Monday, November 23rd, 2009

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Sunday, November 15th, 2009

I Just Made This One

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Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

I added a new layer to this old chestnut:

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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

Writer's Block: Do you prefer a tent or a luxury hotel?

Would you rather spend the weekend camping in the woods or at a luxury hotel? Why?


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Short Answer: That depends. Are you paying, or am I?

Longer Answer: That still depends on all sorts of things, with location and company being the two biggest factors. I've had good times camping (Old Orchard Beach in Maine, whitewater rafting in West Virginia) and in hotels (conventions, though not all of them qualified as "luxury" hotels). All other things being equal, I'd probably take the hotel; but if it was a choice between a business trip to a hotel or camping with my friends, I'd have more fun wherever the friends were. Unless it's Vegas. Vegas is a trump card.

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Monday, August 10th, 2009

Return of the Super-Challenge Song Lyric Meme

These are the answers from the Return of the Super-Challenge Song Lyric Meme, along with videos and/or other details where applicable. (All comments in the original post have been unscreened.) Feel free to check out the rest of the songs that you didn't know – you might find something that you like (or that you'd forgotten). And, as a side note, I think this one was way too easy. Sixteen out of twenty correctly identified in no time at all, on a day when many people couldn't even get onto LJ (or Facebook, Twitter, GMail, or whatever).

  1. Where's the streetwise Hercules to fight the rising odds? – revaladdinsane

    Holding Out for a Hero by Bonnie Tyler.

  2. Over mother Russia there are moans and cries, the convicted ones are marching to the never lands to die. –  NOBODY 

    Gorbachov by ANJ. I love this video.

  3. I want to lie shipwrecked and comatose, drinking fresh mango juice. – revaladdinsane

    The theme song to Red Dwarf, composed by Howard Goodall and sung (usually) by Jenna Russell. This one was pretty easy for my friends list, but I didn't want to cheat by using any of the extra lyrics written by Ian Hu for the Extended Mix of the theme song.

  4. Being chosen as this month's Miss August is like a compliment I'll remember for as long as I can. – revaladdinsane

    'Cause I'm a Blonde by Julie Brown, from the movie Earth Girls are Easy.

  5. My heart's as full as a baked potato. – zpenguin

    Shpadoinkle by Trey Parker, from Cannibal! The Musical.

  6. I had to put her six feet under, and I can still hear her complain. – zpenguin

    Used to Love Her by Guns 'n Roses. (The YouTube link is to an Evangelion AMV, since the videos of GnR playing the song live sucked.)

  7. I filled that kitty cat so full of lead, we'll have to use him for a pencil instead. – yendi

    Trigger Happy by "Weird Al" Yankovic. (Another AMV, Trigun this time, since Al never made an official video for this song.)

  8. I'm gonna be the man who's havering to you – revaladdinsane

    I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) by The Proclaimers.

  9. What used to take two hours now takes all day. It took me sixteen hours to get to L.A.! – caryabend

    I Can't Drive 55 by Sammy Hagar.

  10. Honto ni anta tte, mattaku anta tte, tonikaku anta tte baka ne, baka baka… – deityofdeath

    The Baka Song, properly called "Yasashii, Ii Ko ni Narenai" (I Can't Become A Gentle, Good Girl), was sung by Ranma ½'s Akane Tendo (voice actress Hidaka Noriko).

  11. So you're blue but I can't take a chance on a chick like you. – richteaboy

    Does Your Mother Know by ABBA. (For Mamma Mia! they replaced "chick" with "kid" and altered several other lines to make the song about a boy rather than a girl.)

  12. The reason I breathe is you. –  NOBODY 

    Hit Me Baby One More Time by Britney Spears. Dweezil & Ahmet Zappa do a pretty awesome cover of this song (Utena AMV), which is the only version I have. The reason I provided such a short snippet of lyrics was that I was afraid this one would be too easy – You'll notice that I usually try to provide longer samples of the more obscure (or non-English) entries.

  13. Kidney of a horse, liver of a cat, filling up the sausages with this and that. – revaladdinsane

    Master of the House from Les Misérables, performed by the Thénardiers and company.

  14. Freude, schöner Götterfunken, Tochter aus Elysium, wir betreten feuertrunken, Himmlische, dein Heiligtum! – rhpslips2

    The chorus (in German) to the "Ode to Joy" from Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.

  15. She's small, and she's odd, like a lepton or quark. – revme

    The Björk Song by Lore Sjöberg. (The link goes to an MP3 at Brunching Shuttlecocks; there's not video that I know of.)

  16. Be assured that a walk through the ocean of most souls would scarcely get your feet wet. Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face. – revaladdinsane

    Deteriorata, National Lampoon's parody of Desiderata.

  17. What makes a man? Is it the woman in his arms? Just 'cause she has big titties? – revaladdinsane

    Now You're a Man by DVDA, the theme song to Orgazmo.

