Richard Maddeaux sent me this and I figured here was a good place to go through it. Additionally, I should really have just re-posted his answers because they are much funnier than mine.
1. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE? To the best of my knowledge, my parents chose our names because they liked them.
2. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED? Either watching House or at church on a Sunday night. I can’t remember.
3. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING? After a really solid two weeks of practicing, my cursive became not only legible but pleasant. Next step: fix my calligraphy.
4. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LUNCH MEAT? Turkey? I guess?
5. DO YOU HAVE KIDS? Not officially. Dominic calls me Dad every now and again.
6. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU? Goodness, no. I’m incredibly irritating, even to myself.
7. DO YOU USE SARCASM? More like do you ever not use sarcasm am I right?
8. DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS? Somewhere. Every so often I run my tongue across the roof of my mouth and wonder if the Klingon-esque ridges up there are my tonsils. I don’t think they are but to break down and look up what they actually are would deprive me of a small amount of joy.
9. WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP? Nah. I drive on the QEW to work every day. Adventure enough for me.
10. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CEREAL? Shreddies, most likely, if considered as ‘which breakfast cereal do you buy most often.’ In a more general frame of reference, oats.
11. DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF? Nearly every time.
13. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM? Vanilla. But not just vanilla. That would be dull. I buy cheap plain vanilla and then one or more kilos of one or more of the following: Reese’s Pieces, Skor chunks, chocolate chips, Quik powder, chocolate sauce, fresh or frozen fruit (berries particularly), butterscotch chips, butterscotch sauce, and anything else that catches my eye in that part of the store. Why do I do this? Because to me, it feels really extravagant to buy flavoured ice cream but so very frugal to buy like $30 of toppings for my cheap plain stuff.
14. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE? Beard or no-beard. Then usually gender, though step one helps eliminate considerable confusion in step two.
15. RED OR PINK? If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice (I don’t really care for either).
16. WHAT IS YOUR LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF? My crippling inability to see my own faults for what they are.
17. WHO DO YOU MISS THE MOST? The target who moves the most erratically.
18. DO YOU WANT EVERYONE TO COMPLETE THIS LIST? I…. maybe? Does it cheapen or invalidate those who have completed it before? (I am reading too many Dinosaur Comics lately)
19. WHAT COLOR PANTS AND SHOES ARE YOU WEARING? Black jeans (I know, hello 1984 but in my defense, I haven’t done laundry lately). Brown winter boots (fashion faux pas?!)
21. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW? Filled With Glory – Michael Gungor but overwhelmingly the meeting that’s going on across the office because everybody is so loud.
22. IF YOU WERE A CRAYON, WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE? Clear
23. FAVORITE SMELLS? Used bookstore, pie.
24. WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE? Ladyboss.
25. DO YOU LIKE THE PERSON WHO SENT THIS TO YOU? If I didn’t, I probably wouldn’t have gotten this far.
26. FAVORITE SPORTS TO WATCH? Baseball, probably football (not American)
27. HAIR COLOR? Brown
28. EYE COLOR? Greyish blue. Nondescript.
29. DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS? Off and on.
30 FAVORITE FOOD? Pizza (so dull, so predictable), perhaps sandwiches
31. SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS? Apples or oranges
32. LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED? About half an hour of “Being John Malkovich” (weiiird), and then some ultra-trippy 1950’s musical on TVO called “The 5,000 fingers of Dr. T.” From the TVO synopsis:
Dr. Terwilliker, a mad piano teacher, is forcing 500 boys to play the piano 24/7 for eternity and young Bart Collins is the only one who can save them from their doomed fate.
But the visuals were straight out of the Darkest Africa of Looney Tunes, where Porky goes to find the Dodo. The part I remember most vividly was a kid climbing a ladder into the sky, jumping off and parachuting down because his shirt was too big. Sometimes I question where my tax dollars are going.
33. WHAT COLOR SHIRT ARE YOU WEARING? Grey t-shirt  grey/black/red stripe collared shirt, brown Roots hoody.
34. SUMMER OR WINTER?
Made glorious summer by this sum of pork:
35. HUGS OR KISSES? Both, please, and more of them.
36. FAVORITE DESSERT? Pie. I do my best not to turn down proffered pie; even if I am terribly full, I try to take at least a small amount. Partly this is because I love having pie-in-hand, as it were, but also because I have a belief that if I say ‘no thank you’ to pie, it reduces my chances of pie in the future. I am trading in pie futures here, I think.
37. MOST LIKELY TO RESPOND? Sort of not applicable because I broke the chain and now will have a couple million years of bad luck and tax audits.
38. LEAST LIKELY TO RESPOND? Please see #37.
39. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING NOW? Three Musketeers by Dumas
40. WHAT IS ON YOUR MOUSE PAD? Logitech TrackMan Wheel mouse
41. WHAT DID YOU WATCH ON TV LAST NIGHT? Six or eight episodes of House.
42. FAVORITE SOUND(S) “to crush your enemies, to see them fall at your feet — to take their horses and goods and hear the lamentations of their women”
43. ROLLING STONES OR BEATLES? Beatles. I cannot stand the Stones
44. WHAT IS THE FARTHEST YOU HAVE BEEN FROM HOME? Cancun, Mexico
45. DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL TALENT? See No. 42.