As promised, an OP that may sink like a rock, and whether one should care.

So, I responded that that I'd start another thread that would probably drop like a rock.

I am having a difficult time coming up with a topic tonight. But here is what I say! Fuck all that nasty nonsense and let the Secret Service do their jobs.

So, here are five burning questions:

1) Do you love pets? Dog person or cat person? Cute stories are mandatory.

2) What is your favorite kind of music, preferably from your youth?

3) Do you have a favorite hangout? And how often do you go there?

4)Describe your first love, and how it continues, or ended.

5) How do you feel about adoption.

1. Love cats, am indifferent towards dogs, cute cat story http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=7950254 (in a twisted kind of way)
2. Paddy Punk
3. Joe's Sample House, just got home about an hour ago, usually make it 3 times a month
4. My first love ended tragically, I miss him still
5. My mom was adopted so I think it is a beautiful thing

Now, excuse me while I read the HTML tutorial, so I can figure out how to answer my own damned questions in BOLD.


:hi:

I just thought it was a big secret! Live and learn :)

1. Yes, I love pets and I'm a dog person. I'm don't really care for cats.
2. Hard rock, metal/goth metal
3. Gerard's Sports Bar and about once a week
4. My first love was a summer relationship while I was home from college. It ended after the summer, of course.
5. My dad was adopted, but he has since met (and bonded) with his real mother. I'm for it, I guess. :shrug:

1) Two rescue cats, brother and sister tuxedos, one Boxer/Pittbull mix, also rescued, two aquariums with about a dozen fish and a lobster, one bearded dragon.

2) There really is no other music than the blues, everybody knows that.

3) Anywhere my kids are playing football, soccer, or lacrosse.

4) She was a blonde haired temptress. Stole my wagon. Been a brunette fan ever since.

5) Are you offering? I could use a rich relative! Seriously, adoption is great. I was raised by my stepdad, and our bond was as tight as if we were biologically related.

1) Do you love pets? Dog person or cat person? Cute stories are mandatory.

I have a weakness for bunnies. I love dogs. I don't have either right now, because I keep getting adopted by cats.

I'm all out of cute stories, I think.

2) What is your favorite kind of music, preferably from your youth?

I like punk entirely too much for a grown woman who drives a station wagon.

3) Do you have a favorite hangout? And how often do you go there?

My kitchen. Based on the size of my ass, much too often.

4)Describe your first love, and how it continues, or ended.

Everybody here knows.

5) How do you feel about adoption.

I wish adorable stray cats would quit adopting me.

However, I don't know how to take care of a bunny. And my fear is that my current pets might "play" in a way that might hurt a bunny.

(Hi, Lil Missy! :loveya: :hug: )

1) Do you love pets? Dog person or cat person? Cute stories are mandatory.
I love The Wiley and Excellent Boy Cat Named Ginger. I consider myself a "cat person," but before Ginger, I was a "dog person."
Obligatory Wiley and Excellent Boy Cat Named Ginger story: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=4051838

2) What is your favorite kind of music, preferably from your youth?
I don't really have a favorite kind of music. I pretty much enjoy all music except disco and early- to mid-80s pop.

3) Do you have a favorite hangout? And how often do you go there?
Our patio, early in the morning just as the sun's coming up, with my first cup of coffee and a smoke, before anyone else is awake. :)

4)Describe your first love, and how it continues, or ended.
Robbie Byrd, first grade, in a small town in Oklahoma. I kissed him on the cheek and he grinned and blushed. Our family moved away a year later. Dunno what happened to Robbie.

5) How do you feel about adoption.
I'm adopted. I think it's generally a very good thing.

Howdy to you and CMW! (poke the cat too) Not seen you around, but I'm sparadic. :D

:hug:

It's early here and I'm all early-mornin' stretchy and havin' my first cup of coffee. :)

I've been absent lately. Just returned from two day of business travel in/around Geneva. Sooooooo nice to be home, and soooo nice to see you, dear. :hug:

:loveya:

:smooch:

I swear coffee goes with toothpaste! I look forward to that schmere every day :)

Holy crap! I know the details of the Geneva Convention but never gave a thought to where the hell Geneva was. I'm such a bad Hillbilly :D

:)

at about 7:20 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 9. :D

see someone's house from there :rofl:

:)

Every time I have to make the trip from Lugano to Geneva and back, I make sure to wear "sensible shoes," just in case we crash in the Alps. :rofl:

ok, I giggled.

