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Great! Okay, this is how it's going to work. This is kind of like a survey, only it's timed. Grab a stopwatch and be ready to answer the following fifteen questions as fast as you can. Just answer the first (CB-appropriate) thing that comes to mind! Post your answers and time below! I don't know. I thought this might be fun. 

Anywayyyyyyy.

Ready.

Set.

GO!

1. What shirt are you wearing?

2. What should you do when life gives you lemons? 

3. Describe the first book that comes to mind in three words.  

4. In your family, are you the oldest, the youngest, in the middle, or an only child?

5. How's school going, in a sentence?

6. What's outside your window?

7. Is the answer to this question "no"?

8. List a line of song lyrics!

9. What's the nearest object that isn't the keyboard or device?

10. Five more to go!

11. What's the last thing you ate?

12. Is something burning?

13. No seriously. I think you're burning your spaghetti.

14. Nevermind, false alarm. It was Volcano. 

Volcano: *desperately tries to hide burning spaghetti*  

Shifting: *banishes burned spaghetti to nether realm*  

15. Last question!

16. I lied. Reaction?  

Aaaaaand... TIME!  

Volcano: BUT MY SPAGHETTI!

Shifting: No one cares about your burned spaghetti.

Somebody: How did she even manage to burn spaghetti...?

Shifting: That imbecile can burn anything.  

Volcano: YES I CAN AND I PRIDE MYSELF ON IT!! 

Fruity: azxf! 

submitted by Somebody and Co., age Who cares, Various places
(September 13, 2016 - 8:37 pm)

Ready... set... GO!! 

1. A MEOW printed shirt with blue leopard print

2. You should... um...hhhhh make some lemon trees and profit from that

3. Best detective manga

4. Oldest

5. I'm getting good grades, but algebra is tough. 

6. Thunder and lightning and rain

7. Yes. No. YES NO!

8. Why do you write like you're runnin' out of time... you write day and night like you're runnin' out of time...

9. A basket of clean laundry

10. YAY!

11. Tositos chips

12. WAIT WHAT

13. I wasn't cooking spaghetti... papyrus...

14. Volcano you naughty rascal

15. Oh fun

16. oh you lier

 

Time: 2 minutes 33 seconds

Not bad, not bad! That was a lot of fun! 

Sorry for the weird punctuation, I was switching back and forth from periods or no periods or commas.  

submitted by Clouded Leopard
(September 13, 2016 - 9:19 pm)

Okay. Let's do this.

1. What shirt are you wearing? A Star Wars Stormtrooper PJ top.

2. What should you do when life gives you lemons? Squeeze 'em into the eyes of your enemies. :D

3. Describe the first book that comes to mind in three words. I don't know

4. In your family, are you the oldest, the youngest, in the middle, or an only child? Oldest of four.

5. How's school going, in a sentence? Pretty good.

6. What's outside your window? A road lined with pebbles, and some trees/bushes and a pasture.

7. Is the answer to this question "no"? Yes. XD

8. List a line of song lyrics! Why do write like you're running outta time?

9. What's the nearest object that isn't the keyboard or device?

A TV remote. 

10. Five more to go!

SCORE! 

11. What's the last thing you ate?

Pancakes and eggs. 

12. Is something burning?

I do actually smell some smoke. 

13. No seriously. I think you're burning your spaghetti.

Nah, it's pancakes. 

14. Nevermind, false alarm. It was Volcano. 

Volcano: *desperately tries to hide burning spaghetti*  

Shifting: *banishes burned spaghetti to nether realm*  

XD 

15. Last question!

YAS! 

16. I lied. Reaction?  

I saw it before I typed the answer. :D

Time: 4 minutes, and 19 seconds. 

submitted by Cho Chang
(September 14, 2016 - 10:34 am)

Hey, we picked the same song lyrics! How cool!

submitted by Clouded Leopard
(September 15, 2016 - 9:07 am)

I did Hamilton lyrics too!

submitted by Bibliophile
(September 15, 2016 - 5:23 pm)

Haha! That's awesome!

submitted by Cho Chang
(September 16, 2016 - 2:59 pm)

I answered in my mind, and now I'm typing it down, is that cheating? 

