March 12, 2004
FOUR FOR FRIDAY
Q: The Girl Scouts of the USA celebrates itís 92nd birthday today! Did you order Girl Scout cookies this year, and if so, which kind did you getÖ Thin Mints, Caramel deLites, Peanut Butter Patties, PiÒatas, Peanut Butter Sandwich, Shortbread, Reduced Fat Lemon Pastry Cremes, and/or Animal Treasures? If you didnít order any GS Cookies this year, which kind would you most likely be accused of swiping off a co-workerís desk?
Q: Have you ever been intentionally physically threatened by someone, one adult to another?
Q: Would you rather paint with oils on a blank canvas, or draw with Crayons in a coloring book?
Q: Whatís an unusual or quirky habit your pet consistently displays? If you donít have a pet of your own, or if youíve never had a pet at any point during your life, whatís an unusual habit or thing that youíve observed in someone elseís pet (like a neighborís pet or a siblingís or relativeís pet)?
Posted by Mikal at March 12, 2004 5:28 AM
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1. Because of the 40 X 40 Plan, I didn't order any cookies this year. However, if a red flag went up because someone's Peanut Butter Patties went missing, I'd be a prime suspect!
2. Yes, unfortunately, I have been physically threatened, recently. It was not a pleasant experience, to say the least. Thankfully, it wasn't done in person (it was via a series of voice mail messages, but still, not what you expect to hear from one supposed adult to another).
3. Now, I know what some people are going to characterize my response as being indicative of, but I'm going to go with the Crayons and coloring book. I *can* color outside of the lines... I really can, but I just love the coloring book :-)
4. I grew up with a dog who would fall asleep, literally, in its food bowl, while eating. It was so funny and incomprehensible that when my parents had dinner parties, they'd ask that the dog be fed in the dining room for the benefit of guests. I still find myself giggling about it some 30 years later.
1. No cookies this year. If I were to "borrow" someone else's it might be the mints.
2. Does having your car and yourself abducted by a guy with a sawed off shotgun count?
3. I would much rather have oils and a blank canvas.
4. We had a beautiful, but dumb, german short hair that loved to jump in a bucket of water all four legs at a time. Cannot figure out what he thought he was accomplishing. He would tip over and end up needing help getting out. Silly dog!
1. I ordered 14 boxes of GS cookies! Thin Mints (my favorites & my daughter's), Peanut Butter Patties, Peanut Butter Sandwich, Pinatas, Carmel De-Lites, Friendship Circles (like Animal Treasures)--I think that's all. My kids and their friends have polished off 2 or 3 boxes so far.
2. I was married to an abusive man so I have been more than threatened by another adult. Thank God I didn't have children with him!
3. It depends on my mood. Sometimes I love bringing a picture to life by coloring in a coloring book, and sometimes I want to try putting on paper/canvas the pictures in my mind.
4. I used to have a horse that when she lied down on her side would let me lie across her. One of my current cats follows me around like a dog. I don't know if either of those things really qualifies as "quirky," but it's the best I could come up with!
1. I was a girl scout many, many ago and had to push these cookies door-to-door, so I always make it a point to buy atleast 1 box per season, this year it was thin mints!
2. Not unless sisters count.
3. Painting with oils. I love to paint, it is very relaxing.
4. My bulldog's favorite quirky habit, is to back up to me while Iím sitting on the couch, so that Iíll scratch his butt. He doesnít play favorites either, he does this to anyone who comes over.
1) Thin Mints all the way...!
2) Never been threatened intentionally, or been in a physical altercation.
3) Neither... the medium doesn't suit my taste for Elmer's glue. I do enjoy ceramics and glassblowing though.
4) She (Abbey) has too many to name. Being a Norwegian Forest Cat (smoke-colored), she looks odd, but absolutely beautiful - her bushy tail runs the full-length of her body. Probably what I find most unusual is her intensity in ways of getting underneath bedding (pillows, down comforter, blankets, sheets, fitted sheets, etc.). Her vocalizations are quite odd as well.
1. I didn't order any GS cookies this year. But I love the Thin Mints and S'Mores (do they make those anymore?) and the Peanut Butter ones. The cookies have changed since I was a kid. They used to be much bigger, too.
