LJ Daily Answers: 29 September 2008

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The storm has come and gone, and in its wake we have only this quiz. And a heaping helping of pudding.



1. What infamous computer game company operated under the slogan "Design Is Law"?

"Aperture Science. I know it's wrong, but I can see that being a backup slogan of theirs or something." - spyderqueen

(To be fair, these guys did love their delicious moist cake. -CV)

"I read that as 'infamous computer' and thought of Hal, the Killer Computer. Wouldn't you like to play a game with him? Er, it?" - etumukutenyak

(HAL9000 should challenge WOPR for a Kill All Humans deathmatch. Tron's Master Control Program can mediate. -CV)

"Oh god, please don't tell me it was the Sega Dreamcast people..." - shadowsburn

"Is this the same one that put out that early 80's E.T.? It sucked when he fell down the pixelated well." - akiyasan, mujubius

(And Lassie wasn't there to save E.T.'s alien bacon. -CV)

"Asimov Games - in these games, the killer robots are REAL!" - blunder_buss

"Desilu Studios. The original slogan was 'Desi is Law.' Also, 'Wahh! I want to design video games!'" - dhole

"i bet george lucas had something to do with it." - kira_snugz

(Surprisingly, no. And good job on still being alive. -CV)

"Woah, I was clicking around on wiki, and I discovered you can buy the complete Commander Keen on Steam! Thank-you, LJDQ!" - the_zaniak

(You're welcome. Not our intent, but hey, glad to help out. -CV)

"Blizzorg. Resistance to World of Warcraft is futile as long as they continue to blanket the world with free trial disks. Seriously, I can wallpaper my classroom with those things." - gunshou

"Gizmondo. Their full motto was 'Design is law, but the speed limit is just a suggestion.'" - judith_s

"something tells me that should be Project Runway's new motto." - babybokal

"I AM THE LAW - Either God or Judge Dredd. No, I do not hold truck with those who say they are one and the same." - ntlespino

"Atari. Pong was *wicked* back in the day, man." - thepikey

"Tron. Designer = God, his Design = Law." - reticent_lass

"Oregon Trail: Design is Law, and Law if Ford the River" - woap

"Leasuresuit Larry and Land of the Lounge Lizards? Knowing how to conquer that game has got to come in handy at some point in my life." - rhiannonjk

(+1, best computer game ever - LL)

"I thought it saw 'Design is Law, but Liqour is Quicker.'" - fizrep

"Looking Glass Studios. I know it's wrong, but if any company out there were as good as they, I would be a slave to my computer at this point. GLORY TO THE MANY: I AM A VOICE IN THE CHOIR." - fax_celestis

(Actually, Looking Glass was a subdivision of this studio, and pretty much the only good thing in the studio period. Also, +1, System Shock 2. -CV)

"Ion Storm, who covered the distance between "rising stars of the gaming world" and "swirling down the toilet" in less time than any software company in the history of the pixel." - the_misha

Correct Answer: ION Storm



2. Fun with lyrics! Name the band and the song:
"Theres a killer on the road
His brain is squirmin' like a toad
Take a long holiday
Let your children play"

"Sting Is Dropping Acid, by Sting, with special Guest Sting, featuring Sting." - dreamsphoto

"Jeremiah was a bull frog! Was a good friend of miiiinnneee..." - akiyasan

"The real question is, 'How long have you been playing Frogger this time without taking a break?'" - dwa20

"Do toads squirm? I thought they, y'know, hopped, or climbed, or swam..." - packbat

"Wagner's Road Toad Opera" - wiredwizard

"I've heard of a frog in your throat, but a toad in the brain is a new one. Maybe amphibians breed inside you somehow." - blunder_buss

"I love it how cane toads pop when ya drive over themServes em right, the poison squirting little buggers." - sometimespez

"If his brain is squirming that much, he probably shouldn't have screwed that hooker. Damn syphillis!" - speckled_llama

"No idea, but is that guy okay? I mean, his brain is squirming! That can't be good." - domestik_fucker

"That seems to part of a unique genre, a combination of kid's music and weird death metal. 'We're all going to fucking die, but first let's bake a tasty pie!'" - the_zaniak

"'Frog Baseball', Beavis and Butt-head" - i_calql8

"Drunk Dude in Bar, 'How Dare You Dump Me'." - puredeadthingy

"Home Alone 3: Macaulay Culkin meets Jason." - drbear

"I have no idea, but now I've got some ideas for my NaNoWriMo plot! Thanks LJDQ!" - marilyth

"Go children! Play with the brain on the road! You don't like children, do you." - judith_s

"Did they also write the 'MMMM AT! went the little green frog one day!' Song? Because when I read those lyrics all I can think is 'Honk honk went the big mac truck one day, squish squish went the little green frog. His eyes didn't go mmm at anymore because they both got eaten by a dog - woof woof!'" - rhiannonjk

(And this week's spiffington Award For Total Gibberish goes to... rhiannonjk! -CV)

