1. A hidden talent2. What do you drive?
3. A song you'd like to never hear again. Ever.
4. As I get older I realise..
5. First memory that springs to mind when you think of 1990
6. I really want to read... but haven't gotten around to it
7. If push comes to shove, what's your all-time fav. TV show?
8. Who did you want to look like when you were a teenager?
9. A famous person you've met
10. An embarrassing story from childhood. Be brave.
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1. A hidden talent
2. What do you drive?
3. A song you'd like to never hear again. Ever.
4. As I get older I realise..
5. First memory that springs to mind when you think of 1990
6. I really want to read... but haven't gotten around to it
7. If push comes to shove, what's your all-time fav. TV show?
8. Who did you want to look like when you were a teenager?
9. A famous person you've met
10. An embarrassing story from childhood. Be brave.
......ahhhhh, mondays....
1. Shaping surfboards
2. KTM Supermotard
3. Golden Brown
4. How wrong you are when you think you're cool in your teens!!
5. moving to Sydney for the first time (to work at Disney!)
6. Another Gabrielle garcia mar quez novel
7. Thats a real hard one benno....Gilligans island?...Seinfeld?...depends on the era.
8. Rick Springfield
9. Troy Bayliss
10. When I was 4, being babysat, at the petersons, I had to go number 2's...Mrs peterson was in the loo..couldn't wait...nearest cubicle was the stereo cabinet..oops, sorry...
1.can put my legs behind my head
2.VW Golf
3.'I'm A Believer' by The Monkees. I HATE it.
4.it's the little things I remember and value the most
5.Starting high school, obsessed with The Cure and Kelly Freas. My big brother moving out to go to uni.
6.Alice in Wonderland
7.The Bush Tucker Man
8.Robert Smith, Ad Rock, Phil Anselmo and Henry Rollins
9.Brian Wilson
10.Sleep-over at Myles Monekees' house, year 5. Dreamed I was going to the toilet, IN the toilet, but awoke to a loud scream from Myles: "Muuuum! Ben pooed on the floor!!!"
My life has never really recovered from that pivotal moment.
1. Not many hidden. If I've got a talent I get it out there!
2. Subaru RS turbo. Oh yeah.
3. Beyonce - Halo
4. My wife is even more awesome than I'd realised when I asked her to marry me.
5. Hypercolor.
6. Oh so much. At the moment it's 'the rest' of Total Church.
7. 24.
8. Dunno? Didn't really think about it...
9. Mark Taylor.
10. Got 'dacked' when I was in year 4 on an excursion to the Zoo. Ouch. It hurts just to talk about it.
1. I can hum and whistle at the same time.
2. A 1997 Hyundai Excel, purple.
3. That "Friends Forever" cliched one that gets played at every graduation thing ever.
4. That I am often wrong.
5. Hanging out in a bamboo jungle with my friends from the 'hood.
6. Moby Dick
7. Black Books or the West Wing. I can't split them because I can't compare them...
8. Anybody but my dad.
9. Define "met" - I "met" John Howard, I "saw" Robbie Fowler at my local souvlaki bar.
10. I don't really get embarrassed. I have such a high tolerance for public scrutiny and apparently pretty good control of my bodily functions...
Actually, I've got one, when I was in year 9 I did a marketing assignment where I had to invent a product. I wrote a jingle for it (to the tune of Mary had a little lamb) and recorded it on cassette. It was put on display in the library and someone stole it and it went viral (within the confines of our school).
1. I'm awesome at Street Fighter on the Super Nintendo.
2. Sam's Subaru RS Turbo. So obvious it's not my car.
3. Katy Perry's I kissed a girl
4. 9:30pm bedtimes aren't a bad idea
5. Taping songs off the radio and always missing the first 15 seconds.
6. Little Women
7. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
8. Joey from Dawson's Creek
9. No one!
10. Why do so many of these stories involve number twos? In the same spirit, pooing my pants at primary school (year 3?) and needing to throw away the evidence.
1. I can curl my tongue to make it look like a bleeding heart.
2. Mitsubishi mirage
3. Greensleeves
4. As I get older, I realise how much God has worked in my life to put me where I am now (and given me ferrets - had to include it somewhere!)
