X-Quizzes... with notes.

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I was running around gleaning quizzes from some of my Friends, and decided to do an annotated X-Men run here. Then I've got to get dressed and run around and do errands. I was such a slug yesterday -- stress.

I got Bobby Drake the first time, so I yawned mightily, hit the back button, and rechose a bit. I did NOT choose the 'blue skin' obvious answer(s), just so you know I didn't cheat.
Who Is Your Ideal X-Men 2 Mate? (ladies only)
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( Bet you've already guessed )

This is for all those Alan Cumming fangirls:
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'When asked about filming the tail, Cumming had this revealing tidbit to share. "Sometimes I'm wearing it and sometimes I'm not, because sometimes it's done afterwards. There's tails of various consistencies of boinginess. If I don't have the full tail, I have this stub thing with dots on it for special effects people to do things with afterwards. And that's quite popular with the ladies (laughs) and gentleman as well. And myself." '

*COUGH*

Now... see? No cheating. It's a blue thing, I guess (no Marvel puns intended).
The Ultimate X-men Soul Mate Quiz!(male and female characters)
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( [smile, shrug] )

BTW, the actor who was Hank McCoy on the TV set is Steve Bacic ('BA-chic' I believe). Steve's a stocky-but-taller-than-he-looks, Vancouver-based actor who played the Andromeda-betraying Nietzchean first officer Gaheris Rhade in Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda, as well as an SG team leader in two episodes of Stargate SG-1 and a few other action-type roles. I am delighted to see that he's quite obviously on his way UP.

Which X-Men character are you most like?
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( Wouldn't have guessed this one )

Speaking of the teaching thing....
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'One thing Davison did like about working on the X-Men films is working with Patrick Stewart. He said, "I adore Patrick. One of my favorite all-time memories is a lot of the X-Men sitting on bar stools learning photon torpedo acting from Patrick, who would say, 'One through ten. Now, one is a little nudge; ten, you fly across the room.' We'd all be sitting there, and he'd say, 'Seven!' and everybody would go, blam! That's photon torpedo acting." '

Southkeep High Table gear

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Here's an SCA-ish entry -- translations available on request and prodding.

Some years ago, my shire decided to invest in nice place-settings for when royalty came down to visit -- rare, but it did happen. So I got to do the shopping, and had great fun doing so.

Then, many years later, after I threw fearsome hissy-fits at finding most of the linens vanished from the box, glass candleholders broken, etc, I restored the feast gear and said 'MINE!!!' and have been caring for it since.

I added 8 placesettings so we could seat a fairly full High Table to the 4 we had, and got 95% of the flatware to go with it. I say 95% because there's only one set-of-three for two 'royal' settings, and I'm missing... erm, 4 teaspoons out of 8 for the below-the-salt settings.

I hate things not matching up. Yes, ladeez and gennlemen, this is Classic Fannish Obsessive/Compulsiveness at work -- must have SETS of things! *wink*

So this past paycheque I've been able to indulge in buying serving gear for said High Table -- nice-looking 'crystal' plasticware that won't break either hearts or budgets if it gets broken, but isn't dead cheap either.

I've been trying to find that flatware on-line so I can complete it, but there's a problem -- I have no idea who made it or what it's called, except the closest I've got to it so far is a pattern from Marshall Fields called 'Black Lily'. And THAT is way too expensive.

So what I'm probably going to go with, if I can find it somewhere, is Michael Aran's 'Santa Fe' pattern, one pair (of placesettings) in polished, one pair in matte-black. It's not exactly the same, but it DOES have three-tined forks (VERY good selling point) and it is cheaper than the more-similar Pier 1 design (w/ four tines, baaaad) or the 'Black Lily'.

Want the inventory of the serving gear? *fanatic grin*

Oh, and just because they were clever -- picked up a dozen of these cobalt-glass fish-shaped... 'snack dishes' they called them. Goes with the Trimarian sea theme. Heh. Don't know what to put IN them, but we'll think of something.

Hmmm... salt spoons and butter-knives? Hmmmm....