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The Queries of the Sunday Past
Here are questions from this week’s Sunday Stealing! Which are a day late. Oh well. 1. What’s your life’s motto? Life’s too short to not wear what you want. (I just made that up, to be honest.) 2. Where were … Continue reading
About the Bed
Sunday Stealing is all about your bed! By the way, did you know that there’s a low-budget horror movie from 1977 that’s become a cult classic, and its title is Death Bed: The Bed That Eats? It’s about a bed that … Continue reading
The bathroom quiz!
Well, why not! Roger did it, after all. 1. Do you shampoo once or lather, rinse and repeat? Once. The “Repeat” business was inserted to get people to use more shampoo, and thus need to buy new shampoo more frequently. … Continue reading
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It’s FAB!
Via Roger comes this Sunday Stealing prompt, which is easy enough I may resurrect it every so often! Here’s how it goes: F.A.B. F. Film: What movie or tv show are you watching? A. Audio: What are you listening to? B. … Continue reading
Sunday Stealing
Looking over this week’s quiz, I think I can answer some of these. Let’s give it a shot! What was the last song you listened to? Yesterday I started listening to Wagner’s Das Rheingold, leaving off somewhere in Act I. … Continue reading
Quizzical quizzing
From SundayStealing we get these questions: When do I feel most authentically myself: When I’m writing or taking photos. What I’m thankful for today Ooof. I’m not gonna lie here: Thankfulness has not had a good run of late. A … Continue reading
Soup and Sunday Stealing
Gramps turned eighty the other day,and everybody was there.He was dressed up in a brand new suit,sittin’ in his big arm chair. Then a beautiful, young, naked womanstood up in front of the group.She offered gramps some super sex,So he … Continue reading
A little Stealing on a Sunday
OK, I’m up early on a Sunday drinking coffee and we’re hoping to get to Letchworth today, but I’ll just toss off a quick quiz-thing! And I’m doing this one before I read Roger‘s answers! What’s the best birthday party … Continue reading
“I scream, you scream, we all scream for non-fat tofutti rice dreamsicles”
MULDER: Did you bring enough ice cream to share with the rest of the class?SCULLY: It’s not ice cream… it’s non-fat tofutti rice dreamsicle.MULDER: Ugh… I bet the air in my mouth tastes better than that. –“The Unnatural”, THE X-FILES … Continue reading
Live, laugh, learn (or something like that): A Sunday Stealing quiz
Interesting format for this week’s Sunday Stealing: instead of a selection of questions, it’s a series of prompts. I’m going to try to do these in one sentence each. Let’s see how that works out, shall we? Reveal yourself in … Continue reading
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