Tuesday Questions

[La Lioness Priyanka]

1. What is your favorite movie?

2. On a scale of 1-10, how messy are you? (10 being the messiest possible)

3. On a scale of 1-10, how fashionable are you?

4. On a scale of 1-10, how healthful is your diet?

5. Has a stranger/virtual stranger touched your heart with an act of kindness ever? IF so, what did he/she do?

[BarenakedLady]

1. Happy Tuesday

:hi:

1. What is your favorite movie?

The Philadelphia Story and Valley Girl

2. On a scale of 1-10, how messy are you? (10 being the messiest possible)

6. I'm more lazy than messy

3. On a scale of 1-10, how fashionable are you?

3

4. On a scale of 1-10, how healthful is your diet?

8 1/2 - 9

5. Has a stranger/virtual stranger touched your heart with an act of kindness ever? IF so, what did he/she do?

Twice I've been helped out of a snow bank by passing motorists (first people to come along in both instances)

[La Lioness Priyanka]

2. here goes

1. What is your favorite movie?

fire

2. On a scale of 1-10, how messy are you? (10 being the messiest possible)

5

3. On a scale of 1-10, how fashionable are you?

7 :shrug: i often know about fashion trends, even if i refuse to go along with it.

4. On a scale of 1-10, how healthful is your diet?

used to be about 5, is about 8.5 now

5. Has a stranger/virtual stranger touched your heart with an act of kindness ever? IF so, what did he/she do?

yes, though i would hate to call a fellow DUer a stranger, but allegro rondo's wedding gift to me almost made me cry. i cant wait to take pics, so that you guys can see just how beautiful his handiwork is.

[skygazer]

3. Tuesday answers

1. What is your favorite movie?

It's so hard to pick one favorite of anything. I will say that one of my favorites is Monty Python's Life of Brian - not only is it hysterically funny but I've always really liked what it had to say about religion and about not taking it so damn seriously.

2. On a scale of 1-10, how messy are you? (10 being the messiest possible)

I'd say about a 4. I don't let it get too out of control.

3. On a scale of 1-10, how fashionable are you?

I might possibly reach a 2 on a good day.

4. On a scale of 1-10, how healthful is your diet?

Probably about 5 or 6. A lot healthier than so many people I know but it could be a lot healthier still.

5. Has a stranger/virtual stranger touched your heart with an act of kindness ever? IF so, what did he/she do?

Lots of times. I'm a hitchhiker and a wanderer - I've met so many kind people all over the country. The type who help you out when you didn't even ask. All they ever ask is that I pass it on. I try to do that regularly.

[AllegroRondo]

4. Hooray!

1. What is your favorite movie?
Comedy: Doctor Strangelove
Non-comedy: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

2. On a scale of 1-10, how messy are you? (10 being the messiest possible)
4. it would be worse, but my wife makes me keep clean.

3. On a scale of 1-10, how fashionable are you?
5. it would be worse, but my wife picks my clothes.

4. On a scale of 1-10, how healthful is your diet?
3. I'm currently training for a marathon, so I really watch what I eat; but I still eat red meat occasionally and have a beer now and then. I dont count coffee as 'bad', because caffeine is an anti-oxidant.

5. Has a stranger/virtual stranger touched your heart with an act of kindness ever? IF so, what did he/she do?
I've gotten lots of support or good advice from people on line, especially here at DU.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

8. i was thinking about you when i wrote that last question

thank you so much. your gift is SO beautiful.

[AllegroRondo]

9. I kind of figured that.

:blush:

when do we get to see you wearing it?
I hope it fits OK. And that you make the people in your office jealous when you show it off. :)

[Jed Dilligan]

5. answers

1. I am too big a movie fan to answer this question. Lately I've been into war movies. "A Bridge Too Far" is a nearly perfect film.

2. Right now, a 9, but after I get my book ms in on Friday (or so) I intend to get my shit sorted.

3. I don't care about fashion but I've been told I'm a sharp dresser. Probably around 5.

4. Seven or eight. I'm pretty much free-range/organic but I eat meat.

5. Not thinking of anything off the top of my head. I try to be that stranger as often as I can.

[KitchenWitch]

6. Hi Pri!

1. The Wizard of Oz
2. 3.5
3. 3
4. 7
5. Not that I can recall.

[stuntcat]

7. mmmeee

1. What is your favorite movie?
ONE? Star Wars.

2. On a scale of 1-10, how messy are you? (10 being the messiest possible)
I'm 2 messy, because I loose everything that's not in it's place

3. On a scale of 1-10, how fashionable are you?
I'm 5 fashionable.

4. On a scale of 1-10, how healthful is your diet?
My diet's 8 healthy

5. Has a stranger/virtual stranger touched your heart with an act of kindness ever? IF so, what did he/she do?
Yes, so many times. I can't remember them now but I appreciate the hell out of strangers being helpful.

