^, <, V

[Capt. Sterling]

^ Gray

< Cheeks ye think like a woman!

V Hold on to things, or do you live light and let go? (good question)

[Red-Handed Jill]

^ It depends. If it has a great deal of sentimental value, it stays. If I get no use out of it and there is no sentiment attached, it goes.

< Also prefer to talk my way out of fights, but I have had to defend myself against physical attacks, unfortunately.

V Pass the question

[Cheeky Actress]

^ Seeing that I think like a woman and that I have a woman's heart, I rather get attached to things easily. Good memories..it stays...and things that bring back neg. memories...they stay too...oddly enough?!

< - You are a queer little man, Captain. What a question to ask ME!

V Sweet or Salty! *( - Ya, I can see where this is going...keep it clean people!)

[Capt. Sterling]

Sorry Cheeky, queer and little do not fit the bill in my regard...And what question might that have been that I asked?

[Jacky Tar]

^ If I were a candy bar, I'd be a PayDay (Sweet and Salty)!

< Not sure that's wot Cheeks was askin' fer.

V Wot candy bar would ye be?

[Capt. Sterling]

^ Almond Joy (sweet tart doesn't constitute a candy bar now does it?)

< Never sure what Cheeks is askin.... sometimes I don't think she is either. I never did ask her a question in the first place

V Do women confuse you? snigger

[Salty]

^ Ah i am one and YES sniggering back

<marbled clay is wicked

V understand teh opposite sex, or just deal with them?

['Bastian Devareaux]

^ Have a rather fine grasp of same and opposit. Human beings in general are a task to deal with.

< Slept entirely too long....But feel SOOOOO much better.

V Prefer the company of your own sex or the opposit. ( Get your minds out of the gutter. )

[Jacky Tar]

^ I prefer the opposite.

< Not that I think women are really opposites.

V Pass the question along.

[The Chapman]

^I've spent so much time in ultra-macho environments I'm tired of it, and no longer have anything to prove. Anything 'men' can do to test themselves, I've pretty much already done, voluntarily or, most of the time, otherwise.

Given a choice I'll work around women. Leading me to...

> Having a rare chance to have my daughter by myself for several days, I am enjoying her company immensely. For instance, last night, I informed her we were going to the liquor store for beer, and I'd get her a soda and chips for being tolerant, and she said, "Well, Dad, why can't we just go to a bar?"

YEAH! THAT'S MY GIRL!

V What kind of plain (not flavored) potato chips do you most like?

[Jacky Tar]

^ Ruffles

< Potato chips, a favorite junk food.

V Wot's yer favorite junk food?

[Cheeky Actress]

Posting the original comment from Captain Sterling....

< Cheeks ye think like a woman!

My Reply....

^ Seeing that I think like a woman and that I have a woman's heart, yes, I rather get attached to things easily. ....

Just thought it was an odd question for the Captain to ask...

^ Wise potoato chips (regional fav from the East Coast - can't get them here in WI!)

< I perfer them over any of the National Brands

V What's it doing weather-wise in your area?

[Red-Handed Jill]

^ It's quite warm. It's actually been unseasonably warm for some time.

< I like Pringles. Which is why I can never have them in my house.

V Any big plans for July 4th (for those of you in the U.S.)?

[Red Cat Jenny]

Fireworks over the water somwhere..and a fyne drink.

[Cheeky Actress]

Fire, water, and booze....sounds like a great combination, Red-Cat!

^ Cook-out, fireworks at the lake, and strawberry pie!

<Oooo! Why couldn't the 4th of July land on a Friday this year!!!?!?!?

V Color your hair or let it go...

[Salty]

^ wild and free and the only colouring it gets is at it changes from being in the sun

< ahhh teh joys and pains of being female in a "mans" world

V boots or barefeet?

[Cheeky Actress]

^ Hmm...this one is a tough one! Depends on the boots, really. I use to have a lovely pair of 'Thigh-Highs' in the mid-90s with 3-1/2 inch heels which I wore when I went clubbing...of course that we some time ago.

Now that I am older, bare feet sound better all the time!

< Hey...wait a min?!...I think my twin ended up with those boots?!?

V Sand or grass ---between your toes?

[Red Cat Jenny]

^ Sand..but will settle for grass as long as there are no ants

< Ahh I had a favorite pair of ankle height black leather boots! they were ruched with a bow at the side and zippered oh and they had a 3 inch heel...ahh yes Cheeky..the 8o's

V I always start out tryin t' keep th sand off the blacket/sand chair/lunch etc.. but after several hours I love to feel like jello from the sun and have salt in my hair and I just dont care if I'm sandy - long after the wimpy beachgoers have quit for the day.

