Addendum

[davidn]

Also, taking a break from the "All memes are rubbish" policy for a moment (as the deleted eighth instruction told me that I MUST post this on my journal or be dead within a week...)

Leave your name and...

1. I'll respond with something random about you.
2. I'll tell you what song/movie reminds me of you.
3. I'll pick a flavor of jello to wrestle with you in.
4. I'll say something that only makes sense to you and me.
5. I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you.
6. I'll tell you what animal you remind me of.
7. I'll ask you something that I've always wondered about you.

Comments

[quadralien.livejournal.com]

Jamie Newton (though you should know that perfectly well already).

[davidn]

1. You are Melville's unofficial doorman.
2. Pretty Fly For A White Guy, now.
3. Karaoke flavour
4. You are tenacious! But I am very very scary.
5. That's going back a bit, isn't it? One moment that sticks out is when one of us trapped us both in the greenhouse, and I heroically broke the door to get out.
6. Hmm... an iguana, possibly.
7. How did you manage to adapt to University life so quickly? I thought you'd be completely lost with it, like I was.

That was more difficult than I thought. More requests!

[davidn]

1. You have a dress sense that could best be described as "bizarre" (thinking back to the dressing gown/leather jacket/bandana combination).
2. The entire 42 minutes of Dream Theater's "Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence"
3. Owlhoot Juice flavour
4. "Hi." "Hi." "How's it going?" "Fine."
5. When I came back from seeing Oli with a backpackful of leaflets to distribute, and you were one of the platoon of first years that I recruited at the dinner table to do it for me.
6. A bee. I'm not sure why - Jamie mentioned it at the start of last year and it just sort of stuck.
7. Did the immensely creepy e-mail I sent you two summers ago (under duress from my mother) affect your thinking about which university to go to?

[e-to-the-ipi.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I'm honestly not that sure: I've told you before, since my mother got your mother to get you to send it, I was expecting it, and didn't find it creepy. I was, however, too confused by life/the oddity of the situation to know how to respond. And I was always going to come here, technically, it's just things were changing lots, and the reality of life, the reality of change and the reality of leaving home, which I'd decided to do on the spur of the moment because I knew it'd be harder to leave later, were all hitting home, which caused my panic levels to hit just about an all time high, so I was thinking of pulling out. You being there, someone vaguely approximating known, might have made me think it'd be less hard, but I'm really not too sure how likely I would've been to be sure of the decision long enough to go through with pulling out. You affected my thinking, certainly. I'm just not sure how.

What I'm now wondering is the consequenes of me replying to you. I'm more than a little sure that you'd have turned it into a chat, whether IM if you had it or IRL sometime, or just mail. Which would've meant I'd have known you in fresher's week. Which would've almost certainly meant my relationships with folk would've been different in the first few weeks, which would've changed my whole uni life.

Anyway, this is a massively long and rambling reply, but did you really expect anything less?

[plette.livejournal.com]

Sign me up.

[davidn]

1. I thought that I'd misheard and that your name was "Paula" when I first met you, as I'd never heard of the name "Paulette" before.
2. The Canadian National Anthem, sung in French, badly, by me.
3. Maple syrup flavour (actually, that's the most plausible flavour that I've written so far)
4. "Use the fork!"
5. I don't actually remember when it was that I met you - probably through induction by someone else, as tends to happen. I do remember the night that you and Chris "hooked up", as the Americans say - I had come back from a Chemistry whatsit and you were kissing in the corridor. I must have looked more surprised than I felt, as you MSNed me about it as soon as I got back to my room. (If I hadn't deleted my first year diary I'm sure I would have more details.)
6. A rabbit springs to mind somehow.
7. What actually happened about your father (although that's rather personal and I'm not suggesting that you actually answer it).

[whinknee.livejournal.com]

yay for whitney!

[davidn]

1. Before I visited you for the first time, I had to ask Bryn if you ate chocolate or not, as I wasn't sure how strict (or insane) a vegetarian you were.
2. Regina Spektor's "Samson".
3. Any flavour with no added gelatine.
4. "I feel slightly like I'm at the dentist."
5. Must be the bowling alley, and my utter obliviousness to anything. And the beach later that evening - finding the fire miles away along the West Sands.
6. Cat/mouse, in equal measure. :)
7. Why you prefer me to speak for you when we're out, in a shop, and so on.

