movies?
(d) Member of Village People?
(e) Member of the Banana Splits?
(f) Simpsons supporting cast member?
(g) Beatle?
(h) Magnificent Seven character?
(i) Frasier or Niles?
(j) Character in Doonesebury?
(k) Osmond?
(l) Disney baddie?
(m) Bond Girl?
(n) Bond villian?
(o) Member of the Partridge Family?
(p) Radio DJ?
(q) Non-monotheistic deity? .
(r) Fictional deity?
(s) Monkee?
(t) Witch: Samantha off "Bewitched", Hermione Grainger or Willow Rosenberg?
(u) M.A.S.H. character?
(v) Flintstone?
(w) Tom or Ray, off Car Talk?
(x) Jackson? .
(y) Jedi?
(z) Member of your household?

14 comments:

savannah said...

i swear, sugar, you are too damn funny! if i weren't so incredibly hungover, i'm might try and answer some of these! ;-) xoxox

(#4 is you, of course!)

dive said...

Hee hee, Savannah.
Hey, hungover sounds like you're having a good time this weekend.
Yay for you!
xoxox

Katie said...

I was supposed to leave 15 minutes ago to head to my Mom's house to pick vegetables from her garden while she's on vacation but I thought I'd pop in real quick to see what you're up to on a Saturday, and you throw this quiz at us? This could take hours to answer! I'll answer three quick ones, just so you don't think I'm lame:

9. A teeny lobster sitting on a rock that I got in Maine from the restaurant where I worked in 1985.

11. Mark Spitz (but circa 1972 of course). This will get me thinking happy thoughts all day!

14. A mug of regular coffee (with lots of cream and a bit of sugar), a lemon poppyseed scone, and the New York Times. My barrista pal Vera had the mug of coffee poured as soon as I walked in the door this morning.

dive said...

Eek! Tell your mom it's all my fault, Katie.

Aaaah. That lobster sounds kinda cute. As does Mark Spitz circa 1972, though I'm not so sure about sugar in coffee. Eww!

Maria said...

Damn, you are good at this. You should go into the meme business.

Because, for the first time in a very long time, I would actually ENJOY reading all of my Blogville friend's answers. Well, as long as they don't pick me to be the one they off.

I want to hear YOUR answers, friend.

neetzy said...

Weird shit is in your brain Dive! Do we have to answer all the questions? I've got to agree with Katie...Mark Spitz was much hotter than Michael.

Jules said...

couple of quickies
3. no - i never have!!!!
4. not saying - he! he! he!
5. (3)
6. one of the three little pigs, Cinderella, Miss Muffet, Sleeping Beauty - had to kiss this kid called Trent - he was sweet and thank goodness didn't slip the lizard!!!
7. big hairy anything - but mainly spiders and excluding Mark in quest 11
8. Phil's not the only Monty Python groupie!!!!
9. my boss
14. gin & tonic
16. sea cucumber - relates to quest 5

God I'm exhausted - will try some more later!!!

Katie said...

Dive don't worry about my mom. I watered her garden, and picked 10 pounds of tomatoes, zucchini, melon, eggplant and beans. Do I win any points back for not taking sugar in my tea?

Jules you are a hoot an a half and I simply MUST plan a trip to PNG to visit you in person! I especially want to go coffee shop hopping with you!

Here are a few more of my answers, now that I've had two glasses of a red and 3 squares of a Chef-Crafted Belgian Milk Chocolate bar with Ultra-Gourmet Popcorn:

5. A book token.
6. Lead monkey in The Wizard of Oz, age 11. No spoken lines, but I got to knock over other cast members and drag them off stage. Oh to have video!
8. I don't know much about Henri Bergson, but I know that Hegel argues that the reality is more an a priori adjunct of non-naturalistic ethics.
12.Daniel Day-Lewis and Lena Olin in The Unbearable Lightness of Being. If either one of them said "Take off your clothes!" I would.
18(f). Endora
18(u). B.J.

Jules said...

Hi Kaie - any time - you are most welcome. Only thing is there are no coffee shops here so we'll just have to drink G & T's on the veranda and watch the sunset!!!

Dive - can I borrow one of your photos of M & Mme B for my blog tomorrow????

PS
12. Has to be Al Pacino and Ellen Barkin against the wall in Sea of Love - Oh God!!!!
13. Ellen Barkin

dive said...

Maria: Nobody in their right mind would take out a contract on ypu … er … except maybe Bing if you don't straighten those towels.

Neetzy: Weird shit indeedy. And it's looking like a landslide for Mark Spitz (even I chose him).

Hi, Jules:
3. Thank God!
4. Chicken!
5. Women are so predictable (OW)!
6. Ew! That's such an icky phrase at breakfast time.
7. Mmmmmm … That tache!
8. Well spotted!
9. Hahahahaha!
14. I wish I could get that in mine!
16. Yummy!

Katie, you win back points (and taste) for not taking sugar in tea. Gosh, I'm jealous of your mom's garden (though I am a little overrun by tomatoes and green beans myself).
"Ultra gourmet" popcorn?
… "ULTRA GOURMET"?!?!?!

Yay for book tokens! I chose that one, too. One can never have enough books (as I keep telling people who visit my house and say "What is this? A fucking library?"

WOW! I am insanely jealous that you got to be lead monkey! That earns you one hundred "cool points" right away!

The Henri Bergson answer will be revealed today.

And three resounding "yup"s for your remaining answers. Ooooh, Lena Olin …

Jules: You may take anything yopu want off my blog; photos, profanity, whatever.
That goes for the rest of you, too.

Oooh! I'd forgotten Sea of Love. That sure was sweet.

neetzy said...

Dive,

This was too much fun to not respond to but I can only answer a few at a time. I wrote down a few responses that immediately came to mind.
9. Plastic Jesus, Headless Barbie, Plastic Spongebob & Daggett from the Angry Beavers.
13. Janine Garafalo (sp?)
19 a. Connery without a doubt
b. Adam West
f. Lisa
g. John
i. Frasier
j. Zonker
q. r. The Force
s. Davy Jones
t. Hermoine
20 a. Roger Moore
b. All the new ones except Michael Keaton
g. Ringo
s. Mickey
(sorry, I keep forgetting the other questions.

dive said...

A plastic Jesus and a headless Barbie, Neetzy? That is a truly creepy couple.

Janeane Garofolo, eh? I've got a kind of thing for her. She was hilarious in Mystery Men.

Nice to see another vote for Zonker, too.

Excellent answers. There are loads more memes in the archives if you want some brainless or self-abusive fun.

neetzy said...

Well, when you're looking for fellow bloggers to shag...consider who's playing thier biopic!

dive said...

Hee hee. Good point!