31 posts tagged “qotd”

What are your first thoughts upon waking?
Submitted by Cher Cabula.

it was just a dream, it was just a dream

What is one thing you MUST do before you go to bed at night?

take off my socks.  now you know.

Awhile back there was a QotD question about what cliche or phrase do you wish weren't used anymore- something like that.

Well, I thought of one this morning on the drive to work.  I heard the phrase, 'just a crutch', used in a song, and I cringed.

I do not like the phrase 'just a crutch'.  A crutch is a good thing!  Literally speaking, without crutches, people who have difficulty walking would be left crawling on the ground or left to sit on the sidelines.  'Just a crutch' is yet another term that tempts those with physical disabilities to feel different than others, prejudged, and overlooked.

Spiritually speaking, I feel offended by that term, as it is used to describe everything from religion to addictions, etc, in criticism that those who depend on things like that should instead pull themselves up by their bootstraps and stand on their own, in endorsement of that wonderful ideology of self-sufficiency.  However, those of us who utilize 'crutches' such as the above do so because we can't stand on our own.  We need something to help us walk.  We just need to learn to use the right kind of crutch. 

The crutch of religion or addiction must be laid down, not so we can because more self-reliant but so we can become more dependent on Jesus.

Oh, my goodness, I'm actually going to say it- Jesus is my crutch, my walker, my wheelchair, and my gurney.  Ah, that's too cheesy to post.  :-D

Have you ever been skinny dipping?

Used to do it all the time.  Would take my skinny friends by the ankles and dip them head first into my gravy or whatever sauce I had available, then I'd send them on their way, laughing as they ran into doors and things till they could get the sauce out of their eyes.  Course they weren't really my friends after that.

How old were you when you had your first "official" boyfriend or girlfriend? What was he/she like?

4th grade, so 9 or 10.  His name was Jason, a tall, blonde, shy kid who smiled a lot and wore glasses.  Our relationship consisted of him asking me to 'go out with him', me telling my friends that Jason and I were 'going out', and the two of us mutually breaking up about a day later.  The stuff of Jane Austen novels.

What compliment are you most often given?

Oh, you're not that short.

If you could teleport to any place in the world right this second, where would you go?

To the patent office to get a patent for my teleport machine.

How do you keep calm? 
Submitted by L33tchica.  

WHAT MAKES YOU THINK I KEEP CALM, YOU SORRY @#$%!!!  WAS THIS A JOKE?!  ARE YOU MAKING FUN OF ME?  HUH?  ANSWER ME, YOU COWARD!!!!!

j/k

Finish this sentence: "I am glad to say that I have never ___." 
Submitted by chl*.

...met a sentence I couldn't finish."

What are your Major League Baseball playoff predictions?

I predict that I will be signing in big relief by the time the MLB playoffs get here.  I hate sports, and I hate pretending that I can tolerate them.  (I do the head nodding thing during sports talk with the people around me in mock interest.)

Of course, in my world baseball's a whole lot better than college football season.  I root for the OU Sooners along with everyone else around in this city, not because I care anything about the OU Sooners, but because it's everyone for himself around here when the Sonners lose a game.  You've never seen so many broken car windows, cases of road rage, and intense bouts of endless sobbing.

Dislike sports- but I love that some people love them.  I love that we are all so different.  Some day I'll really mean that.  (Just kidding.)