LJ Daily Answers, 27 June 2005

[angledge.livejournal.com]

"I was going to answer the quiz, I swear I was, but then your icon disturbed me." - lustforlike

Yes, that icon disturbed many of you. You can blame your discomfort on thereject, who created it. Other than icon disturbance, hopefully this week's theme didn't give any double vision or other adverse effects. Let's plow on ahead & see what all 1,054 of you were able to come up with.

"OMGWTFCOLESLAW YOUR ICON I AM MUCH TOO TRAUMATISED TO TAKE THIS TEST I AM RUNNING AWAY NOW MY CAPSLOCK IS STUCK RAAAAAAAaaaaaaaa *trails off into the distance*" - nekoama

1,053, now...


1. What infamous prisoner said in 1982: "If Robert Kennedy were alive today, he would not countenance singling me out for this kind of treatment"?

"If Robert Kennedy was still alive today, it wouldn't be as easy to crack jokes about the dead Kennedys. Wait. Did I say crack jokes? I meant respect. WOuldn't be as easy to respect the dead Kennedys." - shadowkeeper

"Does anyone really 'countenance' anything any more? Does anyone even know what it means? I'm not talking about those little word people that live in caves and only skulk at night when they can switch the letters on neon signs around to confuse people. I'm talking about real live people. People! Countenance, smountenance...*grumbles about the sadness of today's vocabulary*" - greenhoodloxley

"Im australian so I only know two infamous prisoners. One is Ned Kelly and I would love to hear the word 'countenance' with an irish accent. The other is Chopper and I dont think he knows the word 'countenance'" - allieg

"What kind of treatment was he talking about? Sewage treatment?" - palmer_kun

(Actually he just wanted a simple massage and facial from the local spa. -CV)

"I read that as 'singing me out' and immediately got Chicagoesque images of a prison musical. The hiiiiills are aliiiive with the sound of maaaanacleeeees..." - jetsam_porridge

"What we've got here, is a failure to communicate" - permogod

(+1, Cool Hand Luke. -CV)

"Lee Harvey Oswald" - king_duncan

(The other Kennedy. -AL)

"The only thing I know about any Kennedy is that JFK was killed by a magic bullet. How cool is that? I mean, if I had to be killed by a bullet, I would want it to be a magic bullet." - alliterator

"I think it was Nick Nolte when he got arrested for drunk driving." - stevesbabygirl

"Hannibal Lector. Because nobody needs to be subjected to Julianne Moore, really." - nolseygnu

"It was Hamburgler on June 6 after being caught stealing 500 fillet'o'fish in an attempt to prove that he too could feed the masses." - gnomeangel

(The Hamburglar seems like an improbable messiah. "Blessed are the foodmakers, rubble rubble..." -CV)

"The only double name I can think of from the early 80's is Lisa Lisa. She was involved with a Cult Jam for a while, and maybe that landed her in prison." - sskipstress

(It didn't, but it should have. -CV)

"General Zod. He was always a well-spoken guy, wasn't he? So damned persuasive!" - wendynat

"Sirhan Solo -- space pilot, rebel and political assassin." - badong

"The whole assasination is a favorite of consipiracy theorists, since Sirhan's gun only fired two of the six bullets recovered at the scene." - deza

"I think Lennon's assassin had a similar line." - rikchik

(Yes, but he at least took the trouble to sing it. -CV)

"Sirhan Sirhan, to which I hope the parole board replied: 'Had you not shot him, he might still be alive today, DUMBASS.'" - buzz

"which led to the song called 'Que Sirhan Sirhan...'" - pride4u2

"Sirhan Sirhan was right, Robert Kennedy would have wanted him doubled out for that sort of treatment." - coolteamblt

Correct Answer: Sirhan Sirhan


2. What prison is the destination that led to the phrase "being sent up the river"?

"I'm only sixteen, I've never been to prison. Get back to me in a few years." - steel_lace

"I have the sudden urge to burst into 'Mooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooon riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiver, la di da di da...'. I won't, however, because the last thing I need is to be barred from the library for singing again." - smittenrosebud

"I always think of that bear from the Muppets saying 'wakka wakka wakka' instead of thinking of 'Walla Walla.' In fact, he's confused me so much that I'm not even sure that is a prison. In fact, it isn't." - chash

