LJ Daily Answers: Much Later Than Expected

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

"Do I get credit if I pick of of these or these?" - illogicalvulcan

No, but you get credit for having a good enough memory to remember that we've done this before. Yeah, that's right, we recycle once in a while. They drove a dumptruck full of money to my house! I'M NOT MADE OF STONE!

Anyway, onward. At last.


1. What movie starring Seann William Scott involved him selling sperm, stealing a school bus from a blind lady, and leaving Tom Green behind to care for a voracious snake?

(Tom Green hate: off the charts. -CV)

"Stifler does Dallas? I'd watch it, with enough rum and black." - drunken_hedghog

(Given enough rum and black, you'd probably watch anything. Then again, so would I. -CV)

"I'm pretty sure 'Dude, Where's My Antivenom?' was the sequel" - lookingforwater

"I once knew the title of this.. Scooby Doo?" - primavera

"Road to Perdition II" - wiredwizard

"No Country for Tom Green" - spiralgirl1

"Home Alone" - seferin

(He wasn't alone; he had a snake. -CV)

"The Adventures of Trouser Snake: Bus-Thief Extraordinaire!" - demon_666

"The Miracle Worker. Why can't Helen Keller drive a school bus?" - seekingferret

"Road Trip MCXIIV: No Motherfucking Snakes on My Motherfucking School Bus!" - broken_moons

"None of that stuff happened to me when I drove from Ithaca, NY to Austin, TX. Those guys must have been super-special." - sskipstress

"I was thinking, 'CV wouldn't possibly have asked a question about that stupid movie featuring Ithaca University!' But then you said Tom Green and I knew it was true. Sacrilege!" - marasca

(I know. I'm a bad Cornellian. -CV)

"Road Trip, I only know this because of Amy Smart, I think that's her name, she's fit." - purelydistorted

(To be fair, she was the highlight of that movie. -CV)

Correct Answer: "Road Trip"



2. You can’t travel this way anymore, but back in its day, some of the highlights of this path included Soda Springs, Chimney Rock, and Fort Bridger, which was actually burned down by Mormons, of all people. What was this path called?

(Number of quizlings who died of dysentery: 18.
Number of quizlings who died of cholera: 11.
Number of quizlings who failed to ford the river: 6.
Number of quizlings who died of typhoid: darthparadox and kagomeshuko. -CV)

"There are a lot of things people don't know about Boston's Freedom Trail. This is one of them." - khikari

"The path of most resistance, apparently." - angelicmuse18

"This Is So Not The Way to Amarillo" - lins_arosa

(Shoulda taken that left toin at Albuquoique. -CV)

"Burned down by Mormons? The Gay Marriage Express!" - thepikey, anticarnation1

"How the hell do you piss off Mormons? I mean, these are some of the most easy-going christians you can get! You could probably torch their magic underpants while running off with their third wife and they'd still bless you and wish you a good day." - drunken_hedghog

"OH SHIT IT'S THE MORMONS GET IN THE CHURCH." - lots42

"Remind me never to piss off the Mormons. God help the 'Dancing With The Stars' set if Donny Osmond loses." - kristinmachina

"The Path to the Darkside" - akiyasan

"The Path to Monogamy" - demon_666

"The Green Mile" - dragon_within

"Soda Springs? Was this the path to Candy Mountain?" - ashteth

(It's full of sweetness and joy, and joyness. -CV)

"I never could decide what to name people, and inevitably ended up naming them after the first thing I saw when I looked up from the screen (I have this same problem with The Sims). 'Oh no, we lost Stapler!'" - acm28

(Poor Stapler. You were the one who held us all together. -CV)

"I used to be so pissed that you could only bring back 200 pounds of meat." - wrestlingdog

(Seriously. Sometimes you need a whole heaping helping of meat to get you through your latest bout with dysentery. -CV)

"I can't decide whether Candy Land or Oregon Trail is a better answer. Pass the gin." - sskipstress

"Back in the olden days, roads like the Oregon Trail were named for their destination. You got on a road and you knew where it was going. Now, with numbered highways like I-95 and I-286 and I-66, you just get lost. Unless you were driving to Fourt Worth." - seekingferret

