LJ Daily Answers: 24 September 2004

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"Acronymically Delicious!" - doomgirl

(doomgirl has astutely identified the theme of this week's quiz - acronyms of all kinds. We figured this quiz had a little of something for everyone. But enough jabber, let's see how you did ... -AL)

(Aaaaaaaand a big -1 for everyone who used the abbreviation "WTF" for any of their answers. You're all fired. -CV)

1. What acronym, representing the Latin phrase "because it was shown", generally concludes a mathematical proof?

"That would have to be "WTF", pronounced in a series of grunts, because I myself, (and I'm sure dozens of others,) have ended countless math problems with it." - lonesomelullaby

(What did I just say above? -CV)

"I don't know. BIWS? This question depresses me, because I had this acronym drilled into my head just last year. Obviously, the drill hit the wrong part of my brain, presumably the hippocampus, and now I can no longer store long term information as memories. Man, that sucks." - goat003

(I suggest you stay away from drill-wielding teachers in the future. -AL)

(I think the hippocampus is a weird place to store memories. Just saying. -CV)

"'because-us mi sayus so-us' (Clearly this is probably funnier when I say it out loud! Or not. Sigh.)" - hollyinpa

(-1, talking like Jar-Jar Binks. -AL)

"q.m.m.m.m.s.m.m.m.p.m. (Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari)" - impulsezip

(I bet he thinks we won't figure out that this means "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?" Oh, faithless ones, your doubting will not go unremembered. -CV)

"Quandaries Entrance Dorks." - daunzerly

"I.N.R.I. (I'm Nailed Right In)" - krick

(If this had been Good Friday, you'd have received double credit. -CV)

"Quad Extreme Damage." - fizrep

"Quickliarus Eatimi Dickarus - Because after every proof, what a scientist or mathematician really wants is a blowjob." - sskipstress

"Quit Effing Dogs (you pervert)" - dancingsaracen

"Q.E.D. Pronouced "Quid". Literal meaning - "pay up 'cos I'm smart"." - m31andy

"Quizus est done-us." - gruyere

"Demonstrated Understanding Here" - afterwards

"BOFFIN, Otherwise known as the “I'm smarter than you, you'll never beat that”, acronym." - spiffington

(Dare I ask if you've ever had the chance to use this one? -CV)

"QED. Which some real f**king tools in the math department used to explain meant, 'Quite easily done,' usually after completing a problem involving partial differential equations in seven variables. I, on the other hand, prefer to end my proofs with, 'Suck on that.'" - b7cy

(b7cy is probably one of the few genuine mathematicians playing the LJDQ. He's real smart. If he says the correct way to end proofs is to say, "Suck on that", I for one believe him. Full credit. -AL)

Correct Answer: QED - Quod Erat Demonstrandum

"A term when used in conversation that instantly identifies the speaker as a Nerd beyond redemption with a First Class honours in Smug Superiority." - seolta

"C.D.F - my progressively worsening grades in 9th grade geometry." - perkyczarlet
"Math and me don't get along. So I guessed the short and right answer is "Fuck You."" - xgreenjudasx
"Like Barbie said, Math is hard!" - marasca
"IDKMF!" - ghostwriterxx

(Math does not appear to be our quizlings' strong point. -CV)


2. The time: 1969-1972. The players: USA and USSR. The objective: Nuclear arms reduction. What were the discussions?

"The "IYDKIOTUWBYAOOTW" Talks. (Read: "If You Don't Knock It Off The USA Will Blow Your Ass Out Of The Water".)" - lonesomelullaby

"Wouldn't you rather play a game of chess?" - thereject

(+1, Wargames. -CV)

"I've no idea, but it puts me in mind of Kruschev beating his shoe against a podium and yelling, "We will bury you." It's an effective device for emphasizing one's dominance at a meeting. I use it all the time at work." - b7cy

(Fun stuff like that never happens at the United Nations anymore. I missed all the cool shit. -CV)

"The "You're hockey team (USA), beat our hockey team (USSR) so we need all the extra arms we can get so we can win next year!" discussion" - mshenzi

