Okay, so if you stopped by and read this little intro earlier, you probably realized that it had nothing to do with this week’s questions.  Yes, what happens is that I copy and paste the previous week’s post and then update the intro and questions.  It saves me a lot of time when it comes to the special coding for all of the font formatting involved in these weekly memes.

Unfortunately, if I forget to change the intro, I end up with a lead-in that doesn’t quite set you up properly for the questions.  And yes, that’s exactly what happened this week.  So with this newly-revised intro, I will tell you that this week’s questions, unlike last week’s, have nothing to do with the economy.

Enjoy!

• First to play last week: Cassie of This, That & The Other Thing. Congratulations!

(According to the rules, “First to Play” requires you to be the first to include the link to the specific entry in which you answered the questions, not just the general link to your blog.)

Here are this week’s “Saturday Six” questions. Either answer the questions in a comment here, or put the answers in an entry on your journal…but either way, leave a link to your journal so that everyone else can visit! To be counted as “first to play,” you must be the first player to either answer the questions in a comment or to provide a complete link to the specific entry in your journal in which you answer the questions. A link to your journal in general cannot count. Enjoy!

1. When was the last time you ate fast food?

2. If you get a meal on the run, are you more likely to get something unhealthy, like a burger and fries, or healthy, like a salad?

3. Of the meals you’ve cooked at home in the past week, have they been generally more healthy or less healthy than what you would have ordered in a restaurant?

4. Take the quiz: What Does Your Burger Say About You?

5. What was the last meal you prepared for yourself?

6. When was the last time you exercised for more than 30 minutes?

If you have a Reader’s Choice question you’d like to see asked (and answered), send me an email! I’d love to be able to include it in a future edition of the Saturday Six.

Its fundamentals may be strong, as one candidate for president seems to believe, but the economy‘s a little rough at the moment. That’s the topic of this week’s set of questions.

• First to play last week: Cat of Sweet Memes. Congratulations!

(According to the rules, “First to Play” requires you to be the first to include the link to the specific entry in which you answered the questions, not just the general link to your blog.)

Here are this week’s “Saturday Six” questions. Either answer the questions in a comment here, or put the answers in an entry on your journal…but either way, leave a link to your journal so that everyone else can visit! To be counted as “first to play,” you must be the first player to either answer the questions in a comment or to provide a complete link to the specific entry in your journal in which you answer the questions. A link to your journal in general cannot count. Enjoy!

1. Overall, do you feel like you’re in better financial shape now than you were five years ago, worse shape, or roughly the same shape?

2. Of the debts you currently owe, what percentage of them would you say are unnecessary debts that were caused by not watching your money closely enough?

3. Are you worried about the economy’s effect on your job?

4. Take the quiz: What’s Your Money Personality?

5. Should the government bail out the struggling banks, or should the government divide the money they’re going to give the banks among taxpayers as a one-time “shot in the arm” for America’s workers?

6. If a rich stranger were to hand you a check in an amount equal to a year’s salary, would that amount take care of all of your debt, make you feel financially stress-free, both or neither?

If you have a Reader’s Choice question you’d like to see asked (and answered), send me an email! I’d love to be able to include it in a future edition of the Saturday Six.

MY ANSWERS:
1. Slightly better, but should be much better.

2. Honestly, probably 70% or so. I’m not proud.

3. Very.

4. Your Money Personality is Healthy

You have a good relationship with money.

You don’t spend wildly, but you’re not opposed to treating yourself on occasion.

In general, you save some of what you earn.

You know the importance of a nest egg.

You aren’t afraid of being financially literate - you embrace learning more about finances.

From a retirement plan to having an emergency fund, you know what you need to have to be safe.

5. I’d vote for the shot-in-the-arm for workers. The banks are more guilty than consumers who over-extended themselves, because the banks are supposed to know better even when the consumers don’t.

6. Probably both.

Happy Saturday, everyone. Here’s a list of questions about crime and punishment. I look forward to seeing what you have to say. (And yes, there’s a quiz that’s crime-related, too.

• First to play last week: Jude of My Way. Congratulations!

(According to the rules, “First to Play” requires you to be the first to include the link to the specific entry in which you answered the questions, not just the general link to your blog.)

