The Friends Test Redux

[przed]

For anyone who doesn't want to create an account on a potentially dodgy site:


[Poll #928918]

To see the answers, highlight below:

#1. Blake's 7
#2. Man from UNCLE
#3. Lawrence of Arabia
#4. French, Cantonese and Mandarin
#5. Daniel Craig
#6. The Who, Yes and The Police

Comments

[st-crispins.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the reposted poll.

You don't know Latvian??? [smacks head]

[przed.livejournal.com]

I know four words in Latvian, which hardly counts, whilst I can have baby conversations in Cantonese and Mandarin.

[faramir-boromir.livejournal.com]

Yeah. See, I figured the same thing. How could you not know some Latvian?

[przed.livejournal.com]

All I can say is, Latvian is one nutty language. I tried to learn one to ten when I went over with my dad nearly ten years ago and couldn't manage it. Give me a Chinese language any day of the week. (I can count to 10,000 in Mandarin without breaking a sweat.)

[mrlnpndrgn]

I didn't know you spoke french ;)

[przed.livejournal.com]

Un peu, et tres lentement.

[mrlnpndrgn]

Speed is over-rated...

:)

[stormheller.livejournal.com]

The Latvian threw me, too. French... well, Canadian, eh?
See ya in California.

[przed.livejournal.com]

The Latvian was the sucker answer, as my grade nine math teacher liked to call it.

See ya Thursday! Weee!

[sooguy.livejournal.com]

Woo-hoo a do over! Now I can pick THE RIGHT ANSWERS.

[przed.livejournal.com]

Just count it as part of your education in fandom. *g*

[just-ann-now.livejournal.com]

Two lucky guesses! I am SO proud of myself.

[przed.livejournal.com]

Congrats!

[tovalentin.livejournal.com]

Hello, have we met?

::embarrassed::

...so, not Latvian, eh? I didn't realize you'd started Mandarin already. Yeah, that's the ticket. :-Þ0

See you at Escapade! I'll tell you the horrifying story of my passport application.

[przed.livejournal.com]

You're going to Escapade! Yay! I was beginning to worry.

I'm sooo glad our passports will be good for going to China. (April 4!)

[tovalentin.livejournal.com]

China! Yay! There must be decent sushi somewhere in Ventura Beach; we can celebrate Sunday night.

My detective work was faulty

[towerbridge2006.livejournal.com]

Since I'm a new friend I had to do some guessing. Flunked at 50%. Oh well... Lawrence of Arabia was my fave when I was a kid. A boyfriend gave me the souvenir book and I tried to wade my way through Seven Pillars of Wisdom. I thought Peter O'Toole was totally robbed of the Oscar.

Re: My detective work was faulty

[przed.livejournal.com]

Hey, some friends I've known for years only got 50%. So you didn't do so badly. (I waded my way through Seven Pillars, and any other Lawrence bio I could find, when I was in high school. I was definitely obsessed.)

Re: My detective work was faulty

[towerbridge2006.livejournal.com]

Now I don't feel so dense. :)

After Seven Pillars I decided to branch out into the Lawrence family. Wow! That lady and the gameskeeper. :D My teacher didn't bat an eye at that book report!

Re: My detective work was faulty

[przed.livejournal.com]

I had no idea about the gameskeeper shenanigans. Fascinating.

Re: My detective work was faulty

[towerbridge2006.livejournal.com]

I've been researching my facts and it looks like I'm wrong. Somewhere way back then I decided that D.H. was T.E. Lawrence's brother. Now I can't find such info while searching the net. Anyway, D.H. wrote Lady Chatterly's Lover. The first hundred pages were about British society, then the Lady stumbled upon the Gameskeeper. OMG! It was very hot for it's time. :-)

Back to my research...*g*

[faramir-boromir.livejournal.com]

And when the HELL did you see Lewis Collins on stage?? You must have been in grade school!

Plus, Lawrence of Arabia? Gimme a break--how could you not pick Scaramouche...or some other sword-wielding movie like that. But O'Toole is gorgeous.

[przed.livejournal.com]

I saw Lewis Collins in a dodgy regional production of a dodgy J.B. Preistly play seven and a half years ago. Dragged Don to Croydon to do it, too. (The play was dire; Lew was too much fun.)

I imprinted on Lawrence at the age of 14, and never looked back. I've seen it an insane number of times in a theatre, and a further ungodly number of times on TV. Not that I don't love Scaramouche. It, and all the other choices, are on my top five list of all times. But Lawrence tops 'em all for me.