Crikey! Man am I behind on this one!
–Cliffy
well, with the stated dimensions, the weight would describe a pattern known as “lying motionless on the ground”. So maybe the “L” word is “lackadaisical”.
::grins at Finagle::
Yes. I either meant 75 cm and 15 cm, or I meant that the stand was 10 m high and 10 m apart. 
Those pesky zeroes. For a digit that means nothing, they certainly have the potential to screw things up.
While you’re around, I’d like to amend #21 to be:
Ice cream is at least 10% milkfat, often 12-18%, while iced milk is made with less than 10% milkfat. Sherbet is a 2% milkfat product, and sorbet 0%.
lno: no change
- The “Ghost in the Garrett” lived in his lover’s attic for years before killing her husband, didn’t he?
Otto Sanhuber. also referred to as “Bat Man”.
- Where did Hoss, Adam, and Little Joe hang out?
Viginia City, Nevada or “The Ponderosa”
- On what date was the actor that played the two thousand year old man twenty thousand days old?
4th of april, 1981
- How do you solve a problem like Maria?
Send her out of the Convent, Marry her, and escape over the hills away from the Nazi’s.
- The MTA rides Charlie around Boston, but the MTU refers to how big Ethernet transmission packets can be.
strange one. I’d guess that they are both involved in transport.
- Someone told me that people speak Spanish and Portuguese in the Siberian Peninsula! I thought it would be Russian!
No idea.
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If one and a half chickens can lay one and a half eggs in one and a half days, how many eggs could twelve chickens lay in six days?
-
I grok that sharing water is good.
To grok something is to understand it so profoundly that its nature is intuitively clear to you. heinlein groks.
9. Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
thats, like, profound. (I have no idea)
10. I defied authority to give my brother a proper burial, even though my sister refused to help and my uncle mandated the death penalty for my actions. Although I died, at least it wasn’t from my uncle’s plan of burying me alive; I hung myself. Who am I?
Antigone
- Did Billy really get the Libyans any influence?
Billygate was real gruff.
- What bird did Lacey Davenport’s husband finally get to see before his heart attack?
I don’t know enough doonesbury to answer that
13. In the first phase, one player chooses Physical, Mental, Chance, or Art; the other selects Naked, Tool, Machine, or Animal.
Peirs Anthony is indeed an Adept Apprentice.
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Consider a cube three feet on each side. How many straight cuts are necessary to apply to it in order to create nine one-foot cubes?
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one for each plane, and all the cubes placed together makes the 9th.
-
Who pitched the next perfect game after the only perfect game in a World Series?
Angel Macias.
- Smash a Lifesaver with a hammer and get a flash of light. What’s that called if you’re a scientist?
Triboluminescence, an electromagnetic transfer
- What color cape is worn in full regalia by a Master of the Fourth Degree of the Knights of Columbus?
red cape, white chapeau.
- Yum! Mom says she’s making sweetbreads tonight. I like bread.
Better like meat too, as sweetbreads are the thymus glands of veal, young beef, lamb and pork.
- Finish the SAT analogy question: Dan White is to Harvey Milk as …….
pat boone is to a heavy metal cover.
- What is the next closest Holy Day of Obligation for Roman Catholics?
Today is the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Holy day of obligation. the 1st of November is the next after that, for All saint’s day.
- My mid-term at cooking school wants me to discuss the differences between sherbert, sorbet, ice cream, and iced milk. Help me cheat!
Bring a dictionary.
- “Friendly angel, come to me” – heard during a Star Trek episode?
It was the gorgon’s song, right?
- I only know that I exist; there’s no proof that anyone or anything else is out there. What’s this school of thought?
If I answer this and you reply, would it be proof of your existence?
indeed, would it be proof of mine?
24. Mrs. Malaprop was a fictional character, for all intensive purposes.
“The Rivals” Richard Sheridan (1775)
"Ms. Malaprop thus was a feather-brained lady who possessed a glib tongue. In her efforts to represent the crème de society she appeared comical due to her ludicrous substitution of words. “He is the very pineapple of politeness”, she once described an acquaintance when she meant pinnacle for pineapple. This play which is replete with her verbal slips led the English Dictionary to add a new entry called Malapropism. It means an accidental use of a similar sounding word for another. "
from http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2003/01/13/stories/2003011300340200.htm
- Maggie claims Brick got her pregnant, even though he didn’t – or, more accurately, hadn’t yet.
