palinode's intrusion into civilized space

QotD: Guest vs. Host

2007-11-22T17:36:47Z

For a full sit-down dinner with several guests, would you rather be the one cooking or do you prefer to just show up and eat? I've been away from Vox for months, and I'm pleased to be welcomed back by the easiest question I've ever had to answer....

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QotD: In My Next Life I'll Be...

2006-11-18T07:27:04Z

If you're reincarnated, what do you think you'll come back as? Submitted by Diana. I'll come back as a fully-grown man in his early thirties with a well-tailored but slightly threadbare suit and expensive but scuffed brogues. One of my molars w...

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QotD: My life is taggable!

2006-08-06T17:53:43Z

What are the 5 words that best describe your life right now? Question submitted by mojito. Right now there is only one word that describes my life. That word is juglandaceous, a little-used term meaning 'of or pertaining to the walnut family'. It...

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QotD: The desktop image one

2006-08-04T22:17:33Z

The desktop image on my home computer is nothing. It's one of the identikit images offered with XP. I chose one and left it at that, partly out of laziness, partly out of a wish to reduce noise on my own system. Why make a poke at the registry wh...

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QotD: I wish I could...

2006-07-27T06:48:44Z

Play any instrument or speak any language, which do you choose? Question submitted by cruftbox.vox.com. Hah. This one's easy; I'd speak a language that sounded like an instrument. Speech like Johnny Marr on guitar. Or like rock-filled lutes throw...

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QotD: Back where I'm from...

2006-07-25T16:49:14Z

Soda? Cola? Pop? What do you say? Any other regional words that set you apart? Question submitted by Gladys. Well. Where I'm from, which is somewhere inside my head, in the republic of Overupinhereia, we don't use of any of those crazy terms. Ins...

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QotD: Hot in here etc.

2006-07-24T19:20:42Z

Oddly enough, I probably know more about extreme and strange weather than anyone besides a meteorologist. During my time as an interviewer for a series of programs on disasters, I met with experts, witnesses, rescuers and survivors from all over ...

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QotD: Midway Through

2006-07-21T20:47:13Z

This one is a good question. I like it. I really do. I'm even answering it a day after the fact. Because I like it? There's that. There's also this. What's this (you ask)? Because you can't see what this is. That's the tricky fellow I am. This is...

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QotD: Shaken not stirred

2006-07-21T20:14:51Z

What's your favorite drink or cocktail? What's in it? Question submitted by charm.vox.com My favourite drink, beyond yer standard pint of Smithwick's with a Guinness head (holy God that's the good beer). I have several. They range from the gothy...

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QotD: Summer CD something-or-other

2006-07-19T18:35:40Z

Hey. Remember that Question of the Day when the Vox bunch asked us all what our emblematic Summer 2006 CD was? Remember? Yesterday? I didn't answer in time and now it's lost. I know I can still answer the question - hell, I can stand on my head n...

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