ljdq | LJ Daily Answers: 5 Oct 09

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Welcome back, wonderful quizlings! Miss us? Sure you did... Don't worry, things will get back to normal after all this. We've got a bunch of answer posts to share, one each day this week, and a new quiz to finish off our month-long theme. To help us in our month of trials and tribulations, we recruited the one and only

i_calql8 to be a special guest moderator. Let's see what happens...

"I am eating Alpha-Bits now and it's all your fault. Bastards." -

flawed_karma

I hope you had enough for five straight weeks...

1. Fill in the blank! "If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire ______________."

"Ghostbusters!" - 29 of you
"Mythbusters!" -

acm28

(Kari Byron >>>> Amy Allen - IC)

"Three white guys and a big scary black dude, none of whom can shoot" -

primavera

(Strangely, this applies both to the correct answer and to the previous answer. Full credit. -CV)

"Chuck Norris (So awesome we need to use a plural to refer to them)" -

seferin,

beam_oflight,

oleander_sky

"The Pinkerton Agency--quelling unionization movements since long before any current quizlings were born!" -

yunami

(Ooooh, historicalicious. Full credit. -CV)

"Maybe you can hire Captain Planet. Cause saving the planet is the thing to do. Looting and polluting is not the way!" -

sharnjilraedan

(Ooooh, environmentalicious. -1 because I hate that blue skinned hippie and his meddling kids. -CV)

"ninjas" -

johnwwells
"the Spanish Inquisition" -

arabwel
"Blackwater" -

babybokal
"FEMA" -

a_l_p_h_a_b_e_t
"Batman" -

nitasee
"Dog, Bounty Hunter" -

timthief

"Shaft" -

gamerchick02

(He's a bad mother. -CV)

"Michael Westen" -

mark_laura

(+1, Burn Notice. -IC)

"The Terror that Flaps in the Night, Darkwing Duck!" -

seekingferret

"either 'The Bloodhound Gang' or 'Chip and Dales Rescue Rangers' I guess it depends on if your crime requires clever nerd kids, or rodents wearing clothes" -

tarpo

"The Scooby Doo Detective Agency" -

profsparky

(Remember: they're paid half in cash and half in weed. -CV)

"The LJDQ Mods." -

drbear

(Somehow I imagine us to be... less than helpful. -CV)

"The Equalizer!" -

packbat,

freezer818,

theninth

(Edward Woodward for the win. -CV)

"I don't know this one, and am told that I have been voted off the 'Children of the 80's' island for it." -

zihuatanejo

"On tonight's very special pilot episode, BA and the A-Team jump a shark to save..." -

blindgeoff

"my husband runs an FPS gaming server and his team is called the A-Team. I hear that intro a couple times a day at least." -

badgerbabe

Correct Answer: The A-Team

2. What do the Stratofortress and a Love Shack have in common?

"Both have an S in the name. In fact, Stratofortress has several! Actually, Stratofortress is a pretty cool name. I bet it would sound even cooler if a snake said it. Ssssssssstratofortressssssssss." -

searchingstars

"They are both little ol' places where people get together." -

angelicmuse18

"Do they combine like Transformers to make a LoveFortress? Or for that matter, a StratoShack?" -

4492

(If they don't, they ought to. -AL)

"If the Love Shack's in Denver, then the point of commonality is one goes there to join the Mile-High Club." -

mercuryblue144

"A stratofortress is a castle in the stratosphere. I know what I'm asking Santa for this year." -

speckled_llama

"SUPERMAN. Wait, no, I have an actual thought process to go with that, somewhere." -

severedscythe

(Well, in Superman II, he did make his Fortress of Solitude into a Love Shack... - IC)

"The letters S, A, O, and E" -

thefannishwaldo,

yayworthy

"Plenty of room in the back for consentual sex" -

david_deacon

"You get more bang for your buck"

a_l_p_h_a_b_e_t

"You can stand on a street corner and scream either 'Come into my Love Shack!' or 'Come in to my Stratofortress!' and probably get ticketed for being obscene." -

indiana_j

(This theory requires some real-world testing. Please report back with results next week. -AL)

"Both are grating to listen to without earplugs." -

johnwwells

"If the fuselage is a rockin’, don’t bother knockin’." -

nitasee

"The sign says 'Stay away, fools!' Or maybe women in both have giant beehives. Perhaps both!" -

marasca

"Their potential use for crimes against humanity?" -

zihuatanejo

"They do not prevent HIV." -

akiyasan

(Always good to remember. -AL)

"Did you know in the song Love Shack, when she says she's tin roof rusted, it means she's pregnant? I wonder if they have an Child Support Shack." -

actuallyspatula

(I demand corroboration for this theory. -AL)

