True! I've always preferred sausage to bacon... but I like bacon, too.
TNP has had Middle Eastern cuisine in the past month.
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True! I've always preferred sausage to bacon... but I like bacon, too.
TNP has had Middle Eastern cuisine in the past month.
Depends what you meant by "cuisine." And "middle-eastern," for that matter. Lots of hummus, a few gyros/shwarma, and I read some Homer out of Clyde Pharr's student edition when I was drunk.
TNP has a good story about the term 'oriental'.
Hmm... no. The closest I can come is from The Big Lebowski: "'Chinaman' is not the preferred nomenclature, Dude. 'Asian,' if you please."
TNP has been to the beach already this summer.
Yeah, and then some. As if dealing with Doctor Mister Prissypants weren't enough, I doubled down and saw the whole shebang for the Fourth. I carry a large grudge; I am not willingly going to participate in any family activities unless my father is dead. And my mother shaves her turkey-neck and prostrates herself. And also dies. All I want is for them to die and me to possess their property. Well, not really, but that's what I said IRL after provocation, so I guess I should be true to my word.
TNP is trying to mend some fences, figuratively or, perhaps, literally.
Nah, I think I'm pretty good with the people I want to be pretty good with.
(And Jizz, it's not my problem, and I don't know what the provocation was, but are you sure this is how you want things to be with your parents? People I've know who had a parent die while things were not resolved tended not to handle it well.)
TNP is going to a family reunion within the next month.
No, but I just saw my parents last week.
TNP had a rabbit as a child.
Actually, yeah. Two of them. My folks didn't really know how to deal with them, so it ended up, the hutches, in a pretty sorry state. At least it wasn't MY idea, nor my sister's. continuing theme? I don't know. all I know is that I behave exactly the way I do -- start a fight when I'm just minding my own business, and it's expected that Dr. Jimmy comes out. That's not a good reaction, but it *is* a *re*action, and I'm not a zen-master. ETA Dr Jimmy and mister Gin/Jim! I got it wrong, but I think that's closer -- off *Quadrophenia* EETA Yeah, it must be "doctor jimmy and mister jim, he only comes out when I drink my gin" -- because of the rhyme or whatever. Oh, and "Dr Mister Prissypants" isn't my father, he's my friend with whom I spent a few weeks out at the coast. AKA "genius friend"
TNP likes animals in general.
Yes, I do, although more outdoors than in my house (although we have a dog, a cat and a hermit crab). And I'm allergic to fur and dander, so I have to wash my hands after I pat or scratch any critter.
TNP has at least one allergy.
Nah, pretty fortunate that way. My wife has a bunch of allergies, and the kid has inherited the one to cats, which is too bad.
TNP likes banana splits.
No. I don't like bananas at all. Yeah, I know, har har, but sometimes a banana is just a banana. Texture and flavor just don't do it for me -- well, I don't enjoy fruits of any kind, really. Peas and carrots are about as sweet things I like.
TNP has been informed recently via voice-mail of something not very good.
No, fortunately. Just routine court stuff.
TNP knows a magistrate other than me.
No :( In fact, until you said you were a magistrate, I thought the title only existed in a Kafka novel or story.
TNP has it up to the gills with Gladys Kravitz types busy-bodying around reading my stuff on Facebook. Yeah, I know, "I don't use FB" is what most of you would say, so substitute something else for Facebook, if appropriate.
Well, not reading my stuff on Facebook, but in general. I've known people to make complaints about the damnedest stuff. Often, I have no idea why they subcribed to a certain group, if the whole thing that it's about offends them. So, I guess, true.
TNP knows a small claims court judge. (Other than EH, although I assume that he is a criminal court magistrate exclusively.)
Judge Wapner? No. A senior judge of my state, and a judge with a very similar last name to me got me off a traffic rap, without his knowledge.
TNP is not looking forward to the rest of today.
(Jizz, plenty of real-life magistrates out there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magistrate).
(Rube, I handle criminal, civil - including small claims - and traffic cases, depending on the week's docket).
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False. I do look forward to the rest of today.
TNP has been to an outdoor concert in the past month.
No. I've seen some OK street musicians/art-jerks doing some performances recently, but not an actual concert. I can't imagine what would entice me to hear music on purpose outside, in the blistering sun surrounded by yahoos, being assaulted in the earballs by some hipster "sound guy" working the FOH desk.
TNP learned something shocking about a new state law, in his or her current state/province/whatever of residence, in the past month.
Nah, not much shocks me about Ontario law.
TNP takes a daily aspirin.
No. I probably should -- but my last BP reading was 112/70, so despite my abysmal state of physical fitness at the moment, I'm not too worried. I pop 500 mg of Vitamin D every day, though -- don't know why, because I'm outside just getting from A to B every day quite a bit, but I like pills.
TNP really dislikes brushing his or her teeth -- it's like swabbing out a sewer. There's something shameful in the act.
No, I don't mind it. Feels rather good, actually, sometimes.
TNP changes his or her toothbrush monthly.
What is this regular changing of the toothbrush you speak of? I use them until they get visibly frayed or otherwise tatty. If I had a stopwatch not on my phone, I would probably be more excited to keep a regular schedule for that sort of thing, but no. They get swabbed out when I feel like it, and same for the toothbrush, substituting "swapped" for "swabbed."
