1. What is your name?
To seek the Holy Grail. Wait, no
2. Have you ever been kissed?
No.
3. What is your favourite movie?
Probably
The Empire Strikes Back? Haven't decided.
4. What is your ringtone?
Haven't been called in a while, let me check... Looney Tunes? Okay then.
5. Do you have any brothers or sisters?
One brother.
6. What is on your mousemat?
Halo 4's Master Chief on one knee in front of a crashing
Forward Unto Dawn. It was a gift.
7. What is your favourite colour pen to write with?
Blue for fountain, black for Biro, green for quill.
8. What shampoo do you use?
The blue one.
9. What is your favourite colour?
Blue. No green!
10. How many children do you want?
Three. One of each.
11. Do you collect anything?
Regrets.
12. What is your favourite word?
"Australopithecus," but I'm developing a love of "obsequious," which I don't get to use nearly as often as I'd like.
13. Do you believe in love at first sight?
No.
14. What is your idea of a perfect date?
No data available.
15. What is your favourite book?
The Last Hero, Terry Pratchett. Or
A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson.
16. Who is your favourite actor or actress?
I don't know. Some I respect for their talent and others I like for their personality. Haven't decided.
17. What is the best feeling in the world?
Being accepted completely by friends you love and respect. Having just one an Olympic gold medal. And taking a bullet for an innocent child. Before catching the bad guy and saving the world. In a crashing aircraft that you successfully landed. While eating those sugary, freshly fried fairground doughnuts. On a water slide.
18. Do you take hot or cold showers?
Yes, those are the two options.
19. If you could meet anyone, who would it be?
You wouldn't know her, but she sent me my goggles.
20. What is your favourite band or singer?
Elbow.
21. What are you listening to right now?
My fingers tapping the keyboard.
22. Do you believe in God?
lol
23. When is your birthday?
Then.
24. How tall are you?
Around my height.
25. What is your favourite television show?
Firefly.
26. Have you ever had sex?
lol
27. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you live?
I haven't been everywhere in the world to be able to choose. And all the best exotic locations have poor Internet connection, no Xbox LIVE service and if you do get on-line you'll be lucky to get your purchases mailed out to you, and none of these problems are solved my living on the moon as I would like. Fuck, an island somewhere. Svarlbard. Nope, that's worse. Can I phone a friend?
28. Do you have braces?
No.
29. Do you like roller coasters?
Yes.
30. What is your favourite season?
Unending.
31. What is your favourite time of day?
11 a.m, if I'm up and slept properly. So never.
32. What household chore do you most despise?
Washing up. The gloves always have holes in them, the detergent makes my skin fall off and my family gets through cups like the Astronomicon gets through psykers.
33. What is your favourite cartoon?
It may well be Futurama. Or Ranma. Should watch it again to make sure.
34. What is on your bedroom walls?
In one place, 24 years of accumulated stuff. In the other, a transparent clock.
35. What's your favourite ice cream flavor?
I don't remember.
36. If you had a time machine, where would you go?
Everywhen. Then probably go mad trying to fix people's personal tragedies.
37. What do you want to be when you're older?
Happy and still alive.
38. What colour are your eyes?
Grey.
39. Who is the person you talk to the most on the the phone?
my brother and two friends. One of whom just buggered off to China, so no more phone calls
40. If you could dye your hair any color, what would it be?
I already can, can't I? Except octarine. I choose octarine.
41. Do you have any nicknames?
Other Marcus. Autre Marcus. Ultra Marcus. Outré Marcus.
42. What does your dream guy/girl look like?
No data available.
43. Are you good in maths?
Positive.
44. Do you have freckles?
No.
45. Who are your best friends?
All of them. I have too few to be ranking them.
46. What is your favourite kind of flower?
Toss up between
Rafflesia arnoldii and
Amorphophallus titanum.
47. What is your favourite shop?
Forbidden Planet.
48. What is the most daring thing you've ever done?
Daring or stupid? Nought comes to mind today. I don't think I've had opportunity or reason to do anything "daring" of any purpose or value.
49. Is there anyone who you really hate?
I can't hold a grudge for any length of time, and I've had cause to. That said... myself.
50. Do you and your parents fight a lot?
If you can call it that. It's pretty one sided.
51. What is your favourite sweet? (or candy for the yanks)
Shrimps.
52. What is your favourite kind of music?
As my exasperated brother pointed out, my tastes are very varied with nothing in between. Metal, prog rock, glam rock, classical, ambient, orchestral, whatever Vangelis is.
53. What was the last movie you saw in the cinema?
The Dark Knight Rises.
