LJ Daily Answers: 22 March 2010

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"Goodness. You guys really are that predictable." - mistressjennfer, sticky9fingers

In our defense, we never claimed otherwise. ;-)

"i have had way too much wine, and have run out of yarn. so i come crawling back to ljdq. mmmm ljdq." - kira_snugz

I can't believe we come in after knitting. Wine, sure, but knitting? We are wounded.



1. George Lichtenstein was the creator of which newspaper cartoon series?

"I haven't read a newspaper cartoon in years. I found the internet and never looked back." - theylovetostare

"There's a fungus amungus" - seferin

"Spaceballs: The Comic Strip!" - wrestlingdog

"Porn for Grandpa, AKA Betty Boop." - mattwolf

"The Royal Tennenliechtenbaums" - ntlespino

"Darby O'Gill and the Little People. Well, Lichtenstein is a little country, so I figure he created a strip about little people." - jmthane

"I thought Lichtenstein was a word made up by the writers of A Knight's Tale" - gigglingpixie

(You and 9 others. -CV)

"Isn't Lichtenstien a tiny, tiny country in Europe? Or am I thinking of Vatican City? Do they have newspapers in Europe?" - stagemanager

(Yes, Yes, and Yes. -CV)

"Lichtenstein is near Latveria, so... the Dr. Doom cartoon?" - seekingferret

(I would totally watch Dr. Doom's cartoon. It would be awesome. -CV)

"You mean he's not famous for founding the country of Lichtensburg?" - sticky9fingers

(I'm fairly sure no one is famous for that. -CV)

"The one that was even smaller than the cartoon series George Luxembourg came up with." - jhirat_dai

"Grin and Bear It, which is like hahahaha the funniest punnage EVER!" - operatic_diva

Correct Answer: "Grin and Bear It"



2. Whose opening catchphrase was "wocka wocka wocka"?

"Is it sad that I say this all the time but can never remember who says it?" - sushimustwrite

(Yes, I'm afraid it is. Today's about the learning for you. -CV)

"PacMan" - 14 of you, who can have half-credit because that is his primary sound effect

"Well, it's stuttered. Therefore, Porky the Pig." - sharnjilraedan

"Yogi Beara" - wiredwizard

(According to him, "ninety percent of this game is half-mental". If that's not a description of ljdq, I don't know what is... -CV)

"Ensign Chekov, after drinking lots of wocka" - drbear

"
Wokka wokka wokka! Fuck you, Buck!" - david_deacon

"Now I've got that Family Guy episode stuck in my head, with the muppets with wrong voices, but it's also mixed with the Muppet Babies song, to the tune of Fraggle Rock. Congratulations, you broke my brain." - bloodyjohnvane

"A bear in his natural habitat. A Studebaker." - sskipstress, n5iln

(Just remember to bear left at the fork in the road. -CV)

"its that stupid fuzzy bear thing from the muppets. he was always honking that freaking horn. Gonzo at least had a cannon. and a love interest! Gonzo was awesome." - kira_snugz

(Gonzo was also trying to honk a horn/trumpet, and failing. And he had a love interest of a different species. I must call his awesomeness in question. -CV)

"Fozzie Bear, the second best Muppet of all. The first is Animal, and if you argue with me about it, I will break a snare drum on your head." - theylovetostare

"Fozzie Bear! He's funny because he's not funny! Thank you, Muppet Show, for exposing a generation of kids to metahumor at a very early age." - rikchik

Correct Answer: Fozzie Bear

"God help Waldorf and Statler if he ever asks his cousin Iorek to open for him." - laughingacademy



3. The stars Yildun and Pherkad can be found in which constellation?

"No fair using Narnian astrologer starmaps!" - ntlespino

(Like we've ever been concerned with "fair". -CV&AL&LL)

"This old man called me a Pherkad the other day and I just flipped him off.... now I wonder if that was the right thing to do...." - angelprojekt

"Are you sure those aren't anagrams? Because Duly In and Had Perk both sound like past-it porn stars" - drunken_hedghog

"Yildun backwards is Nudliy, so I figure it's probably Anti-Virgo, the famous Southern Hemisphere constellation." - seekingferret

"I don't know, but with names like that, I'll bet you money they're on the United States no-fly list." - babybokal

"Those sound like Yiddish stars, so I will say... the Menorah." - wrestlingdog

"I still stand by the Small Faint Group of Boring Stars." - bloodyjohnvane

"Please consult your doctor before taking Yildun with Pherkad. Side effects include fiery death" - mark_laura

"No idea - I'll ask this military chap here. 'Er, sir? Major?'" (I know. I can't bring myself to delete it though)." - jhirat_dai

"Was no one else freaked out by Ursula in The Little Mermaid? Because I totally had nightmares." - kittycatness

(I thought she was cool. Then again, I was older than you when "The Little Mermaid" came out. -AL)

Correct Answer: Ursa Minor, aka The Little Bear, aka The Little Dipper



4. Fun with lyrics! Name the song, the character who sings it, and the movie it appeared in:
Wherever I wander, wherever I roam
I couldn't be fonder of my big home
The bees are buzzin' in the tree
To make some honey just for me

"Winnie the Pooh" - 15 hunny lovers

"All lyrics questions are STING, of course. So I'll guess 'honey' is really the spice, and the movie is Dune. Yes?" - thepikey

(Dune could have benefitted from a few musical numbers, true. "Highway To The Danger Zone" would have been perfect for the worm-riding scene... -CV)

"'Me So Honey', 2 Live Crew, from 'Full Metal Jacket'" - i_calql8

(That was another jungle. -CV)