"The media has corrupted me to assume every prison is Shawshank from the movie." - lynbug

"Niagara Falls Prison. Wouldn't that suck?" - barwench23235

(BYOB- Bring Your Own Barrel. -CV)

"Gitmo Gitmo, which is the rough Cuban translation of the Italian phrase 'Mangia! Mangia!'" - captainsblog

"Alcatraz" - many of you. That's more like having a "stay in the Bay."
"Azkaban" - some of you. Little known fact: Most Dementors have PhD's in history, but took on the job because the pay was better.
"Which one's real again?" - the_wanlorn

"I always made my prison in Sim City on an island, and still dozens of people escaped. Damn you rafts made of those plastic raincoats!" - dracothelizard

"It's gotta be a Mississippi Casino River Boat - have you ever tried getting out of a casino at 2am with only your wits and some tacky casino prop you stole after cursing the casino for taking all your cash, so you're going to take something of theirs back - it's like the labyrinth." - gnomeangel

"That'd be the one that Hudson Hawk was released from shortly before being airmailed to Rome for wacky hijinks." - keridwen

(Most folks would, not unjustifiably, give you a -1 for citing Hudson Hawk. But I have a soft spot for that weird movie, despite Sandra Bernhardt's cavernous maw, so you get +1. -CV)

"I only know of prisons outside Australia that they mention on Law & Order, so... Sing Sing?" - active_apathy
"I'm gonna feel really stupid if that's a prison they made up exclusively for that show." - soimpossible414

(Law & Order served to educate way too many of you. -AL)

"That would be Sing Sing, which I only know because I've seen 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' far, far, far too many times." - ajmcoqui

(Is this better? -CV)

(Nope. -AL)

"best known for its prison vocal group - Sing Sing Out Sister." - drbear

"Is there a reason they named the place after a panda bear?" - jelymo

(I think the panda in question was named Ling-Ling. -CV)

"why is it called 'sing-sing' if 'ossining' doesn't even sing once?" - songquake

"Sing Sing . . . . a song,
Sing out loud!
Sing out strong!
Sing of good things, not bad
Sing of happy, not sad
Just sing, sing a song" - erisian_fields, sskipstress
"Sing sing. Sing sing a song song. Make it simple simple, to last last the whole day day long." - silk_knickers

Correct Answer: Sing Sing

"Useless Filipino Fact of the week: Sing Sing, when spelled as the one word "singsing", means "ring" in the Philippine language known as Tagalog." - i_am_stillwater


3. Which 80's megaband took its name from a character in a 1968 Jane Fonda film?

"and here, I totally regress to being 11 years old all over again ... getting silly over John Taylor." - hiddenmuse

"Toto." - lusciousmango

"I'm not good with films from before 1977. I blame Harrison Ford's early attempt at being Cap'n Tightpants." - active_apathy

"It's gotta be Queen. How could it not be Queen?" - the_wanlorn

"Mysteriously enough, that would be AC/DC, in the little-known educational film 'Why Scissors and Wall Outlets Can't Be Friends'." - shigogouhou

(Jane played the outlet; John Taylor cameoed as the character "Three-Prong". -CV)

"I HATE that woman!! Frigging .. damn.. leprechaun shitwagon! GRR!" - thisisbullcrap

(While we did get a bunch of Fonda-based fury, I'm quoting this because the phrase "leprechaun shitwagon" makes me giggle stupidly. -CV)

"Jane Fonda was in a movie called The Dollmaker in 1984. Her character was called Gertie Nevels, and if there wasn't a band called Gertie Nevels, well, there should have been." - madslasher

"I took a class called Women in Science Fiction last semester, and we watched Barbarella. How many people can say they wrote a college paper about Barbarella? We got to watch Alien too. It was a cool class." - supertrink

"Barbarella, Queen of the Galaxy. They torture her with orgasms. Its awesomely bad." - aliaspiral

"not to be confused with Pam Anderson's jugs in Striperella." - lynbug

"Duran Duran. The band so nice they named it twice. And they did the song, 'Electric Barbarella', which is another reference to the same film. (...And even though I knew all of that, my friends had still somehow shielded me from the knowledge that it was a Jane Fonda film. Bless them. And curse you.)" - marveen

