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    No, not one.

    TNP is not the sentimental type.

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    False. I can get pretty sentimental about stuff (and have been back for two or three high school reunions).

    TNP has three coffee mugs within arm's reach.

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    No. One mug to rule them all.

    TNP cannot abide a desk without a flagon of water on its breadth, in suitable, manly proportions.

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    Nah, I get by with a cup of coffee or one glass of water.

    TNP is pretty much incapable of keeping a neat desk.

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    No, my desks at home and at court are both pretty neat.

    TNP has been to court in the past month.

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    No, it's been years.

    TNP has stayed in a hotel in the past month.

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    No, more like six months.

    TNP has been to a bar or bat mitzvah in the past year.

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    No. I don't get invited to stuff like that anymore.

    TNP takes the Lenten period seriously.

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    No, can't say as I do.

    TNP knows someone who has given something up for Lent.

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    Yes, several people. I never do, though (other than some occasional fasting).

    TNP wants to fly to Wakanda: https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/21/enter...rnd/index.html

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    No. I'm on a BA Barracus kick about not using airplanes unless anesthetized, rendered unconscious, and packed in a heated crypt in the cargo hold. Or absolutely forced to under duress.

    TNP was disappointed to hear Wakanda was something about some comic book, and not some mighty, righteous revival of the Black Panther Party.

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    Not until now...

    TNP takes blood pressure meds.

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    No, I've always had low blood pressure.

    TNP has given blood in the past two months.

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    Somebody's cat scratched me, but the cat did not consume the blood.

    TNP thinks Pon Farr is the price Vulcans pay for their strict adherence to logic and discipline at the expense of their emotions.

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    Yup, pretty much. The birds and the bees....

    TNP could go for a nice bowl of plomeek soup right about now.

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    Hey! English please! Anyway, I'm only a junior-grade nerd, having just learned some details of . No, I'll pass, not much for soup in general. And, although I don't doubt the Vulcan's rich culture, I somehow am not confident that their food is all that.

    TNP is a little too good at inadvertently being "mean" to weenies on line.
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    Nah, I don't think so, although you never know what will set people off.

    TNP has witnessed a particularly epic piece of trolling in the past week.

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    Fortunately no.

    TNP is yearning to go surfing.

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    I'm yearning to sit fully in the shade on a beach, drink beer, and watch girls pretend to surf, while plotting the destruction of their male companions, and choosing which of the women will be most suitable as mates.

    TNP is better than Ben Gazzara in Road House at driving an automobile, but equal or better than Rain Man at the same activity.
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    I guess I am, dadgummit.

    TNP has actually said the word "dadgummit" out loud in the past month.

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    No, nor "consarnit" nor anything else suchlike.

    TNP was aware that Manny Pacquiao is either a mere 38 years of age or he might be returning to the ring this year.

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    I hadn't quite realized that's all he is, but I always assume boxing retirements are bogus.

    TNP has watched a fight on Pay-per-view.

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    Nope. Never have - maybe someday, but I doubt it. Just not my thing.

    TNP has been in a fistfight.

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    Not the kind you're probably thinking of -- close, but never got to fists/shoving.

    TNP can decide which accent is more ridiculous: Scotty or Chekov?

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    Chekov by a parsec.

    TNP would like to have a hand phaser, but would promise always to keep it set on "stun."

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    I will make no such promise

    TNP thinks it's odd that they often make use of cutting edge space age technology in order to find out where their pizza delivery guy is.

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    Nah. Even the most advanced tech sooner or later will be put to the most prosaic of purposes.

    TNP has used the word "prosaic" in the past month.

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    Welcome to Prosaic, a vibrant community where commerce, technology, and family work hand-in-hand! No, I have not, neither out loud, in inner monologue, or in writing.

    TNP has, for non-trivial reasons, a chance to learn a few items about modern Greek in the past month.

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    No, I can't say as I have.

    TNP likes this song:

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    Actually, I like that quite a bit. Thanks! Nice trap drums and percussion, solid two-fisted piano -- those guys hold down the groove just like champs.

    TNP could go the rest of his or her life without ever hearing another song by The Grateful Dead or Steely Dan.

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    The Dead, pretty much, but I likes me some Steely Dan, esp. "My Old School."

    TNP went to church this morning.

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    Not really, no. I thought about mortification of the flesh, though. I'm pretty that counts as partial credit. Still, a mortal sin to miss mass, but hey, I've kind of stacked up quite a few. I did make a few rounds through the rosary in the universal language, though, just for fun the other day.

    TNP has an opinion on The Conquest (of Canada by the British, ca. 1759-1760) and whether it was good for present-day Québec, say, or the proto-US colonists.

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    My opinion on it is heavily coloured by it making my current life possible, can't really take a big picture view.

    TNP didn't watch the Oscars until the end.

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    No. I didn't know it was the Oscars last night until I checked Bing at 0315 this morning.

    TNP thinks the NFL and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences are equally interesting -- some companies selling some art-like products.
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    Yeah, kinda sorta. Neither is pure art or pure sport, but there are elements of both in each in varying measures.

    TNP has seen at least three of the nine Oscar Best Picture nominees.

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    No, just two, as far as I can recall, and I watch a fair number of movies.

