Loved for Himself
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todayiamadaisyThis was one of those 100-question memes, from which I have selected ten questions. The others weren't even this interesting.
1. When's the last time you ate a homegrown tomato?
Never. I am allergic, apparently. A doctor told me that once. He also said the same thing about chocolate, but he was wrong, entirely wrong. He was probably wrong about the tomatoes too, but I didn't really like them anyway, so being told not to eat them didn't make a huge difference to my life. However, if I did eat tomatoes, homegrown ones would be the only ones I ate, because my mother is a keen tomato grower. For the last few years she has been growing Legend and San Marzano with great success. Swimming through mounds of them, that type of success.
2. Have you ever won a trophy?
No. I was a spectacularly unsporty child. I did win a commemorative spoon for participation in the Purnim Girls' Tennis Team, though. I treasure it. (I don't actually know where it is.)
3. Do you know how to pump your own gas?
I would phrase it as filling up with petrol rather than pumping gas, but yes, I do. It's really not that hard, and the fact that it often crops up in these memes makes me think I am missing some sort of US-centric nuances (or, possibly, the question was written by someone who does not, for whatever reason, pump his or her own gas). Anyway, I am not particularly vehicularly-minded, but filling up is the one of the easier tasks of car maintenance. I am also good at checking the oil and re-filling the water for the wipers.
4. What’s your favourite musical?
On film, probably The Sound of Music, with My Fair Lady a close second. That I have actually seen on stage... hmm. The City by the Sea has an amateur youth theatre group called Holiday Actors (guess when they do their acting!) I was never actually a member, but I was seconded to orchestra duty (first clarinet) a few times about twenty years ago. They had been doing the standards, but the years I was involved, someone was picking less well-known musicals. The two that I remember best are How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and On the Twentieth Century. How to Succeed is terrific, and I was really pleased that the revival with Daniel Radcliffe was successful. Imagine me tootling along to this (I can also sing along with it):
Twentieth Century was also very enjoyable, but I don't remember as many of the songs from it, so it can't have made so much of an impression. Apparently it also made a Broadway comeback recently, starring Kristin Chenoweth. Whoever was selecting those holiday musicals twenty years ago was on a roll.
5. How many pairs of socks do you own? What do your favourite socks look like?
A lot. I used to favour ankle-length stocking socks, but in the last few years I have changed to all-day socks, which don't have elasticated cuffs or toe seams. So comfortable! They are available in packs of three, each with three different colours, from Target, so I bought one of each of the packs. The ones I like best are the black and purple collection: black with purple flowers, black with purple stripes, black with purple spots.
6. Have you ever had to wear a uniform to school?
Both of my schools had uniforms. At St Marcellus' Primary School, we wore blue and white checked dresses in summer; grey tunics with blue shirts and navy ties in winter; with grey jumpers, black shoes and grey socks/stockings all year round. At St Ann's Secondary School we wore green checked dresses (with Peter Pan collars) in summer; green and yellow skirts, white shirts and green ties with yellow stripes in winter; green jumpers or cardigans, green blazers, brown shoes, brown socks/stockings all year round. So classy. (In my mother's day, it was the same uniform plus a brown bowler hat.)
7. Do you touch-type?
I certainly do. We did six months' of typing in Year 8, which I now believe to be the most useful thing I learnt at school after literacy and numeracy.
8. What's under your bed?
My bed's base has two big drawers in it. One of them has spare manchester in it, the other has assorted odds and ends. I really should clean that out.
9. Do you really know all the words to your national anthem?
Yes. Two verses of it, and also words to the three alternative anthems that were considered back when they were choosing an anthem. The winner ('Advance Australia Fair') gets mocked for claiming that our home is girt by sea, but if 'Song of Australia' had got up, we'd now be asserting that there is a land where laughing corn luxuriant grows, which is considerably worse.
