True, although I prefer sushi.
TNP likes liverwurst.
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True, although I prefer sushi.
TNP likes liverwurst.
I don't love it, but I can enjoy it once in a while.
TNP has milked an animal.
True, at an open-to-visitors dairy farm once. Haven't thought about that in years!
TNP has been badly injured by an animal.
False. I was bitten by a dog or two as a kid, but never even a skin break to raise the specter of rabies. Hell, I've never been seriously injured, period. Just lucky.
TNP has looked in one of his or her high school yearbooks within the past year.
Nah, have no idea where I would even find one.
TNP would sooner spend four years in Gitmo than their old high school.
False. My freshman year was pretty unpleasant (I went to a five-day boarding school, and there were some bigtime jerks in my hall), but the rest of the time I had a blast and learned a lot. I'm still in touch with five of my high school buddies, one of whom is visiting us from out of town this weekend with his family.
TNP has a basement which could stand some cleaning and/or reorganizing.
False, I don't have a basement. My closet, on the other hand ...
TNP gets next Monday off from work.
Correct. One of the nice things about being a public servant.
TNP hates going to the post office.
True, and I go every weekday. :P
TNP has a discount card for a grocery store in their wallet/purse/keychain.
Hmm...loyalty card, anyway...doesn't get me immediate discounts, but points that add up to discounts.
TNP has a whole bunch of gift cards in their wallet/purse/whatever.
False, I'm a wallet minimalist and I'm super sensitive to my wallet being bulky. I have my driver's license, my monthly rail pass, my Costco membership card, and three credit/debit cards. Anything more drives me nuts.
TNP has a food allergy.
False, but my 12-year-old can't eat peanuts.
TNP loves peanuts.
No, I can eat them, but they mean nothing to me.
TNP has Skyped.
True, but I haven't set it up on my own computer yet.
TNP has a blog.
False. I have LJ and Blogspot accounts, but only so that I could comment to other people's blogs. I blogged fairly regularly in the MySpace days, but in these heady days of FB and Twitter, update-when-you-poop, update-again-when-you-wipe, what's the point?
TNP likes edamame.
Not particularly, but I may be associating it too much with the crapy restaurant I got dragged to too much by co-workers who liked it for no discernible reason.
TNP likes steak tartare.
Never tried it, but I doubt I'd like it. I prefer my steak medium rare.
TNP sat in front of a roaring fire today.
No, but man, that sounds nice right now.
TNP has had a concussion.
False, fortunately.
TNP has worn an eyepatch for medical reasons.
False; the worst I've had was transparent shields for 24 hours after my LASIK.
TNP has worn a hard cast.
Yeah. On my left arm. Long time ago.
TNP has been involved in a serious auto wreck.
Never. I've been incredibly fortunate that way; I've been in some fender benders, including some pretty costly ones, but never rolled a car, totaled a car, or been in an accident where anyone involved was injured.
TNP regularly takes a nutritional supplement other than a basic multivitamin.
No, I can barely remember to take the vitamin every day.
TNP likes granola bars.
No, not big on crunchy stuff.
TNP likes corned beef hash.
Once did, veg. now.
TNP seriously misses a recently cancelled Prime Time drama.
False. Nothing that started this season piqued my interest enough to even start watching.
TNP watches competitive cooking shows.
Yeah, love 'em. "Top Chef", "Chopped", even "Worst Cooks in America".
TNP hates golf.
False. I don't play it, and I would find it boring to watch, but I don't hate it. I just...ignore it.
TNP has one or two unusually frugal things that they do.
Yeah, I save leftovers pretty religiously.
TNP is very conscientious about recycling.
Pretty conscientious, but if I've got a pop can and there's no recyling container around, I'll toss it in the nearest garbage bin. Is that a "no"?
TNP keeps a compost pile.
Unless the midden of autumn leaves and dog shit in the far corner of my yard counts, false. :D
TNP can sew competently.
Erm ... semi-true? I learned how to sew, and I can fix ripped seams and lost buttons and such, but I don't know if I could actually make clothing.
TNP took Home Ec. in middle or high school.
No, I can't even remember if it was possible for boys to take it at the time.
TNP took Shop in middle or high school.
Middle school, yes. I didn't do spectacularly well.
TNP has a postcollegiate degree.
