Ethelred Unraed's Journal: Oh boy! At last! A meme!

Blame Short Circuit.

1. What is your occupation?
Future Über-Imperator. But until then, self-employed web, print and icon designer.

2. What color are your socks right now?
Grey.

3. What are you listening to right now?
The slight hum of my computer and the occasional car going by outside.

4. What was the last thing that you ate?
A large slab of dead cow, grilled, with stuffed potato pockets.

5. Can you drive a stick shift?
Our car is a stick shift (automatics aren't as widespread in Europe anyway), and yes, I do fine. Oddly I'm so used to it that I had trouble with the last automatic I drove (a rental Ford Focus in the States two years ago).

6. If you were a crayon, what color would you be?
Imperial purple. (You saw this coming, didn't you?)

7. Last person you spoke to on the phone?
A client.

8. Do you like the person who sent this to you?
I have a special place reserved for him in my dungeons.

9. How old are you today?
35.

10. Favorite drinks?
Coke, Earl Grey tea, PG Tips tea, water.

11. What is your favorite sport to watch?
Football of the American variety.

12. Have you ever dyed your hair?
Yes. Went horribly awry, too. Ended up with intense red hair (using that Sun-In stuff).

13. Pets?
All of humanity.
Oh, uh, Cleo-Kitty.

14. Favorite food?
It varies, but I'd say tandoori chicken with plain basmati rice. Or just steak.

15. What was the last movie you watched?
The Sci-Fi Channel's pilot of Battlestar Galactica. The last one I saw in the cinema was (gasp) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Been a while...

16. Favorite holiday?
Christmas. (Yippee! Coming soon!)

17. What do you do to vent anger?
Rhetorically beat up on poor unsuspecting people on Slashdot. (Hi Smooch! ;-) )
Pull wings off flies, assault grannies, drink tea, that sort of thing.

18. What were your favorite toys as a kid?
Lego. (Or Legos. What-the-fsck-ever.)

19. What is your favorite: fall or spring?
Spring.

20. Hugs or kisses?
Kisses with loads of tongue. ("She has a tongue like an electric eel and has a taste for a man's tonsils!")

21. Cherry or blueberry?
Neither. Don't like berries much.

22. Do you want your friends to send this back?
They have no choice. It is my will.

23. Who is the most likely to respond?
Teh Smooch.

24. Who is least likely to respond?
Queen Victoria.

25. Living arrangements?
Four-room 105 sq.m. rented flat close to downtown of a medium-sized German city, shared with wife, two kids and a cat.

26. When was the last time you cried?
Hah! I never cry!
Er, not often anyway.
Well, actually only sometimes.
What was the question?

27. What is on the floor of your closet?
Stacks of jeans and old sweaters.

28. Who is the friend you have had the longest that you're sending this to?
Hah! I have no friends. I have subjects.

29. What did you do last night?
Worked on a project, read a book (The Two Georges, if anyone's curious), plotted the overthrow of all governments, went to bed.

I don't sully my journal with such drivel.

[Some Woman]

1. What is your occupation?
Mad Scientist of the chemical persuasion.
2. What color are your socks right now?
Black
3. What are you listening to right now?
Oddly enough, not somebody yelling at the phone in Russian.
4. What was the last thing that you ate?
A raspberry French Twist. [amazon.com]
5. Can you drive a stick shift?
Only very slowly in reverse.
6. If you were a crayon, what color would you be?
White.
7. Last person you spoke to on the phone?
Some Guy.
8. Do you like the person who sent this to you?
I only pretend to wh

Re:

[nizo]

Baked gingerbread people

How do you keep their screams from waking the kids?

Re:

[Some Woman]

I gave the kids a 10-minute headstart in the oven.

Re:

[Short Circuit]

The gingerbread people are too busy pointing at patterned wallpaper and gigling how one bird's looking at another bird sexually.

i.e. they're baked.

