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Tuesday, July 23, 2013

What were you blogging about four years ago today?


I laughed when I read this today. This is my post from exactly four years ago...comments included. lol


Aloha Friday


It is Aloha Friday, once again, a chance for me to take it easy and not think too much, but as you know, I can't really take it easy, because it is just not me to ask you what your favorite brand of peanut butter! For details on Aloha Friday, visit An Island Life!

I could not decide on one question, so I have two, answer one or both, or none, your choice!

IF YOU WERE TOLD TO BUILD AN ARK AND GATHER TWO OF EVERY ANIMAL IN ORDER TO PRESERVE THEIR SPECIES BUT YOU DID NOT BUILD THE ARK BIG ENOUGH AND YOU HAD TO LEAVE ONE SET OF ANIMALS BEHIND, WHICH ANIMAL WOULD IT BE? (No insects)

IF YOU WERE NOT RELATED TO YOUR PARENTS, WOULD YOU LIKE THEM PERSONALLY? WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS?

47 comments:

♥ Braja said...
Wait a minute....Aloha Friday?? You made that up, didn't you? WTH??!

Snakes. I'd leave the snakes.
(with all the people who I think could use a bite or two....:))
♥ Braja said...
Actually I know some people who are LIKE snakes. I'd leave them.
♥ Braja said...
Damn, Otin, I have never said this before to anyone, but I hit your site and Sarah McLachlan was singing that song from the Angel movie....must be my favorite ever song....love it.

OK if I don't stop commenting, why, someone will think i'm on CAFFEINE!!
Baino said...
Yeh I'd like my parents well enough. Which two creatures would I leave behind? Since you've barred mosquitor - Rats! What possible use are they, big noisy pooey smelly thieves. Nothing eats them - true, even snakes won't eat wild ones just the nice little home bred pink jobs. Aloha to you and have a great weekend!
Drahdrah said...
I would not be friends with my parents if we were not related. I'd leave the skunks behind.
Sarah said...
I would leave porcuppines behind...walk up on one of those accidentally and they have NO problem blasting you (no, it's never happened to me). Also, I would TOTALLY be friends with my parents! My dad is the funniest guy I know (even to strangers) and my Mom is sweet to the point of annoying most times. Good questions...happy that you approved of my Vlog :)
Eternally Distracted said...
Hmmm - I would leave behind gheccos - Only because the hysterical woman who is staying in my house has just called cying and saying ''I can't stand it, I'm a city girl'!! ... WELL, leave the bloody desert then!

I'd have been best friends with my Mum and I may have chatted to my Dad - Sometimes (maybe he wouldn't moan so much if I wasn't his daughter!!)
Candie Bracci said...
Why no insects??I'd live all insects,my first choice.But then,I would live crocodiles or sharks or then again squid(giant squids freaky!)and jellyfish(jellybitch)!
Don't tell me..you would leave your cat behind?lol

As for the second question,hum..I guess yes,they are not too bad,but I wouldn't see them too often,just as now,lol.

Have a nice day and whoot yourself!:)
Candie Bracci said...
live=leave bloody french!
Jaime said...
skunks. who wants THAT smell on the ark?
Brian Miller said...
think i would get along with my parents. if you would have asked me 20 years ago, different story. amazing how that changes.

think i am with jaime on this one. one mis step...it would get ugly.
Mum Gone Mad said...
Spiders... not insects arachnids :) and as to the parents question, best not answer that one. Just popping in via Eternally Distracted. Have a good weekend luv Karen x
Gaston Studio said...
Definitely rats!

And no, I would not like my parents, either one of them.
Hit 40 said...
I feel like a rhyme here with Jane. But... definitely bats. The little suckers freak me out. I am always worried that they will get tangled up in my hair.

And OMG!! If Jane can diss her parents, so can I!!! No I would not be friends with them. I feel horrible about this comment. They are not nice people.

