Uh... true, mostly.
TNP thinks Emma Watson looks best in black: http://newsplies.com/wp-content/uplo...Pictures-6.jpg
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Uh... true, mostly.
TNP thinks Emma Watson looks best in black: http://newsplies.com/wp-content/uplo...Pictures-6.jpg
Sure, I guess.
TNP is kind of disturbed by how young EW looks with that goth eye makeup....TNP kind of prefers women his own age, but is both ashamed and emboldened but more ashamed because that's just plain too young for me.
Dude she went to Providence? ugh no respect from me.
When she starts dressing like and looking like an adult, she can call me.
TNP is totes over Emma Watson -- and is looking for some woman with adult thoughts and probably wasn't robbed out of some daycare, almost makes me mouth-barf thinking about ploughing some child like that.
Also, hey whatever, she's of age, so I'm not judging, just saying not for me, so, whatever. But still she seems like a gross person. Like a university administrator or someone like that. Eh, and that eye makeup is pretty gnarly IMO.
I see that "totes over" means "totally over," so I guess that's true. But she is an attractive young woman.
TNP already knew what "totes over" meant.
No, but I had some idea.
TNP seems to really like to drink beer or whatever and run off at the mouth for no apparent reason.
Drink a bit now and then, true. Run off at the mouth, not so much.
TNP has more than three credit cards.
Oh snap u no how to hurt a guy feelings.
TNP has had more private store cards than can count (Discover counts -- do they still exist? Probably, I guess) BUT kind of might have defaulted on a bunch AND \
also, in the words of Samuel L. Jackson,Jr., those are old crimes and they don't have enough people to process for the new crimes,so screw they honkies, whatever, who cares.
And your statement for TNP to respond to...?
I already said that, donkey boy! TNP has had a bunch of store cards, like Sears, Discover, and all that stuff.
ETA there are a bunch of weird ones. Raise yer hand if you had a "Musician's Friend" CC. Can't remember if I made good on it, but that kind of thing.
TNP also has a credit score in the low double digits, and does not give a shit. That's a fake TNP, because no one other than ChetBakerFan799 would possible admit to that. But the earlier is a real TNP so answer it up, yo!
Ah, I see. False as to both private store cards and credit score.
TNP has shopped online in the past 48 hours.
No, last week I bought two books though Stephen Prata's *C++ Primer Plus* and *C Primer Plus* and am thinking if I run short of cash of selling the C Primer for pennies on the dollar to this piece of shit bookstore near where I live. Both were IMHO unreasonably expensive for mass-market paperbacks, but the C++ book is actually pretty damned good. I think the C book is probably just as good, or better, but I really don't have much a need for it, and I have too many books as it is, even after my extensive process of winnowing for a great loss including virtually untouched boxed volumes of the Brahms solo piano (I reasoned I have a Dover that has the stuff I need plus pencilled annotations from my younger years) the Beethoven solo piano (I reasoned I can only play one thing at a time and I'm not going to be playing the Op. 111/2 in full anytime, but it sure would be nice to be able to just go to my shelf and play through some stuff or just read whatever, rather than finding a digital copy, printing it), and the first to go were the Mozart piano sonatas and the Haydn piano sonatas....kind of regret those most of all because it can be fun to just screw around reading them at the keyboard.
TNP really has a great dislike, even hatred, for kids -- the 20-somethings who are (a) idiots (they all are, trust me) (b) "look at meee!" assholes (c) and not self-reliant, in any sense except perhaps the most basic economic sense.
False. I've met some kids like that, but most of the people that age with whom I've had any dealings are smart, funny and seem to want to make the world a better place. They do seem more cynical than I remember us being back then, though (I'm 49).
TNP has a favorite memory from his or her twenties, and will now share it.
OK fine, I guess. My twenties had Louis Armstrong's Hot 5s and 7s and EL Doctorow wrote a book about some of it. I also remember flappers were all the rage. Get your mind out of the gutter! I mean the dancers and the stylish young women.
TNP has some good stories from when they were in their twenties and can recount one. (it's too good a question to just have only me try and fail to remember one answer), so reboot! Reboot like it's your last day on earth! Tell it!
I fell in love with the young woman who would become my wife when I was a little over 20. We married five years later, and have been so ever since. I'm a lucky guy.
TNP has been married, or is now.
Yep, have been for almost fourteen years, to a woman I've been with for twenty-two.
And, OK, TNP has a great story about their twenties.
True, but their awesomeness is directly related to the amount of alcohol imbibed beforehand.
TNP used to do so much more physical exercise when they were younger.
Nah, not really. If anything, now that I play ball with my kid, I'm doing more.
TNP, despite everything, can still be amazed at the crap that jerks can get away with.
Agreed. Just last night we were at our son's junior high band concert. All the kids had been repeatedly told to wear black pants and white shirts. I was surprised by how many were not, and were still permitted to take part.
TNP has been to a band concert in the past 30 days.
Haven't been to any concert of any kind in quite a while. Well, some hired rockers at this university doing an outdoor job during lunchtime. Earplugs in. All the way in.
TNP had the same thought I did over Easter when watching my nephews (5 and ... 1? 2?) It must be emotionally trying to remember kids at their cutest (granted I only see them when they're being good!), thinking all the while "Holy shit, next thing I know, some deep voice dude is going to be like 'Hello, sir!'"
