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Re: hi! tell me about yourself.
What part of MN is Lorne from? In the Cities the MN accent is much less strong. My relatives in the north though (10 miles from Canada, 40 miles from N.D.) sound like they just walked off the movie set of Fargo. But...oddly enough, my relatives from Fargo don't talk like that. (I've never seen the whole movie...did it actually take place in Fargo?)
I think it is funny everyone says they don't have an accent.
And AGREED on M.B. I am not in her area otherwise I would have voted for everyone but her. Gross.
Bring her!! We love babies! Well, I can't speak for anyone else, but I love babies. And Hezz has 2 of them, so she must think they are alright.
Claire Elizabeth 12/31/2011
Married Bio
location of your first kiss - On my lips.
dream car - I don't have one.
what do you put on your french fries - a thick cut fry gets gravy, mcdonalds gets sweet and sour sauce and wendy's gets chili. WHAT?
what is your favorite thing about yourself - My sense of humour
do you speak with an accent/ if so, describe I do not know what you are talking aboot eh?
do you want to know anything about me?/ if so, what? How old are you?
do you like ferrets - I have never met one.
Lorne's from Byron, it's a little place just west of Rochester. He took me there once and everyone was all friendly, "Hi, how are you," and waving at him while we drove down little gravel roads, and I was all, "Man, so all these people know you from when you lived here?" and he laughed and laughed. "No. This is just how Minnesotans are."
So, I know I have an accent, but it's the generic, uninteresting "how everyone on TV sounds" accent. Bo-ring. (Or it's Canadian, if you trust the British and the Irish.)
Im 33 next month.
Im uncomfortable with it, because 3 isn't my best number.
location of your first kiss At the public library
dream car Cadillac
what do you put on your french fries Salt, vinegar, ketchup
what is your favorite thing about yourself Sense of humor
do you speak with an accent/ if so, describe I don't think I have much of an accent, but when I travel abroad people often think I'm Canadian. I have a slight speech impediment so I speak slowly and I concentrate on enunciation.
do you want to know anything about me?/ if so, what? I should read the rest of this post first to see what's already been asked and answered
do you like ferrets I think they're gross
I've meant to tell you, you look super duper young in your pics - like early 20s. How do you do it? Is it magic? Are you a witch? Do you get regular facials?
True story. But not in the Twin Cities. It has to be small-town-middle-of-nowhere. The one-finger wave is taught in the womb. (That sounds bad. It's not flickin' the middle finger. It's raising your pointer finger off the steeling wheel to "wave" at passing cars.) They sang a song about this in How To Talk Minnesotan the Musical. Everyone should see it. :-)
Related: People who drive Mini Coopers all wave at each other. DH has one and when I drive it all other Mini drivers wave. It's like a weird little club...
To all the shorty PP's: I'm 5'-10", I'll reach the stuff on your high shelves if you give me a cookie.
location of your first kiss in a closet during my 10th birthday party, playing hide and seek with my "boyfriend" from down the street.
dream car Insight, Prius, or Leaf. I'm all about the mileage. And I hate driving anything bigger than my compact.
what do you put on your french fries vinegar, Tony's, or honey
what is your favorite thing about yourself my ability to figure out how things work mechanically. it helps out in a lot of situations
do you speak with an accent/ if so, describe uh, yeah. I get made fun of even here.
do you want to know anything about me?/ if so, what? I know one of your kids is Juniper, what's the other one named?
do you like ferrets no. they smell like shiit.
The nerve!
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Wyatt is my son. I wanted Jasper or Arlo, and my husband didn't.
I won Juniper after a 9 month battle, so I caved after Wyatt was 2 days old and still a no name.
It was from my list...I got it from weird science, and when I was younger I wanted to name a kid that, but I outgrew it.
I still like Jasper and Arlo better.
Huh. I always pictured you tall. Maybe it's because we have a lot in common and I'm tall.
Oh well.
