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Post Thu Feb 26, 2009 1:32 pm

I'm sure I have multiple times, though I don't know how what exactly. My city speaks as much Spanish as English and my fluency in Spanish seems to fluctuate by the year. I have no doubt I've said a lot of stupid things by accident in Spanish.

Have you ever made a typo (or spoken a just-barely-wrong word/mispronounced a word) and ended up with a very different (and ironic and/or hilarious) meaning?
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Post Sun Mar 01, 2009 11:18 pm

Giorgia wrote:Have you ever said something really stupid or wrong in another language to someone who speaks it?


A friend of mine, in her French speaking exam in school, told the examiner (in French) that she liked movies with lots of blood. Well, that's what she meant to say, but she got the word wrong and said she liked movies with lots of tits! :oops: Ooooops! But she actually passed the exam!

happyharper13 wrote:Have you ever made a typo (or spoken a just-barely-wrong word/mispronounced a word) and ended up with a very different (and ironic and/or hilarious) meaning?


I'm so sure I must have done - but I can't think of anything specific right now! Sorry. Lousy answer!

Have you ever been out somewhere in public and suddenly realised you were singing along to your i-pod - out loud, for everyone to hear? (Oh yeah, on a train, just the day before yesterday!!)
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Post Sun Mar 01, 2009 11:46 pm

Not suddenly. When I sing out loud, it's generally on purpose. I see enough people (especially back home, on the metro and city buses) who start singing or rapping or beatboxing aloud that I've learned to not do the same.

Have you ever gotten on the bus and/or train and/or other form of mass transpo and realized that you were going the wrong direction, but it was too late to change?
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Post Mon Mar 02, 2009 6:32 am

Sorta. A friend got on the wrong train in the subway one time and rather than let her get lost I jumped on to rescue her. For the life of me I still can't figure out what's so difficult about the NJ Transit. Maybe it's because I grew up there... but it's NOT that complicated. Nor is the actual subway. It's not like they don't have like fourteen maps at every stop/in every car...

/Rant about non-yankees in the North.

Have you ever had a guest that just wouldn't leave?

This evening I was at my friend Jesse's (we were playing a new RPG for most of the day based on the Anita Blake novels--yes... I'm a nerd.) and we'd finished playing but the guy running the game just wouldn't leave. He stood in Jesse's living room for an hour and a half talking at us. Not with us or to us but at us. Jesse, Claire, Eric, Chris and I (The four of them are roommates) all even got up and moved into another room at one point. Meawhile the other guy with him stood by the front door waiting for him so they could leave. It took us putting on a movie, finishing it, and watching an episode of House before the guy took the hint. Granted I was a guest too but A. I was being blocked in by the othe guest. B. I've known Jesse and Claire for almost nine years, Eric for going on six, and Chris for probably five by now. So... I'm sorta less of a guest than the other guys were...

Yeah, anyway... he just wouldn't go. I almost wanted to ask him to leave myself! But, it wasn't my home... All I wanted to do was spend some time with four of my closest friends before I had to brave the 12 inches of snow to the top of my windy mountain road. I ended up having a nice time with them anyway though, once Nick and Little Nick left. :-D
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Post Mon Mar 02, 2009 6:50 am

Ohhh, yes. Our neighbours are like that. God, they come over, bring a few beers, then finally look like they're leaving and just show up with more beers. They wait till their kids (one and five years old) are asleep, then come over.

And. Just. Don't. Leave.

The mother is the kind of person who seems to regret not being a kid anymore (despite being only, like, 32) and so tries to live vicariously through me. But they seem to love our family and hence just hang out, like, "Ah, you guys are awesome!" whilst getting drunker and drunker.

*rolls eyes*

They're reaffirmation of the reasons I don't like drunk people.

Have you ever stopped on the side of the road to pick wild friut?

Hell yeah, there is a huge blackberry bush right near my busstop. Sweet!
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Post Mon Mar 02, 2009 2:53 pm

Yes! I've stopped many-a-time on the side of the road to pick wild raspberries. Yum :P (though someone seems to be in the process of cutting down all of the wild raspberries in our vicinity, sadly)

Have you ever written an entire story and/or at least 10,000 words and then decided you hated it, and consequentially dropped it.
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Post Mon Apr 06, 2009 11:45 am

No, actually. I've posted everything I've ever written. I started writing because I wanted to post something, and I just kept going.

And definitely nothing of consequence, because when I write something so long, it tends to be chapter by chapter and I update as I write.

So no, not really.

Have you ever had a very bad DIY experience?
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Post Tue Apr 28, 2009 2:20 am

Have you ever had a very bad DIY experience?

Yes, yes I have. I was trying to make a cake for my mom as a surprise, but I had to fix the oven first so I used all this tape (LOL, YES, INSIDE OF THE OVEN) and then I almost burned the house down. The cake was ruined. D:

Have you ever done something that you thought was cool for a long time (like a couple months or more) and eventually found out that it wasn't cool and felt embarrassed about it?
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Post Wed May 06, 2009 3:57 am

Uhmm... well, yeah I found out it wasn't cool, but I wasn't embarrassed and it didn't stop me from doing it!

what to ask?
Have you ever been to a Caribbean island? (Wow, that's real original...)
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Post Fri May 08, 2009 2:59 am

Nope!

Have you ever found out someone you knew in real life read your fanfiction?
And what of Henry, my Odysseus? Henry is an artist of another sort, a disappearing artist. Our life together in this too-small apartment is punctuated by Henry's small absences.
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Post Fri May 08, 2009 4:07 am

Yes and no... They've read it on their own, but I've also read it to them...

Have you ever stayed up late studying for an exam and then slept through it?
Dean: Talking to a messenger of God on a cell phone. It's kind of like watching a Hell's Angel riding a moped.
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Post Fri May 08, 2009 10:47 am

No, firstly because I never stay up the whole night to study! You need a good nights' sleep!

Uhm... Have you ever written fanfic in class and had your teacher take it from you and read it out loud? (that happened to me!)
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Post Fri May 08, 2009 12:03 pm

I've been about this close. But I've never had a teacher who didn't just let me write. I had a teacher/grade co-ordinator last year who said nothing while I wrote in assemblies, while she yelled at anyone who talked or texted.

I think maybe she thought I was being uber-attentive and taking notes. Either that or she really didn't care. But I wrote a fifteen chapter story in assemblies last year. This year I've got assemblies in an auditorium, so they shut off the lights.

*Sigh*

Have you ever been on an incredibly dysfunctional date but gone on a second date with the same person?

(I can honestly say no to that, never having actually been on a date...)
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Post Fri May 08, 2009 1:26 pm

yes, totally! But the incredibly dysfunctional date was fun!

uhm, what to ask?
what do you prefer to give your ships, boys or girls?
(oi, that's lame)
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Post Fri May 08, 2009 8:32 pm

Pardon?


I don't understand the question. Since most (all?) of my 'ships are between two people, I don't give them anyone.

I 'ship Warrick/Catherine Adam/Stella and Ten/Rose mostly...

-OR- Did I completely missunderstand you? Were you speaking of boats? I prefer male sailors to female. *Rawr*


Okay this isn't exactly a "have you ever" question, per say, but were there ever any characters you found incredibly attractive but weren't particularly fond of the actor? Or actors but weren't fond of the characer?

I find Flack absolutely dreamy but don't really think much about Eddie.

Meanwhile, I think Eric Delko is repulsive but I'm crushing on Adam.
And what of Henry, my Odysseus? Henry is an artist of another sort, a disappearing artist. Our life together in this too-small apartment is punctuated by Henry's small absences.
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