And... This is really bizarre. I kinda like the smell of skunks. I would keep them.
I am Harriet said...
Maybe man? It's too early for me to think :)
Wait- why not insects? Frogs can easily find something else...

http://iamharriet.blogspot.com/2009/07/dear-jon.html
Ave said...
I'd leave the snakes.
Stacy (the Random Cool Chick) said...
Can I pick two? I'd leave the rats and snakes thankyouverymuch. :)

I'd probably be friends to a limited degree with my parents - they've mellowed out over the years... ;)
Mango Girl said...
Hit40 likes skunks? I know where to send the baby one that lives across the street...

With that, I will agree with many others and leave the skunks behind.

Parents? Absolutely not! They are terrible people. Truly.
AudreyO said...
I would be friends with my mom, but probably not my dad :(

As for the animals, wow, that's tough. I'd have to say alligators.
rxBambi said...
very uncool that we can't pick insects cuz I hate anything that buzzes my head. Wasps, bees, hornets... no thank you. So if I can't pick them I guess I'd have to pick.... ummmm.... sloths? I mean what do they really do besides lounge around like couch potatos.

My parents? Well now that I'm in my early-to-mid-to-late 30s I have to say yes. I would totally like them. My mom at 83 is (and I quote her here) an "outrageous older woman" and my dad, unfortunately he's gone now but he was a lot of fun -- loved to travel, liked planes, trains, fast cars, etc not to mention his martini before dinner, wine with dinner, and port after dinner. So yes, I'd be friends with them. But if you'd asked 20 years ago I'd have said 'ummm NO!'
darsden said...
I have to agree with Braja, snakes are the devil himself! NO Snakes!

I would be friends with one of them ;-)
Jeremy said...
I'd be ok without snakes and skunks. :)
sues2u2 said...
I'm dieing here that I can't leave behind insects. Have you Ever seen a tarantula wasp? Think about a wasp the size of a hummingbird & then tell me no! lol & oh, what about killer bees? Piss those babies off & there's not many places on an ark to hide!

Okay,okay. Gotta go w/ the snakes. Some of those guys could swallow a baby whole!

And yes, I probably would be as close to my parents. My mom is pretty nice & my dad is the best. Hubby's mom? Absolutely not!!!
Elle said...
The mule. Mules are the offspring of a donkey and a horse and are almost always sterile. So leaving them behind would not wipeout the species. I would not be friends with my parents. Mom is nutty as a fruitcake, and it is rubbing off on my Dad.
blueviolet said...
Ya stink! How did you know I would pick an insect?

Alright...let's leave out the rat. What good are those anyhow?

As for my parents, let's establish the fact that I love them to pieces, ok?

My mom: HELL no
My dad: You bet (RIP)
Tara said...
LOL well first of all Snakes!!!

Second of all.. yah I think I would be friends with my parents! lol They seem to find friends in everyone!
Betsy said...
How about leaving the moles behind. Would anybody miss them?

No, unfortunatley, the parents have disowned me....even while we are related!
Ice Queen said...
I would leave behind a pair of birds. I have an irrational fear of them. I'm not sure what kind. I guess whichever two were pissing me off at the time...probably geese.

Funny you ask about the parents. I like my mom and I don't like my dad. If they weren't my parents I would probably like my dad but not my mom. Interesting how things work out like that.
Chris@Maugeritaville said...
1. Cats. It's no contest.

2. Of course! My parents are terrific. We'd hang out all the time, and I wouldn't be as uncomfortable if they saw me drunk.
Hit 40 said...
Chris - You said that to just pick on me!!! LOL
Becca said...
I would probably leave the hyenas here.

I think my parents are awesome people and I do consider them to be friends and parents. I obviously wouldn't spend as much time with them tho if we weren't related.
willow said...
Friends?! Are you kidding? My parents haven't spoken to me for years and years.
Erica said...
interesting questions I guess for the first one I would say the alligators i dont know why really

and for #2 if you asked when I was a teen then i would have probably said no about liking my parents but now hands down my mom is one of my best friends and is definitely a keeper.
Ms. Salti said...
I'd leave behind something mean, like the snakes, or the wild boars, or something of the sort.

As for the parents, I'd probably be scared of my dad... he's a bit intimidating!
Pastor Sharon said...
I would leave the snakes!!!!!! NO Question!!!!

OMG!!!!! Hash Pipe by Weezer!!!! I remember my son helping me memorize those lyrics so I could help back up his garage band a couple years ago!!!! Now there's a memory!

