Your real name

Paul Duffin

Your location(ish)

Hampshire, UK

Your marriage/family situation

Married - to a woman I would almost certainly never have met if not for Ferrari and this newsgroup.

Own website (if you have one!)

You're on it.

The Interview:

You're a poster in a.a.f - do you actually own a Ferrari or are you just here for the insults?

I've had an '84 308 GTS Quattrovalvole for over 11 years.

What do you do to scratch out a living?

Co-owner/director/Chief person in charge of stuff in a small software company

Who would play you in a movie?

A good friend said James Nesbitt.That bastard Miller said Julian Clary.You can guess which pic is which...

What is your favourite sport?

Cycling/F1

Which team/player do you follow?

On the two-wheeled side I've followed the Discovery Team since the days when they were 7-11... and when it comes to four wheels, the red cars (of course).

What and where is your favourite Hotel

That's actually quite difficult - I've stayed in hundreds over the years. I guess the Jules Cesar in Arles, France is hard to beat.

What and where is your favourite restaurant or bar?

Restaurant: La Piedmontese, Stressa, Italy. Bar: Gordon's Wine Bar, London.

Name a few of your favourite books?

"The Great Gatsby", "Catch 22", "Captain Corelli's Mandolin" and anything by Ian McEwen.

Name a few of your favourite films?

"Jean De Florette" & "Manon Des Sources", "Cinema Paradiso", "Brazil", "The 5th Element", "The Godfather", "Blade Runner", "Cat on a hot tin roof", "The Bridges of Madison County", "One Giant Leap", "Apocalypse Now", "The Italian Job", all of the Star Trek films... I could go on and on.

What music do you listen to?

I have very eclectic tastes, but If a gun was to my head I'd say my preference is ambient techno-pop(ish) - I'm talking Faithless through to the Pet Shop Boys, Underworld through to Junkie XL. But I have everything by the beatles, think Ludvig's 'Ode to Joy' is tough to beat, and I highly rate Lucinda Williams. Pascal Obispo is wonderful, the Fun Lovin' Criminals are cool and Van Morrison is probably cooler still. Did I say 'eclectic'?

Heaven is...?

When Gretchen holds me in her sleep.

Hell is...?

When someone you care about dies.

Name four people (dead or alive) that you would like to invite to a dinner party.

Jean-Paul Satre, John Lennon, Neil Tennant and Arch Bishop Desmond Tutu.

If you had to get stranded in one place for the rest of your life (town, city, tropical island, whatever) where would it be?

Provence, Cote D'azure

Who would you take with you?

Gretchen

If you there was one car or bike that you could drive just once, what would it be?

Emerson Fittipaldi's or Ronnie Peterson's Lotus 72D

What is your secret vice?

Erotica

What irritates you most about people?

The guy sitting on his fat arse watching TV, who, on seeing a village in Palestine getting run over by Isreali tanks declares that 'they deserve it because of the suicide bombers', or on seeing the wreckage of an Isreali bus destroyed by a suicide bomber says 'They deserve it because of the way they treat the Palestinians. Does no-one read history any more? It's not the murderous dictators that should chill our blood, it's the millions of people who support them, conciously or otherwise.

Do you know what love is?

Yes.

Is the glass half full, or half empty?

Half empty, but there are still a few cases left.

What's in the glass?

Chateauneuf du Pape

What's the one thing you never leave home without?

My Sunglasses.

and finally, complete the following sentence:
"Arguing in newsgroups is like..."

banging your head against a brick wall (and it really is much better when you stop).