LJ Daily Answers: 19 March 2007

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

"The frog lied. It's easy as shit to be green. Try going to plaid, you amphibian fuck!" - etcet

"I won a Corpse Bride figurine in a trivia comp the other week because I knew that Cat in the Hat was not Dr Suess's first book. Thank you LJDQ!" - travellex

You're welcome.



1. What international environmental organization was founded in 1971 and is (in)famous for high-seas confrontations with whalers?

"The International Society of Hippy Meddlers And Environmental Lunatics. Call it ISHMAEL." - caffeineod

(This might be the most literary answer we've ever received. Bravo! -AL)

"Being green and on the high-seas generally leads to massive vomit. Did they puke all over the whalers? Because that would be a pretty intense form of protest." - copperpixie

"I misread that as intentional environmental organization, and I was like, how do you accidentally form an organization? Do your friends just keep inviting people? And then suddenly, oops! We're an organization now!" - profsparky

"Why did I read that as 'high-seas confrontations with the Wailers'? I bet Bob Marley's crew would kick Greenpeace ass." - judith_s

"I can't be the only one who used to call it 'Green Peas'." - hawkeyecat

(Different group. -AL)

(They fight for vegetable rights. -CV)

"It got stopped once the Romulan Bird of Prey paid a visit." - akiyasan

(You would have gotten a +1 for Star Trek IV, but a real geek would have remembered that it was a Klingon Bird of Prey. No cred for you! -CV)

"Greensleeves, no wait...that's a Christmas Dirge..." - conjurdude

"Greenpeace? Looks like Pinkpeace." - i_calql8

(+1, The Simpsons – LL)

"the words 'environment' and 'high' made me think of pot, and pot is green, and makes you feel like everything's cool, so my answer of Green Peace actually has a logical base." - jenny_1981

"Green Peace, which is kind of a wimpy name. I'd call it Do You Want To Walk With a Limp for the Rest of Your Life, You Environment Killing Bastard. Kind of long, but a little more serious in tone." - whiski_sour

"Greenpeace. Yeah, take that, PETA! I don't see you guys throwing yourselves in the way of leather-wearing bikers! Greenpeace goes up against harpoon-wielding Russians! HARDCORE!!!" - barbarienne

"GODDAMMIT! I looked and I looked and I LOOKED for the Bloom County comic of Opus hitching a ride up to try to find his mum, and how he's on the boat with a bunch of *gasp* ACTIVISTS!! but the damn thing has hidden itself away. JUST PRETEND THIS IS THE FUNNY COMIC, OKAY." - astridsdream

"I always wondered about that name. The peace part seems kinda ominous, like they plan to conquer the world and establish Pax Viridis." - hylarn

"I was going to run away and join Greenpeace when I was little. For some reason, I had them confused with pirates AND the circus." - trishtrash

"Save the whales. Collect the whole set!" - chershey

"What you don't mention about Greenpeace is that they're also against underground nuclear testing. My question is, what do they think about nuclear whale hunters? Personally, I like the concept." - silent_r_infork

(Do you mean, hunting whales that have nukes? I'm in favor of that. Or do you mean hunting whales WITH nukes? Not so in favor of that. -AL)

"Greenpeace, who I expected to hear more from on the whole global warming thing lately, but they must be keeping busy pouring water over Al Gore to keep his skin moist before they release him back to the sea. Free Al!" - corax_onyx

(Guess they've been busy doing other things, such as....)

"greenpeace, who f*cked up royally the year before last by running aground on and damaging an australian reef. well *done* lads, that'll save the environment won't it, smashing it to bits and pouring a load of toxic oil over it? *great* conservation work there..." - roscrea

"The Pirates of Greenpeace.
I am the very model of a modern environmentalist
I'm lacto-ovo-vegan and with animals I'm gentle-est
I save the whales and seals and put my groceries in a paper bag
I never wear a bra and that's the reason why my boobs'll sag." - chlaal

"" - mcrunner03

Correct Answer: Greenpeace

"The last opponent France successfully fought and defeated. (Hey, 'Be Nice to France' was LAST week)" - thepikey



2. What water body is separated from Lake Michigan by the Door Peninsula and the Garden Peninsula, and was originally named Baie des Puants by French explorers?

