Photography and karaoke.
Do you like photos?
Yeah, kinda.
Do you like art?
All art....
Do you have any art in your home?
Yes I most certainly do.
Do you paint or do some form of art?
yes I do painting and sculptures
are you artistic?
Yes, very much so... what kind of painting do you do?
canvas painting
yourself?
Crazy patterns on the sheets.
Do you like word games?
Isn't it obvious?!
I do acrylics and watercolours - have you tried those?
No I haven't.
Have you an irony detector?
(I distinguish between word games and autobiography.)
Have you seen any of these before?
Q: If you could live forever, would you and why?
A: I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever. (Heather Whitestone, Miss America 1995)
Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean, I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff. (Mariah Carey)
Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life, (Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for federal anti-smoking campaign)
I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body. (Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward)
I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the President.
(Hillary Clinton commenting on the release of subpoenaed documents)
That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jackass, and I'm just the one to do it.
(Congressional candidate in Texas)
It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it. (Al Gore)
I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix.
(Dan Quayle)
We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much
clean air do we need? (Lee Iacocca)
The word "genius" isn't applicable in football. A
genius is a guy like Norman Einstein. (Joe Theisman, NFL football quarterback/sports analyst)
We don't necessarily discriminate. We simply exclude certain types of people. (Colonel Gerald Wellman, ROTC instructor)
If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.
(Bill Clinton)
Traditionally, most of Australia's imports come
from overseas. (Keppel Enderbery)
Your food stamps will be stopped effective
March 1992 because we received notice that
you passed away. May God bless you. You may
reapply if there is a change in your circumstances.
(Dept. of Social Services, Greenville, South Carolina)
If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as they go to bed and it will monitor their heart throughout the night. And the next morning, when they wake up dead, there'll be a record. (Mark S. Fowler, FCC Chairman)
Irony detector readings.
No1 Zero
No2 Maybe.
3,4 and 5 zero.
6 It's hard to tell which is the essence of irony.
7 Zero
8 Flat out.Good ol' Dan.What a veep he would have made.
9 and 10 zero
11 Good chance.
12 100%.As usual with Mr Clinton.
13 and 14 Zero
15 Yes.
But none of them in a test.You have to go back to the utterance and that context.
Don't you agree?
Yes I have an irony detector, don't most people?
Not in my experience.
How did I do then with the test please Miss.
What test? Those were simply actual quotes out of the mouths of 'celebrities'... isn't it amazing?
Yes it is amazing.
As it is Questions game and irony had been discussed I naturally thought the quotes were a sort of question about irony and proceeding accordingly I attempted answers.
Do you often take part in conversations with people who are on another wavelegth to you?(Not that I mind.)
No, just because they are one another wavelenght.
If you do, do you like it?
I do actually.In fact I find I have no choice aside from becoming a hermit.
Would you like to be a hermit?
My place is in the outside world.
What the difference it makes?
Despite making my usual allowance for users of a foreign language I am unable to find a reading of that question which enables me to proceed to try answering it.
Would you be so kind as to attempt a rephrasing?
