Question of the Day - A GreenFrog Production

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]This is how it works, every day i propose a question, such as the one below this paragraph, and anyone who wants can answer, discuss other peoples answers, whatever.

First Question:

What is your earliest memory?

Mine was when my little brother was born (when I was 2 and a half). I remember visiting my mom in the hospitable and walking through the hallways.[/color:post_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I vaguely remember being in the front room of the house we lived in before we moved to where we now live. I couldn't have been more than five. There was a couch by the doorway. To the left of the doorway was where the television was situated. It was up high (probably so little fingers couldn't reach it) and on top was this bar with the first 30 or more whole numbers on it. The number for whatever channel you were watching would be lit up if the TV were on.

Also I remember our backyard a little. There was a birdbath of some sort in the middleish of the yard (I think) and we had one of those concrete donkey-pulling-a-carts farther back. And we had a nice neighbor lady.

I guess the first actual [i:post_uid0]event[/i:post_uid0] I remember is the day we moved. I remember standing by the truck and watching everyone take stuff up the ramp and then going back for more. Then that night I was lying in bed in my new bedroom, unsure whether this was permanent or just a one-day trial to see whether we liked the new house. I was staring up at the ceiling and thinking how strange and different this all was compared to sleeping in my old room (yet I can't remember a thing about the inside of that old house other than that front room!).[/color:post_uid0]

[Kodu]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]My earliest memory is standing next to a small table we still have in our living room (which is now about four meters to the side, but that's besides the point). Since it was about neck-height to me, I must've been very small then. Anyway, I then walked to my parents squatting a few metres away (I don't recall if I made it)[/color:post_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]wow, thats early[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]My first memory is my dad teaching me to ride a bike. There was an iron pole on the back of the bike, where he held it. When I got off the bike about a hundred metres further, I looked back and he was still standing next to the house.
I was about four.[/color:post_uid0]

[AKAArzosah]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I remember hugging a complete stranger when i was about four. We were in a crowded bar and the guy was wearing the same shirt as my dad. I was so short i couldn't really see his face. I remember the guy's friends saying "Looks like you've got a new girlfriend!"
That's my first memory and also one of my most embarassing.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]My first memory is being about two or three and reaching for a brightly colored glass on a cabinet and then breaking it. Although this memory is pretty much fragmented, no pun intended.

The first [i:post_uid0]clear[/i:post_uid0] memory I have is of picking up a dead lizard and going to my mom while she was washing the clothes and tapping her on the back to show her the lizard. She screamed when she turned around and saw the lizard in her face, and I laughed because I was so amused by her reaction.

See, I was evil even at a tender young age. Muaa ha ha ha ha. Â ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]New Question.

What strange ability do you have that you're kind of proud of?

ie: rolling your toung, wiggling your ears etc...


Mine would be the ability to raise one eyebrow, like spock. it cracks people up when i do it and i like makeing people laugh :D[/color:post_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0="Katy Jane"]Mine would be the ability to  raise one eyebrow, like spock. it cracks people up when i do it and i like makeing people laugh  :D[/quote:post_uid0]
I had a friend who could do that. I couldn't do it, our other friends couldn't do that. When she did it, we'd all giggle and point. "You're doing it again!" :D

I can roll my tongue. I'm not [i:post_uid0]proud[/i:post_uid0] of it or anything, but I can do it. And I have a hitchhiker's thumb, while we're on the subject.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I can make people howl "Saaaa'aaaaaar!"[/color:post_uid0]

[NeoMatrix]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I can wiggle my knuckle bone back and forth[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I can raise each eyebrow separately. I've been practising dancing the lambada with my eyebrows, like Jim Carrey in "Me Myself and Irene". Not very good at it yet, but getting there.[/color:post_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I can only raise my right one, but i can lower my left one, which makes it look more ... i don't know, something.

went to school with guy that could wiggle his eyes. now that was weired looking.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]How do you .... wiggle your eyes? In and out? Up and down? Does the whole eyeball move?


A disturbing thought either way.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I can make my belly undulate. I used to think everybody could, until someone was amazed about it.[/color:post_uid0]

[NeoMatrix]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I would love to see that. I know a few people who can do that.[/color:post_uid0]

[Celeste]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]i'm double jointed in my elbows. I can rotate my whole lower arm around and gross out my boyfriend. haha[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Ew. Seriously. :D[/color:post_uid0]

[mudshark]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I can do the Spock-eyebrow thing, but only the left one -- not ambidextrous. ;)

I can roll my tongue, but I can also make it do this. (http://users.ticnet.com/tongue/41limber3.htm) Can't explain [i:post_uid0]how[/i:post_uid0], exactly.[/color:post_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]17-His whole eye ball actualy shook it was actualy quite creepy

Celesete- Um.... I don't even know what to say  ;)  :p

mudshark- I knew some one who could fold the tip of his tougue and he tought one of my friends to do it, and they simply couldent understand why i couldn't learn. i can roll my tougue too though.

I'll post another question in the morning, i had a rough day to day[/color:post_uid0]

[mudshark]

[quote:post_uid0="Katy Jane"][color=#000000:post_uid0]17-His whole eye ball actualy shook it was actualy quite creepy[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]I had a friend in grade school (yeah, back in the Stone Age, right :p ) who could make his eyes vibrate rapidly, side to side. I think that's what you're talking about? ([i:post_uid0]Much[/i:post_uid0] more recently, saw Hugh Jackman do the same thing during his Letterman show appearance.)[/color:post_uid0]

[Celeste]

[quote:post_uid0="Katy Jane"][color=#000000:post_uid0]Celesete- Um.... I don't even know what to say ;) :p[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]::bows:: and hehe "Celesete" that's a new one.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Celeste-- that's really cool :D


What I'd REALLY like to see is someone who's double jointed in the head so that he can rotate it 360 degrees, or something.

Arrrr. This is the reason why I never took any courses on anatomy (for the salient reason that I'd fail it miserably).[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]What I'd REALLY like to see is someone who's double jointed in the head so that he can rotate it 360 degrees, or something. [/quote:post_uid0]

And then vomit pea soup.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Ewww, Sa'ar.... gross. No.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Never seen the Exorcist?[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Actually, no, thank Ivanova. But I [i:post_uid0]did[/i:post_uid0] know you were making an Exorcist reference. And my response is still "EW, no." ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I'm just going to assume we're on the same question.

No, I can't do anything wierd like other things described here (though I can sort of raise my left eyebrow). I do, however have a small nubbin of cartilidge on my right ear. Oh, and I can flare my nostrils. Sometimes.[/color:post_uid0]

[Celeste]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]hehe Okay, I think of you as a cat, so when you said you can flare your nostrils and things I thought of a cat doing it. .. stop looking at me like that I know you all do it![/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]If you put it that way, imagine a dog rotating her lower arm around and grossing out her boyfriend. Actually, the real thing might be scarier... But it's gotta look weird! :p[/color:post_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]sorry this took so long, i have a good excuse i sware

new Question.

Have you ever done something with out thinking and then afterwords you felt like a compleat jerk?


