Author: scrivener

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In sociology, the third place refers to the social surroundings separate from the two usual social environments of home (the first place) and the workplace (the second place). Examples of third places include churches, cafes, bars, clubs, libraries, gyms, bookstores, hackerspaces, stoops, parks, and theaters.

1. What is your usual third place these days?
2. How are your third place needs different today from some other time in your life?
3. What’s missing from your third places these days?
4. What kind of third places do you see yourself never frequenting?
5. Which third place in a television series would you most enjoy?

(and why is it Cheers?)

Thanks for participating, and have a better-than-decent, safe weekend! Go Raiders!

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Someone has been so sleep-deprived all week he fell asleep while typing these questions last night. Sorry if you came here and didn’t get the questions when you were ready to deal with them.

Some people really dislike questions like these, but I am not one. One of the greatest pastimes of all time is ranking things important and trivial, and I would ask them every day if I thought people would be as into it as I am. 🙂 Just don’t stress over it, but get the dang answers right, wouldja?

1. If you are forced to choose only one, what is the greatest single episode of a television series, ever?
2. If you are forced to choose only one, what is the greatest opening line of a song, ever?
3. If you are forced to choose only one, what is the greatest movie kiss of all time?
4. If you are forced to choose only one, what is the greatest building of all time?
5. If you are forced to choose only one, what is the greatest candy — not a candy bar — of all time?

Thanks for participating, and have the greatest, safest, happiest, most relaxing weekend of all time!

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1. What’s a perfectly satisfying libation?
2. For taking to work or school, what’s in your favorite personal sack lunch?
3. Do you know a pretty silly limerick?
4. What’s a pleasingly scented lotion?
5. What are some peppy song lyrics?

Thanks for participating, and have a pillow-soft landing into the weekend!

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This week’s 5 is inspired by the party game Scattergories, in which players have to think of items, all beginning with the same letter, in several categories. For example, if the die is rolled and shows the letter P, players might have to name a fruit, a bird, a river, and a movie star, all beginning with P. Valid answers might be plum, puffin, Potomac, and Piper Perabo.

First, go to this nifty online random-letter generator. Set the “number of random letter sequences to generate” to 1. Set the “length of each random letter sequence” to 1. Leave the “letters to choose from” how it is and click the button. You’ll get a rather non-dramatic one letter. Use this letter to begin all your answers to the 5 questions below. If you’d like to avoid difficult letters, feel free to change the “letters to choose from” list. I’ll only judge you a little bit.  

Wow. When I copied and pasted this from last year’s Scattergories post, somehow the smiley got its own paragraph, and WordPress is displaying it at full size. I’m leaving it — it’s so weird!

Alternately, if you find this boring, you could set the “length of each random letter sequence” to 5, thereby giving you five letters, a different one for each question.

Wow! This is our fourteenth year doing this! If you find this particularly fun (I do!) and haven’t done this before, here are the questions for parts 11, 12, and 13. Go crazy and do those too.

Please answer these questions with an answer whose initial is the letter you rolled!

1. If you can schedule it, what would you like for your last meal?
2. Where would you like to be buried?
3. What will they place in your coffin to be buried with you?
4. Who will sing at your funeral?
5. Who will deliver your eulogy?

Thanks for participating and have an OEOXO weekend!

(that word generated by the random letter generator)

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1. Wrong answers only: what is the secret of your success?
2. Wrong answers only: how would you like to spend this weekend?
3. Wrong answers only: what’s next?
4. Wrong answers only: when will you finally get that thing done?
5. Wrong answers only: what do you have to say for yourself?

Thanks for participating. Sorry if this one’s a little bizarre, but I thought it might be fun to try. 🙂 Have a safe weekend!

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It’s been a while since our last gripe session!

1. What’s your biggest complaint about in-store shopping?
2. What’s your biggest complaint about seeing movies in a theater?
3. What’s your biggest complaint about personal hygiene?
4. What’s your biggest complaint about preparing a meal?
5. What’s your biggest complaint about your neighborhood?

Thanks for participating, and have an excessively positive, safe weekend!

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1. When did you last (literally or figuratively) feel the earth move?
2. What’s so far away?
3. What is it too late for?
4. When did you recently long to be home again and feeling right?
5. Which five beautiful things did you see this week?

Thank you for participating! Have a wonderful, safe weekend, and will you love me tomorrow?

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1. A well-known proverb begins, “Early to bed, early to rise…” How would you complete it so it’s descriptive of (not prescriptive for!) your life?
2. A well-known proverb begins, “If at first you don’t succeed…” How would you complete it so it’s descriptive of (not prescriptive for!) your life?
3. A well-known proverb ends, “…is the best policy.” How would you begin it so it’s descriptive of (not prescriptive for) your life?
4. A well-known proverb ends, “…is the spice of life.” How would you begin it so it’s descriptive of (not prescriptive for!) your life?
5. A well-known proverb ends, “…is the best medicine.” How would you begin it so it’s descriptive of (not prescriptive for!) your life?

Thanks for participating, and have a safe, fabulous, comfortable, relaxing weekend!

* I originally wrote this prompt but decided it might be too much of a downer, so I’m tacking it on at the end as an optional bonus question. Please ignore it if you’d rather not go there!

A well-known proverb begins, “There are…” and ends “…in the sea.” How would you fill the middle so it’s descriptive of your life?

* Here’s one I wrote twice, but it didn’t fit the descriptive/prescriptive model I established.

A well-known (something) begins, “I scream; you scream; we all scream for…” How would you complete it so it’s descriptive of your life?

A well-known (something) begins, “…for ice cream!” How would you begin it so it’s descriptive of your life?

Feel free to riff on either or both of these as well. You can see my issue. The original statement isn’t prescriptive. Maybe I should have asked, “…so it’s prescriptive for a better life, not descriptive of yours?” 🙂

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These are college application essay questions, but of course you don’t have to answer them in essay form. However, if you write them, I will read them, and possibly admit you into my university!

1. If you could create a new academic subject, what would it be and why?
2. Describe a time when you stood up for something you believed in. What were the challenges, and what was the outcome?
3. What is one question you wish you knew the answer to? Why is this question important to you?
4. Describe a time when you collaborated with others to achieve a common goal. What role did you play, and what did you learn from the experience?
5. Describe a time when you felt like an outsider. How did you overcome this feeling?

This reminded me of how much I hate college application essay questions, not because of the task but because of the inanity of the questions. I have helped many high-schoolers formulate their own responses, and it has always felt to me like they are all really the same question. I think I’ll write questions college applications should really ask and we’ll make that a future 5. 🙂

Thanks for participating, and have a gorgeous, ravishing, delectable, juicy, safe weekend!

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1. When did you last read a physical issue of a magazine?
2. If someone were going through your wardrobe, which item or items would give the person a good idea of your age?
3. What is your favorite song released in 2024?*
4. What non-food item did you last put in a zippered plastic bag?
5. You may know that in Japan there are cafes where you can play with bunnies, cats, hedgehogs, reptiles, owls, and many other kinds of animals. Assuming one hundred percent good faith, which would mean the animals’ safety and mental health are completely assured and the animals are rescues, making it unsafe for them to be released back into the wild, which animal cafe (whether it exists now or not) would you most like to spend time in?

* come on; you can do it!

Thank you for participating, and may there be fireworks in your heart but not in the air above your house this weekend!