About You

[Silk]

A) Four jobs I have had in my life:

1. Book warehouse worker (dangerous job for a bookaholic)
2. Milkman (healthiest I think I ever was)
3. Motorcycle Courier (unhealthiest job I ever did)
4 Web Designer (not as exciting as most people think)

B) Four movies I would watch over and over:
1. The African Queen (agree with Vicki on that one)
2. The Fifth Element (agree with Xinz on this one)
3. Serenity
4. Bladerunner (not the directors cut)

C) Four places I have lived:
1. Wiltshire
2. Nevada
3. Scotland
4. London

D) Four television shows I have watched and loved: and probably still could if I had 200 channels
(I don’t watch enough tv anymore to count)
1. Northern Exposure
2. Babylon 5
3. Sherlock Homes (Jeremy Brett / Edward Hardwick only)
4. Inspector Morse

E) Four places I have been on vacation:
1. Sete (S France)
2. Greece (most of it)
3. Scotland (ditto)
4. The Rhine

F) Websites you visit daily:
1. BBC
2. e bay
3. amazon
4. google

G) Four of my favorite foods
1. duck (anyhow, any when)
2. venison (ditto)
3. Smoked Eel Terriaki (una don)
4. 80% + cocoa chocolate

H) Four places I would rather be right now:

1. Here (I like it here)
2. On my bike – anywhere
3. Fishing
4. Scotland (highlands) or Eire doing 2 or 3

I) Four books I could read again
um.. easier to name 4 authors whose works I love to read.
1. Tony Hillerman (Navaho Crime novels)
2. Terry Pratchet (he makes me smile)
3. Isaac Asimov
4. Raymond Chandler

[Ann]

I'm loving this thread. I think what's intriguing me the most is the places people have lived. Seems like a lot of us have lived abroad at various times.

[Edda]

Maria,

I saw that post! It sounds like a great book.

[Xinzerella]

That's an interesting thing about the 4 favourite TV shows. I've noticed the same thing somewhere else... there's a difference between '4 favourite shows around now' and '4 all-time favourite shows'. Most people seem to put their all-time favourites whereas I put the ones that are available now. So then I see someone put 'Northern Exposure' and 'Babylon 5' (hey Mark!) and think "but those are my all-time favourites too - why didn't I put them?"

Maybe we should have two sections in that quiz :-).

For me all-time favourite TV shows (that I'm remembering):

(1) Babylon 5
(2) Northern Exposure
(3) Star Trek Voyager
(4) Farscape

When I was younger I used to watch something called Tales of the Gold Monkey which I never saw again. Anybody else know what it was? Don't tell me it did something politically incorrect that sank it without trace? Grrrrrr....
Like 'Threadneedle Street'. I was really enjoying that :-(.

[Ann]

Mine are all on now, even though 2 of them are oldies. "Upstairs Downstairs" is currently being repeated on one of the digital channels on a Sunday evening. I rarely watched it first time round as I usually had other things to do in the evening, so I'm very much enjoying it now.

All time favourites would probably be, in no particular order:

Riverboat
Jewel in the Crown
Brideshead Revisited
Barchester Chronicles

[Silk]

Mine are all on now too - because as I've said before (probably way too often ;D) we do not watch TV.
However we do have quite a few TV series on dvd now, and nowadays tend to watch them like watching a night of TV (i.e. we will put on an episode of this and an episode of that instead of watching a whole disk of another.

The advantage is (from my point of view) no adverts, often uncut episodes, no time schedule, as in no one is telling me I must sit down at 6 to see X on BBC2, or later than I really wanted to stay up, and the all important .... pause button.
Oh and no watching some other stupid programme just because it is on, or on before/after the one I wanted to watch, and I'm too lazy to do anything else.

A mutli-region player (available from any Richer Sounds) means I can shop either side of the atlantic and find series that I had plain forgotten about, or that just aren't available here. (dangerous on my wallet though) Reviews on the likes of Amazon or IMDB let me know about series I don't know much about (sometimes), and a little patience (a virtue I don't have much of), and shopping around, can get them at prices I can afford rather than the silly prices they came out at.

[Cathrin]

As Mark has 'done' his, I thought it would be interesting to see how mine came out

A) Four jobs.

