Meme - for the mnemonically challenged

[chickenfeet]

via the world famous majea

Comment and I will:
1. Tell you why I friended you. (if I can remember)
2. Associate you with something - fandom, a song, a colour, a photo, etc.
3. Tell you something I like about you.
4. Tell you a memory I have of you. If I have one
5. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
6. Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.
7. In return, you must may post this in your LJ

Comments

[shezan.livejournal.com]

My memory is even worse than yours, but going out on a limb here...

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

1. Tell you why I friended you. (if I can remember)

Bacause you were French and funny (in a good way)

2. Associate you with something - fandom, a song, a colour, a photo, etc.

Drinking champagne with people who will be first up against the wall when the revolution comes

3. Tell you something I like about you.

We can disagree about almost everything but still have fun

4. Tell you a memory I have of you. If I have one

Well the best LJ memory was you blogging about your father's lecture notes

5. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.

Are you even ever so slightly religiously observant?

6. Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.

I think it's your default

[shezan.livejournal.com]

Drinking champagne with people who will be first up against the wall when the revolution comes

Yup, you hardliners STILL believe in the revolution. Thank gawd I don't think it will ever happen, otherwise I'd be quite miffed.

Are you even ever so slightly religiously observant?

Not really - I was brought up in an atheist household with various atavistic memories of four, count 'em, 4, main religious traditions (RC, Protestant, Jewish, Russian Orthodox); and the only religion I am actually decently familiar with is a fifth, CofE (because Chapel every morning at school.) Add to this that my Socialist father said I had to read the Bible (and Greek Mythology) because otherwise I wouldn't know my way around a museum, and you can see the whole thing took a fairly touristic bent. I know Mass in Latin because of all those Requiems; and every other year or so I accept an invitation to Passover Seder where I'm NEVER happy - either it's traditional, and after TWO HOURS I want FOOD, or it's Reform and I find the vague nods towards the Egyptian desert while wolfing down glazed ham are slightly flippant. I also like Russian Easter egg hunts. I'd say the most transcendence I've ever felt was in museums or at the concert/opera (and when hearing For Those In Peril On The Sea), so me Dad should be reasonably proud of how it all panned out.

... and my default userpic is this one, is it the one you meant?

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Yup, you hardliners STILL believe in the revolution. Thank gawd I don't think it will ever happen, otherwise I'd be quite miffed.

I'm not sure I do. Actually I think it already happened and the securocrats and their political lackies won - everywhere. I've never been that keen on shooting people either.

I find the vague nods towards the Egyptian desert while wolfing down glazed ham are slightly flippant.

I once asked my rugby buddy Mehdi Mohammed if he was a Muslim. His reply was "I gues so" but as he had a pint in one hand and a bacon sandwih in the other I was a bit skeptical.

... and my default userpic is this one, is it the one you meant?

Yup

[lemur-catta.livejournal.com]

Interesting. Subtract the Protestants and CofE at school and you have pretty much an identical religious upbringing (or lack thereof) to mine.

Every year at the Passover Seder someone said 'Why don't we just record ourselves reading this and, next time, we can listen to it while we eat?'

I liked going to Midnight Mass at the Russian Orthodox cathedral because it was full of shiny things,we got to hold our own candles,the men's choir shook the whole building, the priests had amazing beards and I got to see a guy's hair catch fire.

I know Roman Catholicism also involves a lot of candles because my grandmother's room was full of those big novena things and, know some of the Latin mass because I sang with a chamber choir.

[shezan.livejournal.com]

And incense! Terrific incense!

[psychochicken.livejournal.com]

Ah go on.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

1. Tell you why I friended you. (if I can remember)

I think we had reached a critical mass of mutual friends

2. Associate you with something - fandom, a song, a colour, a photo, etc.

Marillion - of whom I have never heard but it's a nice name

3. Tell you something I like about you.

You know what you want to do

4. Tell you a memory I have of you. If I have one

Hmmm... nope

5. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.

Why did you emigrate?

6. Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.

Chorlton

[a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com]

me, please -- will post later

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

1. Tell you why I friended you. (if I can remember)

I stalk female historians

2. Associate you with something - fandom, a song, a colour, a photo, etc.

Medieval cartularies

3. Tell you something I like about you.

You seem to care about your students, even the complete duffers

4. Tell you a memory I have of you. If I have one

Designing the St. T's icon for you

5. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.

What languages do you speak besides Merkan?

6. Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.

cooking

[a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com]

What languages do you speak besides Merkan?

-- some actual English, fairly fluent German, a smattering of French (I can understand it, but have trouble putting it back together except for simple sentences with academic vocabulary!), enough Spanish to get food and a place to stay. I read better than I speak :-)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_benedicte/]

Oh please :) I'd love that.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

1. Tell you why I friended you. (if I can remember)

Your photographs. I love them.

2. Associate you with something - fandom, a song, a colour, a photo, etc.

Sea, mountain and trees

3. Tell you something I like about you.

You are very beautiful, especially your eyes

4. Tell you a memory I have of you. If I have one

When your parrot died and I had to sit on my hands for two days not making Norwegian Blue dead parrot jokes

5. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.

What's your favourite recreation apart from photography?

6. Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.

Your default

[roadnotes.livejournal.com]

Fountain pens?

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I think so! Does this mean you want questions?

[sam-t.livejournal.com]

Me?

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

1. Tell you why I friended you. (if I can remember)

Critical mass of mutual friends?

2. Associate you with something - fandom, a song, a colour, a photo, etc.

Baby birds

3. Tell you something I like about you.

You write very vivid descriptions

4. Tell you a memory I have of you. If I have one

Can't think of one

5. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.

Whereabouts in Yorkshire you live

6. Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.

sleepy cats

[sam-t.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

Vale of York, more or less.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Vale of York, more or less.

Nice