"The Ahhreegahhhn Trail, or as we Oregonians would say it, Oar-ee-gun Trail" - majorsamfan

Correct Answer: The Oregon Trail



3. What tale follows the adventures of Professor Otto Lidenbrock, his nephew Axel, and their guide Hans?

"Really, you should never ever trust anyone named Hans to guide you anywhere. Hanses are just full of trouble." - illogicalvulcan

(-1, dissing the moderator. Even if your statement is complete truth. -CV)

"Is it bad that I can't see the name 'Hans' without giggling? I thought so." - kittycatness

(-1, Ditto. -CV)

"Were the Professor's other nephews named Lutz and Salchow?" - seekingferret

(And don't forget his half-brother Brian Boitano. -CV)

"it sounds terribly creepy and German post-war to me." - ifeedformula

(It is, in fact, the complete opposite of what you just described. -CV)

"To Grandmother's House We Go" - sharnjilraedan

"Hefeweizen: A Love Story!" - anticarnation1

"A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Oktoberfest" - lins_arosa

"Around ze World in 80 Tags. By Luftballoon!" - thepikey

"'Fun With Hans and Axel' -- not funny enough. Change his name to Franz, and then we'll laugh!" - etumukutenyak

"The Brementown Musicians because those are Germans names, so you need a German story." - kagomeshuko

(I should point out that "Mein Kampf" was also a German story. -CV)

"Is das nicht Otto von Schnitzelpusskrankengescheitmeyer?
Ja das ist Otto von Schnitzelpusskrankengescheitmeyer.
Ist das nicht ein incredibly long name to have to try and say?
Ja das ist ein incredibly long name to have to try and say." - sskipstress

(+1, Animaniacs. -CV)

"Did Bugs Bunny follow them around saying 'Hansel? ... Han-sel?'" - akiyasan

"I think they renamed the characters Master Obi-Wan Kenobi, his protege Luke, and their smuggler Han Solo." - mandydax

(Fair enough; full credit. -CV)

"I read 'Journey to the Center of the Earth' when I was only ten years old. Needless to say, it set me up for a lifetime of romantic disappointment when no-one who longed after me ever called me 'fraulein'..." - demon_666

(I'm sure that had something to do with you living in England instead of, say, Germany. -CV)

"Journey To Find Brendan Frasier's career" - mattwolf

"It's a little-known fact that the reason that terrible adaptation was made was because the rapid spinning of Isaac Asimov in his grave after I, Robot was sending the earth off-course, and the only way to stop it was to send Jules Verne's into a counterspin. So, in a way, Brendan Fraser saved life as we know it." - lookingforwater

"The journey was derailed when their car broke an Axel, and they hurt their Hans trying to fix it. I guess they were all Otto luck." - darthparadox

Correct Answer: "Journey to the Centre of the Earth"



4. Fun with lyrics! Name the song and the artist:
Winter is here, again, Oh Lord
Haven`t been home in a year or more
I hope she holds on a little longer

"chances are, once you don't stop by for a whole year, she's moved on to your brother." - b_hulsmans

"The Song of the Ski Instructor" - drbear

"Winter has to pee AGAIN, by Winter's dad" - mattwolf

"Hey You, Get off of Glenn Beck's Phone" - spiralgirl1

"Roman Polansky's Cold Hearted Snake" - seferin

(+1, totally insensitive. -CV)

"'My Girlfriend Better Not be Cheating on Me' by Foreigner" - la_trombonista

"This had better be a country song cos I'm sensing infidelity. My infidelity sensor just went beep-boop-twang-twang-yeahhhh-freebird!" - anticarnation1

"Premature Ejaculation by Marilyn Manson" - neumeindil

"This sounds like something Moby would have set to a mournful techno beat." - marasca

"Pennsylvania's Weather Forcast for 90% of the Year." - angelicmuse18

"'Winter is here, again, Oh Lord'...which is why I'm jealous like whoa that CV is in Africa and I'm not." - kristinmachina

(No kidding. I almost turned around and went back. Bloody weather. -CV)

"Just another example of how unattractive men can attract chicks, just because they have good voices." - dragon_within

"Journey's Infidelity Is Such A Strain" - mathnerd

"the first line totally has the wrong punctuation. It should read 'Winter is here again. Oh, Lord!' See? Fixed that for you!" - germankitty

(I'll call Journey and let them know. -CV)

Correct Answer: Journey, "Wheel in the Sky"

"GAH! @#&^% Wheel in the #$*#^ Sky! I just got that song OUT of my head!" - quasar360

(+1 to us! Wheeee! -AL&CV&LL)



5. What man-made object (or, for the politically correct, device of human manufacture) holds the distinction of having traveled the longest distance ever?

