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posted by [personal profile] mylescorcoran at 03:57pm on 31/10/2005 under , ,
Holy halloween, readers, but there have been bucket-loads of questions asked on my friends list of people doing a new round of a questions/interview type meme. I, of course, am above such things. Or at least until someone comments to this asking me [pleading tone]anything[/pleading tone].

I'm not proud.
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posted by [identity profile] sammywol.livejournal.com at 10:08am on 31/10/2005
Questions, questions, questions.

1: Of all the celebs, writers, VIPs, scientists etc. you have met, which was the most nervous-making/oh my god!/fannish encounter?
2: What sort of pet would you most like? (keep it clean!)
3: What do you think is your greatest untapped skill?
4: When we game, which player responses do you enjoy most?
5: Where the F**k has our iron gone? OK, i know you don't know the answer to that, so 'does it bug you that I never iron anything?'
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posted by [personal profile] mylescorcoran at 02:51am on 01/11/2005
1. I don't really know. I managed to be only semi-geek to Charles Stross when I asked him to sign my copy of Iron Sunrise at Worldcon, and I got quite chatty with Grant Morrison at a signing in Album in Paris. I've met a lot of ambassadors and the like but don't really remember them all that well. I regret not having gone up to the Indigo Girls in Dublin that day they were unloading a truck for their gig, but I'd just bought an album by someone else and didn't think that would go down so well.

2. I'm not sure anymore. I've had cats and a dog as a child, and I'm not really that big on the idea anymore. Probably a cat or two when I'm old and grey(er).

3. Semi-glibly, I think I'd make a good Tibetan (or was it Nepalese?) husband, shared around the women of the house. I'm fairly kind, love women and enjoy making other people happy (sly grin). Polyam fantasising aside, I think I'm good at explaining things, so I sometimes wonder if I wouldn't contribute more to others by being a teacher. Teaching in this country isn't held in any great esteem, and I think that's so wrong. Education is the key to a functioning, forward-looking society.

4. Wonder, surprise and awe. I love it when something we've created makes a player stop and boggle, if only for a moment. I'm also partial to white-hot vengeance or romantic torment. I like it when an NPC of mine provokes a really strong reaction. I remember with great fondness the scenes with Elad and Elyzabel (or Elad and Morgaine) in our Pendragon game on the one hand, and the uniform, unbendable will of the group to "get Bacon" in the assault on Hertford's estates in the Tudor Talents game on the other.

5. I have no idea where the iron is, but I'm morally opposed to ironing so I'm not too pushed.
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posted by [identity profile] sammywol.livejournal.com at 02:56am on 01/11/2005
Ah! the joys of the 'good kicking list'!

I think the society you are thinking of is Chinese but on the Himalayan border somewhere - tries to dredge up memories of Michael Palin's programme seen in the early hours in Finland with Swedish subtitles. I'm not sure if that is quite the model you suggest either. I think we may have to come up with a special cultural option just for you love.

PS ask me questions if you fancy.
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posted by [personal profile] mylescorcoran at 03:00am on 01/11/2005
"A special cultural option just for you"

That suits me fine. I'm special me.

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posted by [personal profile] mylescorcoran at 03:09am on 01/11/2005
Five questions for Wol.

1. [Cultural]: What's one of your favourite artworks and why?

2. [Role-playing]: If I were to start a new game tomorrow, what would you most like it to be (setting, style, or system, whatever)?

3. [Nosy]: Tell us two things you regret and two things you don't. (Marrying me is off limits for either category!)

4. [Technological]: What device (real or imagined) would you most like to have and why?

5. [Blue skies]: Tell us about one turning point in your life and what might be if it had gone differently.
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posted by [personal profile] mylescorcoran at 03:09am on 01/11/2005
Put the questions up in a post of your own if you like.
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posted by [identity profile] sammywol.livejournal.com at 06:46am on 07/11/2005
Will do - check me in about 30 mins. smooch!
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posted by [identity profile] fatal-logic.livejournal.com at 11:45am on 31/10/2005
How about what is the funniest of your parents stories? Seen how many great ones mine have, I'm sure you must have heard some good ones too...
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posted by [personal profile] mylescorcoran at 02:36am on 01/11/2005
I still love the various stories of my father's sleepwalking and talking in his sleep.

The most embarassing is the time when he woke to find himself standing, naked, outside his New York hotel room. He looked about, found a cardboard box in a janitor's cupboard and went down to the night desk. The night porter didn't bat and eye, told him to return to his room and he (the porter) would be up in a moment with a key.

The most painful (if funny) is the time my father tried to get back into bed, half-asleep, and turned left instead of right and attempted to climb onto the top of the radiator. He burnt his arse and woke up sharpish. Ouch.
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posted by [identity profile] doc-mystery.livejournal.com at 05:34pm on 31/10/2005
Is Hallowe'en celebrated in Ireland, the UK and/or Europe? I heard it rumoured it was mostly a N. American event.

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posted by [identity profile] purpletigron.livejournal.com at 10:51pm on 31/10/2005
It supposedly is descended from the Celtic festival of Samhain.
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posted by [personal profile] mylescorcoran at 02:33am on 01/11/2005
Yes, it's increasingly celebrated in the N. American fashion (sweets, costumes, pumpkins) but it's originally a local Celtic festival, one of the four biggies of the year: Imbolc, Lughnasa, Beltaine and Samhain.
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posted by [identity profile] sammywol.livejournal.com at 02:57am on 01/11/2005
We had our first trick or treaters ever round yesterday. It's catching on.
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me me me me me

posted by (anonymous) at 05:24am on 07/11/2005
Loved the questions sammywol asked you!

Ask me questions, please, please!! I'm bored in work today.

Queenie
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posted by [personal profile] mylescorcoran at 06:53am on 07/11/2005
Five questions for Queenie.

1. [Literature] What's your favourite book from before you were 18 and why?

2. [Life] What have you done today that you've never done before?

3. [History] Describe one turning point in your life. How would your life be if it had turned out differently?

4. [Embarrassing] Have you had pet names for parts of the body? What were they?

5. [Distance] What physical thing do you most miss from home?

You now have to ask me five questions as penance.
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