June 13, 2008
FOUR FOR FRIDAY
Q1 - Rainbow: Rainbows--the optical and meteorological phenomena that cause a spectrum of light to appear in the sky when the Sun shines onto droplets of moisture in the Earth's atmosphere--are a rare sight. When was the last time you saw a rainbow (where was it and what were you doing at the time of the sighting)?
Q2 - Loyalty: Oil giant Exxon Mobil Corp. yesterday revealed plans to sell its 2,200 company-owned gas stations, saying they aren't profitable enough even with gasoline selling at nearly $5.00 per gallon. Are you loyal to a particular brand of gasoline or one specific gas station? If so, what is it about that brand or station that makes you so loyal?
Q3 - Sunday Morning: Tim Russert, NBC News' Washington bureau chief and the moderator of "Meet the Press," died this morning after collapsing while recording voiceovers for Sunday's broadcast. Do you watch any of the Sunday morning interview shows that specialize in interviewing national leaders on issues of state, economics and foreign policy?
Q4 - : The Guinness Book of World Records claims that "My name is Bond, James Bond" is the most famous movie line of all time. What's your favorite line from a movie?
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Q1 - Just the other day at the park. We were walking the dogs. It was actually 2 full rainbows, which I've never seen before, with the mountains in the background. Awesome!
Q2 - Not loyal at all. Just go to whatever's cheapest
Q3 - I don't, but Russert was a great man and he'll be missed. I'm a Keith Olbermann fan myself.
Q4 - "The Dude abides" - The Big Lebowski
1 - You can find my answer to this here: http://meagenridley.blogspot.com/2008/06/rainbow.html
2 - I prefer to go to the Sev's (7-11's) or Harmon's Gas stations. I HATE Holiday gas stations. Both times I've filled up there my car has broken down shortly there after.
3 - Can't say that I watch those. I am usually sleeping Sunday mornings.
4 - "If you're a bird, I'm a bird" - The Notebook....CHEEEEESY I know! But there's way too many good movie lines to list.
Q1 - Rainbow: Just a couple months ago I watched Neil Patrick Harris ride a unicorn up a rainbow. Oh wait, that was just a movie. Umm... honestly, I don't remember specifically the last time I saw one, but the one I remember most was one I saw off the freeway coming home from work on day in '93. It looked like it was just 50 yards or so off. I was tempted to go look for the pot of gold.
Q2 - Loyalty: I'm not loyal to a particular brand, but there are brands that have been known to make my car/truck run crappy, so I try to completely avoid those brands.
Q3 - Sunday Morning: Tim Russert's death really caught me off guard. I heard it happened just minutes before he was to go on, and Tom Brokaw ended up sitting where Russert would have been to make to the announcement. However, to answer the question, I rarely watch them, and almost never on TV. If it interests me, I'll watch in online after it has already aired.
Q4 - World Record Quote: Wow, there are so many.
"This country has been good to me. I owe them something." --Flyboys
"Figuring things out for yourself is the only freedom anyone really has." --Starship Troopers
"For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee." --Star Trek: The Wrath of Kahn (Kahn, quoting none other than Herman Melville)
"Are you bringing weapons?"
"No, of course not."
"Then you aren't changing anything" --Rambo
"They called me Mr. Glass!" --Unbreakable
"Marines die. That's what were here for." --Full Metal Jacket
"I love the smell of napalm in the morning!" --Do I really need to say?
I better stop now, because if I don't I never will.
1. I just saw one two days ago, a quarter bow..er half bow. Apparently, If my science is right, a full rainbow is a circle. It was backdropped with still snowcapped utah mountains - most romantic
2. No loyalty actually, wife makes me get it at cosco due to the membership discount (a few cents) Didn't Exxon have a decent year profit-wise though? Must need more money for the CEO's golden parachute fund rather than pay the gas clerk.
3. Sonofagun, didn't hear that yet -- that's a bummer. I sometimes watch it, a little toned down compared to the shock jock tv heads on evening shows with fox and cnn.
4. er.. "frankly my dear, I don't give a damn" That's all I could think of on the spot. I really don't give a damn about that quote but that's all I have.
