LJ Daily Answers: 7 November 2005

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

"First off, why are there only five questions this time around? Did we amuse you enough last time that there needn't be a sixth one this week?" - waffle_heiress

Please see Question Six.

"Ok, be honest. Is this a penis quiz?" - crystalcazzie

We assure you, it is not. This week's theme was Monty Python's Flying Circus, as can be seen in the answers. Most of you quote MP at us routinely in your answers, and we figured we'd go all out this time and get it out of the way. So, in the immortal words of the non-pythonian Leroy Jenkins, "Let's do this!"



1. Steelworkers get nekkid; some singing ensues. What the hell are we thinking of?

"Considering some of the images the LJDQ has inspired in the past, I don't know why this one has scarred me so much...but I'm broken." - maraq

(Flawless victory! *mods trade high-fives all around*)

"Riverdance: Pittsburg (the unrated edition)" - ghostrider65

(This made me imagine nekkid Riverdancing Pittsburgh Steelers, which first made me laugh, but then made me cower in fear. -AL)

"chlaal and angledge's very very VERY private fantasies? " - ntlespino

(Ummm... no. -AL)
(Really, REALLY no. -C)
(You have no idea, ntlespino. Truly. -CV)

"Before I realized the theme to this week I was totally ready to put Flashdance for this. Wasn't she a steelworker? I don't know." - delicate_sass

(Note to all Flashdance fans: Yes, she was a steel worker. No, she did not get nekkid. -AL&C)

"The downfall of the steel industry in Youngstown, Ohio. They never stop talking about it. Everything in Youngstown radiates the words 'HEY, WE USED TO MAKE STEEL AND STUFF A LONG TIME AGO AND NOW WE'RE SUCKY AND MISERABLE. STEEL! REMEMBER STEEL? WASN'T STEEL FANTASTIC? LET'S BUILD ANOTHER MONUMENT TO THE WONDER THAT IS OUR GOD STEEL'. Nekkid singing steelworkers justify this more than I can say." - ANONYMOUS

"Oh, those crazy Brits and their flabby sex symbols..." - elbiesee

"What the hell are you thinking of? Been drinking again, or is it the 'special pudding' this time?" - kickthehobbit

"some strange union hazing ritual" - clownhauler

"Come on, you can tell us. An Indian and cop were involved, weren't they." - hermione_like

"I never saw that movie 'cause I heard we don't get to see the goods. What a rip off!" - chershey

"tall_man says this is the Simpson's episode where Homer takes Bart to the steel mill to see how real men act. I say it's the Madonna video where all the dirty sweaty guys in chains are getting dripped on. Either way, it's going to require more hot buff guy pr0n watching video research." - deza

"Gay steel mill! 'We work hard, and we party hard!'" - zihuatanejo

(OK, technically this episode of the Simpsons meets the requirements set forth in the question. But in this case, we were looking for a better answer. -CV)

"Also, the greasy spoon down the road from my house serves a breakfast called the full monty. If you get the right cook he arranges it in fun patterns." - liseuse

"Somehow I ended up thinking of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Disney version. They're miners, right? Could be iron ore/steelworkers for all we know. And they sing. And uh they get nekkid HAY LOOK SNOW WHITE PORN" - evilstorm

"every time I hear Hot Choclate's "I Believe in Miracles," I have this desire to go to some government agency and lewdly gyrate while in line." - southbucki

"A wedding in my family!" - lynbug

(OMG like whoah. Weird family you got there. -AL)
(I like the sound of it. lynbug, will you marry me? -C)

"The Full Python" - barbarienne

"The Full Monty, a/k/a the ways in which the failure of British steel led hunky men to strip to show tunes. If this is the legacy of Thatcherism, bring it on, preferably well-oiled." - pisica

Correct Answer: The Full Monty

"Which, I was annoyed to find out, was not a reunion film wherein Arthur and Lancelot hugged in a manly fashion, Bravely Brave Sir Robin took some Prozac and calmed down a bit, and the accused witch teamed up with the Bunny of Doom and took out Tim." - miladygrey



