{"id":599,"date":"2010-02-08T08:11:19","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T08:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/?p=599"},"modified":"2010-02-08T08:11:19","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T08:11:19","slug":"james-fredrick-gill-answers-the-twenty-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/?p=599","title":{"rendered":"James Fredrick Gill answers &#8220;The Twenty Questions&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_600\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-600\" src=\"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/THG_thinkFEB_1.jpg\" alt=\"Jim has always been very athletic and competitive. \" title=\"THG_thinkFEB_1\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/THG_thinkFEB_1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/THG_thinkFEB_1-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-600\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim has always been very athletic and competitive. <\/p><\/div><br \/>\nRemember the 20 questions? They were devised by Ann Hartman 4 years ago and everyone answered them except Gregory. Well here is Big Jims go at it:<br \/>\nWhat is your memory of Mom\/ Aunt Joan?<br \/>\nSitting at the table on Whitman Street smoking a cigarette!<\/p>\n<p>2. What are three words that other people use to describe you?<br \/>\nBig, happy, intelligent<\/p>\n<p>3. Who was better Elvis or the Beetles?<br \/>\nElvis\u2026Beetles\u2026Elvis\u2026Beetles\u2026<br \/>\nIt should have been between The Rolling Stones or The Who!<\/p>\n<p>4. What is your favorite song and why?<br \/>\nAnything Van Halen (with David Lee Roth) or off Boston\u2019s first album; vintage ELO as well.<br \/>\nI know that doesn\u2019t answer your question\u2026I guess Desperado by The Eagles\u2026but I really don\u2019t have a favorite song.<\/p>\n<p>5. What is your favorite movie? Can list up to three titles.<br \/>\nShawshank Redemption and Godfather 1<\/p>\n<p>6. What are you afraid of?<br \/>\nHeights.<\/p>\n<p>7. Do you have any pets?<br \/>\nCats and a dog<\/p>\n<p>8. Do you wear glasses dentures or a hearing aide?<br \/>\nGlasses only if I want to see the TV, where I am driving at night or anything from a distance!<\/p>\n<p>9.What is the most embarrassing thing that has ever occurred to you?<br \/>\nPulling the wrong way in junior high; the play went left and I went right\u2026the only one ON FILM that went right!<\/p>\n<p>10. What is the funniest thing that ever happened to you?<br \/>\nThey would have to do with flatulence!<\/p>\n<p>11.What color is your bedroom?<br \/>\nLavender but it\u2019s Tammy\u2019s bedroom, not mine!<\/p>\n<p>12. Which room do you eat dinner in?<br \/>\nLiving room.<\/p>\n<p>13. What is your favorite meal?<br \/>\nA hardy Breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>14. What do you do for a living?<br \/>\nRecruit professionals for manufacturing, engineering, accounting and human resource positions.<\/p>\n<p>15. What do you wish you did for a living?<br \/>\nEarly in life? To play quarterback or catcher for a professional team.<br \/>\nNow that I have grown up? A teacher and coach for a middle school.<\/p>\n<p>16. What is your favorite subject in school? Do you still like it?<br \/>\nMath first; English second.<br \/>\nLove them both today!<\/p>\n<p>17. Do you know how to drive a stick-shift automobile?<br \/>\nYes!<\/p>\n<p>18. What is your favorite candy bar?<br \/>\nSnickers!<\/p>\n<p>19. Do you bite your nails?<br \/>\nUsed to; don\u2019t now!<\/p>\n<p>21. What is your favorite cereal?<br \/>\nCaptain Crunch Reese\u2019s flavored.<\/p>\n<p>22. What is your favorite cereal as a kid?<br \/>\nDon\u2019t know that I had one\u2026Frosted Flakes?<\/p>\n<p>23. What is your nickname?<br \/>\nNow? Don\u2019t really have one\u2026see below.<\/p>\n<p>24. What was your childhood nickname?<br \/>\nBluegill!<\/p>\n<p>25.What is something we didn&#8217;t ask but would like others to know?<br \/>\nIn 1978 I spent 33 days in Europe as a People-to-People Student Ambassador.<br \/>\nWe visited communist Russia, Belgium, Germany, France, England, Holland, Denmark, and Sweden \u2013 great time!<\/p>\n<p>26. Which sibling would you like to get to know better?<br \/>\nI would have liked to have known all of you better.<br \/>\nI know my sisters very well.<\/p>\n<p>27. What shoe size do you wear?<br \/>\n11 \u00bd &#8211; 12<\/p>\n<p>28. How was growing up in a large family better than a smaller family?<br \/>\nWhen we visited? I always had a \u2018brother\u2019 to play football with!<\/p>\n<p>29. What is your proudest accomplishment?<br \/>\nRunning a \u00bd marathon; raising 2 kids, making it on my own; surviving whatever life has thrown at me!<\/p>\n<p>30. What would you like to change about yourself? Why?<br \/>\nNothing now.<br \/>\nGrowing up\u2026I would have liked to have been 4-6 inches taller and more dedicated as an athlete.<\/p>\n<p>31. What is your favorite childhood memory?<br \/>\nTraveling to Grandma\u2019s house (my Mom\u2019s Mom) for Thanksgiving and Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>32. If money were no object where would you like to go?<br \/>\nTravel everywhere. Visit all stadiums throughout the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>33. What is your favorite book?<br \/>\nAnything by James Patterson.<\/p>\n<p>34. How did you meet your spouse\/companion\/best friend?<br \/>\nOn E-Harmony!<\/p>\n<p>35. What is the one thing you would like to do in your life before you die?<br \/>\nRetire and do whatever the hell I want, whenever the hell I want to and not have any worries!<\/p>\n<p>36. End this with a quote:<br \/>\n      Be happy and don\u2019t take life too seriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the 20 questions? 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