LJ Daily Answers: 6 March 2006

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To start, some broad cross-question statistics:
Number of Monty Python's "Swamp Castle" related answers- 47
Number of The Brady Bunch's "Marcia Marcia Marcia!" related answers- 39
Number of Shuvs and Zuuls roasted in the depths of a Slor- many

And onward!



1. What was the primary plan for the reconstruction of Europe following World War II?

"It's a big, pretty, white plan with curtains in the windows and wheels and it looks like a big Tylenol!" - unamundamour

(+1, Airplane. -CV)

"Let's make Europe look just as old as it did before plan." - buzz

"In Soviet Union, Europe reconstructs you!" - arib

"LEGOS! Lots and lots of LEGOS!" - larinzia, lynbug, wendynat

"Giving the French Jerry Lewis and Euro-Disney." - ginalin

"Ass, gas, or grass, nobody rides for free." - altoidsaddict

"Drinking until things didn't seem quite so bad any more." - crystalcazzie

(The British took this plan in particular to heart. -CV)

"The same as it was last week, Pinky. To take over the world!" - marilyth

"Extreme Makeover: Continental Edition." - seraphic_slayer
"Communist Eye for the Democratic Guy." - hellpaladin2183

"I don't know anything about reconstruction, is it like resurrection? Because , like, European Zombies sound wicked. BRAAAAAINS! and SNAIIILS! perhaps in a light BUERRE BLAAAAAAAAAAANC!" - das_kabinett

"Give Germany Lots Of Money And Give England Enough To Maybe Rebuild Manchester." - caits_cheverst

"The Marshall Mathers plan. Nothing unites a continent like a white man rapping. Because of this plan, the Eurpoeans were willing to go that extra Eight Mile. Experts thought the chances of its success to be Slim because the post war politicians were Shady. It was all Kim's fault. Where is Stan when you need him?" - vyseryn

"The Marshall Plan, which was not a martial plan, and involved no marshalls, but might have involved one Field Marshal, ever so slightly. No marshmallows were harmed in the making of this plan." - etumukutenyak

Correct Answer: The Marshall Plan

"Named after its creator, Marshall Plan." - cmzero

(...sorta. -CV)



2. What kind of wetland is dominated by grasses and low-growing herbaceous plants?

(Number of dom/sub comments: 15. -CV)

"Something we're soon going to turn into a highway, I'm sure." - buzz

(Fair enough. Full credit. -CV)

"Seattle" - kittikattie
"New Orleans" - dhud98

"Hey.... you've seen my backyard after it rains. Damn LJDQ has spies everywhere." - pheltzer

"Add pond scum like my ex-husband, and you've got New Jersey, my friend." - sweetpea86

"Dagobah" - _sphynx

(+1 for being the only Star Wars fan in this bunch, apparently. -AL&CV)

"Huge...tracts of land." - barbarienne

(This at least was a better Monty Python quote than all the others. Full credit. -CV)

"Do not follow the lights Mr. Frodo!!!" - varity

(+1, Return Of The King. -CV)

"That sounds like a bad come-on. 'Hey baby, how's about I dominate your wetlands tonight?' *sleazy grin and thumbs up*" - profsparky, unamundamour

"The kind of wetland that would fall in the first wave of the Great Robot Wars." - sambomatic

(You're not the boss of Tigerbot Heche, mister. -CV)

"Herbaceous plants? Is it sick that that makes me think of Herbie, the Love Bug?" - wendynat

(Considering it made everyone else think of marijuana, I think you're doing just fine. -CV)

"Woodstock, baby. All that mud and 'grass' and low grooving 'herbaceous' plants… like, wow, man." - lovellama

"I think I would have preferred to live in the Swamp on M*A*S*H rather than a real swamp. True, I would have been living with three male doctors (or two doctors and Frank Burns), but I'd take that over alligators." - ladyiapetus

"Well since I try to shave regularly, I hope that the grasses are well trimmed and the plants are nonexistent. Even though sometimes it is a beach type, though feels like a baby's butt. You should try it!" - marilyth

