DW Daily Answers: 14 November 2011

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1. What cartoon superhero's battle cry was "Here I come to save the day"?

"Andy Kaufman." - 19 of you

"Thor. The day he saved was Thorsday" - seekingferret

"Mr. Terrific. Plain name, plain mission statement, plain crazy." - germankitty

"Droopy. He said it verrrrry slooooowllllllly" - drbear

"He's the greatest! He's fantastic! Wherever there's danger he'll be there!" - n5iln, many_from_one

(That would be the other mouse. -CV)

"Isn't this sort of the definition of the superhero?" - florahart

"Lao Tzu came to show The Way" - thepikey

"On the sea or on the land.. he gets the situation well in haaaaaand!" - copperpixie

(That statement could be less heroic than desired. -CV)

"I had a pet mouse, but he couldn't fly, even with a cape on. Neither could the hamster." - zihuatanejo

"Coincidentally, also the catch-cry of numerous men with mouse-sized appendages. Oh drat, now I've brought to mind the image of penises wearing itsy-bitsy red capes. There'll be nightmares tonight!" - demon_666

Correct Answer: Mighty Mouse



2. Who was the roguish partner of Fafhrd?

"I read this as 'Who was the roguish partner of FAPhrd' and my brain went 'Fap hard? Ow. I don't even have a thing to fap and it sounds painful.'" - ifeedformula, mark_laura

"The funny thing with spelling in the English language is the difference between rogue and rouge. The funniest part is just now when I looked up the definitions of the words and the verb of rouge relates to Canadian football. Canada has football? I guess there's more to Canada then just hockey and beavers." - akiyasan

"He's the greatest! He's fantastic!" - zihuatanejo

(Still not the right mouse. -CV)

"Peewee Herman. It was intended to be a wacky buddy comedy which didn't work out." - seferin

"Algernon" - tzeentch

"Reepicheep the Rogue" - alfvaen

"Mofhrd" - drbear
"Mafhrd" - kristinmachina
"Mufhrd" - florahart
"Bignrd" - primavera
"Bufhrp" - usmu
"Drhfaf" - many_from_one
"Thrftsts" - thalen

"Ebeiau, who incidentally stole all the vowels from poor Fafhrd's name" - mistyraven

"The next steel cage match: The Grey Mouser versus d'Artagnon! And the winner is..." - ironjeff

(Gray Mouser, again with the backstab. D'Artagnan's way too nice to win this fight. -CV)

"The Gray Mouser. Which, in this context, means 'cat,' as evidenced by his blade 'Cat's Claw' if nothing else. So, really, you let a cat loose in the mouse...house. Never mind." - scifantasy

"The Gray Mouser. Not to be confused with the GREY Mouser, who was actually British, and thus (by definition of ANY action/adventure trope), a villain, because of his accent. Most likely he was a rat. Alternatively, Peter Pettigrew/Wormtail" - germankitty

"The Grey Mouser! I remember this because they were psychotic nutcases and yet boring. Kind of like Dick Cheney" - lots42

Correct Answer: The Gray Mouser



3. Fun with quotes! Name the book and the character:
"You might just as well say... that 'I breathe when I sleep' is the same thing as 'I sleep when I breathe'!"

"Unless you're my husband and then you DON'T breathe when you sleep sometimes. Sleep apnea for the win." - ifeedformula

"Sleep is a very poor substitute for caffeine" - n5iln

"Yeah well I chew while I talk and I talk while I chew! Patooey!" - akiyasan

"Sleeping Beauty, who was titular" - mark_laura

"Peter the Pedant" - seferin

"Was it Eragon? I heard that book sucked" - la_trombonista

(The movie could have been better, that's for certain. -CV)

"I think that's the Sherlock Holmes adventure novel 'No Shit, Sherlock.'" - seekingferret

"'Gutthinker: The George W. Bush Story'. I'm not sure who's speaking but W's response was, 'You mean I don't?'" - kenshardik, drbear

"I always wondered why two guys would keep a Dormouse locked in a teapot, and then Southpark opened my eyes to the use of small rodents." - demon_666

(Poor Lemmywinks. -CV)

"That sounds so much like its based on a syllogism that I'm gonna bet on the Rev Dodgson. Humpty Dumpty was as cantankerous as the character sounds so Humpty Dumpty and Alice through the Looking Glass." - miss_whiplash

(Halfway there. -CV)

"No, you might not say that! A While B is not the same as B While A! Silly mouse in a teacup" - tzeentch

(I bet there wasn't very much tea in that teapot. -CV)

"That's what happens when you let a logician write fantasy stories!" - ironjeff

Correct Answer: The Dormouse, from "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"



