Big Big Question

An question shamelessly imported from Dorothy Gambrell’s always-fantastic Cat And Girl.

In my neverending quest to put the world into the terms of the X-Files (just kidding, I’m not really trying to do that) I ask this question: Are you a Mulder or a Scully?

Your (or your kid’s) weirdest Halloween costume?

(hat tip)

Bring that I really only answer to my given name out of habit and not really because I find it terribly appealing or ‘attached’ me who I am, I wonder if others have the same feeling.

Further, if you could, what name would you choose that says ‘you’ in a better way?

If you were given a chance to go back in your life with your current knowledge intact, would you? If so, to what age?

(You can take as a given that your current timeline would heal gracefully, that the people you currently know but might not given changes in the past will instead meet other people who will fill similar roles, etc. You can also assume that history will generally follow a similar track, as far as markets, world events and such go, though it’s not an absolute given, depending on who you are and what you might be able to accomplish.)

If you were in Oregon in the eighties, you’ve got a better than average chance of having seen Goonies and Stand By Me—both shot in our fine state, and extra-famous because of that.

Where are you from, and what movies do locals pretty much Have To See on account of the locale?

Everyone always talks about meeting your past self…but what would you warn/remind your future self about, if you were able to travel forward in time a number of years?

Take spammer Stephen Sanchez, iProfile shill, who (round of applause here) is the first person to try sockpuppet spam on the Big Big Question.

Steve-o posted a (bizarrely practical!) question about resumes and then thoughtfully answered it himself under a different account, couched in a fictional happy discovery of a great new resource blah blah blah etc.

So, here’s the dilemma: Stephen had to have (a) found the site, (b) discerned that it was, indeed, a question-and-answer resource of some sort, and (c) had the wherewithal to bother with a two-account sockpuppet show — all of which are arguments toward having some notion of what you’re on about, at least — and yet the end result was so baldly, embarrassingly obvious that any credit lent above is revoked with prejudice.

While this sort of spam may be new to the BBQ, it’s old hat at mefi and has been running wild on the net for a good long time. So there’s a culture for it to fester in — one of naivety or indifference or even encouragement in some places. In that case, rather than raw stupidity being to blame, is it that this unchallenging environment has made otherwise bright, attentitive stars of the die-in-a-fire spam-and-shill sector lazy?

I’m also willing to accept “all of the above” as an answer.

One of the unavoidable constants of growing older is looking back and realizing how wrong you were about some things when you were younger. Big things and little things; stances taken on ethics, aesthetics, and so on.

In that spirit, what are you doing now that your younger self was never going to do? Or what aren’t you doing that your younger self was never going to give up?

You are about to have a boy child, and for some reason, it is imperative that you choose one of these two names:

Adolf
Gaylord

Which is better? Why? Discuss.

Women, what things do you wish men widely or more commonly knew about womankind? Men, what things do you wish women widely or more commonly knew about mankind? What misperceptions do you think the opposite gender has about your own that you’d wish would be corrected?

If I met my genetic duplicate, would I instantly like him or fear him? What if I was the duplicate?

(Hat tip to robocop is bleeding, who posited this and other questions over in Metatalk recently.)