False. Embarrassingly, I don't even have a bachelor's. My 20s were a complete waste. :fail:
TNP has a wish to appear on some game show.
I would love to be on Jeopardy, but I guess not enough to actually learn how to try out or anything. Guess that still qualifies as "has a wish".
TNP has appeared on TV in some capacity.
False, and its not something I have ever felt the urge to do either.
TNP has already failed at their New Years Resolution.
No, because I didn't have any. If I want to change something in my life I don't wait until the calendar tells me it's time.
TNP knew that I'd qualified for Jeopardy! 20 years ago, but was never called to appear on the show.
False, but that's really cool.
TNP doesn't think they could avoid doing a WillFerrel-as-Sean-Connery impression, if they ever met Alex Trebek.
Suck it!!! (True.)
TNP has been to a live taping of a television show.
True. A local TV talk show, and a Comedy Central special featuring, among others, Judy Tenuta ("Worship me, pigs!").
TNP will see just about any Will Ferrell movie that comes out.
Not so much, no.
TNP has been to the zoo in the last month.
False. It's been almost a year, I think.
TNP always makes it a point to see the cheetahs at the zoo.
False, I don't think I've ever been to a zoo that had cheetahs.
Seeing great apes in the zoo makes TNP sad.
Yes, it does, a little. They're probably safer and will live longer than in the wild, but OMFG what a boring life.
TNP thinks Newt could actually win the GOP nomination.
False; I'm surprised at Newt's good showing so far, but Romney's raising close to three times as much money at this point, and that's usually a good indicator of who's going to win out in the primaries.
TNP has received a political "push poll" phone call before.
No, not sure if those have reached Canada.
TNP had unusually vivid dreams last night.
True, and very wierd they were too. Can't remember much of it at all, apart from it being Necromunda based. Shudder.
TNP gets nightmares from eating right before sleeping.
False. But I dreamed there were two rats in my shower this morning. Oddly enough, they had faces like tiny little bobcats. Weird.
TNP likes bobcats.
Yes. I like all cats.
TNP has meetings to go to today.
False, but I would have said the same thing at this time yesterday, only to end up going to two meetings afterwards. How do I love thee, small business? Let me count the ways.
TNP has pets of two or more different species right now.
False, no pets. Small place and allergic family.
TNP has visited a chiropractor.
False; they are quacks and my sister the physical therapist would hit me.
TNP has visited an acupuncturist.
False. Never expect to, either.
TNP will go camping this weekend.
False. Sadly, I haven't been in years. Used to love it.
TNP has sung with some kind of group (group = >1 person) in the last month.
False. I used to sing in choirs, many years ago. I sort of miss it.
TNP plays a musical instrument.
Nah, I can't even play an iPod.
TNP loves Snickers bars.
I do, or I did, but I haven't eaten one in years.
TNP has frozen a candy bar before eating it.
True, and I'm fairly sure the last one I did that to was a Snickers, incidentally. That fluffy nougat stuff is better frozen.
TNP has a can of WD-40 in the house...and it still has the little red straw.
True...I think...I always like to have some around, but I'm not sure about the straw, especially since I may have let my kid spray some.
TNP has more than four screwdrivers at home.
False. I think we just have three (one of which is battery-powered but broken). None of the sonic variety.
TNP gets that reference.
True, although I've never seen any of them.
TNP has no idea what we're talking about.
True, I'm lost. I wouldn't even know what to Google.
TNP carries five or more keys on his or her person.
True. I have no idea what most of them are supposed to open.
TNP has had a fight with a loved one in the past week.
Nope, closest I've come is yelling at the dog for pooping on the doormat.
TNP still has people from their high school that they see regularly.
God, no, unless you count various relatives who were going to the high school at the same time.
TNP attends high school reunions.
False. I had considered going to my 10-year reunion (2001), but it was halfway across the country and I could dispose neither the time nor the money at that time. By my 20-year reunion last year, Facebook was a thing and I no longer needed an awkward Happy Hour in order to catch up with these people.
TNP has driven a rental car in the last six months.
False, I haven't had occasion to.
TNP walks up escalators.
Usually no. I'm hardly ever in much of a rush.
TNP has high blood pressure.
Fortunately not. I've always had very low (but not dangerously so) blood pressure.
TNP has seen at least one complete episode of Doctor Who (following up on my earlier reference to a sonic screwdriver).
