Another shot of a lake midway through our annual drive through Guanella Pass... this is the official TVGal Picnic Spot... she actually claimed the lake for herself and renamed it... local and state laws and regulations have never been a big concern for TVGal...
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So there is a meme floating around Facebook these days that has grown to monstrous proportions... you are supposed to reveal 25 things about yourself in a list and then forward the thing around in chain letter fashion... (wow, I hadn't thought about chain letters in years until just now...then again, "Pet Rocks" popped up in my noggin yesterday... I may have low-level Mercury Poisoning... but I digress...)
Claire Suddath wrote an article in TIME Magazine about 25 things that she didn't want to know about you... these things were culled from various people's entries and compiled...
That article proved so popular (and provoking.. I'm sure her email inbox was filled with "How Dare You Mock This!?" missives...) that she wrote another "25 things" article..
Anyway, here are a few of the things from both lists that made me laugh...
(I've added one in here that is actually a true thing about me.. see if you can guess which one... answer at the end of the blog entry...)
1. I eat tacos with a fork...
2. I almost stole someone's cat last weekend...
9. I can't grow hair on my arms...
10. Two of my friends are under five feet all and I have an intense fear of midgets...
14. I wrestled a hippopotamus..I used a wrestling move and it went unconscious...
15. I like to tape my thumbs to my hands to see what it would be like to be a dinosaur...
17. I have a giant ball of yarn in my closet...
20. Danny DeVito broke my pinky toe...
21. I once sent a teacher into early retirement by pretending to be a cheetah and swiping at her from under a desk...
23. My friends say that when they shave my back, I purr like a walrus...
Anyway, her original article is here... in the interest of full disclosure (and the 9 of you out there in North America not on Facebook) I present my 25 things... but before I do, you must know this...
>>I wrote this list in under 2 minutes.. literally... thus..
>>It may be 25 things, but it's not the 25 Most Important Defining Things About Me. Okay?
Good.. with that out of the way...
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25 things about TVGuy...
1. I have never sent a text message.
2. I believe putting ketchup on a hot dog is a criminal offense.
3. The two things I miss most from my childhood are kites and fireflies.
4. I have eaten 1 PB&J in my life.
5. The inventor of Levi’s Button-fly jeans should receive the Congressional Medal of Honor. (I haven’t purchased a pair of zippered jeans in.. .well, ever.)
6. Cookies and Brownies should appear on more restaurant dessert menus.
7. The Honda Element is quite unattractive.
8. I believe that if someone could genetically engineer golden retriever puppies to remain “puppy-sized” throughout their lives they would be billionaires…
9. I’m not religious by any measure, yet I enjoy Contemporary Christian music.
10. My Ipod broke 3 years ago. I haven’t replaced it. Additionally, my television is almost 14 years old.
11. I would be less enamored of the workplaces I’ve inhabited these two decades if I wasn’t able to wear jeans and tennis shoes everyday…
12. I do not think monkeys or babies are cute. At all.
13. I’ve been to 44 states… pretty sure Mississippi won’t ever be checked off that list…
14. Speaking of travel, I have zero desire to visit the Far East.
15. This will be the first summer of my adult life that I will not be participating in a softball league. My first concession to the aging process…
16. Fruit should never appear on pizza.
17. I do not know my phone number at work. I’ve never called myself.
18. I believe apple juice to be inherently superior to orange juice.
19. The last day of a trip to Las Vegas is easily the worst vacation day one can have…
20. I have a healthy fear of heights. Or is that respect?
21. I’ve never been skiing or scuba diving.
22. My biggest regret in high school was not taking Spanish.
23. I make a pretty mean pot o’ soup.
24. Green is my favorite color. I think.
25. I’d pay a significant amount of money to have my birthday changed from Christmas Day to any other day…
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So there you have it... that's my list and I'm sticking to it...
And as for the one thing from the TIME list that was actually mine? Well, that's going to be my next blog entry... but for a sneak preview, I bring you the year 2004 which included this photo...
Quite a yarn, no? More later...
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Jack: All of my summer replacement shows were big hits - America's Next Top Pirate, Are You Stronger Than A Dog, MILF Island.
Liz: "MILF Island"?
Jack: 25 super hot moms, 50 eighth grade boys, no rules.
Liz: Oh yeah, didn't one of those women turn out to be a prostitute?
Jack: That doesn't mean she's not a wonderful, caring MILF...
--"30 Rock" (NBC)
4 comments:
If you eat a taco with a fork, it's a tostada. Semantically, one cannot eat a taco with a fork. I'm just saying.
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If your friends shave your back, they should have to put up with whatever sounds emanate from you during the process.
I don't have any such friends.
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Business cards alleviate one of having to know one's work phone number.
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I'm with you about fruit on pizza. Except any time I say that, some wiseass will bring up how technically tomatoes are fruit, and tomatoes are okay on pizza. Not my favorite, but certainly acceptable.
We need to get them re-classified as vegetables.
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I gotta say: Facebook seems a bit lowbrow for TIME to cover, doesn't it?
who makes these, ridiculous "word verifications?" I mean, I see what I SEE, and once I type it into it's little box, it has the nerve to tell me it's NOT what I typed!!! Anyhow... I lost my frame of thought while arguing about typing, "equists" in it's rectangular home.. Ah yes, my comment was: tremendous ball of yarn... scarry but yet so cool, in a twisted sort of way.
I like ketchup on hotdogs. And bologna. As a matter of fact, I have a food blog called "Bologna and Ketchup"
Kites and Fireflies still exist.
I randomly enjoy some contemporary Christian Music as well. Somewhat. Okay 3 songs.
Without my iPod, I'd be a lot more unpleasant.
Monkeys and Babies are not cute.
Mississippi is Useless.
That is all.
Totally agree with you on the ketchup thing. I just don't get it, on hot dogs or otherwise.
I hear you on monkeys not being cute but babies? Really?
I spent a week in Mississippi one afternoon. I shant be returning.
I worked TV for four years (Production Peon). The most hilaroius and stressful four years of my life.
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