TNP is extremely suspicious of young doctors, including dentists, natch.
Yes, I prefer mine to have some gray in their hair.
TNP has considered suing a medico for malpractice.
Nah. But there was one I should have reported to her regulator, and mostly didn't because I assumed they wouldn't do squat.
TNP tends to be cynical about how much it's possible to actually accomplish through official channels.
Yeah, now and then. But that doesn't stop me from trying. (From hard experience, I'm always careful to write down the name and number of whoever I speak to in any bureaucracy, and the date, so if I have to call back I'll be able to follow up more effectively).
TNP has triumphed over an otherwise-annoying bureaucracy in the past year.
No, can't remember the last time I had a victory.
TNP still takes a childish delight in summer.
I don't know about "childish," but I like the vibe. I also like laughing at the chubs complaining about 105 deg F when it's a "dry" heat. I'm overweight myself, but the thing is, you can acclimate to hotter weather, or just stop caring.
TNP likes it when women wear sundresses in the summer. Feels like summer!
Oh, yes. Some very pretty girls around town in their sundresses - one of my favorite things about the season.
TNP has played tennis in the past two months.
Nah, not my game.
TNP has a persistent knot in the back.
No, fortunately. I have occasional back pains but it always (knock on wood) passes after a day or two.
TNP has been to a chiropractor.
No. I saw *Jacob's Ladder*. Didn't look like too much fun.
TNP knows a spinal surgeon.
Hah, I wish!
TNP wonders if there's a special surgeon who removes other surgeons' personalities.
No, I never wondered that, but I'm wondering now, half-assedly, I guess. So, true.
TNP is considering adding the kinder, gentler riposte for daily use: the elegant, upper-crusty "go to hell."
Don't need to say that all that often, so no.
TNP likes Michael Buble: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lpj3VXJNV4k
Don't need to click the link. I already know what to think of Mike Buble'. He can go to hell -- he's no Harry Connick, Jr.
TNP has to go BACK to the library to check out a recent fulfilled ILL request: Bicq's *Technically Write!* -- stupid bullshit technical writing textbook.
No. ILL works pretty well at my local library.
TNP has had more than 20 books checked out of the library at a time.
Hahahaha. It takes great effort to keep it under 20, which is my version of "spring cleaning."
TNP has had either over $1000 or at least over $80 (for the lightweights) in library fines at one point.
OMG that is the worst thing I have ever heard, ever. And I've been known to listen to hours on end of Raoul Haussman, Kurt Schwitters, and all kinds of stuff most people would hate.
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Originally posted by Jizzelbin
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No. I think my biggest library fine ever was less than five bucks.
TNP is a good tipper.
Yeah. I have been known to melt the hearts of American servers, who expect Canadians to tip lousy.
TNP is easily amused.
Yeah, I'd have to agree. I still laugh at third-grade jokes and I can usually find something in just about any comedy to enjoy.
TNP has seen a good comedy in the past month.
Yeah, sure. Probably lots of them -- a month is a long time! *Bowfinger* was not what I'd call a "good" comedy, but *Rear Window* turned out to be one of the best black comedies I've seen. So, it went in my estimation from being an iconic movie with some thrills to being a full-on comedy. So that means it's a comedy.
TNP has ever misread something recently in an amusing way, and will share. Example, just this second I was looking out a window thinking of something to write and saw stamped on the glass, "Meat Strengthened." It's actually "Heat Strengthened," on closer inspection.
Ooo, I did, but now I forget what it was. Sorry.
TNP can name more than five first cousins he or she has.
Sure. I don't know if I should name them now, because of "privacy," but obviously that ship has sailed. Jasmine, Jonah, Todd, Jonie, Summer, Luke, Ben.
TNP thinks online privacy is for nerds.
Well, I think you have to use your common sense. I wouldn't post my SSN or DOB, for instance.
TNP lives in a country with Social Security numbers or an analogous government-issued unique personal identifier.
Yes, but the US is a young country -- yanquis will have to mature for years before achieving the "old world charm" other first-world nations enjoy.
TNP has been surprised in the past week (or so) by a change in packaging of a beloved product. example: Olde English 800 is now available in plastic forty-oz. "bottles." I think it's the best consumer news I've heard for many, many years. Literally. No, I mean that.
Nah, it's been a long-time since I've seen an improvement that moved me.
TNP thinks hip flasks are kind of cool.
Kind of, yes, although I've never owned one.
TNP has taken a drink from a hip flask in the past week.
No.
TNP doesn't know the difference between a hip flask and a regular flask. Reading McGoorty's memoirs for about the two-dozenth time it finally occurred to me that in the USProhibition a "flat fifth" was 11floz. and a Panther Piss was like 14 ounces.
Uh... a hip flask is smaller and curved to fit against your ass, right?
TNP knows if that's the correct answer or not.
Nope, but damn, it makes sense.
TNP knows a joke involving a hip flask.
No. The one about the mohel and making the wallet out of discarded foreskins is about the closest, I guess. A hip flask? Damn, that's one cool motherfucker, all talking about Charlie Parker!
TNP knows a lot of jokes.
