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QotD: I Was The Sous Chef

nobody@vox.com(yi) — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 23:59:27 -0600

Who taught you how to cook?
Submitted by Donna.

mom + food network.

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QotD: A Tip About Tipping

nobody@vox.com(yi) — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 10:11:58 -0600

What's your method for calculating a tip?

for standard tip* (20%) i take the total, double it, then move the decimal over to the left one place. for example, $15.78 x 2 = $31.56, then move the decimal over to come up with $3.15 for 20% tip. come on, didn't we all learn this in like grade school?

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QotD: I Can't Believe I Ate This

nobody@vox.com(yi) — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 00:13:17 -0500

What's the weirdest thing you've ever eaten?
Submitted by Megan.

horse!

I've probably eaten weirder things but horse sushi is the most recent that comes to mind. I didn't like it.

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QotD: My Earliest Memory

nobody@vox.com(yi) — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:58:45 -0500

What is your earliest memory?
Submitted by Megan.

pooping. seriously.

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QotD: Collector's Item

nobody@vox.com(yi) — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 15:09:44 -0500

What do you collect?

cameras, pressed souvenir pennies, designer toys and gachapons and kinder egg toys, matchbooks, used lightbulbs, the little security strips in US money

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QotD: Kid Flick

nobody@vox.com(yi) — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 16:54:28 -0500

What is your favorite children's movie?

Raggedy Ann and Andy: a Musical Adventure

best and trippiest animation from my childhood ever.

NYTimes review from 1977

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QotD: I Just Made That Up

nobody@vox.com(yi) — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:24:03 -0500

Remember sniglets? Do you have any favorites? Have you ever made up your own word? (Now's as good a time as any.)

Ogay. I'm not sure what it means but you can use it in place of "okay" when you don't really mean it.

Jenny has a really good word that I love: schluff. Schluffs are somewhere between a nap and a full on night-time sleeping session. Most schluffs are taken during daylight hours but are deeper and a bit more hardcore than a typical nap. I often get voicemails from her saying "I hope you're not taking a schluff but..."

Update: I just found out shluff is yiddish for nap. Jenny's not as cool as I thought.

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QotD: Survey Says

nobody@vox.com(yi) — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 12:43:03 -0500

When you were younger, were there any game shows that you religiously watched and wanted to be a contestant on?

NO WHAMMIES NO WHAMMIES BIG BUCKS STOP!

ok, i didn't really want to be on it. i just liked watching people yell NO WHAMMIES NO WHAMMIES! i don't even remember the name of this game show.

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QotD: My Intro to the Big Screen

nobody@vox.com(yi) — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 00:13:18 -0500

What was the first movie you remember seeing in a movie theater?
Question submitted by mainmor.

My mom took me to see some Disney movie, but then we snuck into see Grease II right after it. I don't remember what Disney movie it was. I only remember Stephanie Zinone wanting a C-O-O-L R-I-D-E-R. Then we came home and I renenacted the Cool Rider musical number, using our stationary bike as the ladder she climbs over.

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QotD: Hello, Cleveland!

nobody@vox.com(yi) — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 23:06:43 -0500

If you had a band, what would you call yourselves?
Question submitted by Zoot.

The Straight As

We'd be an all girl asian pop band that sings about taiwanese street food like stinky tofu and oyster omelettes and how math is fun.

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