Getting to know our members better

[boffo]

This kind of goes along with the return of the member questionnaires but is meant for more serious personal questions so we can find out a bit more about our fellow members.

I've made a list of various questions that you can answer. You don't need to answer all the questions if you don't want to, and you can feel free to add or suggest new questions that go along with the theme. This was the extent of what me and rounds could think of, but I'm sure there are other things you might want to find out about us.

Here's the list as it stands so far and hopefully we get some participation for this.


Real name:
Birthdate/age:
Where you live:
What you like most about where you live:
What is your hometown most famous for(regardless of how pointless it is)?:
Relationship status:
Family(siblings, kids, parents):
Pets:
Job/level of school currently attending:
Best subject in school:
What do you want to be when you grow up?:
Hobbies/pastimes(aside from gaming):
What's your greatest accomplishment?:
Furthest you've traveled from home:
Character you usually play as in Mario games:

Favourite Things(you can list more than one per category if you want)
Movie:
TV Show:
Book:
Celebrity:
Game console:
Video Game:
Board game:
Beverage:
Food:
Quote:
Sport:
Sports Team:
Play/Musical:
Genre of Music:
Band/musician:
Song/album:

[boffo]

My answers:


Real name: Actually I was born boffo.
Birthdate/age: June 27, 1979
Where you live: Brantford, Ontario, Canada
What you like most about where you live: It's close to everything. Right on a major highway. Within an hour of Toronto, or the USA, or most other places in and around Southern Ontario.
What is your hometown most famous for(regardless of how pointless it is)?: Most important thing is that it is where Alexander Graham Bell made the first long distance phone call from. Most famous is probably that Wayne Gretzky was born here.(I live a block away from Wayne Gretzky Parkway).
Relationship status: Married for almost 4 years.
Family(parents, siblings, kids): My dad died almost 2 years ago, mom is still alive. Have a younger brother. No kids.
Pets: Many cats(My wife works at a vet clinic and they keep ending up here.)
Job/level of school currently attending: If I told you, I'd have to kill you.
Best subject in school: Math
What do you want to be when you grow up?: Professional Gambler
Hobbies/pastimes(aside from gaming): I actually don't do that much.
What's your greatest accomplishment?: Getting married despite being a computer nerd.
Furthest you've traveled from home: Drove to Florida for my honeymoon.
Character you usually play as in Mario games: Yoshi

Favourite Things(you can list more than one if you want)
Movie: Jack Frost, Evil Dead series, Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter
TV Show: Futurama
Book: The Stand/Stephen King, Animal Farm/George Orwell
Celebrity: Bruce Campbell
Game console: SNES
Video Game: Parappa the Rapper or Super Mario World. It's technically Mario World, but I'll get in trouble if I don't mention Parappa.
Board game: Hungry Hungry Hippos
Beverage: Dr Pepper
Food: Probably bacon
Quote: "Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat" - Jesse "The Body" Ventura
Sport: Hockey
Sports Team: Boston Bruins
Play/Musical: Evil Dead the Musical
Genre of Music: Trance or Heavy metal/Hard Rock
Band/musician: Vanilla Ice
Song/album: Actually I guess I'll say the S&M version of Nothing Else Matters by Metallica since it was my wedding song.

[downphoenix]

This is a lot of crap, damn:

Real name: Justin Beard
Birthdate/age: Im 25, 3/7/82
Where you live: Bonne Terre MO
What you like most about where you live: Its quiet and small, but I get to still have a 10 meg cable connection
Relationship status: Living with Girlfriend
Family(siblings, kids, parents): 1 brother and my 2 parents, etc.
Pets: Don't have any but my dog is at my mom and dad's
Job/level of school currently attending: Got about a year of college down, off now, going back this fall.
Best subject in school: Probably History or English
What do you want to be when you grow up?: Chef Boyardee. Seriously, I plan on majoring in some sort of business application and minoring in video production or something like that, either continue my current career in the cell phone industry and move up the ladder, or go off and work at a TV station or movie studio or something like that. The reason I wouldnt necessarily pursue a Gaming career is because its my favorite pastime, and I don't want to ruin that.
Hobbies/pastimes(aside from gaming): being with my girlfriend, watching movies, playing football, going online, etc.
What's your greatest accomplishment?: I dunno, Im a slacker. Probably not getting shot up or in jail or on drugs on dying, on top of not being a typical socially brainwashed plebian.
Furthest you've traveled from home: Probably 150 miles. Unless you wanna count the time that I moved from California to Missouri, but we were moving from one home to another then, home was "technically" in that car and the hotel/motel rooms we stopped at on the way there.
Character you usually play as in Mario games: Mario (of course), Toad, Koopa, Yoshi

