Five Random Questions for a Thursday Night:

[grannylib]

1. What's your favorite take-out food?
(Sesame chicken from a little Chinese place up near campus, or Mabe's Around-the-Garden, double cheese pizza are my picks)

2. If you could change any ONE thing about your job, what would you change?
(I'm voting for pay appropriate to the 21st century)

3. If someone were to drop $100,000 in your lap on the condition that you BLOW IT ON YOURSELF, what would you do with it?
(A good, 88-key, weighted action electric piano - not a lot of bells/whistles, just really good piano tone; a reliable vehicle; repair on some family jewelry I'd like to wear; a NEW FURNACE so I don't have to worry all through next winter like I did this one; a new 'puter and a few CDs maybe; and some traveling)

4. What's your favorite bird? (common loon, Minnesota state bird, closely followed by bald eagle)

5. What is the first book you remember reading? (A little book of Shakespeare plays, in story form, written for children, with beautiful full-color plates on really glossy paper)

So how about you folks??

[Broken_Hero]

1. Okay, :)

1. What's your favorite take-out food?Pizza, that one was easy! :D

2. If you could change any ONE thing about your job, what would you change?
Make it full time

3. If someone were to drop $100,000 in your lap on the condition that you BLOW IT ON YOURSELF, what would you do with it? Pay off my house, hey, I need a roof over my head! with the remaing cash(around 17k), I'd buy myself a HUGH damn amp, a five string bass guitar, a starter drum set(nothing fancy, but not cheap), the biggest plasma screen tv I can find, and a ps3, and get myself a used truck, and tractor.


4. What's your favorite bird? Eagle....:D

5. What is the first book you remember reading? The Butter Battle Book...

[grannylib]

3. *lol* You sound like my husband; he's a bass player too, and would love

to have a five-string...and probably the plasma TV too!

I suppose I should have picked "pay off MOST of the house" but hey...it's all fantasy anyway, so what the hell, right?? :-)

[ghostsofgiants]

4. 5 string = eww.

But whatever you're into. :P

[Broken_Hero]

5. hey, I'll get a four stringer too!

:D

[suninvited]

2. 1. What's your favorite take-out food?

veggie pizza with extra jalepenos

2. If you could change any ONE thing about your job, what would you change?
Hire an extra hand to do payroll

3. If someone were to drop $100,000 in your lap on the condition that you BLOW IT ON YOURSELF, what would you do with it?

Blow it on myself


4. What's your favorite bird?

Hummingbird

5. What is the first book you remember reading?

Green Eggs and Ham

[LeftyMom]

6. .

1. What's your favorite take-out food?
The homemade nutburgers from Sunflower drive-in. :9

2. If you could change any ONE thing about your job, what would you change?
A less insulting hourly wage would be nice.

3. If someone were to drop $100,000 in your lap on the condition that you BLOW IT ON YOURSELF, what would you do with it?
Tuition, a newer car, rental on a place of my own while I finish school.

4. What's your favorite bird?
Big bird. He seems nice.

5. What is the first book you remember reading?
The Call of the Wild, I think. I would have been five.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. Here's my answers:

1. What's your favorite take-out food? Pizza!

2. If you could change any ONE thing about your job, what would you change? No changes....I'm retired!

3. If someone were to drop $100,000 in your lap on the condition that you BLOW IT ON YOURSELF, what would you do with it? You know, I'd refuse it. I'd want to blow it on some folks I know who could really use it...

4. What's your favorite bird? Any raptor!

5. What is the first book you remember reading? I don't remember! I remember my mom reading the Raggedy Ann books to me, though...

[ghostsofgiants]

8. I should be in bed, instead I'm answering questions on message board. I rule.

1. What's your favorite take-out food?
Mary Brown's taters (battered potato wedges) and chicken strips with gravy for the taters and Hellman's peppercorn ranch for the chicken.

2. If you could change any ONE thing about your job, what would you change?
That I would have one, haha.

3. If someone were to drop $100,000 in your lap on the condition that you BLOW IT ON YOURSELF, what would you do with it?
Canon XL H1 high definition video camera (http://www.usa.canon.com/app/html/XLH1/index.shtml *swoooon*), and various filmmaking items. Lighting kits, etc. Piercings. Tattoos. Rickenbacker 4001C64S and Schecter Model-T bass guitars. Ridiculous amp and effect pedals for said basses.

4. What's your favorite bird?
Emus, because they're funny.

5. What is the first book you remember reading?
I have no idea.

[grannylib]

12. OMG I can't believe I forgot the body art! Miami Ink! Chris Garver!

My rosemaled Norwegian dragon!


