[blownspot]

May 14, 2009 20:43:05 GMT -5 Fire-Babe said:

May 14, 2009 19:20:54 GMT -5 blownspot said:

6. Dress up night for you and the GF. What's the costume? Hmmm... I'm having difficulty visualizing how this will enhance our sexual experience, but I'm going to suggest it and then let you know what we come up with.

update::: I'm lying here laughing at her. She wants to dress up like a girl scout and bring me cookies!

www.amazon.com/Sexy-Girl-Scout-Cookie/dp/B000UX5QKG

Not my favorite, but just google 'sexy scout.'

Holy shit. I'm suddenly liking this idea. I'll take a box of tagalongs.

[Byrntrigan]

May 14, 2009 20:47:51 GMT -5 blownspot said:

May 14, 2009 20:43:05 GMT -5 Fire-Babe said:

www.amazon.com/Sexy-Girl-Scout-Cookie/dp/B000UX5QKG

Not my favorite, but just google 'sexy scout.'

Holy shit. I'm suddenly liking this idea. I'll take a box of tagalongs.

Yes please. I'll take 5 boxes of anything...

[punk/core]

You can go back in time and bang one chick from history-- who?

You can rip the heart out of someone (currently), eat it, and gain all their powers-- who?

[Fire-Babe]

I'm here to help

[Habs]

May 14, 2009 20:42:16 GMT -5 blownspot said:

Oh... and I was kidding about my girlfriend. She is by no means the ugliest girl I've been with. I haven't really been with any ugly girls. I dated an average looking girl once who made up in personality what she lacked in looks.

Personality goes a long way.

Whats the craziest hing you did behing the wheel?

[blownspot]

May 15, 2009 7:00:24 GMT -5 Fire-Babe said:

I'm here to help

She ordered the green one.

I can't wait for it to get here.




Ryan

You can go back in time and bang one chick from history-- who?
My GF and I have real open communication and every question posed to me here, I ask her. She's read all of my answers and feels she is learning more about me, as I am her, when I hear her answers.

Her answer to this question...? Joan of Arc.

I asked her if she realized Joan of Arc was a peasant and likely homely looking. She countered with "Yeah, but she lead an army of French men. Do you realized how HOT she must have been at NINETEEN to get an ARMY of FRENCH MEN to follow her ?"

She has a point. So I'm going to steal her answer.

You can rip the heart out of someone (currently), eat it, and gain all their powers-- who?

Barack Obama springs to mind. I also thought Bill Gates, but there are some powers of his I don't want.



Habs

Personality goes a long way.
In her case it certainly did. We would probably still be together had I not moved away.

Whats the craziest hing you did behing the wheel?
The aforementioned 140mph angry drive down I95.

[Batman]

May 15, 2009 8:36:48 GMT -5 blownspot said:

I also thought Bill Gates, but there are some powers of his I don't want.

"My bad haircut is impervious to all of my billions! Mwahaha!"

[Habs]

What is your view on wind energy?

[blownspot]

May 15, 2009 8:51:44 GMT -5 Batman said:

May 15, 2009 8:36:48 GMT -5 blownspot said:

I also thought Bill Gates, but there are some powers of his I don't want.

"My bad haircut is impervious to all of my billions! Mwahaha!"

I believe in competition so I don't want his shrewd business tactics, but yeah... that haircut is something.


Habs
What is your view on wind energy?

I haven't really read up on it, but it's clean and renewable. I'm all for it. Anything to get us off of fossil fuels.

[Byrntrigan]

A. Do you cook?
B. If so, what are your favorites to cook? To eat?
186a. Do you like sushi?
187. What's the weirdest thing you have ever eaten on sushi? Did you like it?
188. Weirdest thing you ever ate period? Did you like it?
138. What is one food that you would evangelize that most people haven't tried but should?

[blownspot]

Byrne

A. Do you cook?
Yes.

B. If so, what are your favorites to cook? To eat?
I love to cook and eat Italian food. I make some pretty good pasta dishes like short ribs with tagliatelle, Lemon Shrimp Fettucine, Beef Bourguignonne(French, I know) over Orzo. I also make a great lasagna.