:rofl:

PS: I just imagine this.. kinda like me wearin undies.. just in case! :P

:D

that inflatable life vests would be the "safety gear" of choice for a flight over the Alps? I mean, wouldn't skiis be more logical?

Every time I fly over the Alps, and the flight attendant gives the life vest demonstration, my chest clinches up and I think, "Gawd, this is gonna be useless if we crash." :weep:

flowers will grow.

So I wouldn't let them crazies in yer head :D

I'm thinkin.. if we can get seat belts on motorcycles.. we would make a killin'!

:D

:pals:

I was afraid that I had forever estranged you with, ya know, that one post. I mentioned, uhm .. the noises ... when we did not know my dog was hiding in the closet?

My faithful pooch will protect me at any cost!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Nevah! I adore you, dah-link. :hug: :loveya:

cuz it's true!

:D

:rofl:

EXACTLY! :*

1) Do you love pets? Dog person or cat person? Cute stories are mandatory.
Yes I do. Never had a cat but I love em all. I work/volunteer at the Humane Society and really love doing it. I get to see critters that are in shit find wonderful places to spend their days.

2) What is your favorite kind of music, preferably from your youth?

Fave I guess is "old" country/outlaw country, cool near "emo 90's stuff, southern fried stuff from 1900 to now.. hell.. nm, I like it all.. even Belioz!~!

3) Do you have a favorite hangout? And how often do you go there?

"work" Humane Society.. very

4)Describe your first love, and how it continues, or ended.

My first love is always in my heart. She is a special woman who has part of my heart with her always. It (the love) will always be with me.

5) How do you feel about adoption. Of kittens? I push adoption all week. I think if a bebbe didnt have a chance or a child would be better off than in a bad situation, adoption is for me. Why do you ask dear?

Gawd.. I'm fairly blitzed. I'll re-read all what I typed in a sec. (or in morn)

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1) Do you love pets? Dog person or cat person? Cute stories are mandatory.

I have 2 cats and 1 dog. I think I am more of a dog person, but I adore my cats so much too, and I have one that needs so much TLC that I am glad to give.

2) What is your favorite kind of music, preferably from your youth?

Oh, hell. I am so old I'd make a nuisance of myself. The first record I ever bought was a 45 called "Hey Carrie Ann"

3) Do you have a favorite hangout? And how often do you go there?

I have a favorite hangout at a "ladies bar". I only go once a week, on Sunday. When it is slow and quiet. More behind that, but I got sick of the constant drama, thus I choose my one night out carefully.

4)Describe your first love, and how it continues, or ended.

My first love was the love of my life. But, she had an explosive anger disorder, and bi-polar problem. She did great when she agreed to treatment and took her meds. Once she decided she was not going to take treatment or her meds anymore, I knew she, and we, were doomed.

I just KNEW that meant she'd beat the crap outta me again. And she did. I sent her packin that night. But it still hurts, ya know?

5) How do you feel about adoption.

Oh, for fuck sakes?? How could ANYONE be against adoption?

1) Do you love pets? Dog person or cat person? Cute stories are mandatory.
Yes. Cat Person, but I like dogs, too. Short cute cat story. I had a cat for 17 years that was quite the character. He basically hated everyone except for me and my father. Anyways, when he was out of food he would drag his empty food bowl to the middle of the kitchen floor. When you gave him food he didn't like he would eat a bit and throw it back up on top of the rest.

2) What is your favorite kind of music, preferably from your youth?
I don't quite grasp this question, as one of my musical pet peeves is my theory that most people basically listen to whatever they listened to in high school for the rest of their lives, and that's not me at all. My tastes have been growing and changing since I was tiny, and most of the music I liked back then doesn't even register anymore. At the moment, I'm heavily into ambient black metal, and crushing black metal. Oh, and some regular black metal for good measure, just to shake things up. But I honestly listen to a ton of different genres, from black metal to hip hop to jazz to blues to noise. I don't just love music, I NEED music, and I try to find the good in any style that gets thrown at me. I even have some classical stuff.

