16 posts tagged “qotd”
Which TV show never "jumped the shark"?
Submitted by healthypanda.
Hands down, without a doubt, Firefly.
Honestly, it never got a chance to suck. Stupid FOX. You should go buy the DVD box set for yourself as an early Christmas gift. In fact, buy two. Because you are going to love it and want to give a copy to a friend. And if you've been particularly good this year, go ahead and pick up Serenity while you're there, Santa won't mind. That's right, the show was so awesome, that despite FOX cancelling it after only airing 11 episodes out of order, it still got made into a movie.
Mal: We have done the impossible, and that makes us mighty.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Firefly
If you could get everyone in the world to change their behavior in one way, what would you have them do differently?
Submitted by Ross.
Live every moment of every day by the Golden Rule.
Do unto others as you would have done unto yourself.
I don't think most people want to be beaten, or robbed, or raped, or forced into slavery or prostitution, or any number of atrocities that humans inflict upon one another every day, let alone a million other basic things like 'don't cut me off in traffic'.
Are you a registered organ donor? Why or why not?
Submitted by jacolily.
yes, I am, though I did make one exception (something you can do where I live). My eyes are going with me. I don't care so much if someone gets my heart, or kidneys, or liver. Those things save lives, and if I don't need them anymore, it seems like a good idea for someone else to have them. But my eyes are something else, the window into the soul and all that. I just don't like the idea of someone else having my eyes, someone looking into their (my) eyes in their body after I'm gone... it just seems weird.
If you could eat only 3 foods for the rest of your life, what would they be?
Submitted by formance.
Given my preference for not being sick, if I could only eat three foods I'd have to go with halibut (protein), papaya (gotta have citrus to prevent scurvy, and papayas are also a decent source of fiber and potassium), and broccoli (calcium & potassium).
But if we could pretend for a minute that nutrition doesn't matter and I'd never gain another pound, it would be cheese, english muffins or rye toast (for the cheese to be eaten with) and brownies. I like fresh blueberries a lot too, but you said 3 not 4.
What board game are you really good at? Really bad at?
Good: Clue, Rummikub, Cranium, Taboo, Risk
Bad: Chess, Pente, Monopoly
Tell us a true story that proves it really is a small world after all.
Submitted by havybeaks.
Check this out - I'm even legitimately tying Disneyland into my Small World story. booyah.
When I started at my current employer I worked in a cube farm. A New Guy started on the other side of the cube wall, a bunch of us (girls) took him out to lunch to be friendly and welcome the newcomer. Ok, yeah, our department was >95% female and he wasn't difficult on the eyes so that might have had a little something to do with the welcome wagon. But he was very clearly married, talking with his wife daily and calling her Precious (not in a creepy, Gollum way, but in a super sweet we're still insanely in love sort of way).
ANYHOW, at lunch it comes out that he worked at Disneyland before our current employer. Trivially, I mentioned that one of my very good friends from high school/college worked a few years at Disneyland in the early 90's, but we'd kind of lost touch. New Guy asks what my Friend's name was; I skeptically tell him - Disneyland has a TON of employees, and my friend's name is almost as common as John Smith. New Guy says 'big, tall guy, like 6'4"? From City/State?" I incredulously say "yeah!"
Turns out New Guy was my Friend's roommate at Disneyland. We all get reconnected and marvel that Person A and Person B among tens of thousands at Employer 1 would be roommates, then Person B and Person C would be cube wall neighbors among tens of thousands at Employer 2 years later, when Person A and Person C had been super-close friends almost a decade earlier. What are the odds?
There is just one moon and one golden sun, and a smile means friendship to everyone...
What other names did your parents consider for you?
The story goes...
My mom wanted to name me Tara or Sarah. Or maybe it was both for first/middle choices, I don't really remember. But given their last name, both of these choices were just mean. Like naming someone Karen Barens or Eric Werrick. Thankfully my grandparents threw a fit and for three days I was just Baby Girl while my parents came up with what I've got today.
at least, that's the story I heard growing up. At the time I wasn't really cognizent enough to remember any of it.
What do you always forget to pack?
Submitted by quornflour.
Underpants. Embarrassing, but true. I've had to buy panties in at least five different cities across the globe. They were hardest to find in India. Towns that are easiest to find undies in? That's a toss up between Vegas and Amsterdam. I also often forget to pack socks. Why can't I just forget my toothbrush like everyone else?
What's your musical horoscope? (Put your player on shuffle and write down the first 10 songs that come up.)
Inspired by Stephanie.
The Mirror Song (Thomas Dolby), Happy Phantom (Tori Amos), Hot (Squirrel Nut Zippers), Play With Me (Thompson Twins), Comfortably Numb (Pink Floyd), Paul Revere (Beastie Boys), Speed Freak (Moby Remix), How Soon is Now (Snake River Conspiracy), Love U More (Sunscreem), Out Of My Head (Sun-60)
bonus 2 tracks: My Style (Black Eyed Peas), Allison (Pixies)
but I don't see how this has anything to do with horoscopes...
