97 posts tagged “qotd”
While walking in a winter wonderland can be fun in theory, it makes shopping a big of a drag. Do you plan on doing your holiday shopping online or in-stores this season? Why?
Sponsored by Best Buy.
Another sponsored marketing QOTD? What up with that, Vox?
Well, Best Buy, if you put your Black Friday sales online, I won't bother to drag my ass out of bed at oh dark thirty and be a bitch to your sales people. I'll buy shit from you online and go pick it up later, or have it shipped (free shipping would help, there).
Aside from that, I'm going to buy a few things in-store, probably not on Black Friday since my husband's in Japan and can't watch these kids while I go shop at the butt crack of dawn. My 4 year olds do not enjoy shopping. They enjoy waking up early to go shopping even less. They do like to run off in stores, however, and trying to deal with all that and crazy people on Black Friday sounds like an epic fail in the making. I'm also going to make a few things, such as a piece-quilted tote bag for my mother.
Why do you make some purchases online and others in-store? What ultimately prompts you to go in-store?
Sponsored by Best Buy.
Oh look, a marketing QOTD. Normally I would say go to hell, Best Buy, but I'll answer this.
I buy online when it's cheaper, even after shipping, than buying in the store. I usually browse in Barnes & Noble and then order the books I want on Amazon, because it's usually $5-10 cheaper per book. And free shipping. I buy online when I can't get it in a store locally, like interesting belly dance jewelry on eBay or from import stores. There's no place around here that sells kuchi jewelry. I buy in store when it winds up costing the same or I want it right away. I like instant gratification. I don't usually buy in Best Buy because movies are cheaper at Walmart and Target, and they have about as much selection. Occasionally I buy computer bits in Best Buy though.
By the way, Best Buy, your tags are lame. Blue label life? What does that even mean?
What's your favorite saying?
Submitted by Dylan
I'm pretty fond of movie quotes, lines out of Terry Pratchett's books, and almost everything Eddie Izzard has ever said. As for aphorisms, I'm very fond of these:
"Women are more fond of their children than men because they can be certain that they are theirs."
Arabic Proverb
"If you want to know who your friends are, lie by the roadside and pretend to be drunk."
-Jamaican proverb
I actually keep a book/journal just for quotes. Some favorites:
"Are you sure it isn't time for a colorful metaphor?"
-Spock, Star Trek 4
"You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on."
-Dean Martin
"I must have been delirious from having so much fun!"
-Calvin & Hobbes
"I'm always wonderful at night."
-Mae West
"Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."
-Mark Twain
"I didn't think this was possible, but this both sucks and blows."
-Bart Simpson
"What a gorgeous day! What effulgent sunshine! It was a day of this sort the McGillicuddy brothers murdered their mother with an ax."
-W.C. Fields
"It is setting a high value upon our opinions, to roast men alive on account of them."
-Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
"I was meditating upon the immortal words of Socrates, who said: I drank what?"
-Real Genius
"Back off man, I'm a scientist."
-Venkman, Ghostbusters
"Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is one's self."
-Lord Goring, An Ideal Husband
"She sang in harmony. Not, of course, with her reflection in the glass, because that kind of heroine will sooner or later end up singing a duet with Mr. Bluebird and other forest creatures and then there's nothing for it but a flamethrower."
-Carpe Jugulum (by Terry Pratchett)
"Most things can be resolved by a sufficiently large ego."
-Terry Pratchett
This is a longtime favorite. I once translated it into Latin for fun.
"If ignorance is bliss, this lesson would appear to be a deliberate attempt on your part to deprive me of happiness, the pursuit of which is my unalienable right according to the Declaration of Independence. I therefore assert my patriotic prerogative not to know this material. I'll be out on the playground."
-Calvin & Hobbes
What is your all time favorite board game?
Does Boggle count as a board game? I love Boggle. I kick ass at Boggle. I'm not that into board games. I'll play Monopoly, but I have a hard time remembering the "real" rules, because growing up we played by my sister's rules, which primarily consisted of:
1. She was ALWAYS the bank.
2. Houses cost (going around each side of the board, beginning with the low-rent district) $10, $20, $30, $40.
I don't play much games now, cause hubby says I'm both a bad winner AND a bad loser. He's just jealous cause I kick his ass at Boggle.
What have you lost that you wish you could get back?
Submitted by, Witch Hazel
Ugh, my nice belly pre-twinskin. Damn kids ruined my belly.
If you were running for president, who would you choose as your running mate?
Well, my dance partner Nadira and I have been joking around that we're going to take over the world on a platform of two simple rules:
- Stop being an asshole, and
- Don't fuck it up.
What are you looking forward to this week?
Well, we're having a mini-birthday party this afternoon for the boys, and tomorrow we're going to take the ferry to downtown Seattle and check out Pike Place Market, the Space Needle, Pioneer Square, and then go north a bit to hit the Ottoman Trading Co and Istanbul Imports.
What were you afraid of when you were younger that seems silly to you now?
Submitted by wandie
Hmm, well, it's all my sister's fault. When we were kids, my two sisters and I shared a room. Older Sis is 11 months older than me, Little Sis is almost 4 years younger than me (3 yrs 8mnths). Older Sis used to tell us at night that mad scientists were hiding under the bed with long needles to poke through the mattress and get us. No use hiding under the blanket from that. My mom never understood why we had to shove everything under our beds, but we were damned if there was going to be room for a mad scientist to fit under there. Of course we still had to make a running leap into bed if the light was off, in case one had gotten under there despite all the clothes and toys.
Sisters are overrated.
My brother was afraid of monsters briefly, when he was about three or four. My mom made him "Monster Spray", a spray bottle of water with a few drops of some essential oil (I think it was lavender, which is calming) and he would go around his room before bed spraying anywhere he thought monsters might be, to kill them off, then he'd go to bed happy with the bottle next to his bed.
Schools are coming closer to starting once again, any particular memories/thoughts associated with this time of year? Submitted by Chuck
I can't WAIT for my kids to go back to school! They only go a few hours in the morning, to preschool, but that's about 3.5 hours of quiet for me where I can go to the grocery store without feeling homicidal by the time we leave.
Did you go to summer camp? What is your favorite memory/story? If you didn't go to camp, do you feel like you missed out?
Submitted by chris.
Well, I went to Girls Camps with the church. The Young Women have a camp every summer, and I went for five years (back when each year had a name: Yearling, Mountaineer, Inspirator, Adventurer, and Summiteer - you can be a Summiteer more than once, but I only did it once because the year I was 17 I graduated high school, so I didn't want to go to Girls Camp). Summiteers are the camp counselors. I had a group of Yearlings (12 year olds) that I called my pollywogs. There were some good times, but the most memorable thing that happened was during my Inspirator year when I got bit on the back of the thigh by a brown recluse. One of the priesthood leaders with us was an EMT with the fire department and slapped some sour cream on it, which apparently draws most of the poison out. I did get a spot of necrotic flesh about the size of a quarter, but the skin has grown back over it now and you wouldn't even notice it. If you press on the scar, it feels really weird, like there's nothing behind the skin about a quarter of an inch deep. Freaky. And my Summiteer year our campsite flooded and I remember someone lost a box of tampons in the water, and they all swelled up in their packages and we thought it was really hilarious to see them floating like bloated little boats in the flood waters.