Re:

[TechnoLust]

Let me teach you a useful Russian phrase... I have to spell it semi phonetically because I'm assuming you can't read the Cyrillic alphabet. Ok, Zot (Like knot with a Z) Kneese (like niece preceded by a K (almost a Kah) sound. Zot-kneese means "Shut up" you can suffix it with "Durok" (fool) or "suka" (bitch) for more effective quieting of the mouthy Russian.

Correction

[eno2001]

Not a meme. A poll. Oh... and I claim the multiverse as the domain of eno2001, Mrs. eno2001 and future head of all existence: UberGirl (my daughter in case you weren't paying attention). There's a gonna be a feud!

I'll play

[Mantorp]

1. What is your occupation? Product Specialist, vague isn't it?.

2. What color are your socks right now? why would I wear socks when I work from home?

3. What are you listening to right now? Cyndi Lauper and Sarah McLachlan singing time after time, and Doctor Phil coming from the living room.

4. What was the last thing that you ate? Stonyfield Farms yogurt with pieces of pear and honey bunches of oats.

5. Can you drive a stick shift? I'm European.

6. If you were a crayon, what color would you be? Is th

Re:

[Ethelred Unraed]

Do you like the person who sent this to you? Yes, in spite of his funny views on Quantum physics.

You mean the part where I can bend them to my will by channeling Yorg the Warrior from 10,000 BC?

Cheers,

Ethelred

lost in t ranslation...

[tuxette]

Football of the American variety

You mean armored wankball? ;-)

Re:

[Ethelred Unraed]

You mean armored wankball? ;-)

No no no, I meant wanking armorballs.

Cheers,

Ethelred

Tongue

[ryanr]

She has a tongue like an electric eel and has a taste for a man's tonsils!

Woof!

Weird, I always felt more comfy in a dress.

Such insolence demands a response!

[Keith Russell]

1. What is your occupation? Code monkey by day, counter-revolutionary by night.

2. What color are your socks right now? White.

3. What are you listening to right now? Shiny Toy Guns.

4. What was the last thing that you ate? A bag of microwave popcorn.

5. Can you drive a stick shift? In a pinch. I've driven slushboxes most of my life, but I'm not beyond help.

6. If you were a crayon, what color would you be? Probably not one of the Crayola 64.

7. Last person you spoke to on the phone? Volkswagen

Insolence? I'll show you insolence!

[Ethelred Unraed]

Monica Bellucci called. She's sending back the flowers and chocolates.

Helen Thomas sounded like she wants to talk to you, though.

Cheers,

Ethelred

Cherries

[IamBMETammy]

Are cherries berries? I thought they were stone fruit like peaches and that berries had lots of little seeds...

Re:

[Ethelred Unraed]

Bah! All berries to me!

*ptui*

Guards! Take this heretic away!

Cheers,

Ethelred

And *whose* domain is it?

[perfessor multigeek]

I dunno, but sometimes it seems that at least a third of the people I know not so secretly claim that Pinky And The Brain is an homage to them.

I feel like we need a serious reality check. Sometime soon we need to create an Overlord's Standards Council with inspectors who will go around to check to see that a supposed evil overlord has at least the following:
- One minion capable of speech and possessing working thumbs
- A specific plan. Saying "just watch Dr. No" or "think of me as Pitr" don't do it.
- One

Re:

[Ethelred Unraed]

I have here in my possession most of your stuffed animals from your childhood.

*zap*

Fluffy just got vaporized.

If you don't swear fealty and do homage to me, I will vaporize the rest perforce.

Cheers,

Ethelred

How evil ARE you?

[perfessor multigeek]

Ah. So you have captured my agents, have you?

I swear REVENGE!

(as soon as I finish my lunch. And catch up with my press schedule. And get my new place in order...)

Btw, I was clearing out my watched threds on another site and came across the questions "What did you want to be as an adult when you were a kid?"

My response was: When I was a little kid, I wanted to be, well, basically a Bond villain. Yup, I planned on being an evil genius. This, of course, came after Mannix, Batman, and being a cowboy.