It's time for... 10 Random Questions

[wysimdnwyg]

Hey, since Magic Rat isn't doing them anymore, I figured I'd give it a go...

1. Name five people with whom you'd like to talk (living)
The Dalai Lama
Paul Newman
Robert Redford
Jimmy Carter
Sandy Koufax

2. Name five people with whom you'd like to talk (deceased)
Jesus
MLK
Gandhi
Buddha
Muhammad

3. Name five celebrities with whom you'd like to go on a date
Gwyneth Paltrow
Sheryl Crow
Nicole Kidman
Kate Beckinsale
Charlize Theron

4. Name five places you'd like to live if you HAD to move (current residences are not allowed)
San Jose, CA
Anywhere on Hawaii
A cabin in the woods, looking out on a private lake (a la Thoreau)
Australia
New Zealand

5. Who are your favorite authors?
Stephen King
Terry Brooks
Al Franken

6. Name your favorite sports teams for MLB, NFL, NHL, NBA
Dodgers and Red Sox
Packers and Titans
Predators, Bruins and Sharks
Celtics

7. What OS do you use on your computer (Windows, Mac, Unix, etc.)?
Windows

8. What's your favorite flavor of ice cream?
Rocky Road

9. If you had one day to live and you could do ANYTHING, what would it be, and who would join you?
Wake up with, then make love to several beautiful women (see #3)
Spend some quality time playing with my pets
Have my parents, my sister and her kids all come over for a lunchtime cookout
Go out on a private lake with friends in canoes and kayaks
Party on the shoreline until late
Repeat step one

10. If you could pick anyone in the world to be President, who would it be?
Paul Newman (or maybe the Dalai Lama)

[AndyP]

1. I'm only gunna give one anser to each question

1. I'd love to talk with Bill Clinton
2. I would have to choose any of the founding fathers, I'm sure they could give a lot of input on how things are going now.
3. Kirsten Dunst or Jennifer Love Hewitt
4. San Deigo area (not so much the metro area just the nice weather area)
5. Stephen King
6. Packers baby! I don't really care about any other sports.
7. Windows 2k, windows xp, and by this time tommorow- Linux (SuSE) ( I have three computers)
8. Orange sherbert
9. This question takes too much thought
10. Russ Feingold (hopefully someday)

[SarahB]

2. Answers

1. Name five people with whom you'd like to talk (living)
Bill Clinton
Jimmy Carter
Gloria Steinam
Al Gore
Dennis Kucinich
annonymous

2. Name five people with whom you'd like to talk (deceased)
Jesus
Buddha
My mother in law
Thomas Jefferson
John Lennon

3. Name five celebrities with whom you'd like to go on a date
Tim Robbins
Colin Firth
David Brancchio
John Cusak
Hugh Grant


4. Name five places you'd like to live if you HAD to move (current residences are not allowed)
White Mountains in New Hampshire
Northhampton, MA
Shoreline in CT or RI
New Zealand
Canada


5. Who are your favorite authors?
John Irving
Alice Walker
Michael Moore
Al Franken
Christiane Northrup

6. Name your favorite sports teams for MLB, NFL, NHL, NBA
I'm not into any.

7. What OS do you use on your computer (Windows, Mac, Unix, etc.)?
windows

8. What's your favorite flavor of ice cream?
bubblegum

9. If you had one day to live and you could do ANYTHING, what would it be, and who would join you?
it's personal

10. If you could pick anyone in the world to be President, who would it be?
Dalai Lama or Dennis Kucinich

[quispquake]

3. My answers

1. Name five people with whom you'd like to talk (living)
Bill Maher
Robert Anton Wilson
Jello Biafra
Gibby Haynes
Eric Alterman

2. Name five people with whom you'd like to talk (deceased)
Bill Hicks
Timothy Leary
Philip K. Dick
John Lennon
My Grandfather

3. Name five celebrities with whom you'd like to go on a date
Christina Ricci
Uma Thurman
Diana Riggs (30 years ago)
Kat Bjelland (Babes In Toyland)
Ivy Rorscach (The Cramps)