"Strategic Transfer And Reduction of Weapons And Russian Sluts" - afterwards

(The best trade treaty this country ever signed. Ever. -CV)

"Russia 'Your women are too independent'
USA 'Your women are too...Russian!'" - doomgirl

"I'll take Things That Wilt Slugs Quite Effectively for 500, Alex." - daunzerly

"Who's idea was it to play battleships using the Navy?" - mercury32

(Everything's funnier in 1:1 scale. -CV)

"Cake or Death and by the way do you have a flag?" - spiffington

(+1, Eddie Izzard. -CV)

"Do we really want to blow up the world? Or how can be make money out of MAD? Maybe everyone shoud take this whole thing with a pinch of SALT." - verdandiweaves

"'Frenzy is red! Rumble is blue!' 'No, dammit, Frenzy is blue and Rumble is red!'" - gruyere

(Red vs. Blue, if I'm not mistaken... -CV)

"US 'You go first'
USSR 'Nyet you go first'
US 'No you'
USSR 'Nyet, you!'
US 'Alrighty, together then ... on three'
USSR 'Hey Comrade, you did not go!'
US 'Well, neither did you!'" - seolta

"Which is better...Budweiser or Stoli...important stuff" - ghostwriterxx

(Probably involved lots of taste-testing. -AL)

"Whether to reduce the arms from the bottom (chopping off fingers and hands) or the top (removing shoulders, biceps, etc.)" - sasscat

(This disarmament thing we are talking about... I do not think it means what you think it means. -CV)

Correct Answer: SALT - Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

"Oh fuck. Math is hard, history is hard, it's all hard!" - marasca

(It's for people like you that universities created the Art History major. -AL)


3. Andy and The Big Guy have a radio station! What is it, and where is it?

"In their shed?" - verdandiweaves

"Wayne’s World, Wayne’s World! Party Time! Excellent!!!" - seolta

(Mixing Bill and Ted with Wayne and Garth is a crime against all comedydom. -CV)

"My pants!" - xgreenjudasx

"Ohio sucks." - fizrep

"In a shoe with an old woman?" - spiffington

(Yes, and their call letters are KLOG. -AL)

"It's a liberal shock-jock bible punk golden oldies station, located in Ukraine." - goat003

(Chernobyl did cause all kinds of wild mutations in Ukraine. Maybe the radio station you described would be possible there. -AL)

"KRPY Ques,TN" - afterwards

(Oooooooh! Look at the 'tude on her! -1. -AL)

"KKBL IS GONNA GIVE ME SOMETHING STUPID!!!" - mercury32

(+1, The Simpsons. -CV)

"Oh you people are so dirty! DIRTY" - deinemuse

(Thanks! -AL)

"It is actually two radio stations, Andy in the US and the Big Guy in the USSR. They are currently threatening each other with nuclear weapons." - thereject

"Andy and The Big Guy? What, did they run out of names when this guy was born? Nonetheless, I bet you would never find this radio station in Africa. Unless they were talking about the president." - mshenzi

(Your term of service in the Peace Corps has yielded a surprising crop of knowledge. -CV)

"So, is that what Andy is calling it now?!?! His "Big Guy" - Nice. As for where it is...hmmm..."south of the border"" - hollyinpa

"I'm sorry, that sounds far too much like a gay-porn call-in show. "And now The Big Guy will demonstrate how to properly auto-fellate!"" - drewbeartx

Correct Answer: WKRP in Cincinnati

"I once read an interview with Howard Hesseman in which he said he couldn't remember filming whole seasons of the show because he was so drunk. Now that's a performer, damn it." - b7cy


4. Special attention should be paid to text marked with which abbreviation (that has no relation to Niobium whatsoever)?

"NB - hmm, sensing people with essays on their minds." - verdandiweaves

(Actually, CV wrote the questions this week & he wasn't writing any essays. I was writing my dissertation, but I didn't know what NB stood for. -AL)

"Is this considered punctuation? Oh, wait, now I read it again. It says 'abbreviation' not that little quotation mark thingie." - mshenzi

(mshenzi's a good person, but don't ever let her proofread your papers for you. -CV)

