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These are a few of my favorite things, part II…

What is your favorite food?

What is your favorite boat drink?

What is your favorite non-alcoholic drink?

What is your favorite type of pizza, crust, and toppings?

What is your favorite fruit?

What is your favorite vegetable?

What is your favorite candy?

What is your favorite cake?

What is your favorite pie?

What is your favorite ice cream?

What is your favorite dessert?

What is your favorite restaurant?

What is your favorite fast food?

What is your favorite meal to cook?

When I was young…

What did you want to be when you grew up?

What was your favorite childhood TV show?

What was your favorite game to play as a kid?

What was your favorite song as a kid?

What was your favorite toy as a kid?

Do you still have any toys or books from when you were a kid?

What was your favorite subject in school?

Who was your favorite teacher?

What was your favorite extra-curricular activity?

Did you ever participate in any “scouting” organizations?

What is the most memorable moment from your childhood?

What is your earliest childhood memory?

These are a few of my favorite things, part III…

What is your favorite movie?

What is your favorite TV show?

What is your favorite television network?

What is your favorite radio station?

What is your favorite book?

What is your favorite “newspaper-comic” cartoon?

What is your favorite television cartoon?

Who is your favorite comedian/comedienne?

Who is your favorite television character?

Who is your favorite actor?

Who is your favorite actress?

Who is your favorite celebrity animal?

Your “Buffettisms”…

What is your favorite Buffett song?
Tie: One Particular Harbor & Far Side of the World

What is your favorite Buffett album?
I really like Far Side of the World, however the older stuff is great too

When was your 1st Buffett concert?
Jeez, I think 1996 or 97 – Camden, NJ?

What is your most memorable Buffett experience?
Introducing my 2 brothers (and the rest of the fam) to JB has to be up there. We got tickets last minute and went to Camden and … well, they’re both avid Parrotheads now.

What is the farthest you have traveled to get to a Buffett concert?
Camden - & I live in Philly, so I guess that’s not that far, especially considering I go much further just to go to work everyday

How many Buffett concerts have you seen?
10? I lost count, but kept every stub.

What is your favorite Buffett memento?
I have a sweet Hawaiian shirt that used to be my costume when I worked for the Mouse. I wear it at every JB show, and every year people always offer to buy it. It’s not JB, but at this point, might as well be. I guess you can count the ticket stubs here too.

What Buffett shows did you go to this year (2005)?
CBP 8-25, Section 419

What Buffett shows would you like to go to in 2006?
I’d be game for traveling, but where remains to be seen. Hmmmm.

Who is your favorite Coral Reefer?
Mac is cool

How did you become a parrothead?
A buddy of mine had extra tickets and I wasn’t doing anything so I went. I knew little about his music, but left convinced that I had stumbled upon something awesome.

Do you belong to any parrothead clubs? If yes, which ones?
Nope. To quote an incredibly overused quote: “Any club that has me as a member is one I wish not to join” … or however it goes. Actually, I’d be all up for joining. Someday I will.

Everything and anything BN…

What brought you to BN?
Google search for concert info regarding CBP 8/25

What does your BN name mean?
It’s a nickname, a play on my last name.

Have you met any BNrs in person? If so, who?
None right now.

Do you have a favorite BN anecdote? If so, please share?
What is an anecdote??? Dictionary please….

Getting to know the real you…

What is your real name (first name only)?
Tim

Where do you work?
Draft – an advertising agency in New York

What do you do?
I manage the jobs & teams involved, and make sure that each ad is on schedule, within budget, and really really rad.

Where do you live?
Ha! Some of you may know that I currently SLEEP in Philly. This craziness is almost over, I hope. I'm looking for apartments in NYC. Speaking of which, anybody know about any vacant 2 BR's in NYC, preferably Manhattan?? Anybody? Anybody? Bueller?

What is your marital status?
Single

What is your keet status?
I’m a kid at heart, but that’s about it.

Do you have any pets? What kinds? What are their names?
No

What do you drive?
I have 8 cars – it’s called the E train of the wonderful Metropolitan Transit Authority of NYC, although sometimes, I let other people ride in my cars. I also drive a ’91 GMC Jimmy truck to the train station & to the boathouse. There is another car that's become my "pet project" that I'm trying to fix up (if I ever get the time).

