Personal Questions

[Trevor]

^ I ain't going there! 

It's quite nice from the outside.

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[Alex]

David Gemmell.

[Trevor]

Stephen King
Alistair MacLean
Desmond Bagley
Herge
Goscinny and Uderzo
Wilbur Smith

[ER]

A baker's dozen: Oscar Wilde, Neil Gaiman, Joyce Carol Oates, Shirley Jackson, Gary Jennings, Arthur Conan Doyle, Flannery O'Connor, Dorothy Parker, Peter Straub, Jane Austen, Stephen King, Garrison Keillor, King Solomon.

[Allhallowsday]

Ok. Do you have favorite authors?
Mine would be Shirley Jackson-#1...

We Have Always Lived In The Castle  has long been a favorite of mine.  The last story I read was probably The Lottery... which I had reread just a few years ago.  Her personal life was troubled... mostly by neighbors!   

I also like F. Scott Fitzgerald  Thomas Harris  Ernest Hemingway  Mark Twain  Stephen King  Anne Rice   Gene Wolfe  ...

[ER]

Can you taste the difference in an orange and a tangerine?

[RCMerchant]

^ No.

[RCMerchant]

Ok. Do you have favorite authors?
Mine would be Shirley Jackson-#1...

We Have Always Lived In The Castle  has long been a favorite of mine.  The last story I read was probably The Lottery... which I had reread just a few years ago.  Her personal life was troubled... mostly by neighbors!   

I also like F. Scott Fitzgerald  Thomas Harris  Ernest Hemingway  Mark Twain  Stephen King  Anne Rice   Gene Wolfe  ...

I also enjoy HP Lovecraft, Issiac Asimov, Sandra Dee, William Shirer, Clive Barker, Stephan King, Charles Fort, Ivan Sanderson, and others of course.

[RCMerchant]

Have you ever got high from huffing? (glue, gas, paint)

I have on all 3. Glue, because I built monster model and WWII model kits as a kit. Got high as a kite.
Gas- yes as well. Also when I was a kid, we lived in an old farmhouse, and there was a pipe coming out of the ground in the backyard with a large rusty ball on top of it. Most been an old pump there, because I usta huff on that thing.
Paint- again yes. I painted houses, machines at work, etc. When I'd be about half-way through I'd be high as a kite.

[Allhallowsday]

Have you ever got high from huffing? (glue, gas, paint)

I have on all 3. Glue, because I built monster model and WWII model kits as a kit. Got high as a kite.
Gas- yes as well. Also when I was a kid, we lived in an old farmhouse, and there was a pipe coming out of the ground in the backyard with a large rusty ball on top of it. Most been an old pump there, because I usta huff on that thing.
Paint- again yes. I painted houses, machines at work, etc. When I'd be about half-way through I'd be high as a kite.

Nope, but we did do whipits and poppers...

[ER]

I've never done that, but I do find I am in a minority in that I kind of think gasoline smells interesting, and turpentine smells downright good.

[ER]

Ever known a Scientologist?

[Allhallowsday]

Ever known a Scientologist?

[Allhallowsday]

Can you taste the difference in an orange and a tangerine?

Yes.  The textures and taste are similar, but the smell is distinctly different. 

[Alex]

Ever known a Scientologist?

Not beyond bumping into random recruiters. I've heard their numbers are falling which hopefully is true.