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Jul. 13th, 2005 04:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
penfieldApparently, there's this thing on LiveJournal called a "meme." I don't know what the word means, or even how to pronounce it. (When I say it in my head, I pronounce it "mee-mee," like an excited affirmation of self, as if everything else on these LiveJournals isn't saltwater taffy for narcissists.) Experts tell me that a meme is a kind of survey that gets passed around from journal to journal. It's like the clap, without the painful burning sensation.
Anyway, I saw this one recently, and it seems like a reasonable opportunity for a test-drive. Thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
noasylumhere.
Comment with your name, and I will:
1. tell you what song/movie reminds me of you.
2. say something that only makes sense to you and me.
3. tell you my first memory of you.
4. tell you what animal you remind me of.
5. tell you something that I've always wondered about you.
Anyway, I saw this one recently, and it seems like a reasonable opportunity for a test-drive. Thanks to
noasylumhere.Comment with your name, and I will:
1. tell you what song/movie reminds me of you.
2. say something that only makes sense to you and me.
3. tell you my first memory of you.
4. tell you what animal you remind me of.
5. tell you something that I've always wondered about you.
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mememe
Date: 2005-07-13 08:31 pm (UTC)I now have a stomache from eating lunch too quickly--I was worried for nothing.
That's what YOU think
Date: 2005-07-13 08:42 pm (UTC)Re: mememe
Date: 2005-07-13 08:51 pm (UTC)2. I'm surprised Jamie Cullum left with his pants still on.
3. I first saw you in a photo David was showing around, and I remember agreeing with everybody that you were cute. In person, I remember wandering around the Smith residential quad after dusk with David, totally confused about where we were supposed to go, until you finally appeared to let us in.
4. A peacock.
5. Why does she have a bellybutton ring if she never displays her belly?
Re: That's what YOU think
Date: 2005-07-13 09:01 pm (UTC)2. Easiest answer yet: "Damn."
3. We were waiting for Memmott's first class to begin, my freshman year, and you noticed me looking at a ZBT rush flyer. You told me ZBT was a bunch of dorks and I should go to a DU rush instead.
4. A bear, but not one of those big fat bears. A long, skinny bear. Like Chewbacca.
5. How can a guy who knows more about music than I know about anything not like the Beatles?
no subject
Date: 2005-07-13 10:23 pm (UTC)someasylumsomewhere
Date: 2005-07-14 01:56 pm (UTC)2. I keep the mooooo thing in my top right desk drawer.
3. Our very first interaction consisted of me quizzing you about Green Bay Packer running backs. And when we finally met at the National Building Museum, which seems even dorkier now that I think about it, you were wearing one of those sleeveless turtleneck shirts and I had a rose between my teeth. You started laughing at me almost immediately.
4. Kelly Clarkson.
5. What's Robin Yount really like?
I have no website ID
Date: 2005-07-14 05:23 pm (UTC)-Barbra
Re: I have no website ID
Date: 2005-07-14 05:54 pm (UTC)2. Chip was my favorite.
3. This is an impossible question, because I've known you basically forever. You were at my birthday parties before I could count to whatever age I was. And all the Holidays tend to blend together after a while. But my most vivid memory is from 1991. I don't remember if it was Christmas or what, but we were in Grandpa's basement for a family get-together, and the Raiders-Bengals playoff game was on. I was watching the play where Bo Jackson hurt his hip (as it turned out, the last football play of his career) and I turned to you, sitting next to me, and said, "Oh no, this is awful, Bo Jackson is out of the game!" You looked at me quizzically, as if I were speaking Chinese, but I sensed that you were still a little grateful to me for shaking you out of your mind-numbing boredom for two seconds.
4. A bunny. But I want to make clear that it has nothing to do with teeth. Your teeth are lovely.
5. Are you glad you didn't get stuck with your mom's maiden name?
Curiosity may kill the . . . whatever you think I am
Date: 2005-07-14 10:54 pm (UTC)Can I answer?
Date: 2005-07-15 01:15 pm (UTC)2. Damn, it feels good to be a pot roast
3. Brunch
4. You don't remind me of an animal.
5. I've always wondered why you didn't get a slightly smaller TV.
Re: Curiosity may kill the . . . whatever you think I am
Date: 2005-07-15 03:48 pm (UTC)2. Get that mutant toe out of here; I'm going to give you a ploof.
