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[denny]

First bike: Raleigh Boxer
First Best friend: Daniel Bull. I was 17. Don't like people much :)
First real memory of something: The club my mum and step-dad ran when I was about 4. I used to steal people's pints, apparently. But only when they'd drunk 3/4 of them, because I couldn't lift full ones.
First car: Vauxhall Chevette... PBM 66W. I later triked it.
First partner: Lynn (I'm placing more emphasis on the term 'partner' than 'girlfriend' here).
First date: Can't remember her name, but I was about 14.
First kiss: Same girl. She was cute, I remember that - a Disney blonde, freckles and all...
First break-up: Julia (first serious girlfriend, I was 18).
First time you had sex: 18 (erm, the week I split up with Julia... this other girl had been lurking in the wings waiting to pounce, it turned out).
First job: Till work in a newsagents.
First screen name: damaged
First self purchased album: Bon Jovi, 'Slippery When Wet'
First concert: Police, MK Bowl
First funeral: A guy who was in the bike club I rode with. I didn't know him.
First pet: Sheba, a black labrador who was nominally mine when I was about 6.
First prime minister you voted for: I don't vote Tory or Labour, so I've never voted for the winners. I think John Major was PM following the first election I voted in.
First piercing/tattoo: Piercing, left ear, 16. Tattoo, tribal dragon on right upper arm, 21.
First independent home: 19... I moved out so that I could play the drums  :)
First house/flat: 19.
First credit card: 25 or so... within the first year of my degree anyway.
First independent holiday: Do bike rallies on the Isle of Wight count? I was about 22 in that case.
First love: Lynn was the first person I really loved (and still do). I was 21 when we started going out with each other. I had various crushes and infatuations before that, the earliest of which have long since drifted out of my memory (witness 'first date/kiss').
First enemy: Raymond Ackroyd. Probaby serving fries in a McD's somewhere by now, with any luck.

1. What colour is your hair naturally?
Brown.

2. What colour is your hair now?
Brown.

3. Where do you work / study?
I work for a small-ish company that remotely monitors the electrical equipment in supermarkets and predicts e.g. fridge failures before they happen, thereby saving stock loss. Tedious, eh? My work is mainly web and network related coding in Perl, which isn't actually too dull.

4. Do you enjoy it?
Occasionally, but not often.

5. Whats your favourite band?
I'm more a fan of DJs at the minute, as I'm listening to a lot of dance music. For bands, we have to hit heavy metal, in which case probably System of a Down lately.

6. What's your favourite colour?
Black.

7. Do you say Harragut or Harrowgate?
Harrowgate, if I must.

8. Have you ever stolen anything?
Yes, frequently when I was younger.

9. Would you ever sit in the home end at Valley Parade?
What? *confuzzled*

10. Have you ever smoked a cigar?
No.

11. Do you have any pets?
Yes, a Royal Python called Bob-short-for-Kate.

12. Have you got a teddy bear or similar?
One teddy bear dating back to childhood, plus a large collection of cuddly dinosaurs.

[ I didn't cut question 13, by the way, it was already missing ]

14. What do you wear to bed?
Nothing.

15. Bourbon or Digestive?
Bourbon.

16. Whats your star sign?
Virgo.

17. Have you ever taken it up the wrong 'un?
*pause for mild amusement at today's euphemism of choice* Yes.

18. Vodka or Whiskey?
No. At gunpoint, vodka, but I'd still consider being shot as a serious alternative.

19. Whats your middle name?
James.

20. Do you wear make up?
Occasionally.

21. Ever had your stomach pumped?
Nope.

22. What's your local newspaper called?
The Citizen. I bear a deep and unreasoning grudge against them just because they registered the name of the town as a domain instead of leaving it to a non-commercial cause and using www.citizen.co.uk which they also own.

23. Whats your favourite smell?
I don't have enough of a sense of smell to answer this. My girlfriends' hair, over the years, is probably the only thing I can actually smell reasonably often (due to proximity) which I've got a good association with.

24. What make is your computer monitor?
I'm using a Sony Vaio laptop at the minute, which belongs to work. At home I have a 21" Iiyama.

25. Have you ever swung a punch in anger?
Yes. More often at walls than people though.

26. Would you ever eat a guinea pig?
*shrug* The idea doesn't disgust me.

27. Would you shag the queen for a million quid?
Now that idea disgusts me :) but yes, for a million quid of course I would.

Comments

[lzz.livejournal.com]

Number 15 initially had me wondering what Digestive Whisky was. I think someone should market it.

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's that drink of urban legend, the one the spoon dissolves in when you try to stir it?

[venta.livejournal.com]

7. Do you say Harragut or Harrowgate?
Harrowgate, if I must.


Is there something about that question I'm missing ? Is the pronounciation of a small Yorkshire town a burning issue these days ?

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

Beats me... maybe it defines whether you're a grim northerner or a soft southerner? (I'm a mildly confused midlandser, I guess)