"NB (nota bene; I'm not a Benny either)" - sasscat

"Niobium... Nubium... Nubian... Nubile... Mmmmm!" - marasca

(This tour of marasca's thought patterns has been brought to you by today's letters, T and A. -AL)

"R.T.F.W - Read the f**king words." - m31andy

"Latin is a very useful language. Just look at all the weird acronyms, medical terms and legal mumbo jumbo it gives us." - mylildementor

(I'll be sure to thank the next Roman I meet for providing us all with such a useful cultural inheritance. -AL)

(SPQR all the way, baby. -CV)

"The blood of a sacrificial lamb?" - hollyinpa
"Special attention should always be paid to texts that are interrupted mid-sentence by a blood spatter." - daunzerly

(That did certainly catch my attention. -AL)

"V.A.G.I.N.A." - thereject

(So did that. -AL)

"Y.O.!. (Ni-yo!-bium)" - afterwards
"Was that a periodic table joke??" - fizrep
"what on earth is Niobium??" - seolta

(Ah, chemistry. Second only to mathematics as the bane of arts students everywhere. -CV)

"fyi" - thinksheknowsya

(And for your information, I never read anything marked FYI. It's usually SEP. -CV)

"Well, in government work special attention should be paid to text that has been blacked out. Sucker punch the civilians." - xgreenjudasx

"HAZMAT - sounded good." - deinemuse

(I'd say that's fairly good advice, really. -AL)

Correct Answer: N.B. - Nota Bene

"which is short for, 'Now, bitch!'" - lonesomelullaby



5. For you hard-core computer geeks: The semiconductor, commonly used in computer chips, which combines positive and negative polarity circuits to save power is called what?

"Who cares - it's all technomagic to me." - verdandiweaves

(I don't know yet whether to give you +1 or -1 for citing Babylon 5: Crusade. -CV)

"The 'Power Off Button'." lonesomelullaby

"I have no idea what the hell you're talking about on this question. You must have been really drunk." - krick

(As always! -AL)

"They can fit semiconductors in computer chips now?" - mshenzi

(All the geeks in the audience are laughing so hard they've had to take off their taped-up glasses to wipe the tears out of their eyes. -AL)

"BiCMOS, which can double the chances of getting a date for Saturday night.' - drewbeartx

(Remember, kids, double of zero is still zero. -CV)

"*blinks*" - mercury32

(We got a lot of responses like this. -AL)

"The knee bone." - goat003
"Lou." - gruyere
"I say magnet." - thinksheknowsya

"Generally Engineered Electromagnetic Keynsian Semiconductor And Regulator for Electrical Heat Option Transfer" - afterwards

(Yes, sometimes they are. -AL)

"I don't know this one. Guess I'm a soft-core computer geek. Nudity, moaning, and soft lighting, but lacking in the essentials." - sskipstress

(sskipstress, are you going to be at my homecoming party this weekend? Please? -AL)

"That is a transistor, named such because the chief architect of the integrated circuit, Trans Hollman, was at a loss as to reducing the high temperatures generated but an unresitrcted circuit, and Elba Hollman (his little sis) postulated that it would be possible to combine multiple forms of energy into one stream of polarized electrons at a reduced total mass. The patent for the device was named after Trans' sister, which was subsequently reduced to transistor." - thereject

(Not right, but nice effort. -CV)

"All I know is Angelina Jolie is my 'semiconducter' - Yummy. Hard Core." - hollyinpa

(I don't quite understand this answer, but it mentions Angelina. +1. -AL)

"It's not the same stuff that's in Pamela Anderson's tits, is it?" - daunzerly
"Silicon (SI) - They use this in big boobies too!" - deinemuse

(Quick lesson for everyone. Silicon = Valley. Silicone = Tittie. Neither = Correct. Any questions? -CV)

"How sick is this? I know the answer because I edited a 900-PAGE MONSTER of a textbook on, you guessed it, CMOS. Look for it from Oxford University Press, written by Allen and Holberg. I have no idea if it's any good or not, but the authors did thank me in the preface." - b7cy

(I feel so sorry for you right now. -AL)

(I would too, but this bottle of scotch just reminded me that I feel no pity. -CV)

"The toyota prius." - perkyczarlet

Correct Answer: CMOS - Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor

(-1 Geek Of The Week points for EVERYBODY who got this right. And by "everybody" I mean cmlc, mylildementor, b7cy, and drewbeartx. -CV)


6. Back in my day, trick-or-treaters also gathered money to help starving children, or some such nonsense, for which international organization?

