LJ Daily Answers: 18 December 2006

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

"this has nothing to do with the quiz, but:
" - vcfilks

Fair enough. And with that bit of nonsense, we get our nonsensical doodaadoodaa quiz a-running! What does it mean? No one knows!



1. Fun with lyrics! Name that song and the band:
They're only cheques I've left unsigned
From the banks of chaos in my mind

"I think the bank of my mind was held up last night, or at least was on strike." - uberhero

"Oh god, baby, bank metaphors. HOT." - lots42
"I'll go with 'Songs that use bad banking metaphors for 200, Alex.'" - ginalin

"No wonder the lines at the bank are so long if people are trying to get traveler's cheques for 'chaos.'" - schizospider

"I had an account with a chaos bank. It was frustrating because the amount of money I had was different each time I checked. One time I had $340+16i, and I knew it was time to quit." - syrazemyla

"Checks, people, checks. Seriously, it’s a much easier way to spell it. Those wacky British, messin’ with the English language…" - smeddley

"I don't know. But it sounds cool. And it represents chaos as money, or something, which means that the inherent nature of the chaotic state of the influence of radical ideas on the thought of contemperary minds is declining." - opaltiger

"Kajagoogoo." - 8 of you

"Money For Nothing, by Dire Straits." - germankitty

"MMMBop. *dodges -1 for Hanson mention*" - jessicamariek

(Luckily there's more -1's where that came from. -CV)

"STING!" - 21 of you
"Oh, and those other blokes he worked with too." - miladygrey

"At a friend's bachlorette party, another friend announced that the wisdom of the universe can be found in the chorus to the Police song 'Da Doo Doo Doo Da Dah Dah Dah'. Then she fell off the couch." - cjtremlett

"The song makes a lot more sense if you think of the narrator (hey, Sting's just the singer) as a pedophile." - barbarienne

(Because "Don't Stand So Close To Me" doesn't convey the message strongly enough. -CV)

"De Do Do Do De Da Da Dat's All, Folks!" - mark_laura

"When De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da first came out, I thought he was singing about the 'banks of Cheops', which is pretty dumb, since pyramids don't have banks." - anonymisty

(There's much wisdom to be found on the floor by the couch as well. -CV)

"they are better known for their follow-up hit 'De Don't Don't Don't Stand So Close to Me'." - cscottd

"Everyone knows the police go Nyaaahll-Nyaaahll-Nyaaahll as they drive up with sirens roaring..." - shadowed_guise

Correct Answer: The Police, "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da"

(Yes, really, it is Sting and The Police this time. Go figure. -CV)



2. Tristan Tzara was a key figure in which "anti-art" movement?

(Number of folks with a Volkswagon commercial stuck in their heads: 11. Eeeeeexcellent. -AL&CV)

"I have no idea just what the phrase 'anti-art' implies but it makes me whimper anyway." - opaltiger

"Note to self: Quit answering when it's technically morning. It does not say 'Christian Tarzan.' (Incidentally, I would pay serious money to see Tarzan unleashed in the best snake-handling, tongue-speaking little church I can find. Naked. )" - pewter_alyssum

("Can I get an AAAAAA-A-A-A-AAAAAAAA-A-A-A-AAAAAAAAAAMEN? Praise the Lord, Ungawa!"
Yeah, I'd worship at Tarzan and Jane's First Jungle Church of the Lord. -CV)
(I really hate you. -AL)

"I didn't know there was an official name for the people who don't much like Mr. Garfunkel." - sskipstress

"It's anagram time. Tristan Tzara = anti art starz. It was obviously destined." - szellem

"that thing where your brain is a big ugly watermelon that's dripping seeds of blue depravity" - lienne

(And the ljdq Award For Best Metaphor this week goes to... lienne! -CV)

"We're cool, we're different, so let's stick it to da Renaissance Man" - arckyosuke

"Wasn't there something to do with a urinal? Or was that something else?" - distractogirl

(... whuh? -CV)

"I love explaining dadaism to people, at least in part because one of the most famous examples is a urinal installed in an art exhibition." - melster

