I got tagged by my favorite boatlady, Batten, who herself was tagged by Back Nine.
Here are the rules:
Tagged players post eight random facts/habits about themselves. At the end of your post, you tag eight more victims suckers newbs people; they then write their list of eight in their own blogs and post the rules. Be sure to leave comments for your eight patsies losers targets invisible friends.
I don't tag people. I prefer to give anyone who reads the option of doing it themselves, or not. But I do try to fulfill tags if they happen to me, no matter how not crazy about being tagged I am.
Also, I made a rule some time ago that, if anyone has been tagged for the same meme and doesn't want to do it, reading mine all the way through renders them immune.
That said, here are eight random facts/habits about me, but since I've been tagged with variations of this meme over and over for the past few years, I'm going to make this one about sticks, just for a change.
- My favorite clean joke is, "What do you call a boomerang that doesn't come back?" (Answer: "A stick.")
- My favorite variation of the above joke was told by an island woman of my acquaintance. Envision the following being told by a tiny woman with a lilting French accent: "And why does the boomerang not come back when he throws it? Because it was a stick!"
- My second favorite clean joke is, "What's brown and sticky?" (Answer is, again: "A stick.")
- I like the phrase "More than you can shake a stick at," but nobody knows for sure where it originated. Don't bother looking it up online. I already did. Even World Wide Words had a bunch of theories but didn't know which was right.
- I like corn dogs, creamsicles, and those gourmet lollipops from Linda's Lollies.
- I also have rather an unhealthy crush on José Jalapeño.
- I'm not only always amused when the Mom says, "It's better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick," but whenever anyone else says it (I heard actor James Cromwell use it in an interview once, for example) I automatically identify that person forever as one of the Mom's "peeps."
- The Monty Python episode with Eric Idle asking the RSM (played by John Cleese) about when they will be taught to defend themselves against pointed sticks (instead of against fresh fruit) is adorable no matter how many times I see it.