"Fuck if I know, I just wait in the bushes with a hose for the little bastards to come by." - thereject

(This is absolutely the correct answer. -CV)

"U.N.I.C.E.F. (A wild guess; in Scotland we had guisers, not trick-or-treaters, and they sang a song, recited a poem, did a dance, something like that, in order to get their apples, nuts, money and/or sweets. They didn't go round terrifying the neighbourhood with criminal blackmail threats. Or collecting for charity, come to that. So I suppose we're morally even on that score.)" - cmlc

"It was either the 'March of Dimes' or the 'I'm starving and I have a baseball bat so give me all your money.' fund." - mshenzi

(Or, it was something else. -AL)

"Underage Novices In Convents Excel at Fellatio - a message from the equal opportunity office of the catholic church" - sskipstress

(Mmmmmm... nun porn. -CV)

"Nowadays I'm assuming they keep the money for themselves." - verdandiweaves

(How could you say such a thing?!? -AL)

(Well, I don't know what they do nowadays, but thenadays, I kept the money for myself. -CV)

"I collected money for Jerry's Kids once. Then I forgot to turn in the milk box. So my mom and I took the money and went out to eat. I'm going to hell, aren't I?" - doomgirl

(Yes. And guess who's going to be your cellmate? -AL)

"I always kept the money we collected....kept me fed, right?" - hollyinpa

"WWF (the one with the wrestlers, not the pandas)" - sasscat

"SHOG. Stands for SamHain's Organization for the Gifted: Gift for me Fist for you." - dancingsaracen

"You know we were never allowed to trick or treat. Mum really didn't approve. She thought it was just a disguised form of begging.
'Please Sir, can I have some more sweeties? It's only just turned Eight and I'm suffering from sugar withdrawal....'
I think it's more likely that she knew if she found the bags o' goodies once we'd gone to bed, there would be terrible carnage in the morning and a drooling heap of sugared mum-ness on the kitchen floor...." - spiffington

(So you've NEVER gone trick-or-treating?! That's terrible! -AL)

(Excuse me. Do you REALLY want spiffington trick-or-treating? Think about this a moment. -CV)

"The Fund for Children who have suffered Grevious Bodily Harm from Tricks Gone Wrong. Much less popular was the Let's Introduce Halloween to a Poor Little Girl in Australia." - mercury32

(There's a story here. A good one, too. And I want it now. -CV)

"UNICEF. Like the Ronald McDonald Foundation, except supposedly 'helpful' instead of 'fattening our nation's youth.'" - goat003

(There go our chances of getting McDonald's as an LJDQ Corporate Sponsor. -AL)

"UNICRON" - gruyere

(+1, Transformers: The Movie. -CV)

"*Ding Dong*
"Who is it?"
::muffled voice:: "Unicef"
"No you're not! You're that land shark!" - xgreenjudasx

Correct Answer: UNICEF - United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund

"not to be confused with UNICHEF - the cook with only one recipe." - m31andy



7. Oops! Your buddy's fly is undone. How do you subtly tell them to zip up? (Of course there are lots of right answers, but only one that fits in the spirit of the quiz...)

"I don't; I generally sit and perv. What?" - sasscat

"I thought shouting, 'Your fly is undone!!!' At the top of your lungs whilst pointing at their crotch and giggling was the best way... I always wondered why I had few friends..." - spiffington

"There's an acronym for this? Huh. Well, personally, I'd go with, 'Dude, who told you to deploy the pink warhead?'" - b7cy

"XYZ PDQ (Or as we say now days, "xyz.pdf")" - impulsezip

"Is that an oddly shaped vegetable in your pocket?" - verdandiweaves

"Being the classy dame I am, I'd just reach down and tap his junk. thereject has recently seen this move." - xgreenjudasx

