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Scruffy Six Twenty One: Random!

So this scruffy six is a bit random. That is probably because I asked people for questions, but didn't give them all the same subject or explanation. I then narrowed it down to these six winners!

If you were stranded on a desert island, who would you want to play you when they make a movie out of it?
How many Priuses have you seen in the past 24 hours? One hour? How many can you see RIGHT NOW?
What is a perfect marriage proposal?
What is your preference concerning Christmas lights (e.g. icicle, flashing, monochrome, polychrome, overblown, minimalistic)?
What is your favorite Christmas memory?
What is your favorite piece of silverware?

For those of you unfamiliar with scruffy sixes, just answer these questions in the comments and you are all set!

14 December 2006 07:43am UTC • 802 views • 20 comments

Tagged with memories, proposing, prius, movie, holiday, christmas, scruffysix

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20 comments

Dread Pirate Benjamin

14 December 2006 03:04pm UTC
1. Edward Norton!
2. In the last 24 hours I have seen two. The one that is parked in the Mathias parking lot, and mine. I haven't seen any today and I can't see any right now. :(
3. I think the Way Ed Harris does it in Step Mom is pretty great. I think I would want it to be private. To tell you the truth it seems like the decision to get married shouldn't be a one-sided affair, and the whole idea of a proposal is a pretty outdated tradition.
4. I don't like the icicle lights. They were cute at first but they have just been done too much. Not to mention the fact that they only look good on some housrs. My parents have a minimalistic approach to lights and put an electronic candle up in each window of the house. But I think this is a little pretentious so I am not a fan. I like the old lights with big bulbs that were bright colors. Those are my favorites.
5. I honestly couldn't tell you. I have a few distinct memories that stand out in my mind, but they aren't necessarily favorites. Just things that have stuck for some reason. Lately my christmases have been a lot more laid back, where we wake up around 10, and aren't so rushed about things. It has been very nice.
6. The spoon. Most likely because I like eating cereal so much.
And I am shocked no one else has answered these, yet. I really liked these questions!
Boatswain The Fool

14 December 2006 03:46pm UTC
1. Chet Lisiecki. He's the best me I've ever seen!
2. 1, 0, 30
3. While scuba diving, preferably including the subsequent loss of the ring and the hilarity that ensues. Also: one directly preceded by a kiss that turns you into an ogre. That, my friends, is magical.
4. Any sort of christmas light that depicts the playing of Zelda on the NES.
5. When the Grinch stole Christmas. Also: Christmas with Mr. Benjamin Thomas and his twelve children (2008).
6. Anything that is really big and can be melted into its original silver. Also: silverware made out of uranium. I hear that that stuff is valuable.
I only now noticed these questions. They're great!
Peon Peetie

14 December 2006 06:14pm UTC
1. johnny depp. period.
2. probably two. none. none.
3. over a nice dinner, disguised initially as a very emotional toast. the whole knee thing is optional
4. monochrome minimalistic. very much NON-flashing, and i'm not into the icicle thing
5. every year we play charades in front of the fire. recently, this has included very delicious wines. though it's not a single memory, this is what i love about christmas
6. can i say chopsticks? even if they're not silver (since i hate metal or plastic chopsticks). if not, i really think knives are pretty incredible, even if that makes me sound like some sort of crazed lunatic. spoons are also very practical. forks are useless given chopsticks or knives or spoons.
Steve the Interloper

14 December 2006 07:20pm UTC
1. Martin Landau
2. 0, 0, 0 (though now I will start noticing them everywhere)
3. One that is accepted.
4. Over-the-top bizarre and on someone else's house. There was a great little street in Austin where the people would do alien spaceships crashed in the front yard and volcanoes that went off every five minutes.
5. Two year ago my son (then almost three years old) came into the living room, saw all the presents and said quietly "he came."
6. We have a kick-ass bread knife (if cutlery is silverware)
Completely in love with Benjamin

14 December 2006 07:48pm UTC
1. Claire Danes. My So-Called Life has given me a renewed appreciation for her.
2. None, although I'm not very observant so I may have seen very many and just not noticed.
3. Any marriage proposal from someone you're in love with and want to marry.
4. I do like the icicles. I prefer white christmas lights in general.
5. Going home and finding a fake artsy christmas tree instead of a full real one. I've grown to love it since, but it was hilarious when I first saw it. The branches are really thin so it doesn't look too healthy, and it was decorated only with bird ornaments. My brother and I got a huge kick out of it.
6. Teaspoons. I don't like to eat with any spoon that's larger.
Peon Peetie

14 December 2006 08:48pm UTC

steve: i like that christmas story. sounds like one of those little things that you'll never forget (and i'm being completely serious, in case my comment sounds insincere)
Steve the Interloper

14 December 2006 10:02pm UTC

Thanks Peetie. I was going to add to the end of that story the phrase "...and at that moment, we knew he would believe anything we told him." But that would be mean. And insincere.
Sailing Master Keri

