Tell Us Tuesday #19

First, here's an update on Henry: A very nice lady at one of the vet's offices I visited took Henry in to foster him until we can find a good permanent home. She has four poodles, which is great because Henry will probably only wear out three of them before he gets too tired to play. Whew! I mean, I loved having the little guy around, but I'm not so young any more! She's going to bring Henry to work with her, so he'll get lots of offers. The great thing is that she will screen them.



Now then. Tell us, besides puppy breath, are there ANY OTHER ODORS that smell so bad, yet evoke such good feelings at the same time?

Also tell us, what's your favorite scent? (Mine's vanilla.)

Tell Us Tuesday #17

Tell us, what's your favorite cookie?
Oh hell - who cares? Tell us something about your dark side! (Okay, you can tell us your favorite cookie, too.)

Tell Us Tuesday #17

You have been given permission to brag about yourself. Tell us your brag. Go ahead, it's okay. Really. You have permission!

Tell Us Tuesday #15

Tell us, if you could be the proverbial fly on the wall, where would you go?

Tell us Tuesday #14

Tell us,

You have a crystal ball that shows you the future. You gaze into it and see ...

Tell Us Tuesday No. 13

Tell us about jury service.

Have you ever served?
What happened?

How do you feel about it in general?

What do you think about the jury selection process in this country, where (wealthy) defendants can hire jury consultants? (In England, they just take the first 12 warm bodies.)

Tell Us Tuesday #12

When getting dressed, do you go:
sock, sock, shoe, shoe
or
sock shoe, sock shoe?

Celebrity fued:
Rosie
or
The Donald?

Is your toilet paper roll:
over (the correct way)
or
under?

Is your top sheet:
pattern side up
or
pattern side down?

Are you a:
cat person
or
dog person?

Men only:
boxers
or
briefs?

Women only:
panties
or
thongs?

Wine:
white
or
red?

Beer:
import
or
domestic?

At the grocery store:
paper
or
plastic?

When blog surfing do you:
leave a comment
or
just lurk?

Q & As on blogs:
fun
or
dumb?

:)

Tell Us Tuesday #11

Is it better to give than receive?

Tell Us Tuesday #10

Tell us, this year will you send out

Generic Christmas cards,

Personalized Christmas cards,

Personalized cards with family picture on them,

A Christmas letter (Hoss has a swell fill-in-the-blank one you could rip off),

Christmas emails, or

No cards at all?

Tell Us Tuesday #9

For Christmas this year, will you have

a real tree,

an artificial one, or

no tree at all?

Tell Us Tuesday #8

Tell us here in Comments, or by leaving a link to your own blog,

What are you thankful for this year?

Tell Us Tuesday #7

Tell us, either here in Comments or by leaving a link on your own blog,

How old were you when you had your first taste of alcohol, and what kind of drink was it?

Tell Us Tuesday #6

Tell us, either here in Comments, or leave a link to your own blog,

What are your pet peeves? (We all have more than one, right?)

Tell Us Tuesday #5

Happy Halloween!

Tell us, either here in the Comments or on your own blog, if you're wearing a costume this year, and what it is.

Tell Us Tuesday #4

Tell us, either here in Comments or leave a link to your own blog:


You've been given a once-in-a-lifetime roundtrip ticket to the past on a time machine. To what destination and time period would you go, and why? Sorry, you can't go forward in time, nor can you go back to any point in your own (current) lifetime.

Tell Us Tuesday #3

We just had a GREAT visit from Tom's parents over the weekend.

I'm going to borrow something my m-i-l suggested for TUT#3. She read somewhere that it would be a great idea for a person just starting adulthood to begin studying a subject they're interested in so that by the time they retire, they'd be an expert in that subject. She said she wished she had done that, but has no idea what subject she might have chosen.

This reminded me of the late Tony Randall, who became an expert on hummingbirds.

Tell us what subject you would choose to be an expert in.

Tell Us Tuesday #2

(Answer here in Comments, or leave a comment telling us where to find your answer.)

Everyone fantasizes about what they'd do if they won a million dollars, but here's something a little different:

Tell us what you would do if you won a thousand dollars. The rules are, you have to spend it, but you can't pay bills with it, save, invest, give it away, or spend it on someone else.

"Tell Us Tuesday" #1

I started "Silly Saturday" last weekend, which was just an excuse to find something silly to blog about and start the weekend off with a laugh.

Then, I wanted to come up with something more interactive, and thought of this: Tell Us Tuesday. You'll-like-it-it'll-be-fun-I-promise! Maybe it'll even get me you to keep writing about whatever the subject is and inspire you for the rest of the week!

So, every Tuesday I'll have a subject for you to tell us about. You can tell us here in the comments section, or leave a comment telling us where to look - like on your own blog.

The subject might be something from your past, or what you think or feel about certain things, your future plans, people you admire, places you've been, experiences you've had, and anything else I can think of.

Okay? Okay, here goes:

Tell Us Tuesday #1

Tell us about your favorite teacher.

I'll start:

My favorite teacher was Mr. Best. Yes, that was his real name. He taught Social Studies (do they still call it that, I wonder?)

He was unusual in three respects. First, he was a man. Most teachers were, and still are, I guess, females.

Second, he was a bachelor, which may have been a euphemism for gay back then. Funny, he didn't look gay :) but whatever, he was referred to as a bachelor by the other teachers.

Third, he was environmentally conscious waaaay back before that term was even invented. He rode to school on a motor scooter to save gas. He told us to conserve water by not letting the tap run while we brushed our teeth. He admonished us not to be wasteful.

I liked Mr. Best because he seemed to like me. I don't know why, exactly, but he seemed to like me. Once, I had almost forgotten that an assignment was due the next day, so the night before I threw together a notebook about the Vietnam war. All I did, basically, was cut out pictures and text from Life magazine. I felt guilty about not doing anything original, but Mr. Best gave me an A+!

In our Home Economics class (whatever do they call that now?), we had to make a skirt. The teacher invited Mr. Best to the classroom to watch the "fashion show." I remember his smile when I walked down the aisle wearing my ensemble. That smile meant so much to me because it was the approval that I craved. All of this was so innocent back then - there was not the slightest hint of anything improper. Can male teachers watch 12 and 13-yr-old girls model these days?

I remember another assignment he gave us, which was to write a newspaper headline to be dated 20 years in the future. Mine was, "Vietnam War Rages On."

Yes, I was a budding protestor even back then.


Now, it's your turn!
Tell us about your favorite teacher.