False.
I saw a high school production of Blood Brothers on Sat. night that, uh, well, wasn't totally crappy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Brothers_(musical)
TNP has seen a live musical or play in the past two weeks.
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I saw a high school production of Blood Brothers on Sat. night that, uh, well, wasn't totally crappy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Brothers_(musical)
TNP has seen a live musical or play in the past two weeks.
Not that recently, no.
TNP has seen The Book of Mormon.
No, but if all goes well, I will this summer!
TNP watched the Oscars last night.
I had no idea they were on -- seriously.
TNP likes Harold and Kumar movies.
Never seen one - but I want to someday.
TNP has an all-time favorite comedy movie.
Does "a good Chasey-Lain-sized handful of Mel Brooks" count? I'm guessing not....wait...........*High Anxiety*. That's it. So YES!
TNP doesn't particularly care for most silent movies [size]get it, *Silent Movie*?[size] unless they have the right stuff.
Well, sure. I want all of my movies to have the right stuff, regardless of format, length, stars, music, sound, sets, props etc. I neither seek out nor avoid silent movies, as such.
TNP has a favorite dramatic movie.
Too broad a category. Maybe *The Magnificent Ambersons* maybe *Kane* maybe *Faces of Death*.
TNP has a favorite crime movie.
eta there's just been so many admirable non-fiction movies -- unlike in fiction, where the man of taste is limited to a mere handful over the past 80 years or so. And fragmentation among genre-fiction is just as fierce as in movies, many with their own rewards, and all with their own advocates. One man's *The Big Sleep* could easily be the next fellow's *night/Cabiria* could easily be another person's *the Red Circle*.
Genre differentiation in film seems more difficult, perhaps for marketing reasons, or the inevitable collusion of industry workers who work in various genres, including actors.
Well, several favorite crime movies, I'd have to say: The Usual Suspects, Memento and Ocean's 11 (the remake; haven't seen the original) would probably be near the top.
TNP has a favorite movie romance.
Absolutely. fwiw, *A Matter of Life and Death*
TNP has a favorite movie romantic comedy.
Hmm. Hard to pick just one... I guess Notting Hill probably gets the nod. What's Up Doc, Shakespeare in Love, The Philadelphia Story, While You Were Sleeping, Love Actually, and Yes Man are all favorites, too.
TNP has a favorite movie musical.
Hell yes! wait....damned....too many....pick one....*Gold Diggers of 1933*
TNP has a favorite Maurice Chevalier movie.
No. Don't think I've ever seen a one.
TNP has a suggestion for the all-time best Maurice Chevalier movie.
*The Smiling Lieutenant* -- it's tough to choose.
TNP can name a lot of French actor/actresses, and will do so in the next post.
Hmm. Can't vouch for spelling, but... the aforementioned Maurice Chevalier, Edith Piaf, Marion Cotillard, Gerard Depardieu, Bridgette Bardot, and, uh, that guy from The Artist. I think that's about it.
TNP will probably see a movie in a theater in the next two weeks.
No. I hate theaters -- except for live symphonic performance where acoustics are important.
TNP has beaten himself at a game recently just now had a class cancelled, so grabbed a beer and payed for an hour at the table -- I just couldn't make a single shot, not even easier cut-shots, and not even natural-seeming multi-combination shots. not even the cue landed where i even vaguely expected it to. pathetic. i was disgusted with myself -- do you know what that feels like? just disgusted.
Nah, haven't beaten myself at a game.
TNP has been beated at a game by a chicken. (Happened to me one time)
Can't say I ever have.
TNP demands that RET tell the chicken story.
TRUE!!!! I bet it has to do with chess or mental arithmetic
TNP WILL EXPLAIN NOW!!! and i think u just got called a frittata! lol
Ok. It was back in the day, before computers were common. I was at the Canadian national exhibition, the big fair we have in Toronto. There was like a tic-tac-toe screen between you and a chicken in a glass cage, and panels for you and the chicken to make your moves. Now obviously, The chicken wasn't really playing tic-tac-toe, it was just pecking where it had been trained to by Pavlovian conditioning, and you were playing tic-tac-toe against the computer. Unfortunately, I was so busy figuring this out that I wasn't paying attention to the game, and the chicken/computer won.
After I lost, the big crowd that been waiting behind me to play disappeared.
TNP likes agricultural fairs.
Eh, I can take them or leave them. But having the chance to play a chicken in a game of skill would definitely be a draw.
TNP has ridden a horse in the past year.
i was right a chicken beat you at arithmetic! you suck!True, actually. There tend to be a lot of hippies around these parts at those kinds of things, but I would take a county fair any day over a farmer's market populated with bobos and whining thirty-something entitled-feeling people. Or any kind of "art festival," for that matter. Fuck all those people. Give me a bubba and his wife eating a corndog over some bobo anyday.
well, that's not exactly NYT columnist material, but this is just a message board.
TNP has ridden a horse in the past year.
Nah, not in, I dunno, decades.
TNP has eaten horse.
I think I did, once, yes. A long time ago - I don't really remember it, though.
TNP has at least three silver picture frames.
Not one.
TNP keeps very few photographs given by others.
False. I've accumulated quite a few over the years, although these days they're just about all digital.
TNP owns a digital camera other than his or her cellphone.