False! *D&R*
TNP has sold or purchased something through Craigslist.
True - I go a desk, my last 2 apartments, and my job all through Craigslist.
TNP has sent out paper resumes in the past 2 years.
False. Haven't had to look for a job in more than a decade, fortunately.
TNP has held a job at some point in his or her life for a decade or more.
Yes, finally. As of January 2nd, have held the current job for ten years.
TNP is actively looking for a new job.
False. Pretty happy where I am.
TNP has scratched his or her nose in the past hour.
True, it happens when I adjust my slippy glasses.
TNP enjoys bubble tea.
True! There's a Thai restaurant near here that has excellent coconut bubble tea. Just the thing after a big lunch of pad thai.
TNP hates all Asian food.
False, I'm fond of most of it.
TNP hates licorice.
So, so false. Anise is my friend. I love "Crows" candy at the theater. I love black licorice Altoids. I drink ouzo on the rocks.
TNP has read a Dickens novel that was not assigned as part of a class.
True, A Christmas Carol. HA! (I tried to read Great Expectations on my own, but that ... didn't happen.)
TNP has read and enjoyed a Henry James novel.
False. I've read two Henry James novels - The Turn of the Screw and The Beast in the Jungle - and liked the first all right, although I wouldn't say I "enjoyed" it. For the second, I was bored out of my skull. He never used one word when twenty were available.
TNP would love to be paid more for writing more.
True. I write ad copy as a fairly large chunk of my job, I won a few minor awards for essays and short fiction in college, and I've taken a stab or two at novels, but ultimately I'd love someone to offer me a living wage to take a year and write my best book. Never gonna happen. Story of my life, and that of many, many other people, I'm sure. :D
TNP had an e-mail address before January 1, 1996.
No, first got an e-mail address in 1996. Part of the "endless September", I guess.
TNP has more than two e-mail addresses.
True: I have my work e-mail, my Gmail, and the Hotmail I've had since 2003 and still occasionally check.
TNP belongs to a pay-to-post messageboard or community.
Well, I suppose I could still log in at the SDMB, but I haven't paid to post there in a long time, and stopped posted there at all since Domebo was founded. Sigh....
TNP still uses Usenet.
False, what's a usenet.
TNP made a website using Geocities, once upon a time.
False. Angelfire, baby. It was so embarrassing that five years later, I had to ask them to take it down for me because I had forgotten all my login info.
TNP generally goes by his or her full first name.
Yes, but my real first name is only one syllable. When I was a kid, my family often called me by a short form of one of my middle names. My family's kind of funny.
TNP often uses a mechanical pencil.
True and false: I rarely use pencils at all, but when I do, it's virtually always mechanical.
TNP has used a compass (drafting, not magnetic) or protractor in the last year.
False. Haven't used one of those since junior high, I think.
TNP has heard Olivia Newton-John sing at age 17: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLUJ2...eature=related
No, my relationship with Olivia doesn't go that far back.
TNP has seen Olivia Newton-John perform live.
False, although I had a bigtime crush on her in the late Seventies and would've liked to.
TNP has been in Florida in the past twelve months.
False, I haven't been there in 25 years.
TNP has been to Hawaii.
Oh yes, and wouldn't I love to go back.
TNP has been to Vegas.
No, I never have! That and the Grand Canyon are the two places in America I still haven't been to that I'd really like to. Almost seems like a requirement of citizenship.
TNP knows a naturalized U.S. citizen.
Sure, my mom! She was born in Saigon as was I, but I was born a US citizen thanks to Dad. I remember her citizenship ceremony well, even though I was only five, because it was the first time I ever saw my dad cry.
TNP has thrown a punch at another human in anger since the age of 18.
Um ... no, I don't think so. Shoving/angry grabbing of coat-collars, yes.
TNP has taken a self-defense class.
Sure, I took "Intro To Kempo Karate" for a PhysEd credit my freshman year in college. The names of the techniques were so embarrassing. "Alternating Maces." "Left Forward Bow."
TNP can do the cherry stem knot-tying trick.
False, but I'll always remember the girl in Twin Peaks doing that.
:: dreamily staring off into the distance ::
Oh, right.
TNP's favorite color is hot pink.
No, although on some people it works.
TNP knows someone who's done hard time.
