LJ Daily Answers: 21 February 2011 +1

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

"Dude! What does mine say? Sweet! What does mine say?" - eleven of you. Sweeeeeet.



1. Fun with lyrics! Name the song and the band:
I'm reaching out for something
Touching nothing's all I ever do
Oh, I softly call you over
When you appear there's nothing left of you

"Eat it, by Tantalus" - seferin

"Sounds like Reginald Barclay's having trouble in the holodeck again." - lots42

(+1, ST:TNG. -CV)

"'Touching nothing's all I ever do'...sung by The Vienna Boys Choir" - majorsamfan

"Hur hur, 'nothing' is Shakespearean slang for a woman's hoo-hah." - bad_latin

"I shouldn't have used the disintigraton ray on you, by The Beholders" - mattwolf

"Ode to food - Anna Rexia and the Bullimics" - vayshti

"'Does This Vase Look Like Crap?' by Demi Moore & Patrick Swayze" - etcet

"Bryan Adams ruined 'Summer of '69' for me. I used to love that song when I was 11 or 12.. but then I read Adams said it was about oral sex. Now whenever I hear that damn song I picture some dude's hairy asshole in my face. Bleah." - primavera

(I... uh... whoah. -CV)

"My little niece loves "Sweet Caroline" but the only words she knows of it are 'bum bum bum' in the refrain, which makes for some fun singalongs in the car." - squeegibo

"Crucial Taunt!" - houseofknaus

"I'm totally ignoring the girl in the corner because she's a fucking bitch." - sskipstress

"'Ballroom Blitz' by Sweet -- which to someone of my age, means only one thing: GENTLEMEN'S SPEED SKATE!" - fragbert

(Wait, what? – LL)

Correct Answer: "Ballroom Blitz" by Sweet



2. Which character on the TV series "Bones" is a fan of death metal?

"Doesn't EVERYONE like death metal? What's not to like? there's death, and there's metal!" - lbmango

"Bones, metal... how can this not be Wolverine?" - verocity

(You've got a point there. -CV)

"Skeletor" - 5 of you

“I first read the question as 'What character named 'Bones' is a fan of death metal?' and my thought was 'Leonard McCoy, a fan of death metal?'" - jmthane

"Dammit, chaosvizier, I'm a Doctor, not an umlaut-laden horns-thrower!" - etcet
"Dammit, Jim, I'm a doctor, not Cannibal Corpse!" - alfvaen
"Damnit, Jim! I'm a headbanger, not some Country/Western fan!" - thepikey

“Huh-huh, you said boners. Oh, wait, you didn't." - drbear

"Would that be the conventionally attractive female with dark hair, or the conventionally attractive male with dark hair? Perhaps one of the conventionally attractive dark-haired secondary characters?" - bad_latin

"The calcaneus. What a heel." - n5iln

"Bone Jovi" - i_calql8

“The bangable boychild psychologist" - neumeindil

“The shrink who seems too jung" - majorsamfan

“Sweets, but that is irrelevant as Gordon, as played by Stephen Fry, is revealed to have been the glam rocker Noddy Comet." - paradoxotaur

Correct Answer: Dr. Lance Sweets

"His girlfriend, Daisy, is just like one of my dogs, who also happens to have been named Daisy." - holmes221b

(Now I want to watch the show just to see if his girlfriend is hairy and wags her tail a lot. -CV)



3. The thymus, pancreas, and other glands of a calf can be breaded and fried to create what delicacy?

“I don't know, but it's probably Scottish" - seferin, thepikey, pirho_maniac

(If it isn’t Scottish, it’s-- - CV)
(Shut yo mouth! – AL&LL)

"Frog's legs, I hope." - sticky9fingers

(Full credit just for having the balls to try that answer. -CV)

“If you mix them all together and put some left over pig in it you get a hot dog." - b_hulsmans

“Chicken McNuggets" - drbear and wiredwizard, within 9 minutes of each other

"Corn dogs" - domestik_fucker, freezer818

"Scrapple" - n5iln

“Rocky Mountain Oysters - the original Sack Lunch." - majorsamfan

"In times of desperation people will eat pretty much anything. When there's more food around and they have the option of ignoring the gross bits, they just call them a 'delicacy' and feed them to idiotic tourists." - limegreenjillo

