The History Book Club discussion

Let's Get Personal

This is a variation of another game I saw elsewhere on 카지노싸이트.

Each person gets to the answer the previous post and then gets to ask their own question about three things which will be answered by the next person.

Poster A might say - tell me three things you love about your country and Person B will answer the previous posters question and then pose their own - for example - tell me three things you would like to do for your birthday.

and so on and you get the point.

I will start with my example: I am answering the three things I love about my country.

My Answer:

I love freedom of speech, religion and democracy in the US.

My Question for the next person:

And tell me three things you would like to do for your birthday.....

Spend the day sightseeing in a historical city, have a candlelit dinner with my husband, spend the resting of the evening reading in bed.

Tell me three places you would like to visit.

Those are wonderful choices Francie. OK let me see.

I have visited a lot of places but I would say:

Alaska
Iceland
African Safari - possibly Kenya or South Africa (hard to choose)

Tell me three things that you would never eat for dinner:

Tripe, pig's feet, or the brain of any animal.

What are your 3 favourite movies?

Casablanca; Pandora's Box; Picadilly. (I could name 50 favorite movies!!!)

Three things/programs you would never watch on television

Hmmm -

Horror movies or tv shows, Rush Limbaugh, Survivor

Tell me three things you wished you had done

Marren wrote: "Have more fun at university, took my writing more serious and quit worrying so much.


You rather feel hot or cold?"

I think you need to ask a question about "three things".

Bentley wrote: "Hmmm -

Horror movies or tv shows, Rush Limbaugh, Survivor

Tell me three things you wished you had done"

Gotten a law degree, lived in France for a few years, spent more time with my father before he passed.

Tell me three people you would like to have dinner with (past or present).

Queen Elizabeth I, Winston Churchill, and FDR.

Three of your favorite cities in the USA

Williamsburg VA; Asheville NC; and Washington DC

Tell me three things that make you laugh

George Carlin (RIP), the old Marx Brothers films, and my dogs.

What are your three favorite cities outside of the USA

Quebec City
Amsterdam
London

Who are your three favorite authors?

Oooh, that's too hard since I love so many but I will try:

Barbara Tuchman; Bryan Farwell; Rex Stout

What three classic rock songs do you totally hate?

I know this is sacrilegious but I do not like Sgt Peppers Lonely Heart's Band or something like that.

Here is another one I will get a lot of boos for - YMCA

Oh here is another one - Bungle in the Jungle.

Your mother in law wants to come and stay for three weeks and your spouse is all for it

Tell me three things you would do to try to get out of this visit.

This one might be too hard so I will take a stab at this:

a) I have been called out of town for some business overseas
b) I have to have a root canal
c) My mother needs for me to do some chores at her own home which I have been putting off.

Next question: it is the first time that you are at a Chinese restaurant - tell me three things you would order

Moo Goo Gai Pan, egg drop soup, and egg roll

If you could go back in time, what three periods or days would you go back to?

There are so many! 1850-1890, London; 1890's Paris; 50-40 BCE Rome.

Which three insects would you save from extinction?

Dang! You guys answer too fast! I like a lot of the questions!

Lady Bugs, Butterflies, Damsel Fly

Peter just jump right in.


Tell me three things that you forget regularly

Bentley wrote: "Lady Bugs, Butterflies, Damsel Fly

Peter just jump right in.


Tell me three things that you forget regularly"

Where the nearest Barnes and Noble is (I can never remember is it 81st or 82nd street)?

Faces (I am better with names)

Where things are, even in my own apartment.

Tell me your three favorite foods.

Pasta with Pomodoro Sauce, Ice Cream, Pizza

Not too healthy - that is why I have gone more to Gluten free.

Tell me three things that you would save if you could only take three things with you (aside from your family of course).

Bentley wrote:

Tell me three things that you would save if you could only take three things with you (aside from your family of course..."

My glasses
My laptop computer.
My PDA.

