saw this over at Chuckles Book Cave. The rules are incredibly simple: answer the questions with books read from 2020. Now we’ll have to see if simple is “easy” or not 😉
Describe Yourself
Ageing. And some mornings I feel every day of it!
How Do You Feel?
The Soldier. Sometimes the Culture War seems more brutal than an actual war 😦
Describe Where You Currently Live
Castle in the Air. While not exactly a castle, our third story condo is high enough when we have to carry the groceries up.
If You Could Go Anywhere, Where Would It Be?
The Tempest. I wouldn’t mind living on a deserted island right now with my every need catered to by invisible servants.
Favorite Form of Transportation
I would love to be able to fly around on a broomstick like Margarita in The Master & Margarita. That’ll beat an electric car hollow for gas mileage!
Your Best Friend Is …..
…..Above the Law and yet Mrs B STILL won’t rob a bank with me. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. Maybe a Couples Therapy book would help?
You and Your Friends Are …..
NPC’s. Might as well be with various governing agencies acting like fascists and trying to control our every thought and deed!
What’s the Weather Like?
New Spring. Ha, that’s a lie! More like in the heart of winter right now!
You Fear …..
Mind Games. Seriously. I can handle bad physical things but someone messes with my mind, I’m liable to shoot them just to put an end to their douchebaggery.
What Is the Best Advice You Have To Give?
Invest in ammunition; because the world is a Target Rich Environment (Vol 2) full of idiots.
Thought For the Day?
Live Life on Full Assault Mode because only newbs play on Pansy Level. Ooh rah!
My Soul’s Present Condition?
No where near Hell’s Gate! I might not be a Saint (Tommy, NYPD) but I’m not a Hell Spawn, that’s for sure!
Well, that was MUCH easier than I expected. Feel free to use this at your discretion.
Is that you on the cover of Castles in the Air?
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If I had wings, I’d fly right over to Scotland and steal back all the lucky charms you’ve stolen from me over the years…
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Or it could be a leprechaun! Which is it?
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I thought that was obvious?
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Are YOU a leprechaun? Mind blown!
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Do leprechauns have wings?
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Do you have wings?
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You’re the one who said I looked like the cover of Castle in teh Air. That guy has wings, quite clearly…
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It was more his mad scrunched little face…
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Ahhh, well, if you’ll look at the bigger picture you’ll see he has wings. ERgo, I have wings. ERgo, I am not a lepreconn…
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So everyone without wings is a not leprechaun?
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No, everyone WITH wings is not a lepreconn. Unless leps have grown wings when they went into space or something. I figure Alex is the expert in this department.
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He’s firefighting elsewhere…
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Ahhh, another of your multi-front wars then?
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Have driven an axe between Alex and Fraggle, they both seem deranged as John Lithgow…
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Yes, I saw that particular sub-thread. Very “enlightening” indeed 😀
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Shattered dreams, broken minds. Tragic really…
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You are truly the Napoleon of the Internet…
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Did Napoleon have no online presence?
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Only if you count his appearance in the first Bill & Ted movie. Not his finest moment, you have to admit.
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And yet what most people know him for, he loved a water slide!
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A real man of the people, enjoying the simple pleasures of life 😉
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Much like yourself!
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Exactly! A rich man wouldn’t be able to appreciate the simple pleasure of sitting on his couch, knowing he’d taken the day off because of the weather and just basking in doing nothing.
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Is it a snow day?
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A -17C windchill kind of day….
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Yikes! Wrap up warm and take the rest of the day off!
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The wind is howling like nobody’s business. We have a wind advisory all day. So books and warm food all day 😀
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No you haven’t and no we are not deranged.
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I LOVE this cross blog chatting. It’s going to drive our biographers absolutely bonkers in 100 years.
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There’ll be lots of historians trying to put it together. The WordPress Four – Conversations in the Clouds by Marvin Trotter, The WordPress Four – Genius or Lunacy by Ermintrude de Whitt. That kind of thing.
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Maybe we should give them some titles so they can concentrate more on us? We’re pretty important after all.
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Well I’ll do the book covers if you make the titles, photographer and wordsmith should be able to get something together. Perhaps Alex and Ol’10 could do some videos being filmy types.
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Sounds like a plan. Maybe we need a WP4 Summit? Get it all down and neat. Mutual defense and mutual destruction treaties, all in one.
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Summit is good, I will look for a venue central to us all.
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I’ll leave it for our international audience to decide…
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See, this is why we need that Summit. To work out all these issues.
