The Cheddar is Here! The Cheddar is Here!
The first of 2004! But let's not tarry, let's get to that plate of cheese.

From Snooze Button Dreams
1. Do you have a pet name for your significant other? If so, how did it come about?
Not really, mostly its just Hon or Honey. She sometimes calls me HoneyBee even though she knows I don't particularly care for it but its alright.

The rest came from me.
2. What was your favorite cartoon growing up? What's your favorite cartoon now?
Growing up it had to be Thundar the Barbarian and now I've been a big fan of the Justice League (a retake on the old Superfriends but a lot sharper edge and the stories are much better done for the most part). But then there's also Futurama and the Simpsons which have to be mentioned. Ryan also reminded me about South Park, yes I still watch it and find myself laughing out loud.

3. What is your best way to save money?
By not spening any. No wait, that's not really fair. I save money by doing my best to not impulse buy or by not shopping when I'm hungry, I tend to get more than I need and things I don't need but want. I also steal alot (just kidding).

4. What was your most frivolous purchase in the last couple of months?
One person's necessity is another's frivolity. Some might say my Raytek MT4 infrared thermometer is a frivilous purchase but I would disagree, its been incredibly useful to me. Maybe I should ask P for what she thinks is my most frivilous buy of late.

5. What word would you like to see banished from use forever?
Easy, I thoroughly hate the word "Zany". Anything that is labeled zany is guaranteed to pretty well suck. Its a bad word and its evil too.

6. What is the strangest thing about someone that has attracted you? (I.e. the way someone walked, the way they chewed, along those lines)
There was a girl I met when I first moved to Santa Cruz who worked out at the gym where I worked. She was cute, smart and I got along well with her. But the most attractive thing about her was how she stood. Hard to explain but it was a very appealling stance for some reason, open but not too open, inviting but not wanton or dirty. Just appealling. We went on a couple of dates before realizing that we weren't destined for each other but I will sometimes see someone in the same kind of stance and remember her.

7. What was your most memorable New Year's Eve? Why?
A few years ago I had two dates for New Year's, one for each arm and they even went to the trouble of dressing the same for me. It was also one of the last years that the neighborhood had alot of cohesion, everyone knew and liked pretty much everyone else (with a few notable exceptions, of course). There were at least three parties within a block and we wandered between them all until late, late at night when there was a massive excursion down to the beach for some drunken skinny dipping.

And the first Cheddar X MadLibs, for this first one the word list is available here and my results are below. This is an excerpt from The Catcher in the Rye with just a few changes.

If you really want to stink about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was grunted, and what my slippery childhood was like, and how my shrubs were occupied and all before they had me, and all that Dubya kind of smegma, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to smell the rectum. In the first place, that stuff offers me, and in the second place, my shrubs would have about 4 cinderblock enemas apiece if I told anything pretty confusing about them. They're quite obnoxious about anything like that, especially my lucky bamboo.

Well alright, alright, alright, that's the first for 2004 and I had a good time with it.

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