LJ Daily Answers: 2 December 2004

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

"Theme: 12. Not as cool and badass as its older brother 13 but also not as juvenile as its younger sister 11. It sure does angst a lot though." - twilight_angel

(That's right. Month is twelve, theme is twelve, unsubtlety rating is twelve on a scale of one to ten. Everyone got the theme. Most everyone got the correct answers. Yadda yadda yadda. Don't worry, we have some more challenging quizzes coming up in the future. Just starting the holiday season nice and light.

angledge has been sleeping on a floor eating wood shavings and doing fieldwork at her new job the past few days, so she was a bit distant from the comments this time around. Instead, she loaned me her cousin katieledge as a replacement.

"I lost."
"What's in the pot?"
"A cousin."

+2 to whoever can guess the movie.

Onward to the answers, shall we? -CV)



1. Steve Martin starred in a modern remake (of course) of Frank Gilbreth’s biographical tale of a family’s challenges in raising a sizeable number of children. What was the name of the film?

"oh shit the condom broke.. again" - emilyxmd

"Honey, We Have Too Many Kids" - naturalredhead

“Birth Control is for Godless Heathens” - fantom07

"A Modest Proposal" - lots42

"Do Hitmen Offer A Family Discount?" - silk_knickers

(Only if you're in the Family, if you know what I'm sayin'. -Don CV)

"The only good thing that came from Steve Martin was "And don't call me Shirley." No, wait, that was Leslie Neilson, right? Eh, they're basically the same person." - twilight_angel

(±1, confusing Steve Martin with Leslie Nielson. -CV)

"3(x4)’s Company?" - dougygyro

"The only movie which had a trailer that made my fallopian tubes tie themselves." - vanbrosia

"Not 'The Dirty Dozen', which is the other movie that came to mind. I think in that, he'd be leading a ragtag bunch of soldiers." - v827

"I love the book and the first movie so much I'm afraid to see what modern Hollywood and Steve Martin did to it." - sskipstress

(Be afraid. Be very afraid. -CV)

"My Career Has Gone the Way of Eddie Murphy 2: How did Bill Murray Manage to Escape?" - fizrep

"CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN, in which they totally ignore the book, Steve Martin is very bad, and my eyeballs need bleach even after just watching it with no sound. And who the hell has twelve children anyways!" - ataralas

"Why has Steve lowered himself so? What happened to the good old 'Little Shop' days?" - anna_sinistra

Correct Answer: Cheaper By The Dozen

"which proves kids and doughnuts are of equal stature" - dpaul007



2. Which term supposedly arose from bakers adding an extra roll to their deliveries to account for underweight goods?

"EXTRA ROLLS? ARE YOU SAYING I'M FAT?!?!?!?!?!" - rita

(No. Never. Uh-uh. -CV)

"Who says he wasn’t making up for quality instead? You know, size isn’t the only thing that matters." - calankh

(You just keep telling yourself that. -CV)

"why would anyone want 13 roles? that doesnt divide equally into anything! Either way poor little timmys going to miss out." - allieg

"Marketing Ploy. 'Now 13 buns for the price of 12! Pay no heed to the smaller size of the buns, good citizens!'" - sanguinary

"Oh give them this one, they'll never be able to tell we dropped it on the floor" - sskipstress

"Baker's dozen? I mean, it's the only term I know that has to do with bakers and an extra thing." - elsajeni

(The baker's extra thing usually was reserved for Mrs. Baker. -CV)

"a baker's dozen. mmm...not-really-free-food..." - elpblonde

"Do you know how much a baker's dozen IS?" "By my count? 46." - shinga

(+1, Red Vs. Blue. -CV)

"I always thought that extra roll was for hush-hush money. 'Psst, here’s an extra roll, don’t tell the cops we’ve got 30 6 year old children working in the back.'" - fantom07

"that always confused me when I was young.. for years I thought a dozen was actually 13. Damn those evil bakers. Trying to manipulate humanity to have a mistaken sense of numbers. *shakes fist*" - portkey

"I thought it was just because bakers were traditionally illiterate fools who couldn't count." - warrame

"A baker's dozen. This term originated with the creation of Guilds, who instituted a system of standards for each and every form of merchandise available at the time. To ensure that every customer who bought a dozen rolls would get their full dozen, the Bakers' Guild had a system in which each baker would throw in a thirteenth roll, just to be on the safe side.
...Shit, I just used something I learned in college. That's going to completely ruin the "I want to drop out of college" fight that I'm going to have with my parents later this year. Please don't tell them, okay?" - silent_r_infork