"I asked my friend in Rio, who specializes in girls on film, about Barbarella. Her first reflex was mumbling something about 'tiger tiger,' during some scene with a union of the snake, but then I realized that she's a notorious liar. So instead of coming up with an answer, I went in search of puddin' because I was hungry like the wolf." - ckirkman

(Impressive. -AL)

Correct Answer: Duran Duran


4. What is the Hawaiian word used to describe the dolphin fish?

"Mammal Mammal (cough cough)" - grapefruitzzz

(Wrong wrong. -AL)

"DOLPHINS AREN'T FISH!!!" - some of you who think we are just that dumb.


To the left, a dolphin, playing in its natural habitat. To the right, a dolphin fish, getting wtfpwned in its natural habitat.

(We're really not that dumb. Moderately wacked out, sure. But not dumb. -AL&CV)

"Din din." - uncut_diamond

"Tasti-Tasti, coined by the first Hawaiian to ever grill and eat one." - badong

"IckiIckiIckiIckiPaKangWaBoing" - sweetpea86, astria_nova

(It is the fish who until so recently was called Ni! +1, MP&THG. -AL)

"The only Hawaiian word I know is ohana. Ohana means family. Family means everyone gets together and they all drink like fish. That's close enough." - active_apathy

"Only 'double' Hawaiian word I know is a'a, and that's lava. So I'm going to saaaaay, the o'e'o'a'a. I saw one of them in the Ting Tank in Walla Walla. I exploded then a cherry. It was a Bing Bang." - thurdl01

(thurdl01, you're new here, but you certainly have been quick to adopt Gibberish as a way of life. I applaud that. -AL)

"The only fish I know how to say in Hawaiian is the 'humuhumunukunukuapuaa,' which, I must admit, I enjoy saying very much." - tzeentch

"I think Hawaii stole all of the slavic nations' vowels." - whiski_sour

"I'm in a marching band, and we all give each other funny nicknames like Mr. Cactusheadman, etc. But the best by far was the guy who named himself Humuhumunukunukuaqua'a, even though we all refused to call him that. Mostly we called him Joe." - domtheknight

"the one that means 'confused as to class.'" - songquake

(I'd say a joke based on taxonomy qualifies you to be our Geek of the Week. -AL)

(Here's your -1. -CV)

"Mahi-mahi, but some places in Europe, it doesn't just mean 'dolphin fish,' it can also mean 'dolphin,' and I ate a pizza with 'mahi-mahi' on it and then I found out it was real dolphin and it was TRAUMATIZING!" - muzzyfeverlint

"Mahi-mahi. Which is what I prefer to call it, since then you don't have to go through tedious explanations of 'no, we're not eating Flipper' every time someone hears you talking about dinner. (Not that Flipper didn't deserve it. Cetacean smartass.)" - marveen

(Smartasses deserve to be eaten for dinner? This group is in trouble. -AL)

Correct Answer: Mahi-Mahi

"... which in Hawaiian means 'if they're so smart, let them figure out how to get out of the nets.'" - altoidsaddict


5. Which South Pacific island was fortified as an American supply base during WWII by Operation Bobcat, but never saw any military action?

"the one that is still wondering why they have a PX instead of a wal-mart." - songquake

"I could try and formulate something about the Virgin Islands never getting any action, but they're totally in the wrong place." - kokopellinelli

"'but never saw any ... action?' Sounds like marasca to me." - fizrep

(Instant +1 for picking on marasca. Vengeance will be mine. -AL)

"Screw that. I want to know why *I* never receive any military action." - madslasher

"... wouldn't it have been great to be stationed there? Nice beach, no bombs... big drinks with little umbrellas. Thats how I'd want to go to war." - invalidcaracter

"I don't know although I have the sudden urge to sing 'I'm gonna wash that man right outta my hair', which suits me since I just recently got a divorce, and I wouldn't mind shipping my ex off to some South Pacific island. One that's inhabited by a bunch of cannibals. On second thought, I wouldn't want to give the natives indigestion." - dragon_within

"Its that little bitty teeny tiny one at the bottom of the island chain called No One Here But Us Army Nuts." - cats_haven