(I stand corrected. -CV)

"Isn't it fun how versatily the syllable 'da' is? You can use it for the Jaws theme, and Phantom of the Opera, and magicians assistants in spangly leotards, and clown songs, and it's also Russian for yes, which is a bit odd for me because whenever someone sings the Jaws theme it sounds like they're having an orgasm. In Russian." - maggiebloome
"I wasted five minutes singing 'Daaaaahda' a la 'Jaws' and giggling madly." - rolypolyfish
"dadadadadadadadadadada BATMAN!" - skfromstamford

"The Dadaists, best known for their theme song, 'Hello, Dali!'" - drbear

Correct Answer: Dadaism

"Which should never be confused with DooDoo, which is the art of flinging poo -- hey, gives whole new meaning to 'art movement!'" - dorei



3. What song, taken from a Disney film, won the Academy Award for Best Song in 1947?

"I'm still miffed 'Blame Canada' didn't win." - naraht

"Now my ear worm is replaced with Somewhere, out there, beneath the pale moon light..." - wolffepsyche

(That's wrong on many levels. -CV)

"How many people do you think has seen this movie? No one on my end, that's for sure." - princessstarr

(Actually, I'm willing to bet very few, if any, of us have seen this movie. -CV)

"Doo wa diddy diddy dum diddy doo." - cmzero

"Back when Disney was a kinder gentler soul, there were musical scores that didn't make one want to experiment with 'What happens to Bambi now'?" - akiyasan

(Mentions for Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious: 33. Mentions for Hakuna Matata: 12. -CV)

"now I have the Cinderella's song 'Shalakadula' by the Fairy stuck in my head. No, I don't still know it by heart, honest." - pocket_size_g

"I never liked Cinderella. I was five and was like, 'Homegirl's a puss.' Yeah, I was a ghetto five-year-old. I walked the mean streets of suburban Sacramento. They raise you hard, man, they raise you hard." - stormyskies

"Bippety Bappety Boo?" - dracothelizard, teal_cuttlefish, stagemanager, lorienwillow, misslucyjane, sskipstress, deza, rhitsqueaky, jo_chan
"which in addition to the Oscar has the singular distinction of being the only Disney song to inspire the names of three characters in Dragonball Z. Fantastic, right? I always wanted to see Cinderella use a kamehameha wave on her evil stepsisters." - spatialrift47

"That one song, with the Bibidi and the Babidi and the Boo...what was it...oh yeah! Under the Sea." - ilgreven

"les poisson, i love those little fish!" - jenny_1981

"Whistle While You Work! The positive, pro-capitalist and pro-industrial song encouraged the working masses like none other." - bizzatch

"Mahatma Gandhi walked barefoot everywhere, to the point that his feet became quite thick and hard. He also was quite a spiritual person. Even when he was not on a hunger strike, he did not eat much and became quite thin and frail. Due to this diet, he wound up with very bad breath. Therefore, he came to be known as a . . .
Super calloused fragile mystic plagued with halitosis." - motown_deserter

(I probably should have expected this. Just for AL's sake, -1 for punnery. -CV)

"At least the film wasn't done in black face..." - marasca

"I'm wondering how exactly one zips a dee-doo-dah." - maggiebloome

Correct Answer: Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah

"funny, the name of that song is exactly the same as the grade i'm going to get for that final exam i just finished taking. go figure." - faceless_wonder



4. What device of Australian origin is sometimes considered the world's oldest wind instrument?

(To everyone who made a fart joke: -1 for teh obvious. Oh, and elbiesee? No. Not by a longshot. -CV)

"Is it a coincidence that the world's oldest instrument and the world's oldest profession both involve plenty of blowing?" - arckyosuke

"And he said 'yeah baby! An object at rest cannot be stopped!'" - vyseryn

(+1, The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs At Midnight. -CV)

"I think the Vauxhall Monaro would fit last week's theme better, but it's definitely Australian!" - dracothelizard

(I did enjoy my time in a Vauxhall Courser earlier this year. Fine car, that. -CV)