Well, didn't have the thought over Easter that I can recall, but I've sure had it.
TNP could eat a burger right now.
Always!Quote:
Originally posted by Rube E. Tewesday
TNP is dissatisfied with his or her current WiFi connection speeds.
Always. I won't be satisfied until I get the same speed God could negotiate.
TNP is tired of livin' and fear'd of dyin'.
False on both counts. I enjoy life the great majority of the time, but if I had to die - to save someone's life, or for some worthy cause - I really don't think I'd hesitate too much, although I would be sorry to leave behind my wife and sons.
TNP has had his or her life threatened by another person.
False, threatened with minor injury a couple of times but never for my life.
TNP has been in situations where their life could have been threatened by events around them.
Uh, yeah. Like every time u turn around. A Always B Be C Catching. Fuckers always trying to run something on you, so just be street smart.
TNP is on occasion wishes her or she made some more high-rent choices in life but in the next second thinks "Fuck it!" then I wouldn't be able to communicate with these immigrants at the corner.
Also false. In my work I deal with people of all social strata, rich and poor, ugly and beautiful, all colors, creeds and backgrounds. I try to treat them all with courtesy and fairness.
TNP knows at least one person who is filthy rich.
Hmmm...no, I think. I know lots of people who are doing OK, and I know a guy whose brother is a billionaire or something, but I don't hang with the 1 per cent.
TNP can remember when "1 per cent" referred to motorcycle scum, not plutocrats.
No, I never heard the phrase used in that context.
TNP thinks the American rich should be paying much higher taxes.
Yes, but then you would have to guarantee it actually went to worthwhile causes and not back into schemes to make them more money.
TNP wishes they didn't pay so much tax.
Yeah, kinda, but it's probably selfish of me.
TNP likes pineapple on pizza.
Fucking A Hell yeah! Well, it's kind of not very good IMO, but it's like a little surprise in every slice.
TNP thinks Totino's Party Pizze are better than DiGiorno or the equivalent store-brands in that style. Unfortunately also good at giving you the trots, but still tasty. More Italian/brick-oven style than those bready monstrosities.
Never had 'em, so false.
TNP can't decide between three favorite ice cream flavors.
False, Mint choc chip all the way
TNP thinks bacon is the greatest food.
Nah, I like bacon fine, but I don't understand the current obsession.
TNP actually kind of likes doing laundry.
Actually, yeah. That's the only chore, including regular bathing, that I like. It's something to do that doesn't involve scrubbing something down by hand -- pots, pans, floors, taint, bathtub.
TNP is having a hard time staying awake today.
I did yawn a few times, and sitting down on my bed to take off my shoes I was awfully tempted to lean back and rest my eyes a bit. So kinda yes.
TNP would take a nap every day, time and boss permitting.
No, not too often I feel like a nap.
TNP would take a two hour lunch every day, time and boss permitting.
Yes, although I'd probably spend it reading. I often skip lunch.
TNP hates air travel.
God, yes. Especially since 9/11. I hate flying out of the States and subjecting myself to the tender mercies of the TSA.
TNP loves trains.
Yeah. The US Amtrak is pretty dingy these days, but that's one reason I like it. If you have the time, coast-to-coast on the train > flying any day. Hang in the observatory car, snort booze with the cretins in the smoking room, even if you don't smoke, chat with the workers at the snack bar, read, whatever.
TNP has no problem with freight train whistles. Freight train noise > freeway noise.
True, although you rarely see them except creeping through some stations late at night.
TNP has spent more than 24 hours travelling in one go.
False, although it feels like I've come close sometimes.
TNP has been to at least three national capitals.
Hmm, yeah, Ottawa, Washington and Bridgetown.
TNP don't yet around much anymore.
Have to say false. Just visited Washington, D.C. and New York City, and will be on the Jersey coast this summer - maybe the Outer Banks of North Carolina, too.
TNP wants to visit Beijing someday.
Fuck yeah! Someday? How about right now! That's when I want to visit Peking. also mister saturday dance
TNP wants to learn Chinese but thinks the textbooks that focus on learning to read and write are ridiculous, because Jackie Chan is IIRC illiterate in Chinese, and he's cool. And besides, grammatology is dead, man.
Yes. If I could click my ruby slippers together and learn Chinese instantly, I certainly would.
TNP owns not a single pair of ruby slippers.
Aw hell yes I do not.
TNP is frequently disappointed by women wearing skirts. Very feminine and pretty, even Stevie Nicks-esque, but damned it obscures the goods. Especially the skirts made of thick materials. It can be very, very disappointing.
False. A pretty girl or woman will look good just about no matter what she's wearing.
TNP is now enjoying a beautiful spring day (as I am).
Actually yes. I live in a place that is cloudy 8-9 months out of the year, and as a certified freak for fresh air and people watching, I will sit outside every single chance I can. And that is why if a computer problem can't be solved with pencil and paper, it's not worth doing or is total nerd bullshit.
TNP thinks checking women out in an obvious (should one notice), but non-threatening, neutral way is a great pasttime, but is insulted when noticing eyeballs of people doing it in a sneaky, hiding, nasty way. The last violates the social contract, and makes women afraid. Women must be encouraged! Don't even start. They love it. I know.