54. Are you getting sick of these questions yet?
They're keeping me up. I could stop, but I won't. Why?
55. Have you ever been to the ocean?
Several of them.
56. Do you have any body piercings?
No.
57. What is your favourite restaurant?
I don't get out often enough to have one.
58. What web browser do you use?
Firefox.
59. What are you scared of?
People.
60. Who do you like talking to the most on the internet?
The aforementioned person I'd like to meet.
61. What schools do/did you go to?
East Peckham Primary and Tunbridge Wells Grammar School for Boys.
62. Do you have any pets?
One grey budgerigar and several semi-wild giant house spiders.
63. Which is better, pie or cake?
I have a dream that we will one day live in a nation where deserts will not be judged by the colour of their casing but by the content of their contents.
64. Are you a good french kisser?
No data available.
66. What is your favourite colour to wear?
Dunno. Blue. Black. Green. Brown. Octarine (sigh).
67. What is your favourite animal?
Sinornithosaurus millenii.
68. What is your favourite alcoholic drink?
They are all poison.
69. What sports do you like?
My schooling trained me to hate sports in a manner best described as Pavlovian. But I used to like basketball and Tae Kwon Do.
70. What is your favourite outfit?
That Steampunk one.
71. Do you sleep with a stuffed animal?
I have a squid.
72. What is your favourite card game?
Magic the Gathering.
73. Do you ****ing swear?
Fucking sometimes.
74. Have you ever had surgery?
Eye and penis, when I was young. I don't remember what for. Quint in the first, some urethra thing for the other. I was told that without it it would "cause problems when I'm older." Not bloody likely.
75. What is your favourite beverage?
Gonna go with kiwi juice this time.
76. Do you want to get married?
Sure, but what I want is irrelevant.
77. What is your most embarrassing moment?
I don't have many, mostly because it's usually on purpose. Though one time I mistook some wooden "sculptures" or some kind of decoration for chairs. they were logs stood on their end with a great chunk hacked out so that they looked like high-backed chairs. They were in an clearing in London by the Thames surrounded by several restaurants, all with open air seating and all very busy. I sat it one and it immediately fell over, sending me sprawling with my legs high in the air. It knocked down the rest and each one I picked back up knocked the rest down again. No one came to my assistance but everyone watched.
78. What is your zodiac sign?
Cancer.
79. Where do you think is the most boring place in the world?
My workplace.
80. Have you ever smoked?
Bits of me have caught fire before.
81. What do you look for in a member of the opposite gender?
No data available.
82. What song do you wish the radio would play more often?
Grounds for Divorce, Elbow.
We Don't Get Fooled Again, The Who.
Anything by Queen, Queen.
83. Are you getting bored of these questions now?
Are you getting bored of thinking them up?
85. Do you write letters?
On occasion.
86. Who do people say you look like?
You tell me. When I was a boy it was Macaulay Culkin, as a teenager it was Gabriel Thomson and Harry Potter.
87. What is your favourite month of the year?
Depends on what's happening in that month. I've got to say, I'm not in the habit of ranking months by preference, and I'm loath to start now.
88. Do you prefer to communicate face-to-face, by email or by phone?
Writing is superior. I can think about what I say
and get a word in edgewise.
89. How many words per minute can you type?
Without checking: maybe sixty, not including the frequent backspacing. In reality I'm trawling through research and occasionally opening up a thesaurus to track down a word that I remember everything about except the word itself. That particular annoyance drives me mad, especially when speaking face to face.
90. What is one thing you would change about the way you act? I would like to stop shrinking in the presence of other human beings.
91. What is one thing you would change about your looks?
Nothing now. In the future? I'd like to keep my hair, please.
92. How long is your hair?
Not as long as I like it, but as long as everyone else seems to prefer. I cultivate the mad scientist look, but it goes unappreciated by some. Most.
93. What is the worst feeling in the world?
That delicious combo of self-loathing, anxiety and despair. Throw in some grief, personal or proxy, for the perfect storm.
94. Do you have allergies?
Not that I have discovered.
95. What are some of your bad habits?
Self-sabotage.
96. What is one of your pet peeves?
Wilful ignorance.
97. Do you have a website?
I have a
web page.
98. What kind of car do you drive?
A rusty bicycle.
99. How do you entertain yourself when you have nothing to do?
I sing
Pinball Wizard to the tune of
Jerusalem.
100. If you would add one question to this list, what would you add (and how would you answer it)?
###. Don't you hate meme writers who can't even finish their own questionnaires and thus resort to crowd-sourcing?
Why yes, strangely insightful questionmaster, such meme writers will be first against the wall when the revolution comes.