DW Daily Answers: 21 August 2012
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dwdq1. Fun with lyrics! Name the song and the artist:
Some days I just wanna up and call it quits
I feel like I'm surrounded by a wall of bricks
Every time I go to get up I just fall in pits
My life's like one great big ball of shit
“'The Little Engine That Didn't Give A Fuck' by The Wiggles" -![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kenshardik
“Could be anyone working retail really" -b_hulsmans
"The Obama Re-election Blues" -therealchon
“Every single Emo, Cure wannabe song out there." -akiyasan
"I'm sick of emo crap being posted for the lyrics questions. Can we go back to Sting?" -la_trombonista
"'I Put the Lotion on My Skin' by Girl in the Basement" -mandydax
"'Why Does it Always Have to be Snakes?!?!' by Dr. Henry Walton Jones, Jr." -neumeindil
“Neither I or the girl in my office have a clue. I guess we are just not 'street' and 'hip' enough for such parental-guidance lyrics." -spotsofcolour
"This is probably the funeral music for every sim I ever walled in and let die." -jeremiagoeswoah
(True, but let's face it, is there anything better to do with sims? -CV)
“My Achy-Breaky Heart." -wrestlingdog
"'My World of Poo' by The Scarabs" -demon_666, n5iln
“Limerick Writer, Sting. This was during one of the BAD acid trips when he couldn't remember he had an English degree" -ntlespino
"'I'm Hunting Wabbits (Be Vewy, Vewy Qwiet)' by Elmer Fudd" -tinamachina
Correct Answer: "Run Rabbit Run" by Eminem
2. Who was known for scooping up field mice and bopping them on the head?
“Lex Luthor as a child" -wiredwizard
“Walt Disney, using them for anatomy studies." -drbear
"Fievel Mouskewitz. It was a compulsion of his that his family never knew about. The producers cut those scenes out of all the films." -brightrosefox
"What, too good to play Whack-A-Mole like all the rest of us?" -demon_666
"Conan the Barbarian, as a child. He needed the practice for learning what is best in life" -etcet
("Baby Conan, what is good in life?" - "To cwush da widdle mousies, see them dwiven before you, and to hear the squeaky squeaks of their women mousies." -CV)
"Little Bunny Research Geneticist" -silk_knickers
“Fun fact: I was singing this song in the bathtub when I banged my chin and cut it open. Okay, maybe that's not such a fun fact... but I did get Famous Amos chocolate chip cookies after the stitches. Cookies make everything better." -la_trombonista
"I think I heard that song in 'How to torture forest animals 101' back in my Girl Scout days." -ifeedformula
(I think you joined the wrong band of girl scouts... -CV)
"A creature so foul, so cruel that no man yet has fought with it and lived. Bones of full fifty men lie strewn about its lair. So, brave knights, if you do doubt your courage or your strength, come no further, for death awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth" -mandydax
(+1, Monty Python and the Holy Grail. -CV)
"I'm a computer programmer, so I never remember, is it Little Bunny Foo-Foo, or Bar-Bar, or Baz-Baz? (If I was Brittish, would I think it was Fred-Fred?)" -lbmango
"Little Bunny FUBAR" -alfvaen
(Little Bunny FUBAR would make a great song, now that I think about it. -CV)
“Little Bunny Foo Foo, and he wasn't bopping them on the head, he was stimulating their follicles. He's the president of Hare Club for Men, after all." -i_calql8
"Little Bunny Foo-Foo traumatised me as a child. I had repressed this until I found the book again on my Teacher Training and proceeded to have a Vietnam-style flashback of all my childhood fears of getting turned into a Goonie, right in the middle of the classroom" -spotsofcolour