  18. I was born on the other side, just always looking in; I made it over the great divide, now I'm coming for you. – revaladdinsane

    Tear Me Down by Meatloaf. The lyrics have been modified from Steven Trask's original version in Hedwig and the Angry Inch (which I also have); however, you only needed the title for full credit, so this wasn't a trick question.

  19. Later on, if you wanna, we can dress like Madonna. – twopiearr

    Walking Around In Women's Underwear (another AMV) by Bob Rivers (not Weird Al!), a parody of Walking in a Winter Wonderland.

  20. That morning sunshine's like a knife in my eye. My shirt's on backwards and I wish I knew why. – aimeegomeow

    Too Much Vodka (yeah, guess why I picked this one; here's the album version) by Wendy Newcomer.

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Thursday, August 6th, 2009

Return of the Super-Challenge Song Lyric Meme

How many of these songs can you name, along with the artist and/or source? You need to provide at a minimum the song's title in order to get full credit. Partial credit may be awarded to people who cannot identify the title, but provided enough other information to be worthy of mention. If someone else got partial credit, it's not too late to provide the title and get full credit. (Using Google or other search engines is, of course, forbidden.) I'll list the first people to be awarded credit; but comments are screened so that you can still try to guess even after someone else got it right. I'll post the answers (with video links where applicable) later. As a reminder, here was the last collection.

  1. Where's the streetwise Hercules to fight the rising odds? – revaladdinsane
  2. Over mother Russia there are moans and cries, the convicted ones are marching to the never lands to die.
  3. I want to lie shipwrecked and comatose, drinking fresh mango juice. – revaladdinsane
  4. Being chosen as this month's Miss August is like a compliment I'll remember for as long as I can. – revaladdinsane
  5. My heart's as full as a baked potato. – zpenguin
  6. I had to put her six feet under, and I can still hear her complain. – zpenguin
  7. I filled that kitty cat so full of lead, we'll have to use him for a pencil instead. – yendi
  8. I'm gonna be the man who's havering to you. – revaladdinsane
  9. What used to take two hours now takes all day. It took me sixteen hours to get to L.A.! – caryabend
  10. Honto ni anta tte, mattaku anta tte, tonikaku anta tte baka ne, baka baka… – deityofdeath
  11. You're so blue but I can't take a chance on a chick like you. – richteaboy
  12. The reason I breathe is you.
  13. Kidney of a horse, liver of a cat, filling up the sausages with this and that. – revaladdinsane
  14. Freude, schöner Götterfunken, Tochter aus Elysium, wir betreten feuertrunken, Himmlische, dein Heiligtum! – rhpslips2
  15. She's small, and she's odd, like a lepton or quark. – revme
  16. Be assured that a walk through the ocean of most souls would scarcely get your feet wet. Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face. – revaladdinsane
  17. What makes a man? Is it the woman in his arms? Just 'cause she has big titties? – revaladdinsane
  18. I was born on the other side, just always looking in; I made it over the great divide, now I'm coming for you. – revaladdinsane
  19. Later on, if you wanna, we can dress like Madonna. – twopiearr
  20. That morning sunshine's like a knife in my eye. My shirt's on backwards and I wish I knew why. – aimeegomeow
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Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

Writer's Block: Last Meal

What do you want your last meal to be?


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By "last meal", I assume they mean the traditional last meal before one is executed.

Answer #1: A fifteen-thousand course meal, each course being served an hour after the previous course.

Answer #2: An apple pie, made from apples grown in hydroponic farms on the lunar colony. I'm willing to wait however long it takes for them to be available.

Answer #3: A meat pie made from the heart and liver of whomever was assigned to execute me. Additional meat pies as necessary should other people be given the assignment.

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Friday, April 24th, 2009

Things I've Done

The Ones In Green = Yes )
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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Writer's Block: The Green Generation

Will you be doing anything special to celebrate Earth Day today?


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I'll be spending it on Earth.
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Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

We Didn't Start the Flame War

Ganked from yendi. NSFW language (which should be obvious if you've ever seen a flame war) but funny (ditto).

Watch We Didn't Start the Flame War on CollegeHumor
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Monday, April 13th, 2009

Writer's Block: Gamer's Choice

What is your favorite old-school video game?

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Tempest.

Problem is, I have never seen a decent port of this game for a home computer/console, because the game needs to be played with a paddle controller. It's not the same with keyboard or joystick control.

My second-favorite arcade game was Q*Bert.

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Friday, April 10th, 2009

Writer's Block: Get Real

What reality show would you most want to be a contestant on? What would your strategy for winning be?


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What is this "reality show" of which you speak?
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Friday, April 3rd, 2009

Travel Map Meme


Color in red all the places you've been...
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Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

Wow. None In The Last Five Years.

How many of these best-picture Oscar nominated movies have you seen? Bold the ones you've seen, regardless of whether you saw them in the cinema, on TV/video, or on a plane years after they came out.

