26 questions I've always wanted the answer to

1) What's the best gift you've ever received, and why?

2) What one class would you like to re-attend (from grade school all the way up?)

3) What's the earliest phone number you've had that you can remember?

4) Describe your mood today by telling me which album you know that would most closely match it.

5) What made you pick the institution of higher education that you attended (or did not attend)?

6) Which of the following common ailments do you find most annoying, and for what reason? Chapped lips, paper cuts, blemishes.

7) Why would you / did you befriend a disorganized, melodramatic, neurotic brainiac like me?

8) Tell me the nicest compliment you can remember getting.

9) What's the world's best scent, and why?

10) Why is garlic in all the dishes that are served in "romantic" restaraunts?

11) What's the best part about the job you have right now?

12) Why did women decide to toss aside their dresses and shoes for pants and workboots? How come we don't dress like ladies anymore?

13) What do you imagine is said about you most often when you leave a room?

14) Who do you most miss in your life right now?

15) What do you think Mona Lisa is smiling at?

16) Of what ancestral heritage are you most proud to claim, and why?

17) What holiday do you most dread, and why?

18) Why, oh why, does Microsoft make god-forsaken counterintuitive products that still manage to get used in every organization I have ever worked for?

19) What do you think MY job entails (I know what I do, but I don't know what other people think...)

20) What ARE all the words to "It's the End of the World As We Know It?"

21) Tell me about a secret indulgence in which you love to partake, but not very many others know about.

22) What's the best "family name" you've got a claim to (IE, your uncle Egebert...)?

23) Quick - you're invited to a dinner party. What's the most tempting menu you hope to be offered?

24) When is the last time you hand-wrote and mailed (with postage) a paper letter?

25) Think way back: what was the best art project you ever did while in school? What made it so fantastic?

26) You're very, very late to something incredibly important one morning, and you are also wickedly hung over. You have to choose to do only one of the following: you either get to shower or drink caffeine. You can't do both; which do you pick, and why?