much better way round meme

[lnr]

With thanks to atommickbrane:

a) Tell ME why YOU friended ME!

b) Associate MEEEE with something -- a fandom, song, color, photo, etc.

c) Tell MEEEE something YOOOU like about ME.

d) Tell me a memory you have of me.

e) Ask ME something YOU've wanted to know about ME!

f) Tell ME your favourite userpic from MY list!

g) In return, don't post this on your sodding LJ, but if you answer it here I will answer it back for you. How's that?

Oh dear, I wasn't supposed to post it here, maybe it's OK if I use this icon.

Comments

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

1. Because I knew you, innit. :)
2. Discworld fandom.
3. Ooh, lots of things. You're fun.
4. You sent me a really kind text when I was sitting on a bench utterly miserable at having to go in to hospital, heavily pregnant but still not actually having a baby. It cheered me up quite a bit. I still had it saved in my old phone, last I looked. :)
5. Hmm. Not sure I can think of anything profound... What's your favourite childhood memory?
6. Deelyboppers, not least because I remember the day it was taken. :D
7. Sounds good.

[lnr]

a) ditto
b) :-) I definitely associate you with that too, but also obviously with smallclanger, and his lovely monster stories
c) You've got a great smile, and a really infectious laugh
d) Awww, really touched at yours. I think my current immediate memory of you is of you sitting in the Carlton with Ian drinking orange juice and coke and how everyone thought it looked disgusting. And now I'm suddenly not sure if you were both drinking it or just him. God my memory is useless!
e) I don't think I know where your family are from, or where you lived before Oxford, I'd love to know.
f) You've got loads of good ones, but larry is probably my favourite

I don't tend to have favourite memories, but one good one is the time we were camping in somerset and it was just the most awful weather, so we gave up and came home. I remember us taking down the tent in absolutely pouring rain, and me being very useful and "helping" by carrying the tent peg bag round for my dad.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

I can't remember if I introduced him to it or not, but it's a nice non-alcoholic drink, and if you're thinking of May 2003 (j4's birthday) I would not have been drinking alcohol so we probably both were drinking it.

I was born in Headington and grew up in South (0-14) and West (14-17) Oxfordshire; spent the next few years moving around inc. Wiltshire, Avon-as-was, London; moved into Oxford itself in 1993. So I'm Oxford born and bred; my brothers, my niece, and smallclanger were all born in the JR; my parents and my brothers/sisters-in-law all live within 20 miles of Oxford. Mum and Dad both moved into Oxfordshire from Hounslow, a few years before I came along. Where we're from before that gets more complicated. :D

[imc.livejournal.com]

I only ordered one because I was copying bopeepsheep (and amused at the reaction from everyone else), I think.

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

a) Because I knew you for yonks via uk.misc, and when I moved over here, partly due to you having mentioned how good LJ was, you were one of the very first to be added.
b) Perky pinky purple, but not magenta or mauve.
c) You have about the brightest smile of anyone I know, and you're lovely to hug and be hugged by.
d) Your kitchen back in King's Hedges, with the red platform boots. Also, you turning up on the BBC news one afternoon and giving me a classic WTF moment.
e) How come you're one of very few other people on my flist who's heard of Terry Reid?
f) The one with you playing the sax at the Hermitage.
g) Shoot.

[lnr]

a) well, that'd be why I added you too :-) I always like to add new LJ people who I know from elsewhere.
b) I associate you with bradford and radio
c) Proper yorkshire accent :-)
d) You falling asleep sitting at the bottom of the stairs, looking for all the world like a garden gnome. You just needed a fishing line.
e) Where did you grow up and go to school?
f) I like the fnord one :)

As for Terry Reid, courtesy of my mum and dad. Mostly my mum I think. They obviously liked his stuff back in the 70s, and when he released a new album in the early 90s they bought it, and I was a teenager at the time. My parents are still a pretty big influence on what I listen to, and probably actually much cooler than I am. I have to admit I went to see him in Cambridge on their recommendation, not really remembering him very well, and didn't know a lot of what he played, so it was a bit of an odd gig for me, but I did enjoy it. I should listen to some more next time I'm home.

