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Do you and your friends share a secret language, handshake or phrase? How/Why did it develop? - Bella

Bella - My best friends always use expressions like Double Surplus Good, or Triple Bad like they do in the George Orwell book 1984. When we worked at a summer camp for high school students a few summers ago, M (one of my best friends) started saying things like this because it intimidated the students… and then the rest of the staff picked it up and we still use it when chatting together.

Megg - My husband and I can have whole conversations in internet chat speak. Ya rly, orly. Srsly? Obviously right? Oh noes! Ya infi! I also chat speak at work - no one else can understand me. I’ll be like "sure whatevs" then I’ll get a confused look. Oppps.
We also call each other Randal instead of "random". Oh you’re so Randal. That’s one of our fave words.

Tillie - I don’t have any secret languages exactly, but my husband and i randomly say "gol’dang and whatnot" and other silly stuff all the time. Does it count if he’s always trying to talk to me in Romanian and i don’t understand? So i have to say stuff back to him in German and he doesn’t always get that. We’re so secret, we don’t even understand each other. lol

Sarah - Hmm… There are some words that our friends discuss between each other, or nicknames for certain people we talk about for privacy reasons, but we don*t do it to particularly exclude people. Sometimes it*s humour, other times it*s probably more polite They usually just develop one it*s used in one case, and someone brings it up once more and it begins to stick

Trinity Tusaani - Sorry- new languages just arent my thing- I doubt trying to make up a new one would help!
We have our inside jokes that no one else is going to understand though.

 

What’s your favorite childhood memory, or best story from your childhood? - Jen Hen

Jen Hen - My story takes place when I was about 7. Growing up, there were only four kids in my neighborhood, and I was the youngest. The four of us lived on our bikes during the summer. We’d constantly have bike races, and as the youngest, I always lost. It could’ve had something to do with the fact that I had a little pink bike with no gears, and the only means of stopping was pedalling backwards. Anyway, my story begins with the four of us lining up at the top of our neighbor’s (very steep) driveway to start a bike race. We were just racing to the corner, and I was determined that I wasn’t going to lose this race. My neighbor, Amy calls out "Ready, set…GO!" followed almost immediately by, "No, wait! STOP!" But it was too late, I was already halfway down the driveway, pedalling my little heart out. Next thing I know, I run directly into the side of a moving truck, bounce backwards, and land on the sidewalk. All I can think of is the number of times that I’d been told to "look both ways before crossing the street" and the amount of trouble I was probably going to be in for hitting this truck. So, I see the driver jump out of his truck to run over to me (probably because he was worried that I was hurt) and I instantly think of how much trouble I’m in, so I jump up, and run screaming and crying into my house. Well, luckily no one was hurt, and the truck was old and resilient, so it suffered little damage as well. I also, somehow managed to escape punishment. Maybe it was because I was hysterical, and everyone was just glad I was ok. However, I was never able to look that man in the face again. Especially a few years later when I discovered that the day I had hit the side of his truck just happened to be his birthday.

Tillie - My favorite childhood memory…oh gosh, that’s hard. I’m going to go with the fishing trips my grandpa and dad took me on when i was little. I had so much fun. I’m vegetarian now, and wouldn’t fish again, but i can admit it’s a great memory.

Megg - Going on vacations with my folks. Spending oodles of time in the pool and at the beach.
Also all the parties my folks and their friends used to throw. Many crazy nights!
The funniest, well not so funny at the time, was when I cut my sister’s beautiful curls off. I have no idea why I did it, I was like 4 or 5 at the time. I hid the cut curls under the bed. Gee, you think my folks wouldn’t notice my sister’s hair? I got in so much trouble because of it.

Bella - Favorite Childhood memory? I have to pick just one… I just can’t… so I’ll be brief with a few of them. 1) When my sister Jaclyn and then later when Sammy was born… I love being a big sister. 2) When I went to Ireland with my mom for my 16th birthday (with some folks from high school). 3) Being asked to participate in the flag ceremony at a national hockey game. 4) Being a mascot at a national league baseball game (ok this was like last year… but still it rocked). 5) Being asked to consider moving to Colorado to train for skating competitions in the US and around the world (I turned it down because I was starting college that fall). 5) Making an AMAZING catch (popup deep into centerfield, I grabbed the ball, but fell into a divit in the field, and tumblesauted but didn’t let go of the ball all the same) in the final playoff game in softball, helping us win the Championship.

Princess Sammy - Favorite Childhood memory? Well, since im still a "child." I think my best memory was being in my first school play. It was Hello Dolly. I believe 3rd grade? Yes.. I was the youngest cast member in the play.. and i was so cute in my blue dress with a big white bow. and that was pretty much it.

Sarah - *covers ears* I*M STILL A CHILD! xD I have absolutely the worst memory ever o_o; I remember falling over one time (I still have a small scar on my knee from it) because that was quite dramatic since I think my bone was showing or something… but.. it*s not exactly a *favourite* memory is it

Cook Michael - I loved going to school when I was younger, and playing football with all my friends. Towards the end of my school life, I hated it. Could not wait to get away, but I would love to be back there again, with all my friends everyday.

 

Which are your fav shows? - Juliette

Megg - Too many to list! I have a serious TV problem. Amercia’s Next Top Model, House, Amazing Race, Survivor, Lost, Prison Break, Heroes and oodles more that I can’t think of right now.

