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11-14-2001, 07:04 PM
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Guide since 2003
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: West Mifflin, PA
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 11,546
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More getting to know you questions 11/14
I found some more great getting to know you questions that I wanted to share.. Here goes
<UL TYPE=SQUARE>1. What is the best practical joke you've played on somebody?
2. What is the worst song people play at their wedding?
3. What is the worst TV show ( past or present) that you'll admit to being a fan of?
4. For the guys- Betty or Wilma? For the gals- Fred or Barney?
5. If you could have a conversation with anybody who ever lived & ius now deceased what would you ask them?
6. If somebody gave you a free ticket to a Britney Spears concert, would you go?[/list]Here's my answers...
<UL TYPE=SQUARE>1.Hmm... can I get back to you on that one? I can't really think of any off the top of my head but I'm sure after reading some of the other posts one or two will come to mind.
2. Celebration by Kool & the gang.. I had specifically asked the band ( yikes.. BAND.. I'm showing my age) at my first wedding NOT to play that song.. when I heard the opening chords I ran up to them & made them stop instantly!
Second would have to be the chicken dance.. ICK!
3. I've got two..Dukes of Hazard.. how corny can you get? I probably only watched it because John Schenider was such a hunk. I'm almost embarassed to say I also used to faithfully watch the Love Boat
4. Barney.. Fred is too loud.. give me the dumb short ones! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
5. My Mom... just to talk to her again & get all of correct answers to her relationship with her sister ( looong story) I was asked this question a couple of years ago ( 7?) & my answer at that time was Nicole Brown Simpson & my question would have been simply " Did OJ really do it?" [img]images/icons/blush.gif[/img]
6. It would have to be tickets so that my almost 4YO DD could go.. she's a big Britney fan but if it were just one I wouldn't go.. but I would take the ticket & sell it on Ebay [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img][/list] |
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11-14-2001, 07:39 PM
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Community Rank: Adventurer 
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Schenectady, NY
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Re: More getting to know you questions 11/14
1) Answering a question to: what's the password for the helpdesk account with BYTEME. Which was the actual password at that time. What a riot!
2)Another one bites the dust. What's that about?
3) Any wrestling show. <I still watch wrestling btw [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img] >
4) Definately Betty
5) David Letterman. I'd love to throw a pencil through the "window."
6) Ummm. One word: NO!
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11-14-2001, 10:12 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Mont Belvieu, TX
Concierge Level: 3
Posts: 2,086
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Re: More getting to know you questions 11/14
1. I'm not very good at practical jokes so I can't think of any. I just like to hide and scare the snot out of people.
2. The Macarena (?) I do not want to see 80 yr old grannys doing that!
3. If I liked it it has to be good [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img]
4. Barney - he is sweet and kind
5. Probably my maternal grandmother - she died when my mom was 5 or 6. I would just like to know all about her.
6. If only one ticket, probably not. I like her okay but don't care for concerts much. mary
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11-14-2001, 10:40 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Connecticut
Posts: 7,150
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Re: More getting to know you questions 11/14
I love these questions!
1. Best practical joke was telling my daughter to find the "any" key on the keyboard and watching her look all over it for 1/2 hour! Hey its mean but it was my 1/2 hour of happiness!
2. Worst song? I would have to say "shout" or "celebration". C'mon the chicken dance is cool! [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
3. Worst show that Im a fan of? Well, I do like Weakest Link. Yes its another one of those Who Wants to be take offs but I just like watching it to see who can insult Ann the best! I swear, sometimes I am better than the contestants they have!
4. Barney--I have a thing for blonde men.
5. Princess Diana...what did you see in Prince Charles girl??
6. Britney Spears huh? hmmm probably not. I really dont want to see her in those outfits with her boobs almost falling out....no offense to the men who like her for that reason.
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11-14-2001, 11:23 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Indiana , USA
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 26,527
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Re: More getting to know you questions 11/14
1. Best practical Joke- I had my OB tell my hubby that I was pregnant with twins! Hey,the man had a vasectamy and wouldn't get checked to see if it ad worked (his dad had 2 kids after HIS)
2.worst song at wedding - FEELINGS
3. worst show I have watched - CHIPs when I was younger, now, Temptation Island - I feel sooooo bad
4. Barney/Fred - Fred, the strong, hardwoking type that is not afraid to tell you what he needs (and then does what you want, anyway!)
5. Conversation w/dead person - toss up between Happy Lindberg and Amelia Earhart - question for both - what REALLY happened?
6. Free Brtney tic. There is NO way, well, maybe if it was in a plush suite with gourmet food and a TV or stereo with headphones that drown out all outside noise!
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11-15-2001, 01:28 AM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: The land of the free and the Home of the Brave!
Posts: 2,694
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Re: More getting to know you questions 11/14
My turn my turn!
kay,
1.Practical joke, mmmmm, Sometimes I like to leave the plastic wrap on the cheese and put it on my hubbys sandwhiches for his lunch. He always gives his friend one too! I also leave embarassing love notes in his lunchbox. I have moved his car across the parking lot too! I love tormenting him.
2.Macerena...yup.
3.The Love Boat, Fame...,Solid Gold...LAME-0!
4.Can I choose that little martian guy?
5.Tough one...I have to say,First my dad, as for a famous person...mmmmm. Marylin Monroe!
6.no....self explanitory.
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11-15-2001, 09:00 AM
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Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Nowhere
Posts: 1,197
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Re: More getting to know you questions 11/14
1. Not in to pratical jokes.
2. worse song at a wedding--D-i-v-o-r-c-e. It's from the 70's. The band really sang this at my cousin's wedding. A divorce song at a wedding????