"I have performed them at Karaoke bars after drinking too much tequila?" -

rhiannonjk

(So how's "Stratofortress" go again? Hum the tune for me. -AL)

"Both names for part of my body. Guess which is which?" -

lots42

(Do we have to guess? -AL)
(No. We're the mods. Let's make everyone else guess. -CV)

Correct Answer: The B-52s sang "Love Shack", and a B-52 bomber is nicknamed "Stratofortress"

3. What film character professes to be "fluent in over six million forms of communication"?

"6 million forms of communication and still he doesn't have a way of saying 'Lucas, your 3 prequels suck beyond belief, change them!'" -

b_hulsmans

"Darth Vader's third grade science project. All I made was a volcano." -

naraht

"The babel fish currently residing in the ear of a rather unremarkable ape desendent." -

beam_oflight,

neumeindil

"Tricarbon phosphoxygen" -

speckled_llama

(I'm not a chemist, but I think polonium might have a problem with that - IC)

"I don't know, but I would like to have that entity near by to see what the hell my dog is barking about." -

spiralgirl1

(Hell, I'd still like to be able to translate from "female" into "male"... -CV)

"4Q2" -

blindgeoff

"The Most Interesting Man In The World (although Dos Equis is "Two X's", and that runs against the theme. What the hell, letters!)" -

kristinmachina

"Having just come back from Dragon*Con, I can speak authoritatively that there were a lot more R2-D2 units than C-3PO, but, frankly, I'm all about the Slave Leia action." -

etcet

"Chuck Norris, because 'Fist In The Face' translates the same in every language." -

mattwolf

"The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy!" -

yayworthy

"Dr Dolittle" -

secret_weapon

"I'd the the better question would be "Who'll own up to not know what film character this is?"" -

kaerran

(Not so fast, there, Sparky... - IC)

"The pattern tells me this should include a C. However, since I don't know the answer, I'll go with Tyler Durden." -

theylovetostare

"The Microsoft Word paperclip" -

profsparky

(GAHHHH--DIE, CLIPPY!!! DIEDIEDIEDIEDIE!!! - IC)

Correct Answer: C3P0

4. Who was the lead songwriter for the metal band Twisted Sister?

"A Twisted Sister, so ... Latoya Jackson?" -

seferin

"I misread that as 'Titty Twister' which would have been an awesome band name." -

lots42

"Mr. Möbius" -

packbat

(Now performing at a strip mall just off the Vegas Strip - IC)

"Alice Cooper" -

jmthane

"Bellatrix Lestrange" -

beam_oflight

"Captain Howdy" -

primavera

"Mary Kate Olson is in a metal band now?" -

kristinmachina

"Sister Teresa Alphonse Gabriel Capone. And you thought he went to prison for tax evasion." -

edoraslass

"The crooked man from the crooked house?" -

azdaja_dafema

"Daniels. Jack Daniels. And all of his friends." -

indiana_j

"A Chemical Brother. Better than a Naked Brother, I guess." -

ntlespino

"Celine Dion. (It's not widely known, thanks to some successful blackmail.)" -

stealthpup

"I was looking for a Christmas present in the Harley Davidson store when Dee Snyder appeared on their tv singing a rockin' version of 'O come all ye faithful'. It was very surreal." -

mattwolf

(I imagine Dee Snider appearing anywhere ups the surrealism quotient. - IC)

"Dee Snyder. Nicest guy ever. When I was working with Special Olympics in NY, he volunteered to come Emcee for us and handed out the awards. Made a huge donation too." -

flawed_karma

"I LOVE DEE SNIDER. He's like if Marilyn Manson and Marilyn Monroe actually had a child. An angry, angry child." -

actuallyspatula

" I think it's the chain that makes this picture perfect.

" -

germankitty

Correct Answer: Dee Snider

"Their 'songwriter' was nowhere near as important as their hairstylist." -

thepikey

5. Who was the author of the novel "The Enormous Room", which told the tale of an American in a World War I-era French prison?

