Originally asked
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, 7 June 2008 source ↗
When Rufus first came out, it was all white guys and myself, but then the band changed and Tony Maiden, Bobby Watson and Andre Fischer came in. This guy booked us for a gig in Illinois, based on our original album cover, and when we got there he said that there were too many black people in the band. He actually put some white guys on the stage with us.
When I started as a researcher in the BBC, I was working for an editor who was a self-confessed misogynist. He used to practise shooting by aiming his air gun at an aerosol can balanced just over my head. I made it a matter of pride not to flinch as the pellets whizzed by.
When I was at school, I had a summer job where I had to buff blocks of plastic for a display unit. The factory only remembered to give us masks on day three.
Working in a chip shop when I was 16. I gave my friends massive portions, but the smell was gross.
Yesterday: my old dog, Kim, has cancer, and I have to let him die now.
Jimmy Carter, for his wisdom and courage in going to meet Hamas.
Dying in a plane crash and having somebody else get top billing.
Visiting my children at college. I don't stay long, because their lives are so busy - the way they should be.
To a man whose heart I broke at 17.
Acting like the good little girl.
Kiefer Sutherland, Roger Allam, John Waters, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sue Perkins, Martin Kemp
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