I do. At parties, I could go on and on and on... and sometimes do.
TNP will tell us a dirty joke in the very next post.
Two nuns are bathing in a bathtub. One asks, "Where's the soap?" Other says, "It does, doesn't it!" Best I can do on short notice -- I don't work blue online.
TNP has a good reason why Pollacks are the butt of jokes -- the people who are responsible for the very best of logical and linguistic accomplishments in Central Europe next to Aristotle.
Yeah, I think I do - a lot of displaced peasants hitting the U.S. after WWII, and not understanding WASP ways so well. In Canada, we have or had very similar "Newfy" jokes, based on Newfoundlanders coming to the mainland after Newfoundland joined Canada.
TNP has been to one of those comedy clubs where kids trying to get stage time relentlessly try to sell you tickets.
I have indeed been to comedy clubs, but never had that particular experience.
TNP has been to a comedy club in the past month.
No. Not in the past decade, probably. Probably not even walked *by* a "comedy" shop in that time either.
TNP has even *seen* a jazz club/bar in the past year or so. You know, the kind that actually has people playing in it. And a bunch of derelict musicians wearing funny hats and smoking out front.
Yes, and I listened to a few tunes. Dixieland is my favorite.
TNP hates Dixieland jazz.
Nah, as jazz goes, it's probably my favourite.
TNP hates every kind of jazz that can be described as either "cool" or "hot".
WTF? Hell no. FALSE!!!!!
TNP listens to jazz. And I mean "listen," not just background while you spoon caviar into your gullet.
I must confess it is more often background music for me than something I actively listen to. On the other hand, I haven't had caviar in years.
TNP just loves caviar.
Like it fine, but can't use "love" in relation to it.
TNP is considering getting a new smartphone.
No. I'm not that high-tech.
TNP suffers from gadget envy.
Not at all. I like nice things (not that I can afford the best things) just not nice gadgets. Gadgets like laptops and phones are ultimately disposable -- they don't last forever -- so I figure just use whatever one works, run it into the ground, rinse and repeat. Ditto digital musical instruments, like digital pianos, Hammond clones, and stuff -- stick some gaffer tape on it, replace the CMOS battery when needed, keep the dust out of the keybed. Well, they do have to work and sound great, and feel good, but there's diminishing returns at a certain point. Happy with my old Boy Scout orienteering compass, my 4GB mp3 player, my dumb phone which stays in my shoulder bag, my Flava Flav-sized watch/stopwatch, and a beater Chromebook tweaked to the max for reading and surfing.
TNP likes wearing hats these days.
Now and then. I have some favorite baseball caps that I wear for shade or in inclement weather: Cleveland Indians, Ohio History Connection, U.S. Olympics, USS Kearsarge and U.S. Army Air Forces.
TNP has attended an Olympics game.
No. I've never even watched an Olympic Game on TV -- I mean, sure, Picabo Street and Jonny Mac doing commentary (?) but actually watched a single match, like you'd watch a ball game? No.
TNP sees irony and despair in the following Einstein "quotable": "I FEAR THE DAY THAT TECHNOLOGY WILL SURPASS OUR HUMAN INTERACTION. THE WORLD WILL HAVE A GENERATION OF IDIOTS." Caps because I copied-and-pasted an OLD-SCHOOL text to my mom just now after our walk, and I don't think there's a ready-baked script to decapitalize ASCII chars that I care to find out. And my Chromebooks don't have capslock, without me fiddling with it, so that's the way it's going to read. In caps. Like Virgil intended.
ETA alternate TNP: has watched an entire game/inning/match on TV of whatever sport. I miss vacationing at my parents' for a week here or there and seeing cable TV tournaments of 9-ball (pool) games. The summer's gone, and all the leaves are turning. From glen to glen, yadda yadda.
EETA alternate TNP: has seriously recently considering legally changing his or her last name to that of his mother, for reasons of carrying on the Oirish name. Not that my mother doesn't have her problems, but I just like that side better.
Yes, I've watched entire games/innings/matches on TV. But no, I'm not considering legally changing my name. I like it just fine the way it is.
TNP personally knows someone with a silly name.
Eh, not really. After a while you get used to stupid names. Whatever. After Dweezil, how much more can one do?
TNP has listened just now to a few great old-school albums/tunes just now. For me, Otis Spann. Thinking about getting some microwavr
dhit popcorni whatever
Oh and stop taking the fucking piss -- you know damned well I was saying never seen OLYMPIC game. Who doesn't know Pindar, among movie watchers? Fucking A, that little bastard is burned into everyone's retinae or whatever. Fucking prick wirh his goddam Pindar,
I will say that some good poem.
Eh, wahetcer, I don; care.
Recuerda mw!
Unless Handel's Water Music qualifies as "a few great old-school albums/tunes just now," no.
TNP has been to hear a live orchestra performance in the past month.
No. And, of course Handel counts as old-school! I'm embarrassed to say I've never knowingly listened to the Water Music -- that sounds kind of like it could be a change of pace. Berg is making me agitated and crabby lately.
TNP sometimes uses music to attempt to change one's moods -- not just for the pleasure, but you know, to relax or get pumped up, or just keep one's mind off other things.
