DW Daily Answers: 19 November 2012

[chaosvizier]

In the words of Daffy Duck, "Pronoun trouble."

1. Fun with lyrics! Name the song and the singer:
I don't want to own her,
But I can't let her have it both ways.
Three is one too many of us,
She leaves with me or stays

“'It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp,' David Petraeus." - drbear

"'Not in the mood for a threesome' by Tom Petty" - la_trombonista

"Barbie Girl, Aqua. You're welcome for the earworm" - i_calql8

"Stuck in the middle with you... Here I am now stuck in the middle with you. Who's going to be Mr. Brown?" - akiyasan

“Schrodinger's girlfriend" - drunken_hedghog, ifeedformula

"A grammatically-challenged mash-up version of 'Should I Stay or Should I Go' by The Clash and Milow's 'You and Me' that not even the cast of Glee would touch" - germankitty

Correct Answer: "Him" by Rupert Holmes



2. Writer Tom Wolfe coined which phrase to describe the Baby Boomer Generation of 1946-1964?

"That wouldn't happen to be 'baby boomer generation,' would it? Is this a trick question?" - zeta_tauri

(While trick questions are not beneath us, in this case, it's not a trick. -CV)

"Money-grubbing bastards who screwed over the rest of us" - drunken_hedghog

“The Greatest Generation II: Generate Harder" - drbear

“GET OFF MY LAWN." - etcet, la_trombonista

“Boomers rule and you all suck." - akiyasan

(Pfffffttt – Gen X Mods)

“Just retire already; some of us need jobs too, yaknow." - silk_knickers

"Homer Simpson was supposed to have grown up in the '60's. Joe Maddon, I think, was also born in the '60's. So that would make that gen the Doh-Ray-Me Generation" - tinamachina

Correct Answer: The Me Generation

"as opposed to the 'Do!' generation of pre-WW II, the 'So?' generation of the 1980s/1990s, and the 'La-La-La, can't hear you!' generation of today" - germankitty



3. What celebrity gossip magazine features a section entitled "Who Wore It Best?"

"Celebrity gossip magazines are like chiuauas-small, yappy and a real pain in the ass because all they do is whine all the time" - ifeedformula

“Playboy" - silk_knickers

(Wouldn’t that be “Who Doesn’t Wear It Best?” – LL)
(More like "Who Wore It Breast", AMIRITE? -CV)
(SHUT UP. -LL&AL)

"I read that as Who Whore It Best, which clearly means National Geographic" - therealchon

"Assassination's Unlimited. If they can see you, you're wearing black wrong" - akiyasan

“The Quibbler" - wiredwizard

“All of them. And the answer is always neither." - drunken_hedghog

"Us. Who wore it best? Us. Or we. Yay democracy!" - tinamachina

Correct Answer: Us Weekly



4. What was the title of Ian Fleming's tenth James Bond novel?

“Decapussy" - silk_knickers

(That's a lot of... uh, nevermind. -CV)

"I'm Mailing My Misogyny And Cock Fantasy In, And Yet This Is Still Better Than Anything Clive Cussler Or Stuart Woods Will Ever Shit Onto A Keyboard" - etcet

“Weapon X" - wiredwizard
“The Spy Who Shagged Me" - zihuatanejo
“The Spy Who Shagged Loved Me" - tinamachina

"It didn't have Jaws in it; I don't care" - mandydax

(Jaws made Roger Moore Bond movies awesome. -CV)

"No, I Never Ever Wrote the Moonraker Screenplay, So Stop Calling!" - therealchon

"When Q meets Q: An adventure in gadgets and humanity in tights" - akiyasan

(I'm not sure I want to see Desmond Llewelyn in tights. -CV)

“" - i_calql8

"Ratio of sex/drinking to actual spy work in this one: 007/1" - drbear

"James Bond, the Harlequin/Mills & Boon Edition" - germankitty

Correct Answer: "On Her Majesty's Secret Service"



5. What 1950's science fiction film features giant specimens of the family Formicidae?

“The Formica from 20,000 Fathoms." - drbear

“Mutant Ants vs. Killer Tomatoes - Tokyo Showdown" - wiredwizard

"Formicidae, which is Latin for formicide, which means the death of filling out forms, 'cause of dead trees 'n all, so I'm going with, 'An Inconvenient Truth.'" - therealchon

“I can't believe you used this theme and went with 'Them' in lieu of 'They Live.' This encourages me to be all out of bubble gum." - etcet

(Sorry, these were object pronouns, not subject pronouns. That'll be next quiz. -CV)

"" - germankitty

“Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" - silk_knickers

"Little Shop of Horrors" - zeta_tauri

"Anthill-vania 6-5000" - i_calql8

“For some reason I am thinking Norse mythology. Which leads me to something furry. And then furry conventions. Wombats." - raphsody606

"I kind of read 'family formaldahyde', so the answer must be Six Feet Under" - tinamachina

“Starship Troopers" - zihuatanejo

Correct Answer: "Them!"



6. How do you see yourself?

“Through the bottom of a glass, dorkly." - etcet

“Through the tears of a clown, when there's no one around ..." - therealchon

“I'm a woman. There are far too many adjectives available to condense into a one liner!" - akiyasan

“In a mirror." - silk_knickers, tinamachina, zihuatanejo, mandydax

(-1, way too easy. -CV)

“Through a variety of photoshop-esque filters that allow me to Scuba dive in Denial for just that little bit longer." - drunken_hedghog

"My dad used to tease me and say I was actually half Hobbit. Which could theoretically be true--I'm short, I like to eat about eight times a day so I'm kind of round, I have loads of curly hair all over (esp if I don't shave/wax) and I prefer to go barefoot. I AM THE MISSING LINK BETWEEN HALFLING AND HUMAN!" - ifeedformula

(Nice to meet you, Mrs. Baggins. -CV)

“Very busty." - la_trombonista

“As a tin-plated, overbearing, swaggering dictator with delusions of godhood. But I'm not soft." - i_calql8



And that's it for us, him, you, them, her, me, and it. Tune in next time when we tackle another staple of grammar, The Preposition.

Rock On!

CV&LL