Silly granny...I must be tired. I really oughta crash...

[u4ic]

15. What kind of a freak are you?

Gravy on fries...next thing you know, you'll be wanting ketchup flavoured chips!


:P


I always laugh when I hear (a few) Americans say "gravy on fries????" making it sound like what it really contains is yellowcake. :crazy:


My BIL used to manage a Mary Browns's...I don't even think I was in high school yet. We used to visit my sister and he every Sunday.

I had my fill of their chicken for a lifetime. All free, too. :)

[Art_from_Ark]

9. OK

1. What's your favorite take-out food?
Sushi, when it's on sale

2. If you could change any ONE thing about your job, what would you change?
I'd raise my pay.

3. If someone were to drop $100,000 in your lap on the condition that you BLOW IT ON YOURSELF, what would you do with it?

I'd buy collector coins and do a lot of traveling.

4. What's your favorite bird?
Bluebirds, owls, red-crested cranes, cardinals, ruby-throated hummingbirds

5. What is the first book you remember reading?
Hop on Pop, at age 4. I also remember getting Peter Rabbit at age 3, but couldn't read it by myself until I was 5.

[flvegan]

10. Mmkay...

1. What's your favorite take-out food?
There's this indie Jamaican place down the road. Mostly veg* stuff. I cook a lot, so take-out is a rarity here.

2. If you could change any ONE thing about your job, what would you change?
Nothing at all. Right now is a big, big, big time of transition, and stress is very high. I'd not have it any other way, as I think I can see the light.

Okay, nevermind...I want CEO dollars and a jet.

3. If someone were to drop $100,000 in your lap on the condition that you BLOW IT ON YOURSELF, what would you do with it?
I'd buy a Mazdaspeed3 ($23k) pay down my mortgage by $20k, spend $x on LeftyMom coming out here, then enjoy watching my mother buy a shitpile of stuff for herself.

4. What's your favorite bird?
The one I flip to assclowns with W'04 bumper stickers.

5. What is the first book you remember reading?
Either "Happiness is a Warm Puppy" (Peanuts) or "Where the Wild Things Are"

[grannylib]

11. *lol* LOVE your favorite bird!

[Rhythm]

24. i remember reading "Happiness is..."

My dad bought me a whole collection of Peanuts books when i was little.
My brother still has them all, since he 'inherited them from me when i turned 12 (and he was 5)

[u4ic]

13. Here's mine:

1. Though I rarely have take out, it would either be either Chinese or Vietnamese.

2. A substantial rise in pay

3. Since $100k wouldn't even buy me an outhouse in this city...I'll leave a house out of it.

Travel would be first on the list. Pay off student loan (thank you unsavedtrash!) A newer (but not 'new') hybrid. A horse and all that entails (tack, riding habit, etc), and a couple of parrots (a Cape parrot, a Meyers...perhaps a Moustached Parakeet, or Indian Ringneck). Furniture (I'd shop around the antiques stores), a better tv (nothing too fancy, I don't watch it enough), a DVD-R, laptop...a nice wardrobe, buy gifts for friends. A Celtic harp and lessons.

4. Hyacinth Macaw

5. The Monster at the End of this Book

[grannylib]

27. My youngest LOVED that book; we read that to her a lot!

[unsavedtrash]

14. yonk!

1. What's your favorite take-out food?
Jimmy Johns sandwiches

2. If you could change any ONE thing about your job, what would you change?
I would change it from a restaurant to a library.

3. If someone were to drop $100,000 in your lap on the condition that you BLOW IT ON YOURSELF, what would you do with it?
Pay off student loans, and go on a long vacation.

4. What's your favorite bird?
I do not like birds.

5. What is the first book you remember reading?
Bible stories

[Random_Australian]

16. Random_Australian!

1. What's your favorite take-out food? Take out? Take it out of what? More seriously, I have takeaway so rarely that I don't know. Back at home, we had takeaway about once a year. If I went well enough in school.

2. If you could change any ONE thing about your job, what would you change? I'm a student, so if I could add anything I would have 50 hour days and a girlfriend to occupy a good 25 of those hours.


3. If someone were to drop $100,000 in your lap on the condition that you BLOW IT ON YOURSELF, what would you do with it? Call me a freak, but fuck that. I don't even WANT a hundred thousand dollars. As far as I am concerned having lots of money would suck; so I would throw it away. It might 'accidentally' land in the hands of a charity that would attempt to give the world a little clean water to drink, but if that was no option I would get the dental I need and chuck the rest away.


