Me me meme

Cheryl set me the following questions as part of a meme.

If you would like to play please read the instructions at the end of the post


1. If you were still in Junior school, which modern hero would you be charging round the playground pretending to be?

As a child my favourite comic was always the X-Men series and my fav character was Wolverine with his adamantium skeleton, superhuman strength,healing properties and mutitude of martial arts skills, in my opinion he was unbeatable.
Therefore I could often be found as a young child running around the playground growling at people and slashing at them with my early version of Freddy Krugers blade like fingers.
Wolverine in the Marvel Comics looked like this
As a wolverine fan I think they did a great job in the film and the special effects to make Woverines special adamantium claws come to life were excellent.

2. Name three smells that are evocative of childhood.

Saw dust reminds me of the days when I was more than happy to go to work with my Dad to his butchers shop and the first job my Grandad would do in the morning was to spread the fresh sawdust on the floor.

Brylcream-- I can remember both my Grandfathers wore/ used brylcream to slick their hair back and it still brings back happy memories when i catch a whiff.

American Cream soda-- always reminds me of the trips to my Grans on a sunday. it was a two bus journey and a good mile walk at the other end lasting about 1 1/2 hours but still worth it as there were always fondant cakes and fizzy pop, not always cream soda but thats the one that brings it back

3. Shut your eyes and think of something really good in your past. Where is it in relation to your head? Now think of something horrible in the past, does it come back to you from the same direction?

Yes I think so

4. Name your worst school dinner.

There was no such thing as a bad school dinner, I loved every one of them, the food was always freshly cooked and the puddings were fantastic. My favourite pudding is still the one I liked best at school-- treacle pudding and custard.

5. Describe your happiest recurring weird dream.

I would love to be able to describe my dreams to you but unfortunately as soon as I wake up they are gone, I have even tried the putting a notepad next to the bed to jot stuff down if i woke in the night but when I woke I had a page full of indecipherable scribbling.
I do remember one I used to have as a child which involved a blue poodle(why blue I dont know?) standing on the landing half way down the stairs and it wouldn't let me get down the stairs-- sounds daft now but it used to terrify me as a kid and I still dont like poodles.

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In accordance with the rules of the meme, I need to post these instructions:

Instructions:
1. If you want to participate, leave a comment below saying “Interview me.” You must leave your blog address so I can think of good questions for you!

2. I will respond by asking you five questions - each person’s will be different. I’ll post the questions in the comments section of this post.

3. You will update your blog with the answers to the questions.

4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview others in the same post.

5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.

I hope somebody plays!

o post these instructions:

Instructions:
1. If you want to participate, leave a comment below saying “Interview me.” You must leave your blog address so I can think of good questions for you!

2. I will respond by asking you five questions - each person’s will be different. I’ll post the questions in the comments section of this post.

3. You will update your blog with the answers to the questions.

4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview others in the same post.

5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.

I hope somebody plays!

Russian Spam

No its not something to do with the Russian Monty Python fan club!

I saw this on Cheryls blog and decided to read the story.

I came across another article that said "Russian media Hails spammers Murder" which I thought was a bit harsh ok I mean he did send, according to the story, spam advertising his language schools and courses to all of Russias 17.9 million internet users in Russia and approximately 20 million Russian speaking internet users outside Russia, but that doesn't warrant smashing his head in does it? Answers on a post card please.
It also goes on to say "(Russia's Interior Ministry reports 1,935 unsolved murders, 73,000 burglaries and 11,400 robberies between January and May in this year alone)." So I may cross it off my holiday destination list this year

Carrying on down the article I came across what must be the most obvious attempt by a Russian journalist to show how hip and trendy and up with what's happening in the west he is . He finishes his piece with this:-

Its little wonder, then, that Vardan Kushnir became as popular a character among Russian-speaking Internet users, as Lord Voldemort must be among Hogwarts fans. And a tale of some anonymous Harry Potter paying him a private visit on a warm July morning produces quite a predictable sensation among the audience. Of course, everybody understands, that spam will not stop with Kushnir's demise it will persist for years to come, exactly the way Lord Voldemort finds his way back into the picture with every new installment of the Harry Potter saga. But this time, the magic wand has for once dealt a deadly blow to the arch-villain, and there seems to be no option left for the spectators, than to hail the magic.

