Comic Relief Raises over 35 Million Pounds!
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apollaOoh, HP spoof on Comic Relief was Very Funny Indeed. And Red Nose Day has so far raised over Thirty Five Million Pounds. Britain, I'm proud of you. Although I could've quite easily survived without seeing Robbie Williams naked or Vanessa Feltz at all.
1. Do you like having your picture taken?
You might say I live for it. Well, I'm not that bad, but I find it amusing.
2. If you could go anywhere in the world where would you go and why?
Ireland. I'd find a house next to the sea and never leave. I'd like to see Alexandria too.
3. Have you ever done crossword puzzles?
I've only ever managed to finish the Mirror daily crossword. I get bored too easily.
3. Pick up the closest book and write a sentence at random from it:
"I particularly detest books that begin something like 'Ah, there was joy and happiness in the quaint Tasmanian home of Professor Flynn when the first bellowings of lusty little Errol were heard...' So if you're interested, let's get down to the meat of the matter."
"There is no use telling a story arse-backwards. Better begin where it all begins - in the womb - except where, as in my unique case, it so often ends."
Both from the Prologue of My Wicked Wicked Ways by Errol Flynn. Tee hee.
4. Do the same with a lyric from either a cd or the radio.
I'll give you a few randomly selected lines from some randomly selected songs off my current randomly selected playlist:
"I'll give you television/I'll give you eyes of blue/I'll give you a man who wants to rule the world."
"There was Barney McGee from the banks of the Lea, there was Hogan from County Tyrone/There was Johnny McGurk who was scared stiff of work and a man from Westmeath called Mallone/There was Slugger O'Toole who was drunk as a rule and Fighting Bill Treacy from Dover"
"For I cannot be part of her cocktail generation, partner's waltz devoid of all romance"
"How lucky can one man be/I kissed her and she kissed me"
"The Sacred Heart is bleeding/Go and tell the Holy Ghost"
Guesses anyone? Extra points for the correct recording artistes. God, I'm bored.
5. Have you ever tried to analyze your own dreams?
Yes. Not in great detail, but some of them have been so vivid I wanted answers.
6. Can you sing?
Yes. You should hear my Lili Marlene.
7. Do you ever sing to yourself while doing everyday tasks?
I'm always singing. I'm sure it's every bit as annoying as I imagine it to be.
8. What's your favorite color of post-it note?
Purple.
9. Have you ever lied to get off the phone or out of talking to someone online?
Dunno. Don't think so.
10. Is your vcr flashing 12:00 all the time?
No. My tele-video is the only clock I have.
11. Do you read your horoscope?
Sometimes. I don't like the bloke they have in the Mirror now. Jonathan Cainer his name is. Don't like him much.
12. Would you rather chew gum or use mouthwash and why?
Don't like gum. Do use mouthwash.
13. How many times a year about are you sick?
About a squillion times in Autumn-Winter-Spring and then a couple of times in Summer.
14. Ever been in an airplane?
Yep. A few times now.
15. What radio station do you listen to most?
Don't really listen to the radio, but when I do I like Capital Gold- the London old music station.
16. Do you know how to play dominoes?
Nope.
17. What color are your eyes?
Blue.
18. Name one person your life is made better by:
Mark Lamarr. He makes me laff. And my best pal Natasha of course.
19. Can you do math with ease?
I can't do maths, with or without ease.
20. Are you a vegetarian?
Nope.
21. How about an aspiring actor/actress?
Actually, yes.
22. Which movie can you watch and say the lines along with the actors?
A good few of them. Singin in the Rain, the first Austin Powers, Die Hard, the second half of Cleopatra, Back to the Future, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Labyrinth, to name but a fraction of the list.
Anyone interested should head to the Big Movie Quote Quiz over at Empire Online. It's great.
23. Name one of your passions in life:
The movies.
24. What's your least favorite time of day?
Morning time. It's the middle of Clare Night, why do people not understand this?
25. What color is the inside of your head when you close your eyes?
Well it's often technicolour but gold at the moment. Weird.
26. Ever listen to classical music?
Yes. Some. The Cavalleria Rusticana by Mascagni and the Doctor Zhivago soundtrack by Maurice Jarre in partick.
27. Have you ever said 'lol' in real life without thinking about it?
No. I don't do it even on the computer.
28. What is the best present you've ever given someone else?
I don't know. I'm not very good at presents. You'd have to ask my frinds.
29. What is the best present someone else has ever given to you?
My mum took me to New York for my 18th birthday. That was one of the best.
30. Do you wear a watch?
No. I don't like being a slave to time. It waits for no man, I don't wait for it.
31. Write one sentence stating what you want people to say about you after you've passed on.
"She made us laugh."
32. Describe the ideal superpower and what you would do if you had it:
Super strength would be cool.
33. Name something you've done in the last 24 hours no matter how big or small:
I donated 100 pounds to Comic Relief.
34. Do you wear necklaces, bracelets, anklets, earrings, rings?
One cross bought by my mum, one Russian wedding ring given to me by my dad after ten years moaning for one.
