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[SF_and_Coffee]

Baseball, primarily, although I'll happily watch hockey, NFL football, and the occasional game of soccer or Aussie rules football. But if I had to pick only one sport to watch and couldn't have any others, baseball would win, hands-down.

What is your favorite thing to do on a hot summer day?

[Cold Fuzz]

That would probably be driving up and down the coastline of the area I live in and then stopping over at some of the piers and beaches to take walks.

What's your favorite holiday of the year?

[SF_and_Coffee]

I'd have to say either Memorial Day, since it sort of kicks off summertime, or Independence Day, because it practically screams summertime to me. I'm not really a big holiday person overall... Christmas has far too many cultural/societal expectations that it never lives up to, for example. Though I do enjoy the Christmas party season... ;-)

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What's your favorite fruit or vegetable?

[MattSilver 3k]

Grapes. They're so grape-y. Not a fan of sultanas, but I like me a good sweet grape.

What is your favourite type of milkshake?

[Cold Fuzz]

I don't have milkshakes very often but a nice, good old-fashioned chocolate does the trick if I get the chance.

While we're on the subject of desserts: Do you like root beer floats?

[wurlitzer153]

In a frosted mug!

Favorite place for a root beer float?

[Cold Fuzz]

I know a dessert place that specializes in a large variety of gelato, ice cream, cakes, and milkshakes, and root beer floats. I don't have sweets often but their floats are wonderful, as is their spumoni-flavored gelato.

What's your favorite flavor of ice cream, or similar dessert?

[SF_and_Coffee]

Generally, something involving as much chocolate as possible. Bonus points if it also involves coffee flavoring or raspberries.

In addition to your native language, how many other languages can you speak?

[Cold Fuzz]

Besides English, I do speak a smattering of French though that's gone out the window from years of disuse. I remember quite a bit of Italian and Latin from my music school days as well. Beyond that though, zip. So that's 3.

Same question.

[SF_and_Coffee]

Je parle francais, mais un petit peu seulement, maintenant. (And I'm too damn lazy right now to go looking for the proper accented characters to type that correctly.) I studied French from 8th through 11th grades, and a semester in college. At 16, I was fluent enough that I dreamed in it on a regular basis. Sadly, I've had little opportunity to use it in recent years, and I'm rusty, though I'm working on getting it back. I narrowly missed out on growing up bilingual in Swedish and English (long story involving family stupidity, but basically most of the adults in my family could speak it, and chose to keep it as a way to talk about things in front of me rather than teaching me). I'm currently studying on my own to learn Welsh and Scots Gaelic, but I'm just getting started. Spanish and Italian I can feel my way through, in part due to my familiarity with French, and of course my own musical background (hmmm, I can add Latin for the same reason, though to really learn I'll be breaking out Wheelock at some point). I'm a language geek, with several of them on my bucket list.

What's your favorite decade of the 20th century, and why?

[chocolate_muffin]

The 60s, awesome music and general fun stuff.

Do you play any instrument?

[Starfist]

Sadly I don't. I wish I had learnt to play one though.

Which style of music do you prefer to listen to?

[chocolate_muffin]

Rock would be my favourite to listen to, prefer playing jazz.

What instrument do you want to play?

[MattSilver 3k]

I play a pretty mean air guitar. Air drums too.

What is your favourite song?

[chocolate_muffin]

It changes often. Right now its Taxman, who wouldn't like complaining about taxes accompanied by cowbells?

Yours?