the puzzle that is the DZER ...

first ... the early HNT from Guam (late again):

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And now ... the answers to your questions:
From SignGurl:
Why do you think you are overweight? Is it emotional or physical?
• I ate too much and exercised too little. Getting better at that. Seriously though, I’ve always been a big guy. At one point, I was on a strict 1,000-calorie diet and working out intensively, thanks to football training. After about 12 weeks, I’d only taken off like 12 pounds total. This was before BMI though, and I’m sure I put on a lot of muscle during that time — I was a beast of power … heh.

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From Kristen:
What's one regret in your life?
• That I had to give up smoking in order to keep on living with any degree of comfort.

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What's your guilty pleasure?
• Getting my head and face shaved at the barber shop at LEAST once a week, sometimes twice, at $15 a pop.

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From Madame X:
If you could pick one author, living or dead, and interview them who would it be and what questions would you ask?
• J.R.R. Tolkien. I’d ask him: what fueled his creativity; what his tips were for writing; and what, in his mind, happened 100 years after the conclusion of his Lord of the Rings trilogy.

You can only read one newspaper for the rest of your life, which one is it?
• The local paper, wherever I was living.

"Unrequited love is better than no love" Do you agree or disagree and why?
• Disagree. Unrequited loves sucks big green donkey balls, but no love is even worse.

Your favorite guy blogger has been bitten on his dick by a poisonous snake while camping with you, do you suck the poison out or let him die?
• I don’t have a favorite guy blogger … which I’m sure breaks the hearts of the legion of male bloggers who read my blog. LOL

Why the hell are you still wearing those enormous submarine porthole glasses?!?!
• Because I’m a cheap bastard … that’s money that can be better spent playing poker … or stashed away for my impending move. Also, I don't think changing my glasses will result in me becoming any more attractive to the opposite sex than I am now ... which is close to nil.

What if we are the only 2 bloggers left in the universe? Would it be up to us to repopluate the blogger world?
• There’s a blogger world? I’d imagine I’d irritate the hell out of you by day 3 — “How come you haven’t commented on my last post yet?”

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From Everything Nice:
What in life, makes you feel the most spiritually fulfilled? What is it for you that makes you feel spiritually satisfied?
• A purely hit golf shot that goes exactly where I was aiming it. Or flopping the nut hand in Texas Hold ‘Em while everyone else has strong hands.

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From Suze:
Dzer, given that you are the Egon Ronay of the Blogosphere & Guam. Which foods do you not like/make you feel sick?
• I can’t abide beans, peas, lima beans, okra, yams, squash and other assorted vegetables, or anything made with them.

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From Natalia:
Who is this woman you love? Or have you blogged about it and I missed it?
• This chick I know. And probably. Heh.

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From terry:
What’s the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
• Artful Dodger answered it in my comments, but the answer is a question: European or African swallow? Burdened or unburdened?

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Random Guam Fact Of The Day:
• After the USS Indianapolis dropped off the atomic bomb on Tinian near the close of World War II, it made a brief stop on Guam. From here, it headed toward Leyte in the Philippines. It was sunk after being hit by two Japanese torpedos, killing 880 of 1,196 men aboard.