"Star trekkin, across the universe! On the starship Enterprise, under Captain Kirk! Star trekkin across the universe! Boldly going forward cuz we can't find reverse!" - ifeedformula

(See that space ship? It's only a model. -CV)

"Deep Space Nine" - many_from_one

(They didn't go ANYWHERE! They just sat around and hung out and stuff. BOOOOOORING! ...and yet still better than those ST:E wankers. -CV)

"V'GER" - 13 of you

"The MST3K satellite" - seferin

"The Mars Rover. Which is effectively stuck in a ditch on Mars right now, and they don't have AAA over there." - damanique

"The Wheel of Time. Man-made and oh lordy did it ever travel the longest distance ever. All the way to the end of Decency and Beyond." - mathnerd

(Full credit. And then some. -CV)

"Slinky" - la_trombonista

"A paper plane that I threw while on shrooms. It went faaaaaaaaaaaaar!" - anticarnation1

"A Barry Bonds home run (well, the steroids were man-made...)" - drbear

"The Supervibrator. It may not have gone very far translationally, but back and forth, back and forth, it's covered quite a distance." - seekingferret

"I wish it was a manned space shuttle and that U2 was on it." - b_hulsmans

"Voyager (flips a coin) 1." - blindgeoff

(Hold on to that there lucky coin of yours. -CV)

"Voyager 1. I believe they tied a metallic LP with some Bach on it to the side, as a part of their greeting to extraterrestrial people. In their defense, they probably couldn't afford the licensing fees for Sting." - packbat

"heh heh - probe" - marasca

Correct Answer: Voyager 1



6. Tell us your favorite travel story.

"Long ago in a galaxy far, far away....." - neumeindil

"One time, at band camp..." - dragon_within

"Having a skinhead chick (not just bald, but actually white-supremacist) come sit next to me on a Greyhound bus because I 'looked normal'." - thepikey

"I once drove to a beach with four of my friends and we didn't know it was a nude beach until the virgin of the group screamed 'OH MY GOD, HE DOESN'T HAVE ANY PANTS ON!' and we all turned to see this like 80 year old with his dick flapping in the wind. What a day." - angelicmuse18

"I was in Beijing and at an incredibly shady hotel. I entered the middle elevator at floor 14. About 45 minutes later having endured a fall and no lights I exited at floor 11 with my fear of elevators intact and certified." - raphsody606

"Once I flew to L.A. to be on Jeopardy. In February. From Ohio. It was fantastic. Also I lost, which was less fantastic, but still. L.A. in February." - tears_of_nienna

"One time, I ran into Neil Gaiman in the Minneapolis airport. Never mind the countries I was returning from - that meeting was the highlight of my LIFE." - quasar360

"My buddy and I once missed the ferry from Swansea, Wales to Cork, Ireland because we were waiting for another guy who got drunk on the train and missed his stop. The other guy stayed in a disgusting room over a club while we slept in an alley in Wales. It was more fun than it sounds like. No wait, it was less fun to live, but more fun to tell people about later in bars." - squeegibo

(At least you didn't die of dysentery. -CV)

"This time last year I was in Gambia living in a hut. We were right by the river and there were a lot of frogs about. I joked that itd be pretty alarming if you went to put your shoe on to find a frog in it, and of course, what should happen moments later but me put a shoe on and find a frog in it. They probably heard me screaming in Senegal." - yayworthy

"This past September, my mum and I went to Japan for my birthday. We're in the bus on the way to the hotel and we're passing all the (I guess) 'road-side' hotels. There was one called 'First Wood'. I don't think I'll ever forget that." - kittycatness

