So on Halloween I thought we might have a sort of weird-ish meme. Well of course it’s weird, it has 13 questions!
Let’s go …
- Can you describe your boobs using only a SFW picture of them?
- If you suddenly found out that your internal monologue for the last week was actually audible, how screwed would you be?
Totally and utterly fucked, and probably certified.
- What two totally normal things become really weird if you do them back to back?
Wanking. Well two of you wanking back-to-back is a bit weird isn’t it? Why wouldn’t you do it face-to-face so you can watch each other?
- What ridiculous and untrue, yet slightly plausible, theories can you come up with for the cause of common ailments?
- Dental cavities are caused by the mouth imps mining for pearls.
- It’s well known that people feel weak when they’re ill. This is because the elastic bands perish. Convalescence is needed to re-vulcanise the elastic.
- Headaches are caused by a parasite scrubbing limescale off the inside of the skull; migraines happen when they reproduce and the nymphs get out of control like the Sorcerer’s Apprentice.
- What secret conspiracy would you like to start?
The one that turns out to be true.
- What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever eaten or drunk?
Well not really in the weird category, but Retsina probably wins by a short head from Absinthe. Both are absolutely vile.
- Are aliens real? How do you know?
Who knows? They’re at least as likely as anything in #4 is of being true! I’ll be surprised if they don’t exist somewhere in the universe, but we’ll likely never know for sure. Indeed can we ever know? See this in New Scientist.
- What’s your first executive order as king of this third-word country?
(Re)nationalise all public transport and utilities; make all public transport (bus, train, tram) free; then ban the private car and internal air travel.
- Do you believe in the paranormal and would you go ghost hunting?
As a scientist I find it difficult to credit the paranormal but I also know that there are many things we don’t (and maybe never can) understand so I concede that the paranormal is indeed a possibility. And yes, I would go ghost hunting.
- What’s the weirdest thing you’ve never done but want to?
See a corpse flower. No, not like that! I means going to see an Amorphophallus titanum in flower.
- Have you ever been to a séance?
Yes, we held séances during power cuts when I was a student.
- Have you ever met a supernatural being?
Not visibly embodied, but certainly the effects of one – at least twice; once in an old empty house as a child; and again as a post-grad student at a friend’s flat.
- Tell us something unusual/weird about yourself.
I think I exist.
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