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I'm only doing this because the meme ordered me to.

I want everyone who reads this to ask me 3 questions, no more, no less.

Ask me anything you want.

Then I want you to go to your journal, copy and paste this allowing your friends (including myself) to ask you anything.

Although obviously you don't have to do it if you don't want to. You're under no obligation. This is a very bossy meme!

*rebels against meme*

Mood:: apabloodythetic

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Hi :) (Have just ~~started stalking~~ friended you after ~~mainlining~~ reading your to-die-for LOTRips and The Dark is Rising fic - hope you don't mind!)

Hmmm...three questions ::clears throat::

1. Bran, Dom or Eddie (Izzard)?

2. First fanfic experience?

3. If you could erase your memory of one book or film so you got to experience it all over again for the first time, what would it be?

Hello! No of course I don't mind, nice to meet you! :)

1. Arrghh! How can you do this to me? Difficult! And in what capacity? Hmmm, well, eight times out of ten I think it's going to be Dom, but if you'd said Will instead of Bran ... might be a different story.

2. When I was 13 I had a friend who'd seen the film Amadeus and fallen in love with Mozart. We used to write plays about us going to Austria to search for his grave, and then meeting his ghost. Bizarro Mary-Sue!

3. Too hard! I suppose it would be cheating to say everything by Douglas Adams? All the Tales of the City books? I'm sure there's a better answer to this lurking somewhere in my brain.

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Hee - thank you (and nice to meet you too :)

Re. 1 - I was debating adding Will to the mix but ~~he's mine! mine, I tell you!~~ that would have been too easy.

However, bring Dom at midnight to the secret undisclosed location and I might consider a trade :)

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fuck the meme, i have just read your mpreg ficlet and am here to bear your ~~ducklings~~ children.

cuddly protractor!!!

i dare you to post that as an answer to the challenge!! if you haven't already....

n.x :D

Take my ducklings! Take them!

I can't post it. I considered it actually, I really did. But then I went over there and she was all embarrassed about the 'transvestite' mistake, and I just couldn't do it to the poor little tyke.

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1. Where do you go to my lovely?

2. When you go to San Francisco, do you wear flowers in your hair?

3. Do you know the way to San Jose?

I know this is SO unoriginal, but hey - I couldn't resist!

1) So when you're near me, darling can you hear me?

2) What's the name of the game, does it mean anything to you?

3) Can you hear the drums...?

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1. Of course - I'm not deaf!

2. Scrabble. And no, it means nothing to me.

3. No, but I can hear Fernando. Shut up, Fernando. Bloody racket, I ask you... *grumble*

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1. Bed.

2. No.

3. No. Get a map.

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Because I am also feeling dead rebellious, I am not going to ask you anything.

But you can still give me three answers if you want.

Ooooh!

Ok.

1. Not since I was about 12, and even then it was a mistake.
2. Green. No, purple. No, green.
3. How dare you ask me that???? How dare you??? Seriously, I'm shocked!! SHOCKED!!!!! *unfriends immediately*

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1. I know the feeling.
2. Once upon a time, I had a green and purple raincoat. I found it in the bottom of the cupboard in our shed about six weeks ago, and promptly donated it to the Salvation Army.
3. *cries*

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3. Ok, I forgive you. But you must promise never to bring up that subject again!

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1. Mars, but only half a bar.
2. Bourbon. I really don't like Jammy Dodgers all that much. Plus bourbon can also be an alcoholic drink. You could dip your bourbons in your bourbon.
3. Either, not fussed. Not so keen on the diet though.

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I have also ~~stalked~~ lurked here for a short time, enjoying your writings and oddities. I hope that allows me to ask these of you...

1) What is the origin of Sheldrake (a variety of duck, I believe?) as your online persona?

2) If you had to stop drinking either tea or coffee, which would you have to keep for your own sanity?

3) Regress back to childhood.... Now, what do you want to be when you grow up?

Hi Leeky!

1. Yep, variety of duck - see icon. It goes back to the far-off days when I was creating a Yahoo account for some unknown reason, and it wouldn't let me have any of my choices. So, in my frustration, I typed in the name mrssheldrake, because I thought no one else could possibly have wanted it. I was right. Mrs Sheldrake herself was a character I had created earlier that day, for the purposes of making up a comedy blackmail letter, for the purposes of messing about.

2. I would have to keep tea, without a doubt. No way could I live without tea. Like Bertie Wooster, I can't start the day without it. Giving up coffee would make work less pleasant, it's true, but I'd just have to get used to the terrible tea all my workmates seem to make. Or make it myself, of course.