2. Yes. I worked at this health food store when I was 20 and this other guy I worked with was one of those "muscle heads" and drove one of those tiny trucks with the really big wheels. One day we were in the store's cellar opening the stock and he made some sexually harassing comment or move and I told him to f-off and he got mad, so he grabbed my arm and I told him to let go of me and cursed him out. I forget if he got in trouble or not (this was before sexual harassment was really recognized), but the other guy down there witnessed it and was on my side. Needless to say, he was just an insecure bully, but he still worked there after that and I totally ignored him, which pissed him off. He was a total sleaze.
3. Paint with oils. That's the next art class I want to take.
4. I don't currently have any pets, but when I was a teenager my family had a cat. He was very affectionate and when you held him he would put his paws on your shoulders, like a hug, and purr. He would also jump on my bed in the middle of the night and pick at the blanket for what seemed like hours until he was comfortable. It always drove me nuts!
1. Didn't buy any this year, but I've partaken of a thin mint or two when offered. I LOVE thin mints. I used to sell these, too.
2. I was propositioned, then grabbed, and called a dyke by a drunk Butler frat boy at BW3s in Broad Ripple when I was in college.
3. I'd rather do the oil painting, but I'm more likely to go for the cheaper, more readily available crayons and a coloring book.
4. My ex's cat Tobie likes to lick plastic bags-- particularly if he's hungry or thirsty. When you hear that noise, you know it's time to refill his food bowl. My cat brings her toy mice to bed and sleeps with them like dolls.
1. Girl Scout cookies are the only good thing about this cold, crummy season ... so yeah, I ordered a few. Six boxes of Samoas (Carmel Delights). I polished off four already and am awaiting the arrival of the other two.
2. I cannot recollect ever being physically threatened.
3. I would much rather color with crayons. I can't draw to save my life.
4. In my youth, I had an aquarium with many fish and a snail (Sneed). The tank had a bubble maker buried under the rocks in the back, so there was an endless stream of bubbles floating up from the bottom of the tank. Sneed used to crawl over to that spot, let go, and ride the bubbles to the top. Then he'd float gently back down to the bottom and do it again. All day. Also, we had a rather large cat. Although I was never lucky enough to witness this, I'm told that Sooner used to wait until my mother was in bed, almost asleep, and then hunch down next to the bed and wait for the perfect moment to pounce on her head. I'm sure it was priceless.
1. I ordered gs cookies under the condition that i not take possession of them, so the girl scout picked out 3 boxes of her favorite cookies and shared them with her friends. if i was taking possession i would have had to have thin mints and pb patties! um um
on a related note see why WHACKO Waco, TX was boycotting girl scout cookies: http://www.kottke.org/04/03/those-naughty-girl-scouts
2. yes! my very evil smack-using downstairs neighbor from my barbie dreamhouse attic apartment. she apologized the next day and said she was taking her medication now, but it was not anything serious, it was just a salt! ha
3. oils and a giant canvas sound wonderful
4. so many to name, but i will give it a whirl- my sweet aussie/german shepherd looks away when i kiss my husband (:
1. Thin Mints. Do any other cookies really exist?
2. No, thank goodness.
3. Crayons. Hands down. Anyone can use them and I'm not artistic. Plus the box of 64 Crayolas with the sharpener in the back takes me back to my carefree childhood days.
4. My cat Lucy is very obsessed with cleanliness (most cats are, I know), but to the point that she will actually get into the shower when it's running, gets in the litterbox behind her sister Molly to "clean up" some more, and any time food or other errant items are left out, "cleans up" with the traditional paw movement. Now if only she could learn to operate the vacuum...
1. No. I don't like Girl Scout cookies.
2. No. Because there is always someone else around who is more annoying than me.
3. Er, I have a horde of blank sketch books if that means anything.
4. I used to live at a dorm where a few cats had adopted it as home. One of the older cats would always sit beside me and stare raptly at the speakers whenever I played any music. She never listened to anyone else's music though.
As I sit here typing munching on Samoas, yes I have bought three boxes of cookies. Two Thin Mints and one of Samoas. I normally don?t buy any but because of the boycott I bought the three boxes.
Being transgendered, I have been verbally assaulted many times and a couple of times been damned to hell. I always watch where I going at night I make sure that it is a trans friendly place.
Me, I prefer a camera. I like to frame my world through a viewfinder. If I had to choose between a blank canvas and coloring book, I will choose the blank canvas. You have your whole mind to fill it.
