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Originally posted by Matt G.:
What do you like least about Brooklyn?

Hmmm. Probably the political homogeneity.

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Originally posted by Matt G.:
How old were you when you first

very young

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Originally posted by Matt G.:
Which countries have you visited?

Canada
Mexico
Cuba
Jamaica
Panama
Colombia
Venezuela
Ecuador
Brazil
Uruguay
Argentina
Chile
United Kingdom
France
Spain
Germany
Belgium
Italy
Vatican
Sweden
Norway
Monaco
Switzerland
Austria
Poland
Hungary
Ukraine
Morocco
Tunisia
Senegal
Turkey
Israel
India
China
Hong Kong
Macau
Singapore
Korea
Japan

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Originally posted by Matt G.:
What's your least favorite memory from high school?

Senior year, weeks before graduation, there was a terrible car accident in which 5 students were killed. 2 were brothers. Our class planted tress for them in the school yard, which I saw a few years ago. They were very tall, as 20-yr-old trees would be. It gets even more sad as I get older.

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Originally posted by Matt G.:
Have you ever had a best friend of the opposite sex?

No, if we omit the wife from consideration.

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Canada
Mexico
Cuba
Jamaica
Panama
Colombia
Venezuela
Ecuador
Brazil
Uruguay
Argentina
Chile
United Kingdom
France
Spain
Germany
Belgium
Italy
Vatican
Sweden
Norway
Monaco
Switzerland
Austria
Poland
Hungary
Ukraine
Morocco
Tunisia
Senegal
Turkey
Israel
India
China
Hong Kong
Macau
Singapore
Korea
Japan

jealous.

That's quite a list, jon. Did you have to add pages to your passport for all the stamps?

I've noticed you've been referring to your son as "my son" rather than "baby-nyc". Is he soon to become "my son, formerly known as baby-nyc", or should we have a WTF naming contest to give him a new title befitting his age and station in life? We're always glad to help out, you know.

We're running out of time to grill you on those questions we all want answers to, like:

Favorite grain?

Food you would never even consider trying?

Favorite cartoon character?

Famous person you'd like to have a chance to meet and have dinner with? (doesn't have to be someone currently alive, though the conversation might be more interesting if they are)

The countries jon-nyc has been to, as sung by Yakko Warner. With a link for jon-nyc, who will undoubtedly not get the cultural reference.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGmdN_VsIuc

YAKKO'S WORLD
(M: Traditional [The Mexican Hat Dance] L: Randy Rogel)

United States, Canada,
Mexico, Panama,
Haiti, Jamaica, Peru;
Republic Dominican,
Cuba, Carribean,
Greenland, El Salvador too.
Puerto Rico, Columbia,
Venezuela,
Honduras, Guyana, and still;
Guatemala, Bolivia,
then Argentina,
and Ecuador, Chile, Brazil.
Costa Rica, Belize,
Nicaragua, Bermuda,
Bahamas, Tobago, San Juan;
Paraguay, Uruguay,
Suriname, and
French Guiana, Barbados, and Guam.

Norway, and Sweden,
and Iceland, and Finland,
and Germany now one piece;
Switzerland, Austria,
Czechoslovakia,
Italy, Turkey, and Greece.

Poland, Romania,
Scotland, Albania,
Ireland, Russia, Oman;
Bulgaria, Saudi Arabia,
Hungary,
Cyprus, Iraq, and Iran.
There's Syria, Lebanon,
Israel, Jordan,
both Yemens, Kuwait, and Bahrain,
the Netherlands, Luxembourg,
Belgium, and Portugal,
France, England, Denmark, and Spain.

India, Pakistan,
Burma, Afghanistan,
Thailand, Nepal, and Bhutan;
Kampuchea, Malaysia,
then Bangladesh, Asia,
and China, Korea, Japan.
Mongolia, Laos,
and Tibet, Indonesia,
the Philippine Islands, Taiwan;
Sri Lanka, New Guinea,
Sumatra, New Zealand,
then Borneo, and Vietnam.
Tunisia, Morocco,
Uganda, Angola,
Zimbabwe, Djibouti, Botswana;
Mozambique, Zambia,
Swaziland, Gambia,
Guinea, Algeria, Ghana.
Burundi, Lesotho,
and Malawi, Togo,
The Spanish Sahara is gone;

Niger, Nigeria,
Chad, and Liberia,
Egypt, Benin, and Gabon.
Tanzania, Somalia,
Kenya, and Mali,
Sierra Leone, and Algier;
Dahomey, Namibia,
Senegal, Libya,
Cameroon, Congo, Zaire.
Ethiopia, Guinea_
Bissau, Madagascar,
Rwanda, Mahore[?], and Cayman;
Hong Kong, Abu Dhabi,
Qatar, Yugoslavia,
Crete, Mauritania,
then Transylvania,
Monaco, Liechtenstein,
Malta, and Palestine,
Fiji, Australia, Sudan!

Not so impressive now, are you Mr. World Traveler?

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Originally posted by well-tempered gardener:
That's quite a list, jon. Did you have to add pages to your passport for all the stamps?

Early on I had to, but once you do it once when they reissue your passport they give you an extra large one (48 pages instead of 24). I may fill the 48 before this one expires, though.

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Originally posted by well-tempered gardener:
I've noticed you've been referring to your son as "my son" rather than "baby-nyc". Is he soon to become "my son, formerly known as baby-nyc", or should we have a WTF naming contest to give him a new title befitting his age and station in life? We're always glad to help out, you know.

Probably just easier to write out, especially on the iPad. At some point 'baby-nyc' won't be appropriate though.

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Originally posted by well-tempered gardener:
We're running out of time to grill you on those questions we all want answers to, like:

Favorite grain?

Probably wild rice. I've recently taken a liking to quinoa also.

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Originally posted by well-tempered gardener:
Food you would never even consider trying?

Hmmm, I've tried some pretty weird things, but I couldn't imaging eating an eye. Blood pudding grosses me out (I've never tried it)

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Originally posted by well-tempered gardener:
Favorite cartoon character?

Bugs! He was always so clever.

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Originally posted by well-tempered gardener:
Famous person you'd like to have a chance to meet and have dinner with? (doesn't have to be someone currently alive, though the conversation might be more interesting if they are)

Wow, great question. Its too hard to choose just one. Bertrand Russell, Harry Truman, Maurice Ravel, or Nelson Mandela. Ask me again in a month and you'd get a completely different list.

For non-famous it would be my maternal grandmother, I never knew her, she died before I was born.

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Originally posted by dolmansaxlil:
Not so impressive now, are you Mr. World Traveler?

Heh, as i was reading that i was thinking 'so many more places to go!'

So, jon, as the final hours of your month are waning, do you have any last minute words of wisdom (your own or someone else's) for us? Good stock tips? Fabulous recipe you've been hiding?

No!

Thanks for the grilling, folks. Now off to choose the next victim... bwa-ha-ha-ha

A little late, but the only question that hasn't been asked is "Have you ever appeared nude in any adult magazines? If not, any plans to do so and if so, which ones?"

BJ: