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Go to Google and type in quotation marks your name and then "likes to" (ex. "Tom likes to"). Type in the first ten things that come up and repost in your own blog.


1. Martin likes to pee on people (I do not. I know someone who does, though)
2. Martin likes to paraphrase G. K. Chesterton to show that he, too, takes his polling modestly: "A drunkard uses a lamp pole for support, not for illumination." (I don't know what this implies, but I love G.K. Chesterton. My dad says I'm his reincarnation.)
3. Martin likes to say that his factory tour helps to sell guitars. (I sell guitars? Really? I wish!)
3. Martin likes to tackle the higher peaks in Scotland and also plays the fiddle and bagpipes. (I'd love to do this one day. In a kilt!)
4. Martin likes to ride his scooter, an Aprilia Habana 125. (I'd rather have a 1992 Honda Civic Hutchback. Souped up.)
5. Martin likes to drink alllllllll the diet coke in the fridge (it's healthy). (Ogh. I hate soda. Beer sounds like a better substitute.)
6. Martin likes to listen to techno, rock or a little bit of everything. (Yep, I do.)
7. Martin, likes to spend piles of time online. (This is sometimes true. Other times, I am expected to. Sigh.)
8. Martin likes to tell the story that he turned to a career in law because of a traffic accident during a visit home to Sewickley, Pa., from college. (Riiiiiiiight.)
9. Martin likes to hear. (Yes, I do. Very much so.)
10. Martin likes to have someone nearby and not feel left by himself. (Hahaha! No comment.)


I tag everybody who reads this and finds it funny.

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