The meme that was not a meme, the dare that was not a dare

Updated.

This morning's Nance and Lance post for The American Street is up:  We never saw the likes of her before.  It's about Sandra Day O'Connor.  Nance will miss her.  I started missing her in 2000 when she gave up her principles and joined the party of the royalists.

Meanwhile:

Some of the people I stuck with the meme Shakespeare's Sister stuck me with, which Ratty has dubbed The Embarrassment/Psycho-Surgery Meme and which Res grumbles doesn't really count as a meme, have responded, most cheerfully, res with the glinty-eyed, clenched-jawed grin of Robert Duvall climbing into a helicopter in Apocalypse Now.  You can read them here:

Res.  He came through even though he shouldn't have gotten stuck with the meme.  Somehow I misread a comment from Ratty as coming from Res and I thought it was Res who dared me to tag him.  Fighting words.  I couldn't resist.  But I goofed and I apologized, but Res had already accepted the challenge.  (Blue Girl posted a clever retort to Res' post.)

The Countess.  She answers using the Royal "We," of course, and with wonderful noblesse oblige has issued a blanket pardon for me in the future, should I ever be so bold as to tag her royal personage again with another meme.  I plan on it.  But someone else has already got to her with a food meme.  The Countess still retains the common touch and is not above picking up a pot in the royal kitchen.

Jaquandor.  Proving himself to be the most adventurous of all bloggers, at least in his own imagination, Jaquandor says that one of the people from the past he'd like to have dinner with is Genghis Khan!

(Note to Res.  Jaquandor knows how to show the proper respect to his blogging elders.  "Bootsie," indeed!)

Ratty.

MadKane has promised to get around to answering when she gets around to it.  She didn't promise to sing her answers.  She has been singing lots of other stuff, and you should go give her a listen.

The Linkmeister hasn't said a word about it.  I suspect he's studiously pretending not to have noticed he was tagged.  He used to be in the Navy.  Probably learned all about how to avoid volunteering back then.

Jeannette probably doesn't know she's been tagged yet.  Somebody else just hit her with the old book meme, though, which she's answered, proving she's a good sport so I have hopes of hearing from her soon.

That's all for now.  Visit Nance and me at The American Street and check back here for another Sunday Talk Show this afternoon.

(Update:  Link has done the job.  Jeannette has learned she's been tagged and, being the good sport I never doubted she was, plans to respond when her computer problems are solved.

And it turns out I made a fool of myself over on the Street.)

Comments

[Linkmeister]

After volunteering to get into the Navy in the first place (hey, it was 1972 and I had a high draft number), you'd think I'd have learned.

No, I'm aware of being tagged, and I copied the questions down. I'm trying to focus, man!

[blue girl]

Yeah, Linkmeister! I keep goin' to your site and you're all, "Fun With Initials" and "Santayana was right." C'mon!
I wanna know some of the stupidest things you've done in your life!

Belly up!

[denisdekat]

You may like this link Lance, it has tons of useful tips...

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/052005K.shtml