True. If I'm not eating it, I'm probably using it in a recipe.
TNP has inherited at least one old family recipe.
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True. If I'm not eating it, I'm probably using it in a recipe.
TNP has inherited at least one old family recipe.
Oh, dozens. My wife is a great baker.
TNP has a hands-down single favorite cookie recipe.
Pretty much the only cookies I like are made by following the recipe on the Nestle chocolate chip bag, but leaving out the walnuts, so yeah.
TNP is having the winter blues.
A little, but not too bad. Whenever I get a little blue I think of all the people less fortunate than me. I count my blessings and feel better.
TNP has no patience with happythink crap like that.
Very little, but I'm getting more tolerant.
TNP has been having an odd craving for horse meat lately.
Correcto. There's a stall in a market in Dublin City Centre that sells horse meat in a baguette. Apparently their sales are through the roof since the horse meat scandal hit. It piqued my interest and now I'd have neigh problem trying horse meat.
TNP hates Star Trek.
Quite wrong. I'm a Trekker from 'way back.
TNP can think of at least three kinds of meat that he or she would never, ever eat.
Nope. Once you've eaten whale blubber, you've pretty much established you'll eat anything.
TNP suffers from acid reflux.
Very rarely. Probably only one or two times a year, at most.
TNP has seen Silver Linings Playbook (as I did tonight, and liked it).
Still haven't seen it, don't see many movies that don't involve animated cavemen or such like.
TNP really is interested in human evolution.
I don't know about really interested, but yes, a bit interested. Humanity has come a long way, but still has such a long, long way to go.
TNP thinks humanity will reach another star system in the next hundred years.
I used to think so but I have serious doubts now, I'm becoming cynical as I get older don't think we have the drive to reach the stars. Maybe in 100 years we'll actually being doing something useful in space but I doubt we'll be heading to another star system with anything more then a remote probe. Now that I believe we will do.
TNP has bought a region 2 DVD by mistake.
Yes! About a decade ago, I bought a DVD online of the original Ealing comedy The Ladykillers featuring Alec Guiness, and missed the fact that it was Region 2. Couldn't get a refund or return for some reason, but fortunately it had been cheap.
TNP has seen either version of The Ladykillers.
Yup, the older version.
TNP is currently enjoying some sunshine.
Well, not at the precise moment, but soon, I hope. It's finally seeming a little like Spring, here.
TNP is feeling very mellow at the moment.
Up until a meeting today, I would have said true. I'm now missing four hours I won't get back.
TNP has been sightseeing over the last couple of weeks
Yes, my family had a very nice almost-weeklong trip to Arizona - Phoenix, Scottsdale (incl. Frank Lloyd Wright's desert enclave, Taliesin West) and the Grand Canyon (pictures just don't it justice!).
TNP likes FLW's architecture.
Well enough, I guess, though I don't think about it much.
TNP has bought a suit through the Internet.
False. By catalog, sight unseen, but not through the Internet.
TNP checks The Onion at least weekly.
More like daily. It still cracks me up, more often than not.
TNP can remember a favourite Onion headline.
Yes, absolutely - the giant splash headline on Dec. 8, 1941, which read "WA-."
TNP can remember another great Onion headline.
True. I thought "Nation's Porn Stars Demand to be Fucked Harder" was hilarious. They didn't really need the accompanying article.
TNP could stand a light snack right now.
False. Not very peckish now - had a big dinner.
TNP has seen Damn Yankees either as a stage musical or movie.
False, never heard of it either.
TNP finds it easy to tan in sunny weather.
Yes. Easier to burn, though.
TNP has considered shaving their head.
Yes. But it's winter here, so I;m in no rush.
TNP likes pepper.
On a few things. I like it on corn, especially.
TNP avoids salt at all costs.
False, especially false on Fish and Chips, which must have Salt and vinegar on them.
TNP uses condiments on every meal.
Oh, often, but not every meal. Ketchup on hot dogs, hamburgers and fries; mustard occasionally on hot dogs and hamburgers but always with ham; A-1 sauce on steak; salt on macaroni and cheese; barbecue sauce on chicken sometimes. Hmm. I'm probably forgetting some others.
