Probably. I haven’t checked the 'Net for this stuff, so it could in fact be insanely easy. Regardless, the first one to answer all five questions correctly wins a prize, the nature of which will be determined later. Here ya go:
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[li]What is Big Jelly doing? Where?[/li][li]How many more did Tuffy get?[/li][li]What could be in Tele, but probably isn’t?[/li][li]What are the Rules 42?[/li][li]Sickle, millstone, hacksaw: Gaudere or Polycarp? Why?[/li][/ol]
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[li]What is Big Jelly doing? Where?[/li][li]How many more did Tuffy get?[/li][li]What could be in Tele, but probably isn’t?[/li][li]What are the Rules 42?[/li][li]Sickle, millstone, hacksaw: Gaudere or Polycarp? Why?[/li][/ol]
1 - Residing on my English muffin.
2 - More than he deserved.
3 - The Jack Batty Show featuring Big Earl and The Flapjack Weenies.
4 - One less than the Rules 43
5 - Because a vest has no sleeves.
How’d I do?
Thrash got #3. A creature the natives call mokele-mbembe supposedly dwells in and around Lake Tele of the Republic of Congo. There’ve been several expeditions to the region, with mixed results–foreigners really haven’t come close enough to the area for a long enough period of time to see anything, and we tend not to believe second-hand reports.
Also residing in the area, according to stories, are the emela ntouka (“killer of elephants”), a herbivore which, well, kills elephants with its deadly horn; nguma monene, an enormous serpent-like reptile said to have been observed by an American missionary in 1971; and mbielu mbielu mbielu, a creature with planks growing out of its back which supposedly resembles a stegosaur.
Interesting stuff. Anyway–
Thrash also got the second of the two answers I had in mind for #1. It wasn’t the answer I was thinking of when I posed the question, but it’ll serve. (Anyone wanting to come up with the other answer is certainly welcome to try; it can be found, I’m assuming, using Thrash’s methods.)
Nigel Dixon is a 6’10", 400 lb. (the official site says 350, but he’s fluctuated) sophomore on the FSU basketball team. He’s surprisingly quick for his size, and I love this kid–I think (hope) he’s got a bright future in the college game.
Dixon’s a fan favorite, and not just at FSU. When Florida State played Duke in Cameron Indoor Stadium last year, the Crazies threw several chants Big Jelly’s way:
Rules 42: The Commission has recognized that it may not be necessary to obtain a Region 2 Mobile allocation in order to authorize the NII Band. Preparation for International Telecommunication Union World Radiocommunication Conferences, Report, IC Docket No. 94-31, ___ FCC Rcd ___ , [[paragraph]] 97 (June 15, 1995) (“it has yet to be demonstrated that an international allocation is necessary to implement [an unlicensed high speed wireless data service] in the U.S.”). Even if the Commission ultimately concludes that such an allocation is necessary or advisable in order to provide NII Band devices with internationally recognized protected status, it could immediately allocate the band on a secondary basis, create a de facto protected status within the United States by refraining (in conjunction with NTIA) from authorizing any new services in the band, and then formally upgrade the allocation to a primary allocation following the adoption of an appropriate allocation at a future WRC.
#5 - Polycarp. The Sickle, Millstone, and Hacksaw are all impliments of harvesting things. Polycarp does attempt to be a ‘fisher of men’ in his beliefs, and thus is a harvester as well.
(A very big WAG)
ren: Absolutely correct. Did you get that from this website, or have you seen the handiwork inside Perkins (and elsewhere) yourself?
“Big Jelly is watching you” is, as far as I know, a frat thing started by the Delta Sigs at Duke, satirizing the whole Illuminati/Freemason/Lovecraftian ethos. It’s craved on desks and marked on toilet stall walls all over the Duke campus, always accompanied by a rendition of Big Jelly itself. (Big Jelly, of course, bears resemblance to Chthulu–a jellyfish with long tentacles and a huge, all-seeing eye in its center.)
It’s kinda cool, in a sophomorically subversive way. Narile:
You’re on the right track–it’s a little more substantive than that, though.
Oh, I see the website where you got that. Nice use of Google. Would that it were correct… The solution’s not quite that obscure.
Actually, that’s hammer, anvil, and stirrup (or malleus, incus, and stapes). Your answer was quite clever; Polycarp really is the patron saint of earaches. Not our Polycarp, though, and it is him to whom I am referring.
Tuffy got three more pounds of cheese than did his uncle Jerry. Or, Ray “Tuffy” Griffith, an obscure boxer from Johnson County, Kentucky, delivered 20 more knockouts than his uncle Jerry.
4.Rules 42 – don’t know. I thought it was a domino reference, too, but the specific ordering of the word seems to throw that out. Maybe it’s 42 inhabitants of the French town of Rules.
The sickle and millstone are images from Revelations (indicating Polycarp), though I’ve never heard of a hacksaw in there. Maybe some version does use it?
I did a little searching, and found out this connection : The hacksaw refers to “Hacksaw” Jim Duggan, the famous pro wrestler. “Hacksaw” wrestled with Jack “The Snake” Roberts, who often had a snake with him at appearances. One of his snakes name is – Revelations!