Weekly Survey

[DiO'Bolic]

1. If you could go back in time and attempt to change one event in history, what would it be, and what would you do to change it?

Nothing earth-shattering. Just a little gesture as a thank you for a lot of enjoyment. I’d push King out of the way of the van.

2. What do you think happens to you after you pass on?

I think your spirit/soul/essence continues in some form.

3. Those crazy politicians enacted prohibition again, but exempted one type of alcohol. What is it and what brand?

Johnnie Walker Scotch.

4. Where do you want the next King Kon to be?

Centralia, PA.

5. An asteroid is about to slam into earth in 48 hours, wiping out all life, and Bruce Willis isn't available. What do you do in your final hours?

Go fishing.

6. And to continue, you go to a restaurant renounced for making your most enjoyable meal. The meal is free... What would it be?

Chilean seabass.

7. They've been dropping like flies as of late. What musical person or group would you want to see in concert, with back stage pass, before it's too late?

All Hail The Who!

8. What appliance in you home or apartment would you like to replace?

The Heat Pump system. 25 years old, and it won't last forever.

9. What's the favorite hobby you have, or what hobby would you like to take up?

Bass fishing.

10. Aspirin, Acetaminophen, or Ibuprofen?

Ibuprofen.

 

[Alexandra M]

1. If you could go back in time and attempt to change one event in history, what would it be, and what would you do to change it?
I don't think I would. The past is just that.

2. What do you think happens to you after you pass on?
I believe your soul and your spirit goes to another realm where you can once again see your loved ones. And too, you are able
to watch over those who are special in your life and are still living.

3. Those crazy politicians enacted prohibition again, but exempted one type of alcohol. What is it and what brand?T
Tequila (lots of it)

4. Where do you want the next King Kon to be?
Seattle, Washington (I would be able to travel there.)

5. An asteroid is about to slam into earth in 48 hours, wiping out all life, and Bruce Willis isn't available. What do you do in your final hours?
I know I would get edited or barred for answering this one.

6. And to continue, you go to a restaurant renounced for making your most enjoyable meal. The meal is free... What would it be?
Chicken Fried Steak with mushrooms, mashed potatoes and coleslaw.

7. They've been dropping like flies as of late. What musical person or group would you want to see in concert, with back stage pass, before it's too late?
Aerosmith

8. What appliance in you home or apartment would you like to replace?
Stove

9. What's the favorite hobby you have, or what hobby would you like to take up?
Photography, with a new camera and take a few courses on 'how to'.

10. Aspirin, Acetaminophen, or Ibuprofen?
Tylenol (whichever that one is).

 

[DiO'Bolic]

I know I would get edited or barred for answering this one.

LOL. Can I have your number... just in case?

 

[Spideyman]

1. If you could go back in time and attempt to change one event in history, what would it be, and what would you do to change it? The past is the past. Changing anything therein, would possibly change the present or future.

2. What do you think happens to you after you pass on? That my spirit would find a safe place.

3. Those crazy politicians enacted prohibition again, but exempted one type of alcohol. What is it and what brand? Non drinker

4. Where do you want the next King Kon to be? A carnival setting- like Joyland.

5. An asteroid is about to slam into earth in 48 hours, wiping out all life, and Bruce Willis isn't available. What do you do in your final hours? Gather my critters and wait.

6. And to continue, you go to a restaurant renounced for making your most enjoyable meal. The meal is free... What would it be? Simple- a real Philly cheesesteak and a real vanilla shake.

7. They've been dropping like flies as of late. What musical person or group would you want to see in concert, with back stage pass, before it's too late? Rush

8. What appliance in you home or apartment would you like to replace? Washer

9. What's the favorite hobby you have, or what hobby would you like to take up? Crocheting, crafting with plastic canvas.

10. Aspirin, Acetaminophen, or Ibuprofen? aspirin.

 

[do1you9love?]