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

e) Where did you grow up and go to school?

Sheffield. I went to King Ted's, mainly because I wanted to go there and I deliberately failed a couple of Common Entrance exams in order not to be packed off to the Jesuits instead. My academic grades may have slipped a little there, but at Ted's I learned how to live (and inadvertently first started in radio due to a 6th form placement with the BBC). After that Leeds, Bradford, London, Cambridge and Bradford again, where I've been ever since.

[stephdairy.livejournal.com]

a) I didn't :-p. Or alternatively, because I knew you and wanted to keep up with your life.
b) Purple hair!
c) You're very easy to talk to and catch up with even when it's been a while.
d) Sitting in the Turf together chewing the cud of ages.
e) Can't think of anything. Umm. Do you have to remember to put the vowels in Eleanor?
f) Probably you and the penguin :-)

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[lnr]

a) that's roughly why I friended you too
b) the archers :-)
c) I'd say the same about you. And I love the way you get animated when you're enthusiastic about things.
d) small gatherings in your set at Caius, getting to know you
e) what's your favourite language?
f) drat, you don't have any!

No, I don't have to remember to add the vowels to Eleanor, but I do often have to hit backspace to remove the b from the end.

[stephdairy.livejournal.com]

My favourite language is probably Latin, just because such a wealth of the stuff I know and enjoy and like to play with in my head comes from there. Favourite language to speak is probably German, though.

Hm, I don't have any userpics, do I? I could import one of the ones from Facebook, I suppose...

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[monkeyhands.livejournal.com]

a) Because I know you in real life.
b) The colour pink, and gothy corsets!
c) Your laugh
d) The first one that pops into my head is you saying "It's just had a new starter motor" about a car that shouldn't've been stalling, but was. I didn't know what a starter motor was, and now I always hear that phrase in your voice.
e) Do you ever want to move back to Oxford?
f) It probably involves deely-boppers.
g) But don't memes wither and die if you stop them from spreading?

[lnr]

a) that is of course a good reason
b) tiny hands, welsh accents and quack neigh moo
c) I like how you're completely daft and fun but still really passionate about things you care about. And how happy you and J-P make each other.
d) randomly bumping into you on the way home from your honeymoon
e) what's the one publication you'd most like to write for, and what would you write about?
f) love your expression on the hen night one, but I think I like the powerpuff one best. What's the grey stripe one?

[monkeyhands.livejournal.com]

Awww!

Answering to e) is kind of tricky. See, there are lots of publications that I'd give my right arm to write for because they're prestigious or well known or because I grew up respecting them, but most of them are publications that I can hardly bear to read because they're about 60% shite. The Guardian, the Independent and the New Internationalist fall into this category. And then there are publications that I enjoy reading but would never want to write for, like Take A Break. I guess the two publications I respect, enjoy reading and would love to write for would be Private Eye and the London Review of Books. Although I don't know what I'd write about!

The answer to f) is: I don't know. I think it's just one of the other icons that uploaded funny. I'm going to delete it now.

[juggzy.livejournal.com]

a)misc
b)pTerry fandom
c)You're hatful of kindness - it's a rarer quality that people realise, and should be cherished
d)Sitting in the Turf with rjk and the Pidges. You should see Charlie now. So tall!
e)Would you ever leave Cambridge?
f)Oh, must I look?

Please don't associate me with education, or I may have to kill you.

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

a) ox.net
b) ox.net
c) ox.n... er, your perseverence in the face of a variety of types of considerable adversity over the years.
d) you and imc came to see me at G&D's when I was paying a fleeting visit to Oxford, some time after I had left, and it was lovely to see you.
e) What unlikely hidden gems are there in our part of the world that I ought to take Meg to see, which I might not otherwise think of?
f) tongue!

[damerell.livejournal.com]

a) We may have known each other for some time.
b) afp.
c) About the right size to spin right round baby.
d) amazing SNORE.
e) Is there anything left?
f) LNR