3) Do you have a favorite hangout? And how often do you go there?
Yes, right where I am right now. Alone in my place, and I go there often. :)

4)Describe your first love, and how it continues, or ended.
My first real love (not just puppy love) was when I was sixteen. We ended up together for 7 years, not bad for that age, before growing apart and agreeing to break up (stayed friends). I do take an obnoxious pride though that the second reason she gave me was that I was just too into hockey. "You play hockey, you watch hockey, you talk hockey!" was how she put it...and she was entirely correct. But hey, she was never going to make the playoffs. :rofl:

5) How do you feel about adoption.
I think it's awesome, and if I was the fathering type (my last three answers should end that debate once and for all) I'd look into adoption first.

:D

I think you are a bit deranged. No problem! I can relate to that!

"a bit"? :P

I'm perfectly content with my insanity. It's just that no one else is. :freak:

:hi:

I lurves ya, but if you repeat that, I will deny it!

:hug:

:hi:

1) Do you love pets? Dog person or cat person? Cute stories are mandatory.

I'm more of a cat person. My cat is the baddest motherfucker around. Other cats fuck with him once.

2) What is your favorite kind of music, preferably from your youth?

I'm partial to metal and blues, and a mix of both.

3) Do you have a favorite hangout? And how often do you go there?

Yes, and too often.

4)Describe your first love, and how it continues, or ended.

Young love, it did not continue, distance and all that

5) How do you feel about adoption.

Indifferent. If it keeps fetuses alive, great.

And yeah, I have a favorite hangout too. But, if the painfully stoopid shit doesn't stop on my one quiet Sunday night outing, I'm staying home.

1) Do you love pets? Dog person or cat person? Cute stories are mandatory.

Love both, love cats more.

2) What is your favorite kind of music, preferably from your youth?

Rocket From The Tombs/Pere Ubu changed my life when I was 13 in 1975; Avant Garage music, I guess.

3) Do you have a favorite hangout? And how often do you go there?

Tim Hortons around the corner from my place. Mrs E and I go there every weekend..

4)Describe your first love, and how it continues, or ended.

Patty; we were in 4th Grade and she loved Paul McCartney instead of me. Oy!

5) How do you feel about adoption.

I wish those who seek fertility treatments would adopt instead.

1) Do you love pets? Dog person or cat person? Cute stories are mandatory. Love 'em both although I have only ever had cats because of living in apartments and working long hours

2) What is your favorite kind of music, preferably from your youth? Rock 'n Roll

3) Do you have a favorite hangout? And how often do you go there? No

4)Describe your first love, and how it continues, or ended. Thomas Alan Gahangan - England, 1971 - ended when my military dad tried to kill himself so I got shipped back to America

5) How do you feel about adoption. All for it

You are too damned reasonable to pick a fight with. And it is terribly annoying.

:hi:

so I suppose it was reasonable :rofl:

:hi:

I guess you never know.

You're right! You're pretty bad @ss! :) And I think what you said about anonymous posters on a message board not affecting your self-esteem was right on the money.

But having said that... I created a thread in GD that I want some replies to!! :blush: :rofl: :blush:

Check it out! http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=4221866&mesg_id=4221866

It's going in my journal with or without 100 replies!! lol

I am meaner than snake shit! So, that's what my father always said, and encouraged.

Well, let's just say that I have made many friends for my being outspoken and willing to step on toes. And I have made a few enemies that way too. Oh, fuck 'em, LOL!

I boosted your post, but it is not going to get 100 replies. You're welcome anyway.

I'm rather irritated with the responses to adoption tonight. And I may start a thread about that at another time. Tomorrow night is my one night out. But I am plenty pissed enough to bring it up as a subject on Monday.

I boosted your post, but it is not going to get 100 replies.

Not nearly as many curse words or cheerleading as the typical DU post on the Greatest Page. :)

This place is a trip. The Troopergate report came out less than 48 hours ago and it's already being ignored for more meaningful fare like Palin getting booed at a hockey match or 9 thorough discussions of her SAT scores. :crazy: :crazy:

If I was back in the States, I probably wouldn't even bother. But here in Australia there are surprisingly few people consumed with American politics. :) Have a good night on your "one night out"! I remember those....

Honestly, the few freeper friends I have said they didn't even know about it. And that she has done a swell job of promoting McSame.

Oh, and they tell me in "so many words" why they cannot tolerate the idea of Obama. But they KNOW BETTER than to suggest it to me directly.

I did have a good night on my "one night out" last night.

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