Here comes the Formspringer

Word ‘em up! I’m the lyrical gangsta…still love you like that. Sorry, I couldn’t resist the chance to throw an Ini Kamoze reference in there. I promise it won’t happen again.

Well Rantaholics, I am back. I would like to thank all of you who supported me during my absence on this site and in the social media hiatus all together. Because of your loving support, I was able to pull things together and come out of a fairly bad situation barely worse for the wear.

So with those formalities out of the way time for the matter at hand, the newest question to hit the social media scene…”Ask Me Anything.”

This wide open question belongs to Formsping.me and has caught on like gangbusters. It seems like everyone, including myself has opened their life up to the firing squad.

Now at first, I have to admit that my normal, anti-fad mechanism kicked in and I promptly dismissed the thought of signing up for the service and then I remembered that’s exactly what I did to Twitter four years ago and look where I am now.

But, I took the plunge and thought, “what the hell, this can’t be that bad can it?” I was also a little nervous about the types of questions I was going to be pelted with, I mean, you have to admit…sometimes people can be a little cruel, especially when they live under the veil of anonymity. My mind was soothed a little though, when I discovered that all questions go into an inbox and I had the choice of answering it or not, a right which I have not yet had to invoke as so far people have kept their questions above the belt.

The end result is that I am hooked. I have had some very fun questions so far and have had more fun asking my friends some pretty random ones myself. I highly suggest jumping on this while there is still a good time to be had. Soon you’ll find that, “Ask Me Anything,” will be as second nature as “What’s on your mind,” or “What’s happening.“ But don’t take my word for it…ask yourself.

Here are my top three favorite questions and their answers so far:

1. Q: What is your social security number? A: The same as yours..crazy how that works huh? I am glad you have a good credit score…it makes my life easier.
2. Q: What does it mean when they say “everybody wang chung tonight”? A: Well actually were it not for the Geffen record label, we would be saying “everybody Huang Chung tonight.” The band took their name from a Chinese phrase that translates to “yellow bell,” referring to the standardized bass pitch of ancient China. The founders changed the meaning to “perfect pitch.”* As for why they talk about themselves in the third person in their highest charting song…I can’t say, but it worked didn’t it? *All information was found thanks to the fine folks at Wikipedia link herehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Chung_(band)
3. Q: What’s Bravo Foxtrot? A: LOL. This is such a great question. Those of us with military affiliation know exactly what it means and were it not for my “keep in PG” philosophy, I would translate it exactly. Instead I will tell you this. The phrase “Bravo Foxtrot” is like a warm verbal hug between old friends… Friends who can’t stand the sight of each other and wish the other one would step in from of a bullet or four or five because their friend did something unbelievably underhanded and conniving. Think of it as a more powerful way to call a person a backstabber… More literally, Bravo Foxtrot is the military phonetic alphabet’s representation for the letters “B” and “F“