4. Name five places you'd like to live if you HAD to move (current residences are not allowed)
The Caribbean
Hawaii
Australia
New Zealand
A mountain in Colorado

5. Who are your favorite authors?
Philip K. Dick
Rudy Rucker
William S. Burroughs

6. Name your favorite sports teams for MLB, NFL, NHL, NBA
MLB: Red Sox
NFL: Patriots
NHL: Truly Don't Care
NBA: Celtics

7. What OS do you use on your computer (Windows, Mac, Unix, etc.)?
Windows XP Pro

8. What's your favorite flavor of ice cream?
Ben & Jerry's New York Super Fudge Chunk

9. If you had one day to live and you could do ANYTHING, what would it be, and who would join you?
Hang out with my son by the ocean & walk & talk

10. If you could pick anyone in the world to be President, who would it be?
Dennis Kucinich

Thanks!!! I really need to fill in the time 'til 5:30!!!!

[Teddy_Salad]

12. Diana Riggs

I know where you're coming from, PerkyPat.

I'd go 'avenging' with Diana anytime!

Not to mention Honor Blackman and Joanna Lumley.

:wow:

[NightTrain]

4. My answers

<<1. Name five people with whom you'd like to talk (living)>>

Bill Clinton (Mainly so I could ask him, "Monica Lewinsky: WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU THINKING?!")
Hillary Clinton
Nelson Mandela
Tim Robbins
Congresswoman Maxine Waters

<<2. Name five people with whom you'd like to talk (deceased)>>

Alan Freed
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King
Eleanor Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

<<3. Name five celebrities with whom you'd like to go on a date>>

Janeane Garofalo
Amy Goodman
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Randi Rhodes
Susan Sarandon

<<4. Name five places you'd like to live if you HAD to move (current residences are not allowed)>>

Montreal
New York City
San Francisco
Seattle
Storrs, CT

<<5. Who are your favorite authors?>>

Vincent Bugliosi
William S. Burroughs
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Barbara Ehrenreich
Al Franken
Molly Ivins
Jack Kerouac
D.H. Lawrence
W. Somerset Maugham
Henry Miller
Michael Moore
Walter Mosley
Greg Palast
Elliot Roosevelt
Hubert Selby, Jr.

Among others....

<<6. Name your favorite sports teams for MLB, NFL, NHL, NBA>>

I hate all sports equally!

<<7. What OS do you use on your computer (Windows, Mac, Unix, etc.)?>>
Windows XP

<<8. What's your favorite flavor of ice cream?>>

Too many to pick just one.

<<9. If you had one day to live and you could do ANYTHING, what would it be, and who would join you?>>

I'd take Lisa (lberalhistorian) to my favorite Connecticut lake, where we'd spend the day all by ourselves doing...well, whatever we wanted!

<<10. If you could pick anyone in the world to be President, who would it be?>>

Dennis Kucinich or Howard Dean. Hard to decide between the two! :)

[politicat]

5. My answers

1. Name five people with whom you'd like to talk (living) (These are long conversations, right?)
Timothy Taylor (archeologist @ University of Bradford who is doing really interesting research on pre-historic sexuality)
Danbert Nobacon (chumbawamba)
Carole M. Braun
Jimmy Carter
Ani DiFranco

2. Name five people with whom you'd like to talk (deceased)
Pope Joan
Queen Elizabeth I
Thomas Jefferson
Douglas Adams
Robert Heinlein

3. Name five celebrities with whom you'd like to go on a date (assuming No barriers, right?)
Cory Doctorow
Jasper Fforde
Emma Thompson (if she'd deign to date a bisexual)
Neil Gaiman
Alicia Silverstone (See Emma Thompson caveat)

4. Name five places you'd like to live if you HAD to move (current residences are not allowed)
Madison WI
Somerset, UK
Nova Scotia
Augusta, Maine
Minneapolis, MN

5. Who are your favorite authors?
Jane Austen
William Shakespeare
Terry Pratchett
Neil Gaiman
Neal Stephenson
The Brontes
Eric Flint

6. Name your favorite sports teams for MLB, NFL, NHL, NBA
Don't know. Don't follow American Sports.
Manchester United rocks, though!


