August 1, 2012. I write my first comment to Becca on 25 To Fly:
Then Le Clown went on about Rich, and a previous comment on the same page:
From these banters, a friendship flourished. From this friendship, a partnership was born. From this partnership she made it to Le Clown’s blogroll. Now Le Clown is working on Becca’s next great life adventure: Nanny Becca! Tiny Geek and Becca: besties fo’sho [note from the author: my daughter comes with a black box warning. Becca, read it].
A Becca on Fire is Le Clown’s way of thanking Becca for Bloggers for Movember. A week dedicated to her, on Le Clown’s blog. The festivities will include surprise guest bloggers, a post by our guest of honour, and the temporary addition of the coveted “La” in front of her name, making La Becca magnificent™ for a week.
THE FACT OR FICTION QUIZ
What better way to start A Becca on Fire than with a Fact or Fiction quiz.
- Fact or Fiction: La Becca had her first blog on Diaryland.
- Fact or Fiction: La Becca once dated a Bronie.
- Fact or Fiction: La Becca’s first concert ever was David Cassidy.
- Fact or Fiction: La Becca’s used her position as editor of a high school newspaper to interview her boy crushes.
- Fact or Fiction: La Becca and hamsters don’t make a good pair.
Good luck! Answers will be revealed tomorrow on this week’s first guest blogger’s post!
Props to Rich and his poetry for as I’ve never read it. Last two gotta be facts. Meanwhile, a week of La Becca: This is your life!
Posted by aFrankAngle | December 10, 2012, 07:14I’ll never tell Frank! Muahaha!
Posted by becca3416 | December 10, 2012, 09:12
Posted by aFrankAngle | December 10, 2012, 09:14my money says 1 and 4 are true. 2 and 3 i hope are not true. 5 i’m guessing is true even if only for the local feline population she keeps.
Posted by rich | December 10, 2012, 08:00Careful Rich, if you get one wrong you are sleeping on the couch.
Posted by becca3416 | December 10, 2012, 09:11i can deal with that, but please don’t put me in the yard again. btw: my water bowl is empty.
Posted by rich | December 10, 2012, 09:22Well, maybe if you didn’t spill it every time you run to the front door…
Posted by becca3416 | December 10, 2012, 09:24well maybe if you let me use the bathroom instead of the bushes…
Posted by rich | December 10, 2012, 09:35Well maybe if you could get it IN the toilet bowl…
Posted by becca3416 | December 10, 2012, 09:37well maybe if you’d give me my penis back…
Posted by rich | December 10, 2012, 09:46You are the one who kept calling me Lorena all of the time…
Posted by becca3416 | December 10, 2012, 09:48you are the one who said you loved it so much you wanted to take it with you to work…
Posted by rich | December 10, 2012, 09:53Fuck. You win this one Rich. This ONE.
Posted by becca3416 | December 10, 2012, 10:06thanks. now ask the secretaries at work to please give it back.
Posted by rich | December 10, 2012, 10:08They said, “No way! It makes such a cute door stop”.
Posted by becca3416 | December 10, 2012, 10:13going to the local “sex shoppe” for a new one. any particular color preference?
Posted by rich | December 10, 2012, 10:17Any shade of Eric Bana will do.
Posted by becca3416 | December 10, 2012, 11:07oh those jokesters at the sex shoppe. there’s a new item. the “eric bana-na. makes a great stocking stuffer”
Posted by rich | December 10, 2012, 11:30It’s the gift that never stops giving… well until you run out of batteries.
Posted by becca3416 | December 10, 2012, 11:41that’s why i’m getting you a diesel backup generator too.
Posted by rich | December 10, 2012, 11:45Whoa.
Posted by becca3416 | December 10, 2012, 11:47Nice.
Posted by Soul Walker | December 10, 2012, 11:54A Becca on Fire is the highest honor going, I would imagine! She IS the shit ~
Posted by Rutabaga the Mercenary Researcher | December 10, 2012, 08:14Rutabaga,
Care to try the quiz?
