Norman almost sorta opens up.
I assure you that I will only tell the truth on the ones when I can't think of anything more interesting to put.
101 Things about Your Norman J Picklepuss
1) I stole this 101 Things About Me from fick_l_rene (and right out of the box he's cheating).
2) My name is not, in fact, Norman J Picklepuss. It's actually Corey J Picklepuss. I just think the Norman flows better.
3) My fiancee is named Kari and she rules my world.
4) I am a hair over 5'7" tall and as of this morning 190 lbs. I'm told I carry it well. I only marginally give a damn.
5) I can down a rampaging rhino at a full clip from 50 yards with a blow gun.
6) I know for a fact there are at least 3 ways to rock.
7) For the blind and deaf on my Friends List, I am a fairly rabid member of the Harry Potter fandom.
8) My office is located in Des Plaines, IL, the historic home of John Wayne Gacy and the world's first McDonald's.
9) I hate beans, especially refried beans, and onions but I love Mexican food. I hold the record for most "Well then why the hell did you come here?" looks received by Mexican restaurant wait staff.
10) I will beat a joke until it's dead.
11) When I take off my sunglasses for short periods of time, I hang them on the back of my shirt collar. I copied this from Val Kilmer in Real Genius.
12) I have a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
13) I graduated at the bottom of my class.
14) The only things I learned in school that I get use out of at work is being fluent in Excel and Pagemaker (which is similar to CAD).
15) I like my job.
16) I am not underpaid for what I do, but I am underpaid for what I am supposed to be worth.
17) The people most responsible for my presence in "fandom" are (in chronological order): cygnusfap, epicyclical, jiggery_pokery and v_vconservative.
18) I am possibly-non-existent-fandom-straight-boy. No kidding, if I was any straighter, I'd be Ron.
19) This is my 102 post. I've posted 1,106 comments and received 848.
20) My code was given to me by jiggery_pokery on Dec 6, 2002, because I made the following anonymous comment in epicyclical's journal:
Well it seems to me that since the great dane made his man boob proposition, a lot of straight fan boys think they can raise a hand and say "Hey, hetero over here! Big straightness, 12 o'clock!" and they'll get an LJ code.
Though in looking at it, that second comment doesn't really seem put it correctly. But I guess it still works.
I, of course, am here for completely different reasons.
Corey
My grammar has not gotten any better since.
21) There are 39 people on my Friends list and 31 people on my Friend Of list. Not counting secretpolitical and communities, the discrepancies are:
altricial, epicyclical, msscribe, the_tonio, and vanityfair. I am not offended by not being Friended by anyone nor am I holding my breath for "acceptance." I Friended them because they were interesting and funny. I stick by it.
22) The last person I Friended was, I believe, bethsmack and the last person who Friended me was, I think, praetoriangaurd.
23) Dio wrote the soundtrack to my life.
24) I will not under any circumstances complain, vent or even mention in passing anything that can be construed as a shortcoming, fault, or negative aspect of Kari's. I do not do this in RL anymore than on lj. As far as anyone else is concerned, she is absolutely perfect, which is the truth anyway.
25) Most of my self-deprecating humor is only a mask for a tremendous ego. Except when...
26) ... in terms of my own jokes. The ones that make me laugh and the ones that apparently make everyone else laugh are rarely the same ones.
27) Until a couple of years ago, I was under the misconception that I disliked Pink Floyd and the Rolling Stones. I have no excuse for this.
28) I am in fact a Christian and I have huge problems with the amount of "Christians" who don't get it.
29) I am allergic to cats. Somehow this only manifested in the last 2 or 3 years since up until I was 19 I lived with at least one cat at all times.
30) I am currently quite the sad fanboy of avalons (though this one mostly constitutes trying to get her to share her stories), nmalfoy (both for her fic and her aim), epicyclical (no kidding), most recently slytherincess and when he wrote them VSPD's, cygnusfap.
31) I turned 24 on June 8.
32) I have known adamcollins since first grade when that god awful smart bastard jumped from kindergarten to first halfway through the year.
33) I am a maniac on the floor.
34) I have no musical talent whatsoever. None.
35) I am bad with children.
36) I hate small talk.
37) For anyone that wasn't around, a couple of months ago I got the lasik vision correction surgery in April and haven't worn glasses since. If you care that much I can link you to my huge write-up on it, but I believe most everyone's already read it so I won't link it again here.