[Inchworm]

10. I miss the questions!

1. What is your favorite movie?

No Favorites really but Chronicles of Riddick, Sling Blade, Holy Smoke, and O' Brother Where Art Thou come to mind

2. On a scale of 1-10, how messy are you? (10 being the messiest possible)

7 - I have bachelors syndrome

3. On a scale of 1-10, how fashionable are you?

10 being very fashionable I'm a 2 - Don't really care what people think

4. On a scale of 1-10, how healthful is your diet?

10 being very healthful I am a 6 - I'm currently working on this

5. Has a stranger/virtual stranger touched your heart with an act of kindness ever? IF so, what did he/she do?

All the time. Humans are a trip. Just when I am about to say fuck 'em all one steps up and touches my heart.

Thanks lionesspriyanka!
:yourock:

[ThomCat]

11. Tuesday Answers

1. I don't have a favorite movie. I tend not to have favorites. I like lots of stuff in different ways for different reasons.

2. How messy am I? About a 2-3. I tend to be neat. Now that I have help with housework again, I'm getting back to the level I'm comfortable with.

3. How fashionable am I? Maybe a 7. I'm tend to dress in classic preppy styles. slacks and polo shirts mostly. I'm not very stylish at all, but I never look like a slob either.

4. How healthy is my diet? 1. I'm a 19 year vegan, I eat a lot of raw foods, I limit starch, and I don't have much of a sweet tooth. It's hard to get much healthier than that.

5. Back when I spent a lot of time doing volunteer work strangers touched my heart all the time. That's what good volunteers do. They inspired my volunteer work, they showed amazing amounts of compassion for people, they did a whole lot of shit work that absolutely needed to get done. I love volunteers. :grouphug:

[Guava Jelly]

12. k

1. What is your favorite movie?
Excalibur

2. On a scale of 1-10, how messy are you? (10 being the messiest possible)
5

3. On a scale of 1-10, how fashionable are you?
4

4. On a scale of 1-10, how healthful is your diet?
8

5. Has a stranger/virtual stranger touched your heart with an act of kindness ever? IF so, what did he/she do?

Yes!! 3 have and they were all DU'ers who didn't know me from squat.
But sensed that I needed a friend or a kind word or even a hard truth..
And i love them for it..And they know who they are already :)

That is whats so great about some of the people here.
They care.
And that is why i stay..

[rbnyc]

23. LOVE Excalibur!

I can nearly recite the entire script by heart.

[femmocrat]

13. Tuesday afternoon answers...

1. What is your favorite movie? Dr. Zhivago

2. On a scale of 1-10, how messy are you? (10 being the messiest possible) About a 4 1/2.

3. On a scale of 1-10, how fashionable are you? 9

4. On a scale of 1-10, how healthful is your diet? 6 or 7, but I'm working on it.

5. Has a stranger/virtual stranger touched your heart with an act of kindness ever? IF so, what did he/she do? Not sure.

Have a pleasant afternoon, lioness! :hi:

[ghostsofgiants]

14. Yarr.

1. What is your favorite movie?
Mulholland Drive

2. On a scale of 1-10, how messy are you? (10 being the messiest possible)
7.5

3. On a scale of 1-10, how fashionable are you?
6, maybe 7.

4. On a scale of 1-10, how healthful is your diet?
-15

5. Has a stranger/virtual stranger touched your heart with an act of kindness ever? IF so, what did he/she do?
I don't believe so.

[Mutley]

15. Okay

1. Trainspotting
2. 5. I generate a lot of clutter, but I'm not dirty.
3. 4 or 5.
4. Lately, about a 7.
5. It probably wouldn't seem like a big deal to a lot of people, but when I'm working by myself and feeling overwhelmed, a woman who comes in every day will offer to get me supplies from the closet. It's a huge help.

[Burma Jones]

16. Hiya Priya

1. My Favorite Movie is Duck Soup

2. I score a solid 7 on the messy scale. If I were unmarried, I would be an 11.

3. I am extremely unfashionable. I wear the same thing all the time. LL Bean Polo Shirt, Shorts or Jeans and Birkenstocks or New Balance walking shoes. I even wear the polo shirt to bed. For Work Casual, it's the polo shirt (I have about 20 of them, mostly black), Khakis and one of two Harris Herringbone Tweed Jackets, one brown, one blue. Or, I wear an 8 year old pinstripe suit when the job requires it. I do have nice ties, cufflinks and dress shirts, but I only wear them 5 or 6 times a year, with the suit. My wife doesn't even wear makeup and to her, the height of fashion is something she didn't have to pay for. I bought her a Prada Wallet, less than $100, for Christmas - she uses it but she makes sure she hides it.