"I don't really have any. Most of my travels are like: Weeeeeeeee! AIRPLANE! Weeeeeeee, people! Weeeee, city! Weeeeeeee, food! Weeeeeeee, AIRPLANE AGAIN! I like airplanes." - damanique

"Once I was going on a backpacking trip, and I was packing my bag the night before with all the things on the list I was sent. When I set off from the trail head, though, I was lagging hugely behind everyone else in the Scout troop and panting heavily before we even crossed the parking lot. So one of the leaders opened my pack to see if I was carrying something much too heavy. Guess what I had thought 'three water bottles, one gallon' meant?" - packbat

(It means you failed math that year. -CV)



And there you finally have it. Sorry it's taken so long; it's tough to do this from work out of the country. On the other hand, I'll be telling a great travel story shortly, because Kenya was funky. Hope all of you are well, and had a happy Thanksgiving if you celebrate, and a happy Eid if you celebrate, and whatever other holidays are out there, yay for you.

We'll try to throw in some extra quizzes to make up for lost time. High-speed quiz action! It's full of adrenaline and energy! MORE POWER!

Tune in tomorrow for more. You know the drill.

Rock On!

AL&CV&LL

Comments

[love2loveher.livejournal.com]

20 bonus points to ifeedformula for Star Trekkin if there is the matching dance.

LJDQ: where all those people that had a childhood like mine, but unlike anybody else I actually know, ended up as adults.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

You are not alone! Welcome to the madness!

It's life, Jim, but not as we know it.

[ifeedformula.livejournal.com]

Nooo..but I have a

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Nooo..but I have a <a hrefhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yii8t0Rdv7E">Youtube video.</a>.

And it's one of my son's favorite songs. LOL

Two quotes and a group quote for the Oregon trail question. :D Yay!


<small>I come in peace. Shoot to kill.</small>

[ifeedformula.livejournal.com]

My HTML-fu sucks (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yii8t0Rdv7E).

[i-calql8.livejournal.com]

Ya canna change the laws of physics, Jim!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

It's worse than that, it's physics, Jim!

[love2loveher.livejournal.com]

It's physics Jim, but not as we shoot to kill!

[stagemanager.livejournal.com]

Hey, interpretive dance IS TOO a valid art form!

[love2loveher.livejournal.com]

I keep trying to convince the engineers I work with that it is a viable method of presenting ideas to clients.

[neumeindil.livejournal.com]

Woo Hoo! 2 this week. And I'll have to brag to my boyfriend that he was wrong with the most traveled human made object being Bono's Hat. :D

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Bono's hat still comes in behind that travelling lawn gnome, though.

[i-calql8.livejournal.com]

Please. Waldo's hat has traveled more. That dude's everywhere.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

If you can't find him, you can't prove he was there.

[mathsnerd]

2 and a 'full credit and then some'. Not bad. Now off to fail some finals. :D

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Failure is not an option! Smite your enemies with the power of fire! And by enemies I mean fellow students. And professors. And anyone around you, just to be sure.

[drbear.livejournal.com]

Remembering the Voyager 1 - it had a record with the sounds of earth from waterfalls to Beethoven to Chuck Berry. It was predicted on Saturday Night Live that the first communication from another planet would be "Send More Chuck Berry."

[i-calql8.livejournal.com]

As it should be. :-)

[lots42.livejournal.com]

Guess what I had thought 'three water bottles, one gallon' meant?" - packbat
---

What DOES it mean then?

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Three bottles that added up to one gallon total, I think... That would be more reasonable.

[thepikey.livejournal.com]

Is it just me, or did damanique's answer to #6 sound like Gonads and Strife (http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/weeee)?

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

It did!

[drunken-hedghog.livejournal.com]

(Given enough rum and black, you'd probably watch anything. Then again, so would I. -CV)

Ah CV, you know me so well. That is my drink of choice on our MST3K nights, and got me through everything except Battlefield Earth. There is no drink in the world strong enough for that movie.

[illogicalvulcan.livejournal.com]

I and my three friends who split a bottle of rum are the only people on the planet who enjoyed the third Pirates of the Caribbean movie.

[drunken-hedghog.livejournal.com]

Was that real enjoyment, or just relief that you were too drunk to focus on the drek in front of you?