I also can roast chicken and beef. I make a good rosemary chicken dish.

I can also bake. I made an apple-pie the other day which was off the charts good.

186a. Do you like sushi?
Yes.

187. What's the weirdest thing you have ever eaten on sushi?
Someone said they had it with baby Octopus. I've had that and it was not good, but far from the worst. The worst was the one I had with egg on top. The egg was sweet... and the whole thing was nasty. Never again.

Did you like it?
Never again. I get sick just thinking about it.

188. Weirdest thing you ever ate period? Did you like it?
There was this eatery in Singapore that a guide took us too. Something stunk to high heaven in there. The guide took us over to where someone was grilling. I'm like god that stinks! The guide insisted that what he was grilling would be absolutely delicious. Everyone here eats it. I'm like what is it? He wouldn't tell us. He ordered it, handed me a little plate, and asked that I try it. Not wanting to be rude I tried it.... and it wasn't too bad. Not great, but not really offensive or anything... until he told me what it was...

Grilled elephant ear.

I was like are you SERIOUS??

The guy laughed. He was serious.

So we're killing elephants for their ears, now? Insanity.

138. What is one food that you would evangelize that most people haven't tried but should?

Fried conch, it's a recipe from the Bahamas. It's really good when cooked right.

[Habs]

Have you ever blown in a couch shelland got some sound out of it?

Did you do some snorkling/scuba diving in the Bahamas?

[Byrntrigan]

188. Weirdest thing you ever ate period? Did you like it?
There was this eatery in Singapore that a guide took us too. Something stunk to high heaven in there. The guide took us over to where someone was grilling. I'm like god that stinks! The guide insisted that what he was grilling would be absolutely delicious. Everyone here eats it. I'm like what is it? He wouldn't tell us. He ordered it, handed me a little plate, and asked that I try it. Not wanting to be rude I tried it.... and it wasn't too bad. Not great, but not really offensive or anything... until he told me what it was...

Grilled elephant ear.

I was like are you SERIOUS??

The guy laughed. He was serious.

So we're killing elephants for their ears, now? Insanity.

OUTSTANDING!

BEST.

ANSWER.

EVAR.

So, um, what did Dumbo's ear taste like?

[blownspot]

Habs

Have you ever blown in a couch shelland got some sound out of it? Yes.

Did you do some snorkling/scuba diving in the Bahamas?
I have close family friends who are from the Bahamas. I personally have never been. Maybe someday.




Byrnie

So, um, what did Dumbo's ear taste like?
The little bit I had tasted like well seasoned, spongy, beef. It was very weird.

[Byrntrigan]

1. What questions did you think you were going to be asked?
2. What is the funniest incident you have been involved with? Scariest incident?
3. If you were convicted of treason, how would you want to be killed? It can be ANY way...
4. What one grammatical / spelling thing I do bothers you the MOST?

[Fire-Babe]

May 15, 2009 8:36:48 GMT -5 blownspot said:

She ordered the green one.

I can't wait for it to get here.

OMG, seriously?

(For future reference, around halloween, most adult bookstores get in a large selection of similar costumes. Or so I've heard.)

[Byrntrigan]

39. What do you think of the questions you have been asked as you are almost done?
Yella. What questions would you have asked you if you were asking questions?
40. What's the most surprising thing you've learned from these Q&A dealies thus far?
478. What's the most surprising thing you learned about me from my award winning showcase ?


and promise us we get to see a pic of your girlfriend dressed as the girl scout.

[blownspot]

Bryne

1. What questions did you think you were going to be asked?
I'm kind of surprised there aren't more OOWF ones.

2. What is the funniest incident you have been involved with?
Scariest incident?
There have been so many of both. I have one that qualifies as both funny and scary so I guess I'll recount that one. But in order for you to get the idea what the scary (to me at least) side of it is, I have to tell you what my real scariest incident was.

I think about it and it scares me more now, than it did when it happened. And I think I might have shared this on OO at one time, but I don't recall the context for me in sharing it.

When I was in 6th grade, we lived in Jacksonville, NC. Now back then, High School students were allowed to be our school bus drivers. We had a regular who was really cool. His name was Kyle. Now Kyle used to joke around with us, and knew us all by name, and by all accounts seemed to be a responsible, competent, school bus driver.