(And the ljdq Outstanding Metaphor Award this week goes to... marilyth! -CV)

"You know, it never occured to me that there were different kinds of wetlands. Do they differ by degree of wetness? Like, are there damplands and moistlands? Does the Brawny towel guy dream of cleaning up the wetlands? I bet if he teamed up with Arid deoderent they could accomplish a lot." - renee12321

"You know what would be just so unbelievably amazing? If marshes were actually made of marshmallows. None of this mosquitos-quicksand-swamp-alligator crap; I’m talking pools of liquid chocolate with marshmallow-type bunny creatures running around. You could get spears made of graham crackers, and then it’s like bitch, it’s hunting time." - fruitoftheloon

Correct Answer: Marsh



3. Gozer The Gozarian assumed which form during its short-lived attempt to destroy New York City?

"We've been going about this all wrong, this Mr. Stay Puft's okay, he's a sailor, he's in New York, we get this guy laid we won't have any trouble." - 21 of you, with about 31 others giving other quotes
"Gonzo the Great" - only 13 of you
"Fraggles." - 4 of you, and you all get a -1.
"*insert WTC joke here*" - 4 of you, and you're all going to hell. Not unlike the rest of us.

"'Gozer the Gozarian'. That is SO begging to be made into a nom de porn." - jessicamariek

"A Bullgozer. Those construction workers are deadly beings." - thomas_small

"Did you know that Gozer is Hebrew for 'surgeon who performs circumcisions'?" - alliterator

(Well, he did only trash the tip of New York... -CV)

"Rudolph Giulliani." - pyllgrum, sufi87, lots42, kestrel127
"Ed Koch. 'It's me, Eddie! I'm just lookin' for a nosh!'" - altoidsaddict

(There should have been more Bloomberg hate. -CV)

"I think he actually showed up looking like Annie Lennox." - lyme

"Dinozord" - _sphynx

(-1, anything remotely resembling the Mighty Morphing Power Rangers. -CV)

"Sad that Murray tumbled from Ghostbusters all the way down to Garfield." - motown_deserter

"Nananananananananananananananana GHOST BUSTERS. For some reason, this past week, whenever I try to sing the Ghostbusters theme song I start out with the Batman theme song and it's just bad all around." - the_wanlorn

"The Sta-Puft marshmallow man. Which is actually presaged in the movie--Dana has a bag of SP marshmallows on the counter when the eggs begin to cook in their shells." - barbarienne

(You are correct. +1, Observant. -CV)

"Ghostbusters has ruined my life. I look like the Sta-Puft Marshmallow Man which means I can never ever wear a sailor's hat. Ever. And my actual first name is 'Dana' which leads everyone to ask me how often I get replaced by Zuul." - seraphic_slayer

"Why do you think they made him look like the Michelin man? I mean I didn't even think that it looked like a marshmallow. Just some demented form of the "man" with a dutchboy hat. I mean WTF?" - marilyth

(And finally, an ode:)

"'Beware the StayPuft Man, my son!
The gelatin, the goo that stings!
Beware the crazy bitch, and shun
That creepy infant thing!'

They took their proton guns in hand:
Long time the squishy foe they sought--
So rested they by the penthouse place,
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought they stood,
The StayPuft Man, with eyes of squish,
Came bounding through the steely 'hood,
And burbled as it came!

One two! One two! And through and through
The proton guns went WHOOOOOR!
They left it jello, and with its marsh of mellow
They made delicious smores.