1. If you could go back in time and attempt to change one event in history, what would it be, and what would you do to change it? Wouldn't risk it.

2. What do you think happens to you after you pass on? There are other worlds than these.

3. Those crazy politicians enacted prohibition again, but exempted one type of alcohol. What is it and what brand? Grey Goose Vodka

4. Where do you want the next King Kon to be? Florida. In the winter time. Please.

5. An asteroid is about to slam into earth in 48 hours, wiping out all life, and Bruce Willis isn't available. What do you do in your final hours? Get my family to the beach and live out the end together.

6. And to continue, you go to a restaurant renounced for making your most enjoyable meal. The meal is free... What would it be? OK, sorry, but I am channeling my inner Grammar Nazi. I am assuming you mean "renowned" instead of "renounced". I would choose a nice thick, rare steak with a baked potato, crab legs, shrimp, oysters, and chocolate cake to finish it off. Then I would roll back to my beach house for the end of the world.

7. They've been dropping like flies as of late. What musical person or group would you want to see in concert, with back stage pass, before it's too late? Wish I'd seen the Eagles. Had tickets once but they had to cancel the show.

8. What appliance in you home or apartment would you like to replace? Oven.

9. What's the favorite hobby you have, or what hobby would you like to take up? I would do more artwork. Never seem to have time.

10. Aspirin, Acetaminophen, or Ibuprofen? Ibuprofen.

Good questions! Thanks!

 

[not_nadine]

Weekly Survey


1. What silly things were your afraid of - as a child?

2. What was your favorite toy as a kid?

3. What was your first car?

4. Do you have a knick name - that only special people call you? Tell.

5. What is the best thing that you cook?

6. What was your longest road trip?

7. What would you do for an Klondike Bar?

8. What is your dream job?

9. What was your worst cooking disaster?

10. When was the last time you embarrassed yourself in public?

 

[80sFan]

1. What silly things were your afraid of - as a child?

So many irrational childhood fears:

Quicksand
Lava
Nitro glycerin
Guillotines
Bear traps
Cliffs
Rope bridges

None of which I had much chance of encountering in the inner city. I watched far too much TV.


2. What was your favorite toy as a kid?

Barbies

3. What was your first car?

Impala

4. Do you have a knick name - that only special people call you? Tell.

Mom <3

5. What is the best thing that you cook?

I'm not much of a cook, but maybe Scrapple (don't laugh, it's difficult to make properly).

6. What was your longest road trip?

When I was a kid our family drove to Canada from Philly.

7. What would you do for an Klondike Bar?

Not much. But for a Nutty Buddy...

8. What is your dream job?

Librarian

9. What was your worst cooking disaster?

I started a small kitchen fire heating up a slice of pizza.

10. When was the last time you embarrassed yourself in public?

It was recently, but can't remember details.

Good questions NN!

 

[pegasus216]

1. What silly things were your afraid of - as a child?
I always thought I saw some kind of monster in the corner of my room.

2. What was your favorite toy as a kid?
A doll that cried.

3. What was your first car?
A Chevy station wagon.

4. Do you have a knick name - that only special people call you? Tell.
Mez.

5. What is the best thing that you cook?
I don't cook any more, but when I did it was fried chicken.

6. What was your longest road trip?
Didn't take road trips.

7. What would you do for an Klondike Bar?
Nothing.

8. What is your dream job?
I never had a dream job.

9. What was your worst cooking disaster?
Burnt corn on the cob.

10. When was the last time you embarrassed yourself in public?
I don't think I ever have.

 

[Pucker]

1. What silly things were your afraid of - as a child?

The Hole.

When I was little, my dad put an exhaust fan in the kitchen and -- to run the vent outside -- had to cut a hole in the wall in our bedroom to get to the eaves. He framed off the opening and put a little door on there, and we put one of the dressers in front of it. But I was always aware that it was there. There was a similar door in the girls' room across the hall, on the other side of the house, but that was access to the "attic" and had always been there. I did not think of it the same way. Whatever it was I might fear ... the boogeyman ... the Earl King ... Knackles ... I always figured that when it came for me, it would come through that hole in the wall behind the dresser.


