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Marcel Proust Questionnaire
ifyoucantfixit:
1. What is your most marked characteristic? Stubborness
2. What is the quality you most like in a man? Comfort in his own skin
3. What is the quality you most like in a woman? Resolve
4. What do you most value in your friends? Faithfulness
5. What is your principal defect? Honesty
6. What is your favourite occupation? Reading, and listening to music
7. What is your dream of happiness? A successful and healthy family
8. What, to your mind, would be the greatest of misfortunes? Not to have a family, or friends
9. What would you like to be? Rich
10. In what country would you like to live? America
11. What is your favourite colour? I love all colors, but it depends on for what...generally I notice that i miss green the most when it is not around....
12. What is your favourite flower? Gardenia
13. What is your favourite bird? Meadow Lark
14. Who are your favourite prose writers? Dickens, Twain, Shakespeare
15. Who are your favourite poets? Emily Dickensen, and Amy Lowell Walt Whitman, Robt. Frost
16. Who is your favourite hero of fiction? Mr. Darcy (Pride and Prejudice)
17. Who are your favourite heroines of fiction? Cassandra
18. Who are your favourite composers? Gershwin, Berlin, Mozart
19. Who are your favourite painters? Van Gogh, Da Vinci Matisse
20. Who are your heroes in real life? Anyone who befriends the weak or helpless
21. Who are your favourite heroines of history? Elizabeth the 1st and Eleanor Roosvelt
22. What are your favourite names? Grandma and Grampa, when spoken by my favorite, grandchildren
23. What is it that you most dislike? hateful, and mean behavior to others
24. What historical character do you most despise? Hitler, Stalin, all the usual suspects
25. What event in military history do you most admire? Armistace,,,wwi ,,,wwii and the civil war surrender.
26. What reform do you most admire? Repeal of slavery, and the right to vote for all citizens
27. What natural gift would you most like to possess? grace
28. How would you like to die? peacefully aware
29. What is your present state of mind? mixed
30. To what faults do you feel most indulgent? in others, or myself? In others,
I tolerate most things except lies. In myself, I indulge my lavishness to my grandaughter.
31. What is your motto? One foot in front of the other, just keep going.
[/quote]Because: "If ya cant fix it, ya gotta stand it."
CellarDweller:
Marcel Proust Questionnaire
1. What is your most marked characteristic? Optimism.
2. What is the quality you most like in a man? A sense of humor.
3. What is the quality you most like in a woman? understanding.
4. What do you most value in your friends? respect.
5. What is your principal defect? weakness of will.
6. What is your favourite occupation? Loving.
7. What is your dream of happiness? To live comfortably with my future husband.
8. What, to your mind, would be the greatest of misfortunes? Never to have known love.
9. What would you like to be? successful.
10. In what country would you like to live? where I am is just fine.
11. What is your favourite colour? purple or green.
12. What is your favourite flower? don't have one.
13. What is your favourite bird? Rainbow Lorikeets from Australia.
14. Who are your favourite prose writers? Annie Proulx.
15. Who are your favourite poets? I can't say I have one.
16. Who is your favourite hero of fiction? Angel.
17. Who are your favourite heroines of fiction? The Halliwell sisters.
18. Who are your favourite composers? Madonna
19. Who are your favourite painters? Escher.
20. Who are your heroes in real life? Martin Luther King Jr..
21. Who are your favourite heroines of history? Susan B. Anthony.
22. What are your favourite names? Boy - Aiden, Girl - Charisma.
23. What is it that you most dislike? My weakness of will.
24. What historical character do you most despise? Hitler, but I wouldn't call him a character.
25. What event in military history do you most admire? dont't have one!
26. What reform do you most admire? ending of slavery, and gay rights movement
27. What natural gift would you most like to possess? Will-power and irresistible charm.
28. How would you like to die? peacfully in the arms of a loved one.
29. What is your present state of mind? amsued.
30. To what faults do you feel most indulgent? laziness
31. What is your motto? If you don't keep moving forward, you become stagnant.
Kerry:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on July 07, 2009, 11:40:47 am ---
13. What is your favourite bird? Rainbow Lorikeets from Australia.
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Rainbow Lorikeets are absolutely beautiful birds, Chuck. Flocks of them sometimes fly past my window. There's no mistaking them. Not only because of their amazingly bright colouring but also because of the dreadful din they make as they fly past! :o Like all parrots, they are definitely not song birds. They make the most ungodly skwarking noise and when there's a lot of them together, which is how one usually finds them, the noise they make is deafening. Their beautiful appearance makes up for the noise, however. :D
CellarDweller:
--- Quote from: Kerry on July 07, 2009, 08:39:17 pm ---Rainbow Lorikeets are absolutely beautiful birds, Chuck. Flocks of them sometimes fly past my window. There's no mistaking them. Not only because of their amazingly bright colouring but also because of the dreadful din they make as they fly past! :o Like all parrots, they are definitely not song birds. They make the most ungodly skwarking noise and when there's a lot of them together, which is how one usually finds them, the noise they make is deafening. Their beautiful appearance makes up for the noise, however. :D
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I think they are so beautiful to look at.....and I seem to remember being told they can be taught to talk.
Kerry:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on July 07, 2009, 09:38:58 pm ---
I think they are so beautiful to look at.....and I seem to remember being told they can be taught to talk.
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That's right. Like most parrots, rainbow lorikeets can be taught to speak. Sometimes with quite surprising results. Many years ago I lived in a garden flat with a big old passionfruit vine growing over a high wall at the rear. The cockatoos liked to eat the unripened passionfruit by taking one big bite out of the fruit and then dropping it to the ground, where it was discarded. I was in bed one morning and was woken by the sound of the cockies (cockatoos) skwarking in the passionfruit vine outside my bedroom window. I jumped out of bed and ran out, waving my arms about, trying to scare them off. They looked down at me with utter contempt and made no move to fly off, knowing full well that they were way out of my reach. I must have annoyed one, however, because he looked down at me, and with his head tilted to one side, as cockies do, declared "F*ck off!" before indignantly flying away. Can't imaging where he picked that up! ;) :D
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