77 posts tagged “qotd”

Days after his inauguration, President Barack Obama signed into effect plans to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility within the next year. What do you think should be done with its remaining detainees?
Sponsored by “Inside Guantanamo” on National Geographic Channel. Premieres Sunday at 9P et/pt.

Send them to the Hague to help the lawyers drawing up war crimes charges against GWB and Cheney, duh. Congratulations Republicans, you've once again managed to turn terrorists into victims. 

List three things you'd buy with your last $20. One practical, one frivolous and one of your choosing.

Wait, do I get to spend $20 three times, or do I have to split the money? I'm assuming $20 for each one.

Practical: Gawd, if it's my last $20 ever, the cheapest vodka I could find. Because if my earning power has gone to 0 forever, the world is about to end one way or another. Or at least I am.

Frivolous: I can't think of anything more frivolous than going to a store and buying a CD. Wait, scratch that. Paying money for a web browser. No... that's not really, truly frivolous either. Hm. Probably a Hannah Montana ticket. I'm still assuming the world/me is going to end and that I need my mind to drift away in numbness.

Of my choosing: Nothing. $20 buys me nothing I want enough to merit mentioning on a blog. I'd save it for tomorrow, when my "last" $20 would probably no longer have that distinction.

What are you most grateful for in your life right now?
Submitted by Becca-Pink.

Jody

What was your reaction to the results of the Iowa caucuses?  

Mike Huckabee makes me very very sad about America. I guess our reaction to religious zealotry around the world is to have some of our own.

What's your alma mater?
Submitted by Lies.

Duke

Ringtones: What's yours and how often do you change it? 
Submitted by enrico.  

LOL. I've been sort of addicted to creating ringtones on my iPhone. So far:

Avril Lavigne- Girlfriend
CSS- Music is my hot, hot sex
Muse- Plug in baby
Avril Lavigne- Girlfriend (Japanese Edition)

What did you do as a child that you feel guilty about even to this day? 

Oh, lord. Where to start?

7th Grade: We switch to daylight whatever time. This shortens the light in the evening but makes no difference to me in the morning as I wait for the bus (it's still dark). I ask my father what the point was and he actually tells me it is for the little elementary school kids so they can have light to go to school (what the heck???). I am apparently so bent out of shape about this that some time in the next few days I spot some elementary kids walking home from the bus stop and just start yelling at them for ruining my day. They start crying and run home.

2nd Grade: Walking back from lunch one day, this kid from the "bad" neighborhood named [redacted] threw a peanut butter and jelly bar at me (don't ask, it was some lunchroom hell concoction). It flew into my locker. I didn't know this at the time. Over the weekend my locker became infested with ants and I got in trouble. The next Friday, I snuck in a bottle of Mrs. Butterworths and used the nozzle to completely drench the inside of his locker.  The resulting ant zerg was so bad they closed down not only that locker bank but the classroom on the other side. No idea what happened to the guy, but I'm sure he got in serious trouble...

1st Grade: I had a racist teacher who would give me extra work which I couldn't finish, and then made me miss recess to work on it. I think I went to recess about all of two dozen times in all of first grade. Of course, my parents just thought I was lazy and did nothing about it. Well, they would just leave me without supervision in that room for whatever reason (probably because it was the 80s and you didn't have to patrol kids mercilessly yet). I would go into the teacher's bag and tear out a random page of her grading notes and tear it up and trash it. When she stopped carrying her gradebook as a result I started in with her checkbook. Finally one day I hid her purse under her desk (where a normal person would find it, but she being an idiot would not). She came back to the room and said "where's my purse?" and I said a scary man with a mask came in and took it. She freaked out and ran out of the room towards the principal's office at which time I put her purse back on top of the desk. The principal comes tearing in and asks me what happened, where did the man go, etc. I say "uh... what???" He repeats his question and I again say I have no idea what he is talking about. He then sees the purse on the desk and turns to my teacher and says "You have a LOT of explaining to do..." and then said something about her being on her "meds" (which I didn't understand at the time hahahaha).

Kindergarten: I could read, write, and do long division at this point (seriously). There was a kid in my class who would always brag about how smart he was, but all he could do was read. We used to do this activity where we would learn to write our first names and they would lay out the letters for us to copy. I would always switch this kid's letters when he wasn't looking to words like POOP and BAD. When it came time to get our work checked I would switch them back. He got yelled at sooooo much. This one time he got in trouble and had to wash the chalkboard. As he was walking out of the room I was in a connecting room and threw two dirty erasers at his clean board. Seconds later he returned with teacher in tow, who yelled at him for doing a crappy job and blaming someone else for the eraser chalk on the board. Sucker.

Preschool: One of the student teachers was showing us a beehive when without a word he jumped up and ran out. I asked him later why he did this and he told me it was because he saw one of the eggs hatching (he really could have said something to the class, either at that point or when he got back, but he did neither). I told the class it was because he decided that the beehive was too cool for us lame kids. He got a lot of dirty stares after that one.

Over a million iPhones have been sold.  Have you: bought one, considered it, or decided it's not for you?

Those of you that read my blog regularly know about me and the iPhone.

I want one badly.

Jody hates the iPhone for two reasons:
1) She hates Apple's business practices
2) She hates AT&T

If all goes to plan I will have one in a few weeks and my T-Moble Blackberry will be downgraded to brick status.

What's your favorite appetizer to order at a restaurant?

Oysters.

Raw Belon oysters.

Radiohead release their seventh studio album today and it's only available online and you set your own price.  Will you buy the album?  Do you buy the idea?

Got my download code last night. And it's as good as everyone thought it would be (take that any way you please, lol).

Rainbows