I guess I'll have to say false. I try not to be obvious when I check out a beautiful woman.
TNP routinely carries at least three pens.
Two mechanical pencils and one pen and on Fridays a sharpie (blue or magenta). In my breast pocket. Pocket protector not needed, because NERDS!!!!!!
TNP does now, or has in the past, associate certain inaminate physical objects with male or female genders. E.g., ships are "she" and so forth.
True. Ships are definitely female, in keeping with ancient nautical tradition. But my car is a guy, for some reason I can't explain.
TNP has been on a ship or boat in the past month.
Yeah, just Saturday, on a tall ship with my kid. Good times.
TNP has 20/20 vision.
False. I wear either contacts or glasses, as my mood dictates.
TNP has worn tinted contact lenses.
False, not a contact lenses guy, even when I needed corrective lenses.
TNP likes gin.
Gin gimlet, up.
TNP sticks to the brown liquors.
Pretty much. I'm usually a beer or wine guy, but I'm partial to a whiskey now and then.
TNP has a favorite show that first aired in the past year.
False, I am finding less and less to watch on TV as of late.
TNP has a favourite show that no-one else around them seems to like.
Archer and Big Bang Theory both fit that description in my house.
TNP has touched an animal today.
Hmmm...no. Kind of seems like every day a non-assneck dog finds you and you're like "hey pooch...is it OK if I say hi, sir or ma'am? hey that's a good dog...pretty!"
TNP has *seen* an animal of pet variety today.
Correct - our yellow Lab, Dewey. Don't have a picture of him on hand, but he looks a lot like this: http://pamperedpoochplayground.com/w...2/DSC_0113.jpg
TNP will be mowing the lawn today.
False, the condo corp looks after that to my total satisfaction.
TNP hates a celebrity they've never met IRL.
Naw. I think some of them are morons and bad at their professions, and will always seize on any chance to make fun of them, but I can't get too excited enough to hate them.
TNP knows personally some celebrities (I guess to make it interesting, like people most people would know of, not necessarily local celebrities, like a small-town mayor with a top hat and a sash and that big pair of scissors for publicly opening the new train junction).
Nah, I know one or two people who've recorded records and such like, but nobody that somebody on this board would go OMG about.
TNP thinks that being a member of a celebrity's entourage is about all they could ask for out of life.
I think it would be fun for awhile, depending on the celebrity. I wouldn't mind hanging out with Keira Knightley, Peter Dinklage, George Clooney, Chris Rock or Charles Dance, off the top of my head.
TNP would be glad to see a movie starring all five of 'em.
Might be OK, I'd want to know more about the movie.
TNP would want Keira Knightley's nudity to be an essential part of the movie.
Damn straight. Mwrowrrrrr.
TNP has seen this clip of Charles Dance before: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbwroS0YP54
No. I am also not going to click on strange links.
TNP recognizes that the language of l'ancien franc,ais rather than middle english hobbit-language is the creative source of the Arthurian legends, and in fact treasures the people who have preserved the texts, and also is contemptuous of "English major" types who seem to think Malory has something important to do with the French middle-ages tales.
Yes, I agree that the English who were raped by the French were a bunch of twinks back in the day but they compensated for it amply by their Napoleon complexes, which are pervasive in the UK but not, curiously, in Ireland, where short men reign supreme and are also not hampered by the shortcomings of their would-be captors.
TNP is not that happy with the weather outside, kind of grey for a Memorial Day Weekend. How can I buy a car on sale in this weather?
C'mon, it's a short, funny SFW YouTube video.Quote:
Originally posted by Jizzelbin
In play:
False. Beautiful weather all weekend here - sunny but with cool breezes.
TNP has played Frisbee in the past two weeks.
Yes! My pappy's birthday I got selected because everyone else was too lame to throw frisbee or whatever with one of my nephews. Damn, he likes that, but he can't throw for a damn.
TNP likes idly playing stupid games like frisbee or whatever for a few minutes, but only when the other participants are somewhat amusing.
Pretty true, I guess. I can't stand it when people make a big deal out of fairly foolish amusement.
TNP has seen at least one episode of Penny Dreadful.
False,seen a few adverts for it, but not seen it.
TNP will watch a TV show if they see a good advert for it.
Nope. Haven't seen an advertisement for anything on a screen in a long time.
TNP has an almost pathological distaste for advertisements on any kind of screen, but somehow doesn't care or notice if they are emblazoned on stable objects, like billboards or shoes or whatever.
No, I don't mind them, usually. Just part of living in a media-saturated modern society.
TNP has seen The Grand Budapest Hotel (I did tonight, and it's great!).
No, but it reminds of a for some reason a movie I burned my uncle a copy of about six or seven years ago, with Willem Dafoe, Asia Argento, and Chris Walken.
TNP has at some point realized that they might have broken their hand due to "boxer's fracture" and also realizes nothing can be done about it now. What I mean is that TNP has at some point realized they have a legitimate injury (in my case, toes, knee, and, now,hand) and woke up and was like "Ehh, whatever," and then a week later was like "Holy shit, that's probably a real thing. Oh well."
Hmm, no, don't think every had those exact circumstances, although it's mildly surprising I haven't, given the number of stupid things I've done.
TNP likes brandy.
