We've been tagged by our old Free-Students Network chum Trevor Louden. The rules are:

• Link to the person who tagged you
• Post the rules
• Share seven random or weird facts about yourself
• Tag 7 random people at the end of the post with their links
• Let each person know they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog

[UPDATE: Mark V makes the point that we should really do 7 facts each, it is actually difficult to come up with these as many we assume people already know about us.]

Fourteen pointless facts about us:

1. Madeleine voted for the Alliance the first time she voted because she liked their tax policy.
2. Before Matt went to Uni his career ambition was to be an officer in the NZ Army but he failed the psych test.
3. Madeleine travelled the world on a boat for two years before she turned 5 and learned fluent German (as fluent as pre-schoolers get).
4. Matt finished University with an A grade average, was awarded 7 scholarships and one of his PhD thesis markers said his PhD was one of the finest he had had the privilege of examining.
5. "Womens' Space Invasion Outrages" was the title of Madeleine's first foray onto the front page of a major newspaper.
6. Matt has never smoked a cigarette, been drunk or tried drugs. Madeleine is
   not commenting.
7. Matt proposed to Madeleine by writing a 7 page letter arguing the case, point by point, for why getting married was a good idea.
8. Madeleine hate seafood, shellfish, even fresh water fish - all of it.
9. Matt does not eat grapes or strawberries.
10. Madeleine, as an adult and not under the influence of any substance, once walked naked through the corridors of Waikato Hospital.
11. Matt was once charged with "sexually harassing a space," the charges were thrown out by the university mediator.
12. Madeleine is older than Matt.
13. Madeleine is accomplished at sewing and cake decorating.
14. Matt is working towards his brown belt in karate.

[If we get to write 14 facts then surely we get to tag 14 blogs...]

We tag:

Say Hello to my Little Friend; Crusader Rabbit; Kiwiblog; Stephen Franks; No Minister; Roarprawn; Mullholland Drive; Lost Soul; The Policy Blog; The Dim-Post; The Visible Hand; What's Wrong With the World; Homepaddock; Hard News.

We just discovered that a year and a half ago (what! it still counts) David Farrar tagged us with the five things meme.

This means we have to blog five things you probably don’t know about us. (We don't really care if you don't want to know) So here goes:

1) Madeleine never wrote a letter to the editor or got her name in the media until she met Matt.

2) Matt is into thrash metal and sings along as a party trick.

3) Madeleine's uncle is Gary Knapp of Social Credit fame.

4) Matt is a former middle-weight, full-contact karate champion.

5) Madeleine has a tatoo of a lilly.


We tag: Fundy Post; Dominic Bnonn Tennant; Hitting Metal; Gman inc. ; Not PC