Hate sand or don't mind to be sprinkled in it by the end of the beach day?

[Hester]

^ I don't mind sand. Surfer Joe leaves a trail of it everywhere he goes.

< "My fingernails are filthy, I've got beach tar on my feet..."

V Do your standards of grooming and personal hygiene get somewhat lax in the summertime?

[Capt. Lazarus Gage]

^Absolutely not, my hygene is always impecable, unless it's my day off.....

< It's not considered dirty if you never get out of bed.

v What is the best homemade dish you can cook?

[Ransom]

^ Homemade chicken and noodles - with noodles also made from scratch. My grandma taught me how. Her first directions were, "First you kill a chicken..." I buy my chicken from the store!

< Years ago I got together with my mom, and we went through all her collection of family receipies, I transcribed them into the computer, then we printed out a cookbook for each of us and all my sisters. The title is the quote from my Grandmother, "First you kill a chicken." In the back is a brief geneology chart showing who the receipies came from and what side of the family.

V Interested in geneology/family history or do you figure "in the big picture" who is going to care?

[Hester]

^ Fascinated by genealogy, but not just the names and dates. I'm interested in the social history of my ancestors, and trying to understand what their lives might have been like.

I did recently meet a British woman who professed to be totally uninterested in finding out about her ancestors. She seemed to think Family History research was a pointless and peculiarly North American obsession. I thought that showed a total lack of curiosity/imagination on her part.

< My Scottish side is great fun to research. They were so ill-behaved! Rowdy bloody pub-keepers amidst all the dour Presbyterians.

V Passing on the Q -- Are you interested in genealogy?

[Morgan Dreadlocke]

/\ Aye, but the trail be mighty short when the name researched be Brown. Right next ta Smith and Jones it be.

< Preparin' ta join a fighter practise tonight. 1st time in 20 year.

\/ Pass the question\/

[Cheeky Actress]

^ YES! Thanks to the 12 years of leg work by my Da and my Great Uncle Ted, there will be a book published called, "The McKinney Decendants of the Greater Northern New York Territory and New England Areas. I think the title is a bit wordy, but will be wonderful to see it in print!

< One of the better stories I've been told is during the battle of Bennington which was directly related to the battle of Saratoga in that Gen. Burgoyne sent his top Hessian Officer Col. Frederich Baum to forage for supplies for his troops at Saratoga the destination was Bennington Vermont where american forces lay in wait until they engaged them on the NY side of the border. John Knight (one of my decendants) described his part in the battle in his pension papers which included capturing a british field piece and turning it against them and actually killing Col Baum the commander of the force. John Knights daughter Olive married my Mother's Gr Gr Gr Grandfather.

V Passing on the Q -- Are you interested in genealogy and got a great story with it?

[Manglin' Maggi Maloney]

/\ Aye! I am and do! There's a family genealogy supposedly in print somewhere, but the general consensus amongst my mom's side of the family is, "What good are you if you can't remember it all on your own." sheesh.. i have a memory like a sieve, especially when trying to remember many, many, many names! (i never was good with names) x.x But most of the happenings in the family i can remember well, for some odd reason.

< I have a story about my great grampa from my dad's side of the family. He was a Cherokee man returning from the Civil War, he spied a lass working in a field and stopped his horse under the shade of a tree to watch how she worked. After all, he was in the market for a wife now that the war was over, and in Native American tradition, wanted a good, hardworking woman for a wife.

She was a Scottish indentured servant, and didn't particularly care for being gawked at by this be-feathered dandy sitting on his horse. The other servant girls were rather frightened of him because he was a 'savage', even though he was wearing his uniform. Nonetheless, they worked quickly through the field to get distance between them and my G.Grampa.

As soon as they had worked over the crest of the hill, leaving my G.Gramma by herself in the field, he jumped off his horse to go gather her up and flee with her. And this would be where she flattened him. He shook it off while her mouth unleashed white hot volleys of insults, questions of his intelligence, as well as demanding to know just who he thought himself to be acting like this. He grinned and threw her fighting and flailing over his shoulder, and made off to the horse. They were then off to cross the Red River as the hunters and their dogs sought them in the night. There's far more detail and events in the story than that, but i shortened for writing it here

\/ Passing along the Q, same as before!