The Queen's Meme #69 The Board Game Meme

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Welcome to The Queen's Meme #69
Are you bored? Well I'm about to perk you up with a few board game questions. Ever played Pick Up Stix? It's a blast. My brothers and I used to play every weekend at my aunt's house. Pretend you're 12, pop a big bowl of popcorn, stretch out on the carpet or set up the card table and let's play! Oh, BTW... These are my games and my rules. Just so ya know...



1. Twister

Who would you like to get your arms and legs tangled up with?  I can't say that, but it wouldn't be playing Twister...though it could be a good warm up!

2. Monopoly
You have just landed on Boardwalk and collected a nice sum in rent payments.
Which Monopoly token do you want to be when you grow up?  The car....if the gas prices aren't too hjigh

3. Candyland
This game is based on The Legend of The Lost Candy Castle. Did you know that? The object of the game is to reach the Candy Castle. But in my game, the object is to avoid the dungeon that is in the Candy Castle. You must swim through the Ice Cream Sea to be victorious.
What is your flavor?  Strawberry or lime...I'd probably empty the moat savouring it!

4. Operation
You are the surgeon. You have the tweezers in your hand. It is time to remove the most irritating person or thing in your life.
What is the name of this organ? Is my boss reading this?

5. Sorry!
I often say that success is the best revenge. Lucky for you!
Sorry! is a game of sweet revenge.
What is your strategy for success today? Play solitaire

6. Wheel of Fortune!
It's your spin. You have just landed on a surprise vacation package.
It's yours if you can name the destination with 3 vowels and 2 consonants. Aruba will do nicely!

7. Clue
Miss Scarlet (that's you) is in the Library with the knife. Who did she kill and why? Miss Rhett in the bedroom when she found out a secret!

The Queen's Meme #68 - The Basic Theory Meme 101

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Welcome to The Queen's Meme #68.
It's called the Basic Music Theory Meme 101
It's simple! Answer the questions and/or identify the following very basic music symbols and tell us what you think they mean. You can answer correctly (don't peek in the dictionary!) or you can spoof 'em. I'm talking to you, Coopernicus. Can you snark something this academic?



1. What is the symbol above called?  Now let's get one thing settled. I know NOTHING about musical notation. It looks like a railway track to me.

2. Imagine you are playing saxophone and suddenly see the symbol above in your music score. What do you do?  Who knows? Play ten times louder?


3. And this ornate object is???  13? B? I'll pass on this.

4. Are these two rests equal or unequal in value? I've got a 50-50 chance of getting this right, so I'll say equal...or maybe unequal.

5. Name at least 2 things missing from the Treble and Bass clef show below that would be seen in an actual piece of music. Are you serious? I would hasve a better chance of learning Mandarin Chinese.


6. Why is the treble clef above always getting in trouble? What is wrong with it? It's a bad influence on the other notes. The music teachewr always gets it to sit on the naughty stool.

7. What is the name of this note? Jeff? Arthur, Melanie? How should I know?


8. What is the key signature in the piece of music below?  I don't think it's a modern rock song!

9. What is the last note on a piano keyboard? The one at the end.

The Queen's Meme #67 - The Strange January Meme

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Welcome to the Queen's Meme #67.
It's called The Strange January Meme

There are some strange traditions associated with this month, many of those noted here are British customs, however, strange customs hail from every corner of the globe. Help me decipher the January mysteries of the Universe below. And I sincerely hope you remembered to bake a cake for the cow.

1. January usually has ample amounts of snowfall in parts of the world. Did you ever make snow cream as a kid?  All I ever did with snow when I was young was fall over in it.

2. January is the first month of the year in the Gregorian calendar. The name comes from the Latin word ianua meaning door and is named after the god of the doorway, Janus.
Is there a particular door you'd like to step through this year? What? I'd like to step throuigh a door that was open. Going through a closed one can be extremely hazardous.

3. January is one of the months with 31 days. What are you going to do with that extra day? Spend it all thinking of answers for Mimi's memes.

4. In medieval times superstition dictated that the 1st day of January was significant for prosperity, or lack of it, in a person's life. Farmers put a flat cake on the horns of a cow and they danced and sang songs around the cow until the cake was thrown to the ground. If it fell in front of the cow that meant good luck; it if fell behind the cow that meant bad luck for the rest of the year.
Do you have strange New Year customs in your household? Well we don't have a cow to dance around. The strange New Year custom I have is to get up without a hangover as I don't drink.

