ljdq | LJ Daily Answers: 9 November 2009

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"it's my birthday on the 11th of the 11th! Unfortunately I am not turning 11. Fortunately I am turning 21 and am therefore legal for anything." -

elvenpiratelady

Happy Almost Birthday, and may you do nothing illegal in the next two days!

1. Fun with lyrics! Name the song:
Don't tell me the lights are shining
Anyplace but there
We will dance the "Hoochie-Koochie"
I will be your "Tootsie-Wootsie"

"Starting out the LJDQ with a 'lyrics' question is like starting out a threesome with everyone eating garlic pizza first. It's still going to be awesome but you'll always remember the smell." -

lots42

(...thank you? -CV)

"Every word in that verse is completely innocuous, and yet, combined, they're probably the dirtiest thing I've heard all week. Well done." -

lookingforwater

"The new theme to 'Late Show with David Letterman.'" -

drbear

"Sounds like someone got a bit drunk between the second and third lines!" -

puredeadthingy

"But there's not *supposed* to be lights shining there! And I'm very particular about who puts their Tootsie Roll in my Hoochie-Koochie!" -

jmthane

"If I could have a mutant power...i'd want to have the ability to shine light from my koochie. Fun for the whole family!" -

conjure_lass

"Those lyrics are so twee they give me Diabetes-Weetees" -

freezer818

"Curse dylesxia! I read that as Toochie-Wookie. I'm pretty sure it's sung my Jabba." -

mandydax

"Itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny, yellow polka dot bikini." -

secret_weapon

"The Batoosie" -

squeegibo

"My housemates are 'helping' me. They suggest this sounds like the Swedish national anthem." -

coloursofdusk

(Your housemates are from nowhere near Sweden, y/y? -CV)

"You've done it. There's this Star Trek episode with a baby, right, and NOTHING beats the trauma of seeing / hearing Spock say 'oochie-woochie-coochie-coo', and YOU MADE ME REMEMBER. D:" -

hinotori

"'And after weeks of medication,
You might lose the itch sensation.'
At least that's how the song ended for me when I met that guy." -

drunken_hedghog

"When I learned to play Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis on the piano, my teacher would screech along off key every time we played it. I can't stand that song now." -

domestik_fucker

"Don't let

csflick know you've never seen Meet Me in St. Louis, for she won't let you leave until she's fixed that." -

sskipstress

"Meet me in St. Elsewhere" -

majorsamfan

Correct Answer: "Meet Me In St. Louis, Louis"

2. What Russian city was named Leningrad until 1991?

"In Soviet Russia, city names you!" -

la_trombonista,

ifeedformula,

tweeti,

yayworthy,

angelprojekt

"Don't tell me - it's a symbol now, isn't it? Some Cyrillic, unpronouncable, looks-like-a-P-but-speaks-like-a-W, symbol, all hip in curly hair and heels." -

broken_moons

"YourMomIsAGrad. Or Helsinki. Those Russians own everything. Damnit." -

sharnjilraedan

"Lenin-under-grad. He finally had enough credits to graduate in '91." -

thefannishwaldo
"The university town of Untergrad" -

many_from_one
"Lenin Post-grad" -

i_calql8
"First it was Leninundergrad, then Leningrad, then Lenindoctoralstudent." -

mandydax

"JohnPaulRingovitch" -

its_what_we_are

"Raccoon City" -

wiredwizard

(Only thing worse than zombies is Russian zombies. "BRRRAAAAAIIIINNNNSSSSKIIIIIS..." -CV)
(In Soviet Russia, zombie eats you? -LL)
(No, I think that happens everywhere. -AL)

"Lenin grabbed me by my Trotskys so hard it left a Marx and asked me while I was Stalin." -

uncut_diamond

"nothing says VE ARE NOT ZE COMMUNISTS ANYMORE JOLLY GOOD CHAPS YES? like changing naming a city after someone who got lots of people killed three hundred years ago instead of fifty." -

maggiebloome

"Saint ~~Mike Carol Greg Marcia Jan Bobby Cindy Alice Sam the Butcher... wait, who am I missing? Oh yeah~~ Peter(!)sburg." -

dragon_within

"Stalingrad. No, St. Petersburg! Dammnit, this is the new Istanbul." -

puredeadthingy,

lizwinlove,

kristinmachina,

syrazemyla,

conjure_lass

"Have you heard there's a rumour in St Petersburg? Have you heard what they're saying on the street?" -

secret_weapon,

7tree_hugger,

flipthefrog

"Saint Petersburg. It's confusing that there's a city with the same name in Florida - if someone tells you to get ready for a trip to Saint Petersburg, do you pack a parka or a swimsuit?" -