15 December 2006 03:32am UTC
1. sarah michelle gellar
2. 1, 1, and 0
3. no preference, but not something public. that would be stressful!
4. i like them all. seriously! chrismas lights are just the greatest. although, i'm not a big fan of the icicles.
5. i really can't think of one right now. i'll get back to you...
6. the spoon
Astronomer Katelin

15 December 2006 05:56am UTC

1) Alison Lohman

2) 1,0,0

3) I want it to be in a memorable spot, especially if it's in nature or the park. I just like the idea of having a special spot to remember. I wouldn't want anybody to be around and I think it would be better if no knee was involved. I like the idea of being on equal ground. I also think the proposal thing is kind of old fashioned, but it's really nice at the same time. So, I think that it should just be that the first person who feels the need should propose and it shouldn't have to be the guy. I think it would be amazing to be the proposer and plan everything out. Anyways, so nature and a nice speech would do it for me.

4) I think my favorites are the old fashioned white ones and very classy or wild and crazy with tons of color. Nothing in between will do.

5) My family has a CD of funny christmas songs including grandma got run over by a raindeer, chipmunk songs, and I saw daddy kissing santa claus and my memory is of singing loudly to all of the songs and putting up ornaments on the tree. We did it every year until I left for school.

6) spoon, especialy the ones that if you suck on them they have a metallic spoon taste. Some of you might know what I am talking about and the rest will just think I am crazy.
Robert

15 December 2006 07:27am UTC

I know what you are talking about, but I think you are crazy for liking the taste of metal.

The Fool: You should get the special edition of how the grinch stole christmas. All you have to do is tape it when it's on TV, but stop halfway through so the grinch gets away with it.

Anyway, questions.
1. Tom Cruise, because as far as I know he is short, and he is familiar with the mild insanity which would come with being stranded on an island. He is also familiar with NINJA brand motorcycles after his role in Top Gun.
2. Too many to count, 0, and 0. It's like 1 am here.
3. It would be kinda neat to see a girl proposing to the guy.
4. Probably mostly white lights.
5. Waking up at like 5am when we were younger, then waiting for what seemed like forever for the parents to get up. At least that's my favorite memory out of the ones they implanted to make me feel more human.
6. Forks I guess? I think they're the most versatile probably.
GalleyWench

15 December 2006 01:17pm UTC
1. How would they know my story? I'd be dead!
2. 0,0,0 sadly
3. Something private and somewhere that means something to both of you. If this means in bed, on a mountain, scuba diving, etc. Then great. Just something that makes you know they are thinking of both of you when they do it. Oh, and the knee thing in public would just embarass me and make me uncomfortable. I think I would decline a public proposal.
4. For outside white or multicolored but tasteful. Often this means strung with greenery or something. I like the classic look of white lights, but colored can be fun. Always the little lights though. I hate the big bulbs.
5. I have a few that relate to Christmas, but not necessarily on the day. Our living room had a fire place. I would turn on the fireplace, put on Christmas music and read a book for hours curled up on the couch. We had our decorations up (especially our advent boxes and calendars and the St. Nicholas wooden shoes on by the fire place) and the tree smell permeated the room. That or the smell of baking. The lighting was also really warm and cozy. I also remember baking bread and cookies with my mom while in a warm kitchen listening to christmas music. These were both even better if there was snow outside.
6. Small tea spoons. You can measure your life with them.
Cotton Eyed Joy

15 December 2006 09:03pm UTC
1. At the beginning of the school year, 3 people told me that I looked like Jennifer Connelly. So I guess her...
2. 0,0,0. I donâ€™t get out much.
3. Does all of this talk about marriage scare anyone else?
4. I love lights! Iâ€™m not a big fan of the icicle lights either. It makes me miss having a lot of snow for Christmas too much. Nothing can really compare to icicles reflecting christmas lights.
5. When my family used to live in an apartment, the time after Christmas was a lot of fun. A lot of the residents didnâ€™t know what to do with their Christmas trees so they just threw them in a pile outside. In a short period of time the pile became pretty big. It was truly an imaginary wonderland for the entertainment starved brother and sister.
6. Spooning? Can I be the little spoon?
Kate the Quiet

17 December 2006 05:19pm UTC
1. Jane Austen. Perfect narrative voice; she'd make the movie far more interesting than any BBC production. She kind of looked like a giant baby, though. Maybe I should pick someone else...
2. I have seen one Prius in the last twenty-four hours. None in the past hour or right now, however. The Prius I did see is probably at the Omelette place...
3. One that is solicited by Jim Halpert, of course!
4. I don't have the patience to deal with Christmas lights: they always get tangled up, and after about twenty minutes I end up throwing them across the room, exhausted from struggling to untie the knots.
5. When I was seven, I wrote a Christmas play for my sisters and I to act out (they were five and three). My dad even spraypainted a giant cardboard box so we could have a sleigh!
6. I agree with Benji. Spoons are the best.
Carpenter Kathleen

