11 posts tagged “qotd”
What words, for the life of you, can you never spell correctly?
Submitted by Byrne.
Oh man, my spelling has been awful in the last couple months. Anyway, the word that always drives me batty is separate. Hell, I even misspelled it just now. It's just that both separate and seperate both look wrong to me. Sigh, the slow degrading of my brain has begun...
If you had a band, what would you call yourselves?
Question submitted by Zoot.
I've had a few good names, or so I thought at times. My favorite is Masters of the Obvious. Unfortunately, there's a Chicago band with that name. If I was ever starting a Hootie and the Blowfish-like band, I'd call us Everybody and ther Brother.
How cute were you as a baby/child? Let's see those baby pics!
I was pretty freaking cute.
In fact, I was cute enough to warrant a modelling career. The pinnacle was a commercial for Sears and Nike with Cindy Crawford. No joke. It was the beginning of my illustrious television career...
And yes, those are my stats on the back. I was 3'8", 42 lbs., my eyes were hazel and my hair was brown. I was 5 and a half at the time. I'm not sure how old I am in the first photo.
What's your cell phone's ringtone? What made you pick it?
"Don't Bring Me Down" by Electric Light Orchestra. The song's on classic rock stations all the time, but it was during the intermission of a show at UCB that I had the idea to make it into a ringtone.
BRRRUUUUUUCEEE!
Soda? Cola? Pop? What do you say? Any other regional words that set you apart?
Question submitted by Gladys.
Growing up I always said pop. Now I live in the world of soda. While I usually end up saying soda to blend in, I make an effort to say soda pop in hopes I can bridge our geocentric divide.
A funny story about different words. Hopefully you are aware that gyros is pronounced year-os when it's said by Greek people. If you live in New York you might think I'm crazy as you typically hear jai-ros.
Deciding I would stick to my guns and please at least one Greek god, I walked up to Tony Dragonas and said, "I'll have a chicken 'year-os' please." "Alright, one chicken hero comin' right up." Before I figured out what he said I had a chicken hero in my hands. Sigh. It was still delicious, but I learned my lesson -- NYC vernacular trumps all.
I have a bunch, but here's my favorite story...
A while back my family and I were sitting at dinner while on a tropical vacation. At the time, I was 16 and my sister was 12. While waiting for our meal to arrive we were chatting about nicknames. I started to recount my various nicknames.
"We've got Matty, Mattropolis, Machu Pichu, Matty J, Matty BJ--" My sister cuts me off saying, "Wow, that's a mouthful."
Her being 13, she was not trying to make a joke. My parents and I burst out laughing, with Jessi in the background saying, "Wha? What?" We explained it to her and she immediately turned a bright shade of red.
My absolute favorite commercial of all time is for Eagleman Insurance. Only Chicagoland residents will know this, but once you see it you will never forget it. NEVER.
I'm a somewhat picky eater today, but I was awful as a child. For a number of years I ate hot dogs and canned cranberry sauce almost exclusively. So, it's hard for me to pick one food, but I'll go with sushi.
Here's what my space at work looks like. I just procured the flat-panel for my PC today.
I've just been reading magazines on the subway lately, but the next boook I'll read is Philip Roth's The Human Stain.
