ljdq | LJ Daily Answers: 30 June 2008

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"I should at least comment and let you know that Thursday was National Chocolate Pudding Day. What will they come up with next?" -

illogicalvulcan

That's a pretty good holiday. Someone clue me in when National Gin And Tonic Day comes around.

1. Fun with lyrics! Name the band and the song:
House is haunted
I just want to go for a ride
Out and on
Before I set this room alight
Left alone forever and for crimes unclear
With my patience gone
Someone take me far from here

"Dunno - sounds kinda mopey and poetic, but not quite drowsy enough to be Sting. Maybe it's Tori?" -

rikchik

"You know those magnets with words on them that people put on their fridge and their actual purpose is to create poetry, but most people don't do that? Yeah, that's what this reminds me of. People not doing it right." -

whiski_sour

"I don't remember this from Rock Band! Or any of the Guitar Heroes! Either my memory is bad, or you're trying to play some sort of trick on us." -

kamalloy

(+1 for being as musically inclined as I am. If it's not on GH or RB, I've never heard of it. -CV)

"The theme for House, M.D." - 11 of you

"Mad Arsonist's Love Song -- The Plathettes" -

distaff_exile

"'Come on Baby Light My Fire' by The Arsonists?" -

majorsamfan

"Sentence Fragments, by the Grammar Nazis" -

drbear

"'M. Night Shamalayan's Greatest (and Only) Plot Device Sampler,' by I Smell Dead People" -

etcet
"Firestarter by Stephen King." -

jmthane
"That sounds like a Sixth Sense/Firestarter crossover songfic..." -

divinedigestion

"Mr. Toad's Teacup Ride" -

akiyasan

(No, the Disney question is #3. -CV)

"These lyrics are the long lost prologue to the song 'The Roof is on Fire' by Rock Master Scott & the Dynamic Three. It was too gloomy, and actually gave substance to the song, and thus later dropped before the official release." -

sharnjilraedan

(Fortunately, the extended version of "Burning Down The House" kept this segment. -CV)

"Knew I knew it. Stared at the screen for about 30 minutes, pleasantly drooling, trying to remember this goddam song...Gasoline by Audioslave." -

fmh

"Isn't that the Scooby-Doo theme?" -

wrestlingdog,

kristinmachina,

callirhoe

"It's so sad that I read those lyrics, recognized the artist (Audioslave) and the song (Gasoline) and then my brain started singing Daddy Yankee's Gasolina with full Puerto Rican accent. Damn you LJDQ for sullying my pure brain!" -

mathnerd

"With modern CSI techniques, leaving gasoline to eradicate the scene of the crime isn't as effective as it once was. Sigh." -

woap

Correct Answer: "Gasoline" by Audioslave

2. Dmitry Medvedev, President of the Russian Federation, was formerly CEO of which company?

"I bid that you'll get 20 quotes relating to 'In [former] Soviet Union *noun* *verbs* you!'" -

akiyasan

(You'd fall short. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay short. – CV&AL&LL)

"He was in charge a hit man group that specialized in killing people who made one too many 'in Soviet Russia, man hits YOU!' jokes." -

newbia

(...and there goes 25% of our quizling population. Shit, and me too. -CV)

"One day, Dmitry looked at his full name, looked as mom and asked "Are you fucking kidding me? I mean Jesus Christ, who stole all my vowels?"" -

lots42 and several others. Vanna White called; she said that all our vowels are belong to her.

"6 Apart." -

jmthane,

jennielf,

katiebgood,

holdouttrout,

vzg

"Blackwater Russia" -

distaff_exile,

wrestlingdog

"Halliburton" -

wiredwizard

"I didn't realize T.H.R.U.S.H was considered a corporation." -

freezer818

"The Русская мафия, which is often loosely translated in English as 'the Ministry of Silly Walks'." -

callirhoe

(VERY loosely translated. -CV)

"The theme is gas, beans make gas, Hormel makes beans. This guy was the CEO of Hormel." -

sskipstress

"Are you allowed to do that? I'm unclear on the rules in Soviet Russia." -

puredeadthingy

(Hell, we're allowed to do it in Democratic America; why not Soviet Russia? -CV)

