Ask a Grump #2

[Newsman]

   I wish I could come, but right now I can't..I need to be careful on a number of areas right now..speaking of right now, methinks me goeth by mine favorite convenience store, and make the journey to my keep on Ford, my trusty steed!


Laters, perchance!
Valstar...ummm John 

[MelodyB]

Put some gas in my Ford keep me truckin for the Lord...put some gas in my Ford I pray.....

[Ashlee]

Mel, doncha know he has to come see ME before he goes there?  I live closer than you do.  lol

[MelodyB]

But he has met you...and I wont deprive him of a hug.

[Ashlee]

[almondjoy]

oohhh!  They're fightin' over him!!!

* almondjoy passes the news on   

[Ashlee]

LOL. 

[RainbowJingles]

*sends John a pre-programmed GPS*
Destination: Northern California

[Ashlee]

 

[iridiscente]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Destination TEXAS!

[Ashlee]

So John...when ya comin to see me?

[Ashlee]

John, do you prefer cold weather or hot weather?
Do you like turtleneck sweaters?
Would you spend $400 dollars on a "thing" or an animal if it was important to someone you loved?
What about if you barely had enough?  Would you still spend it?
Which of the 12 disciples do you think you would most be like?
Are you a good artist?
How old were you when you received the Holy Ghost?
Do you remember being baptized?

[Newsman]

Well, if I left now..j/k.. I don't kn0ow, honestly. I would like to make it to Louisiana.


John 

So John...when ya comin to see me?

[Newsman]

John, do you prefer cold weather or hot weather?
Cold

Do you like turtleneck sweaters?
Yes, fairly well, as far as wearing them myself..I think they look awesome on Ladies

Would you spend $400 dollars on a "thing" or an animal if it was important to someone you loved?
I'll be honest: possibly I would..probably, I think

What about if you barely had enough?  Would you still spend it?
I failed to do so, once, years ago..bothered me a lot since, but I failed

Which of the 12 disciples do you think you would most be like?
I'll think on that one, and post back

Are you a good artist?
As in drawing and painting? Absolutely not

How old were you when you received the Holy Ghost?
25

Do you remember being baptized?
Absolutely..the old fashioned way..in a lake

[upcchris]

Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

I love Lewis Carroll's work, loved it as a kid and today also (despite the fact that he was on drugs)

Did you like Alice in Wonderland or Through the Looking glass best?

[Newsman]

Lady Chris,

   I memorized the Jabberwock when I was four or five..and got in trouble in the redneck school I went to for quoting it..they thought I was cussing.

   For years growing up, iI missed a lot of the standard works children are exposed to.... I learned some of Homer's work at 4-5, and  was reading military history on my own in the second grade. I wound up competing in poetry in high school speech contests, reciting that genteel (not) poem "The Man With The Broken Fingers."

   I've dabbled in writing poetry a bit as an adult, and haiku in the last couple of years, as well.


John 

[apsurf]

Mel, doncha know he has to come see ME before he goes there?  I live closer than you do.  lol

So when is newsman going to Lousiana to visit the Bust-a-Move studios we keep hearing about?

[upcchris]

Lady Chris,

   I memorized the Jabberwock when I was four or five..and got in trouble in the redneck school I went to for quoting it..they thought I was cussing.

   For years growing up, iI missed a lot of the standard works children are exposed to.... I learned some of Homer's work at 4-5, and  was reading military history on my own in the second grade. I wound up competing in poetry in high school speech contests, reciting that genteel (not) poem "The Man With The Broken Fingers."

   I've dabbled in writing poetry a bit as an adult, and haiku in the last couple of years, as well.


John 

That...really didn't answer my question, but bizzare...yet cool....do you feel like you've missed out on your childhood?

[Newsman]

Lady Chris,

   You know how evasive the media is: to try and answer your question a little more directly, then, I don't believe I've ever caught the full Alice in Wonderland, and pretty certain I haven't caught Through The Looking Glass, at all.

   As to the missing childhood part, I think I did to a certain extent, but it wasn't like I was abused. I still played some as a child, though I grew up from about 7 on in a single parent household. My books were my babysitter to a certain degree.

   Although there may have been others, I only recall my father playing catch or somehting similar like that with me once in my life.


John 

[iridiscente]

That's so funny... my sister and I "translated" the Jabberwock once into Texan. BOL!

[sunlight]

do you remember how it went?

[upcchris]

Ah I see...I had seen the Jabberwock reference and assumed I had found a fellow Carroll aficionado (I'm not really one, but anyway)...my bad, I should've learned by now never to make assumptions...or generalizations

[Newsman]

No problem, Lady Chris, my background has no logical progression!


John 

[iridiscente]

"Your latter will be greater than your past"

[Tricia Lea]

What do you like most about being a reporter?