The Question Game

[tanarill]

I've been thinking about doing this for a while now, but it was rlly my BF who convinced me too.

This is called the Question Game. You comment and ask me a question. It can be anything: funny, humorous, racy, serious, embarrassing, whatever. I have to answer it honestly. The catch is that I get to ask you a question, and you have to answer it also. We go back and forth like that until someone gives up or we get tired of playing.

Ready? Go!

Comments

[tanarill.livejournal.com]

Ninja?

I wish my supervisor were like that. I have had a grand total of sx conversations with my supervisor in six weeks. It's making me nervous; I can't tell if he doesn't like me or is just too busy to deal with the intern.

Lacha, you are evil. I don't think it is so much that you look it as that you exude evil aura and everyone picks up that it is Not Good to be on your bad side.

Because everything else tastes like chicken.

Does that mean Malaga is an energy drink? O.o

[lachattenoire13.livejournal.com]

My supervisor, 67 year old man tho he is, takes Iaito martial arts. The art of the samurai sword but even unarmed if three dudes with knives it'd be a fair fight. Simply because he's diabetic and would start having problems after killing the first and second dudes.

Eh, he's just busy.

You have no idea how hard it is to exude not-evil for work. Because tho it keeps the 4 year olds in line the moms are unappreciative.

Everything else does not taste like chicken. I should know, I've eaten many of the everything else.

My comp doesn't offer any clairolfactory hookups so I can't tell for sure but good muscat doesn't usually taste like cough syrup.

But still, to cover up the bitter of 294mg of caffiene they use so much sugar and bad food flavoring it becomes cough syrup. Bleh.

Who in their right (or wrong) mind makes cough syrup wine?

[tanarill.livejournal.com]

67? And he will not retire? o.O

I speak, not of the Spanish Malagas, but the Kosher wines of the same name. If I had to describe the taste, it would be like taking cough syrup, adding sugar to it, and then allowing the whole thing to ferment. It tastes exactly like fake grape flavoring, and I don't really know how that's managed because it comes from real grapes. We all drink it anyway because the other Kosher wines are worse.

You must understand that because grapes are not meat and no meat or meat products are used in wine production, it's impossible to make an unKosher wine.

To understand why the Kosher wineries don't just make better tasting wines, I must relate a story. My great-great-granduncle, who immigrated from the old counrty, lived in Kentucky. Kentucky is bourbon country, and he was regularly invited by some of his gentile friends to try the Kentucky bourbon. Eventually, he agreed. The poured him a shotglass of it; the drop that spilled was stripping the varnish of the table. So he picks up the shot, slugs it, slams the shotglass down and says . . . "That vas nice vine."

That is what most Black Hatter patriarchs think of bourbon, even today. Malaga, as far as they are concerned, is not wine. It's not even alcoholic. You give it to the kids to make then sleepy, and the women because [rolleyes] women cannot handle real vodka, and therefore it has to be sweet.

The sad bit is that my grandmother, 84 year old putz that she is, likes Malaga. Way to enforce the stereotype! [/sarcastic]

Aren't you glad you're not Jewish?

[lachattenoire13.livejournal.com]

67 and he will not retire, yes. Senile, diabetic 67. But at least the ninja staves off the arthritis.

I... somehow fear Jewish wine now. Because as a chemist I'll swallow most things that don't smell poisonous. But that kinda stretches my definition of what smells poisonous.

I does make me glad I'm not Jewish, actually. Or, well, at least not that Jewish.

I should get a tattoo. I've got the wings-spread dragon planned for my lower back, just have to finish designing it. Any suggestions for anything else? I was thinking of a serpent armband around my upper left arm.

[tanarill.livejournal.com]

It won't kill you . . . ;P

I'm not that Jewish either, although a lot of my extended family is. My immediate family only uses Malaga for the blessings. For dinner/table wines, we use dinner/table wines. I prefer Bartenura :9

Serpents are always cool. Given the entire la chatte noire thing, I think you also need to have a black cat done somewhere. Or the cat's eye. One of the two.

Is evil actually delicious, or is it just empty carbs?

[lachattenoire13.livejournal.com]

Evil tastes a lot like meat, actually. At least the evil I exude smells and tastes like meat. Impossible to wash off.

Why is it stuff to do at work only shows up when you're goofing off? That's why I'm on LJ at work, to attract Murphy's customers.

[tanarill.livejournal.com]

It's for the same reason that waiters at restaurant only come to take your order when you aren't ready or someone goes to the bathroom.

