Coises, another tag
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Well… let me dust off my feminine side and respond to being tagged by Brittany and Mandy, all in the same day. Fortunately for me (and all of you who detest these memes), it was the same tag, so you won’t have to endure two different tags.
As an aside, tagging to me has always felt like an invention by someone who doesn’t get to talk enough. It’s kind of like they sit around, wondering why no one ever asks them, “What was your favorite childhood memory between the ages of 9-10 1/2 in which you were wearing a red sweatshirt?” They long to be able to share that kind of information with people, so they write up these lists of questions and answer them themselves and then claim they were “tagged.” A good way to find this out is to simply backtrack a tag. When you get to someone’s blog that doesn’t reference the person who tagged them, they are the originator and the culprit of your current tagging woes.
I’d like to tag them… with a 2×4.
Sigh. End of rant.
Since you’ve been eagerly waiting… without any further ado, here is the meme and the rules:
The Rules:
1. Link your tagger and list these rules on your blog.
2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.
4. Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.
Fact One: I dislike tagging, but occasionally I enjoy reading them. But I am going to be a spoil-sport and kill my part of this tag by not tagging anyone.
Fact Two: I’ve been tagged before (here, here, here, and here).
Fact Three: I’ve played tag before. (usually lose since I’m not the fastest kid on the block)
Fact Four: I taught a bunch of third graders at Monticello Intermediate School how to play Chinese Freeze Tag my first day as a WATCH DOG. That was also the day that one of those students broke his arm - on the monkey bars, not playing CFT.
Fact Five: At Ouachita, I was voted junior and senior class president.
Fact Six: I haven’t been voted anything since.
Fact Seven: I am announcing my candidacy for President of the United States. I want to be a write-in. Start the campaign!
April 19th, 2008 at 7:44 am
Ha ha! I just KNEW you wouldn’t like being tagged. But I don’t do it very often and you were the last person I could think of. Sadly, a lot of the bloggers on my bloglines don’t blog much anymore. Thanks for being a halfway good sport about it!
Brittany’s last blog post..So I was Tagged
April 19th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
Concerning your write presidential bid.
I need to know two things before I can commit my support.
1. Who has been your pastor for the past twenty years.
2. And please list any of your friends who have ever blown anything up.
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Different kind of tag.
When I was in Jr. High I was envolved in a tag game that lasted all year. Everyone who played was in the same study hall that only met once a week in the library for an hour. The game began at the beginning of the period and ended when the bell rang at the end. Whoever was “it” when the bell rang had the terrible burden of being “it” all week until the next study hall period. When you are in Jr. High, this is very serious stuff. Imagine study hall in a library, fairly large with lots of aisles and places to hide, with only one teacher to supervise.
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At the beginning of the hour, the game wasn’t that tense, but the closer we came to the bell, the more serious and daring everyone got. A popular strategy was to ask the teacher a question with about one minute to go, but for a Jr. High kid that didn’t matter much if you were “it”. Blatant tagging ensued. I’m sure that I wound up being “it” for a week once or twice, but that’s not the way I remember “it”. Makes me wonder who was it on the final study hall of the year. I guess they must still be “it”.
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I thought I was finished, but then I thought . . . this might be a fun game to play during church every week.
Or maybe not.
April 19th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
OK, sorry to ramble on.
I was just thinking that “church tag” could make for a very interesting final prayer and benediction.
I’m done now.