Tillie - My favorite shows are Star Trek and X-Files; i haven’t really gotten into anything else since those ended. Although i do kinda like Dirty Jobs and Mythbusters on the Discovery Channel.

Jen Hen - A few years ago, one of my roommates introduced me to the wonder that is Project Runway, and I’ve been hooked ever since. Of course, since I moved I no longer have cable, so I thought I would have to miss this season. Luckily for me, however, I have managed to find the full episodes online, so I can keep up with my obsession *does happy dance*. Also, I was recently informed that you can watch full episodes of many shows on abc(dot)com so I’ve been catching up on the last three seasons of Lost. I also really love America’s Next Top Model and House. Despite all this, I really don’t watch a whole lot of television -shifty eyes-

Trinity Tusaani - My favourite T.V. shows are probably stuff like The Amazing Race and oh yeah, my friend has gotten me watching Grey’s Anatomy right now- all three seasons. My other friends say that it’s not good for me.

Sarah - Ooh, I like America*s Next Top Model and House M.D. best I think I do like a lot of other little ones like CSI, Bones, Project Runway, Scrubs, Greys Anatomy etc. But I don*t get time to follow them since I don*t get to watch a lot of tv

Cook Michael - I think my avatar gives it away. Lost, Friends, The Simpsons, Malcolm in the Middle, Scrubs, and in general the music channels. Love them all.

Rock Star Elle - My favorite shows? Rugrats Hehe. Well- actually a number of shows, Im sadly really into those dating shows like I Love New York and Tila Tequila. Theyre weird- but entertaining. Thats all I can remember. Sorry!

 

Are you more into avatar collecting and wasting your NP or saving your NP? Why? - Stacey

Megg - I guess a bit of both. I save my NP but I also buy myself (eeks, I didn’t say my pets, how horrible am I?!) some random things. I like avatar collecting too and I won’t hesitate to buy some pricey items to get an avatar. Although I haven’t got some of the more expensive avs like Orange Grundo (need a Grundo and an orange PB), Mummified Ruki, Island Quiggle, those types of avatars.

Bella - Anyway, to your question - It depends. I have purchased items for the avatars, but some of the ones (like ZDAP, the Faerie Queen, Meowclops and some of the more expensive ones) I managed to find someone on the avatar chatboard to loan me. I still needed full collateral but I got it back when I returned the item.

Tillie - I’m not extremely into avatar collecting…there are other things i’d rather spend my NP on. I save it up to reach certain goals and then i spend it on those goals (i don’t make random purchases). Now i’m pretty much just training my Lupe and buying stuff for my galleries, and buying the occasional wearable.
Heh, well i like getting avatars, but i don’t try too hard because there are already so many i can’t get…like anything related to petpets (i’ll never detach any of mine to get, say, a Snowbunny) or pet species/color (i’ll never morph or paint any of my pets something else). So i don’t see the point of trying too hard for the expensive ones…i’m never going to have like 300 avatars. I’d only do it if there’s one i really like…

Shara - Actually, I like doing both. I usually work real hard and save a lot and then go blow it on avatars. I guess you could say that I would be on a shopping spree. Sometimes I can do both at the same time. The best way is through the games. You get to build your band and get avs at the same time. That is the hardest one for me though. I hate playing the games. I am not good at all.

Jen Hen - I’m a huge avatar collector. For whatever reason, I love the little pixels . I have blown a lot of neopoints on them, and I’m sure I’ll continue to do so in the future. I also spend a lot of neopoints on my two galleries. Every time I think I’m almost done, I find a whole assortment of other items I need to buy. It’s a never ending cycle. I do, however, also have a good base in my bank account of neopoints that I don’t let myself spend if I can avoid it.

Trinity Tusaani - Do I save my neopoints or waste them on avatars? I tend to save them. I only get the ones that I can resell or the ones that I’m going to actually use.

Cook Michael - I try to do a bit of everything I have been known to blow millions of neopoints at a time on junk, or gambling on nerkmids / slots / scratchcards. So far this year though, I have behaved myself, trying to save my neopoints. Although my neogoal was to reach 5 million neopoints for this year, I want to do even better and get passed 10 million. Miracles can happen

 

Have you ever been on a roller coaster that scared you out of you mind? Why did it scare you soo much? - Stacey

Megg - Nope, I’ve only been on a couple of roller coasters and they haven’t been really that scary. I wouldn’t go on an uber scary one, I’d be way too scared.

Awesome Amy - No, not a rollercoaster because I find the rollercoasters here quite boring and way too short. I love adrenaline! xD Anyway, I have been on other types of rides that freak me out like the Hurricane and the Ranger! They scared me out of my mind because it feels as though your about to chuck up your lunch on the Hurricane. On the Ranger it feels like you’re falling from so high up! They are the best rides though, the scariest and the most fun!

Jen Hen - Nope, I love roller coasters! They are so much fun Usually if I get scared just looking at a ride, I’ll avoid it altogether, but that rarely happens.

Jenny - I love roller coasters, the only time they scare me is if i don’t feel safe otherwise not at all. we have one called the borg and you lay down and it flips you over and you’re kinda flying, anyway they have this lap bar and then like a life vest you’d wear on a boat that’s holding you up and that kinda scares me because it’s not tight or anything and your back isn’t against the seat. Overall I LOVE roller coasters and am not scared on them.

Cook Michael - I have been on quite a few rollercoasters, and I love them The adrenaline rush you get from them, is in my opinion fantastic!