“cat on a hot tin roof”
- He ended up finding Rachel Wallace kept captive, naked, at the English estate.
Spenser made up for being a terrible bodyguard.
- Veronica Lake was in “The Blue Dahlia,” but who was the Black Dahlia?
Elizabeth Short, and Lucie Arnaz
- Nobody’s perfect – but what about integers that are the sum of their positive proper divisors?
Perfect numbers.
- You could enter their secret hideaway in the junkyard through Red Gate Rover or Green Gate One.
the Jones’ in “Terror Castle”
- My father was the Eddystone Lighthouse keeper – and he had an unusual marriage.
don’t know.
- Guilder And Florin Narrowly Avert War – possible headline?
Congress of vienna, 1837
- Should I trust a film review by noted critics Blaine Edwards and Antoine Merriweather?
No.
-
Who directed the musical about a town in Missouri that contains the show-stopper, “A Penny for Your Thoughts?”
-
Sure, the Harlem Globetrotter always won – but who did they always beat?
the Washington Generals
- Tony and Tia are twins with telepathic and telekinetic power.
Escape to Witch Mountain
36. I know men are horn dogs, but what’s a horn high bet in craps?
A HORN HIGH BET is a wager that has an extra amount on one of the four numbers 2, 3, 11 or 12.
- So I set up a stand with the top ends about one meter apart and one meter tall. To each I connect a thin wire about 750 cm long. I join the two wires at the bottom, and add an additional 150 cm wire length straight down – so the wire forms a ‘Y’ shape. I add a small weight to the bottom of the wire and set it swinging. Describe the shape it will trace in the air. (Extra points for using the “L” word!)
oval.
- Should I have planned a trip from Tacoma to Gig Harbor on November 7th, 1940?
Nah, the bridge collapsed.
- What gold medal high-jump winner did Hitler probably refuse to congratulate, choosing instead to leave the stadium? (Being mindful here of urban legends and truth!)
Jessie Owens.
- What was the mouse that roared?
the Irish Easter Rebellion.
41. I first saw her as a chorus girl in “Floradora,” and was enthralled. I might have gone a bit far when I drugged her champagne and took her virginity, since she was only sixteen and I was a married middle-aged man. But, hey, I was rich. And I didn’t mind that she ended up marrying another guy, but I did sort of object when he ended up killing me and got off on an insanity plea.
-
In the spirit of question 24, my boss is a real meanie – a regular Simon Filigree.
-
Suicide is painless?
It takes on many changes.
the theme song from MASH, written by a 14 year old boy.
- According to J. K. Rowling, what’s an example of an unforgiveable curse?
“Ho, you’re as good as your sister”.
- Consider a square formed by the lines y=1, y=2, x=2, and x=2. Rotate that square about the y-axis and find the volume of the resulting solid.
It would be the same, as it is a triangle.
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What musical theater character embarrasses her companions at the Ascot races by announcing that gin was mother’s milk to one of her relatives?
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Good thing Crazy Tom got kicked off the ticket, eh?
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Tara Hartwick, Lon Oliver, Carrie Seaver – where did they live?
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Constantine, Mithraism, Christianity. Discuss.
-
Skyrockets in flight, Starland vocals, what do you end up with?
afternoon delight.
number 7 is actually 72.
- Thymus, thyroid, they’re both sweetbreads and both yummy.
TwistofFate: 21
lno: +1, I think…
- The ‘Ghost in the Garrett’ lived in his lover’s attic for years before killing her husband, didn’t he?
Otto Sanhuber, also referred to as “Bat Man”.
2. Where did Hoss, Adam, and Little Joe hang out?
The Ponderosa.
- On what date was the actor that played the two thousand year old man twenty thousand days old?
March 31, 1981.
- How do you solve a problem like Maria?
Marry her off to some widower with a pack of kids and let her scamper over the mountains to Switzerland, singing the whole time.
- The MTA rides Charlie around Boston, but the MTU refers to how big Ethernet transmission packets can be.
