17 posts tagged “qotd”
How many pair of shoes do you have? Out of those pairs, how many do you wear more than a few times a year?
Submitted by fightinggale.
Oh boy........I have well over 100 - probably over 150 - pairs of shoes. I am going to edit this post with some pictures of some rocking and unusual shoes. Please do not check back if you have a problem with leather, snake, alligator, or crocodile skins being used for purely vain purposes.
Which TV show never "jumped the shark"?
Submitted by healthypanda.
Seinfeld.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could never fail?
Submitted by BeckyPink.
Besides competing in every event at the X games? Nothing. What's the point?
This reminds me of a summer I spent hanging out with the kids of a fabulously wealthy parent. All the current expenses of the "children" were covered by their father and they were guaranteed over $100 million each upon his death. These were the most miserable people I have ever met. They literally couldn't find a reason to get up in the morning. And many times, they didn't get up. There was no direction, no passion, no motivation, no joy. I was disgusted, frankly.
What decision changed the course of your life?
Submitted by Ally.
I was channel surfing one night last week. As usual, I could not settle on any particular show as nothing could seem to hold my interest. I came across some show on MTV depicting a group of kids. I know – that’s every show on MTV. Anyway, this one had a group of about 10 kids hanging out chatting in a hotel room. Next thing you know a cell phone rings and one of the girls starts pleading with her father who is obviously angry. Everyone quickly leaves the room. The next frame involves the girl’s parents scolding her severely for having a boy in the room. She tries to explain that there were lots of kids there, but her parents won’t listen. The scene ends with the parents marching her away and sternly telling her, “You should’ve known better!”
I thought I was having flashbacks. My parents were so strict while I was growing up. When I spent the night at a friend’s house, I had to be home by 7:00 am. Once I was almost an hour late getting home. I was grounded for two weeks.
When I got older, my parents got even stricter. I was not allowed to go to parties. I could rarely go out unless it was somehow a school related function. As you might imagine, I was involved in every school related extra-curricular activity there was. It was the only way I could maintain any sort of social life.
When I got older still, the rules changed. I could not go out with a group of friends. I could go out with a boy. My parents somehow thought going out in a group was dangerous, but going on a date was okay.
My curfew was 11:00 pm. Once I was late and walked through the door at 11:02. I was greeted by my mother at the front door who yelled, “You’re late!” I laughed, I thought she was joking. I protested that I was merely two minutes late and that I had actually been on the property at 11:00. She retorted that I was to be in the house before 11:00 and that I could think about that over the next four weeks, because I was grounded.
It was okay. It was only a month. My sister, on the other hand, was grounded her entire junior year for staying out five hours past her curfew once.
You get the picture.
Anyway, my parents were super strict and I lived in a small town (35,000 people) where every move I made was surveilled by someone. I couldn’t get away with anything without the parents knowing, so - as a result - I was a really really really good girl. I made straight "A's." I was polite to my elders. I kept my room clean. I was a parent's wet dream.
As part of being a good girl, while still being allowed to go out, I got myself a boyfriend with a car. We dated for about a year when he started pressuring me to “go further” than I was willing to. He dropped hints, he made moves, he outright begged. I wasn’t having any of it. That is, until he finally said the magic words. No – not that he “loved” me! He’d been saying that for a long time. He said, “No one will ever have to know.”
My brain literally filled with a bright light. Eureka! Finally, something I could do that my parents would never have to know about. Finally, I could rebel without spending the rest of my life grounded. No one would ever have to know!
Well, we all know how that turned out. That’s right, the kiddo is 21.
So yeah, THAT is the decision that most changed my life.
What other names did your parents consider for you?
If I had been born a boy, I was to be called Kevin. I always thought that was funny in that my female name was chosen because it was very unisex and would not enable people to see only my name and know whether I am male or female. Why wouldn't my parents have used that for a boy too? Whatever.
That's the 'rents...
What is the most interesting class you have ever taken?
Submitted by Melissa.