Tillie - Scary roller coaster: Id have to say Space Mountain at Disneyland. I had my eyes closed almost the whole time. Im sure id love it now, but i was only like 8 and it scared me to death!

Blue Wendy - I would have to say the Viper at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Los Angeles. "Starting with the world*s tallest vertical loop at 14 stories, and two other loops of 9 story and 6 stories. Add to that a 4 story corkscrew and a double barrel boomerang turn.", all done at 70 mph. It*ll turn your stomache inside out.

 

What is your favorite breakfast cereal? - Wise Christine

Wise Christine - i love too many ceareals to pick…. i love fruity pebbels and cocoa pebbles, captain crunch, honey smacks, golden grahms, corn pops, lucky charms…… yes the list could go on.

Megg - Aww, we don’t get all those cool named cereals like you do in the US, only your basic ones like Coco Pops, Fruit Loops and others I can’t think of right now. I go through phases, I’ll like cereal for a bit then can’t eat it for a while. At the moment I can’t eat cereal. But I like those "healthy" cereals where there’s fruit and lots of grains and that sort of stuff. Or muesli with yoghurt.

Bella - Favorite cereal? I happen to be lactose intolerant (I know… I have plenty of friends who are cows, but I can’t seem to face milk) so I can’t put milk in my cereal so I don’t eat it too often. So I have to buy special milk, which I often forget at the store, I love frosted mini wheats.

Awesome Amy - My fave cereal is good old porridge believe it or not! Nice and warm and soothing and perfect for Wintery days!

Trinity Tusaani - Mine would be Fruit Loops- however, do you have any idea of how much sugar is on that stuff?

Juliette - I think my favorite breakfast cereal is either oatmeal or cheerios crunch. My mother doesn’t let me have cocoa crunch, or whatever it’s called, she says it’s too sugary. Although, once she bought Fruitloops with 1/3 of the normal sugar, and I nearly fainted, I was so surprised. It tasted real nasty, though.

Jen Hen - It’s a tie between Life and Peanut Butter Crunch. I think Life might win though, simply because it is so much fun to utter the phrase "I love Life!"

Cook Michael - I tend to just have Rice Krispies, but Coco Pops are a nice treat to have from time to time

Rock Star Elle - My favorite type of cereal? Cocoa Krispies or Cocoa Puff.

Tillie - I like that muesli stuff, the kind with the fruit and nuts and all that in there. I also like oat flakes…they sound plain and boring but theyre really good.

Blue Wendy - Lucky Charms I dig all of those marshmallows.mmm sugary goodness.

 

Why did you first join Neopets? - Stacey

Megg - I almost didn’t join as it looked a bit too kid-like. I was going to sign up with an underage account because I was too embarrassed about my age. I think I was 23 at the time, what 23 year old plays on a kids site? But I thought, what the hey. I was on holidays in the US at the time and I had nothing better to do. Who would have thought I would still be playing 7 years later. This is the longest I’ve stuck to anything, hehe. I’m so glad I did as I’ve met some wonderful people. You chooks included, heehee :P

Awesome Amy - I first joined neopets because one of my friends led me here. I didn’t know what on Earth I was signing up for and then I got into the avatars and the shops and galleries and games and all of that stuff and now… I’m addicted! xD

Trinity Tusaani - I joined because my friends did! Peer pressure… well I was seven at the time.

Dane - Because I was living with my aunt and uncle for a summer, and my cousin had an account. Along with just about every other person under the age of 14, and quite a few older, in the neighborhood. We all had one and would chat with each other all the time. Wow, I can remember when I thought that having 10k was like the most amazing feat ever.

Shara - The answer to your question. I joined neopets because of Shawna. She was on a few months before me and I happen to walk by her room what day and asked what she was doing and she said it was something on the computer that she had found like the giga pets. When they were little. So, I checked it out and she helped me get signed up almost 5 years ago.

Cook Michael - I think I was 17 at the time, and my ex girlfriend used to play on the game Ultimate Bullseye. She wasn’t very good at it though, so asked me to make her some neopoints. I did, and got into it a bit, so decided to make my own account a few months later. I’ve done much better than her

Bella - Why did you join Neopets? Well once upon a time, I was forced by state law to take a basic computer class. Unfortunately for me, I was well beyond a basic level for the computer so I was bored senseless. I finished my whole workbook the first week of classes and needed something to do. I figured since I would be online everyday for class, I should find a virtual pet. So I went to yahoo (this was pre-google days) and looked up virtual pets and neopets was the first link to come up. I’ve been here pretty much ever since.

Sarafina - ordeith sucked me in many moons ago. I think I complained about being bored online and he referred me. I still curse him from time to time for this obsession.

Ninja Namine - i actually joined at a sleep over. we where bored and had nothing better to do, so we all made accounts. their accounts where long forgotten after about a week, but mine lasted for about 4 months (that would be my namine_artistic account that you all met me on). then that account was iced, so i made namine__artictic. so after about a month of playing i got totally addicted to it! you have to admit, this /is/ an addicting site.

Jen Hen - I think it was during the gigapet craze. I was looking for a website where I could take care of a virtual pet, and stumbled across neopia. I got hooked, and with the exception of the few hiatuses that I’ve taken, I’ve been here ever since

Jenny - I was a freshman in college and very bored. I hated my roommate, try living in a 8 x 10 room with someone you can’t stand. (i won’t elaborate, it would be endless) So, i did a random search and found bored(dot)com and from there I found tons of links to interesting sites including Neopets. I loved it from the start.

