LJ Daily Answers: 8 October 2007

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"And thank you for not including 'Mmm--bop' in your answer list." - i_calql8

My hatred of that song is boundless.

"I'd like to take this opportunity to inform you all that I am now dreaming about the LJDQ. Specifically, I dreamed of going to click on the 'Heeeere we go' but it wouldn't click so I couldn't see if I was quoted, and it made me very sad." - unleashedfreak

Our infiltration of your subconsciousnesses is proceeding according to plan.



1. Jesus's last drink before he died was supposedly served to him on a branch of what plant?

"It can only be olives, jesus did love him some olives." - b_hulsmans

"That's why I don't go to church. I don't like olives." - whiski_sour

"Any drink you have to have served to you from a branch length away sounds hardcore. I'll have some of that, please!" - selenityshiroi

(Jesus doesn't mess around. -CV)

"Oh, man, I would be so annoyed. 'Excuse me? I'm about to DIE for your SINS and you can't even provide a proper cup?'" - puredeadthingy

"Yeah, that was real nice of them. 'Here you go, J-Dog, a little somethin' to make nailing you that much easier for all of us--booze! Oh, sorry, you've gotta lick it off of the bark of this branch. It's, like, tradition for the soon-to-be pounded.'" - reticent_lass

(+1 for calling Jesus "J-Dog". -CV)

"Pssh! Silly LJDQ. Jesus didn't die on a plant, he died on a crucifix." - vzg

(No, he died on a cross, which was made of wood, which is of plant origins. Therefore, yes, he did die on a plant. -CV)

"It was served on a starbuck leaf. And after He blessed it, it prolifiated to every street corner in America." - antinomic

"These days, it would probably be a branch of the Coca-Cola plant. They've got their fingers in everything." - woap

"For some reason, and i dont even know if this is a REAL plant, I want to say a Cheops plant." - jenny_1981

"I don't remember this part from the Da Vinci Code." - dragonstar87

"I plead Pagan." - maisontv

"Do I lost points as a Christian if I don't know the answer to this?" - shinga

(No, but I'm sure playing ljdq isn't really earning you any credits upstairs. -CV)

"Either a sysop or a sysadmin" - jrho

(Jesus was awesome, but not really internet-l33t. -CV)

"You go to a Christian primary school for eight years, and a Christian secondary school for six, and at NO POINT do they divulge this important information, dammit!" - dracothelizard

(I think somewhere along that 14-year stretch they also expect you to, you know, READ THE BIBLE or something. -CV)

"A list of ways people will try to misspell 'hyssop': 'hissop', 'hisop', 'hizzop', 'hiphop', 'hizzop my fo-shizzop', 'olive'." - slave_to_anime

Correct Answer: Hyssop

"No habla Bible." - girl_who_is1337



2. Danny Glover and an elephant star in which Vietnam war-themed movie?

"Some stupid animal theme movie? You sure it's not Cuba Gooding Jr?" - thepikey

"Danny Glover AND an elephant or Danny Glover PLAYED an elephant?" - selenityshiroi
"Mental image of Danny Glover riding an elephant; get it away from me!" - b_hulsmans

"For some reason I thought that said Danny Devito. Danny Devito plus an elephant in anything would be hilarious." - unleashedfreak

"Is this an actual elephant or code for some actor/actress that you don't like?" - crystalcazzie

(If I had meant Rosie O'Donnell I would have said Rosie O'Donnell. -CV)

"Elephantocalypse Now" - vzg
"Apachaderm Now?" - ANONYMOUS

"Platoon: Elephant Corp" - wiredwizard

"Good Morning Vietnam 2: Vietnam Gets a Circus!" - runrunmarch

"Mash 2: Elephant Boogaloo." - c0llect

"I don't remember there being an elephant in Bat-21." - david_deacon

"So THAT was the hidden meaning behind Dumbo!" - woap

"I do know that Pope Clement some number had an elephant." - allie_the_neko

"The Vietnam War's answer to the Korean Conflict's M*A*S*H, "Operation Dumbo Drop", in which Dumbo flies but his ears are useless!" - majorsamfan

"Visions of Dumbo sporting some pod-mounted Gatling guns, swooping in low to the strains of Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries, with a magpie in a porkpie hat crowing, 'If I say this beach is safe to surf, it's safe to surf!' have made an otherwise miserable Tuesday moderately less miserable." - etcet

Correct Answer: Operation Dumbo Drop

"Also the name for what happened to Danny Glover's career after the film (Lethal Weapon 4 excepted, of course)." - slave_to_anime



