Need more Internet memes

[dreamshark]

My darling daughter gave me one of those "memoir in a box" gifts for Christmas (the digital kind). Answer a question a day and it will generate and print a book of your life to leave to your family. You get 50 questions clearly generated by AI, ranging from obvious ("Can you tell us about your parents and what they were like when you were growing up?") to inane ("If your life were a book what would the title be?") Although they imply that there are human editors involved it is obvious that the entire thing is done by AI, and not very good AI at that. But since Amber paid for it already I am doing my best to generate something that the family might enjoy before the initial 90 day "subscription" rolls over to auto-renew and charges itself to her credit card again. 

You can't add your own topics or even edit the cringey AI-generated chapter titles, but I am trying to work with what's available to produce something that might interest Amber and the kids. It turns out that Lena isn't much interested in my actual life history but likes the more inane questions ("Describe your life in 3 words"). So I decided to cram a bunch more of meme-type questions into one chapter with a generic title. 

Google AI found me a few that I don't mind answering, although they are not particularly compelling

• "What's the furthest that you have ever been from another human being?"
• "What is a specific type of weather that triggers a memory you can't quite place?"
• "What non-essential item would you bring to a deserted island?"
• Who is a complete stranger you met once for less than five minutes but still think about years later?
• What's the dumbest thing you believed as a child?  

Can you suggest more? Aren't there whole lists of them that circulate as popular Internet memes every couple of years? Typically called something like, "10 things you don't know about me."  

Comments

[minnehaha]

Something about your senses: Fave smells, sounds, tastes etc. Something about your style: colors, jewelry. Something about making things, using tools, fixing things.

K.

[dreamshark]

Remember "Tell me your crackpot theory?"

[redbird]

What's a place you've never been and would like to visit?

When/where did you first try a food that you now love?

[dreamshark]

When/where did you first try a food that you now love?

Oh, that's a good one. I actually have a story for that.

[bibliofile]

Sounds like fun kind of project.

Lately I've thought about how different groups of people know different things each other. One friend had acquired several nicknames over the years, so you could tell who knew her from when (roughly) by what they called her. (I belonged to her college years, so I called her Mac.) But there's also stuff that my family knows that my fannish friends don't, and vice versa. So maybe things you did before your kids were born and they might have no idea about? Or hobbies that you followed for a few years but not for a long time? (Could be like roller skating, or a type of crafts.)

Or what non-standard thing did you learn as a kid that you still find useful? or that you can't believe you learned?

What's the most fun or ridiculous thing you've done with a group of people? Like, not a Minicon-sized group, or a convention, but maybe a group costume or themed party.

Or what's the oddest food you've made and/or eaten? A couple of Madison fans decided to make "weird food" the theme of their Hallowe'en party. A bunch of us got out our vintage Joys of Jell-O cookbooks & brought Jell-O salads. We still talk about it, and it was decades ago.

[spiderplanet]

*How did you decide to move to Minnesota? (spoiler alert! I know this is a good story.)

*Describe your wedding. Who was there? How did you decide on the date?

*What kind of baby/child was your daughter? What traits does she share with her children?

*Share a photo of your current favorite park in Minnesota, and describe what you like about that park.

[dreamshark]

I did actually include "how I moved to Minnesota" in one of the more general questions. And I did manage to find excuses to include a few park photos here and there. Oddly enough, it didn't even occur to me to include a mention of our wedding, although it's a moderately entertaining story as weddings go. Weddings just aren't important to me, I guess.

But the good news is, I finally finished the project and sent it off "to the print house" before the deadline. Now I'm just waiting anxiously to see if they send me a confirmation with enough time for Amber to cancel the auto-renewal without short-circuiting the book printing. This turned out to be a pretty skeevy company, so there is reason for concern.