Survey Says!

While visiting Autmumn's Meadow the other day, I came across this fun little game that Patty had and thought it would be nice to do for a quick post. Considering I am off to work at the other job for 12 hours today, this seemed like a good day for a quick post so let's play Family Feud - the Blog Version!

If you want to play along, copy and paste the questions to a new post, erase my answers, and fill in your answers. Just remember, you can't use any of the answers I've already given or you'll hear a loud annoying buzzer go off in your head! If you want to pass the game along, tag 5 of your friends and don't forget to send it back to me. Remember, you can't use the same answer as the person who sent it to you. Also bear in mind, if my answers are dumb, it's because the person before me had the good ones and I was stuck scrambling around for reasonable substitutes!

1. Name something you use in the shower. Shampoo

2. Name a product for men. Barbasol Shaving Cream

3. Name something people hate to find on their windshields. Bug guts

4. Name something a man might buy before a date. Earplugs (ok, ok, I haven't dated in a very, very long time obviously, it's all I could think of!)

5. What is another word for blemish. Zit

6. Something you cook in the microwave. Hot Pockets

7. Name a piece of furniture people need help moving. Piano

8 Name a reason a younger man might like an older woman. We aren't quite as needy!

9. Name something a dog does that embarrasses its owner. Shakes slobber over visitors

10.. Name a kind of test you cannot study for. Eye test

11. Name something a boy scout gets a badge for. Woodworking

12 Name a phrase with the word home in it. "Home is where the heart is."

13. Name a sport where players lose teeth. Hockey

14. Name something a teacher can do to ruin a student's day. Give too much homework.

15. What is a way you can tell someone has been crying. Red, puffy eyes.

16. Name a bird you wouldn't want to eat. A vulture

17. Name something someone would wear with a hole in it. Jeans

18. 18. Name something that gets smaller the more you use it. Sandpaper

I'm not going to tag anyone but do let me know if you decide to play along so I can come by and check out your answers. Everyone have a great Saturday. May your first full day of Spring be a wonderful one!

Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes!

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You've Changed 44% in 10 Years

You've done a good job changing with the times, but deep down, you're still the same person. Your clothes, job, and friends may have changed some - but it hasn't changed you.

How Much Have You Changed in 10 Years?

I saw this little Blogthings quiz over at Patti's Late Bloomer Boomer blog and decided to give it a go myself. Whereas Patti has only changed 8% in the past ten years I have apparently made some major changes!

Granted, in the past ten years I have moved from one town to another (from Plainfield to Norwich), I have gotten divorced (for the second time - sigh), I've gained weight (grimace!), I've bought a cell phone (several of them actually), I had different taste in music (My Chemical Who?), I've gotten two tattoos (fear not they're tasteful!), I had a different celebrity crush (not sure who it was ten years ago but I'm pretty sure it wasn't John Cusack or Colin Firth), I went by a different name (Orlomoski is my maiden name), and different career aspirations (I had no thought of ever being an ambulance dispatcher at all!).

It's comforting to know that my drinking habits, political views, and friends haven't really changed except that I have added more friends since changing jobs and starting a blog. It would be nice if my dating and financial status would have changed some but I guess you can't have everything!

How about you? Take the quiz and let me know how much you have or haven't changed!

Repeat After Me - DUH!!

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I got this "Quiz For People Who Know Everything" in my email today from my good buddy Bulldog and I've got to say, it's a rather humbling experience to find out that not only do I not know everything but I don't know a heck of a lot! I got three of these answers right and that was after putting my brain through some major stress! See if you do any better and don't cheat by scrolling down to read the answers first either!

1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.
2. What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?
3. Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons. All other vegetables must be replanted every year.
4. What are the only two perennial vegetables?
5. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?
6. In many liquor stores, you can buy pear brandy, with a real pear inside the bottle. The pear is whole and ripe, and the bottle is genuine; it hasn't been cut in any way. How did the pear get inside the bottle?
7. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters " dw" and they are all common words.
8. Name two of them. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them?
9. Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh.
10. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter "S."

Feel good and dumb now? Alright then, here are the answers to the quiz:

1. The one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends . . Boxing
2. North American landmark constantly moving backward . Niagara Falls (The rim is worn down about two and a half feet each year because of the millions of gallons of water that rush over it every minute.)
3. Only two vegetables that can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons. Asparagus and rhubarb.
4. The fruit with its seeds on the outside .. Strawberry.
5. How did the pear get inside the brandy bottle? It grew inside the bottle. (The bottles are placed over pear buds when they are small, and are wired in place on the tree. The bottle is left in place for the entire growing season. When the pears are ripe, they are snipped off at the stems.)
6. Three English words beginning with dw. Dwarf, dwell and dwindle.
7. Fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar . Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses.
8. The only vegetable or fruit never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh...Lettuce.
9. Six or more things you can wear on your feet beginning with "s". Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts.

The ones I got right were - #5, which was probably more of a guess than anything!; #6, I use a lot of punctuation marks!; and #8, though I didn't guess 'stilts' as I never thought of those as something you "wear on your feet". Oh well, I shall now go hang my head in shame now, care to join me? Maybe I should have taken some Miracle burn before I took the test, maybe that would have helped?