True, although I very rarely drink it. It's been at least five or six years, I think.
TNP is listening to the radio right now.
Haven't listened to the radio in years. I used to like some of the hot talk format ones, like the Don and Mike Show and a local show called The Rick Emerson Show (which was circling the drain for a long, long time, before dying a miserable death). Michael Savage was pretty entertaining as well, in very very small doses. Well, some people are droning on about something through a PA outside -- earplugs yay! That's kind of like radio!
TNP is feeling in a pretty mellow mood today.
False, currently swinging between "Yeah, that works!!!" to "Why has that stopped working..." to "Ok, now why is it working again. I didn't do anything???"
TNP has been on a rollercoaster once this year.
Not, yet, no. Hope to this summer, though.
TNP is bored right now.
Just a little, yes.
TNP has visited CNN.com in the past week.
No, never go there.
TNP thinks the trombone is an under-rated instrument.
True. There are some songs that you've just gotta have trombones.
TNP can play the trombone.
Nope. BTW, the Jones-Lewis orchestra made trombone indispensable as a blowing instrument, rather than just a mellow one. (oh come on....Bobby Brookmeyer? c'mon, give up some love for the valved bone).
TNP heard something just now that made him or her uncomfortable. In my case, some dickbag talking to some skanks about some professor named Horowitz, I guess, "it's a Jewish name....'New York Jew' is how he describes himself...--'So, he's all like [unintelligible] Seinfeld' ... 'That makes [unintelligible] like 60, right?'" Wrong on so many levels. Hillbillies should just go fuck off. I love them in the country, with the cars and trucks and the feed and seed, but they are less rustic when they act like they own some urban place. Humble. Is what to do. For everyone.
No, everyone around me today has behaved themselves in what they've said.
TNP is tired of radio ads by car dealerships.
No, even when I listened to the radio, the car ads were the best (or worst, not sure).
TNP has said "fuck off" to at least one person (whether just sotto voce or different-style) in person in the past week. Online it doesn't count, because much like the rest of the world is quasi-invisible and quasi-inaudible to non-glasses-wearers and earphone-neck-havers, any online communication besides the topical is punctuated terminally with the finger. (except 4u EH -- you're a good little buddy, well, at least I respect you, so you can not be flipped off by me).
False. I'm racking my brains, and I don't know that I've ever actually used those words in my life (despite being sometimes sorely tempted).
TNP has been through an ugly breakup.
Maybe this one time it was less than ideal. That's what happens when two extremely sarcastic people and one incompetent boob (with boobs) do stuff. Other than that, just kind of fizzled out. Moved away, or whatever. Come to think of it I've never gone on a "date" in my life, except for garbage crap like Valentime's day or stuff like that with someone I was already with. Find someone good, stick with them, it's fine until it's not or just bored and then do something else.
TNP has a hard time understanding people who don't stick up for themselves in their public personae. Not greedy douchebaggery like people do, but just, go do your thing until someone gets in your way, then keep doing it while grumbling for a minute. And make damned sure doing your thing doesn't involve doing anything to anyone else.
I change my next TNP. OK, answer first, yes I am that TNP, who behaves correctly, magnanimously, and charitably to all, and who will not suffer incorrect behavior. Verbal behavior is excepted, because, you know, of the innate goal of abstraction.
The real TNP ... wait i forgot I had a good one ............ has been surprised recently by recollections of his or her youth, and particularly the indelibility of having witnessed certain behavior. And TNP is surprised by just how much children (over, say, seventeen, and under, say, thirty) can remember little things. Just as passive witnesses. Not talking about traumatic experiences, but just how much imprinting (?) can go on in formative years. And TNP thinks this recognition is both important philosophically, and is a key step to becoming a more sensitive person. Talking about RL, not internet, where people can generally not be held to their words, and therefore words should be treated as a kind of performance art with a subtratum of abstracted human consciousness, reasonably or no. Also, those are correctly-formed sentences, and if one doesn't follow, it's neither my nor the language's problem.
True. I recently had a scent memory come back to me very strongly. I smelled someone on an elevator which reminded me very strongly of a scent - not good or bad, just distinctive - from many years before.
TNP has a favorite smell.
Clean woman!
TNP doesn't really understand obsession with cologne and body spray -- scent of a person is fine, just as long as it is someone you like. Stale second-hand smoke, ennui, passion, and attractive sensual organs -- that's the smell.
Also, whatever, Proust. Couldn't resist making a joke.
Kinda true. The scent of a person is fine - especially when it's someone you love - but too often, when I'm aware of someone else's natural scent at all, it's because they have poor hygiene, and it's not a good smell.
TNP has seen X-Men: Days of Future Past (as I just did - and it's great!)
No, haven't seen a movie in a few weeks, not since the new Godzilla.
TNP is a Godzilla fan.
False. Don't particularly care about the big reptilian critter. This made me laugh, though: http://www.newyorker.com/images/2012...16250_p465.gif
TNP liked that cartoon.
Yes! No explanation needed.
TNP is kind of bothered by "systemic" misogyny in what used to be a funny cartoon. Also, somewhat hates themselves for being such a pussy, but it kind of is annnoying, therefore I don't like it. Yes, TNP fucking hates *Family Guy*, because it's rude, and I don't like it when every other joke is being mean to women. Seems like a dumb joke, and I don't like it.
