Wouldn't you know that when I declared MemeHiatus 2007!!!, I'd end up being tagged more frequently than before? It's not that I don't enjoy the occasional meme. No! It's just that I was getting tagged so often, I couldn't keep up.
And I've only been blogging a short time, but even I know a meme is really only interesting to the person doing it. For the most part, it bores the readers to tears, drives them away by the handfuls. And what are we doing this blogging thing for if not the readers? Plus, it says in the Bible a blogger's stats cannot subsist on memes alone. Don't quite recall which book, but I'm pretty sure I'm remembering it right.
Yet, here I am, in full MemeHiatus mode, and conflicted. Deeply conflicted.
I want to keep my promise to you and abstain from any form of meme until the start of 2008. For what am I without integrity?
But I also want to get the damn monkeys off my back. They have fleas and they fling their poo. And what is integrity with a poo-flinging, flea-ridden monkey on your back?
What to do? What to do?
I know! I'll have a contest! Based on the 7 Random Things Meme I've been tagged with (by six, count 'em, six lovely individuals).
Here's what we'll do:
I am going to list SIX random facts about myself and ONE falsehood. Your job is to determine what is true and what is not.
Whoever guesses correctly will have their names put in a drawing, and a winner will be chosen at random.
Want to know what you're playing for? Alright. The winner will receive their choice of $25 gift card to iTunes, Best Buy, Pier 1, Starbucks, or Target, OR may choose one of the following books from Amazon: Stephen Colbert's "I Am America (And So Can You!)" or Jon Stewart's "America (The Book) Teacher's Edition", depending on which side your bread is buttered.
How sweet are those prizes, huh?
Well, it doesn't end there! I am hereby bestowing, on everyone who enters, the coveted "I guess your blog's not THAT bad" award. (Follow the link for instructions.)
Can this day get any better?!
No. No, it can't.
So, without further ado, I give you 6 Truths and A Lie about Avery Gray:
1) I was born in a hospital waiting room...by Cesarean.
2) I have never used an electric toothbrush for anything other than its intended purpose.
3) My timed score on Bejeweled is better than my untimed score.
4) I am a Republican, born into a family of damn dirty Democrats. (Sorry Mom and Dad. I calls 'em as I sees 'em.)
5) I was a high school Mathlete, but I was the weakest link on the team.
6) I almost died of hypothermia once in college when I was locked in a parking garage overnight and the temperature dropped below freezing.
7) I have never killed a man just to watch him die, but sometimes I'd like to.
So, there you have it! Which one's a lie? It's up to you to figure it out!
Contest runs thru Sunday, so get your entries in now!
Good luck!!
50 comments:
hhmmm.... #1 and #7 seem unlikely.
(what a kick ass way to take on the meme-o-rama by adding a contest)
...you are awesome.
I vote #1
and I totally understand #7!
4. I vote 4.
Clearly it is #3 you naughty naughty girl.
What do I win again?
Man! You are just so innovative!
I am saying number 7 but then again it doesnt say you killed anyone just that you never did, and if you never did...well it is still relevent...head hurt yet?
So ummm....I am with two. Number two.
okay. i know you sooooo well, from following you these last hundred hours. so i'm going to say that definitively that the following are true:
1) you are allergic to hospital waiting rooms, so delivery into one would have killed you instantly.
2) there is a website www.watchaveryandhertoothbrush.com that clearly *proves* you do more than brush
3) you don't own a watch, and so could not have a timed score on bejeweled
4) democrats bathe every four hours, so your family are not dirty.
5) while it isn't true that math folks don't have a sense of humour, it is true that most non-mathers don't get it. i find you funny to a nearly criminal degree, so you *couldn't* have been the weakest link
6) hypothermia renders you unable to bear children. now, unless you stole that kid, you clearly never had hypothermia.
7) i am inigo montoya, you killed my father. since i am *not* inigo montoya, this must be the false one.
furthermore my husband said "number 7, obviously"
Can I comment seven times??? Ha.
Um... Oh, the pressure... *sigh*... I must choose....
Number One.
Final Answer.
GAH!
I'm going with 2. Yep, definitely 2.
The rest of them just seem so believable. :)
Chuck @ D is for Dad
Ooooh, this is tough! I vote for number fffff- ooooo-sssssssss.....
Number 2 is my final answer. i wish I could phone a friend ;)
I feel like I'm playing the "Mike Walker" game.
I'm going with #2.
holly totally stole all my super funny remarks! That's not fair!
I pick secret answer #8! Ha!
#2 is the lie. You've used that toothbrush for "other" purposes (just like I have).
BTW: Sorry I tagged ya, I forgot about the hiatus!
