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In case you're wondering why this week's theme is "Sand", I'm currently in the middle of a desert nation. There is a lot of sand here. Everywhere. It is foremost on my mind. Well, except for a thousand angry people. But that's beside the point.

1. What kind of creature is Shai-Hulud?

"I bet it tastes good deep-fried and covered in chocolate." -

chaotic_cupcake

"a very socially awkward hulud, whatever that is." -

gravjedi,

judith_s,

formshaper
"A giant shy...elephant? Like the ones from ROTK, but really scared of open spaces and new people." -

operatic_diva

"The worm at the bottom of a bottle of tequilla" -

marasca
"Did you know that if you take the worm out of the tequila bottle, drink tequila first, and blow it up real BIG it makes a great sand worm for your movie." -

dragonwaggin

"Obak-hai are the mean male orks. Shai-Hulud are their docile guy pals and bitches." -

mcclintock

"It's that giant spider in LoTR, right? Sounds Tolkien-ish." -

bear_sinenomine

"Sounds like a Great Old One to me! I think Shai-Hulud is Shub-Niggurath's first cousin, isn't it?" -

ctakahara and a few other cthulhians

"I'm pretty sure that's the green chick that Captain Kirk nails in episode 34, 'The Captain's Log'." -

tony101

(Oh, that could be anybody. -CV)

"A poisonous beast who is drawn to rhythmic movement and eats its foes.. my ex-wife." -

pyllgrum

"A sand crab. You get them from having sex with the wrong person on the beach." -

dhud98

"Shai-Hulud = Persian for Rodents of Unusual Size" -

mathnerd

"A dull, flaccid length at first, but when gently cradled, it grows to a large, erect length that stands tall wherever it goes; it's the one, the only!!!..... sand worm." -

lauraluv
"*glances down at his pants*" -

fizrep

"I am going to go out an a limb and answer that Shai Hulud is the goatee sporting evil twin of Shia LaBeouf." -

jigawattica

"The somewhat less delicious cousin of Chai-Hulud" -

active_apathy

"one of that fat slimy frog/worm thing's, that enslaved princess leia, other slaves. my grammer is so so wrong there. bad grammer, i must be punished!" -

kira_snugz

(Grammar, syntax, spelling... your punishment will be most severe. -CV)

"It's that wriggly thing from Dune. *shudders* I used to get nightmares of that thing crawling around me." -

loopyuk

(What, Sting? -CV)

"Sandworms! I am so in love with those books! If I have kids I'm going to name them Paul and Alia! their middle names will be Jesus and Christ because as I am as gay as they get." -

b_hulsmans

"why in the world would a spice make somebody's eyes glow blue? And do the glowing blue eyes mean that such a culture would have no stalkers? (hard to watch somebody in the dark when your eyes are like flashlights)" -

raienna

"Dune, where's my sandworm?" -

captainsblog

"Oooh! I know this one! It was a Sand-worm from the deserts in the movie Dune! Due to lack of work they were later cast in Beetlejuice, and I think their offspring starred in Tremors 1-40." -

canuckdesz. 12 others voted Beetlejuice; only 5 remembered Tremors' Graboids.

"As a straight white male, I have absolutely no trouble moving without rhythm." -

caffeineod

Correct Answer: Sandworm

2. Who was the first woman to serve on the United States Supreme Court?

"I’d make a tennis pun but that would be too easy." -

chaotic_cupcake

(That didn't stop 9 other people. -CV)

"Jenna Jameson" -

wiredwizard
"Carmen Electra" -

lauraluv
"Rosie O' Donnell" -

psychopompos

(One of those things is not like the others... -CV)

"LINDA LOVELACE delivered the opinion of the Court, and the opinion of the Court was 'Yes! Yes! YES!'" -

captainsblog

(That's it. No more Skinemax for you. -CV)

"Didn't monica lewinsky service the supreme court?" -

b_hulsmans,

drbear,

phrench_phried

"Sandra Dee -- she's the one that they want!" -

germankitty,

grapefruitzzz,

its_what_we_are,

glamsith

"Sandra Bullock" -

bigger_tigers

"Sandy Duncan" -

laughingacademy

"Diana Ross was the first lady of the Supremes." -

traveller_blues

"Judge Judy" -

demon_666,

benmiff,

mattwolf,

broken_moons,

azdaja_dafema
" Guilty in 15 minutes or less, guaranteed!