rikchik

Correct Answer: St. Petersburg

"At least it didn't wind up being 'Dostoevskygrad'..." -

jmthane

3. Who is the current Welterweight Champion of the UFC?

"Here's a first for the quiz: Could we have a SPORTS question instead?" -

drbear

"I read that as 'waterweight' & imagined some bloated, angry PMSing woman." -

abouthipsanck3s

"Welterweight? Is that a pregnancy-related condition?" -

puredeadthingy

"Welders get their own category?" -

thefannishwaldo

"Wasn't aware the UFC had an S&M division. Is a 'welter' the one giving the welts or the one wearing them?" -

katiebgood

"Helter-skelter, Walter Welter, first 'e belts 'er then 'e swelters? I have no idea." -

lookingforwater

"How much welter would a welterweight weigh if a welterweight would weigh welters?" -

billfl

"Awww, did the other quizmasters invent an entire fake UFC category for you, CV?" -

oldstarnewshine

"Colonel Sanders" - 6 of you

"Chuck Norris" -

la_trombonista

"LL Cool J. Mama said knock you out!" -

kristinmachina

"I believe that El Pollo Loco is the champ of the WTF." -

mandydax

"Ali Baba and his 40 associates, who are like the Ghostbusters of Unidentified Flying Carpets since they gave up their thieving ways." -

majorsamfan

"Undergraduate Frogurt Chugging? That would be me. A gallon tub of half-melted raspberry ripple in three minutes. The record still stands and the brain freeze returns everytime I smell raspberries." -

drunken_hedghog

(I feel ill every time I look at this answer. Bleaaaccchhh, frogurt. Probably contains Potassium Benzoate. And that's bad. -CV)

"I don't know anything about what the UFC is or who is in it. All I know is that it is now the WWE, but it used to be the WWF and I used to get cards with pandas on them and they said WWF, and I would wonder how a panda could possibly be a wrestler." -

kagomeshuko

(Personally, I bet pandas would kick ass in the ring. -CV)

"Ultimate Fighting Championship just looks like the first five minutes of porn. Really violent porn." -

lots42

" Courtesy of www.penny-arcade.com. Also, not entirely inaccurate.

" -

darthparadox,

etcet

Correct Answer: George St. Pierre

4. The character Simon Templar is more commonly referred to as whom?

"That asshole from 'American Idol'" -

felixdiecat,

its_what_we_are

(He's about as unsaintly as this answer could get... -CV)

"That one doctor on 'Firefly' who kept going shirtless." -

lots42

"Alvin's taller, smarter brother" -

abouthipsanck3s

"Knight Rider" -

many_from_one,

i_calql8

"Greg Hospitaller" -

uncut_diamond

"Like all of the Knights Templar, he was a caped crusader, but not THE Caped Crusader because that's Batman." -

sskipstress
"NOT 'The Goddamned Batman'" -

etcet

"Templeton the Rat" -

thefannishwaldo,

seekingferret

(All together now: "A faaaaair is a veeeeeritable smorgasbord-orgasbord-orgasbord!" -CV)

"There are those who call him... Tim." -

syrazemyla

"Santa Claus (and if this isn't true, you should be ashamed for having a Saint theme this close to Christmas without St Nick!)" -

angelprojekt

(Sorry, rules are rules: no Christmas-based discussions until the day after Thanksgiving. -CV)

"Simon Templar makes excellent anagrams, each corresponding to a phase in his life: Manliest Prom (he was crowned Homecoming Lumberjack), Merman Pilots (he was head of the Flying Fish Division in the RAF during WWII), and Slammer Pinto (his car-inspired one-man cabaret)." -

elvenpiratelady

"The saint, as played by Roger Moore, who cannot have been born with that name. I mean, was there ever a man more born to play James Bond? Other than Randy Bumgardener, of course." -

drunken_hedghog

"The Saint. I won't call it an inferior James Bond. I'll just call it a less funny Get Smart." -

kristinmachina

"I always liked hearing that little tune that played at the beginning, just when they showed the halo over his head, before the action music started." -

david_deacon

Correct Answer: The Saint

5. Fun with quotes! Name that film:
"So now we got a huge guy theory, and a serial crusher theory. Top notch."

"Why am I here? BECAUSE A BIG CLOWN HIT ME." -

etcet

(+1, The Tick. -CV)

"The Princess Bride (it's a rarely-seen deleted scene, they're talking about Fezzik.)" -

katiebgood

"Austin Powers. 'Get in mah bellah!'" -

lots42

"They made a movie about Sally Struthers?" -

blindgeoff

"Star Trek: the Saintly Crusher years? Cos you know, Wil: he's a big man (if you look at it a bit sideways) and they had one Crusher after another, therefore serial Crushers." -

