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QotD: Lenten Sacrifices

Feb 25, 2009
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Today is the first day of the Season of Lent. Are you giving anything up for the next 40 days?

Yup. Catholicism.

Ba-dum-dum!

QotD: Winter Activities

Jan 12, 2009
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What's your favorite winter activity?
I'd have to go with "living in Florida."

QotD: 5 Shopping Days Left

Dec 20, 2008
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There are only five shopping days left before Christmas... Who do you still need to buy presents for this year?

Okay, just to make a nitpicky point here...exactly what the hell is a "shopping day?" Aren't we, sociatally, at a point where there is no such thing as a non-shopping day? Stores are pretty much open every day, if you don't care too much where you shop. I've literally gone Christmas shopping ON CHRISTMAS MORNING at CVS, so don't tell me it can't be done, 'cause it totally can.

They're just "days," now, okay? We don't need to say "shopping day" in the same way we don't need to say "ink pen." It's a pen. Almost by definition we know it uses ink. It's a day. Hell, it's an evening, I don't care. We know we can shop on it.

There are only five days left before Christmas... Who do you still need to buy presents for this year?

I'm done! :) Did the majority and last of it at Barnes & Noble last night (ironically, I purchased not one single book). Now there is but wrapping and giving to do.

QotD: Thanksgiving Traditions

Nov 25, 2008
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What are your favorite Thanksgiving traditions? Anything you're not so fond of?

I like going to BEST BUY for the Black Friday sales. On Thanksgiving itself, though, I like to watch football on the tv I got at BEST BUY, while the turkey cooks to perfection in my BEST BUY roasting pan, and occasionally dance around to the music on my BEST BUY mp3 player.

Oh, wait. This one's not sponsored by BEST BUY. Which means I just name-dropped BEST BUY six times for nothing. I should get a check for that or something.

QotD: Life-Changing Event

Nov 13, 2008
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What single event changed your view of the world for the better or for the worse?
Submitted by iASHLEY.
I don't quite understand the question. EVERY event that passes through my awareness changes the way I view the world.

QotD: Failure is Not an Option

Nov 11, 2008
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What would you attempt to do if you knew you wouldn't fail?
Submitted by Beautifully Broken

Mmph. There's already nothing I wouldn't try, based on the possibility that I *might* fail, so this isn't a question I have a good answer for.

QotW: Blast Off

Oct 14, 2008
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If they made it financially feasible to travel into space, would you do it?
Hell yes. Who would say no to that?

QotW: All in a Day's Work

Oct 7, 2008
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Tina Fey and the SNL writing team have been having a field day with Sarah Palin. Rumor has it that Palin may make a guest appearance on the show, do you think that is a good idea?

Well, in answer to that, allow me to post the relevant portion of Sarah Palin's interview with Charlie Gibson, where they talk candidly about that very topic.

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GIBSON: Gevernor, let me start by asking you a question that I asked Lorne Michaels about you, and it really is the central question. Can you look the country in the eye and say "I have the experience and I have the ability to be not just a cameo, but perhaps host of Saturday Night Live?"

PALIN: I do, Charlie, and on January 17th, when John McCain and I are introduced by Don Pardo, if we are so priveleged to be chosen for this honor, will be ready. I am ready.

GIBSON: And you didn't say to yourself, "Am I experienced enough? Am I ready? Do I know enough about ensemble comedy? Do I --will I feel comfortable enough on a national stage to do this?"

PALIN: I didn't hesitate, no.

GIBSON: Didn't that take some hubris?

PALIN: I -- I answered yes because I have the confidence in that readiness and knowing that you can't blink, you have to be wired in a way of being so committed to the bit, the bit that I'll be doing, impersonating Tina Fey and skewering the Liberal Media, you can't blink. So I didn't blink. Because the lights are bright, Charlie. The lights are bright.

GIBSON: But this is not just telling a punchline. This is also doing a full impression of an extremely talented comedienne with a huge following and a hit tv show. When I asked John McCain about your sketch comedy credentials, he cited the fact that you have rented Zoolander and that Alaska is close to Canada, where the Kids in the Hall are from. Are those sufficient credentials?

PALIN: But it's about Liberal Media and it's about putting the Liberal Media back on the side of the people, and that has much to do with...Let me speak specifically about a credential that I do bring to the table, Charlie, and that's with the home-grown comedy influence that I've been working on for these years as the governor of this state that produces fifteen percent of the world's Alaska jokes, that I worked on as chairman of the "Alaska But I Doubt It" Foundation, overseeing the development of new sources of comedy, such as drowning polar bears.

GIBSON: Did you ever participate in improvisational comedy prior to your trip to Las Vegas last year?

PALIN: That was the trip of a lifetime to sleep in and see Blue Man Group. It was so heart-warming. Seriously. It was the first time my heart actually got warm since I was 19.

GIBSON: Have you ever met a stand-up comic?

PALIN: There in the state of Alaska, our lonely men bring in many interested parties, many of whom are quite funny, Charlie.

GIBSON: And all governors deal with booze cruises.

PALIN: Right.

GIBSON: I'm talking about meeting somebody who is an actual working stand-up comedian, who is not a prop comic. Ever met one?

PALIN: I have not and I think if you go back in history and if you ask that question of many vice presidents, they may have the same answer that I just gave you, except obviously for Herbert Humphrey. But, Charlie, again, we're got to remember what the desire is in this nation at this time. It is for no more comedy as usual and Darrell Hammond's big, fat resume maybe that shows decades and decades in that New York institution, where, yes, they've had the opportunity to perfect a variety of southern accents... these last couple of weeks... it has been overwhelming to me that confirmation of the message that Americans are getting sick and tired of that gentle southern accent that has been the Washington Standard. John McCain's and my vocal mannerisms are mavericks, Charlie.

Technology QotW:

Sep 15, 2008
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It's possible that airlines may soon allow cell phone use during flight. Are you for or against in-flight cell phone use?
Veryveryveryveryvery much against. Like, can't even tell you how against. Look, flying is a bad enough experience without having to listen to 139 people yelling into their phones.