# Anyone fill in the XKCD survey? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 2, 2015, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-fill-in-the-xkcd-survey/729712 "2015-09-02T15:47:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-fill-in-the-xkcd-survey/729712/41 "2015-09-02T18:45:09Z")
Did everyone get the wall color right? (It was beige) ETA: they may give partial credit for eggshell. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-fill-in-the-xkcd-survey/729712/42 "2015-09-02T18:45:28Z")
I was troubled by the use of the word “random” but I just went ahead and type a bunch of keys without thinking about it too much. Also, Warren Beatty who I dislike but not as much as I dislike Tom Cruise. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-fill-in-the-xkcd-survey/729712/43 "2015-09-02T18:47:18Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Did everyone get the wall color right? (It was beige) Apartment White > [@74westy](#): > > I was troubled by the use of the word “random” but I just went ahead and type a bunch of keys without thinking about it too much. I was bothered that I couldn’t actually fill the box, 'cause it started scrolling down to new lines. I may need my medication adjusted. ---
**Author:** ![BetsQ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@BetsQ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BetsQ)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-fill-in-the-xkcd-survey/729712/44 "2015-09-02T18:47:28Z")
I went with Jennifer Lawrence for the movie star. And typed cat sans quotes, because if quotation marks aren’t going to be respected we end up with them being used everywhere for emphasis and that’s not OK. (Apparently I have strong feelings about quotation marks.) Very much looking forward to playing with the data. ---
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-fill-in-the-xkcd-survey/729712/45 "2015-09-02T18:48:47Z")
did anyone else type five random words ---
**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-fill-in-the-xkcd-survey/729712/46 "2015-09-02T18:49:43Z")
Hmmm… I put Tom Cruise too. I don’t like him as a person and am mixed about him as an actor, but it is a pretty safe bet that I will like movies that he is in. Vanilla Sky and Eyes Wide Shut are the only two I can think of that I disliked. He’s a reliable way to enjoyably waste a couple hours. I just wrote cat without any quotes. It never even occurred\* to me that there would be a trick there. - which happens to be the word I always misspell the first time I type it. For favorite number… I’m always saying “47” anytime I mean “a really long list of things.” (Example “that guy just broke 47 traffic laws” or “there are 47 ways to get cancer.”) So I went ahead and put that. On the second favorite number, I put 42. It’s not so much a favorite, but it’s a nice shout-out to Douglas Adams. For the record, my five random words were: this is weird two more ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-fill-in-the-xkcd-survey/729712/47 "2015-09-02T18:50:53Z")
1. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-fill-in-the-xkcd-survey/729712/48 "2015-09-02T18:51:16Z")
> [@Critical1](#): > > did anyone else type five random words Well, pseudorandom. But with very high entropy. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-fill-in-the-xkcd-survey/729712/49 "2015-09-02T18:52:05Z")
How long did you key mash? The text entry box expands, so I’m wondering if it had a character limit. I quit after expanding it to just a few extra lines. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-fill-in-the-xkcd-survey/729712/50 "2015-09-02T18:53:40Z")
Brad Pitt was the first to popped into my head. Random words refused to enter my mind so I typed the first five words my eye fell on. The first two being ammonium and lactate. ---
**Author:** ![sitchensis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sitchensis/32/4892_2.png) [@sitchensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sitchensis)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-fill-in-the-xkcd-survey/729712/51 "2015-09-02T18:55:49Z")
Tom Cruise for me, and I hate that guy as well ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-fill-in-the-xkcd-survey/729712/52 "2015-09-02T18:57:47Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > How long did you key mash? The text entry box expands, so I’m wondering if it had a character limit. I quit after expanding it to just a few extra lines. I did it until I filled the originally displayed box. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-fill-in-the-xkcd-survey/729712/53 "2015-09-02T18:58:09Z")
For the movie star, I picked The Movie Star: Ginger Grant. My random words included “Oddment” (one of the “few words” Dumbledore would like to say during his speech), “syzygy” and “plectrum” just because I like those words, and “battery”, which I am assured is [guaranteed](https://xkcd.com/221/) to be [random](https://xkcd.com/936/). I can’t remember the fifth word I chose. I wasn’t sure what to put about the upper-body-garment I’m wearing, it being nonexistant, so I entered “N/A”. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-fill-in-the-xkcd-survey/729712/54 "2015-09-02T18:59:21Z")
I wrote Robert DeNiro for the movie star. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-fill-in-the-xkcd-survey/729712/55 "2015-09-02T18:59:35Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > How long did you key mash? The text entry box expands, so I’m wondering if it had a character limit. I quit after expanding it to just a few extra lines. It had a character limit. I reached it eventually. (After accidentally searching for gibberish, toggling caps lock repeatedly, tabbing to other questions, opening new tabs, opening new windows in private mode, putting my browser into full-screen mode…) ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-fill-in-the-xkcd-survey/729712/56 "2015-09-02T19:04:45Z")
When I realized the box expands, I deleted the last few characters, then added some new ones in until the addition of one more character triggered the box expansion, because it said “fill this box”, dammit. Ain’t I quirky! ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-fill-in-the-xkcd-survey/729712/57 "2015-09-02T19:06:02Z")
> [@mcgato](#): > > I did it. I just typed cat, as I was trying to get through it quickly. My celebrity pick was Scarlett Johansson. I wonder how many people will pick females for that question. I picked Jennifer Lawrence which sort of surprised me since I have no special interest in her films but I guess E! News and the supermarket checkout line won that round. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-fill-in-the-xkcd-survey/729712/58 "2015-09-02T19:09:17Z")
Wow. You all would hate me because I typed a line and a half of nonsense and then C and Ped it until the box started scrolling and called it a day. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-fill-in-the-xkcd-survey/729712/59 "2015-09-02T19:19:01Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > My random words included “Oddment” (one of the “few words” Dumbledore would like to say during his speech), “syzygy” and “plectrum” just because I like those words, and “battery”, which I am assured is [guaranteed](https://xkcd.com/221/) to be [random](https://xkcd.com/936/). I can’t remember the fifth word I chose. I don’t remember four of my words, but the middle one was Dumbledore. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-fill-in-the-xkcd-survey/729712/60 "2015-09-02T19:21:19Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > I don’t remember four of my words, but the middle one was Dumbledore. 😉 The word “random” and four of its synonyms. Yes, I’m criticized for being too literal. Why do you ask? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-fill-in-the-xkcd-survey/729712.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-fill-in-the-xkcd-survey/729712.md?page=4)