Here are this week’s “Saturday Six” questions. Either answer the questions in a comment here, or put the answers in an entry on your journal…but either way, leave a link to your journal so that everyone else can visit! To be counted as “first to play,” you must be the first player to either answer the questions in a comment or to provide a complete link to the specific entry in your journal in which you answer the questions. A link to your journal in general cannot count. Enjoy!

1. Do you think that capital punishment — as the system now operates — is a deterrent to crime on any level?

2. With changes and/or improvements to the justice system designed to better enforce capital punishment, do you think it could be a better deterrent to crime?

3. Should the punishment a man who kills a pregnant woman be worse than the punishment a man who kills a non-pregnant woman faces?

4. Take the quiz: What Felony Are You?

5. You stop by a post office to run in and mail a letter, knowing you’ll only be inside the building for 10 seconds. To park close to the door, there are only two options: you can either park in an open handicapped space (and assume you don’t have a handicapped permit) or park illegally in the fire lane. Would you take a handicapped space, park in the fire lane, or park in a legitimate, legal space and walk?

6. Should police target people who use marijuana when there is no legitimate medicinal need for it?

If you have a Reader’s Choice question you’d like to see asked (and answered), send me an email! I’d love to be able to include it in a future edition of the Saturday Six.

What’s in a name? Well, when it comes to your own, it’s all about whom you ask. This week’s set of questions will take a look at your name to try to find what secret meanings or hidden traits you might not even have known you have. And just to make sure you get a good picture of yourself, there are two memes to work with.

For both memes, use your real first name, but if you’re not comfortable posting your real first name, just list the traits it lists to that name. Neither quiz lists results as words that start with each letter of your name, so you should be able to disguise your name if you wish.

• First to play last week: Jude of My Way. Congratulations!

(According to the rules, “First to Play” requires you to be the first to include the link to the specific entry in which you answered the questions, not just the general link to your blog.)

Here are this week’s “Saturday Six” questions. Either answer the questions in a comment here, or put the answers in an entry on your journal…but either way, leave a link to your journal so that everyone else can visit! To be counted as “first to play,” you must be the first player to either answer the questions in a comment or to provide a complete link to the specific entry in your journal in which you answer the questions. A link to your journal in general cannot count. Enjoy!

1. Take the quiz: What Is Your Name’s Hidden Meaning?

2. Which single sentence best describes your personality?

3. Of any negative traits listed in the results that you think are really true about your personality, which one do you most wish you could change?

4. Take the quiz: What Does Your Name Say About You?

5. Which of the two results describes you better, the first set or the second?

6. What single word from the second set of questions best describes your personality?

If you have a Reader’s Choice question you’d like to see asked (and answered), send me an email! I’d love to be able to include it in a future edition of the Saturday Six.

MY ANSWERS:
1. Your name means:

You are influential and persuasive. You tend to have a lot of power over people.
Generally, you use your powers for good. You excel at solving other people’s problems.
Occasionally, you do get a little selfish and persuade people to do things that are only in your interest.

You are usually the best at everything … you strive for perfection.
You are confident, authoritative, and aggressive.
You have the classic “Type A” personality.

You are a seeker. You often find yourself restless - and you have a lot of questions about life.
You tend to travel often, to fairly random locations. You’re most comfortable when you’re far away from home.
You are quite passionate and easily tempted. Your impulses sometimes get you into trouble.

You are wild, crazy, and a huge rebel. You’re always up to something.
You have a ton of energy, and most people can’t handle you. You’re very intense.
You definitely are a handful, and you’re likely to get in trouble. But your kind of trouble is a lot of fun.

You tend to be pretty tightly wound. It’s easy to get you excited… which can be a good or bad thing.
You have a lot of enthusiasm, but it fades rather quickly. You don’t stick with any one thing for very long.
You have the drive to accomplish a lot in a short amount of time. Your biggest problem is making sure you finish the projects you start.

You are very open. You communicate well, and you connect with other people easily.
You are a naturally creative person. Ideas just flow from your mind.
A true chameleon, you are many things at different points in your life. You are very adaptable.

