LJ Daily Answers: 19 November 2012
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ljdqIn the words of Daffy Duck, "Pronoun trouble."
1. Fun with lyrics! Name the song and the singer:
I don't want to own her,
But I can't let her have it both ways.
Three is one too many of us,
She leaves with me or stays
“'It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp,' David Petraeus." -
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drbear"'Not in the mood for a threesome' by Tom Petty" -
la_trombonista"Barbie Girl, Aqua. You're welcome for the earworm" -
i_calql8"Stuck in the middle with you... Here I am now stuck in the middle with you. Who's going to be Mr. Brown?" -
akiyasan“Schrodinger's girlfriend" -
drunken_hedghog, ifeedformula"A grammatically-challenged mash-up version of 'Should I Stay or Should I Go' by The Clash and Milow's 'You and Me' that not even the cast of Glee would touch" -
germankittyCorrect Answer: "Him" by Rupert Holmes
2. Writer Tom Wolfe coined which phrase to describe the Baby Boomer Generation of 1946-1964?
"That wouldn't happen to be 'baby boomer generation,' would it? Is this a trick question?" - ZETA_TAURI
(While trick questions are not beneath us, in this case, it's not a trick. -CV)
"Money-grubbing bastards who screwed over the rest of us" -
drunken_hedghog“The Greatest Generation II: Generate Harder" -
drbear“GET OFF MY LAWN." -
etcet, la_trombonista“Boomers rule and you all suck." -
akiyasan(Pfffffttt – Gen X Mods)
“Just retire already; some of us need jobs too, yaknow." -
silk_knickers"Homer Simpson was supposed to have grown up in the '60's. Joe Maddon, I think, was also born in the '60's. So that would make that gen the Doh-Ray-Me Generation" -
tinamachinaCorrect Answer: The Me Generation
"as opposed to the 'Do!' generation of pre-WW II, the 'So?' generation of the 1980s/1990s, and the 'La-La-La, can't hear you!' generation of today" -
germankitty3. What celebrity gossip magazine features a section entitled "Who Wore It Best?"
"Celebrity gossip magazines are like chiuauas-small, yappy and a real pain in the ass because all they do is whine all the time" -
ifeedformula“Playboy" -
silk_knickers(Wouldn’t that be “Who Doesn’t Wear It Best?” – LL)
(More like "Who Wore It Breast", AMIRITE? -CV)
(SHUT UP. -LL&AL)
"I read that as Who Whore It Best, which clearly means National Geographic" -
therealchon"Assassination's Unlimited. If they can see you, you're wearing black wrong" -
akiyasan“The Quibbler" -
wiredwizard“All of them. And the answer is always neither." -
drunken_hedghog"Us. Who wore it best? Us. Or we. Yay democracy!" -
tinamachinaCorrect Answer: Us Weekly
4. What was the title of Ian Fleming's tenth James Bond novel?
“Decapussy" -
silk_knickers(That's a lot of... uh, nevermind. -CV)
"I'm Mailing My Misogyny And Cock Fantasy In, And Yet This Is Still Better Than Anything Clive Cussler Or Stuart Woods Will Ever Shit Onto A Keyboard" -
etcet“Weapon X" -
wiredwizard“The Spy Who Shagged Me" -
zihuatanejo“The Spy Who
tinamachina"It didn't have Jaws in it; I don't care" -
mandydax(Jaws made Roger Moore Bond movies awesome. -CV)
"No, I Never Ever Wrote the Moonraker Screenplay, So Stop Calling!" -
therealchon"When Q meets Q: An adventure in gadgets and humanity in tights" -
akiyasan(I'm not sure I want to see Desmond Llewelyn in tights. -CV)
“
" - i_calql8"Ratio of sex/drinking to actual spy work in this one: 007/1" -
drbear"James Bond, the Harlequin/Mills & Boon Edition" -
germankittyCorrect Answer: "On Her Majesty's Secret Service"
5. What 1950's science fiction film features giant specimens of the family Formicidae?
“The Formica from 20,000 Fathoms." -
drbear“Mutant Ants vs. Killer Tomatoes - Tokyo Showdown" -
wiredwizard"Formicidae, which is Latin for formicide, which means the death of filling out forms, 'cause of dead trees 'n all, so I'm going with, 'An Inconvenient Truth.'" -
therealchon“I can't believe you used this theme and went with 'Them' in lieu of 'They Live.' This encourages me to be all out of bubble gum." -
etcet(Sorry, these were object pronouns, not subject pronouns. That'll be next quiz. -CV)
"
" - germankitty“Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" -
silk_knickers"Little Shop of Horrors" - ZETA_TAURI
"Anthill-vania 6-5000" -
i_calql8“For some reason I am thinking Norse mythology. Which leads me to something furry. And then furry conventions. Wombats." -
raphsody606"I kind of read 'family formaldahyde', so the answer must be Six Feet Under" -
tinamachina“Starship Troopers" -
zihuatanejoCorrect Answer: "Them!"
6. How do you see yourself?
“Through the bottom of a glass, dorkly." -
etcet“Through the tears of a clown, when there's no one around ..." -
therealchon“I'm a woman. There are far too many adjectives available to condense into a one liner!" -
akiyasan“In a mirror." -
silk_knickers, tinamachina, zihuatanejo, mandydax(-1, way too easy. -CV)
“Through a variety of photoshop-esque filters that allow me to Scuba dive in Denial for just that little bit longer." -
drunken_hedghog"My dad used to tease me and say I was actually half Hobbit. Which could theoretically be true--I'm short, I like to eat about eight times a day so I'm kind of round, I have loads of curly hair all over (esp if I don't shave/wax) and I prefer to go barefoot. I AM THE MISSING LINK BETWEEN HALFLING AND HUMAN!" -
ifeedformula(Nice to meet you, Mrs. Baggins. -CV)
“Very busty." -
la_trombonista“As a tin-plated, overbearing, swaggering dictator with delusions of godhood. But I'm not soft." -
i_calql8And that's it for us, him, you, them, her, me, and it. Tune in next time when we tackle another staple of grammar, The Preposition.
Rock On!
AL&CV&LL
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Date: 2012-11-19 03:32 pm (UTC)I still wubs you, though.
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Date: 2012-11-19 03:45 pm (UTC)by youin the matter of groupthinks, no name-age, no quotage. So there!*reconsiders amount of cookies to bake and send to you*
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Date: 2012-11-19 03:53 pm (UTC)You could be really cruel and just send cookies to Spouse and the Sons, with strict orders *not* to give them to their dad/husband. When it comes to cruelty toward the dad/spouse, they're great at taking orders!
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Date: 2012-11-19 06:21 pm (UTC)Would I do that to you?
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Date: 2012-11-19 03:30 pm (UTC)(Btw, you noticed the hat, but Is it me, or Moore's the only gun that doesn't fire? There's an age joke in there somewhere.)
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Date: 2012-11-19 04:06 pm (UTC)*goes to check on the bacon supply*
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Date: 2012-11-19 10:40 pm (UTC)Schrödinger's girlfriend: alive and dead at the same time.
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Date: 2012-11-19 11:42 pm (UTC)Have I mentioned I think too much sometimes? Ha!
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Date: 2012-11-19 11:06 pm (UTC)In contrast,
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Date: 2012-11-20 11:51 pm (UTC)That Bond gif is glorious!