I work with this girl whos a few years older than me and one day she mentioned something about writeing letters to her boyfriend. i asked her if her boyfriend was a long ways away she just answered "yeah". it wasnt till later that i remembered where her boyfriend was, it jail. (aparently wrongly accused)[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Well, I've done too many things without thinking and afterwards felt like a complete fool for embarrassing myself in front of everyone, if that counts.


I think the only thing I've done which qualifies as an answer to your question was getting attached to a boy I had no interest in dating at all. It ruined my entire first semester in university, and his too. Â :([/color:post_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Ok, new question

If you could have any pet in the world what would it be and why?[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]A tri--

lobite.

*writes down his guess for 17's answer, hides it away*[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]A Min--

*ahem*

An absolutely sweet and adorable fuzzball I can cuddle on my lap and tickle.

Oh wait, I already have a Pomeranian.

Dang.

Can I still go for the Minbari?

What was that, Sa'ar? What? What? :cocks an ear:




[hmmm, on second thoughts, a T-Rex might be pretty hoopy. Although it'd be hell to feed.][/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]What was that, Sa'ar? What? What? :cocks an ear:[/quote:post_uid0]

I said, I can have the headcrest installed just as soon as the glue dries.

[quote:post_uid0][hmmm, on second thoughts, a T-Rex might be pretty hoopy. Although it'd be hell to feed.][/quote:post_uid0]

Lawyers. Nobody will miss them, and we can't feed them to the sharks.

Sharks won't touch 'em. Professional courtesy.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Actually, I know at least four lawyers personally ;) but hey, if they're all like Ally McBeal my poor T-Rex will STARVE!


Sa'ar with a headcrest. Now THAT'S something worth seeing ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]but hey, if they're all like Ally McBeal my poor T-Rex will STARVE![/quote:post_uid0]

My trilobite might aid digestion (and achieve a high-gloss sheen).

[quote:post_uid0]Sa'ar with a headcrest. Now THAT'S something worth seeing[/quote:post_uid0]

Photoshop, anyone?[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]You want to feed your pet to mine? That's... disturbing. :D

Have I ever shown you guys my picture of a sheep with a headcrest?[/color:post_uid0]

[mudshark]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]^ No, I don't think so.

[quote:post_uid0]Lawyers. Nobody will miss them, and we can't feed them to the sharks.[/quote:post_uid0]And which sovereign entity has the greatest number of lawyers, per capita? (It might not be what you think.)[/color:post_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]The Vatican?



I'd like to have our "pet" mockingbirds back again. Mockingbirds are so amusing to watch! :D :D[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I'll post it when I find it, mudshark ;)


The Vatican has lawyers?
Soverign entity... soverign entity.... I have to admit. This one has me stumped. Which one is it?[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]The Vatican has lawyers?
Soverign entity... soverign entity....[/quote:post_uid0]

Yeah, it's one of the few countries smaller than yours *znerk*

*ducking*[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I realized. I cannot spell "sovereign", just as Sa'ar seems to be incapable of "snerf"ing properly ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]*znerk* has a proud tradition of...uhh...*znerking*. I've known znerkers for years.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]:hits Sa'ar on the head with her Pink Flower of WAPUSHK!: That's for being a contrarist! :D[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Pink Flower of Wha?[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]WAPUSHK! That's the sound you get when you hit someone on the head with a pink flower.[/color:post_uid0]

[mudshark]

[quote:post_uid0="NAHTMMM"][color=#000000:post_uid0]The Vatican?[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]Correct!


Send in the tyrannosaurs![/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Or the silly noise you make when you unleash Pretend Kung Fu Skills of Smackery.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]So it's the Vatican? :unleashes her pet T-Rex there:


Sa'ar, I think the sound you're looking for is "WAHOOOOEY!" ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]So it's the Vatican? :unleashes her pet T-Rex there:[/quote:post_uid0]

Watch out for the Polish *squish!* guy...

[quote:post_uid0]Sa'ar, I think the sound you're looking for is "WAHOOOOEY!" [/quote:post_uid0]

OK, maybe your sound is the silly noise you make when unleashing Wench*-Slapping Skills of Etc.

* - Yes, I *know* what it's supposed to be.[/color:post_uid0]

[AKAArzosah]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I think a whole pack or Velociraptors would be better. You could breed them and take over the world, assuming they don't eat you first.




on an unrelated topic, has anyone seen 28 Days Later?[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Yeah. I could say a lot of good things about it, but it's been a while. Nevertheless, it was a great movie.

About the pet, maybe something that flies and can take the extra burden of me on it's back. Oh, and listen to commands. It's no fun if it takes me up there and then let me fall down. :p That would make it... A big, doglike bird. :D[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]That would make it... A big, doglike bird.[/quote:post_uid0]

Silverbolt![/color:post_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0="Sa'ar Chasm"][quote:post_uid0]That would make it... A big, doglike bird.[/quote:post_uid0]

Silverbolt![/quote:post_uid0]
So is [i:post_uid0]that[/i:post_uid0] what that bubble-dog is called? I never could remember...[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Isn't this supposed to be Question of the [i:post_uid0]Day[/i:post_uid0], and not of the [i:post_uid0]Week[/i:post_uid0]?

Allright then, I'll do one.

Q: If you could go on vacation anywhere, and money isn't important, where would you go?

I always wanted to go to the US, if only for a week or so. I'm not exactly sure why. :eyeroll:[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]The answer is obvious, of course, and I've already mentioned it in the Group Adaptive Story. My ideal holiday would be on Minbar. As Londo said, "Of course you want to go to Minbar! [i:post_uid0]Everybody[/i:post_uid0] wants to go to Minbar!"...

What? It has to be a [i:post_uid0]real[/i:post_uid0] location? But but but... Minbar's a real planet, isn't it?

Oh, buggerit.

Fine, fine, if I had to pick a place to go on [i:post_uid0]this[/i:post_uid0] planet, right now I would kill for a plane ticket to Pennsylvania. My best friend's schooling there and besides, it's a forty-minute drive away from BC, Canada ;)

Oh but Vallis Marineris isn't a bad holiday spot either, if you don't mind the cold and the lack of breathable atmosphere. :D[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Singapoe.

Closely followed by the British Isles.

[quote:post_uid0]Fine, fine, if I had to pick a place to go on this planet, right now I would kill for a plane ticket to Pennsylvania. My best friend's schooling there and besides, it's a forty-minute drive away from BC, Canada[/quote:post_uid0]

Guh? 40 minutes away from BC and you're still in BC. Hell, 40 minutes away from downtown Vancvouer and you're still in downtown Vancouver, if the traffic's bad.

Perhaps you mean 40 hours. It takes 4 hours to drive from Vancouver to Kelowna, and 10 to drive from Kelowna to Edmonton. North America's a big place, and contains mostly empty space.

Edit: 1500 posts![/color:post_uid0]

[Standback]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Italy for me, I think. Seems a good combination of places to go, things to see, nice people, and good food (though keeping kosher is of course problematic anywhere beyond Israel and select parts of LA and NYC... But I'm ignoring that aspect for the moment.)

