Close to Home by John McPherson for May 26, 2009

If you were to pick a mythical character for your user name, what would it be and would it help you meet people?

If you were a giant, how would you justify the cost to the environment of the extra oxygen that you use?

Catch and euthenize a butterfly, then estimate how many hurricanes you prevented from ravaging the west coast of Norway.

this is why so many college students binge drink

I actually had a college professor use questions like these for ALL his tests. Got my only C in that school because of him!

I take the steel wool to the energy crisis; burn all the steel wool to generate steam to run turbines for electricity. A+ thank you

So how ‘bout it, Joe_Minotaur?

Is it working?

I choose the walking backwards one. Since nobody posts warnings signs that would be of use to someone walking backwards, I would imagine I’d have a number of accidents. Working through the injuries and the resulting lawsuits would have a very definite impact on my life. Eventually, (after I had a few million in damages put away), I would learn to be more forgiving and stop with the lawsuits, thus making me a better person.

i will take the grim fairy tale… i would be the littlest billy goat in the “Three Billy Goats Gruff”. That way i get to what i want first and let the “big business ” handle the dirty work. hee hee.

DigitalFrog - If I were grading the essays, I’d give yours a high mark.

Erudit I’ve met some fellow posters on this site as well as the artist Brooke McEldowney(Pibgorn, 9 Chickweed Lane). How about you?

Actually, questions like this are also the bane of FB users!

I love this one. I would be a spider and rid the world of wimps that are afraid of me.

No offense