5. Did you know that it's unlucky to see the first new moon of the year through a window? You should, instead, look through a new silk handkerchief! Did you remember to do this? If I said this at the asylum, I'd be in the rubber room.

6. On January 14, 1986 motorists were required for the first time to wear seat belts?
Do you always buckle up? Why or why not? January 14th is my birthday! Anyway I NEVER wear seatbelts. It is illegal here in Britain not to. Don't tell anyone, please.

7. If you are single and want to find a mate, legend has it that on January 20th you should walk backwards up the stairs to bed. If you don't have a staircase you should recite The Lord's Prayer while transferring pins from a pin cushion to your sleeve.  If anyone does this, it's no surprise they can't find a mate!
I couldn't find a male ritual to attract women.
Make one up.     Here's a ritual......buy them a drink, then a car, then a diamond bracelet on the way to the poor house.

The Queen's Meme #66 - The 2011 Meme

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Welcome to the Queen's Meme #66. We're all about ones today in the year of the ones. Do the math.

1. What were you doing at 1:11 am on 1/11/11?  Sleeping, like anyone in their right mind would be doing.

 2. Did you watch the New Year's Eve hoopla on television at midnight or did you make your own hoopla? Hoopla? I watched the fireworks on the TV around London. Why should anyone be watching a hoopla? They must have been short on entertainment.

3. I know this is a tired meme question and really should be retired, but can you tell us just ONE of your New Year's resolutions? Not to make a New Year's Resolution

4. What was the one greatest lesson you learned in 2010. Don't blink or the year will be gone. Plan ahead.

5. Can you recall a news story from 2010 that affected you greatly and/or personally? The Chilean miner rescue was the big story worldwide that had everyone watching.

6. If you could have just one thing in 2011, what would it be? Visiting all my e mail friends

7. Pick and age: 20 or 11. Which one was best for you and why? 20 might have been better than 11, but I'd rather have 11 so I can go through that important time and do things I should have done before.

The Queen's Meme #65 - The Mimi Boop Mimi

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Welcome to the Queen's Meme #65. Yes, you're in the right place. I just changed costumes for the week. It's Christmas. I'm allowed. And anyway, I had to send my Queen frock out to the cleaners for the New Year's Eve Party at Bloggingham. I'm going as Betty Boop (it's a Hallo-Christmas theme) and wanted to see if you approved of my red new dress. Yes? I've been practicing my Poo-Poo-Pi-Doo all week just for the occasion.
I wrote this meme on Mimi Writes in 2008.
I thought a resurrection at Christmas would be a nice touch. Enjoy!There are only 5 days left 'til Christmas. I don't know about you but if I hear Brenda Lee sing "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree" one more time on the drive into work, I'm going to go blostal (that's blog + postal for all you non -blog speakers.) So I thought I'd spice things up a bit and burst out of a stocking. So to speak. It's worked for Betty Boop all these years, why not me? She's a cross between my hero, Scarlett O'Hara (I met her once here and here) and yours truly but with less clothes on. At least in public. And besides, she really knows how to wear a pencil skirt.
A girl could learn a lot from Betty Boop.

The Mimi Boop Meme
Take it and tag it.
Tempting, eh..?



1. I am good when I am bad (an obvious one!).  Or expecting a visit from Santa

2. I am naughty when I like to be!

3. The world would be a better place if people would Deck the Halls with pictures of peace treaties instead of sprigs  of holly.

4. Have you ever snuck into the living room in the middle of the night, unwrapped your gifts and wrapped them back just to see what was under the Christmas tree for you? Come on.....you can tell me. I have extreme willpower...though I do like to get up early!

Sidenote: I've always wanted to know what really goes on in the Gingerbread House after dark. I've never seen any cookies come out of that place. Have you? Isn't it the new Gentlemen's Club?

5. Have you ever been stuck in a chimney? Ho! Ho! Ho! What can I say to that?

6. Who would you like to stuff in a stocking and why? Nicole Kidman...don't ask why!

7. Could you name the 12 Disciples Days of Christmas, the 3 Musketeers Wise Men and all of Santa's medications Reindeer if your life depended on it? OK wiseguy. Prove it.   My answer is quite simple...no!