Do you support any charities? If so, which ones?
Not regularly. It’s more of a “what’s going on at that time” type of thing.

What are your pet peeves?
Disrespect in all shapes and forms.

Other than JB, what are the last 3 (or however many you think is good)
concerts you attended and when?
James Taylor – always a goodie (seen him 5 times)
The Dead – same. (Seen them about 4 or 5 times)
Aerosmith & Kiss concert – (Aerosmith was awesome, Kiss was crap.)
Cake - awesome show
U2 (back in 2001) – sweet show
(damn – I’m having a total brain fart right now.)

What are your hobbies (other than Jimmy Buffett and BuffettNews)?
I’m quite good at drinking, but really, I just enjoy hanging out with friends. I play disc (Frisbee) golf, coach rowing, rowing itself, and I love to ski (downhill).

Do you have a dream vehicle? If so, what?
A beautiful yacht which I can use to escape the everyday life and explore the world. I even have a name for it, though it’s probably been a bit overused.

Do you drink a regular caffeinated morning pick-me-up? If yes, what?
Not regularly, and believe it or not, but I enjoy coffee more at night or after dinner. I know. I’m weird.

Do you read the newspaper regularly?
The free Metro that I get at the subway entrance at 53rd & 3rd in NYC, and any Wall Street Journals that I find left on Amtrak. I get the New York Post for the Su Doku, and Weird News, and I read that HS sports section of the Philadelphia Inquirer (the rest of that paper iI don't like).

Do you subscribe to any magazines? If yes, what?
Rowing News, ESPN

These are a few of my favorite things, part I…

What is your favorite vacation spot?
I’ve been to Orlando tons of times, but I LOVE going to Paris & Rome (and other points in Europe – Capri, Mont St. Michele). I could definitely get used to things there. Australia is also a place that I’ve dreamed about going to and never leaving, although I don’t think they’d be happy about that.

What is your favorite sport to watch?
Professionally – Football
Overall – a good rowing regatta on a nice day, which is fairly often for me.

What is your favorite sport to play?
Ski, Row, football, disc golf...

What is your favorite tree?
Any one that I’m sitting under during a nice summer day enjoying the laziness of an afternoon.

What is your favorite flower?
I don’t really have one.

What is your favorite bird?
The Iggles (Philadelphia Eagles) or a Hawk.

What is your favorite bug?
Lightning bugs. What can I say – kid at heart.

What is your favorite fish/crustacean?
To eat? None. To watch – I don’t know, they all look the same. Pirhana feeding time is kind of cool. Does that count?

What is your favorite water activity?
Swimming, rowing, rafting, playing in warm summer rain.

What is your favorite beach?
This may sound sappy, but when I lived & worked at Disney World, I used to go to the beach in front of the wedding pavilion on the Seven Seas Lagoon with a friend of mine. We started dating and did so for 6 years. We’ve since broken up, but that beach still reminds me of some fun times. Yup, now that I read that – sappy. I feel like beating myself up. Excuse me for a minute.

What is your favorite stretch of road?
I love smelling the ocean as I drive to the Ninth Street Bridge in OC, NJ.
I love driving I-95.
I love driving Kelly Drive in Philadelphia.
I love driving… anywhere.

What is your favorite scenic overlook?
Pick one (I can’t): Mont Montre, Paris; The Twelve Apostles near Port Campbell, Australia, The Blue Mountains, Australia, The Grand Canyon

What is your favorite outfit?
That old costume shirt that I wear to JB every year is cool (but it only comes out then). Shorts. Sandals. I suppose you could also count the blazer & tie I had to wear this summer at the Royal Henley Regatta – but that’s because so few people (coaches & rowers) have earned the right to wear it.

What is your favorite color?
Orange!

What is your favorite grocery store?
I don’t have one. Fresh Direct??

What is your favorite discount department store?
I hate shopping

What is your favorite “mall” retail store?
Clothing – I dig the Eddie Bauer stuff
REI, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Best Buy

What is your favorite time of year?
All of them. I could never live somewhere that doesn’t have seasons (although I could definitely visit).

mings wrote:Do you read the newspaper regularly?
The free Metro that I get at the subway entrance at 53rd & 3rd in NYC

After reading that rag do find that you have a sudden urge to assasinate the president and overthrow the Evil Right Wing Government?