  1. Ordinary People, Coal Miner's Daughter, The Elephant Man, Raging Bull, Tess
  2. Chariots of Fire, Reds, Atlantic City, On Golden Pond, Raiders of the Lost Ark
  3. Gandhi, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Missing, Tootsie, The Verdict
  4. Terms of Endearment, The Big Chill, The Dresser, The Right Stuff, Tender Mercies
  5. Amadeus, The Killing Fields, A Passage to India, Places in the Heart, A Soldier's Story
  6. Out of Africa, The Color Purple, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Prizzi's Honor, Witness
  7. Platoon, Children of a Lesser God, Hannah and Her Sisters, The Mission, A Room with a View
  8. The Last Emperor, Broadcast News, Fatal Attraction, Hope and Glory, Moonstruck
  9. Rain Man, The Accidental Tourist, Dangerous Liaisons, Mississippi Burning, Working Girl
  10. Driving Miss Daisy, Born on the Fourth of July, Dead Poets Society, Field of Dreams, My Left Foot
  11. Dances with Wolves, Awakenings, Ghost, The Godfather Part III
  12. The Silence of the Lambs, Beauty and the Beast, Bugsy, JFK, The Prince of Tides
  13. Unforgiven, The Crying Game, A Few Good Men, Howards End, Scent of a Woman
  14. Schindler's List, The Fugitive, In the Name of the Father, The Piano, The Remains of the Day
  15. Forrest Gump, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Pulp Fiction, Quiz Show, The Shawshank Redemption
  16. Braveheart, Apollo 13, Babe, Il Postino (The Postman), Sense and Sensibility
  17. The English Patient, Fargo, Jerry Maguire, Secrets & Lies, Shine
  18. Titanic, As Good as It Gets, The Full Monty, Good Will Hunting, L.A. Confidential
  19. Shakespeare in Love, Elizabeth, Life Is Beautiful (La vita è bella), Saving Private Ryan, The Thin Red Line
  20. American Beauty, The Cider House Rules, The Green Mile, The Insider, The Sixth Sense
  21. Gladiator, Chocolat, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Erin Brockovich, Traffic
  22. A Beautiful Mind, Gosford Park, In the Bedroom, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Moulin Rouge
  23. Chicago, Gangs of New York, The Hours, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Pianist
  24. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Lost in Translation, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Mystic River, Seabiscuit
  25. Million Dollar Baby, The Aviator, Finding Neverland, Ray, Sideways
  26. Crash, Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Good Night and Good Luck, Munich
  27. The Departed, Babel, Letters from Iwo Jima, Little Miss Sunshine, The Queen
  28. No Country for Old Men, Atonement, Juno, Michael Clayton, There Will Be Blood
  29. Slumdog Millionaire, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Frost/Nixon, Milk, The Reader
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Friday, February 20th, 2009

Bored Now

Rules:
Use the first letter of your name to respond to each of the following.
They have to be real words… nothing made up!
If the person before you had the same first initial, you must use different answers.
You can't use any word twice.

Your name:Allah Sulu
A four letter word:Atom
A name of the opposite sex:Alice
An occupation:Actor
A color:Azure
Something you wear:Ascot
A food:Antipasto
Something found in the bathroom:Ass
A place:Azerbaijan
A reason for being late:Apathy
Something you shout:Asshole!
A movie title:Aliens
Something you drink:Alcohol
A musical group:Asia
An animal:Ape
A street name:Atlantic Avenue
A type of car:Aston Martin
The title of a song:Albuquerque

Meme ganked (albeit slightly modified) from harleyquinn0608.

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Friday, February 13th, 2009

Writer's Block: Rare Condition

Do you suffer from paraskevidekatriaphobia or know anyone who does?


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Nope. I've always thought that it was bad luck to be superstitious.

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Monday, January 26th, 2009

I Made This One; And Yes, I Am This Oblivious.

And Another )

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Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

Vampires Suck.

Here's somebody's list of Top 70 Vampire Movies of All Time, with the usual marking and commentary. )

They also gave an honorable mention to two vampire TV series I've seen, at least in part; Britain's Ultraviolet and Japan's Hellsing.

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Monday, January 19th, 2009

Is That an Emoticon in 1862?

The New York Times – There has been a lot of recent attention focused on the inspirational quality of Abraham Lincoln's speeches. Perhaps those speeches inspired emoticons a century before they proliferated in the digital world.

A historical newspaper specialist at the digital archival company Proquest believes he has found an example of a sideways winking smiley face embedded in The New York Times transcript of an 1862 speech given by President Lincoln. Other historians are not so sure, saying the semicolon alongside a closed parenthesis is either a mistake or a misinterpretation of something that is perfectly grammatical for that era. Read more... )

Perhaps the typesetter should have embedded "==|;o)>" and left no room for doubt.

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Q's Muse

The best thing about this is that I get to watch all six being created.
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