1 - I was on my balcony the other evening and saw a big one that looked like it spanned across the entire Salt Lake Valley. Pretty cool.
2- I'm loyal to the lowest priced gas out there, period.
3 - My Sunday mornings at 9am will never be the same....Tim Russert will be missed.
4 - "That rug really tied the room together" - The Big Lebowski
1. I saw one about two months ago. Driving up the interstate in my car it was probably one of the most "full" rainbows I've ever seen.
2. Couldn't care less about brand name. I usually either go to the Chevron (with techron) that is a block from my house, or the Sinclair because it's cheaper (no techron, though).
3. I was surprised to hear about Mr. Russert. I rarely watched MTP, but I loved his analysis during presidential elections. The "white board" in 2000 will be part of election lore for years.
4. Oh, where to begin... Here's five from which to choose.
"I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse." - Marlon Brando (The Godfather)
"I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender." - Marlon Brando (On the Waterfront)
"Say 'hello' to my little friend." - Al Pacino (Scarface)
"May the force be with you." - Harrison Ford (Can't remember which movie)
"Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?" - James Duval (Donnie Darko)
Q1 - Saw a pretty rad one about a month or two ago while doing my standard car drumming that has almost completely rotted through my steering wheel on my way home from work.
Q2 - Usually end up going to what ever is closest because I am about to run out of gas. Then spend the next week being mad because I saw 10 cent cheaper gas somewhere else.
Q3 - Didn't know about this. And I am usually trying to get out of bed by 10 to get to church at 11. Sunday is the offical sleep in day right now for the Lapiolis.
Q4 - If you want I can quote the whole movie Strange Brew for you sometime, from start to end.
1. Last month as I was driving through Wisconsin to visit my friend Becca
2. I stop at GasAmerica if possible because I get a few cents per gallon knocked off with their loyalty card. If I'm in my hometown I'll fill up at the local Co-Op though. They refine their own petroleum and don't cut it with ethanol which really does have an effect on my fuel mileage.
3. I don't watch the Sunday Talking Heads. I get enough of people shouting at and over each other at family gatherings. I do however listen to large amounts of NPR while driving to work.
4. Oh man...
"I tried to kill myself with a Lady Bic. A pink plastic razor with daisies on it and a moisturizing strip." -Empire Records
"Inconceivable!" -The Princess Bride
"Wherever you go, there you are' The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
"I had two heart attacks, an abortion, did crack... while I was pregnant. Other than that, I'm fine." -Amelie
I"I fart in your general direction. You mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries!" -Monty Python & the Holy Grail
1. I really cannot recall the last time I saw a rainbow, but it's always amazing when I do. It is so beautiful to see the spectrum of colors across the sky. Double rainbows are cool, too.
2. I am loyal to the cheapest seller.
3. No, I never watch those shows.
4. "My name is Indigo(?) Montoya, you killed my father; prepare to die." or "I am not left-handed." both from The Princess Bride.
Q1: I have seen rainbows many times. I can't recall the last time I saw one. I live in a part of the world where rainbows are a frequent occurrence. Most likely, I was running an errand or going about my day-to-day life when I last saw a rainbow.
Q2: I shop for the cheapest gas, period. Outside of that, I might also show tendencies towards those that honor the Upromise rewards... Knock on wood, I have not run out of gas.
Q3: Yes, love the political shows not just Sunday mornings: Saturday mornings and the mornings/evenings during the work week. Tim Russert was a rare gem. I used to be an NBC person, but not for the past several years. Tim Russert was the best thing NBC had and one of the very few people in the news media who I truly viewed as genuine - a genuinely good sole. I feel for his family and hope his son, Luke, after sorting out his pain, looks back on the time with his Dad as a treasure.
Q4: Top Gun... "I feel the need, the need for speed!"
Q1: I have seen rainbows many times. I can't recall the last time I saw one. I live in a part of the world where rainbows are a frequent occurrence. Most likely, I was running an errand or going about my day-to-day life when I last saw a rainbow.
Q2: I shop for the cheapest gas, period. Outside of that, I might also show tendencies towards those that honor the Upromise rewards... Knock on wood, I have not run out of gas.
