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Strange little meme
Things I own that no one else does. This is going to be a very, very hard meme, both because my tastes are not often that weird, and because technically Scott and I co-own all this stuff. The last question will be easier, since it doesn't involve owning stuff.
Name a CD you own that no-one else on your friends list does:
Hrrm. Hard. My taste in music is very mainstream for the most part, and where it's not, it overlaps pretty well with one or another person on my friends-list, because usually one of them coaxed me out of the easy-to-find stuff. :P If I try Tom Lehrer or the Kingston Trio, I believe my parents will match me if no one else will; and I know exactly who will laugh if I try much of anything by Suzanne Vega or Billy Joel. Or...yeah.
This reduces me to the fact that many of my friends dislike Jimmy Buffett (though I think my attempt with that one is going to fail), to things I don't actually listen to and may get rid of (which I consider cheating), or to the sorts of things you're ashamed to admit you have. :P
I'll start with Jimmy Buffett, anyway. Just in case I get away with it. Fruitcakes. The first of his stuff I ever listened to, actually, though I owned it on tape before I got the CD so it is not the first CD of his that I got. :)
Name a book you own that no-one else on your friends list does:
Hmmm. The computer-geek books, roleplaying books, and fiction books, besides being shared with Scott, are likely also owned by many people on my friends-list, as are probably a good many others. I'll take a guess that the books in Spanish and the poetry books are my two best chances here, and go with Marvin Bell's Drawn by Stones, by Earth, by Things that Have Been in the Fire (in part because a poetry book 20 years old is not likely to be in too many collections, and Bell is not as big a Name as he ought to be).
Name a movie you own on DVD/VHS/whatever that no-one else on your friends list does:
Ah. Here is where I am very, very unlikely to succeed. I don't like movies. If I stick to ones that are at least partially 'mine' and not wholly Scott's (not that we have many between us, but he gets some freebies from work and some of those might be obscure...), I don't believe I will hit anything that qualifies. Anything Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter is, for example, laughable. Balto would be likelier, but I'm pretty sure I know at least one person who has it. The Neverending Story is unlikely to qualify. Beaches or Cabaret are not movies I've ever seen discussed on my friends list, but I would be surprised if no one had a copy of them.
I know I own a few more, I can't recall 'em at the moment. Let's stop there. Maybe one of those qualify. If not, well...I'm not a movie person. :P
Name a place that you have visited that no-one else on your friends list has:
Hmm. Well, I can't count anywhere I went with my parents, since they're on the list, or Scott, or the hangouts around college. I'm going to go with Silver Falls State Park.
...which my dad has been to. Sigh. Hrm. See, I think I can get away with a number of places my job took me, but, to name the particular locations (and thus departments) is to state more about our clients than I try to here, so I don't get to use those. Hrrm. Can I get away with the Chinese Classical Garden in Portland? (Of course, I have been only once - not so very impressed - but I have been there....) Darnit. There should be more and better options, but really I cannot think of many, if any.
I give up. :P
Name a CD you own that no-one else on your friends list does:
Hrrm. Hard. My taste in music is very mainstream for the most part, and where it's not, it overlaps pretty well with one or another person on my friends-list, because usually one of them coaxed me out of the easy-to-find stuff. :P If I try Tom Lehrer or the Kingston Trio, I believe my parents will match me if no one else will; and I know exactly who will laugh if I try much of anything by Suzanne Vega or Billy Joel. Or...yeah.
This reduces me to the fact that many of my friends dislike Jimmy Buffett (though I think my attempt with that one is going to fail), to things I don't actually listen to and may get rid of (which I consider cheating), or to the sorts of things you're ashamed to admit you have. :P
I'll start with Jimmy Buffett, anyway. Just in case I get away with it. Fruitcakes. The first of his stuff I ever listened to, actually, though I owned it on tape before I got the CD so it is not the first CD of his that I got. :)
Name a book you own that no-one else on your friends list does:
Hmmm. The computer-geek books, roleplaying books, and fiction books, besides being shared with Scott, are likely also owned by many people on my friends-list, as are probably a good many others. I'll take a guess that the books in Spanish and the poetry books are my two best chances here, and go with Marvin Bell's Drawn by Stones, by Earth, by Things that Have Been in the Fire (in part because a poetry book 20 years old is not likely to be in too many collections, and Bell is not as big a Name as he ought to be).
Name a movie you own on DVD/VHS/whatever that no-one else on your friends list does:
Ah. Here is where I am very, very unlikely to succeed. I don't like movies. If I stick to ones that are at least partially 'mine' and not wholly Scott's (not that we have many between us, but he gets some freebies from work and some of those might be obscure...), I don't believe I will hit anything that qualifies. Anything Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter is, for example, laughable. Balto would be likelier, but I'm pretty sure I know at least one person who has it. The Neverending Story is unlikely to qualify. Beaches or Cabaret are not movies I've ever seen discussed on my friends list, but I would be surprised if no one had a copy of them.
I know I own a few more, I can't recall 'em at the moment. Let's stop there. Maybe one of those qualify. If not, well...I'm not a movie person. :P
Name a place that you have visited that no-one else on your friends list has:
Hmm. Well, I can't count anywhere I went with my parents, since they're on the list, or Scott, or the hangouts around college. I'm going to go with Silver Falls State Park.
...which my dad has been to. Sigh. Hrm. See, I think I can get away with a number of places my job took me, but, to name the particular locations (and thus departments) is to state more about our clients than I try to here, so I don't get to use those. Hrrm. Can I get away with the Chinese Classical Garden in Portland? (Of course, I have been only once - not so very impressed - but I have been there....) Darnit. There should be more and better options, but really I cannot think of many, if any.
I give up. :P
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