gemfyre | New bird!! Fairy Tern - and other miscellanous crap.

1. The typical customer is male, unattractive, and socially handicapped
2. Both are frequently enjoyed in dark basements
3. The size of your collection is obscene
4. It's not a good idea to talk about either on a first date
5. Both revolve around fantasy and obtaining the unobtainable
6. The artwork depicts images impossible in the real world
7. When purchasing either in a store, you always ask for a bag
8. It may be fun to make your own at home, but rarely turns out as good as the professionally produced stuff
9. If you saw a woman buying either, you'd probably want to ask her out
10. Extra excitement can be added with the use of props and / or costumes
11. Low quality versions of both can be found for free on the Internet
12. Countless Usenet groups are dedicated to both
13. In either case, a gang of heavily-muscled men in leather with whips spells trouble
14. Everyone uses a silly, made-up name
15. It is not uncommon for participants to assume the opposite gender
16. Both are frowned upon by the conservative right
17. You usually take interest in both around age 13
18. New purchases are usually looked at once, then put on the shelf
19. The best and worst examples of each was produced in the '70s
20. The German versions of each are the most bizarre
21. Both are plagued with bad dialogue
22. You usually spend a lot more time enjoying each alone than with a group of friends
23. Everyone's called in to work sick at least once to stay home and enjoy one or the other
24. Both make excellent bathroom reading
25. There's always a big finish when you get to fire your gun
26. Hollywood's attempts to mainstream both have been largely unsuccessful
27. The hero's prized possession is his big, black gun
28. Plots are often present only to serve the action scenes
29. The story can be set anywhere from spaceships to dungeons
30. While the person directing the action is usually blamed for a bad experience, it's usually the fault of poor writing
31. Characters can have either high APPEARANCE or STAMINA, but rarely both
32. You can tell the climax is imminent when the characters start screaming
33. Candles and music enhance the mood
34. You can meet your favorite B-list stars at the annual convention
35. One word: Dwarves
36 Both can ruin a keyboard
37: Both are accompanied by similar hand motions, which are occasionally followed by triumphantexclamations
38. Both are purchased in stores run by suspicious-looking bearded men
who know entirely too much about their products.
39. You've heard there are girls who are into it, but you've yet to meet one.
40. You claim to buy the books for all the information in them, but you really just like the pictures.
41. Lesbians. Lots of lesbians

1. Have you ever had braces? Any other teeth trauma?
I had braces for multiple years in my teens. I was really excited about getting them at first but soon came to DESPISE them. They hurt my teeth, the head brace was appaling and the wires ALWAYS poked into my cheeks and ripped them to shreds. It was just all painful. And to make matters worse the orthodontist didn't properly remove all the glue when he took them off. That came off many many years later when I had a clean and scale - apparently I was meant to get one after my braces were removed.

I've also had about 11 teeth (only about 2 of them were adult teeth) removed before my braces were put on. And last year I had all 4 wisdoms out - that was an interesting experience and nowhere near as bad as I feared.

2. Ever broken any bones?
Nope. Just dislocated both knees multiple times - but that's more a ligaments and tendons problem.

3. Ever had stitches?
Only once, when I got my wisdoms out and yep, like all stiches they made my stomach churn when I was aware of them. For some reason stitches make me squeamish but I'll play around in a dead sheep with no qualms whatsoever. Thank God they were disolving stitches so I didn't have to think about getting them removed later.

4. What are the stories behind some of your [physical] scars?
Hrm, I have a small scar on my hand that I have NO idea of the origin of. I have eczema scars but they are barely noticeable. A few old chicken pox scars on my arms. And faint scars on my knees from the obligatory fall on gravel.

1: Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, find line 4. Write down what it says.

"good as she got. She would think nothing of embarrassing"
Raymond E. Feist - Prince of the Blood

In all honestly the nearest book to me was actually a voucher book, but that doesn't really have set lines.

2: Stretch your left arm out as far as you can. What do you touch first?:

My curtain. My arm is hovering over my stereo.

3: What is the last thing you watched on TV?:

The end of My Restaurant Rules.

4: WITHOUT LOOKING, guess what the time is:
10:13pm

5: Now look at the clock, what is the actual time?:
10:14pm! Holy crap, I didn't look honest. I knew it was a bit after 10 and I just guessed at how many minutes.

6: With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?:
My fan. Matt and Warwick talking in Matt's room.

7: When did you last step outside? what were you doing?:
I was stepping out of my car to go inside. We've been in Rockingham, then Bek & Josh's, the Wuffie & Karl's, it was a nice day.

8: What are you wearing?:
A necklace and two bracelets. God it looks like I belong in a netsex channel - I'm about to go to sleep people!

10: Did you dream last night?
Not that I recall. But I do often dream and remember.

11: When did you last laugh?
Probably at something in LJ about half an hour ago.

12: What's on the walls of the room you are in?:
A calendar. My whiteboard/corkboard. The earring holder (technically on the door). Various pictures of unicorns and big cats (technically on the wardrobe doors), a mirror, a small mounted print of a ballet dancer and a pegasus and two large Led Zeppelin posters.

13: Seen anything weird lately?
With my group of friends?? The weirdest thing was possibly the bizarre shape of Josh's back.

14: What do you think of this quiz?:
Different enough for me to actually bother doing it.

15: What is the last film you saw?:
Christ I can't remember. Probably Moulin Rouge when it was on a few weeks back. I watched 3 episodes of Futurama today - does that count?

16: If you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy first?
The stuff on my "to buy" list
Soup tureen/Dutch oven
Pie dish
Magnetic underlay
Soundcard
Videocard
Speakers
Slender Blender
Wok
Mooncup
Black Docs
and more beading stuff *grinz*

17: Tell me something about you that I don't know:
Who's I? I have been parasailing - in Broome at the age of 10. I almost chickened out but I'm so glad I didn't.

18: If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do?:
Introduce the death penalty for chronic stupidity.

19: Do you like to dance?:
Absolutely!

20: George Bush:
*killkillkill* The man terrifies me.

21: Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her?:
Glory.

21: Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call him?:
Andrew

22: Would you ever consider living abroad?:
Yes. I'd love to travel to many places and some will involve me staying there a while.