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False; my first girlfriend has dropped off the face of the planet to such an extent that I'm fairly certain she's dead and nobody told me (we're only talking about since 1998). This is someone that, if she were on Facebook, would probably have about 40 friends in common with me. :iiam:
TNP has a date tonight.
Nope. The wife and kid have riding lessons tonight. Wont see anyone 'till 10:00 PM.
TNP is wearing some red today.
False, not a stitch of it.
TNP could use a massage.
True. Very much so.
TNP could use a haircut.
Um...pretty soon.
TNP wears jeans pretty often.
Well, "often" in the sense of "every weekend not between May and October." :)
TNP has swum a mile without stopping.
True. In a pool and across a lake--the latter a Boy Scout thing.
TNP was a Girl or Boy Scout.
Correct - Boy Scout. Had a great time, and earned my Eagle Scout in 1981. Now I help with a local troop of which my son is a member.
TNP wishes he or she had been a Girl or Boy Scout.
Not even a little bit.
TNP wishes he or she had done military service.
Sometimes I do. Makes me wonder how different my life would be now if I'd joined the military out of high school rather than head straight to college, which I was manifestly unprepared for and ended up being a colossal waste.
TNP has attended a religious funeral other than a Christian or Jewish one.
No, not as I recall.
TNP has spent time at batting cages at some point in time.
True many times, for a while in my teens and twenties it was a common pastime for my friends and me. Bowl, mini golf, and smack a few dozen 68 mph tomatoes in the cages. Usually in that order; it's no fun to go bowling with your hands stinging. :)
TNP has discharged a firearm in the last five years.
True, my kid and I took a few pops with my brother's .17 rimfire when we were visiting the farm a few months ago.
TNP has never even touched a gun.
False. I shot a BB gun many times in a youth, as well as the flintlock musket of a friend's dad (he was a black powder enthusiast - best of all was when he set off his small cannon!), and as a Civil War reenactor I fired my Enfield replica rifle many, many times.
TNP has been to an American Civil War reenactment.
No.
TNP has been to a circus.
Yes, but not in a loooooooong time. At least a decade.
TNP knows how so many clowns fit into the tiny car.
False, some mysteries are not meant to be solved.
TNP likes reading mysteries.
True, though I seldom think to look for new ones. I read for the first time, and greatly enjoyed, a bunch of Sherlock Holmes books last year.
TNP has guilty pleasure books: books that he or she enjoys, but would be slightly embarrassed to be caught reading on the bus.
Yeah. In fact, I sometimes have to be careful how I hold my iPad for fear of some of my fun books and trashy newspapers being noticed.
TNP subscribes to more than two magazines.
False, I don't subscribe to any print magazines since letting my Guitar Player lapse a few years ago.
TNP likes those candy hearts with the little messages (BE MINE, HOT STUFF, etc.).
True. I ate more than I should last night.
(OneCentStamp, when you're done enjoying Conan Doyle, check out The Secret Files of Sherlock Holmes, a great collection of Holmesian pastiches by British author June Thomson - great, engaging mysteries, and uncannily like ACD's writing style).
TNP likes Sherlock Holmes stories.
(thanks for the tip! i shall!)
True! I plowed through short story collections The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Return of Sherlock Holmes, and the novel The Hound of the Baskervilles, last year. Incredibly influential stuff, and very fun reads.
TNP likes Hitchcock movies.
Sure, like them fine, but am not a real movie cultist.
TNP likes horror movies.
True, as long as they're horror movies and not torture-gore-porn.
TNP likes vampire stories.
On the whole, false. Dracula is one of my favorite novels ever, but pretty much all the other vampire fiction I've sampled, across all media, has left me flat.
TNP thinks the rise of zombie-related fiction and memes over the past decade or so is cool.
False, though I seriously enjoyed Zombieland and Shaun of the Dead.
TNP has eaten pizza for a stretch of at least three consecutive meals.
Sure, many times in my bachelor days. Order a pizza for dinner, finish it over breakfast and lunch of the next day. File that under "things I can no longer do without consequence." :(
TNP knows a great local Chinese place that delivers.
True, this is the blessing of San Francisco. Tsing Tao pork buns, I <3 you.
TNP has had sushi in the past month.
Sadly, no. I haven't had sushi in months, in spite of it being one of my favorite foods. I lack a sushi buddy. :(
TNP likes ceviche.
Yes I do. I fear that I am gambling against the house of parasites when I eat it, but I like it.
TNP is coming down with a cold.
Fortunately not.
OneCent, if I could offer another suggestion: Two of my favorite vampire books are 'Salem's Lot by Stephen King (vampires overcome a small present-day Maine town) and Fevre Dream by George R.R. Martin (about vampires along the Miss. River before the Civil War). Both are excellent.
TNP is pretty much impervious to cold germs.
(I'll look into both of those! Salem's Lot actually stands out by exception as the only one of King's first 15-20 novels that I haven't read.)
True; a cold that wipes out my family for a week typically only gets me about 1 time in 3.
TNP has a fairly ironclad stomach, in terms of not being sickened by anything he or she eats.
Fairly iron-clad, but far from 100%.
TNP drinks coffee every day.
True, I've cut back considerably, but I do have at least one cup a day.
TNP can keep plants alive.
Generally, yes.
TNP owns more than one pair of sunglasses.
No. Just one pair I never use.
The next person has a nice sound system that is never used.
Nah, never had a really nice sound system in my life, it'd be wasted on my ears.
TNP is asthmatic.
False, although one of my sons is.
TNP owns more than three staplers.
Don't think so, though I'm never sure what stuff may be lying around the house.
TNP owns a fountain pen.
False. I never have, in fact. Would be cool to have one.
TNP has a box or drawer somewhere in the house with obsolete cell phones and their chargers in it.
True.
TNP likes tomato juice.
Yeah, a lot. Please, though, no ice.
TNP could drink a Bloody Mary right now.
False. I like neither tomato juice nor Bloody Marys.
TNP thinks Queen Mary I of England got a bum rap.
False; she had an unfortunate life, but she was still far too murder-happy with the Protestants.
TNP has been to the Tower of London.
False; I haven't been to anything of London. *kicks dirt*
TNP has been to Frederick's of Hollywood. :D
False, I thought it was just a mail-order catalog.
TNP owns sexy lingerie.
I do not.
TNP has eaten sea urchin.
Not that I can recall.
TNP has eaten conch.
(Side note: Orual, my local mall in Houston had a FoH store. It was basically a Victoria's Secret with any vestiges of class or taste wrung out.)
True! I have had uni (sea urchin roe) nigiri sushi.
TNP likes Dove chocolate.
Like it fine, nothing special to me.
TNP is the kind of person who attracts people with hard luck stories.