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I Missed Delurking Day. Again.
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Oopsies. Every year I seem to stumble upon other people’s “Delurk Today!” posts and I shrug to myself and think, oh well, maybe next year. But really, where is it written that people must delurk on my blog the same day they delurk everywhere else? EXACTLY. And dammit, I want to know who’s out there reading.
Quite honestly, I love each and every one of my readers. Your comments rock my day. So of course I’d like to get to know you all a little better! I can’t think of a better way than to play a charming little round of Would You Rather? In that spirit, please choose one of the following questions to answer in the comments section:
1. Would you rather be proposed to while on the toilet or via text message?
2. Would you rather be trapped overnight in an elevator filled with butterflies, or in a cave filled with bats?
3. Would you rather have your TV get only one channel that plays solely MTV’s Jersey Shore, or a radio with one station that only plays Rush Limbaugh 24/7?
4. Would you rather eat a peanut butter and earthworm sandwich, or a cup of maggot chowder?
5. Would you rather have both legs broken by falling off a building, or both arms broken by falling down the stairs?
And since people will be putting forth the effort to actually comment, I will put forth the effort to respond by email to every single comment left. Phew. That’s a lot of work! But you’re totally worth it, lovelies.
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Ugh, these are all terrible!
I guess proposed to by text message, rather than on the toilet.
I actually think the elevator full of butterflies wouldn’t be too bad, though in practice I would probably hate it. Instead, I’ll answer #5 with the leg choice. If I broke both arms, I couldn’t knit! Or hold up a book! Or anything! Ugh. And having two broken legs, though not fun in itself, would lead to lots of knitting and reading time!
I always miss de-lurking day, too.
Shitfire. I didn’t do one of these damn delurking things, but this was too awesome I could not even skim over. I wanted to answer each one of them. So I’m going to.
1- on the pot. At least it makes a good story. Via text message kind of says you are marrying a douche that would propose that way. At least if I am taking a shit I know he loves me at my grossest.
2. Butterflies. I’d kill those nasty bastards.
3. Jersey Shore. They are smarter than Rush.
4. Peanut butter and earthworms. Have you ever seen a maggot. I am gagging, feeling some tummy roll, just thinking about it.
5. Arms, because I could totally see myself doing something like falling down the steps and there is no way that just my legs would break falling off a roof. And my husband totally owes me for all of his accidents so I could live it up, albeit miseerably.
I had no idea it was delurking day, but I always comment for you anyway, NPW. I’m no dirty lurker.
Definitely an elevator full of butterflies. The cave is dark and there’s a better chance of getting rabies there, while I don’t know of any diseases you can get from butterflies.
I would choose a cave full of bats, because they pretty much just hang out there and sleep. But… bat dung totally sucks. So maybe an elevator full of butterflies.
Sheesh. I’m awesome at answering questions, huh?
I think I’m actually delurking. Dee-lightful. I may have commented once or twice in the past…possibly.
Love the questions. Here are my answers:
1) On the porcelain throne. More personal than a text I would wager.
2) Butterflies. Scary, but I think I could get used to small fluttering wings more than swooping bats (originally I read rats…and that really creeped me out. Bats are better than rats in a pinch)
3) Eeeps. Rush is known to me, but not overly well known (Canadian who is bad with politics over here!). So I would have to say Jersey Shore.
4) PB and earthworm. Maggots are ickier than earthworms. And I would pile on the PB to mask the wormy taste.
5) I think falling down the stairs would be less traumatic. Falling off a building is freaky freaky.
Did you know there’s a (free!) iPhone/iPod app for Would you Rather? (Except all the questions are totally lame. But still – free!) That’s my two cents.
I say on the toilet just because then you can laugh about it for the rest of your marriage. If you stay married….because, really, someone who proposes while on the toilet probably doesn’t deserve to even be married.
No need to email (not that I don’t want to hear from you, but dear god that is a lot of work), we both know I’m already totally jealous of the fact that you are friends with Beth and Kelli and get to go to awesome book club meetings and talk about great books and eat good food while I am stuck here in cold CT.
I’m delurking only to say that your posts seriously light up my Google Reader each morning from my desk at a Philadelphia library.
Normally I wouldn’t post, but I’ve been lurking for ages and would feel like an absolute creeper if I didn’t.
I missed Delurking Day too, but then I haven’t posted since last year, so it hardly matters.
1. I would rather not be proposed to at all.
2. Batcave. Because: Batmobile! Also because one butterfly is nice, but a bunch of them in an enclosed space is terrifying.
3. I would sooner live in the Jersey Shore house than listen to Limbaugh.
4. I can’t hear you I can’t hear you LA LA LA LA LA LA.
5. Falling off a building sounds like it would at least be fun. You know, before you hit the ground.
NPW, whoa. These questions are making my stomach turn. This is how you measure dedication, lady.