2. What was your favorite toy as a kid?

An inflatable clown -- Bozo, in fact -- that was bottom-heavy with sand and would pop back up every time you knocked it down. Hours of fun. I had a favorite teddy bear, too ... but did not really consider him a toy.

3. What was your first car?

It was a ratty old 1962 Mercury Comet that my father had fixed up and gave to me when I turned 16, ostensibly to piss off my mother. I remember this car primarily because my dad had originally paid the princely sum of $25 for it. I remember that because when I was 12 years old (in 1973) I asked for a new baseball glove; a first basemen's mitt. I had become a pretty fair ballplayer by then and was expected to compete for the all-star squad. This was the kind of thing my father could understand, so he took me to the sporting goods store and he bought me a pretty good Rawlings for $26 (plus tax). "Take care of that mitt, Pal," he said to me. "It cost me more than my car."


4. Do you have a knickname - that only special people call you? Tell.

There was a girl who used to call me "Bear," for reasons that will not be explained. She doesn't do that anymore.

5. What is the best thing that you cook?

I can get pretty creative with lasagna when the mood strikes me.

6. What was your longest road trip?

When I live on the Florida Panhandle, my wife and I would drive from Penasacola to Boston at least once a year. One time we happened to be stopping around Roanoake, VA in conjunction with one of those Civil War re-enactments that happen occasionally around the south, and we had to do some pretty fancy shucking-and-jiving to find a hotel room.

7. What would you do for an Klondike Bar?

I'll kill Rooster for it ... and I'll kill any one of you who shows yeller again.

Seriously, though ... depending upon who was offering it, I might do just about anything.

8. What is your dream job?

Telling stories. I am a lucky, lucky man.

9. What was your worst cooking disaster?

Don't make potato chips on an electric stove. That's all I'm gonna say.

10. When was the last time you embarrassed yourself in public?

I don't know that it's particularly embarrassing, but I talk to myself audibly quite often and -- worse than that -- when I see goofy stuff happening around me I will laugh right out loud, even when no one is with me. I would imagine a lot of people who encounter me peripherally probably think I'm pretty crazy.

I'm not sure they're wrong.

 

[Pucker]

1. What silly things were your afraid of - as a child?

Quicksand

I am extremely claustrophobic. I had this recurring dream when I was a boy of being trapped in a phone booth (remember those?) that was slowly sinking in quicksand. I was terrified of quicksand. What kid wouldn't be? Of course, as 80s points out, I had little to fear from quicksand in suburban Massachusetts.
There were these mudflats, though, out by the sand and gravel pits at one end of a lake in our neighborhood where a kid could get in some pretty serious trouble if he was not careful.

Sometimes I wonder about kids ... and parents.

Parents are always sending their kids out with admonishments to "be careful," knowing in their secret hearts that they probably won't. Just as kids are always advising their parents, "Don't worry," knowing all the while that they will.

Funny old world.

 

[80sFan]

Parents are always sending their kids out with admonishments to "be careful," knowing in their secret hearts that they probably won't. Just as kids are always advising their parents, "Don't worry," knowing all the while that they will.

Funny old world.

Truest thing I've read today.

 

[skimom2]

1. What silly things were your afraid of - as a child?
The Man With a Hammer. Psycho killer in the closet. And I dreamed about him on and off for YEARS. I actually quit a job once because one of the guys that worked there smiled EXACTLY like TMWaH. Too risky to stay there, I thought.

2. What was your favorite toy as a kid?
Mrs. Beasley and Baby Beans, if I had to pick a toy. I really liked books best, though.

