The delightful Jo Beaufoix has been kind enough to ask me a few questions about my favorite topic: Me.
So without further ado – Hey ho, lets go! (I don’t think I’m ever going to get tired of that)
You’re quite funny sometimes (snort), so were you the class clown or were you a retiring type that teacher’s loved?
I was pretty shy at school and had fairly low self esteem. I’m still pretty shy these days if truth be told. It says something about my character that the majority of my friends are people I’ve known since I was 17 (The fact that we’re all still in Huddersfield probably also says something pretty damning about the paucity of our ambition).
Saying that I was pretty heavily involved in amateur dramatics throughout my schooldays, being in at least one pantomime a year between the ages of 11 and 18. So there was definitely an attention seeking gene in me somewhere.
An 11 year old Dan masters the role of Lampwick in Holmfirth’s Turn Again Theater’s 1987 production of Pinocchio (I’m the one with the slightly smaller nose)
If Amy decided to model her look and her politics on Margaret Thatcher would you have to step in or would you let her find her own way back to sanity?
It’s a tricky one isn’t it. I’ve always said I don’t approve with parents imposing their doctrine on their children, but I suppose what I really mean is that I don’t approve of parents imposing doctrine that I don’t agree with on their children.
I’d like to think that I’d be pretty liberal in attitude towards whatever direction my children choose to go in; but using Thatcher as a role model would probably be one step too far. She’d end up nicking all our milk for one thing.
If your ukelele could talk, what would it say?
That sounds like a cue for a song if ever I heard one:
Yes it is a new ukulele and no I don’t think I’ll be turning professional any time soon.
If you discovered your hamster (or insert real pet here) had an amazing talent, for example yodeling, doing Britney Spears impressions or spinning pine cones into gold would you totally exploit him or just give him a few extra carrots in acknowledgement of his talents?
Strangely enough, I’m in the process of getting my posters printed for “Dan and his Amazing Taxidermy performing Terrapin” right now. Tickets will be £5 in advance or £8.50 on the door. Make sure you come along, it promises to be a stufftastic night.
If your house was flooded by sewage, after saving your family and the talented hamster, would you then save:
a) MacBook
b) iPhone
c) Ukulele
You can only save one. Mwah ha ha haaaa.
This one is easy – none of them.
My Macbook’s screen is still smashed and is going to cost £300 to repair. We’re still in the process of negotiating with the insurance company about whether Amy bouncing on the bed and breaking it is covered in our policy; but even if they do give us the money I’m very tempted just to put the cash towards a new one rather than get it fixed. My current computer setup is just about tolerable until I can raise the funds to replace it (current estimates put that at sometime around 2031)
As for the iPhone, sorry to be a pedant but I don’t actually have an iPhone. I have an Ipod Touch, which is very similar, but without the phone bit. I was very tempted by the iPhone (and Kerry has one); but my mobile contract had about a year to run when I was thinking about one and I couldn’t justify having two contracts at the same time. Of course I could have waited for a year and then got an iPhone, but my brain isn’t wired for delayed gratification and so I bought a Touch instead.
However if the Touch got covered in sewerage then I’d have the perfect excuse to go and get myself a iPhone anyway. A plan with no drawbacks! I shall start stuffing tea-towels down the toilet immediately.
Which brings me to the uke. I feel almost treacherous in saying this, but I think I’d leave that behind too. After all the insurance would cover it.
No, what I’d really save is my external hard drive. Not only does it have all my photos and all my music on it, but it has over 480 hours worth of TV’s and movies that I have fastidiously collected by fair means and foul. If I lost that how would I watch Father Ted, or Pete and Pete, or The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes whenever I felt like it? Oh the horror, oh the humanity.
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The rules say I now have to offer to interview anyone who comments here. But I’ve only just done that a couple of weeks ago (and I still haven’t sent Jeff any questions either. sorry Jeff, they are on their way I promise). I’d like to think of a way to put another spin on the interview thing, but after my emotionally gruelling ukulele performance I think I’ve exhausted all my creative genius so I’m going to put it off until next week some time.
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What, no Ossett related question? Poor show.
And typing of shows, I’ll take two tickets for the terrapin’s performance.
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Your computer setup seems to have lost a bit of portability.
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Your ukelele performance had me singing along. Well done.
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Don’t feel bad, I can’t pronounce “Beaufoix” either. Can we get a phonetic translation please? (bo-foy perhaps?)