"You stretched the meaning 'delicacy' to the breaking point there" - mark_laura

"Sweetbreads aren't too bad, but no amount of breading and frying can make me like liver" - sskipstress

(That's what the fava beans and chianti are for. -CV)

"Sweetbreads, the result of a calf getting its vealings hurt." - i_calql8

“Mmm, sweetbread. (I'm in Oklahoma; we eat all the cow. Don't ask where the calf fries come from...)" - elbiesee

“I always thought sweetbreads was, well, a bread. Oh how wrong I was." - houseofknaus, kristinmachina

Correct Answer: Sweetbreads



4. In the film "The Muppet Movie", what muppet is found working in a used car lot?

"Damn if I haven't watched that movie like 100000000000 times as a kid! If 'Rainbow Connection' doesn't make you tear up a little, you have no soul." - kristinmachina

“Weird Al Yankovic" - wiredwizard

"Redd Foxx" - squeegibo

"Chewbacca" - limegreenjillo

"MAATT DAAMON" - vayshti

"Gonzo seems like he'd be the better used car salesperson out of all of them, dontcha think?" - elbiesee, seferin

“Gonzo: I’ve been having that dream again...
Rizzo: You mean the one with the goat, dwarf, and a jar of peanut butter?" - akiyasan

"Can you imagine a used car lot run by Sam the Eagle?" - wrestlingdog

("Buy this good wholesome AMERICAN car! It's the AMERICAN thing to do! Yes, yes! Away with that HONDA; buy this Ford because it's AMERICAN!" -CV)

"When I was younger my dad and I would play the Dead/Alive game with all the special guests in 'The Muppet Movie' and every time we watched the Dead list kept getting longer. Now it's depressing because everyone but Steve Martin, and Mel Brooks is on the dead list." - killabee886

(Feel the icy hand of the Reaper! -CV)

"Animal beat sweetbread? ANIMAL EAT SWEETBREAD!" - lisacharly

"Sweetums isn't a muppet. The Hensen family has some messed up backwoods cousins." - mattwolf

"The Sweetish Chef" - majorsamfan

"Sweetums! I love him because he looks like my dad." - drunken_hedghog

(...I hope you got your looks from your mom's side. -CV)

"Sweetums, the perfect name for an ugly, gargantuan, hairy ogre. Kinda like if I called George W. Bush a 'Homo sapien'." - demon_666

Correct Answer: Sweetums

"I just knew I'd catch up to you guys" - fmh



5. Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield are the core characters in which long-running series of young adult novels?

"Uncanny Valley High" - seekingferret

"Aryan Ghetto Aspirational Fantasy" - vayshti

"Is that The Walking Dead graphic novels?" - thepikey

(It will be after you read a few. -CV)

"Sweet Nancy Hardy Club" - zihuatanejo, squeegibo

"Sorry, the only young adult novels I can talk about are Animorphs. I could never get into those Sweet Valley Drew Babysitter's Sister Club books because really, what's cooler, high school, or high school being attacked by aliens and turning into giant squids?" - lisacharly

"'Dude, Where're My Co-ed Teen Sisters?" - mark_laura

"Fully responsible for 88% of lavalier sales in the '90s." - bad_latin

"If I hadn't already turned in my macho-card for being gay, I'd have to turn it in because I know this without cheating: Sweet Valley High." - b_hulsmans

“I'm going to guess that AE wrote this question, because I'm guessing that the answer is 'Sweet Valley High', and I'm guessing that CV didn't read those as a boy... I'm also guessing that I'm guessing a whole lot on this question." - lbmango

(I'm personally guessing that AL didn't read a lot of SVH in her younger days either... -CV)

“'Sweet Valley High', the prequel series to the Twilight Saga." - holmes221b, i_calql8