Correct Answer: Little Bunny Foo-Foo
3. Chicago International Airport is also known by what name?
“Purgatory" -kenshardik
“Harry Dresden International Aerodrome" -wiredwizard
“The Polish Corridor. " -drbear
“The US Track and Field Training Center. I'm nearly sure I broke a world record trying to make my connection there." -silk_knickers
“Madeline Murray O'Hare - the world's only atheist airport." -freezer
“Dante Aligheri International, because the place's motto might as well be, 'ABANDON ALL HOPE OF MAKING YOUR CONNECTION, YE WHO TRANSFER HERE.'" -etcet
(Pleading with God to let you make your connection never worked anyway – LL)
“That 'Enormous Rabbits Warren of Missed Connections'" -raphsody606
"The US Track and Field Training Center. I'm nearly sure I broke a world record trying to make my connection there" -silk_knickers
"O'Where International. Short for 'Oh, where is my luggage? New York? WTF, you assholes!'" -demon_666
Correct Answer: O'Hare Airport
4. More fun with lyrics! Name the song and the band:
When I looked you in the eye
I knew it was time for good-bye
You were the only one I had around
But you couldn't keep your feet on the ground
"You're doing to this us twice. Lyrics twice? What? Did we not give you enough Vodka-flavored pudding?" -lots42
"I loved 'Up.' It's so cheerful!" -etcet, wrestlingdog
"Anyone who's ever owned a sex doll." -n5iln
"Gravity--it's not just a good idea, it's THE LAW!" -ifeedformula
"Cyclops In A Balloon, one of Spinal Tap's much lesser-known songs" -drbear
"'Goodbye, Plastic Bag' by Alan Ball" -brightrosefox
“Bette Middler, Wind Beneath My Wings" -seferin
"Leaving on a Jet Plane by John Denver" -jmthane
"99 Luftballoons, by Nena" -silk_knickers
"That's what happens when you don't tie the balloons string to you. They float away among 98 other balloons." -akiyasan
"Farewell Red Balloon. French class won't be the same without you" -sskipstress
"'You are my Baron' by Paul 'Muad'Dib' Atreides and the Fremen" -mandydax
(+1, Dune. Which conveniently contains a healthy dose of Sting. -CV)
"The Day Mary Poppins Left" -freezer
Correct Answer: "Run Rabbit Run" by Nirvana
5. Seth Green starred opposite the titular non-human character in which 2002 television show?
"Robot Chicken" - 6
"Buffy/Angel" - 11
"Cyborg Rooster: The Early Days of Robot Chicken." -brightrosefox
(This show was later renamed "RoboCock", which was promptly cancelled by Fox, even though it was airing on Comedy Central. -CV)
“Howard The Duck" -wiredwizard
"Austin Powers. Mike Meyers isn't human, he's Canadian" -etcet
“ALF" -jmthane, sskipstress
“Max Headroom" -ntlespino
"Wasn't it some alcoholic rabbit played by Bobcat Goldthwait or something?" -kenshardik
"Good Show #55 cancelled by Fox." -la_trombonista, ifeedformula
(And this surprises who anymore? -CV)
“*pours one out for "Greg The Bunny"*" -freezer
Correct Answer: Greg the Bunny
6. What's been the best part of your summer so far?
"Air conditioning" - 15
“It's a tossup between wild sex and air conditioning." -kenshardik
“The one day the air conditioning worked in our building." -drbear
“That's it's ending (f*ck heat)." -freezer
“A functioning air conditioner. I'm broke, I'm sick, I'm exhausted, and it's not getting any better, but at least I'm not also sweating my ass off." -neumeindil
“Air conditioning that works. Three weeks of 115-120 degree weather has made it my little snuggle bunny." -raphsody606
“Sleeping late" -seferin
“Watching my 7 year old neice sing Lady Gaga, Ke$ha, and Katy Perry songs for karaoke, and reverse-judging the folks who tried to judge my sister's parenting skills. I should also mention that this took place poolside in Aruba, which didn't add any suck to the proceedings, either." -etcet
“The birdie on No. 4 355-yard par 4 in the foothills of Montana. Threw my clubs in the water, hugged a random lady golfer, and tried to get my 'bunny' kissed." -therealchon
"Being without the kids for an entire week. Unfortunately, they're back now" -alfvaen
(Kids are like boomerangs - they always come back, and they don't work so well when you snap them in half. -CV)
“I've been socializing! With people and making friends! Good times have been had." -akiyasan
"(looks out at floodwaters) You tell me" -ntlespino
(...Surfing! -CV)
"Not getting taken out by flooding, hail storms or tornadoes" -wiredwizard
(I misread that last word as "tomatoes" and... well, I got nothing. -CV)
“Still living, still employed. I like to keep the bar set low." -silk_knickers
"Going to the London Olympics, then traveling to Scotland for the first time. My hotel in Edinburgh, a seventeenth-century manor, was off the hook! I somehow avoided eating haggis. Still not sure if that's a win or fail. But I did eat deer!" -tinamachina
“My promotion to the produce department. Have you ever had a red velvet apricot? They're so good!" -la_trombonista
“You know, it's been the weirdest thing this summer. We keep having these strange moments, in between the rain, where the sky just goes SUPER weird. Like, it goes... blue? And there's this big bright thing in it? I dunno, I think it's a sign of End Days, 'cause I'm not sure it's supposed to do that, but then it always starts raining again so we're safe for a bit longer." -spotsofcolour
(You're British, aren't you? -CV)
And there you have it. Rabbit season! I don't really know if it's rabbit season or not, but whatever, rabbits are tasty, and you should all have some. Unless you're vegetarian, in which case eat a carrot or three, since that's what rabbits are made of.
Thanks for playing, everyone, and tune in tomorrow for more quizly goodness!