4. A Solid 10, all that money we would have spent on clothes is spent on locally grown Organic food.

5. I have never depended on the kindness of strangers......I often admire and take as an example, acts of kindness directed towards others.

[bigwillq]

17. What it is

1. What is your favorite movie?
Goodfellas

2. On a scale of 1-10, how messy are you? (10 being the messiest possible)
4

3. On a scale of 1-10, how fashionable are you?
4


4. On a scale of 1-10, how healthful is your diet?
4

5. Has a stranger/virtual stranger touched your heart with an act of kindness ever? IF so, what did he/she do? Not really...can't think of any right now

[HamdenRice]

18. Hi Priyanka -- you ask, I answer

1. What is your favorite movie?

There are a few ways to approach this. I think the "finest" movie ever made in terms of quality of characterization, plot, significance of theme, cinematography, direction, acting, etc., was The Godfather II, closely followed by The Godfather. And I don't even like mafia movies. They are simply the greatest cinematic works of art to date.

But my favorite movies to watch are Waking Life and Ghandi.

2. On a scale of 1-10, how messy are you? (10 being the messiest possible)

About 8. I'm very messy, but almost OCD clean.

3. On a scale of 1-10, how fashionable are you?

Is there a number below 1?

4. On a scale of 1-10, how healthful is your diet?

Except for the meat and beer, about 8-9. I love pork. I rarely eat processed food or snacks. But I'm not macrobiotic or anything like that.

5. Has a stranger/virtual stranger touched your heart with an act of kindness ever? IF so, what did he/she do?

Three experiences from Africa:

First. I was just out of school and went on one of those volunteer programs to a rural village in Liberia with a group of similar 20 somethings. This was a short time after the coup but before the civil war so there was a lot of rampaging by soldiers but it was nowhere near the chaos that would come in a few years. We had a lot of time to do exploring and managed to get into some trouble frequently.

There was a corporate type fenced compound about 15 miles away that I and two of the young women in our group were invited to one night -- Liberian Timber and Plywood. It was like a little cleared American suburbia/corporate office park in the middle of the rainforest. After a few drinks the corporate assholes made it clear that they expected to have sex with the women. When they said no, the corporate assholes dumped us out of the compound even though there was a strict curfew and made it clear that they assumed that the soldiers would get us.

After walking for some time down a deserted rutted road, a police van pulled up. The police were completely different from the soldiers. The policeman said his shift was over and he was headed home but that because of soldiers it was dangerous to be on the roads. He took us to his extremely humble home, offered us a meal and a place to stay and in the morning drove us back to our village.

Second. In the late 80s I was doing research in South Africa, trying to track down people who had lived in a particular village that had been forcibly removed and destroyed by the apartheid government under the policy of forced removals of "black spots" -- ie black owned farms surrounded by white owned farms.

I finally tracked down a resettlement village in a bleak, dry, rocky area. Compared to their beautiful old village there was nothing but tin latrines and a few prefab tin shacks provided by the govt.

I was looking for a very old man named Jimmy who I knew from previous meetings had been rendered utterly destitute as a result of the removal. When I found him and his wife, she insisted on killing her last chicken in order to serve me and my translator a meal. I was aghast but couldn't refuse their hospitality.

Three. I was travelling in Botswana, on the road to Molepolole and I saw what seemed to be people singing and dancing. I pulled my car up and asked if I could take a picture. An old man in a nice suit and tie who spoke perfect British King's English came up to me and said that it was his daughter's wedding day, that the singing and dancing was a wedding tradition, that he was the school principal, and that among the Tswana it is considered extremely lucky to a marriage if a stranger happens by. So he invited me in to enjoy the wedding and I was seated at a table for distinguished guests and fed and addled with beer all day and well into the night!

But these are just three African experiences. Honestly, I've experienced so much really astounding kindness, generosity and hospitality from strangers while travelling in Africa that when I'm there it makes me deeply ashamed to be an American.