'And hast thou slain the StayPuft Man?
Come to my arms, my sticky boys!
O gooey day! Callooh! Callay!'
They chortled in their joy." - spatialrift47

(+5, Lewis Caroll homage. -AL&CV)

Correct Answer: The Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man

"Ooo! Now I want s'mores." - cats_haven, cmzero



4. Who was the first African-American to become a justice of the United States Supreme Court?

"There's justice in the US Supreme Court? That would be nice, for a change. Dang, am I cynical this morning." - cjtremlett

"For the record I don't acknowledge any court's authority." - sambomatic

(..... duly noted. -AL&CV)

"Weren't all of the Supremes African American? I mean they were Motown, for chrissakes." - sskipstress

"DOLEMITE!" - seraphic_slayer

(+1, mad pimpin'. -CV)

"Mr. T." - csi_tokyo3, jessicamariek
"...But he was asked to leave due to his pity for fools." - tarpo

"ljdq doesn't care about black people." - bigredcandle

(Correction: ljdq doesn't care about any people. -CV)

(Don't listen to him. We love you all, regardless of age, race, gender, religion, ethnicity, nation of residence, nation of origin, sexual orientation, height, weight, shoe size, or taste in music. Unless you're from Pod Six. -AL)

"Law Cosby. (After he got, y'know, signed by the President.)" - alfvaen

"Huggy Bear. Though his term was short-lived due to having to get back to the bitches, he did write the opinion in Sexxxalicious v. ICC, in which the rights of American citizens to transport pimp canes across state lines was held sacrosanct." - altoidsaddict

"Strongbad Marshall." - sufi87

"Thurgood was the pride of his six siblings, Sungood, Mongood, Tuesgood, Wedgood, Frigood, and Satgood." - dhud98

"Thurgood Marshall Faulk, noted jurist and running back." - hardly_angelic

"George Thorogood Marshall, the best damn guitar-player the Supreme Court ever had." - david_deacon

"Every self respecting ex-first grade teacher knows that Thurgood Marshall was the first African American Supreme Court Justice. This was in print so much that most students probably thought that being African American was part of his title." - csflick

Correct Answer: Thurgood Marshall

"He argued & won Brown v. Board of Education. He would make an awfully good superhero. " - judith_s



5. Roddy McDowall and Rock Hudson starred in the television adaptation of which Ray Bradbury novel?

"I could really go for a Bradbury Creme egg right about now...." - sambomatic

"Reply hazy, ask again later." - arib

"Hehehe, you said Rod & Rock in the same sentence. Hehehehe... Is that like being stuck between a Rod and a hard place? Or would that be Rock and a hard place. I think they're redundant." - marilyth

"I'm imagining Roddy McDowell covered in tattoos as the Illustrated Man and I can't stop laughing." - sskipstress

"Dial 'M' for Marshes." - vyseryn

"I didn't know they allowed gays in the space program." - ginalin

(Are you kidding? If President Bush had his way, he's send ALL the gays into space. -AL)

"I have no freakin' clue, but KATE Hudson (no relation to gaytotallygayLiberacegay Rock Hudson) is nuclear in heat index." -

"The Movie in Which We Look for Better First Names." - hellpaladin2183

"Something FABULOUS This Way Comes!" - gruyere

"Marsh Attacks!" - cmzero

(Some LJDQ Fun Trivia About Roddy McDowall:)
"Roddy McDowall was the voice of the Mad Hatter on Batman: The Animated Series." - profsparky
"Roddy McDowell played the voice of 'Snowball' in 'Pinky & The Brain'. *nod*" - grey_wolf4

"Bridget Jones' Martian Diary. It was an exciting romp about the colonization of Mars by a woman looking for a man." - the_zaniak

"The Martian Chronicles was my cosmic indicator that my husband was The One. It was one of the few books we owned in common, and I loved it when I was a kid. So one day I was rereading a story, and a minor character had his full name. I knew someday I'd marry him because of that. It goes without saying that we met on the Internet, I think." - altoidsaddict

(+1, geeky love story. -AL)

"AckACKackack ACKACKACKackAck!" - wiredwizard

(-1, foreign gibberish. -AL)

"The Martian Chronicles: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Red Ball in the Sky." - umbralcorax

(spatialrift47? -50. You know why. -AL)