When I first saw this QOTD, it struck me that I'd never had a fascinating class. Which fact made me worry in light of the fact that I double majored and minored in college, and now have my doctorate. Yes, I am a doctor of jurisprudence - that is what the J.D. stands for. Pfffft.
Anyway, I thought I'd never had a fascinating class until I remembered my Jurisprudence class in College. WHAT? You think Jurisprudence doesn't stand a bat's chance in a freezer of being interesting? Au contraire! This class was taken at a small Southern Baptist Convention Controlled University in the South/Southwest. It was during this class that I learned things like:
Man IS NOT an animal! I learned this when one poor student while giving a speech on the law of the Old Testament started his speech with "In the beginning, God gave Man dominion over the other animals of the Earth." The "professor" stopped the poor boy and made him sit down while she lectured for the remainder of the class about how Man is not an animal, we were created by god in his image - blah blah blah. (I should've asked if that meant we are all little gods.)
All the philosphers since the 1600's have been demoralized "perverted" Satanists. Well, she didn't use the word Satanist. But they were, in her words, "perverted." And it then followed that a society organized around their works and beliefs was doomed to exhibit that perversion. And so it followed that anyone part of society was perverted as well. (So we are all dirty, sick, twisted little gods.)
A society organized on the laws of man (anything other than the 10 commandments) is doomed to godless failure. So I guess that explains Louisiana.
Oh well, you get the picture. There were also lessons on how interratial dating and marriage violated the laws of God and that the Supreme Court was becoming increasingly revisionist since the late 1800's. Whatever!
Any wonder I detested that school and that teacher? Horrible woman. I'd give you her name, but I don't even want to utter it in writting. The only B I ever got in college was in this class as I just couldn't bear to regurgitate her vile instructions.
What's your musical horoscope? (Put your player on shuffle and write down the first 10 songs that come up.)
Inspired by Stephanie.
1. Etta James....I'd Rather Go Blind
2. Collective Soul...Gel
3. Amedee Ardoin ....Madam Atchen
4. Wolfmother...Joker and the Theif
5. Puddle of Mud...Heel Over Head
6. Billy Holliday...Say It Isn't So
7. Blue October...What If We Could
8. Leela James...Soul Food
9. Anna Nalick...Wreck of the Day
10. Justin Timberlake...What Goes Around Comes Around
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*Okay - THAT was Not at all Interesting............Maybe K's Top 100? (Well, not top, really - it's Random)
11. Revels...Comanche
12. The Fray...Heaven Forbid
13. My Chemical Romance...Famous Last Words
14. Nat King Cole...Mona Lisa
15. Foo Fighters...Friend of a Friend
16. Keane...Nothing in My Way
17. Green Day...Wake Me Up When September Ends
18. Paulo Nutini...Rewind
19. Lady Sovereign...9 to 5
20. Notorious B.I.G. ... Nasty Girl (feat. Diddy, Nelly, Jagged Edge and Avery Storm)
21. Alberta Hunter...Chirpin' The Blues
22. The Killers ...Mr. Brightside
23. Frank Sinatra...In the Wee Small Hours
24. Incubus ...A Kiss To Send Us Off
25. Alain Souchon(Producer)...Et Maintenant
26. Crossfade...Already Gone
27. Panic At the Disco ...London Beckoned Songs About Money Written By Machines
28. Kid Rock ...Cowboy
29. DJ Beatboy Ben Spencer ...Black Tears
30. Hinder ...Nothin' Good About Goodbye
31. Luther Vandross ...Always and Forever
32. Big Maybelle ....Gabbin' Blues (Don't Run My Business)
33. Red Hot Chili Peppers ...Aeroplane
