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chessbeatswork 01-Feb-07, 10:01	Naked I'll do anything nak...um, I mean, at least if I can see the thing I have a hope. I can't fight to begin with, so putting a blindfold on me just makes it worse. Then again, seeing me stumble around flailing my limbs futilely might send the apparition into an incapacitiating fit of evil, burbling giggles. Of course even if it did, I'd just run into a wall and knock myself unconscious, too. So, I gotta go naked. You can have dinner with any author, living or dead. Who is it?
spygirl 01-Feb-07, 10:05	Author Shakespeare.... I really get his off beat sense of humor....and I bet dinner, over some beers, would be a heck of a lot of fun   What piece of modern technology can you absolutely not live without?
gusr 01-Feb-07, 14:49	The Fridge It's really convenient to be able to store all kinds of food all year around. If you could have one thing that affected no one else but you what would it be and why?
ribbleton 02-Feb-07, 04:55	A Ring of invisiblity To test if I really am a good guy! If you had such a ring?
rilke 06-Feb-07, 13:50	my power To test how poweful I can be. Which Poet do you admire the most?
spygirl 06-Feb-07, 14:19	Hard to pick just one poet.... And I'm not sure I'd use the word admire, but I really have a thing for Pablo Neruda's poetry. I also really like Emerson. If you had your choice of places, anywhere in the world, where would you live?
rilke 07-Feb-07, 00:47	San Francisco This is Home ! I feel connected here. My family is here too!! If you have a choice to visit South America, which country would you love to see first?
chessbeatswork 07-Feb-07, 09:44	Brazil If it's during the World Cup. You hit the lottery for X millions of dollars. Do you take the cash payout (with the corresponding tax bite) or the annuity for twenty years?
slyfox4323 13-Feb-07, 03:54	pay out I would take the pay out, buy several well esablished businesses while leaving the corporate running all the same and make my own annuity checks : ) If you had one wish before you died what would it be?
rilke 15-Feb-07, 07:32	travel More travelling around the world. If you have to reincarnate in this life, what would like to be (not a human being)?
chessbeatswork 15-Feb-07, 07:35	A cheetah! Coolest animals on the planet. Absolute marvels of engineering. The president wants you as a member of his/her cabinet. You have been given your choice of post. What position do you take?
rilke 15-Feb-07, 07:41	Secretary fo State Very important position. If you were a Painter, what would you like to paint first and why?
chessbeatswork 16-Feb-07, 10:13	Self portrait But I can't articulate why. It just seems like it would be the thing to do. What do you conider the most important factor contirbuting to satisfaction with one's job (i.e. salary, nature of work, environment, relations with co-workers, etc)?
spygirl 16-Feb-07, 10:23	Nature of work.... I believe you need to enjoy what you're doing. Frankly, I'm a lawyer and I really don't like the practice of law...sure salary's good, but if you aren't happy about going to work every day, then what's the point. I've been at jobs where I love my co-workers and we've had a lot of fun, but if the nature of the work isn't something you like or for which you don't have a passion, that's not going to keep you happy in the long run. Neither is salary. If I had to do it all over again, I wouldn't have gone into law. I'm hoping to bide time to open my own business...doing what, I don't know. If you could change/reform one thing in your country, what would it be (i.e. implement socialized medicine, abolish capital punishment, etc.) and why?
chessbeatswork 16-Feb-07, 10:33	Education I would reform the public education system in the United States. It's broken, badly broken. I would want to institute something based along the lines of the German or Japanese model of elementary and secondary education. I'd do this because I believe a well educated population is the backbone to a successful society. If you could travel back in time, what time in your life would you travel back to (teens, childhood, college years, etc)?
rilke 16-Feb-07, 13:29	Teens That was fun, and no worries....Time for girlfriends,parties,sports,etc. Name a Shakespeare play that you have not read, and would like now to have the time to read it !
chessbeatswork 16-Feb-07, 13:32	Hamlet Believe it or not, I never had it assigned for school, and have never gotten around to reading it on my own. Staying with the Shakespeare theme: If you could ask only one question of the Bard, what would it be?
spygirl 16-Feb-07, 13:50	I would ask Shakespeare If he actually wrote the plays on his own original thinking or whether the rumour about him not actually writing them is true. I'd ask him more, but you've only asked me to allow him one question   Continuing on with Shakespeare, what would you ask him?
chessbeatswork 16-Feb-07, 13:56	Self-awareness I would ask him if he honestly had any inkling of just what a literary giant he would become (no false modesty allowed on his part!). I've often wondered if those who have changed the world had any idea just how far-reaching they would be as they were producing their works. Yet again with Shakespeare: What do you find most appealing about his work (characters, use of language, themes, etc)?
rilke 17-Feb-07, 09:31	Everything He changed the language. He invented at least 10, 000 words. His characters are the most apealling and controversial than any other work of Literature. The themes are very universal! Still on Shakespeare >< It seems that Shakespeare parents were not very educated, meaning they never learn how to read and write. What do you know about this or think about it?
spygirl 19-Feb-07, 06:25	I think.... uneducated parents could have been the very reason that Shakespeare became such a literary giant (as chessbeatswork used the term)...perhaps he saw his parents' limitations and determined for himself that he was not going to follow that path, as I believe the lack of an education or the inability to read and write can quite curtail the options one has/had in terms of income, productivity in society, advancement in society....Perhaps growing up having illiterate parents was the driving force in Shakespear becoming what some regard as a literary genius. Sticking with Shakespeare again...who is your favorite Shakespearian character and why?
rilke 19-Feb-07, 08:18	Hamlet and Iago Hamlet for his wit,intelligence and personality. He dominates the play.Everything in the play is centered around him. Iago, for his wit and intelligence too; only for his evil plans he uses this attributes. But he is charismatic and deceiveng; but he controls the paly and he controls not only Othello; but every character fo the play. Why in this modern age, we still see plays and movies adaptation on Shakespeare's works?
chessbeatswork 19-Feb-07, 08:52	Timelessness I think its because the themes underlying so many of Shakespeare's works depend upon the human condition. The love of Romeo and Juliet, the treachery within MacBeth, the gender conflict in the Taming of the Shrew, et al are issues that will always be a part of humanity. It also doesn't hurt that these themes and issues were presented in such ingenious fashion. Switching gears, it's time for a form of word association. If I say 'genius', you think of...?
rilke 19-Feb-07, 09:01	Issac Newton Newton was a genius! If I say vegetable, you think of ...?
chessbeatswork 19-Feb-07, 09:06	Broccoli... ....vile weed! Since we've moved the word association to its own thread, I'll deliver a new line of questioning. If you could eliminate only one 'ism' from humanity, which would it be?
rilke 19-Feb-07, 09:38	Terrorism You are writing a love song......pls write a few words of your song?
rilke 20-Apr-07, 12:52	song And when we meet, it will be a place filled of flowers and animals, our song will remain there. Tell us for your favorite Ernest Hemingway novel and why?
spygirl 20-Apr-07, 13:49	Ernest Hemingway... Ugh...I don't really care for his writings.... I guess I'd have to say The Old Man and the Sea....only for the theme of the defeated hero.
spygirl 25-Apr-07, 13:07	sorry...next question.... If you could direct a movie, which actor and actress would you cast in the lead roles?
rilke 25-Apr-07, 13:19	Director..myself Cate Blanchett and Denzel Washington What advice can you give to somebody who is learning how to play chess?
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