3. Chips
4. Fred
5. Any of the founding fathers. My question--If you could come back today would you aprove of the way the country has been run in the past 200 years?
6. Britney Spears ticket no way. I would sell it on E-bay. Would someone please tell me why she's so popular???
[img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]
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11-15-2001, 09:07 AM
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Community Rank: Trekker
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 1,138
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Re: More getting to know you questions 11/14
Here's my answers:
1. I'm not a real practical joker...I guess I take life too seriously. Note to self: Lighten Up!
2. Butterfly Kisses...ever time I hear it I have to fight hte nausea. Funny thing is that my mother suggested I use it at my wedding--NOT.
3. I am a shameless Young and the Restless addict. It's the mindless part of my day that I enjoy while cooking dinner and drinking a glass of wine.
4. Barney--he's just as stupid but much more malleable.
5. Lee Harvey Oswald: "Did you act alone?" (I just get a kick out of conspiracy theorists)
6. I've never sold anything on ebay but this would be an incentive to learn.
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11-15-2001, 10:05 AM
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Faith, Trust, Pixie Dust
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Sasquatch Territory, Pacific Northwest
Concierge Level: 8
Posts: 17,166
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Re: More getting to know you questions 11/14
1: No pratical jokes that I can remember.
2: You Light Up My Life by Debbi Boone...UGH!!!!!
3: OK,( you and me, bobwerner) I used to watch WCW Monday Nitro...I know, kinda weird for a 41 year old mom, but, heck it totally amused me! We even went to a couple of tapings, totally silly fun!
4: Barney, he was sweet
5: Walt Disney, to tell him "Thank You, from the bottom of my heart" and Judas, who betrayed Jesus for 30 pieces of silver. I wonder what he would have to say for himself...
6: Not even if Brittney lived across the street...Ugh, Ugh, and Double UGH!
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11-15-2001, 11:35 AM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer 
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Orlando area via Chicago
Posts: 5,424
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Re: More getting to know you questions 11/14
1. Can't remember any.
2. The chicken dance! Ugh! The only song I requested not to be played at my wedding.
3. Knight Rider. OK, I was young (preteen) and in love with David Hasselhoff.
4. Barney, blonde and laid back.
5. My brother, just to see how he is, if there's an afterlife, [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img] etc.
6. No.
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11-15-2001, 01:45 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Mansfield, MA
Posts: 1,608
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Re: More getting to know you questions 11/14
1. What is the best practical joke you've played on somebody? We stole the HUGE tree one of my bosses has in his office and put it in another office. It was so funny!! (that's not the best joke, but it was the first one I could think of and the most recent.)
2. What is the worst song people play at their wedding? There is love.
3. What is the worst TV show ( past or present) that you'll admit to being a fan of? Dukes of Hazzard and Dynasty
4. For the guys- Betty or Wilma? For the gals- Fred or Barney? Big hunky Fred!! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
5. If you could have a conversation with anybody who ever lived & is now deceased what would you ask them? Jesus and I would ask why we're all here.
6. If somebody gave you a free ticket to a Britney Spears concert, would you go? YUP!! And I'm not ashamed to admit that I am a 31 year old Britney Spears fan!! So there! LOL!!
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11-15-2001, 01:47 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 1,138
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Re: More getting to know you questions 11/14
Way to go Allyson!!
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11-15-2001, 02:01 PM
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Community Rank: Sightseer 
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Souderton, PA
Posts: 53
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Re: More getting to know you questions 11/14
1. If you have one of those hose things on your kitchen sink, wrap a rubber band around the handle so that the next person who turns on the water gets a wet surprise. [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]
2. The Electric Slide and the Macarena. I refused to let either of these be played at our wedding.
3. Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
4. Barney. Fred is just too loud and cranky.
5. My grandfather. I would ask him how come he had fifteen kids if he didn't like crowds? Their house and back yard made for some pretty crowded family reunions in the summers. There are 44 grandchildren in this family and the great grandchildren are still coming. [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] (we all lost count a long time ago).
6. Britney who? JK. Not my type of music. I'm just a country hillbilly. [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
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11-15-2001, 03:34 PM
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Community Rank: Adventurer
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Baltimore, MD
Posts: 697
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Re: More getting to know you questions 11/14
1. What is the best practical joke you've played on somebody? I suck. I have nothing.
2. What is the worst song people play at their wedding? MAMBO #5...any questions??
3. What is the worst TV show ( past or present) that you'll admit to being a fan of?
Making the Band. I'm turning red as we speak!!
4. For the guys- Betty or Wilma? For the gals- Fred or Barney? Barney. What a dumb little cutie.
5. If you could have a conversation with anybody who ever lived & is now deceased what would you ask them? Marylin Monroe is a good one, I'd hafta go w/ Nicole Brown Simpson too. Darn now I want to talk to everyone w/ a controversial death, since the lines are open!!!
6. If somebody gave you a free ticket to a Britney Spears concert, would you go? Yes and I'd have FUN!!!
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11-15-2001, 04:24 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Durham,NC
Posts: 2,615
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Re: More getting to know you questions 11/14
Me next!
1. Best pratical joke? Getting a guy at work to believe the April Fool's story the student paper at Duke had printed about some guy in Chatham county that had produced a lotion that would cause feathers to erupt all over your body. The article was too funny!! The guy had pictures, scientific proof and everything so Daniel feel for it hook, line and sinker! He even called home to his mother to say he wanted to invest in the company if they should sell stock. It was a classic moment if I say so myself. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
2. Worst wedding song? Hmm....Groovy Kind of Love (GAG!)
3. TV Show? Gotta think on this one awhile.
4. Barney definitely.
5. Wow, toughie...I'll get back to ya on this one too.
6. N-O!
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