Also, is this an all-expenses-paid type trip? 'cause one of my ideas for a very cool vacation would be going to NYC or London, and just watching lots and lots and lots of shows and plays. All these things I want to catch up on. All these Broadway shows I'd love to see, but seeing one is a stroke of luck, considering how infrequently my family travels and how much show tickets cost.

As an aside, on my trip to the States this past summer I *did* get to see two Shakespeare plays... which are also rather hard to find here in Israel. One was in the Berkshires, at a marvellous theater called "Shakespeare and Company" (got the script to "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare [abridged]" there - 'tis [i:post_uid0]hilarious![/i:post_uid0]). The other one was King Lear at the Theatricum Botanicum, near LA... and the next day, I turned on Babylon 5 for about the second time in my life (because cable is evil, and we're lucky enough just to get Trek on public TV)... and saw the guy who'd been playing Edmund the day before (the black doctor-guy, for the record...). Kinda of a, "Whoa... I'm in LA" moment. (Turns out Armin Shimmerman is also a consultant or instructer of some kind at this theater... pretty neat.)

I also came back from my vacation with a box full of tapes... I am currently catching up on all of SG-1, and will now be able to watch ENT's second season. I also taped about 6 hours of B5, for those of you who were livid about me not knowing the black-doctor-guy's name (but man, he made a great Edmund...).[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0="Standback"]I also taped about 6 hours of B5, for those of you who were livid about me not knowing the black-doctor-guy's name (but man, he made a great Edmund...).[/quote:post_uid0]

Black-doctor-guy? Huh? What black-doctor-guy? Ohhh, you mean THAT black-doctor guy! Â :think: Oh don't worry about him, he's mostly just wallpaper on B5. :snerf:


What was the first play that you watched? I think you missed the name.

Sa'ar--traffic doesn't matter when you have a flying ship ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]Sa'ar--traffic doesn't matter when you have a flying ship[/quote:post_uid0]

Ooh! I want one![/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]You can pre-order 'em from amazon.com. ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Do they fly them out to me, or is there some assembly required?[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Definitely some assembly required ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]D'oh. I have plastic Enterprise models from ten years ago that I still haven't figured out how to put together.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Nobody's asking you to construct the Enterprise here. How hard can it be to put a flyer saucer together? You only need good ceramic glue.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Hopefully easier than assembling Citadel Workshop models. My Cold Ones keep falling apart.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Say wha? You mean like those minature things?[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Yeah, the little models that cost $4 for 30 cents worth of pewter.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]One word: Workmanship, dude!
Okay, so that's two words. Sue me![/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Worksmanship? Maybe. I just wish they'd use more engineering sense and less creativity.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]If they did that all your figurines would turn out looking like Borg cubes. ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]No, they'd look like creatures who didn't balance their entire huge body mass on one tiny foot.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Are you talking about bodybuilders or figurines here?


Nahhh, I think it's Pam Anderson Lee. ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Cold Ones and Gryphons.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]:looks lost for a moment: I think I caught it better when we were talking about flying saucers and B5.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Or hot tubs and chocolate sauce.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Flying saucers on B5 equipped with hot tubs and chocolate sauce. Mmm-mmm. :D[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]And no models of any sort.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Why not? We could turn Ivanova and Delenn into swimsuit models.

Then again, maybe we shouldn't go there.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Oh, we can have as many of those models as we want.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]:D


Wait, let me get my professional-standard digicam ready first.. :nyeh:[/color:post_uid0]

[Standback]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]What was the first play that you watched? I think you missed the name.[/quote:post_uid0]

'twas "Much Ado About Nothing"... again, a wonderful theater. When we drove in, people in Shakespearean dress popped out from behind rocks and signs and guided us to our parking place... The theater itself was this cool thing that stretched out forwards - that is, the audience watched from three sides - and they made good use of the stairs, beams and other surroundings. (The watchmen had this long scene where they kept popping up and down from holes in the floor...)
The adaptation (they always adapt the comedies! [i:post_uid0]why do they ALWAYS adapt the comedies?[/i:post_uid0]) was to the Sicilian Mafia.. which I guess kind of makes sense, but most importantly (for me) doesn't get in the way of the actual play. (When I watched "Twelfth Night," they adapted it into a disco. The concept of a "Duke of Disco" was rather disturbing, and speaking Elizibithean English while boogying down just overdoes the dissonance thing...)[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Because comedies are the perfect reciepients for the touch of whimsy that always goes along with adaptations, I suppose...[/color:post_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Or because the idea of trying to top [i:post_uid0]West Side Story[/i:post_uid0] freaks them out...[/color:post_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Thankyou cat, for asking a question in my absence, and for the record, anyone who wants to can ask one (i guess i should have mentioned that from the start)

I would go to asutralia because i've always wanted to go there. i did a report on it in eighth grade and just thought it sounded like a cool place.

new question:

What Cartoons did you watch when you were a Kid? (or if you are still a kid what do you watch now)

the biggies for me are the Jetsons and the Flintstones ( i think everyone should know those, but i could be wrong)
I think the one i miss the most though is Tail Spin. (i cant even clealy remember what it was about now but i know it was my fav.) and Rescue Rangers (it stared Chip and Dale, disneys famous chipmunks)[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Transformers and He-Man, obviously.

Plus a bunch of English-made cartoons that nobody in North America has ever heard of, which I watch in Australia 1987-1989.

Most of them can be found at www.80snostalgia.com[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]The only ones I can clearly remember having watched are Inspector Gadget and Rhubarb and Custard. Which still has the greatest intro music of all time for any cartoon ever, if you ask me.[/color:post_uid0]

[Standback]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Oh, boy... once I start bringing them up, they just start flowing...

Smurfs stands out as actually being memorable, if only because of marketing. Similarly, an Israeli cartoon called "Zarbuvim" about these underwater creatures with snorkels on there heads. Then there was "Knights of the Magic Light" (Name translated from Hebrew, though I assume it was american originally - about good and evil knights, who could turn into animals that were on their breastplates...), and Video Force (all in Hebrew... the one with all the video game characters? The tomato, and the basketball player, and the bad guy was called Mr. Bigg? name, somebody?)... there was also the "Wizard of Oz" TV cartoon (originally Israeli; based on the original book and its sequels). A bit later on there were also the good Disney cartoons - Tail Spin, Darkwing Duck, and Rescue Rangers - and the X-Men cartoon (not the one they're showing now - the older one, based on the actual plotlines from the original comics).

That's enough for the moment. I know I'm going to be popping more up all night. You just made me remember Denver the Last Dinosaur! Hmmm...[/color:post_uid0]

[mudshark]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][i:post_uid0]Bullwinkle
Tennessee Tuxedo
Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies[/i:post_uid0] (pre-PC & cutesy)
[i:post_uid0]Speed Racer
Super Chicken[/i:post_uid0]

There must have been others, but I can't think of them now. Senility, must be.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Mysterious Cities of Gold
Sun Beneath the Sea (theme song in a minor key - rare for cartoons)
Ulysses 31 (didn't find out the title until recently)
Those last two were a lot more cheesy than I recall.

