1) Who's your daddy?
2) Are you sure?
3) Favourite word?
4) Which of your fellow bloggers have you jumped? (wishful thinking not applicable)
5) Whose bones elude you still?
6) Doesn't that just piss you off?
7) Now, really, which one of them would you kick off the island?
8) Is it because s/he wouldn't jump you?
9) Do you read all the blogs you link to, or do you just link because you really should?
10) Isn't mush blogging ((c) 2002, Tracey Chan) irritating?
11) As irritating as pop-up ads and Blogger?
12) Are you a fr0stbytei wh0re?
13) If yes, have you no self respect, you pimped bastard?

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*whistles*

8:04 PM | sinistra | url | #

backtracking for a moment

Guys, these bloody quizzes, they're all the same and drive me (and you) crazy. I say we devise a new quiz, I'm tired of seeing these same lame-ass questions.

We've got enough sick / imaginative / bored people lurking around this site, let's do one that's at least funny.

First possible question: Who's your daddy?

6:38 PM | Jus | url | #

ROFL! Ah love it! *holds mask to face*

11:32 PM | Tracey | url | #

Funniest shit ever.

8:09 PM | Jade | url | #

Apple freak.

3:33 PM | Tracey | url | #

Reg, I know you didn't mean to, but that sounded just like an Apple ad ;)

2:49 AM | Jus | url | #

Yes, I'm entirely willing to switch.

2:18 AM | McKain | url | #

Right! I get it! Sweet! :)

11:45 PM | Tracey | url | #

Yeah well the idea is really to be notified when there is new content, so we're not checking all the sites (one after the other as I do) to see if anyone made any updates. When there is new stuff, you can go straight to the post (and therefore site). See?

And of course you're not going to get extra stuff like comments and pictures etc. in the feed, as I said, I just use it as a heads-up. But it's still darn cool ;)

Darn I say! *clicks heels.. erm, spurs*

1:51 PM | Jus | url | #

Okay so I would still want people visiting my site for aesthetic reasons you know. So I'll set it up I think. Soon. Hehehe. Not feeling to fight with Blogger today at all. Today is for me me me. I set up the reader and stuff and added everyone yay.

12:55 PM | Tracey | url | #

From Stefan's quiz:

11. FUTURE CHILD'S NAME?
Yami Bolo

You gotta love him.

3:36 AM | Jus | url | #

all you had to do was ask...

12:51 AM | Jus | url | #

what if I didn't know the first thing about creating an RSS feed?

11:32 PM | Stef | url | #

...meaning I (and you!) can now check updates on everyone but Regis, Stacy, Tracey, Stefan & Stacey from my nifty RSS aggregator! All in one place, don't tell me that ain't cool.

Now you people mentioned above, especially those using Greymatter, hook it up!

Regis, you're still on-board to have the blogger site switched over right? 'Cuz I can hook up the feed when it does.

8:33 PM | Jus | url | #

erm ok!

8:02 PM | Tracey | url | #

9 now has a RSS feed.

8:47 PM | Jus | url | #

test. never mind

11:29 AM | Stef | url | #

I meant to post this a week ago, does anyone else get these emails?

TRINI PRESIDENT - Anand Ramlogan (anand@tstt.net.tt)

By the time you read this piece (written on Thursday), Professor Max Richards would have been elected President of our beloved twin-island Republic. The government has an inherent, guaranteed majority in the Electoral College, with 20 seats in the Lower House and 16 in the Upper House.

The controversy over this election was based on objections to the individual and the circumstances surrounding the nomination. The personal objections have no merit whatsoever. The only qualifications stipulated in section 23 (1) of the constitution is that the candidate must be at least 35 years of age and be ordinarily resident in T & T for 10 years immediately preceding his nomination.

This means that Professor Richards is as qualified as Dorothy and Twiggy or Robinson and Hassanali. Whether he gambles or not and is indebted to various casinos that have evicted him is irrelevant. And if being pictured sandwiched between two gorgeous women in a carnival fete disqualifies him then Panday would have had to elect a Swami instead of Robinson and Manning would have rushed to nominate Benny Hinn instead of Richards.