The hair grows in thick where the horn used to be.
"That chick wins at Penises, for sure." -- Fenton
First real kiss/makeout was on the beach in a sleeping bag in Mexico when I was 15. Most unfortunately, I found out later that he was just trying to make another girl jealousE. But then his dad kidnapped the other girl and kept her imprisoned in a trailer and raped her on the regular, so really, I dodged a bullet. I am not kidding.
dream car
Toyota Highlander hybrid.
what do you put on your french fries
Malt vinegar, ketchup, or ranch.
what is your favorite thing about yourself
That I'm s-m-r-t and able to make friends easily.
do you speak with an accent/ if so, describe
Nope, I have the bland news anchor accent.
do you want to know anything about me?/ if so, what?
Who are your favorite and least favorite CNers?
do you like ferrets
HELL NO. I always thought they were creepy but that story about the baby fingers cemented it forever.
The hair grows in thick where the horn used to be.
location of your first kiss - Behind my parents' store. He had just eaten a pickle, so I tasted that on his lips. As we stood there in our lip lock for a couple of seconds, I remember thinking how stange kissing was. Why were we just standing there with our lips touching? Yeah, it was hot.
dream car - My all time favorite car that I once owned was a new Beetle. I miss that little car. However, it seemed to fit nicely into every other driver's blind spot, so that sort of sucked.
what do you put on your french fries - Usually, just salt. But I'll dip in whatever is around. Except ketchup. I have a growing dislike of that stuff.
what is your favorite thing about yourself - my ability to tell really long stories with little point. It seems to bore other people, but I get a kick out of it.
do you speak with an accent/ if so, describe - I really don't think so. Colorado is about as non-accent as you can get, I do believe.
do you want to know anything about me?/ if so, what? Well, in this post already, I went from thinking that we might be the same person (your high school activities closely mirror my own). But then you ruined that with your Muppet-Zach Morris-Midwest*-hate. So, I am moving on now.
do you like ferrets - I'm going to go with no. Never had the chance to meet one, but hearing about their smell and squirrelly tendencies, they don't sound like my cup of tea.
*While I do NOT consider Colorado the Midwest, I do believe you said you weren't that big on your time here. That is sad to me. Does not compute.
I love Juniper, I think its really pretty. Plus it reminds me of Benny and Joon, which in turn reminds me of Johnny Depp in the diner scene which I love. In case you were at all interested in my thought processes.
"Once I got a bath bomb that, once exploded, filled the tub with confetti. Little sharp metallic pieces of confetti. The product description said nothing about confetti. Oh look, there's a tiny, sharp metallic blue star stabbing me in the labia. HOW RELAXING. " - NoisyPenguin
Yes, can we please elaborate on this?
Husbands should be like Kleenex: Soft, strong, and disposable.
Fitty is short??? ::mind blown::
I know! I was sitting there staring at my screen like o.O.
I bet her FUPA's name is Shane, like the gunslinger/drifter of literature.--HappyTummy
ACK!! ACK!!! ACK!!
location of your first kiss: at school, last day of 6th grade, waiting for the bus
dream car: Mercedes SL 65 AMG
what do you put on your french fries: salt & ketchup. sometimes cheese. sometimes ranch.
what is your favorite thing about yourself: my green eyes
do you speak with an accent/ if so, describe: Nope, I'm from the PNW, the land of no accent. Newscasters want to be us. I do have a bit of California speak...I say dude a lot.
do you want to know anything about me?/ if so, what? who would you vote off the CN board and why?
do you like ferrets? no way man
Mucho likes purple nails and purple cupcakes
location of your first kiss - either it was in my friend's bedroom or on a street corner at the hometown fair. I forget which one was first but both scenarios were the same guy so close enough.