Pommy things like Count Duckula, Family Ness, Jimbo, Thomas the Tank Engine (not a cartoon, but it had no live actors and *no* Shining Time Frickin' Station), Raggy Dolls, Super Ted and Telebugs. most of those were five-minute things between longer shows.

Plus American shows like the Ewoks, Voltron (both of them), various Hanna-Barbara offerings, Flinstones (most of which I didn't get because it was aimed at adults in the 60s), and one or two episodes of Thundercats. Oh, and a water-based once where they went through a special airlock to change from air breathers to water breathers and back again.

[quote:post_uid0]here was also the "Wizard of Oz" TV cartoon (originally Israeli; based on the original book and its sequels).[/quote:post_uid0]

I remember watching episodes of the Wizard of Oz before going to school. Did it have Tick-Tock in it? I remember one episode with giant tiger-like monsters crawling across a log over a chasm...and little else.[/color:post_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0="Standback"]Similarly, an Israeli cartoon called "Zarbuvim" about these underwater creatures with snorkels on there heads.[/quote:post_uid0]
I think I remember what you're talking about. I think they were possibly called "Snerks" or "Snerkels" or something similar here in America.

I remember watching the Smurfs, Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny, Flintstones, even a bit of Count Duckula...lots of others...

"Tale Spin" was about Baloo the Bear flying a seaplane around with a child sidekick and a girlfriend. Or something like that. [img:post_uid0]http://3sygma.com/fiveminute/forums/html/non-cgi/emoticons/eek5.gif[/img:post_uid0][/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]I think I remember what you're talking about. I think they were possibly called "Snerks" or "Snerkels" or something similar here in America.[/quote:post_uid0]
The Snorkels? I watched it too. :D
As well as the Smurfen, Barba Papa, Tom & Jerry, Tweety & Sylvester, Duck Tales, Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny... Sometimes The Flinstones.

I hated The Rescue Rangers, mainly because I had never watched it and my brothers did... And I didn't understand the title.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]He-Man, The Transformers, and lots of stuff I can't remember. For non-cartoon stuff I watched Sesame Street, 3-2-1 Contact, The Electric Company.

And oh yes, I loved Button Moon. "We're going to Button Moon..." :D[/color:post_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0="NAHTMMM"]"Tale Spin" was about Baloo the Bear flying a seaplane around with a child sidekick and a girlfriend. Or something like that.[/quote:post_uid0]

Yeah, thatÂ’s the one. Only it wasnÂ’t his girlfriend, it was his boss, but he had a crush on her. and in this one episode they tried to run a pizza delivery servies by cooking the pizzas on the plane while they were flying but the...

Uncle owen: Shut up
Katy Jane: Shutting up, sir.

its all coming back to me now. i miss that show, of course if i saw it now i would probably think it was stupid.

How could i forget about looney toons! that use to be a Saturday morning tradition with my older brother (i think watching them with his kid sister was the only excuse he could think of being that he was in high school) that and WWF wrestling, of course thatÂ’s not a cartoon. Â :D but it is sort of like a cartoon. :p[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]Yeah, thatÂ’s the one. Only it wasnÂ’t his girlfriend, it was his boss, but he had a crush on her.[/quote:post_uid0]

The series used characters from The Jungle Book, only they were wearing clothes and using advanced technology.[/color:post_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Today's [b:post_uid0]Question of the Day[/b:post_uid0] is:


What is your favorite time of year and why?[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]That would have to be somewhere between spring and summer, because winter is too cold, summer too hot, it gives me headaches, and fall is too rainy. Spring is just perfect. :)[/color:post_uid0]

[NeoMatrix]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Spring to Early Summer, after the Pine Pollen is gone[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Any time I don't have to shocel snow, mow the lawn or rake leaves.[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Bah. I can't say I do have a favorite time of year. There's something I dislike about every season, whether it be wasps, or snow, or bright sunlight, etcetera.[/color:post_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Right now. I love brisk fall days when the leaves are turning. of course i also like spring, and winter. i guess the only season i don't like is summer.[/color:post_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I don't appreciate the prospect of going through a whole day feeling as if I'm one step away from turning into a living icicle. On the other hand, summers around here tend to be hot and humid, and I don't always appreciate that either. So I'd have to say late spring is my "favorite", when the weather has made up its mind that it's going to "behave" itself for a while.[/color:post_uid0]

[pkyyr]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]When I'm happy.
because I'm happy.

:p  :D  :p  :D  :p  :D  :p  :D  :p[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Summer, when my best friends come back from their studies overseas and there's NO SCHOOL! WOohooo![/color:post_uid0]

[Standback]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]I remember watching episodes of the Wizard of Oz before going to school. Did it have Tick-Tock in it? [/quote:post_uid0]

[quote:post_uid0]I think I remember what you're talking about. I think they were possibly called "Snerks" or "Snerkels" or something similar here in America.[/quote:post_uid0]

Hmm. All right. So apparantlythey weren't Israeli. I was always pretty sure they were but... Maaaaaan, that's a disappointment... Talk about a letdown. :(

[quote:post_uid0]at is your favorite time of year and why? [/quote:post_uid0]

Winter. It's just [i:post_uid0]nice[/i:post_uid0] out. I like rain, I like fog. It doesn't very cold on Israel's coast - just nice, cool and brisk. Not to speak of, our poor little country needs all the water we can get. ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[quote:post_uid0="NAHTMMM"][color=#000000:post_uid0]I don't appreciate the prospect of going through a whole day feeling as if I'm one step away from turning into a living icicle.[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]I've lived here my entire life, I'm immune. :D[/color:post_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I haven't exactly spent my winters in sunny Orlando either, but my body has kept its absurd habit of insisting on maintaining a 98.6 operating temperature no matter the season, anyway. The nerve of the blighter. ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]And what would that be rendered in Celsius (or Kelvin, depending on your preference)? :)[/color:post_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Body temperature. 37 degrees Celsius.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Well, it could have been worse. You could have caught SARS and have that jacked up beyond 38 degrees...[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I'm just hot-blooded.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Men... :chuckles:[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Three words - Atlantic winter gales. They're even worse than the midges. Of course, there's none of that in Stoke, but the air smells so much worse.[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Ok, time for a new question, I think. What's eveyone's favourite food? And don't all yell out pie!

Mine, incidently, is pasta.[/color:post_uid0]

[NeoMatrix]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I love catfish, Enchiladas(sp), and pizza. Plus a whole bunch of other stuff.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I like pasta, too. My favo(u)rite snack is chocolate cookies. :sigh: I love those. :)[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Laksa, which is a spicy local dish with coconut gravy and fresh cockles. I like my mom's pasta too..[/color:post_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]anything with chicken in it. that and my brothers bacon cheese burger hot dish. yummy[/color:post_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Okay, new question:

When (or if) you go to the zoo, which animals do you insist on going to see?[/color:post_uid0]

[Standback]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]The monkeys. They're the fun, interesting ones. :D[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]The Penguins. I haven't actually been to a zoo for years though.