10. Does your name make any interesting anagrams?
I think I've mentioned this before when playing with anagrams, but I am the Lone Ninja Cloaca.
1. When's the last time you ate a homegrown tomato?
Never. I am allergic, apparently. A doctor told me that once. He also said the same thing about chocolate, but he was wrong, entirely wrong. He was probably wrong about the tomatoes too, but I didn't really like them anyway, so being told not to eat them didn't make a huge difference to my life. However, if I did eat tomatoes, homegrown ones would be the only ones I ate, because my mother is a keen tomato grower. For the last few years she has been growing Legend and San Marzano with great success. Swimming through mounds of them, that type of success.
2. Have you ever won a trophy?
No. I was a spectacularly unsporty child. I did win a commemorative spoon for participation in the Purnim Girls' Tennis Team, though. I treasure it. (I don't actually know where it is.)
3. Do you know how to pump your own gas?
I would phrase it as filling up with petrol rather than pumping gas, but yes, I do. It's really not that hard, and the fact that it often crops up in these memes makes me think I am missing some sort of US-centric nuances (or, possibly, the question was written by someone who does not, for whatever reason, pump his or her own gas). Anyway, I am not particularly vehicularly-minded, but filling up is the one of the easier tasks of car maintenance. I am also good at checking the oil and re-filling the water for the wipers.
4. What’s your favourite musical?
On film, probably The Sound of Music, with My Fair Lady a close second. That I have actually seen on stage... hmm. The City by the Sea has an amateur youth theatre group called Holiday Actors (guess when they do their acting!) I was never actually a member, but I was seconded to orchestra duty (first clarinet) a few times about twenty years ago. They had been doing the standards, but the years I was involved, someone was picking less well-known musicals. The two that I remember best are How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and On the Twentieth Century. How to Succeed is terrific, and I was really pleased that the revival with Daniel Radcliffe was successful. Imagine me tootling along to this (I can also sing along with it):
Twentieth Century was also very enjoyable, but I don't remember as many of the songs from it, so it can't have made so much of an impression. Apparently it also made a Broadway comeback recently, starring Kristin Chenoweth. Whoever was selecting those holiday musicals twenty years ago was on a roll.
5. How many pairs of socks do you own? What do your favourite socks look like?
A lot. I used to favour ankle-length stocking socks, but in the last few years I have changed to all-day socks, which don't have elasticated cuffs or toe seams. So comfortable! They are available in packs of three, each with three different colours, from Target, so I bought one of each of the packs. The ones I like best are the black and purple collection: black with purple flowers, black with purple stripes, black with purple spots.
6. Have you ever had to wear a uniform to school?
Both of my schools had uniforms. At St Marcellus' Primary School, we wore blue and white checked dresses in summer; grey tunics with blue shirts and navy ties in winter; with grey jumpers, black shoes and grey socks/stockings all year round. At St Ann's Secondary School we wore green checked dresses (with Peter Pan collars) in summer; green and yellow skirts, white shirts and green ties with yellow stripes in winter; green jumpers or cardigans, green blazers, brown shoes, brown socks/stockings all year round. So classy. (In my mother's day, it was the same uniform plus a brown bowler hat.)
7. Do you touch-type?
I certainly do. We did six months' of typing in Year 8, which I now believe to be the most useful thing I learnt at school after literacy and numeracy.
8. What's under your bed?
My bed's base has two big drawers in it. One of them has spare manchester in it, the other has assorted odds and ends. I really should clean that out.
9. Do you really know all the words to your national anthem?
Yes. Two verses of it, and also words to the three alternative anthems that were considered back when they were choosing an anthem. The winner ('Advance Australia Fair') gets mocked for claiming that our home is girt by sea, but if 'Song of Australia' had got up, we'd now be asserting that there is a land where laughing corn luxuriant grows, which is considerably worse.
10. Does your name make any interesting anagrams?
I think I've mentioned this before when playing with anagrams, but I am the Lone Ninja Cloaca.