5. 1990: Going to a state swimming carnival in a bus, sharing my friend's walkman
6. I really want to read so many classics, but I never get the necessary motivation
7. So you think you can dance
8. Anyone other than me
9. Tracey Wickham (she was a commonwealth swimmer)
10. See through swimmers at a party in 6th grade. Yep.
1. The type of person I am means that I don't keep these things hidden, especially seeing I have so few
2. Camry 88' - Irene from Home and Away gave it to me
3. Anything by Nickelback, but especially that one with the awful first line
4. more of my faults
5. Some kid in my class being told off by the teacher for going to bed at 9 30, cos he was always tired. It was yr 2.
6. Jesus and the Victory of God - NT Wright
7. Seinfield. I'd like to say something else cooler, but I love it.
8. Matt Miller - curse those cute dimples he had!
9. Colin Greenwood from Radiohead
10. When I first saw the film clip to hanson's mmm bop, I thought to myself "Gee, that singer is hot. I wonder if I could get a girl like that..."
10. When I first saw the film clip to hanson's mmm bop, I thought to myself "Gee, that singer is hot. I wonder if I could get a girl like that..."
rofl.
1. If I told you it wouldn't be hidden now, would it?
2. Bikes
3. The one you're about to play - stop right where you are!
4. I'm sorry... I forgot what you asked... I have to apologise because as I get older I realise my memory isn't so good.
5. 1990? I'm sorry, as I get older, I realise my memory isn't so good.
6. Ben's blog. People have said it's pretty good - can somebody point the way?
7. It would have to be the West Wing.
8. The person that I am now, of course.
9. Everyday when I look in the mirror...
10. Have I mentioned my memory? I can't remember if I have yet...
I think Ben is compiling all the results of these quizes into some sort of magic database with a goal to being the new google.
1. i am completely transparent [read: boring] [ps. this is not my talent]
2. 93 toyota corolla
3. Grease megamix
4. being real is what counts
5. eating jelly oranges at kindy open day
6. um like every good book ever written
7. Grand Designs
8. Probably just the cool people i saw at gigs
9. Steve Waugh
10. Having to wear a red leotard in year 3 on stage in the school play while singing "there's no business like show business"
1. I'm good at playing cricket.
2. a tarago
3. Amigos para sempre
4. how precious every day is
5. hanging out with AB
6. The Wanderer
7. Foyle's War
8. I don't know.
9. Craig from 'The Chaser'.
10. Don't know about embarrassing from childhood, but a while ago I hopped into the car to drive away from visiting a friend, and realised after a few moments of sitting still that I'd popped into the passenger seat, not the driver's seat... while my friend patiently waited waving 'goodbye'!!
1. I do some animal noises (e.g. magpies, dogs, cats) really well - I confuse the real thing.
2. 2004 Toyota Corolla wagon
3. So, so many...How about that one that starts, "You and me ain't nothing but mammals..."
4. The world was probably going to pot when I was a child but I was blissfully unaware of it.
5. (Reading everyone else's comments I feel ancient.) Being in Year 12 and getting annoyed with people claiming it was the start of a new decade. Learn to count to 10, people!
6. Half the books on our shelves.
7. How about a genre - documentaries. No? Umm, difficult considering I don't have a box; maybe the British show following people who try to do up a house for no money (and how close they come to ruin) because they haven't done their planning. Sorry, don't remember the name.
8. All the girls with better figures than mine.
9. How about famous by association? A cousin of one of the actresses on "A Country Practice" - this was in the 80's.
10. Grade 5, being on church camp and walking into the men's toilets - fortunately only one man washing his hands there at the time! :-)
Pete- i like that you have a poo story too. Everyone ought to have one.
Sam-dacked in front of animals. That's harsh dude.
Nathaniel- I too have that awesome talent. We should hook up for duelling humwhistles. I'd really like to read Moby Dick too.
Soph-Hurrah for poo stories!Oh yeah early bedtimes are the bomb.
Georgina- Ouch about the swimmers. I've been there too. I have lots of fond memories of walkman-sharing too.
Geoff- I love that you had the hots for the Hanson kid. That is maybe the greatest thing I've ever heard. I wish I knew you so I could tease you. I think his name was Taylor. He's so hot right now.
Drew- I suspect that you're in a funny mood.. Everyone talks about the West Wing. I should try it. To me as soon as I found out it was about polotics I said 'welp, there's a show I'll never ever watch'.
SophG- being transparent is a cool hidden talent, it's almost like a super-power. Heh, I love your year 3 story!
Ruth- is that that Olympics song with the Tenors? Yeah, that's pretty pain inducing.. that's funny that you got in the wrong seat. You should've called to your friend 'run along, my driver will be here presently. Good day!'