Funny fact - I once had my hair chewed by a giraffe many years ago.[/color:post_uid0]

[NeoMatrix]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I go to the zoo to see the monkeys[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Hmmm, I haven't been to the zoo in five years, but the bears were always a must-see, especially the polar bears.

I understand that zoos in most other countries are very much different from Singapore's in that the animals are actually put in cages of some sort. Is that true?[/color:post_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Well, they usually aren't allowed to mingle with the visitors... :smile: Although our zoo has a freelancing peacock. Our bears, elephants, and a lot of others aren't entirely in "cages"; they have an outside exhibit to roam around with a fence between them and the onlookers. The flying birds are in a cage though, as is at least one big cat.[/color:post_uid0]

[AKAArzosah]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I go to see the tigers.

At the Adelaide Zoo they have these miniatere rainforests in the enclosure for all the big cats. It's not exactly a plain dull cage, more like a giant bird cage with big cats in separate bits.[/color:post_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I went to the zoo in august. We checked the tiger exhibit three times and never found the tigers. :( and that would be my must see. but i did get to see the jaguar, mountain lions, and Lynxes so i'm happy.

oh and i got a key chain of frogs doing the hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil thing so that made the whole trip worth while right there.[/color:post_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Heeheehee. Ours has a big gift shop too. ;)

I'd say that my must-sees would include the penguins (especially now they've got a new exhibit) and the other birds, the bears, and the African-ish mammal area with the elephants and all.[/color:post_uid0]

[mudshark]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Big cats, definitely, and reptiles are very cool. Penguins are always fun, and the sea otters at the Monterey Aquarium are great.[/color:post_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]All right new question. What did you have for brakefast?[/color:post_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Cinnamon-raisin toast and cereal. :)[/color:post_uid0]

[Marill]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Coffee :D[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Milo and sugar-dusted donuts.[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]A bowl of Honey Cheerios (or whatever they're called) and a chocolate muffin. Mmmm, chocolate muffin....

*drools*[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Bread. And a glass of milk.[/color:post_uid0]

[NeoMatrix]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]A bowl of cereal, 2 pop tarts, and a glass of milk[/color:post_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Lunch... I don't like brakefast[/color:post_uid0]

[Standback]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I am a man of habit. Nice big bowl of cornflakes, every morning, with milk - it does a body good. On Saturdays, I usually switch to some sugar cereal or another (Honey Nut Cheerios or any of the cinnamon cereals are favorite) but I've been trying to lose some weight for the past few months, so it's been cornflakes all der way.[/color:post_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]What non sci-fi shows do you watch?

That 70's show is a family favriot of ours, and i also like Scrubs, CSI Miami, Simpsons, hmmm i know i'm missing some.[/color:post_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Home Improvement, Wheel of Fortune, erm, I thought there was at least one other... :S ...I guess the news in general, and I'd catch SportsCenter if I could, well, [i:post_uid0]catch[/i:post_uid0] it...Jeopardy!, I dunno what else, but not much more than that...


[b:post_uid0](Edit)[/b:post_uid0] Oh, of course! I also like The Red Green Show and Keeping Up Appearances.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Non sci-fi? Let's see, almost any hospital series. Yes, that about sums it up. ER, Strong Medicin, Scrubs, and Trauma 24/7.[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][i:post_uid0]Scrubs[/i:post_uid0], [i:post_uid0]West Wing[/i:post_uid0], [i:post_uid0]Will & Grace[/i:post_uid0] (if there's nothing else on), [i:post_uid0]A Touch of Frost[/i:post_uid0], and [i:post_uid0]Lovejoy[/i:post_uid0] are the only non-SF progs I watch on any kind of regular basis.[/color:post_uid0]

[NeoMatrix]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]24, ER, Will & Grace, Home Improvement[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]To tell the truth, I don't watch TV anymore, so that's a moot question. I used to watch reality TV and game shows. The only non scifi I used to watch was La Femme Nikita, which I'm not even sure is outside the scifi genre.

Of course, I used to watch local sitcoms and Chinese mythological dramas, but that was a long time ago. Years and years.[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][i:post_uid0]Keeping Up Appearances[/i:post_uid0] is cool, but it's rarely on. As is [i:post_uid0]'Allo 'Allo[/i:post_uid0], [i:post_uid0]Dads Army[/i:post_uid0], and [i:post_uid0]Yes, Minister[/i:post_uid0] (but thankfully I have the first two seried of that on DVD anyway).[/color:post_uid0]

[mudshark]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Letterman and [i:post_uid0]Jeopardy![/i:post_uid0] are the only major-network shows I catch regularly, although [i:post_uid0]Joan of Arcadia[/i:post_uid0] may join that list; we'll see.

Besides those, mostly PBS programs like [i:post_uid0]NOVA, Nature,[/i:post_uid0] and others dealing with science and history. Also, the [i:post_uid0]Mrs. Bradley[/i:post_uid0] (Diana Rigg) mysteries, lately.[/color:post_uid0]

[AKAArzosah]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Inspector Rex, Monk. If there's nothing on i just play computer games or read a book.[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]New question: Which SF series do you think has the best-sounding episode names?

For me it has to be [i:post_uid0]Doctor Who[/i:post_uid0]. With names like "The Talons of Weng-Chiang" and "The Ambassadors of Death", I think it can't be beaten.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Amongst the fandoms I know, I like Farscape ep titles the best because they're just so... whacked out. How can you go wrong with eps like "Crackers Don't Matter"?

I'm also extremely fond of B5 episode names, but they're more on the serious side, with a tad too many literary references thrown in ("The Deconstruction of Falling Stars"? "Falling Towards Apotheosis"?).

Voyager, on the other hand, gets the cake for [i:post_uid0]dumbest[/i:post_uid0] episode titles ever. Names like "The Thaw" and "Demon" just make me cringe. Gaah![/color:post_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I like TOS and Farscape titles.


Next question: Do you like your winters snowy? [i:post_uid0]Would[/i:post_uid0] you like your winters snowy?[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Either snowy or freezing hard for a long time. Not both, but one of them would be nice.[/color:post_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Give me snow! and enough cold weather that i can go ice fishing and i am one happy camper. :D[/color:post_uid0]

[AKAArzosah]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I've never actually seen real, natural snow. Is it good? Is it any different to the fake snow they have at indoor skiing?[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Snow. I like snow. Except when people are throwing it at you.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]What's winter? ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]New question of the day: Is it "soda", "pop", "soda pop", or "Yuck! Get that away from me!"?[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I missed the snow thing. Snow is fine as long as I don't have to shovel it. However, once I get to Ottawa (25 days), I suspect I'll have more snow than I'll ever want.

For our tropical posters...I've seen fake snow at the Swiss indoor skihill at Expo 88. That's nothing like real snow. Real snow comes in many varieties, but none of them are like that.

As for today's topic...it's pop.[/color:post_uid0]

[Standback]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]It's soda.

