LJ Daily Answers: 19 May 2008

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

1. Which popular British reggae band took its name from an unemployment claims form?

"'popular British reggae band'... there's a phrase you don't see every day!" - 16 of you

"British hip-hop? What's that, 'yo, yo, tea and crumpets, yo'?" - woap

(To be fair, the Brits do like to drink motherfucking tea. -CV)

"Take a spot of tea wit' yo crumpets, mon/ Taste da flava of de opres-sion/ Fight like Toussaint an' take back da lan'/ Lend ya ovaseas bruddas yo' musket han'--okay I'll stop." - reticent_lass

"You have not lived until you have heard a reggae cover of Kid Rock's 'Bawitdaba.'" - jrho

"We're On The Pokey Again" - wiredwizard

"Some band that isn't Black 47." - illogicalvulcan

(I always call them Black 42 for some reason. Maybe because I'm always drunk when I see them. -CV)

"dammit! now i have 'i can't help falling in love with u' running through my head. why couldn't it be 'red, red wine'? i'd blamd ljdq, but i have a feeling y'all would make it 'sweet, sweet gin...'" - songquake

"Men No Longer at Work" - i_calql8

(With their number one hit, "The Welfare Dance". -CV)

"Spinal Tap. That's not what the form is called, but it does approximate the discomfort of trying to fill it out to collect benefits." - etcet

"Sex Pistols. I'm not sure where they got the pistols part from though." - gorghte

"Chumbawamba. The Brits are obviously trying to fool Americans into thinking their dole system is harder than it looks." - barbarienne

"XL (oh my God, did I just make a Roman numeral joke? please stick a stamp on my head and mail me to Loserville.)" - sienna_blaze

"Do you ever wonder if 2 bands ever tried naming themselves after the same government form. I wonder how would you decide which OTHER government form to change to? 'Oh dude, we have to be FinCEN102 now. Its a form to report Suspicious Activity at Casinos. That totally rocks.' I wonder if a band named after an immigration form would have an easier time in immigrant markets. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! I-751!" - tarpo

"In Soviet Russia, 40 B's U!" - feste

"Actually, I be 37. Don't age me, man!" - deza

(It's cool. I B 37 2, lady. -CV)

"Can you explain to me how a band that topped the charts with a Neil Diamond cover gets off with suing Paris Hilton over copyright violations?" - sskipstress

(It was easier than filling out the form. -CV)

"UB40, which I always got confused with WD40 as a kid. My dad would ask me to go and get the WD40 and I'd come back with a tattered old tape." - r0x

"The only reason I know this is because of the joke about the two men whose birthdays were a month apart. When the first one turned 40, his friend sent him a CD by UB40. A month later, when his friend turned 40, the other gave him a CD by U2." - oceanica

"I was halfway through writing an amusing anecdote about the B52s when my brain screamed at me that UB40 never sang 'Rock Lobster.' However I think the world would be a somewhat sunnier place if they had." - seraphic_slayer

"UB40, which is disappointing, really. I kind of wish that when you turn up at the unemployment desk you had to fill in a Bob Marley." - aesriella

Correct Answer: UB40



2. According to legend, how long did it rain during the Great Flood?

"Legend?! You mean the Bible is not 100% trufax?! Unpossible!" - jrho

"Do you want me to pull this ark over? Since if you giraffes don't stop your bickering, I will turn this ark around!" - speckled_llama

"Long enough to drown all the unicorns, but not long enough to drown all the politicians" - wiredwizard
"Unfortunately, no flood insurance agents survived." - kristinmachina

"NOAH: 'Listen to this, you'll save water. Let it rain for 40 days and 40 nights, then wait for the sewers to back up!'
GOD: 'Right!'" - n5iln, sestree, thepikey

(+1, Bill Cosby. -CV)

"'How long is it?' 'That's rather personal, sir.'" - feste

(+1, Monty Python. -CV)

