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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, 24 January 2009 source ↗
In my first job in film, a giant bloke dressed like a sumo wrestler asked me to get his G-string out of his arse. He said he couldn’t reach it.
Magician’s assistant on a cruise ship for two weeks when I was 19. When I was meant to be being levitated, I was silently crying while pretending to be unconscious as I hung limply off a metal pole. It was bleak.
Washing up in the Ford factory canteen in Dagenham.
Working on an assembly line in a plastics factory.
To my dad for not making it back to Birmingham to see him while I was in London doing The Streets.
When I was a child and I got a new toy.
Infinite money might allow me to achieve unbounded creativity.
My microphone cost me six grand.
My brother was singing Yellow Submarine on stage with his class. I was singing along with them, showing off cos I knew all the words. The song ended suddenly and I was the only one in the whole hall who sang, 'We ...'
That I might have to do a normal job.
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