You are a seeker of knowledge, and you have learned many things in your life.
You are also a keeper of knowledge - meaning you don’t spill secrets or spread gossip.
People sometimes think you’re snobby or aloof, but you’re just too deep in thought to pay attention to them.

2. “You often find yourself restless - and you have a lot of questions about life.” Very. And only recently have I started to get some answers.

3. “You have the classic “Type A” personality.” I don’t know that I’m fully Type-A, but I definitely have those traits at times. I’m working on not being that way.

4.Your name means:

Your name says that you are mostly:

Commanding but aloof

Your name also says you are:

Ambitious but stubborn
Dynamic but aggressive
Fiery but unbalanced

5. The first is generally correct; the second misses bigtime.

6. Stubborn. Oh, yes. It got that one right.

Thanks for dropping by once again for another set of six questions! Now that Hanna missed the Lowcountry, it seems like a good time to get back in gear.

• First to play last week: Connie of [c'est 黃康女] . Congratulations!

(According to the rules, “First to Play” requires you to be the first to include the link to the specific entry in which you answered the questions, not just the general link to your blog.)

Here are this week’s “Saturday Six” questions. Either answer the questions in a comment here, or put the answers in an entry on your journal…but either way, leave a link to your journal so that everyone else can visit! To be counted as “first to play,” you must be the first player to either answer the questions in a comment or to provide a complete link to the specific entry in your journal in which you answer the questions. A link to your journal in general cannot count. Enjoy!

1. What’s more important to you: being a recognized leader in what you do, or being a trusted “worker bee” in what you do?

2. If you knew you had accomplished something that would make you “famous” by today’s standards, what would scare you most about such a prospect?

3. Should famous people’s families be “off limits” as some have suggested, or are such intrusions something that famous people should just “live with?”

4. Take the quiz: What Are You Going to be Famous For?

5. How would you define “success?”

6. What’s more important to you, a career that could bring you financial security, or a career that could bring you emotional/spiritual security?

If you have a Reader’s Choice question you’d like to see asked (and answered), send me an email! I’d love to be able to include it in a future edition of the Saturday Six.

Are you guys “Saturday Sixed” out or something? Last week I was one response away from having no “first to play” at all. Thank goodness Yen came in and saved the day!

This week, since food is always a good topic, I’ll give that one a shot. Hope you enjoy…and hope you don’t get too hungry!

• First to play last week: Yen of It’s Where the Heart Is…. Congratulations!

(According to the rules, “First to Play” requires you to be the first to include the link to the specific entry in which you answered the questions, not just the general link to your blog.)

Here are this week’s “Saturday Six” questions. Either answer the questions in a comment here, or put the answers in an entry on your journal…but either way, leave a link to your journal so that everyone else can visit! To be counted as “first to play,” you must be the first player to either answer the questions in a comment or to provide a complete link to the specific entry in your journal in which you answer the questions. A link to your journal in general cannot count. Enjoy!

1. What was the last meal you ordered in a restaurant?

2. What was the last meal you cooked for yourself?

3. Who was the last person you shared a meal with?

4. Take the quiz: What Pasta Dish Are You?

5. If you could only have one pasta dish for the rest of your life, which one would you choose?

6. Check your pantry: counting products like soups that contain noodles, dry pasta and boxed meals like Hamburger Helper, how many items do you have that contain some pasta?

If you have a Reader’s Choice question you’d like to see asked (and answered), send me an email! I’d love to be able to include it in a future edition of the Saturday Six.

My Answers:
1. She-crab soup and a Meatloaf Melt

2. Cubed Steak and Macaroni

3. My friend Archie. I was able to work in one last lunch with him before he leaves for California next week.

4. You Are Fettuccine Alfredo — Yeah, never would have seen that coming!

Compared to most people, you have rich and decadent tastes.

You’re the type most likely to appreciate every aspect of a five star meal.

5. By sheer coincidence, of course, Fettuccine Alfredo!

6. Nine. Don’t tell my physical trainer.

Last weekend, there were two editions of the Saturday Six as part of the Arch-a-thon, a special event I held for a good friend of mine here in Charleston who is very soon to be a good friend way out in California. If you missed the details on that, click here for the whole picture.

This week, we’re back to one set of questions. Thanks for stopping by and for playing this week’s set.