The MTA…better known as the Metropolitan Transit Authority, raised the fare in the middle of Charlie’s ride. When he got there the conductor told him one more nickel, Charlie couldn’t get off that train. He never returned. MTU is a maximum transmission unit.
- Someone told me that people speak Spanish and Portuguese in the Siberian Peninsula! I thought it would be Russian!
Tsk, tsk, that person had a bit of a lisp when he said Iberian peninsula.
- If one and a half chickens can lay one and a half eggs in one and a half days, how many eggs could twelve chickens lay in six days?
One hen can lay one egg in a day and a half, so 12 hens can lay Forty-eight in six days.
- I grok that sharing water is good.
But you’re still a stranger in a strange land.
- Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
Yeah, maybe your parents love you, Robert Frost.
- I defied authority to give my brother a proper burial, even though my sister refused to help and my uncle mandated the death penalty for my actions. Although I died, at least it wasn’t from my uncle’s plan of burying me alive; I hung myself. Who am I?
Antigone.
- Did Billy really get the Libyans any influence?
If only Jeb Bush could embarrass his brother as much as Billy Carter did. His only influence was creating his novelty brand of beer.
- What bird did Lacey Davenport’s husband finally get to see before his heart attack?
Bachman’s Warbler.
- In the first phase, one player chooses Physical, Mental, Chance, or Art; the other selects Naked, Tool, Machine, or Animal.
That’s the most common pastime on Piers Anthony’s Photon.
- Consider a cube three feet on each side. How many straight cuts are necessary to apply to it in order to create nine one-foot cubes?
Five. Four slices to make a tic-tac-toe grid, then a slice off the top to make 9 cubes.
- Who pitched the next perfect game after the only perfect game in a World Series?
Don Cardwell 5/15/1960 Chicago 4 vs. St. Louis 0.
- Smash a Lifesaver with a hammer and get a flash of light. What’s that called if you’re a scientist?
Triboluminescense.
- What color cape is worn in full regalia by a Master of the Fourth Degree of the Knights of Columbus?
Gold.
- Yum! Mom says she’s making sweetbreads tonight. I like bread.
But do you like thyroid glands and pancreas?
- Finish the SAT analogy question: Dan White is to Harvey Milk as …
Sirhan Sirhan is to Robert Kennedy
- What is the next closest Holy Day of Obligation for Roman Catholics?
Since the challenge was posed on the 14th, the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Friday Aug 15.
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My mid-term at cooking school wants me to discuss the differences between sherbert, sorbet, ice cream, and iced milk. Help me cheat!
Sherbert has a small amount of milk solids along with sugar/flavorings/etc. Sorbet is similar, but without milk solids. Ice cream is a pasteurized mix frozen by agitation, and ice milk is ‘light’ or ‘reduced fat’ ice cream. -
“Friendly angel, come to me” - heard during a Star Trek episode?
And the Children Shall Lead. -
I only know that I exist; there’s no proof that anyone or anything else is out there. What’s this school of thought?
Solipsism. But why am I providing definitions for these voices in my head?
- Mrs. Malaprop was a fictional character, for all intensive purposes.
From the 1775 Restoration comedy, The Rivals, by Richard Sheridan. The self-educated Mrs. Malaprop was always substituting a similar-sounding word for the word that she intended to use.
- Maggie claims Brick got her pregnant, even though he didn’t - or, more accurately, hadn’t yet.
From “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”.
- He ended up finding Rachel Wallace kept captive, naked, at the English estate.
Spenser.
- Veronica Lake was in The Blue Dahlia, but who was the Black Dahlia?
Aspiring actress Elizabeth Short, nicknamed the “Black Dahlia,” was the victim in a notorious 1947 murder case. (The name was a play on the 1946 movie The Blue Dahlia, written by Raymond Chandler.) On January 15 of 1947 Short’s body was discovered in a Los Angeles vacant lot, cut in two at the waist and severely mutilated. The gruesome nature of the crime and the Hollywood connection made the case a public sensation. The case was never officially solved, but became famous for the number of people who falsely “admitted” to the killing. James Ellroy’s 1987 novel The Black Dahlia is a work of fiction based on the Short murder.
28. Nobody’s perfect - but what about integers that are the sum of their positive proper divisors?
That’d be a perfect number.
