# The Jumbular Grab-bag Melange Feud \[Closed\]

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jumbular-grab-bag-melange-feud-closed/451762>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [June 4, 2008, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jumbular-grab-bag-melange-feud-closed/451762 "2008-06-04T15:10:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 3

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**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jumbular-grab-bag-melange-feud-closed/451762/41 "2008-06-04T18:45:26Z")

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1. back seat
2. pet rock
3. Hazel
4. guacamole
5. ice cream
6. electron
7. Bad Bad Leroy Brown
8. The Last Question
9. pound
10. Bottoms up!

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**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jumbular-grab-bag-melange-feud-closed/451762/42 "2008-06-04T18:45:48Z")

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[QUOTE=brujaja]

The wording on the carnival question was deliberately ambiguous, to make sure there were enough possibilities, incidentally. I wasn’t sure it wouldn’t be the conch question otherwise. Heh.

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I was _so_ tempted to give a wiseass answer, like “crabs.”

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**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jumbular-grab-bag-melange-feud-closed/451762/43 "2008-06-04T19:30:54Z")

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1. In a car
2. Pet rock
3. Samantha
4. bean dip
5. Cotton candy
6. Electron
7. Bad bad leroy brown
8. Do androids dream of electric sheep
9. Pesos
10. Salud

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**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jumbular-grab-bag-melange-feud-closed/451762/44 "2008-06-04T19:33:18Z")

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So much for my winning streak. I really thought “Bad Moon Rising” would beat out “Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown,” too…

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**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jumbular-grab-bag-melange-feud-closed/451762/45 "2008-06-04T19:48:00Z")

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1. Movie Theater
2. Bell-bottoms
3. The Wicked Witch of the West
4. Salsa
5. Corn dogs
6. Electron
7. Bad to the Bone
8. Flatland
9. Pesos
10. “Drink up!”

So I’m pretty sure that my answers for 1, 8 and 10 are going to be unique. What hard questions? I mean, what do people say when they toast? Do people toast anymore?

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**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jumbular-grab-bag-melange-feud-closed/451762/46 "2008-06-04T20:02:50Z")

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[QUOTE=Glory]  
**snip!**  
4. bean dip  
**snip!**  
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Thank you!

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**Author:** ![Parthol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/dec6dc/32.png) [@Parthol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Parthol)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jumbular-grab-bag-melange-feud-closed/451762/47 "2008-06-04T20:08:09Z")

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1. Car
2. Bell Bottoms
3. Wicked Witch of the West
4. Salsa
5. Cotton Candy
6. Electron
7. Bad to the Bone
8. I, Robot
9. Yen
10. Salud!

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**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jumbular-grab-bag-melange-feud-closed/451762/48 "2008-06-04T20:14:38Z")

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[QUOTE=pravnik]  
So much for my winning streak. I really thought “Bad Moon Rising” would beat out “Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown,” too…  
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Well, I figured “A Sound of Thunder” would beat out “Nightfall.”

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**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jumbular-grab-bag-melange-feud-closed/451762/49 "2008-06-04T20:22:26Z")

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1. Car
2. Pet Rocks
3. Wicked Witch of the West
4. Sour Cream & Onion
5. Cotton Candy
6. Quark
7. Bad to the Bone
8. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
9. Pound
10. Skoal

Notes:  
8. Or maybe it was ‘Electronic’ Sheep. It’s the Phili K Dick story that Blade Runner was based on

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**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jumbular-grab-bag-melange-feud-closed/451762/50 "2008-06-04T20:58:22Z")

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1. Bedroom
2. Disco
3. Wicked Witch of the West
4. Sour Cream
5. Cotton Candy
6. Quark
7. Bad
8. Terror At 20,000 Feet
9. Yen
10. Salud

Which of these questions is not like the other: #8

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**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jumbular-grab-bag-melange-feud-closed/451762/51 "2008-06-04T21:18:54Z")

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1. Car
2. Pet Rock
3. Wicked Witch of the West
4. Onion dip
5. Cotton candy
6. electron
7. Bad Moon Rising
8. The Last Question
9. Yuan
10. Mazel Tov!

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**Author:** ![adhemar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@adhemar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhemar)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jumbular-grab-bag-melange-feud-closed/451762/52 "2008-06-04T22:19:31Z")

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1. car
2. pet rock  
3)Samantha Stevens (bewitched)
3. rotel
4. cotton candy
5. quark
6. Bad bad leroy brown
7. Enders Game
8. peso
9. Here;s Mud in your eye!

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**Author:** ![tarragon918](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@tarragon918](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tarragon918)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jumbular-grab-bag-melange-feud-closed/451762/53 "2008-06-05T01:23:40Z")

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1. movies
2. pet rock
3. Wicked Witch of the West
4. french onion
5. cotton candy
6. electron
7. Bad to the bone
8. don’t know
9. pound
10. l’chaim

Okay, so sue me, I don’t read science fiction that much and really don’t read SF short stories. 😃 Apologies for mis-spelling the Hebrew toast. And the pound answer for #9 is the British pound sterlin.

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**Author:** ![This\_ll\_Do](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/this_ll_do/32/3023_2.png) [@This\_ll\_Do](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/This_ll_Do)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jumbular-grab-bag-melange-feud-closed/451762/54 "2008-06-05T02:03:31Z")

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1. Backseat
2. Mood ring
3. Wicked Witch of the West
4. Salsa
5. Stuffed toy
6. Electron
7. Bad to the Bone
8. Nightfall
9. Pesos
10. Bottoms up

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**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jumbular-grab-bag-melange-feud-closed/451762/55 "2008-06-05T03:05:57Z")

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**Justin\_Bailey** , it’s a Jumblicious Grab-Bagetry Melangipan Feud. _None_ of the questions are like the others.

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**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jumbular-grab-bag-melange-feud-closed/451762/56 "2008-06-05T03:11:24Z")

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1. Back seat of a car
2. Bellbottoms
3. Granny Weatherwax
4. Spinach dip.
5. Elephant Ears!
6. Electron
7. Bad Bad Leroy Brown
8. Pass
9. Pesos
10. Here’s mud in your eye

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**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jumbular-grab-bag-melange-feud-closed/451762/57 "2008-06-05T03:16:12Z")

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[QUOTE=Queen Tonya]

1. elephant ears

[/QUOTE]

Obviously, you and I are the only non-heathens in the bunch. 🙂

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**Author:** ![hocow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hocow/32/4112_2.png) [@hocow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hocow)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jumbular-grab-bag-melange-feud-closed/451762/58 "2008-06-05T04:06:26Z")

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1. Movies
2. bell bottoms
3. Wicked Witch if the West
4. Onion
5. Cotton candy
6. proton
7. Bad Boys
8. pass
9. Franc
10. Toast

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**Author:** ![Ace309](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ace309/32/1050_2.png) [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jumbular-grab-bag-melange-feud-closed/451762/59 "2008-06-05T06:19:44Z")

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1. Backseat
2. Platform shoes
3. Wicked Witch of the West
4. Guacamole
5. Cotton Candy
6. Quark
7. Bad To The Bone
8. I, Robot
9. Pounds
10. L’chaim!

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**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jumbular-grab-bag-melange-feud-closed/451762/60 "2008-06-05T07:23:06Z")

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never mind

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