A long time ago in a country far, far away the delightful Ms CamiKaos tagged me with a meme. Unfortunately I became far too carried away with blogging about He-Man and My Little Pony and other earth shattering topics and so it was placed on the back burner.
However I’ve never been one to pass up an opportunity to talk about myself. Behold, the 8 things meme.
8 things I am passionate about
My family
Consuming comedy
Anti-bullying
Left wing politics
Minimization of streaming schoolchildren by “ability”
Reading and writing blogs
Not being bored
8 Things I want to do before I die
Live long enough that my children can cope with my death
Grow old with Kerry
Live for a while in another country
Make a great train journey
Improve my writing and my photography
Make a difference
Never feel lonely
Create something wonderful
8 Things I say often
Marvelous
Jolly good
Arse
Sweetheart
Banana bonce
I’m just going to check my emails
Evan, no biting!
Grrrrrah
8 books I have read recently
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid - Bill Bryson
Lower Regions - Alex Robinson
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen - Paul Torday
Things can only get better - John O’Farrell
Born to be riled - Jeremy Clarkson
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - JK Rowling
The complete Father Brown stories - G.K. Chesterton
The last days of Newgate - Andrew Pepper
8 songs I could listen to over and over again
Songs of Love - Ben Folds
Garden Song - John Denver and the Muppets
Moving to LA - Art Brut
Brian Wilson - Barenaked Ladies
Don’t Dream it’s Over - Crowded House
Pop Singer’s Fear of the Pollen Count - Divine Comedy
Good Man - Josh Ritter
At my Most Beautiful - REM
8 Things that attract me to my best friends
Sense of humor
Intelligence
Liberal outlook
Reliability
Conversationalist
None competitiveness
Emotional stability
Worship the ground I walk on
8 people who should totally do this meme
Deb
Paul
Kerry
Dan
Jeff (the other Jeff, not this Jeff)
Tracy
Kristina
Sam
I have done some extensive (three minutes of) research on what the hell a “bonce is” and found the following site http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-bon2.htm
It means head. So Dan says, “Banana Head” a lot. I’m not sure of the context, though it doesn’t sound like a high compliment.
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Emotional stability? Good luck with that!
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Sooo… you probably wouldn’t be too thrilled to hear I’m meeting with my son’s school tomorrow regarding some kind of “gifted” class, huh?
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Miss Britt- My views on it all are complicated, and very affected by the fact that I was placed in the bottom sets at school which gave me extremely low self esteem for quite a while.
I wrote about it here.
I know that I will fight tooth and nail to keep Amy or Evan out of a bottom set if it is ever suggested. Extra classes yes, segregated into the “thickies” class no. Mainly my concerns lie with the increasing obsession in testing kids every few months causing unneeded stress and anxiety that this countries education system appears to have.
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I hate to be a pedant (well, actually, that’s not true - I love it!), but there were only seven in the first set of answers…
I might do this one myself. Thanks for not tagging me, because then I wouldn’t have been able to.
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I think I need to go put on my Crowded House CD right NOW. It has been too long since I’ve heard that song… but really the whole album I could hear on repeat and be happy. View all comments by CamiKaos
Is it coincidence that if you string your first 4 favorite sayings together you get “Marvelous Jolly good Arse Sweetheart”?
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You are taunting me aren’t you…yes I haven’t posted in a while. Busy with other pursuits at the moment….thanks for kicking my arse.
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Wow, thanks for reminding me about ‘The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid - Bill Bryson’ - I was reading it before I moved and it just got shoved on the shelf… Just finished Shakespeare by Bryson which was genius, meaning once I finish Thunderbolt I will once again be completely up to date with that genius’ collection!
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Banana Bonce! Tee-hee…
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Thanks for tagging me with a meme that will make me THINK! How dare you make me think.
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Strangely enough, I have a kind of image of you in my head (banana or otherwise. And I really must have another go at Gravity’s Rainbow) that coincides a great deal with that of Bill Bryson. Or at any rate, the Bill Bryson he creates in his books. Except frequently funnier.
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You’ve already made a great train journey. Do you not remember your stag do? That was great.
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Casey - Banana bonce is usually reserved to be directed towards one of my children.
Avitable - I can spot a personality disorder at three hundred meters
Rol - Damn, but I have nothing else I am passionate about. Except donkey porn of course and I’m a little reluctant to include that here.
CamiKaos - Kerry and i went to see Crowded House a couple of months ago. They were rather good.
Jeff - It was, but I’m rather pleased with it never-the-less
Kristina - I am still awaiting the rituals of pregnancy post. I’ve always found such things interesting. Like the fact that it is highly debated that swabbing the site of an injection is thought to be largely pointless, yet nurses still do it because “We always have”.
Bec - The life and times of the Thunderbolt kid was very good. i hadn’t even heard about his Shakespeare one.
Tracy - you have my unreserved apologies.
(un)relaxedad - That is extremely kind of you, thank you.
Sam - That was pretty great wasn’t it. View all comments by Dan
Haven’t you created a couple wonderful things already?
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I’ve followed you home Dan!…
I love the 8 things you say often. Not an American slangword in there…
great stuff.
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