- You could enter their secret hideaway in the junkyard through Red Gate Rover or Green Gate One.
Alfred Hitchcock’s “Three Investigators” hideout at the Jones Salvage Yard.
- My father was the Eddystone Lighthouse keeper - and he had an unusual marriage.
With a porpoise and a porgy as my siblings, growing up was pretty rough.
- Guilder And Florin Narrowly Avert War - possible headline?
And he would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for that darn meddling Wesley.
- Should I trust a film review by noted critics Blaine Edwards and Antoine Merriweather?
The characters Blaine Edwards and Antoine Merriweather are portrayed by Damon Wayans and David Alan Grier. Only trust their review if you are interested in getting the male point of view.
- Who directed the musical about a town in Missouri that contains the show-stopper, ‘A Penny for Your Thoughts?’
Corky St Claire.
- Sure, the Harlem Globetrotter always won - but who did they always beat?
The Washington Generals, and Krusty should never have bet on them. They weren’t due.
- Tony and Tia are twins with telepathic and telekinetic power.
Okay, they escaped to Witch Mountain. But where’s the ten sequels?
- I know men are horn dogs, but what’s a horn high bet in craps?
A bet that has an extra amount on one of the four numbers 2, 3, 11, 12. $5 horn high twelve means a dollar upon three of the numbers and $2 on 12.
-
So I set up a stand with the top ends about one meter apart and one meter tall. To each I connect a thin wire about 750 cm long. I join the two wires at the bottom, and add an additional 150 cm wire length straight down - so the wire forms a ‘Y’ shape. I add a small weight to the bottom of the wire and set it swinging. Describe the shape it will trace in the air. (Extra points for using the ‘L’ word!)
Lissajou. (Thanks, Finagle!) -
Should I have planned a trip from Tacoma to Gig Harbor on November 7th, 1940?
No. Galloping Gertie would have made it very unpleasant.
- What gold medal high-jump winner did Hitler probably refuse to congratulate, choosing instead to leave the stadium? (Being mindful here of urban legends and truth!)
Cornelius Johnson.
- What was the mouse that roared?
The Duchy of Grand Fenwick, which decided to declare war on the US, lose, and then get cash for reconstruction.
- I first saw her as a chorus girl in ‘Floradora,’ and was enthralled. I might have gone a bit far when I drugged her champagne and took her virginity, since she was only sixteen and I was a married middle-aged man. But, hey, I was rich. And I didn’t mind that she ended up marrying another guy, but I did sort of object when he ended up killing me and got off on an insanity plea.
Your own damn fault, Stanford White.
- In the spirit of question 24, my boss is a real meanie - a regular Simon Filigree.
Or Simon Legree, the sadistic overseer from Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
- Suicide is painless?
And I can take or leave it if I please.
- According to J. K. Rowling, what’s an example of an unforgiveable curse?
The Cruciatis Curse. Use one and it’s off to Azkaban.
- Consider a square formed by the lines y=1, y=2, x=2, and x=2. Rotate that square about the y-axis and find the volume of the resulting solid.
Assuming you meant x=1 for one of those, the volume is 3pi.
- What musical theater character embarrasses her companions at the Ascot races by announcing that gin was mother’s milk to one of her relatives?
Eliza Doolittle.
- Good thing Crazy Tom got kicked off the ticket, eh?
Oh, be nice to Tom DeLay. He’s not just some crazy guy.
- Tara Hartwick, Lon Oliver, Carrie Seaver - where did they live?
The Spot.
- Constantine, Mithraism, Christianity. Discuss.
Mithraism was a religion of the late roman empire, with many similiarities to christianity:
A divine lord by whose deeds, performed once, man was assured of salvation,
A sacramental meal,
A ritual of baptism,
A concept of religion that could liken the religious life to enlistment and service under a divine commander, like militia Christi or militia Mithrae,
Their ideas of heaven and hell and of the Last Judgement were not dissimilar,
A moral code considerably higher and more rigid than that found in a contemporary society or required by most other cults,
The spiritual leader of the hierarchically organized Mithras religion was entitled Pater Patrum, ‘Father of Fathers’ - like the Roman Pope,
Pope’s church - Church of St Peter - was built over a Mithraic cult site.