8. On the 13th Day of Christmas my true love gave to me her engagement ring back as her house had become a menagerie of animals, plus lords leaping, maids miling etc

9:  Imagine that Santa Claus really does exist for a moment. (I can say that this week. Baby Boy is not listening right now ) Anyway, if the Big Guy could grant you any wish, what would your most hedonistic and self-centered wish be? (You can say it. I won't tell. I'm Mimi Boop today.) What do you mean? Are you saying Santa doesn't exist? Anyway, hedonistically, it might involve a beach, a spa and a female masseuse.

10. When you make your list, do you check it twice and find out who's been naughty or nice or do you just get everybody a box of chocolate covered cherries and call it a day? I have a definate naughty and nice list. The naughty ones get struck off the card list.

If you're reading this meme, consider yourself tagged. That is my Christmas present to you!! And don't try to hide from me. I see you.....


I'll see ya later. I'm busy trying to wiggle and stuff myself into a Christmas stocking without breaking a vital organ. So far one leg is in and all systems are go. This gig is perfect for me! I need only invade half of the stocking. Now if I could just figure out which half. And besides, I'm booped!

The Queen's Meme #64 - The Forgetful Meme

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Welcome to The Queen's Meme
Sometimes silly. Sometimes serious.
#64 is aptly called The Forgetful Meme

I would try to describe the premise in my usual royal manner but I've forgotten how.

1. What is the last thing you forgot to do? I can't remember. If I had have remembered, I wouldn't have forgot to do it. I guess write a Christmas card oiut for a particular person,.

2. What is the one thing you are always afraid you will forget to do? My alarm clock? Forget to put my clothes on when I come to work?

3. Can you remember when you were 3 years old?
If so, tell us a cute story. If not, make one up. I was talking to the others in kindergarten, saying that we need to take out a pension plan.

4. Fill in the blank. I would like to forget what to put here but I will always remember Mimi's Dungeon about this person.

5. Fill in the blank. I will never forget the first timeI did a crazy meme!

6. Who, in your opinion, is the world's forgotten hero? ForgetfulMan, the crimefighter, who never remembered to come when the ForgetSignal flashed across the sky

7. Find a word that rhymes with forget and use it to write a funny sentence.The hire wire artist was dazzlingly good..until he forgot his safety net!

The Queen's Meme #63 - The Frivolous Christmas Meme

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Welcome to The Queen's Meme #63
Let's talk Christmas. I'm in a naughty and nice mood. Some are one-word answers, others need a little explanation. Feel free to elaborate when the blog spirit moves ya. And above all else...Have fun!


1. Amazon.com or the Mall   Hard work walking from shop to shop? No thanks! Amazon, please!
2. Bows or ribbons      Ribbons
3. Expensive or sale tags A sales tag of something expensive
4. Long list or short   It's what's on it that counts
5. Wrapped packages or gift bags Either will do
6. Eggnog or vodka Yuk! No thanks, especially not together
7. Have you finished your shopping? Errr.....not quite
8. A Christmas Carol or The Bible Story   They both are a part of the occasion.
9. Are you Scrooge or Santa's Helper? Humbug!
10. Did you ever catch Santa Claus in the act? In the act of doing what? Kissing mommy?
11. Tell me about your Christmas tree...gotta pic? As it's in a cardboard box...not exactly

12. Christmas carols or Rock Station   A bit of both, I suppose
13. Do you believe in Elves?  Well we do have the National Elf Service in Britain.
14. I am looking for Santa. Describe him for me. Large, white beard, red outfit, might be seen on a roof trying to get down a chimney. He likes reindeer and children.




15. Do you leave cookies out or bourbon? My dad said bourbon is better
16. White lights or multi-colored  Lots of pretty colours, naturally with one that prevents the others from working
17. Wreaths on the doors, windows, outside?  No one is dead!
18. Who are the 3 wisest wise men in your life? Why's that?
19. Is Christmas religious or commercial for you? Yes
20. Ever kiss under the mistletoe?  Oh yes, though many girls tend  to run in the opposite direction.
21. Stars or angels on top of the tree Angel
22. Who deserves to get a lump of coal for Christmas and why? Perhaps one of the Chilean miners, as a remembrance they are still here.
23. Who is #7 in the 12 Days of Christmas song? Those ice-cold swans a swimming
24. Snail mail cards or e-cards  The real thing, a snail mail is far better
25. What do you want for Christmas? All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth (lyrics to an old song)