"I'd have called them 'chazzwazzers'" - mcrunner03

"Zigadoo! Unless I spelled that wrong. Then it clearly isn't." - cookie_pixie

(Hoo boy. -CV)

"di-di-di..digimon." - halo4

(Now that's just wrong. -CV)

"The didgereedoo, Aussie relative of Scooby and Scrappy I presume" - ntlespino

(You presume too much. -CV)

"Digiridoo, I tried it once and I sucked at it, at which point they informed me I had to blow, not suck. So I pretty much blew at it as well." - b_hulsmans

'Djuribe... Djurigible... Djoorackpfffth. Big hollow tube which sounds vaguely like a moose in heat." - wolffepsyche

"Didgerydo. you know if you take a PVC pipe it works really well as an alternative for the authentic thing, but the inside gets covered in spit so don't then use it as a waterpipe until you desanitize it." - alatariel_helya

(Thank you for that important safety tip. -CV)

"Dijeridoo. Dammit that's a great instrument. You learn circular breathing which is a good thing to know if you like the whole licky licky crotch crotch thing." - dancingsaracen

(...wow. -AL&CV)

"did you know that in certain groups of aborigines, women are not allowed to touch a didgeridoo? they might fall pregnant." - ghymoreids_mum

(A lot of people commented on the fact that women are traditionally banned from playing the didgeridoo. Ladies, you can play my didgeridoo anytime. -CV)
(SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU? -AL)

"Digeriedo. My ex-husband had one of these. When we were going through the divorce, I filled it with cheez-wiz and peanut butter just before it went into storage. I'm just a bitch that way." - deza

(I might love you. -CV)

Correct Answer: Didgeridoo

"Is it just me, or does that word sound like a euphemism for 'finger-bang'?" - mark_laura

(I'm worried that it's just both of you. -CV)



5. So there's this guy. Works in mining, goes bowling with his best friend, has a Smilodon and an unidentifiable purple sauropod as pets, and wears orange with a blue tie. The real question is, what's his trademark shout?

"One of these days, Alice, one of these days ... Bang! Zoom! To the moon, Alice!" - kestrel127, spatialrift47, plantingseeds

"Jane! Stop this crazy thing!" - ilgreven

"Is a Smilodon that strange elderly man who is always leering, regardless of whether he's looking at a duck or a young woman?" - pewter_alyssum

"That guy sounds like my dad...wait, no Smilodon/sauropod. I woulda noticed that." - lizey

"Um, by saying that it's purple, a sauropod, and a pet, haven't you, in fact, identified it?" - i_calql8

(Not at all. I have merely described it. -CV)

"HOLY SHIT MY SMILODON IS DISMEMBERING ME" - uberhero
"I AM SPARTACUS!" - piney61
"KHAAAN!" - thepikey
"SPOON!" - lorienwillow
"WHY CAN'T I GET LAID?!?" - elbiesee
"ENGLISH MOTHERFUCKER, DO YOU SPEAK IT?" - slanciante
"TEN MILLION STRONG AND GROWING." - lyme

"watch out for that tree!!!!" - faceless_wonder, akiyasan

"Orange and blue tie? Must be a Broncos fan, so my guess is 'Go Broncos'" - pride4u2

"'Wilmaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!' Usually followed by 'Get the club and your skimpiest fur bikini! Time to make the Bedrock'" - shadowed_guise

"I could swear there was an episode in which Dino talked. I could swear it. The Flintstones and the Rubbles went on a picnic-thing and when Fred and Barney went out to find food, they found Dino. They took him back to the campsite and Wilma and Betty fell in love with the cute little thing. I'm not just talkin' crazy, right? Do you remember that one? God, I watched too much TV when I was a little kid." - mcphonium

"" - fizrep

"Yabba dabba do or do not, there is no try." - jessicamariek

Correct Answer: "Yabba Dabba Doo!"