"E. As in, 'Eeeeee-yeah, I have no idea.'" -

billfl

(Yeah, this one stumped just about everyone. I guess we'll have to grade this Quiz on a curve. -AL)

"Wait... were America and France on different sides in WWI?" -

marasca

(Ooooh, not even the curve is gonna save YOU, missy. -AL)

"Captured and put there by Inspector Clouseau, no doubt." -

thepikey

"... I wanna get imprisioned in France. No wait, Iron Masks, do not want!" -

ntlespino

"No one is sure, largely because the original manuscript was written on toilet paper and hidden in cracks in the wall." -

deza

(Sorry, the letter V won't be for another four quizzes. -CV)

"Andre the Giant" =

rhiannonjk

"C. Ling" -

drbear

"Snoopy, the famous WWI flying ace." -

mattwolf

"French prison? Is that where they put you in a fake box surrounded by mimes pretending there are bars all around you?" -

tarpo

(That would be the Mar Cell - IC)

"I don't recall Orwell's room 101 being that enormous. Or French." -

speckled_llama

"Oh yeah? We have freedom prisons here!" -

a_l_p_h_a_b_e_t

(+1, delicious oxymoron. -AL)

"'The Enormous Room'? Is that the one with the intermittently blue ceiling where people go when they're not on their computers?" -

packbat

(I see what you did there - IC)

"Mudluscious and puddlewonderful was the enormous room, with a little goatfooted balloon man calling far and wee." -

motown_deserter

"E. Normous." -

theninth

"Lesser-known were the other books in the series, 'The Gigantic Vestibule,' 'The Truly Massive Kitchen,' and 'Holy Shit That's the Biggest Attic I've Ever Seen.'" -

babybokal

"Did you know Wikipedia punctuates ee cummings as E.E. Cummings? The poor man must be rolling in his ~~enormous room~~grave." -

mathnerd

Correct Answer:
"e.e
.
cu
mming
s"
- the_jenny

6. What do you think about writing real letters? Have you ever done so?

(Number of people too young to know what "handwriting" is: 23.)
(Number of people talking about "fake letters": 11 smartasses.)

"I write letters everyday! Yesterday I wrote a Q! Those are tough to master." -

cholma
"I tried to do a Q today, but it was too hard, so I did an S instead." -

drunken_hedghog

"Though I do almost everything by email/internet these days, I still write to my two favorite teachers (a married couple, she was my 5th grade teacher - he was my HS Science teacher) every Christmas" -

badgerbabe

(In 25 years, I have taught over 8,000 students, by my estimation. In that time, I have received exactly three letters of appreciation from them, as well as one letter to a newspaper editor that sang my praises. These are like gold to me. - IC)

"Possibly but I doubt it, I don't write." -

beam_oflight

(...but...you just did. - IC)

"I love writing letters. I'd like it even more if my handwriting didn't look like someone had vomited into a tetris game." -

severedscythe

"If i is the imaginary number, is 1 the imaginary letter?" - adalger.dreamwidth.org

"I love it! I once wrote a 14 page letter to a friend when I was in high school! I even included one of my trignometry problems and explained it to him. Aren't you jealous?" -

kagomeshuko

(You had me at 'trignometry problems'. - IC)

"I like writing real letters, because you can put puppy dogs, stickers, love, hugs and other forms of affection into the envelope." -

demon_666

(I never could fit a whole puppy into a letter. I had to drain all the water, and then dry the remains, pulverize them, and spread them into several envelopes. And then someone complained about anthrax. So, in summary, no more puppies. -CV)

"I used to write letters. Lots and lots of letters! Of course, that was before *they* started reading my mail. I can say no more! *Puts tinfoil cozy over monitor*" -

billfl

"My penmanship, sober, is on par with CV's after about nine dry gin martinis, so it's best for everyone involved if I type that shit out." -

etcet

(You clearly overestimate the quality of my handwriting. -CV)

"I don't think I've written a real letter in over three years. Maybe it's because I always lose the stamps." -

la_trombonista

(Testify. - IC)

"I like real letters. They give you evidence!" -

mattwolf

"Nah, I stick to writing fake ones: 'Dear Mr. VIZIR, My name is Charles NMEMBE, and I am the VICE PRESIDENT of the FIRST BANK OF LAGOS...'" -

darthparadox

(Dammit, not that guy again. -CV)

"Letters? If I can't express myself in 140 characters or less, why bother?" -

4you_blue_jway

(-1, Twitterer. -CV)

"I have a drawer full of real stationary, and a compulsion to buy more. But no compulsion to write actual letters..." -

rhiannonjk

(Well... it's a start. -CV)

And there you have it. In case you've missed out on the past four themes, we're running through the alphabet, one question per letter. I suppose this gives away the theme for our next quiz, but come on, it's not like we were being subtle here. Not by a long shot.

Thanks for playing, and thanks for being patient, and we definitely hope you enjoy and that you continue to play and that you tell all your friends and all that. And thanks to

i_calql8 for providing a well-timed helping hand. Hooah!

Tune in next time for more quizly goodness! Also, more answer posting tomorrow! Wheeeeee!

Rock On!

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