Le Clown
Posted by Le Clown | December 10, 2012, 08:37In a while – I’m meandering thru my work morning, downloading data, crunching numbers etc….
if you’d asked a question about her name – I’d have KNOWN without an need to research!
Posted by Rutabaga the Mercenary Researcher | December 10, 2012, 08:39I hate when my numbers are crunchy. I like mine good and soggy.
Posted by becca3416 | December 10, 2012, 09:13They don’t cut one’s mouth that way
Posted by Rutabaga the Mercenary Researcher | December 10, 2012, 09:57Or make your gums sore… which always makes it hard to finish that fifth bowl– wait, what are we talking about again?
Posted by Soul Walker | December 10, 2012, 11:55Milwaukee
Posted by Rutabaga the Mercenary Researcher | December 10, 2012, 12:31Um -in a good way – not a scatological way….
Posted by Rutabaga the Mercenary Researcher | December 10, 2012, 08:15Le Clown,
You had me at the upside down cross.
Speaker7
Posted by speaker7 | December 10, 2012, 08:24Speaker7,
It’s a very loud cross indeed. Now, how about you try the quiz?
Le Clown and his Peen
Posted by Le Clown | December 10, 2012, 08:40Le Clown,
I don’t do well with tests, but I will try for you. Number 1 – Fact. Number 2 has to be true because that is awesome. Number 3 is false because Becca was likely a zygote when David Cassidy had his career revival (wait–did that happen). Numbers 4 and 5 feel true to me. If I don’t pass, I will eat my weight in cookies.
Speaker7
Posted by speaker7 | December 10, 2012, 08:45I was once a very fetching zygote – fact.
Posted by becca3416 | December 10, 2012, 09:15Me too! Ha…
Posted by TAE | December 10, 2012, 09:36I love Becca. I’m going to go with truth for all the questions.
Posted by Emily @ The Waiting | December 10, 2012, 08:36Fact or Fiction: Becca loves Emily more than Emily loves Becca – fact.
Posted by becca3416 | December 10, 2012, 09:16I agree with Emily – “fact” for all five.
Posted by Cathy Ulrich | December 10, 2012, 08:54Hmm. Could it be?
Posted by becca3416 | December 10, 2012, 12:30Hmmm…..
1. T
2. F
3. F
4. T
5. T
Just a guess. Congrats, La Becca! The title suits you.
Posted by Good Morning, Joe | December 10, 2012, 09:05La Becca is the best moniker ever bestowed upon me. It’s cool because I speak French too. When I say that, I mean I know a few words and can conjugate some verbs, the rest I just make up!
Posted by becca3416 | December 10, 2012, 09:21That’s great! You should be proud to know a bit of another language. I’m pretty bilingual (don’t ask me to talk about politics and stuff like that, I don’t know those terms) and happen to live Quebec (like the magnificent™ Le Clown).
Posted by Good Morning, Joe | December 10, 2012, 09:25Man! All of the cool people live in Canada!
Posted by becca3416 | December 10, 2012, 09:27You know, a lot of them do, but there are some mighty awesome people outside of this country too. Y’all should move here!
Posted by Good Morning, Joe | December 10, 2012, 09:30Oh okay, you twisted my arm. See you in however long it takes to drive a U-haul there from the Gulf of Mexico!
Posted by becca3416 | December 10, 2012, 09:36Hah! Google should put that up on Google Maps. In the “Get Directions” section where it has a picture of a car, bus, person walking, and bicycle, they should put up a new option for “U-Haul”. Google!!! You dropped the ball on that one.
Posted by Good Morning, Joe | December 10, 2012, 09:46I’m sorry, but I became dizzy after after “La Becca’s used her position..”
Everything after that is a blur….
Seriously though, you couldn’t have picked a better partner, Le Clown; La Becca is a beautiful girl, inside and out. Seriously. her liver is GORGEOUS!
Enjoy the week, you two!
Posted by The Hook | December 10, 2012, 09:26Hook, my liver has never been exposed to such flattery. I feel all funny inside. Thank you. My ball will always be in your court (please read full sentence and not just “my ball”, I don’t want you seizing up).