6. What's your favorite nonsense word?

"Why settle for just one word when you have Esperanto?" - swampdweller

"Caffeine-free. Stuff and nonsense, I tell you!" - miladygrey

"Government Accountability." - etcet
"Governmental Responsibility" - wiredwizard

"Jaberwocky. Just because the poem contains borogoves. And slithy toves." - wolffepsyche, bizzatch

(Special thanks to deza who gave us the entire poem, right down to the bitter momrathian end. -CV)

"Skinamarinkadinkydink - which is actually a kind of lizard." - kestrel127

"Centrifigul Bumblepuppy." - rolypolyfish

"wienerschnitzel" - jrho
"Fahrvergnügen" - lovellama
"Schwarzenegger" - lightmagician

"Wibble. It's incredibly useful and it also sounds cool." - maggiebloome

"Pudding. or Goblins. maybe pudding goblins." - dancingsaracen

"This one." - cmzero

"Mahnamahna!" - jo_chan

"I kind of like 'yarr' as synonymous for 'pirate'. Like, 'Last night I yarred a copy of that new movie'." - lyme

"Are you kidding, I live between Bristol, Somerset and Wales?! There's just too many to pick from.
'She were a real minger, gert big yerrins like wot the beckhams ave. I've got pics in me ambag anneye...wer tis...oh, yur tis...pretty aarsh, but that wer our Granner, right. No like our babbers, yeah? Ees a ansum dapper.'" - shadowed_guise

(The spiffington Award For Total Gibberish is suspended for the duration of this question. -CV)

"'Sis-Boom-Bah!'
'Describe the sound of an exploding sheep.'
- Carnac the Magnificent" - mark_laura

Correct Answer: Quyzibuk. And if you know what that means (and you're not fizrep or dancingsaracen), you get a +10.



This quiz, of course, made no sense. Primarily because it contained nonsense words. Is your spider-sense tingling yet?

Thanks for all who played, congratulations to those who successfully (or unsuccessfully) completed an educational semester, and safe travels to those who are on the move for the holidays. Remember: don't let the season stop you from putting in your two cents; the quiz will go on! So keep on playing! Give the quiz that keeps on quizzing! What does that mean? NONSENSE!

Welcome aboard, new players as well. Hope you enjoy, and of course, tell your friends!

Rock on,

AL&CV

Comments

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

And this is why I have a profound disrespect for "modern art".

[germankitty]

Oh, I'm very much with you on that.

When I visited the Tate Modern, London in fall 2005, one exhibit showed a speeded-up film of rotting fruit. Start to finish -- fruit on a plate, leave until maggots crawl all over it, film everything, show in 3.48 minutes. Lather, rinse, repeat. My reaction (aside from "EWWW!!!")? A resounding WTF.

Another exhibit had at least a certain chutzpah value, aside from its WTF factor: Take one pint glass, fill it half with water, put on shelf -- and say "It's an oak tree!", after adding three typed pages of pseudo-philosophical drivel explanation exactly WHY you can claim it's an oak instead of a glass half filled with water.

*grins* My 18-year-old son groaned when I told him we were going to look at modern art; he got the sheer "OMGWTFBBQ" value of some pieces right away, though, and ended up enjoying himself quite a lot searching out the stupid weird stuff. Yes, we're all strange that way; why do you ask?

[germankitty]

*grins* YEAH!

(Actually, IIRC both exhibits were in the same, or at least adjoining rooms. So yeah, it might've been possible ... unfortunately, they've removed both exhibits since then. Maybe it's just as well. :) But the lesson learned? You can get even a teenager interested in Modern Art as long as it's too weird for words. )

[distractogirl.livejournal.com]

I hated the Oak Tree too. I refused to read the amount of drivel beside it, and refused to even consider using that particular 'piece' for my art project.

Much much dislike for most modern 'art'.

[germankitty]

Actually, I found the Oak Tree kind of funny, in a headdesk-y kind of way. :)

My son was intrigued because he's seriously considering taking Philosophy as his second major when he starts university next October; I guess appreciating the completely wacky unusual stuff sort of comes with the territory ...

(Loved the thing with the nature sounds of all 83(?) counties, though ...)

But yeah, modern 'art'? Not so much. I usually define it as "Nobody can possibly understand/recognize what this picture/scuplture/whatever is supposed to be, so it MUST be Art!"