"what is this, geography porn??" - profsparky
"French names, green doors and secret gardens? This sounds like bad porn to me." - sskipstress
"Just reading this question made me baie in my pants =(" - fizrep

(I was surprised by how many of you found this question arousing. Dirty monkeys the lot of you. -AL)

"I've always had a theory that if you don't know the answer to something, guess Wisconsin. Someday I will be right...but not today." - killabee886

(Using that theory to answer this question is probably the closest approach to success you will ever have. -AL)

"well, there's a porch between my garden and my door, so porch lake?" - jenny_1981
"Lake Veranda?" - a_l_p_h_a_b_e_t
"Front Step Falls?" - shadowed_guise

"Originally named? Did the french take the name with them when they fled?" - vyseryn

"They know the French named it because of all the unused rifles dropped there." - dhud98

(Aaaaaaaaaand it's back to trashing the French… - LL)

"Jim Morrison of The Doors was arrested once for showing his peninsula on stage. True story." - kenshardik

"Knowing Americans, probably 'Michigan River (sponsored by McDonalds)'" - puredeadthingy

"Great! Not only did I not understand a damn thing about last weeks ljdq, it being in French, now I have some random scene in my head about a bay filled with puny people. They could commandeer ships...if they weren't so puny. Poor puny people...." - 4492

"'Puants'?? 'Poo-ants'?? Usually French is the most genteel and romantic language, but that sounds like crap." - mark_laura

"See, the LJDQ *is* edumacational: I didn't know 'puant' was french for 'cheese-head'." - cmseward

"I am from Green Bay, which excuses me from making any funny comments about where I'm from, because it's Green Bay. And it still smells like puants." - drbear

Correct Answer: Green Bay



3. What 1999 movie (adapted from a Stephen King novel) tells the story of a death-row convict with miraculous healing powers?

"Oh, king eh? Very nice. And how'd he get that, eh? By exploiting the workers. By hanging on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society." - niroby

(...that's not quite what we meant. -CV)

"Stephen King wrote the New Tesatament? Ya learn something new everyday..." - ntlespino

"Someone actually arrested Wolverine and lived?" - cmzero

"I hate Tom Hanks, mostly irrationally but also because of his hair." - uberhero

(Which is totally rational. O.o – LL)

(No, no, s/he's got a point there. Also, on a side point, 15 people mentioned Tom Hanks pissing blood as a result of a debilitating urinary tract infection or some such thing. That's just nasty, even if it is part of the movie. -1's all around. -CV)

"I didn't know the answer, so I asked my mom what it was. She had her mouth full with a snack foods so she just pointed to one of her three shelfs of movies. The Green Mile" - dragonierzapp

"Why do people with healing powers always die at the end of the movie." - dhud98

(Anyone who's played any MMORPG knows the truth: ALWAYS kill the healers. -CV)

"Isn't that the one where he vomitted cancer death gnats at one of the bad guys? Because that scene freaked me right the hell out." - gogogidget

(You can have a +1 just for using the phrase "cancer death gnats". -CV)

"The Passion of the Christ." - angrysunbird, mark_laura
"The Passion of the Christ 2: Electric Chair Boogie." - pirho_maniac

"Touched by a Convict" - akiyasan

"The Green Mile, which is what you get when you lay all of Stephen King's money end to end. (sigh)" - corax_onyx

"I read the book and bawled my eyes out. As a result, I've never seen the film or reread the book. One day, I hope to meet Stephen King and make him apologize for making me cry." - whiski_sour

(I recommend just hitting him with a van. -CV)

"Green Mile. Which I have never watched, so how do I know this? Are the people in the tinfoil hats right? Are They really beaming useless information into our brains until they liquefy and dribble out of our ears, as part of a plot to take over the world?! Or have I just been spending too much time on the internet?" - zellieh

"MIRACULOUS HEALING POWERS itty bitty living space" - wolffepsyche

(+1, Aladdin. -CV)