• First to play last week’s first set: Otowi of Otowi. Congratulations!
• First to play last week’s second set: Cat. of Sweet Memes. Congratulations!
  (According to the rules, “First to Play” requires you to be the first to include the link to the specific entry in which you answered the questions, not just the general link to your blog.)

Here are this week’s “Saturday Six” questions. Either answer the questions in a comment here, or put the answers in an entry on your journal…but either way, leave a link to your journal so that everyone else can visit! To be counted as “first to play,” you must be the first player to either answer the questions in a comment or to provide a complete link to the specific entry in your journal in which you answer the questions. A link to your journal in general cannot count. Enjoy!

1. On an average night, do you tend to get more sleep than you need, less sleep than you need, or just about exactly how much you need?

2. Do you have trouble sleeping well in a bed other than your own, i.e., a hotel room?

3. Do you have trouble sleeping in a sleeping bag or tent?

4. Take the quiz: What Does Your Bed Say About You?

5. Has anyone ever told you that you snore? Did you believe them at the time?

6. When was the last time you woke up in the middle of the night thinking you had overslept? How many hours did you have left to sleep before you had to get up?

If you have a Reader’s Choice question you’d like to see asked (and answered), send me an email! I’d love to be able to include it in a future edition of the Saturday Six.

MY ANSWERS:
1. I tend to get less than I need, but I think I’ve grown accustomed to getting less so maybe what I get is largely what I need. Make sense?

2. Not really. I can sleep wherever if I need to.

3. Depends on who I’m camping with and how safe the location feels.

4.
Outward appearances aren’t important to you at all. You think that the over emphasis on looks to be shallow.

You try to be an organized person, but you often fall behind. Certain parts of your life tend to fall into chaos.

You are not very high maintenance in general, but you are high maintenance about a few things.

In relationships, you tend to kick back and let the other person be in charge.

You tend to be a down to earth, practical person. You think in terms of what is actual.

You are a bit of a homebody, but you can also make yourself at home anywhere.

5. Yes. Yes…with this schnoz, how could I not?

6. I’ve been doing this a lot lately, but it’s a stressful month for me. It just happened this morning at about 2:10am, and I didn’t even have anything to do today!

Here is a second, “bonus” edition of the Saturday Six as part of the Arch-a-thon. This time, the subject is all about art…or at least what we think art is.

• First to play earlier today: (To be announced)
  (According to the rules, “First to Play” requires you to be the first to include the link to the specific entry in which you answered the questions, not just the general link to your blog.)

Here is this week’s second round of “Saturday Six” questions. Either answer the questions in a comment here, or put the answers in an entry on your journal…but either way, leave a link to your journal so that everyone else can visit! To be counted as “first to play,” you must be the first player to either answer the questions in a comment or to provide a complete link to the specific entry in your journal in which you answer the questions. A link to your journal in general cannot count. Enjoy!

1. Who is your favorite artist? If you could have any of this person’s artwork in your home, which piece would you choose?

2. What is the most artistic thing you have ever attempted to create?

3. Did you keep the “attempt” or did it get tossed?

4. Take the quiz: How good are you at spotting real art?

5. Which museum would you most like to visit and why?

6. If you had both the artistic talent and a beautiful body, would you be more likely to create a piece of artwork based on a nude model, or to pose as a nude model yourself?

If you have a Reader’s Choice question you’d like to see asked (and answered), send me an email! I’d love to be able to include it in a future edition of the Saturday Six.

Age is just a number, right? Well today, that number is 6, because that’s how many questions are waiting for you. And don’t forget: because of this weekend’s special Arch-a-thon, there will be a second edition of the Saturday Six with a completely different set of questions later today. (And you’ll have two editions of the Sunday Seven tomorrow!)

So please come back later today for the bonus round!

• First to play last week: Otowi of Otowi. Congratulations!
  (According to the rules, “First to Play” requires you to be the first to include the link to the specific entry in which you answered the questions, not just the general link to your blog.)

Here are this week’s “Saturday Six” questions. Either answer the questions in a comment here, or put the answers in an entry on your journal…but either way, leave a link to your journal so that everyone else can visit! To be counted as “first to play,” you must be the first player to either answer the questions in a comment or to provide a complete link to the specific entry in your journal in which you answer the questions. A link to your journal in general cannot count. Enjoy!