“Sweet Valley Twins/Sweet Valley High. Sweet Mother of Pearl, but Elizabeth was such a Mary Sue. I was waiting for her to get knocked up the first time she 'went all the way' with a boyfriend and end up in the suburb of Bitter Hill, working three jobs and chain smoking... Ahem." - elbiesee

“Thank you, LJDQ, for that flashback to junior high school, a time when my hair was never as blond, my eyes were never as blue, and my socks were never as white as even the fat chick in Sweet Valley High." - sskipstress
“Two of my teenage years were lost to Sweet Valley High. Until I stopped growing at 16 and realised I'd never be tall, naturally blond and American... Or popular, for that matter." - demon_666

“'Rule 34 High' - I hope that Charisma Carpenter and the courtesean from Firefly don't mind making the cameos I just pictured. I'll be in my bunk." - etcet

“A Series of Unfortunately-These-Were-Actually-Published." - wrestlingdog

Correct Answer: Sweet Valley High



6. What's your favorite candy?

"Free" - drbear

“Eye candy" - zihuatanejo

"The kind that cries at night and tries to escape from my cellar... but they never, ever do." - verocity

"Isn't Candy the hooker who banged the Kergan in Highlander?" - mattwolf, etcet

(+1, Highlander. She totally was. -CV)

"A mountain of it, Charlie!" - vayshti

"I'd list them all, but then I'd probably break the character limit for comments." - holmes221b
“It's a shorter list to ask what isn't my favorite candy. There's a reason I'm fat, and that reason is SUGAR!" - neumeindil

“...all of them? Except the ones with coconut because that is a food that is made of evil topped with wrongsauce." - florahart

"I think pretty much any kids' breakfast cereal falls in that category." - thepikey

(Mmm, Crunchberries. Best Cereal Ever. -CV)

"Peeps. Because any candy that gets pelted at Justin Bieber is okay by me." - paradoxotaur

“Anything involving the combination of chocolate and peanut butter. When I was a girl, I dreamed I'd meet my future husband in the same way the couple in the peanut butter cup commercial met. (Now, I see the dirty connotations. 'Your chocolate is in my peanut butter', indeed!)" - elbiesee

(6 other quizlings support the combination of chocolate and peanut butter. -CV)

"" - germankitty

“Licorice Whips which are masochistically delicious" - seferin

“At the moment, it's Halls Cough Drops. They help keep me functioning when I have a cold, but the withdrawal can take weeks." - alfvaen

"Lollipops. holmes221b says it's cause I have an oral fixation, but I think it's just because lollipops are cool. Needless to say, she has yet to be convinced." - sticky9fingers

“For some reason I thought of buttocks. Which made me think of the Brazilian Women's Volleyball team. Which then made me think of boobs. Aaargh! I'm turning into david_deacon" - demon_666

“I like what my wife calls 'old people candy': licorice, circus peanuts, soft jellies, hard candies, spice drops, and stuff like that. You know, all the stuff your grandmother would have in that candy dish on her coffee table that never got touched. I was the kid that ate that stuff." - squeegibo

"Yesterday I turned a bag of Sour Patch kids into a meal and my friend admitted to having had nothing but Twinkies for breakfast in the past week. We've finally made it as college students." - lisacharly

"3 Musketeers, because when I eat it I imagine I'm D'artagnan and I'm pissed that I wasn't mentioned in the title, so I'm taking my anger out on a candybar." - seekingferret

“80% Dark Chocolate-coated Pralines. If chocolate equals sex, this equals a threesome with Alex O'Loughlin and Misha Collins" - drunken_hedghog

“YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TWIX!" - wrestlingdog

“M&Ms--it's a probability lesson in every bag!" - i_calql8

"I prefer bacon" - spiralgirl1

(+1, bacon. -CV)



And there's our sweet-ass quiz for the sweet long weekend that we had over here. It was so long, I took my sweet-ass time putting it together. There's probably room here for a joke about the presidential suite, but I'm sure that would be beneath me.

Thanks for playing, everyone! We'll be back on schedule soon enough. Remember to tell your friends about us, because we're funny and we promote binging on candy.

Rock On!

AL&CV&LL