dream car - a limo or really anything with a driver
what do you put on your french fries - normally ketchup that has been salted (if needed) and peppered, Wendy's fries get dipped in Frosty, but I've also been known to use cheese, ranch, malt vinegar and the array of sauces Cheeburger, Cheeburger offers
Oh and of course diner fries get gravy. Dammit, Groomz and whoever else mentioned gravy, now I really want to go to the diner and have fries.
what is your favorite thing about yourself - my boobs
do you speak with an accent/ if so, describe My H says I tawk funny like Moo used to, but it's only certain words
do you want to know anything about me?/ if so, what? Since you are the authority on height and under 5'6 is circus time, what is normal and what's freakishly tall?
do you like ferrets - Not particularly but I don't think I've ever really met one, up close. They don't sound very appealing though.
location of your first kiss - On a park bench with a dashing fellow who I'd later marry. It was very lovely and romantical and movie-esque.
dream car - I don't know, really. One that has heated seats to warm my bum up in these frigid Canadian winters.
what do you put on your french fries - My favorite is dill dip, but ketchup or ranch will do.
what is your favorite thing about yourself - On a shallow level, I'd say I have a decent rack. And I think I'm fun and generally kind-hearted/compassionate.
do you speak with an accent/ if so, describe- Sometimes the Canadian "eh" accent shows through a bit, but my accent otherwise is kind of a funny, soft pronunciation sounding thing. I don't know, you guys have heard me talk on camera. I have gotten asked numerous times if my family is british or if I was born there, so, I don't know what that means.
do you want to know anything about me?/ if so, what? Do you like my cat?
do you like ferrets - Yes. But I probably wouldn't own one.
dream car - I don't really have one. A Land Rover would be nice.
what do you put on your french fries - Salt, ranch or cheese. I hate ketchup.
what is your favorite thing about yourself - Probably my eyes, although I do have a ginormous rack.
do you speak with an accent/ if so, describe - Haha. I'm from Kentucky, so umm yes.
do you want to know anything about me?/ if so, what? I think I'm good for now.
do you like ferrets - They are disgusting and apparently like to eat small children.
Oof yeah sorry to post that and run. I should have entered that in the scary olympics but I sort of forgot about it until a little while ago.
Between the ages of 14-17, I got really involved in the local Boy Scouts Scuba Explorer Post. It was great for me, I made a lot of great friends and became a good scuba diver too. We dove in Mexico because obvs Arizona is well land locked. There were some upper middle class suburban kids like me, but also kids from the other side of the tracks.
On our first trip to Mexico, one of the guys, Mike, brought along his friend EJ. Mike and EJ were both super, super hot. There were rumors that EJ had a really horrible home life but nobody knew details. EJ was a flirt and started making out with me one night when everyone else was sleeping. We were in sleeping bags next to each other. I later found out he was just trying to make my friend M- jealous as she was in the sleeping bag on the other side of me. I guess it worked because a couple months later EJ and M- starting dating.
M- had a pretty dreadful home life herself. She had a nice dad but her mom was psychotic. A year or two after the trip when EJ and I made out, M- went to stay at EJ's house to get away from her family. EJ's dad lived way out in the desert, probably 40-60 minutes by car from M-'s house. After she had been there a couple of days, EJ's dad locked her in the trailer that was on his property. For the next 3-6 months (my memory is a bit foggy on the timeline), he raped her daily. He threw EJ out (who did not go to the police, what a great guy). Eventually he took her shopping one day and she managed to get to a pay phone and called her dad. I guess the police just thought she was another 16 year old runaway, because they didn't look very hard for her.
EJ's dad was arrested, but at trial his lawyers painted M- like a slut (she wasn't, she was a virgin before EJ) and they only got him for statutory rape, which is a lesser sentence. Luckily he's an old fuukc and will probably die in jail.
M- came back and eventually told us all what happened, which is how I know this (I had left home and was in college by then). We reconnected on fb a couple years ago. She only dates women now.
The hair grows in thick where the horn used to be.
I bet her FUPA's name is Shane, like the gunslinger/drifter of literature.--HappyTummy