Correct Answer: The Martian Chronicles



6. Which would you rather live in: a wetland, a swamp, a marsh, a bayou, or Pod Six? Explain.

"What am I, a fish? We left the water for a reason!" - gwenhyffar

"How about a bog? Free cranberries!" - fyreflyblue

"A bog, because then my body would be preserved. FOREVER. Probably." - undeadgoat

"marshes are pretty and they're calm and quiet and you get lots of dragonflies. I love dragonflies." - cjtremlett

"A marsh. Then I could kick the dwarf out and be Marsh Witch. Or if it's a swamp, I'll kick him out of there and be Swamp Witch. Dwarf kicking + Led Zeppelin mushrooms = yes!" - rose_acacia

(And the spiffington Award For Total Gibberish this week goes to... rose_acacia! -CV)

"There used to be a restaurant here in town that was really popular but then the owner died and now it's closed for an indefinite period of time. The locals knew that if they asked for swampwater, they would get a glass of rootbeer, pepsi, sprite, and whatever other kinds of pop they had around. My dad used to tell me that if I drank my swampwater fast enough, I'd be able to catch the alligator in the bottom. So I guzzled the stuff, everytime. And dad said I hadn't been quick enough, so that's why the gator got away. So I would have another one. And another one. And another one. I probably peed a lot as a child." - kokopellinelli

"I'm going back someday, come what may, to Blue Bayou." - rikchik

"I'd love to live bayou, if only to kick your butt in Settlers of Catan." - richcsigs

(ANNOUNCEMENT: I will own anyone who cares to challenge me to a game of Settlers. -AL)

(ANNOUNCEMENT: I live close enough to you to own you in a game of Settlers. Any time, man. -CV)

"Bayou... There are more good songs about bayous. And nothing rhymes with swamp." - pyllgrum

(Chomp, stomp, and romp. Especially if you come from Lawn Guyland. -CV)

"A swamp... but only if it's a fire swamp and The Dread Pirate Wesley is on his way to save me. Yum!" - marasca

"Does the swamp come with it's own Thing, or do I have to provide my own?" - calankh

"A bayou! And I would set out a Gambit trap! And trap him! And kill him!" - the_wanlorn

(+1, Gambit hate. -CV)

"A bayou seems the most appealing, just so I can sic the crocs on any door-to-door people. Except for Girl Scouts. They may enter my property freely with their cookie goodness." - princessstarr

(Now THAT'S a double entendre if I ever heard one. -CV)

"the last one is both a band who sing about girls who will be loved, and a tom clancy game. I would imagine that being in a band where you get to play with guns would be fun." - conglacio

(You might be thinking of Rainbow Six... -CV)

"Let's all take a moment to remember those great poineers of BioDome 2. They had every kind of biosphere available to them, but they didn't have enough air. No problem--open a window." - mammasboy

"We all live in a yellow Pod six, yellow Pod six, yellow Pod six." - judith_s

(Not quite, but you get jazz hands for mentioning the Beatles. -CV)

"Pod Six, cuz it sounds modern. And less mosquito filled." - kittiekorn

"SCREW THOSE JERKS IN POD SIX." - lyme

"iPod Six" - lynbug

"Is Pod Six dryer than the others? 'Cuz my skin really, REALLY wrinkles when it gets wet. I look like a 300-pound Shar Pei." - drbear

"I want to live in a camel named Chucky. Or a Taun-Taun, whichever is most readily available." - silent_r_infork

"I'd rather live in a jungle. It makes it easier to recruit the monkey butlers." - jonem

(Monkey Butlers: ALWAYS funny. -AL&CV)



And thus do we start off the month of March with a quiz of marsh. Neat trick, eh? Yeah, we thought so too. Let the winter chill fade now and lead us into those April showers we've heard so much about. Or aboot, if we were in Canada. Which we aren't.

In other news, I ate a helluva lot of rice pudding this weekend. Mmmmm, pudding. Unsurprisingly, it was followed by a lot of gin. Mmmmm, gin. angledge probably countered that by eating a vegetable or something healthy. I think I did better. Mmmmmm, pudding and gin.

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Rock on,

AL&CV