3. Comedian Scott Thompson is better known by which stage name?

Erroneous Kids In The Hall references: 6

"Thott Scompson. And he really thinks we don't know." - vzg

"Your mom." - dragonstar87

"I read 'comedian' as 'Canadian'. Is Scott Thompson Canadian? I do not know this man. Is it a man?" - whiski_sour

(No, and maybe. -CV)

"I read 'comedian' and 'canadian', so I had a Canadia joke all ready. Thanks for crushing my dreams, LJDQ. I had an awesome joke, then Jesus snatched it away." - allie_the_neko

(He probably snatched it away on a branch of hyssop, just to be topical. -CV)

"Isn't he a televangelist?" - reticent_lass

(Well, I did say comedian, and it is easy to confuse the two... -CV)

"JUST BECAUSE I HAVE RED HAIR DOESN'T MEAN I'M CARROT TOP! People have been calling me carrot top since i was a wee lad, and i have grown to loathe the man and all that he stands for." - fictionalsolace

(And our weekly amount of schadenfreude is brought to us by fictionalsolace! Thanks! -AL&CV&LL)

"Carrot Top; makes me think of decaying vehicles having kinky sex." - germankitty

"Best description ever of Carrot Top...'It's like your plastic surgeon was in the middle of the sex change operation and just said, 'Fuck it!''" - ginalin

Correct Answer: Carrot Top



4. What breed of domesticated animal was originally called a "Klein Widder"?

References to a Klein Bottle: 15
Number of those references involving stuffing an animal into a Klein Bottle: 9
Official Bonsai Kitten reference: alaniaflamestar
Official Sluggy Freelance reference: woap

"My magic 8-ball says "Reply hazy, ask again later," so I'll have to get back to you on that." - morganashkevron

"Small Ram... a guinea pig? Both viscious nasty creatures...that you can make wool from! Okay, you would need a lot of guinea pigs but it's not like they're good for much else." - selenityshiroi

(According to our friend mshenzi, they're also good eatin'. -AL&CV)

"I'll give you a small ram, if you know what I mean." - pirho_maniac

"I can see why they changed the name. Klein Widder sounds German for an unfortunate incident happening on the white carpet." - whiski_sour

"The klein widder, which in English is clean widow, is less fun at a party than a dirty widow." - antinomic

"Well, 'widder' as in 'widdershins' means 'counterclockwise', and 'klein' here is as in 'klein bottle', meaning 'one-sided'. Therefore, the animal in question must be a sheep." - fax_celestis
"If Mozart's 'eine kleine nacht musik' means a little night music, then 'klein' means little. According to my Wiccan friend, widdershins means counterclockwise. Therefore literally, 'little counter'. I'm guessing it means squirrel." - dragonstar87

(And this week's gruyere Award for Logic Renunciation will be shared by... dragonstar87 and fax_celestis! -CV)

"That would be the common domesticated mop, of course. Raised mainly in mountainous regions and originating in Europe, these tiny ungulates, when mature, are skinned for their thick, stringy coats and made into cleaning supplies for the rest of the world. Lately they've been looking into breeding them as pets." - kaesa

"Underpants gnomes because they steal your CKs and everyone knows Widder is an irish word for thief." - gorghte

"I don't know, but can I call it 'delicious' now?" - droptheleash622

"A fish called Wanda?" - 99catsaway

"Something small, from the "klein" part, so I'm not worried about what it was called - chaosvizier will have eaten it to extinction before long anyway." - cmseward

"my friends have rabbits and they were lecturing us on them when we went over for dinner. they've just got a new one, an alarmingly fluffy thing. i couldn't even find the rabbit in there, for all i know i might have been talking to her angora jumper for twenty minutes." - roscrea

"I'm allergic to rabbits, and even writing this is making me sneeze." - ginalin

Correct Answer: Mini-lop rabbit



5. The villainous Shredder had two henchmen: Rocksteady was one; who was the other?

Number of you who owned the action figures: 7
Number of you who still do: you know who you are.