Posted by becca3416 | December 10, 2012, 11:58Too late!
Posted by The Hook | December 10, 2012, 13:42The Hook,
La Becca made Bloggers for Movember the success that it was. I was one lucky son of a clown.
Le Clown
Posted by Le Clown | December 10, 2012, 13:09She’s a treasure, no question.
Posted by The Hook | December 10, 2012, 13:41Yay for Becca, she deserves it!
1, 2 and 4 Fact
3 and 5 Fiction.
Posted by Doggy's Style | December 10, 2012, 09:27I want to have an elaborate hand shake with you. It just seems… right.
Posted by becca3416 | December 10, 2012, 12:00Whatever you wish, I’ll chop my hand off and send it to you. Please send it back, I’ll need it by February.
Posted by Doggy's Style | December 10, 2012, 12:07I promise to send it back in time for V-day.
Posted by becca3416 | December 10, 2012, 12:10VERY cute. What do I have to do to get someone to create a very fetching soft focus photo of me where i don’t look like a crazed unabomber’s wife, and present it to everyone for oohing? And then do some other cool stuff with it?
Posted by Cakes and Shakes... | December 10, 2012, 09:55I personally don’t think you need any effects. Remember how I immediately fell in love with you when I saw that photo of you with the wine? Yeah. I could never have that effect.
Posted by becca3416 | December 10, 2012, 12:02Yeah, wine kind of makes me forgetful… tell me more about how awesome I am though…
Posted by Cakes and Shakes... | December 10, 2012, 13:16It is impossible not to be awesome if you are Irish.
Posted by becca3416 | December 10, 2012, 13:18I’ll take it!
Posted by Cakes and Shakes... | December 10, 2012, 13:18C&S,
You will forever be known to me as the Grady Twins. Even in soft focus.
Le Clown
Posted by Le Clown | December 10, 2012, 13:08I’m too much for just one fictional character, that’s for sure.
Posted by Cakes and Shakes... | December 10, 2012, 13:16C&S,
Oh, and for the record… There is sooooo much more involved than “soft focus” in Becca’s pic. I am glad it seems this untouched, as it is often the sign of a job well done. My vanity had to speak out.
Le Clown
Posted by Le Clown | December 10, 2012, 13:21Speak, vanity! Or forever hold your piece.
Posted by Cakes and Shakes... | December 10, 2012, 13:22#3 Has to be true.
Posted by mabukach | December 10, 2012, 10:07Your feathery hair has to be true.
Posted by becca3416 | December 10, 2012, 12:05Weave it is not…
Posted by mabukach | December 10, 2012, 12:11Weave it is not.
Posted by mabukach | December 10, 2012, 12:111.F (WTF is Dairyland?)
2.F (WTF is a Bronie?)
3.F (WTF isDavid Cassidy?)
4.F – she seems way too classy for that.
5.F – hamsters make the wheels go ’round.
Posted by twindaddy | December 10, 2012, 10:15HA! Great answers. Smart to go with all the same answer that way you have a 65% chance of being right. Right? WTF is math?
Posted by becca3416 | December 10, 2012, 12:04She makes the most magical blog header ever. You can really tell something about a person based on whether or not they’d make a good blog header. At least that’s how I judge people.
Posted by Ericka Clay | December 10, 2012, 10:30I agree, Ericka. She rocks the header.
Posted by Combat Babe | December 10, 2012, 11:06You know your life is complete when your face makes it to a full on blog header. No, that isn’t a tear, I just got lemon juice in my eye while making a celebratory drink.
Posted by becca3416 | December 10, 2012, 12:07Ericka,
Right?
I mean, my blog went from looking magnificent™, to magnificently™ beautiful.
Le Clown
Posted by Le Clown | December 10, 2012, 13:07Le Clown, you’re so sweet to highlight other bloggers, making me feel like a selfish bitch. I think David Cassidy’s old enough to be Becca’s grandpa. I just had to drop by — any post featuring an upside down cross has got my attention.