"KAOS... he changed his name to Dmitry Medvedev from Conrad Siegfried and lost the white tigers so as to avoid the obvious gay affiliations affecting his political career." -

mistressjennfer

(+1, Get Smart. -CV)

"Um, that was not on the AP European History exam, so I don't know." -

allie_the_neko

"A russian in Power? that can only mean one thing: Komityet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti!" -

b_hulsmans

"Gasprom! Also known as 'Carrie.'" -

youngcurmudgeon

"Trust the Russians to think up such a glorious name for their main gas company. Gazprom. Because high school wasn't bad enough...." -

mathnerd

Correct Answer: Gazprom

3. Who was the brawny villain in Disney's "Beauty And The Beast"?

"the villain was Lumiere, look at that sallow waxy complexion, does that look like a piece of furniture you can trust?" -

ntlespino
"I could never trust that smarmy little bastard. Who's *that* happy about serving people?" -

cmseward
"He's a French candle that burns feather dusters for fun!" -

beyond_the_six

"Bruce Campbell" -

atari_808

" Unlike AL, this is not the quicker picker upper. This title tag is dedicated to marasca. -CV

" - 6 of you

"Gus Garçon, the goose whom the Belle told off" -

germankitty

"Beauty and the Beast? Never watched it, went straight to The Lion King and The Jungle Book. When it comes to ruining childhood memories, Furries win over bestiality any day." -

elvenpiratelady

"Gilad...Gilgamesh...Gargamel...um...I liked the clock." -

whiski_sour

"It's the Juggernaut, bitch. Wait, wrong Beast..." -

i_calql8

"In trying to answer this question, I mixed up my Disney movies and am now singing 'Le Gaston, le gaston, how I love le gaston, love to chop and to serve little fish'" -

sskipstress

(In your defense, it does fit in there perfectly. Carry on. -CV)

"I can no longer thing of Beauty and the Beast with out sniggering that these lyrics. No one's slick as Gaston, no one's quick like Gaston, no one's neck's as incredibly thick as Gaston. For there's no man in town half as manly. Perfect, a pure paragon. You can ask any Tom, Dick or Stanley and they'll tell you who's team they prefer to be on. THE most homoerotic lyrics Disney have ever came up with. It almost beats 'everything's better, down where it's wetter' for sexual inuendo." -

selenityshiroi

"Killing off Gaston by fall was pretty weak, IMO, but it was a Disney movie. In my mind, it should have been settled between him and Beast in the ring. Or a beer-drinking competition. Drunk Beast FTW." -

kristinmachina

" Belle proves that righteous anger in the presence of unnatural prettiness is ok. -CV

" - 5 of you. Creepy.

"The manliest man to ever manly. Gaston." -

asrimal

"Nobody posts answers to

ljdq like Gaston!" -

pirho_maniac

"Gaston, who, by some miracle, didn't die from salmonella poisoning or high cholesterol, even though he ate five dozen eggs every morning in order to maintain his 'barge-like' size." -

holdouttrout

(Salmonella and cholesterol had not yet been invented; it was only the 17th century or so. -CV)

"Gaston. That has always been my favorite movie, for who doesn't love the plucky bookish heroine who talks to inanimate objects and is into bestiality?" -

uadlika

"Ah, Gaston. Still inspiring people to use antlers in all of their decorating, a decade later." -

rikchik,

katiebgood,

kamalloy

Correct Answer: Gaston

"that last bit is actually more of a 'stawwwwwwwwn', especially here in upstate NY" -

distaff_exile

4. What fluid was once used as a treatment for lice and their eggs, until less flammable medicines became available?

"FLUID???If you can't make it into a solid or a gas, you're not trying hard enough. Science: it works, bitches." -

palapaloozaa

"You know, people complain that the health care system is bad now but MAN, it was really screwed up back then...." -

newbia

"I am utterly crushed that I do not live in a time when setting people's heads on fire is a totally acceptable form of medicine/entertainment. Stuff you, twenty-first century with your gender equality and fluoridinated water! It's the nineteenth century for me!" -

elvenpiratelady

"Coors Light, the Silver Bullet for lice eggs" -

drbear

"Liquid Dilithium" -

wiredwizard

(I think that pouring a liquid warp drive on someone's head would have certain other ramifications... -CV)

