{"id":108,"date":"2006-01-31T05:02:40","date_gmt":"2006-01-31T05:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=108"},"modified":"2011-11-26T05:03:10","modified_gmt":"2011-11-26T05:03:10","slug":"monthly-bandwagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=108","title":{"rendered":"Monthly bandwagon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jump on! If you&#8217;re an Internet junkie or frequent the blogosphere at all you&#8217;ve probably run into the Four Things Meme. What&#8217;s a &#8220;meme&#8221; you ask? According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meme\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a>, it&#8217;s a piece of information traveling from one mind to another, with an analogy of &#8220;language as a virus.&#8221; That pretty well describes the &#8220;Four Things&#8221; phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>So, here are my answers to the list that&#8217;s going around:<\/p>\n<p>Four jobs you&#8217;ve had in your life:<\/p>\n<p>1. Ski patrol at a famous ski resort<br \/>\n2. Undercover shoplifting investigator<br \/>\n3. TV news technical director<br \/>\n4. Law enforcement<\/p>\n<p>Four movies you could watch over and over:<\/p>\n<p>1. Real Genius<br \/>\n2. Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?<br \/>\n3. Paulie<br \/>\n4. Top Gun<\/p>\n<p>Four Places You&#8217;ve Lived:<\/p>\n<p>1. Montana<br \/>\n2. North Dakota<br \/>\n(that&#8217;s all I&#8217;ve got&#8230;various places around each state)<\/p>\n<p>Four TV shows you love to watch:<\/p>\n<p>1. Boston Legal<br \/>\n2. 24<br \/>\n3. Seinfeld<br \/>\n4. Miami Vice<\/p>\n<p>Four Places you&#8217;ve been on vacation:<\/p>\n<p>1. Deals Gap, NC<br \/>\n2. Disney World<br \/>\n3. Glacier Park<br \/>\n4. Brainerd International Raceway<\/p>\n<p>Four blogs you visit daily:<br \/>\n1. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justincone.com\/tween\" target=\"_blank\">Tween<\/a><br \/>\n2. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xplsv.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\">XPLSVtv<\/a><br \/>\n3. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fark.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">FARK.com<\/a><br \/>\n4. Any of the fine blogs (mostly ND) listed on the panel to the right<\/p>\n<p>Four of your favorite foods:<br \/>\n1. Italian Sausage Pizziola Pasta at &#8220;The Walrus&#8221; in Bismarck<br \/>\n2. A&amp;B Pizza &#8211; italian sausage with black olives<br \/>\n3. Applebee&#8217;s boneless buffalo wings &#8211; heavy on the sauce<br \/>\n4. Bourbon Street Steak<\/p>\n<p>Four places I&#8217;d rather be:<br \/>\n1. Bed<br \/>\n2. Racing my motorcycles<br \/>\n3. SCUBA diving in warm caribbean water<br \/>\n4. Snowboarding the top of Challenger<\/p>\n<p>Four albums I can&#8217;t live without:<br \/>\n1. Vince Guaraldi: &#8220;Charlie Brown Christmas&#8221;<br \/>\n2. Tangerine Dream: &#8220;Pergamon&#8221;<br \/>\n3. Seal: self-titled<br \/>\n4. B-52&#8217;s: &#8220;Naked on the Moon&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Four vehicles I&#8217;ve owned:<br \/>\n1. Nine motorcycles, several at the moment<br \/>\n2. Chevy Astro van with a stick shift<br \/>\n3. Chevy Luv pickup with a tendency to get airborne<br \/>\n4. Snowboard &#8220;Mavis&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Four people to be &#8220;tagged&#8221; who have to complete this:<br \/>\n(Consider yourself &#8220;tagged&#8221; if you&#8217;re reading this.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jump on! If you&#8217;re an Internet junkie or frequent the blogosphere at all you&#8217;ve probably run into the Four Things Meme. What&#8217;s a &#8220;meme&#8221; you ask? 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