Posted by Sandee | December 10, 2012, 10:51I am loving this already, mostly because I am going to meet some new people. Like you. Hello!
Posted by becca3416 | December 10, 2012, 12:08Hi Becca! Nice to meet you too! You’re cute and funny!
Posted by Sandee | December 10, 2012, 12:42Sandee, I thought the same thing about David Cassidy, he’s got to be old enough to be Gramps to Becca!
Posted by Madame Weebles | December 10, 2012, 12:20It’s kind of scary isn’t it!
Posted by Sandee | December 10, 2012, 12:43Auntie Sandee,
You’re the fucking best. Nothing less.
Le Clown
Posted by Le Clown | December 10, 2012, 13:05I’m guessing true to everything. I figure I’ve got a 50/50 shot and people from Louisiana are daring,
Posted by Christopher De Voss | December 10, 2012, 10:59I DARE you to think again.
Posted by becca3416 | December 10, 2012, 12:11A whole week of Becca? Guess I picked the right week not to be in a coma. That said, I advocate for entire Becca month. The Mayan calendars reveal that Becca is magical and will increase our crops. Long live Becca.
Posted by calahan | December 10, 2012, 11:01Even though the world might end on the 21st? On the other hand, maybe Becca is the antidote to the apocalypse.
Posted by Madame Weebles | December 10, 2012, 12:03Blond Becca vs. redhead Becca, good vs. evil, longjohns vs. tutu.
Posted by calahan | December 10, 2012, 12:14Weebs, shhh, people are supposed to believe in that by faith alone. We can’t tell them straight up.
Posted by becca3416 | December 10, 2012, 12:20Funny, because I want a full month of Calahan. A Clahan calendar would also suffice.
Posted by becca3416 | December 10, 2012, 12:21A traditional Calahan calendar diverts from the usual Gregorian timeframe and lasts 173 years. It has a lot of photos.
Posted by calahan | December 10, 2012, 13:46Even better!
Posted by becca3416 | December 10, 2012, 13:47Actually, it’s the opposite of better. I am the least photogenic person on the planet (PEW poll results April 2010). I can take 100′s of pictures and maybe one will look okay. There’s a reason I haven’t changed my gravatar.
Posted by calahan | December 10, 2012, 13:53I don’t care. You are a dreamboat.
Posted by becca3416 | December 10, 2012, 13:54And you’re legally blind.
Posted by calahan | December 10, 2012, 13:54Always pushing me away. I don’t even wear glasses! Wait…
Posted by becca3416 | December 10, 2012, 13:57Glasses are sexy.
Posted by calahan | December 10, 2012, 13:58Maybe on you.
Posted by becca3416 | December 10, 2012, 14:01Are you saying you don’t look good in glasses? I find that hard to believe.
Posted by calahan | December 10, 2012, 14:03Okay, I am happy again.
Posted by becca3416 | December 10, 2012, 14:04Yay!
Posted by calahan | December 10, 2012, 14:04Diaryland! I have to see if that shit’s still around. Crazy.
Posted by Combat Babe | December 10, 2012, 11:04The internet of the past is a scary thing.
Posted by becca3416 | December 10, 2012, 12:22It is and it makes me feel old. I remember aol chat rooms and freaks trying to talk to me and my friends. I was 11. Freaking pervs. Do they even have chat rooms anymore? lol
Posted by Combat Babe | December 10, 2012, 12:51I wonder the same thing. I used to crack myself up cursing at those AIM chat bots. And I had fun playing Slingo on AOL. That all sounds as ancient as mixed tapes now.
Posted by becca3416 | December 10, 2012, 12:54Mixed tapes! Listening to your favorite radio station of the time for hours catching songs! I miss cassette tapes. The film, hearing them rewind and FF. The clicks. It’s amazing how fast everything moves.
Posted by Combat Babe | December 10, 2012, 12:59I remember that frustration, especially when you would catch the very end of your favorite song. Every time.
It sure does ma’am.