1. Which feels more like “the new 20” to you: 40, 50, 60 or 70?

2. How many school reunions has your graduating class held? Of those, how many have you actually attended?

3. What is the biggest age difference between you and the youngest person you work with?

4. Take the quiz: What is your REAL age?

5. Do you feel more like your real age or the age in the answer to the quiz?

6. If you, as a high school student, could visit yourself today and see what you’re up to now, what would be the biggest surprise?

If you have a Reader’s Choice question you’d like to see asked (and answered), send me an email! I’d love to be able to include it in a future edition of the Saturday Six.

Space. The final frontier. This is the voyage of another set of six questions for your weekend entertainment.

• First to play last week: Little Peanut of Little Peanut. Congratulations!
  (According to the rules, “First to Play” requires you to be the first to include the link to the specific entry in which you answered the questions, not just the general link to your blog.)

Here are this week’s “Saturday Six” questions. Either answer the questions in a comment here, or put the answers in an entry on your journal…but either way, leave a link to your journal so that everyone else can visit! To be counted as “first to play,” you must be the first player to either answer the questions in a comment or to provide a complete link to the specific entry in your journal in which you answer the questions. A link to your journal in general cannot count. Enjoy!

1. Do you prefer a hotter climate or a colder climate?

2. If you could live anywhere on the planet and money wasn’t an object, which area would you choose?

3. Do you prefer walking, riding a bike, driving or flying when you are going somewhere?

4. Take the quiz: What planet do you come from?

5. What is the biggest change you have made to help the environment?

6. If scientists discovered signs of life on another planet, would you worry about your safety if that material was brought to Earth for study?

If you have a Reader’s Choice question you’d like to see asked (and answered), send me an email! I’d love to be able to include it in a future edition of the Saturday Six.

It’s a bird…it’s a plane…

Nah, it’s just another set of questions!

• First to play last week: Raivyn of Don’t Be Silent. Congratulations!
  (According to the rules, “First to Play” requires you to be the first to include the link to the specific entry in which you answered the questions, not just the general link to your blog.)

Here are this week’s “Saturday Six” questions. Either answer the questions in a comment here, or put the answers in an entry on your journal…but either way, leave a link to your journal so that everyone else can visit! To be counted as “first to play,” you must be the first player to either answer the questions in a comment or to provide a complete link to the specific entry in your journal in which you answer the questions. A link to your journal in general cannot count. Enjoy!

1. Which superhero is your least favorite?

2. Which famous villain is your favorite?

3. Which two superheros would you most like to see in a big fight, and which do you think would win?

4. Take the quiz: Which superhero are you?

5. Which superhero do you most identify with?

6. Which of that superhero’s talents would you think you’d be least likely to use?

If you have a Reader’s Choice question you’d like to see asked (and answered), send me an email! I’d love to be able to include it in a future edition of the Saturday Six.

Are you a game player? (In the good way, I mean.) This week’s set of questions are all about games and how well we play them.

• First to play last week: Mrs. L of Mrs. Linklater’s Guide to the Universe. Congratulations!
  (According to the rules, “First to Play” requires you to be the first to include the link to the specific entry in which you answered the questions, not just the general link to your blog.)

Here are this week’s “Saturday Six” questions. Either answer the questions in a comment here, or put the answers in an entry on your journal…but either way, leave a link to your journal so that everyone else can visit! To be counted as “first to play,” you must be the first player to either answer the questions in a comment or to provide a complete link to the specific entry in your journal in which you answer the questions. A link to your journal in general cannot count. Enjoy!

1. What’s the last card game you played, and with whom did you play?

2. What’s the last board game you played, and with whom did you play?

3. What’s the last computer game you played, and with whom did you play?

4. Take the quiz: Which chess piece are you?

5. Of the games you listed in the first three answers, did you win any of the matches?

6. If you could only play one single game for the rest of your life, which game would you play and why would you choose it?

If you have a Reader’s Choice question you’d like to see asked (and answered), send me an email! I’d love to be able to include it in a future edition of the Saturday Six.