38) I have a quite brilliant aptitude for creating run-on sentences.
39) I spent 6 years in the French Foreign Legion.
40) I have made 3 "short films" on video called "Le Danse" "John Rebmann!" and "Operation: Mordancy"
41) I love Miller Lite as cold as I can get it and everyone can just kiss my ass.
42) Aside from Adam, the only lj people I have ever met are hermorrine, who was lovely and funny, and zorac, who was tall.
43) Unless it comes to Chicago, I will probably never go to a Nimbus.
44) We were asked to stay for tea and half some fun, but his friends did not all drop by.
45) My favorite actress of all time is Audrey Hepburn. My least is Drew Barrymore post ET. For the men, top is Pacino and bottom is Martin Lawrence.
46) I love the Oakland Raiders and the St. Louis Cardinals.
47) I hate the Chicago Cubs (oh the irony) more than any team in the history of organized sport. Just after them, I hate the Yankees post Mantle, the Dallas Cowboys and pretty much all the other New York and Florida teams both college and professional.
48) I am not a strong swimmer.
49) I work on a PowerMac G3 that I very much doubt will support Mac OSX. This pains me.
50) I have found that fat bottomed girls do indeed make the rocking world go round.
51) Depending on how you want to look at it, I have flown once, twice, or 4 times. Kari and I flew to Florida to visit my brother 2 years ago. We of course also flew back. In true airline fashion we flew from Indianapolis to Detroit to Jacksonville and the reverse on the way back.
52) My foot itches.
53) I post on LJ almost exclusively M-F between 8 AM and 5 PM Central Time. Consider yourself pretty damn special if you've ever heard from me outside of those times.
54) Thanks tozorac, my email address is lacunar@t00b.net which forwards to normanpicklepuss@yahoo.com (feel free to add me to your YM buddy lists, I will almost assuredly not talk to you unless you text me first).
55) I like my coffee with lots of cream and sugar or else Starbucks white chocolate mocha.
56) My faorite television shows of all time are Seinfeld, Homicide: Life on the Street, and Good Neighbors (or The Good Life across the way).
57) There are two books currently on my desk, Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four Nos. 1-10 and The Universe in a Nutshell.
58) I really hate that Walmart supercenters are the nexus of activity in most small towns and rural communities.
59) I love roller coasters.
60) I am good enough at pool as not to embarrass myself ( I learned from Kari who is better than me) and I always know when I am outmatched.
61) My responsibilities at Casa de Picklepuss are garbage removal, dish washer duty, preparing lunches in the mornings, and making sure the bills get paid (not the same as paying the bills).
62) I like my bars to be more in the "dive" category than the "club" category.
63) Even though it's on television once every 42 minutes and I own it, I will still sit through JAWS every time I come across it. Ditto The Godfather and it's sequel.
64) It is 92 F (33 C) in Chicago today and I am none too pleased about it.
65) No one in my family likes A Christmas Story. We may be the only 4 people in the world of that opinion and we stick by it.
66) I would like to name one of my children, regardless of sex, Chance after Peter Sellers in Being There.
67) I greatly enjoy musicals.
68) I have never in my life smoked pot or done anything harder. I consider weed a very juvenile and "high school" thing to do, though I hold it against very few whom I've gotten to know outside of their propensity for it.
69) I actually have a dashboard hula girl named Yolanda next to my monitor.
70) The most famous person I've ever met is Roger Ebert. Though I did bump into Tone Loc once.
71) I despise Mountain Dew.
72) I truly believe in almost every rule in the Modern Drunkard Index.
73) Recently I allowed my subscription to Entertainment Weekly to run out because a) we were running in opposite directions of US Magazine and b) since I check movie web sites already anyway, there's never anything in there I don't already know.
74) I think Harry will die at the end of book 7.
75) I very rarely get sick.
76) I did not get the Diagon Alley and Knockturn Alley jokes until Kari pointed them out to me the second time we watched CoS.
77) I still love cartoons though I don't watch them much anymore.
78) I did not particularly enjoy LotR the book. The first time I posted about that, I ended up with leiabelle and avalons for Friends.
79) I am not embarrassed to admit I love the works of Stephen King and John Grisham.
80) I have chicken fajita Lean Pockets for lunch. And I do believe I'll go have them right now.
81) I once wrecked my car when a bear jumped on it and I was forced to fight it off with my bare (ha!) hands.