"The Verdant Kilometer." - profsparky

"I don't know what the movie was called, but the book was 'The Green Mile.'" - drbear

Correct Answer: The Green Mile

(Free -1 to everyone who cried, because I'm a heartless bastard. -CV)



4. What is the colloquial term for the space where performers wait before going onstage?

"Colloquial. I like that word. like Loquacious. You just say them and they sound so cool and make me think of Native Americans because they have some of the most awesome terms for things." - gypsy_owl

(And the ljdq Non Sequitur Award this week goes to... gypsy_owl! -CV)

"The green room (my guess it's called that because of the mess those stars leave behind after binge drinking)" - b_hulsmans

(Unlike your mods, they can't hold their liquor. – LL)

"I was on The Ricki Lake show in 1997..." - etcet

(There was more to this answer, but really, this part says it all. -CV)

"The diva in the green room with the candlestick." - caffeineod

"In the green room at our civic center, there's a chalkboard covered with doodles that Marcel Marceau made when he was here like 8 years ago." - kokopellinelli

"Does The Blue Man Group still have a Green Room, or is it a Blue Room? Or perhaps the two are combined and they have an Aquamarine Room?" - marasca

"Behind the Green Door. Oh, wait, I think that was a porno... well, that works, I suppose."- wendynat, who, like 19 of you, is familiar with that particular porno.

"The nearest pub" - wiredwizard

(No, you've skipped ahead to #5. -CV)

"Much like there is no sex in the champagne room, there is no green in the green room! It is a room of lies!" - vyseryn

(Of course it is. It's full of actors and things. -CV)

"But why?? Why do they call it a green room?? Etymology, won't someone think of the etymology!" - dv8dragonfly

Correct Answer: The Green Room

"The Green Room, which is right next door to the White Room, which is where the performers get their blow." - chlaal

(Gotta get it somewhere. -CV)



5. According to Irish legend, if a sailor walks inland with an oar over his shoulder, when he stops he will have arrived at what paradisiacal place?

"I have no idea, but you can be damn sure I'll know enough to duck as soon as he shows any sign of turning around. I know my Three Stooges slapstick setups, buddy." - etcet

"Kenya! Kenya, Kenya, Kenya!" - kenshardik

"Maggie O'Grady's House o' Gin and Puddin'." - barbarienne

(CV, LL, get your oars. We're going to Ireland! -AL)

"The sweet, sweet arms of his lovely lass, whom shall please him utterly and never ask anything in return. (Isn't that paradise to most men?)" - stagemanager

(I'm totally down with that. -CV Jerk. -AL&LL)

"Thanks to Neil Gaiman, I know all about Fiddler's Green. If the sailor walks far enough, he turns into a fat man with a suit!" - woap

"[SNAKES ON A PLANE JOKES ARE STILL VERBOTEN. BUT NICE TRY. -CV]" - photosinensis

"I think we should call it... YOUR GRAVE!" - gogogidget

(+1, Firefly. That scene always cracks me up. - LL)

"The only mythical Irish place I can think of is Tir Na Nog. I'm sure my ancestors are weeping in shame at my ignorance. They'd probably weep more since I prefer wine to beer... but I love Bailey's, so I suspect it evens things out." - kamalloy

"Wherever Lucky has hidden his Lucky Charms. Or Candy Mountain. One of the two." - allie_the_neko

"Paradisiacal is a fun word. Say it like Ricardo Montalban. Parrrrradeeeessseeeeacal." - wolffepsyche

(To be fair, I thought AL made that word up, but she proved me wrongadisiacal. -CV)

"Eden? No, Irish folk are Protestant, aren't they?" - stagemanager

(Yeeeeeeeeeeeeah, no. – LL)

"I just spent about an hour looking for a picture of Fiddler's Green from Sandman online. No luck. Anyone else have any luck?" - copperpixie

(+50 to the first image of the character posted to the comments. -AL)

"That Neil Gaiman is a tricky one! It hadn't occurred to me that Fiddler's Green wasn't wholly invented by him until I read this question. I can't help but wonder how many thousands of other references I missed in Sandman..." - marasca