The Mithras cult had six other sacraments which corresponded completely with those of the Catholic Church - including a slap during confirmation.
Constantine chose Christianity over Mithraism, and so we have ceremonial drinking of wine and eating of bread, rather than bathing in bull’s blood.
- Skyrockets in flight, Starland vocals, what do you end up with?
Why wait until the middle of the cold dark night? An afternoon delight.
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Maximum tranmission unit, or the packet that never returned.
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Four. With stacking, of course. Great question by the way.
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Vida Blue is to Halle Berry, or
Hugo Black is to Ma Kettle -
The Cruciatis Curse. Use one and it’s off to Azkaban.
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It didn’t much matter if Constantine chose M or C, he still would have had a cross as his symbol in battle.
lno: please repost your current set; I have a feeling I’ve scored you incorrectly
lemur866: 48
Shoot. I miscounted…
- Five.
(I gotta start working these things out in pencil, not ink…)
Correction:
- Sweetbreads are thymus glands and pancreas, not thyroid.
Sorry, Bricker. Here’s my whole guess to make it easier for you.1. The ‘Ghost in the Garrett’ lived in his lover’s attic for years before killing her husband, didn’t he?
Otto Sanhuber, also referred to as “Bat Man”.
-
Where did Hoss, Adam, and Little Joe hang out?
The Ponderosa. -
On what date was the actor that played the two thousand year old man twenty thousand days old?
March 31, 1981. -
How do you solve a problem like Maria?
Get her from a nunnery so that she’ll stop that godawful caterwauling -
The MTA rides Charlie around Boston, but the MTU refers to how big Ethernet transmission packets can be.
Maximum transmission unit, or the packet that never returned. -
Someone told me that people speak Spanish and Portuguese in the Siberian Peninsula! I thought it would be Russian!
Tsk, tsk, that person had a bit of a lisp when he said Iberian peninsula. -
If one and a half chickens can lay one and a half eggs in one and a half days, how many eggs could twelve chickens lay in six days?
-
I grok that sharing water is good.
But you’re still a stranger in a strange land. -
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
Yeah, maybe your parents love you, Robert Frost. -
I defied authority to give my brother a proper burial, even though my sister refused to help and my uncle mandated the death penalty for my actions. Although I died, at least it wasn’t from my uncle’s plan of burying me alive; I hung myself. Who am I?
Antigone. -
Did Billy really get the Libyans any influence?
If only Jeb Bush could embarrass his brother as much as Billy Carter did. His only influence was creating his novelty brand of beer. -
What bird did Lacey Davenport’s husband finally get to see before his heart attack?
Bachman’s Warbler. -
In the first phase, one player chooses Physical, Mental, Chance, or Art; the other selects Naked, Tool, Machine, or Animal.
That’s the most common pastime on Piers Anthony’s Photon. -
Consider a cube three feet on each side. How many straight cuts are necessary to apply to it in order to create nine one-foot cubes?
Five. -
Who pitched the next perfect game after the only perfect game in a World Series?
Don Cardwell 5/15/1960 Chicago 4 vs. St. Louis 0. -
Smash a Lifesaver with a hammer and get a flash of light. What’s that called if you’re a scientist?
Triboluminescense. -
What color cape is worn in full regalia by a Master of the Fourth Degree of the Knights of Columbus?
Gold. -
Yum! Mom says she’s making sweetbreads tonight. I like bread.
But do you like thyroid glands and pancreas? -
Finish the SAT analogy question: Dan White is to Harvey Milk as …
Vida Blue is to Halle Berry, or
Hugo Black is to Ma Kettle. -
What is the next closest Holy Day of Obligation for Roman Catholics?
Since the challenge was posed on the 14th, the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Friday Aug 15. -
My mid-term at cooking school wants me to discuss the differences between sherbert, sorbet, ice cream, and iced milk. Help me cheat!
Sherbert has a small amount of milk solids along with sugar/flavorings/etc. Sorbet is similar, but without milk solids. Ice cream is a pasteurized mix frozen by agitation, and ice milk is ‘light’ or ‘reduced fat’ ice cream. -
“Friendly angel, come to me” - heard during a Star Trek episode?
And the Children Shall Lead. -
I only know that I exist; there’s no proof that anyone or anything else is out there. What’s this school of thought?