"When I was a wee little thing and global warming hadn't stolen all the water, the skate park by my house was flooded. I wanted to go boogey-board, and play. But I wasn't allowed, because of SNAKES. Snakes ruined all my good child-hood memories." - niroby

"Six days and seven nights, according to Utnapishtim." - LLEFSER, callirhoe

(Yeah, but he was a dick. I wouldn't believe him. -CV)

"40 first dates." - nadat

(No, Drew Barrymore was the second great calamity God visited upon the Earth. -CV)

"When I was a wee tot I learned a song at church that started out "5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, forty days of rain rain rain" and as a result, for years I could count by five to 40 but no higher." - rachelkachel

"40 days & nights. According to Genesis, it might be that, or it might be 7 days, or possibly some other number. Consistency isn't exactly the strength here. 40 days makes Noah's resulting drunken bender a lot more understandable, though." - oceanica

"According to myth, the Earth was rained out for 40 days and 40 nights. Now watch out! Here comes Genesis! We'll do it for you in 40 minutes!" - spatialrift47

(+1, Star Trek II. -CV)

"what amazes me is not that it took 40 days and 40 nights to purge the world of all evildoes, but that it then took 40 years of the israelites wandering in the desert to purge a single generation before entry to canaan." - songquake

"A mere 40 days and nights, unless you listen to the Weather Channel, then it rained forever and there is more on the way. Watch out, there is wind too. Dramatic, those folks." - antinomic

"40 days and 40 nights. Even the Almighty couldn't get the plumber to come over and fix the leak any sooner." - cmzero

"40 days and nights; or as they call it in Seattle, 'March and April'" - freezer818
"You know, Seattle's record number of consecutive days of rain is 37. Guess how much flooding there was? None." - spiralgirl1

"Wait, wouldn't it have been 39 nights since most hotels would like people to stay for an uneven number of days/nights?" - akiyasan

(That would be assuming that The Ark was akin to a hotel. Which, considering how many animals were involved, seems hightly unlikely. -CV)

"Also related to the quiz: by the end of the Flood, Noah had forty new rabbits crammed onto that ark." - deesarrachi

"Some quick napkin math here: Mt. Ararat, where the ark was supposed to have fetched up, is just a bit under 14,000 feet (4200m) tall, so let's assume The Flood had to raise the sea level by 14,000 feet to submerge the known world. 14,000 / 40 is 350 feet a day... or just under fifteen feet of rain an hour, which is about three inches a minute. YMMV when it comes to belief in Big G, but that's a lot of fucking rain." - etcet

Correct Answer: 40 days and 40 nights

"I think the bigger question is how many Millenia did it take for FEMA to clean up THAT mess?" - rhiannonjk

(Let's just say there was a shitload of blue tarp involved. -CV)



3. Name that movie:
"Uncool is trying to give an honest man a big box of porn!"

"Who is this Uncool and wouldn't he like to meet this honest gal?" - alya1989262

"What, so honest men don't watch porn? Pssh, yeah right. Any man who claims he doesn't like porn is no honest man!" - oceanica

"giving away porn isn't really all that uncool. Unless you're trying to give it to Emperor Pope-atine or your dad. Giving porn to your dad would just be..weird." - ifeedformula

"If that's uncool, what is leaving a medium-sized box of porn in the top shelf of the bedroom closet in when you rent your house to an ex-girlfriend?" - sskipstress

"If that's uncool, then what's cool? Giving him two big boxes?" - judith_s

"Instead of checks, the US government should be handing out porn! Now that's some real stimulation." - kristinmachina

"Box of porn, so 90s. An honest man is one who bookmarks his favourite porn sites, rather than typing the URL in Google to keep it out of the browser history." - feste

"The truly 1337 men keep porn in hidden, password-protected folders on a computer, not in boxes." - fictionalsolace

"I keep reading "a big box of popcorn." When did I get so demure? The two are not combinable, I would think (combinable is a word! Spellchecker says so!)" - bluetourmaline, tweeti