[humphrey-clarke.livejournal.com]

Bishop Humphrey Falconer Marshall Clarke M.A hons

[davidn]

1. I've only met you once or twice, but I really like the way that you write about your life.
2. Office Space
3. Unnecessary Paperwork Flavour
4. There isn't anything, is there? Although I remember from ages ago that you share my sentiments about "the blue one at the start of level 8".
5. Sitting in the corner with Whitney, a pizza, and a copy of The Sun while you and the others on the sofa slowly increased in volume throughout Pirates of the Caribbean.
6. This question gets more difficult every time I answer it. Maybe a moderately grumpy badger.
7. I haven't so much wondered this about you, but rather I'm amazed that your journal is so consistently hilarious. You're an excellent writer.

[mercuryanna.livejournal.com]

It is kind of like a chain letter, but slightly more useful...

And... Anna!

[wilddon121.livejournal.com]

Me!!!

[davidn]

1. You messed up the neat thread arrangement.
2. "Going Underground" by Somebody or Other. The reason is unknown.
3. Gigantic-collection-of-pirated-films flavour
4. "Ron".
5. When you sat down opposite me at Melville dinner and recited my name, course, usernames, IP address and Firefox history for the past week.
6. You possess some lion-like qualities - such as the stalking.
7. How do you manage to earn enough money to make it through University independently? It's an admirable achievement.

[wilddon121.livejournal.com]

Plus I have never used my Overdraft!!!

[davidn]

1. You're impossibly pretty. (Can I say that?)
2. Any of the Akira Yamaoka's more tuneful attempts from the Silent Hill soundtrack, which I remember you having on your laptop (Totoro featured there as well, before I knew who/what he was).
3. Strawberry (blonde) flavour
4. "Don't leave me with the Germans!"
5. When I first met you and Robyn at the Melville meetup, and we drew maps of the USA and Britain in the fogged-up window to show each other where we were from. Then, a bit later on in the year, you and Paul regularly performing Quake-jumps up the Purdie Building stairs on our way to the Union.
6. A squirrel? Yes, I can see that.
7. Hmm... it's a very self-centred thing to wonder, but has your view of me changed since you met me?

[tweeasfuck.livejournal.com]

But you know my name...

[davidn]

1. You have to cope with idiots and the insane daily at your job, but I still don't know what it is.
2. Anything by Morrissey, if that's indeed how he is spelled.
3. Shamrock flavour
4. "Look out the left, the captain said..." (I'm aware that this doesn't exactly fit the question, but I remember that I promised I'd give you that link ages ago when you mentioned the real song. You can now bask in the cover's horrendousness.)
5. I met you for the first time in the Union, I believe, and you were wearing a coat that matched your username at the time.
6. Leopard (what else?)
7. What were you up to during the time that I stupidly defriended you?

[tweeasfuck.livejournal.com]

I sell advertising space in a local free newspaper :(

That download link doesn't work for me.

Back then I was working, being dumped by email, and generally being obsessed with music. Nothing major, really!

[davidn]

It doesn't work for me now either. They must have taken it down between the time I posted it and the time you clicked on it, which is quite an achievement given it was twenty minutes.

[amaunet.livejournal.com]

Me!

[davidn]

1. You sometimes use the name "Marpessa".
2. Life of Brian - when I came round to watch it with you, the only time I was ever in DRH.
3. Less Than Jake flavour
4. "wyar5sv mne stya?" (Bizarrely, I can remember it character for character.)
5. After your most welcome reply to the "Sinner Singles" thread, we met up in the Union, watched the football disinterestedly, then went to play air hockey (from which the puck was, as normal, missing.) We then went to Tesco, where you learned that I pretty much survived on Crunchy Nut Cornflakes. After getting back to DRH, I took a wrong turn and wandered a strange wilderness for hours before finding Melville again.
6. Probably a rabbit - not a hobbit, as was your estimation!
7. Where exactly are you now? I haven't seen you in ages.