3. What was your first car?
Nissan 200SX. Sounds sporty, but it wasn't--lol

4. Do you have a knick name - that only special people call you? Tell.
Not now, unless you count 'Mom'. Oh, my mom still calls me 'Missy Mouse' sometimes

5. What is the best thing that you cook?
Hard to choose. Homemade mac and cheese, maybe? I cook lots of things (and I think pretty well!), but my kids love that and say there's nothing like it.

6. What was your longest road trip?
When I was a kid, from our house in San Antonio to my grandma's house in WY. As an adult, from here to my husband's family's houses in MI.

7. What would you do for an Klondike Bar?
I don't know that I've ever had one. Is it an ice cream bar?

8. What is your dream job?
Reading and writing, then librarian or bookstore owner It would be really nice to be able to make a good living from it.

9. What was your worst cooking disaster?
Homemade pozole. Cooked all day, smelled incredible...and I dropped the pot as I was taking it to the table I incinerated some cookies while watching Super Bowl playoffs once. Stupid Redskins.

10. When was the last time you embarrassed yourself in public?
I do it so often that it rarely makes a dent in my memories anymore. My mouth takes off without permission from my brain a lot.

 

[morgan]

'Missy Mouse'

I was Morgan Mouse.

 

[ghost19]

Weekly Survey


1. What silly things were your afraid of - as a child? I saw "Halloween" at the drive in when it came out in 1978. After that, I saw Michael Myers with that insanely frightening mask around every corner and in every dark corner for months..lol. My mom was pissed at my dad for years for taking me to see that.

2. What was your favorite toy as a kid? My Transformers action figures. Wish I would have saved them, some of the ones I had are worth big money now.

3. What was your first car? A 1979 Mustang LX. My friends and I called it the "Black Dragon". It didn't earn that title because it was nice, when you turned on the heater, greenish smoke came out of the vents. The smoke smelled very strongly of antifreeze. Never figured it out, but you wanted to crack the windows no matter how cold it was.

4. Do you have a knick name - that only special people call you? Tell. Not really. My ex-coworkers called me ghost.

5. What is the best thing that you cook? I literally suck at cooking anything. Just not my thing.

6. What was your longest road trip? Back in 2003 my wife and I spent almost three weeks on vacation. We drove up to South Dakota, then westward across Wyoming, then south back down thru Colorado to Estes Park. It was a long trip but the best vacation we ever had. I forgot how many miles it was round trip but quite a few.

7. What would you do for an Klondike Bar? Kate Beckinsale....wait a minute...did you ask "who" you would do or "what" you would do? I don't much like Klondike Bars...

8. What is your dream job? I'd like to open a gun store if I was independently wealthy and didn't have to worry about the store actually turning a huge profit. When I'm in my local gun store, I tend to camp out for an hour or so just talking with the clerks and browsing.

9. What was your worst cooking disaster? See my answer to question #5.

10. When was the last time you embarrassed yourself in public? Been listening to Wolves of the Calla on audio book in my SUV for the last few weeks. Was in the drive thru at What-A-Burger a few days ago. Clerk asked me what I would like to order thru the speaker. I answered "I'd like a double burger, may it do ya".......didn't even realize what I'd said till it was out of my mouth. About a 5 second pause from the drive thru speaker then "I'm sorry sir, I didn't catch that last part." I felt like an idiot, which of course, I am, so just another day in ghost land...lol

 

[Doc Creed]

Weekly Survey


1. What silly things were your afraid of - as a child? Any monkey or Gorilla. I had a monkey with cymbals and it would activate if you barely touched it. I was oddly repelled by it and drawn to it.

2. What was your favorite toy as a kid? Toy piano.

3. What was your first car? 1984 Monte Carlo. Tinted windows and sunroof.

4. Do you have a knick name - that only special people call you? Tell. Maestro, Doc, and Sean are the three main ones.

5. What is the best thing that you cook? Chicken Taco Soup.

6. What was your longest road trip? 7500 miles. From Alabama to Colorado to Montana to Maine and back home. 2 weeks. It was the best. Last summer.