I don't have a pet, but a friend's dog use to eat his food buy picking up one piece of food at a time. Taking it over to the same corner of the room, drop it on the floor, look around and then eat it. Then repeat the sequence over again until the bowl was eaten.
1- Those little green-clad chicks cornered me at the library! Oh, man, thin mints, those peanut butter cookies dipped in chocolate, and those low-fat lemon ones (which ain't so low-fat if you eat the whole box at once)...I would have bought more, but I only had ten bucks on me at the time. Coookie!!!!
2- Yep. And I've had to do a bit of it myself, too. This supervisor that I had was all kinds of illegal in his behavior. He didn't care if I told his wife, he didn't care if I told his supervisors (who were all "concerned" when I finally did tell them, and "hoped that [I] wouldn't quit over such things", but never even spoke to him about his harassment and discrimination), he didn't care if I called a lawyer. But, he sure as hell backed off when I said "one step closer and I will hurt you." At least, he backed off in that instance.
3- Oils and canvas: thank you Jackson Pollack.
4- This is sort of a relative question, isn't it? Most pets are rather quirky by nature. My parents, however, have this basset hound who will drink Dr. Pepper out of the can. He can also spell. My brother, who taught the hound how to drink Dr. Pepper out of the can, is his favorite person in the whole world. This basset loves my brother so much that, should you mention my brother's name, he will start pacing and staring at the door and sit in hyper-alert, all in anticipation of my brother's arrival. He becomes such a bundle of hopeful anxiety, that my parents just could not say my brother's name in the pooch's presence. So, they began to spell it. Of course, the hound caught on, and now, he knows when they spell my brother's name.
1. No girl scout cookies for me.. Not that several parents didn't bring the order sheet and pass it around at work. Aren't the girls supposed to be selling these and not the parents?? Luckily, my co-workers ordered plenty.. and they better hid those Peanut Butter Patties:-)
2. I'm very thankful to say that I've never been threatened by anyone.
3. I'd definately take the crayons. Who said being an artist has to be all serious. Coloring "Clifford" with my nephew is great fun!!
4. My cat Bogie (officially named Mr. Bogart Bigglesworth) has a strange habit involving his "kitty bed". Instead of laying on the soft cover inside the bed, he prefers to have the bed turned over, and lay in it while it's upside down. I sure don't understand this!! He also loves napping in the bathroom sink. Aren't cats supposed to hate water?
1. I get them every year - Caramel Delites & Peanut Butter. Plus, I got a box or 2 of the new varieties offered this year - something with jelly in them, maybe?
2. I've been threatened a number of times: once, I was gay-bashed, mugged, and beaten unconscious in Washington, DC in 1996; I was threatened and yelled at from a passing car a few years ago evidently because I was walking in my neighborhood with a group of effeminate people; and I've felt and been threatened a few times when making drug deals - not that I'm proud of that, but it's there as the truth.
3. Crayons in a coloring book or anywhere else - like the table paper at Garfields' restaurants. Mikal: John Kuntz & I used to do that in Joplin when we'd return from AAUS conventions.
4. I guess I'll proffer a classic? caca on the floor or in the car; getting erections at unseemly times.
1. Didn't buy any but thin mints are the only ones I eat.
2. Can't remember ever being physically threatened.
3. Crayons. Painting requires too much cleanup.
4. My sister's rottweiller flipping out when it sees light reflecting off glass or metal onto a wall.
1. Being that I am a Girl Scout and a Girl Scout leader, cookies are a part of my life. Samoas, Thin Mints, Double Dutch, and Trefoils were on my purchase list!
2. I have been physically threatened many times. Most recently was less than a year ago when a woman punched me in the face at a McDonaldís drive through. I guess she felt she had the right to drive 35 mph in the parking lot and cut everyone off. Anyways, after her arrest and a court appearance...she was charged with assault and battery and ordered to take Anger Management classes. Lets see... I've been held at gunpoint when I was 14 in a grocery store... that may qualify in the top 10 of my list for physical threats as well.
3. I love to draw in a coloring book... I'll admit I still do. However, I also enjoy painting. It's a hard decision between the two.
4. I had a St. Bernard (185 lbs) who would always jump into the trunk of our car when we opened it. Our kitten would often jump on its back and take rides as well. I have too many quirky animal stories to tell!
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