Just a meme
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nobleplatypus:
1. You are stuck on an otherwise-deserted island with three celebrities of your choice. Who are they, and what sort of survival-related shenanigans go down?
Bear Grylls would be my hands-down first choice. Why? He's got the chops and know-how to keep us all alive, he's hot, and there's a pretty good chance he'll get naked at least once. Enough said. Then I'd pick Viggo Mortensen. Viggo's mellow and smart and capable and I'd be able to pick his braaaains. Really, he's a total renaissance man. If nothing else, he could teach me one or two of the, like, six languages he's fluent in. Lastly... how about Hugh Jackman. He can sing, he can dance, he's had experience being a lumberjack - it would be perfect.
Together, the four of us would go Swiss Family Robinson on the situation, constructing a rambling tree house villa that would be totally double rainbow. We'd hang out together in relative paradise (minus A/C, until Viggo got one up and running) until the island was nuked in a bomb test or something, or pirates came around and we PWND their asses, stole their boat, and made it back to civilization. After a couple of months, though, we would realize how much we missed our tranquil island life and would all converge back on the island to life out our lives with music and adventuring and the occasional guest. The end.
2. If you could have a pet dinosaur, what kind of dinosaur would you pick, what would you name it, and what hilarious hijinks would ensue?
Either an Eoraptor named Rupert or an Archaeopteryx named Mordecai. Mostly I would wander around freaking people out. Rupert and I would sneakily enter greyhound races and win handily. He would be a bit like a combination of Bucky from "Mutts" and Marmaduke. I'd teach Mordecai to speak on command and he would even tolerate riding around on my shoulder. He'd also enjoy dive-bombing pigeons. He'd mostly be like Gromit.
3. You find an artifact that really belongs in the Warehouse. What is it and what does it do?
One of the missing Fabergé eggs crafted for the Russian imperial family. Specifically, the Mauve egg, lost for years, though it has been strongly believed that the egg's surprise is the frame currently owned by the Vekelsberg Foundation/The Link of Times Foundation, Russia. The egg - so important to Nicholas II and originally carrying within it pictures of the Tsar, his wife, and their first child - was lost sometime during the uproar surrounding the Revolution and the bloody execution of the Tsar and his family. Nicholas, it seemed, did not take kindly to death or the possession and scattering of his belongings by his successors and was, in particular, drawn to the Mauve egg by the separation of its components. Anyone in possession of the egg was driven mad by it, gradually becoming obsessed with the egg, the Imperial family, and Russian history to the point that they simply cocoon themselves in information and die from their own neglect, pushed by the egg into a shell of obsession.
4. What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
Oh, lord. What grade was that? Fourth? Fifth? Hell, I don't remember what I was reading back then. I read A LOT. A really big lot. Let's just say any book I could get my hands on was my favorite.
5. What is the most-played song on your mp3 player of choice?
I actually looked this up. Considering that I routinely rotate songs on and off of my iPod, this may not accurately reflect what I listen to most, but according to the Pod, it's "Femaville (On My Mind)" by Ken Hyland.
Thinking up the answers for those first three took entirely too long. I must be a glutton for research.
❶ I'll respond by asking you five questions to satisfy my curiosity.
❷ Update your journal with the answers to your questions.
❸ Include this explanation and offer to ask other people questions.
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nobleplatypus:1. You are stuck on an otherwise-deserted island with three celebrities of your choice. Who are they, and what sort of survival-related shenanigans go down?
Bear Grylls would be my hands-down first choice. Why? He's got the chops and know-how to keep us all alive, he's hot, and there's a pretty good chance he'll get naked at least once. Enough said. Then I'd pick Viggo Mortensen. Viggo's mellow and smart and capable and I'd be able to pick his braaaains. Really, he's a total renaissance man. If nothing else, he could teach me one or two of the, like, six languages he's fluent in. Lastly... how about Hugh Jackman. He can sing, he can dance, he's had experience being a lumberjack - it would be perfect.
Together, the four of us would go Swiss Family Robinson on the situation, constructing a rambling tree house villa that would be totally double rainbow. We'd hang out together in relative paradise (minus A/C, until Viggo got one up and running) until the island was nuked in a bomb test or something, or pirates came around and we PWND their asses, stole their boat, and made it back to civilization. After a couple of months, though, we would realize how much we missed our tranquil island life and would all converge back on the island to life out our lives with music and adventuring and the occasional guest. The end.
2. If you could have a pet dinosaur, what kind of dinosaur would you pick, what would you name it, and what hilarious hijinks would ensue?
Either an Eoraptor named Rupert or an Archaeopteryx named Mordecai. Mostly I would wander around freaking people out. Rupert and I would sneakily enter greyhound races and win handily. He would be a bit like a combination of Bucky from "Mutts" and Marmaduke. I'd teach Mordecai to speak on command and he would even tolerate riding around on my shoulder. He'd also enjoy dive-bombing pigeons. He'd mostly be like Gromit.
