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Peppermint!Turtle cheesecake and coffee or tea and biccies?
America - the insanity.Suspense-fantasy or comedy-science fiction?
Cloudy, as long as it actually rains. Southern California had the most depressing weather: Always cloudy (contrary to usual California portraits) and never raining.Hmm ... when playing chess, white or black?
black jack, just cause I know the rulesblue pen or black pen?
legasp! you doodle with black pen too! I'M NOT ALONE :)musicals :) I love listening to songs
video games or computer games?
Sometimes Bach, sometimes Mozart.The Beatles or the Rolling Stones?
Excellent choice, as I'm not a big fan of either!WSS, of course! By 'ipoetry' do you mean Amy's group?
Pink Floyd or Queen?
Yikes! Pink Floyd or Queen, indeed. What could compare with Michel Legrand or Andre Previn or David Rose or Paul Weston?Rachmaninoff or Scriabin?
Who wouldn’t want to go to Hogwarts? In French it’s Poudlard, and muggles are moldus.I’m practically addicted to dark chocolate.
Okay . . .
Pumpkin juice or butter beer?
Laptop. (They’re so convenient!)On a trip to Hogsmeade, which would you rather visit . . .
Honeyduke’s Sweetshop or The Three Broomsticks?
I wouldn’t mind running into Helena Bonham-Carter!The invisibility cloak or the Marauder’s Map?
I think the Knight Bus is cool, with its chandelier and shrunken head! That’s the way I’d go.I’m still learning the emoticons. What’s “O.o”?
Good Lord! I hope the girls I encounter in stores don’t think, “There’s some old guy looking me over.” Maybe they do. I’m not the kind of person anybody notices, though. I get the feeling that people who notice me at all in stores wonder if I work there. I’m not sure why I get that feeling. Maybe it’s because sometimes people ask, “Do you work here?” Usually I just ask them what they’re looking for and try to find it for them.
The pensieve or the Mirror of Erised?
bertie botts...I don't think I'd be able to catch a jumping chocolate frog XDOMG! We have a history teacher that does the exact same thing. And he gives extra credit to girl who wear their shirts low..........
Uhm...
Sirius Black or James Potter?
James...Snape only did what he did out of guilt/partial love...........Hungarian Hortail or Norwegian Ridgeback?
Norwegian Ridgeback. I like the sound of it.The thing about Bertie Botts, I don’t know that I’d want to take a chance on biting into a tripe-flavored jellybean.
Kat, I’m trying to imagine the situation you’ve related. If I had ever been reported for something inappropriate like giving girls grades based on how low they wore their shirts, I’d have been reprimanded. Maybe nobody’s turned him in.
What house would the sorting hat have put you in?
Reading. The charries look cooler.My favorite bean is the grass one. I like the flavor for some reason.
I don't know why no ones reported him. The girls prolly don't cause they get a good grade XP
Reading the actual book or reading fan fiction based on the book?
Hahahaha! They definitely are, Al. ;DHot tea. Yumm yum!
Tootsie roll or Tootsie pop? Oh dear...
Wookies.Ewoks are too cute.
Spiders or snakes?
Hedgehogs! They're so adorable!Coke or Pepsi?
Hi Al. I'm just popping in for a quick visit. And to say 'Hi!' Sigh, I'm still really busy doing other stuff, but I don't know either of these. My little course is going well, I think. I'm having fun and learning a lot in the process of teaching.But I am completely ignorant regarding your choices, so that'll be for someone else to answer.
LoL! How old do you think I am? I go back to Beta, and in school there was some kind of tape pre-Beta.But, of course, Blu-Ray!
I'll take a peak at the poems and short stories - I always do, even if I don't comment. (And maybe I'll get perspired into contributing.)
So, 33 1/3s or 78s?
It depends on what’s on them.I’ve turned many of those old records, Guy! People didn’t call them 78’s, of course, until the early 1950’s, when 45’s and LP’s became popular. Before that, people just called them records, since they were the only kind of records there were.
David Rose or Paul Weston?
What kind of muffins?The old records that turned at 78 RPM had been made of a hard material, and they broke very easily. They had been made since the turn of the century, years before radios came along. In the late 1940’s, Columbia came out with long-play (LP) records made of a flexible thermoplastic. They turned at 33 1/3 RPM. To compete with Columbia, RCA Victor introduced a smaller record, that turned at 45 RPM. It was made “to fit on a bookshelf” and required a larger spindle. By the 1960’s, hardly anybody played 78’s anymore, though ordinary record changers would play them.
In the early 1980’s, my then brother-in-law, who was news director at a television station, showed me a little silver disk. “Someday this is what people will play instead of records,” he told me. I didn’t believe him.
Blueberry muffins. I love blueberries!A double-tall breve mocha or a caramel macchiato?
Sorry M, but a plain jane cappuccino for me.Kate.
Actually, the very first recordings were cylinders. I think made with some kind of hard wax, which then became the records, also originally made of wax.
3-D or 2-D?
John Denver, as long as it’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads.”There were some cylinder players at the museum where I used to volunteer. I don’t think anything that was on the cylinders would make the top forty these days. These cylinders weren’t made of wax, though, but the hard, shellac-like material records were made of. They were in little boxes that had labels that were the equivalent of record labels.
Aunt Jean bought me a floor-model Victrola at one of the museum sales. It played actual records. It had a broken spring, though, and would play only half a song.
Alex, I knew you loved mochas! With or without whipped cream?
Now I’m worried. I don’t have a good feeling about this.
Al, you made that sound quite ominous. I hope it is truly nothing, but 'nothing' is rarely nothing.
I don’t know. I always get a mocha. My wife likes them, and it was the only other thing I could think of.
So, that’s the source of Miss Hanzle Woozle’s superhero strength!
That would be the tertium quid! LoL. You didn't post a bifurcate.
Yummmmo! I love lattes flavored with hazelnut. But lattes aren't the source of my awesome power. That would be my sister. :) She's the true superhero in my life. :DDisco and sax. Although my dad played clarinet in high school. Cool band geek. :)
Octopus or squid? My friend wants me to try sushi. Should I? I'm scared. :/
One's eatable with a fork, the other with a spoon.Pastiche or decoupage?
Water colour, but only if in the Asian style.Fried noodles or fried rice?
Pork.Speaking of pork, there’s only one thing to do when you’re starving, and that’s pig out. I just pigged out on lasagna, and I’m so full I can hardly breathe.
Veal parmigiana or stromboli?
Neither. We have a real Italian deli in the city; the family, Renata and Christian, cook these AMAZING super thin crust pizzas like you can't even imagine. My favourite is canned Italian tuna in olive oil with tomatoes and thinly sliced onion. Wow. My salivary glands have just filled my mouth at the thought of their pizzas. Once you've had them, every other pizza is good, but no longer mouth watering.So, Italian tuna in olive with onion and tomato sauce.
Italian or French food?
Italian!Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen or William Walton’s violin concerto?
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