Questionnaire by Lipton via Pivot

[T'Pau]

These 10 questions originally came from a French series, "Bouillon de Culture" hosted by Bernard Pivot.

They're better known as the questions that James Lipton asks every guest at the end of "Inside the Actor's Studio" show.

1. What is your favorite word?
2. What is your least favorite word?
3. What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally?
4. What turns you off?
5. What is your favorite curse word?
6. What sound or noise do you love?
7. What sound or noise do you hate?
8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?
9. What profession would you not like to do?
10. If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?

How would you answer some or all of the above?

[DonP]

I'm now wondering what it says about me that I honestly have absolutely no idea how I'd answer any of those.

[Graham Kennedy]

These 10 questions originally came from a French series, "Bouillon de Culture" hosted by Bernard Pivot.

They're better known as the questions that James Lipton asks every guest at the end of "Inside the Actor's Studio" show.

1. What is your favorite word?

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

2. What is your least favorite word?

Mucus.

3. What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally?

Intelligence.

4. What turns you off?

Intentional ignorance.

5. What is your favorite curse word?

Bollocks!

6. What sound or noise do you love?

Laughter.

7. What sound or noise do you hate?

Rap music.

8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?

Author.

9. What profession would you not like to do?

Nanny.

10. If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?

"Don't worry, you'll like it here."

[T'Pau]

1. What is your favorite word? Bivouac
2. What is your least favorite word? c*nt
3. What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally? Something well composed, either with words or music
4. What turns you off? basketball thumping outside before 8am
5. What is your favorite curse word? Crap
6. What sound or noise do you love? Lack of sound during snowfall
7. What sound or noise do you hate? hospital monitors beeping
8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt? Medical researcher at the NIH, building 10
9. What profession would you not like to do? something that uses an assembly line
10. If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates? "I heard every note, you used the gift well"

[stitch626]

1. What is your favorite word?
Cheese-donut.
If it has to be real, Bacon.

2. What is your least favorite word?
Lit, fam, tweeking, fleek... basically anything said by 13 year olds that I have to hear every day.

3. What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally?
The music I hear inside my head. Not crazy I swear.

4. What turns you off?
The smell of cheep weed from next door.

5. What is your favorite curse word?
Crap

6. What sound or noise do you love?
Purring.

7. What sound or noise do you hate?
The electricity running through lights.

8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?
Because I'm not one yet, Teacher.
If thats too close (I"m a Teaching Assistant right now), then small and medium plane pilot.

9. What profession would you not like to do?
Soldier

10. If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?
Everything. I want to hear everything about the universe.
Alternatively, that I would have made a good father, assuming I don't get that chance.

[Mikey]

1. What is your favorite word?

Juxtaposition

2. What is your least favorite word?

"Kike"

3. What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally?

Intrepidity; a willingness to do, attempt, or sample new things. For good or ill, there's precious little in life to which I've said "no."

4. What turns you off?

Lack of effort or intensity put toward something to which one has committed oneself. Also, surprisingly, threesomes. Tried, just not my bag.

5. What is your favorite curse word?

"Assbag" or "schmuck"

6. What sound or noise do you love?

The unsealing of a vacuum-packed container of coffee, and the sound of the guitar effect known variously as a wah-wah or flanger.

7. What sound or noise do you hate?

The sound of a raspberry being blown, i.e. a kid's artificial "fart" noise.

8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?

Author a/o professor

9. What profession would you not like to do?

Cop. What a thankless, stressful, soul-numbing thing to do.

10. If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?

"Fuck it, Mike, might as well let you in."
Either that, or "Hey, your dog's here!"