3. You find an artifact that really belongs in the Warehouse. What is it and what does it do?
One of the missing Fabergé eggs crafted for the Russian imperial family. Specifically, the Mauve egg, lost for years, though it has been strongly believed that the egg's surprise is the frame currently owned by the Vekelsberg Foundation/The Link of Times Foundation, Russia. The egg - so important to Nicholas II and originally carrying within it pictures of the Tsar, his wife, and their first child - was lost sometime during the uproar surrounding the Revolution and the bloody execution of the Tsar and his family. Nicholas, it seemed, did not take kindly to death or the possession and scattering of his belongings by his successors and was, in particular, drawn to the Mauve egg by the separation of its components. Anyone in possession of the egg was driven mad by it, gradually becoming obsessed with the egg, the Imperial family, and Russian history to the point that they simply cocoon themselves in information and die from their own neglect, pushed by the egg into a shell of obsession.
4. What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
Oh, lord. What grade was that? Fourth? Fifth? Hell, I don't remember what I was reading back then. I read A LOT. A really big lot. Let's just say any book I could get my hands on was my favorite.
5. What is the most-played song on your mp3 player of choice?
I actually looked this up. Considering that I routinely rotate songs on and off of my iPod, this may not accurately reflect what I listen to most, but according to the Pod, it's "Femaville (On My Mind)" by Ken Hyland.
Thinking up the answers for those first three took entirely too long. I must be a glutton for research.
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on 2010-07-13 02:34 am (UTC)Seriously. I made it about two lines into the first question before I started cracking up, and I didn't stop until I got to question 3, at which point I abruptly became FASCINATED. You are awesome.
Also.... :D
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on 2010-07-13 10:45 pm (UTC)This could definitely become The Meme That Never Ends, couldn't it? I find that I am okay with that eventuality.
1. Congratulations! You've been appointed head of the UN. What is your first order of business?
2. You've been thrown in jail with your favorite celebrity. Who is it and what did the two of you do to earn a trip to the hoosegow?
3. What's your theme song? If you don't have one, who would you hire to compose your theme?
4. You're beaned in the head by a homerun at a baseball game. A fairy appears and advises you that you will either keep all your memories but be unable to make new ones or will be able to make new memories but lose all your old ones. Which do you choose and why?
5. You've joined a band. What's the name? What part do you play? What's your stage name? And what is the band's claim to fame?
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on 2010-08-23 01:51 am (UTC)So here I go.
1. DANCE PARTY. No, seriously. It will loosen everyone up, and then we can get down to business.
2. Ha! This one is difficult because I don't have a solid favorite celebrity, though. Well, we'll just say it's Zachary Quinto, since he's always at least in my top five. We were pulled over because he was speeding just a tiny bit because I was making him listen to the badass BSG version of "All Along the Watchtower," and when the cop sauntered up, we used large but innocuous words that he didn't understand, so he mistook our sincerity for belligerence and clapped us in irons, as they do. We'll be out in no time.
3. "Secretly Minnesotan" by Tullycraft. The chorus goes, Caroline, Caroline, secretly Minnesotan. I am not making this up.
4. Ohh, this is tough, but I'm going to go with the latter. If I can still make new memories, then I can just have people tell me about my past, and it'll be more or less like I lived it. I'd have to do a lot of taking people's words for it, and it would be kind of sad having no definitive context... but better that than to have context and nowhere to go with it.
5. The band's name is Flawed Logic. I play the flute, some basic keyboard, and the kazoo. My stage name is the Jabberwocky, and the band's claim to fame is the ability to play all of our songs both forwards AND backwards.
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on 2010-07-13 02:22 pm (UTC)Random memes are always my favorite. ":D"
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on 2010-07-13 10:48 pm (UTC)1. A monument is built in your honor. What does it look like and what did you do to earn it?
2. Would you rather live somewhere with extremes of temperature or somewhere the temperature barely changes?
3. You're going on an around-the-world-in-a-year trip. All the necessities - clothes, toiletries, &tc. - will be provided, but you are allowed to take 3 personal items with you. What are they and why do you choose them?
4. Sunsets or sunrises?
5. As a supervillain, you have one weakness - your kryptonite, as it were. What is it?
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on 2010-07-14 06:41 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2010-07-13 03:42 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2010-07-13 10:51 pm (UTC)woodlandforesttropical jungle elves.no subject
on 2010-07-14 02:11 am (UTC)(Hit me.)
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on 2010-07-14 10:51 pm (UTC)2. A newly discovered species is named after you. What is it and what does it look like? Does it have any special abilities or properties?
3. What is your favorite fruit?
4. You are gifted with extraordinary talent (i.e. "mad skillz") in one sport. What sport do you choose?
5. Who would play you in the movie of your life? What would be the song that plays over the movie's credits?