    TNP thinks Get Out! was a genuinely great movie.

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    Didn't see it, but it sounds like a clever (if deeply weird) concept.

    TNP has seen (as I have) Darkest Hour, Dunkirk and The Post.

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    No, I saw *Dunkirk* but I don't remember it. IOW, it was, to me, unmemorable.

    TNP can think of a recent time when a very large company's HR+upper management are lacking in (i) lower-level human resources (ii) organizational coherence. And will explain, although explanation may be excised from TNP's report. TNP will explain.

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    No, I can't, sorry. I've never worked for a very large company.

    TNP likes Vivaldi's Four Seasons:

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    Yeah. I haven't heard it in ages, and I don't have any kind of detailed knowledge of the suite, but there are worse things to listen to.

    TNP is of the personality type that does not thrive when there are too many aspects of interpersonal relationships that require attention. Please interpret "thrive" however you like -- that's the main reason I chose to use a flexible, kind of open-ended term.

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    I'd say that's accurate. Fortunately my wife, sons and friends are all pretty much low-maintenance.

    TNP has been swimming in the past two weeks.

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    No. Never.

    TNP has had the amusing experience of watching a parent near death in various ICU wards, and would characterize the experience as both instructive and tiring.

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    Fortunately not. But my parents are getting on in years, so I dread the day that may come.

    You've never been swimming, Jizz? Or just in the past two weeks?

    TNP knows at least three doctors.

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    Yeah, I'm pretty sure socially at least three, and, well, wider circle, yeah, of course. I like doctors of medicine, as a rule -- they tend to speak so I can understand, and they're not fancy, as a rule. At least IME.

    TNP thinks this is a funny thing to post to Facebook:

    I am fully expecting to be fired tomorrow when I report to work, on time, prepared, as I always am.

    Remember Jack Lemmon in The Out-of-Towners? Yeah, well I don't have Felicia Farr to bone afterwards, but you best believe I have pen and pencil and every person I talk to, "Sorry, could I get your name please."

    Damned right.

    Papa don't take no mess.

    No stuff.

    Not taking any shit from some cracker asshole in no goddamned Portland fucking Oregon, excuse my French.

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    Yeah, kinda. Did Rex Tillerson post that?

    Please see the second line of post 6893, Jizz.

    TNP can actually speak conversational French.

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    Oh, no I know in theory how to dogpaddle, and I probably wouldn't die if thrown overboard. In fact I've done some water sports, like innertubing, dragged behind a motorboat, etc., just for fun, and didn't die. I just don't like it, and I don't know all the basics, butterfly, crawls and all that.

    I don't know who Rex Tillerson is -- I posted it and "wrote" it, if you can call that writing.

    about the latest TNP -- yeah. I only have two real groups of people I can talk to in French -- snotty Francophone academic types using an educated, formal register, and cretins you find in a café drinking beer at 0700 in the morning and other people in the street.

    I know all the grammar, and the correct ways, and have a pretty large fancy vocabulary, I just prefer to just chit-chat, nice and easy -- it works out. I speak and write FR like a pig kind of, pretty sloppy, but nobody's ever complained.

    TNP has been recently pleased by getting to know some new coworkers at his or her paygrade, and was surprised they're pretty chilled-out (to me, that means cool), as well as hard workers.
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    Quote Originally posted by Jizzelbin View post
    Yeah, I'm pretty sure socially at least three, and, well, wider circle, yeah, of course.
    Disregard -- I was responding thinking of people with doctorates in medicine, instead of doctors of law or of other disicplines. I suppose that's the default in Amer. Engl., to consider "doctor" to mean someone with a doctorate in medicine.

    Never mind, I'm easily confused.

    So, yeah, the answer still stands.

    However, I happen to not find doctors of non-medical disciplines to be quite as easy-going. Perhaps, as a rule, slightly "edgy" (in a bad way), but yeah, those are most of my friends, doctors of various disciplines.

    And I don't have any RL friends who are doctors of law, although I guess I know a few -- not really friends, though, IRL.
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    Quote Originally posted by Jizzelbin View post
    ...TNP has been recently pleased by getting to know some new coworkers at his or her paygrade, and was surprised they're pretty chilled-out (to me, that means cool), as well as hard workers.
    No, I work in a relatively small office and know everyone pretty well already.

    TNP will be traveling this weekend.

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    Hope not.

    TNP detests surprises, in general.

    Here's a better one, but feel free to choose: TNP has been recently SHOCKED, shocked I tell you that supposedly reasonable people don't immediately understand when you use the 24-hour clock with them -- you know, 19h00 == 7:00pm. I can adapt, it just seems ridiculous to not use the better clock.
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    Oh, in case I inadvertently offended anyone, here's a simple way: just subtract twelve from any hour greater than twelve.

    Don't worry! You'll get the hang of the superior way of "telling time," I have no doubt.

    And, no, it's not fancy, it's just easier. Much like it's easier to know "alpha bravo...echo foxtrot golf....uniform x-ray.." i.e., NATO phonetic alphabet than it is to keep fumbling around looking for words to spell stuff "'a' as in apple, 'b' as in boy" etc. Well, that doesn't matter, I just choose to not use my diminishing gray cells using a slapdash "system," so I use the real one.
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