TNP is hungry right now.
True, time to raid a biscuit barrel
TNP knows how to make cheese sauce properly, and not from a packet.
Unless that involves just melting it, and maybe adding some milk and seasonings, no.
TNP saw fireworks on July 4th.
False, I'll be waiting for the 5th November
TNP is going to an airshow this summer?
False. I have in years past, but not this year.
TNP has seen a plane crash.
No, thank God.
TNP has parachuted.
False, I'll stay inside the plane thanks.
TNP has gone bungee jumping.
Been tempted, but no.
TNP has been in Philadelphia in the past year.
No, never been in fact, except to see it from the train.
TNP has eaten Philadelphia cream cheese in the past year.
Yes, once or twice - nothing better on a hot bagel. Better still with lox.
TNP loves bagels.
Nah, I can eat them, but don't like them that much. Too chewy or something.
TNP loves donuts.
Yes, I do. I would eat far too many if I allowed myself. Favorites: with dark coconut flakes, chocolate-covered, or jelly.
TNP prefers tea to coffee.
True, but then I'm British so its expected.
TNP prefers Coca Cola to Pepsi.
I do. Not fanatical, but will always take Coke given the choice.
TNP prefers RC Cola.
False. I usually drink ice water, but if I'm going to have a pop, it'll probably be ginger ale or root beer.
TNP says "pop" and not "soda."
True, for me soda = soda water that goes with Gin, not a can of pop
TNP prefers bottles of fizzy pop to cans.
I guess so, for nostalgia's sake, but I really don't feel strongly about it.
TNP has big plans for this weekend.
False, its a Bank Holiday, so it will rain a lot. I will enjoy the extra day off though.
TNP already knows what they will be doing for Christmas.
Not certain, but it's likely we'll be in Vermont with my wife's family. We usually alternate Thanksgiving and Christmas with my family and hers.
TNP has eaten turkey in the past month.
False, I haven't had turkey in a few years actually.
TNP prefers Lady Gaga to Katy Perry
False. I like them both, kinda, but would give Katy the edge.
TNP has been to a Katy Perry concert.
False, and its unlikely to ever happen.
TNP has been to an open air concert.
Oh, yes, many. This summer just one, though - a band concert on July 4th, with fireworks. Lots of Sousa, which I like. I'll be going to another open-air concert this weekend, featuring music from Pixar film scores.
TNP has seen more than three Pixar movies.
False, only seen the three of them. Toy Story, Bug's Life and the Incredibles. I've seen clips of the others but never the full film.
TNP has seen at least three of the Jaws films.
Nah, far as I can remember, only saw the first one, and I'm pretty sure that was on TV.
TNP really misses being on vacation.
A little bit, but not "really." But I certainly enjoyed it at the time.
TNP has kids who went back to school recently.
False.
TNP is wishing summer was still around.
Naw, I like autumn: colorful leaves, apple cider, starry nights, woodsmoke in the air, Halloween, etc.
TNP is already planning for next summer.
No, that's a little too much for me.
TNP has where they will spend Christmas planned.
Not quite sure yet. With family in either Vermont or Ohio, most likely.
TNP thinks it's 'way too early to be thinking about Christmas yet.
Indeed, I do
TNP doesn't even want to think about Halloween yet.
Also true.
TNP has been to a high school athletic competition in the past two weeks (I just went to a HS football game today, and will be going to a soccer game this afternoon).
False, haven't been to one since I left 6th form college.
TNP has watched a full sports game on TV in the last week.
False. It's been... many months.
TNP would shrivel up and die if he or she couldn't see televised sports at least weekly.
Nah, I like baseball, but once baseball season's over, I don't give damn if I watch televised sports or not.
TNP has no idea what's going on in contemporary music.
False. I know and like several current stars or groups: Rihanna, Usher, Chris Brown, Ke$ha, Lady Gaga, Fun!, etc.
TNP can name at least one song by each of them.
False, some of them perhaps, but not all of them
TNP is affected by the current US Government shutdown.
Fortunately false. I have a friend who works for the DVA who is unaffected, and another who works for the CIA - haven't heard from him yet.