"I'm now thinking bad 80's chart songs. *shudder*" - germankitty

"Credit-card-statement-man. Hey, that's what I put in my shredder." - dragonstar87

"rocksteady and shredder, so we have rock and scissors already so the third guy is surely paper?" - jenny_1981

"It was 'Rocksteady' and 'Pleaseforgiveme', sadly the Trio of Rabid Bryan Adams fans was broken up when 'haveyoueverreallylovedawoman' decided he WAS one and had a sex change." - writersblock_va

"Rockhard!...yeah, they got cancelled before the second episode could air. Embarassment for the whole cartoon community." - ANONYMOUS

"They were both warthogs right? What kind of evil ninja villan has warthogs for henchmen?" - akiyasan

(No, one was a rhino. And when your archenemies are four turtles and a rat, heck, why not a warthog and a rhino? -CV)

"Shredder's boss was a big brain in a jar named Kang, who introduced me to the word 'iota'." - nakedblueninja

(Never question where the learnin' comes from. -CV)

"Too bad the new cartoon is horrible and lacks Krang, the creepy creepy villain of the proper 80s cartoon." - dracothelizard

(Everything really is better with evil talking brains, isn't it? -CV)

"Beelzebub" - girlclone

(...almost. -CV)

"During a brief, misguided period in my youth, I took guitar lessons at Bebop Music Shop. I sucked really bad. It was kind of embarrassing." - jrho

"who as a kid didn't want a mutant 3-d glasses wearin' punk rockin' pig and a mutant musclebound rhinoceros to tear up NYC, huh?" - slave_to_anime

"finally, owning those early first prints of 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' came in handy. Wait...Rocksteady and Be-Bop weren't even in those early comics. Never mind." - i_calql8

"The electronics department manager wouldn't let us watch Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles when it came out on DVD. She made us watch Fire Dog instead. She doesn't care about heroes in a half shell." - whiski_sour

"Bebop-a-lula, he's Rocksteady
Bebop-a-lula, serving Shreddy
Bebop-a-lula, with Rocksteady
Bebop-a-lula, the pig-for-a-head-y
Bebop-a-lula, he-e's got a great big gun, a great big gun" - kandelschwartz

Correct Answer: Bebop

"I prefer Bebop's cousin, Horizantal Bop." - antinomic



6. Creativity time! Invent a word that ends in -op, and tell us what it means. Sky's the limit on this one, folks.

"Scheop. The cynical noise you make to a friend's deluded babbling when she's so far in denial she can see giant pyramids." - grapefruitzzz

"Kassop, squised-together-short for 'kicking ass operations' which is what I would like to do for a living." - shinga

(If I were making a living kicking asses, I'd be pretty happy too. Although it would cut into my ljdq time... -CV)

"Inebri-op - A drunk spy." - pirho_maniac

"xzqwvop. Thank you, LJDQ, for ensuring that I win my next game of Scrabble." - kandelschwartz

"Stop: Hammertime" - fictionalsolace

"cycop - A cop with mechanical parts. (e.g. Inspector Gadget is a cycop.)" - david_deacon

(Is that synonymous with a RoboCop? -CV)

"Bibliomotoconlisatop. Red and smudgy facial compression caused by falling asleep atop the book you're reading. Otherwise known as 'bookface'." - fmh

(A very common result of university lectures. -CV)

"Slip-flop: what happens when your two-dollar sandals fall apart on the stairs." - jessicamariek

"Qwertyuiop: I fucking hate this keyboard and it pains my soul to have to use it." - fax_celestis

"Porkchop! A wonderful tasting cut of meat which is juicy and mouthwatering when properly prepared! Wait, what? That one's already been done? Buggerall..." - thepikey

"IHOP: happiness based on pancakes." - ooyoumasha

"yop used to be my favorite drink when I was a kid. i recently rediscovered it. yogurt you can drink, yum." - jenny_1981

(Wow... that was a flashback I wasn't expecting. -CV)

"Miserlop - That time between getting dumped and finding a new love interest when you wonder if everything wouldn't be easier if you just chopped off your own penis." - droptheleash622

"Gal-a-prop, n. The act of forgetting a recently-met female's name after sharing a passionate or intimate moment with her" - i_calql8

"fulollop. it's the word for how the dog can be wedged in the incredibly tiny space under the computer desk with one of his legs in the air and another rammed behind the shredder *AND* still show every sign of enjoyment." - roscrea

"Shellop: the act of smacking something squishy onto a surface. e.g.: He shelloped the meat onto the cutting board." - feywood

"Scotchhop (n.): a game in which players get ridiculously drunk and attempt to hop from box to box, making them look very silly as they go down the sidewalk." - vzg

"G-stop - opposite of the G-spot, the G-stop is the point on a woman's body that when touched completely turns off all sexual urges, or simply put, whatever point I happen to touch." - gorghte



And there you go. Nice outpouring of creative glop out there. Top of the line. Cream of the crop. A hop, skip, and jump away from perfection. A dollop of genius. And so on and so forth.

Welcome new players; always good to see new faces (so to speak) in the crowd. Go on; bring more friends! The quiz prospers with people! Props again to special guest mod lovellama!

See you all tomorrow, same hop-time, same pop-channel...

Rock on!

AL&CV&LL