Email forwards (3)

I get my share of email forwards. My family sends them. My friends send them. Some are amusing, some I’ve seen before, some get investigated at Snopes, etc. All in all, I probably don’t get so many that my inbox is overstuffed, and there have been some gems (I first saw the Chuck Norris stuff from one at the office!). Recently there have been a few “get to know you” questionaires. that Jen has passed my way. These tell you to fill them out, and send them back to the sender, as well as send them on to other friends. Normally I just fill it out with something funny for Jen, but don’t pass it on, as I am slightly embarassed to bother everyone with it and spam them. So, why not take it one step further. Heh, I’ll post the latest one here….if anyone wants to follow along, copy and paste the questions in the comments, etc. Yeah, I’m a dork. Maybe I’ll make a new category for “Forwards” and post all the ones I get from time to time, maybe with comments, too. Here’s one from this afternoon:

Welcome to the 2006 edition of getting to know your friends. What you are supposed to do is copy (not forward) his entire e-mail and paste it onto a new e-mail that you’ll send. Change all the answers so they apply to you, and then send this to a whole bunch of people including the person who sent it to you. The theory is that you will learn a lot of little things about your friends, if you did not know them already.
1. What time did you get up this morning? Alarm went off at 6:45…I think I actually got out of bed around 6:50

2. Diamonds or Pearls? Gotta go with diamonds. (I’ve omitted my pearl comment )

3. What was the last film you saw at the movies? Was Chronicles of Narna before of after Saw 2? Whichever one of those was more recent…

4. What is your favorite TV Show? Seinfeld, Family Guy (when it’s funny), old Simpsons, The Office, My Name is Earl. Do I watch too much TV?

5. What did you eat for breakfast? Poptart and a glass of OJ

6. What is your favorite cuisine? Gotta go with lasagna, or pizza, or steaks, or burgers. Mmmmmmm food. (someone/something smells like BBQ in here now, too, so I’ll throw on anything BBQ-ed!)

7. What is your middle name? NOLAN. Fear the NOLAN.

8. What food do you dislike? Mushrooms. Olives.

9. What is your favorite CD at the moment? I think the last CD I bought was either Lynrd Skynrd or Rancid. I recently downloaded and am listening through some CunninLynguists cds – so far I like it. Favorite CD? I’ll go with my burned CD of favorite MP3s (150 songs or so?) that used to be in my car.

10. What kind of car do you drive? Ford Escape

11. Favorite Sandwich? Turkey paninis from the Chocolate Moose in Portland were awesome.

12. What characteristic do you dislike? Inconsiderate people.

13. Who do you consider a modern role model or hero? My parents I guess? They seem to have done a pretty good job so far with me….

14. If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation? Someplace warm. With lots of museums.

LOL

15. What color is your bathroom? The walls are the crappy off white apartment walls, with WEIRD ORANGE STREAKS smeared down the walls. What is it?

16. Favorite brand of clothing? Mostly buy Old Navy, but gotta love the Silvertab jeans from Levi.

17. Where would you retire to? Not South Bend.

18. What is your most memorable birthday? I don’t really recall any super awesome birthdays. I think I prefer them low-key. There was one as a kid where I got a Lego pirate ship I wanted and me and some friends
stayed up building it. That sticks in my mind, but I couldn’t tell you when it was. Eh, oh well.

19. Favorite sport to watch? College basketball, pro football when fantasy stuff is going on. I used to be a huge hockey fan but for some reason I don’t catch/care about it anymore. Maybe once playoffs start I’ll start watching the Redwings again?

20. Furthest place you are sending this? about 10 miles away…

21. Who do you least expect to send this back to you? I’m a dork.

22. Person to send it back first? Maybe I should forward it to more people….my address book is at home on the computer though.

23. When did do you learn Santa didn’t exist? He doesn’t exist?

24. When is your b-day? January 31 – shared with greats such as Nolan Ryan and Justin Timberlake.

25. Are you a morning person or night? Night person. Even though I’m tired, I hate going to bed.

26. What is your shoe size? 9.5-10

27. Pets? 2 year-old lab mix Samantha…she’s a handful!

28. Any new and exciting news you’d like to share with us? New? Exciting? Do you know me?

29. What did you want to be when you were little? At one point a doctor or a lawyer I think. Then a video game programmer. I have no ambition for any of those things.

30. How are you today? Bored. I should be working though, and there’s as ton of stuff for me to do. But this is a diversion.

31. What is your favorite candy/chocolate? Gotta love the Snickers bars. Or KitKat. Or toffee….mmmmm toffee….

32. What is your favorite flower? Favorite flower? What, am I a pansy? Oooo, yeah, a pansy!

33. What is a date on the calendar you look forward to? November 18, 2006…our wedding! It is going to kick ass!

34. Do you enjoy your job? Eh, it’s a job. That pretty much sums it up. I don’t think it’s what I want to do for a long time, but it could be a lot worse and it pays the bills.

35. Favorite book? I think I’ll go with the entire Lord of the Rings trilolgy, plus the Hobbit. Those 4 books, when I read them were nothing short of magical. I need to reread them.