TNP thinks the U.S. Government shutdown will end in the next week.
False, but I think it will be resolved at the same time as the debt ceiling argument.
TNP has carried out a video conference call.
True, but not often. Phone conference calls, quite a few.
TNP has a favorite Spice Girl.
Hmm, not really, they're all fine by me.
TNP has a favourite member of One Direction.
False. I've heard of the group, but couldn't name any of them, let alone pick a favorite.
TNP has said "Get off my lawn" at least once in his or her life.
True, but the neighbourhood foxes don't really listen to me :D
TNP has begun to realise what a good idea slippers are.
False. I've known that for a long time. I even have a pair of slippers at work (my office can get a little cold in the winter).
TNP has owned a pair of fuzzy bunny slippers.
False, I've never gone that far.
TNP prefers a long bath to a quick shower.
Generally false. I only take baths every four or five years, I'd estimate - if that.
TNP has tried some kind of folk medicine.
Not that I can recall.
TNP has had their appendix removed.
Nope. Still have my tonsils, too.
TNP knows someone who's had an amputation.
False, at least not that I can think of.
TNP has spent more than two weeks in hospital in one go.
False. More than a week when I was a kid, but never more than two weeks, thank God.
TNP prays at least once a week.
False.
TNP has a vacation booked.
False, but then Christmas has just come and gone.
TNP is going to do some major home improvement work this year.
False.
TNP plans to see a standup comic live sometime this year.
False. It's never really been on my list of things to do
TNP is going to see a major sporting event live this year
I pretty much always catch some Major League Baseball games, so yes.
TNP is a chronic insomniac.
False. I usually fall asleep within two or three minutes of my head hitting the pillow.
TNP would sleep late every morning if he or she could.
False, in summer I tend to want to get up. Winter though...
TNP uses public transport at least twice a week.
Yeah, I use it pretty much every day.
TNP doesn't even own a car.
False. We have a Honda Odyssey minivan (three kids) and the Chevy Malibu I use just about every day.
TNP has a favorite cold-weather beverage, and has had one in the past 24 hours.
True, but I drink inordinate amounts of and tea/coffee anyway :coffee:
TNP has a favourite mug they always try to use for tea/coffee.
Doesn't everybody?
TNP could use a vacation.
Probably, but I don't feel I really need one. I'm doing OK.
TNP wouldn't mind being on a tropical beach somewhere right about now.
It's, grey, rainy, cold and miserable. Oh so very true, indeed.
TNP has seen the Northern Lights personally.
Sure have. About the only beautiful thing in Nunavut.
TNP has seen an active volcano.
Yes, during a trip with my parents to Hawaii in 1987. Very impressive.
TNP has an amateur interest in a particular science.
False, did when I was younger :madsci: I just never seem to have the time for it nowadays :fail:
TNP wanted to invent something when they were younger
False. Just not my thing.
TNP has a favorite inventor, past or present.
Not really, although I admire them all.
TNP eats soup practically every day.
False. I have soup maybe every other week or so - tomato, chicken noodle, ramen and any kind of seafood chowder or bisque are my favorites.
TNP wishes he or she were a little warmer right now.
Yeah, I could stand that.
TNP is very fond of rum.
It's true! There's nothing better in eggnog.
TNP has had eggnog in the past two months.
No, my wife stopped buying it a few Christmases ago for health reasons.
TNP takes a statin drug.
Nope. Someday, probably.
TNP has an annual checkup without fail.
Nah. I don't think doctors even particularly believe they're necessary.
TNP watches The Big Bang Theory every week.
Pretty much. I don't watch it every week, but I tape it, and sooner or later get caught up.
TNP knows someone like Dr. Sheldon Cooper.
False, I've never seen BBT though.
TNP has a favourite TV show they always watch week in, week out.
Yeah, The Big Bang Theory.:)
TNP owns more than ten neck ties.
True, I think I have about a dozen on rotation.
TNP spent more time wondering about the superbowl adverts, than the event itself.
No. I really haven't thought about either. Not a football guy.
TNP is a football guy.
No, baseball's my game. Football seems graceless and clunky in comparison.
TNP is looking forward to the Winter Olympics.
