[Byrntrigan]

RedDog. What is the most surprising thing you've learned from the 11 months of PH's Q&A with James Lipton?
4. Favorite swear word?
R. I'm paying for a tattoo of any size anywhere on your body from my artist. What do you get and where?


42. What movie character best describes you?
43. What movie character would you WANT to be? Why?
44. Do you judge a "book" by it's cover?
45. Is it something if you do, that you try not to do?
46. What is your favorite condiment? What do you use it on?


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?

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?

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 ?

.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?

[Byrntrigan]

Did you have fun doing this?
Will this spur you to post more outside of the OOWF?
Do you know who you are picking to go tomorrow night?

[wld]

May 23, 2009 13:15:42 GMT -5 Byrntrigan said:

RedDog. What is the most surprising thing you've learned from the 11 months of PH's Q&A with James Lipton?

I think everyone's spotlight has had something I found surprising. The most recent would be Spot's casual mention that he liked Germany because he was there when the wall came down.

4. Favorite swear word?

Generally I try (and fail) to avoid swearing, so I don't have a favorite.

R. I'm paying for a tattoo of any size anywhere on your body from my artist. What do you get and where?

Um...probably a cross on my shoulder.

42. What movie character best describes you?

Kermit the Frog. Don't ask me why, it just popped into my head.

43. What movie character would you WANT to be? Why?

Actually...Kermit the Frog. He's sarcastic, he seems to have fun most of the time, and he gets to hang with muppets.

44. Do you judge a "book" by it's cover?

Unfortunately, I think we all do sometimes.

45. Is it something if you do, that you try not to do?

I've both been miss-judged, and miss-judged other people, so I try not to do it.

46. What is your favorite condiment? What do you use it on?

Honey Mustard – on hamburgers and hotdogs

A. Do you cook?

Not as much as I'd like.

B. If so, what are your favorites to cook? To eat?

I don't really have any specialties.

186a. Do you like sushi?

187. What's the weirdest thing you have ever eaten on sushi? Did you like it?

I haven't had much experience with sushi, but I'm not really a seafood fan, so...

188. Weirdest thing you ever ate period? Did you like it?

See question 2 below.

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

Can't think of anything.

1. What questions did you think you were going to be asked?

I had no idea.

2. What is the funniest incident you have been involved with? Scariest incident?

Scary: Falling / being pulled into a swimming pool when I was 6. I didn't know how to swim, so it wasn't pleasant.

Funny: I was invited to a coworker's wedding, and all of the people who knew him from work (including my brother, who also works in the same place) were seated at the same table. The woman he married was from Vietnam, and the wedding and the meal were traditional Vietnamese. All of which was fine except that no one at the table could read/speak Vietnamese, and none of the servers were able /willing to translate. Each course became a game of “who'll try it first?” The situation was made even more surreal by the fact that none of the speeches or announcements were translated into English, so we had no clue what was going on. It was a bizarre experience, but one of the most fun times I've ever had.

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

I would like to be sentenced to die of old age (you did say ANY way.)

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

You make spelling mistakes? Really?

39. What do you think of the questions you have been asked as you are almost done?

I have no complaints. I was terrified that the thread would die after three questions, so it's turned out well, in my opinion.

Yella. What questions would you have asked you if you were asking questions?

Can't think of much that y'all missed. I probably would have brought faith into it a little more. (It's a very important part of my life, but I try not to make too big a deal about it when I post, as it can be a pretty contentious topic.)

40. What's the most surprising thing you've learned from these Q&A dealies thus far?

See the top of this post, where you asked that the first time.

478. What's the most surprising thing you learned about me from my award winning showcase ?

I didn't picture you as the tattooed / pierced freak that you are. I like you better now.

.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)?

I've been trying to think of somewhere, but most places around here are chains – Got it! The Old Marina. It's not really special to the area, but they serve burgers the size of a plate with melted cheese that forms a ring around the bun. If you insist on local flavour, we can put maple syrup on it or something.

.2. What are we gonna do?

Again, not really up on the local entertainment, but there is a brewery about three blocks from my house, and they sell beer in 2 litre (about ½ gallon) bottles. The pumpkin spice isn't bad, and they apparently have one that's coffee flavoured.

[wld]

May 23, 2009 20:35:19 GMT -5 Byrntrigan said:

Did you have fun doing this?

I did, actually.

Will this spur you to post more outside of the OOWF?

I hope so.

Do you know who you are picking to go tomorrow night?

I do, and the victim has already agreed.

[Jack Quinn]

if you mentioned it and I missed it, sorry, but what religion are you?

Do you think the OOWF crosses any lines we shouldn't?*






*I ask this because I remember one time, years ago, Moose stabbed Niles in the head with a crucifix and you asked me to not have you be a part of that. I respected that, and then felt a little bad that I wrote that.

[wld]

May 23, 2009 22:27:56 GMT -5 Jack Quinn said:

if you mentioned it and I missed it, sorry, but what religion are you?

I am a Christian. Have been since my senior year of high school.

Do you think the OOWF crosses any lines we shouldn't?*

Honestly, no. The OOWF is fiction, and we write it for ourselves, not an outside audience. I think most of us use it as a form of catharsis - I know I do. A certain level of ridiculous violence is inevitable, and even enjoyable (look at the matches I write). So is a certain amount of 'inappropriate' humour. I am a lot of things, but easily offended is not one of them. Generally, if a storyline goes somewhere I don't want to go (which is rare), I try to keep LD out of it - but I still follow it. And on the rare occasion where I come up with a reasonable joke (see kz sending SYB an bovine husbandry course), I get my shots in.

*I ask this because I remember one time, years ago, Moose stabbed Niles in the head with a crucifix and you asked me to not have you be a part of that. I respected that, and then felt a little bad that I wrote that.

In that situation, it wasn't that I was offended, I just didn't want LD to go there. You and I tend to use each other in our promo's and you often put words into LD's mouth - usually better ones than I do. I just felt that if LD got sucked into a religion based feud, I wouldn't be able to write the character effectively, as there are some things I don't feel comfortable writing about. I have to admit, that's changed over the years, and I'm much more comfortable taking LD down darker paths than I used to be.

For example, I don't know if anyone noticed, but for a very long time, the only time LD swore was when somebody else wrote him. It took me a while to get past that. Even now, most people in my promos tend to use less profanity than they do normally (but really, how do you use IHOP in a promo without profanity? )

[Habs]

What religion were you prior to your senior year?

[wld]

May 24, 2009 14:26:09 GMT -5 Habs said:

What religion were you prior to your senior year?

None, really. I guess I was raised a Christian, if anything, but that was when it took on meaning for me, as opposed to being something someone else thought I should do.

[Fire-Babe]

May 21, 2009 17:29:02 GMT -5 blownspot said:

Awesome. There's now a sexy costume banner at the top of this thread.

You're welcome.

And really, if I was thinking about getting a girl scout costume, I'd want to see what it looked like on a real person, right? There's nothing creepy about that, no reason to be shy...