"Where did you guys get the video from my grandfather's funeral?" - tenku_no_shiro

"I wouldn't be complaining if my uncle gave me a big box of porn, especially for free--that 70's shit was some classy stuff, LET ME TELL YOU." - frostycakes

"I don't know, but please let it involve John Cusack. Mmm. John Cusack and porn. now I know what I want for MY birthday." - shogunsquirrel

"Isn't it that stupid thing with Josh Hartnett, co-starring Josh Hartnett's eyebrows? God seriously hasn't he ever heard of wax?" - domminess, callirhoe

"La Cuarenta Año Virgen de Guadalupe, which is actually a fuzzy spot on Steve Carrell's left buttock but has no fewer than fourteen Catholic parishes in the Buffalo diocese named for it" - captainsblog

"Well, I'm assuming it's not Tea With Mussolini. Hehe, ass." - aesriella

"Forty years in Tibet (subtitle: Debbie Does Dalai)" - watergal

"'Stroker Ace'" - i_calql8

"'Gandhi--Uncut, Uncensored'" - reticent_lass

"The Spud with his Bud or Forty Ways to Get Arrested – A Senator’s Story" - majorsamfan

"I can't think of anything clever so let me just take a moment to tell you about how much mono sucks: Mono sucks. A lot. (I'd type more but I have to go take a six hour nap now)." - angelchicken

Correct Answer: The 40 Year Old Virgin

"You know what I took away from that movie, other than an appreciation of Steve Carrell's comic timing? AN ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY THAT I WILL NEVER, EVER GET MY CHEST WAXED. That poor bastard was as furry as I am. 'Was' being the operative word." - etcet



4. Which Arabian folk tale features a magical door, a greedy brother named Cassim, and a clever slave girl named Morgianna?

"The Camel, The Witch, and The Tent Flap" - freezer818

(The Chronicles of Irania by Cassim Al-Shamsi Al-Lewis never really took hold in Western fantasy literature. -CV)

"No idea. Just made it up. Didn't want to say 'magic door'." - natt_barn

"Hee hee... was it a magical back door?" - sienna_blaze

"Djibouti and the Seven Sheiks, or, in the native language, 'Sheik Sheik Sheik, Sheik Sheik Sheik, Sheik Djibouti.'" - i_calql8

"Heather has Two Mommies?" - killabee886

"Desperate Burqas" - cinderbella84

(+1, politically and awesomely incorrect. -CV)

"HASSAN CHOP!" - seraphic_slayer

(+2 because somehow you were the only one who said this. -CV)

"why 'sesame'? Why not one of the other grains? Wheat? Rice? Rye? Pumpernickel? The New York Everything Bagel?" - etumukutenyak

"it's sad that I learned everything I know about Arabian folk lore from a Disney movie." - spiralgirl1

(I agree. -1 to you and everyone else who only knows this answer because of Disney's "Aladdin". -CV)

"'Where they cut off your nose if they don't like your face'-- oh wait, they don't show that version anymore, do they?" - LLEFSER

"Ali McBeal, Baba WaWa and the 40 Thieving Lawyers (which I know is an oxymoron)" - majorsamfan

"Ali Baba and the 40 Blackwater Security Contractors" - blindgeoff

"Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Now you know where Bin Laden's been hiding." - kristinmachina

"I want to say Ali baba and the 40 thieves, but I can't seem to recall a slave girl in the cartoons." - b_hulsmans

(I guess you got the special male-dominated sexist cartoons. Go you! -CV)

"There's always a clever slave girl. They had some fucked-up gender politics there. 'Oh noes a clever woman! DEMEAN HER.' Wait, that's how a lot of stories go." - puredeadthingy
"Why is it always the women that turn out to be the clever ones in Arabian folk tales, yet their society keeps them under wraps (literally)? There's a profit formula in there somewhere..." - n5iln

