Five Question Friday 4/30/2010

[skatingtripods]

1. Now that April's ending, what's the best thing that happened to you this past month?

2. If you had to write a 20-page paper on the topic of your choice, what would you write about?

3. If you plan on having kids of your own (or already have), what is (was) the one thing you vow(ed) to do better than your parents/guardians did?

4. If you could live in any country in the world, what would it be and why?

5. What was your favorite field trip in school?

[Squints]

1. Daughter #2 born on the second.

2. I'd recycle my research paper in college, "Aquatic Therapy/Gait Cycle/Post-stroke" in a nut-shell. I know, I fell asleep as I typed it. But seriously, I would pick something that I am interested in like baseball.

3. My dad was busy developing his business when I was the same age my oldest daughter is now. I vowed to spend more time with her than my dad did with me, take her places on my own, without my wife. Took her to 2 Cavs game this year, just her and I, she watched the entire game. It was fun. However, I must say my parents were good parents.

4. Mexico, if I could live right on the beach.
Ireland, have been there, it was very cool. Could learn to drive on the left and English is th primary language.
For some odd reason, I've always wanted to live in Sweden too.

5. Italy junoir year of high school

[Cerebral_DownTime]

1. Now that April's ending, what's the best thing that happened to you this past month?

2. If you had to write a 20-page paper on the topic of your choice, what would you write about?

3. If you plan on having kids of your own (or already have), what is (was) the one thing you vow(ed) to do better than your parents/guardians did?

4. If you could live in any country in the world, what would it be and why?

5. What was your favorite field trip in school?

1. Sex.

2. The Roman Republic/Empire (before they adopted Christianity).

3. Not planning yet, but my parents were great and I don't think I could do a better job.

4. Germany, in my heart I know it's where i'm supposed to be.

5. Natural History Museum and COSI.

[jb]

1. Now that April's ending, what's the best thing that happened to you this past month?

2. If you had to write a 20-page paper on the topic of your choice, what would you write about?

3. If you plan on having kids of your own (or already have), what is (was) the one thing you vow(ed) to do better than your parents/guardians did?

4. If you could live in any country in the world, what would it be and why?

5. What was your favorite field trip in school?

Bout damntime Adam! Been waiting all day. ;-)

1. I got a kegorator.

2. Eyeeyeo - when schoolyard bullies graduate to the interwebs

3. When you f up as a parent, fess up and admit it. Let them know you aren't perfect.
Apologize when you are wrong.

4. I have no effing idea. I guess the USA if we could split the whole thing along the lines of normal Ohio and Ohio Classic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr3ftmvO ... re=related

5. 7th grade, Ohio history museum.

[British_Pharaoh]

1. Now that April's ending, what's the best thing that happened to you this past month?

Booked trip to Amsterdam. took 2 beautiful ladies to 2 operas (separately of course)

2. If you had to write a 20-page paper on the topic of your choice, what would you write about?
Anything involving Nazi Germany or music

3. If you plan on having kids of your own (or already have), what is (was) the one thing you vow(ed) to do better than your parents/guardians did?

I can't even think about kids right now

4. If you could live in any country in the world, where would it be and why?
Rio De Janiero - Brazil
here's why


Or Obersalzburg or even anywhere around the Bavarian Alps

5. What was your favorite field trip in school?
Spain

[idoctribefan]

1. Now that April's ending, what's the best thing that happened to you this past month?
I'm dominating my fantasy league vs all my college buddies

2. If you had to write a 20-page paper on the topic of your choice, what would you write about?
Conservatives vs liberals

3. If you plan on having kids of your own (or already have), what is (was) the one thing you vow(ed) to do better than your parents/guardians did?
Show more interest in my kids' lives outside of schoolwork. My parents never really knew any of my friends or girlfriends. They're lucky I was never friends with any troublemakers.

4. If you could live in any country in the world, what would it be and why?
I'd pick the USA but if not here then probably Switzerland.

5. What was your favorite field trip in school?
St Augustine, FL

[skatingtripods]

1. Now that April's ending, what's the best thing that happened to you this past month?

Start of baseball season I guess. It's been an uneventful month.

2. If you had to write a 20-page paper on the topic of your choice, what would you write about?

Either something about Hitler and his mistake on going in to the Soviet Union or something about the benefits of legalizing sports betting and taxing it, potentially as part of the state lottery.

3. If you plan on having kids of your own (or already have), what is (was) the one thing you vow(ed) to do better than your parents/guardians did?

Not make up for my mistakes by giving my kid money.

4. If you could live in any country in the world, what would it be and why?

Canada. In the wilderness. With a frozen pond, a lot of food, a cabin, and my fiance. Away from everyone.

5. What was your favorite field trip in school?

Probably Niagara Falls in 8th grade.

[Bayou Tribe]

1. Now that April's ending, what's the best thing that happened to you this past month?

2. If you had to write a 20-page paper on the topic of your choice, what would you write about?

3. If you plan on having kids of your own (or already have), what is (was) the one thing you vow(ed) to do better than your parents/guardians did?

4. If you could live in any country in the world, what would it be and why?

5. What was your favorite field trip in school?

1. 2 more checkups at the baby doctor with the wife. Both were clear of any problems/issues, which is always very positive.

2. Plastic production and the various fruit/produce shaped options for molding.

3. Can't lie, my parents were pretty spot on with the whole child raising experience.

4. Mexico. They're all coming up here anyway, just as soon fill in the gaps.

5. Potato chip factory. It was a game-changer for me.

[Fire Marshall Bill]

1. Now that April's ending, what's the best thing that happened to you this past month?

I'm still alive and kickin and pissing people off
2. If you had to write a 20-page paper on the topic of your choice, what would you write about?

lol...write 20 pages........ Seriously tho.... I'd write about my experiences as an infantry medic in Vietnam. I can remember 275 days from that 362 day period

3. If you plan on having kids of your own (or already have), what is (was) the one thing you vow(ed) to do better than your parents/guardians did?