False, I don't even know people who have been arrested.
TNP has been on a cruise.
True, once. It was fun at the time, and made for a very inexpensive vacation.
TNP has cracked a glow stick in the past year.
False, to the best of my recollection.
TNP has cracked a cold one in the past week.
False. I need to rectify that.
TNP likes 3D movies.
True and false. I thought Tron looked pretty amazing, as it had depth and richness without stupid stuff flying at you. But most of the time, it's just obvious and cheesy.
TNP has been to a drive-in movie.
Yeah, actually the last time was just this past summer. My kid was kinda amazed that such a thing existed.
TNP has made out at a drive-in movie.
I have indeed. Long, long time ago.
TNP has capers in the house.
True. We make chicken piccata periodically, and they keep forever.
TNP has more than one kind of olive in the house.
Not sure we even have one kind. I like them, but the wife and kid don't.
TNP likes pizza with anchovies.
True. I grew up my whole childhood and teenage years thinking of anchovies on pizza as a disgusting punchline ("Give me a pizza with everything...oh, everything except the little fishies..."), until I actually tried it in my twenties. <3 <3 <3
TNP likes pineapple on pizza.
True, in fact I defended pineapple on pizza in one of the first threads on this board.
TNP is going to eat some pizza today.
Already have. Leftovers for breakfast.
TNP has eaten cheeseburger pizza.
Yes, I did, a few years ago. It was OK, but I haven't had it since. (Rube, I went through a phase in college where I had pepperoni and pineapple on my pizza at every opportunity).
TNP is hungry right now.
True, I could eat.
TNP has received a cold telemarketer call in the last week.
No, don't think so. Thank God for call display.
TNP has been visited by an actual door-to-door salesman in the past decade.
True. Not even counting Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses, I've been knocked two or three times in the last couple of years by kids selling magazine subscriptions, etc. No more of the old school vacuum cleaner or encyclopedia salesmen, though, sadly.
TNP uses fabric softener.
False. It makes clothes feel slimy, blech.
TNP likes herbal tea.
If Earl Grey counts, then yes.
TNP thinks, like my BIL, that Earl Grey tea tastes like hot perfume.
Er, sometimes? Some kinds are a bit heavy on the bergamot.
TNP likes lapsang souchong tea even though it tastes like smoke.
(Side story: artifex served as Neil Gaiman's gopher for a day as he was doing a reading/signing event here at the SLC library, and discovered that Neil hates Earl Grey. In other words, his decades-long residence in Minnesota is, in fact, an exile from England.)
Neither true nor false, as I've never tried it. :(
TNP has been in a plaster cast before.
No, thank goodness.
TNP has had an arm in a sling.
False. Although there've been times when that probably would've been a good idea.
TNP has been out to a movie in the past week.
False, the most recent time was two weeks ago, and it was a movie at the local planetarium's dome theater.
TNP usually gets popcorn at the theater.
False, I get nachos at least half the time.
TNP has seen a silent film.
Yeah. It's been a while, but I saw Napoleon in the theatre back in the day, and may have watched some others on TV, can't quite remember if I saw them all the way through.
TNP has walked out part way through a movie.
True, many times with stroppy children, but that's probably not what you're asking. :) However, I walked out of the Colin Farrell/Jamie Foxx (I think?) Miami Vice remake about 20 minutes in. It was just so fucking awful.
TNP has received a handwritten letter (not greeting card or postcard) in the mail in the past year.
True, from a friend in upstate New York.
TNP has been to the Finger Lakes.
False, lots of lakes in Ontario, I don't need to cross borders.
TNP carries a cigarette lighter.
False, I have no reason to.
TNP smokes.
Most definitely false. Nasty habit.
TNP has someone in his or her immediate family who smokes.
Not any more, but my Dad did when I was growing up.
TNP is profoundly grateful they can go out to bars and not come home smelling like an ashtray.
Quite true.
TNP has asked someone in the past year to put out a cigar, cigarette or pipe.
False, the last time was in a line at Disneyland 15 years ago. Buncha French dudes smoking some truly atrocious-smelling French cigarettes. Pretended not to understand my English, so I repeated it in French. The resulting stinkeye was almost as stinky as their smoke. :barf:
TNP has incense in the house.
False, can't stand the stuff.
TNP has been on a balloon ride.
No, want to go, though.