"pop" sounds so retro... :D[/color:post_uid0]

[NeoMatrix]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Soda

As for Winter, it would be nice to get some snow down here in the south.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Neither, it's "frisdrank" :D

But if I have to choose, soda. Pop is music. Then again, soda is the stuff you put in water if your feet hurt. Tricky. :p[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I don't call it either soda or pop. I always refer to fizzy drinks as....fizzy drinks. Boring, I know.[/color:post_uid0]

[mudshark]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]When I was a kid, it was soda pop. Now it's a soda (or, for a lot of people in this town, Coke is a generic. :eyeroll: )

On snow: It's just fine when it stays up on the mountains, where it belongs. I'd rather not have to deal with it on a daily basis.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]When I was a kid, it was soda pop. Now it's a soda (or, for a lot of people in this town, Coke is a generic.[/quote:post_uid0]

You're from Atlanta?[/color:post_uid0]

[mudshark]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]^ No, but for a town just outside SF, there are a heck of a lot of Southern accents here.[/color:post_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Pop. but you don't have to go very far to find soda. Ahhh... I remeber the countless arguments with my cousins from millwakee...

"do you have any soda"
"no, but i can give you some pop"
"soda"
"pop"
Soda!"
"Pop!
"SODA!"
"POP!"
you get the picture :D


This is a bit of an add on that that one

Water fountain, Drinking fountain, or bubbler?[/color:post_uid0]

[mudshark]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Drinking fountain.[/color:post_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Generally "pop".

And "water fountain" or "drinking fountain", though I think it's more often "water fountain".[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]We don't have those, so I really woudn't know.[/color:post_uid0]

[NeoMatrix]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Water Fountain, or Energy Renewal Fountain (lol)[/color:post_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]We use water fountain or drinking fountian, but my cousines use bubbler for some reason...[/color:post_uid0]

[Saxamaphone]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Bubbler - totally, but I believe that's a northern Midwest, thingy. I generally call it the fountain now...

I grew up calling it both soda AND pop - I have no qualms about either (although now I, with a few friends, call it Soda-Pop, we're slowly bridging the gap, one person at a time)[/color:post_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Another question to go along with Katy's:

Have you ever traveled somewhere by plane? Do you prefer to fly instead of drive?


I've flown twice, to Arizona and back. I would have preferred to ride in the car there and back, but I enjoyed the flight when I wasn't thinking about how much a bad landing could hurt.[/color:post_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]i've never flown. I've driven pleanty of places.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I've flown four times, once to Malta and back and once to Turkey. The experience depends a lot on with which company you fly. The first time was with the KLM (Royal Airline Company, Dutch) and it went pretty smoothly, with a soft landing. The second time, on the other hand, was with a Turkish company, and was a little more bumby.

I suppose I'd rather fly over long distances than drive. I tend to get sick in cars.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I've flown to Australia and back twice, and to Edmonton and back several times. Apparently there was a flight or two to Nevada or Wyoming when I was little, but I don't remember them. In a couple of weeks I'll be boarding a plane for Ottawa.

I prefer to fly. Wedging myself into car for hours at a time isn't all that fun. If I'm a passenger, I can read or sleep, but if I'm driving I have to maintain concentration on the road. Kelowna to Vancouver is tolerable, but I wouldn't care to drive any further. In a country the size of Canada, you need to fly if you want to get anywhere within 24 hours (and even that's a stretch if you fly Air Canada). I'm flying WestJet, and it's going to take me 9 hours to get from Kelowna to Ottawa. That includes an hourlong stopover in Calgary and two hours in Hamilton.[/color:post_uid0]

[Celeste]

[quote:post_uid0="Saxamaphone"][color=#000000:post_uid0]Bubbler - totally, but I believe that's a northern Midwest, thingy. I generally call it the fountain now...[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]Yep. Bubbler. Go anywhere out of the New England area and no one knows what the heck you're talking about. lol[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Yeah, I've flown a few times, usually between Manchester and Lewis (via Glasgow or Edinburgh). I wouldn't like to try taking that trip any other way[/color:post_uid0]

[AKAArzosah]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]i have flown about six times, the weekend before last i flew to Melbourne and back (from Adelaide) so that's less than an hour flying. I prefer to drive because it takes longer and you see more (if you're not reading, like i usually am) we usually drive to Melbourne, a six/seven hour trip. It's fun to watch the landscape change as we travel.

Being only fifteen, i haven't actually driven myself anywhere before.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Let's see. In chronological order, I've flown from Singapore to Phuket, Perth, China, Hawaii (and from Hawaii to Los Angeles), Sydney, Bangkok (several times, my dad was stationed there for a bit), Hong Kong, Chiang Mai (from Bangkok) and New Zealand. In two week's time I'll be flying up to Bangkok again for a short trip because my parents need to get rid of their frequent flyer points before they expire. My dad spent almost one year travelling on business and picked up so many frequent flyer points (because sometimes my mom used to go with him) that I flew business class to New Zealand last December. It was [i:post_uid0]fantastic[/i:post_uid0]. Singapore Airlines really does know how to make one comfortable.

Ha ha, I bet you're all jealous of me now... ::runs::

I've been driving for more than a year now, but only in Singapore, which has a maximum speed limit of 90 kph on expressways so it's no fun. Not that I give a rat's patoot about speed limits [read: made to be broken, they are], but that basically means that the buggers in front of me rarely drive faster than 110kph. Even in the fast lane. ::scowls::


Edit: The last few questions. It's neither soda nor pop, we just call each drink by its name or lump them all under the category of "gassy drinks". And it's called a 'water cooler' in Singapore. Water fountains are landscapings that you find in nice parks. :D[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]:O Holy crap!

Hey 17, can I borrow your space station... Didn't think so. :D[/color:post_uid0]

[mudshark]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]*lends cat a space station*


Flying, hmmm. I'm not what you'd call a frequent flyer, but I've made a few trips: 2 or 3 to Cleveland (grandparents) when I was little, England once, New York twice, Hawaii (Maui) once, and several times LA to Bay Area or vice versa. If helicopters count, I rode the company shuttle to other divisions 3 or 4 times when I was working for Rockwell in the 80s.

Flying vs. driving: it sorta depends on distance and time. Sometimes driving isn't practical, but if you're not in a hurry, it's cool to be able to stop and check out the scenery. Then again, seeing the Grand Canyon or Ireland from 30,000 feet is kinda cool, too.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Thanks.

<span id='ME'><center>catalina_marina <span style='font-size:17pt;line-height:100%'>THWAP</span>s 17</center></span>

Hehehe.[/color:post_uid0]

[Standback]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I've flown numerous times... always from Israel to the U.S. and back (except the rather siginificant one-way trip that started it all, of course). Since we came to Israel in 1989, I've been back something like 5 times.

I don't like planes much. They're just such a hassle. On the other hand, I never take them anywhere I could drive, since there are no planes around here that go places I [i:post_uid0]could[/i:post_uid0] drive, so the question doesn't often arise. I don't drive myself, so I'm a passenger in any case.

Also, soda.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Cat...