Used to -- actually a pretty nice little Canon Elf (point-and-shoot). Gave it to my mother when the battery died on hers not too long ago -- hey, I just use my dumbphone or the built-on-camera on various netbook/tablets if I get bored enough to take a picture.
TNP has thought about using a webcam to set up a little private security set-up (for no particular reason except to be an asshole and intimidate malfeasants).
No. Not quite that paranoid yet.
TNP has been part of a neighborhood watch assn. or its equivalent.
Nah. Don't even think I've been in a neighbourhood that had one.
TNP is glad that Spring Training has started.
Not really paying attention, but sure, if it means warmer weather soon!
TNP will probably go to at least one pro baseball game before June 1.
Meh. I never follow the inside scoop on baseball -- all I know is I just really like watching/listening to the games. See, that would be a hobby, and, anyway, I think my DTV box is broken, or something. SIMULPOST! No, there isn't an MLB team in my town, and their AAA farm team for San Diego got moved somewhere.
TNP is looking forward to the next boxing match he or she can watch on youtube the next day.
No, not actually paranoid -- i just think it would be amusing and maybe I could freak some of those skateboarder punks out, as, you know, a hobby.Quote:
Originally posted by Elendil's Heir
Hell no -- I know it isn't the way the game is played, but I can't resist weighing in. I would join one of those if I were well-compensated, could pick my own hours, and they paid for a nice collapsible baton and a 4-D-Cell mag light ('torch" for you brits). It's already been established to me I should not own a sidearm. I am extremely careful at the range, was trained in safety since I was a Cub Scout, but I could see firing off a few rounds into the woods off my balcony and getting in a shitload of trouble.
No, not into boxing.
TNP has done some amateur boxing in the ring.
If by "ring" you mean anywhere other than in a darkly-lit public place littered with beer cans and friendly profanity and chit-chat, then....no.
TNP despises the idea that "if you want to learn something, take a class!" I really do believe it's wrong-headed to think some "class" activity is going to do more than boost an ego or two, or maybe give some structure for people who need that.
No, it often (not always) has merit.
TNP has followed the A-10 Thunderbolt controversy on Capitol Hill.
Can't say that I have. (Although I have a feeling it involves bizarre over-spending for a plane of dubious utility.)
TNP has been in a biplane.
I've been in very small planes, but never a biplane.
(As to the A-10, on the contrary, it's about retaining a relatively cheap warplane that's been very useful: http://www.ibtimes.com/10-thunderbol...-syria-1693329)
TNP has handwritten a thank-you note in the past 30 days.
Actually.....does thank-you telephone call count? I'm guessing not.
TNP LOVES the warthogs -- I'm not military, not any kind of expert, but I just love the idea, close air-support, help troops on the ground, slow, sturdy, well-armored. Maybe i'm just copying unintentionally what Hackworth wrote somewhere, but it's my kind of plane. AND I think it's an elegant design around the cannon.
I agree. I've admired the plane for years. Here's more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairch...Thunderbolt_II
TNP didn't click on that link.
No, because I've had it saved as an mhtml file on a disk drive forever. *The Right Stuff* has always (well, but you know...) been one of my favorites, and when I had a chance to read the book, I went nuts for planes. Not exactly in an autistic way, not that that's bad, but just started reading what I could about various MiGs and all that stuff. Having read Hackworth's *Hazardous Duty* a few times, I remembered exactly his opinion, as an Army man, on the A-10. Regardless of what they say, to me it's the kind of airplane I like -- helps people doing the hard work, deprecates pride and ego, works like a motherfuck, and can fly. Just like a Birdman!
TNP is really not enjoying this winter.
It's certainly had its ups and downs, but overall, I'd have to say false.
TNP has a perfect warm-weather spot in mind.
You know, not really. I like to be among the trees, banging out 20-30 miles, always in their protective shade and always in sight of something pretty cool. My idea of a hell is being stuck in the sun with nothing to shade me -- without an umbrella, I'd be cursing like a mofo.
TNP enjoys being in the burning radiance of the sun.
Yes I do. Too bad about the skin cancer thing.
TNP likes lamb chops.
Love love love lamb. my paternal grandfather died of skin cancer -- he was a forester by trade before becoming a CPA in his twenties. he was a teetotaller and a hard-core scholarly methodist like his wife's family. i wish i were cautious out of respect, but, no, i just don't want to have a wrinkled old face. like Jack Benny, i'm always going to be 39
TNP knows exactly one person personally who knows and respects how to cook duck. in my case and anyone I'm close to, that's me. i will eat duck all day, so long as I don't have to pick out shotgun pellets and decide if the duck has been eating out of dumpsters all day ETA people are like zomg it's so greasy! fuck you! cook it good, you bunch of lazy punks. cucumber water for customer only!
Hmm, guess that's true, since my mother died, my wife is the one person I know whom I'm sure could handle a duck.
TNP likes goose better than turkey.
Never had goose. But it's hard to beat some perfectly roasted Turkey Thighs, skin on, bone-in, so FALSUM!
TNP has never had a Dungeoness Crab he or she actually thought was good. maybe on a desert island, food is food, but crabs just taste like garbage to me, and I don't appreciate having to do a bunch of labor to eat a meal
Never had that kind of crab at all.
TNP loves lobster bisque.
Dunno. Never had lobster. and I am the only person I have ever known to properly roast turkey, therefore, I win
TNP has never had caviar.