Not really. The Russians' heavy-handedness, gay-bashing, risk of bombings and lack of snow haven't exactly piqued my interest.
TNP could run Russia much better than Vladimir Putin.
False, nowhere near as ruthless as I would need to be.
TNP could run the USA better than Barack Obama
Well... maybe a little. But I agree with most of what he's doing.
TNP will be watching the Winter Olympics at least a little every day.
Probably, if only because my kid will probably have it on.
TNP has a favourite cocktail.
Nope. Not a cocktail guy. Gimme a beer, wine or whiskey, and I'm happy.
TNP can make at least three different cocktails without consulting instructions.
Well... not official, well-known ones...
TNP shaved some part of themselves today.
Yep. My face.
TNP uses an electric razor.
False, that was last night.
False, bladed razor only.
TNP has read a newspaper today in some form
Unless CNN.com (a great source for U.S. and world news at a glance) counts, no.
TNP subscribes to at least three magazines.
I guess so, since I pay for the kid's subscriptions as well as my own.
TNP owns a coffee grinder.
Check, but not for coffee or for criminal activities.
TNP doesn't drink brewed coffee.
False, I love coffee.
TNP would like to know what Jizzelbin uses his coffee grinder for.
Quite so! Do tell.
TNP has played Truth or Dare in the past decade.
False, its been at least two.
TNP is still flexible enough to play Twister.
False, I am not flexible enough to play twister. I have a bad back and crappy knees from being overweight and middle aged. have not played Truth or Dare in the past decade.
TNP has visited a museum ship.
True, love them.
TNP has visited a historic fort.
Yes. Off the top of my head, Ft. Pitt in Pittsburgh, Ft. Necessity not far away, and Ft. Ligonier a bit further east. Oh, and Ft. Sumter in Charleston, S.C. harbor, where the Civil War began, and Ft. Stevens in Washington, D.C., attacked by Jubal Early's Confederates in 1864. I'd love to go to Ft. Ticonderoga in upstate New York sometime, but just haven't gotten around to it.
TNP recognized the names of all of those forts.
Close but no, I had to look up Ft. Ligonier.
TNP is looking forward to the snow melt this weekend.
False, I didn't recognise any of them in fact.
False, what snow?
TNP has been to any of the Ring of Stone in Wales aka the Castles of Edward I.
No, never even been to Britain.
TNP could stand a massage right now.
Yeah, I wouldn't object, although I don't particularly need one.
TNP has given a massage in the past six months.
Actually, yes. Kind of a crummy leg-massage to a chick I barely know (no, not like that, she claims to be a lesbian).
TNP has ever had back pain so bad that when you twist wrong, you involuntarily wince, body convulses slightly, and you end up kind of out-of-breath for a few seconds.
Oh yes, there is very little of back pain that I am not familiar with.
TNP gets migraines.
Yep. I had a doozy on Monday. Wanted to kill everyone. I had a nice peaceful day at work on Monday :D
TNP likes tofu.
Actually, yeah.
TNP doesn't really like Japanese culture in general, though.
False. I like sushi, anime, Kurosawa films and Japanese militaria, among other things. We had a Japanese exchange student when I was a kid and I'm still in touch with her now and then.
TNP had a foreign exchange student stay with his or her family in his or her youth.
Not exactly exchange students, but a lot of foreigners, yes.
TNP has been to Paris (the city, not the skank).
Yeah, sure.
TNP admits sushi is one of the greatest things to eat on the planet.
I like it as an occasional treat, but I'm not sure I'd go that far.
TNP prefers steak to sushi.
False.
TNP is not intimidated by James Garner in his prime.
False, He could have whupped my butt.
TNP liked Maverick better than the Rockford files.
No opinion. I never saw Maverick and rarely watched Rockford (too young at the time).
TNP remembers those charming Garner/Hartley camera ads.
False, I have no idea what you're on about.
TNP thought James Garner was a better Maverick than Mel Gibson.
No doubt about that one.
TNP sometimes idly wonders WTF is up with Mel Gibson.
Quite true. He can be very good on screen, but otherwise he... um, has some issues.