Solipsism. -
Mrs. Malaprop was a fictional character, for all intensive purposes.
But Norm Crosby was a real comic, who illicited much laughter. -
Maggie claims Brick got her pregnant, even though he didn’t - or, more accurately, hadn’t yet.
From “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”. -
He ended up finding Rachel Wallace kept captive, naked, at the English estate.
Spenser. -
Veronica Lake was in The Blue Dahlia, but who was the Black Dahlia?
Elizabeth Short. -
Nobody’s perfect - but what about integers that are the sum of their positive proper divisors?
That’d be a perfect number. -
You could enter their secret hideaway in the junkyard through Red Gate Rover or Green Gate One.
Alfred Hitchcock’s “Three Investigators” hideout at the Jones Salvage Yard. -
My father was the Eddystone Lighthouse keeper - and he had an unusual marriage.
With a porpoise and a porgy as my siblings, growing up was pretty rough. -
Guilder And Florin Narrowly Avert War - possible headline?
And he would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for that darn meddling Wesley. -
Should I trust a film review by noted critics Blaine Edwards and Antoine Merriweather?
The characters Blaine Edwards and Antoine Merriweather are portrayed by Damon Wayans and David Alan Grier. Only trust their review if you are interested in getting the male point of view. -
Who directed the musical about a town in Missouri that contains the show-stopper, ‘A Penny for Your Thoughts?’
Corky St Claire. -
Sure, the Harlem Globetrotter always won - but who did they always beat?
The Washington Generals, and Krusty should never have bet on them. They weren’t due. -
Tony and Tia are twins with telepathic and telekinetic power.
Okay, they escaped to Witch Mountain. But where’s the ten sequels? -
I know men are horn dogs, but what’s a horn high bet in craps?
A bet that has an extra amount on one of the four numbers 2, 3, 11, 12. $5 horn high twelve means a dollar upon three of the numbers and $2 on 12. -
So I set up a stand with the top ends about one meter apart and one meter tall. To each I connect a thin wire about 750 cm long. I join the two wires at the bottom, and add an additional 150 cm wire length straight down - so the wire forms a ‘Y’ shape. I add a small weight to the bottom of the wire and set it swinging. Describe the shape it will trace in the air. (Extra points for using the ‘L’ word!)
Lissajou. (Thanks, Finagle!) -
Should I have planned a trip from Tacoma to Gig Harbor on November 7th, 1940?
No. Galloping Gertie would have made it very unpleasant. -
What gold medal high-jump winner did Hitler probably refuse to congratulate, choosing instead to leave the stadium? (Being mindful here of urban legends and truth!)
Cornelius Johnson. -
What was the mouse that roared?
The Duchy of Grand Fenwick, which decided to declare war on the US, lose, and then get cash for reconstruction. -
I first saw her as a chorus girl in ‘Floradora,’ and was enthralled. I might have gone a bit far when I drugged her champagne and took her virginity, since she was only sixteen and I was a married middle-aged man. But, hey, I was rich. And I didn’t mind that she ended up marrying another guy, but I did sort of object when he ended up killing me and got off on an insanity plea.
Your own damn fault, Stanford White. -
In the spirit of question 24, my boss is a real meanie - a regular Simon Filigree.
Or Simon Legree, the sadistic overseer from Uncle Tom’s Cabin. -
Suicide is painless?
And I can take or leave it if I please. -
According to J. K. Rowling, what’s an example of an unforgiveable curse?
The Cruciatis Curse. Use one and it’s off to Azkaban. -
Consider a square formed by the lines y=1, y=2, x=2, and x=2. Rotate that square about the y-axis and find the volume of the resulting solid.
Assuming you meant x=1 for one of those, the volume is 3pi. -
What musical theater character embarrasses her companions at the Ascot races by announcing that gin was mother’s milk to one of her relatives?
Eliza Doolittle. -
Good thing Crazy Tom got kicked off the ticket, eh?
Oh, be nice to Tom DeLay. He’s not just some crazy guy. -
Tara Hartwick, Lon Oliver, Carrie Seaver - where did they live?
The Spot. -
Constantine, Mithraism, Christianity. Discuss.
