# Wanna kill some time? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 4, 2000, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-kill-some-time/28128 "2000-08-04T15:35:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2000, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-kill-some-time/28128/1 "2000-08-04T15:35:27Z")
If you do check out this website [http://www.smalltime.com/nowhere/dictator/](http://www.smalltime.com/nowhere/dictator/) Its pretty damn cool, I wasted a couple hours here yesterday. I was amazed at how pathetic some of my choices were, damn those 80’s. ---
**Author:** ![Whammo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8dc957/32.png) [@Whammo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2000, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-kill-some-time/28128/2 "2000-08-04T15:40:42Z")
…actually lots of times… ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2000, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-kill-some-time/28128/3 "2000-08-04T15:43:07Z")
I think it just keeps asking you questions until it guesses correctly. But still…coolness. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2000, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-kill-some-time/28128/4 "2000-08-04T15:45:18Z")
For me it guessed Jeanie for I Dream Of Jeanie Jack McFarland from Will and Grace And Drew from Drew Carey Show. I think that’s pretty impressive. ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2000, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-kill-some-time/28128/5 "2000-08-04T15:53:26Z")
I tried one and it lost. Tim from Home Improvement. gonna go give it a second chance though. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Kiki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kiki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiki)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2000, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-kill-some-time/28128/6 "2000-08-04T15:57:30Z")
It just guessed Roseanne and Doogie Howser for me. Pretty cool site. I’ll have to think of something harder so I can stump this thing! ---
**Author:** ![Erika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/47e85d/32.png) [@Erika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erika)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2000, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-kill-some-time/28128/7 "2000-08-04T15:57:44Z")
We used to have something like this when we were little - my dad had written a program in basic that did it. Ours was for animals, though. SwimmingRiddles - it keeps asking questions until a) it’s narrowed it down to one character it knows. b) your answers have eliminated all of the characters it knows. And every time you stump it, it “learns” your character, and adds your question to it’s list. ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2000, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-kill-some-time/28128/8 "2000-08-04T15:57:59Z")
I tried to think of obscure characters, and Erin from Titus tripped it up. But it’s dead on with the dictators. It got Chairman Mao in like 7 questions. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2000, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-kill-some-time/28128/9 "2000-08-04T16:10:13Z")
I just beat it. I was Dr. Robert McDonald from MY LIVING DOLL, and it had no idea that I lived with Julie Newmar playing a girl robot back in 1964. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2000, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-kill-some-time/28128/10 "2000-08-04T16:16:39Z")
I just stumped it on Woody from Cheers. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2000, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-kill-some-time/28128/11 "2000-08-04T16:16:47Z")
It couldn’t handle me as Uncle Joe from PETTICOAT JUNCTION, either. ---
**Author:** ![monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monster)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2000, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-kill-some-time/28128/12 "2000-08-04T16:19:51Z")
It guessed me. I was Norm from Cheers. Once it asked me if my best friend was a mailman, I knew it got me. Now I must go play again! ---
**Author:** ![boli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e99b99/32.png) [@boli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boli)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2000, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-kill-some-time/28128/13 "2000-08-04T16:24:01Z")
I stumped it with Angela from “Who’s the Boss”. It thought I was describing Chrissy from “Three’s Company”. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2000, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-kill-some-time/28128/14 "2000-08-04T16:34:48Z")
It just got Topanga from Boy Meets World, but I stumped it with Ray Campbell from Sister,Sister. ---
**Author:** ![CnoteChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2000, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-kill-some-time/28128/15 "2000-08-04T16:35:46Z")
Ha! I beat it with Holly Marshall from ‘Land Of The Lost’. She was the babe when I was just a tot. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2000, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-kill-some-time/28128/16 "2000-08-04T16:41:29Z")
I beat it with Ensign Chekov, but it figured out Willis Drummond, of whatchewtalkinboutwillis fame. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2000, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-kill-some-time/28128/17 "2000-08-04T16:45:08Z")
It couldn’t figure out Dr. Johnny Fever from WKRP either. I don’t want to piss on anybody’s parade, but I am now officially sick of this site. But, don’t take my word for it. BTW, you really want to screw it up? Get it stumped anyway you can, and when it asks you to add a question, make sure that it’s so vague it could be anything. (“Do you breathe? Do you have ears?”) Do this about a hundred times and it’ll never get anything right, it’ll be a shot in the dark. ---
**Author:** ![Me\_Joe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecccb3/32.png) [@Me\_Joe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Me_Joe)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2000, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-kill-some-time/28128/18 "2000-08-04T16:50:23Z")
I beat it two out of three tries. It guessed I was Jack from Will & Grace It didn’t guess that I was Doctor Who It didn’t get that I was Edina from Ab Fab so a hint for anyone who wants to beat it: try British tv characters. ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2000, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-kill-some-time/28128/19 "2000-08-04T16:58:34Z")
It guessed Floyd Lawson from the Andy Griffith show…damn them! ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2000, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-kill-some-time/28128/20 "2000-08-04T17:55:13Z")
Has everyone been answering the last question and typing in who you were so it gets better? I stumped it with Willis, and added it, I wonder if thast what got it for Rysdad. BTW, has anyone got the Dudley from Diff’rent Strokes question yet? I was rolling. I don’t want to ruin it for anyone. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-kill-some-time/28128.md?page=2)