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4. I enjoy mixing cocktails. Considerably more than I enjoy drinking them. Fortunately, this is not a problem, as I live with Frances.

I've got a friend who is really into his cocktails - do you have all the shakers and stirrers and different types of glasses?

10. On the occasions someone I don't know has made an obvious chat-up attempt in a club/bar etc, their opening line has always been either to ask me what the E I wear round my neck stands for, or to tell me I have nice hair.

I think I've only ever had the 'nice hair' one.

16. I like spiders. I seem, however, doomed to live with arachnophobes so spend much of my life throwing spiders out of other people's bedrooms. The spiders in my room get to stay there - consequently there are usually a few cobwebs on the ceiling. (I seem to have a spell checker which doesn't like "arachnophobes" and suggests I replace it with "archbishops".)

I like your spellchecker (just as long as I don't have to use it).

18. I have had long hair as long as I can remember, and have never considered cutting it off. I used to have a fringe, but grew it out when I was about 16 (after a period of experimentation with a strange flicky half fringe, which my friends really ought to have prevented me from doing).

Good!  Hate it when people with long hair shave it all of, or otherwise hack it to pieces.

20. I have a very fast heartbeat. Its resting rate is usually somewhere round 100.

That's a bit disturbing - have the doctors ever said anything about it?

30. I have only been on a plane 3 times in my life, and have never been out of Western Europe. I have plans to visit New Zealand in the new year, however, which would sort both of those out.

I've only been on a plane three times too - which is fairly strange, as most journeys would involved going somewhere and coming back.

The 'odd' trip was a birthday present in a small plane that went over my home, when I was about seven or so.

32. I am a communicant member of the Church of England. It annoys me that the only Christians you ever see in the news are the mad kind; they get the rest of us a bad name. There are some tenets of C of E faith I don't agree with; some people argue this means I am not a member of the church.

I've got a few Christian friends, and have been to church with them a few times so that my experience of Christianity isn't wholly informed by the media.

37. At work, I use emacs in preference to the many more shiny editors out there. This is largely because I learnt all the keyboard shortcuts when I was a student, and have no intention of learning another set. [Boring side issue: a common mistake I make when typing is to include an extra space at the beginning of the line. Ctrl-A delete sorts this out a treat in emacs. On most MS applications this is a Bad Thing to do.]

*heh* Yup.  Is it emacs of vi that you can use for all sorts of other things (in conjunction with TeX, mail clients, etc)?

Er... well I read all your answers, and it feels like I've replied to most of them.

Did you know that there's a limit to how many characters you can have in one reply?  Going to have to split this up...