35. What's on your computer desk?
I don't have a computer desk. My desk has a telly-video, some mini-speakers for my walkman, a Midge and baby doll (i just HAD to have it when I saw it in Woolworths) and a pile of videos. My laptop is perched on a Collins English dictionary on my lap and I'm snuggled up in bed.
36. When you're talking do you ever use your hands to do quotation marks in the air when saying certain words?
Not often.
37. Do you think you're pretty?
I don't want to be pretty. I want to be unique and unusual.
38. After how many drinks?
I don't drink.
39. What's in your fridge right now?
Other people's stuff. I haven't got anything in the communal fridge.
40. How many people do you live with?
Seven or eight other people live on my floor. At home: my mum, dad and likle brother.
41. What is the strangest thing you've ever done?
In my entire life or just in the last week? The list is a long one. Abseiling during a thunderstorm could qualify.
42. Name an instrument you've never played but would like to:
Mandolin. I'd like to learn to play the tin whistle too.
43. Have you ever been on TV or the radio?
As a baby I was on a show for local tv in London. I was seen in the local toy library with my mummy picking out a toy.
44. What is the worst thing anyone could ever do to you?
Betray me, I guess.
45. Are you a fast typer?
Yes. Very. It's part of my job.
46. Describe how you sleep:
Badly. Not enough.
47. Have you ever read a book and not understood it? If so which one?
Not really.
48. Do people pick up your slang language more than you pick up theirs?
I think it's a bit of both.
49. Have you ever bought anything just because it was a fad?
I had a tamagotchi when they were all the rage, but my mama always discouraged us from going the way of the fad.
50. What would you like to do with your life?
Make movies. I'd like to write as well.
51. Do you bite your nails?
Yes, sometimes.
52. Tell me about your dream last night.
Ummm. I had one recently where I was helping the young Obi-Wan Kenobi find his wayward padawan. Bastard noise outside meant that I woke up before finding Anakin. I don't even like SW that much!
53. Are people's perceptions of you usually correct?
Rarely if ever. I'm far too complex for that. Unless they think I'm a crazy fool, in which case, they're spot on.
54. When they start sending rockets to the moon for us civilians, will you be on the list to go?
Possibly, but it's not a deep need of mine.
55. Have you ever written anything on your skin?
Have reminders scrawled on my hand as I type. "TUES- MUSIC NICK 3PM" "TAPE CORONATION STREET"
56. What color are most of your clothes?
Black, blue (legacy of my years with the Girl Guides) and stuff. A few diff. colours.
57. Are things as bad as they seem?
Sometimes, but not always.
58. Do you like to look people in the eye?
Not all the time, even I'm not that intimidating! I don't shy away from it but I'm not the sort to force someone to look me in the eye. I know it unnerves some people but I don't mind it.
Well, I'm off to sleep now. Perchance to dream.
1. Do you like having your picture taken?
You might say I live for it. Well, I'm not that bad, but I find it amusing.
2. If you could go anywhere in the world where would you go and why?
Ireland. I'd find a house next to the sea and never leave. I'd like to see Alexandria too.
3. Have you ever done crossword puzzles?
I've only ever managed to finish the Mirror daily crossword. I get bored too easily.
3. Pick up the closest book and write a sentence at random from it:
"I particularly detest books that begin something like 'Ah, there was joy and happiness in the quaint Tasmanian home of Professor Flynn when the first bellowings of lusty little Errol were heard...' So if you're interested, let's get down to the meat of the matter."
"There is no use telling a story arse-backwards. Better begin where it all begins - in the womb - except where, as in my unique case, it so often ends."
Both from the Prologue of My Wicked Wicked Ways by Errol Flynn. Tee hee.
4. Do the same with a lyric from either a cd or the radio.
I'll give you a few randomly selected lines from some randomly selected songs off my current randomly selected playlist:
"I'll give you television/I'll give you eyes of blue/I'll give you a man who wants to rule the world."
"There was Barney McGee from the banks of the Lea, there was Hogan from County Tyrone/There was Johnny McGurk who was scared stiff of work and a man from Westmeath called Mallone/There was Slugger O'Toole who was drunk as a rule and Fighting Bill Treacy from Dover"
"For I cannot be part of her cocktail generation, partner's waltz devoid of all romance"
"How lucky can one man be/I kissed her and she kissed me"
"The Sacred Heart is bleeding/Go and tell the Holy Ghost"
Guesses anyone? Extra points for the correct recording artistes. God, I'm bored.
5. Have you ever tried to analyze your own dreams?
Yes. Not in great detail, but some of them have been so vivid I wanted answers.
6. Can you sing?
Yes. You should hear my Lili Marlene.
7. Do you ever sing to yourself while doing everyday tasks?
I'm always singing. I'm sure it's every bit as annoying as I imagine it to be.
8. What's your favorite color of post-it note?
Purple.
9. Have you ever lied to get off the phone or out of talking to someone online?
Dunno. Don't think so.
10. Is your vcr flashing 12:00 all the time?
No. My tele-video is the only clock I have.
11. Do you read your horoscope?
Sometimes. I don't like the bloke they have in the Mirror now. Jonathan Cainer his name is. Don't like him much.