(It's ok. Look at all the people you've helped with this vast display of knowledge:)

"Thank you, ljdq, for increasing my knowledge!" - twilight_angel, mary_re, rhiannon3j

(Like we always say... ljdq: it's all about the learnin'. -CV)

"You know, I wish they'd make "baker's dozens" out of other things." - trishalynn

(Well, how about donuts? -CV)

"there's a Baker's Dozen donut shop near my house, MMM DEEP FRIED FATTY GOODNESS" - lynbug

"Lawsuits are currently in the making by overweight people everywhere claiming that this is the reason for their obesity." - tiegra

"Krispy Kreme and Dunkin' Donuts no longer observe the bakers' dozen rule, for the most part. Which totally sucks." - b7cy

Correct Answer: Baker's Dozen

"And if it were Kenny Baker's Dozen, we'd get 13 little droids." - v827



3. What gift does your true love give to you on the Twelfth Day Of Christmas?

“How about a nap, a bath and sex with a unfamiliar woman?” - djdysfunction

"The credit card bill for all those Christmas presents that your family will no doubt take back to the stores in exchange for gift vouchers that would have been a damn sight easier to carry over to their house in the festive build-up if only they didn't want something to open on Christmas Morning." - richdudley

(An excerpt from 'The Twelve Days Of Capitalismas'. -CV)

"If he's smart, Donkey Konga for Game Cube" - lynbug

"Hopefully an orgasm." - fantom07
"A threesome with the pizza lady." - lots42
"Chlamydia" - emilyxmd

(You three need to see a doctor together. -CV)

"Usually a court order to give a specimen so she can prove or disprove that it's my kid." - silent_r_infork

"Some sort of bird in a pear tree. Although diamonds ARE a girl's best friend. What the hell are we supposed to do with a bird? At least the pear tree is useful 'cause of the pears." - dracothelizard

"I always thought that song could make the premise for a really cool horror flick, along the lines of 'Seven'." - nihilicious

"Lets see... I have to sing the whole song, hold on... "On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me... 12 drummers drumming, 11 pipers piping, 10 lords a leaping, 9 lady's dancing, 8 maid's a milking, 7 swan's a swimming, 6 geese a laying, fiiiiiiiive goolden riiiiiiiiiiiiiings.... 4 calling birds, 3 french hens, 2 turtle doves, and I'd rather had a DVD!!! okay, I lied... and a Partridge in a Pear Treeeeeeeeeeeeeee". Great, now everyones looking at me funny. Thanks alot." - rhiannon3j

"Damn! Hang on... *hums to self*... *all chicks in office begin singing at various stages in song*... (you've created a monster here!)...*chick in office now has that damn song playing thru her 'puter - thanks Chaosvizier!*" - fragglechick

"Fuck that. I'm not singing through all twelve days of Christmas in my head, only to have it stuck there for the rest of the night. FUCK THAT, I SAY!" - sideviewhotel

(Your willpower is stronger than that of rhiannon3j or fragglechick's coworkers... -CV)

"12-inches-a-thrustin' (well that's what I give, anyway)" - krick

(Ladies, take note. -CV)

Correct Answer: Twelve Drummers Drumming (and all the other stuff, of course)

"I was lying awake last night cos it was a billion degrees and I couldnt sleep and I though why the hell would I want 12 drummers druming?
And then I thought, Dave Grohl, Brent DeBoer, the scrawny kid from Hanson and I thought; 'You know what? I wouldnt mind 12 drummers... and they don't even have to be drumming'" - allieg



4. Geometrists call this object Platonic Solid P₂. Gamers would call it a d12. What is the slightly more common name for this three-dimensional shape?