Here you go. Good stuff! My favorite movement starts at 42:37: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bOjYTMt0j8Quote:
Originally posted by Jizzelbin
And yes, I definitely use music that way sometimes. There are some pieces that almost always calm me, or perk me up, or let me wallow in nostalgia a bit.
TNP will wear socks to bed tonight.
Never. OK, hardly ever. OK, maybe. Haven't decided yet. Thanks for the link, BTW -- that could be exactly a good way to relax tonight. ETA that is nice music. It makes me kind of happy and is mellow.
TNP will wear a hat to bed tonight, though.
No. Haven't had to do that unless camping, or on a really cold night at home.
TNP has been camping this summer.
Sort of. Over the 4th of July weekend my druncle and I sleep in tents in the carport. Seven people already in the house and they just don't want to deal with us staying up late doing silver age of Hollywood impressions and making a bunch of noise.
TNP has been having a really odd morning so far, and just wants to relax. Maybe listen to some Baroque music, but with fewer French horns.
No, 'twas a pretty normal morning. I did relax a bit, though.
TNP personally knows a French horn player.
Sure, well supposedly that old fart Big Daddy played it pretty seriously, after trumpet. He has one, any way. It's going on CraigsList after he croaks, for sure. I still can never remember how you're supposed to write parts for it -- pretty sure in Bb, and then indicate something for the F key. But that could be backwards. I kind of hate the sound -- reminds me of going hunting foxes or rabbits a la *The Rules of The Game* (the movie).
TNP prefers listening to one album at a time, rather than a mix tape.
No, I really have no preference. In listening to my iPod, for instance, the songs jump around quite a bit.
TNP is a fan of the sf adventure spoof Rick and Morty on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim.
Never heard of it. If it's up there with *Archer* and *Venture Bros* sounds better than a sharp stick in the eye.
TNP has tried deliberately altering his or her perception by reflection and effort.
Oh, yes. For sure. Who hasn't?
(Rick and Morty is a funny, raunchy sf spoof. Here's a trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2KnFDfHm4o).
TNP watched that trailer.
No, but I did see five episodes of season 2 -- kind of funny.
TNP thinks laughter is great medicine.
Absolutely. Hard to prescribe or bill for, though.
TNP has seen a standup comic's live show in the past 60 days.
Live live? No, probably not for 1/6th a century.
TNP thinks the story about the explorer who saw Denali and wanted to name it something getting fed up by some grizzled old silverbug prospectors is kind of amusing.
Hadn't heard that before, but yes.
TNP supports the renaming of Mt. McKinley.
Well, I don't care much -- most anybody I know calls it Denali anyway, or else but Mt. McKinley. Yes, I guess I support it, because I don't care one way or the other.
TNP had an amusing phone conversation yesterday, kind of fun, anyway.
Nah. Actually, I can't remember the last time I had an amusing phone conversation.
TNP links key lime pie.
Yeah. sure, why not.
TNP knows what Key Limes are and so on and so forth.
Something to do with the Florida Keys, I think? Not sure.
TNP has been to Key West and seen President Truman's vacation house there.
No. Never been "down south" at all besides Mexico. Plus, I wouldn't know whether to throw rotten eggs or respect yo at Truman's pad.
TNP has had his or her car "egged" before. IRL, duh.
Yeah, OK, slow-pokes. All right, fine, these asshole neighbors egged my car at one point. They were total dicks. It fucked up the "paint" job on my '94 Sentra. Bought in 2005 or so, off a Dr of Music Suckmadick. Fuck you it was like eight-hundred bucks and those neighbors were dicks and I called the cops on them at least three times. Got one of thous bitchez evicted damned right it was them. Fucks up the paint and it will never return. Moral of the story: rust covers all sins.
TNP has his or her eye on some music from circa 1924.
I've never had my car egged, although I was egged personally once (as a fundraiser in college).
Music c. 1924, hmmm? How about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujFWZrs6pow
TNP liked that very much.
Yep. I actually have a different volume of the LoC recordings on CD stacked up on top of my record player. I remember drinking whiskey on my porch a few months ago and playing it. Not a day goes by I don't do something on piano that doesn't owe something to Ferd. Also from 1924: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTRrwlxeg4s
TNP has been down to New Orleans.
Yes, I last was down there for a seminar in Jan. 2001. Stayed mostly in the French Quarter - really liked the food at Antoine's: http://www.antoines.com/. I was also there as a kid when my family took a Delta Queen river cruise.
TNP has been on a river cruise.
No, at least nothing more than a short sight-seeing cruise. Would like to take a long one, though.
TNP is afflicted by nightmares.
Not regularly -- my dreams are extremely vivid but of boring, everyday things, like reading a book or having an ordinary conversation. I did have "night terrors" as a young child (under the age of six), though -- waking up screaming in terror at remembering characters from Disney movies and stuff.
TNP has seen (as in observed) IRL a *VERY* cute, and petite and feminine girl who had truckosaurus man-hands.
No. I know of that phenomenon only as a TV gag (Seinfeld, Archer).
TNP can name five characters on Archer off the top of his or her head.
Uh, Archer, and ....there's a girl with big breasts, right?....I guess no, is what I'm saying.
TNP reads "The Comics Curmudgeon".