"The Doors 'Riders on Your Mom'." - spiralgirl1

(Honestly, I never see it coming. -CV)

"Shut de Doors, keep out de debil
Shut de Doors, keep de debil in da ni-ight." - majorsamfan

"is there any truth to the story that this was supposed to be a cover of 'Ghostrider' but Jim was too drunk to remember any of the words?" - blindgeoff

(Not a clue. So, sure, run with it. -CV)

"When I was a teenager I was too much of a goody two-shoes to actually do drugs, but I listened to a lot of late Beatles, the Doors, and Pink Floyd, which was almost as good." - marasca

"Only the doors could make a song about a serial killing hitchhiker and make it sound like fun." - b_hulsmans

"That would be the Doors' interminably boring 'Riders on the Storm,' a song most notable for having a Muzak version which is essentially indistinguishable from the original." - the_misha

Correct Answer: "Riders On The Storm", The Doors

"Mom? Please tell me The Doors weren't renowned for their lyrical abilities right?" - spyderqueen



3. What Swedish-born actor played a Russian astronaut in "Armageddon"?

"The Swedish-Chef! He threw snails at the big flaming rock." - akiyasan

(Do you think they helped slow it down? -CV)

"He he he, 'You vant us to un-pimp your auto?'
" - marilyth

"The inclusion of Ace of Base in Armageddon would have made the film infinitely more watchable." - reticent_lass

"God, that movie's 10 years old now, yet I remember when it came out. Thanks for helping me realize I'm old and not even 30. I feel as old now as I did when a younger cousin asked me what Princess Bride is. *sob*" - mandy347

"MUCH HATE FOR THAT MOVIE. Except for the part where Steve Buchemi goes nuts with the machine gun." - fizrep

"I bet he has umlauts in his name. Umlauts are awesome." - la_trombonista

"Alexander Pushkin - Wrote the book too!" - merlinwon

(One of my coworkers thinks I look like Pushkin. -CV)

"I knew his Russian accent was unconvincing! Also, Ben Affleck totally should have died." - pirho_maniac

(I say that in every Ben Affleck movie. -CV)

"Bën Ikëa Äfflëk" - domestik_fucker

"Bjorn Indiuessa" - i_calql8

"I didn't know Bruce Willis was Swedish!" - distaff_exile

"Pieter Jakov, the most unfortunately named Russian ever." - fax_celestis

"I spent too much of that movie marvelling at how much Liv Tyler looks like her daddy, and how incredibly broken Owen Wilson's nose looks to really pay much attention to things like Swedes playing Russians." - schizospider

"It always annoys me when people expect 100% scientific accuracy in sci-fi films. It's like those people who watch House and say 'That's not real medicine! You couldn't do that!' I just want to join in - 'Wait a second, that's Hugh Laurie! He's not a real doctor!! WHAT ARE THEY DOING LETTING HIM INTO A HOSPITAL!?'" - the_zaniak

(Suspension of disbelief is a wonderful thing. -CV)

"Why, that would be Svenge, an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: 'The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist', 'Fillings of Passion', 'The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink'... his sister was once bit by a møøse." - babybokal

"Sean Connery played a Russian submarine commander. The Swedes just *wish* they were as cool as Scotland." - thepikey

"In Swedish Russia, the geddon arms YOU!" - marasca

"'Are you getting it? Armaggedon it!'" - kristinmachina, ifeedformula

"I love the chance to tell this story: During a real shuttle disaster, Fox decided not to show Armageddon because the movie showed a fictional shuttle disaster. So what do they show instead? Aliens 3, which featured a SHUTTLE DISASTER. No, serioously. The stupid, it burns, it burns so painfully." - lots42

(Well, in their defense, Aliens3's shuttle was a lot less shuttle-like than our shuttles. -CV)

"he was the devil in constantine!! he was so awesome. plus he does those wacked out BMW commercials. oor i'm wrong, and its that guy from the professional." - kira_snugz

(Amazingly, you were right the first time. -CV)

"Since I am the person who knows all things Sweden, it's Peter Stormare. It's a country of ABBA and Ace of Base no more!" - killabee886

"Pete Stormyair. You do NOT want to be in the room when that man breaks wind." - deza

"Peter Physics-Is-For-Sissies Stormare" - judith_s

Correct Answer: Peter Stormare



4. The word "haboob" refers to what meteorological phenomenon?

(For those who are wondering, yes, more than half of you said something along the lines of "huh huh, boobs". -CV)

"So many...immature comments... fighting for control... can't choose! *falls over shaking and frothing as her inner 7 year old, 12 year old and 15 year old fight for control*" - spyderqueen

"Your wife, is she into meteorology? A little bit of the 'cumulo-nimbus action', eh? Wink wink, nudge nudge, say no more!" - thepikey

"Phenomenon? Doot dooooooo do-dooo do!" - i_calql8

"I can only imagine that word being said with the accent from Fargo." - rhiannonjk

"When two tornadoes begin to form alongside each other, producing two protruding cones at high altitudes..." - erkunden

