Which of the following recipes from the Nero Wolfe novels are you most eager to try?
Eggs au beurre noir with hash browns
Saucisse minuit
Terrapin stewed with butter, chicken broth and sherry
Kidneys mountain style with caramelized dumplings
Creole tripe of New Orleans
Planked porterhouse steak two inches thick, with fresh limes encompassed with mashed potatoes
Tennessee opossum
Missouri Boone County ham baked with vinegar, molasses Worcestershire, sweet cider and herbs
Philadelphia snapper soup
Shad roe aux fine herbes
Bacalhau
Capon souvaroff with black truffles
Shad roe mousse Pocahontas
Lobster cardinal
Archie’s corned beef sandwich on rye with a tall glass of milk
An unmentioned delicacy
You’re in a relationship with a billionaire, but turns out he/she only likes to live a normal life. Drives a Toyota, lives in a 2-bedroom 2-bath house, never does anything that’s not middle-class. And he/she does not intend to change that if you marry them. Are you pleased or disappointed?
You must give up one of these vehicle options forever:
Backup camera
Cruise control
Electric windows
Intermittent wipers
pjd
December 5, 2022, 2:09pm
2469
You must give up one of these vehicle options forever:
Automatically self cancelling turn signals. Bastards.
Which is it better to be?
Gyrate
December 5, 2022, 3:24pm
2471
You must give up one of these things forever:
Polls that force you to decide which of several nice things to give up forever
Pie
silenus
December 5, 2022, 4:20pm
2472
What is the proper fortifier to egg nog?
Rum
Brandy
Bourbon
Schnapps
Irish
Nothing - egg nog is fine on its own
Nothing - egg nog is gross
Some other option I didn’t think of
How much do you care about the prestige and name recognition of a university you are applying to (i.e., Harvard vs. Wichita State?)
a lot
somewhat
little to none at all
A genie offers to change your appearance. What’ll it be?
Change nothing
Hair thickness/amount
Hair color
Height
Skin color
Eye color
Facial appearance
Shoe size
The genie offers to take off any excess weight, too, if you like. You say:
1-5 pounds
6-10 pounds
None; I like my current weight
11-20 pounds
21-50 pounds
More than 50 pounds
If you were feeling a little ill, would you be more likely to say, “I’m coming down with something” or “I’m coming down”?
“coming down with something”
just “coming down”
I might say either.
I would say neither
other
You must give up one of these vehicle options forever:
Backup camera
Electric windows
Intermittent wipers
Who would you rather vote for as the mascot of a new breakfast cereal? The mascot would have a cute name (e.g., BooBerry) and the cereal would taste like sugary drek (e.g. BooBerry).
a liberal vampire
a conservative werewolf
an anarchist zombie
a communist ghost
a fascist witch
a libertarian Frankenstein’s monster
What’s your favorite scene from Month Python and the Holy Grail ? Yes, I am forcing you to pick just one.
The guards debating whether a swallow could carry a coconut
The undertaker (“I’m not dead.”)
Dennis explaining the anarcho-syndicalist commune (“Help! Help! I’m being repressed!”)
The Black Knight
Bedevere explaining how to tell if someone is a witch.
The French Knights (Including the Trojan Rabbit bit)
The Knights Who Say “Ni!”
The three headed knight
The Castle Anthrax
Lancelot attacking the wedding party to rescue the prince
Tim The Enchanter
The Killer Rabbit and the Holy Hand Grenade
The part where the knights are chased by animated monsters, until the animator dies of a sudden heart attack.
The Bridge of Death
Castle Arrrrg occupied by the French
Arthur getting arrested by modern day police
A scene that I forgot to include. How naughty of me! This is punishable by a spanking!
I’ve somehow never seen this movie. This is punishable by being said “Ni!” to.