"Two weeks, two Metallica earworms...damn you, LJDQ!" - n5iln

(I don't know how Metallica keeps sneaking into your subconscious, but I don't think it's our bad. -CV)

"I miss Tailspin" - zihuatanejo

(I think it was the best of Disney's daytime cartoon spinoffs. -CV)

"was it me or was that shakin blue butt just scary - like naked mother in law scary?" - sestree

"This IS fun with the lyrics! It's Disney! 'The Bare Necessities' from the Jungle Book, which mashed about 6 jungles from separate continents together." - operatic_diva

"Can anyone explain to me why a bear in an Indian jungle sounds like he hails from Indiana?" - laughingacademy

(He was an exchange student. -CV)

"'Bare Necessities'. It's only now that I'm getting that it could be 'Bear Necessities'. In which case I say 'I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE'." - kittycatness

Correct Answer: "Bear Necessities", sung by Baloo the Bear, in "The Jungle Book"

"Really, shouldn't it have been called the Jungle Movie? And then the video game based on it would be the Jungle Game, and the ride would be the Jungle Ride, and the jungle it was based on in the first place would be the Jungle Jungle." - rikchik



5. The Brisbane Lions Australian Football Club was formed by the merger of the Fitzroy Football Club and which other club?

"Brisbane? Fitzroy? You're just making up words now." - bloodyjohnvane

"The Bad News Bears" - 11 of you
"Da Bears" - 6 of you

"I really don't want to have to go too 'Island of Doctor Moreau' on people, but, shit, really? What the fuck would you breed with a lion to get a bear?" - etcet

"A very big club with a nail in the end." - drbunsen

(Run, Kodos! He's got a board with a nail in it! -CV)

"" - mandydax

"A nine-iron, in honor of Tiger Woods, not to mention last week's quiz." - n5iln

"The Detroit Lions" - thefannishwaldo

"The Drop Bears" - zihuatanejo

(Right continent, at least... -CV)

"The Svalbard Panserbjørnes" - laughingacademy

"The Berenstain Bears!" - cholma

"The He-Man Women Haters Club" - seekingferret

"The Syndey Men's Drinking and Brawling Association" - sskipstress

(Actually, that's the uber-organization covering everything that ever happens in Australia. Ever. -CV)

"I decline to answer questions about Brisbane on principle, as no football team of ANY variety should use the French national anthem for their fight song." - cmzero

"The Brisbane Bears. And this is an American answering this question!" - jmthane

Correct Answer: The Brisbane Bears



6. Tell us your pet peeves! What do you find unbearable?

"Sports questions in my LJDQ!!" - stagemanager

(*giggle snort snigger* -AL)

"I hate when CV & I fight over the last pudding. It always comes down to a game of Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock, but by the time one of us stops throwing Spock all the time, angledge has already eaten the pudding!" - cholma

(This is how she became a diabetic. -CV)

"Dogs that like not-dog-people like me. I'm not trying to be clever or punny. 'You are a dog. I am not a dog person. Do not lick me!'" - mandydax

"Day jobs. Can't live with 'em, can't survive without the paycheck." - jmthane

"Work. If you're going to make me do I.T. work, pay me a freakin' I.T. salary, dammit." - thepikey

(We mods think that for most people, this answer could be abbreviated to:)

"Work." - thepikey

(Even getting to work can be stressful:)

"You know those people who take up two seats on the train, one for them and one for their backpack? Even at rush hour, when people are standing in the aisles? Fuckers." - babybokal
"If you're not going to walk up the escalator, stay on the damn right! You may be having a leisurely morning but I'm commuting here - would you drive like that?" - rikchik
"Pedestrians who don't look. Do they want to get run over?" - lots42

"Not seeing answers up early on a Monday. Early for you which is late at night for me." - ntlespino

(-1, excessively high expectations for the ljdq. -AL)

"Passive-aggressiveness. And people that post quizzes online, but only sometimes, and of course it's not you." - puredeadthingy

"Glenn Beck, and all the other brainless, incognate, reality-impaired, loud-mouthed, lying, hypocritical jackasses who are everything wrong with political discourse in the world. Debate with ideas, not sound bytes. I may also have strong feelings on the subject, but they are not suitable for minors, those with heart conditions, or the intellectual equivalents of Sarah Palin." - etcet

"Women that wear seriously strong perfume *achoo* *hack* *wheeze* Next time I'm bringing her ragweed." - raphsody606

"When people put all there stuff down at my till then walk off and get a whole load more stuff. IF YOU'RE NOT FINISHED, DON'T QUEUE." - gigglingpixie

"Jokes against the fine name of furry creatures like me and my family. They're embearassing." - drbear

(Huh huh, you said "bear" "ass". Huh huh. -CV)

"Oh, My! I loathe it when the tonic water goes flat - it completely ruins the gin and tonic!" - blindgeoff

Correct Answer: "Nothing is unbearable! Man, I've had pain all the way to 10 and endured. The trick is to bear things with good grace while plotting your revenge in secret!" - mark_laura



And there you have the bear facts. The following line of puns will probably be unbearable, but if I didn't say anything, then this would be a bearren line of bearly palatable text and one-sided convursation (ha ha, I see what I did there). I shall be suitably (albeit bearly) embearassed at a later point. Those of you hindered by a language bearrier are probably the lucky ones who aren't getting the full range of these accursad puns (ha ha, I did it again).

Thanks to all who played; hope you had fun, and of course we hope to see you again for the next quiz, which will contain 100% fewer bear puns.

Rock On!

AL&CV&LL