1. Your typical work attire2. Your ethnic background
3. Number of siblings, including you
4. Did you learn an instrument at school? What?
5. Some words to describe you as a teenager
6. Some words to describe you these days
7. Number of schools you went to
8. A favourite show as a kid
9. Right or left handed
10. Something to look forward to today
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1. Your typical work attire
2. Your ethnic background
3. Number of siblings, including you
4. Did you learn an instrument at school? What?
5. Some words to describe you as a teenager
6. Some words to describe you these days
7. Number of schools you went to
8. A favourite show as a kid
9. Right or left handed
10. Something to look forward to today
Woohoo. A quiz.
1. Polo shirt, trousers.
2. WASP.
3. 4.
4. Piano
5. Lanky, less funny than I thought I was.
6. Still lanky - though with padding, slightly funnier.
7. 1 primary school, 2 high schools.
8. Ship to Shore.
9. Right handed.
10. So many options, my folks are coming to visit, I'm making coffee for an evangelistic night at church and playing indoor soccer... all in the space of 2 hours.
what's a WASP?
West African/Serbian-Persian?
1. skirt and top or 3/4 pants.
2. wasp
3. 3
4. trumpet (piano at home)
5. an extrovert too embarrassed and hung-up to act out on it
6. extrovert unembarrassed
7. 1 primary, 1 high
8. cities of gold
9. right
10. thinking time
ok, you win Ben. I've been pulled out of lurker status.
1. skirt and top
2. WASP
3. 3
4. forced my way through the torture of recorder and then never ever again
5. smart, sick, changing
6. married, sick, static
7. 1 primary, 1 high - 4 pre schools
8. Tea bag
9. right
10. birthday dinner for Dad & Sister - osso bucco and sticky date pudding
1. A dress, flat shoes, cardi and colourful jewellery
2. Chinese/Malaysian/Indonesian
3. 3
4. yes. Flute, piano, violin.
5. I was extremely shy, but quite chatty once you got to know me
6. Good at hiding how shy I really am!
7. 1
8. Captain Planet
9. Right
10. getting through my to do list.
It was nice to see you and E on the weekend, sorry we didn't get to catch up more. Good to have you back :)
1. Whatever casual clothes jump out at me.
2. Estonian, Irish, Australian
3. 4
4. Violin
5. no confidence, quiet, had my own style
6. confident, still quiet, but not as much, less of my own style.
7. 3 primary (one of those was for 1 day), 1 high
8. Wombat
9. left
10. washing, groceries, nap
Nath- slightly less interesting, but the word 'Saxon' conjures up metal and vikings for me, which can't hurt. Also, nice use of the word 'trousers'.
Simone- I liked Cities of Gold too. I still remember the tune of the theme song.
Milika- Welcome! Thanks for doing my quiz. Ahh, the recorder. I mastered Pyr Gynt on that little bad boy.
Soph- Nice to see you guys too. It was a shame we didn't get to chat more.Next time!
Earth!Fire!Water!Wind! Gooooo Planet!
Goldy- I'd totally forgotten about Wombat. Oh man, heady days.
Tell us the school for one day story..
Saxons are/were awesome. Much cooler than Normans. Robin Hood taught me that.
If I was in England back then I would have chosen to be a Saxon. If you had a choice.
1.Jeans and a t-shirt
2.Australian Viking, with a twist of Danish
3.Four
4.Euphonium in year 6. Silly tuba thing, as big as me. All the normal instruments were taken.
5.Angsty, introspective, class-clown, lonely, dishonest
6.Self-assured,anxious,ambitious, transparent,thankful,introspective, honest,angsty.
7.5 primary, 1 high
8.Belle and Sebastian
9.Right
10.Seeing my three favourite people when I get home
1. Work Logo Trousers & Business Shirt
2. WASP
3. 4
4. Trombone (did your euphonium have the extra valve? - some eupho players I knew had valve envy).
5. Math/Sci Nerd+Geek who also liked sport and musical theatre and didn't really fit in any group
6. IT Nerd+Geek who likes sport and musical theatre and doesn't care as much about categories.
7. 3 primary, 1 secondary
8. Battle of the Planets, closely followed by the Cities of Gold, Secret Valley, Star Blazers, Transformers, and the vehicle Voltron (not those wussy cats).
