avoid this product! and a meme

Inko's All Natural White Peach White Tea (bottled iced tea beverage) is very gross and overpriced. The same is probably true of the other flavors. It's possible that you won't become intensely nauseated, as I did this morning, after drinking it on an empty stomach, but why risk it? Boycott now.

Ginger ale and toasted plain bagel, how I love your calming properties.


Now, a meme from saskia139:

Name 20 of your CURRENT favorite fictional couples, then tag 5 people
to do the same.

Stretching the definition of the term 'current,' here are a few...

1. Harriet Vane and Lord Peter Wimsey. Of course. :)

2. Mary and Rob Roy McGregor (Rob Roy).

3. Wash and Zoe (Firefly).

4. Nathan Bridger and Kristin Westphalen (seaQuest DSV).

5. Annie and Liza (from Nancy Garden's Annie On My Mind).

6. Captain Kathryn Janeway and Seven of Nine (Star Trek: Voyager)

7. Rick and Louis (Casablanca), because breadandroses sent
me a link to this brilliant story.

8. Beatrice and Benedick, especially as played by Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branagh.

9. Elizabeth Corday and [shoot! Eriq La Salle's character... what's his name? Oh. Phew. My steel-trap grasp of irrelevant information has not failed me entirely] Peter Benton.

10. [I want to have Giles in here, but what Giles pairing I like best depends very much on my mood, the phase of the moon, and all manner of other factors. In some cases, in this situation one could fall back on canon, but that would require Giles to have had a remotely successful canon romantic relationship, you know, EVER. I know no one ever gets a happy ending in Jossland, but I think Giles got it especially bad on that count. I suppose Giles and Wesley is the closest I have to a Giles OTP.]

11. Francis Cornish and Ruth... is it Nesbit? The governess-astrologer-spy, you know. In Robertson Davies' What's Bred In The Bone.

12. Anna Leonowens and the King of Siam.

[argh. Bailing out here because all my brain is digging up now are more Buffy pairings and my own long-buried Mary Sues. Flee, flee while you can!]

I tag offer a warm invitation to breadandroses, penwiper26, kelilah, headrush100 and glimmergirl to pick up the meme if they feel so inclined.

So, OR random trivia question

I allowed myself to be roped in to playing bar triva tonight at a little pub in Old City. It was good fun, though the other team of my workmates won, despite having fewer people on it. I, personally, however, kicked ass on some historical questions (notably 'which Richard was called the Lionheart?' and 'did the declaration of independence list more than twelve offenses committed by King George III or fewer.' The answers being 1 and more, respectively.)

However, I still think my team should have gotten a bonus point because I knew the answer to the random pass-the-time trivia question that the Trivia Guy asked during a break - who are Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street named for?

Answer to come in the A.M.