7. What OS do you use on your computer (Windows, Mac, Unix, etc.)?
Mac OS X

8. What's your favorite flavor of ice cream?
This black chocolate ice cream called Double Dark Chocolate made at my local ice cream shop in Boulder, CO. It's literally BLACK, very rich, not real sweet and totally chocolate. Barring that, Schwann's butter pecan (tastes of childhood.)

9. If you had one day to live and you could do ANYTHING, what would it be, and who would join you?
Gather together all of my friends from around the world in Hilton Head. Spend the day with good beer, drinks, food, music, laughter and focus on the now, not on the next.


10. If you could pick anyone in the world to be President, who would it be?
Ann Richards of Texas.

[dr.strangelove]

6. That took long enough

1. Name five people with whom you'd like to talk (living)
JD Salinger
Hef
Thurgood Marshall
Mark Brunet
Drew Barrymore

2. Name five people with whom you'd like to talk (deceased)
My Dad
Jesus
MLK
Gandhi
JFK

3. Name five celebrities with whom you'd like to go on a date
Drew Barrymore
Alyssa Milano
Charlize Theron
Rene Russo
Liz Hurley

4. Name five places you'd like to live if you HAD to move (current residences are not allowed)
Portland, OR
Seattle, WA
London, Eng.
Dublin, Ire.
New Zealand

5. Who are your favorite authors?
James SImon
Gore Vidal
Al Franken

6. Name your favorite sports teams for MLB, NFL, NHL, NBA
Yankees
Giants
N/A - Hickey
Blazers


7. What OS do you use on your computer (Windows, Mac, Unix, etc.)?
Windows

8. What's your favorite flavor of ice cream?
Coffee

9. If you had one day to live and you could do ANYTHING, what would it be, and who would join you?
Me and my wife, hot tub, view of Mount Hood, a few bottles of wine, some nice cheeses, a fluffy wam rug, roaring fire. There would be lots of talking, kissing, loving and crying.

10. If you could pick anyone in the world to be President, who would it be?
Me

[fudge stripe cookays]

7. Thanks wysimdnwyg

1. Name five people with whom you'd like to talk (living)
* Madeleine Albright
* Gloria Feldt
* Kate Michelman
* Molly Ivins
* Jim Hightower

2. Name five people with whom you'd like to talk (deceased)
* My dad
* Jean Donovan (nun murdered in El Salvador)
* The patriarch of our French side of the family (Quebec 1600s- I think he'd be fascinating)
* Alice Paul
* Eleanor Roosevelt

3. Name five celebrities with whom you'd like to go on a date
* Johnny Depp
* John Cusack
* Miles Hunt (from the Wonder Stuff)
* Patrick Dempsey
* Jeremy Piven


4. Name five places you'd like to live if you HAD to move (current residences are not allowed)
* Santa Cruz, CA
* anywhere in Vermont
* Sunshine Islands near British Columbia
* San Juan Islands off Washington State
* Montreal

5. Who are your favorite authors?
* Peter Mayle
* Sarah Bird
* Sophie Kinsella

6. Name your favorite sports teams for MLB, NFL, NHL, NBA
* Ugh. n/a. Okay....Habs. That's it.

7. What OS do you use on your computer (Windows, Mac, Unix, etc.)?
* Windows

8. What's your favorite flavor of ice cream?
* Haagen Dazs Vanilla Swiss Almond, or Ben and Jerry's Cherry Garcia or Chunky Monkey

9. If you had one day to live and you could do ANYTHING, what would it be, and who would join you?
* Wake up with my wonderful husband and spend the day in some beautiful European city, seeing the sites, picnicking somewhere like the Boboli Gardens, and eating and drinking decadently.