Tell me your three least favorite presidents

Richard Nixon (because of what he did to America's psyche and view of the presidency as a whole as well as the reverberations on the Supreme Court)

George W. Bush (because of changing everything about our foreign policy, the Second Iraq War and the War in Afghanistan (although that one had more persuasive ability, Patriot's Act (which is anything by patriotic), Dick Cheney)

Andrew Johnson (for trying to undue everything that Lincoln tried to accomplish)


Tell me three things that you wish you learned in school

Music theory, a third language, and quantum physics (really, I can fantasize, can't I?)

What were your three favorite childhood books

Of course you can G. I would like also to refer back to message 23 for a digression - the three I chose were the least favorite but not necessarily the ones that I would consider the worst.

Ok - now to the question at hand - Nancy Drew and Hardy Boy Mysteries (the Hardy boys came first), another one which is odd was a series that my grandmother had as a child and read to me from - the Five Little Peppers (wonderful really), and of course Dr Seuss books.

by Carolyn Keene

The first author of that set was Mildred Wirt Benson!

Carolyn Keene was a pseudonym and the first ghost writer was Mildred Wirt later Mildred Wirt Benson.

Here is a write-up on Wikipedia:

Carolyn Keene is the pseudonym of the authors of the Nancy Drew mystery stories and The Dana Girls mystery stories, both produced by the Stratemeyer Syndicate.

In addition, Keene is credited with the Nancy Drew spin-off, River Heights and the Nancy Drew Notebooks.

Edward Stratemeyer, the founder of the Syndicate, hired writers, beginning with Mildred Wirt, later Mildred Wirt Benson, to write the manuscripts for the Nancy Drew books.

The writers initially were paid $125 for each book and were required by their contract to give up all rights to the work and to maintain confidentiality.

Benson and Harriet Adams (Stratemeyer's daughter) are often credited as the primary writers of Nancy Drew books under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene;[1] other ghostwriters who used this name to write Nancy Drew mysteries included James Duncan Lawrence, Walter Karig, Nancy Axelrad, Priscilla Doll, Charles Strong, Alma Sasse, Wilhelmina Rankin, George Waller Jr., Margaret Scherf, and Susan Wittig Albert.

Also involved in the Nancy Drew writing process were Harriet Stratemeyer Adams's daughters, who gave input on the series and sometimes helped to choose book titles;[1](p158) the Syndicate's secretary, Harriet Otis Smith, who invented the characters of Nancy's friends Bess and George;[1](p140) and the editors at Grosset and Dunlap.[1](p228)

Her first book in the Nancy Drew series was The Secret of the Old Clock.

In 1978, the Stratemeyer Syndicate changed publishers to Simon & Schuster, a move that the former publishers, Grosset and Dunlap, went to court to prevent the switch, claiming a breach of contract. The decision was made in favor of the Syndicate, stating that they could choose which publisher they would like to use, for subsequent entries in the series. However, since the editors at Grosset and Dunlap were so heavily involved in writing the Drew books, they won the rights to the volumes that they had published.[2]

In 1986, the Syndicate was bought by publishers Simon & Schuster; the Drew books are now handled by Mega-Books, a New York book packager.[3]

by Dr. Seuss

by Carolyn Keene

by Franklin W. Dixon


by Margaret Sidney

Mildred Benson (no photo)

James Duncan Lawrence (no photo)

Walter Karig

Nancy Axelrad, Patricia Doll, Alma Sasse, Wilhelmina Rankin, George Waller Jr., Harriet Stratemeyer, and Harriet Otis Smith not in 카지노싸이트

Charles Strong (no photo)

Margaret Scherf

Susan Wittig Albert

NOW MY QUESTION:

Tell me three countries in which you have lived and if you have not lived in three different countries then tell me three cities and states where you have lived or if you are already from another country - then tell me three regions of that country that you have lived in.

I was born in France lived there 2 years, which is the only other country I've lived in. Two cities I've lived in are Alexandria VA and Montgomery AL

Name three teachers who had an great impact on you.

Howard, Cann, Beane (first one a Miss, the other two Mrs.)

Francie I did not know you were French - but your first name certainly shows that you might have had something to do with France (smile) and two other great locations.

NOW MY QUESTION:

Tell me three names that if you had a dog in the future you would possibly name it.