"" - fizrep, wiredwizard, kamalloy

"I can't think of any meteorological phenomenon that relate to breasts. Unless maybe it's something to do with clouds, breasts are soft like pillows and people think clouds are pillow like." - avron

"The shitstorm which ignited over Janet's mammary gland--'Ha!Boob!'" - kristinmachina

"It's when the unexpected rains occur in the summertime; it causes the wet t-shirt phenomenon referred to as 'Ha! Boob!'." - etumukutenyak, drbear, marasca

"When the cow jumps over the moon! It ha-boobs!" - merlinwon

(And this week's gruyere Award For Logic Renunciation goes to... merlinwon! -CV)

"A star attempting to explode and getting muffled by space dust. 'Haboob!'" - jechocochan

"When the front of the comet bulges outwards in two lobes." - shadowsburn

"Every time the political debates come out and everyone gathers around the television set and laughs at the boobs pundits." - akiyasan

"All tit jokes aside, the only time I've ever seen that word was in some crazy game where a bunch of cactus thingies were talking about summoning "The Great Haboob." Needless to say, I turned off the console and then laughed for thirty minutes straight." - wowwhony

"It sounds all boobylicious, but no, it's a freaking SANDSTORM that grinds tiny particles of grit into your face and rips you up and makes you cry. Wait, that does sound a lot like a woman..." - woap

Correct Answer: Dust Storm



5. What Tom Clancy novel was used to name Clancy's multimedia entertainment company?

"This would work if I had a better idea of who Tom Clancy was. Did he do all those books with the dinosaurs?" - akiyasan

(*headdesk* -CV)

"He had a book named 'Carbon Copy Shovelware?'" - freezer818

(No, that's Clive Cussler. -CV)

"Did Tom Clancy write the Bourne series? Because Matt Damon was amazingly hot in those movies. I would Internet cheat the answer despite the penalty, but now I'm distracted and I can't Google search with one hand. Sorry, what was the question?" - gunshou

"All problems solved with guns." - drbear

"Super Happy Communist Rainbow Shooting Communist Times Go!" - pirho_maniac

"I didn't even know Tom Clancy HAD a multimedia entertainment company. Does that make me less of a woman?" - ifeedformula

(I think it makes you more womanly than you could possibly imagine. -CV)

"The Sum of All Fears. By 'multimedia entertainment' they meant 'math'." - illogicalvulcan

"I dunno but I keep imagining Jack Bauer now yelling WE DON'T HAVE ANY TIME!!!! And yes I know I screwed up my shows" - piney61

(In all fairness, if Tom Clancy turned his hand to TV, he would have made "24" years ago. -CV)

"The only Clancy novel I've read is Executive Orders...and really, I think it's probably one of the best books ever written. It begins with an airliner crashing into the capitol, killing the president, the congress, the supreme court...and Jack Ryan becomes President and has to reconstitute the government....*sigh*...if only..." - tweeti

"Having never read Tom Clancy, I can only hope it's something incredibly racist. 'Negro Entertainment', or 'Stop The Mexicans From Coming Over Here and Stealing Our Jobs Productions'." - the_zaniak

"Red Storm, which has puzzled ultra-conservatives for a decade now with one question: is 'Rainbow Six' a gay rights movement, or does it fight terrorists? Hmm, what a dilemma." - erkunden

"Covert-ops fly over the Rainbow Six, why then, or why can't I?" - kristinmachina

(Picturing Kermit dressed up in commando gear and capping terrorists suddenly amuses me. -CV)

"Rainbow Six. It's a guess, but 90% of anything Tom Clancy has Rainbow Six somewhere in the title." - fax_celestis

"I hope to Bulwer-Lytton that it's Rainbow Six. Had that title been accompanied by any author's name besides Clancy, and had it bypassed the typical Clancy cover, it would have been rather fruitier-looking than intended." - reticent_lass

"Rainbow Six! Okay I've never actually read one of his books. I haven't read Rainbow Six either, I just played the video game. And I got killed. A lot." - fmh

"Red Storm, which had a frontal exposure to a White Squall and ended up creating lovely pink Tequila Sunrises at the bar on the beach. " - deza

"The Red Storm. All I can say is that he's damn lucky McCarthy was good and gone before he named it that..." - wowwhony

"Red Storm Rising... I understand he also uses this phrase to describe the effect of his Viagra subscription..." - blindgeoff

Correct Answer: "Red Storm Rising", which led to Red Storm Entertainment



6. Elric of Melniboné was the wielder of which accursed sword?

"Hmmmmmm...Elric of Melnibone, accursed sword...I'm predicting at least 57 penis comments." - babybokal

(Amazingly enough, everyone used all their immature comments in question #4. -CV)

"*snerk* The guy's last name has the word "bone" in it and he was created by a man named MOORCOCK. There is something kind of wrong, yet incredibly funny, about that." - ifeedformula

(...almost everyone. -CV)

"A fuck off big black bahstard with ruuunes onnit what sucks the life rot outta ye! " - fmh