On the fateful day of my scariest incident, we had a substitute bus driver. She, by all accounts, seemed to be a skittish, incompetent, terrible bus driver.

We had just finished our first stop and were approaching Highway 17. Paralleling the highway was a line of railroad tracks. Between the tracks, and the highway, was a strip of land large enough for trees to grow, obscuring the tracks from view of the highway. The road we were on, provided a break in the row of trees, crossing the line of tracks, and ending at the highway, where one could either drive across the highway and turn left, or make an immediate right. There was no traffic light at this intersection. One had to wait for traffic on the highway to permit a turn.

Now... there was just enough room between the tracks and the highway for 2 vehicles to wait to cross the highway or turn right onto the highway. If you're the third vehicle in line, it was best that you wait at the tracks for the vehicles in front of you to clear out before crossing them. Our dipshit bus driver decided to park our bus partway across the tracks, while she waited for the vehicles in front of us to move. Guess whose section of the bus lied directly over the tracks...

My section.

We're little kids. Three of us could fit side by side on one seat of the bus. I sat between my two best friends. Across the aisle from us sat three young girls. We were three sections back from the bus driver. If I were one who believed in numerology I might think there was some numerological significance here.

The chatter on the bus was typical school bus noise kids usually make while on their merry way home from a long day of school. I was reading a book when I looked up, turning my head to the left, looking out the window at my best friend's immediate left. I couldn't comprehend what I was looking at. A large light was making it's way toward us. It really didn't register for the first 10 seconds the implications. When it finally dawned on me a train was coming... I didn't panic. I thought it odd that we weren't moving to get out of it's way. I never in a million years thought what happened, would.

When the bus driver noticed the train, she panicked. She blasted the horn, but the cars in front of us couldn't move because there was traffic on the highway. She tried going into reverse, but cars had come up behind us and the line was about 5 cars long. There wasn't enough room to go forward or backwards and our substitute bus driver froze. By this point the train is about 70 yards away and closing.

The cars in front of us gunned out onto the highway to give us room to move, traffic be damned. Our substitute bus driver was still frozen in fear. She wouldn't drive... and there was room and TIME for us to GET OUT OF THE WAY!

We didn't budge.

By this time everyone on the bus is losing it. Kids are cursing the bus driver out trying to snap her out of her comatose state. The train is now 40 yards out and slowing, but still coming. Kevin, another friend of mine, who was sitting at the back of the bus, works the complicated latch of the emergency exit and jumps to safety. I turn back and look at the oncoming train at 20 yards away. Everyone is scrambling, but there is no more time. I look at my friend, he looks at me, and the train hits.

Wow... I'm reading this and I'm starting to tear up. I didn't think it could still affect me after all these years... geez.

Anyway... my friend fell on me. I fell on my other friend, and the three of us fell on the girls across the aisle. I shut my eyes and all I can hear is horrified screaming and the bus driver yelling out curses.

I didn't scream.

I didn't panic.

I prayed.

I believe in God. I'm not telling anyone reading this to believe as I do, but I believe.

My prayer was simple.

"God, please stop this train."

The train immediately stopped.

I opened my eyes, and the bus was leaning at a steep angle. I saw blood, but would not take it in. I was too focused on getting out. I stood up as best I could, climbed over broken seats and twisted metal, and made my way to the front door of the bus. I pried it open and climbed out. A couple of my school mates had made it out before me and I followed them through the line of trees to a grassy clearing by Highway 17. The rest of my school mates followed. All of them.

The train had pushed our bus about 500 feet down the tracks, rupturing the fuel tank which did not explode or catch fire from the sparks that flew. The accident had made headlines across the state and as a direct result, legislation was passed disallowing High School kids to drive school buses. Which looking back on it after having been through High School is like... duh.

Fucking North Carolina.

No one was killed thankfully. The worst injury was my friend who sat next to me at the point of impact. He suffered a broken pelvis. Everyone else... a few cuts, bruises, and scrapes... a couple of broken bones. I didn't get scratch. Not one.

I felt kind of guilty about that for a few months afterward, especially since my best friend was hurt so bad.

