Motley Is A Fool's Uniform

According to whiteadelphi the meme goes something like this:

1. If you'd like to participate, leave me a comment of much niftiness

This was done, with much aplomb.

2. I will ask you five (5) questions.

In return I received the following five questions of such discerning wit and enlightened observation that I shall indeed be hard pressed to answer in a manner worthy of their penetrative nature.

Oh dear, I'm channelling Stephen Fry again.

And doing a total hash of it, too.

3. You must then go and answer them in your own journal, along with these instructions.

( herein lie answers )

Now, how do I answer these instructions? <ducks thrown boot>