Favourite Things(you can list more than one per category if you want)
Movie: Terminator 2
TV Show: South Park
Book: Lord of the Rings, though the Eragon trilogy could beat it out for me depending on how the last book fares.
Celebrity: none really, they are either ignored or get too much attention, and the good ones are usually ignored. If I had to answer I'll say Johnny Depp, he's pretty cool and influential, but he doesn't do a lot of stupid crap that he gets too much attention for like Britney Spears, for instance, does.
Game console: the NES
Video Game: Fallout 2
Board game: It would be Nintendo Monopoly if I had it. Of the ones I have though, probably Scrabble. Uno beats it out if we include card games though.
Beverage: Coca Cola Classic
Food: Either Pizza or Chinese
Quote: War, War Never Changes (its a famous quote but I know it from the Fallout games personally). Another good one is from John Madden back when he coached the Raiders "If you're not cheating, you're not trying."
Sport: Hockey or Football
Sports Team: Green Bay Packers and the Colorado Avalanche.
Play/Musical: Do I have to answer this? Probably Monty Python's Spamalot, because it seems like the only really relevent one in this genre that is something I care about.
Genre of Music: Industrial
Band/musician: Nine Inch Nails
Song/album: Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine. Not a bad song on that cd, its all quality.

[chedabob]

Real name: Matt
Birthdate/age: 18
Where you live: Manchester, UK
What you like most about where you live: Home of the best chippy in the England
What is your hometown most famous for(regardless of how pointless it is)?: Manchester United (well, that's the City, but who cares...)
Relationship status: Single
Family(siblings, kids, parents): 2 parents, god knows how many cousins
Pets: 3 cats and a dog
Job/level of school currently attending: College (High School basically)
Best subject in school: IT
What do you want to be when you grow up?: Software Engineer
Hobbies/pastimes(aside from gaming): Cinema, going pub
What's your greatest accomplishment?: Getting silver in the intermediate Maths challenge because my teacher thought I was a dumb shit. I showed him
Furthest you've traveled from home: Majorca
Character you usually play as in Mario games: Mario?

Favourite Things(you can list more than one per category if you want)
Movie: Children of Men
TV Show: Lost
Book: Goodnight Mr. Tom
Celebrity: None.
Game console: 360
Video Game: Halo 3
Board game: Scrabble
Beverage: Coke
Food: BBQ Ribs from Frankie and Benny's
Quote: "DO THEY SPEAK ENGLISH IN WHAT?!?!"
Sport: Ice Hockey
Sports Team: Buffalo Sabres
Play/Musical: None.
Genre of Music: None. (I have the weirdest taste in music ever)
Band/musician: System of a Down
Song/album: Save Tonight by Eagle Eye Cherry

[rounds1]

Real name: Chris (guess my last name...)
Where you live: Stratford, CT
What my town is most known for: Sikorsky Helicopters...I suppose the Black Hawk would be their most famous chopper.
What you like most about where you live: Nothing. Taxes are high and the neighborhood is sliding.
Relationship status: Married over 2 years
Family(siblings, kids, parents): 2 parents, 2 sisters, 1 brother - all of them much older
Pets: 2 freshwater aquarium fish (fish can be pets!)
Job/level of school currently attending: Project manager/admin. system upkeep and setup
Best subject in school: Gym
What do you want to be when you grow up?: Baseball player
Hobbies/pastimes(aside from gaming): Sports mostly
What's your greatest accomplishment?: I once came in 1st in a golf tournament. Other than that, not much to brag about.
Furthest you've traveled from home: I don't know if technically Mexico is further from my home than California - but I've been to both. I forgot that I went to the Carribean Islands as well...
Character you usually play as in Mario games: The dude that's a turtle, but a friendly one.

Favourite Things(you can list more than one per category if you want)
Movie: Goodfellas
TV Show: Seinfeld, Family Guy, The Simpsons
Book: LoTR
Celebrity: Arnold
Game console: I'd have to say my NES gave me more enjoyment than any other console.
Video Game: Morrowind
Board game: Axis and Allies
Beverage: Fruit punch
Food: Chicken
Quote: "Whenever I's had somewhere to go, I was ru-nning." - Forrest Gump
Sport: Football and hockey
Sports Team: Rangers, Jets, Celtics, Dodgers
Play/Musical: ???
Genre of Music: Rock
Band/musician: Tool, Maynard
Song/album: Aenima

[man on the moon]

I really hate those thread that you should 'talk' about yourself... but I dunno why I feel like doing it... is it the Boffo-effect?