No, but I will check it out today. Carol, Cheryl, and Cherlene (sp?) count as three people, right. And excuse, mister man, three of the gals on Archer have ample busts.
TNP just about *****ed themselves about a new episode of a cartoon in the last few days. I don't know why I asterisked that -- the Stones said it in a hit song with Stu on piano -- but it would be to crass to ask someone else to admit to the act
Well, I didn't **** myself, but I did enjoy the latest episode of Rick and Morty.
TNP has been to Salt Lake City.
No. Heard a lot about it -- surprisingly, mostly good things, from secular visitors -- sounds like an experience roughly akin to driving through Wilkes-Barr and Scranton to me -- -- (don't correct me -- those are nested em-dashes) but I only (roughly) know LA as far as the southwest/four-corners/mountain/desert/sierra nevadas/whatever you call it goes. They have a really good choir, I guess. Maybe if they played Mahler or Wagner I might do a road trip, but I'm thinking they are more Handel people.
TNP thinks contemplation and action are two halves of the same side of a coin. ETA -- too obscure/odd has been puzzled by being apparently dehydrated at some point, despite drinking almost exclusively water and modest amounts, if any, of coffee.
Sometimes, especially after a salty meal, yes. Not often.
TNP prefers salty to sweet.
Yes. I probably eat too much salt, but pasta, rice, potatoes, bread just taste wrong to me without salt. Soy sauce, rice, garlic, and fat is a favorite meal for me.
TNP has recently been held up for a good bit of time (say, forty-five minutes) due to a transportation-related delay (not of one's fault, like, for example, not gapping your sparkplugs correctly or letting a CV boot leak, but something unforeseeable).
Not that long, fortunately, but my car is in the shop now, as it happens. The check-engine light came on yesterday, and then the battery-saver indicator. Hope it's nothing serious.
TNP was on a sailboat this summer.
Hmmm....no, I guess not. More than one motorboat, a cruise ship, but no sailboat.
TNP likes rye better than bourbon.
No. No preference. I'm more of a beer or wine guy anyway.
TNP had a glass of wine today.
Nope. Haven't had a "glass" (or whatever) of wine for probably two months. I do have some fairly nice wine glasses I broke out when Dr. Mr. Prissypants came to visit, though. I felt like a classy guy drinking Franzia out of something that isn't a coffee mug or a thermos.
TNP had kind of a fun, albeit-business-related, conversation this morning with a stranger.
Hmmm..no...had a reasonably amusing conversation with a colleague, but otherwise not so much fun.
TNP is going to a professional sporting event this weekend.
Don't think so, but I wouldn't mind seeing another baseball game well before the snow falls.
TNP will probably make a snowball when he or she next sees snow.
You know? Probably fuck yeah. We don't get much snow out on the coast, and when we do I'm usually too busy laughing at people who don't know how to walk in a few inches of snow. I think out of instinct I do usually make a little snowball and toss it, just for fun. ETA My name is 'snowball' because my fur is white and fluffy! that's hilarious to me still.
TNP walks like a penguin when there's snow on the ground.
If there's any risk of slipping and falling, yeah, I can do The Penguin as well as anyone.
TNP thinks penguins are adorable.
Never thought of them that way, but, sure. They're kind of funny birds. I guess they have pretty complicated social strata -- well, more complex than I can figure out prima fac.
TNP kind of enjoys observing different types of fauna or whatever,
"Snuflfles is my slave name. I am called 'Snowball' because my fur is white, and pretty."
TNP thinks the movie *Blazing Saddles* is hilarious,
Oh, definitely. Exuberantly un-P.C. but very, very funny.
TNP can quote all or part of the recruiting-villains scene from Blazing Saddles.
I like rape.
TNP laughed out loud watching a movie recently.
Yes, Sense and Sensibility. Some great droll Austenian humor.
TNP has seen and liked Ang Lee's Sense and Sensibility.
You know, I think I did. I have no idea why I saw that, but I remember being amused. It doesn't help that I'm more a *Pride and Prejudice* guy, but it doesn't hurt either.
TNP woke up pretty damned early recently.
On Friday I had to be up at 6:30am. Does that count? Usually I'm up at 7 on weekdays; on weekends I prefer to sleep in, and have been known to sleep until 11.
TNP hasn't slept in until 11 in years.
True, can't even really imagine doing that anymore.
TNP has been told that he/she snores.
Yes, many times. I really don't believe a word of it.
TNP had an "issue" on the toilet on a recent morning.
No, fortunately.
TNP would like to visit Australia someday.
I would love to go to Australia somebody -- that's part of a fantasy about drinking insane amounts of beer in the middle of nowhere, getting in friendly bar-fights, and just in general getting into all kinds of trouble. Maybe that's New Zealand. I always get those confused.
TNP has had a hangover recently.
No, not in a loooooooong time.
TNP prefers wine to beer.
Not really. I went through a long time just drinking wine -- you know, because of the alcohol content. It kind of upsets my stomach -- good old 10% beer is a little smoother these days.
TNP has forgotten that is 8pm rather than 8am recently. Duh! TNP has used a Filtron coffee maker recently -- speaking of stomach sensitivity.