"Hey, wanna blow the horn of Gondor?" - wrestlingdog

"You call that a knife? This is a knife!" - kristinmachina

(+1, Crocodile Dundee. -CV)

"Soul Edge." - freezer818

"He stole Xena's sword didn't he? Xena doesn't truck with that shit, dude." - illogicalvulcan

"Greetings, Master. Who shall we kill today?" - lots42

(+1, Sluggy Freelance. Well, maybe only +1/2, because they jumped the shark years ago. -CV)

"At first I read that as 'Melbourne' and I was imagining some Awesome Aussie fantasy adventure hero who treks through the outback and protects sacred Aboriginal sites like Uluru and fights off dingos that try to eat people's babies. I would totally read that. " - alkion04

(Even though this movie was never made, I think it starred Mel Gibson. -CV)

"I'll guess Stormbringer, because swords are really only given names in bad fantasy books, and that's the sort of sword name that the kind of fantasy author who names swords would come up with." - marasca

"I was taught from a very young age that ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side." - stormyskies

(+1, Star Wars. -CV)

"I used to have one of the AD&D Deities and Demigods books that featured the Melnibonians." - deza

(Ooooh, precious! -CV)

"'Elric's More Impressive Appendage'. I mean, srsly--dude was the skinniest and whitest skinny white boy in history." - i_calql8

"'The pen is mightier than the sword, but a well-aimed typewriter packs good punch too.'...For all my journalist friends..." - tweeti

"Errrm... I know the storm theme obviously... the sword of storms? The storm sword? The Blade of Chaotic Lightning and Threshing Tripe + 5? The Jabberwocky, snicker snack? Clearly I'm clutching at blades here..." - mujubius

"Stormbringer, the only fictional weapon to have been immortalized in song by two separate rock bands: Blue Öyster Cult's "Black Blade" (from Cultosaurus Erectus and the entirety of Hawkwind's The Chronicle of the Black Sword (which, to be fair, was only partly about Elric and Stormbringer). (Honourable mention goes to Deep Purple's "Stormbringer," which wasn't about the sword, but should've been.)" - the_misha

"Now I know who to blame for those 'accursed winds' that keep blowing shigles off of my garage" - blindgeoff

Correct Answer: Stormbringer

"That sword never ONCE actually summoned a meteorological event." - fizrep



7. George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg star together in two films. Which one are we thinking of?

"The kind that you can only find behind the beaded section of the movie store." - akiyasan

"I am not telepathic, I do not know what you are thinking of, and in the case of chaosvizier I probably don't want to know what you are thinking of." - b_hulsmans

(Probably true. Most of the time I'm just thinking 'boobiesboobiesboobiesboobiesboobies'. The rest of the time I'm drunk. -CV)

"Too bad it wasn't that one where Wahlberg was an insane hitman who was betrayed by his hitman brothers and Captain Sisko was his boss. That movie was awesome. Clooney as a crazy person (he does it so well, re: From Dusk Till Dawn) would only have improved it. In short, we need more movies about insane hitmen." - lots42

(That is, in fact, my favorite Marky Mark movie. -CV)

"Preppy White Guys: The Musical" - piney61

"This Mark Wahlberg guy needs to be involved in more spectacularly bad celebrity relationships; I haven't the foggiest idea who he actually is." - reticent_lass

"Oceans 11, wasn't everyone in that movie? Well, not Bernie Mac anymore...too soon?" - killabee886

(Here on ljdq, it's never too soon. -CV)

"It better not be Batman and Robin." - david_deacon

"Dunno, but did you ever see E/R? the ER show Clooney was on before ER? Funny stuff." - dreamsphoto

(So what you're saying is, Clooney was the slash? -CV)

"Did they play storm troopers in Episode III?" - majorsamfan

"What the hell is wrong with you guys, listen to the fucking meterologist! Christ, I'm not going to even feel bad when you die at the end of this movie." - spyderqueen

"'The Perfect Storm', which refered to the convergence of hotness on one very tiny boat." - kristinmachina

"The Perfect Storm, which is essentially idiot men fighting Mother Nature during a particularly bad bout with menopause." - fax_celestis

"The Perfect Storm, a.k.a. Testosterone Tsunami." - the_misha

"'The Perfect Storm.' Which is a phrase that should now be banned. Every time something big, bad, and complicated happens, people say that it was 'a perfect storm.' It drives me crazy. I actually haven't heard it in a while, but that may have more to do with me not watching news than it does with people not saying it." - alkion04

Correct Answer: The Perfect Storm



8. Who is Reed Richards' brother-in-law?

"Frankly, for me this question might as well end at 'Who is Reed Richards?'" - germankitty

"The alliterative names in comics always piss me off. THERE ARE 25 OTHER LETTERS, PEOPLE." - gunshou

"BREAKING NEWS: Shocking sex tape of Reed and Sue Richards is leaked to the internet! Origin of Reed's nickname 'Mr. Fantastic' fully revealed, along with all his extendable appendages!" - kristinmachina

(I hear he's even better than the Elongated Man... -CV)