Lancelot, Artful Dodger, Lady Jane Grey

Bentley, I was born on a military base, so I'm a US citizen, but I do love all tongs French and plan to visit birth city in a couple years.

Name three monuments that put you in awe

9/11 Memorial, Lincoln Memorial, Vietnam Memorial to just name three.

Tell me three days in your life you will never forget.

As child of ten, the day I was hospitalized when my diabetes was discovered, the day my first child was born, and the day Olof Palme was killed.

Tell me three silly things you have done!

As I child I hung by my legs at the top of a 50 ft. tree (my Mother about had a heart attack): drove my car (Mustang) at 120 mph: and dyed my hair very very bright red (I looked like Lucille Ball).

Tell me three of your best traits

I am funny.
I am logical.
I am so ridiculously modest that it makes me imperfect, which is a good thing because, if I wasn't so ridiculously modest, I'd be absolutely perfect, and that's annoying!

:-)

Tell me three places you'd like to visit (or re-visit)

Funny, Peter!!!!

London (re-visit)
Dublin (re-visit)
Hong Kong

Tell me three of your worst traits

I interrupt a lot.
I talk too loudly.
I can be impatient.

Tell me the three best things that ever happened to you

1. My marriage of 40+ years
2. Birth of any or all of my kids/grandkids
3. My military career

What are your 3 favourite pop/rock tunes from the 50's or 60's?

Sea of Love - Phil Phillips
You're So Fine - The Falcons
In The Still of the Night - The 5 Satins

(you can tell I am a doo wop fan)

What three things would you do differently in your life if you could go back in time

Ha! I just downloaded Sea of Love last night! Let's see: I would have liked to have been a better son to my parents, I wish I had finished school and gone on to a post-secondary education, and would have been a bit less stern in raising my kids.

What are your 3 favourite foreign films?

Nights of Cabiria, Mr. Hulots Holiday, the Bicycle Thief - actually, that's not fair, because I'll think of three other favorites in a minute.

The only question I can think of is a derivation of Jim's, so I hope that's okay
Who do you think are the three best popular music guitarists

Eric Clapton
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Jimi Hendrix

(I don't if that is what you meant by popular but I put up who I though was best)

What are your three favorite spectator sports

Jill, I'd add Mark Knopfler :-)

Dr. Who, Call the Midwife, the Graham Norton Show.

Who are your three favorite Historical people

G wrote: "Jill, I'd add Mark Knopfler :-)

Dr. Who, Call the Midwife, the Graham Norton Show.

Who are your three favorite Historical people "

I agree G but those were the first 3 to pop to mind. It's like your favorite film....I could have filled two pages in that answer.....hard to pick just 3. :>)

1. Theodore Roosevelt
2. Joan of Arc
3. Boudicca

Your 3 favourite TV comedies of all time?

Arabic, Chinese, Spanish (already fluent or used to be in French and German)

It is interesting how key languages have changed over time.

Tell me three things you would NEVER do again.

French
German
Russian

If you could take three things with you to the great beyond, what would you take?

Hey Francie, I got there first (smile)

Ha, Bentley, You did ;)

Three things I would never do again, that's a hard one. I guess: get married so young, leave the Air Force, and wait so long to go back to college.

If you could, what three things would you take to the great beyond?

All my family, all my dogs and all my books (is that cheating?)

if you had a million dollars to spend on three silly things (iow, no family, friends, charities or expenses) what would they be.

A 1933 Dusenberg
A 1938 Talbot-Lago by Figoni et Falaschi
A pack of Chiclets (because I wouldn't have any of the million dollar left after I bought the two cars!!)

What are your three favorite breeds of dogs

LOL I was bequeathed an unrestored 1937 MGTA if you are interested :-)

Chesapeake Bay Retriever, Labrador Retriever (any flavor), Collie (with no disrespect to all the other wonderful dogs...)

If you could own any three pieces of art, what would they be?

Rembrandt self portrait

Da Vinci Mona Lisa

Escher Relativity.

Name your three favorite teachers (any age, any type of school) and say why they are your favorites