<font size = 30 color = 860000>[b:post_uid0]::THWAP!::[/b:post_uid0]</font>


Ooh sissy spacestationTHWAPfight! Eeeeee![/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Mudshark, this space station better be good quality.

<font size = 47 color = AA0000>[b:post_uid0]:THWAP!:[/b:post_uid0]</font>[/color:post_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]ooo... cat fight

er... no offence Cat.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Four hundred quatloos on 17.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Yeah? Well I have the sacred numbers on my side! :p[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Sacred numbers, Cat? What sacred numbers?

Oh, you mean these sacred numbers which I'm going to tattoo in your side with this superpowered laser here? Sure!



<font size = 30 color = 860000>[b:post_uid0] :: ZAP ::[/b:post_uid0]</font>


:D[/color:post_uid0]

[NeoMatrix]

[quote:post_uid0="NAHTMMM"][color=#000000:post_uid0]Have you ever traveled somewhere by plane? Do you prefer to fly instead of drive?[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]Lately, whenever I go home to visit my family, I fly. Before my parents moved to Ohio, I didnt fly much. We always drove from Georgia to Mississippi to visit family. My next trip is to go home on Christmas Day, so I am flying.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Gee, thanks, 17.

:Looks at her side:

What's that... 666? :O

Now you got me really angry.

[quote:post_uid0]What sacred numbers?[/quote:post_uid0]
Please allow me to print that information into your brain.


<font SIZE = 47 color = 8A0000>[b:post_uid0]:ZAP:[/b:post_uid0]</font>


:Views her latest art work:

42? No, that's not right. I suppose I need more practise. Let me try again.


<font SIZE = 47 color = 930000>[b:post_uid0]:ZAP:[/b:post_uid0]</font>


:Looks again:

That's better. :D[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]You're a moron, Cat. Those numbers said "999" and not "666"... ::rolls eyes::[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]:Looks at her side again:

Oh, I got it upside down.

Well that's what you get for printing them on their side.[/color:post_uid0]

[Opium]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]oy...whoa...huh? what's going on...maaayyybbeee I dont want to know :p[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]We're, uh, tattooing each other. With space stations.

...

Yeah.[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Yeah, but [i:post_uid0]which[/i:post_uid0] space stations is what I wanna know.

Which leads me to a new question - what is your favourite space station seen in an SF film?

Space Station V from [i:post_uid0]2001: A Space Odyssey[/i:post_uid0] is my choice.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]It's DS9 vs B5 (http://www.grudge-match.com/History/ds9-babylon5.shtml)[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]This is slightly off-topic (but since when has that stopped anybody?) - who here is also a poster at TrekBBS, and if so, what is your screen name? KJ and NAHTMMM I already know about, obviously.[/color:post_uid0]

[Anonymous]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]but since when has that stopped anybody?[/quote:post_uid0]
^never! :lol:

Mudshark posts there under the name M'Sharak, other than that i don't know of anyone.

Now off to class...

*swoosh*[/color:post_uid0]

[Nic Corelli]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]OK, considering this website is called "Five-Minute Voyager"...

What are your three favourite Voyager episodes?

My favourites would definitely be - Someone to Watch Over Me, The Thaw and Alter Ego.[/color:post_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Just three? :lol:

Let see here... Year of Hell and The Killing Game have always stood out as my two favourites, but beyond that i could't possably choose.[/color:post_uid0]

[Zeke]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I post at the BBS as Zeke; IJD posts as Three and Derek as Spurk. I can't think of any others offhand, except Lindley, a major BBSer who I believe has popped up here occasionally.

Favourite Voyager episodes... as KJ said, just three? I guess I'd have to go with "Author, Author," "Timeless," and "Counterpoint." I could easily list another 20 favourites, but those are probably the top three.[/color:post_uid0]

[Nic Corelli]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0="Zeke"]Favourite Voyager episodes... as KJ said, just three? Â [/quote:post_uid0]
Well, I have wisely limited myself to three, because out of the show`s 172 episodes, approx. 167 qualify as my favourites, :D And that would be a slightly gigantic post...

Still, I could expand it to 6, adding Lifesigns, Latent Image and The Renaissance Man...

(although I have an ultra-powerful urge to expand it to 45 right now...) :D[/color:post_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Now 45 i could handle, maybe :lol:[/color:post_uid0]

[mudshark]

[quote:post_uid0="Zeke"][color=#000000:post_uid0]I post at the BBS as Zeke; IJD posts as Three and Derek as Spurk. Â I can't think of any others offhand, except Lindley, a major BBSer who I believe has popped up here occasionally.[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]evay is an ENT forum semi-regular who's been known to turn up here, now and then. On rare occasions, I've also seen FatMat over there as well (as Mat426?)

Three episodes? Toughie. :|

I think [i:post_uid0]Infinite Regress[/i:post_uid0] would usually be one; probably [i:post_uid0]Year of Hell[/i:post_uid0] and either [i:post_uid0]Meld[/i:post_uid0] or [i:post_uid0]Basics, Part II[/i:post_uid0].

Orrrrrr ... =p :D[/color:post_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]OoO Basics and Meld! those are on there too, and Futures End, and Unimatrex 0 and Before and After and....

See what you started :suspicious: :lol: ;) :p[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]So are we picking three, or five, or forty five, or one hundred and forty eight? ;)

Let's see. "Tinker Tenor", "Unimatrix Zero", "Drive" and "Shattered" probably count amongst my favourites. I mean, there are heck of a lot more, but this is a sort of on-the-go list. Man, I miss that show...[/color:post_uid0]

[Nic Corelli]

[quote:post_uid0="taya17"][color=#000000:post_uid0]Man, I miss that show...[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]Me too... Fortunately I recorded almost all episodes on video... I watched Real Life and Life Line today, as a little New Year Voyager special. Ah, Doctor... His name was Kenneth in "Real Life" :) Let`s see... Kenneth, Dr. Mozart, Dr. Van Gogh, and Joe...

Oh, and Shattered! I love it! How could I have forgotten Shattered? Thwap me please![/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]::obligingly::


[b:post_uid0]<font size = 30 color = #860000>THWAP[/b:post_uid0]</font>


Honestly, people, stop giving me so many opportunities to dent my space station, here![/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I've seen some people who were just asking for it, but not literally. :lol:[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Well, now you have :D
That's one thing I love about the fora. It has such opportunities to enrich your life...[/color:post_uid0]

[Nic Corelli]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Okay... NEW QUESTION!

Your FIVE FAVOURITE TOS episodes!

My selection:

5. Operation: Annihilate

4. The Enterprise Incident

3. The Trouble with Tribbles

2. A Piece of the Action

and the Academy Award goes to:

1. Return to Tomorrow

Everyone... WRITE! :D[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I wouldn't know, they don't broadcast TOS here. Dammit.

I wish I had BBC... :([/color:post_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Unfortionetly i dont get it here either. :( i would need to get calbe to beable to watch it and they don't string the cable lines out this far... and theres no way my parents would spring for satlite :O[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Well, we do have a satellite, but it doesn't receive BBC. :eyeroll:[/color:post_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Given that I haven't even [i:post_uid0]seen[/i:post_uid0] as many as five TOS episodes, just read most of them...

