{"id":320,"date":"2006-09-01T21:42:40","date_gmt":"2006-09-01T21:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beginsathome.com\/journal\/2006\/09\/01\/that-weird-meme\/"},"modified":"2006-09-01T21:42:40","modified_gmt":"2006-09-01T21:42:40","slug":"that-weird-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beginsathome.com\/journal\/2006\/09\/01\/that-weird-meme\/","title":{"rendered":"That Weird Meme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A long time ago <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uhuru.de\/\">JKE<\/a> <del datetime=\"2006-09-01T19:40:40+00:00\">tagged me <\/del>left a comment on my blog informing me that I had been <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uhuru.de\/?p=695\">tagged<\/a> and then proceeded to use a smilie.  It has taken me almost two months to forgive him; that and the fact that the man is <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uhuru.de\/?p=784\">relocating<\/a> to Embu to do good work for <strong>NO <\/strong>pay&#8230;(thanks for passing the meme and congratulations on the internship dude!)<\/p>\n<p>So here it is 6 weird facts about me&#8230;.but first the rules:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Post six weird facts\/habits about yourself. These cannot be used against you later on.<\/li>\n<li>At the bottom name the six people you will tag next.<\/li>\n<li>Leave them a comment to let them know they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been tagged and to read your blog.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ol>\n<li> <strong>I do not and never have owned a microwave<\/strong>. Much to the shock and amazement of friends and family who upon finding this out always ask the same question, <em>&#8216;so how do you reheat or warm your food?&#8217;<\/em>  What do you mean how do I  reheat or warm my food?  The same way I learnt how to; by placing the food in a <em>sufuria<\/em> (trans. cooking pot\/pan) place the <em>sufuria<\/em> on top of one of the four cooker hobs, light the hob, cover the <em>sufuria,<\/em> <em>et voila <\/em>in five minutes time my meal is ready.  Of course this only leads to the usual <em>&#8216;ooh but that is so much work!&#8217;<\/em>  To which I silently mutter, <em>&#8216;Maybe but it certainly beats blasting cancer rays into my food&#8217;<\/em><\/li>\n<li> <strong>I do not like belly buttons.<\/strong>  Actually it is not that I don&#8217;t like them, I just can&#8217;t find the English equivalent of how they make me feel.  When I see a belly button (innie or outie) I feel what in Kikuyu is known as <em>thithii<\/em> (not sure if that is the correct spelling)  The English equivalent would be the feeling some people get when they hear nails dragged across a blackboard.  Belly buttons make my skin crawl.<\/li>\n<li> <strong>I am not a shopper.<\/strong>  Contrary to the stereotype of women being addicted to clothes\/shoe shopping, I can not stand shopping.  I only buy clothes as when and I need them and I do not leave the house unless I have a clear plan of the shop (note singular use of the word) that I shall be going to and what I intend to buy.  I abhor aimless browsing, especially when done under the pretext that one <em>might<\/em> find something.  Even when armed with a purpose I still find shopping such a chore and I recall one particularly traumatic event.  In 1999 I visited New York and on my mother&#8217;s orders I went to Macy&#8217;s to buy clothes, shoes and other random items for <em>every <\/em>member of my immediate family.  That  little outing made me physical ill and I remember suffering the worst migraine to date.  There is only one thing that will send me to the shops&#8230;.<\/li>\n<li> <strong>As seen on TV.<\/strong>  If something is advertised on TV, <em>I will <\/em>buy it.  Clearly there are some limitations, actually only one limitation &#8211; I don&#8217;t have enough money to buy everything that I see advertised.  That said, with the little I have, I have managed to stock up on a range of items, mainly household cleaning products. 9 out of 10 ten times the stuff I end up buying is junk but every so often I find that one item that becomes a permanent fixture.\n<\/li>\n<li> <strong>I will never make an OSCAR judge<\/strong>.  No matter how good a movie is, I am guaranteed to forget everything about it as soon as the end credits have finished rolling.  It is as if I have had my memory zapped by one of those Men In Black torch thingies.  It is only when I begin re-watching a movie that I get the odd flashback.  The only trouble is I can&#8217;t stand re-watching movies. I have got to the stage where I just don&#8217;t bother with films at all and I only make it to the cinema about twice a year (thrice if it is a Harry Potter year).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Elephants make me laugh.<\/strong>  I love love love elephant jokes.  It doesn&#8217;t matter if I have heard the joke before, I will still laugh as though I was hearing it for the first time.  As I have reached the end of my list I shall sign off with an elephant joke I found at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elephant_joke\">wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<blockquote><p>    Q: How do you get an elephant into the fridge?<br \/>\n    A: 1. Open door. 2. Insert elephant. 3. Close door.<\/p>\n<p>    Q: How do you get a giraffe into the fridge?<br \/>\n    A: 1. Open door. 2. Remove elephant. 3. Insert giraffe. 4. Close door.<\/p>\n<p>    Q: The king of the jungle, the lion, decided to have a party. He invited every animal in the jungle, but one didn&#8217;t come. Which one?<br \/>\n    A: The giraffe, because it was stuck in the fridge.<\/p>\n<p>    Q: Two explorers attempt to cross a crocodile-infested stream. How do they manage to get across?<br \/>\n    A: They just wade across. The crocodiles are at the lion&#8217;s party. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In keeping with the spirit of this meme I kindly request that the following people have a go:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafe151.co.uk\/notebook\">Remi<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/uaridi2.blogspot.com\/\">Uaridi<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ostalgia.blogspot.com\/\">Ostalgia<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/d-notice.blogspot.com\/\">D-Notice<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/notion.wordpress.com\">Birth of a Notion<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/dobvious.wordpress.com\/\">Devasting the Obvious<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long time ago JKE tagged me left a comment on my blog informing me that I had been tagged and then proceeded to use a smilie. 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