2. In Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book", what kind of creature was Kaa?

"What kind of a name is Rudyard? Sounds like a place to get rusty lumber. It is no wonder that he gave his animals names like Kaa." - dhud98

"A lawyer." - perkyczarlet, ericcoleman

"In Egyptian mythology, the ka was the soul. So I'd say 'Kaa' was, you know... even more so." - thepikey

"I read that as 'The Jungle', the piece about what goes into sausage. Would Kaa go into sausage?" - shadowkeeper

(Well, he is somewhat shaped like a sausage... -CV)

"A one eyed, one horned, flying purple people eater." - zelamenomiko

"He was a Lightning Enchanted Extra Strong Unraveller. Wait, that's Ancient Kaa the Soulless. Oh well. I hated them both." - deltashade, nakedblueninja

(+1, Diablo II, Act II, Scene V. Fucking lightning enchanted SOB. -CV)

"Where did that kid in the movie get the loincloth? Does anyone else ever wonder that sort of thing?" - wendynat

"fuck. 'Bear Necessities' stuck in my head now." - lyme, ANONYMOUS, waffle_heiress

"
KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!" - kenshardik, buzz, fizrep, hermione_like

(This question generated a lot of puns. I dedicate the following answers to angledge, with love. -CV)

"Someone who likes to sing in zoos. Kaa-zoos, you get it?" - guxx
"A Kaacatoo" - lbmango
"Kaa was a Kaabra." - darksky23
"Kaa... ka doodle doo?" - mistyraven
"A dung beetle. Get it? KaaKaa. I got nothing" - lots42, alliesutherland
"'Kaa! Kaa!' But I can't see why there'd be a crow in the Jungle Book" - lord_of_evil

(A +1 would have gone out if any of you had said 'Chupakaabra'. Alas, instead you all are getting beaten by AL's Pun Hate Stick. Sorry 'bout that. -CV)

"Just click on this link already and wait about twenty seconds. If you can last that long." - oodles of you

"Kaa was the snake, right? I mean, I may only be familiar with the Disney version, but...Yeah. Wasn't he banging the tiger, too?" - deesarrachi

(I see you bought the unrated DVD version... -CV)

Correct Answer: Rock Python



3. According to James Taylor, what ends up "in pieces on the ground" along with sweet dreams?

"James Taylor? Is he that one guy with the bits?" - kittycatness

(...and which bits are you referring to, precisely? -CV)

"Hopefully his guitar so he'll stop whining." - doomgirl

"Well, if you freeze a python using dry ice or liquid nitrogen, it would shatter into lots of pieces if you dropped it on the floor." - calankh

"Your teeth, if the dreams are too sweet and you forget to brush afterwards." - ashteth

"His ego when Carly Simon got done with him." - badgerbabe

"Dave Stewart's career after the Eurythmics broke up" - mightygodking

(I don't think that's what James was singing about, but nonetheless you are correct. Full credit. -AL)

"Who am I to disagree?" - photosinensis

"My heart, after ljdq cheated on me with metaquotes. You jerk!" - wingsister

(... WTF? -C&CV&AL)

"Probably something very expensive that got thrown at your head as the bitch walked out with your heart, dignity, self respect, dog and wide screen TV. How are you ever going to be able to watch sport of choice on a TV that doesn't take up half your wall again?" - mercury32

"Flying machines? I think. I'm actually in shock that I know the song! Because I like the song, and I'd like to thank Sluggy Freelance for directing me to this song." - chloetude

(+1 for mentioning Sluggy Freelance, which once upon a time, was just about the funniest thing on the web. Unfortunately, it now sucks. Yeaaah, that's what we said - IT NOW SUCKS. -AL&CV)

"We sang that song in 8th grade choir. It's really quite sad, but also very pretty. But then, James Taylor is like that. His songs, that is. He is sad, but not very pretty." - jtersesk

"That would be 'Flying Machines', but that section of my memory, along with the sections that remember Dan Fogelburg lyrics is scheduled for gin induced deletion sometime in the near future." - ghostrider65

"Web cheaters. And flying circus machines. I want a unicycle with little helicopter rotor blades. Anything larger and you start sucking midgets into the engines." - sasscat

