Well, I hear quite a few in court, but otherwise no, so I'll say false.
TNP has defended himself or herself in court.
Well, I hear quite a few in court, but otherwise no, so I'll say false.
TNP has defended himself or herself in court.
True, but only for minor traffic offenses.
TNP has been plaintiff in a civil suit.
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Nope. Like most lawyers, I will bear almost any indignity rather than sue anybody myself.
TNP feels that the number of computers they have in the house has started to become just a little bizarre.
False at present, but we're getting there: laptops for artifex and me, a netbook for the kidlet, and an ancient desktop that rarely gets booted up but is kept around because it has so much stuff on it.
TNP once owned a pager.
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Never did.
TNP once had a home fax machine.
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No, just fax software on the computer.
TNP likes to keep hand sanitizer around.
False, I prefer to just wash my hands and let my immune system bat cleanup.
TNP carries around a water bottle.
False, at least in most situations; I'm not tap water averse or particularly germophobic, so the water fountains at my office and the glassware in my home are adequate to my needs.
TNP knows how to play Texas Hold 'Em.
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Not unless it involves girls in cowboy hats, no.
TNP has never played poker.
As kids playing around, true. Professionally or for money, false.
TNP has won money in a casino
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
True, in terms of single discrete events consisting of me collecting money from a machine or a hand of cards at a table. I've never "won money at a casino" in the sense of walking out the door ahead of the house.
TNP can write legibly with their off hand.
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True, but it looks goofy.
TNP can play the piano.
True, but barely. Many years of lessons, and very little of it stuck.
(A favorite fun fact: James A. Garfield was both multilingual and ambidextrous, and could write Latin and Greek simultaneously).
TNP has visited Garfield's tomb at Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Garfield_Memorial
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False. Isn't it interesting how the most empirically intelligent men to serve as President have often been the more unremarkable ones in the discharge of that office?
TNP has been to Arlington Cemetery and seen the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
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Correct.
TNP knows what first name the first three Union soldiers to be buried in Arlington shared.
False, I'm not enough of a Civil War history buff for that.
TNP has been to Gettysburg, PA.
True, three times that I recall. And all three of the Arlington soldiers had the first name "William."
TNP knows at least three Williams.
Not anymore, I don't think, but I know a lot of people on at least a casual basis.
TNP has killed a rat.
Mice, yes; rats, no.
TNP is skeeved out by rats.
Big time. Big time.
TNP has an aquarium.
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No. Had one when I was a kid.
TNP has a cactus in the house.
False, although I think we used to. A very small one.
TNP has been jabbed by a cactus which drew blood.
True; I worked in the indoor garden department of the Home Depot for a couple of years. In receiving a truckload of cacti, as we did every few weeks, a couple of bleeding puncture wounds was par for the course. Honestly, roses were worse.
TNP has a song currently stuck in his or her head.
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False at the moment, although this one has been a favorite recent earworm:
TNP had already heard that song.
False, I had not.
TNP likes Gregorian Chant.
It's always cool when I hear some, but I couldn't imagine buying an album, or going out of my way to attend a performance.
TNP has taken a bath (as opposed to shower) in the past week.
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False. I haven't taken a bath in, jeez, years.
TNP has a favorite brand of soap.
True, I'm partial to Crazy Dr. Bronner's.
TNP has dyed their hair.
True, frequently throughout my young life, but most recently a week after splitting from my first wife in 2005. Fresh start. Drop baggage. Yeah.
TNP can trace their genealogy back to someone at least four generations back.
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False, I can do two generations.
TNP thinks music from 20 years ago is better than music today?
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
False. 1992 wasn't all that great a year for music IMHO, and I like a lot of contemporary music.
TNP voted in the 1992 U.S. presidential election.
True: by absentee ballot, since I was in the Mormon missionary training center at the time...and for Bush Sr. *insert facepalm smiley here*
TNP has all of their wisdom teeth.
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True, but I wish I didn't. Oral surgery becomes logistically complicated when you're single and not living near any family.
TNP hates going to the dentist.
Both True and False. The dentist is great, but the journey there is far too time consuming. His practice is quite a distance away.
TNP is scared of being injected.
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
False, I have no problems with needles.
TNP has donated blood.
No. (Hangs head in shame.)
TNP is tired o' livin' and skeered o' dyin'.
False in both cases. (Well, it's easy to say I ain't skeered o' dyin', when it isn't staring me in the face. Maybe I'd change my tune in a mugging or in an oncologist's office.)
TNP owns more than one pair of gloves.
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True, I think. I haven't had occasion to look in years, though.
TNP owns, and wears on a regular basis, a hat that is not a baseball cap.
True. I wear a straw cowboy hat frequently on weekends in the warmer months. It's a Texas thing, and unironic. I actually haven't owned a baseball hat in a decade.
TNP has nail polish on right now.
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False. One of those girly things I never learned to do.
TNP is hungry.
Hell yes.
TNP is, in some cases, a pre-taste food salter.
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Very, very rarely. My mom told me always to taste it first, and I almost always do. For that matter, it's rare that I add salt even after tasting.
TNP prefers salty to sweet foods.
Vastly, and it has been so ever since I was a kid. Never had much of a sweet tooth. My parents thought I was weird for eschewing syrup on my pancakes; I'd just butter them, fold them in half like a taco, and have at them with my hands. (At home only!)
TNP grew up in a house with a smoker.
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Fortunately false. My mom smoked a little in her youth, but had quit by the time I came along. My dad never smoked at all.
TNP knows someone who's having a hard time quitting smoking.
Not currently, but it took my dad more than a decade of trying before he finally kicked the habit.
TNP has smoked clove cigarettes.
False. I've had a puff or two from cigars, and that's it.
TNP likes whiskey neat.
True. I like it messy, too.
TNP dislikes gin.
False, I'm a big gin fan. Martinis, gin and tonic, or just on the rocks.
TNP has noticeable gray hair.
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/sigh/. Yeah.
TNP has been looking at the listings for new jobs lately.