Acrylic or watercolor? Or some other variety?

[lachattenoire13.livejournal.com]

Acrylics at this point. I like the alcohol-based acrylics, much better than the acetone-based ones for obvious drying-time reasons.

Of course all mini paints are either acrylics or enamels.

What wonderful thing is it fast food places add to their foods that make them still safe for eating after 8 hours on the kitchen counter?

[tanarill.livejournal.com]

They are called "preservatives." Invader Zim wears them.

What belongs in chicken soup?

[lachattenoire13.livejournal.com]

Chicken, chicken stock, some salt, spices, onions, celery, carrots, and random things from the kitchen. Maybe not just from the kitchen.

Why does rot always smell sweet? Unless it's mold then it smells (and tastes) like dirt.

[tanarill.livejournal.com]

I don't actually know. Probably a leftover from evolving as small rodentlike carrion scavengers. Probably.

What is your favorite book of all time?

[lachattenoire13.livejournal.com]

That is... an oddly difficult question. I've never settled on a favorite book that lasted long enough to be called an all-time favorite book. In fact the book I liked the most and might possibly fit that category I liked when I was 4 and thus it is difficult to remember liking it. But I still enjoy the story now even though I have stronger current favorites so I'm going to go with that one.

Heidi.

Why does everything taste better fried? Even fried ice cream and fried twinkies.

[tanarill.livejournal.com]

Frying is the art of adding fat. Everything tastes better with more fat.

Whyyyyyy do I hurt so much now?

[lit-master.livejournal.com]

You just had the innards of your bones sucked out? That doesn't help things.

Also anesthesia isn't nice to you and leads to much ow.

Why are metal gears just so cool?

[tanarill.livejournal.com]

Because they are shiny and have teeth. Also, they have this whole "click click inevitable" thing going own.

What the hell is a Clockwork Orange?

[lachattenoire13.livejournal.com]

Not those metal gears, the giant mechs metal gears that stomp on people and shoot anti-aircraft missiles.

This (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066921/) is A Clockwork Orange. I recommend seeing it.

How is it in fact so hot in the San Francisco Bay Area that it's too hot to sleep? I haven't slept since monday because it's been too hot.

[tanarill.livejournal.com]

I don't know. You have a bay, that ought to regulate temperatures, not increase them . . .

Do you have Ice? Ice helps.

[lachattenoire13.livejournal.com]

I do not have ice. I had ice cream but I ate it. And it's a short term solution. I have an air conditioner but I am loathe to use it. But then I may be forced to...

I just had my pregnant friend bring her toddler over to the store for me to do readings on him (UGH!!). Why are little kids always throwing up for no reason? It almost made me sick today.

[tanarill.livejournal.com]

Because the stomachs of young children are a) smaller and b) more robust than anyone wants to acknowledge. Not only do we keep feeding them too much food, it's the wrong food. At least IMHO.

Why do people find small humans cute?

[lachattenoire13.livejournal.com]

Because without small humans there are no more big humans therefore instinct demands people protect the small humans by finding them cute.

Why do hormones create the need for me to rip out the hearts of men with my teeth and then dine on their souls?

[tanarill.livejournal.com]

Because souls are tasty and nootrishus.

Why am I hungry until confronted with the yogurt which I planned to eat?

[lachattenoire13.livejournal.com]

Because sometimes, when confronted with the prospect of soured rotten milk, the stomach goes "bleh".

Whyyyy did my boss think that setting up shop next to a haunted halfway house for insane people was a good idea? Not that the occasional game of cards with random people isn't fun but some of the nutjobs put the worst gamer funk to shame.

[tanarill.livejournal.com]

Because you get directionally challenged hauntings sometimes. It's all in the atmosphere.

How crazy are these nutjobs?

[lachattenoire13.livejournal.com]

Denied admission to the local mental hospital because they are not considered dangerous. The suicide attempts, screaming rages at hallucinations, stabbings, and aimless creepy mutterings are not enough to be considered "dangerous". Insane, yes, but when the local insane asylum is an hour's drive...

Is there an upcoming WoW expansion I don't know about? That was the third person today...

[tanarill.livejournal.com]

Not that I know of, but I'm the only one in my sorority with the willpower to resist the Warcrack, soooo . . . it's possible.

My BF is coming over for dinner, which is not the issue. The issue is that his family is also coming over to meet my family for the first time. Suggestions?