I learned a long time ago not to call carbonated drinks "pop." But otherwise spot-on.
(Scene: A deli in Connecticut.
Me: [orders sandwich] "...oh, and a pop."
Clerk: "What?"
Me: "Pop."
Clerk: "What?"
Me: "Diet Coke.")

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Inland North   You may think you speak "Standard English straight out of the dictionary" but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like "Are you from Wisconsin?" or "Are you from Chicago?" Chances are you call carbonated drinks "pop."
The Midland
The Northeast
Philadelphia
The South
The West
Boston
North Central
What American accent do you have? Quiz Created on GoToQuiz

Tags: memesheepage, surveys, word-geeking

Haiku2 for firecat
i decided to focus on the noises and the oh and i went there
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Created by Grahame

Tags: memesheepage, poetry

via serenejournal

1. Did you date someone from your school?
Yep.

2. Did you win anything in Seniors Who's Who?
Nope. An acquaintance told me that she voted for me and my BF as "cutest couple."

3. What kind of car did you drive?
My senior year, I drove an [elided, because it is frequently a security question]. The other years I rode my bike to school.

4. It's Friday night...where are you?
Hanging out with my girlfriends or (senior year) with my bf.

5. Were you a party animal?
Not so much

6. Were you considered a flirt?
Nope

7. Were you in band, orchestra, or choir?
"Jazz ensemble," which was really a rock band, seeing as how the guitarist knew how to play Freebird and Stairway to Heaven and not much else. I also played bass guitar in the school musicals.

8. Were you a nerd?
Not really, I was in the artsy-crazy crowd.

9. Did you get suspended/expelled?
Nope.

10. Can you sing the fight song?
Nope.

11. Who were your favorite teachers?
Mr Linder (English), Miss Ferguson (Latin). Miss Ferguson shows up in some of Jeff Eugenides' novels (Middlesex, The Virgin Suicides).

12. Where did you sit during lunch?
Lunchroom, usually facing the door

13. What was your school's full name?
University-Liggett

14. School mascot?
Knight. There was a suit of armor in the lobby.

15. Homecoming court?
Whazzat?

16. If you could go back and do it again, would you?
I liked some things about it. But I had a pretty messed-up brain.

17. What do you remember most about graduation?
I vaguely remember the valedictorian's speech. Less than a decade later he entered the Peace Corps and died of malaria.

18. Where did you go senior skip day?
I don't remember if there even was a senior skip day; I don't remember if I participated; and if I did, I don't remember where I/we went.

19. Have you gained some weight since then?
Lots. I and everyone else thought I was fat in high school, but when I look back on photos of myself, I wasn't. Now I am.

20. Who was your Senior prom date?
My bf and I didn't go.

21. Are you planning on going to your 10-year reunion?
That was over 15 years ago and I didn't go.

22. Who was your home room teacher?
I don't remember having home room in high school. If we did, the teacher varied from year to year.

23. Who will repost?
Don't know or really care.

24. Did you play any sports?
Basketball, softball. I had some talent at softball (mainly in hitting the ball farther than it looked like I could).

25. Do you still talk to people from school?
I'm mostly out of touch with all of them.

26. What year did you graduate?
1979

Tags: memesheepage, memory, surveys
listening to: "Mambo" - Arthur Hull & friends - Small Village 3

via the OH

http://www.vajoe.com/candidate_calculator.html
http://www.dehp.net/candidate/

( My results )
Fascinating. So tell me more about these Gravel and Kucinich dudes.

Tags: memesheepage, politics, the oh

( lolcats )

Tags: cats, memesheepage

( Too true )

Tags: books, memesheepage
listening to: "Fish" - Philip Glass - Kundun

I keep thinking I've seen the ultimate lolcat spinoff.

I keep being wrong.

http://community.livejournal.com/lolgaimans/

Tags: cats, gip, memesheepage

When you see this post, post a couple of quotations from your own favorite writers. These should be people you read over and over again, not people who had one great idea; go ahead and do it from memory, mistakes and all.