"I don't know, but my parents had a professor in grad school named Sten H. Stenson, and I still think that's really funny." - babybokal

"Who cares? I wanna know if Jessica Alba has a sister!" - thepikey

"Victor Von Doom. It makes family gatherings a bit awkward. 'Please pass the Diet Sprite' 'Oh, we're out of Diet Sprite.' 'CURSE YOU RICHARDS!'" - dhole

"We don't talk about him, we think he's an accountant." - confusedpuppy

"he still owes money." - drbear

"P.C. Richard (and sons)" - shadowsburn

"No clue, but I'm sure we could smoke Keith Richard's ashes when he kicks it without Reed's permission." - marilyth

"I read that as Richard Simmons and shuddered. Now I'm visualizing him. I need the mind bleach, STAT! Thanks a bunch, LJDQ!" - dreamsphoto

"Anne Richards! Oh wait..no..she was a govenor of Texas." - ifeedformula

"Johnny Storm, whose doctor got really sick of the 'It burns when I pee' joke." - spyderqueen

"Well, if the California thing goes through, Johnny Grimm." - lots42

"'Johnny Angel, how I want him.' (We need the rain.)
'How I tingle when he passes by.' (That's the electricity preceding the actual storm front.)
'Every time he says 'Hello' my heart begins to fly.' (That's my HOUSE!)" - majorsamfan

(+1, Grease. -CV)

"Johnny Rotten would have been a better BIL than Johnny Storm. But not as good as Johnny McCain" - blindgeoff

"Johnny Storm, though first my mind went through Johnny Torch, Johnny Knox, and Sue Storm. There is something wrong when your brain sees 'brother-in-law' and comes up with 'wife.'" - kamalloy

"I don't know who thought 'flame on!' was a good catch phrase, but it is proof that these are very different times." - stormyskies

"If not for the existence of Michael Moore, Johnny Storm'd be the world's largest flaming asshole. However, he does bear the honor of having the world's silliest catchphrase. Even more astonishing since he's contending with Ben Grimm constantly." - reticent_lass

"Forget about Iron Man being a dick, how much would it suck to have a great sex thing going on and Johnny flames on at the most inappropriate time?" - akiyasan

Correct Answer: Johnny Storm, "The Human Torch"



9. Who was the only U.S. Senator to reach the age of 100 while still in office?

"Chuck Norris" - wiredwizard

(We'd get a lot more legislation pushed through if Chuck were part of Congress. "Congress hereby authorizes into law this bill stating that roundhouse kicks are an acceptable form of corporeal punishment." -CV)

"Palpatine" - fmh

"I think that's a trick question...I think there's way more than one who've been in there that long." - tweeti

(Some former Senators have lived to be 100 but were not in office at the time they turned 100. Strom is no longer the longest-serving Congressman, having recently been surpassed by Robert C. Byrd. -CV)

"Alas, if only John Quincy Adams could have fit the bill. Rent Amistad and tell me you wouldn't at least enjoy watching the guy on the news." - reticent_lass

"Theodore G. Bilbo. He was a Senator until his eleventy first birthday." - dhole

(And he didn't like ANYONE in Congress half as well as they deserved. Especially those Sackville-Conservatives. -CV)

"" - david_deacon

"Old republicans don't die; they just turn into lich-lords, subsisting on the blood of babies. Thurmond is still alive somewhere under the Rotunda, waiting..." - woap

"this is why term limits are a good idea, people." - etcet

"And we wonder why Congress is ineffective." - prettylily

(I believe the word you were looking for was "impotent". -CV)

"Strom Thurmond. I C WHUT U DID THAR." - kristinmachina and several others

(Hey, we're nothing if not painfully cheesy here. -CV)

"Ah, Strom Thrumond. A political punchline all by himself. But in a little known fact, there were actually two others. Admittedly, they didn't do a whole lot- just sat in the balcony and heckled every bill that came up. (Ok, maybe not, but you have to admit, the Senate would be a lot more entertaining if Statler and Waldorf were involved.)" - wrestlingdog

"Let's see, Strom is best known for being old and racist. Who else is old and likes to smite certain groups? God." - speckled_llama

"Strom Thurmond, R-Whitesonly" - drbear

"As recounted in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and Stays There" - thepikey

'Strom 'The Eternal One' Thurmond" - ifeedformula

"Ted Kennedy. No, wait - it just feels that way." - freezer818

"I fervently hope if he wins that John 'Stormin' the Castle' McCain lives to be 100, because Palin as President is too horrifying to contemplate. I can't even be funny about this; I'm too busy building my bunker and praying to Obama!Jesus." - gunshou

"" - merlinwon

"Must be hard to keep the hookers and blow after 100. But I bet it's a hoot to watch him try." - killabee886

Correct Answer: Strom Thurmond

"Incidentally, they made a movie about him." - stormyskies



10. What's clouding your horizons?

"Clouding my ... hey! I'm not that fat!" - packbat

"Nothing - my magic 8 ball helps to uncloud it." - sometimespez

(MY SOURCES SAY NO. -M8B)

