Engine

i.e. ME

Well, I assure you that my interest in the PERCENTAGES of European genes found in my ethnic background is purely a nerdy, academic pursuit. My parents and grandparents were interested in this stuff and they told me about it so I can't not know it. And I like knowing it but I attach no significance to it.

I'm just another American mutt too, friend.

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Freebase Dali

I hear ya.
Sorry if I offended.

Engine

No offense taken. And likewise.

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VEGANGELICA

It isn't time to go to work, so technically the weekend isn't over...

1. What's your favourite TV series?
As a child, Star Trek and Gilligan's Island. As an adult, I most liked the quirky Northern Exposure, especially Maggie and Joel. I don't watch TV now really at all, other than glimpses of the news or segments of 60 Minutes that interest me.



2. Beatles or Rolling Stones?
Beatles. I don't like most Rolling Stones songs, although I liked their fame enough to see them live.

3. Who would you most like to see perform live in your lifetime?
No one comes to mind other than Bach. I'd like to have seen him composing. I'm less interested in musicians performing than in the steps they took to get to the performance stage.

4. Will you go out this weekend, and if so where?
I did. I went to my parents' and we watched Julie & Julia and ate yummy take-out Mongolian vegan food while Julie & Julia boiled lobsters alive and stuffed dead ducks.

5. Where does your family come from originally?
My mom: Germany, England, and supposedly Welsh pirates
My dad: Switzerland and (before that) possibly Mongolia

6. Which do you value more, your vision or your hearing?
Vision, definitely. I like sound but I love sight and I don't mind silence.

I don't watch TV regularly, either, and I love Indian food, too (if it isn't too spicy)!

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My typical request in Indian restaurants is, "Can you make it mild?"
My favorite things to eat in Indian cuisine are papadums - the crackers made with lentil flour, cumin seeds and black pepper. Even though they're served as a side/snack, I'd rather have them than the whole meal! I think they're delicious and I love their texture.

crukster

1. What's your favourite TV series?

One Piece


2. Beatles or Rolling Stones?

I think the Beatles are over-rated so Rolling stones out of my ignorance

3. Who would you most like to see perform live in your lifetime?

Megadeth


4. Will you go out this weekend, and if so where?
I don't think of it as "going out" if it's within 2 miles so nope.


5. Where does your family come from originally?

Planet Earth derp

On my Mum's side Britain and Scotland on my Granddad's side. Possibly some sort of Far Eastern heritage on my Nan's side...

On my Dad's side Central Turkey

6. Which do you value more, your vision or your hearing?

Vision...but as long as I have either I'm not bothered if I lose one...

Salami

OK, I'll start this weekend's one off again, with questions wrapped with individual bold tags, because I'm such a nice guy.

1. What time did you get up this morning?

2. What are you having for breakfast this morning?

3. Where are you thinking of going on holiday this year?

4. What's your favourite flavour of ice cream?

5. Who is your favourite English actor?

6. In your life, what do you think is the best decision you've ever made?

Howard the Duck

the farthest genealogy I can trace is some Imperial Mandarin Officer in China, and that's only my father's adoptee family

he has some big rank in the Ming Dynasty and is some sort of deity

this I know cos the founder of Genting Highlands (Lim Goh Tong) is from the same village as my adoptee great grandfather and all people in the same village in China share common ancestry

his name is General Lim or something

i'd, however, like to think I'm descended from King David

edit - Genting Highlands is a hilltop casino resort in Malaysia

edit edit - i have no idea about my mother's genealogy

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Salami

And double posting privileges for me because it's a Saturday:

1. What time did you get up this morning?
7:45, but I got out of bed at 9:00 because I'm a lazy teenager.
2. What are you having for breakfast this morning?
Very unhealthy, but my weekend starts off with hash browns and bacon, and a fried egg if I'm in a good mood.
3. Where are you thinking of going on holiday this year?
Ugh, this is kinda scary: we alternate between the Isles of Scilly and the Channel Islands, and this year we're going to the channel islands. Which frightens the **** out of me since I joined this forum.
4. What's your favourite flavour of ice cream?
That would be midnight mint.
5. Who is your favourite English actor?
Ian MacKellan, without doubt, possibly the most versatile and most enigmatic character ever to grace the screens. He looks so evil as Richard III, but so benevolent and generally awesome as Gandalf...
6. In your life, what do you think is the best decision you've ever made?
I've never made a really good one, the best is probably something really lame like deciding to hand in a £20 note I found. All the main decisions I have made a mess of.

Mrd00d

I'm sorry to hear you had to be in Fresno. I have some cousins down there, and I wouldn't visit them there if they payed me. I haven't been since I was very little, but what I've heard about the place keeps me away...

Missed last week's (and every one prior) but I'm still in Friday mode -

1. What's your favourite TV series?

Trailer Park Boys

2. Beatles or Rolling Stones?
Beatles

3. Who would you most like to see perform live in your lifetime?
Sula Bassana, Oresund Space Collective, any space rock band I'm into at all. I always wanted to go.

And Tool. I've been screwed over by Ticketmaster and/or been unavailable every time they come around. Missed three tours so far. Might not have but one or two more chances tops (glass half empty, here's to hundreds more Tool tours!)

4. Will you go out this weekend, and if so where?
I did not do anything that weekend, and I'm probably not doing anything this weekend. But I go out of the house every day, if for nothing else a cig. Usually go on a walk or something....

5. Where does your family come from originally?
English, Dutch, German, Irish, and certainly a few others. I don't know what exactly my dad is/was.

6. Which do you value more, your vision or your hearing?
Hearing. I wouldn't want to lose either, but I need to hear my music. And I could probably get by on audiobooks and catching the gist of tv shows/films by the sound effects/dialogue. Crossing my fingers against losing either though.


Never been in this thread before I don't think...

1. Shoot, I haven't woken up this Saturday yet. It's only 3am. So it's still my Friday night. But I usually wake up between noon and 3pm every day. Eariler today, Friday, I woke up at 12:45 pm. Pretty early for me.

Edit: Pulled an all nighter. So technically, I woke up on Friday at 12:45pm still.

2. Breakfast was 3 hot dogs with ketchup, horseradish mustard, and rooster sauce. And a cigarette.

3. Holiday... I don't get those. But I guess my life as of late has been a holiday since I left work at the gas station in California to try to move to pleasant Oregon, but not entirely succeeding in settling down and having to head over to Idaho for the duration of the winter. But in two weeks, I'm back off to Eugene, Oregon for round two of trying to find work and a place. Preferably I won't be sleeping in the truck for too long this time. I think we'll do better this time. Winter is hard times for finding carpentry work for my friend, but spring is the start of primetime. So, yeah, Eugene, Oregon. In two weeks.

4. Don't really get it often, but Cookie Dough. Used to be rainbow sherbet when I was younger. I'm sure it's still good, but I haven't had it as recently as cookie dough.

5. Simon Pegg

6. Start drumming.


Nice call on Ian McKellen. What's up with the Channel Isles? As in, where/what are they and why are you preoccupied with them? Is bacon, hash browns, and eggs unhealthy? I guess when you fry things, the fat can get outta control, eh? What the hell is midnight mint? Sounds pretty good. Tell me it's like mint with dark chocolate or something...?

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