4. What's your favorite bird? Kookaburra. Obvious choice; it kills snakes. And Aussie snakes are not nice. At all.

5. What is the first book you remember reading? Hmmmm. I don't remember reading any. I know that I read a lot, and I can remember their plots, but nothing is attached to them in the way of "when did I read this". But I can remember having Lord Of The Rings trilogy read to me when I was five. Well..... I can't remember that much either in all honesty.

[fizzgig]

17. why not

1. What's your favorite take-out food?
hmmmm....spicy chicken and crispy spinach with a couple of spring rolls and some hot and sour soup from a chinese place downtown

2. If you could change any ONE thing about your job, what would you change?
expectation and pay commiserate to my male counterparts (i guess that is two, but oh well)

3. If someone were to drop $100,000 in your lap on the condition that you BLOW IT ON YOURSELF, what would you do with it?
travel. lots of travel. a new laptop. some nice clothes

4. What's your favorite bird? juncos. they are the sweetest looking little birds. second to that is a tie between the red wing blackbird and cardinals.

5. What is the first book you remember reading? 'the forest hotel' (my parents read it to me so many times i had it memorized and my grandfather was convinced i could read at the age of two); 'but no elephants'; or 'there are rocks in my socks, said the ox to the fox'

[LaurenG]

18. : )

1. What's your favorite take-out food?
Chipoltle - beans, rice, avocado, lettuce and hot salsa.

2. If you could change any ONE thing about your job, what would you change?
I would work for myself.

3. If someone were to drop $100,000 in your lap on the condition that you BLOW IT ON YOURSELF, what would you do with it?
Buy a Prius or Camry Hybrid (I'm leaning toward the Prius @ 60 mpg)
Pay every debt I owe, landscape and redo my kitchen and save the rest if there was any left.

4.What's your favorite bird? That's hard but I think hummingbirds are incredible.

5. What is the first book you remember reading? My mother used to read us fairy tales at bed time from Hans Christian Anderson. I remember "The Little Match Girl" because I think it traumatized me. :(

[gbate]

19. Here ya go.

1. What's your favorite take-out food?
anything from the Whole Foods salad bar

2. If you could change any ONE thing about your job, what would you change?
My co-workers. I'd replace them with liberals.

3. If someone were to drop $100,000 in your lap on the condition that you BLOW IT ON YOURSELF, what would you do with it?
I'd buy a new car, then I'd pay off my bills. Perhaps a trip to Hawaii to visit my brother.

4. What's your favorite bird?
LOL @ "Big Bird." Uh, I guess a hummingbird.

5. What is the first book you remember reading?
One of the textbooks that my father brought home from his teaching job.

[TOhioLiberal]

20. Five random answers:

1. What's your favorite take-out food?
Pizza closely followed by Chinese.

2. If you could change any ONE thing about your job, what would you change?
If I had a job, it would be a job I love not just any old thing.

3. If someone were to drop $100,000 in your lap on the condition that you BLOW IT ON YOURSELF, what would you do with it?
A new car (got my eye on a Prius) Books, books and more books. Computer stuff.

4. What's your favorite bird?
Bald Eagle.

5. What is the first book you remember reading?
The first book I remember reading was Little Women at around 8 yrs old. My mother used to tell people I was reading Reader's Digest at 5.

[Burma Jones]

21. ....

1. What's your favorite take-out food?
(Sashimi from a Sushi place nearby)

2. If you could change any ONE thing about your job, what would you change?
(Maybe some more $$$, really, my employer is a really good guy and I get to work from home mostly

3. If someone were to drop $100,000 in your lap on the condition that you BLOW IT ON YOURSELF, what would you do with it?
(BMW M6 Convertable)

4. What's your favorite bird? (Coopers Hawk)

5. What is the first book you remember reading? (Dr. Seuss' Sleep Book)

[Chan790]

22. Chan hates Geese.

1. What's your favorite take-out food?

This Italian place in the center of town. Cheap as heck and the portions are huge. I usually dine in though as my house is under construction and is the last place I ever would want to eat.

2. If you could change any ONE thing about your job, what would you change?

I'd pay standard pay-rate for a barista. (I make $8.42/hr., a decent barista should make $12-$15/hr. as the tips suck.)

3. If someone were to drop $100,000 in your lap on the condition that you BLOW IT ON YOURSELF, what would you do with it?

Assn. of Fundraising Professionals and CT. Assn. of Non-profits trainings.