Posted by becca3416 | December 10, 2012, 13:07I am all in for a week of Becca! That gorgeous red hair is perfect for here. … Becca, I’m guessing #2 is fact, #3 is fiction. You’ve mentioned a few craptastic dates, and you’re much too young for David Cassidy.
Have fun! Be sure to use the line, “I’ll be here all week.”
Posted by Maddie Cochere | December 10, 2012, 11:21Maddie, I would have never thought of that. So simple, yet so perfect. As for your guesses, I don’t know. You will find out eventually though, as I’ll be here all week.
Posted by becca3416 | December 10, 2012, 12:24La Becca does indeed deserve Le Clown’s shout out for her wonderful Movember work. And I’m pulling for David Cassidy, because well, he’s David Cassidy.
Posted by Carrie Rubin | December 10, 2012, 11:48I think I love you, so what am I so afraid of?
Posted by becca3416 | December 10, 2012, 12:26You’re afraid you’re not sure of a love there is no cure for. Sucks for you.
Posted by Carrie Rubin | December 10, 2012, 12:32Ba da bing!
Posted by becca3416 | December 10, 2012, 12:34Becca is the cutest. I love her! She is, indeed, on fire. Fact, Fiction, Fiction, Fact, Fact. Do I get some kind of prize if I’m right?
Posted by The Bumble Files | December 10, 2012, 11:49That’s my girl. Go for the prize! Thanks Amy. You always have my back.
Posted by becca3416 | December 10, 2012, 12:25La Becca is on a roll. No, wait, she’s on FIRE now.
I’m guessing the Brony statement is both Fact and Fiction. After Mr. Brony and Becca split up he looked to My Little Pony for comfort and became so enamoured.
Posted by iRuniBreathe | December 10, 2012, 11:58I like your version! Thanks ma’am.
Posted by becca3416 | December 10, 2012, 14:32Three cheers for Becca!! I’m going to say that 1, 4, and 5 are true. But that image of post-Geek Becca is really, really creepy. Really.
Posted by Madame Weebles | December 10, 2012, 12:01It frightened me too. What empty eyes I have.
Posted by becca3416 | December 10, 2012, 12:27At least your hair is still beautiful.
Posted by Madame Weebles | December 10, 2012, 12:28Take my soul, but leave the hair please.
Posted by becca3416 | December 10, 2012, 12:311. Fiction… and I don’t have any idea what that is anyways.
2. Fact, and let’s thank Francis Bacon for popularizing the use of the word fact.
3. Fiction, and I don’t care if you go out of your non-business Wikipedia. Your philosophy sucks and I get get Star Trek trivia somewhere else. Quit asking me for money.
4. Fact. We all know it’s true no matter what she says.
5. Fiction. She is great with hampsters… especially juggling them.
Posted by Soul Walker | December 10, 2012, 12:01rather than correcting my grammar mistake I choose to leave it in as it seems appropriate given the context.
Posted by Soul Walker | December 10, 2012, 12:04Very appropriate. I can confirm that I do know how to juggle, but I will neither confirm nor deny that I juggle hampsters.
Posted by becca3416 | December 10, 2012, 12:28I say they are all true because truth is stranger than fiction.
And because it’s Monday.
Posted by Lyssapants | December 10, 2012, 13:19Can’t argue with sound logic.
Posted by becca3416 | December 10, 2012, 14:33I also can’t argue with that picture of you with smoldering fire in your eyes.
Posted by Lyssapants | December 10, 2012, 15:06I look like one of those twilight characters. But way better and less annoyingly expressionless.
Posted by becca3416 | December 10, 2012, 15:11Agreed.
Posted by Lyssapants | December 10, 2012, 15:39Two is true, because that rhymes and, you know, it’s Becca.
And five is true as well, because Becca used to be princess of the hamster-kingdom, but she was having an affair with Jack, so the hamsters banished her from the kingdom. Jack still rips up the sheets from time to time, because he suspects Becca of Mousing Off…
I need to stop blending shrooms in my soup…
Posted by Daan van den Bergh | December 10, 2012, 13:37Daan, I told you, no shrooms on school nights.