That film was one of the MST3K entries from my friend Laura. She will watch truly anything with Depp in it, and she got a third through a bottle of schnapps during it.

[tinamachina.livejournal.com]

Two quotes and worth the wait!


"GAH! @#&^% Wheel in the #$*#^ Sky! I just got that song OUT of my head!" - quasar360

Just be thankful the mods didn't post:
"Just a city boy/Born in raised in South Detroit"

...which, according to my brother, is the Official Closing Time Song of every bar in Michigan.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

You can't go wrong with Journey, I say. DON'T STOP BELIEVING!

[angelicmuse18.livejournal.com]

You can never go wrong with Journey.

[david-deacon.livejournal.com]

*cough*choke*

[raphsody606.livejournal.com]

Gadddamned elevators. *shudder*

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

I guess after that experience I'd be scared of elevators too. Carry on.

[sgt-siler.livejournal.com]

Hahaha! I never got around to answering these, but right now at this very moment I have Oregon Trail open in the background.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Now that is some serious coincidence. Looks like the old mindreading skills are back on track!

[cholma.livejournal.com]

ljdq?!?! What is this strange group on my Friends List?

You're pudding thieves aren't you? I'm on to you!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know, we've been away for a while. But we're back, and we're bad, and the funny is still lying about waiting to be had. So come have some! It's tasty, like pudding! The pudding that I'm stealing from your larder right now. OM NOM NOM.

[akiyasan.livejournal.com]

Wa-hoo, a few quotes and welcome back! Man it's freezing out there, I think I'm thinking about visiting Kenya!

[sgt-siler.livejournal.com]

It's a lovely high of 10 degrees in the Indianapolis area right now.

[kagomeshuko.livejournal.com]

One quote and a group think! Yay!

Out of the two stories, "Brementown" is much more fun, and I thought ljdq was pro-fun.

[germankitty]

Let me guess -- you said "V'Ger", too?

Erm, ditto. :)

[angelicmuse18.livejournal.com]

I've never been more happy than to read these answers and see I got quote three times! :D This deserves a drink and some good sex.

[anticarnation1.livejournal.com]

Agreed :) And I got four quotes!!!! For the first time ever!!! Wheeeeeee!!!! I feel like I deserve a drink, sex in church and a cigarette with Jesus.

[mandydax.livejournal.com]

One Star Wars ref for full credit and two group quotes. ("The groupthink is strong in this one.") Loverly. Off to watch Mythbusters and have pizza, nomnomboom!

[kittycatness.livejournal.com]

What, exactly, is "she" supposed to be holding onto?
It just occurred to me to ask.

Are we talking 'funky' as in "It was pretty neat" or 'funky' as in "It was really weird and there is no appropriate level of 'weird' to fully express it"?

Either way... Welcome back, CV!

[operatic-diva.livejournal.com]

What is this cold you all speak of? It's summmmmeeeeeeeeeer!

[mattwolf.livejournal.com]

Glad to be back! I missed a week or three because of that pesky life thing.

[lins-arosa.livejournal.com]

Glad you made it back in one piece.

Two quotes just about makes up for my crap week, too!

[dragon-within.livejournal.com]

Three this week!!! (!)
And I was afraid my answers were too late.

[demon-666.livejournal.com]

I couldn't even remember answering the questions except for the ones I was quoted for which jogged my memory.

BTW, I now have a new travelling memory (My last one was a dream I had involving me being the 10th Doctor's travelling companion in space), not in the physical world still though, I haven't done any actual Earth travelling.
I was in the running to be the 10th Doctor's travelling companion, but Dean from Supernatural beat me to it, he was the first to banish the evil alien by wearing a cat mask, of all things... AHAHAHA Doctor Who/ Supernatural crossover!

[mattwolf.livejournal.com]

Work in a schoolgirl uniform and you'll have a worldwide hit!

[kohikari.livejournal.com]

Popping in belatedly from the midst of finals week to yay about the quotage! Am also grateful that I wasn't alone in losing to the river ford.

(Hmmm. "Khikari" is Armenian. Probably a better name than Wapanese "Kohikari," but alas, it's taken by someone else.)