4. What's your favorite bird?

I don't have one? Geese, however, are vicious and mean and territorial and a properly pissed-off (not hard to do) goose is fully capable of beating you to death. The Romans kept them as guard animals. I'm surprised we don't hear of more geese-inflicted maimings and killings.

5. What is the first book you remember reading?

Brighty of the Grand Canyon.

[grannylib]

28. A goose broke the leg of one of the hired hands on my mom's family

farm back when she was a little girl. They are VERY territorial, and this one gander really took a disliking to this guy for some reason (Mom said they never did figure out why; the guy was gentle as a lamb but worked like a horse; my Grandpa thought the world of him) but this gander did NOT and swung its wing and snapped the guy's shin clean in two.

[noamnety]

31. I love geese!

For a summer in college I worked in a remote location where I didn't see a lot of people during the day. Each morning, the dining hall would give me a garbage bag full of leftover toast, english muffins, french toast, etc. for the geese. The first time I fed them, I was afraid of them, they mobbed me and I locked myself into a fenced area for protection til they left.

By the end of the summer, we were buddies, and I could lie on my back with a piece of toast in my teeth, and they'd come up and grab it gently. But then I had the problem that they would follow me around campus sometimes. :)

[Rhythm]

23. Here's my addition...

1. What's your favorite take-out food?
pizza... i could eat it every day

2. If you could change any ONE thing about your job, what would you change?
i'd have one right now... due to change that in a day or two, though. Promising interviews on the close horizon.

3. If someone were to drop $100,000 in your lap on the condition that you BLOW IT ON YOURSELF, what would you do with it?
Fix up/remodel the house... pay up the bills for a few years
Yeah, there are other wonderful people who would benefit from this, but the peace of mind would be all mine!

4. What's your favorite bird?
Cardinals... they've been plentiful most everywhere i've lived, and their color is just so cherry in the drab days of winter

5. What is the first book you remember reading?
"King of the Wind" by Marguerite Henry

[BarenakedLady]

25. My Friday morning answers...

1. What's your favorite take-out food?

Indian (gucchi saag, paneer makhani, shahi korma, malai kofta)

2. If you could change any ONE thing about your job, what would you change?

Being paid at all (monetarily) would be nice. hehe. SAHM

3. If someone were to drop $100,000 in your lap on the condition that you BLOW IT ON YOURSELF, what would you do with it?

Hmmmm on myself eh? I'd buy myself a little house with land in the boonies so it's not too expensive. Go to a cheap college and finally get a degree so I can get a real job.

4. What's your favorite bird?

I like them all really, being a bird nerd at all. How about I tell you what birds are at my feeder this morning. dark-eyed junco, tufted titmouse, cardinal (pair), blue jays, downy woodpeck (pair), a red-bellied woodpecker, and a pair of mourning doves.

5. What is the first book you remember reading?

Flicka, Ricka, and Dicka or Snip, Snap, and Snur

[tonkatoy57]

26. Here Goes

1. What's your favorite take-out food?
Indian food from the House of India at 170 & Delmar in University City, MO


2. If you could change any ONE thing about your job, what would you change?
I'd like to be able to work from home all of the time instead of just once or twice every week or two.

3. If someone were to drop $100,000 in your lap on the condition that you BLOW IT ON YOURSELF, what would you do with it?
Replacement windows for my house. Refinish the hardwood floors downstairs. A new set of clarinets with all sorts of custom work done on them. A trip to Europe for my family.

4. What's your favorite bird?
Piliated woodpecker

5. What is the first book you remember reading?
A Childcraft encylopedia article on J.S. Bach

[ZombieNixon]

29. Hmm...

1. What's your favorite take-out food?
Chipotle. Chicken burrito, pinto beans, medium salsa, corn, sour cream, cheese, lettuce, bottle of Nantucket Nectars. $7.87. :P

2. If you could change any ONE thing about your job, what would you change?
Move the vent from directly above my workspace to somewhere else.

3. If someone were to drop $100,000 in your lap on the condition that you BLOW IT ON YOURSELF, what would you do with it?
New 15" MacBook Pro, fix the screen on my iBook, register some good webspace, a good guitar, and the spend the rest on living costs in a decent apartment.

4. What's your favorite bird?
The Roadrunner

5. What is the first book you remember reading?
Ernie and Bert Can, Can You? :P

[alittlelark]

30. OK

1- Roli-Roti rotisserie chicken and potatoes
2- A larger sound booth with better lighting
3- A GREAT greenhouse
4- Roadrunner
5- The kittens ABC's