Laetitia-oh yeah I hate that song too. Though you are giving mixed messages by doing the animal noises..
1. I can cook great scones. (Don't tell anyone ... I'm worried it's not cool.)
2. Black Mazda 3.
3. "If I were a rich man" - Roger Whitaker - one of my sister's favourites when we were kids.
4. What my parents went through to raise my sister and I.
5. My dad's EA Falcon station wagon.
6. Goldsworthy's "Gospel and Kingdom"
7. West Wing!
8. Probably one of the looser guys from 90210.
9. Bob Hawke
10. I was Rolf in the school 'Sound of Music' production. In one scene I had to kiss Liesl. Every time we did a rehearsal everyone else would be eagerly waiting to see "is he gonna do it this time?". The first time I did, it turned out my mum had dropped in to the school for some reason and was sitting the front row.
Not as bad as a poo story maybe... but you know...
how nice is ben, writing individual comments to everyone who answers the quiz!!
Soph - it's what keeps us coming back for more.
1. At 37, can still do the splits.
2. GMC Canyon truck
3. Anything by Peter Gabriel
4. Life's too short to sweat the small stuff.
5. Being free from school!!!
6. Any of the 100 books in my room!
7. McLeod's Daughters!!!
8. ??
9. Tom Wopat...Dukes of Hazard
10. At Girl Scout camp taking my clothes off that i had on over my swimsuit, but then not stopping, and removing my swimsuit also.
@beth - just as well it was a Girl Scout camp.
Being able to do the splits at any age is pretty impressive.
Well, to give you a look inside my sad neurotic mind, Soph and Nathan, I don't know what the correct ettiquette is, and I've been experimenting.
Sometimes I don't respond at all, sometimes I respond only to the ones I thought of a reply to. But this feels mean to the others, and if it were me I'd be sad to be skipped.
So this week I'm experimenting with replying to ALL. A tough gig, but that's just how giving I am. My love cup overfloweth, come quiz time.
And so, to get on with the love-fest:
Maso- Both scones and Luke Perry's hair are cool. I want both.
Beth- awesome that you met a Duke. I'm jelous. Nice splits action too.
Do these comments sound contrived? they feel a bit contrived to me. Stupid blog ettiquette.
well, they do now...
;)
1. I can cross one eye at a time.
2. Can't drive, but hitch a lot of lifts in our Holden Astra!
3. 'Have faith in God.' Please, please, never again.
4. ... that there's a lot to be said for getting older.
5. Having a crush on a boy named Greg.
6. Mark Noll's recent book on the history of race and religion in the US.
7. Recently, West Wing, but heavens I loved Press Gang, back in the day!
8. Julia Roberts.
9. The Governor General.
10. Freakily similar to Beth's, except I was taking off all the clothes I had on over my swimsuit and forgot to take off my undies. Strolled proudly out to the pool.... Boys were present....
I like the individualized responses - it's one of the many endearing features of 'Vanishing Point' - such a likeable blog!
Seriously, I always look back at the posts I've commented on and see because of it!
Joanna- I like to meet non-drivers. Until about two years ago I was one also. And oh yeah on the Press Gang thing. I was very in love with Lynda.
ruth- well thanks, that is good feedback to get. You wonder about these things. I'll persist then.
1. making compost
2. ministry magna wagon
3. the first cut is the deepest
4. i need to listen to others more and less
5. living on a kibbutz in israel
6. jane eyre
7. west wing
8. someone without acne
9. Wayne Bennett (i rode past him on a bikeway)
10. being handed a birthday present book about winnie the pooh at age 7 and bursting out in tears on the spot cos i thought it was rude in some indescribable way.
love your quizes, ben!
1. i can bake great wheat-free, egg-free chocolate chip cookies
2. mini-van
3. money by pink floyd
4. making mistakes aren't something to shun but something to learn from
5. my husband asking me to marry him
6. so many books, so little time
7. friends
8. amy grant
9. twila paris
10. knocking over another boy's desk in school while 'flirting' with him - 5th grade
Chris- Nevermind. we all had a cry over Winnie The Pooh. Actually I'm just saying that. I had a dabble in composting. It was satisfying, but made me feel a bit dry-reachy doing it. But I loved the deep coloured, rich smelling soil it made. It was beautiful stuff, I could nearly eat it.
lu- aww. 1990 was a good year then. Yeah I could live without that annoying song too. Boring and dirgy.
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