12. Would you rather chew gum or use mouthwash and why?
Don't like gum. Do use mouthwash.
13. How many times a year about are you sick?
About a squillion times in Autumn-Winter-Spring and then a couple of times in Summer.
14. Ever been in an airplane?
Yep. A few times now.
15. What radio station do you listen to most?
Don't really listen to the radio, but when I do I like Capital Gold- the London old music station.
16. Do you know how to play dominoes?
Nope.
17. What color are your eyes?
Blue.
18. Name one person your life is made better by:
Mark Lamarr. He makes me laff. And my best pal Natasha of course.
19. Can you do math with ease?
I can't do maths, with or without ease.
20. Are you a vegetarian?
Nope.
21. How about an aspiring actor/actress?
Actually, yes.
22. Which movie can you watch and say the lines along with the actors?
A good few of them. Singin in the Rain, the first Austin Powers, Die Hard, the second half of Cleopatra, Back to the Future, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Labyrinth, to name but a fraction of the list.
Anyone interested should head to the Big Movie Quote Quiz over at Empire Online. It's great.
23. Name one of your passions in life:
The movies.
24. What's your least favorite time of day?
Morning time. It's the middle of Clare Night, why do people not understand this?
25. What color is the inside of your head when you close your eyes?
Well it's often technicolour but gold at the moment. Weird.
26. Ever listen to classical music?
Yes. Some. The Cavalleria Rusticana by Mascagni and the Doctor Zhivago soundtrack by Maurice Jarre in partick.
27. Have you ever said 'lol' in real life without thinking about it?
No. I don't do it even on the computer.
28. What is the best present you've ever given someone else?
I don't know. I'm not very good at presents. You'd have to ask my frinds.
29. What is the best present someone else has ever given to you?
My mum took me to New York for my 18th birthday. That was one of the best.
30. Do you wear a watch?
No. I don't like being a slave to time. It waits for no man, I don't wait for it.
31. Write one sentence stating what you want people to say about you after you've passed on.
"She made us laugh."
32. Describe the ideal superpower and what you would do if you had it:
Super strength would be cool.
33. Name something you've done in the last 24 hours no matter how big or small:
I donated 100 pounds to Comic Relief.
34. Do you wear necklaces, bracelets, anklets, earrings, rings?
One cross bought by my mum, one Russian wedding ring given to me by my dad after ten years moaning for one.
35. What's on your computer desk?
I don't have a computer desk. My desk has a telly-video, some mini-speakers for my walkman, a Midge and baby doll (i just HAD to have it when I saw it in Woolworths) and a pile of videos. My laptop is perched on a Collins English dictionary on my lap and I'm snuggled up in bed.
36. When you're talking do you ever use your hands to do quotation marks in the air when saying certain words?
Not often.
37. Do you think you're pretty?
I don't want to be pretty. I want to be unique and unusual.
38. After how many drinks?
I don't drink.
39. What's in your fridge right now?
Other people's stuff. I haven't got anything in the communal fridge.
40. How many people do you live with?
Seven or eight other people live on my floor. At home: my mum, dad and likle brother.
41. What is the strangest thing you've ever done?
In my entire life or just in the last week? The list is a long one. Abseiling during a thunderstorm could qualify.
42. Name an instrument you've never played but would like to:
Mandolin. I'd like to learn to play the tin whistle too.
43. Have you ever been on TV or the radio?
As a baby I was on a show for local tv in London. I was seen in the local toy library with my mummy picking out a toy.
44. What is the worst thing anyone could ever do to you?
Betray me, I guess.
45. Are you a fast typer?
Yes. Very. It's part of my job.
46. Describe how you sleep:
Badly. Not enough.
47. Have you ever read a book and not understood it? If so which one?
Not really.
48. Do people pick up your slang language more than you pick up theirs?
I think it's a bit of both.
49. Have you ever bought anything just because it was a fad?
I had a tamagotchi when they were all the rage, but my mama always discouraged us from going the way of the fad.
50. What would you like to do with your life?
Make movies. I'd like to write as well.
51. Do you bite your nails?
Yes, sometimes.
52. Tell me about your dream last night.
Ummm. I had one recently where I was helping the young Obi-Wan Kenobi find his wayward padawan. Bastard noise outside meant that I woke up before finding Anakin. I don't even like SW that much!
53. Are people's perceptions of you usually correct?
Rarely if ever. I'm far too complex for that. Unless they think I'm a crazy fool, in which case, they're spot on.
54. When they start sending rockets to the moon for us civilians, will you be on the list to go?
Possibly, but it's not a deep need of mine.
55. Have you ever written anything on your skin?
Have reminders scrawled on my hand as I type. "TUES- MUSIC NICK 3PM" "TAPE CORONATION STREET"
56. What color are most of your clothes?
Black, blue (legacy of my years with the Girl Guides) and stuff. A few diff. colours.
57. Are things as bad as they seem?
Sometimes, but not always.
58. Do you like to look people in the eye?
Not all the time, even I'm not that intimidating! I don't shy away from it but I'm not the sort to force someone to look me in the eye. I know it unnerves some people but I don't mind it.
Well, I'm off to sleep now. Perchance to dream.