Today, we're going to have a series of small questions so I can eliminate some SQ inventory stacking up in the MaxFischerWarehouse. Answer any and all of the following list of questions.

1. What is the most brazen knock-off product or restaurant that you've ever seen? (ie. the infamous Kansas Fried Chicken chain)

2. Name a movie so bad, that not even inserting Christopher Walken into the cast would be able to help it.

3. Name the Superhero least likely to have a big-screen movie version filmed.

4. What is the strangest item either you or someone personally acquainted with you has obsessively collected?

5. I have some chicken breasts, and a few veggies lying about. What should I cook the Fischerette for dinner tonight?

6. Go back three years. Are you living in the same city and holding the same job? If not, how many times have you changed homes/jobs since then?

7. Do you honestly care about top posts?

8. Name the easiest way to enrage a hippie in Boulder or Madison without playing the George W. Bush card.

9. Favorite current guilty pleasure?

10. What's the favorite piece of art you have in your house?

There, hopefully this will be enough SQ's to bat around. I have no prizes to give out, I think those are still in a box from my move this winter (I really must unpack all of this crap)

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1. What is the most brazen knock-off product or restaurant that you've ever seen? (ie. the infamous Kansas Fried Chicken chain)

Had a friend who opened a bar in atlanta called Brennan's, He got sued by the guys from New Orleans and won. It was his name.

2.?

3.?

4. What is the strangest item either you or someone personally acquainted with you has obsessively collected?

My 22 antique clocks rate high with me. We don't want to talk about how much I have invested in them. Good news, I joined clock-a-holics anonymous and just attend meetings now. We talk clocks and pray for each other.

5. I have some chicken breasts, and a few veggies lying about. What should I cook the Fischerette for dinner tonight?

I would eat chicken stir fried rice three times a day if I could. Veggies in it or along side would be nice.

6. Go back three years. Are you living in the same city and holding the same job? If not, how many times have you changed homes/jobs since then?

Yes, same place, same job.

7. Do you honestly care about top posts?

Yes I do care. Keep on posting - please.

8. Name the easiest way to enrage a hippie in Boulder or Madison without playing the George W. Bush card.

I don't know. Rear end their SUV? Scrape the paint on their BMW?

9. Favorite current guilty pleasure?

Diet Dr Pepper and a large snickers bar

10. What's the favorite piece of art you have in your house?

A water color my wife did on commission to Toei Kogyo Ltd in Tokyo (20+- years ago). The first painting was for them. The second (better one) was for me. It is a floral and I don't care. I still like it. Second is an Indian print by Richard Boone (yes - Paladin - have gun will travel). Third an antique nude bronze, sculptor unknown - not marked. It reminds me of a Rodin, which it is not.

Richard Boone, how incredibly cool. When I moved, I didn't have enough room in my car to keep my fairly extensive collection of Japanese prints, so I left them with the MaxFischerMom. There's this woodcut of the 47 Ronin that I really wish I had here. I've got this print from Puck magazine that depicts William McKinley as Pharoah enslaving the working man to build his Pyramids of trusts. The Fischerette wouldn't let me hang it in a prominant place in the house!

Your comment about Boulder hippies and SUV's would be more hysterical if it weren't so true. The disconnect between the ideals and lifestyles in Boulder County is pretty striking.

I know it sounds wierd, but he is a very good artist. Of course he does western, mostly Indian stuff.

My Boone hangs in our/my den. Above it is our youngest son's dance stick. He was OA/BSA and danced for years. It has an antler, dream wheel, his pouch (can't remember the name) conteining secret stuff, and a turkey foot. It gets strange glances from people who don't know us when they visit. I just tell them that it is powerful medicine.

But my fav is the one my wife painted. Probably have 12 of her paintings (wc, oil, pastels, acrylics) around the house. Plus two or three that she is working on. I'm looking at a pair of canvas back ducks (WC) and a Canada Goose here in my office as I type. Also nice, but she hates wildlife and only did them as gifts to me.

Have a good weekend. and remember, you can't go wrong with fried rice and veggies.

1. Burger Bishop

2. 2001 A Space Travesty (that one is real and has Leslie Nielson in it--an otherwise fantastic actor. It was a parody so bad it was one of three movies I stopped or walked out of in my life.)

3. The Thing-a-ma-job (first cousin once removed of "The Thing")

4. A lietenant I knew collected nose goblins. She kept them in her stomach. (Unfortunately, that's real too.)

5.Streuselkuchen. Rrecipe soon. If that doesn't do it for you try Splitergebachnesdeuchdembasege­shizness.

6. Nope. Changed jobs twice and cities three times.

7. Top posts are what make me get out of bed. They are the light in my day, the spring in my step, the yin for my yang.

8. Easy. Approach him as a corporate head hunter looking for new employees. Tell him, "You look like you'd fit right into our new, big, hip corporation!" Don't forget to smile.