(What, pray tell, is a platonic solid? Here are the leading theories... -CV)

"Platonic Solid P2? Isn't that your gay best friend, the one who takes you out shopping etc and is madly in love with you, but who will never date you because he likes men and you are a woman?" - naturalredhead

"Platonic Solid P2? Is that like a nonsexual relationship you have with your Playstation 2?" - twilight_angel

"tri-rect-ogon?" - miwseshat
"Dodegadron, or something." - dracothelizard
"dodeckehedron (don't laugh at my spelling)" - chrysoberyl
"Dod-ect-tra-something? My skills with the English language astound even me." - shinga
"I'm pretty sure that question wasn't even in English." - whiski_sour

"there's a name for d12s that isn't "d12"? All I know is, most of mine are sparkly, because I am kind of girly and I buy pretty dice." - elsajeni

"PS2 + D12 = A really fucked up video game featuring Eminem running around smacking bitches. Gee, that'd be original." - mercury32

"D12?! You sunk my battleship!!" - ccaretta

"A d1100?" - ktnb

(Rendering 12 in binary is an impressive level of geekism... but a -1 Geek Of The Week penalty is still a -1 Geek Of The Week penalty, no matter what base you use. -CV)

"The Omegahedron" - silk_knickers

(Yes, you admitted that you googled to search for that particular answer. Normally we'd frown on that. But I'm afraid I did not have to google to recognize it. -1 for both of us, Supergirl. -CV)

"The DODECAHEDRON, on which, according to Plato, the gods embroidered the heavens. This, along with the fact that apparently air is made up of octahedrons, water of icosadhedrons, earth of cubes, and fire of tetrahedrons proves that Plato was smoking serious crack. That people believed him for another 2000 years makes me want to go visit the martians." - ataralas

"Dodecahedron. Yes, I am that much of a geek. Either you guys knew it was my birthday and rigged the first one of these that I was going to actually respond to so that I'd actually recognize these questions (or think that I do) or my geekiness has been subtly increasing while my attention was on my porn." - dhaunea

(Happy birthday. We'd send you a dodecahedron made of porn, but we'll probably be needing that. So instead, have this dodecahedron, courtesy of krick...
-CV)

"Dodecahedron? Is that more common? I learned it from the Phantom Tollbooth." - v827

"The dodecahedron, which always makes me think of the Dodo bird...alas, poor Dodo, you were gone before your time." - mary_re

"When I was a kid I was obsessed with dodecahedrons. In particular stellated dodecahedrons. I made a bunch of small stellated dodecahedrons out of colored plastic drinking straws and black buttonhole thread. I spent weeks cutting out the poster board, scoring the tabs, and gluing the pieces together to make a multi-colored stellated dodecahedron that was at least 3' in diameter. I think this is the only bedroom decoration I've ever had that was tackier than the "Penises of the Animal Kingdom" poster that hung in my dorm room in college." - sskipstress

"I think I read a really dreadful story in a jr high honors english class that had a guy with a dodecahedron head. But I might be making that up." - cloakedstoat

Correct Answer: Dodecahedron

"LOOK A SEAGULL!!!!" - rodimus_korn

(Nice try. That Jedi Distraction Trick doesn't work on me. -CV)



5. In this classic courtroom drama starring Henry Fonda, Jack Klugman, and the voice of Winnie the Pooh’s Piglet, none of the characters’ names are ever known until the very end of the film. What was the name of the film?

"I have never heard of that movie before, so instead I'll let you know that my mother accidentally stole a key chain from Target today." - dragonessasmith

(Well, if she goes on trial, she might want to consider checking this film out. -CV)

"Something Involving The Letter 12" - shinga

(Priceless. +1. -CV)

"Rabbit vs Winnie the Pooh, in which Rabbit sues for damages caused when Pooh got himself stuck in Rabbit's door/tunnel, forcing Rabbit to stare at Pooh's behind all winter long." - sanguinary

"Oh, man. You mentioned Winnie the Pooh. Now, I've got the Tigger song stuck in my head. Damn you, LJDQ! T-I-Double Gah-ERRRRRR!" - twilight_angel

(Well, I'm afraid there's only one cure for that...)

"the thought of Piglet on trial for murder is really frigging funny. 'Yy yy yes you h hhh honor, I sss ss sss stabbed Tigger in the tt tt ttt throat, He wouldn't ss s ss stop bb bb bouncing... WWW WW WHY COULDN'T HE JUST STOP BB BBB BB BOUNCING??!?'" - thisisbullcrap

"I refuse to believe that piglet’s voice is done by a male. Please provide references for your questions." - calankh

(Oooooh, doubt. Truly one of the Seven Deadly Sins of LJDQ. But worry not, for behold the facts:
12 Angry Men, starring John Fiedler as Juror #2. John Fiedler provides the voice of Piglet for pretty much every Pooh movie and video made since 1968.
As a bonus fact, John Fiedler and Jack Klugman (Juror #5) both starred in different versions of "The Odd Couple".
Aren't you glad you asked? -CV)