"Morgianna is awesome! She figures out the plot, kills thirty-nine bad guys with hot oil, and then runs the villain through with a sword without so much as a word of explanation to anyone else. Initiative, people." - holdouttrout

"And the Forty Thieves would have gotten away with it, if it weren't for your clever slave girl!" - csi_tokyo3

"The 40 Thieves of Ali Baba. Little known fact: 40 is actually in base 16. So in reality there were 64 of them. It made them seem that much more fierce in that there seemed to be more of them than they said there were. That's because there were." - psywildfire

(And the gruyere Award for Logic Renunciation this week goes to... psywildfire! -CV)

"In my head though, Ali Baba is a young, prizewinning sheep and 40 theives are after his wool!" - r0x

(In your head sounds like a very interesting place to be. -CV)

Correct Answer: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves



5. A US Marine Corps sniper rifle, an optical double star near Ursa Major, and a highway connecting London and Birmingham. What do these three things have in common?

(Quite a few of you felt that Crowley the Demon was involved. Perhaps his machinations were subtly intertwined with these objects, but in the end, we wanted a different answer. -CV)

"They're motorways dear, not highways. Was that condescending enough?" - esran

(Oh quite. I am, at this moment, weeping in my beer over my horrible mistake. -CV)

(He is not. He's weeping because his beer is empty. -AL&LL)

5. A US Marine Corps sniper rifle, an optical double star near Ursa Major, and a MOTORway connecting London and Birmingham. What do these three things have in common?

"What in hell do Mizar and Alcor have to do with the number forty? Or are they not the ones you want, on account of they're the middle of the Big Dipper's handle and thus in Ursa Major, and 'near' implies 'outside'?" - mercuryblue144

(Indeed, Mizar and Alcor are a double star IN Ursa Major, but M40 is just in the area, and not part of the constellation itself. Still, you may have the Geek Of The Week award, with a stellar magnitude of -1. -CV)

"They are all worth 40 billion dollars?" - ifeedformula

"They're shiny?" - aesriella, fictionalsolace

"They killed Kenny?" - cold_clarity

(Bastards. -CV)

"There was an accident with a contraceptive and a time machine. Now concentrate." - katiebgood

(+1, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. -CV)

"All are capable of making something or other impact you at very high speeds." - thepikey

"None of them are a straight shot, like Gin. Shooting Gin is painful, go with the Goldschlager or Tequila." - gorghte

(One can do a straight shot of Martin Miller's London Dry Gin. It's that smooth. -CV)

"All things Captain Kirk has had sex with." - lots42

(Spock, is that an assault rifle in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me? -CV)

"They're all things that Arthur Dent has somehow managed to destroy." - niroby

"40/40 is perfect double vision, yes?" - wellowned

"A highway between Ye Olde England and the heart of 'bama? A tale of two cities indeed ..." - spatialrift47

"Congestion. Kinda deadly for the sniper, irrelevant for the double star, and merely an annoyance to motorists." - germankitty

"I can see Johnny Carson holding the envelope, but I can't see the answer. Tell us mighty Karnak!" - ANONYMOUS
"*rips envelope, blows into it* Name a shot, a blot and a snot." - drbear

"After zombie attack, you can use the rifle to pick them off whilst guiding your way from London to Birmingham using the stars?" - 4492

(Well, England does have a propensity for undead invasions... -CV)

"Hansen wrote a song called MMM40, but they couldn't decide if the song should be about the rifle, the star, or the highway, so they changed it to MMMBop." - sskipstress

"The M40! Oh, so many hours of my life spent on the M40. The road, that is, rather than the rifle or the star. I'd imagine spending hours on those would be more painful. Though not neccessarily much." - opportunemoment

"M40 is also a camera lens. You could attach an M40 to your M40 and point it at M40 to shoot M40. You can't shoot M40 with just the M40, it's out of range." - feste