Rock On!
AL&CV&LL
Some days I just wanna up and call it quits
I feel like I'm surrounded by a wall of bricks
Every time I go to get up I just fall in pits
My life's like one great big ball of shit
“'The Little Engine That Didn't Give A Fuck' by The Wiggles" -
kenshardik“Could be anyone working retail really" -
b_hulsmans"The Obama Re-election Blues" -
therealchon“Every single Emo, Cure wannabe song out there." -
akiyasan"I'm sick of emo crap being posted for the lyrics questions. Can we go back to Sting?" -
la_trombonista"'I Put the Lotion on My Skin' by Girl in the Basement" -
mandydax"'Why Does it Always Have to be Snakes?!?!' by Dr. Henry Walton Jones, Jr." -
neumeindil“Neither I or the girl in my office have a clue. I guess we are just not 'street' and 'hip' enough for such parental-guidance lyrics." -
spotsofcolour"This is probably the funeral music for every sim I ever walled in and let die." -
jeremiagoeswoah(True, but let's face it, is there anything better to do with sims? -CV)
“My Achy-Breaky Heart." -
wrestlingdog"'My World of Poo' by The Scarabs" -
demon_666, n5iln“Limerick Writer, Sting. This was during one of the BAD acid trips when he couldn't remember he had an English degree" -
ntlespino"'I'm Hunting Wabbits (Be Vewy, Vewy Qwiet)' by Elmer Fudd" -
tinamachinaCorrect Answer: "Run Rabbit Run" by Eminem
2. Who was known for scooping up field mice and bopping them on the head?
“Lex Luthor as a child" -
wiredwizard“Walt Disney, using them for anatomy studies." -
drbear"Fievel Mouskewitz. It was a compulsion of his that his family never knew about. The producers cut those scenes out of all the films." -
brightrosefox"What, too good to play Whack-A-Mole like all the rest of us?" -
demon_666"Conan the Barbarian, as a child. He needed the practice for learning what is best in life" -
etcet("Baby Conan, what is good in life?" - "To cwush da widdle mousies, see them dwiven before you, and to hear the squeaky squeaks of their women mousies." -CV)
"Little Bunny Research Geneticist" -
silk_knickers“Fun fact: I was singing this song in the bathtub when I banged my chin and cut it open. Okay, maybe that's not such a fun fact... but I did get Famous Amos chocolate chip cookies after the stitches. Cookies make everything better." -
la_trombonista"I think I heard that song in 'How to torture forest animals 101' back in my Girl Scout days." -
ifeedformula(I think you joined the wrong band of girl scouts... -CV)
"A creature so foul, so cruel that no man yet has fought with it and lived. Bones of full fifty men lie strewn about its lair. So, brave knights, if you do doubt your courage or your strength, come no further, for death awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth" -
mandydax(+1, Monty Python and the Holy Grail. -CV)
"I'm a computer programmer, so I never remember, is it Little Bunny Foo-Foo, or Bar-Bar, or Baz-Baz? (If I was Brittish, would I think it was Fred-Fred?)" -
lbmango"Little Bunny FUBAR" -
alfvaen(Little Bunny FUBAR would make a great song, now that I think about it. -CV)
“Little Bunny Foo Foo, and he wasn't bopping them on the head, he was stimulating their follicles. He's the president of Hare Club for Men, after all." -
i_calql8"Little Bunny Foo-Foo traumatised me as a child. I had repressed this until I found the book again on my Teacher Training and proceeded to have a Vietnam-style flashback of all my childhood fears of getting turned into a Goonie, right in the middle of the classroom" -
