Hot Off the Press: Minterview!

By On June 9, 2010 · 67 Comments · In Featured, Minterview

Small + interview = smalterview? No, that’s not right. Little + interview = litterview?  No, that’s even worse, and might incur a fine. OK, I’ve got it:  Mini + interview = Minterview! It’s fun, it’s fast, it’s easy, it’s enlightening, and we’ll still respect you in the morning. Answer one or both of the questions below, OR – even more diverting – ask someone else, and post their answers in the Comments box below. You’ll be glad you did. Probably.

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1. What was the first thing you did that made you realize you could never be President of the United States?

2. What five verbs and five nouns are the most essential for your survival? If you only had ten words, what would they be?

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Batter up!  Who’s on first?

 
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  • spykergyrl

    My dad: “I wanted to be a cartoonist, and cartoonists don't get to be president. They just get to mock them…which is better, really.”

  • http://www.awordwithyoupress.com/ Thornton Sully

    Just to spice this up a bit, A Word with You Press will give $50 to the first person who posts TEN minterviews. (previous minterview responses don't count) Post each one as a separate comment.

    You can answer each question for yourself, and that counts as two. But that means you have to ask 4 other people each of the questions, or 8 other people one of the questions.

    And I just might do it myself to avoid having to shell out any money!

  • Star5fallonmyheart

    Wha-?! I can't be president?! *cries*

  • Derek

    1. My accent and realising I'd been born too far to the East.

    2. Meditating, Laughing, Creating, Striving and Farting.
    Ideas, Spirit, Chocolate, Purpose and Mystery

  • Derek

    But you've had cartoon presidents in the past??

  • Derek

    The hours are lousy, apparently.

  • Jvandendorp

    Smoking weed and inhaling it. Two hundred and fifty times.

  • http://www.awordwithyoupress.com/ Thornton Sully

    I think you may have smoked too soon. In future elections, dalliance of that sort may be a job requirement.

  • spykergyrl

    Such as?

  • Peggy R. Dobbs

    My nouns: Love, Family, Laughter, Bible, Food
    My verbs: Praying, Giving, Maturing, Seeing, Reading

  • Peggy R. Dobbs

    Interview with Matt
    nouns: Water, Air, Love, Food, Light
    verbs: Speaking, Walking, Thinking, Reasoning, Feeling

  • Peggy R. Dobbs

    Interviewed Luke.
    Nouns: Family, Friends, Food, Health, Knowledge
    Verbs: Thinking, Understanding, Playing, Eating, Working

  • Peggy R. Dobbs

    Interview with Jodi
    Noun: Laughter, Excitment, Travel, Parents, God
    Verb: Raining, Talking, Laughing, Joking, Planting

  • Peggy R. Dobbs

    Interview with Homer
    Nouns: Family, Wife, House, Vehicle, Health
    Verbs: Thinking, Loving, Giving, Laughing, eating

  • Peggy R. Dobbs

    Interview with Niki
    Nouns: Health, Home, Companionship, Family, Finances
    Verbs: Breathing, Eating, Loving, Aiding, Shopping

  • Peggy R. Dobbs

    Interview with Danny
    Nouns: Health, Love, Recreation, Shelter, Employment
    Verbs: Exercising, Working, Communicating, Seeing, Cooking

  • Peggy R. Dobbs

    Interview with Adam
    Nouns: Love, God, Food, Shelter, Clothing
    Verbs: Breathing, Exercising, Sleeping, Working, Understanding

  • Peggy R. Dobbs

    Interview with Jamie
    Nouns: Faith, Hope, Love, Family, Understanding
    Verbs: Listening, Sharing, Celebrating, Eating, Working

  • Peggy R. Dobbs

    Interview with Pati
    Nouns: God, Church, Love, Family, Water
    Verbs: Breathing, Praying, Communicating, Sleeping, Playing

  • http://www.awordwithyoupress.com/ Thornton Sully

    looks like Peggy has earned fifty bucks! I would love to see more minterviews, however, and maybe addressing the other question, which will require telling a story,, and remembering something perhaps you would like to forget?

