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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's long-running Q&A repeatedly asks this standing question, with minor tense variation.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 November 2020 source ↗
I had to choreograph dancing cows for a commercial. I had to superimpose footage of dancing legs – some were mine – on to the cow. It was bonkers.
When I worked at a dog food company shovelling the exterminated rats.
When I was younger, I appeared in the Halifax adverts that featured a cake or a bridge made of hundreds of people. You stood there for three days and were not even really seen.
Working at a petrol station.
My teenage years in the Runaways: I was still naive enough to think good things about the world and life and people, and I was having fun playing rock’n’roll around the world, living the dream.
An astronaut, an archaeologist, an actor, and a musician.
My buddy Kenny Laguna. He’s a person of extraordinary character, he’s intelligent, and a very good friend.
Right after 9/11, Kenny and I went to perform for the troops in Pakistan and Uzbekistan. As we were flying in, an electronic voice went off: “Warning: missile launch! Warning: missile launch!” The Taliban had fired a rocket at us. I was waiting to see the back of the plane blow up, but it didn’t and we landed.
Amazing Grace, on bagpipes.
I don’t think I’d change anything: the bad forms you more than the good.
Bill Bailey, Melanie Chisholm, Elaine Paige, Sheena Easton, David Hasselhoff, Jennifer Hudson
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