If the 71-year old Pro-Vice Chancellor and former principal of the University of the West Indies (UWI) most outstanding achievement at that institution of learning was its ever popular over-priced all-inclusive carnival fete, no big deal. After all, does anybody realize how influential this fete is? It's the perfect stage for networking and lobbying for high-profile appointments. Had Professor Richards transformed the UWI into an intellectual vehicle that would challenge our society to think and inspire constitutional and socio-economic reform that would re-shape and transform our society, no government would have felt that this accomplishment made him worthy of presidential nomination. A good fete always does the trick in this country.

Professor Julian Kenny's comments that his appointment "will be an expansion of the university's politics with a small clique determining the issues and acting on them" reflects his ignorance of the power of fete in this nation. Lloyd Best (who recently received CARICOM'S highest award) bit hard when he said Richards had "presided over the degeneration of the St Augustine campus into the morgue that it is today" and that he "just flows through and cannot be quoted on anything".

If you pick up the 'London Times' newspaper you will see university professors and intellectuals at the forefront of every important debate. They give lectures, write letters to the editor and find a forum to publicly voice their opinion. They educate the nation, suggest alternatives, remain above the politics and oftentimes act as the intellectual conscience for society. I'm afraid I can't remember Professor Richards contributing to any national debate, making any useful suggestions, using his powerful offices to influence constitutional reform or lobby for greater equity in our society. But then again, why try to change a system that has worked so well for you all your life?

The most powerful criticism however, is that Richards is hardly likely to be neutral and independent. He is likely to caress, rather than slap, the hand that fed him over the past years. That this is so is the fault of the constitution and not the PNM or Richards. The government has a built-in majority in the Electoral College so its nominee is bound to be elected. The requirement for consultation with the leader of the opposition is, in practice a joke. Our politicians are too immature to understand the important philosophical purpose of this noble constitutional convention. Just look at what transpired in relation to this appointment: Manning called Panday for a few minutes on the phone after he had already made up his mind and said his schedule was too hectic to allow for any genuine or meaningful consultation. Tough luck. The boy with the marbles dictates the game.

The most distasteful aspect about this appointment is the fact that Richards sat as Chairman of the Salaries Review Commission (SRC) and recommended (on January 28th) an increase in salary for the President, the Prime Minister and his cabinet colleagues among others. Had Richards known he was going to be nominated, a clear conflict of interest presented itself and he should have resigned forthwith.

That a man would sit as Chairman of the SRC one week and recommend hefty salary increases for government ministers and the office of the President and be appointed President by the very government the following week means that the nobility and honor of our highest office has been devalued. It leads to the inescapable perception that there was some sort of unethical collusion. Only the most naieve among us will believe that Richards had no advance notice about his nomination. After all, his name was being bandied about ever since the PNM failed to elect him as their chosen speaker for the Lower House close to 1 year ago. As a self proclaimed 'Trini to the bone' Professor Richards of all people, should have looked Manning in de eye and say "Oh gorsh boy, buh how it goh look!? Oh gorm, whey de people goh tink? Leh we eh do this na. It goh look ah lil awrffkey nah!".

7:45 AM | Jus | url | #

9 update: the archive links (to the side) are now actually dynamically generated, so at least that's up to date, more fixes to come. Designs anyone? Trace, you've been churning out mass quantities, hook us up!

9:37 PM | Jus | url | #

Afros are cool.

score one for jus

5:55 PM | Jus | url | #

(breaking out of self-imposed non-postage-to-9-ism to reply to regis)

My dearest achingly brilliant one, I defy anyone to find a generalization which one could, with any conviction, affix to you.

7:12 AM | sinistra | url | #

You guys gonna end up getting shot.

Included indeed.