A few weeks back, yes. But I usually drink coffee only if someone else is brewing it (coffee shop, restaurant).
TNP drinks coffee just about every day.
Oh, so true. Only exceptions are when I'm deathly ill.
TNP has been thinking about making a career change.
Yep. No clues if I'll make it, but despite appearances, I sure do try hard. I think I drink more than the average person just to avoid burning out (psychological argot). Hell, count coffee right up there hooch.
TNP has been through multiple times in his or her life when he or she was on the verge of having little problems with alcohol.
No, fortunately. I've only been out-and-out drunk once in my life, and sometimes go many weeks without having a drink.
TNP has been to Gettysburg, Pa.
Maybe I've driven through nearby. Not sure. Maybe, for I know, I was getting a handy in the car and didn't notice the signs. ETA no, just looked at a map. At best I've taken the 70 a few times and would have had to take the 15 for a number of miles roughly NNE. Some of those PA "pikes" are pretty dodgy to drive on just for kicks. Hey, who *doesn't* spend many weeks without "having" a drink (or twenty)!
TNP thinks war memorials/battlefields are kind of saddening. Or else are probably haunted.
Definitely saddening, sometimes, but never haunted IME.
TNP has been following the Pope's visit to the U.S. in the news.
Not really, just when somebody else mentions something.
TNP still watches network news.
No. I don't watch any news. In fact, since both the WSJ and the NYT eta raised their cover prices, I don't even read my favorite print news sources anymore.
TNP inspects print news via headlines on the internet, as primary source of information. (Coupled with word-of-mouth RL scuttlebutt).
Yes. CNN.com is often just about as far as my search for news goes somedays.
TNP likes apple cider in the fall.
True, but then I like Apple cider all year round.
TNP saw the Blood Moon the other night.
Nah, was stuck inside, I guess.
TNP always seems to be short of time.
I ain't got TIME (to do any/everything)!
TNP is good at making time, just not the having of it.
True, I guess. I can usually prioritize pretty well and get done what I really need to.
TNP has a PDA.
False, never had one.
TNP keeps a diary
Nah, nothing I do is worth recording.
TNP likes reading Pepys' diary.
I've read excerpts, but never the whole thing.
As a child, TNP secretly read a sibling's diary.
AFAIK my sister didn't keep a diary. I would absolutely have read it. Not sure why, but sounds like something I would have done. ETA I wouldn't have done it secretly, though -- I would have tried to embarrass her and then made fun of her "My Little Pony" collection. For example, I almost got expelled in middle-school for bundling some code that removed protections from the girls' emails on the mainframe VAX into a mass e-mail -- just because I wanted to get in their pants. Hey don't cry for me, I eventually got there! I just stopped the nerd shit, is all.
TNP has been fighting off an annoying cold recently.
True. Started in my throat while I was out of town, and spread to my head - I took a sick day on Tuesday, slept most of the day, and felt much better after that.
TNP has taken a sick day in the past month.
False, thank God. Used up way too many with the detached retina.
TNP has more than 3 pens on his/her desk.
Oh, definitely. I have a Yoyodyne Proposulsion Systems ("Bringing you the future tomorrow!") mug full of pens.
TNP recognizes, without any Googling, the reference to Yoyodyne.
No, I did not. Wiki-ing now, though, I probably could have, through hypnosis. Thomas Pynchon is a boring hack
TNP cured a cold recently by 12 hours of sleep, hydration, and canned beans. And mucinex, sudafed, loratidine, and xanax, for muscle-relaxing properties.
False. A day's rest, more sleep than usual, and plenty of Vitamin C.
(Pynchon, originally, but more recently and much more entertainingly this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ad..._8th_Dimension)
TNP has seen that movie.
Yeah, that had that really cute woman in it. Don't remember it much though, except that it was fun.
TNP has been today (or recently) accosted (in a friendly manner) by a manic kid who had some good advice. In my case, to his asking to see my computer to write his email, me pulling out a pencil and notebook, "Notebook! Cool" Me: "Yeah, computers are kind of shitty" He: "Computers are for idiots." Me: "Computers are for nerds." He: "computers are for people who are afraid of life." Me: "That's pretty smart, I think you're right.")
Nah, can't say that's happened.
TNP has been recently accosted (in a non-friendly manner) by a maniac. (In my case, some guy shouting in something that did not sound at all English, or human, except when he would say "That's who I am!" He was actually pursuing and street blocking me, and I was not at all unhappy when the cop at the parking lot entrance took control of the situation.)
No, fortunately.
TNP has bought food for homeless people.
No. Not in a long, long time. I'm frequently accosted by people, but it is either neutral or jovial. Less than a minute ago, for example, I was sitting in front of the library enjoying my (illegal to smoke) tobacco pipe and took a pull off a bottle of whiskey. A minute prior this guy was loading an impressive-looking toolbox into his van parked ENE of me, and less than a minute ago, he said, "You've got the right idea" me: "Long as the cops don't see it!" Mutual (literal) thumbs-up. That, to me, is being accosted. And to me, that's just great -- that's how lifelong friendships are made. OK, maybe not, but it amuses me. That's what you do.
