Hello, My Name Is…

Posted on 08.01.07 in Blogging and there are 11 comments.

The 40 Day Fast and Get A Goat campaigns have really brought a lot of new readers to The Secret Life of Kat and while you may now know that I want a nose ring, I take candy from small children or that my husband knows how to give really good gifts, I don’t know much about you.

Whether this is your first time reading this blog or you’ve been here for the full year and a half that it’s existed, I want to get to know you better.

And I want everyone else to get to know you too.

I want all of us to get to know each other.

(Pause. Group Hug.)

The Deal

So here’s the deal, I have posted some get-to-know-you questions below. Copy and paste them into an email, pop your answers in and send it to thesecretlifeofkat (AT) gmail (DOT) com.

I’m going to highlight one reader per day until we’ve all met. Sound fun?

The Questions

1. What is your name or pseudonym and where do you live?
2. How did you find The Secret Life of Kat? Why do you read it?
3. What do you do?
4. What is one thing you’d like to brag about....if you were a bragger?
5. Recommend: 1 book, 1 musician, 1 movie, 1 blog
6. What is something significant you’ve learned this year?
7. What is your favorite quote or verse?
8. Based on your life experience, what is one nugget of wisdom you’d like to share?
9. If you have a blog, what is the web address?

And my favorite icebreaker question of all time:
10. How many 5 year olds do you think you could take in a fight?

Copy, Paste, Answer, Send

Again, this is for new and old readers alike.

I’ll be posting the responses so that we can all get to know each other a bit better and hopefully discover some fun new blogs (although you don’t have to have a blog to participate).

Normally, I try to write an interactive question at the end of each post, but today I hope you’ll take the time to send me an email instead of commenting.

Thanks for stopping by!

The Comments:

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What, no “I you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?” What kind of get-to-know-you set of questions is this, anyway?

There are different kinds of trees?

Ok. I have to know. Have you ever actually been asked that icebreaker?

I have been asked that before. I always say an apple tree!

No, I have not.  Though I’ve used it as a joke many times, it is not original to me.  In 1981, Barbara Walters was interviewing Katharine Hepburn, who stated she would like to be a tree.  Baba Wawa then asked “What kind of tree?” This has been poked fun of ever since, usually phrased as I did above.

I remember an old Police Squad episode (the forerunner of the Naked Gun movies) in which they do ballistics tests by firing into a stack of Barbara Walters interview tapes.  The bullet made it as far as “when she asks Katharine Hepburn what kind of tree she would be”.  I think its on YouTube somewhere - I’ll find it later.

Okay, I got lucky and found it on the first try - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLXyC1cuN3M.  Look at about 8 minutes into the clip.

hehehe, funny euphrony!

I honestly was just asked the tree question in a job interview, believe it or not.  I can’t for the life of me think what an answer to that question tells anyone about someone’s personality.

Erin, it tells you a great deal about a person - the one asking, not the one asked.  It tells you they’ve no clue what to ask in an interview but fancy themselves amateur psychologists, and that they are stalling to fill time.

I’m not tree. I’m shrubbery.

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