" -

domestik_fucker

"Sarah Palin. She can see Russia from her house you know." -

supreme_empress and six other moose huntresses

"LOLiver Wendell Holmes, Jr, who had a fantastic walrus mustache. Which kind of indicates that he's not female, but seriously, it's an awesome 'stache." -

tears_of_nienna

"United States Supreme Court... justice... fighting for justice... spies... James Bond... Sean Connery... Connor... Sandra Day O'Connor?" -

using_chemicals

(While two wrongs do not make a right, five is apparently enough to fix things back up. -CV)

"I played Sandra Day O'Connor in a play in first grade. I had to wear judge robes and stand up and say a few lines about what I did for the country. Then I sat back down and threw up. It was great." -

twystedfate

"Down where I'm from, when Sandy took on those robes, men cried. She was the opposite of what every woman should be according to them: Dumb, barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen." -

tweeti

"I love watching her every week on the Sandra Day O'Connor Chronicles. Terminators! Roe v. Wade! End of the World! Free Speech violations! She punched out Justice Clarence Thomas last week. Exciting stuff, really." -

cholma. 11 others went with you because they wanted to live.
"if she could fight off a T-1000, she could hold her own with Scalia and Thomas." -

mark_laura
"thank you for the imagery of Justice O'Connor toting two submachine guns and Lord knows how many grenades in the black robes." -

ntlespino

Correct Answer: Sandra Day O'Connor

3. Who played the titular roles in both "Happy Gilmore" and "Billy Madison"?

"Sorry, I'm only interested in titular roles if they're performed by Christy Carrera, Petra Verkaik, or Devon Daniels. [Mildly NSFW -CV]" -

david_deacon

"Because of all the adverts for all 21 Bond films now on HD DVD, I read that first one as 'Pussy Galore', and it gave 'titular' a whole new meaning." -

majorsamfan

"You've said 'titular' in questions so often that the effect has worn off." -

marasca

(23 quizlings would disagree with you. -AL&CV&LL&TL)

"RICK JAMES, BITCH!" -

tikuko

"Troy McClure. You may have seen him in such movies as 'Dial M for Murderousness' and 'Gladys, the Groovy Mule'." -

i_calql8

"Is that the guy who got his hand eaten by an alligator?" -

truth_twisted

(If only it were the guy who got his head eaten by an alligator. -CV)

"That guy who does the Chanukah song, and irritates the crap out of my parents. I can never remember his name." -

canuckdesz

"His career has already seen the sands of the hour glass set upon his horrible, horrible baby voice." -

sifrid

(I'm not sure it ever rose. -CV)

"Adam Sandler, who makes up one third of the Why-do-we-still-make-movies-We-are-so-completely-unfunny-Please-God-just-put-us-out-of-our-misery triumvirate with Will Ferrell and Ben Stiller." -

oldstarnewshine

(+1 because I agree with you to the letter. -CV)

"If it wasn't for Adam Sandler, we may not know who Robert Schnieder is. I still haven't decided if that's good or not..." -

using_chemicals

"Adam Sandler is the only person I remember off Happy Gilmore all his films are the same anyway so they do tend to blend into one." -

theshakesss

"I still want my money back for the crapfest Don't Mess With the Zohan. Which I haven't acutally seen." -

kestrel127

"Adam 'My movies recently have failed so badly that my next gig is a Disney flick' Sandler." -

secret_plasures

"You know I think I've seen every movie Adam Sandler's been in." -

mcclintock

(I'm so very sorry. -CV)

Correct Answer: Adam Sandler

4. In Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's collection "Birds of Passage", who is referred to as "the Angel of Glory" and "the Angel of Prayer"?

"Huh huh, you said Wadsworth" -

kokopellinelli,

packbat,

truth_twisted
"Hmm..I predict an outpouring of 'Longfellow' jokes." -

aliaspiral

(Surprisingly, not as many as I'd have thought. I think everyone used their base humor on "titular". -CV)

"The only poem I know starts, 'There once was a man from Nantucket...'" -

therealchon

(Ironically, "Longfellow" and "Wadsworth" are totally applicable to this poem. -CV)

"To everything, tern, tern, tern, there is a season, tern, tern, tern." -

tweeti

(+1, extremely clever punnery. -CV)

"The angels sang out in a heavenly chorus... and down from the heavens descended Chuck Norris..." -

using_chemicals

"Didn't The Pretenders get a hit with that?" -

supreme_empress

"Hiawatha? I SWEAR! This is harder than Jeopardy!" -

its_what_we_are

(Sorry, every once in a while we have to throw in a hard question. Keeps folks on their toes and all that. -AL&CV&LL&TL)

"Imagine going through life with a name like 'Henry Wadsworth Longfellow'! I’m surprised he survived preschool." -

chaotic_cupcake

"Michael. Like from the John Travolta movie." -

gamerchick02

(As opposed to Michael Landon in "Highway To Heaven". -CV)

"And Chris is known as the Angel of MINDFREAK!!!" -

a_l_p_h_a_b_e_t

"The only angels I know the names of are Gabriel, Michael, and Zaphremiel. Wait...Zaphremiel I think is a Soul Caliber character. Eh close enough." -

blacksunrising

(-1, confusing Soul Calibre with normal angels. -CV)

"There is only one Angel that everyone needs to be concerned about and that is David Boreanaz. YUM!" -

jigawattica

"The Angel of Music? Oh wait, that's the Phantom of the Opera." -

operatic_diva

"Alan Rickman" -

reticent_lass

"Christopher Walken" -

fmh

"Warren Worthington III." -

morgana006

"Aziraphael and Crowley" - 5 of you. Terry Pratchett gets +1.

