Saturday, May 18, 2013

Saturday 9

Saturday 9: Greased Lightnin'


1) Greased Lightnin' was the name of a car. Have you ever given your car a name? Sorry. I don't have a car.

2) Could your vehicle use a trip to the car wash this weekend? Well, the local PACE buses could certainly benefit from a little spring cleaning.
 

3) This song is from the soundtrack of the movie Grease, the biggest money-making movie musical of all time. Have you ever seen it? About a million times.

 
4) John Travolta's astrological sign is Aquarius. What's yours? I'm on the cusp between Scorpio and Sagittarius. 

  5)  In addition to being John Travolta's birthplace, Englewood, New Jersey, played a significant role in telecommunications history. In 1951, Englewood's mayor made the first-ever direct dial long-distance call in the United States. Now it's your turn. Tell us something about your birthplace. I'm going to define "birthplace" literally and tell you about the hospital I arrived in. While it was just a plain, old run-of-the-mill community hospital when my mom checked in, about 10 years after my birth it was converted to a mental health facility for those citizens who have either been found unfit to stand trial or not guilty by reason of insanity. My family has always enjoyed teasing me about being born in "the funny farm."
 

6) Travolta is an excellent dancer. How are you on the dance floor? I suck.


7) Grease is an upbeat musical about the students of Rydell High. Another Travolta movie is Carrie, which features the worst prom night imaginable. Grease or Carrie -- which is closer to your high school experience? Definitely Carrie. I hated high school.
 
8) What was your best subject in high school? What was your worst? English and American history were the best. Algebra and chemistry were the worst.

  9) Sam made good use of the bus ride to school, using that time to complete her homework. What do you remember about getting to or from school? We rode to school in a car pool. I hated it most of all when it was my parents' turn. My dad smoked constantly and drove this big boat of a Cadillac. Stuck in back seat, trying to breathe, we were like canaries in a coal mine.

6 comments:

  1. I was the exact opposite, loved math and hated English. I went on to become an engineer.

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  2. In researching my birth hospital, in a couple of places online it talked about it being a nursing home. I could end up being put out to pasture there.
    Katie atBankerchick Scratchings

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  3. Oh, chemistry was bad for me too. I love that you live in such a great public transit city that you don't need a car. Ours is so bad, we need a car for everything, hence all the traffic in LA.

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  4. Algebra is the devil. THE DEVIL.

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  5. We moved out of OP just after I was born to find a bigger house. I have no memory of it.

    Thanks for the S-9 :)

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  6. Loved english and history too!

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