On the more personal side…

What is your most embarrassing moment?
Hmmm. I know I’ve had a few, but I think I’ve successfully banished them from my memory.

If you could be any cartoon character, who would you be?
Goofy, Fozzie Bear, Patrick (from SpongeBob), Gonzo (being weird, not looking weird)

What’s the last movie you saw in a theater?
Wedding Crashers, Flightplan

What’s the last movie you rented?
Hitch, which apparently I now own because my ex never returned it.

If you could have any super power, what would it be?
Be able to fly I suppose.

What song reminds you of high school?
One – U2 (Freshman year Homecoming Dance)
You’ve Got a Friend – JT (Senior year & my truest of friends)

If you won the lottery how (or would you) quit your job?
I would take an extended leave of absence or possibly 6-12 months. Then, by the time I got back most people would forget that I won. I’d maybe change jobs, but at least I’d still be working, and I’d do it for the love of it. I’d also consider quitting so that I may coach rowing, something I think about everyday.

Do you collect anything? If so, what?
Memories, ticket stubs.

Do you play any musical instruments? If yes, what?
Used to play piano & guitar

What do you normally eat for breakfast?
It changes, but right now 2 hardboiled eggs & a ½ cup of oatmeal.

What is the most exotic animal you have ever seen in the wild?
Buffalo, I saw some pretty cool stuff when I went snorkeling off the Keys too. I don’t really know, but I know I’m forgetting something.

Do you have a lot of footwear?
Yes. I accumulate sneakers & sandals

Do you like to shop?
Hate it

Do you prefer to shop online, by catalogue, or in person?
If I must, in person, especially for clothing. I am not averse to shopping online for certain items (disc golf discs).

How many pairs of sunglasses do you own?
2 – one for regular wear, & one for skiing

How many of the 50 states have you visited? Name them.
I may have missed one, but here goes:
PA, NY, VT, MA, RI, CT, NJ, DE, VA, WV, NC, SC, GA, FL, AL, MS, TN, LA, MO, OK, TX, NM, AZ, UT, NZ, CA, WY, WA, MT, SD, MN, WI, IL, IN, MI, OH, ID

Have you ever traveled south of the equator? If yes, where?
Australia, to visit my brother who was studying abroad at Melbourne Uni. I didn’t stay long enough.

Have you ever traveled outside of the country? If yes, where?
Yup. France, Italy, Yugoslavia (though it no longer exists), Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Monaco, England, Australia, Mexica, Canada, Bahamas,

Do you prefer city or country?
I love both, and can’t live without either.

Do you like snow?
Love it & hate when people on the news moan about it. Everyone was a kid once, and I never want to forget it. So it makes getting to work tough, it did for dad too, but he was happy for you when you went sledding. At least that’s the case for me. Add that last part to my pet peeves.

When is the last time you rode a bike?
Every spring at least, usually during one of the regattas I’m coaching.

When is the last time you had a picnic in a park?
This summer – Central Park

What single item do you think you have the most quantity of?
Memories, baseball caps, dreams

Do you have a swimming pool?
No, but I do belong to a swim club during the summers

Do you have a hot tub?
no

Do you prefer baths or showers?
Showers – if there’s a second person involved I’m for whatever

Have you ever met any celebrities? If so, whom?
In college I hosted concerts and met De La Soul, Violent Femmes, Guster, Run DMC, The Roots, G. Love & Special Sauce, David Spade, & also met Ron Howard, Caroline Rea.

Have you ever been to a tiki bar? If yes, where?
At a few hotels in the Keys.

These are a few of my favorite things, part II…

What is your favorite food?
Mom’s spaghetti and gravy (red sauce for all you non-Italians) & her oatmeal raisin cookies.

What is your favorite boat drink?
Anything with rum makes me happy

What is your favorite non-alcoholic drink?
Home-brewed iced tea with lemon

What is your favorite type of pizza, crust, and toppings?
Peppers & onions, plain, or (for Creeky) chicken & pineapple – all from Full Moon Pizza on Arthur Ave in the Bronx. But they won't make the pineapple thing. That's from where-ever.