"The Angel of Death (he was a little confused. probably high on opium, I hear it was popular then)." -

rachelkachel

"Probably whoever was sexin' up Longfellow at the time. Poets are a notoriously mercurial bunch." -

ctakahara

"you mean Megatron's Hebrew Cross-Dressing Twin Brother Sandalphon....'Angel of Bad-Assery'." -

drgndspchr
"Metatron. (Who also occasionally masquerades as a transformer, but mostly is just a bird.)" -

benmiff

(You guys need to straighten out your T's and G's. -CV)

" Flipper, now with 100% more grainy resolution than before. -CV

" -

deza

(Sand Dolphin? I SEE WHUT U DID THAR. -CV)

"Sandalphone. I didn't know Longfellow was a Get Smart fan." -

laughingacademy

"The only angel names I can think of are from Evangelion, so is it Sandalphon?" -

ntlespino

(Amazingly, NGE did use traditional angelic names. And Sandalphon was just chizillin' in his lava bath when some jerk in a giant robot suit started poking his ass. -CV)

"This question makes me believe that my degree in English literature and poetry is not a complete waste of my time. However this trivia is taking up valuable space in my head. Sandalphon is said to be taken from the greek word Sandalion which means 'he who wears Sandals'. Isn't that clever. The tens of thousands of dollars of debt that I accumulated is totally worth it." -

kedda_nouvelle

Correct Answer: Sandalphon

5. What is the full name of the founder of "Kentucky Fried Chicken"?

"Your mama is so poor, she goes to Kentucky Fried Chicken to lick other people's fingers." -

supreme_empress

"damn him and the chemical that makes you crave his chicken fortnightly!" -

grayjedi

(+1, So I Married an Ax Murderer – LL)

"Col. Nomnomnomnom" -

wiredwizard

"I have no idea why, but the first thing that came into my mind was Punky Brewster." -

akiyasan

(Did anyone even watch that show? Or the cartoon version with magical Glomer? Because, uh, I sure didn't. -CV)

"Foghorn Leghorn" -

freezer818

"I couldn't tell you. But I can tell you that when I was eight years old, I thought KFC stood for Kenfucky Fried Chicken." -

lauraluv

"Wasn’t it Colonel Something? Mustard?" -

broken_moons

"Col. Rufus Xavier Sarsparilla Sanders" -

mcclintock

(+1, 'cause sayin' all those nouns over and over can really wear you down. -CV)

"The Colonel... or was it Captain? Sergeant? Colonel Sanders? General Custard? Or am I confusing it with that guy from the Burger King? No, he's a king. Shit, I've only been in a KFC once." -

damanique

"The Colonel. Seriously, it's like The Doctor, he just goes by that title and nothing else." -

benmiff

"What's the matter, Colonel Sanders? Chicken?" - 8 citizens of Planet Spaceball

"11 Herbs and Spices Sanders - it almost didn't fit on his birth certificate" -

kiffle

"Colonel Harlan Sanders. His wife always fainted when, in the early days, he said he'd be in the kitchen 'choking his chicken.'" -

stagemanager

" Leviticus 11 originally included chicken, but man, it's so damn tasty, they just edited that part right out. -CV

" -

xyphoidprocess

"Harlon Brando. In later years, his answer to 'regular or extra crispy?' was 'a bucket of both.'" -

captainsblog

"You want Colonel Sanders's full name? Who the heck knows that without webcheating?" -

rikchik

"Wait, his first name wasn't Colonel?" -

shinga,

kittycatness

Correct Answer: Harland David Sanders

6. What's your favorite activity on the beach?

"Bikini ogling. I can correctly estimate bra sizes at seven paces." -

etcet

"I like it all. Used to live right close to Kitsilano Beach in Vancouver, I was quite the beach bum when not working. I think I had a white patch on my chest and face the exact size and shape of a paperbacks shadow." -

fmh

"I like to take my wife there and [censored] pail [censored] 9 iron[censored] firecrackers [censored] pit bull [censored] Episcopalian [censored] ether [censored] with chocolate sauce. Good times." -