34. Koko Taylor...I'm A Woman
35. Roots Manuva ....Awfully Deep
36. Arctic Monkeys...Bigger Boys and Stolen Sweethearts
37.Lilly Allen ...Knock 'Em Out
38. Hoobastank ...Lucky
39. The Doors ...Love Her Madly
40. The Cure ...Boys Don't Cry
41. Digable Planets ... Examination of What
42. The All American Rejects ...Dance Inside
43. Daughtry ... It's Not Over
44. Metric ...Monster Hospital
45. The Beatles ...Shout
46. Arctic Monkeys ...I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor
47. Johnny Copeland ...Control Freak
48. Five for Fighting ..The Devil in the Wishing Well
49. The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus ...Atrophy
50. Gnarls Barkley ...Go-Go Gadget Gospel
51. And You Will Know Us By the Trail of the Dead ...Wasted State of Mind
52. Mr. Scruff ... Chicken In A Box
53. System of a Down ...Revenga
54. Gorillaz ...Every Planet We Reach Is Dead
55. Mika ...Grace Kelly
56. Mika ... I Man Wanna Sniff Some Glue
57. Hinder ...Better Than Me
58. Loreena McKennitt...Ce He Mise le Ulaingt? (The Two Trees)
59. Alain Souchon.... Mistral Gagnant
60. Lilly Allen ...Not Big
61. Lady Sovereign ...Random
62. Three Days Grace ...Pain
63. Cartel ...Say Anything (Else)
64. Joan Osborne ...St. Teresa
65. Annie Lennox ...No More I Love You's
66. The All American Rejects ...Stab My Back
67. Dave Matthews Band...Two Step
68. The Tornados ...Bustin' Surfboards
69. Staind ...Cross To Bear
70. Hoobastank ...Never There
71. Snow Patrol ...Headlights on Dark Roads
72. TV On The Radio ...I Was A Lover
73. Daughtry ...Crashed
74. Kyle Jason ...People, People
75. Death From Above 1979 ... Sexy Results
76. Angels & Airwaves ...The War
77. Wanda Sykes ...Conjugal Visit (heee heee)
78. Limp Bizkit ...Just Like This
79. Billy Holiday ...Love For Sale
80. Alberta Hunter...A Good Man Is Hard To Find
81. New Found Glory ...When I Die
82. Snow Patrol ...Chasing Cars
83. Siouxsie and the Banshies ...Dear Prudence
84. Platinum Weird ...Will You Be Around
85. Cartel ...The Minstrel's Prayer
86. Burden Brothers ...Everybody Is Easy
87. Nickelback...Photograph
88. 30 Seconds To Mars ...The Kill
89. Everclear ...Santa Monica
90. Death Cab for Cutie ...Soul Meets Body
91. Shiny Toy Guns ...Don't Cry Out
92. New Found Glory ...Hold My Hand
93. The Bucketheads ...The Bomb (Three Sounds Fall Into My Mind)
94. Hellogoodbye ...Bonnie Taylor Shakedown 2K4
95. Cat Power ...The Greatest
96. Mark Whitfield ...The Marksman
97. Switchfoot...American Dream
98. The Hold Steady ...Chips Ahoy
99. AFI ...Missing Frame
100. Mew...The Zookeeper's Boy
I'm making playlists for Everything. Par Example:
1. The Makin' Sunday Breakfast Playlist
2. The Romantic Bath With Bubbles Playlist
3. The Romantic Bath Without Bubbles Playlist
4. The Bang Me Now, Please Playlist
5. The Dinner With Friends Over the Age of 50 Playlist
6. The Walking the Dog Who's Just Gotta Pee Playlist
7. The Dinner Preparation Accompanied with a Glass of Wine Playlist
8. The I'm So Slick I Could Be a Beatnick Playlist
9. The Slow Down and Make Good Love Playlist
10. The "Oh You Think You're Blue Now?" Playlist
11. The Get Your MoFo'n Lazy Ass Movin' Playlist
12. The Sittin' On The Beach At Sunset Hopin' I Don't Get Sand In My Kooter Playlist
and many many more.....
This is just too easy......
Do you have any phobias?
Submitted by Amirul B Ruslan.
I hate trying to make my way through aimless masses. They are dirty, germy, milling, unobservent sheep with no focus. A crowded concert, no problem; crowded amusement park; no problem. Crowded malls, courthouses, bars - I get a little bit nervous.
I have a fear of being trampled and/or infected by the random unwashed.
I am such a snob.