What is your favorite fruit?
Peach

What is your favorite vegetable?
Potato

What is your favorite candy?
Reese’s Pieces or Twizzler’s Nibs

What is your favorite cake?
Applesauce cake (my birthday cake)

What is your favorite pie?
Peach

What is your favorite ice cream?
Breyers Peach

What is your favorite dessert?
I like a nice apple or peach cobbler a la mode.

What is your favorite restaurant?
Brother Jimmy’s on a Sunday – bottomless beer & endless ribs for $20. Can’t beat it.

What is your favorite fast food?
McDonalds – the fries are addictive

What is your favorite meal to cook?
Steak on the grill with a nice cold beer, or glass of red wine (depends on how I feel)

Can you describe your ideal woman?

Do you want to get married?

Have kids?

How many?

When I was young…

What did you want to be when you grew up?
Just like my dad.

What was your favorite childhood TV show?
I always thought Mr. Rogers was cool.

What was your favorite game to play as a kid?
Wiffle ball, Life (in the board game category)

What was your favorite song as a kid?
I didn’t really have any

What was your favorite toy as a kid?
Lego’s & GI Joes

Do you still have any toys or books from when you were a kid?
Sort of – some things were passed down the line to my younger brothers & sister. It’s at the point where mom has been passing a lot onto the Salvation Army

What was your favorite subject in school?
History

Who was your favorite teacher?
Mrs. Greenburg, Sister Kathy McShane, & Senor Raffa

What was your favorite extra-curricular activity?
I liked playing grade school football & soccer.

Did you ever participate in any “scouting” organizations?
Yup – Cub & Boy Scouts – missed Eagle Scout by 1 month because I got sick. Oh well.

What is the most memorable moment from your childhood?
Trips – my parents believe that you learn by experiencing, so we took 2 cross country trips, and one through Europe.

What is your earliest childhood memory?
I remember sitting with my grandfather at his store handing people candy while he did the register.

Can you walk and chew gum at the same time?

What's the best scrapple you ever had?

These are a few of my favorite things, part III…

What is your favorite movie?
This is hard: Animal House, Fletch, Caddyshack, Blues Brothers, Boondock Saints

What is your favorite TV show?
M*A*S*H, Magnum P.I., Scrubs, …

What is your favorite television network?
NBC

What is your favorite radio station?
AM = 610 WIP
FM = 88.5 WXPN
Other = RM

What is your favorite book?
Ummm. I don't really know. Ten Things I Hate About My Girlfriend was pretty funny. I like reading Tom Clancy, but that's not something I'll read over and over.

What is your favorite “newspaper-comic” cartoon?
Calvin & Hobbes

What is your favorite television cartoon?
Old ‘Simpsons’

Who is your favorite comedian/comedienne?
Lewis Black & Mitch Hedberg

Who is your favorite television character?
Archie Bunker

Who is your favorite actor?
I like watching Jeremy Piven – he’s usually in some fun stuff.

Who is your favorite actress?
To look at – Ashley Judd
For talent – my ex girlfriend is a really good actress. Actresses in Hollywood come & go so fast I can’t think of one that would get me to go watch a movie purely because they were in it.

Who is your favorite celebrity animal?
Spudds McKenzie

On a VERY personal level…

Have you ever been arrested? If so, for what?

Do you have any piercings or tattoos? If so, what and where?

What is the most breathtaking sight you’ve seen?

What, to you, is priceless?

What is your most prized possession?

Who is the one person (not Jimmy Buffett) who has most influenced you
and how?

Who are your heroes (not Jimmy Buffett) and why?

What are you most proud about yourself?

Given the right opportunity in life, you would/will_________?

What are you scared of?

If you could push the “rewind” button on anything in your life, what would
it be?

What part of your body do you love?

What part of the opposite sex’s body do you love?

What are your strengths?

What are your weaknesses?

What was the best day of your life?

What was the worst day of your life?

What smells do you love?

What smell do you not care for

nycparrothead wrote:

mings wrote:Do you read the newspaper regularly?
The free Metro that I get at the subway entrance at 53rd & 3rd in NYC

After reading that rag do find that you have a sudden urge to assasinate the president and overthrow the Evil Right Wing Government?