TNP is a Notary Public.
True. I'm automatically one as a lawyer in my state.
TNP has made use of a notary's services in the past six months.
False, I haven't needed one since my divorce was completed a few years back.
TNP has played a game of chess in person in the past year.
Correct, with one of my sons.
TNP is utterly hopeless when it comes to chess.
False, in fact I use to be good and was on a High School Nationals winner.
TNP is feeling a little lost as we are between Football and Baseball seasons currently.
False, I've really fallen out of touch with both sports, on the pro level at least, in the last decade. I still follow college football fairly closely.
TNP pays attention to college basketball beyond filling out an office pool bracket for March Madness.
False. I leave that to my 15-year-son, who's far more sports-mad than I.
TNP is the youngest child of his or her parents.
False, I'm the middle kid.
TNP has something planned for Valentine's Day.
True. My kid's going to be on a school trip, my wife and I have dinner reservations. I need to work on a card and present, though.
TNP has balanced having two Valentines.
False. Never that lucky.
TNP has sent a dozen red roses to that special somebody in the past decade.
Must have -- I like sending flowers, but am sometimes forgetful about what I order.
TNP likes oysters on the half-shell.
True. Love me some raw oysters. Straight, or dressed with a squeeze of lemon and a shot of hot sauce.
TNP has purchased chocolate within the past 72 hours for the purpose of giving it to another.
No, but I still mean to.
TNP is hungry.
False, I just finished breakfast.
TNP does not expect to get any chocolates or flowers today.
True. My wife knows I am dieting and will not give me anything "bad." I wont be getting flowers, either.
TNP Remembers their first girlfriend's/boyfriend's birthday.
Hmm, gimme a minute...it was January, but when... 6th maybe...earlier....
Guess I'm going to have to go with "false".
TNP has heard from their first girlfriend/boyfriend in the past year.
False; my first girlfriend has dropped off the face of the planet to such an extent that I'm fairly certain she's dead and nobody told me (we're only talking about since 1998). This is someone that, if she were on Facebook, would probably have about 40 friends in common with me. :iiam:
TNP has a date tonight.
Nope. The wife and kid have riding lessons tonight. Wont see anyone 'till 10:00 PM.
TNP is wearing some red today.
False, not a stitch of it.
TNP could use a massage.
True. Very much so.
TNP could use a haircut.
Um...pretty soon.
TNP wears jeans pretty often.
Well, "often" in the sense of "every weekend not between May and October." :)
TNP has swum a mile without stopping.
True. In a pool and across a lake--the latter a Boy Scout thing.
TNP was a Girl or Boy Scout.
Correct - Boy Scout. Had a great time, and earned my Eagle Scout in 1981. Now I help with a local troop of which my son is a member.
TNP wishes he or she had been a Girl or Boy Scout.
Not even a little bit.
TNP wishes he or she had done military service.
Sometimes I do. Makes me wonder how different my life would be now if I'd joined the military out of high school rather than head straight to college, which I was manifestly unprepared for and ended up being a colossal waste.
TNP has attended a religious funeral other than a Christian or Jewish one.
No, not as I recall.
TNP has spent time at batting cages at some point in time.
True many times, for a while in my teens and twenties it was a common pastime for my friends and me. Bowl, mini golf, and smack a few dozen 68 mph tomatoes in the cages. Usually in that order; it's no fun to go bowling with your hands stinging. :)
TNP has discharged a firearm in the last five years.
True, my kid and I took a few pops with my brother's .17 rimfire when we were visiting the farm a few months ago.
TNP has never even touched a gun.
False. I shot a BB gun many times in a youth, as well as the flintlock musket of a friend's dad (he was a black powder enthusiast - best of all was when he set off his small cannon!), and as a Civil War reenactor I fired my Enfield replica rifle many, many times.
TNP has been to an American Civil War reenactment.
No.
TNP has been to a circus.
Yes, but not in a loooooooong time. At least a decade.
TNP knows how so many clowns fit into the tiny car.
False, some mysteries are not meant to be solved.
TNP likes reading mysteries.
True, though I seldom think to look for new ones. I read for the first time, and greatly enjoyed, a bunch of Sherlock Holmes books last year.
TNP has guilty pleasure books: books that he or she enjoys, but would be slightly embarrassed to be caught reading on the bus.
