6 Questions I Had To Rewrite Because My Daughter Deleted Them the First Time
1. What is one band you love that you think no one else in the CW community has heard of? Bonus points for stumping Dino ?
2. Do you think that “social norms” advertising works? I’m referring to the Merrill school district social norms project about underage drinking. The commercials are all over the TV…
3. Are you good at trivia? Have you ever participated in the Stevens Point Trivia Competition?
4. Are you still friends with your childhood best friend(s)?
5. What’s the best way to get on your bad side?
6. Father’s Day Special…Describe your father in one word.
Alex Tallitsch said:
1. I used to love Venison way back when they were in Stevens Point. Jammed with them few times. I’m sure that doesn’t stump Dino.
2. I haven’t seen the commercials of course, but anything anti-drinking is cool with me.
3. I am semi-good at trivia. And yes I have.
4. Unfortunately, no.
5. Make me feel disrespected.
6. Missing.
June 13th, 2008 at 10:12 am #
rockerchick said:
1. Won’t stump Dino, but I love Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians.
2. Those commercials are okay.
3. Yup, great at trivia. Useless knowledge is a forte of mine. Never competed in STP. Never have the time!
4. Yes, we talk every day.
5. Mess with my kids.
6. Hilarious! My dad is just awesome!
June 13th, 2008 at 10:37 am #
Cheryl Mathis said:
1. The only slightly obscure thing in my playlist is Holly McNarland. I’m jamming out to Elmo right now.
2. You’d have to ask a teenager. If the point is to make me think that teens aren’t just a bunch of hoodlums, I guess it succeeds. If the point is to make it seem like not drinking is cool because most teens don’t drink, and teens should then feel peer pressure not to drink, once again, you’d have to ask a teen. I have no idea of the effectiveness. I’ve totally lost touch with my inner teen.
3. I rawk at trivia. I have never participated in SP Trivia, unless you consider hanging out by the catering tables in the Comm building in the middle of the night to be participating, in which case, I owned the competition.
4. Uh. Yeah. No. One of them is a “friend” on Facebook, but we never visit. I’m okay with that. I’m not even in contact with the people I went to high school with.
5. Call your wife/husband/gf/bf/kids mean names. Call what I do insignificant. Disobey the traffic laws.
6. Stubborn.
June 13th, 2008 at 12:15 pm #
Jill Knetter said:
Let’s see..
1. Well, they aren’t SO obscure, but I really like Jack’s Mannequin.
2. I guess that advertising is ok, but the kids who fall into that minority that drink aren’t going to have their minds changed by it, and the kids in the majority probably don’t have a lot of interest in drinking or lie about it (and who doesn’t in high school?).
3. I’m decent at trivia, I seem to retain a lot of generally useless info, but I’ve never participated in a competition.
4. Yeah, actually, I’ve known her since before I can remember and I lived with her last year at school.
5. Treat me like I’m stupid or insult my friends/family - nothing can get me going like those things.
6. Love.
June 13th, 2008 at 1:46 pm #
deepintheheart said:
1) Pushrod
2) Haven’t seen them.
3) I enjoy trivia. Yes, in 1988.
4) No.
5) I don’t really have a good side, so my bad side is where you will be.
6) a**hole
June 14th, 2008 at 7:05 am #
Boogenstein said:
1. Sigur Rós or Jah Wobble’s Invaders of the Lost Heart
2. Not seen it
3. Have taken part every year since arriving in WI. Team is mostly top twenty scoring.
4. Not many of them.
5. Lie
6. Blatherskite.
June 14th, 2008 at 9:53 am #
Boogenstein said:
P.S. Was just Heart, not Lost Heart in #1
June 14th, 2008 at 9:54 am #
Melissa Sullivan said:
1. Obscure Band: Bell Book & Candle - I only have one of their CDs, but I love it. “Rescue Me” is the best. Also, I just discovered a song called “There’s a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He’s Elvis” by Kirsty McColl. It’s very 80s but pretty funny.
2. Social Norms Project: I don’t think it’s a particularly effective campaign, but I don’t think it hurts anything either. I think adults have to stop assuming that teenagers care whether their friends are doing something or not.
3. I suck at trivia. That’s why I keep Sully around. That man is a font of useless knowledge.
4. Childhood Friend: Yes! Her name is Lisa. We met riding our tricycles, and have been friends ever since. Which reminds me, I need to call her soon. It’s been a couple of weeks.
