LJ Daily Answers: 9 October 2006

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

"You're doing this to taunt me aren't you. You purposely waited until I was no longer living in York. Admit it." - eofs

We admit it. We are, in fact, cruel and merciless bastards.



1. What candy's advertising campaign in the 80's advised consumers to "Get the sensation"?

"Condoms!" - nearly half of you! Naughty monkeys.
"lube" - alejandradd

"I never saw many candy ads when I was a kid. And they'd be a fucking waste of time, because like we NEEDED to be told to buy candy." - blunder_buss

(They were telling you to buy MORE candy. -AL)

"I can't clearly remember any commercials from my childhood, even the candy ones. (Yeah, you heard me, marketing companies. You failed! FAILED!)" - cmzero

"Why didn't you ask about Twizzlers? They make mouths happy." - chrysoberyl

"Meese's Pieces. From the office of the Attorney General." - the_pikey

"I'm going to have to add that to my euphemisms for homosexuality as advertised by children targeting products, right up there with 'Fruit Loops' and 'Taste the Rainbow.'" - dragonierzapp

"York Peppermint Patties. Favourite treat of ambiguously gay cartoon girls everywhere. See also: VEL(M)Amints." - theninth

"" - bizzatch

"Personally, I feel that Peppermint Patty and Marcy together would have created a much bigger sensation at the time." - irianamistifi

"York Peppermint Patties. Why didn't they ever do 'York Charlie Browns', or 'York Lucy van Pelts'? Mind you, I can see why I can understand why the 'York Pigpen' never made it out of the Marketing Dept brainstorming session." - drdoug

"Remembering back on those commercials, it seemed like York Peppermint Patties were a poor man's ticket to the Winter Olympics. Can't attend/compete? Just bite into a chocolate-covered mint patty! It'll be like you're actually there!" - ladyiapetus

"The sensation in question was your sinuses catching fire." - whiski_sour
"I did get the sensation to puke though after finishing one of the bigger ones. Too much peppermint, too little chocolate." - shadowkeeper

"Yorkshire Mint Patties *turn me on*. I *totally* get the sensation whenever I bite into a Yorkshire Mint Patty. I mean, my whole body just....*starts making inappropriate noises*. I Get that Sensation, man." - pandorasjoy

(OMG like whoa - AL&CV)

Correct Answer: York Peppermint Patties

"This will be my new personal slogan. The dates are going to start rolling in now, I can feel it!" - marasca



2. What British pastry is traditionally made with eggs, flour, milk, and the oil drippings from a beef roast?

"Whitesnake RULES !!" - ANONYMOUS

(And this week's ljdq Non Sequitur Award goes to... somebody. -CV)

"for no discernible reason, I now have 'I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General' stuck in my head. I only know the first two lines." - jrho

(And soon you'll know them really well. -CV)

"the moment you call them 'oil drippings' everything appealing goes out the window and leads me to the answer 'hork'." - theninth

"I think my cholesterol rose a few points just reading the ingredients." - ladyiapetus

"That's actually what goes in the IVs for the Rolling Stones, believe it or not. Mick Jagger is on a constant beef drip, though the others go a bit more lean with chicken, pork, and turkey." - alliancesjr

"It could be meat, it could be cake. It's MEAT CAKE!" - dorei

(+1, George Carlin. -CV)

"Fish and chips." - fleurdelista

(I see neither fish nor taters in the list of ingredients. Gonna hafta say no. -CV)

"Shepherd Pie? That's the only British pastry I know of...if that IS your real name." - kokopellinelli

"Speaking as a Southern American... I will stand firmly behind a people that use beef oil drippings as a main ingredient in any dish. ESPECIALLY pastries. God save the Queen." - futuristicplans

"Yorkshire Pudding, another in a long line of kitchen accidents that became British cuisine:
'Oops, I dropped some fish in the meringue!'
'Well, just serve it as Anchovy Cream Pie.'
'No one'll eat that!'
'Then call it Windsor Custard!'" - mark_laura

"It's probably some kind of pudding because what the English call pudding ain't pudding, man." - whiski_sour

(Surprisingly astute. You may have +0.5. CV)

"summed up in this simple recipe is all that is wrong with Britich food. Beef drippings? In a pastry??? A pastry called pudding????" - marasca

"For some reason when it's cooked with sausages it's called toad in the hole. Don't ask me why, it's a 'northern thing'." - kgothesque

"it's much nicer made with goose fat; but then, nearly everything is." - ghymoreid

Correct Answer: Yorkshire Pudding



3. What punk-influenced vocalist became a hit soloist after performing for four years with The Sugarcubes?

"Azucar Dodecahedron, the Sugarcubes' Cuban front man." - fizrep

"The Swedish Chef" - cscottd

(No, but the Chef is a big fan. -AL)

"It only works to say her name in the Swedish Chef voice. 'Yorn desh born, der ritt de gitt der gue, Orn desh, dee born desh, de umn Bjork, Bjork, Bjork!'" - dorei

"If the Sugarcubes and the Spice Girls got together, would the result be everything nice? Somehow I doubt it." - cmzero

"This would be Björk. Once when they were playing Jóga on the radio, someone rang into the station to say that jóga is a way of smoking pot where you dig a hole in the ground, and light the pot in the hole, and inhale the smoke from the earth. Apparently it's better if you bury it in peat. I don't know if that is true, or if this guy had just been smoking a whole lot of peat." - st_aurafina

(A fake Björk quote:)
(Or maybe it's a real Björk quote. Who can tell?)