9. Right
10. Going home to my family
1. depends on my mood...but it is always co-ordinated!
2. german, finnish, english. apparently my great great grandmother was maori, but we're not sure (it was a taboo topic back in the day) and possibly my great grandfather was jewish (but again taboo)
3. 3
4. piano
5. desperately wanted to be 'alternative'!
6. not so alternative...quiet, opinionated, thoughtful this is a hard question!
7. 2 primary and 2 highschool
8. teabag, wombles of wimbledon, inspector gadget, vidiot, heartbreak high...basically anything on the abc (we weren't allowed watch anything else!)
9. right
10. having a tidy house and reading my new book tonight.
Hey Mark- You didn't like the Voltron cats? Oh man. They were freakin awesome.. '..arms and torso.. and I'll form the head!' I loved Starblazers too. I had a little model of that awesome ship thing. And G Force.
ps- my euphonium had 3 valves. At the time I saw that as 3 too many.
Thora- heya. Interesting that you said quiet and oppnionated, I was going to also say 'quietly oppinionated' about myself.
And awesome family background!
Welcome back, Ben!
1. Jeans (LOVE my job!)
2. WASP
3. 5
4. Learned the piano, kicking and screaming, for 4 years... and the french horn for 1. My mum said I'd regret giving them up - and she was right!
5. insecure, noisy
6. less insecure, less noisy
7. 4
8. MacGyver. For years it was the only English-language show on TV (other than cartoons) in the country where my parents were missos. It left me with totally unrealistic ideas about what you can do with a Swiss Army knife (& a massive crush on Richard Dean Anderson).
9. Right.
10. Coffee & cake with the women from church this evening.
1. business shirt and trousers
2. english mostly
3. 2
4. Yes. Bassoon, percussion, piano
5. not real confident; lousy at ball sports; probably not a Christian
6. more confident; took up surfing, running, kayaking, bike riding; a Christian
7. 1 primary, 1 high
8. The A Team, Star Blazers, Charles in Charge...
9. Right
10. Holidays ... starting mid next week (wohoo)
1. long shorts, T-shirt and runners (look like a uni student)
2. WASP
3. 4
4. violin in shared class in grade 3 moved interstate and stopped, resumed about 28 years later
5. insecure, bookish, non-sporty
6. intense, gregarious, edgy :) (that's 2 sins combined isn't it)
7. 4 primary 2 highschools
8. Knight Ryder
9. R
10. finishing a talk
Maso - Charles in Charge !!! I can hear the theme song in my head!
Hi Ben! YAY a Monday quiz!
1. Black pants and a top. In summer usually skirt and short-sleeved top. Usually with some ferret hair.
2. White Aussie, but apparently I look Greek or Italian.
3. 3, or 4. Depending on whether you count my stepbrother or not.
4. Yes, recorder. Flute.
5. Very quiet (barely said a word)
6. Not quiet at all
7. 3 pre-schools, 4 primary schools, 3 high schools.
8. A country practice
9. Right
10. Getting home and watching TV with the fuzzbutts
1. Your typical work attire - long pants, steel cap shoes (actually my most comfy shoes and tax-deductible too!), work polo shirt (these things are comfy - and I haven't had to pay for one yet!)
2. Your ethnic background - Mostly English, Norwegian (Laplander) and Danish great-great-grandparents and, judging by photos of another great-great-grandfather, possibly some Negro.
3. Number of siblings, including you - 4
4. Did you learn an instrument at school? What? - Well, if including private lessons rather than just school lessons: piano, voice and recorder. Now I'm doing saxophone.
5. Some words to describe you as a teenager - Maths Queen
6. Some words to describe you these days - Maths Queen - can you think of any other reason an engineer would decide to do a Dip. of Accounting?