1. Text message, although I would totally rue the charge.
2. Elevator with butterflies, because at least they don’t have TEETH.
3. Do I have the option to turn off the radio or TV at any time, or are they like, demon-possessed and always on?
4. Chowder, I think. Less chewing, right?
5. I’m going to go with legs, but I think the down side is that the landing might kill me.
1. The toilet. This is going to sound weird, but I think it could be very fitting to the couple. I always think fondly of how Torsten proposed to me on top of a mountain when I was sweaty and gross and how it felt very real and like he was definitely asking me to marry him as opposed to some idealized version of me that he’d created in his head. You know what I mean? And I kind of feel like a toilet proposal COULD have that same sort of tone to it. Like, even when you’re peeing I know I want to spend my life with you. That’s romance!
The person above me wrote the most lovely comment. I wouldn’t have thought about a toilet proposal that way.
So, that said, I’d rather NOT any of those questions. Ick. Worms, and bats, and broken limbs, oh my!
I also missed De-Lurking Day. As well as every day since New Year’s Eve. Sigh.
None of your options sound very awesome, but hear you go:
1. Toilet. Hot Brazilian often calls me from the bathroom (don’t ask) so this sadly would not be very surprising.
2. I guess an elevator full of butterflies. I would spend the entire time trying to convince myself that butterflies represent “newness” and “rebirth” and positive crap like that to get through it. But I’m sure the wings flapping in my eyes would completely creep me out.
3. I’ve never seen Jersey Shore, but I’d prefer anything to having to listen to d-bag Rush so I’m definitely going with Jersey Shore.
4. I think I can honestly say I’d rather starve.
5. Both legs broken. I couldn’t type, surf the internet, paint, or hold a phone very easily with broken arms. Since those are pretty much my fave things to do, that would be way more torture than not walking (which I avoid whenever possible due to my laziness).
1. Toilet. I dont know why I feel that it’s better than text message, but it just is.
2. Butterflies. Bats are far creepier.
3. Totally Jersey Shore. At least I’m amused by them as opposed to Rush Limbaugh.
4. Oh gross. I’m going with peanut butter. It might mask the taste better.
5. Both legs broken.
De-lurking.
I think I might choose to break my arms because I wouldn’t want people to think that I purposely jumped off that building. Although…the knitting and reading time does sound delightful.
I’m not de-lurking, but I’ll play along.
1. Toilet, because it couldn’t be any more personal.
2. It depends on how active either are – if the bats are out for the night I could deal with the guano. I’d have to stomp the butterflies.
3. Jersey Shore. As long as it constantly played new episodes.
4. Every summer I end up dealing with maggots in my kitchen garbage. I wake my husband up to deal with them because it’s the one thing that totally creeps me out. I’d much rather eat earthworms and peanut butter.
5. Legs. Mostly because it makes for a great story involving why I was falling off a building in the first place.
1. I’d rather be proposed to while on the pot. At least that is original, funny and memorable. Being proposed to via text would be totally lame!
bats over butterflies…any day!!
I mean, the Jersey Shore kids are stupid, but they don’t OFFEND me with their stupidity. But I am a few episodes behind…
1. I wouldn’t accept a proposal on the toilet or by text.
2. Bats in a cave because elevators make me crazy.
3. Jersey Shore because it’s the good kind of train wreck compared to Rush.
4. Peanut butter and earthworms because peanut butter makes most anything more tolerable.
5. Arms and stairs. I would probably still have to do my job with my arms in tact, but if they were both broken I might get some time off!
I always miss delurking day too – damn! And I may have to steal your idea!
These are all fun questions, so I’m answering them all.
1. Toilet – I’m always having to pee, so it would be fitting.
2.Elevator with butterflies – they are so cute and fluttery.
3.Jersey Shore any day – oh my gawd!
4.PB and worms – maggots are just so nasty…shudder.
5.Broken legs – I couldn’t imagine not being able to use my arms for an extended period of time. Broken legs would suck, but I’d at least be able to roll around in a wheelchair.
I guess I’m kinda delurking, I’ve posted a comment once or twice before.
1. The toilet, it’d be a fun story to tell later.
2. Elevator full of butterflies. That would seem more imaginative, and just pretty neat all around.
3.Jersey Shore, as long as it was all different episodes, the same ones over and over would get old fast.
4.Peanut Butter and Earthworm sandwich. The other just makes me want to vomit thinking about it. Yuck!
5. Both legs. Atleast there would be a good story there. You see I was trying to save someone, but I missed and fell.
BTW I love your blog.
Neither.
Those are not happy questions!
Jersey Shore over Rush Limbaugh. Not even close.
What about on the toilet via text message?
