81 posts tagged “qotd”

What fictional character do you relate to most and why?

Seems pretty obvious to me.

Calvin

Be careful or be roadkill

And they said it was just a phase. Hah.

What was your first car?

Uspiazza

When I was 17 I inherited my mom's Isuzu Impulse (it was called the "Piazza" in the international markets.) It was a hatchback, silver, and had headlights that partly opened up that were so popular in the 80s. I really liked this car, and was lucky to have gotten it actually since most of my friends drove serious pieces of crap like Omnis and Hyundais, if they had new cars at all. The kind of cars that leaked oil like sieves, with squealing belts and rusty floors. This was luxury in comparison.

I just liked it because it had a cockpit-like dashboard, and kind of looked like the DeLorean from Back to the Future.

Unfortunately it was not the turbo model, and the automatic transmission was a pig. It had some serious delay on hitting the gas, and had its fuel injection changed more than a few times. In fact, it was in the shop more than I'd like to remember.....I became quite familiar with the mechanics in the neighborhood.

It also came standard with a Bad Mojonator....it was plagued by awful luck like having its mirrors sheared off by garbage trucks, having a deer run full-tilt into the driver's side (fun!) and then the head gasket cracked. Twice.

Eventually it was in such bad shape, I just scrapped it for $50 to a junkyard owner in a trailer with a one-eyed bulldog on the steps. Grrr.

Still.....it was fun while it worked.

Had a phat cassette-player with 10-band equalizer, yo. :P

PIAZZA

What personality trait has gotten you in the most trouble? 

Oh! Why, it must be a tie between my flippant irreverance and my propensity to tell the truth as far as I see it.

Don't you agree? ^__^

Do you believe in ghosts? If so, have you ever seen one?

Ha. This sounds an awful lot like one of my recent posts.

(If you're gonna rip a QotD idea, at least give some cred. Ffft.)

What was the last thing you "got away with?"

You got no body?

You got no crime.

Now leave me alone.

What do you bring most to a friendship?

No drama.

These days, I think that's pretty good.

I won't bitch and whine non-stop about my friends, my family, my bad decisions.

I won't constantly make bad decisions, and look to my friends to help me cope with them over and over and over again.

I won't cancel plans. If there are plans, and I have committed to them, barring illness or grave emergency I will be there.

And I definitely won't just pull a no-show. If I can't come, I'll let you know.

I won't burden you with my shitty friends. We all have one or two. People we think deserve some company, but are too much maintenance to bring along with others. Know when to leave them aside.

I won't forget you exist every time I get even moderately involved in a romantic relationship.

I won't be crying on your couch when said relationship comes screeching to a halt. (Oh, and I did told you so.)

I won't expect you to deal with my plans at the drop of a hat. I know you have a life, and it doesn't hinge on what I feel like doing at any given moment. If you can make it spur-of-the-moment, great. If not, I understand.

I know you have your friends, and I have mine, and everyone doesn't have to do everything together every time, like some sort of friend commune. If you went to dinner with your friends, and didn't invite me, I won't feel bad. It's ok. (Now, if you went to dinner with my friends and didn't invite me, I'd be feeling a little excluded. Because I would never do that.)

I won't call you at 3AM to talk me through my insomnia.

I won't just assume you will watch my cats when I'm gone.

I won't just assume you're my ride to the airport. Every. Time.

In other words, I treat my friends like I'd like to be treated. Maybe sometimes this makes me a little distant, because I don't need constant attention, but I think it's better than the alternative.

No drama.

Who is the hottest person in Hollywood right now?

I could really care less. The tarts in Tinseltown are so over-made-up, overmedicated and overpublicized, I'm over them. Besides, I know what makeup and Photoshop and good lighting can do, so all we end up seeing are glorified printed puppets anyway. No wonder our country's youth is so disillusioned.

Don't believe me? Check it out.

I've never been into actresses* anyway. I see dozens more interesting and attractive people every waking day of my life. The coffee girl at Starbucks makes me swoon spades more than any screen heroine. I like reality.

My own skewed perception of it, yes, but reality nonetheless.

*This does not apply to either Christina Ricci or Keira Knightley, both of whom make my insides roll over like a trained dog. Woof.

When was the last time you laughed so hard you cried?
Submitted by Maraschino.

I was watching an episode of Ren & Stimpy on DVD....it was one I hadn't seen before, where Ren goes to the Fake Dad Store and signs up to be a foster dad for the weekend to an eleven-year-old, except that the eleven-year-old is actually a gigantic 300-pound homicidal inmate named Kowalski, an apish wall of a man who speaks in one-word grunts. It was great.

So they're having a picnic, and Ren asks Kowalski what kind of sandwich he wants.

"MEEEAAT!" screams Kowalski. So he just gives him some pieces of meat. Then he asks him what he wants to drink.

"MEEEEAAAT!!!" Kowalski yells.

"Go pour the man some meat, Stimpy," says the exasperated Ren, and Stimpy gets a glass of red gloppy juice from the cooler spout. Ha!! A glass of meat!!!

Then there was this whole part about Kowalski having a tummyache and needing to be burped. Ren's underneath the gigantic guy, patting him on his hairy back as his stomach gurgles......I was just losing it. This goes back to all the cartoons I loved as a kid where burping was a major gag.....you know, those old Tex Avery ones with the puggish dog and he'd have to run up the hill to make any noise.....hahaha.......plus I always find food and body function humor a riot. So there I am, laughing so hard I'm drooling, as Kowalski launches into an explosive belch complete with flying chunks of picnic lunch covering both Ren and Stimpy. AHAHAHAHAAA!

This was just, like, two weeks ago.

I loved that show.

What is your favorite movie that was released in the 1980s?

Ok, I was saving this for a Monday Morning Movie, but I guess it really needs to be here too.

I'll just have to pick another clip.

It's a hard choice for 80s movies but this has to be my favorite, and that's what they asked.

(Also the best SW film, hands down. It actually has....get this.....direction.)

DST sucks ass.

Big fat unwiped drippy ass with pimples and stuff.