No. I don't watch Family Guy much, but when I do, I often have a laugh or three. A joke is a joke is a joke. If you don't like a TV show that goes close to, or even crosses, the line of good taste, don't watch it. Part of living in a free society is running the risk that you just might be offended now and then.
TNP thinks free speech is 'way overrated.
Nah, I like free speech, though I wish that some people would realize that it's about being opposed to government censorship, it doesn't mean you can wreck other people's message boards and Facebook groups for kicks.
TNP watches Orphan Black.
Not so, although I've heard good things about it.
TNP expects to go fishing this summer.
False, only ever been fishing once, when I was younger.
TNP expects to go camping this summer?
Unlikely, but possible.
TNP will go to the beach this summer.
Yes, the probably only on a lake, not the ocean.
TNP likes hash (the food, not the drug).
Love it. The real hash, meh, whatever. That's for hippies or extras from *Lawrence of Arabia*. Well, the latter's OK, I guess, just kind of too druggy.
The food -- great. That's the original Hungry Man -- put it all together, apply flame, and eat.
Preferably while your fishing buddy is cleaning out some nice trout for lunch.
TNP likes mashed potatoes better than French Fries.
Hmm. Close call. It depends on the situation - with a more formal meal, I prefer mashed potatoes. With hot dogs or hamburgers, for instance, I prefer french fries.
TNP never called them "Freedom Fries."
I never called them Freedom Fries, but I have called them "Freedom Fries." Which is good because Belgians are, as Baudelaire teaches us, the enemies of freedom. It's like sarcasm or something.
TNP comes to think of it, the RL Belgian friends -- people you voluntarily spend time with, not just "Hey, how you doin'" -- has had are kind of an odd bunch.
No, alas. I don't know a single Belgian person.
TNP has seen In Bruges and thinks it's cunt fucking hilarious.
Yep. It is a fucking hilarious movie. Old, though.
TNP has woken up this morning after a well-deserved "rest" last night spending it being good, just drinking my whiskey on my stoop, and hallucinated (?) some weird Norman-Mailer theory wherein I invited some strange dude into my place and spent the whole morning thinking....WTF is my door's locked, where's my wallet, where's my keys, and stuff, only to open my bedroom door and seeing there was nobody there.
Well, TNP has had *one* night like that, doesn't have to be this past night.
No. I've never hallucinated anything, as far as I know.
TNP doesn't consider a movie from 2008 to be "old."
No, nor from 2000.
TNP has had a headache in the last week.
Yes, on Friday afternoon I had a pretty bad one. It went away on its own, though.
TNP has a favorite movie of 2014 already.
Not really. And FWIW, that was a joke. I think the 1930s are where the best movies come from, as a group, so I was being sarcastic, and also hating on people who call some 1970s or 1980s movies "classics," because I think that's ridiculous. Just as ridiculous as people saying "classics" in literature, for example, can possible be from the past few millenia. Or however it's spelled.
TNP has had a fucking weird day today, because of like, just weird shit and stuff. Or whatever. And also explain why or why not.
No, it's been a pretty typical day. Got up, showered, dressed, went to work, and am now noodling around on the Internet in a free moment.
TNP already has lunch plans for a week from Friday.
No...actually, I don't think I have any idea what I'm doing for lunch this Friday, let alone in a week.
TNP doesn't drink iced tea.
No, I only drink Crystal Lite. Made by the important US concern Kraft Foods. "Sweet tea" is an abomination. "Y'all like some swee' tea, hon'?" No, blow me, female Bubba at the juke joint (which is pronounced jeep or jeek joint by those in the know).
TNP is impossibly stressed out and might either vomit from anxiety at any moment, or expel unspeakable horrors from the lower deck, or develop an ulcer.
Unlikely to all of the above... fortunately.
TNP has heard a Peter Frampton song in the past week (as I am now, on the radio).
No, actually I can't remember if I've heard a Peter Frampton song in the last 20 years.
TNP knew there was an election in Ontario today.
True, thanks to Northern Piper on, er, that other website.
NP knows someone who regularly smokes a pipe.
Yeah I don't know whatever I guess.
TNP did some pro bono helping-out work today that involved scaling and descending a ladder like 50 ft like a bunch of times and recalls it having been pretty good workout for arms and legs in addition to having been glad was not over the weight limit for the ladder. In the past year. For me, it was today helping my mother hang some shutters on her house that she painted and it was quite a workout, actually, so glad I'm done. I did get a lunch out of it, and to see my youngest nephew who, I assume, was appropriately impressed by "ooohh, ladder, tall." eh whatever. Glad I stuck to coffee this AM, though.
Nope. But I'm gonna guess you did.
TNP has been to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.
You know, not really. Could have stopped off easy enough many times, just wasn't a priority at that time.
TNP has been to the Rock and Roll Museum over in .... Cleveland, I guess.
Yes, many times. Cool place. My personal favorites among the many exhibits: Jim Morrison's Cub Scout uniform; the original handwritten lyrics to several Beatles songs.
TNP has a single favorite Beatles song.
Not really. I like the Beatles, but there's no one, big song for me.
TNP gets bored easily.
False. I can always pick up a book, go for a walk, muck around on the Internet, watch a movie or scratch the dog.