[distractogirl.livejournal.com]

I disliked it because of the amount of work I had put into my pevious projects. I didn't enjoy the idea that someone could come along and fill a glass with water and call it art, when I'd spent hours on most of the things for my exhibition and they hadn't been considered good enough. *sigh* Mainly jealousy I should imagine!

[germankitty]

Well ... I can imagine Mr Craig-Martin spent hours coming up with the whole philosophy behind his exhibit. But yeah, I know what you mean; I'm no artist, but I've spent ages on doing something when somebody else just threw a few bits & pieces together and got all the credit instead of me. *sigh* It's unfair, isn't it?

(Just tell yourself you're not wacky enough for something like that ...)

[distractogirl.livejournal.com]

Ok, it's just possible I'm not giving the artist enough credit, but if he put more work into the philosophy rather than the 'art' maybe he should hold an exhibition for philosophers instead of artists.

And I'm pretty sure I'm not clever enough to rationalise using a glass of water as a piece of art.

[germankitty]

I'd think not a lot of people are that "clever" *cough*

Seriously, the things they sell as "art" these days ... a 1x1m canvas of solid blue? Not even special brushstrokes or anything? Plain blocks of color? My son could've done that in preschool, with his watercolor box.

If I'd been more savvy about these things, I'd have bought him oil paint and canvas, sold the lot and be rich today.

[distractogirl.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. That's not a terrible idea. Although oil paint? Wicked hard to get out of the furniture/carpeting.

Maybe I should did through the loft and see if I can find my old art projects. Maybe I can sell them on ebay as 'great artworks of the 20th century!'

[germankitty]

Well, can't be much harder than trying to remove ballpoint pen ink from the back of my leather couch (we ended up putting it against a wall) or lacquer pen off my floor tiles (how the hell a 5-year-old managed to fold back a corner of my Oriental carpet far enough that the tile wasn't visible until next spring cleaning still escapes me). :)

And good luck with the selling ...

[distractogirl.livejournal.com]

OK. I'll give you that. I don't think I've had to get anything nasty out of my carpets apart from oil paint or gold pen. Sounds like you've got an artist on your hands though!

As for the selling - not sure I want to be arrested for fraud just yet!

[germankitty]

Heh. Thankfully, my son outgrew his "artistic" phase -- which also involved giving himself haircuts with his kiddie safety scissors. AFTER I'd just taken him for a professional trim at a salon. *sigh*

[distractogirl.livejournal.com]

Oh no! I suppose I have all of this exciting stuff to look forward to. Although, possibly quite a while in the future - I shall stick with my cats for the time being I think!

[germankitty]

*grins* Probably a good idea. And at least the cats won't talk back at you or give you attitude as they grow older. Nor do they listen to awful music, wear horrible clothes or make their rooms look like Ground Zero on 9/12!

(Although we thankfully avoided the 'awful music' bit ... our son mostly likes the music we introduced him to. *grins* Which DOES include Heavy Metal, courtesy of myself, and 60s/70s folk rock/protest songs, courtesy of a school project my husband did with his class. Parenting can be fun -- if you're sneaky enough!)

[distractogirl.livejournal.com]

I don't know, my cats are fairly belligerent - if I don't feed them immediately when I get up they wail & gang up on me, and if I don't let them lie on my bed then they wander the house yowling. And they leave fur EVERYWHERE. And I mean that. I was decorating the christmas cake this evening and I found several cat hairs on the icing - I haven't even seen them this afternoon!

[germankitty]

Heh. Still, I've been living with a teenager for years now; gimme a cat any day! They at least clean themselves, you don't have to run seven (7!) full loads of laundry just to be able to see the floor in their room, and they don't need ironing, either! (Only 2 more months, and my son'll officially be a 'twen' -- can't wait!)

Merry Christmas!

[distractogirl.livejournal.com]

I've seen an icon that expresses my feelings about cats cleaning themselves - Cat's aren't clean, they're just covered in catspit! As for washing, cat's don't require it, but me and my father certainly do, and I always seem to be the one who has to go out to put the washing in!

And a Very Merry Christmas to you too!