Real name: Talal (easy to spell, hard to pronounce, despite it's not actually how my name is pronounce, Arabic anyone?)
Birthdate/age: 7/11/85, 22
Where you live: currently Edinburgh, as of Scotland, UK, just for our lovely Americans...
What you like most about where you live: surprisingly the weather, and the need not to use a car.
Relationship status: somewhere near single.
Family(siblings, kids, parents): parents both alive, 2 bros and 2 siss.
Pets: do ex-pets count?
Job/level of school currently attending: postgrad
Best subject in school: all depends on the teacher
What do you want to be when you grow up?: some sort of diplomat, or a uni professor
Hobbies/pastimes(aside from gaming): is doing nothing a hobby?
What's your greatest accomplishment?: yet to come
Furthest you've traveled from home: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Character you usually play as in Mario games: Luigi or Peach (for fun), Fox in SSB.

Favourite Things(you can list more than one per category if you want)
Movie: LOTR, SW.
TV Show: Six Feet Under
Book: Memoirs of a Geisha
Celebrity: Christian Bale
Game console: Nintendo64
Video Game: Ocarina of Time
Board game: Monopoly
Beverage: Orangina
Food: Tiramisu
Quote: "if everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking" -George Patton; "every saint has a past and every sinner has a future" -Oscar Wilde.
Sport: F1
Sports Team: Renault
Play/Musical: Gigi
Genre of Music: mild rock/alternative
Band/musician: R.E.M. (duh)
Song/album: not Man on the Moon.

[boffo]

Just added a new question if people who have already posted want to edit it into their replies.

What is your hometown most famous for(regardless of how pointless it is)?:

[SorryIhaveToGoWii]

Real name: Erik Wikström
Birthdate/age:17, getting 18 may 23rd
Where you live: Uppsala Sweden
What you like most about where you live: It's a big/small town, it has alot of things, but it's not too big.
Relationship status: Single
Family(siblings, kids, parents): 2 sisters and I live wit my mother
Pets: Two dogs, pommeranians.
Job/level of school currently attending: 2nd year at the "Gymnasium"
Best subject in school: Physics
What do you want to be when you grow up?: Work with special effects in movies
Hobbies/pastimes(aside from gaming): Climbing, being with friends
What's your greatest accomplishment?: None
Furthest you've traveled from home: Thailand
Character you usually play as in Mario games: Luigi

Favourite Things(you can list more than one per category if you want)
Movie: Ali G in da house
TV Show: Scrubs, family guy, american dad
Book: all Lotr books
Celebrity: No idea xD
Game console: Wii60
Video Game: All smash games
Board game: Monopoly
Beverage: Coke
Food: French fries
Quote: "If positive persons see everything in green and negative persons see everything in red, then the smartest people are coulorblind" (No idea where it's from)
Sport: Football (For americans soccer)
Sports Team: Malmö FF
Play/Musical: No idea
Genre of Music: Metal
Band/musician: Rammstein, Dragonforce, Metallica
Song/album: Song: Ich Will, Album: Mutter

[rbbdrooger]

Real name: Robin
Birthdate/age: April 21st 1981 (So I'm 26)
Where you live: Zwolle, The Netherlands. Born in The Hague
What you like most about where you live: Close to work
What is your hometown most famous for(regardless of how pointless it is)?: Peace Palace, International court.
Relationship status: Single with benefits...
Family(siblings, kids, parents): One older brother
Pets: A cat named Snars
Job/level of school currently attending: None, done with school
Best subject in school: History, English
What do you want to be when you grow up?:All grown up, and I'm a train traffic controller
Hobbies/pastimes(aside from gaming): Movies, going out with friends, reading.
What's your greatest accomplishment?: Quit smoking weed.
Furthest you've traveled from home: Turkey
Character you usually play as in Mario games: Luigi

Movie: The Shawshank Redemption, LotR, Star Wars.
TV Show: The Daily Show, Real Time with Bill Maher, Top Gear
Book: Down and out in Paris and London - George Orwell
Celebrity: -
Game console: Xbox 360, Megadrive, NES are my favorites
Video Game: StarCraft, Sonic, Knightmare, Gears of War
Board game: Risk
Beverage: Beer, red wine
Food: Aspergers! Hmmmmm
Quote: "Come on baby, the Train is at home on the rail!"
Sport: Formula 1
Sports Team: McLaren-Mercedes
Play/Musical: -
Genre of Music: Classical, Rock
Band/musician: Beethoven, Mozart, Guns 'n Roses, Foo Fighters
Song/album: Too much favorites. Beethoven's 9th symphony if I have to choose.

[SorryIhaveToGoWii]

I can't edit my post somehow so here it goes :P
What is your hometown most famous for(regardless of how pointless it is)?: Carl von Linné or Linneaus as some people call him lived and worked in my town (Uppsala) (Linné was that dude who put every plant and animal into groups) Also a guy named Ångström lived here, he made somekind of meassure of some sort called Ångström xD