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[camwyn]

And again, stolen from paradisacorbasi:

- Leave a comment saying "ORANGES" (or any other fruit of your choice)
- I'll respond by asking you five question.
- Update your journal with the answers to your questions.
- Include this explanation and offer to ask other people questions, if you so choose.

Here's my answers to her questions.

1. Aha, you mentioned no fruit. That behooves me to ask what your favourite fruit is!

Among fruits that I can actually eat without issues these days? Apples. Among fruits that make me make the sadface because they are high in oxalates and I am trying to avoid that so as to not build a new kidney stone? Blueberries.

2. What got you into RPing originally?

I could be wrong, as it was a very long time ago, but I'm almost sure it was someone giving me a copy of the Dungeons and Dragons box set available in 1983/1984, the one so old that 'elf' was a character class. I was fascinated by the dice, I remember that. I'm not sure whether they gave me the game set first or whether I encountered my cousin David's D&D books first- if it was David's stuff then I kinda got entranced by reading the Monster Manual, especially the part on dragons. It kinda went on from there.

3. Which Muppet is your favourite?

I'd love to say Yoda, but I think I’m going to go with Grover here. Or, just possibly, Beaker.

4. Star Wars or Star Trek?

If I don't have to deal with the EU, Star Wars. I'll even put up with the prequels, but there's just so much EU that it makes me cry to think about it, and deep down at heart I still wanna be a Jedi.

5. Do you have any guilty pleasure movies, tv shows or songs and if so, what are they?

I love Chinese Guys Kicking Each Other In The Head movies, but I'm not sure that counts for guilty pleasure. I'm very fond of "Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron" and "Snoopy's Christmas Carol" no matter how much my mother rolls her eyes and mutters about the stupid when radio stations play either one.

Comments

[lienne.livejournal.com]

APRICOTS

[camwyn]

1. What's your favorite kind of climate for vacations? Whether you actually get to do so or not.

2. When you were little, what did you plan to be when you grew up? Still got anything like that idea?

3. A friend of mine not on LJ says that there are two types of people in the world: chocolate people and cheese people. If you had to give up either all kinds of chocolate, ever, or all kinds of cheese, ever, which would it be?

4. What's the worst book or movie that you've ever managed to slog your way through? Your own definition of 'worst', of course.

5. After eating a bowl of Cadbury eggs on a dare and passing out from the sugar rush you wake up and discover that you somehow got yourself into elected office in the process. What office, what country, and do you keep the position or not?

[lienne.livejournal.com]

ding! (http://lienne.livejournal.com/298262.html)

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

Raspberries. ^^

(And I'll mention the latest on diet vs. kidney stones, since Jim just went in after his last go-round. They're suggesting lemonaide. Seriously. Stay tuned.)

[camwyn]

My doctor put me on lemonade after the kidney stone last May. Cranberry juice was okay too, he said, but he strongly recommended lemonade. which I can live with as my sweet beverage of choice, really.

Anyway.

1. Tea or coffee?

2. If you could visit anywhere in the world for a vacation someone else was paying for, but it would only last three days, where would you go?

3. What's the oldest thing you own?

4. If you're going on a long trip via airplane or bus or some other means of transport where you don't have to be at the helm, do you bring reading material with you or something else to occupy you? And if it's reading material, is it the same sort of thing you'd normally read, or do you have any kind of special category for 'airport books' or the like?

5. One major area of study you'd like to learn more about?

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

On its way now!

[umi-mikazuki.livejournal.com]

POMEGRANATES.

[camwyn]

Say hi to Persephone for me.

1. I should've asked this a long time ago. What exactly is the difference between a bozak and a baaz draconian?

2. What's your favourite genre of RP, or barring an ability to decide on that, your favourite system?

3. What one technological invention would you feel most miserable without if you had to go without it for a year? Whether or not it was legitimately the most important.

4. What band, performer, orchestra, composer, or production studio occupies the most space in your music library?

5. You have been issued a one-shot Medallion of Jean Grey. If you are wearing it while doing something dangerous that gets you killed, you will be revived five minutes later in the nearest body of water, cold, wet, and miserable, but alive and able to haul yourself out without any discernible injuries or other issues. How do you use this medallion?

[ceitfianna]

Kiwifruit!

[camwyn]

1. Congratulations, the FCC has decided for some reason that you get to write their definition of 'offensive or obscene' material as it pertains to prime time television and/or FM radio. What do you tell them?

2. Someone has just discovered a trove of lost or never-before-seen material written by one dead author or poet or playwright with whom you are familiar. Whose body of work has the world just seen double in size?

3. What's your favorite mode of transportation?

4. What area of study would you like to pursue at a collegiate level, other than whatever college studies you've already had?

5. If you could change one thing about the human body, what would it be?

[zwol.livejournal.com]

Bergamot!

[camwyn]

1. While visiting a college, university, technical institute, or other such house of higher learning of your acquaintance, you are present when someone moves a large heavy piece of furniture and discovers the door to a previously unknown room hidden behind it. There is Cool Stuff inside it that has not been disturbed for years. What school, and what did they put in there?

2. One city in the United States or Canada disappears from the face of the Earth and is replaced twenty-four hours later by its counterpart from the Mirror Universe. What city, and what's it like now?

3. What do you consider really unforgivable behavior in a politician? If you don't feel like answering that one, what do you consider really unforgivable behavior in the subject of a reality tv program such as Deadliest Catch or Cake Boss (as opposed to reality game shows).

4. What do you consider the most important reference book you own and/or use on a regular basis?

5. What's the silliest thing you've done in the past six months?

[zwol.livejournal.com]

Posted! (http://zwol.livejournal.com/85594.html) Sorry to take so long about it. These were fun to write. And sorry about following up to the wrong prompt, too.

[minkhollow]

GRAPES.

[camwyn]

1. Congratulations, you've been bitten by a radioactive piece of radioactive material and have gained one superpower as a result. However, it was your smoke alarm and the piece of americium inside was kind of tiny, so it's a second string superpower on the order of those seen in the title characters of the Mystery Men movie. What'd you get, and how do you plan to use it?

2. What's one food you won't eat? Short of, y'know, starving or the like.

3. What's one movie or TV decision or action you can think of that leaves you wanting to yell at the character to NOT DO THAT, DO SOMETHING ELSE every time it happens?

4. Your favorite season of the year?

5. If you could suddenly manifest the talent necessary to play the right instrument or sing the appropriate songs for one band or orchestra or production company, what band/orchestra/company would it be, and would it be for studio recording or a live tour?

[minkhollow]

And done!

[dragonwhishes.livejournal.com]

Raspberries!

[camwyn]

1. You're in Oz. You aren't aware of the Wizard's true nature yet, so you're going to go ask him for something. What are you asking him for?

2. What's one craft skill you'd like to learn?

3. One comic book or movie character suddenly becomes manifest in the real world. They have all their powers, knowledge, and abilities, but nothing else about their world has become real- no other characters show up, no shadow organizations exist that didn't exist in our world already, no demons or gods or anything come along, no alien empires turn out to exist even if the character is from an alien empire. Who is it? What happens next?

4. You have been given a button that activates something very much like the Omega-13 device from Galaxy Quest. It allows you to rewind time, but only enough to undo one mistake. How do you use it, assuming that you do?

5. If you could establish a large, attractive home anywhere in the world and have it all taken care of and looked after without having to worry about the bills or cost of living, where would you do so, and what would your home be like?

[the_croupier]

Oh my god, I got into RP in the exact same way you did and about the same time (courtesy of my parents, though, and completely out of the blue).

I still had my red and blue boxes too, until they got trashed in a flood not all that long ago (along with nearly all my AD&D stuff). Still bummed about that.

[camwyn]

I don't remember whether it was a gift fro my parents, from David's parents, or from a Dominican sister of my acquaintance. I do know that Sister Vicki eventually gave me a set of lead figurines of female D&D characters. The Fighter's sword broke off and the magic-user had a ridiculous dress and a pet cougar or something, but I remember rather liking the dwarf and the archer, and the cleric had a nice hammer or mace or something.

[the_croupier]

And it just gets more surreal, because I have those too. =)


Did a dreadful job of trying to paint them, though. I have my moments, but most of the figs I try to paint go horribly wrong.

[camwyn]

I only ever tried to paint the archer. Mostly because one of my friends insisted that she was topless even though I could see a neckline and cuffs, and I wanted them to shut up.