7tree_hugger

(That's it. No more Star Trek for you. You're cut off. -CV)

"The little know Star Trek Wrestling movie, 'Andre the Giant Meets Beverly and Wesley'." -

billfl

(Not quite cut off yet, but getting close. And don't think we're not watching the rest of you Trekkies,

mandydax and

majorsamfan... -CV)

"Three men in a boat [thats the huge guy, the crusher theory guy, and the stereotypical phrases guy]" -

yayworthy

"The Hulk Meets Cap'n Crunch." -

drbear

"FIRST TIME I KNEW A QUOTE EVER! Don't even care if I don't get quoted, so freaking happy :)" -

raphsody606

"'Fucking... what the fucking... fuck... who the fuck... fuck this... fucking... how did you two fucking fucks... FUCK!' - 'Well, that certainly illustrates the diversity of the word.'" -

scifantasy

"There are no boondocks in that movie! They should be the Urban Saints; suburban at best." -

angelprojekt

Correct Answer: "Boondock Saints"

"I don't even know what a boondock is. I don't think we have them in Australia..." -

maggiebloome

6. What's the nicest thing you've ever done?

"I refused to participate in your day of 'saints' and niceness. I went and read some Warren Ellis, ate a bag of puppies, and watch some Fox News." -

ignis_mcgruff

(That truly is non-nice. A nice person would have shared the puppies with me. -CV)

"Curse disexyla! I read that as incest, and now I have to go bleach my brain. Thanks LJDQ!" -

mandydax

"A petite built blonde with thick hair, lovely eyes and smooth creamy skin." -

uncut_diamond

(Yeah, I should have seen that coming. -CV)

"If I can't really remember anything recently, does that make me a bad person? Is this a subtle way to say my morals are lacking? I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU THINK LJDQ!!!" -

conjure_lass

(Do you really think we're going to judge people for lacking morals? Us? -CV)

"I didn't step on a kitten!" -

7tree_hugger

"On Halloween, I walked up to a cop and said, 'Nice costume.'" -

david_deacon

"I finished last in a board game last night. I hear that makes me a nice guy." -

darthparadox

"I once did not finish all the vodka in the bottle and left some for other people to consume. That was pretty nice of me I think." -

secret_weapon

"We don't do anything nice, and easy ... we do it nice, and rough." -

drbear

"Making apple pie for my colleagues at work in a 9" round and 3" deep cake tin. They appreciate my skill with pies." -

lins_arosa

(Mmmmm pie. -CV)

"I'm the mean one in the house. I say "No" to everything my son asks for, sometimes pre-emptively. ("Ema, can-" "No.") Other than that, I've been known to send complete strangers care packages of ~~gin and pudding~~ cookies and comics." -

etumukutenyak

(Note to self: send address to

etumukutenyak... -CV)

"I offered my boyfriend's psycho ex-girlfriend a ride to the airport. It's also the cruelest thing I've ever done. I'm like that sometimes." -

sskipstress

"I haven't pushed the button. Yet." -

lookingforwater

"Put the toilet seat back up." -

jkabley

(Oh Jebus, I am *SO* bad at that. -CV)

"I've handled a lot of metamorphosed granites, they're the gneissest things I've ever done." -

elvenpiratelady
"I've never taken anyone for granite! Wait, that's the "gneissest" thing..." -

syrazemyla

"Currently I am at home recovering from swine flu, after making my mother drive an hour and a half to pick me up from university. The nicest thing I can remember doing right now is not being sick on the furnishings." -

puredeadthingy

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

"Not telling anyone what you did last summer." -

coloursofdusk

"I very thoughtfully stole some teeth rotting, delicious tasting candy from some small children this Halloween. I even ate it to prevent them from stealing it back! I'm so nice." -

oldstarnewshine

"Spent about 4 hours finding the necessary info to call someone and tell them that I'd found their wallet in a parking lot." -

thefannishwaldo

"I gave a homeless woman a baked potato from my stash. (Yes, at one point I was so poor that I had a stash of baked potatoes. There's a lot you can do with a baked potato or four... just make sure you take it out of the foil before reheating it in the microwave at school.)" -

spiralgirl1

"I've donated blood a zillion times. I'm pretty sure that's saved more lives than anything else I've ever done. And you can get drunk real fast afterwords! Give blood!" -

squeegibo

And there you have it. The month starts with All Saints Day, so here's a fitting tribute to some saintly types. Unlike your friendly neighborhood moderators, who are most definitely unsaintly. Mmmmm... sacrilicious.

Thanks for playing, hope you enjoyed, and of course tell your friends about the quiz. It's good! It's fun! Wheeeeee! See you all tomorrow for more!

Rock On!

AL&CV&LL