3. When Mr Silverman asked everyone in the class what they wanted to be when they grew up, I said, "I want to be an Author." Not just a writer, but an Author. In other words, I wanted to have already written something. Which says a lot about my attitude to life really. But Mr Silverman was very kind and said he was sure I could be a writer if I worked hard enough. He was a nice teacher, if somewhat over-optimistic.

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I'm not sure whether the Q&A was meant to be recursive, but I felt like replying to your answers anyway!

1. It's funny how these names come about, and then stick with us/haunt us for years to come. "Leeky" was a nickname I earned at school, and it ended up being the way my work colleagues distinguish between me and the boss-with-the-same-first-name.

2. Ahhh... tea! I have to agree, my existence would be far less bearable without tea (how do you take yours?.. kettle's on!). I drink coffee occasionally when out with friends, but only the strangely-named expensive types with spray-cream on top.

3. I think the difference between being a writer and being a published author is a fine balance of talent, hard work, and luck. I'm no real judge, but you seem to have at least two of those on your side.

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Heheh - cheers! White, one sugar please. :)

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1) one thing you always dreamed of doing and never did?
2) most beautiful experience of yours (that you recall)?
3) opinion of the platypus?

Ooh, you ask tough questions.

1. Well, discounting things I still want to do and therefore still might ... ummm ... I did spend quite a lot of time when I was at school dreaming about snogging the guy in the Sixth Form who ran the choir. A foolish ambition, I feel, as he was quite obviously as gay as pants.

2. I don't think I can answer this one. No one thing springs to mind. Never had a wedding day, never given birth, never seen the Earth from space. There were probably lots things that felt quite beautiful at the time, like walking through the park on an afternoon in early autumn, or riding bareback on a horse when I was seven, or spending all day in the pub and and suddenly someone puts your favourite song on and you realise you're ever so slightly plastered.

3. I like the platypus. I'm in favour of it, definitely. It looks like a duck, but it's not, and that's cool. There's an advert on here at the moment which implies that the platypus is likely to be so driven mad by a potato-based snack that it will bash its head against the side of an aquarium in a misguided attempt to get to the crisps. I think this is a miserable misrepresentation of a fine and noble beast.

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i understand the "nothing springs to mind;" my life is like that too.

and yeah, much with the lusting after gay boys, too.

and also, the platypus is dreadfully misrepresented in most of the commercial media. we should do something about it.

save the platypus' image, or something.

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1. where do you get your ideas?
2. what is your favorite colour?
3. do you have to do much crossing out?

poule x
(your pimping works, you know!)

1. From my brain.
2. I like them all equally.
3. Not as much as I should.

(your pimping works, you know!)

Yay!

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1. What?
2. Where?
3. Why?

1. That.
2. Here.
3. Because.

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Very satisfactory, Thankyou!

Was really good to see you all the other night, thanks for inviting us over and for all the nibbles.

Are you doing anything on Friday, I hear that its a Harry Palmers night if your up for it?

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Yep, hopefull see you there! :)

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think that cara is picking u up then some drinks here befor going to HPs

looking forward to ceeing u

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1. Where is your favorite place to write?
2. What is your secret heart's desire?
3. What's the meanest true thing you can think of?

Also, I have followed suit and you can ask me questions here.

1. At my desk, because my computer's on it, and I like writing on my computer. I often have nice thoughts about going to the park and sitting under a tree to write, but that doesn't usually work out, due to rain and small children and wasps etc. My least favourite place to write is in bed, in a notebook, because that usually means it's the middle of the night, and if I don't write it down I'll just be writing it in my head for hours, and either way I'll be sleepwalking my way through work the next day.

2. If I told you that it wouldn't be secret any more. And then I'd have to kill you.

3. You smell ... because you do! Um, I dunno. I can't think of any mean things at the moment.

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1. Your place or mine? *organ solo*

2. What book do you think should made into a screenplay right now, and who would you cast?
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3. Why do you no longer write Dilly? It makes us cry, precious.

1. If I say yours do I get a free holiday?

2. Ooh, ok. Um... There seem to be so few left. Let's see... I love Antonia White's Frost in May series, but I'm afraid of child actors, and it would probably work better for TV anyway. I'd be very interested in seeing what someone might do with them though. Armistead Maupin's Maybe the Moon, although that would effectively destroy the main point of the novel. I think Stephen Fry's Making History and Jonathan Coe's The House of Sleep would both make fun films, although I have no idea who ought to be in them. I'm afraid casting has never been my strong point. I'm sure I'm going to think of something else as soon as I post this.

3. I don't know! It's just ceased to work for me. I'm not saying I never will again though. Who knows what might happen? I might defect to Harry Potter next week, or perhaps I'll write nothing but aphid-fic for the rest of my life. Life's rich tapestry and all that... :)

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2. And of course, I've just thought of something else. Margaret Mahy's The Changeover. That definitely ought to be a film. No ideas for casting though.

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