Fear of commitment, anyone? That’s the topic of this week’s set of questions. I’m just thankful for the people who are faithful followers of this weekly meme.

• First to play last week: Bailey’s Granny of My Life as a Grandma. Congratulations!
  (According to the rules, “First to Play” requires you to be the first to include the link to the specific entry in which you answered the questions, not just the general link to your blog.)

Here are this week’s “Saturday Six” questions. Either answer the questions in a comment here, or put the answers in an entry on your journal…but either way, leave a link to your journal so that everyone else can visit! To be counted as “first to play,” you must be the first player to either answer the questions in a comment or to provide a complete link to the specific entry in your journal in which you answer the questions. A link to your journal in general cannot count. Enjoy!

1. You decide to start a new exercise program. Without having a workout partner to help you, how likely are you to follow the plan religiously?

2. Who was usually the first one to say, “I love you” in your past relationships: you or your partner?

3. If you decided you wanted to date someone, what would the primary test you’d give to see whether your “intended” had commitment issues?

4. Take the quiz: Are you afraid of commitment?

5. Do you find yourself faster or slower to commit to a presidential candidate now versus previous elections?

6. You see something in a store that you really, really want. Once you decide that you’re actually going to buy it, how easy would it be to talk yourself out of your commitment to buy it?

If you have a Reader’s Choice question you’d like to see asked (and answered), send me an email! I’d love to be able to include it in a future edition of the Saturday Six.

Sometimes it’s the small details that make all the difference. Such is the case with condiments, those little concoctions that add extra flavor to foods we enjoy.

So I figured I’d pepper the blogosphere with another set of six questions, and use that as this week’s theme.

• First to play last week: Bailey’s Granny of My Life as a Grandma. Congratulations!
  (According to the rules, “First to Play” requires you to be the first to include the link to the specific entry in which you answered the questions, not just the general link to your blog.)

Here are this week’s “Saturday Six” questions. Either answer the questions in a comment here, or put the answers in an entry on your journal…but either way, leave a link to your journal so that everyone else can visit! To be counted as “first to play,” you must be the first player to either answer the questions in a comment or to provide a complete link to the specific entry in your journal in which you answer the questions. A link to your journal in general cannot count. Enjoy!

1. You order a plate of wings: what’s your first choice: mild, hot, inferno or teriyaki?

2. Which makes the best base for barbeque sauce: mustard, vinegar or ketchup?

3. If you could learn the eleven herbs and spices used in Kentucky Fried Chicken, how likely would you be to attempt to make it yourself? Why?

4. Take the quiz: Which condiment are you?

5. Of the condiments currently in your refrigerator, which would you say you have used the least in the last year?

6. After months of unsuccessful attempts, you finally get the recipe for a food you enjoy. When making it for the first time yourself, you discover an individual ingredient that you hate in everything else. Would you still make the dish with that ingredient, or would you try it without?

If you have a Reader’s Choice question you’d like to see asked (and answered), send me an email! I’d love to be able to include it in a future edition of the Saturday Six.

It looks like bad weather moving in, so I’ll post this as quickly as I can. The picture I posted in the last post got me thinking about gas prices and driving in general.

• First to play last week: Shannon of Shannon’s Moments of Introspection. Congratulations!
  (According to the rules, “First to Play” requires you to be the first to include the link to the specific entry in which you answered the questions, not just the general link to your blog.)

Here are this week’s “Saturday Six” questions. Either answer the questions in a comment here, or put the answers in an entry on your journal…but either way, leave a link to your journal so that everyone else can visit! To be counted as “first to play,” you must be the first player to either answer the questions in a comment or to provide a complete link to the specific entry in your journal in which you answer the questions. A link to your journal in general cannot count. Enjoy!

1. When is the last time you actually filled your car’s car tank completely?

2. What’s the most you’ve paid for a gallon of gas so far?

3. Has the high gas prices affected how much you travel at all?

4. Take the quiz: What does the road trip of your life say about you?

5. Which single statement was the most accurate about you?

6. If your best friend called you up and wanted to take a week-long road trip, would you be able to afford it?

If you have a Reader’s Choice question you’d like to see asked (and answered), send me an email! I’d love to be able to include it in a future edition of the Saturday Six.