I rest my case your honour

Fantastic Four

Went to see the new Fantastic Four film on Saturday

and despite some of the Bad reviews its been getting, I really enjoyed it, so did the children. I must say that it takes a while to get going properly but I can understand that the background to their powers has to be explained. There are some great comedy lines in it as in many films these days some for the kids and some just for the mums and dads ( the Human Torch has all the best lines. The special effects are very impressive too.
What really struck me at the end of the film and the house lights went up was that their were more adults than children, I suppose that there are lots of us old comic readers that want to see what Hollywood has done to this latest group of superheroes. I think they have done a good job and it made a change that the Villain wasn't English.

A P.S :- I see that Popcorn is now worth more by weight than Gold, well thats the impression I got when buying some for the kids, it came in a box the size of a mini skip. One more thing whose idea was it to sell the fizzy drinks in a container the size of a large bucket and then expect them to sit through a 95 minute film?

Free Association Number 129

This weeks Free association from LunaNina

1. Believing:: Peter Pan
   
2. Invasion:: of the body snatchers
   
3. Boys:: Slugs and snails and puppy dogs tails
   
4. Island:: This Island Race
   
5. Repeatedly:: Like a stuck record
   
6. Normal:: Service will be resumed as soon as possible
   
7. Hex:: Ginny Weasley
   
8. Tuxedo:: Posh night out, nice change
   
9. Virgin:: Trains... late again
   
10. Cereal:: Breakfast
    

Funny Ads

Was meandering around blogland when i came across Milt Bogs and followed a link from his site to find THIS. Which I found amusing

Oh and Just for Andrea I found this, and this too as i believe she is a big Peter Kay fan

While we are on the subject of advertising can anyone tell me why they keep changing the names of products, from names we have known for years to something completely different or something similar but different if you know what I mean.
For example Oil of Ulay , you know the face cream that irons all your wrinkles away is now known as Oil of Olay!! whats the bloody point in that?

It all started with Marathons which became
a Snicker..... what sort of name is that?


Then Opal Fruits became Star Bursts







From then on it went mad Jif became Cif
because in Europe they couldnt pronounce the J
and then
immac became Veet.







Leave our brands alone Global companies we are only a small xenophobic, introverted island.
I am sure there are loads more that have changed and i welcome anyone who can enlighten me , go on let me know if you can think of any.

Confused

I know it doesnt take a lot but I am thoroughly confused.
I posted a blog on Friday in response to being tagged by Cheryl for a meme , it was all about what I was doing 10 yrs, 5 yrs and 1 yr ago etc...

I know with old age you can mislay things....... but a blog post?? I have no idea where it is, I wrote it and clicked publish as normal but its not been published nor is it in my post list saved as a draft.
I only noticed that it wasnt there when I posted earlier, I would just redo it but to be honest it was a very long post.
So if anybody has any ideas about where it could have gone or if any body has seen it, please send it home

Free association 128

Free association from Lunanina

1. Tolerate:: Put up with under sufference
   
2. Release:: Tom Jones ( Please Release me let me goooooooooo)
   
3. My soul:: an everlasting, everchanging, cosmic hard drive to store me in
   
4. Sax;:: Lisa Simpson
   
5. HP:: Sauce
   
6. Worth:: Harry A gentleman comedian from the dim and distant past
   
7. Rockstar:: Roger Daltry a true rock god
   
8. Terrify:: Rats and Dentists ( breaks out in cold sweat)
   
9. Knock me off my feet:: Weebles wobble but we dont fall down
   
10. Taunt:: T'uncle ( will only make sense to Northerners and Peter Kay fans)

I wonder what a trick cyclist would make of that then?