"Sometimes when I'm putting oranges in the sauerkraut, I think of my thoughts and they make me laugh." - soimpossible414

"Does anyone ever really know what that woman is talking about? I mean, she wore a swan, for god's sake? What's next? A peacock? Perhaps she'll dress like a duck with a little train of ducklings following her. Chick is strange." - dv8dragonfly

"" - lisacharly

"Björk. Named after the noise made by people who don't like her music." - drdoug

Correct Answer: Björk

"Her name is cool because wörds löök bëtter wïth ümläüts." - kenshardik



4. In which film did Gary Cooper play a man named Alvin who was drafted into the Armed Forces in World War I and became a sharpshooter and ultimately a war hero?

"I'm sure Gary Cooper sold the memorabilia on eBay so he could pay his rent and download quality porn." - jelymo

"Ask my husband. Every time we change the channel he's like 'Bridge Over the River Quai,' 'Patton,' 'A Bridge too Far,' 'That's the bombing of [some obscure bridge in world war two that I have never heard of].' I, on the other hand, am doing well if I can identify that what we are watching is indeed a war movie, and not just some boring people standing around talking about shooting one another." - chrysoberyl

(To be fair, your husband is in the National Guard... -CV)

"Pretty sure this isn't Willy Wonka.. but damn if the glass elevator wouldn't make for a cool sniping position. 'Take that you little oompa loompa bastard'" - tarpo

"When I saw Gary Cooper, I thought Gary Coleman, which put a really funny image of a pre-pubescent looking man behind the scope of a sniper rifle." - droptheleash622, kiwislut, wendynat

(Those scenes were edited out later. "I need you to shoot those Germans." - "Whatchoo talkin' 'bout, Colonel Willis?" -CV)

"Now that I know that Alvin was in the Armed Forces in World War I, it makes much more sense that he wants a plane that loop da loop for Christmas." - sskipstress
"The Chipmunks Do Trench Warfare, which was never released on video because too many children were traumatized by the scene where Theodore dies in a mustard gas attack." - soimpossible414
"War hero! Ha! Nobody talks about how pigheaded Alvin, always has to be the center of attention, left Simon and Theodore for dead in his search for personal glory." - marasca

(Number of others with Alvin and the Chipmunks stuck in their heads: 39.)
(Number of people with "Putting On The Ritz" stuck in their heads: 9.)

"Going with logic... I'm going to say that the guy's name was York, and that it had to be a title with said name in it... So? Captain York? The Amazing Adventures of Major York? *shrug*" - distractogirl

(Amazingly, logic very nearly carried you home. -CV)

"Sergeant York, which proves that when God speaks to you and makes you become an efficient killing machine, you're a hero. If God speaks to you and makes you a Conscientious Objector, you're insane and a pansy." - fragbert

"Sgt. York, with the carbine, in France" - mark_laura

"the way he single-handedly sniped an entire line of Germans was FRIGGIN' SWEET. (Nothing personal against Germans, obviously... but.. you know.)" - futuristicplans

(Danke. -Herr CV)

Correct Answer: Sergeant York



5. Charles is Prince of Wales; who is Prince of York?

"My favorite pub on Wimbledon High Street." - germankitty

"YOUR MOM" - fireworkfiasco

"Ed Grubermann" - wiredwizard

(Boot to the head. -CV)

"I hope he wears a raspberry beret when he visits York." - jelymo

"" - mistyraven

"Old Blue Eyes. Wait, no, that's NEW York." - dv8dragonfly

"The Prince of Dork" - david_deacon
"I thought Prince Charles WAS the Prince of Dork." - blunder_buss

"Prince of York... hmm... Prince of Ork? Princ of Goblin! Goblin King... Labyrinth! David Bowie!" - opaltiger

(Once again, logic takes a back seat. -CV)

"York, shmork. Everyone knows the best royal is Princess Michael of Kent." - eofs

"I only know his Indian name: Brother of Whales" - mark_laura

"I gotta figure it's someone with a very sloped forehead. Something has to counteract the wind resistance caused by Charles' ears when they walk together." - i_calql8

"WE HAVE A PRINCE?!" - ewacat

(No, sorry. Fooled you. -CV)

"First of all, he's the DUKE Of York. His name is Andrew, but he is otherwise known to right-thinking men around the world as Supreme Idiot Of The Realm, because he was boinking Sarah Ferguson and then just gave up and and divorced her. She'd have to be the next Hitler for me to stop showing her the love. And even then, if she just took off the swastika armbands before bed, I'd make an exception. Proof:
" - fragbert

"Andrew. He's the one who achieved stuff, like ambassadorial roles and military service, as opposed to being the inbred plant-talking horse-marrying one or the monkey-faced media-failure film-your-family-despite-their-wishes one." - shadowed_guise

"I've noticed that his daughters are starting to look horsey and can only conclude that it's his fault." - herdivineshadow

"Oooh, the grand old Duke of York
he had ten-thousand men
he marched them up to the top of the hill
and he marched them down again" - a great many of you, which clued you into the fact that...