"Dead-a-louse...be sure to keep it away from the sun" -

i_calql8

(I'm going to have to rule that pun to be in violation of the "Stretched Waaaaaaay Too Far" Law. No soup for you. -CV)

"I have no idea, but I am incredibly thankful this was not applied to me since I had headlice quite a few times as a kid. What if my mom had accidentally set my head on fire? I'd look like Hades from Hercules." -

ifeedformula

"Napalm. Ever hear 'The cure is worse than the disease?'" -

woap

"Oh PLEASE let the answer be kerosene. I know the coolest things about this ... fluid. The Amish use this to preserve various fingers and toes that have been chopped off until they can be reattached by your friendly local surgeon. Apparently it works really well." -

raphsody606

(Lots of other folks said kerosene. Which is probably also the answer; the question is pretty damn vague after all. So, +0.1 for all those answers. Gotta follow the theme, after all. -CV)

"Dinosaur Juice." -

sharnjilraedan

"Pop culture tells me gasoline, but I forget specifically where I first learned this one. Maybe the Darwin Awards." -

wrestlingdog

"Gasoline! Well, it does the trick, even if the kids went blind. survival of the fittest, and all." -

shadowsburn

"Gasoline, but other home remedies are much more, uh, palatable: vinegar, coconut oil, mayonnaise, lemon and butter -- or Listerine mouthwash." -

germankitty

"It was this gasoline treatment of genital lice that launched the phrase '"Liar! Liar! Pants on fire!'" -

sskipstress

"Gasoline? I imagine your station attendants were pretty confused when parents would walk up wo them holding a perscription." -

freezer818

"Pouring gasoline on your head actually is an effective remedy for lice. It's also a very effective remedy for having a head." -

callerhoe

"Now we know how Michael Jackson set his hair on fire." -

kristinmachina

Correct Answer: Gasoline

5. Antananarivo is the capital of which nation?

"So that's where all of Dmitry's vowels went!" -

lots42

"If it wasn't in the Animaniac's song than I have no idea." -

akiyasan

"World of Warcraft, Alliance." -

jmthane

(Oh come on. That's TOTALLY a gnome city. -CV)

"The Land of 1-Point Scrabble Tiles (the V is obviously an immigrant)" -

i_calql8

"Some country without an 'a' in its name, since they used up the quota in naming the capital." -

kamalloy

(Nope; they still had quite a few left over. -CV)

"Is it that ant colony in that movie with Woody Allen? Antz>A Bug's Life" -

kristinmachina

(+1, because Antz was totally underappreciated. -CV)

"Latvaria" -

b_hulsmans

(Doom does not believe in the letter A. -CV)

"Antanananarctica." -

callirhoe
"Antarctica has a capital?" -

newbia

(Yeah, it's just "Antarivo", but they're always shivering when they pronounce it. -CV)

"You know! The island! Where Alex had EB issues and Marty was obnoxious and Melman couldn't reach his shrink and Gloria had to be mature for three grown animals which is asking a lot even for a hippo! That one!" -

mathnerd

(~~+1, Madagascar. -LL~~ -1, That Movie Sucked Balls. -CV)

"I know how to spell it, I just don't know when to stop!" -

csmeward,

silmaril

(Pratatatatatchett would be proud. -CV)

"It looks like Ant Banana River, so it must obviously be BRAZIL." -

vzg

"A Banananananana Republic" -

ntlespino
"Bananananana Surprise" -

jennielf
"Bananananakistan" -

bending_sickle
"Banananation. The citizens are very good at spelling and math." -

holdouttrout

"I actually know it's Madagascar from a photographic safari on TV, but it sounds funnier to say, 'Somewhere they don't like nano viruses? Like Kamino or the SGC?'" -

majorsamfan

(Don't forget Eureka. – LL)