And to decide who’s paying for donuts this morning.
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I have checked the globe. We will need to hire a sea faring vessel as the central point is in the middle of the Atlantic.
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Hmmmm. I’ll have to see if that’s in my budget. Guns, ammo, survival food and walking sticks cost a lot these days.
Of course, cruise ships are pretty cheap these days, what with covid and all. Maybe we could hire one of those?
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Cruise ship is fine by me! I can do the survival food but not the ammo. Ol’10 can do the walking sticks and Alex can be stores master.
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Excellent. I guess we’re all set. Zombies, plagues, I think we’ve got things covered.
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I’m on board for this. Have packed my Speedo. Will see you there.
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Excellent, we have a quorum.
I realize it is late, but I propose that Ol’10 host the bills for all the donuts I ate while awaiting this monumental moment in History. Not everyday that the WP4 comes into being after all.
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I think Ol’10 has retired for the night, that does happen to old people so we must be accommodating to his unavoidable weakness. He’ll still be an indispensable member of the W4 with his purchasing of donut superpower. I’ll get him a cape.
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I’d laugh, except that even with me being 4-5hrs behind you guys, I was getting ready for bed myself when you wrote this, hahahahaha!
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Now, that’s a funny little tag, and we’re looking for sth suitable for a double birthday post later this month… I choose to feel nominated by you 😉
I did not comment on that back when you reviewed the book, but this might be the best M&M cover I’ve seen…
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Then consider yourself nominated!
Glad you liked the cover. The story wasn’t explained enough to me and so I didn’t enjoy it so the cover was the last thing I was thinking about.
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That was fun 🙂
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It started out looking really big, but once I dove in, it just flowed, like a T1000 😀
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Can’t flow better than the T1000!
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Cool tag! And I enjoyed reading your answers. I might give it a go too.
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It was a lot of fun and quite different, for me, as it forced me to use books from a very specific time frame 🙂
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Yes, this was a good one. You’ve got me curious to see which books might work for me. Could this be the first tag post to grace the Teahouse? If it all goes “pear-shaped” (a nice British saying for you) I will hunt you down like the NPC you are!
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It would be cool if you did a tag 😉
Never understood the whole pear-shaped thing. I understand the idea of things turning out bad, but why is a pear a bad shape? I guess it’s like nicknames * shrugs *
Just remember who has all the guns if you do decide to start hunting, hahahahahaha 😀
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This is from wiki, so I’m not sure how reliable it is: “The origin for this use of the term is in dispute. The OED cites its origin as within the Royal Air Force as a cleaned-up alternative version of its phrase “tits up” meaning completely broken or dead.”
You might have all the guns, but be warned I am a 9th-Dan in the use of chopsticks. And I can turn myself invisible, thanks to ninja magic. 😎
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Interesting. I love etymology of phrases and such. It is just so cool to see how things twist and change to take their current form.
Well, I don’t know if I have any wards against invisible chopsticks, so I’ll keep to the straight and narrow 🙂
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“Straight and narrow”, I see what you did there! Nice one. 😂🤣
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Actually, that was totally by accident, hahaha 😀
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Love this
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It was a lot more fun to do than I thought it would be 🙂
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Fun tag indeed! And I can understand Mrs. B’s reluctance in robbing a bank because it’s a huge endeavor: how about starting with something smaller and then moving up? 😛 😀
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Thank you for the suggestion, but I’ve tried that, to no avail. I’m afraid she’s just a hopeless law abiding citizen 😉
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I found it easier to watch the titles to the questions than I expected and it looks like it was the same for you. Fun answers! And yes we all need to watch out for mental douchebaggery!
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Yep, this went MUCH better than I was expecting. Always nice when that happens, isn’t it? 🙂
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That was fun! 🙂
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I was all excited when I saw it at Chuckles, then not so excited when I began looking at it then it was fun after all. A happy ending 😀
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Piotrek has some designs for it, we’ll see how we’re going to deal with it! 😉
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I’m impressed by how fitting your choices were for each question! 😮
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Thanks 🙂
I tried my best to really make this work. Not sure I’d do it again though.
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Ha! I loved this! 🤣
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I keep thinking I’ll do more tags but they tend to be once a month at most around here 🙂
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I’m stacking them up right now and getting no chance to actually do any! 😃
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I got hit bigtime when that list of 100 tag posts made the rounds. I bookmarked it just so I wouldn’t lose it 😀
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