*throws on flak jacket*

2:21 AM | Jus | url | #

You're an exception to the norm, friend Regis. Then again, what's the norm in Miami is also probably the pinnacle of general weird-ness in the United States. So I could be wrong.

11:25 PM | Stef | url | #

Ah, generalizations.
I feel so, so... included.

10:43 PM | McKain | url | #

roflmao

8:45 PM | Tracey | url | #

.....said the girl who visits the Louvre on weekends....

Okay we know we know for crying out quietly, at least let us use them for our own advancement....

5:42 PM | Stef | url | #

-blink-

Americans have ideas?

-blink-

10:26 AM | sinistra | url | #

Yeah...that WOULD throw a downer on your day.
I dunno man, I'd say I can't (believe that shit) but I do. Not limited to here though? I mean, things ARE getting worse. No-one wants war and everyone wants to go back to a place where Orange Alert means some kind of fruit juice, but it's happening anyway. To 3 or 4 guys getting drunk in a car...may not make much difference.

What can you do? We've grown up with it if you think about it. The entire social structure of the Caribbean is based upon a formerly caste-like race division. We just don't get people yelling from cars. Then again, Americans always did have a problem with communicating their ideas....

7:17 AM | Stef | url | #

You believe this shit?

I have to give Rossi credit though, he takes these things in stride.

1:39 AM | Jus | url | #

Sure!
*crosses fingers behind back*

7:05 PM | Tracey | url | #

I need about ten million dollars in US currency. If anyone comes across that you'll be sure to let me know, won't you...

4:02 AM | Stef | url | #

I need a digi cam badly. :(

5:06 PM | Tracey | url | #

randomness.

2:22 AM | Jus | url | #

I barely watch tv anymore. Clone High when and if I see it is very cool though.

9:39 PM | Tracey | url | #

far far very far from here some two thousand miles away.....

yeah whatever, so my cartoon past isn't as rich as yours.

9:32 PM | Stef | url | #

Zim zim salaBIM!

9:19 PM | Jus | url | #

OOOOHHHH. Invader Zim hehe. Yay!
WHATTTT? How could you do such a thing? Forget about Dag and Norb? *gasperations* Haha that's one of the funniest - I love em because they make up groovyass words man.

12:37 AM | Tracey | url | #

I have some episodes of Invader Zim here, if you would like them.

And, I miss The Angry Beavers tremendously. I'd forgotten about them mostly.

1:21 PM | McKain | url | #

wait a minute. Q. aren't you supposed to be writing the score to 2.0? hmm... I'm trying to remember.

12:50 PM | Xelent | url | #

Yeah, too bad I don't have every single frigging copy of the damned cartoon stored on dvd/disk/cd/brain. Blah.
And my tv does not exist.

12:04 AM | Stef | url | #

Yeh but...one specific episode of one specific cartoon? Come on man - I not home these days and not watching tv. Share. Oh andby the way I want a collection of all Invader Zim and Angry Beaver toons. Dammit.

9:31 PM | Tracey | url | #

Boy, you'd swear you people never watched cartoons...

1:55 PM | Jus | url | #

Turtles are cute. I dunno what he's talkin about Stef.

Ooooh Arts that's kinda...cooool :)

11:26 PM | Tracey | url | #

MQ -I'll give that serious thought.

Justin - What the fuck?

5:42 PM | Stef | url | #

Turtle? TURTLE? Gimme porcupine, armadillo...
I don't want no STINKIN' turtle!

4:32 PM | Jus | url | #

alright easy how-ever-many ers! I have a propostion. I want to get more of my shit out on the web, so I am offering my free services. Anyone on the 9 with a site that needs some cool tunes, let me know and i'll whip them up for you within a month. just a thought.

3:23 PM | mq | url | #

*grumble*

8:10 PM | Tracey | url | #

posting

8:59 AM | Stef | url | #

1128 was my score.

It's not just the feeling that it can't happen to us. It's laziness. Somewhere people have this implicit trust that the higher power will take care of it all, while meanwhile the men who form the higher power are busy packing their shops and families and leaving the country. There is this serious need for a wake-up call, and sometimes the burn of another insurrection may be what's needed.