(I didn't do it from memory, but don't let that stop you.)
(Also if you want to do quotes from people who had one great idea, I think that's just fine.)

"Let the beauty you love be what you do" -- Rumi as translated by Coleman Barks
(the real quote uses "we" instead of "you")

Yes is a world
& in this world of
yes live
(skilfuly curled)
all worlds
- e. e. cummings

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important. -- Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince (don't know the translator)

Tags: memesheepage, quotations

http://lol.ianloic.com/lj/firecat gives me a LolCat for each of the subject lines of my recent posts. [Replace with your own lj name for your set.]

Here are a few of the good ones.
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Tags: cats, funny, lj, memesheepage
listening to: "Sully's Reel/O'Keefe's Slide/Morrison's Jig" - Glenn Morgan - D Is For Dulci

There's a meme going around of one song from your music library whose title starts with a letter of your screen name.

My twist is that instead of posting the song titles I have posted a lyric from each song, and I've scrambled the order of the titles.

Your mission is to guess the title and artist for each. If you are the first to guess correctly, I edit the post to add the title and artist and your LJ name, and put the song in the correct order.

Darned if I can tell whether these will be easy or hard (I think at least one or two are easy).

( Let's go! )

Tags: memesheepage, music

Via surelars, below is a list of all the films nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award since 1970 (with the winning picture at the top of the list for each year, with the exception of 2006). Bold the ones you've seen.

As surelars said: Some of these I'm not sure if I've seen or not. When I doubt I left it as "not seen".

I'm thinking there are some good movies on this list, a surprising number of bad movies, and there are many good movies not on this list.

1970 (43rd)
Patton
Airport
Five Easy Pieces
Love Story
MASH
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Tags: memesheepage, movies
listening to: "Baby's breath" - Pretenders - !Viva el amor!

Now that the angst of VDay and valentinr is over, I can let folks know about my wishroll account at http://wishroll.com/wishlist/firecat. I heartily hope that someone will give me my wished-for item.

Tags: collect them all, memesheepage
feeling: hopeful

Yes, this is what I usually come out as in Enneagram tests. I added bold comments where I didn't agree with the results.( Read more... )

Tags: memesheepage, pop-psych

Baaaah.

ETA:URL corrected - Thanks nex0s and kmd!

Tags: memesheepage

via serenejournal

Which is longer: your big toe or your 2nd toe?: ( Read more... )

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listening to: "Danzas Espanolas : 7. Valenciana O Calesera" - Favourite Spanish Encores - De Larrocha

via serenejournal among others
( the neener neener survey )

Tags: memesheepage, surveys

via supergee via here.

I am an American citizen. I am not an advocate for terrorism. If called upon by my country, I would gladly defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. (I don't think I can promise that, but I think the Constitution is a good document overall and do my best to support it against enemies that seek to weaken or destroy it.) Inclusion of the following list of terms in this personal web log represents my opposition to the President's domestic spy program as well as my belief in the Bill of Rights and my 1st Amendment rights of free speech.

Al Qaeda, Taliban, Iraq, assassinate, 9/11, bomb, plutonium, George W. Bush, POTUS, uranium, target, airplane, train, bridge, tunnel, ship, building, kidnap, Afghanistan, explosives, C4, nuclear, infidel, Allah, Satan, suicide bomber, echelon, New York, Washington DC, White House, Congress, Senate, satellite, Army, Navy, soldier, insurgent, Osama bin Laden, jihad, police, Secret Service, FBI, National Security Agency, wiretap, surveillance, and Carnivore

Tags: memesheepage, politics

Movies, movies, movies

Courtesy of kightp, who passes on these instructions: "If you've seen over 70, you have no life. Number the ones you've seen. Post your score and feel like a loser."

I've added bold to those I actually saw in a theater.
The ones I can't remember if I've seen or not get a ?

(x) Rocky Horror Picture Show
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Tags: memesheepage, movies
listening to: "Impressed" - Natalie Imbruglia - Left Of The Middle