10. If you could pick anyone in the world to be President, who would it be?
* Howard Dean

[GoddessOfGuinness]

8. Ok...

1. Name five people with whom you'd like to talk (living)
Dumbyass
Jerry Foulwell
Spat Snobertson
Limpballs
Wariel Sharon
(but they'd all have to listen to me)

2. Name five people with whom you'd like to talk (deceased)
Mary Magdalene
Harriet Tubman
Abigail Adams
Fritz Kreisler
Dad

3. Name five celebrities with whom you'd like to go on a date
(We're talking dinner and drinks only, as I'm a married woman)
Michael Moore
David Letterman
Tom Selleck (despite some of his views, I still think he's interesting)
YoYo Ma
Michael Jackson (Not him...the Beer Hunter!)

4. Name five places you'd like to live if you HAD to move (current residences are not allowed)
Vermont
Maine coast
Sweden
Alberta
Alaska

5. Who are your favorite authors?
Pema Chodron
C.S. Forrester
Tolkien

6. Name your favorite sports teams for MLB, NFL, NHL, NBA
Washington Senators
Redskins and Packers
Caps
Celtics
Mystics (WNBA)

7. What OS do you use on your computer (Windows, Mac, Unix, etc.)?
Windows

8. What's your favorite flavor of ice cream?
Baskin Robbins Licorice (But they don't make it anymore :cry:)

9. If you had one day to live and you could do ANYTHING, what would it be, and who would join you?
I'd go to Assateague Island with my family.

10. If you could pick anyone in the world to be President, who would it be?
Anybody but Bush

[kmla]

9. My turn.

1. Name five people with whom you'd like to talk (living)
Bill Clinton
Ted Kennedy
Larry Bird
Ernie Banks
Mario Cuomo

2. Name five people with whom you'd like to talk (deceased)
Jesus
MLK
JFK
Bobby Kennedy
FDR

3. Name five celebrities with whom you'd like to go on a date
Julia Stiles
Shannon Sossamon
Julie Bowen
Janeanne Garofolo
Christine Elise

4. Name five places you'd like to live if you HAD to move (current residences are not allowed)
LA
NYC
Australia
London
Seattle

5. Who are your favorite authors?
Michael Crichton
Stephen King

6. Name your favorite sports teams for MLB, NFL, NHL, NBA
Cubs
Colts
Don't watch hockey
Pacers

7. What OS do you use on your computer (Windows, Mac, Unix, etc.)?
Windows

8. What's your favorite flavor of ice cream?
CC Cookie Dough

9. If you had one day to live and you could do ANYTHING, what would it be, and who would join you?
Spend the day with my family, playing games, and snuggling with the wife and kids

10. If you could pick anyone in the world to be President, who would it be?
Jeb Barlett

[Teddy_Salad]

10. Here are mine...

1. Name five people with whom you'd like to talk (living)

1) Nelson Mandela
2) Helen Thomas
3) Kofi Annan
4) Bill Clinton
5) Yogi Berra

2. Name five people with whom you'd like to talk (deceased)

1) My Grandad (Only Grandparent to die before I was born and by all accounts, a real character)
2) Lou Gehrig
3) Bobby Kennedy
4) Donald Bradman (Australian sporting hero, the Babe Ruth of Australia)
5) Katherine Hepburn

3. Name five celebrities with whom you'd like to go on a date

1) Janeane Garofolo
2) Audrey Tatou
3) Arundhati Roy
4) Margaret Cho
5) Joanna Lumley

4. Name five places you'd like to live if you HAD to move (current residences are not allowed)

1) London, UK
2) Anywhere on Ireland's west coast
3) Sydney, Australia
4) The south-west of Western Australia (Gorgeous)
5) New Zealand's south island

5. Who are your favorite authors?

1) Charles Dickens
2) Tim Winton (Australian writer)
3) Robert Fisk
4) Bill Bryson

6. Name your favorite sports teams for MLB, NFL, NHL, NBA

1) New York Yankees
2) New York Jets
3) Don't follow hockey
4) " " basketball

7. What OS do you use on your computer (Windows, Mac, Unix, etc.)?

Windows and Linux

8. What's your favorite flavor of ice cream?

Vanilla

9. If you had one day to live and you could do ANYTHING, what would it be, and who would join you?

I'd attempt to make love all day long.
I'm hoping my wife would join me.