Posted by becca3416 | December 10, 2012, 14:34Oh, dammit. I thought it was Saturday. Sorry, Ms. Rouge.
I have to stop blending meth through my meatballs…
Posted by Daan van den Bergh | December 10, 2012, 15:04It’s okay, because it is actually Meth Meatball Monday!
Posted by becca3416 | December 10, 2012, 15:05Oooh, Becca on Fire makes a nice header!
I’m going to say Fact for all of them because La Becca has always been magnificent™
Posted by MissFourEyes | December 10, 2012, 14:06Is it true? Did magnificent™ and La Becca just show up in the same sentence? I have arrived.
Posted by becca3416 | December 10, 2012, 14:38Here’s what I need to know about Becca:
She probably smells better than I do
Her hair is obviously nicer than mine
We are a celebrity power couple (BENNIFER)
She wins the internetz
Posted by Jen and Tonic | December 10, 2012, 18:46You go girl! One question… did you also build your blog on Friendster?
The comments about AOL gave it way.
A Becca on Fire suits you well.
Posted by Rachael Black | December 10, 2012, 19:02Note to Le Clown: Just noticed the Alan Smithee reference in your ‘about’ box up top. Love your movies!
Posted by Rachael Black | December 10, 2012, 19:20Rachael,
Thanks… Some of my fave too… Grab the award if you want it too… It’s my go-to award when I kindly decline a chain letter award…
http://clownonfire.wordpress.com/the-awards-circus/alan-smithee/
Le Clown
Posted by Le Clown | December 10, 2012, 20:16I have proudly copy and pasted this amazing award. It has in fact inspired me to compile as at yet unpublished Award page at YoYo-dyne….
last resort of the (reasonably) unappreciated.
But seriously folks.. if it were not for the Alan Smithee I’d never have posted any of these. Fucking love it.
Posted by Rachael Black | December 10, 2012, 21:55I’m sorry, I read Diarrhealand and got a little nervous for a second.
Posted by vyvacious | December 10, 2012, 19:59Becca rocks! That is all…
Wait, I actually owned some David Cassidy albums…albums…look it up…
I wanted his hair…and then there was Bobby Sherman…
Posted by SocietyRed | December 10, 2012, 20:27Never hip on David… but oh dear god my 9 year old heart swooned over Bobby Sherman -leans down upon fainting couch-
Posted by Rachael Black | December 10, 2012, 20:41The bluest skies….
Posted by SocietyRed | December 10, 2012, 22:09SocietyRed do Ya Love me?
This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship
Posted by Rachael Black | December 10, 2012, 22:24I think you know I do!
Here’s looking at you kid…
Posted by SocietyRed | December 11, 2012, 07:53Fact. Every single last one is a fact (unless there is a mix of fact and fiction (just covering my bases (haha, I just Incepted my own comment))).
Posted by timmer | December 10, 2012, 21:06You’re one heckova Becca. That’s almost a rhyme. Poems from the heart.
My answers to all the questions is “C”. Do I win?
Seriously folks…all the work you did for Movember was mind-boggling. My mind is still boggled and it makes it hard to drive. Le Clown AND Eric were singing your praises off key.
Posted by saradraws | December 10, 2012, 22:58Oh La Becca and Le Clown,
Hearts to you both. And as great as the post-Tiny Geek Becca is – I mean, the fire eyes are so cool!
-Jillian
Posted by GiggsMcGill Jill | December 11, 2012, 01:35Congratulations Becca! And that beautiful picture of you should be on the cover of a book.
Posted by Vanessa Chapman | December 11, 2012, 02:123 is true
Posted by gingerfightback | December 11, 2012, 02:35I say all true but #3. David Cassidy was old when I was a kid, and Becca is a mere youth compared to me.
Posted by Change My Body...Change My Life | December 11, 2012, 06:16I can totally see La Becca doing No. 4, mainly because it’s a sensible use of power! As for the rest, I have no idea. But La Becca is definitely one awesome lady. (The Cheque’s in the post, right?)
Posted by faithhopechocolate | December 14, 2012, 10:01