TNP has owned at least three dogs during his or her life.
No, all the dogs i've been associated with were more my family's dogs than mine.
TNP likes horseradish.
Yes, very much, on roast beef. It's a minor Christmas custom in our house.
TNP has a more unusual holiday custom.
Nope. Have a xmas if whoever wants to put it on and whatever, We've all seen the movies. Play some music, and watch the world go by.
TNP has positive memories of a music box (or a musical watch).
Yes. My sister had a delicate little ballerina music box that I liked when I was very small.
TNP has been in Rochester, N.Y. at some point (as I am now).
Pulled a barge with my teeth all along the canal from Rochester to Buffalo.
TNP is currently taking photographs (speaking of Eastman).
I took some this afternoon in a cemetery in Troy, N.Y., as a matter of fact.
TNP loves to take pictures.
Actually, kind of hate it. I don't know, just not my thing, I guess. Actually, really, really hate it -- everything about it, the technical to the act of taking a simple snapshot.
TNP has, however, seen some interesting photographic stills in the past, for example, large-format wilderness backcountry pictures. Those guys were pretty costaud.
Yes, indeed. Ansel Adams is a particular favorite of mine:
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TNP has an Ansel Adams image somewhere in his or her house.
You know, I don't. When I was a bit younger I used to hang some stuff on my walls, but maybe when I hit 22 y.o. I thought, I guess -- well, it just wasn't something I cared about.
I did, up until moving out here, used to enjoy a poster of Great Day in Harlem -- that fancy famous picture.
I guess I have some NatGeo maps up in my office, but since moving about five years ago I only bothered putting up a nice NatGeo world map up, not some of the regional ones. seems like too much hassle, </Barry Levinson in *High Anxiety*>, I guess.
Anyway, I've always liked plain white walls and a big window. Down where life is beautiful all the time...to the funny farm! Eh, shaddup.
TNP has only had one good chance to mutter something today. For example, taking out some trash and finding some...people...had filled up the dumpster with a bunch of bullcrap, "Eh, what, these people, Arbeit macht frei, bitches," but took the high road and didn't even say anything bad.
False, I've had multiple opportunities to mutter about the unfairness of life, the universe, and everything today. It's been one of those days.
TNP wishes they had a copy of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, the actual guide, not the book by Douglas Adams.
Oh, definitely. Especially if its voice was that of Stephen Fry.
TNP loved the Fry & Laurie Jeeves & Wooster series back in the day.
Yeah, that was a cute show. It had that guy from *House* in it, I think, also. Never got into the novelizations, though.
TNP is looking forward to playing some fun kids games with toddler-type creatures over the weekend. In my case Alligator Eggs -- I'll make them color in the alligators before playing, but I will cut out the alligators and eggs first, because, adult and stuff.
False, mainly due to a lack of toddlers.
TNP is going to an outdoor event sometime this weekend?
Well go get some toddlers, then. They're like funny sort-of smart sort-of-stupid little alien hatchlings. No, just a weekend at the coast, probably mostly spent indoors babysitting my twenty-years-my-senior Uncle, and maybe wrest the kids away when they get bored with the other set of their grandparents to play my lambda calculus game with alligators. Which, BTW, I still don't know any good problems to set up for the actual game part of that. I'ma be too busy cutting out these stupid pictures and convincing (brainstorm! my uncle + some sharpies in the car with pops, let him color the pieces and cut them out. My pops who is, bless him, down at a Blues Festival (caps!) today, texted me back that uncle can only have blunt-end scissors. Well, whatever, I'm not going to tell).
TNP has been to a nice outdoor kind of thing this calendar year, like a festival or whatever.
Yes, an outdoor birthday party for a friend of mine. He just turned 50 (as I will soon).
TNP is an American and will be celebrating Independence Day.
Not American, but I celebrated by drinking a lot and watching the FIFA World Cup.
TNP has eaten transcendent pad thai. Not just tasty, I mean indescribably good.
Well, that would probably be overstating things, but I have had some pretty good pad thai in my day.
TNP has never had pad thai.
False, I've had it, but never had any that was that great.
TNP likes beer. A lot.
Not a lot, but I like very few things in life. Drinking beer is one of them. Good beer is nice, but I prefer ghetto beer 10-12% alcohol. The other stuff just doesn't get 'er done. But I can enjoy shooting the shit for hours with a nice microbrewery IPA hopped all up, served in a pint glass from the tap, as long as they keep them coming and don't let them get wet. And also don't 86 me, that part is important. Or wine in a box, that's good stuff too. Neither beverages -- ghetto beer or ghetto wine -- have bouquets. They have odors.
TNP will only drink foodie beer because TNP is a foodie.
No foodie, I. I like micro-brews and what have you, but I'm happy to drink whatever plonk they're selling at the ball park. Life is all about context.
TNP is feeling more than usually cranky today.
No!!!! Feeling good! Found out my usual very good dentist accepts my new insurance AND they had a cancellation so they can swab out my disgusting maw this Wedensday.
TNP woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.
No!!!! Feeling good! Found out my usual very good dentist accepts my new insurance AND they had a cancellation so they can swab out my disgusting maw this Wedensday.
TNP woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.
False. I woke up actually in the bed.
TNP has had a haircut recently.