9. Shopping cart derby.

10. It's a magnificent polypropylene sculpture of the Space Shuttle that doubles as a home for sea monkeys.

1) Lexington cigarettes. Look exactly like a pack of Winstons but taste like dried seal dung.

2) The Howling 7. Worst thing I've ever seen. Well, actually, it was so bad it was good, along the lines of Plan 9 From Outer Space with mutant werewolves instead of mutant space zombies.

3) Mr. Natural from Zap Comix. Ok, he wasn't actually super, but he was pretty cool. 'I take no gruff when I strut my stuff'.

4) David Hasselhoff pictures. I have over 250 of them on my laptop. Some in various stages of undress. One naked with two Sharpei puppies (don't ask). One dressed in pjs and bear-claw slippers pretending to open a Xmas present. He never met a camera he didn't like.

5) I'd boil up the chicken and veggies and feed it to the dog. Then either order pizza in or go find some deep fried soft-shell crabs and hushpuppies. Chicken. Ick.

6) Same job with same company, 4 cities and 2 countries in the last 3 years. I am so, like, totally DONE with moving house. Getting ready to change countries again, but only for a few months.

7) Never done one. It isn't some gay thing I'm not aware of, is it?

8) Don't know Boulder, but in Sarasota you could tell them their grey-water irrigation system is actually thinning pelican egg shells because they secretly use Herbal Essence shampoo.

9) Xingu black beer from Brazil. Lovely stuff. Wait a minute, I don't feel quilty at all! It must be because I've finally said it! Yes! I drink black beer! Ha Ha Ha Ha, I'm free! Free, I tell you !

10) Either the brass singing bowl from Tibet or the batik hanging from Zimbabwe. Back when you could actually go to that poor, benighted land. Down with Mugabe! Down with ZANU-PF!

that would hurt, that water conservation is killing baby pelicans.

i dunno, but i think maybe you should link us to that picture with the shar pei puppies.

1. What is the most brazen knock-off product or restaurant that you've ever seen? (ie. the infamous Kansas Fried Chicken chain)

Yeah, um, near where I live, there are a number of donut franchises quite obviouly stolen from the famous New England logo with the orange and brown. There's a <i>Dippin</i> Donuts, a <i>Dozen</i> Donuts, a <i>Lovin'</i> Donuts. (Quality varies.)

2. Name a movie so bad, that not even inserting Christopher Walken into the cast would be able to help it.

My imagination, or has the dude been slumming it for the last decade or so? It's even worse than I realized. Gigli? Kangaroo friggin' Jack?!

3. Name the Superhero least likely to have a big-screen movie version filmed.

The Twit.

4. What is the strangest item either you or someone personally acquainted with you has obsessively collected?

Is collecting my kids' lost teeth weird? I have no idea what to do with them.

5. I have some chicken breasts, and a few veggies lying about. What should I cook the Fischerette for dinner tonight?

Grill the motherfuckers. Easy choice.

6. Go back three years. Are you living in the same city and holding the same job? If not, how many times have you changed homes/jobs since then?

I need to move on. Jesus.

7. Do you honestly care about top posts?

Bah.

8. Name the easiest way to enrage a hippie in Boulder or Madison without playing the George W. Bush card.

Drive over their hemp plants with a Hummer.

9. Favorite current guilty pleasure?

I have no guilt about my pleasures. (Um, unless you count this.)

10. What's the favorite piece of art you have in your house?

The mandolins my dad built...

That didn't quite work. I encourage you to figure out where the link belonged.

1. no answer

2. Spiderman 2 or 3

3. no answer

4. I collect Living Dead Dolls. I have over 150 of the bloody buggers!

5. An omelet! Don't forget the cheese! Give her the chicken AND the egg!

6. Same job for almost 10 years. Same home for 5 years.

7. Yes. If I didn't I wouldn't read them. I like the "small questions" posts because it gives me a chance to talk about me!

8. no answer.

9. cinnamin rolls.

10. a painting by a friend of mine called "time to evolve". It is a picture of a man/deer skull and it is amazing!

i just deleted my reply because one of my links did the same thing. took me about a half dozen tries to delete it too.

i covet that mandolin. and i can't even play the darned things.

I just didn't have the energy to do all that.

(And dialup just takes wayyy too long to load anything.)

Ha, me either!

the first time i replied, my links didn't work...

4. there's a collector's society for thomas kinkade stuff. gak.

5. white meat chicken is evil. go to mtoo's for crawfish beignets. alternatively, what keifus said, though i'd cut it all up into chunks and make kabobs.

7. y'all post 'em, i reply to 'em. i am such a parasite.

9. kittens. i'd post a link to my blog, where i blog obsessively about them, but the linky thingy seems broken.

10. art, like top posts, should be rotated, lest it become too familiar and you stop looking at it. that said, i have to admit that i do have a soft spot in my heart for one piece: a 4' tall mixed media/drawing i did of a horse head. it's bad enough that i have it stored away in the back of a closet somewhere, facing the wall, but i had a lot of fun putting it together.