(No wonder he's considering moving to DC. -AL)

"You make them stand up in the front of the room and act out an elephant in charades, or any other action that will make them jump around (fizrep can help with that). Be sure to have lizature around to call out "Is that your....?" - ghostwriterxx

"Your barn door is open and the cows are escaping" - goat003

"I'm not subtle - "Oy, buddy I can see your c*ck!"" - m31andy

"My elementary school gym teacher was obsessed with telling us this. It was like he kept an eagle eye on our little pre-pubescent crotches..." - fizrep

"Kick him in the crotch. He'll grab himself and realize that he's open. A laser pointer is also acceptable." - gruyere

(I don't think I want to be your friend. -AL)

"Xcuse me, Yummy Zipper-ripper. Are you offering a taste-test?" - drewbeartx

Correct Answer: XYZ - EXamine Your Zipper

(Well, as correct as any question of this nature can be answered... -CV)

"Or in my family, 'XYZ, dumbass.'" - lonesomelullaby

"xyz... XYZ... XY YOUR FUCKING Z!!!!" - dancingsaracen


8. What lane of the highway, usually marked off by a diamond, is designed to, theoretically, encourage carpooling and mass transit and reduce emissions?

"One in the US on the wrong side of the road." - verdandiweaves

(You're right, this was a US-specific question. I wouldn't have the faintest idea how to phrase a question about road markings in the UK - I found them completely confusing. You should all be glad I didn't drive at all over in Scotland this year. -AL)

"To drive on the right may be quite continental,
But diamonds are a girl's best friend..." - spiffington

"No idea. But I'm intrigued by the idea of tarmacing a piece of countryside to 'reduce emissions'." - m31andy

(It's a truly American approach to halting global climate change. Pave the planet! One earth - one people - one slab of asphalt. -AL)

"It was meant to reduce emissions? I thought it was population control. Any accident in this lane is bound to take out more then one human." - ghostwriterxx

"That would be "The Doomgirl Lane". The lane in which people swerve to GET THE HELL OUT OF MY WAY." - doomgirl

(I think I've found my new chauffeur. -AL)

"The left lane, and I can tell you that a blow up doll does not fulfill the passenger requirements. I tried it. It was a purely plutonic relationship, I can assure you." - thereject

(I tried it with a duffel bag. It worked fine. Maybe if you don't have sex with it, it works better. -CV)

"The Engagement Lane. It then veers switfly into the Marriage Exit which leads to Traumatic Multi-year Divorce with Bitter Custody Battle Ville. Great town." - daunzerly

"Hedonistic Or Voluptuous - proving that the DOT likes 'em easy or at least stacked" - sskipstress

(And if the DOT doesn't, I do. -CV)

"H.O.V. However diamonds aren't a legal road marking, according to the relevant section of the Highway Code. The closest is an inverted triangle, which indicates that a Give Way sign is almost upon you. So now you know." - cmlc

(Whaddya think, CV? Blatant web cheating here? -AL)

(Almost, except he looked up the wrong country. Over here, diamonds mean Drive Fast And Mock Others. You are sentenced to one semester in a Romanian kindergarten and forced to do everything with your off hand. -CV)

"HOV lanes. Also known as the 'omg I'm trapped in a car with several people I don't like' lanes, and 'will somebody please shut that kid in the back up right now or heads will roll I swear to God and all that is holy' lanes." - mylildementor

(The OITIACWSPIDL & WSPSTKITBURNOHWRISTGAATIH lanes, respectively. -AL)

"On CNN a while back, there was a story about a woman who got busted for traveling in a car alone in the HOV lane. She claimed that she should not get a ticket because her unborn fetus was the second passenger. And she didn't stop with just trying to weasel out of it by arguing with the cop, either. She was contesting it in court. God Bless America!" - b7cy

"I can't think of anything funny for this one because I despise the jerks who zip by me on that lane while I'm sitting in traffic. Alone. Waiting for someone to inch their damn car up four inches." - lonesomelullaby

(We find your angst funny. -AL)

(We are also those jerks. -CV)

"HOV, for multi-person hovercraft only. That's why the damn thing's always empty..." - drewbeartx