"Nothing clouds my Horizon because I 'Always Look on the Bright Side of Life'" - tweeti

(+1, Life Of Brian. -CV)

"I can see clearly now the rain is gone. I can see all obstacles in my way. Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind. It's gonna be a bright, bright, bright, bright sunshiney day." - ifeedformula

“I haven't slept a full night since last week, my ear hurts, my boobs itch, I'm bad at math, and I inadvertently upset my thesis advisor today. Right now I wish I were still a teenager, so I could sink into an adolescent funk. Hrmph." - babybokal

"My room was clean yesterday. Then, my grandmother decided to help 'clean' my room. It's now a complete and utter disaster, the likes of which only FEMA could worsen." - mandy347

(Our lovely moderator angledge is intimately familiar with FEMA policies. She'll help you out. -CV)

"I go to university on Saturday. HELP." - puredeadthingy

(I went to work on Saturday. For the past three Saturdays. Woe. -CV)

"The voluminous quantities of incense my partner lit an hour ago that are threatening to choke me" - the_misha

"Summer is ending, and the local ice cream stands will be closing. ;_;" - kamalloy

"I'm not sure what that expression means, so here's something I've wanted to tell you guys. I work at a grocery store, and one day, when I went to return something to the dairy section, I thought the Gelatin and Pudding sign said 'Gin and Pudding.' LJDQ has really gotten into my brain." - la_trombonista

"My husband is about to deploy, and we don't know just how long he's going to be gone." - deza

(Best wishes from us, really. -AL&CV&LL)

"This delicious nutella I'm eating straight from the jar is almost gone." - illogicalvulcan

(Now that DOES make me sad inside. Mmmmm, nutella. -CV)

"Pot" - prettylily

"Condensed water and air. Duh." - domestik_fucker

"I can see for miles and miles!" - fizrep

"How rusty I am at this snark stuff." - shadowsburn

"Oh nothing much -- just the economy tanking, the price of gas skyrocketing, the McSame/Caribou Barbie ticket, global warming, hurricane season, mosquitos, Avian Influenza, and my son's lack of civil behavior in the classroom." - etumukutenyak

"The cumulation of high pressure to make teh funneh. Snow mean feat to do it. It almost causes depression. Cirrusly." - i_calql8

"It's fall, and I get to wear pants again. There's nothing wrong now. Well, except for the fact that my favorite jeans seem to be more hole than jean lately, and the temperature is only going down. Makes for the not-warm around the giblets, if you know what I mean." - pirho_maniac

"I'm all out of gin. However, I do have pudding, so there's a chocolate silver lining, at least." - germankitty

"Being single. A (near) minimum wage job with a supervisor that yells anytime there's any sort of problem. A flatmate that doesn't do his dishes more than once a week. Barely leaving the house apart from work. Oh, and did I mention I'm single?" - avron

"You know how in Star Trek whenever Captain Kirk saw a beautiful girl, the screen would go all misty? I thought that was him trying to make his eyes fog up!" - the_zaniak

(I think that was just YOUR eyes fogging up. -CV)

"When this answer is posted, it will be thirty-six days until the Presidential election. I have no idea what might happen to the economy over the weekend, and can't even drink myself into a stupor of magnificent oblivion (I'm on call, goddammit). Those two things, along with a looming corporate bankruptcy I need to handle the paperwork for.... well, fuck, there's a lot on my plate these days. Can you just send over the double-jointed, DD-cupped, bisexual, nearsighted, and morally flexible masseuse already?" - etcet

(We'll, uh, see what we can do. -CV)

"Latest electoral vote tally (as of 9/16/08) shows McCain leading by 10. *le sigh*" - thepikey

"The nagging doubt that when my boss finally snaps, I'm one of the people he seeks out." - freezer818



And thus endeth our annual September Super-Sized Extravaganza. Storms were the theme because... well, no particular reason, although hurrican season has done its annual damage. And as a result, angledge is officially on a work contract to go help assess damage in Texas. So, if you live in storm-torn Texas and you hear the distant battle cry "TO THE ROOFS!", you'll know she's on the job.

That being said, since she'll be out of action for a few months, we're offering you, the quizling populace, a chance for fun. Want to be a guest mod for a week sometime this autumn? We'll give you a chance! Why not? It's fun for the whole family! If you're interested, send an email to me at chaosvizier at hotmail, and I'll let you know when you can take the stage. It'll be a hoot!

Thank you, and good night.

Rock On!

AL&CV&LL

Comments

Hey, first comment! Go me!

[germankitty]

W00t, double quotage! And a near miss on #3 (only thepikey was funnier. I seem to have channeled thepikey a lot last week; my first idea on #1 was Pong, too.) Hmph. Oh, and there was this kind of a group quote on the boobs thing.

Why didn't you like my Red Rabbit, though? *pouts*

Re: Hey, first comment! Go me!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

The red rabbit was cute, but then I eated it. Sorry.