[SeattleGirl]

19. Answers:

1. What is your favorite movie?
Gone With The Wind

2. On a scale of 1-10, how messy are you? (10 being the messiest possible)
Between 3-4

3. On a scale of 1-10, how fashionable are you?
Also between 3-4

4. On a scale of 1-10, how healthful is your diet?
Probably a 6

5. Has a stranger/virtual stranger touched your heart with an act of kindness ever? IF so, what did he/she do?
Several times. One example: My car broke down on I-5, and I was about 45 miles from my destination. This was in the days before cell phones. A trucker stopped by, checked out my car (need more work than he was able to do), so he drove me to my mom's house. He was funny, and nice, and polite. My mom's eyes just about popped out of her head when she saw this 18-wheeler pull up outside her house and I got out.

[Aristus]

20. Happy Tuesday, lioness!

:hi:

1. "Chariots Of Fire".
2. 2. I hate to dust. Otherwise, I'm a freakishly squared away neatnik.
3. 5, maybe. I have some nice clothes, but my wife assures me I can always use help in the fashion department. B-)
4. Maybe a 7. I eat high-fiber cereal and have several servings of fruit and yogurt a day. I drink skim milk and try to stay away from high-fat cuts of meat. Still, I love red meat and beer and wine, so that keeps me out of the rarified 8-10 territory.
5. Nothing's coming to mind...

[ZombieNixon]

21. Hmm...

1. What is your favorite movie?
At the moment? Hot Fuzz.

2. On a scale of 1-10, how messy are you? (10 being the messiest possible)
5. I don't mind clutter but I can't stand nastiness.

3. On a scale of 1-10, how fashionable are you?
i. As in the square root of negative one. I have no awareness of fashion trends, but will nonetheless unwittingly end up following them.

4. On a scale of 1-10, how healthful is your diet?
5. Decent balance of heath and crap. :P

5. Has a stranger/virtual stranger touched your heart with an act of kindness ever? IF so, what did he/she do?
You know, I can't remember. Guess I need to get out more. :P

[rbnyc]

22. Hello

1. What is your favorite movie?

So hard to pick one--right now I'd have to say Children of Men

2. On a scale of 1-10, how messy are you? (10 being the messiest possible)

4

3. On a scale of 1-10, how fashionable are you?

10 being most fashionable--7

4. On a scale of 1-10, how healthful is your diet?

10 being most--6.825

5. Has a stranger/virtual stranger touched your heart with an act of kindness ever? IF so, what did he/she do?

Not a stranger--but all of DU Lounge, a mix of different levels of friends and strangers--have touched my heart many times in coming together to help one another--including helping me.

[Rabrrrrrr]

24. Ha ha ha! Fucking nun deserved it.

1. In terms of most artistic and wonderful, Citizen Kane. In terms of watching repeatedly because it brings me comfort, Star Wars or Star Trek II.

2. I am about a 2.

3. I am a 1 - I am classical, not fashionable.

4. Depends on how one defines it, but I strive for an 8 or 9, though I lapse into 2 and 3 every now and again...

5. Yes, so many times I cannot count.

[Deep13]

25. answers

"1. What is your favorite movie?"
Right now? Hmmmmm. Maybe the director's extended version of Kingdom of Heaven.

"2. On a scale of 1-10, how messy are you? (10 being the messiest possible)"
8. It would be pretty bad if I gave a shit.

"3. On a scale of 1-10, how fashionable are you?"
Well I do where a shirt to the office so that has to count for something. I'll say a 2 for wearing the minimum required for a law office. The rest of the time I don't care about being fashionable at all.

"4. On a scale of 1-10, how healthful is your diet?"
Well, I'm not starving, but I eat a lot of crap. I'll split it and say 5.

"5. Has a stranger/virtual stranger touched your heart with an act of kindness ever? IF so, what did he/she do?"
I lost my wallet at the airport and the janitor returned it to me.

[SoxFan]

26. Asked and answered

1. "Star Wars", aka Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope"

2. 9.5

3. 1.5 (.5 because I have a lot of cool, obscure minor league/Negro League baseball swag)

4. 6 (I've cut out a lot of red meat and salt, but my sweet tooth is still an issue)

5. Yes. To quote a Steve Earle song, "I've got friends that I owe, I ain't namin' names cause they know".

[SKKY]

27. Here ya go...

1. "Talk to her" by Pedro Almodovar - IMHO, Pedro Almodovar is the shiznitz.

2. 6. I'm pretty messy, but can recover in a flash if the situation arises.

3. 8. I spend way too much time on "fashion".

4. 6. We eat a pretty standard Mediterranean diet.

5. This security guard at Haneda airport gave me 5,000 yen so I could catch the subway and make
it to Yokosuka in time to meet my ship. My ATM card didn't work at any of the machines
there, and I was pretty much screwn. He also drew me a map, color codes and all, of all the
stops I needed to make to get to my destination. I would have been completely lost without
this guy.