"Wasn't it on the Simpsons that JT serenaded astronauts with that song and hastily corrected the lyrics to 'flying machines landing safely on the ground?'" - unamundamour

"Well duh, you try flying through fire and rain and see what happens to your flying machine!" - deza

Correct Answer: Flying machines

"Karaoke Night on LJDQ would rock." - ginalin

(All right everyone, make a note: the Pub Crawl when we get 2,000 watchers will feature karaoke. Horrors! -AL)



4. The intersection of Regent Street and Shaftesbury Avenue in London is more commonly known as what?

"Oh my God! A question that ISN'T America-centric! LJDQ be praised!" - dracothelizard

"It's always London! We do have interesting things up here in the north, you know!" - pisica

(True. Sean Connery came from the north, right? And so did Connor Macleod and Scotty from Star Trek. And sheep. I guess the north has some good to offer. -CV)

"As a young lady from Englandland, I really ought to know this. And yet, somehow, I don't." - lizzyrose89

"I will never get over riding the tube and seeing on the sign, 'This train is for COCKFOSTERS.'" - mistyraven

(I am completely in agreement with you here. Full credit. -CV)

"It is so very tempting to say Salisbury Plains. But I'm getting the feeling those are, you know, plains. And not in the middle of London. So King's Cross, because it's an intersection, and ... has nothing to do at all with the theme." - nextian

(Congratulations on letting logic steer you away from a blatantly wrong answer and into an only mildly incorrect answer. -CV)

"That place where I got wasted on hard cider and got beat to crap by those guys in the bearskin helmets. Never, ever, ever talk shit about the queen." - zihuatanejo

"A great place to die... but only if today IS a good day to die. And if you're Klingon." - umbralcorax

"Diagon Alley" - pinkycroo

(You know, I was really expecting more of these, but you're the only one. -CV)

"Oooo that reminds me of the XTC song! Did you hear the dandelions roar after drinking that bottle of scotch last night? (is it considered webcheating if you had to look up how to spell dandelions?)" - the_wanlorn

"Hee, hee Shaftsbury. I'm pretty sure there's some sexual pun here, but I'm above that kind of thing." - vampirespider

(Allow me to introduce you to everyone else on ljdq, who all happen to not be above that kind of thing. -CV)

"What's the major London street That's in the middle of the theatre district and is really sweet??" - alliterator
"Shaftesbury Avenue!" - wingsister
"You're damn right" - deesarrachi
"He's a bad motheresbury!" - fizrep
"shut your mouth!" - renee12321
"Just talkin' about Shaftesbury" - tarpo
"Then we can dig it" - profsparky

"Wait, shaft? This is a penis quiz isn't it!!" - crystalcazzie

"If you're going to name a street, make it something like the place where my roomie's brother and sister-in-law used to live, on the corner of Hymen and Seaman." - kokopellinelli

"Why is it called a circus? I've never been, mind, but are there clowns or lion tamers or at least people in spandex leotards? I gotta know!!!" - peaseblossom03

"If there are clowns, I'm going to be scared. British clowns are particularly scary. Bad teeth terrify me." - ginalin

"Picadilly Circus. Picadilly? Piquadally? Ooooooooh gonna jump down, turn around, picadilly cotton...Gonnna jump down, turn around, picadilly hay...OOOOOOOOOOOOO LORDY! Picadilly cotton...OOOOOOOOOOOOOO LORDY! Picadilly hay!" - fantom07

(And this week's spiffington Award for Total Gibberish goes to... fantom07! -CV)

Correct Answer: Piccadilly Circus



5. What is your favorite Monty Python sketch or quote?

"I have to pick just one? YE GADS YOU PEOPLE ARE SO CRUEL!" - nakedblueninja, speaking for many of you
"Favorite Monty Python quotes are like potato chips and boyfriends: You can't have just one." - dark_goddess_

"I have to admit I've never watched a Monty Python sketch or know any quotes :/" - lynbug

(That's it, the wedding is OFF. Remember when I proposed to you earlier? That proposal is no more! It has ceased to be! It is an ex-proposal! -C)