It didn’t much matter if Constantine chose Mithraism or Christianity, he still would have had a cross as his symbol in battle and conquered in that sign. -
Skyrockets in flight, Starland vocals, what do you end up with?
Why wait until the middle of the cold dark night? An afternoon delight.
Here you go, Bricker.
-
The ‘Ghost in the Garrett’ lived in his lover’s attic for years before killing her husband, didn’t he?
It was a nice place for him to starve himself, at least. -
Where did Hoss, Adam, and Little Joe hang out?
The Ponderosa. -
On what date was the actor that played the two thousand year old man twenty thousand days old?
March 31, 1981. -
How do you solve a problem like Maria?
How do you take a cloud and pin it down? You could always just tell her, “Get thee from a nunnery!” -
The MTA rides Charlie around Boston, but the MTU refers to how big Ethernet transmission packets can be.
That’d be a maximum transmission unit, bob. -
Someone told me that people speak Spanish and Portuguese in the Siberian Peninsula! I thought it would be Russian!
Tsk, tsk, that person had a bit of a lisp when he said Iberian peninsula. -
If one and a half chickens can lay one and a half eggs in one and a half days, how many eggs could twelve chickens lay in six days?
Forty-eight. -
I grok that sharing water is good.
But you’re still a stranger in a strange land. -
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
Yeah, maybe your parents love you, Robert Frost. -
I defied authority to give my brother a proper burial, even though my sister refused to help and my uncle mandated the death penalty for my actions. Although I died, at least it wasn’t from my uncle’s plan of burying me alive; I hung myself. Who am I?
Antigone. -
Did Billy really get the Libyans any influence?
If only Jeb Bush could embarrass his brother as much as Billy Carter did. Damn Jewish media. -
What bird did Lacey Davenport’s husband finally get to see before his heart attack?
Bachman’s Warbler. -
In the first phase, one player chooses Physical, Mental, Chance, or Art; the other selects Naked, Tool, Machine, or Animal.
That’s the most common pastime on Photon. Ah, The Game. -
Consider a cube three feet on each side. How many straight cuts are necessary to apply to it in order to create nine one-foot cubes?
Five. -
Who pitched the next perfect game after the only perfect game in a World Series?
Don Cardwell 5/15/1960 Chicago 4 vs. St. Louis 0. -
Smash a Lifesaver with a hammer and get a flash of light. What’s that called if you’re a scientist?
Triboluminescense. -
What color cape is worn in full regalia by a Master of the Fourth Degree of the Knights of Columbus?
Gold. -
Yum! Mom says she’s making sweetbreads tonight. I like bread.
Mmm, thymus, that’s good eatin’. -
Finish the SAT analogy question: Dan White is to Harvey Milk as …
Jack Ruby is to Lee Harvey Oswald. -
What is the next closest Holy Day of Obligation for Roman Catholics?
Well, depending on when this challenge is over… Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Friday Aug 15. -
My mid-term at cooking school wants me to discuss the differences between sherbert, sorbet, ice cream, and iced milk. Help me cheat!
Ice cream is at least 10% milkfat, while iced milk is made with less than 10% milkfat. Sherbet is a 2% milkfat product, and sorbet 0%. -
“Friendly angel, come to me” - heard during a Star Trek episode?
And the children shall come to me. -
I only know that I exist; there’s no proof that anyone or anything else is out there. What’s this school of thought?
Solipsism. -
Mrs. Malaprop was a fictional character, for all intensive purposes.
She should of illicited some laughter, though. -
Maggie claims Brick got her pregnant, even though he didn’t - or, more accurately, hadn’t yet.
Now that’s a cat on a hot tin roof.
…okay, that made no sense. -
He ended up finding Rachel Wallace kept captive, naked, at the English estate.
Spenser. -
Veronica Lake was in The Blue Dahlia, but who was the Black Dahlia?
Elizabeth Short. -
Nobody’s perfect - but what about integers that are the sum of their positive proper divisors?
That’d be a perfect number. -
You could enter their secret hideaway in the junkyard through Red Gate Rover or Green Gate One.
The three investigators. -
My father was the Eddystone Lighthouse keeper - and he had an unusual marriage.
With a porpoise and a porgy as my siblings, growing up was pretty rough. -
Guilder And Florin Narrowly Avert War - possible headline?