 

What was your best moment on Neopets in 2007? - Megg

Pasqui - Definitely my decission to take a break from Neopets. xD In the long run it made me enjoy Neopets even more than I did before, while at the same time no longer controlling me.

Princess Sammy - I am not really sure… maybe finally remembering how to get into this account

Sarah - I’d have to say getting uniced. Logging in this morning to see such a quick reply, and all my things in tact was… joyous to say the least. I was.. ecstatic xD Over the moon. Boucing off the walls.

Trinity Tusaani - Probably when I found a pretty little lost dessert paint brush!

Dane - Getting involved in the guild again. Seriously though, I’ve made some great friends here. It’s been one heck of a year chooks!

Shara - When I reached 1 millions nps in my bank. I refuse to go lower than that. If there is something I want I will just work and save my nps.

Cook Michael - Definitely has to be being donated so many hot dogs for my gallery by one person that was taking a break from the game.
Also completing Illusen’s Quest 35 to obtain the Honey Potion. I’m keeping that until the next war when it’s price will rocket

Sarafina - Truthfully, I wasn’t around enough to have a lot of great moments, but I did complete the Altador Plot.

Awesome Amy - My best moment on neopets in ‘07 was finding this guild definitely. I had some bad experiences with past guilds and I wasn’t so sure if this guild would be any different.
Well, it turns out that joining nbn is one of the best choices I’ve made guild-wise and I am here to stay!

Ninja Namine - deffently when the boochi zapped senchiko_chan. i miss him so much! him and my little kairi__kitten. but other than that, hitting 200k was also very awesome.

 

How many different items and total number of items are in your SDB? - Megg

Sarah - Items: 1,943 | Qty: 9,394
Items: 2,040 | Qty: 9,573

Megg - Account 1 - Items: 605 | Qty: 10,646
Account 2 - Items: 360 | Qty: 837

Pasqui - At this moment: Items: 2,495 | Qty: 10,437
Am I a hoarder or what? xD

Princess Sammy - 2… maybe I should start working on that packrat avatar… lol

Trinity Tusaani - As of now? Only 1! I’ve just got my Christmas Paint Brush from the advent calendar. I’m keeping in there until its price value goes up. I already have the avatar though.

Dane - Items: 1,121 | Qty: 1,450
I feel so left out.

Shara - As of Dec. 29 I have 50 different items in my SDB but 57 total.

Cook Michael - Total: Items: 1,801 | Qty: 3,390
Hot dogs: Items: 69 | Qty: 294

Sarafina - Items: 175 | Qty: 188

Awesome Amy - Items: 690 | Qty: 896 but this is changing all of the time because I am going for packrat avatar!

Ninja Namine - none. i dont see the point in it. but i know that i should keep all my rare items in it…i think ill start.

Jen Hen - Items: 382 | Qty: 819
Wow, I seem like such a slacker compared to some of you

Jenny - I still haven’t cleaned out everything from getting the packrat avvie, plus i keep putting more stuff in there
Items: 388 | Qty: 555

 

What does your username mean? - Bella

Bella - A long time ago, I was a writer for a local Catholic newspaper (I was in 9th grade or so) and the priest who over saw my column always called me “beautiful child of Christ” so when I started taking French lessons I decided that Christabella was the perfect name for me. So even since, all my screennames and even my name on non-Neopet webboards is Christabella. Humorously enough, I’ve used it for so long that when I’ve met my online friends offline (I attended college with a few of them) they couldn’t remember to call me Katey or Katelyn, but always Bella. And the 611 is my birthday June 11th

Megg - nBnGallery is pretty obvious, I started the account to be a gallery of all cool things Neopian. But that didn’t quite work out. I’ve got a few things in the gallery that are worth a bit, but I don’t really collect them any more.
My other username, d_licious, well that’s a screen name I used on the internet all the time. Now, I don’t like it with the underscore in there, but oh well :P

Awesome Amy - My username defines me! No, I don’t really remember why I chose to be "Awesome Amy"- I used to really dislike my choice of username but I’ve grown to it! I mean, I am pretty awesome right?

Hummer Jeannie - My user name is a combination of two parts. Hummingbird is my childhood nickname (long story) and Grey is last name of Jean Grey aka Phoenix of the x-men, my favorite superhero so Hummer + Grey became hummergrey. Now everyone thinks of the vehicle hummer.

Pong - When I started this account, I was off a LOTR craze - narestel is a compound word, nar is (what I think is) Elvish for fire and estel is hope - so literally, flame of hope or something along those lines. My Lupe, Nar_Huan, runs by the same reasoning - Huan is Elvish for hound, so Nar_Huan = Hound of Fire

Crystaline - too created my username with the LOTR theme. Heck, just look at my pets’ names! (By the way, Peter Jackson officially made a deal for The Hobbit! Whoo Hoo!)

Tillie - My user name means that i like stuff relating to atomic energy and i like squids. So i REALLY like atomic squids. o_O I know, that wasn’t a very good explanation…there really just isn’t one. XD

Blue Wendy - As to "where my screen name came from?" "blue4657" It is actually the name of a bar that I used to manage six years ago. The Blue Saloon. and 4657 is the street address. Not very creative I know, but at the time it was relevant information that I need to remember. lol.