10. If you could pick anyone in the world to be President, who would it be?

Nelson Mandela

[Shananigans]

11. My Daddy for President!

Five Living People I'd Like to Talk to:
1. Bill Clinton
2. Oprah Winfrey
3. Nelson Mandela
4. Jimmy Carter
5. Taverner ;)

Five Deceased People I'd Like to Talk to:
1. Hitler
2. My cousin
3. Jesus
4. Ghandi
5. JFK

Five Celebrities I'd Like To To On A Date With:
1. Ryan Phillipe
2. Brad Pitt
3. Keanu Reeves
4. Ashton Kutcher (imagine being in the same room as him for 5 minutes!)
5. The lead singer of the band Trapt...yummy!


Five Places I'd Like to Live If I HAD To Move:
1. Australia
2. South Africa
3. San Diego, CA
4. Portland, Oregon
5. Alaska

Favorite Authors:
1. Tammy Hoag
2. C.S. Lewis
3. Any of those murder/mystery types

Favorite Sports Teams:
1. Twins (baseball)
2. Vikings (football)
3. Wild (hockey)
4. T-Wolves (Basketball)

What OS Do I Use:
Windows

Favorite Flavor of Ice Cream:
Chocolate Peanut Butter Revel

If You Had One Day To Live And Could Do Anything For That Day:
1. Have great, mind blowing sex and then cuddle for a few hours
2. Get a full body massage from the man of my dreams (yet to be determined)
3. Play silly board games with my friends and family
4. Sit around a bon-fire and make smores
5. Go boating

I would try to accomplish all of this in one day, but step #1 might take a while so...

Pick Anyone In The World To Be President:
My daddy

[Teddy_Salad]

13. Ok...

I am psychic and I'm going to guess that you live in........Minnesota!

I'm right, ain't I???

[Shananigans]

16. Wow...YOU ARE GOOD!

You MUST be psychic

[Teddy_Salad]

17. I am psychotic....

....ahhhh....psychic.

[Burma Jones]

14. Beawr Answers

1. Name five people with whom you'd like to talk (living)
Stephen Hawking
Matt Groening
John Turturro
Paul McCartney
Jello Biafra

2. Name five people with whom you'd like to talk (deceased)
Ben Franklin
Ludwig van Beethoven
John Lennon
William Shakespere
Jerry Garcia

3. Name five celebrities with whom you'd like to go on a date
Norah Jones
Uma Thurman
Beyonce Knowles
The Olsen Twins

4. Name five places you'd like to live if you HAD to move (current residences are not allowed)
Carlsbad, CA
Manhattan
Edinburgh
San Francisco, CA
Laguna Beach, CA

5. Who are your favorite authors?
William Shakespere
Kurt Vonnegut
Hemingway

6. Name your favorite sports teams for MLB, NFL, NHL, NBA
Orioles
Redskins
Don't Care
Don't Care

7. What OS do you use on your computer (Windows, Mac, Unix, etc.)?
Windows

8. What's your favorite flavor of ice cream?
Butter Pecan

9. If you had one day to live and you could do ANYTHING, what would it be, and who would join you?

I would make sure that my wife and children knew how central they are to my being. Then I would make sure they would be OK.