So that's my scariest. I've been through plenty scary since then, but that's the incident that comes to mind when talking scariest, even though, oddly, I wasn't scared at the time.

Now... the funniest also involved a train... but truth be told, after having typed the scariest above... I'm a little drained. I'll tell the story and answer the rest of your questions later.




Fire

OMG, seriously?

Look what you've started. I don't know what's gotten into her. I showed her the outfit on Amazon and she just up and decided this was something we were going to do. She even ordered some tagalongs.

(For future reference, around halloween, most adult bookstores get in a large selection of similar costumes. Or so I've heard.)

Thanks for the tip.

[Byrntrigan]

Wow Spot. That is very powerful and very scary to live through.

I've never been very overtly religious but that would have done it. For me, it was the birth of my son, but wow.

I gotta say I wish you'd post more outside of OOWF as I dig you and echo Dev's sentiment that you are facinating cat.

[Byrntrigan]

.1. I'm coming to visit. What is the best place to eat that is special to your area (that is a area specialty, or shit I ain't getting in Chicago)?
.2. What are we gonna do?

Did you have fun doing this?
Are you gonna post more outside of OOWF now?
Do you know how you are picking next?

[blownspot]

Thank you Byrne. I don't really think of myself as fascinating, but thanks all the same.

2. What is the funniest incident you have been involved with?... Now this is the incident that was both funny and scary.

As I mentioned before, I used to live on a tiny island between Corsica and Sardinia, Italy called La Maddalena. The US Navy used to have a submarine base there accommodating a large US presence. Within the first week of our family's arrival, I was looking for a job and ended up getting one at the Navy Exchange warehouse. For the most part I worked there on my own. The only other person who would periodically stop by was a woman who filled the vending machines on the island. Her name is Arlene.

Arlene was a character about 10 years my senior. I loved her... not in a romantic, or sexual way, she just had one of the brightest, happiest, personalities I've ever encountered. It grated on my nerves at first, but we soon became good friends. Oftentimes I would drive her in the delivery truck, around the island, helping her with her deliveries, and we'd have some of the strangest, ridiculous, trippy conversations.

I often wondered if she were high.

Anyway... She had a friend who worked at the exchange named Gerianne. Gerianne was a little older than Arlene, but the three of us used to hang out together. The two of them together was something not to miss. It was like comedy hour with Arlene and Gerianne. I loved hanging out with them.

One night Arlene invited Gerianne and I to go out to her, and her husband's property on Sardinia which was a 15 minute ferry ride, and 25 minute drive away. I'd been to Arlene's house before, spending time with her family. Her husband in the Navy, Greg, was real cool, and they had a 13 year old daughter, Jill, who went to school with Italians instead of the Americans in England. (There was no American middle or high school on the island.) Rounding out the family was their son Ian who was two. I loved Arlene's family. They were kind enough to let me spend the night there and showed me around the town they lived in called Arzachena. I regularly went back to Arzachena and could tell you a lot about my adventures there, but let's move on.

Arlene had invited Gerianne and I out to her house. Gerinanne and I drove out together from La Maddelena. We took the ferry and drove from the port town of Palau to Arazachena. The drive is pretty wonderful. Sardinia is a beautiful island with it's winding hilly roads, lined with grassy fields and farmland. Anyway... We arrive at Arlene's house and it's just us and Ian. Greg was an MP and on duty, back at La Maddelena. Their daughter Jill, was spending the night with friends in town.

We had a good time. Arlene cooked us dinner and there was lots of drinking. Not by me, because I was a lightweight at the time. Gerianne and Arlene got quite drunk and if they weren't funny enough when they were sober...

So the evening is coming to an end. It's getting quite late and it's time for Gerianne and I to head back home. Arlene offers to put us up for the night, which I was all for, but Gerianne needed to get back home to her husband.

So I'm driving and it's the middle of the night. There aren't very many street lights on the country roads of Sardinia so we're relying on the dim headlights of Gerianne's car. Gerianne's husband and I were cool btw. He wasn't worried about some kid fresh out of high school, trying to steal his southern bell of a near middle aged, slightly overweight, wife. Nor should he have been.

