{"id":628,"date":"2006-07-28T12:18:34","date_gmt":"2006-07-28T12:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=628"},"modified":"2006-07-28T12:18:34","modified_gmt":"2006-07-28T12:18:34","slug":"email_meme_about_me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2006\/07\/28\/email_meme_about_me\/","title":{"rendered":"E-mail Meme: About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you can probably guess from the subject line up, I received the following via e-mail. It&#8217;s somewhat meme-ish, so I thought I&#8217;d post it up here, just in case my three loyal readers are feeling voyeuristic and want to know all about me. Plus, it has the added benefit of allowing me to throw up a quick, low-effort entry for y&#8217;all:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nINSTRUCTIONS: Place an X by all the things you&#8217;ve done, or remove the x from the ones you have not, and send it to all of your friends (including me). [<b>Ed. note:<\/b> Obviously, those instructions are geared around e-mail, but I suppose by posting it here, I am essentially &#8220;sending it to all of my friends.]<\/p>\n<p>In your entire life, have you ever:<\/p>\n<p>(X) Smoked a cigarette<br \/>\n(X) Drank so much you threw up<br \/>\n( ) Crashed a friend&#8217;s car<br \/>\n( ) Stolen a car<br \/>\n(X) Been in love<br \/>\n(X) Been dumped<br \/>\n(X) Been laid off\/fired<br \/>\n(X) Quit your job<br \/>\n( ) Been in a fist fight with my brother and sister!<br \/>\n( ) Snuck out of your parent&#8217;s house<br \/>\n(X) Had feelings for someone who didn&#8217;t have them back<br \/>\n( ) Been arrested<br \/>\n(X) Gone on a blind date<br \/>\n(X) Lied to a friend<br \/>\n(X) Skipped school<br \/>\n(X) Been skinny-dipping<br \/>\n( ) Seen someone die<br \/>\n( ) Been to Canada<br \/>\n( ) Been to Mexico<br \/>\n(X) Been on a plane<br \/>\n(X) Been lost<br \/>\n( ) Been to Washington, DC<br \/>\n(X) Swam in the ocean<br \/>\n(X) Felt like dying<br \/>\n(X) Cried yourself to sleep<br \/>\n(X) Played cops and robbers<br \/>\n(X) Recently colored with crayons<br \/>\n( ) Sang karaoke<br \/>\n( ) Paid for a meal with only coins<br \/>\n(X) Done something (or someone) you told yourself you wouldn&#8217;t?<br \/>\n(X) Made prank phone calls<br \/>\n( ) Laughed until some kind of beverage came out of your nose<br \/>\n(X) Caught a snowflake on your tongue.<br \/>\n(X) Danced in the rain<br \/>\n(X) Been kissed under the mistletoe,<br \/>\n(X) Watched the sun rise with someone you care about<br \/>\n(X) Blown bubbles<br \/>\n( ) Made a bonfire on the beach<br \/>\n( ) Crashed a party<br \/>\n(X) Gone roller-skating<br \/>\n(X) Gone Ice-skating<br \/>\n( ) Gotten a tattoo [<b>Ed. note:<\/b> do the temporary henna variety count?]<br \/>\n(X) Gotten a body piercing [<b>Ed. note:<\/b> amuse yourselves by trying to guess where&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>How much do you love your job (scale of 1-10)? Eh, maybe a 6. On a good day.<br \/>\nBirthplace? Salt Lake City<br \/>\nFavorite vacation spot? Europe<br \/>\nEver been to Africa? No, but I&#8217;d like to.<br \/>\nEver steal any traffic signs? Not signs per se, but I did make off with one of those orange flashing barricade lights once.<br \/>\nEver been in a car accident? Yes<br \/>\nTwo-door or four-door? Two-door<br \/>\nFavorite salad dressing? The creamy pesto at Old Spaghetti Factory.<br \/>\nFavorite pie? Key lime<br \/>\nFavorite number? I&#8217;m not big on numbers&#8230;<br \/>\nFavorite movie? Duh &#8212; just look around this blog a little&#8230; (Okay, fine, if I must specifically say it, <i>Star Wars<\/i> &#8212; the original, unf&amp;*^ed-with, non-episode-anything version)<br \/>\nFavorite holiday? Halloween<br \/>\nFavorite food? Pastrami burger<br \/>\nFavorite day of the week? Sunday &#8212; Brunch and Matinee Day!<br \/>\nFavorite brand of body soap? Ivory<br \/>\nFavorite TV shows? Of the shows currently running (as opposed to old stuff I watch on DVD), <i>24<\/i>, <i>Lost<\/i>, and <i>The Amazing Race<\/i><br \/>\nToothpaste? Colgate<br \/>\nFavorite smell? Sage brush after a good rain storm<br \/>\nWhat do you do to relax? Blog&#8230;<br \/>\nMessage to your friends reading this? Thanks for your indulgence<br \/>\nHow do you see yourself in 10 years? Not very clearly&#8230; stupid defective crystal ball, anyhow&#8230;<br \/>\nWhat do you do when you are bored? Blog&#8230;<br \/>\nFurthest place you will send this message? Thanks to the powers of the Inter-Web, the ends of the earth<br \/>\nWho will respond the fastest? Probably The Girlfriend<br \/>\nLeast likely to respond? All of those lurkers who never leave comments<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you can probably guess from the subject line up, I received the following via e-mail. It&#8217;s somewhat meme-ish, so I thought I&#8217;d post it up here, just in case my three loyal readers are feeling voyeuristic and want to know all about me. Plus, it has the added benefit of allowing me to throw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memes-and-quizzes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}