Time for Saturday 9ers.

As Time Goes By



Welcome to Saturday: 9. What we've committed to our readers is that we will post 9 questions every Saturday. Sometimes the post will have a theme, and at other times the questions will be totally unrelated. Those weeks we do "random questions," so-to-speak. We encourage you to visit other participants posts and leave a comment. Because we don't have any rules, it is your choice. We hate rules. We love memes, however, and here is today's meme!

Saturday 9: As Time Goes By

1) This is the theme song of Casablanca, generally acknowledged as one the screen's great love stories. In honor of Valentine's Day weekend, what's your favorite movie romance?   "Princess Bride"


2) Even though he was only 5'8 and had a receding hairline, Humphrey Bogart was a popular leading man. What movie or TV actor or actress makes your heart skip a beat?  Current favorite being the same age as myself, we are over the hill for heart beat skipping.  But George Clooney would turn my head.

3) Sweethearts are those little heart-shaped candies that are printed with messages like, "Be Mine" and "Kiss Me." Do you like how they taste?  Cute and adorable, and ageless though they may be, they aren't worth eating.

4) Valentine's Day is a big day for florists. When is the last time a floral arrangement adorned your table or desk?  Real Flowers would have been when the roses were blooming in the Fall. 

5) Do you think an e-card means as much as a conventional card in an envelope?  Every bit as much.  Sorry Hallmark, you cheapened the cards and raised the prices.  Besides now I can put my own flower pictures into e cards.  

6) Despite what you see on Valentines, the human heart isn't bright red. It's really a brownish shade of red, like a brick. Now it's your turn. Share some trivia that's been rattling around in your head. (It does have to be about Valentines or the human heart. It can be any random fact at all.)  EDIT: Wow, I missed the boat on this...Right, blood is bright red if it's oxygenated.  Not the heart.

Here's my factoid.   As per instructions as I interpret them, it's not, per se, about Valentine's nor is it about the human heart.   But it does come down to causes of heart disease.  It is this:  "Raw milk products are not deadly, in fact what is deadly is the crap food that's on 70% of the shelving in supermarkets."

7) When is the last time you thought your heart would break?  That would be when  Jazzie died in my arms.  It was nearly as hard to endure as when my mother died suddenly.

8) What is the most recent thing to lift your heart?  I'd have to say that a random act of well wishing today put a face on big Pharma that was utterly charming and gracious, and unexpected.  Next time I'm totally PO'd at them for the harm they do, I will remember the face of an Angel, handing me a Tootsie pop and wishing me happiness.

9) Who is the most "hard hearted" person you know? Do I have to know them personally?  Do African dictators qualify?  Ashcroft?  Dick Cheney?  I'm in the process of learning to love an unnamed woman now that she can't hurt others that I love anymore.  She's a cold, calculating sociopath.   I'm not about to name her.

Come on folks.  Your turn.  Come join in the fun!