 

1. What shirt are you wearing?

A purple on

2. What should you do when life gives you lemons?

Uhh, make lemonaid

3. Describe the first book that comes to mind in three words.  

Diana Wynne Jones. (The book was The Lives of Christopher Chant)

4. In your family, are you the oldest, the youngest, in the middle, or an only child?

Youngest. 

5. How's school going, in a sentence?

Fine. (Yes this isn't a proper sentence, no I don't care.) 

6. What's outside your window?

The backyard. 

7. Is the answer to this question "no"? 

*Thinks for a bit* Unanswerable. 

8. List a line of song lyrics!

Uhhh, happy birthday to you. 

9. What's the nearest object that isn't the keyboard or device?

Pillow.  

10. Five more to go!

Okay.  

11. What's the last thing you ate?

Cereal 

12. Is something burning?

Probably somewhere. 

13. No seriously. I think you're burning your spaghetti.

I'm not makeing spaghetti. 

14. Nevermind, false alarm. It was Volcano. 

Okay. (I have no idea who or what Volcano is.)

I skiped the part with Volcano for speeds sake. 

Volcano: *desperately tries to hide burning spaghetti*  

Shifting: *banishes burned spaghetti to nether realm*  

15. Last question!

Okay. 

16. I lied. Reaction?

Okay.

 

And my time was......... 38.40 sc. But that was with out typing. 

submitted by Impunity Jane, age 13, US
(September 14, 2016 - 10:54 am)

Okay, here goes!

1. What shirt are you wearing?

Clothes. 

2. What should you do when life gives you lemons? 

Throw them.

3. Describe the first book that comes to mind in three words.  

Fighting. Dragons. Brisingr. 

4. In your family, are you the oldest, the youngest, in the middle, or an only child?

Oldest. 

5. How's school going, in a sentence?

Suffocatingly deadlinious. 

6. What's outside your window?

Trees, weeds, and a baby goat. 

7. Is the answer to this question "no"?

Yes. 

8. List a line of song lyrics!

Goodnight my someone; goodnight my love. (No wonder that's what's one my mind; I've been singing it all day). 

9. What's the nearest object that isn't the keyboard or device?

My math answer key. Wait a second...that's my math answer key!!!!! 

10. Five more to go!

Oh, really?

11. What's the last thing you ate?

A chocolate covered almond. 

12. Is something burning?

Sam: Nothing! Nothing! Please carry on with whatever you were doing. 

SAAAAAAAM?!

13. No seriously. I think you're burning your spaghetti.

Humph. Not the first thing I've burned. 

14. Nevermind, false alarm. It was Volcano. 

Oh really? Coolio. 

Volcano: *desperately tries to hide burning spaghetti*  

Shifting: *banishes burned spaghetti to nether realm*  

15. Last question!

Hmmmmm...interesting.

16. I lied. Reaction?  

Why am I not surprised? 

 

Wildflower: SAM! Why is my favorite copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream in the fire??? You-you-you EEl SKIN! Sam? Sam? I could have sworn he was RIGHT HERE! *Runs off screaming* SAM! You're going to GET IT! 

*Surpressed laughter comes seemingly from thin air.*

submitted by Rose bud, age 14, Under the sky
(September 14, 2016 - 12:19 pm)

Ok, ready, set, GO! 

1: A purple t-shirt with a henna flower thingy on it.

2: Make lemon meringue pie!

3: Wings of Fire: Dragons, prophecy, war.

4: Oldest of three.  

5: I'm very tired from reading late, which muddles my mind when it comes to math and science, but all in all rather well, becuase homeschooling is the best. 

6: It's covered by a window shade, but a big field, a long driveway, woods, and an old, broken bird feeder. 

7: That makes no sense. I mean, I'm sure it does, but I'd rather write a long winded sentence about how it doesn't make sense then take the time to think about it. NEXT QUESTION.

8: "I should run and hide with the others, but I can't look away

She's a hurricaane" (a song I'm lisetening to right now; "Hurricane" by the fray.)

9: Blanket, glasses case, sleeping mask, (stop)watch, blanket.

10: Aww, already?

11: Lentil soup. From a can. 

12: My brain! I need to burn it to get out all of those stupid math problems.