And he would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for that darn meddling Wesley. -
Should I trust a film review by noted critics Blaine Edwards and Antoine Merriweather?
What’s wrong with Men On The Flintstones? It’s a gay old time. -
Who directed the musical about a town in Missouri that contains the show-stopper, ‘A Penny for Your Thoughts?’
Corky St Claire. -
Sure, the Harlem Globetrotter always won - but who did they always beat?
The Washington Generals, and Krusty should never have bet on them. They weren’t due. -
Tony and Tia are twins with telepathic and telekinetic power.
Okay, they escaped to Witch Mountain. But where’s the ten sequels? -
I know men are horn dogs, but what’s a horn high bet in craps?
A bet that has an extra amount on one of the four numbers 2, 3, 11, 12. $5 horn high twelve means a dollar upon three of the numbers and $2 on 12. -
So I set up a stand with the top ends about one meter apart and one meter tall. To each I connect a thin wire about 750 cm long. I join the two wires at the bottom, and add an additional 150 cm wire length straight down - so the wire forms a ‘Y’ shape. I add a small weight to the bottom of the wire and set it swinging. Describe the shape it will trace in the air. (Extra points for using the ‘L’ word!)
Lissajou. (Thanks, Finagle!) -
Should I have planned a trip from Tacoma to Gig Harbor on November 7th, 1940?
Only if you like driving off of the Tacoma Narrows. -
What gold medal high-jump winner did Hitler probably refuse to congratulate, choosing instead to leave the stadium? (Being mindful here of urban legends and truth!)
Cornelius Johnson. -
What was the mouse that roared?
Grand Fenwick, which decided to declare war on the US, lose, and then get cash for reconstruction. -
I first saw her as a chorus girl in ‘Floradora,’ and was enthralled. I might have gone a bit far when I drugged her champagne and took her virginity, since she was only sixteen and I was a married middle-aged man. But, hey, I was rich. And I didn’t mind that she ended up marrying another guy, but I did sort of object when he ended up killing me and got off on an insanity plea.
Your own damn fault, Stanford White. -
In the spirit of question 24, my boss is a real meanie - a regular Simon Filigree.
Or Simon Legree. Whichever. -
Suicide is painless?
And I can take or leave it if I please. -
According to J. K. Rowling, what’s an example of an unforgiveable curse?
The Imperius Curse is one. -
Consider a square formed by the lines y=1, y=2, x=2, and x=2. Rotate that square about the y-axis and find the volume of the resulting solid.
Assuming you meant x=1 for one of those, the volume is 3pi. -
What musical theater character embarrasses her companions at the Ascot races by announcing that gin was mother’s milk to one of her relatives?
Eliza Doolittle. -
Good thing Crazy Tom got kicked off the ticket, eh?
Oh, be nice to Tom DeLay. He’s not just some crazy guy. -
Tara Hartwick, Lon Oliver, Carrie Seaver - where did they live?
The Spot. -
Constantine, Mithraism, Christianity. Discuss.
In hoc signo vinces, beyotch. -
Skyrockets in flight, Starland vocals, what do you end up with?
An afternoon delight.
I know which one’s wrong, but I have absolutely no idea how to find the answer. Is that good enough?
–Cliffy
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Same way you hold a moonbeam in your hand. You can’t.
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That’s Iberian.
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48
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Antigone, daughter of Oedipus Rex.
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Exactly five cuts. Four for the tic-tac-toe of one side, and one cut one foot deep.
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Increased entropy of the lifesaver. :dubious:
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Premonition . . . or time travel.
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Like the number 6.
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. . . not unless you can ask them in person. (Fake people.)
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Corky St. Clair, of course.
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A buncha white guys (Senators).
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That’s one shaky vacation.
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You have a tube with no thickness. So, zero.
#43. Writen by the 14 year old son of Robert Altman, director of MASH, which
co-stared Tom Skerritt, who was in Top Gun, which stared Tom Cruise, who was
in A Few Good Men, which co-stared Kevin Bacon.
That should up my score to 2!
Correction for 21:
Ice cream is at least 10% milkfat, while iced milk is made with less than 10% milkfat. Sherbet is a 2% milkfat product, and sorbet 0%.