5. My Bad Side: Lie. Mess with my kids. Demand attention.
6. My Dad: Cool
June 14th, 2008 at 6:49 pm #
Dino Corvino said:
1. There are many. I know FunRod. They played Scott Street once, Wendy put me onto them. Sigur Ros and Jah Wobble, are in my home. Not listened to often, if ever, but I own. Jacks Mannequin came to me from Greta, a host at WNRB. Grets rules. I went and saw Edie with Nathan Hendon in high school. A band called Blue Rodeo opened. Venison is familiar.
What I like…The Detroit Cobras, The Murder City Devil, The Road Kings.
2. No I do not think that they work. In fact I think teens look at that, and laugh. Merrill has so many problems, internally in their school disctrict, the last thing they should do is buy billboards.
3. I do not think I am good at trivia. I never did the thing in point. I always wanted to do something else. I do not go to bars with those games. I just do not want to pay attention to stuff like that, like it matters. If it was important, it would not be trivial. And further, it is not trivial to everyone. Someone, that question was about their lifes work.
4. No I am not. I reconnected with Will for a bit, but that was horribly unsteady.
5. Let us see. Do not answer the cellphone. That just about is the only thing. Play in a bad cover band. Not have a desire. Say No first to the question, no matter what it is.
6. Missed.
June 15th, 2008 at 1:15 pm #
lisastahl said:
1. House of Large Sizes
2. I haven’t seen them
3. I like trivia, but just recently heard of the Stevens Point event.
4. No. But I think about her often.
5. Attack someone I love.
6. Absent.
June 15th, 2008 at 3:37 pm #
Tom Neal said:
1. band: The Incredible String Band
2. social norms: clueless
3. trivia: depends on category(ies)
4. childhood friend: when does childhood end?
5. get on my bad side: say something stupid and cliche about “liberals”
6. my dad in one word: easy
June 16th, 2008 at 6:41 am #
robertmentzer said:
1. “Band” is such a rockist term. But I bet I am the only person here who is into Rich Boy, the great rapper from Birmingham, Alabama. I take no pride in being into music other people don’t like; in fact I wish everyone would start listening to Rich Boy right away…
2. These really do seem like a good approach, though I seem to remember reading that they don’t work. (Not sure, would need to do some googling on that.) I do think the “social norms” ads are probably preferable to “scare the hell out of kids” approach.
6. Smart!
June 16th, 2008 at 12:31 pm #
erik said:
1. I won’t cheat too much and pick on that’s on a label: The Eastern Conference Champions. I saw them open for Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and they were excellent. Their full length just came out recently and it’s damn good.
2. Horrible idea, I always do the math in reverse. If 82% of SPASH kids don’t do marijuana, that means that 18% of that huge student body does. That’s a lot of local kids doing an illegal drug.
3. I am good with pop culture, but not so much with anything else. And yes, I’ve done the SP trivia. Highest we ever placed was 32.
4. There’s still one guy I went to grade school with that I occasionally talk to. But I am horrible at keeping up with people. If not for Facebook I’d be all alone in this world.
5. Correct my typos on silly things like forum posts, instant messaging and blogging. When I’m screenwriting or doing a big paper or something, I want to know my mistakes because a lot is at stake. When I’m randomly communicating on the web I don’t want to be judged, I want it to be like I’m hanging out with friends and having a good time. Think of how annoying it is when someone in the peer group is telling an amazing story and then someone stops them to make sure they used “than” instead of “then.”
6. Hero.
June 17th, 2008 at 9:47 am #
Barry Liss said:
1. Shameless Plug Alert: the Hometown Harmony Club Stringband, which has a gig the last Saturday of the month at Malarkey’s.
2. The ads work more as a catalyst for negative behavior than we would like to admit.
3. I don’t enjoy trivia.
4. I just touched base with him via facebook.
5. If you are a philistine conformist in every way…
6. Heroic.
June 18th, 2008 at 5:57 am #
swearingen said:
1. Ed Gein’s Car (and no, I did not steal his headstone…really!)
2. Would like to hope that they have some sort of impact, but likely no more impact than Nancy Reagan’s “Just Say No” campaign. Another way to spend AODA grant money that likely has no statistical impact, unfortunately.
3. The rolodex in my brain is good at retrieving obscure and meaningless factoids (like the fact that moss grows between the toes of a three-toed sloth, for insstance). Unfortunately, this is not a real marketable skill.
4. No, cause they’re all “liar, liar, pants on fire”!
5. My bad side…much like deepintheheart, I don’t feel I have “sides”. No black and white, just a whole lot of gray. “I yam who I yam.”
6. Integrity
July 1st, 2008 at 9:21 pm #