[gr33bo.livejournal.com]

me

[davidn]

1. You originally did Computer Science, and very nearly didn't take a fourth year at St Andrews.
2. Anything by Iron Maiden, as we've made two epic journeys to see them. And it's not exactly a film, but "The High Life", as we watched that at yours while waiting for my dad to arrive.
3. Guitar fretboard flavour
4. On the way to Donington: "I really hate roundabouts." "I know, they're difficult to talk to."
5. I really can't remember how I met you. It was probably in the Union, after a list had been drawn up of "People Robyn, Anna And I Had To Meet" - you had been rechristened Young Paul on the list, presumably to distinguish you from an Old Paul. The earliest clear memory is of your 20th birthday, with you sticking cocktail umbrellas in your hair.
6. Well, the obvious one is a cat, suggested by the name "Greebo".
7. Is your room just now as much of a comical mess as the one in Melville was?

[davidn]

Also, after happening on it looking through the IRC Log last night: 4: "Unban me soon Greenbo!"

[gr33bo.livejournal.com]

I never realised that made it onto the chat log!

Jeez I thought I had enough trouble living it down on the Ville (original thread here: http://www.theville.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=333&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 )
Searching on those forums for 'greenbo' yields 60 odd results

[raphx.livejournal.com]

Me too!

[davidn]

1. You helped me get through the disaster of my first year even though you'd had such a hard time myself. You are quite possibly one of the greatest people ever.
2. Anything by Modern Talking! Who else?
3. European Music Flavour
4. "Kannst du den singen?" "Nuh-uh. [Unintelligible.]" And it's absolutely not my in-joke, but I remember the "Bint." "h00r." greeting between you and Paul.
5. After meeting up at the... meetup, I suppose, the group of us were led up to your room, where you were playing Warcraft III.
6. Lion, because of the hair. (I believe someone else has said exactly the same thing, but I can't think of a better one so am plagiarising it. This is a policy that I stick to in computer science essays.)
7. Have you done anything else like this again recently?>

[jeremylinnell.livejournal.com]

Me please!

[davidn]

1. I really dislike the word "random", and I don't even know in what context it's now used, but I think you must be one of the most random people I've ever met.
2. That really aggressive metal that you listen to. Also, "The League of Gentlemen" is very "you".
3. Hyperactive Terrifying Flavour
4. I don't think that there's a lot that makes sense to only you and me. Only you, certainly.
5. I probably met you in the foyer at the start of second year. I don't think we talked much, but your Halloween costume the next month of black and facepaint, string vest and condoms on your ears was unforgettable.
6. Any small dog, due to the tidal wave of enthusiasm that follows behind you.
7. Why do you aim to offend? You're great in every other way.

[adararose-2.livejournal.com]

me me me...I feel so self-centered.

[davidn]

1. You used to regularly inadvertently kick my legs under the dinner table, starting a running joke among the rest of the group.
2. I vaguely remember a song called "Steamy Windows" or "Body Heat" or something that used to be associated with you.
3. Librarian Flavour
4. Why are these questions so difficult? I've no idea. If you can suggest anything, feel free.
5. The same applies as for Anna, really, as I met you both at the same time - drawing the USA map on the window to show me where you were from, as my knowledge of the geography of the USA was appalling. (It still is - I'm going to be living in Boston next year, and I only found out where it was a couple of months ago.)
6. Maybe a puppy. I don't know, it's the best I can do.
7. Did you always have the "Cheer up, emu kid" caption on your emu icon, or did it appear there later?

[adararose-2.livejournal.com]

It's always been there, although I wish it wasn't.

And I still regularly kick people under the tables in seminar. I don't know how...its not like I have long legs or anything.

[davidn]

Through the combined power of MS Paint and boredom, I've removed it. (The grainy line is due to JPEG compression of the original image, and will be less easy to remove...)

[adararose-2.livejournal.com]

Wow. Thanks...you are awesome! It is much more me now.

[opera-hat.livejournal.com]

Herro!

[davidn]

1. You have one of the most appropriate icons in the history of Livejournal.
2. Anything by Gamma Ray, or the uncharacteristic punk music that regularly came floating through my wall.
3. Monocle flavoured
4. "...A-GAIN!"
5. Having you as a neighbour, hearing songs through the shared wall and asking each other to turn them up a bit so the other could hear. In fact, you're still the only neighbour that I really talked to.
6. Him.
7. You are a fascinating person, so there's so much to ask... it's slightly obvious, perhaps, but do you still wear the monocle?

[opera-hat.livejournal.com]

Nice picture! Yes, I'm afraid I do still wear it.

Ha ha ha! I've just realised what the "...A-GAIN!" was all about! I don't think I've heard that for about a year. This must change...