You may want to grab a copy of tomorrows Metro.
Update - Here it is (I'll scan it in colour for tomorrow)
Slightly longer less edited for print version here. Also, really nice of them [the metro] to put me along side an article on celibacy. And by nice I mean, sigh.
Ronnie's Q/A ...
- If you could live anywhere? Canada or Australia
- Coolest Hobby? Angel readings
- Most embarrasing song you secretly like? Barbie Girl, by Aqua
- What do you wish you'd invented? Denim
- Six of what drink will make you anyone's? Sweet cocktails
- Who wouldn't you go out with, even if the survival of the species depended on it? Jim Carrey
- Describe a nightmare date scenario? He hasn't made any effort, talks about himself all night, drinks like a fish, smokes like a chimney and talks with his mouth full
- How many serious relationships? Not enough to warrant an answer
- How many one-night stands? Enough to have no regrets
And my rather lame answers, sent with these two pictures: Amsterdam Canal and Ibiza, Del Mar
- If you could live anywhere? London actually. Although an apartment in New York and house overlooking the beach in Cape Town would be nice holiday spots to have
- Most embarrassing song you secretly like? Nellie the Elephant by the Toy dolls. It's cheesy, but who doesn't like a song about an elephant that runs away to join the circus
- Coolest Hobby? I guess snowboarding at the moment. All though it is less snowboarding and more hurtling down a slope with little style and poor control
- Six of what drink will make you anyones? Six of pretty much any cocktail you order and I'm malleable
- I cook a mean? Special secret signature curry. It's unusual, but tasty
- Who wouldn't you go out with, even if the survival of the species depended on it? J'lo
- How many serious relationships? An even two.
- How many one night stands? More than two, but not much more to worry about
1. anna
Why?
Does it have a feature on “the unluckiest people that ever lived” in it?
2. Pete
Why?
Is it going to be the first of their regular weekly “boobies” specials, which contain nothing but pictures of boobies from cover to cover?
3. Mrs. X
I picked up a shiny new copy of today’s Metro on the way in to work, just in case you’d been off by a day. You should know that voluntarily picking up the Metro is something I have never ever done before. Yet another first you have brought me.
4. The B
i’ve read your blog quite a few times and seen you around in comment boxes and did a double take at my Metro this morning…!
So, would you recommend it?!
5. Destructor
I totally forgot to grab a copy of today’s Metro.
6. Adrian
B, yeah why not. Nothing to lose eh, and I got a nice meal out of it.
And she did say that I would make a great boyfriend, so maybe the girl of my dreams will google. (If someone could drop a copy of the Metro on Natalie Portman’s desk …)
7. Pete
…a fellow South African… a fact that I didn’t find out until well into the meal.
How strange. I can only assume that you were communicating in semaphore initially, because your accent doesn’t leave much room for misinterpretation.
8. Adrian
Actually I mentioned it on the way to drinks.
But she hadn’t realised. I guess my accent is quite flat. However based on the level of stick I get for my enunciation of words like beer and pizza, I can’t see how it can be missed.
Still she was from Cape Town. I’m from JHB. Everyone in Cape Town sounds more camp.
9. matthew
You wouldn’t go out with J’Lo if the survival of the species depended on it? You’re clearlt not an ‘ass man’ then (although her back is quite nice too, if you’re into that kinda thing).
I picked up a copy of the Metro, but it was the Irish one, and you weren’t in it.
10. Destructor
It’s often difficult to register your own accent, as you hear it neutrally.
Good on you for trying- was it worth all the stick you’re going to get at work? Heh heh.
11. Adrian
J’Lo’s I’m just a normal girl schtik annoys me.
Am not getting that much stick actually.
12. Gordon
Not in the Scottish one either… boooo… woulda made my day that.
P.S. You really don’t look like a poseur in the photo, with your sunglasses on.. much… ;-)
13. matthew
Sure, J’Lo’s ‘just a normal girl’ thing is a bit annoying, but we’re talking about the survival of the species here, man! Surely you’d wine dine and procreate with her for the good of the human race?! Hypothetically speaking, of course.
14. Francesca
Well, look on the bright side - you didn’t break / stretch / twist anything :)
15. Katherine
Inventing denim would be cool. Good choice.
16. marl
Maybe you could have broken a leg or something at dinner to spice things up (the other leg ofcourse…)
17. Adrian
I tore the ligaments on my thumb on the way to the date …