"Before I realized what this stood for I liked driving my hovercraft down that lane and blowing the little cars off the road. It was great fun. But then I found out what HOV means. Now I make sure to take a few friends along." - dancingsaracen

Correct Answer: The HOV Lane - High Occupancy Vehicle

"Somehow, in Maryland, they make this lane actually work. I've been able to drive up it during rush hour with a passenger, cruising past all of the losers soloing the commute. I should have egged their cars." - fizrep

(It worked in New Jersey too, but too many commuters got jealous of the guys whizzing past them in the fast lane, so they complained, and repealed it. Proof once again that misery loves company, especially in Jersey. -CV)


9. What body created the standard for compressing photographic images, widely used for digital images on the Internet?

"Wait a second, I think I finally figured out this weeks theme." - mshenzi

(No time like the present. Or like question nine of a ten-question quiz. -CV)

"A very attractive one? Is that why so many models reduce themselves to one name only? They are all walking acronyms and we didn't know? KATE- Knew All The Editors? NAOMI- Never Ate Overly Much Inbetweenmeals?" - spiffington

"IEEE (...if I get this right, it will only prove that I pick up useless information from my job)" - greenabsinthe

(The only thing you got right was "i before e except after c". -CV)

"Which standard would that be? Are we talking jpb, gif, or png? Lossless compression or artifacts? An African or a European swallow? These are the things we need to know!" - thereject

"Somehow, this question has nothing to do with pornography." - perkyczarlet

(Not according to your fellow Quizlings. -AL)

"P.O.R.N." - krick
"PORN? I just read "body....photographic....Internet" and skipped the rest." - b7cy
"The pornographic industry?" - mshenzi
"GIF? The creamier, peanut-buttier porn pics?" - drewbeartx
"Judicious Porn Eternally Good" - afterwards

"It was Anna Nicole's body before Trim Spa." - doomgirl
"Alyssa Milano" - hollyinpa
"Brook Shields. So many people wanted pictures of her that they had to learn compression." - dancingsaracen
"Paris Hilton's body." - daunzerly

"Al Gore's body" - ghostwriterxx

(We are recoiling from the screen in horror. -CV&AL)

"I bet the body was kind of pale with too much back hair." - marasca

"Joint Picture Experts Group (as opposed to the Joint Experts Group who were too high to contribute much of anything)" - impulsezip

(So close... I guess you were with the latter group for a bit too long. -CV)

"Joint Photographic Experts Group - this is the kind of computer geekery that soft-core geeks know, though I have no idea why they were taking pictures of marijuana cigarettes" - sskipstress

Correct Answer: JPEG - Joint Photographic Experts Group



10. What acronym would you use to best describe you?

"Acronym? Acronym? You need big words to describe my awesomeness." - verdandiweaves

(Well, since you're against acronyms, you get an anagram. verdandiweaves = Eve Drives A Wand. -CV)

"T.P.B.L.C. (the pedantic but lovely cmlc)" - cmlc

"I(WMIDATT)APOI. (Read: Irish (Which Means I'm Drunk All The Time) And Proud Of It.)" - lonesomelullaby

(Slainte! - AL)

"I'm gonna go triple-H here. You can fill it in for yourself." - perkyczarlet

(That's a dare as well. Here goes: Horny Homicidal Hippie. Oh, how about Herbivorous Hunchbacked Hoochie? No, wait... Hippity Hoppity Hop. Or Ham-Handed Handjobs? Mmmm... ham. -CV)

"CSI: Crazed, Schizotypal, Interesting." - sasscat

(Just the sort of Quizling we've been looking for. -AL)

"Person Inebriated and Not In Space, or P.E.N.I.S." - thereject

(Let me guess: You were inebriated when this was typed. -CV)

"DCB - Damn crazy bitch" - deinemuse

(Would I get in trouble if I said "Absolutely"? ... Ah, fuck it. I did. -CV)

"SBD. (No. It doesn't stand for that) Silent Buddy Dragon" - dancingsaracen

"I.D.I.O.T" - m31andy

"TANSTAAFL - There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch" - krick