I’m looking forward to abusing your questions.
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a brilliant uke performance as always. I think I’d safe my pc (with the hd inside). I’ve got no external drive, might have to get one…
photo’s are most precious.
phonetic..it;s a bit too much work to get an IPA image..but
bo-vwàh might come close if we just have the abc.
That’s made me want to go out and nail a religious saviour to some 4×6.
“yes I do feel better, I feel alright….”
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Shame on me… I didn’t get the chance to watch the video earlier because I was at work. But now that I’ve seen it I just wanted to give you kudos for singing one of my favorite Python tunes of all times. Of course I was waiting for my favorite line… “life’s a piece of shit, when you look at it.”
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Did you say smell instead of swear in that song, or is my hearing going?
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SingleParentDad – Not everyone has your skill as an interviewer I’m afraid. And the tickets are in the post
Ed – I have a large cardboard box to lug it around in now
Avitable – Thank you sir.
Jeff – Any day now I promise.
Arjan – You’re speaking Dutch again! Or is that Hollandish? Or Netherlandiese. Why can’t you lot settle on a name for your country anyhow?
Xbox – But the question realy is, what have the Romans ever done for us?
Jeff – That was too far down the page. I know the line obviously, but couldn’t remember what came after it.
Clair – Quite possibly. I find it very hard to concentrate on my left hand, my right hand, singing, and breathing all at the same time.
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I’m not :) IPA stands for International Phonetic Alphabet with which you can write down a phonetic way to pronounce practically everything.
It’s Dutch btw. Hollandish..hmm haven’t heard this one often.
here’s the 101: country->the Netherlands. language: Dutch ;)
Even some Dutch people are stubbornly referring to the Netherlands as ‘Holland’, but that gets people confused when they’re in the province of North or South Holland. And Netherlandiese….wow..that almost sounds German.
enough yapping about the Netherlands otherwise you’d get even me confused. It’s even stranger than this whole UK vs the countries it contains.
I really, really must get one of those. Or dig out my banjo. Possibly we could splice together a collaboration on something equally unsuitable to either instrument (a Black Sabbath number like Iron Man, though Giant Sand did get there first…)
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“Look on the bright side…” Perfect choice. You are getting good with that tiny little guitar.
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I didn’t sing along, but I did whistle along. I don’t think I could have stopped myself.
Well done, Daniel.
Dan did you realise that you used the word ‘pretty’ FOUR times in the first question? Just thought I’d mention it.
Two things
1. You are starting to look very healthy and a tad on the ‘hunky’ side what with your weightloss. It’s very noticeable in that video.
2. You almost had me singing along – however since hearing it I have it going round and round in my head! – Thanks.
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you should play several tunes and let us guess which ones..maybe even tv tunes…that’ll be a cool combination. It doesn’t matter if you haven’t got much time to practice them because it’ll just be a tad harder for us to guess.
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Woooooooooo! RAWK ON!
You should have played a solo behind your head, held the Uke up to the speakers for some deafening feedback, and then lit it on fire. Chicks dig that.
Then you’re ready to play Glastonbury.
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Dan, I am amazed at your uke skils. Fabulous. And I apologize for mixing up iphones and itouches. And oi, Single Parent Dad, watch it, or I’ll set my Ossett on you.
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Oh, and it’s Bow-fwa. Bow as in what you put in Amy’s hair or play a violin in, and fwa as in ‘froid’, the French for cold.
It rhymes with dough-pas, with a silent s.
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Arjan – I can’t believe you are from Dutchland and have never even heard of the language Hollandish. Call yourself a Patriot?
(un)Relaxed Dad – You have a banjo? I demand a video.
James – Tiny guitar? How dare you sir!
Deb – Perhaps Greg and I could duet when we come over. Maybe not.
Gail – Oh yes, I’m quite the Hunk. Ahem.
Arjan – The problem with that is I don’t actually play tunes, I just play chords. Maybe I should whistle.
JJ Daddy O – Your knowledge of British culture continues to make me suspicious.
Jo – Osset’s are classified as dangerous beasts these days, i think you need a license for them.
That’s not British Culture, that’s Jimi playing Monterey!
If you’re talking about Glastonbury, I just know it’s a big festival famed for drunken wankers and 3 day mud bogs.
I am getting ready for Coachella, the lineup for which just came out today:
http://coachella.com/