(For starters, it's a little-known fact that Gaiman built his own time machine, travelled FORWARD in time, and stole the word "Morpheus" from "The Matrix". He's a tricksy one, that Neil. -CV)

"Fiddler's Green - a place, I hear tell, where fishermen go when they DON'T go to hell!" - blindgeoff

Correct Answer: Fiddler's Green

"only if he stops when someone asks him what he's carrying, which (since ireland is about *this* big and absolutely full of rivers and streams) means he's highly unlikely to find fiddler's green." - roscrea

(Whoops, forgot the ask-him-what-he's-carrying part. -1 to me. +1 to you. -AL)



6. What makes you green with envy?

"I envy no one. I rock utterly and don't want to be anyone else!" - rikchik

"I envy CV, AL and LL for getting a whole bunch of funnies through every week...FOR FREE!
...... And by 'funnies' I of course mean comedy...not crazy people...which is what I get every day...FOR FREE!" - 4492

"I envy the lives of the LJDQ team... all of the bacon and cheese they can eat, hot and cold running sexy babes, the respect of the world, etc..." - blindgeoff

"The fact that both angledge and chaosvizier can stay so slim despite all the pudding eating they do." - miss_tress

(You clearly have not gotten a good look at my butt lately. -CV)

"I don't know if I get green with envy. I think I get apoplectic. Does that translate to color? Maybe, like, this ugly purple/greenish shade. Gurple? I get gurple with envy." - deviousli

"People who have more vacation time than me!" - kamalloy

(Hi, I'm chaosvizier, and believe me, I have a LOT more vacation time than you. -CV)

(He does. Even I envy him. -AL)

"Somewhere, right now, some guy is probably sipping a dry martini and recieving top-notch fellatio, while I'm in a windowless server room with the air conditioning causing me to lose feelings in my hands. At best, it's going to be fifteen years before I am that guy." - etcet

"Pretty people - Evny leads to Anger; Anger leads to Hate; Hate leads to me tripping them up so they fall face first in the mud." - wiredwizard

"Bill Gates. 'Nuff said." - umbralcorax

"People of considerable height. Evaporate, tall person! *makes Vulcan death sign*" - chebonne

(Vulcan death sign? WTF?!?!? – CV&LL)

"All you sons of bitches who can eat sugar. I'm green and hyperglycemic with envy. HATE YOU ALL." - silent_r_infork

(I'm drinking Godiva Chocolate Liqueur right now, because your hatred tastes like sweet candy. -CV)

"Gamma rays." - kenshardik

"I've always been resentful of Alex Trebek for having my job. I'm excellent at giving misleading answers to elicit more information from people and then being falsely sympathetic, but actually smug when they trip all over themselves trying to ask the right question. Sometimes it's the only thing that makes librarianship worth the hassle." - corax_onyx

"A whole bottle of port and half a bottle of schnapps. Oh wait, that's not envy, that's alcohol poisoning." - thepikey



And there you have it. All things green, in one easy package! Well, five things green. And some other stuff. But still, green.

Thanks again for playing, everyone! Hope you enjoyed, come back next time, bring a friend, pimp the quiz wherever you can, have some pudding, and all that. Thanks again to lovellama for helping out during a slightly busy time of work. And thanks to L. Ron Hubbard, for still being dead.

Rock on!

AL&CV&LL

Comments

[corax-onyx.livejournal.com]

Ben looks like the Golem at his Bar Mitzvah. I wonder if that was the idea. I kind of want to go back to school just so I can write a paper about the Jewish cultural subtext in comic books. That picture would be a great item for the appendix.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

Dude, comic books already did that. In one of the many Marvel comic books Christmas specials. (Look for the cover drawn by Art Adams, it's probably that one).

See, Leanord Samson is a superstrong, superhero psychiatrist (seriously) and Jewish. A teacher asks him to explain various Jewsish religon stories to the class. Of course, these kids grew up in a world where guys can throw fire and shoot webs and seeing people fly through buildings isn't unusual. So they ask all sorts of fucked up questions and we get all sorts of fucked up visuals.

It's the greatest.