19 December 2006 03:19pm UTC
1. Julie Andrews. It'd be a musical.
2. People don't drive Priuses in Oklahoma. Just Chevys.
3. Marriage proposals are ridiculous, as are engagement rings. What a waste!
4. I like white lights all year long, but those old-school colored bulbs are pretty sweet. I hate those inflatable things everyone has now, though. Inevitably they deflate, and it looks like Santa's passed out after a bender on your front lawn.
5. My favorite thing about Christmas is the smell of Scotch tape.
6. I need big spoons and short forks.
The Anonymous Poppy

20 December 2006 05:30pm UTC
1. I'd want to play myself! Failing that, Julia Stiles.
2. Meh, I dunno.
3. One that I say yes to! I don't like the bended-knee thing at all. I'm not a big fan of the recreating-the-first-date thing either. Other than that I don't have many ideas. If a guy proposes to me with an engagement ring though (especially a diamond solitaire), it'll be a good indication that he does not know me well enough to ask me to marry him. It would almost be grounds for me to turn him down, I think. I suppose if I really like him we can try to make it work.
4. I like those nets of white lights that people put on their bushes. I saw one of those that was covered in snow a few weeks ago and it looked really cool with the lights glowing out though the snow. I like anything that looks artistic and deliberate, like someone really enjoys putting up Christmas lights and spent the day making sure they look nice.
5. When I was 8 or something I got a bike for Christmas. That was the first time I got a Christmas gift that I didn't want at all and didn't really know what to do with. I kinda like that memory.
Oh, one year my sister drew this huge fireplace on butcher paper and we hung it on the living room wall, ostensibly because we don't have a fireplace and we needed to make a way for Santa to get into the house. (I've never believed in Santa, but I had never realized that my sister was so artistic until she drew that gorgeous roaring fire.)

Tying a quilt with my family last year was fun; we all just talk about... stuff while we work on it. And listening to my parents bicker while setting up the quilt was fun, too.

And I agree with Kathleen: the smell of Scotch tape is such a great part of Christmas! I never would have thought of that.
1. I'm going to take a stand here and say that I do not like the spoon. At all. Easily my least favorite utensil. I will always choose a fork.
First Mate Beca

21 December 2006 05:49am UTC
1. selma hayek in the sexy version, jennifer connely in the scary version
2. MAYBE 1, none, and none
3. I don't know, as long as I love him whatever he says will probably be right, although I love surprises as well as time honored traditions
4. I like the pretty little white twinkle lights, the make everything feel like it is glowing
5. asking santa to leave us some cookies...my mom made us leave him the whole batch and my sister's and I felt that was unfair. Later it was revealed that they actually donated the cookies...that was back when home cooked foods were still considered safe.
wearing our matiching family pajamas

making mexican hot chocolate, playing monopoly until my little sister ran from the room crying and my mom eventually won by default because she claimed everyone else was cheating
1. the spoon is the most asthetically pleasing to me, but I do enjoy a fancy butter knife, or I will say I have gained a new appreciation for chopsticks and prefer them to using a fork when I can.
Carpenter Courtney

21 December 2006 01:13pm UTC
1. Julia Louis Dreyfus.
2. Leeland, and none other.
3. Tim's! ;)
4. No lights on the house for me--I'd rather crank up the heat. So I guess I'm an uber-minimalist.
5. I remember instructing my sister to thank everyone who gave her gifts (especially me) when she was about 2. It always makes me smile.
6. Dear god, has no one mentioned the spork yet? The SPORK!
Boots

21 December 2006 07:04pm UTC
1. Boo from Monsters Inc. or Stitch from Lilo and Stitch
2. Not a one
3. The cheeky part of me would like to respond "not one directed towards me," but the tender part of me would like to be proposed to or do the proposing in the kitchen while we were preparing a well-loved meal together and drinking a bit of wine.
4. The sooner we get rid of icicle lights the better. My favorite are the big, colored bulbs used sparingly. They always look so warm and cozy.
5. There are so many lovely ones. Right now, I'm thinking of the ornaments that go on our family tree. Most of them were made by my brother, sister, and me with the help of our mother when we were just little things.
Many of them are constructed out of salt dough my mother made. We shaped red and white dough into candy canes, or we used cookie cutters to cut out Christmasy shapes.

I remember always thinking the dough would be yummy, taking one bite, and then being subsequently traumatized by the taste.

Then, there was the painting. We would always try to make them christmasy by painting them red and green but would invariably mix the colors on the ornament with our childish clumsiness and end up with a lot of poop brown stockings, Frosties, and trees.

We still put them up, and I taste salt every time I look at them.
1. This is the one question to which I absolutely know the answer. The spoon! A favorite utensil, band, and verb.
Robert

22 December 2006 04:46am UTC

The Prius question might make more sense in Portland, because there is like one on every block here.
GalleyWench

23 December 2006 10:03pm UTC

I think that the stranded on a desert island should be changed to stranded in a snow storm.