My God man, isn't there anyone else who can run the country apart from two bitter old men who can't seem to realize that the country's populace isn't stupid, isn't blind?

12:21 PM | Stef | url | #

I got this in an email today:

A ‘Cut and Paste’ Society - Anand Ramlogan (anand@tstt.net.tt)

Picture this: Its July 1990. A newspaper publishes a sensational front-page story that a militant fundamentalist Islamic group is planning a coup in one month’s time. One of its reporters claimed that he was blind folded and taken to the group’s training camps in the forest. There he saw dozens of young men armed with guns and explosives being secretly trained in combat warfare plotting an insurrection against the state. The group’s leader said he would storm his way into Parliament one sunny Friday afternoon and hold MP’s hostage, take over our local television station, lives would be lost, there may be looting in the streets and a state of emergency with a curfew will be imposed on the entire nation. The message was that if the government didn’t change some of its harsh social policies, then they would overthrow the government by force.

How would the then government have reacted to such a report? Try cutting and pasting the response of the present administration….predictably, charges of a damaging and irresponsible political conspiracy involving the opposition and the particular newspaper, a boastful statement about the proficiency of our national security intelligence, the ability and readiness of our protective services, and of course, charges of treason. The Trini public would have found it all quite laughable (“dat cyah happen here, man, we eh even have no Muslim extremists here—so how dat goh be true? Mischief, man, pure mischief”).

The report would be summarily and flippantly be dismissed with a “steups” by John public. I mean, how could such a story be true? If there were any truth in this grand plot of armed insurrection by Muslim extremists then our intelligence agencies would surely have detected it. Hear de Trini: “Ah mean tuh say, ah man cyah be raising ah whole army under we nose-hole with guns and all and nobody in authority eh know. Whey dey goh geh de gun dem--in ah parlour? Boy, is stupid people tink we stupid? We is ah advanced country with computer an ting man!”

When people saw Abu Bakr on TTT that fateful evening announcing that the government had been overthrown, our baby nation went into a shock; the unthinkable and incredible had occurred. No one was fired for the appalling lapse in national security that permitted this armed insurrection which allowed an army of trained men to storm the nation’s Parliament and capital city, hold our Prime Minister and MP’s hostage, cause massive destruction and loss of life. In any other country in the world there would have been an avalanche of resignations by embarrassed security officials. People would have been fired left, right and center. In Trinidad, we take it all in stride, and relax it out on Maracas beach, shake it out in de rum shop and wine it out in ah good Kanaval fete or chutney show. After all, “We, is ah special people”.

Fast forward to the present crisis. You could literally ‘cut and paste’ the reactions to the expose of a terrorist Muslim group manufacturing chemical and biological weapons and fit it neatly into the scenario described above. Political conspiracy, public disbelief, security intelligence agencies going into high gear, government down-playing and even scoffing at the report, the PM jamming the reporter and newspaper, and of course, ‘treason’, enters our political lexicon.

Terrorist threat apart, kidnapping, murder, and violent robbery all present a dangerous social environment. Restless, disillusioned youths are joining lawless elements in our society at an alarming, rapid rate. There is talk of illegal training camps in the forests on the ground. Our oil and gas dollars buy the best available technology yet we cannot break the backbone of this evil, multi-headed criminal beast that’s stalking our land. Why? Because we are a ‘cut and paste’ society. Whether it’s July 1990 or July 2003, our reaction is the same. To each crisis, our response is so predictable, routine and familiar.

An evil sense of fear, terror and malaise has gripped our society. Predictable ‘cut and paste’ strategies and reactions will not cut it. Does this government of ‘mimic men’ have the maturity and intellectual strength to fight this battle? Time will tell, but by then, it may be too late for all of us.

3:18 AM | Jus | url | #

I got 999 points.

3:11 AM | Jus | url | #