CIAS, these were pretty famous ads back in the day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt82z_GUCKw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dlZRWBwepQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o_hAzIeOY0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAZOkTadn40
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsjdMv9qyoU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMLdL7MxZnA
TNP has a favorite ad from his or her childhood.
Mel Gibson is a national treasure.
Now, find a nation who wants to watch him eating a hamburger or whatever you people do.
True, I have hundreds of favourites from Carling Black Label to John West
but its still JR Hartley that tugs at my hearts strings
TNP thinks Mel Gibson shouldn't be allowed to direct any more films.
Yeah, I guess so.
TNP has someone else in mind who should be forbidden from directing any more movies.
Yep. The Coen Brothers Nah, they're OK, I guess. Maybe Eli Roth. I think he's about played out.
TNP sometimes indulges in embarrassing digressions.
Not too often. I tend to be laconic.
TNP can describe himself or herself in three well-chosen adjectives.
Nah, I would use nouns.
TNP has no idea, really, how to describe themself.
False. But I don't want to brag.
Rube will now share the three nouns that describe so estimable a Mello'er.
Father. Husband. Lawyer.
TNP has no idead how they ended up where they are.
False. Things have gone just about as I expected to get me here.
TNP avidly follows Downton Abbey.
Nah. My wife's a huge fan, though.
TNP wouldn't mind having a valet.
Absolutely, so long as he wasn't a maybe-murderer like the brooding Mr. Bates.
TNP would like to have a personal cook, if money were no object.
Big ten-four on that, good buddy.
TNP kinda wishes they had gone to culinary school.
Nah, not really. Just not my bag.
TNP will eat just about anything.
Yeah, I know how to cook pretty good, but I don't care anymore. Will eat anything.
TNP thinks professional "foodies" should get on the wagon with professional music "critics."
Nah. They're entitled to their opinions, snooty and/or precious as they may be.
TNP pays attention to a particular movie critic's review before seeing most films.
No way.
TNP will watch even the most horrifying of spectacles if "[it] looks good and starts soon."
No. Whose words appear between the quotation marks?
TNP collects favorite quotations (as I do).
Yeah, since I was a kid, but I stopped writing them down when they started sticking in my head like Schaum Outline Solved Problems like on today's electromagnetics physic 4engineers UG midterm which just came to me like a rainman totally crushed that bitch. [yeah that was ... Bob Forster from the movie *Jackie Brown* -- but it could have been anybody.]
TNP derides privately those who, like the old lady in *The Spoils of Poynton* put a premium on sentimentality.
Nah, I'm pretty chill that way.
TNP sometimes has a real yearning to own a submachinegun.
Not really. But I've had fun shooting guns on ranges or in the woods now and then.
TNP has fired a gun in the past six months.
Hmmm...guess not, it's been too long
TNP carries a pocket knife
Sometimes, for work. But not for just walking around randomly with a knife.
TNP enjoys mowing their yard.
doesn't have a yard! i win!
TNP hates chores of any kind, except organizing things like that jerk leader guy from *Walden Two*
I don't love chores, but I don't particularly mind them, so no.
TNP has at least three household chores, not for his or her direct and personal benefit, to be done every day.
False, pretty much all my household chores are directly for my benefit.
TNP has already mowed the lawn this year.
False. Hell, we still have snow!
TNP hates that Punxatawney groundhog.
Sure. I mean, I think it's dead by now, but I'd be down with desecrating it's feeble little "corpse." Feed it to my goldfish or whatever. Don't give a shit, never have.
TNP thinks Pennsylvania is equal parts fun place with good places for sportsman-like activity, and a feeble little cesspit full of overgrown hippies.
No, that's not quite how I'd describe it, having gone to prep school outside of Pittsburgh.
TNP has rooted for a Pittsburgh pro sports team.
False, then again I only know about the Steelers and I'm a Bills fan (yeah, laugh all you want)
TNP has more than 20 websites bookmarked.
Yeah, probably, between one thing and another and my varous devices.
TNP is something of a gadget addict.
Nope, I am not much into gadgets at all.
TNP is a pessimist.
Nah, basically an optimist. But I'm getting more cynical in my old age.
TNP expects to live until at least 90.