Actually, I get that mainly for the Su Doku, the Crossword, and the pretty pictures.

Um... I made a boo boo... Are you mad at me?

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How's come you don't have an avatar?

On a VERY personal level…

Have you ever been arrested? If so, for what?
Nope. Oh, but what they don’t know…

Do you have any piercings or tattoos? If so, what and where?
Nope. Not my style

What is the most breathtaking sight you’ve seen?
seeing every star possible, including the Southern Cross, as my brother & I were driving back from the seeing the Twelve Apostles on the Great Ocean Road, near Port Campbell, Australia

What, to you, is priceless?
Memories, Love, random pictures. Excuse me - going to beat myself up again.

What is your most prized possession?
I’m not someone who cares much for material things. I really have to think about this one.

Who is the one person (not Jimmy Buffett) who has most influenced you
and how?
Other than the staple answer of my parents and my siblings? I don't really know. Even my little brother has taught me things that I try to embrace. My parents believe in learning by experiencing and to never pass up an opportunity, and I've since lived my life by those lessons. My youngest brother has taught me some things which still baffle me that such profound observations and lessons could come from such a young kid. My other brother and sister have each taught me how determination and light-heartedness can acheive the loftiest of goals. I've written too much. Next.

Who are your heroes (not Jimmy Buffett) and why?
My great uncle. He was a Jesuit priest & missionary, who knew several languages fluently, and gave most of his life to live in India and work with the people there. He passed away in ’95 and I got to know him during his occasional trips back home. What an amazing person.

What are you most proud about yourself?
The fact that, to date, I’ve done what I loved. I’ve coached (and still do) and I’m in the industry that I find to be a blast. I guess you could say, that I’ve chosen to surround myself with great friends, too.

Given the right opportunity in life, you would/will_________?
Succeed in my goal of running/owning a successful ad agency, then allowing me to retire and coach and travel while I still have time and energy to enjoy it.

What are you scared of?
Missing an opportunity, failure and not realizing my potential

If you could push the “rewind” button on anything in your life, what would
it be?
Not moving to New York City sooner, which has had some consequences that I might want to have changed

What part of your body do you love?
I don't know.

What part of the opposite sex’s body do you love?
Ok, so foregoing the obvious responses (which all apply!) a girl with beautiful eyes drives me crazy, and a nice smile.

New addition: The small of a woman's back. Wow.

What are your strengths?
Finding fun in the simplest things, determination/perseverance, disarming personality, ….hmmm….

What are your weaknesses?
Procrastination, too much trust in others...

What was the best day of your life?
ummm. I really don’t know. I’m a pretty good natured and happy guy, so a lot of days are awesome. Read the next question and you’ll see why most of my responses here don’t count anymore.

What was the worst day of your life?
Tie (sort of):
9/1/05 – I broke up with my girlfriend of 6 years.
9/11/01 – For a while there I thought that my father had died in when the towers fell. Fortunately, he didn’t, but until that phone call from a coworker of his – yup that was tough.

What smells do you love?
Fresh Rain, mom’s cookies,

What smell do you not care for
Garbage (who doesn’t though), Goldschlager (my 21st birthday alcohol)

Can you describe your ideal woman?
She'll be someone who loves to laugh, smile, have fun. She'll find humor in the simplest of things - ie: something silly like America's Funniest Home Videos & people falling down. She'll share the same love for travel that I have. She won't need makeup to "be"beautiful - she'll be absolutely gorgeous with it or without it. Needless to say, she'll be a very pretty woman - I don't want a supermodel, I just want someone who's naturally beautiful. She won't be into material things, and run out to buy the latest thing. (If she comes home with Uggs, I leave.) She'll ski, like car trips, like JB, and other chill musicians, like to give presents on Christmas rather than receive them. I could go on for hours.

Do you want to get married?
Yes. Most definitely.

Have kids?
Yup Yup Yup. I'd be lost without little Tim's running around. I love kids.

How many?
I figure 3 or 4, but I'm always willing to reconsider. I'm not going to be like that family in South Carolina/Georgia, where they had 18(?). Way to many.