Her Royal Hotness at The Kat House has tagged me yet again… If she doesn’t stop that, I’m gonna start thinking she likes me or something…

So I’m gonna morph this LALOLKFATYK (Learn A Lot Of Little Known Facts About Those You Know) meme into something a little more useful.  Add your blog and location to the bottom of this list, and send it on. 

A Secular Franciscan Life - Billings, Montana, USA
Erica’s Blog - Brooklyn, New York, USA
Groanin’ Jock - Montrose, Scotland, Great Britain
The Kat House - Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
blogitude.com (Mark Steel) - Knoxville, Tennessee, USA

WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE?
It’s biblical… Because I was, after all, born and ritually abus…errr, raised… a strong Southern Baptist.

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED?
Guys don’t cry.  Sure, right.  I’d challenge any guy not to cry when a woman he’s known his entire life has a stroke at 80-something.  Worse yet, I didn’t find out for a couple of weeks — yesterday.

DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING?
Which one?  I write with both hands.  Each one has at least a couple of styles.  They’re always legible… but out of five styles, there are a couple that I like, and a couple that I don’t.  heh

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LUNCH MEAT?
Thin-sliced Cajun-style roast beef from the supermarket deli…

DO YOU HAVE KIDS?
Accordingly to a crazy who will henceforth be known as “Chastity” (because it’s a cruel joke) and a complete nutjob known only as Laney (who, as it turns out, is a Male skinhead-wannabe), yes I do… But no, I do not have children.

IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON, WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU?
We’d prolly piss each other off.

DO YOU USE SARCASM A LOT?
No, never.  *rolls eyes*

DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS?
I don’t know — I’ve never checked.

WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP?
Not anymore.  The last time, I hit it on the way down, went into a spin and screwed my back up pretty good for a few weeks…

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CEREAL?
One they don’t make anymore: Fruit & Fiber Date, Raisin & Walnut.

DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF?
Never.  I have engineered my shoes so that I never have to tie and untie them.  But I hate slip-ons…

DO YOU THINK YOU ARE STRONG?
When I get bored, I move pool tables.  ’nuff said.

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM?
Häagen Dazs® Triple Chocolate with the truffle bits…

WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE?
The eyes have it…

RED OR PINK?
Depends what we’re talking about, now doesn’t it?

WHAT IS THE LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF?
Impatience, which is caused by looking forward and dwelling on a final outcome.

WHO DO YOU MISS THE MOST?
My grandfather.  He died when I was three, and I remember him like it was yesterday.

WHAT COLOR PANTS AND SHOES ARE YOU WEARING? 
Faded blue jeans and black dress shoes.

WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU ATE?
The last bits of spaghetti & metaballs from Pizza Palace…

WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW?
The sound of the air conditioner.

IF YOU WHERE A CRAYON, WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE?
Charcoal.

FAVORITE SMELLS?
The scent of a special someone when I curled up behind her and breathed against the back of her neck… The smell of a certain house in South Knoxville where the elderly women who live there have always accepted me with open arms… The smell of Cornhusker’s Lotion, and Zippo fluid, which always remind me of my grandfather…

WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE?
Tish.

FAVORITE SPORTS TO WATCH?
World Cup Football (Soccer), although, I don’t watch it often.

FAVORITE HAIR COLOR[S]?
Dark brown, near black…

FAVORITE EYE COLOR?
Brown and deep…

DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS?
Sometimes… Well, most of the time, really.

FAVORITE FOOD?
I love food, but if I had to say what meal is consistently perfect and just makes me feel really good to eat:  It’s going to Ali Baba’s Timeout Deli on Kingston Pike and ordering King Solomon’s Chicken with the middle-eastern vegetable of the day (especially the potatos) and a hummos plate.  There is absolutely no doubt that their hummos is the best in the world.

SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS?
Depends on the mood.

LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED?
I watched Shaun of the Dead again… heh  That’s currently my pick for the best Zombie movie ever made.  The fact that it’s so typically English adds to the hilarity.

WHAT COLOR SHIRT ARE YOU WEARING?
White.

SUMMER OR WINTER?
Winter.  I can always put on more clothes to get warm… but when it’s too hot, even getting naked doesn’t help.

HUGS OR KISSES?
Long kisses…

FAVORITE DESSERT?
A really rich, baked cheesecake…

MOST LIKELY TO RESPOND?
To what?

LEAST LIKELY TO RESPOND?
A good two-thirds of the population of Washington DC don’t respond to anything…

WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING NOW?
Ummm, I’m not reading a book right now… I’m doing this meme.

WHAT IS ON YOUR MOUSE PAD?
I don’t have a mousepad — I use the couch, my jeans, the cat…

WHAT DID YOU WATCH ON TV LAST NIGHT?
I very, very rarely watch television.

FAVORITE SOUND[S]?
The sound of distant breaking glass… Soft jazz echoing through city streets… Spectacular thunderstorms….

ROLLING STONES OR THE BEATLES?
Depends on the year, and the mood.

WHAT IS THE FARTHEST YOU HAVE BEEN FROM HOME?
Sydney, Australia, which is pretty much dead opposite of where I am.

DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL TALENT?
The “Special Purpose” that Steve Martin had in The Jerk.  *snicker*

WHERE WERE YOU BORN?
Fort Sanders Regional Hospital - Knoxville, TN.  Been around the world, and back again.

WHOSE ANSWERS ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO GETTING BACK?
Ya know, I don’t know.  I don’t really mind either way.  But hey, I’m gonna tag three people here, just because I feel like being a ‘tard.  The whole point, to me, is to use these random annoyances to spread the help get the word out about some pretty cool blogs that I read on a regular basis…

Rantz?  Consider yourself tagged.  So, uhh…. who else can I annoy?  Fracas, because I haven’t annoyed her much lately!  You’re tagged.  ;-)  Oh, and WhoreChurch, who probably won’t do it, but I’d love to see if he’ll prove me wrong.  *snicker*