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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 08:53 am
Recently there have been a spate of "Reply to this post and I'll tell you 3 things I love about you, then post in your lj" posts, which I haven't replied to since neither part of it appeals to me (consumed as I am with hate and bile. No offense intended to those of you who aren't :)) On the whole I find those "reply to this" posts a bit scary, since there's so much baggage with replying when what I want to say is generally something tangential like "These memes are scary" or a reply to someone else's comment.

Anyway, I came up with an alternative:
Reply to this post (NOT one of the comments, or it'll all get confused) with a question. Then post a separate comment with an answer to the question immediately above yours, as a reply to the comment containing the question.

Everyone is free to answer as many questions as they feel like whether or not they post any. I guess that technically, if you want you can also post extra questions (or whatever) in the comments to other replies, but I probably will refuse to answer them on principle :P

To repeat: Each question is a separate comment to this post, with all the replies to that question being replies to that comment. You are only obliged to reply to the question posted immediately before your own (that way everyone gets at least one answer)(*)

There is no obligation to post this in your own lj(**). There is also no obligation on me to reply to any of the questions, though I probably will.

(First question is in the comments)

(*) If it assumes things that don't apply, ie you're colourblind and it asks what your favourite colour is, make up a similar question and answer that instead :)
(**)Making it a rather evolutionarily unfit meme. Especially because it turns out to be a lot harder for people to grasp than I expected (I've edited three times for clarity already)
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 12:11 am (UTC)
What should you be doing right now instead of reading lj?
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 12:27 am (UTC)
Booking a room for some interviews.

Would you put up a cheesecake/beefcake calendar at work, and would you object if a colleague did?
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 12:36 am (UTC)
Cheesecake would be fine, I have no idea what a beefcake is, but probably no.

What is the scariest horror movie you've ever seen?
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 12:42 am (UTC)
Beefcake = same as cheesecake, only with boys.
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 12:43 am (UTC)
I think I'm missing something here...
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 12:44 am (UTC)
Uh - Princeton Wordnet has "a photograph of an attractive woman in minimal attire." Basically, a girly calendar; the step before soft porn.
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 12:46 am (UTC)
Ah I see. I've never come across that before. Thankyou for providing me with my knowledge of the day.
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 03:28 am (UTC)
It took me quite a while to figure it out, since I first encountered the word in a webcomic which would do regular "gratuitous cheesecake comics" of a female character, scantily dressed....holding a cheesecake :)
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 12:46 am (UTC)
Hm. I clearly did not explain this clearly (I was editing the post while you replied!). You need to post your question in a separate comment, or it'll very quickly turn into a confusing mess where noone can find the previous question!

I promise to answer your question if you repost it :)

(That said, I think having it as one long thread would be kind of cool, but that's not what I had in mind and dammit it's my meme! *stamps foot*)
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 12:38 am (UTC)
Oops, should have said: the question has to be in a separate comment otherwise it'll get all confused. I will answer it if you do that :)
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 03:20 am (UTC)
Studying. Doing dermatology and self-diagnosing my skin lesions at the moment.
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 05:11 am (UTC)
I misread that as "skin lesbians".
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 05:35 am (UTC)
Whatever floats your boat.
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 04:17 am (UTC)
Washing my hair.
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 05:11 am (UTC)
Editing.

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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 05:32 am (UTC)
Hunting down the reason my data is destabilising some third party software.