7. What would you do for an Klondike Bar? Open my freezer.

8. What is your dream job? Travel writer.

9. What was your worst cooking disaster? Don't remember.

10. When was the last time you embarrassed yourself in public? Slipping on wet floor in Publix.

 

[Dana Jean]

1. What silly things were your afraid of - as a child? mean kids, the dark

2. What was your favorite toy as a kid? Barbies

3. What was your first car? Piss green, 4 door nova with a white hardtop.

4. Do you have a knick name - that only special people call you? Tell. No
5. What is the best thing that you cook? Nothing

6. What was your longest road trip? Maryland to California, by car, 2,634.8 miles. And then back.

7. What would you do for an Klondike Bar? Depends. How long has it been since I've had any sugar. No sugar + desperation and addiction = sell second born child.

8. What is your dream job? Rich philanthropist.

9. What was your worst cooking disaster? Mutton

10. When was the last time you embarrassed yourself in public? about an hour ago. The neighbor man helped jump my truck and I did some creative arm movement and knocked my glasses off my own face out into the road. I am awesome!

 

[SHEEMIEE]

1. What silly things were your afraid of - as a child?

Getting caught shoplifting when i picked up my morning paper round. Used to pinch a mars or snicker for the journey

2. What was your favorite toy as a kid?

My action man tank- never had a skateboard - so used to follow the big kids down the street sitting on top (it was like a barbi car on steroids)

3. What was your first car?

Renault 19 i think. Spray painted it black and fitted my own pimp out - but the fake white fur caught fire on the dash after a dodgy radio cassette player malfunction. (Yes i installed it)

4. Do you have a knick name - that only special people call you? Tell.

3gs

5. What is the best thing that you cook?

Everything. I make a mean indian curry.

6. What was your longest road trip?

In a day... Edinburgh to london stop for equipment delivery and a pie then london to edinburgh again. 1000km?

Or perth to kalgoorlie 600km and back again.1200km

7. What would you do for an Klondike Bar?

Dont have a clue, its a rap line right? Ass slapping and bling. Yip no idea what it is

8. What is your dream job?

Asteroid space miner or space pirate

9. What was your worst cooking disaster?

Everything i boiled that should have been grilled

10. When was the last time you embarrassed yourself in public?

Queuing for my pay in belize with my paycheck in hand, never heard the term 'chit' before and misheard the sergeant, so forgot to pick my withdrawl chit up.

Went up to the attractive teller, with all the queue behind me, and asked her with a smile,
"do i need a $hit before i can take out my paycheck?"

She wasnt sure, and suggested i go to the bathroom, much to the amusement of the queue.

 

[Spideyman]

1. What silly things were your afraid of - as a child? Getting lost in a crowd. NYC can have large crowds.

2. What was your favorite toy as a kid? A stuffed panda bear. Ginny doll.

3. What was your first car? 1962 Ford Galaxie 500

4. Do you have a knick name - that only special people call you? Tell. Not as a child. Here, I'm Spidey and love it.

5. What is the best thing that you cook? Slow cooked pot roast.

6. What was your longest road trip? NYC to Tampa, FL

7. What would you do for an Klondike Bar?Meh

8. What is your dream job? A no kill/ rehab rescue for all critters. Free care for needy critters.

9. What was your worst cooking disaster? cooking tripe.

10. When was the last time you embarrassed yourself in public? On US 19, stopped at a traffic light- no AC , windows down. Listening to the audio of The Mist-- right at the part of all the screaming. Hwy Patrol car pulls up along side of me- Oh, that look. (who was in the car screaming at the top of their lungs).

 

[HollyGolightly]

10. When was the last time you embarrassed yourself in public? about an hour ago. The neighbor man helped jump my truck and I did some creative arm movement and knocked my glasses off my own face out into the road. I am awesome!

That's funny!

 

[Dana Jean]

That's funny!

I am smoooooooth.