I would totally wish to have my mother as close in my life as she was before. I think I could get along with my Dad. . . . but I'm not sure. . . 20 yrs ago, when he died, I didn't have a thing to say to him.
That sounds horrible. . .but hey, everyone has a past right>!@!
Hit 40 said...
I know this is Otin's blog .... but Sharon - I need to see video of you playing Weezer.
Magic City College Girl said...
i dont know what animals i would leave behind. i might be friends with my dad. he is a nice guy. my mom, mostly likely not, shes controlling and annoying.
ReformingGeek said...
I'd leave behind the deer. I'd like to see what animal gets hunted without the deer being around. ;-)
Skye said...
I most certainly would not be friends with my parents, as it is, even related I'm not friends with them!

Hmmm, what animal would I leave behind? I think Dolphins, simply because they survive very well as marine mammals :D

(yes I can be a smartass sometimes...lol)

By the way, Aloha and enjoy your weekend! Thanks for following my blog, I hadn't seen you around before, you have an interesting blog you know!
Maggie said...
Hello there, your Blog was highly recommended to me. =D

My parents are goofballs! They are nice people, I think would definetly be friends with them. haha

I'd leave behind snakes I shiver everytime I see'em!
ronda said...
Yes, I think I would be friends with my parents.

I do know how to get the skunk smell out for the skunk-a-phobs.
Captain Dumbass said...
CATS!!! *sniff*

Parents? One of them.
Girl Interrupted said...
Hey :) here via Hit40 ... cool blog!

I'd leave camels, they're bad tempered, they spit and smell reeeally bad

I would be friends with my mum, she's lovely.
Happy Hour...Somewhere said...
Cool tunes...Voodoo is appropriate for all the people who wanted snakes booted off the boat.

Do you remember the episode of Twilight Zone *cue scary Rod Serling voice* where you get gobs of money for pushing the red button? The catch is someone, somewhere dies? What if after being stupid and building the ark too small, it is decided that we don't get to pick but the cats and rats get to pick? And they don't pick us? I have my flotation device ready just in case.

As for my parents...all I could think was I'm not sure my kids would pick ME. *sigh* Maybe when they are geezers they will appreciate me.
Tara said...
lol I just made the connection
kailani said...
I would leave the alligators. They scare me with all those teeth.
Medora said...
I was going to say spiders, but they are rather necessary . . . I'll go with rats. I adore snakes, and I love alligators . . . WHO SAID CATS??!!!

As for my parents . . . I'd leave my mom behind - oops, I'm mixing up the questions, aren't I?

7 comments:

Brian Miller said...

4 years ago i wrote about cologne...and asked what your country smells like...ha

http://www.waystationone.com/2009/07/cologne.html

Brian Miller said...

wow some blasts from the past on there too reading over the comments and the names...it was a different world then eh? smiles.

Debby@Just Breathe said...

What an interesting question. I just went and looked to see what I was blogging about. I even had to send a text to my brother in law because this is the day they visited with us 4 years ago. Thanks for the memory!

Lisa Regan said...

I love it! I wasn't blogging four years ago. I think I've only been blogging for 2. And as far as the animals--well it would be the grossest animal I could think of! And actually, the answer to the parents question is yes, I would like them personally and would want to hang out with them. Hmmm, how bout that!

Anonymous said...

Wow. What a great question. And I actually took the time to look it up!

Ticks.

Boy, I feel so witty now.

HA!

Joanna Jenkins said...

I'm with Brian-- That was a blast from the past! Lots of long-lost bloggers in the comments.

The questions are a hoot. I'm all about leaving the snakes behind (and hoping they ate all the skunks before they got on the boat.

But the part about the parents really surprised me. A LOT of folks are not on good terms with their parents. That's kinda sad.

Four years ago I was complaining about a car alarm going off in the middle of the night. Riveting stuff ;-)

jj

Jayne Martin said...

I'm coming up on my 4th blog anniversary on August 9th and was wondering what to do. This is a great idea and I may just delve into my own vault. And I'd leave behind coyotes. Damn things go off every night, waking me up in their murderous spree.