I wasn't going to do this because I figured it would be all sci-fi and fantasy and I would feel stupid for not having read any of them. But I looked at the list, and thought, huh.

The basic rules: bold what you have read, italicize what you started but couldn’t finish, and strike through what you couldn’t stand.

1984
The Aeneid
The Amazing Adventures ( Read more... )

YOUR REPORT CARD:
CategoryGrade
LoveA
Friends and FamilyA
BodyA+
MindB
Finance / CareerB
Your Life's Average Grade: A
'What is your Life Grade?' at QuizGalaxy.com

I've been watching the 12 Days of Christmas song make its rounds on my friendslist. I was originally not interested, but I just tried it.

The site told me: This song would be better if the user had some interests listed. Add some and come back tomorrow, if it's yours.

What was my song?

On the twelfth day of Christmas, ( Read more... )

I recently added a few friends to my friends-list, but since I rarely post on LiveJournal, I thought I would just say hi!

Also, if you would rather read my posts through LiveJournal instead of going to the web site each time, you can subscribe to my RSS feed using this link: http://syndicated.livejournal.com/duchess_muse/Basically, this link would ( Read more... )

This test sucks:

Your Linguistic Profile:45% General American English35% Yankee10% Dixie5% Upper Midwestern0% Midwestern
What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

I find it interesting that I do have some Dixie - I blame katre50 for that, and I wonder if Upper Midwestern is a holdover from the teacher I first learned English from?

I noticed this link http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007600.html and now am reading the comments. It's something I will be keeping an eye on, and watching what happens next.

ParserGirl says (to Duchess), "Maga wishes he were marrying me(instead of you, oh snap)."

Seems like people took my attempt at making a list of songs easily recognizable in good humor. I was surprised one or two remained unrecognized, so I am actually putting up the answers, just like a good sheep I am.

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I looked at ifmud's song memes, and could guess none of them because I haven't heard of most of the songs/artists. It then occurred to me to do my list off a CD-set that I used to have (that I lost) - and I know a vast majority of you *have* heard these songs at some point or the other. Shouldn't this be fairly easy for you?

I think tablesaw has an advantage ( Read more... )

fourcoffees has this for Austria over on his journal, and it seemed like an interesting move. It's tiny and most people have never heard of it, but if you have any questions about Bangladesh, comment, and I will try to answer it!