[thepikey.livejournal.com]

But now two weeks later Obama's up by 34 on electoral-vote.com!

And I got SIX answers!

Huzzah!

Huzzah!

(still crossing fingers over election for another month + though...)

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Website polls and predictors are like the weather forecasters- if they're right, it's more out of sheer luck than anything else. ;-)

Good show having six answers, though. An excellent achievement! Throw up the horns to celebrate!

[blunder-buss.livejournal.com]

HOORAY! You guys still let me in even though I was a little late! And you quoted me twice! You guys are awesome. :D

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Late isn't such a big deal. It's much worse if you suck. ;-)

[drbear.livejournal.com]

Whadddya mean the Doors weren't reknowned for their lyrics? Jim Morrison was a freakin' rock poet! OK, a dead freakin' rock poet who supposedly exposed himself on stage (before he was dead) but then, well, poets are crazy anyway. And most of them are dead.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Exposure of Self before Death probably got him a lot of extra fans. Fans of his "poetry". They probably formed a fan club or society. A Dead Poet Society, even. And now they're all dead anyway. Because that's what happens to poets and folks who like them. Cheeky poets.

[ryttu3k.livejournal.com]

Man, ion storms are cool - I mean, the REAL ones, interplanetary coronal mass ejections. That's when the sun spits out a chunk of itself and gets tangled up in its own magnetic field, speeding slow particles up and slowing fast ones down until it's one big lot of solar wind. Which then smacks in to stuff. Awesome.

Geomagnetic storms are bloody brilliant too - that's when CMEs or solar flares hit Earth's magnetosphere and cause Wacky Hijinks. In 1989, one caused most of the power in Quebec to drop out and caused auroras as far south as TEXAS. Neat!

Science is cool ^_^

[ntlespino.livejournal.com]

Geek of the Week immunity in the comments right?

A Record, I think

[tweeti.livejournal.com]

The mostest quotes evah for me in one quiz.....YaY!!!~!! Who the heck cares that it's a longer than normal special quiz.....Hey, it's a special quiz.....That means I'm special too......*grinz*

Re: A Record, I think

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

You are a special winner of specialness. That's specialful.

[i-calql8.livejournal.com]

Four quotes! I moderately to heavily rock!

My puns got in *loud cheer!*, but my math spoonerism did not, nor did my use of the acronym SHMILF. *le sigh* The ways of the mods are mysterious, indeed.

Guest mod, eh? Three pun-crazed overseers instead of two? You have piqued my interest.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

4 is good! That's a 40%! Which a math teacher like you should recognize as pretty good on this quiz, where the curve probably hits 32% at best. Or something. I could just be making up math here because I'm tired. Mmmmmm, faux math.

And, fair is fair, SHMILF was pretty good.

[ifeedformula.livejournal.com]

Quoted FOUR times! FOUR! Count em one two three..uh..six..FOUR! *dances aroound throwing boobie jellies for everyone*

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

I don't know what a boobie jelly is, but if real boobies are involved, then I want one. ;-)

[raisedbymoogles.livejournal.com]

“Right now I wish I were still a teenager, so I could sink into an adolescent funk. Hrmph."

Hey, that never stopped me.

[i-calql8.livejournal.com]

Adults get 'em, too--makes for a nice break in the day--we just don't have the "Oh, he's just a teenager...they get those" excuse to fall back on.

Bring on the funk.

[sharnjilraedan.livejournal.com]

"Forget about Iron Man being a dick, how much would it suck to have a great sex thing going on and Johnny flames on at the most inappropriate time?" - akiyasan

Was I the only one who really thought "Oh, there's an efficient method of removing hair on the body, with less pain than waxing?"

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Burning is less painful than waxing? Well, maybe for a Brazilian...

[pirho-maniac.livejournal.com]

Quoted three times!
But it's out of ten.
But it's the most I've ever been quoted!
But it's still only 3/10.
But it's the most I've ever been quoted!

I think Ben Affleck lost the right to survive movies when he walked around Baltimore right after a nuke. Or probably before then. I can't remember.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Ben Affleck was done long before that. But yeah, he should have absorbed lots of radiation and turned into BENHULK SMASH PUNY DAMON!!!

[majorsamfan.livejournal.com]

work contract to go help assess damage in Texas

Totally read that, "...to go help asses damage Texas," and thought "Why? Haven't they been through enough?"

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Bush has damaged Texas's reputation enough. ;-)

But yes, she's there to help, not harm. She is a good person. Unlike me.

[david-deacon.livejournal.com]

It's entitled "Riders On THE Storm."

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Funny, I had corrected that too. Must have lost a save somewhere. Oops.

[naraht.livejournal.com]

Guh, I kept meaning to play, but moving has killeded me.


But now that I'm (mostly) done...

What sort of time commitment does guest modship require?

[ntlespino.livejournal.com]

It would appear pudding and blow would be part of the requirements submitted for application. And Sting. Lotsa Sting.