7. Number of schools you went to - 1 primary, 1 high
8. A favourite show as a kid - The Edison Twins (and oh, how other responses have brought back memories - I now have the Cities of Gold theme song in my head!)
9. Right or left handed - mainly right
10. Something to look forward to today - getting home to see if Ben has returned to give us a quiz! :-)
1. Jeans and T-shirt
2. White. Very white.
3. I have three sisters and myself. To briefly attack the quiz, can I just say this questions doesn't make sense.
4. Guitar, Piano.
5. Awkward. Single. Awkward.
6. Awkward. Married. Awkward.
7. 1 primary, 1 high
8. Gummibears
9. Right
10. Sleep
1. Some ill-fitting, cheap, slave labour manufactured jeans and a tshirt/boring top with a cardi
2. Scottish/Cornish
3. 2
4. Cello and piano (oh and recorder + tin whistle by force)
5. Angsty, stick it to the man, nerd
6. Angsty, less stick it to the man, nerd
7. 2 primary, 1 high
8. Puddle Lane, Wonder World, News Radio
9. Right
10. Sleep (in a few minutes)
Good to have you back Ben!
1. jeans & t-shirt
2. white
3. 3 growing up, 2 as adult
4. clarinet
5. quiet, insecure, not a risk-taker
6. friendly, still not a big risk-taker
7. 1 school district k-12
8. Little House on the Prairie
9. right
10. getting boys rooms cleaned out
Joanna-Cool, I like french horn. I'd like to learn just so I could play the intro of God Only Knows. And yeah McGuyver was pretty great.
Maso-I'd forgotten Charles in Charge.. Nice. 'Charles in charge of our days and our nights, Charles in charge of our wrongs and our rights.'Quite an omnipotent bloke!
Chris-Knight Rider was awesome. Kit was very awesome. Edgy as heck.
Georgina-I remember the weekly ritual of A Country Practice every monday and tuesday. Good times. I like the theme music.
Laetitia- Ahh, maths is your specialty also. Don't be fooled by my Maths in Society report card, I can add and subtract like a demon. Hmm.. I don't know the Edison Twins..
Izaac-Yeah, go on, attack the poor defeceless quiz who can't fight back. He will repay you with love. Wow gummibears.. you must be a spring chicken. I really only remember the lollies. Were they pre or post Care Bears?
Sophg-Oh yeah, NewsRadio..I'd forgotten about that one. I really liked that too. It sort of got forgotten, didn't it. PS- i bet that tin-whistle has come in handy.
Lu-Don't know what the story is, but sorry that you have one less sibling now, Lu.
Little House on the Prairie! Not until your done with your chores, Laura.
Has anyone else noticed that if we all set our minds to it we could have a pretty kickin' woodwind/brass section here?
1. Jeans & T-Shirt.
2. Finnish, Swedish, German, French, Danish, & Slovakian.
3. 3
4. No, but I can twirl a baton.
5. Sarcastic, hopeful, idealistic.
6. About the same.
7. 4
8. Gilligan's Island
9. Right
10. The day is almost over. I am looking forward to a good night's sleep.
School for 1 day...actually now that I think about it, it was probably 2 days. The family moved, so new school blah blah blah. I was grade 2, my brother was grade 6. His teacher smoked in the classroom and he got bad head aches from it. So on day 2 my mum went up to the school to complain and when the headmaster finally agreed to put him in a different class, my mum said forget it, we're going somewhere else. Yay for Supermum! But poor me, 1 new school was traumatic enough, 2 brought on all sorts of permanent psychological scarring. And that's why I have that nervous twitch.
1. Anything comfy, I'm in school, so right now usually shorts, top and flip flops.
2. German
3. 2
4. Yes, Clarinet and Saxaphone
5. Typical
6. I've mellowed with age.
7. 3
8. Facts of Life
9. Right
10. Time with my guy...
OOps, unfinished business..
Kristina- Wow you have a cool mix. Hey another Danish-ish person!
Goldy- wow.. cool mum. Though, I'm not adverse to durries in the classroom.
Beth- I forgot you guys call flip flops what we call thongs.. which for you guys probably has different connotations entirely!
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