1. Whats harder to live without, chocolate or alchohol?
2. Does the colour yellow remind you of anything?
3. Who most annoyed you last week?
4. Do you have a cutesy romantic nickname for your partner (or previous partners)?
5. What is your favourite Stephen King movie?
1. Oh, chocolate, hands-down. Of course, my more astute readers will note that my favorite mixed drink has often been likened to "chocolate milk"...
2. It makes me think of 1950s pinafores and yellow roses. But one thing that immediately springs to mind is the old song (which I learned as a marching cadence), "Around her neck she wore a yellow ribbon..."
3. Silly question-- does anyone really annoy me more than my husband? ;-) Just teasin'! Hmm... nobody in particular comes to mind. Does computer code count?
4. We call each other "sweetie" so often that it sounds strange when we refer to each other by our real names. In fact, Allan's gotten so used to it that he inadvertently called his sister "sweetie" on more than one occasion. I think they were both equally grossed out and offended ;-) On another note-- our pet names for our respective exes immediately before us, was "honey". Well, apparently our exes ruined "honey" for both us, which is why we NEVER use it on each other. So you see, we can't split up-- otherwise we'd have no more pet names to call our next partner! ;-)
5. Okay, I admit that when I first saw this, my immediate reaction was "I haven't watched many Stephen King movies". All that came to mind was stuff like Carrie, Pet Sematary, It, The Shining... you know, the usual horror fare, of which I'd only seen "Carrie". But then I looked up all the movies that were derived from his works, and realized I'd actually seen AND enjoyed The Dead Zone (yes, the original with Christopher Walken, though I love the TV series with Anthony Michael Hall, too), The Shawshank Redemption, AND The Green Mile. It's hard to pick a favorite from those 3. I keep waffling everytime I try. So I'll just leave it at those :-)
How about you?
1. Close tie
ReplyDelete2. Beatle's song "Yellow Submarine"
3. Not a fair question, only around my husband last week so it would HAVE to be him.
4. Ask Allan my favorite nickname for his Dad.
5. I don't watch scary movies. I scream too loud and scare everyone else. Again, ask Allan about the time I saw "Jaws" with the family/
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ReplyDelete3. So your answer might be different if the question wasn't limited to just last week? ;-)
4. A little bit like another name I sometimes bestow on Allan-- "loving bastard" :-D
5. So-- the kids were more scared of you than the shark? ;-)
I'm not a big horror movie fan, either, which is why I don't watch a lot of Stephen King. But the three that I DO like, all happen to be non-horror-genre, so it's no wonder I favor them :-)
1. Whats harder to live without, chocolate or alchohol?
ReplyDeleteChocolate, no doubt about that one.
2. Does the colour yellow remind you of anything?
It actually makes me think of that Coldplay song of the same title...
3. Who most annoyed you last week?
Customers. They are total slobs. I have never been more appalled than in the last year at the uninhibited messes people will make when they know someone else has to clean up after them.
4. Do you have a cutesy romantic nickname for your partner (or previous partners)?
Even if I HAD a partner, I would not have a cutesy nickname for him. That stuff triggers my "eye-rolling" reflex but fast.
5. What is your favourite Stephen King movie?
I can't name just one here, so since this is Friday 5's, I'll give you my top 5, in no particular order.
The Shawshank Redemption
Misery
Stand by Me
It
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ReplyDelete3. Scot = new frequent poster of the "customers suck" community on LJ? ;-) I hear you, though. I've seen people leave their trays and empty containers ON the table... at a fast-food joint! Um, what do they think the point of those big huge garbage bins by the doors are for!?
4. Not even for your cat? ;-)
5. Leave it to the movie buff ;-) I must have missed "Stand By Me" when I was perusing the list I found... not that I've seen it, anyway, but I'd be more likely to watch that over a horror flick.
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ReplyDeleteI actually haven't used LJ much lately---after that joint account that we had set up years ago, I made my own, but sort of lost track of it in the last year.
No, I don't have any "pet" names for my pet either, lol. It's just good ol Spike.
I avoid the blood and guts horror flicks as much as possible--they are usually ridiculously stupid. It terrified me when I was a kid because that damn clown KNEW what you were afraid of and got inside your brain making you afraid of it. The blood and guts stuff like Carrie, Firestarter, Cujo, and Pet Semetery never appealed to me, as novels OR as movies.
But yes, I could go on about this for a while, hehehe. Scariest King novel ever, in my opinion? It's one that most people probably have never even heard of, called Gerald's Game. I sat up til the wee hours of the morning scaring myself silly over that book the first time I read it when I was a teen!
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ReplyDeleteI'm with you on the blood and guts horror. It gets old after a while, although sometimes it's interesting to see the improvement in makeup and special effects over time. I don't think I've ever read a single horror novel. I wonder if I'd have the same, sit-at-the-edge-of-your-seat reaction as I would with a movie?
As for LJ: I hardly ever use it either, but with the laughs I get from reading mock_the_stupid, I now log in almost everyday to catch up on the latest :-) After writing my previous comment, I went back to the "customers suck" community and found a couple stories that SO made me think of you! I also then found another community that you could probably relate to best of all.
Its name?
None other than "grocery_hell" :-)
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ReplyDelete3. NO !!!!
1. Chocolate, hands down!
ReplyDelete2. Sunshine. :) I wish we had more of it.
3. A certain high-strung friend.
4. I was never really a giver of cutesy nicknames, always the recipient, until recently. Lately I've been giving out lots... sweetie, babe, sexy, cutie, love. My favourite will always be sweet potato though -- reserved for those dearest to me.
5. Tie between The Shining and Shawshamk Redemption.
That really was random!
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ReplyDeleteI haven't read Gerald's Game, but I still found Misery to be almost unbearable to read because it was so creepy! And yet I liked it. Haven't seen the movie though. Have you read The Long Walk? The premise is a bit strange, but I also found it more haunting than I expected.
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ReplyDeleteStephen King is probably the only "horror" author I'll read. I don't have the edge-of-my-seat experience, but I do get so engrossed that I have to put the book down sometimes -- especially with my habit of reading at night!
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ReplyDeleteI used to do that with Dean Koontz novels. I just couldn't put it down! Next thing I knew it was 3am... good thing this was back in grad school here and either I was careful not to schedule classes before 11am, or I could afford to skip the following morning's lecture ;-)
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ReplyDelete*chortle*... well there ya go. Proof positive that nobody is as annoying as husbands ;-)