UPDATED!
Copeland tagged me. I still don't entirely understand all this. Everything I know about memes I learned from the Doctor Who episode, "The End of the World", which featured The Adherents of the Repeated Meme. These are the rules I apparently must obey:
1. We have to post these rules before we give you the facts.
2. Players start with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
3. People who are tagged write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.
4. At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names. Don't forget to leave them a comment telling them they're tagged, and to read your blog.
UPDATE!
From Wikipedia: Biologist and evolutionary theorist Richard Dawkins coined the term meme in 1976. He gave as examples tunes, catch-phrases, beliefs, clothing fashions, ways of making pots, and the technology of building arches.
I bring this up only because Dawkins is married to former Doctor Who companion Lalla Ward (who was also once married to Tom Baker for about 10 minutes).
So now that that's out of the way, here are my eight random facts/habits:
1. I have actual interests outside of Doctor Who and James Bond.
2. I rarely answer the telephone, but check any and all messages left and will return most calls within 24 hours (unless I just don't feel like it).
3. I loathe the sun and the heat that emanates from it. (Moonlight, on the other hand, is refreshing.)
4. The Simpsons aren't all that funny to me.
5. Indian cuisine is the best way to go.
6. I enjoy eating mayonnaise straight out of the jar. Miracle Whip, however, is nasty.
7. Other people's opinions matter a lot more to me than I let on.
8. I spend far more time in various states of mild depression than you can possibly imagine.
The eight bloggers I'm tagging have been chosen mostly because they either haven't been tagged yet or will have no interest in playing along:
1. Joan
2. The Sheik
3. Keith Uhlich
4. Matt Seitz
5. Figurebuilder
6. Dan
7. Koda
8. Peel
First and Last
1 hour ago
8 comments:
It's spooky how well we match up.
Complaining about the sun doesn't go over too well up here, though.
People say to me "Mike, we only get two months of really nice weather a year; don't be such a wuss!"
To which I invariably reply: "That's two months too many!"
Then I go check my non-existent phone messages and slip further into my atypical seasonal depression.
This summer is shaping up to be total crap. My new car (first one I've ever owned that had working AC) was stolen right out of my lot last Wednesday. I'd only been driving it for three weeks. Rats.
Someone pass the mayo...
Instant visual: Ross walking out of a supermarket with a wheelbarrow full of mayonnaise, "This should provide adequate sustenance for the Dr. Who Marathon."
Sorry.
Crikey, Ross, I'm not sure when I'll get a chance to do this. But I will. I'm also fairly convinced I don't know 8 other people to tag (I'm rather insular, and quite lame that way), but I'll do my best.
I'm laughing about the sunlight comment. I'd be suicidal if I lived anywhere much less sunny than Phoenix. (I was in fact quite depressed when I lived year-round in New England, so I'm not just making that up.) Totally agree about Miracle Whip, but I can't sign onto the straight mayo consumption, sorry.
Adam's visual is cracking me up, though. The Runaway Bride is on tap for later this evening, after the rugrats after safe abed. They're only part-way through Series 2 so they'll wait and watch S3 on the TiVO when they've caught up.
Spazmo -
Dude that sucks about your car! And you've also totally destroyed the utopian image I've always had of Canada. I thought Michael Moore proved that there was no crime up your way.
Adam -
I cannot believe you blended three of my memes together to come up with that. Most tragic is that by own admission, I shouldn't even find it funny (yet I did).
Joan -
Whatever you do - just don't "retag" me, K?
Tonight is a WHO double feature, don't forget. "Smith and Jones" (3.1) plays right after "Bride".
I know you'd talked about showing your kids WHO, but I didn't know you'd actually gone and done the deed. Yay! How's that going over?
1. I have actual interests outside of Doctor Who and James Bond.
Do not.
2. I rarely answer the telephone, but check any and all messages left and will return most calls within 24 hours (unless I just don't feel like it).
Reverse telephone angst. Most psycho bank robbers have this same affliction.
3. I loathe the sun and the heat that emanates from it.
You're a Druid?
(Moonlight, on the other hand, is refreshing.)
And a psycho Druid to boot.
Who knew?
4. The Simpsons aren't all that funny to me.
The Simpsons stopped being funny somewhere around the end of Season One.
5. Indian cuisine is the best way to go.
Ah - well that explains a lot - it's pretty well known that psycho bank robber Druid Kali death cultists like Indian food.
KALI!!!
6. I enjoy eating mayonnaise straight out of the jar.
Further proof of your psycho bank robber Druid Kali Death Cultism as if there were further proof needed.
Miracle Whip, however, is nasty.
See above.
7. Other people's opinions matter a lot more to me than I let on.
You are not unique in that respect.
8. I spend far more time in various states of mild depression than you can possibly imagine.
Everybody does - some just don't recognise it as such or give it a name.
will have no interest in playing along
Got it in one.
However, in the spirit of things, here are eight random thoughts about myself.
1 - I was born exactly 232 years later than I should have been born.
2 - I have an inordinate interest is all things Pirate. I blame a direct ancestor who actually was a Pirate of no small note.
3 - I am a Shadow Player by which I mean that I like being the power behind the throne. No small amount of authority rests with those who distain titles and recognition only to obtain their fortunes by being valuable to others.
4 - I truly believe that there is no difference between verbal and physical violence. Conflict is the nature of humanity and no amount of political correctness will eliminate that from the human race.
5 - I have way to many boats. I even have boats in other states than which I reside.
6 - All my boats, with one exception, are named after the physical properties of radio waves. For example, Short Wave, Long Wave, Half Wave.
7 - The sole exception to #6 is The Lady Liz named after my wife.
8 - I hae been told that I have huge blindspots, but have amazing perception.
I have no idea what that means. :>)
Ross, of course I will play along, in honor of Patrick Dennis AND the great tradition of Steed's numerous Aunties, as well as this classic episode http://dissolute.com.au/avweb/emmabw/417.html
I just need to clear away some stuff that piled up during my vacation first.
Fucking Mayonnaise straight from the jar?
I once dumped a bag of M&Ms into a tub of Cool Whip and ate the whole thing.
Fucking Mayonnaise straight from the jar?
I hate you for making me do this! (I actually had fun, don't tell) I miss you guys so much... OMG! I have stories!! Bet you do too! Just please look at some fake and tan tits for me.... PLEASE?!
ps - your blog is spaztastic on this computer (thats why for the anonymous... i mean, i am sneaky?)
xxxo
-koda
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