  • Peggy R. Dobbs

    I could have turned each of these into stories if I had known you wanted them in that form. The reaction of each person was so different, especially between the men and the women. They were very much alike, even though I talked with each separately because they were family, but if people who didn't know each other or were from different backgrounds were interviewed, it would be more interesting. I wonder how many people will be interested in the other question about being President. I can't imagine that many people have that ambition. I know my life is very limited in space and communication, but I don't know a single person who ever wanted to be President of the US.

  • Peggy R. Dobbs

    Jamie is an English teacher in Middle School and the mother of two of my great granddaughters.I expected her to just let the words flow out without having to give them much thought. And then it dawned on me that I was talking with a teacher and of course she was going to give it some thought before sharing the first thing that came into her mind. I found it interesting that she tied together the three nouns that the Apostle Paul used at the ending of ICorinthians 13, “faith, hope and love” which naturally flowed to ” family” and proving not only her character but something we all would long for as we inner act with others,
    “understanding”.
    Interesting, as well, was the first verb that she chose…”listening”. How important would that be to an English teacher? “Sharing and celebrating” were also two words that a good teacher would find easily in their vocabulary and their heart, following listening. What an improvement we would see in our children if these qualities of character were more prevalent in us as parents and the teachers in our schools.

  • Peggy R. Dobbs

    Danny was a fun interview. He is a golfer. No, he is an avid golfer and I wondered how he was going to slip golfing in as something of essential import. He had no trouble at all. As you can see he chose “recreation” as one of his nouns and “exercising” as one of his verbs. All of you golf widows out there will be able to appreciate how cunning golf teaches your absent husbands to be.

  • Peggy R. Dobbs

    No one should have any trouble figuring out what kind of personality Jodi has. “Laughter” is one of her nouns and she easily turned that noun into”Laughing” as a verb bringin along
    “Joking” and “Talking” for the ride. She is the one who got some of us addicted to brown sugar Pop Tarts not too long ago in a little story she wrote. As a matter of fact, I bought a fresh box today.

  • Peggy R. Dobbs

    I was surprised by two things Niki listed. “Companionship” in the truest sense of the word is a wonderful quality, but it also explains why she is a guest at my house when her husband has to be out of town. ('ole scaredy cat)
    “Breathing” is something all of us must have to even exist! But being my daughter, she and I both visited the gene bank that provided us with mitraval prolapse and also reflux. Those of us who have those problems know how much it makes us feel as if we are having a heart attack and often causes breathing problems. Niki's is worce than mine but as you can see “Shopping” takes her mind off such minor physical problems.

  • Peggy R. Dobbs

    Matt's hobby is hunting and trapping. If any of you have been to my Facebook Wall or page or whatever its called, I'm only on there to keep up with all my “grands”, Matt is the grandson who put together the album of memories about an old log cabin we lived in when he and his brothers and cousins were boys. Even as a boy, he was usually off in the woods, “walking and thinking”, “reasoning and feeling”. Who but someone who loves nature as he does, would so appreciate the need for “water, air, love, food, and light,” the basics he sees all around him as he camps in the beauty of God's forests. Does he eat what he hunts and traps? I hope so, but this is his hobby, not mine.

  • spykergyrl

    …also the fact that you spell “realizing” with an s.

  • spykergyrl

    Yep, that'll do it. 249 is the presidential limit.

  • Peggy R. Dobbs

    Luke is only 14 and he was in a hurry to get to a baseball game in which he was playing. I expected some frivolous answers, but he surprised me. For one so young, I think he shows a pretty well rounded personality. I'm gonna vote to keep him!

  • spykergyrl

    See what happens when YOU come up with the Minterview questions? EVERYBODY answers! Well, maybe that and the 50 bucks cash.

  • spykergyrl

    No way! I had a Great Uncle Homer! It's an unusual name. At least, before the Simpsons.

  • spykergyrl

    I never wanted to be president.

