Words For Your Enjoyment: Non-Q&A
July 21st, 2006
Welcome dear readers to another groundbreaking edition of “Words For Your Enjoyment.”
I know, I know. Some of you are saying to yourselves, “wasn’t last week a groundbreaking edition of WFYE?” And then others of you are saying, “dude, I don’t know what you were smoking but last week wasn’t groundbreaking, but the week before last week was totally groundbreaking.” And then there’s your mother, watching you from over your shoulder and she’s thinking to herself, “kids these days just don’t know what’s groundbreaking anymore. Now the hula hoop…that was groundbreaking.”
Either way, today’s WFYE is going to challenge your expectations of groundbreaking.
WFYE active-submitter and extremely private person (i.e., no e-mail address or blog) Susan writes: “You are so wise, why don’t you have an advice column, called “letters to Pauly” or “Ask Pauly”. That would be wicked fun!”
Wicked fun, eh?
Well, when I first saw that idea pop up in my inbox, I contemplated it for a moment. People like asking questions. As children, we often ask “Why?” over and over and over again. But then something hit me. People and their blogs offer up these Q&A sessions as often as they wash their hands when they go to the bathroom. So instead of doing something everyone else seems to be doing these days, why not stay true to my maverick attitude and switch things up a bit and turn everything on its head? Yeah. YEAH. So instead of you submitting questions to me that you’d like me to answer….
Today you can submit questions to me that you don’t want me to answer.
That’s right, people! What questions do you NOT want me to answer? What answers would simply ruin the entire WFME reading experience? What is too much information when it comes to me? What subjects do you not want to know my opinion on? What habits could you care less to know about? What information would you really, pretty positively, not care to learn?
And in return for you telling me the questions you’d rather I not answer, I’ll do you one better.
I won’t answer them.
Like I said. Groundbreaking.
Pauly, I know I’d sleep better if you never told us what special blend of DNA, life experience and caffeinated beverages combine to make up the wonderfulness that is *you*.
Comment by Meg — July 21, 2006 @ 12:31 pm
Meg - Done. I won’t answer that one.
Comment by Pauly D — July 21, 2006 @ 1:48 pm
I have no questions, because there is nothing I don’t want to know.
Comment by Hilary — July 21, 2006 @ 1:59 pm
How much do you weigh?
Comment by Kathleen — July 21, 2006 @ 2:59 pm
When was the last time you threw up?
Comment by Anne — July 21, 2006 @ 3:39 pm
How many fish have you eaten the equivalent of in your lifetime minus tuna and swordfish?
Comment by Esmee — July 21, 2006 @ 5:41 pm
Kat - Yeah, I wouldn’t answer that one.
Anne - That one, although I wouldn’t answer here, can be found by searching ‘pizza’ in the archives.
Esmee - Math!? Definitely a question I wouldn’t answer.
Comment by Pauly D — July 21, 2006 @ 5:45 pm
I never want to know what the Morse Code entry in “The Lost Blogs” says. At first I thought that it was something I would get around to translating, but I keep putting it off again and again… and now I realize it’s because I don’t want to know what it says.
Because the day I am able to read it is the day the book is over and I don’t want it to be over yet.
At least until the next book arrives…
Comment by Dave2 — July 21, 2006 @ 6:18 pm
I don’t want to know what the last page of the very last episode of “Lost” looks like, even if that episode is years away.
Comment by Karl — July 21, 2006 @ 8:53 pm
Isn’t it better to be mysterious and be thought boring than to have a blog detailing the minutiae in you life and confirm it?
Comment by susan — July 22, 2006 @ 11:57 pm
Why are you taking antibiotics again?
Comment by Mark K — July 24, 2006 @ 5:35 am