10. If you could pick anyone in the world to be President, who would it be?
Me

[terrya]

15. Heeeeeeerrrreee's Terry's.

1) Jimmy Carter
Franklin Kameny
Rosa Parks
Mel Brooks
Tony Robbins

2) Oscar Wilde
William Shakespeare
Walt Whitman
Jesus
Abraham Lincoln

3) Zach Braff
David Duchovny
Russell Crowe (ok, I think it would be fun)
David Schwimmer (I can't stand him on "Friends", but is he hot)
Thom Filicia (the design guru on "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy".
Major league hottie)

4) Toronto (my own hottie boyfriend lives there)
New York (Manhattan only. No where else)
London
Dublin
San Francisco

5) Margaret Atwood
Gore Vidal

6) The Chicago Cubs.
The Chicago Bears
The Chicago Black Hawks
The Chicago Bulls

7) Windows ME

8) Chocolate.

9) Make love all day with my boyfriend.

10)President Susan Sarandon would be magnificent.

[Blue-Jay]

18. Here we go....

1. Name five people with whom you'd like to talk (living)

George Bush (really!)
John Kerry
Dave Grohl
Al Franken
George Carlin

2. Name five people with whom you'd like to talk (deceased)

Henry David Thoreau
Mark Twain
Harry Truman
Thomas Jefferson
Adolph Sax

3. Name five celebrities with whom you'd like to go on a date

Mila Jovovich
Ani DiFranco
Lena Horne (when she was about my age)
Cheryl Crow
Kate Blanchet

4. Name five places you'd like to live if you HAD to move (current residences are not allowed)

Chicago
Playa Del Carmen
Dunblane, Scotland
Sidney, Australia
a South Pacific island to be named later

5. Who are your favorite authors?

Mark Twain
Dan Simmons
Michael Ondaatje
John Irving
Andre Norton

6. Name your favorite sports teams for MLB, NFL, NHL, NBA

MLB: Reds!
NFL: Browns & Cowboys
NHL: Leafs
NBA: Not a basketball fan. Don't care.

7. What OS do you use on your computer (Windows, Mac, Unix, etc.)?

Windows

8. What's your favorite flavor of ice cream?

Mint Chocolate Chip

9. If you had one day to live and you could do ANYTHING, what would it be, and who would join you?

I'd spen the day on a beach with picnic supplies with the one I love. We'd watch the sun go down.

10. If you could pick anyone in the world to be President, who would it be?

DJ Denny K :D

[SOteric]

19. Woohoo.

1. Name five people with whom you'd like to talk (living)
The Pope
Tony Blair
William Rivers Pitt
Stephen Hawking
John Ashcroft

2. Name five people with whom you'd like to talk (deceased)
Richard D’Arquette
William Shakespeare
My mother
My nonni Sophia
John Francis Davian

3. Name five celebrities with whom you'd like to go on a date
Viggo Mortenson
Stephen Hawking
Penn Gillette
Sean Connery
Jon Stewart

4. Name five places you'd like to live if you HAD to move (current residences are not allowed)
The Rain Forest of the Hoh River
A remote cabin in the North Cascades
The Yukon
The Okanogan
The West Midlands in the UK

5. Who are your favorite authors?
William Butler Yeats
Kurt Vonnegut
Donald Barthelme
Tom Robbins
Milan Kundera
Adam Gopnik
Gary Snyder
Robert Browning
Me
William Rivers Pitt
Isabel Allende


6. Name your favorite sports teams for MLB, NFL, NHL, NBA
West Bromwich Albion


7. What OS do you use on your computer (Windows, Mac, Unix, etc.)?
Windows XP and Windows 97 (NO, - REALLY).

8. What's your favorite flavor of ice cream?
Frozen Dacquiri Ice

9. If you had one day to live and you could do ANYTHING, what would it be, and who would join you?
Find suitable arrangements for my sweet little cat and say goodbye
Tie up my affairs and leave letters to those I love
Spend the day trying to connect in the deepest way possible with a particularly wonderful man.
Eat good food. Drink great wine.
Walk into the rain forest and pass from this life listening to the rain walk barefoot through the tops of the trees.

10. If you could pick anyone in the world to be President, who would it be?
My brother Tony. He’s ethical, honourable, and just enough of a bastard to really be excellent at the job. Unfortunately he was born in Italy.