Ask Maureen
Over at Maureen Johnson’s blog she’s busy answering punters’ questions in a vastly entertaining way.1 Yay, Maureen!
If you haven’t already go over and ask her a quessie. Make it curly though. The most difficult question you can think of. Then make it more difficult than that even. Frankly, I don’t think she’s being stretched enough. We all need to really put her through her paces.
I wish Maureen would tell me how to write six things at once without my head exploding.
- The trick to entertaining answers, apparently, is to make stuff up. Why didin’t I think of that? [↩]
Posted by Justine at 15:54, 26 October 2007 under Bloggery, Frippery | 7 Comments »

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Lizzy-wa Says:
ok. ive got a good one. i’ll go ask her now.
-Lizzy-wa OUT!
October 26th, 2007 at 4:55 PM
zebediah Says:
me too!
October 26th, 2007 at 5:01 PM
Ally Says:
hmmm i asked her an easy one.. lol it had a funny answer
I shall go and make a harder one!
How much wood would a chucker chuck if a wood chucker could chuck would
or theres the slightly harder to say one:
how much fud could a fudpucker puck if a fudpucker could puck fud
lol
October 26th, 2007 at 8:54 PM
Shausto-la Says:
hmm.. i think we should all ask you questions justine, just to see which one of you has better answers.
but you realize if we give mj ridiculously hard questions, yours would have to be equally hideously impossible..
October 26th, 2007 at 9:02 PM
5. Justine Says:
Shausto-la: That’s so sweet of you! And yet I do not want to rain on Maureen’s parade. She is the unparallelled and most expertest answerer of questions in the universe. I say she should declare this entire year Ask Maureen Quessies Year!
October 26th, 2007 at 10:31 PM
maureen Says:
I am on to you and your Aussie ways!
October 26th, 2007 at 11:33 PM
Little Willow Says:
I am posting an interview with her this week at my blog.
November 4th, 2007 at 8:48 PM