Correct Answer: The designation M40



6. How would you/will you/did you celebrate your fortieth birthday?

(And a big 40-decibel shout-out to quizlings turning 40 this year: barbarienne, svartulfr, and thepikey! Happy Birthday-To-Come! -AL&CV&LL)

"probably the same way I celebrate all my birthdays: By trying to take over the world!" - b_hulsmans

"Shoving my face full of cake and ice cream. Just like any other birthday, really." - jrho

"I will be 37 this year. My name is Dennis. I will finally be accurate when quoting Holy Grail! 'I'm 37, I'm not old!' 40, on the other hand, is old." - feste

(+2 for accuracy. -CV)

"Murdering Joni Mitchell in cold blood because if I have to hear 'Big Yellow Taxi' at work one more time..." - domminess, puredeadthingy

"In my dreams, swimming madly through a biiiiiig bucket of money, Scrooge McDuck style. In reality... I'll probably be working." - child_of_flame, csi_tokyo3

"I intend to be twenty-nine until my eldest child is forty. And then I'll consider turning thirty" - kittycatness

"I'm going to piss off a lot of people now and say that I'm dreading my TWENTIETH which is in 3.5 months. I can no longer use the excuse "But I'm just a teenager!" Also, I'm going to be twenty, living at home and still doing my A-LEVELS. That's just SAD." - 4492

"Same thing as I did when I turned 30--take my family out for lobster dinner, rent a limo, and get drunk and dance! Hey, those 'Sex and the City' bitches do it." - kristinmachina

"Whining about how much better it was back in MY day, when I walked uphill both ways in the snow to get whatever newfangled invention they got in them days." - wrestlingdog

"If it doesn't involve the US Coast Guard having to save my ass, I'm gonna consider it a failed birthday." - tenku_no_shiro

"Do they let you celebrate your birthday in prison?" - niroby

(Yes. They use vaseline. -CV)

"I'm going to throw a big party to fill the wedding reception-shaped hole in my life." - sskipstress

"By having sex. With a virgin. Other than myself. Which I am not." - adalger

"This is just another way for twenty- and thirty-somethings to taunt those of us who will turn 50 this year, right? Cuz with mentalpause, how do you expect me to remember that long ago?" - majorsamfan

"it will probably end with neightbors telling news reporters 'He was always a nice, quiet man'." - freezer818

"Downloading my mind into an immortal android body, of course. I'm going to live forever or die trying." - spatialrift47

(That never works out as well as the movies say it does. -CV)

"That'll be December 7, 2012 - just a few weeks before the Singularity/Apocalypse/Fifth Sun. I guess I'll be uploading my stuff, installing anti-zombie weaponry, or sacrificing something to Quetzalcoatl." - rikchik

"I plan on spending my fortieth birthday telling everyone younger than me what's wrong with their generation as practice for my sixtieth birthday." - seraphic_slayer

"Slowly decomposing waiting for the zombie uprising so I can feast on your spicy brains." - tarpo

"It's so long ago, I can't remember. Now get off my lawn!" - drbear

(Don't worry; you have something to look forward to:)

"chain drbear to the bed and do unspeakable things to him" - tweeti

"" - csflick

"I don't remember. Unfortunately, that was a LONG time ago (like as in more than 10 years ago). On the other hand, my 50h was the best birthday party I have ever, or likely will ever, have. My daughter threw me an Irish cellidh - which is Gaelic for kick-ass party...it featured our city's bagpipe band (luv me some bagpipes, yeah, I'm weird, and what's your point?), a local Irish rock band named Canned Haggis, my brother flew in from Florida as a surprise and lots and lots of friends and family members, as well as the guy I was dating at the time who lived more than 2,000 miles away. We danced (a lot!) we sang, and we drank (a lot!) It was the most awesome party I have ever had and I'll remember it for the rest of my life." - harpie84

"They gave me the traditional tombstone cake at work...you insensitive clod! And thank you for bringing up such a painful subject. While you're at it, why don't you give me a nice paper cut and pour lemon juice into it?" - n5iln