    Nouns: Lip balm, kumquat, nincompoop, drizzle (as in a light rain), strudel
    Verbs: Defenestrate, idolize, capture, squelch, fleece

  • Peggy R. Dobbs

    Since I am the “wife”, I thought I should have come before “family”. After all, he wouldn't have had them had it not been for me, but since I provide four out of five of his verbs, I want make an issue of it. Please remember, I could have put myself first, but I try to play by the rules. I've been cooking for the last three days, so the fact that “eating” was not typed with a capital E must mean, as Thorn says, its one of those Fruedian slip thingys. (spelling ?)

  • http://www.awordwithyoupress.com/ Thornton Sully

    The 50 bucks cash, I suspect. Except Peggy can AlWAYS be counted on, it seems

  • Peggy R. Dobbs

    Adam was in a hurry, he had just gotten home when I called him, so I am sure he had more important things to do. I wasn't surprised by any of his choices. He already lives all of the nouns and verbs he named, so it was a very short phone call.

  • http://www.awordwithyoupress.com/ Thornton Sully

    My nouns? Pain Desire Longing Joy Kids. My five verbs? Love-making(by a dozen different words) writing, tasting, feeling, devouring.

    Now…analyze THAT!

    (A word of caution, I am not a masochist by any means. I chose the first words that came into my head, lubricated by a single Sam Adams-I am such a lightweight–and I recall a Bob Dylan line: “Behind every beautiful thing, there's been some kind of pain.”

  • http://www.awordwithyoupress.com/ Thornton Sully

    I thought I had you pegged, but I thought by drizzle you meant that gooey caramel that contaminates the whipped cream on some terribly overpriced coffee drink.

  • Peggy R. Dobbs

    When I called Pati, she was baby sitting so her answers were short and sweet. Nothing surprising here. I could have written it for her. She is everything a good, sweet person should be. Her personality already lives out everything she listed and she would make a wonderful Grandmother of the Year. I could hear her grandchildren hollaring for “Grammy????” in the background. I had just enough time to tell her I loved her and to thank her for her help with the contest.

  • Peggy R. Dobbs

    That fifty bucks was too easy, the way I earned it. After finding out you wanted a story with the lists, it made more sense to go back and try to give each one a little personality and share some of the ideas behind their thoughts. I hope this made the reading a little more interesting.

  • spykergyrl

    I used to like the drizzle, but now I think it's too sweet. I like to taste
    the bitter in my coffee.

  • spykergyrl

    P.S. This Minterview rocks.

  • spykergyrl

    P.P.S. Not a bad introduction, either.

  • http://www.awordwithyoupress.com/ Thornton Sully

    The first thing I did that made me realize I could never be president? I arrived penniless from Europe once in New York. A friend suggested that I could make quick money(and a lot of it) if I would make what was known as “loops”. That is pornography that was done with a super eight camera to be shown in private stalls on 42nd street. (and we know why the stalls are private) You put 25 cents into the machine which gets three minutes of film and you have to keep feeding the machine, I applied for the job, filled out the application, did the interview with the “producer” Dumb enough to use my real name in the application, which the press would have discovered with my first presidential run.

    I never got hired. I did not appear wholesome enough. I guess I was out of the loop. Thank god.
    I made the rounds back then trying to sell my first novel. I decided to fore-go any political ambition, knowing that skeleton was rattling in the closet. I would have been a great president!

  • http://www.awordwithyoupress.com/ Thornton Sully

    I agree. But wouldn't you have preferred that I let you know spontaneously instead of you asking me in a round about way??? Yes, it was a brilliant intro. If only you had hairy arms

  • http://www.awordwithyoupress.com/ Thornton Sully

    Have we started a family feud?

  • http://www.awordwithyoupress.com/ Thornton Sully

    OK. I am truly impressed. You earned your fifty bucks!!!

    Good job! And you manged to get in three days of cooking at the same time.

  • http://www.awordwithyoupress.com/ Thornton Sully

    regarding #1. We are still waiting for Barack to show us his birth certificate. Eventually being born too far east means being born too far west. East is east and west is west and never the sane shall meet.

    regarding #2 I believe actually that all of these would disqualify you from being president, although we do have a chocolate colored president.

  • spykergyrl

    Maybe I do.

  • spykergyrl

    Anyhow, Derek one-upped me. He suggested Small rodent + interview =
    verminterview.

  • spykergyrl

    Does this count as working?

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