No :(
TNP could use a haircut next time he or she gets around to it. But TNP resists the urge to start hacking away with scissors because, you know, it sucks that way and, uh, supportive of local tradeswomen.
Yes :( Probably need a haircut sooner rather than later because my dentist called me back and said my insurance isn't good there. Shit fucking a god dammit now I have to find somebody else.
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You know what? Fuck that guy, if he doesn't want my insurance. Stupid f****t. After all the money I gave him out of pocket. Fucking retard asshole and his whore hygienists. He probably rapes them, too. Fucker.
TNP started out strong today with the feeling of in the heart and then, after spending all day on hold with automated phone lines, just keeps getting pretty worse.
OTOH, I have beer! Probably, at this point, more than is really healthy, but it keeps my pecker up.
That's basically how my day's gone so far, yeah.
TNP has certain joints that pop and crack.
Dude, try like all of them. On the good note nerve regeneration is apparently a thing. Still have a gnarly suspiciously handcuffy-looking scar from an officer friendly with some GD cuffs on me. Stupid kid, he didn't know better, so I don't blame them, just a bunch of retardeds.
TNP fantasizes about joining the force and becoming a detective who doesn't have to wear a uniform and be a dick all the time, but whatever.
False. In fact, I very seldom watch CSI.
TNP enjoys pickled garlic.
Never had it, but I'm willing to try!
TNP has had Bacon Salt, and liked it.
I had bacon jam served on little crostinis or whatever a few days ago.
TNP has bought as a novelty gift bacon mayonnaise for a "loved" one in the past few years.
No, but I'd like to try it sometime.
TNP really should be going to bed soon.
True. Wow, timing!
TNP likes brussel sprouts.
Hmmm...."can eat" is probably more accurate than "likes".
TNP gets laryngitis a lot.
Nope. Never, actually. But then again I am extremely frugal with my voice IRL. I think it's more badass to talk quietly and clearly, yet audibly. Sure wish I could yodel though.
TNP is just fronting because they never had Brussel sprouts cooked the right way, because once you had a good cruciform cooked good, you eat that shit right the hell up. And come back for seconds.
Nope. Never, actually. But then again I am extremely frugal with my voice IRL. I think it's more badass to talk quietly and clearly, yet audibly. Sure wish I could yodel though.
TNP is just fronting because they never had Brussel sprouts cooked the right way, because once you had a good cruciform cooked good, you eat that shit right the hell up. And come back for seconds.
Nah, never really cared for brussels sprouts.
TNP has actually been to Brussels.
Nope. I inherited Baudelaire's loathing for Belgium (in fucking Bruges! it's like a fairy tale! dwarves OK I'll stop trying to remember things from that movie). Probably been through it, I guess.
TNP has been waiting for some amount of time for somebody to say something correctly, like, for example, the name of a certain cruciferous vegetable. I bet you people don't even like broccoli (the veg, not the movie producer).
Nope. I inherited Baudelaire's loathing for Belgium (in fucking Bruges! it's like a fairy tale! dwarves OK I'll stop trying to remember things from that movie). Probably been through it, I guess.
TNP has been waiting for some amount of time for somebody to say something correctly, like, for example, the name of a certain cruciferous vegetable. I bet you people don't even like broccoli (the veg, not the movie producer).
No, I can't say that's kept me up nights.
TNP is wondering if Jizzelbin has cloned himself, given two double posts in a row.
No!!!!! Just a messed up internet connection. I blame (a) you (b) them (c) biting midges and (d) the internet.
TNP wants to go to Belgium. And, why?
It's not a burning ambition of mine to visit Belgium, but sure, why not. BTW, you're spot-on about brussel sprouts. If the natural flavour is too much for you, it helps to add butter, salt and pepper. Salivating just typing this...
TNP has recently had some strange food cravings.
Yeah. Over the weekend I indulged with the rest of my crew in some ice cream sundaes, which I very rarely eat, and later that night made one of my favorite drinks -- yellow Gatorade, about 12 ounces of orange curac,ao, some half-and-half, and a whole bunch of Hershey's chocolate syrup. I like to think I was helping out by getting rid of the leftovers in the fridge.
TNP has never been a pregnant man.
For me, as for half of humanity, this is true.
TNP wonders sometimes about what it would be like to be pregnant.
False. I'm not that guy in Life of Brian, protesting his right to be a woman...
TNP has eaten a good bit of steak recently.
A couple of weeks ago, yes. And I'm a philistine - it's the uncommon steak that can't be improved by adding A-1 Sauce.
TNP will be dining at a restaurant tonight.
No, my kid's having a sleepover and ordering in.
TNP has no idea what they'll be eating tonight.
True. but now you mention it, I will give it some thought.
TNP has enjoyed a major sporting event on TV recently.
Yes, I've watched a little of the World Cup. Sorry Brazil got pounded so badly by Germany.
TNP has been to either Bonn or Berlin.
False, but I'd like to rectify that within the next 2 years.
TNP has enjoyed an alcoholic beverage recently.
Well, I had a beer with my supper yesterday. "Enjoyed" might be a bit strong.
TNP has no idea what tumblr is.
I have a vague idea. It involves some visual media stuff. I think.
TNP has an Android phone.
False. Just a garden-variety Verizon LG phone.