So we're driving along joking and laughing, and somehow the subject of my bus accident in 6th grade had come up. I had just finished recounting the event to her and she had been hanging on every word. She started to express her sorrow for me having gone through that when...

... WE HEAR A FUCKING TRAIN HORN!

The light of the locomotive is SUDDENLY in our faces and I FLOOR the accelerator of our car! Just as we cross the tracks, Gerianne and I both yell in crescendo pitch and unison...

OOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHH SHIT!

We NARROWLY get across in time, and just BUST out laughing! It was so fucking hilarious! I stopped the car and we sat there in hysterics for a good 20 minutes. Once we settled down Gerianne had suggested maybe SHE should drive. I reminded her that she was drunk and we just busted out laughing again.

From then on, every time Gerianne and I were together in a car and we crossed those tracks, regardless of day, or night, or if a train was coming, or not, we would say in unison... OOOOOOOOOHHHHH SHIT!

Sometimes there would be others present, looking at us like we had lost our minds.

3. If you were convicted of treason, how would you want to be killed? It can be ANY way...
Whatever way is the most painless.

4. What one grammatical / spelling thing I do bothers you the MOST?

I gotta say I wish you'd post more outside of OOWF as I dig you and echo Dev's sentiment that you are facinating cat

You forgot to insert the indefinite article "a" between the incorrectly spelled "facinating" and "cat". You quite often drop articles from your sentences. One could conclude that you subscribe to X-bar theory and misinterpret it's use, or you are typing on a message board where grammatical errors are legion amongst its membership.

That being said none of your grammatical/spelling errors rise to the level of annoyance. My own postings are chock full of them.

Then again, as you've correctly implied, I don't post much outside the OOWF forum, so we'll give it some time.

.1. I'm coming to visit. What is the best place to eat that is special to your area (that is a area specialty, or shit I ain't getting in Chicago)?
There's an American Bistro here which I frequent called Parker's. There's nothing on their menu which I haven't like. Their grilled porkchops are the best.

.2. What are we gonna do?
There's another good place to eat if you like Tex-Mex. It's called Cactus Cantina. Great food. Great Sangria. We'd probably go there to eat, then drive a short ways over to Georgetown for some bar hopping. Then... I don't know... maybe if you haven't toured DC before, we'd drive over to the National Mall and do the touristy thing.

Did you have fun doing this?
Yes I did. looking back over it, I guess I have had an interesting life. It's not quite as interesting now as it used to be. I should do something about that.

Are you gonna post more outside of OOWF now?
Nope.... Nah... maybe. I lurk quite a bit outside the OOWF. I find that any comment I might make has already been posted by someone else. I'd like to actively participate more in some of the showdowns, drafts, chats, and such... my plate is full though, with work and the two (fiction) books I'm writing. Posting in the OOWF is hard enough.

Do you know how you are picking next?
Using a random lottery generator of those names who have not been spotlighted, yet.

[Byrntrigan]

and what are these 2 fiction books about pray tell? Wheels of misfortunes?

Heart punches?

[Fire-Babe]

Remind me to NOT go anywhere near trains with you if I ever get back to that area.

As far as your girlfriend and stuff, I have two words for you....

You're welcome

[Habs]

May 16, 2009 22:30:32 GMT -5 blownspot said:

Did you have fun doing this?
Yes I did. looking back over it, I guess I have had an interesting life. It's not quite as interesting now as it used to be. I should do something about that.
.

Just let me remind you, just so you know your not doing that bad: Your girlfriend just order a girlscout uniform!!!!! THATS something!



And I'm jumping on the blown Spot band wagon. Post mroe outside of OOWF

[blownspot]

Bryne
and what are these 2 fiction books about pray tell? Wheels of misfortunes?

Heart punches?
No. Though I might throw a heart punch in there with one of the books.


Habs
Just let me remind you, just so you know your not doing that bad: Your girlfriend just order a girlscout uniform!!!!! THATS something!



And I'm jumping on the blown Spot band wagon. Post mroe outside of OOWF

It's too bad I didn't get to do this spotlight before the Punster Showdown. I might have gone further than the sweet 16.


I guess I need to pick somebody. Where's my random lottery generator?