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I like Chaucer. I'd rather hang out with him than Shakespeare. Shakespeare was a tough businessman type.

As far as literary merit: It's a toss-up. Chaucer might have created more original material than Shakespeare. Shakespeare tended to revise material which was written previously (albeit in his own unique style).

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I'd rather hang out with Chaucer but read Shakespeare. I get goosebumps reading his works they are so good.

Could you use antidisestablishmentarianism smoothly in a sentence?

The Methodist espoused Antidisestablishmentarianism in a virtuous manner.

Do you prefer: Virtue, or Passion?

Awesome!

Virtue or passion? That's hard! I'm passionate about my concept of virtue - being compassionate and empathetic to others and never intentionally hurting them.

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Virtue is greater than passion and doing right overrules mere emotions.


Would you rather live on Earth or Mars?

I prefer an overall virtuous lifestyle. This allows my passion to be channeled properly. Passion which is channeled properly could be made beautiful in a refined way.

Additionally, one can create passion out of virtue--but it's a bit more difficult to create virtue out of passion.


Metered Verse, or Free Verse?

I'd rather live on Earth, but would love to visit Mars.

Free Verse, or Metered Verse?

I'd say both, but I find the freedom in Whitman's poetry pretty wonderful.

Favorite movie

American Graffiti

Favorite TV show?

What will they think of next, from 1981


Do you see a see a future where there is lesser tyrants in the world?

I'd rather have less tyrants than lesser tyrants. I think we'll be okay eventually.

Metric, or Imperial? Kilometers, or Miles?

Metric, I am not american so I dont have much choice. Plus metric is better for the sake of mathematical elegancy.

Do you trust the media?

Not really, it was too polarized and slanted.

Do you think there are 193 countries in the world or could there be more simply based on land/population/political rationale

Just went to look it up in my almanac and I think there are 195 countries.

Same question.

From that criteria, Germany and Austria should be one country.

Parts of Belgium combined with parts of France. Other parts of Belgium combined with The Netherlands.

The entirety of Central America, from Mexico to Panama, can almost be said to be "one country," with the exception of Belize.

Norway and Sweden are quite similar in ethnicity, culture, and language.

Then, of course, in Africa, you have many, many ethnic groups and cultures encased within arbitrarily-drawn political units. In Nigeria, for example, at least three "nations" can be formed based upon the dominant ethnic group and religion.

And this is just a small sampling.

Perhaps, with all the above kept in mind, it all evens out in the end.

Question: Do you believe in peanut butter?

??? I don't exactly like peanut butter that much [I prefer almond butter]. Is this some bizarre new religious thing going on now?

What are some of the funniest or accidentally funny things that have happened to you or that you have seen?