Kite Purity Test
This was first published in rec.kites back in Christmas 1996. It has been updated slightly. It is modelled shamelessly on the alt.sex purity test.
Score one point if you:
- Can recognise the difference in the sound of your sewing machine as the lower bobbin is running out of thread
- Can say "kite" in 5 different languages
- Can spell Wolfgang and Nop's last names
- Have a kite web page
- Have a sleeving needle, fid or bridle tool about your person. Right now
- Have already flown a kite today
- Have an internet account or machine name which includes "kite" or similar
- Have attended a Buggy Boogie Thang or NABX
- Have attended a casualty department because of a kite flying injury
- Have attended a kite workshop
- Have attended an AKA convention
- Have attended kite festivals in 3 or more continents
- Have been DQ'd from a kite competition (fight/stunt/construction/buggy race)
- Have been accused of being a "Festival Head"
- Have been arrested for kite flying
- Have been buzzed by Stafford Wallace
- Have been inside a Mega Kite (500m^2 or larger)
- Have been insulted by Frank Kenisky
- Have been on clearly identified as a kiteflier on broadcast Television
- Have been to the Fano festival
- Have bought kite line or fabric in bulk
- Have bought or sold a kite by email with someone you have never met
- Have broken a world record recognised by Kitelines or the AKA record committee
- Have broken line rated at more than 300lb
- Have broken or lost someone else's kite
- Have buggied Nekkid and got the pin to prove it
- Have built a historic kite (Cody, French war, Eddy) from authentic materials
- Have built a kite from trash
- Have built a kite to your own, original design
- Have built an applique'd kite
- Have called out professionals (crane, electricity, fire) to retrieve a kite
- Have caught a Revolution you were flying
- Have deliberately flown a kite to the end of the line, then let it go
- Have destroyed a kite beyond repair
- Have died ripstop
- Have dropped your Fauna by chute from a kite
- Have exchanged pins with Dave Gomberg
- Have experienced AoxomoxoA
- Have flown Natalie's Legs
- Have flown a Bob Ingraham delta
- Have flown a Gyro Kite
- Have flown a chinese dragon train
- Have flown a cow windsock
- Have flown a fighter from a flat roof
- Have flown a kite >100' long (tail included)
- Have flown a kite before the age of 5 years
- Have flown a kite smaller than 1 square inch
- Have flown a kite whilst wearing fancy dress
- Have flown a rotor kite (eg: UFO Sam)
- Have flown an arch
- Have flown at night
- Have flown during a solar or lunar eclippse
- Have flown indoors
- Have flown through a dogstake
- Have forgone your scheduled competition slot in order to help marshal etc.
- Have given a kite away to a stranger (someone who's name you don't know)
- Have got a kite stuck up a tree
- Have had an article publised in a kite magazine
- Have ice buggied
- Have kite sailed
- Have kite stickers on your car
- Have kite-fished
- Have lost a kite
- Have maintained a kite FAQ for a forum or discussion group
- Have marshaled or judged in a competition or race
- Have met Corey Jensen inside Windbourne Kites
- Have organised a kite festival
- Have packed away a maxi kite for someone else
- Have paid excess baggage for your kites
- Have participared in a kite fight (Indian, Rokkaku or other)
- Have participated in #kites on irc
- Have participated in a Lee Toy Memorial project or contributed towards the Ray Bethel bench
- Have participated in a sweet or egg drop
- Have performed "groundwork" over and in water
- Have performed a 360 outside
- Have performed a Full Andrew
- Have performed an Axel
- Have played with one of George Peter's non-kite toys (blowdarts, lizards)
- Have published a kite book
- Have retrieved files from the original Hawaii FTP archive
- Have seen Leter Lynn naked
- Have started a kite organisation which now has more than 10 members
- Have taken a Kite Aerial Photograph
- Have taken dirty kites into the shower with you
- Have taken sick-leave to go kite flying
- Have tandem buggied
- Have used a kite for lifting a radio ariel
- Have watched a Dodd Gross Kite video
- Have won a beer-lifting competition
- Have won in a kite competition (fight/stunt/construction/buggy race)
- Have worked on a kite buildng project today
- Have worn a Peter Lynn hat
- Have worn out a sewing machine
- Have worshiped Tim Benson
- Own 5 or more kite T-shirts
- Own a kite built by someone who's now dead
- Own a kite with some pink in the sail
- Own a unique kite. (built unique, not broken or modified uniquely)
- Own more kites than fit in your kite bag
- Subscribe to a kite magazine that's not printed in your native language
I scored 62 in 1996. I'm now at 72 now (and I didn't hit any of the "today" questions). Drop me a line by email with your name ane score and I'll compile a result table.