3. Halloween Day, 1991. Thuy summoned me over to your lunch table so he could introduce us. I wasn't dressed up, but you were, in a Catholic schoolgirl outfit that probably should have been considered illegal. You were bubbly and bouncy, with a 100-megawatt smile. I told you how much I liked your name, and you told me that you and your sister were both named after Shakespeare characters. At this point I produced a small canister of breath spray and made perhaps the lamest joke in the history of jokes. You laughed anyway.
4. My initial thought was to go with something feline, for obvious reasons. But cats, large and small, are quiet and stealthy, which you are not. Instead I say: a kangaroo. But the only thing you're carrying in your pouch is pepper spray.
5. How did you make your Ramen noodles taste so good? I've never had such delicious Ramen as when you made it.
Re: Can I answer?
Date: 2005-07-15 03:49 pm (UTC)1. "The Hustle." And "Damn It Feels Good to be a Gangsta," Mr. Pot Roast.
2. You've ruined the phrase "sex sandwich" for me, forever. (Not that I planned on getting a great deal of use out of it.)
3. You took me aside in the CT office to invite me to brunch, and I wondered for the first time if I was being asked out by a guy.
4. A giraffe, because you're so bony.
5. Is he going to run for public office someday?
Re: Can I answer?
Date: 2005-07-15 03:52 pm (UTC)Re: Can I answer?
Date: 2005-07-15 03:55 pm (UTC)Re: mememe
Date: 2005-07-16 01:12 am (UTC)Question 2: Now that you brought it up, what was the "lamest joke in the history of jokes"?
Answer to your question: It's a long and complicated story as to why I have a bellybutton ring. Peer pressure, rebellion against my parents (see tattoo), individuality. But I don't have it for anyone else. Just me.
Meanwhile,
1. When The Saints Come Marching In (done in New Orleans-style jazz, of course).
2. I bet Jamie Cullum went home with 100 pairs of women's underwear.
3. You asking David, while visiting Smith during Winter Weekend, if he thought you were "going to get any action." (He doesn't remember this at all.)
4. A yellow lab. I'm thinking of the fierce loyalty you have for your friends, not the panting and crotch-sniffing.
5. Why don't you want to travel to non-English-speaking Europe?
ooh, me too!
Date: 2005-07-17 02:39 pm (UTC)Re: mememe
Date: 2005-07-18 02:29 pm (UTC)As I have told others, I am not going to repeat "the lamest joke in the history of jokes." Those records are sealed. If you must imagine me saying something stupid and unfunny, I recommend that you simply call upon your own personal memories; there's plenty of material there.
I would also like to note that I, too, do not remember asking if I was going to get any action. I think maybe *you* said it, and are trying to blame it on me.
Re: ooh, me too!
Date: 2005-07-18 02:41 pm (UTC)2. Watch out for Steve Holt! He's coming up on your ass.
3. We were doing our A.M./Brother interview, and you told me that your personal hero was Oliver North. This impressed me, not because I have any particular affection for Oliver North, but because you just came right out and said it proudly, and you didn't give a shit what my reaction was going to be. That was pretty cool.
4. As my most vociferously Republican friend, it would be convenient if I thought of you as an elephant. But I actually see you as more of a polar bear. The kind in those old Coca-Cola commercials, except drinking beer.
5. What do you see in C.D.B. that I don't?
Am I too late?
Date: 2005-07-22 05:29 pm (UTC)Re: Am I too late?
Date: 2005-07-22 06:01 pm (UTC)1. Anything a capella, really. And "Signed, Sealed, Delivered," but mostly because I remember when you were arranging it and trying to figure out what to put in the background vocals after Stevie says "Seen a lot of things in this old world."
2. Is that your cup of urine?
3. You and your dad were moving your stuff in, and I kept getting frustrated by what I thought was an indiscriminate and inefficient floor plan. I didn't say anything, though, because I didn't want our first conversation to consist of how foolish I thought you were being.
4. A beagle: loyal, lovable, but easily distracted and prone to fits of rhythmic barking.
5. What the hell was in that cup, anyway?
Re: Am I too late?
Date: 2005-07-22 06:48 pm (UTC)http://www.polident.com/
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