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What is the strangest thing you’ve ever eaten? Did you know what it was when you ate it?
I cannot think of what the strangest thing I have eaten would be, since I am one of those people that only likes what I likes!  I do not like seafood and I do not like anything with a funny texture.  I am a plain jane weirdo!

What’s your #1 method of communication with people? Email? Telephone? IM? Actually talking in person?
Mine is definately email and cell phone.  It’s funny, I barely ever talk on the phone when I am at home.  If I do, it’s to Nadine or Dena.  But I talk on my cell phone ALL THE TIME - and I pay the bill to prove it!  I cannot stay under 700 minutes a month to save my life.

Link to a news story from this morning you think might be interesting to us…
Uproar forces Australian parliament to lift ban on saying “mate”

CANBERRA (AFP) - Officials in Australia’s parliament have been forced on Friday to rescind a decision to bar the building’s security guards from addressing visitors as “mate” after the move sparked a nationwide uproar.

Prime Minister John Howard—who has famously referred to US   President George W. Bush as “mate”—called the directive handed down Thursday barring use of the most quintessential of Australian colloquialisms “absurd and ridiculous”.

The opposition Labor Party branded the move “un-Australian” and party leader Kim Beazely said pressure on the guards to address people as “sir” or “madam” was a reflection of the elitist culture fostered under Howard’s nine-year-old conservative government.

“This is John Howard’s Australia. It’s all about masters and servants,” he said.