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J. Jonah Jerkson

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Anniversary survey from... the Hooded Hood.

Subj: Re: Parodyverse 10th Anniversary: Then and Now Survey
Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 at 12:30:18 pm EDT (Viewed 374 times)
Reply Subj: Parodyverse 10th Anniversary: Then and Now Survey
Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 at 07:37:20 am EDT



> Hello and welcome to our THEN and NOW survey, in which we reflect upon where we were when the Parodyverse was born in September 1998. We therefore require answers to the following questions:
>
> 1a. Where were you in September 1998? What were you doing at the time?
> Living in a New York leafy suburb with wife, 7 year old daughter, 5 year old son and incontinent, semi-feral cat. Working as lawyer for a somewhat dodgy investment firm, and wondering when my boss would blow up at me next.
> 1b. Where are you now and what are you doing?
> Living in a larger house in same leafy suburb, etc., with a docile, affectionate cat. Working as lawyer for large, reputable investment bank that thank heaven got out of mortgage securities in 2004. Coping with wife's severe illness.
> 2a. What was your favourite media character, book, song, and/or comic in 1998?
> Sir Humphrey Appleby in the "Yes, Minister" series. Not only brilliantly funny but I've used many of his stratagems when things were desperate. They ought to teach his view on minuting in law school.
> 2b. What is it now? And how do you feel about the things you liked in 1998?
> The same. "Yes, Minister" is timeless.
> 3a. If we’d have asked you in 1998 to predict what would happen to you and the world in the next ten years what would you have said?
> The developed world will get more competitive, coarser, and experience the blowup of an asset bubble. As for me, sooner or later my boss would either get me or the authorities would get him.
> 3b. How right would you have been?
> I was wrong about the authorities.
> 4a. If you could go back to 1998 and give yourself a piece of advice what would it be?
> Get out.
> 4b. If future you came back from 2018 what one question would you ask him or her?What could I do better to raise/help my children?
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> 5a. What were your Parodyverse characters doing in 1998?
> Beth Zemo nee' Dewdrop: Senior in high school in North Dakota, frustrated that she didn't make cheerleaders, color guard, majorettes or pompom squad and diverting her frustration into academics. Sally Rezilyant: Junior in high school in Fairfax, Va., and finding out she could be *very* popular with the football team, the track team, the soccer team . . . . Baron Ottokar Zemo: Combating a superannuated Yale professor of archaeology in the tunnels underneath a mysterious pyramid.
> 5b. Where are they now, and what’s going to happen to them next?
> I'll write something, sometime, somehow -- just as soon as the financial markets straighten out. I've been on Fannie/Freddie, Lehman, AIG, Merrill Lynch and Fed duty for weeks.
> Keep tuned for more anniversary events this week, and don’t forget you’re allowed – nay, encouraged - to comment on other people’s replies.





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