Nah, even though my mother made it to 92, I don't think I'm as tough as her.
TNP can't remember the last time they had a good night's sleep.
Fortunately false. Haven't slept all that well this week, though, while on a trip.
TNP has a favorite pillow.
Nah, they're all the same to me.
TNP had a BB gun as a kid.
I'll say true. It was the household's gun, but I got to use it now and then.
TNP owns more than five kitchen knives.
Yeah, but they all kind of are disposable stamped stuff except for a promo "utility" knife from a Lobel's giveaway.
TNP kind of has a problem with investing emotions and stuff in tools, even good tools, convinced they're going to break or rust away eventually.
Definitely true. Not too many things I'm that attached to.
TNP will see Captain America: The Winter Soldier in the next two weeks.
Unlikely, not so big on the superhero movies, and neither is the kid.
TNP is mildly disappointed the latest Muppets movie didn't do better.
False, but then I hadn't realised there was a new Muppets movie.
TNP thinks Noah is going to be better than expected.
First heardof Noah and also the Captain whatever online.
Has kept the Anchor and stuff siugned by Leslie Fielder of that old bibleshit but is nit thatgod at te greek si whatever.
Yeah so that was deliberately supposed to be stupid, but Im ETA bc I think there is a bunch of stuff beyond the whole like "rarrgh heerrr derrr English!" so like whatever, its more like "fuck you!" and a bunch of whatever shit/ language people are fucking stupid ass lame shit-heels. they don't know. welll, whatever. i'd still screw the shit out o a smart bitch who isn't a retard but whatever. yu arre fcking retarded idiots.
yeah whatever also shut up eh whatever
False, I think I'll keep posting.
TNP knows who Leslie Fielder is.
Yeah well whatever that was kind of whatever.
TNP probably should go see a movie in a theater, and probably not those 3D glasses, because that's pretty stupid.
False, I've seen both 2D and 3D movies in recent months.
TNP would rather not see a movie in public at all.
False, I like movies in theatres fine.
TNP was annoyed at the "How I Met Your Mother" finale.
False, I don't watch the show. But my eldest son, who does, really hated it.
TNP knows a convicted felon.
Yeah, but vaguely as in "that guy who tried to punk me" and whatever.
TNP is actually proud to only be friends with regular people who aren't criminals. Good friends are people who share your values, and even if you don't see them as often IRL as you should, because big country, US is, you'd still rather have them in your corner than change one damned thing. Because it's right, and it's OK.
2x post TNP hates computers and nerd shit
True, I think I'm only friends with regular people, if they are criminals, I don't know about it.
False, I spend all my time doing computers and nerd shit.
TNP is a dichotomy
True. I contain multitudes.
TNP has been in NYC in the past two years.
Yes indeed, spent Christmas there. My kid loves NYC more than oxygen.
TNP has been to Los Angeles.
Yeah but not recently. Missed one of my best buds weddings in San Diego because of school crap. Same neighborhood.
TNP had a long phone call to an old friend (maybe frenemy, but my old school chess and classical music nerdo) recently, really helped get my head straight. TNP is enjoyed that sometimes good old friends really step up, the way they're supposed to. Haven't seen that guy in probably ten years, and last time we talked I think I ended up angrily yelling at him about a political trip he was on. Time heals.
False, but I'll see five of my high school pals next weekend. We get together every year or two.
TNP has heard the Alan Parsons Project album Gaudi.
Hmmm....remember Alan Parsons Project, but don't think I know that one.
TNP woke up with a headache.
Is it called waking up without a proper nights sleep?
TNP is proud to have even got out the door this morning, albeit late, looking like some central casting version of suave man-with-a-scarf with hollow, dead eyes and a bad case of the shakes. Not quite the hobo look exactly, because, hey, scarf.
No, actually I looked fantastic this morning. Trust me.
TNP owns at least six neckties.
Yeah, probably. Most recently wore a cravat, AFAIK.
TNP has filthy thoughts about apt young women pretty much every day and doesn't much mind being imprisoned for non-felonious ideas about Emma Watson and also who cares. And is also somewhat ashamed. But who cares I can't be convicted and also I don't care and leave me alone.