Dane - My username has a rather unusual story behind it. Way back when I was around nine or so, (like six years ago.) I was trying to create a screenname for nick.com. Well, back then I had a Great Dane named Chance. I was completely crazy about Great Danes. My room was even decorated with them. Anyways, when I was making up a username, the name greatdane was already taken. So somehow my nine-year-old brain changed it around to gatedne. And I used that screenname for just about everything for roughly five years. I was such a creative kid. The nickname Dane just kinda sprang up one day randomly. Not really much of a story behind it.

Trinity Tusaani - My username was created about six years ago when I was seven. ‘Tusaani’ is a penname that my friends used to call me and the front has seven sevens since I was seven years old then. I’m thirteen now but I didn’t play regularily for about four years inbetweeen. Great question by the way!

Jenny - A nickname of mine is Jenny Lynn and my brother started calling me Jennylynnburger(or so I thought) and I needed a screen name, so I thought of what my bro calls me and there ya have it. I was talking to him on the phone one day and told him that I used his nickname for me and then I realized that that wasn’t what he’d been calling me(for years). See he’d usually say jennylynn burger(with)cheese, well that’s what he said in my head, in actuality he’d been saying . . .Jenny Limburger Cheese. He’d been calling me stinky. Typical big brother. And the origin of my name.

Stacey - My user lookup name has no meaning

Alyssa - Umm.. at one point when I was younger, we had 19 pets, so our house was literally, a "crazy zoo". Plus, my life has always been a little bit chaotic.

Pasqui - Simple: my username is my actual name plus my favourite letter, since my actual name was already taken as an account (and only one week before I rejoined Neopets…)

Princess Sammy - Nickname growing up and my birthday

Shara - My username mae3067 came from my middle name Mae and my birthday the 30th day of September in 1967.

Cook Michael - It’s my surname, with a x either side

Sarafina - Sarafina was Nala’s mother in the Lion King. At the time I decided to use it, my best friend was using Sarabi (Simba’s mom). It made a lot more sense then.

Ninja Namine - well my first ever account was namine_artistic. meaning my name and the fact im artistic. but then i was iced and i made namine__artictic. the artictic was actually a typo. then that was iced so i made namine_artictic. same typo and everything. -sigh- spelling stinks

Jen Hen - Well, my original account was called poetess_123. I created it when I was in my "I am the poetry goddess of the world!" phase of life. The 123 really didn’t have any meaning…it was just easy to remember. Anyway, after I had that account for a little over a year, I got taken in by a fake login page and my account was stolen. At the time I really didn’t know how to go about getting it back, so I created this one.

 

Do you, or plan to, buy Neocash? - Crystaline

Megg - I didn’t have any plans to buy NeoCash when it first came out. I didn’t like the idea of items expiring after 180 days, I thought that was a bit silly. I would have got some NC Mall items, but it would have to be something that I really really wanted. But now TNT have changed it so items don’t expire, I’ve already purchased several things. I spent about $10 so far and will probably spend more in the future. I still think that items are a little overpriced, well especially when they had an expiry date on them. So yes, I definitely plan on buying from the NC Mall.

Bella - I have a mix of neopoint and neocash items. The selection is kind of limited. So until they release more stuff, I will probably not buy much more. I really just wanted to spruce up my Ice Bori and my Blumaroo, because I will never lab zap them. The other two, I am not as concerned with.

Tillie - I’ve bought a LOT of neocash…on all five of my accounts. XD Now i keep buying all the snow stuff from the mall, it’s so great that we can keep it now. It doesn’t seem silly to buy seasonal stuff anymore because i can use it every year, whee!

Stacey - Yes i plan to buy neocash!

Pasqui - At first I was totally against the whole NeoCash and NeoMall things. But I learned to live with it and decided that it’s still a lot better than a lot of other things that cost money and that people pay for everyday. Now, it’s unlikely that I will buy NeoCash anytime soon, but in time, who knows? It will depend on what they’re selling, at the moment there isn’t anything I would like to have, especially since I can get pretty much all the NP clothes.

Princess Sammy - No. I think Neopets should be a free website and you shouldn’t have to have real money to have an advantage over others.

Trinity Tusaani - No- I’ll live without the stuff there.

Shara - I don’t feel that we should have to spend real money to play a free game on the internet. It gives advantages to some but disadvantages to others. I think we should all have a fair shot at the great things of Neopia. Although, I do understand that they have to make money some how to work the site that we are all playing for free. Maybe someday if I can have extra cash I will buy some neocash. Maybe I can receive some for my birthday.

Cook Michael - No, never I only come onto this website because I can do so for free.

Bella - Will you buy NC Mall stuff? I like Megg wasn’t too fond of the idea when it first opened because things expired. But I have since put whatever the lowest amount I could on with Paypal and have used it. I am not sure I’ll buy any more NeoCash, but I won’t say never.

Sarafina - haven’t yet. Not sure if I ever will or not.

Awesome Amy - No, for now I don’t have any intentions of buying neocash. I might in a couple of years’ time but for now it is a definite no.

Ninja Namine - ive been thinking about asking my father to get me it. but i think before that i will get premioum. the extras sound wicked awesome to me!

Jen Hen - I didn’t plan to get any, especially when things expired. However, when they took away the expiration dates, I was thinking about it. Especially since I love that Kreludor background. Then, for Christmas, one of my neofriends actually bought me neocash! I couldn’t believe it. I was so excited

Lola Kat - No. I was really not ok with it when it had an expiration date. Now that it has no expiration date the thought has crossed my mind but at the end of the day I don’t like the idea of spending money to virtually own pixels on a computer screen.

