ABC meme

[chickenfeet]

from a_d_medievalist:

A is for age: I'm a Sputnik baby
B is for booze of choice: I'm fairly omnibibulous but if I had to pick just one I'd probably go with a good St. Julien, say a Leoville-Lascasses 1966.
C is for career: strategy consultant
D is for your dad's name: John, usually Jack
E is for essential items to bring to a party: booze
F is for favorite song at the moment: dunno really.. maybe Billy Bragg's Between the Wars
G is for favorite game: rugby if I'm feeling energetic, bridge if I'm not
H is for hometown: Manchester
I is for instruments you play: none
J is for jam or jelly you like: Good quality blackcurrent, strawberry or cherry jam
K is for kids: one of each
L is for living arrangements: condo overlooking Lake Ontario
M is for mom's name: Joan
N is for name of your crush: there are a few
O is for overnight hospital stays: two -- tonsils and adenoids at an early age
P is for phobias: stupidity, bent politicians, New Labour
Q is for quotes you like:"a chaque jour suffit la peine."
R is for relationship that lasted the longest: the current one I think
S is for sexual preference: more is better, kinky is better still
T is for time you wake up: around 0600
U is for underwear: black Y fronts mostly
V is for vegetable you love: lots I guess; asparagus, fiddle heads, mushrooms
W is for weekend plans: nothing special
X is for x-rays you've had: teeth at the dentist, various more or less busted up joints
Y is for yummy food you make: Pretty much anything I put my mind to.
Z is for zodiac sign: Leo - rawr

Comments

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

"Peace, Bread, Work and Freedom"

But black y-fronts?

[a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com]

Wish I'd thought of a couple of those answers. Did they do your tonsils and adenoids separately?

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Yes, two years apart.

[gillo]

Love the Kipper Family!

Can you explain to a mere Brit what a condo actually is?

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

A condominium is a corporation that owns housing, typically an apartment building, whose shareholders are the owners of the units in the building. In effect condo owners have title to their unit and related stuff, eg parking space, storage locker, and shared title to the common areas of the building. The corporation is run by a board elected by the owners and levies a condo fee to pay for common service, maintenance of the common areas and general building upkeep.

[gillo]

I see. So there isn't really a Brit equivalent - leasehold wit shared freehold, I suppose?

Thanks.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I'm not aware of a Brit equivalent. I think that's one reason why the flat/apartment sector of the market is so underdeveloped.

[gillo]

Yes. Except to some extent in London, I suppose. But leaseholds are much less attractive than freeholds to potential owners and mortgagers alike.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Stupid really. We have a relatively lightly settled country and laws that make it easy for people to live in high rise buildings (rental or condo) and you lot are packed into a tiny island and are almost forced to live in single family houses or semi-slums.

[gillo]

It's all about perception. People here see blocks of flats as equivalent to semi-slums so, with the exception of a few ritzy places, mostly overlooking the Thames, we are suspicious of blocks of flats - they won't keep their value. And we have that instinct to want to barricade ourselves into our own tiny patch of territory, partly, I think, because we are such a tiny, overcrowded island.

[ex-greythist387.livejournal.com]

Yum, blackcurrant jam.

[albionwood.livejournal.com]

Icon love.

Also: The Kippers! I have "Arrest These Merry Gentlemen" and even played something off it for my last Christmas radio show. Wacky!

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I haven't heard that album. I have "Since Time Immoral", "The Crab Wars" and "Like a Rhinestone Ploughboy". Have you come across Les Barker and the Mrs. Ackroyd Band?

[albionwood.livejournal.com]

Les, yes, but Mrs Ackroyd is sadly departed. Saw Les do his thing live at the Sebastopol Celtic Festival last year - fabulous! Did you know, for example, that
"Dachshunds with erections
Can't climb stairs!"

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Did you know, for example, that
"Dachshunds with erections
Can't climb stairs!"

I have that album

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

There is also something very odd about the idea of Les at a Celtic festival

[albionwood.livejournal.com]

Yes, it was odd, but it worked!

Oddly, there was another fellow there from the same part of England (Lancaster?) - fellow named Pete Haworth, who now plays with a Santa Cruz band called Molly's Revenge.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Les and I are both from the centre of the known universe Manchester.