TNP doesn't really understand how people *don't* strike up little conversations with random people.
less than 60 seconds a guy with "Poet" tatooed on his knuckles said "Hey, I know you!" me:"Hey, I'm a poet too!" he:"i'll read you my shit!" me:"next time!" OH shit he came back with a friend...more later
No, I understand why they don't - some people are just more reserved and/or have a more well-engrained sense of "Don't talk to strangers." But I'm pretty friendly myself.
TNP wants Jizz to post some of his poetry here.
Eat my ass. False. the update ends up with me and this buddy of his having smoked a pinner J [I did not partake] and the just chillaxing and all of a sudden he took a header or a backer onto the pavement. Paramedics came, and I said what I knew, which wasn't much. That pussy just took some pavement to the curb and didn't wake up. Fucking downer, man. And we cowed up our last cash to get another pint of whiskey and I think it was in his backpack. That fucking jew. Fuck.
TNP [s]doesn't like being told what to do by nobody.[/s] is addicted to the game 2048 on his or her phone. Fuck, powers of 2 aren't that fucking hard -- I want a perfect score!
Yes, and no, respectively.
TNP would just as soon see no anti-Semitic comments here on Mello.
Yeah, that would suit me OK.
TNP has a habit of wearing a certain item of clothing on a certain day of the week.
Yes. I usually help my mom at some time during the week lifting boxes and helping out. Jeans, plaid shirt, and some Merrill hiking shoes which are almost falling apart after....1500? miles or so.
TNP has been pleasantly surprised at not only not-being yentzed, but being given FREE service by a kindly jeweler (or other service provider). "yentz" is Yiddish, and it is not remotely "anti-semitic," whatever that means.
No, can't say that I have.
See post 5549, and: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/anti-semitic?s=t
TNP has seen The Martian, or wants to soon.
No. Never heard of it.
TNP has been to a Holocaust memorial recently. in my case, it was this morning -- kind of gloomy, thinking of Spielrein and St. Edith Stein
No. Not sure I ever have been.
As to The Martian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej3ioOneTy8
TNP would go to Mars if given the chance.
Probably not. I like to take vacations in my mind.
TNP has never played Angry Birds, but is addicted to 2048 or another "app"
True, I have never played Angry Birds, but false, as the only gaming addiction I have is Tetris, and that's pretty mild. I sometimes go weeks without playing.
TNP likes Tetris.
I fucking love Tetris. That's big affirmative. Except I think, just like Castle Wolfenstein done on cocaine and whiskey back ca mid-1990s, it's probably going to give somebody a young, corn-fed, all-star kid a heart attack and then they'll ban it. Only reason to use emacs (text editor)!
TNP thinks "fly-over country" is said, not just as a "thing," but for good reasons.alternate TNP: TNP has been frustrated recently by running out of "space" on a drive and is kicking himself or herself for not bringing a backup. fucking asshole-eating motherfuckers. see? no "jew"s anywhere. Also EETA: TNP has been swarmed personally by boxelder bugs recently -- you know what they are. they just never had the moxy to land on ME before. break out the borax
I live in "fly-over country," and unless it's said ironically or as a joke, no, it's not said for good reason - it's annoying and arrogant.
TNP has been in NYC and LA in the same week.
Hmm...no, been in both, but not that close together.
TNP likes NYC better than LA.
I think so, yeah, but I haven't been in LA enough to really do a fair comparison.
TNP always goes to the best art museum when visiting a new city.
Probably? There are [s]fly-over[/s] places that don't have art museums, but I try to check out the local attractions. Basket-weaving HQ, or whatever it is.
TNP thinks some local exhibits/attractions are more fun than the big-league stuff. Analogy time: sometimes AAA ball is more fun to watch than the majors.
Absolutely. Lots of cool little museums and galleries out there.
TNP buys postcards wherever he or she goes.
I don't know about "try," but I enjoy postcards and buy them whenever I feel like it.
TNP has a few habits when visiting a new town -- see the sights, that kind of thing.
Yes, I try to get to the best local museum, historic site and restaurant(s), time and budget permitting.
TNP has had a particularly good meal in the past week.
No, I have not. McDonald's, rice, some navy beans, tomatoes, a shitload of whiskey, some beer. Oh yeah, I guess exactly a week ago I cooked some pinto beans. Margarine, vegetable oil, salt. And water. ETA I have to emend my earlier answer -- no, I probably don't buy postcards wherever I go. But I still like them and have been known to buy them. For what reasons unclear.
TNP is enjoying an unreasonably early nightfall, which features an unreasonably clear night, with seasonably seasonal weather.
Yes, pretty much, on all of those points.
Fall is TNP's favorite season.
Undecided -- sure, i guess.
TNP despises feeling light-headed and dizzy it's what madness probably feels like
True, I don't like it.
TNP has felt light-headed and dizzy in the past three days.
Nah, not really.
TNP has felt pretty thick-headed and stolid in the past three days.
True dat.
TNP has owned more than five cellphones.
I think so -- four or five, maybe. I buy 'em and break 'em, seems to be.
TNP is having a pretty bad week, starting with last weekend.
No, other than some headaches from DirecTV ("insufficient bandwidth," my ass), life is good.
TNP has cursed at his or her computer lately.
No, not at all. I always view the computer machine with suspicion, though. It's a way of being.