I have no complaints. Got 3 sons, 2 grandsons 11 & 3, a grand daughter 5/another one comming in just a few weeks. My sons are all better men than me, married to beautiful young women and the only one who is single is just a stones throw from a Phd in mathmatics

4. If you could live in any country in the world, what would it be and why?

Tahiti

5. What was your favorite field trip in school?

Blocks' Pool Hall, every day after school from 8th thru 12th grades : )

[hebner20]

1. Now that April's ending, what's the best thing that happened to you this past month?

2. If you had to write a 20-page paper on the topic of your choice, what would you write about?

3. If you plan on having kids of your own (or already have), what is (was) the one thing you vow(ed) to do better than your parents/guardians did?

4. If you could live in any country in the world, what would it be and why?

5. What was your favorite field trip in school?

1) my dad got out of the hospital today after 5 weeks.
2) the lack of business ethics which led to the financial meltdown in a post enron/sarbanes oxley world.
3)no kids but i am happy with how my parents raised me
4)USA, preferaby in the south east which may happen...
5)Field trip? No field trips for Hebner.

Off topic, that you tube link that JB posted upthread is dubious. Cuyahoga county has been run by dems for decades and is the laughing stock/arm pit of Ohio only tied by Y-town. The dude is funny but his premise is questionable at best. in my anonymous internet opinion

[Erie Warrior]

1. Now that April's ending, what's the best thing that happened to you this past month?
I didn't get laid off
2. If you had to write a 20-page paper on the topic of your choice, what would you write about?
The truth about public education, and what needs to be done to fix it
3. If you plan on having kids of your own (or already have), what is (was) the one thing you vow(ed) to do better than your parents/guardians did?
Be more involved in their interests
4. If you could live in any country in the world, what would it be and why?
Any island in the south pacific. Toes in the sand, drink in my hand
5. What was your favorite field trip in school?
The one I went on last year, to the beach

[hermanfontenot]

1. Now that April's ending, what's the best thing that happened to you this past month?

I got attached.

2. If you had to write a 20-page paper on the topic of your choice, what would you write about?

The 1980 NFL Season.

3. If you plan on having kids of your own (or already have), what is (was) the one thing you vow(ed) to do better than your parents/guardians did?

Hopefully I'd be a little more demanding. Then again they had four kids and enough work getting us through childhood intact. So I am not judging.

4. If you could live in any country in the world, what would it be and why?

United States. Manhattan or the Loop.

5. What was your favorite field trip in school?

AP History, Junior Year (1991-92) train trip to Chicago. We had to get our names drawn out of a hat to go, and mine got drawn.

[jordan kramer]

1. Now that April's ending, what's the best thing that happened to you this past month?

2. If you had to write a 20-page paper on the topic of your choice, what would you write about?

3. If you plan on having kids of your own (or already have), what is (was) the one thing you vow(ed) to do better than your parents/guardians did?

4. If you could live in any country in the world, what would it be and why?

5. What was your favorite field trip in school?

1. my girl

2. BCS system. did a big presentation about it last semester, it was surprisingly easy. i love college football

3. put a baseball in his left hand the second he's out of the womb

4. Monte Carlo

5. ceder point

[jack_tors]

1. Now that April's ending, what's the best thing that happened to you this past month?
-The weather was warm enough for me to relax outside.

2. If you had to write a 20-page paper on the topic of your choice, what would you write about?
-Any military leader with preference to pre-Korea military. Wrote a 25 page paper on James Doolittle in college and it was an excellent learning experience.

3. If you plan on having kids of your own (or already have), what is (was) the one thing you vow(ed) to do better than your parents/guardians did?
-My parents were great parents but I would try to instill more emphasis on planning, especially in high school. I am not saying to have your life/career planned by age 12 but just keep an eye on the road ahead cause you are on it 10 times quicker than you expect to be.

4. If you could live in any country in the world, what would it be and why?
-USA, Savannah, Georgia. Prettiest place I have been, close to the beach, and I would own a nice home in the historic district which is in walking distance to all I need.

5. What was your favorite field trip in school?
-The Cleveland Natural History Museum

[waborat]

1. Now that April's ending, what's the best thing that happened to you this past month?

Selling enough work to keep my guys busy through September already

2. If you had to write a 20-page paper on the topic of your choice, what would you write about?

Do fortune cookie predictions have a deadline?

3. If you plan on having kids of your own (or already have), what is (was) the one thing you vow(ed) to do better than your parents/guardians did?

Don't dress the lil bastards in goofy clothes for special occasions (ex. Easter)

4. If you could live in any country in the world, what would it be and why?

USA in Whorehouse Meadow, Oregon....why not?

5. What was your favorite field trip in school?

Cleveland Zoo in 4th grade...gave my tray of sardines to a lil redheaded girl to feed the seals and she kissed me on the cheek...first kiss ever & afterwards I was horny for life...although a field trip to Whorehouse Meadow might have been more fun

[General]

1. Now that April's ending, what's the best thing that happened to you this past month?
Lost 10 pounds...

2. If you had to write a 20-page paper on the topic of your choice, what would you write about?
I hate writing papers

3. If you plan on having kids of your own (or already have), what is (was) the one thing you vow(ed) to do better than your parents/guardians did?
Can't really think of anything that needs correcting

4. If you could live in any country in the world, what would it be and why?
Sicily

5. What was your favorite field trip in school?
Natural History Museum and Cleveland Orchestra