I’d rather break my legs falling off a building. It would still suck, but 1. I’d still be able to type, 2. it would make a great story, and 3. for about two seconds I might get to know what flying feels like.
I think proposed to on the toilet. I mean, at least it’s face to face, right?
(I don’t think my husband of just under two years has ever seen me on the toilet, though. We’re definitely a closed door kind of family. But I will TALK about what goes on in the bathroom all day. Sample conversation from this morning:
Me: I just pooped a really long one.
Him: That’s how it normally is with me.
Me: Huh. Normally I’m more of a little fits and starts girl.
Him: Weird.
It’s my poop-centered, we don’t even have infants or pets, life.)
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is it you that is scared of butterflies? they seem so pretty and innocent to me. lock me up in that elevator. can i bring a book with me?
Hi, I’m delurking.
I’ve been enjoying your posts on my Google Reader for about a year. Your blog appeals to me because you work in schools (I’m a teaching major) and you are a LIBRARY LADY (!!) – and I’m an obsessive library user!!
1. Toilet vs. Text? Doesn’t matter. I’m pretty easy going.
2. Bats vs. Butterflies? Butterflies, no question. Let’s not forget: bats carry rabies.
3. Jersey Shore vs. Rush Limbaugh 24/7? Jersey Shore. They’re fairly harmless.
4. Earthworms vs. maggots? EPBJ, please.
5. Arms vs. Legs? ARMS! If my legs were broken and I couldn’t exercise without the use of my largest muscle groups, I’d gain about 50 lbs. Plus, the falling thing would be too much like a bad dream.
Broken arms would be a drag, but I can only think of the benefits: not being able to type papers, do math problems, go grocery shopping, do laundry… “Sorry! Can’t! Broken arms, you know!”
(You don’t have to e-mail me unless you really, really want to, you’re a busy woman!)
Broken arms.
I could still go for walks in the woods. But I’d have to bring along friends to ward off the butterfly attacks.
I missed it too. Probably because I don’t read the blogs of the creators.
1. Text.
2. I can’t even answer this. I would, in the past, say butterflies. But then I went to the butterfly sanctuary and UGH! Creepy!
3. Jersey Shore ALL THE WAY! I love that show!
4. I’m going to say the chowder, only because I would think it would be blended up a bit.
5. I’ll say legs falling off a building. Mostly because it seems like if you fell far enough, it wouldn’t hurt as bad.
Text
Butterflies
I already have a TV that plays Jersey Shore 24/7 BY CHOICE!
PB
Arms.
Aaaggghhh! I am going to answer the first one, but the rest are too horrifying to dwell on for any longer than the time it took to read them. (Your brain is a scary place, NPW. A scary, scary place.) Anyway, text message. Preferably while he was sitting right next to me and I was maybe a little annoyed he was texting instead of talking to me. Because that’d be kind of cute, right?
Hi,
New here. Decided to “de-lurk”
I LOVE would you rather questions!:
1-Instant text message. The “can” is really not romantic! Of course, neither is ‘texting’ for big questions like that, but its a bit less embarrassing! LOL
1. I guess text message, but I’d find both pretty damned disappointing.
2. Elevator, easy. I hate caves. And bats.
3. Having my TV stuck on Jersey Shore sounds… awesome.
4. I’d rather starve to death. Yeah, Bear Grylls. I said it.
5. Down the stairs/arms. And fortunately for me, it’s much more likely! You couldn’t pay me to go near the edge of a building.
Jersey Shore. By a mile. Two minutes of Rush raises my blood pressure to hazardous levels.
I actually like bats. And caves are kind of cool. As long as it wasn’t one with incredibly narrow passageways. I wouldn’t want to be literally stuck.
1. Uh, toilet, I guess. I read about a guy who proposed to his girlfriend by sending her a diamond ring from Mafia Wars. I was appalled but amused.
2. I am torn. Bat cave could equal Batman but butterflies are awfully pretty.
3. I’d have to say the horrible TV is a better choice that the godawful radio.
4. I didn’t like chowder before you added maggots so I guess I’ll go with the earthworms.
5. Legs. If I can’t read or play on the computer, I’m going to hurt someone.
And this is why I rarely ever comment on blogs. Ten days late, but here are my answers.
1. Text message
2. Butterflies in an elevator. I’ve been to a butterfly house before and really enjoyed (although everyone else I went with was pretty freaked out!)
3. Jersey Shore. I haven’t actually seen the show, but I’m sure I’d get addicted in no time. I love a good train wreck!
4. I can’t, in good conscious, pick either. And the sad thing is that I just finished eating a PB&J, and you have my stomach churning!
5. Both legs broken. I can’t even imagine having both my arms broken and havoc that would have on my life (can you imagine not being able to turn the pages of a book or having to have someone else feed you?). At least with broken legs I could still some of the things I enjoy comfortably!