82) In the summer of 1999 me, adamcollins and another friend wrote a screenplay called "Pimping Ain't Easy (but It Sho is Fun)" (working title). We did actually make a rather sad attempt at filming it on video, but gave up on it.
83) I would really like to throw water balloons at teenagers when they walk past the beer garden.
84) I am allergic to cigarette smoke, but I love a good cigar.
85) Everything I know about chess I learned from Yes' "I've Heard All Good People."
86) I do not like Ted Nugent the solo artist. I've tried and tried, but "Stranglehold" just doesn't do a damn thing for me. I do however love Ted Nugent the great American nutjob.
87) Misquoting movie lines to me is a good way to end up hopping around the rest of the afternoon with my foot in your ass.
88) The only stores I can find by heart in the massive Woodfield mall are Steve Madden and Nine West.
89) I once asked my mother if the whole world was in black & white when television was in B&W. She said yes.
90) I have never in my life jump high-fived.
91) Songs I've debated walking down the aisle to: "Black Betty" by Ramm Jamm, "Mama Told Me (Not to Come) by Three Dog Night, "Simple Man" by Lynyrd Skynrd, "Hallejuah" by Jeff Buckley, the theme from JAWS, "Batdance" by Prince and "Sex Machine" by James Brown.
92) My favorite quote of all time is,
"The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time." - George Bernard Shaw
93) I have vomited once in 10 years and one of my life goals is to never do it again.
94) I haven't cried at a movie since the end of Glory when I was 10.
95) I really hate guys who miss the point of movies like "Goodfellas", "Swingers" and "Fight Club."
96) My scariest spider experience: whilst reaching for the toilet paper, one crawled out of the roll in the middle.
97) I don't see the appeal of Brittany Murphy at all.
98) Every day I check the following movie sites: Ain't It Cool News, CHUD, and Movie Poop Shoot.
99) If there's an article of clothing you can spill pizza sauce on, I've done it.
100) I can hog tie a calf in 12 seconds flat.
101) I've seen a million faces and I've rocked maybe a handful. Though none like a hurricane.
Looking back it this, I really opened up far more than I planned to, even with all the lies. 101 things is just too damn many. Oh well. Do with them what you will.
101 Things about Your Norman J Picklepuss
1) I stole this 101 Things About Me from fick_l_rene (and right out of the box he's cheating).
2) My name is not, in fact, Norman J Picklepuss. It's actually Corey J Picklepuss. I just think the Norman flows better.
3) My fiancee is named Kari and she rules my world.
4) I am a hair over 5'7" tall and as of this morning 190 lbs. I'm told I carry it well. I only marginally give a damn.
5) I can down a rampaging rhino at a full clip from 50 yards with a blow gun.
6) I know for a fact there are at least 3 ways to rock.
7) For the blind and deaf on my Friends List, I am a fairly rabid member of the Harry Potter fandom.
8) My office is located in Des Plaines, IL, the historic home of John Wayne Gacy and the world's first McDonald's.
9) I hate beans, especially refried beans, and onions but I love Mexican food. I hold the record for most "Well then why the hell did you come here?" looks received by Mexican restaurant wait staff.
10) I will beat a joke until it's dead.
11) When I take off my sunglasses for short periods of time, I hang them on the back of my shirt collar. I copied this from Val Kilmer in Real Genius.
12) I have a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
13) I graduated at the bottom of my class.
14) The only things I learned in school that I get use out of at work is being fluent in Excel and Pagemaker (which is similar to CAD).
15) I like my job.
16) I am not underpaid for what I do, but I am underpaid for what I am supposed to be worth.
17) The people most responsible for my presence in "fandom" are (in chronological order): cygnusfap, epicyclical, jiggery_pokery and v_vconservative.
18) I am possibly-non-existent-fandom-straight-boy. No kidding, if I was any straighter, I'd be Ron.
19) This is my 102 post. I've posted 1,106 comments and received 848.
20) My code was given to me by jiggery_pokery on Dec 6, 2002, because I made the following anonymous comment in epicyclical's journal:
Well it seems to me that since the great dane made his man boob proposition, a lot of straight fan boys think they can raise a hand and say "Hey, hetero over here! Big straightness, 12 o'clock!" and they'll get an LJ code.
Though in looking at it, that second comment doesn't really seem put it correctly. But I guess it still works.