"Doubleday Island. The island next to it, Doublenight, was where all the clubs were." - tofusquirrel

"Hmm. Bobcats on a tropical island. They probably just laid around in the sun and were too lazy for any action. I can't see bobcats taking orders too well either. The whole using animals to do the fighting for you just wasn't all that well thought out, was it?" - erisian_fields

"Considering that I've never even heard of Operation Bobcat, I don't know. Geez...I thought I paid attention in history. LJDQ can make me feel really stupid sometimes." - ladyisabella

(This question stumped almost everyone. And most of the people who got it right probably were guessing based on the theme. -AL)

(Case in point ... -CV)

"Oh, I just figured out the theme! So... Bora Bora! ...Is that even a real place, and if so did I spell it properly? I really want to go look it up, but I refuse to cheat!" - supertrink

"In World War II, the US military, in an effort to.... Anyone? Anyone?... fortify a supply base during... Anyone? Anyone? Operation Bobcat.... Which saw, anyone? Much action or no action?... saw no action, and the base was located on.... Anyone? Anyone? Something-ora Something-ora? Anyone? Anyone?" - captainsblog

(+1 for the nice FBDO imitation. -AL)

"Bora Bora, also known as Boring Boring to the poor guys stationed there." - deza

"Alla these-a questions, they-sa bora bora me-a!" - palmer_kun

(-1, using the Jar-Jar voice. -AL)

"Hang on a sec...Nope, lost the little brain cell that was storing random, useless information such as this. I used to care, but things have changed." - greenhoodloxley

Correct Answer: Bora Bora


6. If you could double one thing in your life, what would it be?

"two ljdqs a week!" - drbear, fragbert, captainsblog

(And if we were unemployed and rich, believe us, you'd get it. -AL&CV)

"The size of my eyes, so I would look like an anime character." - kokopellinelli

"Socks. You can never have enough socks." - xphilega

"Lesbians. There can never be enough lesbians in my life. ...Or possibly explosions." - sasscat

(How about exploding lesbians? -CV)

"I'd double my vacation time." - charliesmum

(Clearly not a European. Those guys get six weeks a year, easily. More of America needs to subscribe to that program. Then again, maybe not, because nothing makes me feel better than to rub my six weeks of vacation time in angledge's grumpy face. -CV)

(I hate you SO MUCH. -AL)

"So how many people are going to say they'd like to double the size of their boobs, or alternatively, their penises?" - chlaal

(12 17 23 29. -CV)

"The size of my husband's tool. (His spanner's just not as big as it needs to be in relation to my lug nut)" - gnomeangel

(Wow. Just... wow. -CV)

"I would double my left leg. Then I would have a legitimate excuse for not being able to dance, and could pick up chicks by saying, 'Actually, that's not a third leg, I'm just happy to see you.' This would probably work better if I wasn't a straight girl, but I stick by my response." - chash

"My middle fingers. So many people, so few fingers." - mistyraven

"the power of my brain. I want it to be so strong it can lift people on its own. And not just little children. Full-grown people." - tofusquirrel

"The amount of stuf in Oreos" - king_duncan

(Well, we can at least give you that:
-CV)

"I'd double my girlfriend so that I could have a threesome with two of her. Rrrrrrrrrowr." - fraterrisus
"The amount of time I get to spend with my girlfriend." - uncut_diamond

(Only one of you has the correct answer. We'll be quizzing your girlfriends shortly. -AL&CV)

Correct Answer: "The amount of money I have." - almost all of you. Bunch of greedy bitches.

Thanks for playing this week, everyone. New quiz tomorrow! SF Pub Crawl on July 15th (with a special guest)! NYC Pub Crawl on July 16th! That's right, if you really try, you could attend BOTH.

Rock on,

AL&CV.

Comments

[deltashade.livejournal.com]

...Wait, what happened to the "Israeli" part of the first question? Was it even there in the first place? Did I parse "infamous" as "Israeli"? And if so, what the bloody fuck was in that pudding?!

the change in Question #1

[angledge.livejournal.com]

No, Question #1 originally read: "What infamous Israeli said in 1982: "If Robert Kennedy were alive today, he would not countenance singling me out for this kind of treatment"?