13: BUT I HAD SPAGHETTI TWO DAYS AGO!!!!!!

14: SHE'S BURING MY SPAGHETTI????? HOW. DARE. SHE.

15: bummer.

16: Yay!

Ooh........ Um, considering I did this by scrolling up the screen, looking at the question, scrolling back down, and answering, is 8.13 that bad?

Saphira: Yes. Hey volcano, wanna go burn stuff? I LOVE BURING STUFF. I'm a dragon girl. What do you expect. 

Luna says...... LUNA DON'T CUSS! UGG!!!!!! BAD WOLF!!!!!! (Oh, Dr. Who reference anyone?) 

submitted by Autumn Leaves, age Shadowmoon, Changing my name
(September 14, 2016 - 1:00 pm)

Okay, sure, why not! By the way, I'm copy/pasting the questions, so it might be in a weird font.

1. What shirt are you wearing? 

Uh, it's white and has a gray pencil looking drawing of Ariel from the Little Mermaid 

2. What should you do when life gives you lemons? 

Squeeze them in your enemies eyes then throw them back and demand cupcakes 

3. Describe the first book that comes to mind in three words.  

Double, masquerade, fantasy  

4. In your family, are you the oldest, the youngest, in the middle, or an only child?

youngest! 

5. How's school going, in a sentence?

It's kind of exciting considering the fact that it's my first year in junior high, but it's also pretty boring and average because it's school. 

6. What's outside your window?

Houses. I'm on a bus. Oh look there's a tree. Is it raining. Aww... I have to walk home from the bus stop in the rain... 

7. Is the answer to this question "no"?

Possibly 

8. List a line of song lyrics!

You were red, and you liked me because I was blue. But you touched me and suddenly I was a lilac sky... And you decided purple just wasn't for you. 

9. What's the nearest object that isn't the keyboard or device? My backpack. And my friend Kaiya.

10. Five more to go!

Okay! 

11. What's the last thing you ate?

A fun dip at lunch time. Yay, fun dip! 

12. Is something burning?

uhhhh... No.... 

13. No seriously. I think you're burning your spaghetti. 

Aw dang it I worked hard on that spaghetti  

14. Nevermind, false alarm. It was Volcano. 

Oh thank goodness. I love my spaghetti. 

15. Last question!

But this is an exclamation not a question 

16. I lied. Reaction?  

I just got out of the bus and it's raining so I have to put my phone away so I don't get electrocuted. So I'm happy it's over now! 

submitted by Savvy44x
(September 14, 2016 - 2:09 pm)

1. What shirt are you wearing?

A Grateful Dead shirt with a Grateful Dead bear and a grey background. 

2. What should you do when life gives you lemons? 

Find some strawberries and make strawberry lemonade. 

3. Describe the first book that comes to mind in three words.  

Eragon, Saphira, Arya 

4. In your family, are you the oldest, the youngest, in the middle, or an only child?

Oldest 

5. How's school going, in a sentence?

So boring, I feel like I'm going to fall asleep. 

6. What's outside your window?

My back yard. 

7. Is the answer to this question "no"?

I don't NO 

8. List a line of song lyrics!

I wanna' be in the room where it happens 

9. What's the nearest object that isn't the keyboard or device?

A tissue box 

10. Five more to go!

Great 

11. What's the last thing you ate?

Cheeze-Its 

12. Is something burning?

Nope 

13. No seriously. I think you're burning your spaghetti.

Nope, I'm not 

14. Nevermind, false alarm. It was Volcano. 

That's all fine and dandy 

Volcano: *desperately tries to hide burning spaghetti*  

Shifting: *banishes burned spaghetti to nether realm*  

15. Last question!

Phew, finally 

16. I lied. Reaction?

I don't care.

 

That took me 2 min and 50.8 sec. Is that good? 

Reporter out! 

submitted by CNN Reporter, age 11
(September 14, 2016 - 3:54 pm)

The book was Eragon, and the song was Goodnight my Someone, in case you couldn't guess :)

Augh! No! No Starlight! Sam! Starlight is trying to eat my brother's Declaration of Independance copy...can you do your animal whispering thing?

Sam: Don't eat the paper Starlight!