I, of course, am here for completely different reasons.
Corey
My grammar has not gotten any better since.
21) There are 39 people on my Friends list and 31 people on my Friend Of list. Not counting secretpolitical and communities, the discrepancies are:
altricial, epicyclical, msscribe, the_tonio, and vanityfair. I am not offended by not being Friended by anyone nor am I holding my breath for "acceptance." I Friended them because they were interesting and funny. I stick by it.
22) The last person I Friended was, I believe, bethsmack and the last person who Friended me was, I think, praetoriangaurd.
23) Dio wrote the soundtrack to my life.
24) I will not under any circumstances complain, vent or even mention in passing anything that can be construed as a shortcoming, fault, or negative aspect of Kari's. I do not do this in RL anymore than on lj. As far as anyone else is concerned, she is absolutely perfect, which is the truth anyway.
25) Most of my self-deprecating humor is only a mask for a tremendous ego. Except when...
26) ... in terms of my own jokes. The ones that make me laugh and the ones that apparently make everyone else laugh are rarely the same ones.
27) Until a couple of years ago, I was under the misconception that I disliked Pink Floyd and the Rolling Stones. I have no excuse for this.
28) I am in fact a Christian and I have huge problems with the amount of "Christians" who don't get it.
29) I am allergic to cats. Somehow this only manifested in the last 2 or 3 years since up until I was 19 I lived with at least one cat at all times.
30) I am currently quite the sad fanboy of avalons (though this one mostly constitutes trying to get her to share her stories), nmalfoy (both for her fic and her aim), epicyclical (no kidding), most recently slytherincess and when he wrote them VSPD's, cygnusfap.
31) I turned 24 on June 8.
32) I have known adamcollins since first grade when that god awful smart bastard jumped from kindergarten to first halfway through the year.
33) I am a maniac on the floor.
34) I have no musical talent whatsoever. None.
35) I am bad with children.
36) I hate small talk.
37) For anyone that wasn't around, a couple of months ago I got the lasik vision correction surgery in April and haven't worn glasses since. If you care that much I can link you to my huge write-up on it, but I believe most everyone's already read it so I won't link it again here.
38) I have a quite brilliant aptitude for creating run-on sentences.
39) I spent 6 years in the French Foreign Legion.
40) I have made 3 "short films" on video called "Le Danse" "John Rebmann!" and "Operation: Mordancy"
41) I love Miller Lite as cold as I can get it and everyone can just kiss my ass.
42) Aside from Adam, the only lj people I have ever met are hermorrine, who was lovely and funny, and zorac, who was tall.
43) Unless it comes to Chicago, I will probably never go to a Nimbus.
44) We were asked to stay for tea and half some fun, but his friends did not all drop by.
45) My favorite actress of all time is Audrey Hepburn. My least is Drew Barrymore post ET. For the men, top is Pacino and bottom is Martin Lawrence.
46) I love the Oakland Raiders and the St. Louis Cardinals.
47) I hate the Chicago Cubs (oh the irony) more than any team in the history of organized sport. Just after them, I hate the Yankees post Mantle, the Dallas Cowboys and pretty much all the other New York and Florida teams both college and professional.
48) I am not a strong swimmer.
49) I work on a PowerMac G3 that I very much doubt will support Mac OSX. This pains me.
50) I have found that fat bottomed girls do indeed make the rocking world go round.
51) Depending on how you want to look at it, I have flown once, twice, or 4 times. Kari and I flew to Florida to visit my brother 2 years ago. We of course also flew back. In true airline fashion we flew from Indianapolis to Detroit to Jacksonville and the reverse on the way back.
52) My foot itches.
53) I post on LJ almost exclusively M-F between 8 AM and 5 PM Central Time. Consider yourself pretty damn special if you've ever heard from me outside of those times.
54) Thanks tozorac, my email address is lacunar@t00b.net which forwards to normanpicklepuss@yahoo.com (feel free to add me to your YM buddy lists, I will almost assuredly not talk to you unless you text me first).
55) I like my coffee with lots of cream and sugar or else Starbucks white chocolate mocha.
56) My faorite television shows of all time are Seinfeld, Homicide: Life on the Street, and Good Neighbors (or The Good Life across the way).
57) There are two books currently on my desk, Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four Nos. 1-10 and The Universe in a Nutshell.