 

What do you all hope to get this Christmas? On and off Neopets? - Celeamage Misty

Celeamage Misty - On and off Neopets? For me I like books.. I read all the time and then try to think of ways to make my story I’m writing even better. -chuckles-

Jen Hen - For Christmas I would love a draik egg/draik morphing potion, yeah, that’ll happen when Mystery Island freezes over Realistically, I really love random gifts. Especially when they have a story or inside joke attached. Off neopets, I already know what I’m getting from my grandparents, and it’s the best gift ever…a plane ticket home! I’m quite excited about it.

Bella - Thanks for asking… I am hoping to get some cash toward a new camera. I have taken up photography (even a bit of wedding photography), I am making some money with it, but my really old camera (circa 1990) is barely a 1.1 Megapixel. If you are curious how bad that is your camera phone is at least a 2 megapixel. The camera I want is $700 not including lenses. As far as on Neopets, I love the advent calendar which I have dedicated my gallery too, so it doesn’t really matter what we get since I put it in there straight away.

Megg - 1000 piles of Sludge! For uber indulgence, a Royal PB and a Grundo MP. Which I’m hoping I can afford in the new year, so it will be a belated Christmas present.

Alyssa - I’m hoping all my friends (online and off) have a safe and happy holiday. I wouldn’t want anyone else getting hurt. I’m also hoping they all get what they would like
I’m also asking for a ton of music. My computer crashed, and that took all of my music with it, so I’ve been in a bit of a craze lately trying to rebuild.

Pasqui - Nothing. And that’s exactly what I got off Neopets. On Neopets several people did give me something though… I rather don’t look at those gifts as Christmas gifts though.

Princess Sammy - I really didn’t want anything specific

Shara - Off of neopets I wanted clothes and a TV and I got just that and on neopets there really wasn’t anything in particular I wanted. Although a one day, one shot at all the retired avatars would have been wonderful. Ha Ha

Awesome Amy - I didn’t really have any specific wants.

 

What do you all hope to get in the Advent Calendar? Be specific! - Jesse

Jesse - Personally, I’m hoping to get some more non-seasonal clothing items. I also hope to get a petpet paintbrush like we have the past couple of years - they really help my gallery. Bopks are always great, but expensive, because I instantly buy three more copies for my other pets, then buy enough for my alts’ pets. That adds up. Furniture is great, too, though my house can only use specific items now. Maybe a good plain rug or two. It seems we get a few too many toy items from the calendar, though I won’t complain!

Megg - So far I’m really happy with how many clothing/wearables we’ve got. I hope the trend continues as the winter goodies are adorable. Agree that some books would be nice. Other than that, I want to be surprised.

Dane - For the Advent Calender, I’m really hoping to get some more wearables for my pets. Hopefully by the end of the month, I’ll be able to make my pets look somewhat decent. All Larry looks like at the moment is that I randomly threw clothes onto him. Which is kind of what I did. A paint brush would also be quite nice. And of course, I can’t forget all the wonderful Neopoints. Those are quite nice.

Shara - Not really wishing for anything from Santa in particular. I guess I will just be glad with whatever I may receive. The advent has been awesome to me because that is my gallery.

Alyssa - Umm.. I’m just hoping its not going to be too expensive for me to catch up and buy everything I’ve missed!

Pasqui - I really was hoping for plenty of wearables, and I’m absolutely happy TNT actually did give out plenty of wearables! Next to that I was also hoping for a few items that fit in my collections, but so far they gave only one Q item and nothing else, so I’m a bit disappointed there.

Princess Sammy - I missed the free Christmas Paint Brush, so I guess maybe another shot at that, a new avatar or the winter sidebar.

Trinity Tusaani - Something to add to my avatar list.

Shara - A new avatar would have been great. I am well pleased with everything I got though because it all went in my gallery.

Awesome Amy - I wanted some pink and purple items for my gallery and there were a few!

 

What are your plans for Thanksgiving? - Pacific Julie

Pacific Julie - I don’t have anything set ins tone yet, but I am looking forward to the Holiday, so, what are all of you up to?

 

If you could change something that happend in history for the better what would it be? - Wise Christine

Samy - Change something that happened in History for the better, huh…? Now that’s a tough one… Hmmm… Maybe for World War II to not occur? Then the world’s economical status should be much better, haha.

Dane - If I could change something…it would probably have been the invention of automobiles that run on gasoline. Then vehicles today wouldn’t ruin the environment as much as they do.

Mathilda - Well, there is one obvious answer that comes to mind (somehow prevent WWII and the horrible stuff that led up to it - i can think of one certain person that it would have been fun to take to Antarctica and abandon on an ice floe) but there are plenty of other things that would be nice to change too. Humans make way too many mistakes. XP

Alyssa - SO MUCH POTENTIAL in this question. There are a lot of things I could think of that probably would be testing T&C, so I will keep my mouth shut.

Pasqui - How cruel this may sound, if I had to change one thing in history for the better, I would make sure that evolution never ended up in creating the human. Every other living thing; animals and plants, would have a much better life, and the planet wouldn’t be totally messed up.

Princess Sammy - Although recently, I’d change September 11th… too many lives have been lost, besides my country has been going down the wrong path since.

Shara - If I could have changed anything it would have been Slavery. I believe that this is the root cause of most of our racialism. All of the fights and gangs and just people against people in general. There is no cause for it.