"Back in 1986 (when it happened), I celebrated my 40th together with mom-in-law's 70th, making it our (combined) Olympic-themed 110th birthday. It involved booze, dancing, tons of gourmet food and all the neighbors making fools of themselves to amuse us with fake sports demonstrations." - germankitty

"My first step will be to re-name years 1 to 20 years -20 to -1, so 40 really will be the new 20." - opportunemoment

...and an extra special birthday shout-out to our lovely co-moderator lovellama who just turned forty yesterday. Congratulations on not being dead! And also for being a great person and all that stuff. Three cheers! Not forty cheers; that would take too long.



And there you have it. The big four-oh. On a distantly related note, the quiz is almost four years old right now. Yes, exactly two months from now, we'll be four. And it's still nice to know that you all enjoy our weekly offering. So, again, thanks for playing, and thanks for telling your friends, and thanks for just being funny people.

Extra thanks to lovellama for being a gracious assistant moderator, as well as taking one for the team and being older than us. She's da bomb.

Rock On!

AL&CV&LL

Comments

[annemjw.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday LL!

[ifeedformula.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday LL and thanks guys for quoting me! :)

*throws sparkles*

[lovellama.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :)

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

It's ok, we know your 43-yr-old brain is too smart for us. We'll try harder next time. ;-)

[germankitty]

Same here. It always seems a sure-fire way to kill the funny.

(Still got two quotes, surprisingly -- is that "go me!", or the mods just pitying humoring the oldest player?)

[ntlespino.livejournal.com]

"Ali McBeal, Baba WaWa and the 40 Thieving Lawyers (which I know is an oxymoron)" - majorsamfan

1. Would Ali McBeal have needed only 3 veils instead of the customary 7?

2. Um, oxymoron means the two do not go well together. Thus Lawyers != Thieves? This cannot be true!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

1. Ally's so scrawny, she probably can't even carry one veil. Besides, it only takes three or four threads to obscure her body.

2. I think they meant "redundancy". You have to forgive majorsamfan; they're also over the hill. ;-)

[i-calql8.livejournal.com]

"Men No Longer at Work" - i_calql8
(With their number one hit, "The Welfare Dance". -CV)

BZZZT!!! Oooooooooooo, sorry, but the band we were looking for was Men Without Jobs. "The Welfare Dance" was by Men Without Jobs.

*gives CV lovely parting gifts and has Vanna escort him off the stage

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Hey, if Vanna's giving me the happy ending, I can accept the parting gifts.

Before I forget ...

[germankitty]

Re: Before I forget ...

[lovellama.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :)

[psywildfire.livejournal.com]

YAY! I GOT AN AWARD!

...what is it? A plastic dodo on a marble stand?

-WF

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Well, by itself it's a small trifle, but once you win all our other awards, they unite, like Voltron, to battle evildoers everywhere. LET'S GO VOLTRON FORCE!

[etcet.livejournal.com]

THREEEEEEDOOOOOMMMMMMMM!!!!!!

Needs more cowbell.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

...which is good, but perhaps not quite as good as...

THREEEEEEESOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMME!!!!

[jackie.livejournal.com]

>:D

I'm totally going to hell, aren't I?

Happy birthday, LL! :D

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

That's ok. Hell is where the fun people go. ;-)

[reticent-lass.livejournal.com]

Take a spot of tea wit' yo crumpets, mon/ Taste da flava of de opres-sion/ Fight like Toussaint an' take back da lan'/ Lend ya ovaseas bruddas yo' musket han'--okay I'll stop.

Er, yeah, originally, there were more lyrics, but when I caught myself trying to come up with a catchy chorus and realized that maybe what I had was a wee bit excessive. It was fairly cool, as I recall. Lots of British abolitionist references, as well as historical black people of note. Should've saved it.

Astonishingly, I have been accused of being dull AND completely bonkers in the same breath. You'd think one would refute the other. HALLELUJAH TWO QUOTES!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

That was definitely not dull. Word up, guv'na, wot wot!