1) Kennel Maid
2) Vet Nurse
3) Tattooist assistant/receptionist
4) Switch board/Data base/IT specialist

B) Four movies I would watch over and over:
1. Lady Killers (original)
2. The Fifth Element (agree with Xinz and Mark on this one)
3. Independence day
4. Lady Hawk

C) Four places I have lived:
1. Bow/London
2. Chadwell Heath Essex
3. Never again

D) Four television shows I have watched and loved
1. Star Trek (all types)
2. Babylon 5
3. Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett / Edward Hardwick only)
4. Quantum Leap

E) Four places I have been on vacation:
1. Jersey
2. Yorkshire
3. Devon
4. Cornwall

F) Websites you visit daily:
1. BBC
2. Pulse (LAS web site)
3. Weather
4. google

G) Four of my favorite foods
1. duck
2. Prawns
3. Smoked Eel Terriaki (una don)
4. 70% + cocoa chocolate (Mark likes it stronger, more bitter than me)

H) Four places I would rather be right now:
1. Here (I like it here)
2. anywhere that is not work
3. Fishing
4. Jersey

I) Four books I could read again
um.. easier to name 4 authors whose works I love to read.
1. Tony Hillerman (Navaho Crime novels)
2. Terry Pratchet
3. Ann McCaffrey (sci/fan)
4. David Eddings

[boheme]

A) Four jobs I have had in my life:

1. Special Ed Teacher
2. Actress
3. Clown
4. Insurance Underwriter


B) Four movies I would watch over and over:

1. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
2. Bye-Bye, Birdie (the remake, not the original)
3. Me and My Gal
4. The Wizard of Oz

C) Four places I have lived: (I need more than four to answer this one )

1. San Francisco, California
2. New York, New York
3. Portland, Oregon
4. Bluewater Village, New Mexico

D) Four television shows I watch:

1. Survivor
2. The Amazing Race
3. Seinfeld (reruns)
4. Cold Case


E) Four places I have been on vacation:

1. Prague, Czech Republic
2. Munich, Germany
3. Vienna, Austria
4. Daytona Beach, Florida


F) Websites you visit daily:

1. SICC Message Boards
2. TMZ.com
3. MSN.com
4. Catsup (of course!)

G) Four of my favorite foods

1. Poppyseed bagels w/butter
2. Pizza
3. Fresh-brewed, unsweetened iced tea
4. Moose Tracks ice cream


H) Four places I would rather be right now:

1. Paris, France
2. London, England
3. Moscow, Russia
4. Krakow, Poland

[tabitha]

B) Four movies I would watch over and over:

1.Great Escape
2.Cassablanca
3.Disney's Cinderella
4.All Johnny Depp films

C) Four places I have lived

1. Birmingham
2. Monmouth
3. Bradford
4. Hereford

D) Four television shows I watch:

1. Vet Safari
2. Bad Girls
3. Lost
4. Holby/casualty

E) Four places I have been on vacation:
1. Scotland (various parts)
2. Devon
3. Cornwall
4. Wales (various parts)

F) Websites you visit daily:

1. Catsup
2. Yahoo
3. Google
4. My Bank

G) Four of my favorite foods

1. Chocolate
2. Chocolate
3. Chocolate
4. Chocolate

H) Four places I would rather be right now:

I like it where I am.

I didn't answer question one as I am registered disabled so I haven't worked. I have been a full-time mother up until now when I am about to start college.

Tabitha

[Edda]

I just thought of another place I'd love to visit-Valencia, Spain. Two of my favorite tennis players, David Ferrer and Juan Carlos Ferrero, are from Valencia. I'd love to take a tour of Spain with my favorite tennis players. I'm not Spanish, but it seems I have a huge crush on players from Spain, particularly Rafael Nadal (although I'm old enough to be his mother, sigh) and David and Juan Carlos.

[julieurwin]

I am probably months behind but just popped in to say hello and thought I would join in.

A) Four jobs I have had in my life:

1. Hotel Receptionist
2. Florist
3.Office Manager
4. Personal Assistant to the CEO

B) Four movies I would watch over and over:
1. Miracle on 34th Street
2. Pride and Prejudice
3. Phantom of the Opera
4. Any Bond Movie (I suppose that's cheating a bit).

C) Four places I have lived:
1. Whitley Bay
2. Bedlington
3. Janabiya, Kingdon of Bahrain
4. Huai Yai, Chonburi, Thailand

D) Four television shows I watch:
1. Top Gear
2. Fashion Police
3. Outnumbered
4. Silent Witness

E) Four places I have been on vacation:
1. Greece
2. Florida
3. Cyprus
4. Iiza

F) Websites you visit daily:
I don't visit any daily but I do visit BBC Food quite regularly

G) Four of my favorite foods
1. Pasta
2. pizza
3. ice cream
4. interesting salads

H) Four places I would rather be right now:

1. Back home in the UK
2. somewhere nice that has temperatures lower than 30degrees
3. With my daughter
4. France

I don't like to reread books so I can't add that one.

[Edda]

Favorite Tennis Players (Active):

1. Rafael Nadal
2. Roger Federer
3. David Ferrer
4. Janko Tipsarevic

Retired players:

1. Pete Sampras
2. Juan Carlos Ferrero
3. Steffi Graff
4. Kim Clijsters

[Edda]

I would love to go to a tennis tournament and meet my favortie players. I think my favorite Grand Slam venue to visit would be Wimbledon.