Awesome Amy - So many choices, oh so many choices. I would somehow stop the September 11 attacks and the Bali bombings for sure. Two disasters that shouldn’t have happened…

 

Out of all of the video game genres, which are your favorites? Examples include action, action-adventure, shooter, role playing, platform, simulation, sports, racing, strategy and tactical, etc. - Samy

Samy - I generally prefer RPGs (Role Playing Games), due to their often attractive storylines, and MMORPGS (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games), the interaction between many players attract me.

Megg - I like racing games, like Crash Bandicoot racing, I pwn husband at that. I also like fighting games, I can’t remember any of the titles that I used to play on the PS2 since it’s been so long since I’ve played. But I was pretty good at mashing all the keys together to win.

Elm - Well, I’m not quite sure what to call it – I suppose it is role playing but it is also strategic. I used to play the game Civilization in its many incarnations. It can be played on many levels and you can also play against other players on the web.

Morgan - Hmm. Well, I don’t play video games. I used to play frogger when I was little, but it’s been years. Now the closest I come to video games is playing tetris on my calculator. I tried playing Halo 3 the other day with the guys, didn’t work out too well. I think I had negative 20 kills or something like that.

Cook Michael - PS2 I’m a big fan of the Medal of Honor Games. When I had a mega drive though, it was Road Rash all the way

Awesome Amy - Well, I enjoy platform games, they’re easy to learn and very fun. I also quite like fighting games like Mortal Combat! Well, for the Xbox 360 I LOVE Viva Pinata and Mortal Combat and Mario-land Paper!

Wise Christine - no fave. video game genres. i don’t really play. i don’t really get a chance to play anyways cause the husband hogs the ps2. i like to sit on the couch though and help him play god of war (i read the cheat book to him while he is playing) and i like to watch him play the god father game.

Mathilda - I’ve always liked the good ol’ side-scrolling shooters and action types…my all-time favorites being the Metroid series, Duke Nukem 3D, Super Mario Bros. 1, 2 and 3, and Donkey Kong Country 1, 2 and 3. I don’t like those RPG kind where all you do is run around and talk to all the villagers too well. I also like skiing/snowboarding games for when i can’t get up to the mountain, but they are a rather poor substitute.

Alyssa - I think racing, like car racing games, I have fun with those, and then also like Megg said, Crash Bandicoot, that was the game of my childhood xD I don’t ever play them though, but if I had to choose, that would be it.

Pasqui - Puzzle-adventure. Yes, that’s a genre, the Legend of Zelda series being top in it! But basically any puzzle or adventure games are on my top list.

Princess Sammy - I like roleplaying games

Trinity Tusaani - Action.

Shara - I am not much into games. Sorry.

 

How many people have gotten good colors from the lab ray petpet or pet? - Maddie

Megg - My best zap from the lab ray has been a Robot Kacheek. I squealed when I got it a few years ago. I’ve got other good zaps, a Grey pet (but I’ve since zapped), a few Maraquan pets as well.

Cook Michael - As you can imagine, I’m trying to get he/she (I have no idea what it is anymore) zapped something evil looking. I’ve had rainbow, cloud, orange, island, pink, white, green, blue, blah blah blah. Nothing evil looking!!!
elvis_of_neo was zapped from green kyrii, to tyrnannian meerca, to tyrannian nimmo, and I’ve kept him as that ever since. I still consider him as my main pet, and he won’t be getting zapped anymore. And he won’t be getting customised, as the new tyrannian nimmo looks stupid!

Jenny - I have actually gotten lots of fairly good zaps, when the pound was working I would adopt pets zap them into something good and them put them back. Right now i’ve got a stupid kyrii, and apparently you can’t feed them apples.

Samy - Oh yeah, I do. Back in the good old days when Chikority was a Scorchio, I got Gray (which got me excited, because of the avatar), and Camouflage, which I myself think of as a pretty nifty and nice-looking colour.
It all changed when Chikority got zapped into another species. Although it did get me the Pwned by the Lab avatar, I still prefer a Scorchio. =_____=

Mathilda - I don’t use or want either lab rays. Too random. Mleh.

Alyssa - I really like Gray, so when one of my pets turned gray early on, I was pretty psyched. Faerie was pretty too. That was back when those colours used to look fairly decent on pets

Pasqui - I’ve pretty much gotten all colours that you can get from the lab. But yeah, as a lab lover I’ve always had multiple accounts with access to the lab, and now I even have access to it on all 5 my accounts.

Princess Sammy - I don’t have the lab ray… working on it though.

Sarah - I have gotten a lot of good colours, like Desert Shoyru, Darigan Zafara, Grey Uni, Maraquan Bruce, a lot of them I really liked but didn’t keep, however customization has made it so that I want more colours with clothes so that I can prettify my pets I’ve stopped using the petpet lab because it got expensive keeping it because it kept.

Trinity Tusaani - I’m still saving up to get one!

Shara - I don’t have the lab ray at this time. Although, I am saving the secret laboratory map pieces so if anyone has them for sale please neomail me with fair offers.

 

If you had 1 million dollars - what would you do with it? - Awesome Amy

Awesome Amy - I’d keep 400,000 in the bank for safe keeping, then I’d take 300,000 to spend on luxurious items! =) Then, with the excess 300,000 I’d use that and donate it to several different places such as the Heart Foundation, the Children Sickness Research Foundation, the Cancer Council, the poverty causes and many other needy funds! I’d spend the luxurious 300,000 on plenty of things, swimming pool, clothes, car etc.
So, what about you? =)

Megg - I’d put a deposit on my $2 million dream house :P Nah, I would buy a nice house in Cairns, go on a nice holiday and have a nice time.