But, after reading the first few sets of answers, chaosvizier & I realized we'd made a pretty gross error. Sirhan Sirhan was born in Jerusalem, but was a Palestinian. So we decided to dodge the question of nationality altogether & use a more generic noun. Also, that gave us a false theme (prison/prisoners) for the first two questions, for added confusion.

Oops.

Re: the change in Question #1

[deltashade.livejournal.com]

Ah, okay. Well, it doesn't change the fact that I didn't know the answer. Still don't know who Sirhan Sirhan is, as a matter of fact. Curse my young age and extreme laziness.

[poor-choices.livejournal.com]

I definitely also remember Israeli. Of course, I remember a lot of things that have never happened and hopefully never will, so make of that what you will.

[deltashade.livejournal.com]

I only remember it because my answer was "Benjamin D. Israeli", just for the sake of the pun.

[tzeentch.livejournal.com]

Hey! I got quoted in my first LJDQ! And unfortunately, I put Duran Duran as the answer to the first question, as a joke. Little did I know that would come back to bite me!

Also, CV, "Blessed are the foodmakers, rubble rubble..." totally cracked me up, as I'm currently in a production of Godspell, and I can just imagine putting that in the scene, and the resulting look on everyone's faces. :)

[gruyere.livejournal.com]

Thanks a lot, thurdl01 - now I've got that damn song stuck in my head.

[poor-choices.livejournal.com]

I rambled about something, but I have no idea what.

Yours is better and geekier!

[steel-lace.livejournal.com]

Awesome. I participated in my first ljdq and I got quoted! My existence feels all justified now (or something).

[scifantasy.livejournal.com]

Just be glad they didn't include my answer to the "prison" question, or you'd have the closing song from The Producers in your head instead...

[gruyere.livejournal.com]

Nah. No earworm trumps "Witch Doctor"

[dv8dragonfly.livejournal.com]

I'm a sad little Quizling this week - got distracted by too much bright and shiney and didn't answer. *sigh*

[deltashade.livejournal.com]

A good shot of The Bangles will get that out, if the mods speak the truth.

[tofusquirrel.livejournal.com]

Benjamin D. Israeli: You don't even know who I am.

[alliterator.livejournal.com]

Yay, I got quoted! Once, but that's okay.

Man, this weeks quiz was hard. Sing Sing, Bora Bora, Sirhan Sirhan. Whew. I think the only question I actually got right was the Barbarella one. What does that say about me?

But hey, you didn't include my Doublemint gum reference! That was straight out of my childhood.

[kittycatness.livejournal.com]

I didn't even get the Hawaiian word question right and I live in Honolulu. That's sad. That's REALLY sad.

[scifantasy.livejournal.com]

"Yellow Submarine"?

[gnomeangel.livejournal.com]

my fist ever and i got quoted three times... i'm so in love with this.

thank you thank you thank you

[gruyere.livejournal.com]

Nope.

the musical enema:

[songquake.livejournal.com]

paula abdul's "straight up."

no joke. it even works for "witch doctor."

[songquake.livejournal.com]

(I'd say a joke based on taxonomy qualifies you to be our Geek of the Week. -AL)

(Here's your -1. -CV)

i would've expected knowing what town sing-sing is in to have done it.

ps-- yay, getting quoted 3x!

Re: the musical enema:

[gruyere.livejournal.com]

It won't work for me, since I'm not familiar with it.

There actuall is one song more earwormy than "Witch Doctor," but I won't say what it is, for fear that it'll get stuck in my head.

[gruyere.livejournal.com]

i would've expected knowing what town sing-sing is in to have done it.

Ossining. I live in the next town over (Briarcliff).

(Technically, I live in the same town - I live in the village of Briarcliff in the town of Ossining, whereas the prison is in the village of Ossining in the town of Ossining. There's also a part of the village of Briarcliff that's in the town of Mount Pleasant.

...I hate Westchester.)

[songquake.livejournal.com]

*nods*

i had a summer job in dobbs ferry for a couple of years. (ps, commuting from bklyn was a bitch.)

[dslartoo.livejournal.com]

"King of Spain" by Moxy Fruvous. Alternatively, "Birdhouse in Your Soul" by TMBG.

cheers,
Phil