Yeah. In fact, I sometimes have to be careful how I hold my iPad for fear of some of my fun books and trashy newspapers being noticed.
TNP subscribes to more than two magazines.
False, I don't subscribe to any print magazines since letting my Guitar Player lapse a few years ago.
TNP likes those candy hearts with the little messages (BE MINE, HOT STUFF, etc.).
True. I ate more than I should last night.
(OneCentStamp, when you're done enjoying Conan Doyle, check out The Secret Files of Sherlock Holmes, a great collection of Holmesian pastiches by British author June Thomson - great, engaging mysteries, and uncannily like ACD's writing style).
TNP likes Sherlock Holmes stories.
(thanks for the tip! i shall!)
True! I plowed through short story collections The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Return of Sherlock Holmes, and the novel The Hound of the Baskervilles, last year. Incredibly influential stuff, and very fun reads.
TNP likes Hitchcock movies.
Sure, like them fine, but am not a real movie cultist.
TNP likes horror movies.
True, as long as they're horror movies and not torture-gore-porn.
TNP likes vampire stories.
On the whole, false. Dracula is one of my favorite novels ever, but pretty much all the other vampire fiction I've sampled, across all media, has left me flat.
TNP thinks the rise of zombie-related fiction and memes over the past decade or so is cool.
False, though I seriously enjoyed Zombieland and Shaun of the Dead.
TNP has eaten pizza for a stretch of at least three consecutive meals.
Sure, many times in my bachelor days. Order a pizza for dinner, finish it over breakfast and lunch of the next day. File that under "things I can no longer do without consequence." :(
TNP knows a great local Chinese place that delivers.
True, this is the blessing of San Francisco. Tsing Tao pork buns, I <3 you.
TNP has had sushi in the past month.
Sadly, no. I haven't had sushi in months, in spite of it being one of my favorite foods. I lack a sushi buddy. :(
TNP likes ceviche.
Yes I do. I fear that I am gambling against the house of parasites when I eat it, but I like it.
TNP is coming down with a cold.
Fortunately not.
OneCent, if I could offer another suggestion: Two of my favorite vampire books are 'Salem's Lot by Stephen King (vampires overcome a small present-day Maine town) and Fevre Dream by George R.R. Martin (about vampires along the Miss. River before the Civil War). Both are excellent.
TNP is pretty much impervious to cold germs.
(I'll look into both of those! Salem's Lot actually stands out by exception as the only one of King's first 15-20 novels that I haven't read.)
True; a cold that wipes out my family for a week typically only gets me about 1 time in 3.
TNP has a fairly ironclad stomach, in terms of not being sickened by anything he or she eats.
Fairly iron-clad, but far from 100%.
TNP drinks coffee every day.
True, I've cut back considerably, but I do have at least one cup a day.
TNP can keep plants alive.
Generally, yes.
TNP owns more than one pair of sunglasses.
No. Just one pair I never use.
The next person has a nice sound system that is never used.
Nah, never had a really nice sound system in my life, it'd be wasted on my ears.
TNP is asthmatic.
False, although one of my sons is.
TNP owns more than three staplers.
Don't think so, though I'm never sure what stuff may be lying around the house.
TNP owns a fountain pen.
False. I never have, in fact. Would be cool to have one.
TNP has a box or drawer somewhere in the house with obsolete cell phones and their chargers in it.
True.
TNP likes tomato juice.
Yeah, a lot. Please, though, no ice.
TNP could drink a Bloody Mary right now.
False. I like neither tomato juice nor Bloody Marys.
TNP thinks Queen Mary I of England got a bum rap.
False; she had an unfortunate life, but she was still far too murder-happy with the Protestants.
TNP has been to the Tower of London.
False; I haven't been to anything of London. *kicks dirt*
TNP has been to Frederick's of Hollywood. :D
False, I thought it was just a mail-order catalog.
TNP owns sexy lingerie.
I do not.
TNP has eaten sea urchin.
Not that I can recall.
TNP has eaten conch.
(Side note: Orual, my local mall in Houston had a FoH store. It was basically a Victoria's Secret with any vestiges of class or taste wrung out.)
True! I have had uni (sea urchin roe) nigiri sushi.
TNP likes Dove chocolate.
Like it fine, nothing special to me.
TNP is the kind of person who attracts people with hard luck stories.