4. Fun with lyrics! Name the song and the band:
I backed my car into a cop car the other day
Well he just drove off sometimes life's ok
I ran my mouth off a bit too much oh what did I say
Well you just laughed it off it was all ok

"Fun with this, fun with that... You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." - mistyraven

"How many of the correct answers were given by Quizlings thanks solely to playing Rock Band 2?" - fragbert

(Only 1. 2, if you count the fact that this is the only reason *I* know the answer. -CV)

"I am absolutely certain that these lyrics aren't from anything recorded by DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince" - sskipstress

"Mickey Mouse, ain't it great to be rich" - seferin

"'I'm No Longer in the Police, So I Don't Care If You Hit a Cop Car' by Sting" - seekingferret

"Billy Joel, Forget The Beers, I'll Drive" - drbear

"I. My frozen dairy product
A. Assertion of superiority viz. 'bringing youths to the lawn'
i. reassertion of superiority
B. Availability of instruction
i. discussion of fees" - thepikey

"the Only Song On Rock Band We Can All Agree On" - copperpixie

"CAN'T SLEEP, CLOWN WILL EAT ME" - kristinmachina

"Honestly, the guy in this song is kind of an ass. 'Hey, I was a total jerk, but it all worked out great anyway, go me!'" - tzeentch

Correct Answer: Modest Mouse, "Float On"

"Are you really modest if you go around telling people you're modest?" - theninth



5. The Duchy of Grand Fenwick goes to war with the United States in which Cold War-era satirical novel?

"Catch 22" - 6 of you

"Yankees vs. Red Sox... Oh wait, that's the Grand Duchy of FenWAY" - seekingferret

"Rubber Duchy, or: Nuclear Weapons Bounce Off Me and Back to You" - demon_666

"I hear tell they had 10,000 men. They marched them up to the top of the hill, and marched them down again." - vayshti

"My Great-Uncle Fenwick, a retired IBM engineer, is a Cold War satire. If he goes a little more senile he may declare war on the US, or at least sing the tenor line of barbershop quartets at it." - sskipstress

"Is that what happened to the rest of Benjy Fenwick, of whom only pieces were ever found after the Death Eaters got him?" - florahart

"That one that was made into a movie where Peter Sellers plays three roles. No, that other one that was made into a movie where Peter Sellers plays three roles." - i_calql8

"'The Rastamouse That Roared.' Make a bad ting good an' be irie an' ting." - many_from_one

"Maus, Peter Sellers' most depressing film EVAR" - thepikey

(This answer is so ludicrous that I cannot stop laughing. -CV)

Correct Answer: "The Mouse That Roared"



6. Cheese! Love it? Hate it? Use it to pad your writing endeavors? Tell us about cheese.

"Allergic. I have a violently emetic reaction to it, which made cleaning the nacho cheese bin fun when I did the dishes during my college job" - seferin

"I'm from Wisconsin. I AM CHEESE." - drbear

"I like cheese more than it likes me and this is probably good for my heart even if it pains my soul." - sskipstress

"Cake form is ideal" - alfvaen

"" - germankitty

"Wensleydale with cranberry is second to none. I just recently bought some cheddar with cranberry, but I haven't tried it yet. I expect it'll be good. I mean really, what's not to like? Unless you have no soul and don't like cheese. Or cranberries. In which case I say 'good day' to you, sir. I SAID 'GOOD DAY'." - theninth

"Did you know that pimento cheese is a regional thing and if you grew up in the midwest you might have been tragically denied the opportunity to eat it?! But don't look up the recipe if you haven't had it. It kind of sounds a lot grosser than it actually tastes. It tastes delicious!" - copperpixie

"You know what I like to do? Don't tell anyone. I like to dip plain cheddar cheese in Hershey's syrup for a desperately unnutritious but delicious (to me) snack. See? No one needs to know about this." - I am not supposed to tell anyone that this was florahart.

"You know me--coming up with a cheese-related pun is a feta compli." - i_calql8

"Oh no, there are going to Brie loads of awful cheese puns, aren't there? I'll just have to tread Caerphilly. The problem is that even if I try to use them all up, there's Stiltons left." - many_from_one

"There was an old cheese from Amsterdam,
Who said, "Please don't eat me with that ham!
It's moldy and green,
The worst that I've seen!"
So I ate the damn cheese before it could finish its limerick" - yamx

"Cheese is just so Gouda
I have to let you know,
If you Feta my diet with restrictions
I'd have to let you go.
To eat some Mozzarella
I'd get my ten foot Stilton
I eat so much Colby and Edam
I rival any Brieton.
I'll bet that your mum
Gruyere up on Cheddar cheese
But if you're lactose intolerant
I'm so sorry you can't eat these." - demon_666



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