spotsofcolourCorrect Answer: Little Bunny Foo-Foo
3. Chicago International Airport is also known by what name?
“Purgatory" -
kenshardik“Harry Dresden International Aerodrome" -
wiredwizard“The Polish Corridor. " -
drbear“The US Track and Field Training Center. I'm nearly sure I broke a world record trying to make my connection there." -
silk_knickers“Madeline Murray O'Hare - the world's only atheist airport." -
freezer“Dante Aligheri International, because the place's motto might as well be, 'ABANDON ALL HOPE OF MAKING YOUR CONNECTION, YE WHO TRANSFER HERE.'" -
etcet(Pleading with God to let you make your connection never worked anyway – LL)
“That 'Enormous Rabbits Warren of Missed Connections'" -
raphsody606"The US Track and Field Training Center. I'm nearly sure I broke a world record trying to make my connection there" -
silk_knickers"O'Where International. Short for 'Oh, where is my luggage? New York? WTF, you assholes!'" -
demon_666Correct Answer: O'Hare Airport
4. More fun with lyrics! Name the song and the band:
When I looked you in the eye
I knew it was time for good-bye
You were the only one I had around
But you couldn't keep your feet on the ground
"You're doing to this us twice. Lyrics twice? What? Did we not give you enough Vodka-flavored pudding?" -
lots42"I loved 'Up.' It's so cheerful!" -
etcet, wrestlingdog"Anyone who's ever owned a sex doll." -
n5iln"Gravity--it's not just a good idea, it's THE LAW!" -
ifeedformula"Cyclops In A Balloon, one of Spinal Tap's much lesser-known songs" -
drbear"'Goodbye, Plastic Bag' by Alan Ball" -
brightrosefox“Bette Middler, Wind Beneath My Wings" -
seferin"Leaving on a Jet Plane by John Denver" -
jmthane"99 Luftballoons, by Nena" -
silk_knickers"That's what happens when you don't tie the balloons string to you. They float away among 98 other balloons." -
akiyasan"Farewell Red Balloon. French class won't be the same without you" -
sskipstress"'You are my Baron' by Paul 'Muad'Dib' Atreides and the Fremen" -
mandydax(+1, Dune. Which conveniently contains a healthy dose of Sting. -CV)
"The Day Mary Poppins Left" -
freezerCorrect Answer: "Run Rabbit Run" by Nirvana
5. Seth Green starred opposite the titular non-human character in which 2002 television show?
"Robot Chicken" - 6
"Buffy/Angel" - 11
"Cyborg Rooster: The Early Days of Robot Chicken." -
brightrosefox(This show was later renamed "RoboCock", which was promptly cancelled by Fox, even though it was airing on Comedy Central. -CV)
“Howard The Duck" -
wiredwizard"Austin Powers. Mike Meyers isn't human, he's Canadian" -
etcet“ALF" -
jmthane, sskipstress“Max Headroom" -
ntlespino"Wasn't it some alcoholic rabbit played by Bobcat Goldthwait or something?" -
kenshardik"Good Show #55 cancelled by Fox." -
la_trombonista, ifeedformula(And this surprises who anymore? -CV)
“*pours one out for "Greg The Bunny"*" -
freezerCorrect Answer: Greg the Bunny
6. What's been the best part of your summer so far?
"Air conditioning" - 15
“It's a tossup between wild sex and air conditioning." -
kenshardik“The one day the air conditioning worked in our building." -
drbear“That's it's ending (f*ck heat)." -
freezer“A functioning air conditioner. I'm broke, I'm sick, I'm exhausted, and it's not getting any better, but at least I'm not also sweating my ass off." -
neumeindil“Air conditioning that works. Three weeks of 115-120 degree weather has made it my little snuggle bunny." -
raphsody606“Sleeping late" -
seferin“Watching my 7 year old neice sing Lady Gaga, Ke$ha, and Katy Perry songs for karaoke, and reverse-judging the folks who tried to judge my sister's parenting skills. I should also mention that this took place poolside in Aruba, which didn't add any suck to the proceedings, either." -
etcet“The birdie on No. 4 355-yard par 4 in the foothills of Montana. Threw my clubs in the water, hugged a random lady golfer, and tried to get my 'bunny' kissed." -
therealchon"Being without the kids for an entire week. Unfortunately, they're back now" -
alfvaen(Kids are like boomerangs - they always come back, and they don't work so well when you snap them in half. -CV)
“I've been socializing! With people and making friends! Good times have been had." -
akiyasan"(looks out at floodwaters) You tell me" -
ntlespino(...Surfing! -CV)
"Not getting taken out by flooding, hail storms or tornadoes" -
wiredwizard(I misread that last word as "tomatoes" and... well, I got nothing. -CV)
“Still living, still employed. I like to keep the bar set low." -
silk_knickers"Going to the London Olympics, then traveling to Scotland for the first time. My hotel in Edinburgh, a seventeenth-century manor, was off the hook! I somehow avoided eating haggis. Still not sure if that's a win or fail. But I did eat deer!" -
tinamachina“My promotion to the produce department. Have you ever had a red velvet apricot? They're so good!" -
la_trombonista“You know, it's been the weirdest thing this summer. We keep having these strange moments, in between the rain, where the sky just goes SUPER weird. Like, it goes... blue? And there's this big bright thing in it? I dunno, I think it's a sign of End Days, 'cause I'm not sure it's supposed to do that, but then it always starts raining again so we're safe for a bit longer." -
spotsofcolour(You're British, aren't you? -CV)
And there you have it. Rabbit season! I don't really know if it's rabbit season or not, but whatever, rabbits are tasty, and you should all have some. Unless you're vegetarian, in which case eat a carrot or three, since that's what rabbits are made of.
Thanks for playing, everyone, and tune in tomorrow for more quizly goodness!
Rock On!
AL&CV&LL