Insatiable Karen - What would I do with a million dollars?? I would buy enough property to build a shelter for homeless animals and to help people afford to pay for health care for the animals. This would be for people who truely need it. I love animals and wish I could afford to help them all.

Wise Christine - darn us govt taking taxes! i am in the middle of paying our stupid school tax after i already paid my property tax and my per capita tax. and have to pay taxes at the end of the year. boooo taxes. if i had 1 mill i would pay off my house and get a bigger house.

Samy - One million dollars, in what currency? o.O One million Ecuador Sucre is only worth forty US bucks… XD
While one million Kuwait Dinar is worth US$3,586,672… O.O Yeah, call me bored or anything, I actually went to play around with a currency converter for five minutes before I got the maximum and minimum amounts… XD Anyway, one million dollars, huh? I’d deposit them into the bank and live off the interest! XD *takes calculator out* No wait, meh, I can’t live off the interest even with a million bucks. : Darn banks and their low interest rates.

Mathilda - If i had a million dollars…hmm. I’d buy a bigger house than the one i’m in the process of buying now…not a mansion or anything, just something nice. Wouldn’t spend more than 300K on it. Then i’d buy a new Mercedes because my old Mercedes is…well, old. XD I’d adopt another dog or two from the shelter (i’d adopt them all if i could, lol). I’d donate some to my favorite charities. I’d take that trip around Europe and to Antarctica i’m intending to go on someday. And i guess i’d invest/bank the rest until i figured out something else better to do with it.

Morgan - Save it. I know. I’m boring. But most of it would go to taxes anyway.. so whatever.

Alyssa - I would put away enough for me to go to college, and then use the rest to rebuild our house, it needs work

Pasqui - Assuming we’re talking about USD, that would make roughly 700,000 EUR at the moment. That would just not be enough to live of the interests from it, so I would probably look to invest half of it wisely to up the amount. Preferable in things that also help the environment, like organic foods, etc. Would never invest in something that helps destroying the planet.

Princess Sammy - Probably help my mom out with some bills and then use what is left to take her on vacation.

Sarah - Keep it in the bank x__x I need three year’s worth of uni fees right now, which is roughly 5k a year. It would definitely help relieve both me and my parents

Shara - Pay the church their tithes first, then I would pay my house off because it is Shawnas and buy both my boys a home and then build me and my husband a log cabin out in the country and then buy my husband and I and all three kids a new vehicle. Then I would open a savings for my new grand daughter and then put the rest in the bank for a rainy day.

Cook Michael - First of all I would buy a house, as I need a long term investment in my life
Then I would take my girlfriend on holiday to somewhere we could just relax away from work.
With what I had left, I would buy my parents a house, as we currently just rent, and I would buy myself a better new car, and save the rest

Sarafina - Mmmm…I’d pay off our house, take a trip to Italy, and buy gifts for all of our family.

 

If you could relive any moment or time in history what moment or time would that be? - Wise Christine

Megg - So many to choose from! From my own history, I would love to go on the cruise that my family did last year. It was so much fun being with my sister and folks. From real history, I would like to see the first moon landing. I wouldn’t mind going back to the old west to see what that was like as well.

Nerkie Ven - I want to relive the time that me and best guy friend Flem and I went to Target and rode the bikes around the store.

Celeamage Misty - Oh I would love to see the medevil timeframe because I love the idea of princess and princes, I also want to see the stone circle! If I could I would also want to see the egyptain times so I could earn to read and speck there langue as well as I could find out about there gods and goddess. eppp I could go on and on..

Mathilda - Wow, that’s a tough one! I think it would have been really exciting to be around for the first moon landing. Going back a little further, i would have liked to have seen dinosaurs roaming the Earth.

Awesome Amy - If I relived ANY moment in history I’d go back to the dinosaur ages, that way, I could clear speculations about how dinosaurs really were killed of and I’d be able to see the beats with my own eyes! =)

Samy - Any moment or time that I would like to relive in History, huh…? That sounds like a tough one.
*thinks for a while* *flips through History textbook* Ah, that’s it! I’d like to witness the Berlin Wall being tore down by those Germans.

Morgan - During the Civil Rights movement of the 60s. I want to see Martin Luther King Jr give a speech.

Cook Michael - For a big moment in history, I would love to have been at the 1973 cup final between Sunderland and Leeds. It’s the last time Sunderland won a domestic trophy, and it was one of the biggest upsets of all time. It is still spoken about today, and following the sad death of one of the players recently, I just feel it would be a moment I would love to have seen.

Alyssa - In my own history? Oh goodness.. I’m not sure. I would have to put a lot of thought into that question, that would be an amazing opprotunity.
In history of the world..? Again, I have no idea. Those would both be incredible, once-in-a-lifetime things, and nothing terribly significant has happened in my life yet, I’m not old enough to be able to like, relive the day I met my future spouse, or the day I get married, or had my first kid or anything like that.

Pasqui - Nothing in the past really interests me, and I assume the future isn’t history yet so I can’t say "the year 3000!"… if I really have to choose something in the past, then probably the age of the earliest civilisations.

Princess Sammy - I always really thought the 1800’s were kind of cool…besides it was when the US was still really young so I could have helped shape our future

Trinity Tusaani - Hmm… this is a hard one. I don’t know… there’s just so much!

Shara - Whatever the times were of Little House on the Prairie. I loved that show and would so love to live in that time.