grayjedi

"Don't talk to me about the beach right now. I'm stuck in a cubicle in a mindless job in the middle of the ass of the country with absolutely no access to a beach. My favorite activity on a beach is having the time and the money to get myself to a beach. Which I don't have right now. Maybe if I had a sandworm...the sleeper must awaken! and all those noises..." -

orgdotnews

"Skinny Dipping, nothing like feeling seaweed wrapping its self around you, like a slimey Michael Jackson." -

theshakesss

"What is this beach you speak of? I go down the goddamn Jersey Shore, and I will hear nothing else!" -

wrestlingdog

"Nothing really, because sand gets everywhere. And I mean everywhere." -

psychopompos

"Complaining about how sunny it is and that it's too hot. Ah, I can be so English at times :P" -

yayworthy

"I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything's funny... or a pun." -

active_apathy

"A game of luck and skill I call 'Avoid a Relapse of Skin Cancer.'" -

kristinmachina

"I would say 'sex,' but that's just too easy. You know, like your mom." -

tears_of_nienna

"What's your favorite activity on the beach? Making sandcastles and then destroying them, shouting about godzilla and how I'm gunna go radioactive on all the bitches hanging out down the beach in the tiniest bikini's ever. Because obviously I am jealous of the way they get sand in their cooch, aside from being sensible like me and wearing boardshorts and bathers bottoms. NO SAND IN THE VAGINA FOR ME." -

severedscythe

"Burying dead bodies. Nature's giant litter box! And when they get uncovered with the tide, it's an added bonus when they scare toddlers making sand castles." -

forgedpixels

"Picking sand out of my craw. Not exactly my favorite, but its the activity that takes up most of my time. That and watching fool kids feed seagulls. Funniest thing ever, go let little Johnny and Susie go throw out a bag of popcorn and get mobbed by 1000 seagulls while their parents watch in horror as their kids eyes get pecked out of their skulls." -

blacksunrising

"Trying to find those elusive 'cabana boys'. Every time I think I've found one to bring me drinks and molest, it turns out it's just some guy in a skimpy bathing suit. *sigh* They're like leprechauns without the silly hats and instead of gold, they have pina coladas." -

indiana_j

"I wouldn't know. I've been to exactly one beach, and that was the day the nets got tangled offshore and everything smelled like rotten fish. And tasted like rotten fish. That wasn't a good day." -

packbat

"Running headlong into the water, followed by running headlong back out of the water as I remember that this is Britain and thus the sea is made of cold and very little else." -

benmiff

"lighting fires. in proper firepits. i can light a fire with less than 3 inches of paper and 1 match and only beach wood for kindling. because i am an ~~arsonist~~ ex-boyscout. but not an ex boy. i've always had girl bits thank you very much." -

kira_snugz

"Sand Castles! 'And this is where the alligators are going to go in the moat - and the torture chambers are here, and the dungeons are here...'" -

morgana006

"Thong Patrol." -

stealthpup

"Whale-watching. Except for the whales in Pod Six." -

i_calql8

"Watching seagulls fly into kite strings is pretty fun. (True story.)" -

oldstarnewshine

"Two weeks ago, I caught a five-inch eel with my bare hands. It was epic. His name's Jimbo." -

reticient_lass

"That'd be replacing people's sunscreen with cooking oil." -

____absolution

"Getting back in the car and driving to a place with a modem." -

puredeadthingy

"'Accidentally' running into hot guys while flying kites. 'Sorry, I didn't see you there; I was chasing my kite! ...How you doin'?'" -

angelprojekt

"but i think whatid really love is to get up by myself on a tiny little island in the middle of the ocean with just me a book and a cellular phone and a personal computer in case something came up and i'd eat and i'd drink and i'd run and i'd sleep and i wouldn't do nothing but swim all day except ya know, my beeper doesn't work underwater where there are sharks! where there are sharks! where there are sharks! and there's this kind of anemone that sticks in your foot and the poison goes up to your brain and you die and sand fleas! sand fleas! yuck! but actually i think would be really relaxing just me by myself in the middle of the ocean and thats what i'd really like to do more than anything else. Except i'd probably hate it." -

glamsith

(And the

spiffington Award for Total Gibberish this week goes to...

glamsith! -AL&CV&LL&TL)

And there you have it. One quiz, extra sandy. Bring your own ampersand.

Thanks for playing; once again, the quiz relies on you to make things funny. So we're happy for everyone who takes a shot. Except those jerks in Pod Six.

Special thanks to

trishalynn, who is being a good guest mod, and

lovellama, who's being a good temp mod. Even more thanks to anyone who's pimped us out and spread the word. We're all about the open free love. We're like hippies, but less smelly.

See you all tomorrow, same bat-time, same bat-channel!

Rock On!

AL&CV&LL&TL