TNP has terrorized a woman driver who was "blocking the box" (with an umbrella or otherwise) recently. For example, yes, she raised her hands above the wheel, palms facing outward, shaking them along with her head. I didn't need to do that, but I did.
Not having the slightest idea what you mean, I'll have to say "no, I haven't."
TNP understands Morse Code.
We had to learn it in seventh grade science -- at least the alphabet. That's hardly understanding it, though. "SOS" is the only word I know.
"blocking the box" is when an incompetent boob of a driver doesn't look ahead to the stopped traffic ahead of his or her vehicle and is stuck in the middle of an intersection (including crosswalks) when the opposite direction has green lights.
TNP uses an umbrella to wipe trash off a bench or occasionally a sidewalk into a more appropriate place.
No, I'm more likely to use my foot or a nearby stick.
TNP has a favorite walking stick.
Never had one. Glad I don't, because of this.
TNP is kind of curious who is going to end up heading the Buffalo Crime family.
No, but whoever it is, I'm sure he'll be furry and have big shoulders: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...on_k5680-1.jpg.
TNP has been to Buffalo, N.Y. in the past year.
No, not that recently.
TNP has outgrown the teenage interest in mobsters, but still doesn't have anything personal against the individuals. eta, La Pizza Nova kind of sucked and had mediocre wings. I'd like to see Panaro take over the whole enterprise. I don't know why, but I like those guys.
I don't know why I said that, I have no problem with the T****** or no love for the P******, it's just getting old trying to not say nice stuff about regular people. eta I said it -- Buffalo, home of the breakfast pizza. Shit that is some good stuff. i should just start a BuffaloNY thread, call it rust belt or something.
TNP enjoys getting old.
Eh, it's a mixed bag. I don't mind the gray hair; I'm not crazy about the back pain.
TNP hurt his or her back in the past month.
No. Thank heavens, no. That sounds horrible.
TNP has been smiled at by an extremely arousing, interesting-looking woman today. Or in the past few days.
That would be my wife, and yes.
TNP has been to a wedding in the past six months.
Nope. Hate em.
TNP is or knows a minister of the Universal Life Church
Nope. Hate em.
TNP is or knows a minister of the Universal Life Church
Nah, I don't even know if they ordain people in Canada.
TNP is planning to watch at least some of the World Series.
No. I haven't seen a single MLB game all year. Actually, I never seem to watch more than one or two games at most.
TNP helped someone brand new to computers get set up with a computer recently. It's like watching a dog playing poker.
No, I'd be massively unqualified for that. Checking my email, surfing the Web and word processing is about the limit of my computer proficiency.
TNP has written a letter on his or her computer recently.
If by "letter" you mean "drunken screed," then sure. Wait a minute -- I write texts on my laptop and send them to people's phones all the time (I have fat thumbs, and am a slow texter on a phone). I guess those are "notes." Probably in the last few months, an actual letter, though.
TNP is not going out or seeing anybody on Halloween. I've refused an invitation just a few minutes ago.
True, will just sit home and watch TV while the kid hands out candy to the trick-or-treaters.
TNP isn't quite sure when Halloween became Slutoween.
False. It's been in the past decade.
TNP has no particular objection to Slutoween.
Nope. I don't mind at all if some twenty-something hipster wants to get drunk and dress up as a sexy kitty cat. Kind of weird, but whatever. Stupid kids.
TNP has garbage-disposed something that wasn't supposed to be pulverized, like Bill Devane's hand or a sponge/scouring pad.
Nah, garbage disposals aren't that common in Canada. Last time we were in the States, though, the kid tried running some leftover octopus through the hotel room disposal, and it didn't work out that great.
TNP has apparently run out of all energy for performing any errand isn't totally routine.
Nope. I redeemed an unused $0.82 on a grocery store gift card today. Was expecting a giant hassle, even had some choice lines all picked out. "Well, I'm really not asking you to do me a favor..." and stuff about consumer protection laws and stuff. Because that grocery store is downtown and sucks. Easy enough, though -- it was almost disappointing.
TNP witnessed an insanely stupid car-driver today almost get hit by a bus.
There's no chicken like Robot Chicken.
No, but I found myself behind a small white car which was going very slowly and straddling two lanes. I kept my distance until I could pass, as I thought the driver might be DUI.Quote:
Originally posted by Jizzelbin
TNP knows someone convicted of DUI.
Yeah, unfortunately.
TNP wishes they would invent teleportation, since all of the ordinary methods of getting to work suck.
False. I don't know about getting my molecules all scrambled in some machine ray. But walking/using a train/bus/monorail/taxi/chauffeured car is OK. That or using these new-fangled computers and teleport data seems to work OK.
TNP is in a Halloween (or whatever) costume right now. I'm Hunter Thompson -- I'd do a picture now but my aviator shades and cigarette holder are tucked away in my bag and I don't want to get it out. Plus, I didn't go full on -- shorts, floral-print Hawaiian-type shirt, sun hat, and black converse sneakers with no socks. Didn't shave my head.
No, but my youngest son went trick-or-treating tonight in his homemade U.S. postal box costume (and got a lot of compliments).
TNP remembers well the last time he or she went trick-or-treating.