"You want the truth? YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!" - vanbrosia

(+1, A Few Good Men. Even if it was obvious. -CV)

"I don't think I've seen this movie. It sounds boring. I like movies where things blow up. If the dude who voiced Piglet explodes in this movie, I'll have to go rent it." - ccaretta

"I call mistrial! The twelfth juror is an animated character! What about my client's right to be tried by a jury of his peers? I hardly think a tiny pink piglet qualifies!" - anna_sinistra

"Piglet was in it?!?!?! I knew I should have just rented the movie instead of actually reading the play! That'll teach me to take the easy way out next time... look what I missed!" - rhiannon3j

"the movie is "Peer Pressure" and throughout the whole film, John Fiedler is trying to get the whole jury to smoke pot, but Jack Klugman is the whiny guy who isn't sure he should because he might get caught, he might get addicted and lose his job and spend his life living on a park bench, because he doesn't look good in tie-dye." - sskipstress

"Twelve Angry Grumpy Old Men. Wait, that's Jack Lemmon, not Henry Fonda." - ktnb

"Twelve Angry Anonymous Men, also known as the #hotsexxors chat room." - mcclintock

"Twelve Angry Men, though my dad refers to it as Ten Angry Men despite the fact that he is a policeman and rather familiar the configuration of a jury. Perhaps two of the guys in the movie just weren't angry enough for him. I don't know." - whiski_sour

"12 Angry Men, which I saw in Social Psychology class one summer. I've been applying the techniques of subtle control of mob mentality ever since." - drewbeartx

(I hope you never get selected for Jury Duty. -CV)

"I've never seen this movie/play, but I always assumed the title was chosen because locking twelve men together in a room together until they agree on something is only surpassed in terms of psychological torture by forcing them to attend an unending marathon of chick flicks with their mother-in-law." - dhaunea

Correct Answer: 12 Angry Men



6. Which Shakespearean comedy endeth with the following lines:
‘A great while ago the world begun,
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,
But that's all one, our play is done,
And we'll strive to please you every day.’

"I somehow read that in a sexual way." - portkey

(You and... how many others? Let's see... -CV)

"Mmm... pleasure" - naturalredhead

"I need a pair of hot British pixies that promise me that." - fizrep

"I did pick up on the words 'ho' and 'strive to please you every day'. Strangely I'm aroused." - thisisbullcrap

"I dunno, but i'd like someone to 'strive to please [me] every day'." - sideviewhotel, b7cy

(So do we all. -CV)

"The Bunch Of Whiners Who All Died In The End." - lots42

(Oh please. That could be any Shakespearean play. -CV)

“Don't play that shit where you make me drag your words out. Declare, or shut the fuck up.” - djdysfunction

(That would be EVERY Shakespearean play. -CV)

"How to put on a high school play where it looks like a character's pants falling down is actually part of the plot" - ninchica7

"I'm sure I would have watched it if Leonardo DiCaprio had a main role" - lynbug

"'Hey, ho' ?? What is this, a rapper's play? 'Snoop Dogg's 12 Days of Girls Gone Wild' ??" - jelymo

"Twelfth Night, which was unfortunately never quite as popular as its predecessors First Night through Eleventh Night. After Third Night, it was generally agreed that the series had beguneth to sucketh. Buy the DVD boxed set now and see the carnage for thyself!" - anna_sinistra

"A truly modern play, it has cross dressing, mistaken identity, secrets, chaos, and in the end, they're all married off. Sounds a bit like how Mardi Gras ought to be. Except for the implied incest, of course." - meandstuff

"Remade by Steve Martin into the hilarious 'Cheaper by the Twelfth Night.'" - nihilicious

"National Lampoon's Verona Vacation." - limegreen_sloth

(Featuring the now-classic line, "Looketh, kids! Bigge Ben! Yon Parliament!" -CV)

"and now we rumble about whether it should be termed a comedy, or a romance. rumble! rumble!" - elpblonde

(Stop that rumbling over there. -CV)

"The only Shakespearean comedy I know of is A Midsummer's Night Dream. So that's my answer. I mean, come on: the play has a guy named Bottom with a donkey's head. It doesn't get better than that, my friends. Unless there's beer involved in some way. Then it'd be better." - ccaretta

Correct Answer: Twelfth Night



7. What would you like for Christmas, or whichever holiday season you are gradually approaching?

(And the top three answers here were...)