[lots42.livejournal.com]

Suspicious Activity at Casinos would make an awesome name for a band.

(That would be assuming that The Ark was akin to a hotel. Which, considering how many animals were involved, seems hightly unlikely. -CV)

I was going to decry you as the general public human are savages but at least animals know to poop in the corner. Humans poop everywhere. Then, at least in the case I dealt with, write on the walls with it.

LOL decry.


And downloading your mind into an android body may not -end- well but the horrific bloody rampage and total carnage before the ironic ending is loads of good fun. Yay, violence!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

And there you go. If animals were more dignified, they would have written something too. Can your dog write "Rover" in the snow? I think not. Although I'll admit, using poop in place of pen is just plain downright nasty. I puke here, now.

[drbear.livejournal.com]

"Ali McBeal, Baba WaWa and the 40 Thieving Lawyers (which I know is an oxymoron)"

Nope, it's a redundancy. "Honest lawyers" would be an oxymoron.

(Oxymoron - for pimple-free teenagers!)

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Too bad OxyMoron doesn't eliminate stupid teenagers... ;-)

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

Hah! One quote for the first time I played.

*is most pleased*

(Also, a happy birthday to LL!)

[lovellama.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Now go tell your friends!

(About the Quiz, not that it's my birthday. Heh.)

[n5iln.livejournal.com]

Wow! Hat trick! Even if one of them was shared three ways!

*makes note to buy lottery ticket containing the number 3*

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

You should buy one containing the number 40 too, just in case. ;-)

[wiredwizard.livejournal.com]

Quoted! =YES!= I have my LJDQ Groove back! (until next week when I fall on my face again 'cause I didn't sacrifice enough pudding to the LJDQ Gods)

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Groovy! Sacrifice that pudding! Drink of the gin-tastic potion of wonderment! Play!

[noelleleithe.livejournal.com]

I failed on posting this week, but I'm also turning 40 this year, just for the record. Bet I'm the youngest of the bunch, though! :)

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Well then, a happy eventually-to-be-40 to you too!

[tinamachina.livejournal.com]

QUOTED TIMES FOUR! Which divides into forty quite neatly.

Happy Birthday, Forty-Somethings!

Ashamed of myself for not getting "The 40 Year Old Virgin."

Favorite quote:
"The only reason I know this is because of the joke about the two men whose birthdays were a month apart. When the first one turned 40, his friend sent him a CD by UB40. A month later, when his friend turned 40, the other gave him a CD by U2."

Numeric band names FTW.

[4492.livejournal.com]

Happy belated birthday LL!

Yay! Quoted twice! And I'm assuming I don't get a -1 for refering to Aladdin, as I didn't get the question right. Yay! Two points!

And OMG Motherfucking Tea is AWE-SOME. If terribly sad!

[frostycakes.livejournal.com]

Woo, made it in this week! Shit, it's been far too long...

[majorsamfan.livejournal.com]

Wow! The Trifecta! I should answer the quiz on jetlag more often...

And I totally bow to i_calql8's awesomeness:
"Djibouti and the Seven Sheiks, or, in the native language, 'Sheik Sheik Sheik, Sheik Sheik Sheik, Sheik Djibouti.'" - i_calql8
That's one of my favorite answers of all time.

[tinamachina.livejournal.com]

I agree!
And I don't know who that guy is in your icon but <3.

[elliemurasaki.livejournal.com]

Geek of the Week I ROCK

My day has been reduced from "top ten worst ever" to mere "suck".

[elliemurasaki.livejournal.com]

I suck at icon-making, too.

[feste.livejournal.com]

ZOMG! 5 quotes! What a welcome back! *AND* a +1 and a +2!!

*does a little dance*

I feel like it is my birfday rather than Miss LoveLlama's! Happy b-day, miss!

*sings:* I feel pretty, oh so pretty, I feel pretty and witty and wise...