Roundabouts and driving

Doris @ Grans on Bran got me thinking about roundabouts and driving in general.
I honestly thought that roundabouts were distinctly British and having only driven in a limited number of countries had never seen one elsewhere. I have never been sure why they didn’t catch on across the world because I have always thought of them as a fantastic idea.



My kids by the way love it when I am not really sure which exit I need and so go round and round until I am, sometimes this can be 4 or 5 revolutions, all the time the whole car singing the tune to the Magic Roundabout and I love the look on peoples faces walking past as this car full of singing nutters goes round and round.


The other thing I wanted to blog about is things that drive me mad when on the road:-

I do quite a lot of miles a year and I would like to think that most of the time I am a courteous and considerate driver and am not prone to road rage but some things really try your patience:-

Middle and outside lane huggers; these people should be taken out at dawn and shot, you know the type- nothing in the inside or middle lane and there they are tootling along in the outside lane at about 50 mph with a huge line of traffic behind. Which leaves you with 2 options, either wait for them to move (its no good flashing your lights because they really take offence to that and will slow down even further) or to break the law and undertake them on the left.

People who indicate late: - Now I must declare a personal interest in this one as there are specific sets of traffic lights on my way to work, on a 2 lane road (it isn’t a dual carriage way though) Where the left lane is for straight on and turn left and the right lane is for straight on and turn right. So there you are in the right hand lane stopped at the traffic lights when amber, green and the pratt in the front of the queue takes this as a sign that he should now put his indicator on to signal that he wants to turn right across 2 lanes of traffic coming the opposite way, causing the huge line of traffic behind him murderous thoughts.

Women drivers: - Before I get strung up, I better explain, not all women because I would never suggest that men are better or worse drivers than women. I think at one time or another we have all used our mobile phones when driving (not of course since it became illegal) but to put your make-up on in the rear view mirror whilst on the phone and travelling down the motorway at 70 +mph is mind numbing, I kid you not, I have seen this taking place on more than one occasion.


Caravans: - More specifically the people who tow them down the motorway once or twice a year and have no real idea of how to drive with a huge caravan on the back. I mean we don’t let people drive a fixed body vehicle weighing that much without passing a more advanced test so why on earth should we let them. I have witnessed the results of drivers with no ability or training pulling a big box on wheels, I have seen caravans overtake the car pulling them, caravans weaving from side to side and eventually tipping over on their side and lifting the back wheels of the car off the road. Drivers changing lanes too soon because they don’t know how long their car and caravan is, and side swiping another innocent motorist.
Ready—aim-- fire

I’ve just had a thought perhaps I should apply to appear in the next series of Grumpy Old Men

Free association

Free association , the workings of the inside of my warped and twisted logic
this is No 127 from Lunanina

1. Do-it-yourself:: SEX for one
   
2. Pickpocket:: Fagin ( you've got to pick a pocket or twooooooo)
   
3. Ballet:: tights ( you know the male ballet dancers who look like they have a power drill down theirs)
   
4. Resumé:: The american name for a document containing lies, exaggerations and a list of hobbies you think make you look interesting
   
5. Phenom:: Spidermans arch rival ( sorry I couldnt resist, but it does sound like it doesnt it?)
   
6. Love/Hate:: Relationships tut
   
7. Unusual:: Out of the ordinary, different, interesting
   
8. Intense:: Pressure
   
9. Interruption:: An infuriating fact of life
   
10. Not enough:: Time, hours in the day OR Please sir can I have some more

Hmmm reading these back I seem to have developed a bit of an Oliver compulsion

Excuses

I know I havent blogged for a bit and my only excuse is I have been extremely busy and I have 5 kids.
If thats not enough of an excuse, try this one:- Its all the other bloggers faults, stay with me and I'll explain.
The thing is when I have a few minutes spare ( which doesnt seem very bloody often at the moment) I think to myself I'll just catch up on reading the other blogs and then I'll blog myself, well thats it from that moment on I'm buggered cos I end up going to read my favourite reads and then following links from them to others and before you know it my few minutes have disappeared and I havent blogged.
So all I can say is stop writting such interesting blogs and linking to others and I'll blog if not you only have yourselves to blame.