If I am actually going to drink that shit, it better have sugar in it and caffeine. Long ago, before the advent of energy drinks I would have an occasional JOLT cola.

What is you favorite salad dressing?

Swiss Chalet (a Canadian restaurant chain) house dressing, which is similar to Kraft's Catalina if you've ever had that.

Did Spain win today?

A: Is the pope a catholic? (Three-nil, weasie - comfy win for Spain!)
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Q: Do bears shit in the woods?

For God's sake Al.... I live in Canada. Don't ask a Canadian that question. I have actually stepped in bear shit; not one of my finer moments

What is the most rotten thing one of your siblings ever did to you ??

Told me that if I swallowed watermelon seeds, they’d start growing inside of me.

Also, sprinkling salt on my hair, saying it would make it fall out.
(It didn’t.)

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What’s the best thing one of your siblings did for you?

Dansaltdog introduced me to the XTC Forum - and I encountered all of you wonderful people.

(The worst thing that he did was to be born with a penis (I assume that he still has it): we were promised a sister.)


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Who is the best Star Trek captain?

For me, Kate Mulgrew, playing Kathryn Janeway, will always be Mary Ryan on Ryan's Hope. I did see her onstage playing Katherine Hepburn at the Pasadena Playhouse a couple years ago, and she was awesome!!!

Scott Bakula will always be Dr. Sam Beckett, Quantum Leap-ing through time.

I'm sorry, but Captain James Tiberius Kirk wasted too much time trying to have sex with every beautiful female he encountered in the galaxy.

Patrick Stewart was AWESOME as Jean-Luc Picard!!! He guides his crew with wisdom and fairness. The entire cast is great! (Tangent: I sewed my son Patrick the coolest TNG uniform when he wanted to be Lt. Commander Data for Halloween.)

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What would you be for Halloween if you could be anything?

Long Lankin.
I first came across the song 'Long Lankin' as a student, and this old English folk song, with its chilling infanticide theme, sent a shiver through me.
Long Lankin

Said my lord to my lady, as he mounted his horse:
"Beware of Long Lankin that lives in the moss."

Said my lord to my lady, as he rode away:
"Beware of Long Lankin that lives in the hay."

"Let the doors be all bolted and the windows all pinned,
And leave not a hole for a mouse to creep in."

So he kissed his fair lady and he rode away,
And he was in fair London before the break of day.

Tlhe doors were all bolted and the windows all pinned,
Except one little window where Long Lankin crept in.

"Where's the lord of this house?" Said Long Lankin,
"He's away in fair London." said the false nurse to him.
"Where's the little heir of this house ?" said Long Lankin.
"He's asleep in his cradle," said the false nurse to him.

"We'll prick him, we'll prick him all over with a pin,
And that'll make my lady to come down to him.'

So he pricked him, he pricked him all over with a pin,
And the nurse held the basin for the blood to flow in.

"O nurse, how you slumber. O nurse, how you sleep.
You leave my little son Johnson to cry and to weep."

"O nurse, how you slumber, O nurse how you snore.
You leave my little son Johnson to cry and to roar."

"I've tried him with an apple, I've tried him with a pear.
Come down, my fair lady, and rock him in your chair."

"I've tried him with milk and I've tried him with pap.
Come down, my fair lady, and rock him in your lap."

"How durst I go down in the dead of the night
Where there's no fire a-kindled and no candle alight ?"

"You have three silver mantles as bright as the sun.
Come down, my fair lady, all by the light of one."

My lady came down, she was thinking no harm
Long Lankin stood ready to catch her in his arm.

Here's blood in the kitchen. Here's blood in the hall
Here's blood in the parlour where my lady did fall.

Her maiden looked out from the turret so high
And she saw her master from London riding by.

"O master, O master, don't lay the blame on me
'Twas the false nurse and Lankin that killed your lady."

Long Lankin was hung on a gibbet so high
And the false nurse was burnt in a fire close by.

From The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs, Williams and Lloyd
Recorded by Steeleye Span on Commoner's Crown and by Carthy & Swarbrick on 'But Two Came By'
Child #93

They don't write 'em like that anymore.

Did you have a particular 'scary' when you were a kid? ( Mine was a monster that lived in the coalshed.)

My older brother had me convinced that the "Boogie Man" lived in our basement and I believed him. So, if I went down there at night you had to turn on the basement light from upstairs and he would sneak behind me and turn it off. I would start screaming and think "The Boogie Man" was after me.

What was your favourite meal your Mom made you when you were a kid?


(Hey Mare... is your son's name Patrick? That's my son's name too !!!)

pea and bacon rib soup


do you take things too seriously/to heart, then feel stupid later?

All the time! That's just how I am, too sensitive for my own good.


Do you enjoy video games?

nope - pointless waste of time





Do you think video games are bad for people, either the game content or the process?

No. I prefer a cheep holiday in other peoples misery.I want to go to new belsen I want to see history - I am quite well off now. I went to see the berlin wall only last week. They were opening the amercian embassy so there was a two inch wall and I was waiting for the communist call but it was Geooge Bush snr! I didnt ask for sunshine and it rained. i got the rise of fascism - then communism - looking over the wall - theyre looking at me.



best capital city in the world

I was lucky enough to be in Paris last week drinking Champagne and having lunch on a boat floating gently down the Seine. It's a great city for wandering around pointing out pretty things. It has crap bits as well but what city doesn't?

Honourable mentions to Dublin and Edinburgh and a very small part of Brussels.

Which is your favourite music festival?