New Game: Interview the Next Person

[Aquarius]

I'm still in the middle of Kobayashi Maru, but the last book I finished was Blood Price by Tanya Huff, which the TV series Blood Ties was based on.


What movie is still soooooooooo funny, no matter how many times you watch it?

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

What movie is still soooooooooo funny, no matter how many times you watch it?

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Q: Imagine the worst movie ever, would you still suffer through it if you were on an otherwise promising date, and your companion absolutely loved it?

[Alelou]

Do you mean promising as in expecting some nookie, because how could you marry someone who absolutely loved a movie you hated? But judging from the number of horrible chick flicks out there maybe this is what guys do.

If it's in the theater, I'd probably suffer through it just out of politeness. If it's on TV, I'd probably try to come up with an excuse why I had to leave.

My husband and I have an agreement: I don't have to watch horror movies or telenovelas with him. And he doesn't have to watch pretentious slow-moving flicks with me. (Well, sometimes he tries but he just falls asleep anyway.) Fortunately, our tastes overlap on plenty of other movies.

Q: Best second-hand item you ever bought or received?

[Pitseleh]

My drawing table! I got a huge, solid wood drawing table for $10. The boss of a friend of mine was remodeling his house, and he just needed to get rid of it. It had sketches on it and everything....

Best CD/record you ever bought? (Those rare ones than you can listen from beginning to end without fast-forwarding through any songs...)

[justTripn]

Will Smith's "Big Willie Style." A really fun CD. Of course that was a LONG time ago, back when we actually played CDs. I think we had to rebuy that record several times as versions would get scratched or lost.

Ut-oh, a question . . . How much money would you need to be bribed never to watch TV again? No DVDs either. You can still go to the movie theater. (I remember many years ago, TV guide took a survey of how many people would give up TV forever for $50,000. NOT MANY. A large number wouldn't trade TV away for a million dollars.

OH SHOOT. No fair watching TV on the computer either. Or on your phone . . . Oh dear, the boundaries are so blurred nowadays.

[Alelou]

I'm sure most of us would do it for a lot less than $50,000 if we needed that money for something important, like food. I know I would.

But I'm very glad I don't face that choice.

Q (Maybe a repeat) If you had to give up sight or hearing, which would you choose?

[Pitseleh]

I ain't givin' up anythin', ya hear me? You leave mah ears and eyes alone!
For the sake of the game, I'd keep my hearing. But the two scenarios are just plain horrible...

Q: Do you like your job? Why?

[Bookworm]

Q: Do you like your job? Why?

Yes I love my job. Today for examble it's seven in the evening and I'm still at work and at noon my co-worker came to say "it's lunch time let's go" and I was like "what! is it noon already" and then at five in the afternoon my co-worker said "bye" from the door and I was like "Oh you are leaving, what time is it. Oh it's five already." The time just fly, because I have such an interesting job and it's very challenging and varied.

Q:What do you fear the most?

[Asso]

To be misinterpreted. Words are subtle, and the thoughts even more.

Q: A regret.

[Aquarius]

Not finishing my degree. As a teacher I could have my summers for writing!!



Are you allergic to anything? What?

[Pitseleh]

Chocolate. It is absolutely cruel. If I eat a bit, I get a headache. If I eat a lot, I get a rash...

Any superstitions?

[justTripn]

Only about sports. Magic number 11, for my son Jeremy's shirts on all his various teams, then it was 9, worn first by him and then his brother.

A question . . . how difficult would it be for you to move away from your hometown on a scale of 1 to 10, (1 being not difficult at all, I want to see the world and 10 being impossible, my hometown is the best place on Earth)

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

A question . . . how difficult would it be for you to move away from your hometown on a scale of 1 to 10, (1 being not difficult at all, I want to see the world and 10 being impossible, my hometown is the best place on Earth)

1, since I have long since moved away from my hometown (i.e. the town I grew up in) and that wasn't hard since our family wasn't really a part of it. It was this small place where you weren't considered as truly belonging unless your family had been there for two or three generations (that might have changed now, I wouldn't know). And we moved there when I was 3 years old.

The city I now live in is more just like the place I work in, what with being a bachelor with no family of my own and all. I could move out of here easily too.

Q: If you won (or inherited or whatever) so much money that you really didn't have to work for the rest of your life, would you stop working?

[Asso]

I don't think so, but - hey! - how much contentments I would take with many... many... persons!

Q: And if you do not would stop working, would you go on with the same work?

[Alelou]

I'd stop writing advertising and just write fiction.

Q. Going still with the sudden wealth idea, what's the first thing it you might want to spend it on for someone else?