Q3: Yes, love the political shows not just Sunday mornings: Saturday mornings and the mornings/evenings during the work week. Tim Russert was a rare gem. I used to be an NBC person, but not for the past several years. Tim Russert was the best thing NBC had and one of the very few people in the news media who I truly viewed as genuine - a genuinely good sole. I feel for his family and hope his son, Luke, after sorting out his pain, looks back on the time with his Dad as a treasure.
Q4: Top Gun... "I feel the need, the need for speed!"
Mine's up . . . a little late, but . . .
Have a great rest of the weekend!
Q1: I see rainbows frequently, usually when I'm driving. I rarely recall exactly when I see them, but I do recall the last "perfect" rainbow I saw - a complete arch. It was about 3 years ago, and I was in the parking lot of a Home Depot on the West side of Indianapolis, near 38th Street and 465.
Q2: I usually buy gas at Kroger's. If you rack up a $100 grocery bill, they drop the price of a gallon of gas by 10-15 cents.
Q3: I don't watch these shows every Sunday, but I do enjoy them when I can: Meet the Press and Face the Nation. They overlap, so I flip between the two depending on the guests.
Q4: One of my favorite movies is Barfly. In it, Mickey Rourke plays Henry Chinaski (a character based on poet Charles Bukowski who wrote the screenplay), and here's my favorite line/monologue:
"You know somebody laid down this rule, that everybody's gotta do something.
They've gotta be something...
You know, a dentist, a pilot, an arc, a janitor, a preacher, all that.
Sometimes, I just get tired of thinking of all the things that I don't wanna do.
All things that I don't wanna be.
All places that I don't wanna go, like India, like get my teeth cleaned."
1. I see rainbows from my house to the east when the sun is setting just after a rain. I look for them all the time. I see a couple every winter.
2. 76, I have a card there. I cut up my shell card in the 80's with a lovely letter stating my views on apartied in S. Africa.
3. Once in a while not lately.
4. "Heathcliff fill my arms with heather, as much heather as they'll hold."
1. august of 2007, sitka, alaska. Odd because it rained so much you would of thought there would be more rainbows. Might have had something to do with the lack of sun.
2. I go with the lowest price and the most convienant. I have a thought about closing gas stations, might have something to do with those stations not making as MUCH money as all the others.
3.Never!
4. "I want my two dollars!" -Better off Dead"
"were going to need a bigger boat" -Jaws
"you'll shot your eye out"- christmas story
1. I love rainbows in Utah County, because they're usually in the late afternoon/ early evening and right up against Timp - my kids and i talk about how we will get to the end and what we'll find there!
2. Holiday (sad, Megan!) because they have fresh (sometimes fresh) cut limes to put in my Diet Coke. That is all that matters. (oh and they're usually the cheapest!)
3. Oh how I wish I had time to sit down and watch something intelligent on Sunday mornings... or anytime of day for that matter.
4.
Howard: "You're just... different"
Judy: "I know, but from now on I'm going to try to be the same."
Howard: "The same as what?"
Judy: "The same as people who aren't different." -What's up Doc
"Oh. Beautiful. Wish you were here." - French Kiss
"I'm saying I like the cheese" - French Kiss
"You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you" - Pride and Prejudice
...
Oh geez there are just too many to keep going!
1- Driving back to Utah on Memorial day we followed the tail end of a storm across most of Idaho, so there were really good rainbows for about half of the drive.
2- Its all about low prices.
3- I consider the pundits to be one of the largest causes of cynicism in this country, and therefore, not worth my time.
4- "Get some sour cream and onion chips with some dip, man, some beef jerky, some peanut butter. Get some Häagen-Dazs ice cream bars, a whole lot, make sure chocolate, gotta have chocolate, man. Some popcorn, red popcorn, graham crackers, graham crackers with marshmallows, the little marshmallows and little chocolate bars and we can make s'mores, man. Also, celery, grape jelly, Cap'n Crunch with the little Crunch berries, pizzas. We need two big pizzas, man, everything on 'em, with water, whole lotta water, and Funyons." - Half Baked
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