<ul> The Trouble with Tribbles
Shore Leave
The Ultimate Computer
The Doomsday Machine
The Squire of Gothos[/list]

The above list is subject to constant and often contradicting revison of course ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[mudshark]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Well, no matter what I put in, some good ones are being left out. Here are five, in no particular order:

• The Trouble with Tribbles
• The Doomsday Machine
• Mirror, Mirror
• Amok Time
• Balance of Terror[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Gee, I think the only TOS episode I've actually watched end-to-end is [i:post_uid0]The Trouble With Tribbles[/i:post_uid0]. I enjoyed that but some of the special effects made me laugh.

And the problem with TOS is that I can't watch it ever again without going into fits of laughter everytime Chekov appears onscreen...[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0="catalina_marina"]Well, we do have a satellite, but it doesn't receive BBC. :eyeroll:[/quote:post_uid0]
You do mean the BBC that I think you mean, don't you? They haven't broadcast TOS for years. The last time it was on any channel regularly that I remember was back in 2001/2 on E4 when they broadcast the entire run twice over.

Anyway, here's my five (not in order, because I just can't choose) Â -

The Trouble with Tribbles
A Piece of the Action
The Doomsday Machine
The Devil in the Dark
The Ultimate Computer[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Well, 2001/2002 is about the last time I checked the TV guide for BBC. Anyway, there are a lot of shows on BBC which we don't get or much later, like. *checks TV guide* Like... eh, the Weakest Link? That's all? Gee, BBC sucks. 8|
(No offense)[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Well, their current TV lineup isn't all that brilliant to say the least (though there's always the likes of Horizon), but the Beeb on the radio and the web is as good as ever.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]New question:
How many foreign countries have you visited? Foreign is defined as other than the country in which you reside.

I've been to the States and Australia, although I'm not sure if the latter counts since I hold Australian citizenship (and I lived there for a couple of years).

I've also set foot on Angolan soil - well, Angolan paving stones - and walked or driven past Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Surinam.[/color:post_uid0]

[mudshark]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Two: Mexico and England

I've been very near the Canadian border on a couple of occasions, but not actually crossed. I've also been to New Jersey, but that's not technically a foreign country. ;)
[quote:post_uid0]
I've also set foot on Angolan soil - well, Angolan paving stones - and walked or driven past Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Surinam.
[/quote:post_uid0]
Embassies?[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Alright, here goes.

Germany, Belgium, France, Luxumbourg, Turkey, Italy, Malta, and then, on my way to Italy and back, only Switserland, how disappointing. I've also been to England for a couple of days. Although nights might be a better term.

In no particular order, since I really wouldn't know.

That's 10, which is most so far. :D[/color:post_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]One, Canada, and i live less than a day's drive from the border. hmmm... I need to get out more.[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]A big fat zero. Heck, I haven't even visited all the countries in the UK.[/color:post_uid0]

[Nic Corelli]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Hmm, let`s see... the neighbouring countries, like Slovenia, Italy, Hungary...

and then also Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany and France.

That would probably be 8, :D[/color:post_uid0]

[NeoMatrix]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I've been to Mexico, and very close to Canada, that's about it.

Here is my question of the day. Who do you think the man in the top hat is?[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Marty McFly?[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]The Cat in the Hat... after my experimental bio class is through with him.

::maniacal laughter::

This semester I'm spending EIGHT hours each week getting instructions to creating an army of supermutant clones of my very own! Be Afraid, World, Be Very Afraid! BWAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA![/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Uh oh.

*Hopes it's not a top hat*[/color:post_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]It's Evil Future Guy! :D[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Or Attack of the Clones, but these must be Evil Clones.[/color:post_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000:post_uid0](I was referring to the Question of the Day, by the way)


(And of course the Clones would be Evil ;))[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Just stating the obvious.

I have that right, because Sa'ar thinks I have Troi eyes. :D[/color:post_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Well, they ARE dark. I couldn't tell more one way or the other beyond that...[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]New question - who is your favourite SF&F anti-hero?

I have to say Scorpius myself. That dude just rocks.[/color:post_uid0]

[mudshark]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Gotta be Gul Dukat.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Dammit, mudshark took mine.

Megabyte, or possibly the Beasties Megatron. Yes.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]My vote goes to Mr. Morden, because Scorpy and <strike>Dukhat</strike> Dukat are taken![/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Hmm, Dukat sounds good, but we seem to need an original one. Alright then, Weyoun.[/color:post_uid0]

[Nic Corelli]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]It`s a tie between The Emperor from Return of the Jedi and, of course, THE BORG QUEEN! And not just any Borg Queen... Alice! Alice and nobody else but Alice!

That voice...

"What a cold description... for such a beautiful gift."[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Nic, I'm wondering, do you have night shift or something? Or could you just not sleep?[/color:post_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[quote:post_uid0="Nic Corelli"][color=#000000:post_uid0]That voice...

"What a cold description... for such a beautiful gift."[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]brrrr.... sends shivers down my spine[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Well, you don't [i:post_uid0]have[/i:post_uid0] to choose one that hasn't already been chosen.[/color:post_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Oh! i know its the Mysterious Masked Tree Frog! ;) :bigsmile: :lol: :thisplaceneedsacrazysmilie:[/color:post_uid0]

[Nic Corelli]

[quote:post_uid0="Katy Jane"][color=#000000:post_uid0]brrrr.... sends shivers down my spine[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]Oh yes, same here!

Just because of her, I watched Star Trek: First Contact few days ago again... for the 8th or the 9th time, :D It`s not even my favourite Star Trek movie, but I watched it the most...

[quote:post_uid0]Nic, I'm wondering, do you have night shift or something? Or could you just not sleep? [/quote:post_uid0]

I was so upset that my roomate suddenly changed his mind and broke our agreement, that I really couldn`t sleep all night! AAARGH!

Still, in these couple of days I`ve realized it`s nice to live alone. Like Jerry Seinfeld says: "When you live alone, you are the dictator of your life. If you decide to fall asleep on a sofa in the middle of the day, no one can overrule you! And when you live with someone, you`re part of a vast decision-making body. Before anything can happen, debates must be held, commitees have to consider the implications... etc. etc...

And the divorce is the worst. You get impeached, and you`re not even the president!" :D :D

Still, a roomate is not necessarily a bad idea... the rent money is tempting... :D[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]Still, a roomate is not necessarily a bad idea... the rent money is tempting...[/quote:post_uid0]

I envy you, being in the position to choose your room mate. I've had good room mates and bad room mates. The good room mates tended to be female. The male room mates tended to be noisy, filthy pigs or scary Bulgarians.[/color:post_uid0]

[Nic Corelli]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Well... this roomate made me seriously angry. It took me months to find someone remotely normal, and when I finally thought I did... this happens. So if I ever find another roomate, it will be in a few months...

I`ll get used to living alone... as long as I keep the talking with myself on a reasonable level, :D[/color:post_uid0]