"Oh, jeeze. Haven't watched that in AGES. (or more correctly, ever) I did see a sketch where they were pretending to be lumberjacks or something. It was quite amusing." - just_human36

"Monty Python doesn't really do it for me..." - marasca

(*boggle* You know, they told me about people like you -- people who have never seen Monty Python. They told me, and I didn't believe them. Wow. Now I'm really going to have to rethink that whole green-cheese-moon thing, aren't I? -C)

"Anything that ends with John Cleese nekkid and in bed with me. Ahh, futile dreams." - zanmistoffelees

"Whatever one has nekkid men and fruit-filled pastries--that would be the Full Monty Pie-thon Experience, right?" - deza

"I like the one that has somehow escaped the attention of the Scadians so I haven't had to hear it EIGHTEEN MILLION FRICKIN TIMES." - fizrep

"NO ONE EXPECTS THE LJDQ MODS!" - the_wanlorn

"The parrot. No, the lumberjack song. No, wait, I know this one--
Aaaaaaaargh! *goes flying through the air*" - sasscat

"Mmmmm. Spaaaaam... I'm gonna go order some from McDonalds now..." - ntlespino

(Reason #435 why I am a vegetarian: the mere concept of spam from McDonalds. -C)

"I get to share this icon I made, yay:

Help yourselves if you want." - peaseblossom03

(Thanks, I did! +1 for bribing the mods with LJ icons. -C)

"The one with the guys and the thing that happens that is completely absurd and ends abruptly with a short cartoon and then transitions into something completely different." - tarpo

"I would tell you, but I wouldn’t want to be held responsible for killing off the entire German portion of your LJDQ readers." - little_smaug

"My one and only favourite sketch is Dead Parrot. Dead Parrot and Argument Clinic. TWO! My TWO favourite sketches are... can I start again?" - chili_power

"I recently bought an English-Hungarian phrasebook, and it actually has a translation of 'My hovercraft is full of eels' into Hungarian, just for Monty Python fans. (If you're curious, it's A légpárnás hajóm tele van angolnával.)" - debvel

"I Photoshopped this for an 'opposites' pixel challenge once:
" - alejandradd

(-1 for failure to spellcheck your Photoshopping. -C)

" suppose right now it would be the one where Arthur says to Dennis, 'Old woman!' and Dennis complains that not only is he not a woman, that he, being only 37, is not old. 'Cause this year I'm 37 too, and I’m NOT OLD!!!!" - lovellama

(Final statistics show that, aside from the obvious multitude of different quotes from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", the favorite sketch was "The Spanish Inquisition", followed closely by "The Dead Parrot", and distantly followed by "The Lumberjack". -CV)

Correct Answer: "When they first came here this was all pudding & gin. Other lj users said they were daft to build a quiz on pudding & gin. But they built it all the same, just to show 'em. It sank into the pudding & gin. So they built a second one. That sank into the pudding & gin. So they built a third one. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the pudding & gin. But the fourth quiz stayed up. And that's the quiz we're going to get, quizlings, the strongest quiz in live journal!" - mistyraven



6. "There is no rule Question Six!" - debvel, rikchik. How right you are.

"Once again, LJDQ, you leave me clueless as to the actual theme of these questions, only hoping that I have proved my intellectual worth by answering at least some of them somewhat correctly." - jetsam_porridge

jetsam_porridge, the most amazing thing about this whole Quiz is that you got three of the first four questions right, AND provided us with a great MP quote, & yet you STILL didn't get the theme....



And that's the end of something completely different. In an ideal world (evolving and revolving at 900 mph) angledge would be a lumberjack, chlaal would run a cheese shop, and I would have run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. But that isn't the meaning of life as we know it. So here's the quiz, share and enjoy, tell your friends and neighbors, and don't run away, you outrageous sons (and daughters) of silly persons. We'll be back here again tomorrow.

Rock on,

AL&CV&C

Comments

[deltashade.livejournal.com]

As one who has been WTFPWNED by Duriel too many times before, allow me to pour the gin for your victory.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Cheers, skoal, prost, and all!

Man, I love that game. Still play it once in a while, too. When I can pry myself from City of Heroes/Villains, heh.