Correct Answer: There is no Prince of York. Andrew, though a Prince, is DUKE of York.



6. Have you ever been to the Big Apple? If so, tell us a fun tale. If not, tell us what you think about it. If you have no idea what the Big Apple is... fake it.

"Warning: Big Apple is not for consumption and is intended for external use only, if swallowed please consult doctor and local security agencys. Keep out of reach of children. Big Apple may contain small parts that may be a choking hazard." - shadowed_guise

"I like applesauce." - theninth
"Apple pie is tasty" - kgothesque

"I imagine that New York is like a rather taller and busier version of London, with more scary model type women and less fat bankers" - distractogirl

"The last time I went to New York wasn't a lot of fun. It was a business trip, one that I was basically forced to take. I had to get all these shots before I went, including these small microbombs in my neck that would destroy my carotid artery if I didn't return by the deadline. So I had to hang-glide in under cover of night. Ended up hooking up with this cabbie that smelled like Ernest Borgnine. With his help, along with a former repo man and an old flame, we rescued the President and took down the Duke of New York during our daring escape." - kenshardik

(+1, Escape From New York. -CV)

"The entire population of my town would probably fit into one apartment building in New York, comfortably. The bovine population would probably fill one city block. I'm probably as scared of New York as someone from New York is as scared of my country town." - st_aurafina

"I live in the suburb of New York: New Jersey. We send their trash back to them and tell them they can keep their stinky trash barges floating in the Hudson. We don't want them. Avoid the filth of New York! Get Radioactive in New Jersey!" - irianamistifi

(Jersey, represent! -CV)

"One time I went there just before a wedding and got into a brief scuffle with a sidewalk and lost." - fizrep

(You know, the last time you were in the city, you almost broke your foot again. You're cut off. -CV)

"the first image that comes to my mind when I think of NYC is this:

I'd climb up on Alice's every time we visited. It was a straight shot thru the park from where my grandmother's apartment was on E 74th Street. I'd climb on Hans Christian Andersen, too, but Alice was the best statue." - dorei

"The only part I do remember is sitting next to my grandmother in a taxi, who told me - 'Now, don't point at anyone. This is New York, and if they see you pointing at them, they'll shoot you.'" - blunder_buss

"Once, in 2000. It rained the entire time, and we didn't get to go to the World Trade Center because of it. In retrospect, that sucks." - kittikattie

"The Big Apple is where the girl the guy I like likes lives." - ewacat

"I went to NYC to see The Lion King on Broadway. We went back home in a Greyhound bus and I remember looking out the window and we were entirely surrounded by yellow cabs. It was a little like being an ostrich at a duck convention." - amberdulen

"Is that where the Tappen Zee Bridge is? If it is, then when we were driving home from Disney when I was 9 we got stuck in a traffic ham on it..." - the_wanlorn

(There was more to this answer, but I lost it after "traffic ham". Mmmmmm, ham. -CV)

"it's the only place I've ever seen people who were so stoned they were feeding 40$ sushi to a pigeon. Most people are more impressed with the naked cowboy though." - bizzatch



P.S.: While nearly 10% of you used the following image in some portion of your answer...

...the winner for Best Caption would be david_deacon: "This is the fist I'll be using on you later this evening, Marcie."



And there you have it. York, old and new, was the theme. Especially new to AL, who just moved to NYC. With both of us in the same metropolitan region, who knows what horrors we can inflict on humanity?

...well, none. We'll be drunk on gin. Horrors to be determined later.

Hope you all enjoyed; as always, thanks for playing, and go on and tell your friends. Anyone can play. Anyone, we say! You don't even need an LJ; you just need a computer. Spread the word!

Rock on,

AL&CV

Comments

Re: Oh, crap.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Confusing Gary Cooper with Gary Coleman is... well, I used this word already, but I have to say it again: INCONCEIVABLE!

Re: Oh, crap.

[jelymo.livejournal.com]

Apparently it IS conceivable since I managed to conceive it.

I can't believe I'm discussing conception. This feels .... dirty.

Re: Oh, crap.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

It's not really dirty to have this discussion. That's a common misconception.

Re: Oh, crap.

[jelymo.livejournal.com]

*groans* That's a terrible pun.

Re: Oh, crap.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

*grin* I know.