The lovely and illustrious got tagged (see [link] ), then turned around and said "I tag EVERYONE!" So, since I suppose that includes me, here goes.

The rules are (as reiterated by LongStock):
1. Post these rules.
2. Each tagged person must post 8 things about their self on their journal.
3. At the end, you have to choose and tag 8 people and post their icons on the same journal.
4. Go to their pages and send a message saying you tagged them.
5. No tag-backs.

My eight things:
1. Once, in introducing myeslf to a girl at a party, I grinned and said with utmost sincerity: "Hi, I'm Bob -- short for Bobaghanoush."
2. The countries I would most like to see are England, Spain, Germany, and Finland (not per se in that order). I have friends all but the last of those countries.
3. I've only been outside the USA once, and that was only over a three-day weekend in Saskatoon, Canada.
4. Whenever I meet a person whose native language is not English, I ask him/her how to say something simple in their mother tongue. (Except when the person speaks Spanish, since I already know a fair amount of Spanish.)
5. I taught myself Spanish (and also took one college class and picked my Costa Rican friend's brain) in order to write my own flamenco lyrics.
6. I've had grey hairs since I was 16, and they're only growing more numerous.
7. Eighteen years ago, my first words to my best friend were: "You have a Nintendo?!" lol
8. While out and about with friends one midsummer afternoon, I was in the process of quoting the bit from What About Bob? where Bill Murray says "There are two kinds of people in this world -- those who like Neil Diamond..." and my friend Tina chimed in from the backseat: "And those who pretend they don't." Raucous laughter ensued.

Since I'm on first-name terms (so to speak) with only three or four people, I can't quite adhere to the rules in that regard, but I tag them (since they know who they are).

Sincerely,
Dietrich