(Thank you, Larry Niven. -CV)

"OMGWTFBBQ" - greenabsinthe
"wtf is a pretty good one :)" - thinksheknowsya
"WTFLOLBBQ" - goat003
"OMGWTF" - mercury32
"OMGWTFBBQSARS" - fizrep

(I suppose that, having made a quiz based on acronyms, this set of answers was inevitable. -CV)

"Destructive Omnipotent Orgasmic Maelstrom" - doomgirl

"Pretty Ambitious Weird Slu -- uh, Student." - afterwards

"b7cy, of course. 'Before 7, Cranky and Yawning.' Or maybe, 'Beating 7 Children? Yes!'" - b7cy

(I had wondered about that LJ user name. Now I know! -AL)

"LAIR Lascivious And Incorrigible Read-head" - seolta

(My favorite flavor! -CV)

Question Brought To You By: ANG (Aberrant Nose Grabber) and HANS (Has Absolutely No Sanity).


And there you have it. Thanks for playing this extra-special deluxe-edition director's cut of the LJDQ, digitally remastered and enhanced for your viewing pleasure. Tune in next week when we return to our regular-sized quiz and our much less overworked and overstressed moderators. And remember: eat your veggies, hug your puppies, and hump like bunnies. Oh, and pimp the quiz. See you real soon!

AL&CV

Comments

[seolta.livejournal.com]

Mixing Bill and Ted with Wayne and Garth is a crime against all comedydom. -CV
Was i mixing?! i think not... and what exactly is a Comedy 'Dom'... i have visions of Mistress X in high heels, whips and pvc slipping on a banana skin or something....

[thepikey.livejournal.com]

Whips, pvc, and clown shoes.

[minkhollow]

If memory serves, it's only mixing them if you throw in an air guitar after the 'execllent!'

[thereject.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, I was pretty drunk when I filled out the quiz. Reading over my answers again, it was pretty obvious.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Well, far be it from us to chastise anyone from filling out the quiz while under the influence.

[deinemuse.livejournal.com]

(Quick lesson for everyone. Silicon = Valley. Silicone = Tittie. Neither = Correct. Any questions? -CV)

Ya think they named it silicon valley because they like pin up gals or something? I can see it now... a bunch of geeky computer guys sitting in a room... Bob... check out playboy today... no Bill been all over hustler. Yeah we are just a bunch of pervert geeks, that must be why they call this Silicone Valley for we are just a bunch of sickos out here.

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/Silicon_Valley.html

Granted I couldn't tell ya if it combines positive and negative polarity circuits to save power, but it sounded damn good to me at the time.

And for the fun of it... let me repeat my favorite answer of all.

"You make them stand up in the front of the room and act out an elephant in charades, or any other action that will make them jump around (fizrep can help with that). Be sure to have lizature around to call out "Is that your....?" - ghostwriterxx

If only more were present!

[seolta.livejournal.com]

"Alyssa Milano" - hollyinpa

Too cute to live but how i love that show :)

Hey angledge and funkyplaid, this (http://www.thecharmedones.com/) is all i know of SF... are there really witches and demons around every corner??!

[marasca.livejournal.com]

Once upon a time, SF was like this (http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/ShowMainServlet/showid-1026/), but then the demons took over (refugees from Sunnydale (http://www.upn.com/shows/buffy/)) and now you can barely walk down the street without having to smite something.

[gruyere.livejournal.com]

The "Frenzy is red, Rumble is blue" answer is actually a reference to and old Transformers fandom argument over which of Soundwave's underlings is which.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Frenzy was red. Or... shit. Was he blue? Goddammit, now I have to think about it. Sonofabitch.

[gruyere.livejournal.com]

Exactly. :)

[thereject.livejournal.com]

Rumble was blue goddamn it. He was the little blue guy whos arms turned into those worm-attractor things from Dune.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was Rumble. Earthquake guy. Probably the fourth-coolest Transformer out there. He made fucking EARTHQUAKES!

I guess he was blue, wasn't he? I had all those toys way back when.

[impulsezip.livejournal.com]

You had a toy that made earthquakes? cool.