"A pony." - rhiannon3j, trishalynn, whiski_sour, allieg, beansidhe

"An iPod." - vampirespider, sargiegirl76, mary_re, goat003

"Socks!" - 3jane, fizrep, meandstuff

(Okay, so ten people also asked for Peace On Earth, but come on, Santa don't play that game. He's into the material goods, not this peace-loving hippie mumbo-jumbo. -CV)

"Part of me wants to say 'A pony!' because I recently saw a picture that had a small girl crying, and a caption above that said 'You Don't Get a Pony!', and a smaller inset picture of a pony with a caption below that said, 'Not Yours'." - trishalynn

(What I now want for Christmas is that picture. Whether the same one, or one that someone else photoshops, doesn't matter. Come on, folks. Pony up. -CV)

"I'd love it if all the dumb people in Alabama would just disappear. Of course, that would reduce my state's population to something like 20 people, but I'm not picky." - sennical

"A lightsaber. Not that plastic shit that you find in stores either. I don't know how to make one so I'm asking Santa to bring me one. Fucker better come through too, or I'll send Boba Fett after his ass." - jacesan

"A Red Rider Carbine Action Two Hundred Shot Lightning Loader Range Model Air Rifle" - tiegra

(+1, A Christmas Story. -1, you'll shoot your eye out, kid. -CV)

"What I would REALLY like would be world domination." - meandstuff

(Well, that pits you against the ten folks who asked for world peace. Good luck on that. -CV)

"I'd like the Spider-Man 2 DVD so I can drool over James Franco." - jelymo

"really, all I want is a blowjob." - silent_r_infork

"that damn bird in the pear tree. I want that fucker NOW. I'm hungry." - shinga

"For Christmas, I'd like hot sex and a horse. Er. Not, you know, together or anything. Ick, I've been reading too much porn. Oh, gods, now the mental image is in my head! AGH!!!" - twilight_angel

"Dear Santa, I have been a very good girl this year and looked after my mummy and my sisters (except the one nobody likes) and my cat and i would like for xmas a Horse. If that is too big to fit in the chimney then perhaps a platinum rabbit would do." - seolta

"Millions of peaches, peaches for me. Millions of peaches, peaches for free." - thisisbullcrap

(-1 for putting that song in my head. Now I have to go listen to The Bangles again. -CV)

"Sunglasses that don't break the day I buy them goddammit, is that so much to ask, the only pair I find that suits me, fucking breaks within one day, I hate you all I really do. Sunglasses, or for someone to kill the sun thus negating my need to wear glasses." - limegreen_sloth

"I would like new windows and siding for Christmas. I will actually receive a new toothbrush and toothpaste." - chrysoberyl

"a new nose" - sarmajere

(And the question of course is, what happened to the old one? -CV)

"Books, Baseball, Boobies, and Beer. What else is there?" - ataralas

(Beats me. -CV)

"AlanRickmanJackGyllenhaalBillyBoydDenzelWashingtonJeremyIronsNeilGaimanEricBanaJohnnyDeppJoaquinPheonix
EwanMcGregorMattDamonandapartridgeinapeartree." - ladyskywalker

"Just the chance to relax. And by "relax", I mean drink heavily." - nihilicious

(Oddly matching our definition of "to relax" as well. -KL&CV)

"Nothing beats a MLT, wherethe mutton's nice and lean, and the tomatoes' are nice and perky." - mcclintock

"All the things money can't buy" - verdandiweaves

(I am confident in money's power to buy pretty much everything. All hail money! Money is life! -CV)

Correct Answer: "I want my friend's brother, my other friend's dad, and my cousin to come home from Iraq and not have to go back." - yunami

(You know, we at the LJDQ are not the total heartless bastards you might think we are. This wish is good, and we're with you. -KL&CV)



And there you have it once again. Welcome to December, where rampant holiday commercialism assaults your senses, potentially hostile weather assaults your local geography, and the spirit of good will assaults your moral fibre. Thanks again to all who played, thanks again to all who advertised, welcome again to all who tried it for the first time, and may your days be merry and bright.

Rock on!

KL&CV

Comments

Re: +2 for me!

[jelymo.livejournal.com]

benny and joon? where?

Re: +2 for me!

[minkrose]

it's the quote at the beginning that we were guessing on for +2 (took me a moment myself, until i looked back at the quiz).