58) I really hate that Walmart supercenters are the nexus of activity in most small towns and rural communities.
59) I love roller coasters.
60) I am good enough at pool as not to embarrass myself ( I learned from Kari who is better than me) and I always know when I am outmatched.
61) My responsibilities at Casa de Picklepuss are garbage removal, dish washer duty, preparing lunches in the mornings, and making sure the bills get paid (not the same as paying the bills).
62) I like my bars to be more in the "dive" category than the "club" category.
63) Even though it's on television once every 42 minutes and I own it, I will still sit through JAWS every time I come across it. Ditto The Godfather and it's sequel.
64) It is 92 F (33 C) in Chicago today and I am none too pleased about it.
65) No one in my family likes A Christmas Story. We may be the only 4 people in the world of that opinion and we stick by it.
66) I would like to name one of my children, regardless of sex, Chance after Peter Sellers in Being There.
67) I greatly enjoy musicals.
68) I have never in my life smoked pot or done anything harder. I consider weed a very juvenile and "high school" thing to do, though I hold it against very few whom I've gotten to know outside of their propensity for it.
69) I actually have a dashboard hula girl named Yolanda next to my monitor.
70) The most famous person I've ever met is Roger Ebert. Though I did bump into Tone Loc once.
71) I despise Mountain Dew.
72) I truly believe in almost every rule in the Modern Drunkard Index.
73) Recently I allowed my subscription to Entertainment Weekly to run out because a) we were running in opposite directions of US Magazine and b) since I check movie web sites already anyway, there's never anything in there I don't already know.
74) I think Harry will die at the end of book 7.
75) I very rarely get sick.
76) I did not get the Diagon Alley and Knockturn Alley jokes until Kari pointed them out to me the second time we watched CoS.
77) I still love cartoons though I don't watch them much anymore.
78) I did not particularly enjoy LotR the book. The first time I posted about that, I ended up with leiabelle and avalons for Friends.
79) I am not embarrassed to admit I love the works of Stephen King and John Grisham.
80) I have chicken fajita Lean Pockets for lunch. And I do believe I'll go have them right now.
81) I once wrecked my car when a bear jumped on it and I was forced to fight it off with my bare (ha!) hands.
82) In the summer of 1999 me, adamcollins and another friend wrote a screenplay called "Pimping Ain't Easy (but It Sho is Fun)" (working title). We did actually make a rather sad attempt at filming it on video, but gave up on it.
83) I would really like to throw water balloons at teenagers when they walk past the beer garden.
84) I am allergic to cigarette smoke, but I love a good cigar.
85) Everything I know about chess I learned from Yes' "I've Heard All Good People."
86) I do not like Ted Nugent the solo artist. I've tried and tried, but "Stranglehold" just doesn't do a damn thing for me. I do however love Ted Nugent the great American nutjob.
87) Misquoting movie lines to me is a good way to end up hopping around the rest of the afternoon with my foot in your ass.
88) The only stores I can find by heart in the massive Woodfield mall are Steve Madden and Nine West.
89) I once asked my mother if the whole world was in black & white when television was in B&W. She said yes.
90) I have never in my life jump high-fived.
91) Songs I've debated walking down the aisle to: "Black Betty" by Ramm Jamm, "Mama Told Me (Not to Come) by Three Dog Night, "Simple Man" by Lynyrd Skynrd, "Hallejuah" by Jeff Buckley, the theme from JAWS, "Batdance" by Prince and "Sex Machine" by James Brown.
92) My favorite quote of all time is,
"The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time." - George Bernard Shaw
93) I have vomited once in 10 years and one of my life goals is to never do it again.
94) I haven't cried at a movie since the end of Glory when I was 10.
95) I really hate guys who miss the point of movies like "Goodfellas", "Swingers" and "Fight Club."
96) My scariest spider experience: whilst reaching for the toilet paper, one crawled out of the roll in the middle.
97) I don't see the appeal of Brittany Murphy at all.
98) Every day I check the following movie sites: Ain't It Cool News, CHUD, and Movie Poop Shoot.
99) If there's an article of clothing you can spill pizza sauce on, I've done it.
100) I can hog tie a calf in 12 seconds flat.
101) I've seen a million faces and I've rocked maybe a handful. Though none like a hurricane.
Looking back it this, I really opened up far more than I planned to, even with all the lies. 101 things is just too damn many. Oh well. Do with them what you will.