Oh, I don't know...I'd like to say #2, but #1 seems so...ummm...okay, I'm going to go with #1.
oh oh oh, I don't know, the pressure, the pressure *final answer now please* argh arghhhh! Ok I'm going with number 3! No idea what Bejewelled is, I just picked at random. Number 3.
This is too easy. Number 2.
I'm gona go with numero uno. Way to "ER"ish to garner total belief in it. Otherwise I'd go with the hypothermia one but that's a bit too scary to be untrue.
Number six. That sounds too ridiculous. All the rest---I don't know, could have happened. I think you are lying about hypothermia. I don't know why. I feel it. But I am probably wrong, because hey, I don't know you that well.
No hypothermia.
Wow, only one is not true? Um, I will say #4 is false.
I'm going to go with #2 - just because it's so fun to think up alternatives...hee hee!
Sorry about that, my computer hiccuped and posted my entry 3 times!
#2
I haven't done a Meme in a long while. And I often wonder if these "awards" that are passed along are some type of subversive Meme that sneaks in your blog, cloaked as a "award". Hmmmm
I say #1... I can believe you were born in the hospital waiting room, but I can't believe it was by Cesarean. If your mother was in the building I can't not fathom the staff performing surgery in the waiting room.
Opps... i can't type either... I CAN not fathom.. yeah yeah you get the idea
I say it's number 2. I have a feeling you use your vibrating toothbrush for the same thing I do...for scrubbing grout you sickos!
Hmmm... Interesting.
I'm learning a lot about how all of you see me.
Keep the guesses coming!
This is a fun contest... let's see...
despite all the people who think differently, I've also never used an electric toothbrush for anything else (now a regular toothbrush..that's another story).
I totally understand about number three, because mine is too...I think they give you higher points or something.
Number four.. of course you are, you are obviously very intelligent ;-)
I'll take your word on number 5.. I think.
I don't believe you could have made up number six... and seven, I think anyone who's been married can identify with that at least once....
I vote for number 1. I can believe you were born in the waiting room, but I'm not sure about the Ceasarian.
I'm going with #2, because I just have a feeling you'd look at your husband's electric toothbrush and decide it is the perfect tool for polishing your shoes.
yeah.
I say #12.
okay, #1. I don't know.....
#2. I KNOW you have come up with other uses.
#1 babe?
Can I say all of them?
Erm...Is a mathlete what I think it is? Gosh, I really hope for your sake that one isn't true.
But, it's a no-brainer really - I plump for number 2.
Mya x
I'm going with #1...I'm pretty sure I know how and when you were born. ;)
Oh, and MATHLETE is EXACTLY what it sounds like. HA!
I'm gonna go with #1 cause I've definitely never seen that on Grey's Anatomy!
I say #6 because so far it only has one vote. I always go for the underdog. No, wait change my vote to #5 I don't think anyone picked that one. Although I could probably look up in our high school yearbook and find out that it really IS #6.
Yep I vote for #5. Underdogs rule.
See you next Thursday :)
Jeepers! I don't know you very well, and it breaks my heart to think you might be a Republican, but . . . I will have to guess #1.
You, my dear, are proof positive that meme's CAN be interesting.
I'm guessing number two (no, that's not potty talk), because umm, why else would you put it out there?
From Here to There
I'm going with 1. Just because I can't see why they wouldn't put you in a side room for that. Or your mum. But what do know?? And I have no idea what bejewelled is either.
I'm just going to go with common sense and say No. 1 isn't true.
... :-S
Avery, I am an independent from a family of democrats, all of them shocked to be challenged by any heterodox idea!
#2
HOLLY's comment is CRAZY good...whoa....she REALLY knows you (I feel like I KNOW YOU better from HER comment!!)
Totally not reading the comments so that I can guess #2 with impunity. :) See you on the Buzz.
I vote #2 for the falsehood! And, boy oh boy, does Holly really know you well or what?! ;)
Can I change it?
Cause I am thinking 6, dunno why it came to me in a dream(and no we wont go there why I dreamt about you...)
Six and its my final answer!
BTW:
Thank you for your comment. You said it PERFECTLY!(At my blog)
#2 is such a lie!!
I'm the game now sister, I love my Avery friend! And, I'm a Meme-er no more as well!
You are awesome!! ~xo~
number 2 is totally false, and I can't wait to hear what kinda weird stuff you've done with the toothbrush ;)
i'm going to go with number 5 because...no one else did! and...i dare to be different!
#1. And thought I'd love to have the Steven Colbert book, I'd be happy just to have the award; (sad violins) I've never won one before, and I don't think my blog is THAT bad. :)
Hmmm...I vote for #1. I would believe that you could be born in a waiting room (or parking lot, or on the side of the road), but the c-section part makes me question the validity of the it. That's my vote! :)
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