"Gaslandia, who are always at war with Beanostan. " -

pirho_maniac

"Dunno, but 'Aunt Anne and a River' is the name of my next book. Kelly Brown can't believe her parents are sending her to spend the summer with her antisocial Aunt Ann instead of camp with her friends. But in a small Montana town, Kelly learns about life, love, and white-water rafting. That is, until the shark attack." -

youngcurmudgeon

"Wouldn't it be awesome if this were the name of a NASCAR driver? Imagine how much the announcers would f*ck it up." -

pfflyernc

"Antananarivo also is one of the worst cities in the world in terms of air pollution. I'll refrain from making some sort of pun about 'mad' 'gas' and 'car' and let the others do the honors." -

uadlika

Correct Answer: Madagascar

6. What drives you crazy?

"Nothing! I am zen! ZEN I TELL YOU!" -

b_hulsmans

"Oh goddammit, I hope I'm not the only one with Britney Spears stuck in my head now." -

profsparky

(Nope! – CV&AL&LL)

"GOD DAMN YOU, BRITNEY SPEARS EARWORM. ...That's a pretty accurate response, actually." -

wrestlingdog

"Oh, fuck you for that earwig. It's bad enough that my dimwit coworker listens to a radio station with a playlist as deep as a spilled cup of coffee, but now I've got to contend with this shit, too? I could summon righteous fury and indignation on any of a myriad of important global topics, but no, you have to go make me think of some dude of uncertain lineage, with an incredibly fucked-up voice and a misshapen head, and his band's grotesquely overplayed debut. So much for keeping my blood pressure down this afternoon." -

etcet

"Hammer-ons, pull-offs, and the blue-red chord in Guitar hero. GAHHHHHHHH!!!" -

i_calql8

(Just wait until you try the green-orange chord. My fingers just don't stretch that way. -CV)

"People who get to the top or bottom of an escalator and just STOP. Serves them right when I plow into them." -

pfflyernc

"When I am walking on the sidewalk and am stuck behind slow-moving people several across. It's really one of the few times that I feel the need to chuck other people into oncoming traffic." -

uadlika

"I'm sorry, that's between me and the woman I pay to come in five days a week." -

drbear

(...

tweeti? -CV)

"I cooked your food, I cleaned your house, and this is how you pay me back? You left, you left! And now you see I've gone completely, utterly mad." -

woap

(+1, They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha Ha. -CV)

"Gnarls Barkley" -

puredeadthingy

"Armadillos in my trousers." -

mistressjennfer

"Having dreams where I'm driving and things go horribly wrong. And what's worse, I don't even know how to drive in real life." -

bending_sickle

"People who don't use turn signals. I can't read your freakin' minds here, folks, and it doesn't take *that* much effort to flip the lever." -

kamalloy

"Hey, just because I'm a chick and and New Yorker doesn't mean I drive like a crazy!" -

kristinmachina

(After consulting with the judges, we've determined that, yes, actually, it does. -CV)

"You know when people have a cold and they aren't quite ready to admit it yet and they *sniff* *sniff* *sniff* all the damn time? Yeah..." -

raphsody606

"Pirates. Because of the joke about a pirate who walked into a bar with a helm wheel sticking out of his fly. The bartender asked, 'Do you know you have a helm wheel sticking out of your fly?' The pirate answered, 'Aye, and it's drivin' me nuts!' Now when ever anyone says anything about something that 'drives me nuts' or 'drives me crazy' that's what I think of." -

adalger

And there you have it. Gas is the theme, because... well, just because. Also, I had a lot of veggies last night. That's going poorly for everything within a fifteen foot radius.

Happy end of June, everyone, and we'll be seeing you all again tomorrow for more fun and excitement! Also, for those of you who forgot, Thursday was four days ago. I forgot to remind myself to remind you. Oops.

Rock on!

AL&CV&LL

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From:

jmthane.livejournal.com

"World of Warcraft, Alliance." - jmthane

(Oh come on. That's TOTALLY a gnome city. -CV)

The fact that I'm aware that WoW has Horde and Alliance is actually pretty impressive, given that I've had no actual exposure to WoW other than word-of-mouth! Talk about viral marketing! (No pun intended - I think...)

From:

billfl.livejournal.com

Vanna White called; she said that all our vowels are belong to her.

Someone set us up the wheel?

From:

drbear.livejournal.com

It's a vowel movement!

Though named daily, it is weekly. Behold the first mystery.

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