*stares at chewed-up paper* a lot of good that did. So the saying that goats eat everything really is true. 

 

 

submitted by Rose bud, age 14, Indeterminate
(September 14, 2016 - 4:23 pm)

1. A purple Hufflepuff one!

2. Give 'em back and say "we want oranges!"

3. Um, Voldemort has Horcruxes.

4. Oldest of two

5. Okay but stressful a little.

6. An alley and the backyard.

7. Yes! #Paradox

8. If everyone had rights, would anything go wrong?

9. My summer homework packet

10. Yay!

11. Lunch. Ham sandwitch.

12. Nope.

13. I don't have spaghetti.

14. Dev will be happy to see her.

15. YAS!

16. NUUU

Three minutes, eight seconds! I freaked and made a lot of mistakes xD

submitted by St.Owl, age Recarnated, Everywhere
(September 14, 2016 - 5:41 pm)

But-but, I don't have a stopwatch

1. long-sleeved blue with fox

2. Study the lemons and turn them into cherries

3. mouse, tale, simple

4. only

5. okay

6. a rather bumpy lawn and a wire fence.

7. no, it isn't technically

8. "La la la la!"

9. A charging cord

10. kay

11. I think it was a chcolate-covered coconut bar

12. I don't think so.

13.  *pours water over spaghetti*

14.  *pours water over both of them*

15. This is the second question

16. I knew it!

UHHH . . . 4 minutes. 

submitted by Novelist, The Secret Forest
(September 14, 2016 - 5:56 pm)

1. What shirt are you wearing?

A light blue shirt with brown owls and swirls on it.  

2. What should you do when life gives you lemons? 

Make lemonade. I'm so creative.  

3. Describe the first book that comes to mind in three words.

Adventurous, romantic, imaginative. (Wings of fire)  

4. In your family, are you the oldest, the youngest, in the middle, or an only child?

Oldest.  

5. How's school going, in a sentence?

Great! All A's.  

6. What's outside your window?

Well... It's night right now... So darkness.  

7. Is the answer to this question "no"?

I don't know. Yes! Get it? KNOW/no? Haha.  

8. List a line of song lyrics!

They are the hunters, we are the foxes, my love! (Taylor swift with I Know Places.) 

9. What's the nearest object that isn't the keyboard or device?

Books. Duh.  

10. Five more to go!

Ok. My time must be horrible.  

11. What's the last thing you ate?

chocolate covered almonds.  

12. Is something burning?

no.  

13. No seriously. I think you're burning your spaghetti.

Okay, moving to #14 now.  

14. Nevermind, false alarm. It was Volcano. 

Ok.  

15. Last question!

ok.  

16. I lied. Reaction?  

Yay! I'm done with this quiz! Oh right. You lied? I'm disappointed in you. 

 

Time: 4 min and 2 sec.  

submitted by Daisy
(September 14, 2016 - 7:27 pm)

1. What shirt are you wearing?

Stripes!  

2. What should you do when life gives you lemons? 

Make lemon poppy seed cupcakes!  

3. Describe the first book that comes to mind in three words.

Shadow and Bone: Crazy, awesome, magic  

4. In your family, are you the oldest, the youngest, in the middle, or an only child?

Only child!  

5. How's school going, in a sentence?

It's great excluding an overload of homework!  

6. What's outside your window?

My mom's herb garden. 

7. Is the answer to this question "no"?

Wait, what question? 

8. List a line of song lyrics!

Why do you write like you're running out of time?  

9. What's the nearest object that isn't the keyboard or device?

A book, of course.  

10. Five more to go!

Yipee!  

11. What's the last thing you ate?

A banana  

12. Is something burning?

What? What? No. . .  

13. No seriously. I think you're burning your spaghetti.

My SPAGHETTI!!!! NOOOOOoooo 

14. Nevermind, false alarm. It was Volcano. 

Oh. *glares*  

Volcano: *desperately tries to hide burning spaghetti*  

Shifting: *banishes burned spaghetti to nether realm*  

15. Last question!

Yes?  

16. I lied. Reaction?  

Huh?  

Aaaaaand... TIME!  

Time: 3 min. 25 sec.

Not terrible. . .  

submitted by September
(September 14, 2016 - 7:53 pm)