[lonesomelullaby.livejournal.com]

"I can't think of anything funny for this one because I despise the jerks who zip by me on that lane while I'm sitting in traffic. Alone. Waiting for someone to inch their damn car up four inches." - lonesomelullaby

(We find your angst funny. -AL)

(We are also those jerks. -CV)

The drunk Irishwoman will run you over with her car now. ;)

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

The drunk Irishwoman will run you over with her car now.

Mmmm, drunk Irish women. The best kind. The only kind! ;)

[xgreenjudasx.livejournal.com]

I just puked brine shrimp through my nose.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Were they still wriggling?

[marasca.livejournal.com]

And why exactly were you eating brine shrimp?

[xgreenjudasx.livejournal.com]

Because they were brine shrimp of justice.

And justice just back fired all over my keyboard.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure you should be eating the Justice Shrimp of Atlantia.

You should definitely not be splorching them on your delicate computer equipment. That's injustice.

[mshenzi.livejournal.com]

My baby toadfish eat brine shrimp.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Hence, by the transitive property of mathematics, xgreenjudasx is a baby toadfish.

[sskipstress.livejournal.com]

sskipstress, are you going to be at my homecoming party this weekend? Please? -AL

I don't know. Where and when is it?

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Connecticut. See marasca for details.

[sskipstress.livejournal.com]

Too far away to do party and the other things I have planned this weekend. Drat.

[thereject.livejournal.com]

:(

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Ah well. Another time, then!

[krick.livejournal.com]

"TANSTAAFL - There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch" - krick

(Thank you, Larry Niven. -CV)


Um, that would be Robert A. Heinlein.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Dammit, I got them bass-ackwards again. I know what I meant. Heh.

[thereject.livejournal.com]

Niven uses 'tanj' (there ain't no justice)

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Niven, Heinlein, Heinlen, Niven- let's call the whole thing off.

[b7cy.livejournal.com]

"b7cy, of course. 'Before 7, Cranky and Yawning.' Or maybe, 'Beating 7 Children? Yes!'" - b7cy

(I had wondered about that LJ user name. Now I know! -AL)

I'm afraid the truth is either much lamer or much stranger, depending on one's point of view. Whilst trying to pick a name for this madness that is the Live Journal Daily Quiz, I found that my real name, all of my usual pseudonyms, and every variation thereof was already taken. Not wanting to be "Justin7348927582359828," I opted for something simpler: My *original* e-mail address at Cornell, back when a random combination of letters and numbers was appended to "rockvax.cornell.edu" to make one's e-mail address. Why do I remember this? I've no idea. Must be that math thing.

[chickybee32.livejournal.com]

"The Fund for Children who have suffered Grevious Bodily Harm from Tricks Gone Wrong. Much less popular was the Let's Introduce Halloween to a Poor Little Girl in Australia." - mercury32

(There's a story here. A good one, too. And I want it now. -CV)

Not really. Grew up on a steady diet of American TV/Movies/Book and as a direct result spent the years from about 7-14 begging to be allowed to go Trick or Treating. Always got told "Halloween is a stupid American custom and last time I checked your birth certificate it said you weren't American, so the answer is NO."

From about 14-17 I just held sleepovers involving horror movies and popcorn fights. Nowadays, my Halloweens generally involve being drunk and worrying that my tits are going to fall out of my corset. Again.

However, I still wanna experience a REAL Halloween.

/long sulky ramble

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Adult Halloween is perhaps more alcoholicious and less candylicious than Children's Halloween. I guess I can accept the end trade.

You can still experience a real Halloween, though. America's only a hop, skip, and 19-hr plane flight away, after all. ;)

[chickybee32.livejournal.com]

Oh one day, I will. As soon as I stop renting, get off traineeship wages (adult work for minimum wage basically), stop supporting my lazy flatmate and convince my other half that letting me go to the States unsupervised will not result in an International Incident.

However, for my US Halloween, I'm still dressing up as a dominatrix.

[angledge.livejournal.com]

However, for my US Halloween, I'm still dressing up as a dominatrix.

Well then, you have a standing invitation to come to Halloween at my house! Should I ever have a permanent residence again, that is ...