Because I'm new and and I'd like to say fashionably late to this cyberspace party, I've been doing a lot of catch-up reading about blogging. According to The IT Girl's Guide to Blogging with Moxie, one of the big, new-blogger DON'Ts is to pack your posts with quizzes and surveys. You know, like what's your Bond Girl name? Or, what breed of dog are you? (Plenty O'Toole and a Maltese, by the way.)
Now, HEAVEN FORBID, I look too much like a newbie blogger. But. I have taken the liberty of creating a little survey. No, it's not going to tell you what OPI nail polish you are or who you were in high school. I swear-to-God-hope-to-die-promise! It's strictly for research purposes.
Here's why. A friend brought it to my attention that the humor with which I meant to infuse my previous post, Fighting Fourth of July Fire With Fire, may have been lost in translation. I'm wondering if maybe I was blogging with a little too much moxie.
So, in order to get a read on whether my initial intention came through or I missed the mark completely, it would be really helpful if you took the following quiz and got back to me.
Here goes.
Do you remember those delinquent parents in Monday's blog post? The ones who snuck fire crackers across state lines and then woke up the whole neighborhood with their illegal antics?
Those "irresponsible parents" are:
a. actual neighbors
b. a comedic ploy to disguise my identity so when Big Man applies to college he doesn't get rejected because his parents bragged about their 4th of July crime spree to the entire world over the internet
c. my attempt to avoid winding up on a terrorist watch list
d. the alter ego of my tight-ass, cranky, cop-calling self
e. other (please feel free to come up with your own answer)
As added incentive for completing the quiz, the first 100 responders will receive a shade of OPI nail polish which best represents their personality. Not really. But it's the thought that counts, right? (I'm Mrs. O'Leary's BBQ, in case you were wondering).
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Thursday, July 9, 2009
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2 comments:
Response to survey from someone equally un-IT.
Re: girls with moxie - love 'em.
Re: Bond girls - Allota Fagina (not exactly a Bond girl but in the same vein)
Re: dog - a Dorkie (don't laugh unless you have one)
Re: OPI nail polish - either Heineken or toenail fungus yellow
Re: "irresponsible parents" - definately d.
Query: Is the O'Leary BBQ related to the Chicago O'Leary's?
Keep up the good work.
I love you, Anonymous! Would you design my next reader survey?
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