Tag! Tag! Tag! Tag!
28 November , 2007
It really looks like it was my day for getting tagged. 
Da Mario , Jo-Ann and Marius tagged me for the same thing (which I sort of did a few months ago) and now I’m not even sure if I should be revealing 8 or 16 things about myself that you might not now. And I still owe Angel a post on the tag she did on me, as well as Graham on the one he did.
So I’ve decided to put them all together and make a day of it…
First one was Graham’s : If I could have a beer with someone from history who would it be? Mmmm…for me it would be Douglas Adams. Simply because I think it would be fun, and it having a conversation with him would send your mind reeling, with or without beer involved…maybe more so with beer though. 
also, I would take a towel.
The second one was Angel’s: Blogger Linky Love Meme. This meme is based on the SEO theory that links to posts inside your blog posts are more important than links to your home page… so what you do is pick three posts that you feel are your best, your personal favourites or the ones you don’t think enough people read or commented on. Then your blog name is listed with your 3 selected posts below it. (I don’t really give a twig about this page ranking nonsense – just so you know – I just included this bit because it was on Angel’s post and it feels like it goes with the rest).
Then add the sites and post links to the bloggers you tagged onto your post… and try to include some of the previously tagged bloggers as well…I’ve included three of the bloggers (and their links) who were tagged before me…
Here’s my list…!
Here are the three who were tagged before me:
Angel’s Mind:
CamiKaos
Jo Beaufoix
And lastly, the two three tags of 8 things. one by Jo-Ann and one by Da Mario and one by Marius: (also I’m going to try and not tell you the same stuff I told you last time).
- I mention in my “About” page that I used to be a problem child, this includes running away from home four times and actually doing my final high school year on my own. The furthest I’ve gone on my travels was hitch-hiking from Bela-Bela (the town previously known as Warmbaths) all the way to Worcester – roughly 1440 km.
- I love flying. I love turbulence. I love take offs. I love landings. I don’t get any sort of motion sickness ever – and if I’m traveling with my brother you can tell us apart from the other passengers cause we’re the ones going “Whooohoo!” when some of the others turn a pale shade of green.
- The two chores I hate most of all (and I can’t say I detest one more that the other – they are truely equally awful to me) is ironing and filing. Just thinking about it just steals my joy. Urgh!
- I have four favourite colours (yes a little indecisive, so what?!) Blue, Green, Red and Purple – depending on my mood
- I have a birthmark shaped like a little upside down Africa on my leg.
- I have had the opportunity to do extensive self defense training – if I feel threatened I will often start fidgeting with my pen (and it’s not cause I feel like writing something).
- I was once part of (no, I dare say the instigator) of a huge toilet paper raid on a big camping trip. I rallied support for the coup from the local smokers and we stealthily stole an entire trailer full of white gold and spend the night stringing a huge (mostly single ply) necklace for the entire camp. However, whilst we were draping our handiwork all over in the early hours of the next morning the rope snapped at the exact same moment that we were busy getting caught. We were made to clean up (obviously), and to do some special PT at punishment (which we turned into a mockery by giggling throughout and coming up with some silly T/paper shaped salute), but eventually we did get our own back because our group was in charge of publishing the camp news letter and I just happened to be the editor that year – we had a 4 page glowing report painting us as the heroes who “liberated” the paper and brought it straight to the people where they needed it most. Like the Robin Hood of TP if you will…
- I talk in my sleep (allegedly).
There we go…all done for today. Actually I rather enjoyed doing them all together. Usually I don’t tag – I just leave it open to you to tag yourself. But Today I want to tag Lycan, Pierre, Don’t believe, Glugster, and Chris M.
Play along if you want to and you can do any or all of the above – since there are three ones in one post. If you don’t want to that’s also okay…promise I won’t hold it against you.
*clicking on the image will take you to DeviantART where you can learn more about the art and the artist
Someone from history to have a beer with? Uhmmm… Alexander Graham Bell. Did he have to go and invent the damn telephone? Does he know girl children gets born with one against the ear these days??
Seriously though… there’s just so many! Artists, writers, travellers, politicians, scientists, sportstars, astronauts… you name it! I’d have a hard time choosing, so let’s go with either Sergei Korolev or Wernher von Braun. Whoever is available first….
Thank you. Don’t want one of those toe tags yet, ha
Will link
Tjeers
Da Mario: Wow…that’s quite a list!
Graham: Hehehe…me neither. I was actually looking for a pic of just a price tag in DeviantART when I came across this one and I just couldn’t resist using it.
Righteo!!!! I have responded to my tag!
Very interesting Louisa!! What is the most damage you can do to a person with a pen?
Shite. If I don’t do it, please don’t attack me, ok?
Ok, OK, I’ll do it, but It’s gonna take a while!
aaaw thanx louisa! i’m gonna go read those…
Don’t believe: Yay! Thank you for playing.
Right, as promised – the pen. I wouldn’t exactly say the pen is mightier than the sword in hand-to-hand combat, but it’s certainly easier to swing around.
Best way to hold it in my opinion is to grip it in your fist with your thumb resting on the back end and supporting it. This way you should have a fairly good grip to make downward stab movements with or even turn it sideways with the inky end sticking out and away from you, if you then start fighting as if there is no pen in your hand you should do a fair amount of damage without even putting in extra effort. (Provided you can actually punch someone that is).
If pens aren’t really your thing there is also car keys which are pretty handy and if you have to do it with nothing but bare hands then my recommendation would be to go in with your elbows, if possible.
Glugster: Hahaha…okay I promise I won’t. Take your time.
angel: No, thank you!