[fax-celestis.livejournal.com]

"Stormbringer, the only fictional weapon to have been immortalized in song by two separate rock bands: Blue Öyster Cult's "Black Blade" (from Cultosaurus Erectus and the entirety of Hawkwind's The Chronicle of the Black Sword (which, to be fair, was only partly about Elric and Stormbringer). (Honourable mention goes to Deep Purple's "Stormbringer," which wasn't about the sword, but should've been.)" - the_misha

LIES! Dark Moor's "The Fall of Melnibone" (http://www.metrolyrics.com/the-fall-of-melnibone-lyrics-dark-moor.html) also commemorates it.

[illogicalvulcan.livejournal.com]

Also, I seriously feel like there should be some songs out there about Excalibur.

[kaerran.livejournal.com]

*went to get Deities and Demigods as soon as she read the comment about it*

Dude, Elric's crazy. He's got a Str of 6 and a Con of 3. Yes, 85% of the time they're both at fifteen but man can he not take a hit or hit that other 15% of the time. On the other hand, he summons creatures to help. And Stormbringer has a 50% chance of killing you outright if it hits because it either drains half or all your levels, and if it does kill you then officially nothing can bring you back.

Also, first ed. D&D pwns. :|

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Oooh, someone else who has The Original Book. That's Old School DND right there. Rock on!

[portkey.livejournal.com]

"We don't talk about him, we think he's an accountant." - confusedpuppy

Is that a really obscure Harry Potter reference?

(.. yes, I looked up the passage because I'm ridiculously pedantic and compulsive.

"Are all your family wizards?" asked Harry, who found Ron just as interesting as Ron found him.

"Er - yes, I think so," said Ron. "I think Mom's go a second cousin who's an accountant, but we never talk about him.")

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Wow... that came out of left field. Bravo to you. You can have a +1.

[shadowsburn.livejournal.com]

Quoted three times? I feel so much better about my week. :)

The 'answers' to question 6 made me laugh the most.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Good showing! And yeah, somehow #6 was a winner answer-wise. It's always unpredictable which question will give the best results.

[akiyasan.livejournal.com]

Dude .... Dude! How in the world did I get that many quotes? Somehow I hit a good streak. Me thinks that'll take care of the rest of the year.

But hey, it's worth it if only to make a mod *headdesk*.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Michael Crichton =/= Tom Clancy. End of story.

[tinamachina.livejournal.com]

SEVEN QUOTES! *raises sword* I HAVE THE FUNNYYYYYYYYYYY!

(Picturing Kermit dressed up in commando gear and capping terrorists suddenly amuses me. -CV)

You're thinking of "The Rainbow Connection", you haboob.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

I thought you were thinking of the Rainbow Connection too. The rhythm of your answer was almost the same as the song.

In any event, Kermit capping terrorists is still funny.

[marilyth.livejournal.com]

Sadness is not remembering enough about this quiz to have to look for my name if it came up. And it did. I wish I could have found the flying pimp mobile on the sling shot from the VW commercial. Priceless!

[lots42.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I'm so out of it I have to go back to the questions post and see if my answers showed up under the grey bar.

[tinamachina.livejournal.com]

On a more serious note, hugs to deza, her husband and family.

[reticent-lass.livejournal.com]

My God, it's full of quotage! *is happy*

Regarding Armageddon--that movie was supposed to be suspenseful, action-packed, the end of the world in the loudest and flashiest Hollywood-disaster manner possible. Here's the thing: when it was out in theaters, I FUCKING FELL ASLEEP DURING IT. I didn't know what degree of screwed Earth wound up being until like two years ago when I looked it up out of curiousity. And I kept mixing it up with Deep Impact, which I have seen and found utterly hilarious on multiple occasions. (Pre-LOTR Elijah Wood has a scene where he offers his girlfriend two gold rings in his outstretched hand. And everyone is trying veryvery hard at Depth and Emotion. LOLtacular.)

To be entirely fair, I did see it at a drive-in... when I was nine...

[lots42.livejournal.com]

Armageddon is fun only when they destroyed shit. When they tried to have actual plot or acting or anything but stuff blowing up, it got insane. And not insane in a good way, but insane as in 'Are the writers brain damaged or just high on coke?'. Seriously. It -starts- with Bruce Willis shooting a gun off randomly on an oil rig. Because that's sane.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

What the FUCK is that picture Fizrep posted? Jesus Christ...is that CLOUDS? Seriously, I'm fucking freaking out here. Clouds better not look like that EVER.

And Sluggy did jump the shark (Timeless Space for the lose) but it came back. They destroyed Kessandru House, Aylee is actually cool again and Shlock is evil now and Oasis doesn't bore me. She kills conveinence store robbers. That's always fun. "Gimme your money...URGH." HAHAHAHAHA. Don't rob, you'll get a sword in your lung.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Sluggy has not yet unjumped the shark, although I'll give props to their WOW parody last month.

[gunshou.livejournal.com]

YAYS, TRIUMPHANT RETURN IS TRIUMPHANT!

:D

Still giggling over haboobs. I'm twelve, apparently.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Haboobs will always be funny.