TNP has had the same cellphone for more than three years.
Hey word up Verizon LG "Text" phone. It works, the battery works, whatever. It's fine.
TNP is kind of irrationally hostile to proselytes of gadgetry. My pencils and paper are just great.
Definitely. Just because it's new or electronic doesn't mean it's better. What gets me is calendars: someone asks, "Hey, are you free for lunch next Tuesday?" I whip out my pocket calendar, flip to that page, and boom, I see my schedule. Takes all of three seconds. But someone else gets out their PDA and pushes this button and that, then flips through, tabs through, swipes past, etc. Takes three or four times as long, sometimes longer.
TNP still uses a paper calendar.
Yep. One on my wall, with nice pictures of my nephews, with red-letter days color-coded in Sharpie, according to how much I like the event (magenta is for best, and green is for worst) and for anything I need to schedule and/or remember, I whip out my breast pocket notebook and, thanks to years of practice, randomly scrawl details on some half-empty or fully-empty page, depending on importance, in a way that I can always recall. Never missed anything, ever, yet. Can be triaged according to dog-ears on pages, using ink instead of pencil, or, if fancy, one of the half-dozen or so colored Sharpies somewhere around here. The key is I sort all of these during odd moments at the end of a day at my desk, in between lightning rounds of Canfield solitaire or whatever. And also it all stays crammed in my peabrain. And also I'm not that popular so it's not like coordinating re-entry of a capsule or whatever.
TNP has never, to his or her knowledge, been late for anything (not counting, say, five minutes here or there due to some other idiots, and absolving cases where one phoned ahead and averted the person in question one were running late...eta just remembered this does not describe me because of a shitload of cases, but not for anything I cared about, or for anyone).
True, I am extremely punctual.
TNP thinks Argentina will win tomorrow.
Yep. One of two or maybe three SA countries I actually am friends with people from. Argentina needs a win, I would say. Give it to them, corrupt game ambassadors. If you can count that high.
TNP really doesn't like pizza hut night managers of a sobering station being put in any kind of authority, and *. Yeah whatever. But you know, it would be too bad, because they work hard.
Sure, why not.
TNP doesn't really care about the World Cup.
Yep.
TNP is humbled by the display of humanity and spiritedness, and is really despairing of the great lacuna until the next summer Olympics. Because that is going to be great.
To the extent I'm paying attention at all, yeah, sure.
TNP wants to see the controlled demolition of a bridge: http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index..._belt_bri.html
<roy scheider in *Jaws*>Oh yeah.</roy scheider in *Jaws*>
TNP enjoys the daily variation in weather living near the great lakes provides -- temperance is unsatisfactory, when it comes to life and weather.
Quite so, I do like the change in seasons, although summer is my least favorite. It gets so hot and sticky and there's only so much you can take off and not get arrested.
TNP is already yearning for snow.
I yearn for snow daily.
TNP wants to eat beetroot.
Nope. No interest whatsoever.
TNP thinks "beetroot" is a funny-lookin' word.
Yeah, somehow it always looks odd to me.
TNP is going to be watching the Home Run Derby.
Nope. Don't care.
TNP has ridden a bicycle in the past month.
True. 12 hours ago, and again in about an hour.
TNP likes cottage cheese.
No, can't say as I do.
TNP likes lasagna.
Very much, and my wife makes a good one (leaving out the spinach): http://barrslastcall.blogspot.com/20...h-lasagna.html
TNP loves spinach almost as much as Popeye.
No, it falls into the "I like it OK" category.
TNP likes spinach on pizza.
Fucking a hell yes. A nice white pizza, spinach and feta, or streaky bacon and spinach. Spinach is probably the best vegetable, next to peas, carrots, leeks, onions, garlic, peppers, and cauliflower.
TNP is tired of being a fatass so for getting rid of twenty pounds is going to be all h***erotic about food and stuff.
I wouldn't mind losing a few pounds, but no, not like that.
TNP has been to the Jersey Shore.
Don't even know where it is...
TNP like the Corr's version of Erin Shore.
No can't stand Irish people. They Corr people sound oirish enough to me.
TNP has been bitten by so many things over the past few weeks it's not funny. And now I am out of diphenhydramine chlorowhatever and itches and, in the reality of this commentator, seeing a crazy-ass hobo spider literally crawl out of the spine of my Blackwell *Companion to Philosophical Logic* for getting to sleep and smashing it then these things keep. Yeah I blame my downstairs neighbor with her stupid-ass dog, probably some fucking fleas or whatever.
Dude, I live in Australia. I get uncomfortable when I'm NOT getting bitten...
TNP has had a really good stirfry recently.
You know, sort of. My mother treated me to lunch with my older nephew (turning 6! that stuttering prick, but he's pretty smart, and he says funny stuff, and he doesn't think I'm a retard so he's cool) at a Thai restaurant. Wasn't really stirfry -- he got some of those chicken skewers with peanut sauce and I got a curry which, on my insistence, was "We'll make you cry, OK, you sure!" and my mom got something I can't remember. Close enough.
TNP agrees with Steingarten, food writer and former legal technician, that Thai food like Thai people are just about the good ones. And then came the hipsters.
TNP-non-tl-dr-style thinks eating spicy (but edible) dishes is hilarious, and therefore good to eat.