Partial survey

[ciphergoth]

Thanks to duranorak in http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=duranorak&itemid=304343 - but I've skipped loads of questions!

(3) Would you name a child of yours after you?
No, since (a) that's a silly thing to do and defeats the whole fucking point of names, and (b) I shan't have any children.


(4) If you had to switch first names with a friend of yours, who would you switch with?
Um. I like my name quite a lot, I think it's just right. Sandy maybe.

(5) What's the way people most often mispronounce any part of your name?
They pronounce the "o" in my surname as in "scowl" rather than "vole".

(6) If you were to become famous, would you drop your last name (like Madonna, Cher, Roseanne)?
No.

DEEP THEOLOGICAL QUESTIONS

(7) Do you believe in the traditional view of Heaven and Hell?
I'm an atheist.

(9) Do you think science counteracts religion?
In theory no, the most important arguments against religion are independent of science. In practice yes, the claims of religion are driven back by science all the time, and every time they think they've retreated out of our reach we push their boundaries still further. I think this is the main force behind its decline.

(11) Where do you think we go when we die?
In many cases, bodies go into a lined wooden box which is placed under six feet of earth.

(12) Do you feel a little funny thinking about the questions in this section?
Slightly peeved.

HUMOR

(13) How easy is it to make you laugh?
Too easy - I catch myself thinking "that wasn't really a very classy joke, so raucous laughter doesn't really show me up as a discriminating person..."

(14) What person you know makes you laugh the most?
sibelian I think.

(15) Do you laugh at jokes you know you shouldn't?
Well, so often bigoted jokes don't have a humour component at all, their entire thrust is the exhibition of the bigotry, so I don't exactly make an effort not to laugh.

(16) Do you tell jokes you know you shouldn't?
Assuming this means bigoted jokes, no.

This is long. Maybe I'll do the rest later...

Comments

Death

[jhg.livejournal.com]

(11) Where do you think we go when we die?
In many cases, bodies go into a lined wooden box which is placed under six feet of earth.

Yes, but that's so boring, isn't it?

When I die, (and yes I know I'm spoiling it for you guys - so don't tell my family / any kids I might have in the future etc.) I want my body to be secretly stuffed with helium.

Only the presiding person and the people carrying the coffin should know.

So, to start with, a traditional (albeit non-religious funeral) - but when the coffin carriers let go of the coffin and lower it into the grave, suddenly the lid pops open, and my corpse floats up into the air with a big grin on its face.

Queue lots of comedy grabbing me by the coat tails etc., which is ultimately unsuccessful.

And if I'm lucky - I'll "cheer up" people on transatlantic flights too!

Marvellous.


J

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

3) Would you name a child of yours after you?
No, since (a) that's a silly thing to do and defeats the whole fucking point of names

My elder brother is named after my father (first name only), and I do see your point about it defeating the point of names. However, this doesn't really complicate matters in my family any furhter, as we already had three Dave/Davids (my father and two uncles). My cousin Stephen would have been a David too (after his father, the husband of my mother's twin sister), except my brother managed to get born first. Since my mother and her twin were married on the same day, this may mean I'm carrying fertile genes. Fear.

[selectnone.livejournal.com]

(5) What's the way people most often mispronounce any part of your name?
They pronounce the "o" in my surname as in "scowl" rather than "vole".

What? Hmm. I think the "scowly" Crowley is the only way I hear people say it, but maybe that's because the people who know how to say it are the ones that generally don't mention your surname in conversation. Or something.


I think people who don't know how my name is spelled pronounce my name "Neil" as opposed to "Neal". I might just be imagining that though :)

Re: Death

[neilhudson.livejournal.com]

I think I?ve already mentioned somewhere that when I die, I want my body cut open, all my internal organs removed and replaced with an alien jack-in-the-box, then sewn up again and donated to medical science. That should cheer up an unsuspecting medical student in dissection classes.