Izzy Whizzy, let's get Quizzy
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[*] Which British Children's Show did I plagiarize the thread title from? (:D)
[*] What's your favorite houseplant?
[*] You open the front door and there's a wet, scrawny puppy whimpering on the mat. What do you name it?
[*] You win a free books from the "Idiot's Guide To" series. Which one do you choose?
[*] Alaska or Florida 24/7/365?
[*] What does your doormat look like?
[*] If you were to attempt to break a Guinness World record to raise money for a charity you support, what record would it be?
[*] Scrabble or Monopoly?
[*] Do you fold down the corner of the page to mark your place in the book you are reading?
[*] How often do you wear a hat?
[*] What is your favorite candy or chocolate bar?
[*] What is your most embarrassing "bodily (mal)function" moment?
[*] What is the most you ever paid for a ticket to an event and what was the event?
[*] What is the first non-English swear word you learned?
[*] How many roads must a man walk down?
[*] How many open condiments do you have in your fridge?
[*] Darth Vader or The Terminator?
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Which British Children's Show did I plagiarize the thread title from? () No Idea
What's your favorite houseplant? Houseplants? I have a two year old and 4 indoor cats!
You open the front door and there's a wet, scrawny puppy whimpering on the mat. What do you name it? Puddles
You win a free books from the "Idiot's Guide To" series. Which one do you choose? The Cellar
Alaska or Florida 24/7/365? Florida
What does your doormat look like? A doormat?
If you were to attempt to break a Guinness World record to raise money for a charity you support, what record would it be? The person whose spouse travels the most.
Scrabble or Monopoly? Scrabble
Do you fold down the corner of the page to mark your place in the book you are reading? Usually
How often do you wear a hat? Not often
What is your favorite candy or chocolate bar? Lindt white chocolate and almond
What is your most embarrassing "bodily (mal)function" moment? Last week it was farting too much
What is the most you ever paid for a ticket to an event and what was the event? I think it was about $200 to a seafood awards dinner (husband got a free ticket)
What is the first non-English swear word you learned? Malucca (sp?)
How many roads must a man walk down? As many as it takes
How many open condiments do you have in your fridge? about 2 dozen
Darth Vader or The Terminator? Terminator!
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[*] Which British Children's Show did I plagiarize the thread title from? (:D) Not a clue.
[*] What's your favorite houseplant? *removed by DEA*
[*] You open the front door and there's a wet, scrawny puppy whimpering on the mat. What do you name it? General Tso
[*] You win a free books from the "Idiot's Guide To" series. Which one do you choose? Idiot's Guide to Literacy
[*] Alaska or Florida 24/7/365? Alaska
[*] What does your doormat look like? woven brown fiber
[*] If you were to attempt to break a Guinness World record to raise money for a charity you support, what record would it be? Watching the most consecutive baseball games.
[*] Scrabble or Monopoly? Scrabble
[*] Do you fold down the corner of the page to mark your place in the book you are reading? No.
[*] How often do you wear a hat? Usually.
[*] What is your favorite candy or chocolate bar? Snickers
[*] What is your most embarrassing "bodily (mal)function" moment? Pretty wet for a fart.
[*] What is the most you ever paid for a ticket to an event and what was the event? My pleasures tend to be inexpensive. I love baseball but haven't reconciled the new stadium fees in NY
[*] What is the first non-English swear word you learned? Puta
[*] How many roads must a man walk down? 7
[*] How many open condiments do you have in your fridge? 10?
[*] Darth Vader or The Terminator? Vader
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[*] Which British Children's Show did I plagiarize the thread title from? (:D) [COLOR="Navy"]Sooty? The Sooty Show? [/COLOR]
[*] What's your favorite houseplant? [COLOR="navy"]Don't have one really.[/COLOR][*]
You open the front door and there's a wet, scrawny puppy whimpering on the mat. What do you name it? [COLOR="navy"]Klaatu[/COLOR][*]
You win a free books from the "Idiot's Guide To" series. Which one do you choose? ...[COLOR="navy"]IGT Photoshopping[/COLOR]
[*] Alaska or Florida 24/7/365? [COLOR="navy"]Florida[/COLOR][*]
What does your doormat look like? [COLOR="navy"]Broken amd beat down[/COLOR][*]
If you were to attempt to break a Guinness World record to raise money for a charity you support, what record would it be? [COLOR="navy"]World record for daydreaming.[/COLOR][*]
[COLOR="navy"] Scrabble or Monopoly? [/COLOR]Scrabble
[*] Do you fold down the corner of the page to mark your place in the book you are reading? [COLOR="navy"]Sometimes. Depends on the book and to whom it belongs. [/COLOR][*]
How often do you wear a hat? [COLOR="navy"]Most days I wear a hat[/COLOR][*]
What is your favorite candy or chocolate bar? [COLOR="navy"]Impossible choice, but if pushed: Toblerone[/COLOR][*]
What is your most embarrassing "bodily (mal)function" moment? [COLOR="navy"]Oh God, I don;t know. The time my knee went from under me and I was flat on my face in someone's pathway, surrounded by a bag of spilled Labour leaflets? Or the time I soiled my pants in nursery school (kindergarten)[/COLOR][*]
What is the most you ever paid for a ticket to an event and what was the event? [COLOR="navy"]This i find difficult. I think the most expensive event I went to was Glastonbury, but I didn't pay for the tickets :p I don;t think I have ever paid more than £50 for a show or event. [/COLOR][*]
What is the first non-English swear word you learned? [COLOR="navy"]Meud.[/COLOR] But my first non-English insult was 'gutha' (spelt phonetically as I don't know how it is supposed to be spelt) which I believe is hindi for 'ass' or as in 'you silly ass'. A common mock insult used around my house growing up was 'you great gutha' or 'guthalump'
[*] How many roads must a man walk down? [COLOR="navy"]As many as it takes.[/COLOR][*]
How many open condiments do you have in your fridge? [COLOR="navy"]Edible? - three. Inedible? about six.[/COLOR][*]
Darth Vader or The Terminator? [COLOR="navy"]Darth Vadar...but only if he brings his brother Chad along to the party. [/COLOR][/LIST]
[eta] I didn;t read any of the other replies before posting mine. But I notice Ali and I answered the roads question the same ;p
Which British Children's Show did I plagiarize the thread title from? () No Idea
What's your favorite houseplant? Pothos - they are nearly impossible to kill
You open the front door and there's a wet, scrawny puppy whimpering on the mat. What do you name it? Dammit!
You win a free books from the "Idiot's Guide To" series. Which one do you choose? Idiots Guide to the Tarot
Alaska or Florida 24/7/365? Alaska
What does your doormat look like? yellowish fiber mat with a basket of red tulips stenciled on
If you were to attempt to break a Guinness World record to raise money for a charity you support, what record would it be? Most dwarves tossed
Scrabble or Monopoly? Scrabble
Do you fold down the corner of the page to mark your place in the book you are reading? No
How often do you wear a hat? Hardly ever
What is your favorite candy or chocolate bar? Payday or Dove milk choco
What is your most embarrassing "bodily (mal)function" moment? Hershey squirts
What is the most you ever paid for a ticket to an event and what was the event? 100.00 for the Dead? I was rather wrecked so I can't really recall...
What is the first non-English swear word you learned? Tu pu!
How many roads must a man walk down? 42
How many open condiments do you have in your fridge? 10?
Darth Vader or The Terminator? Darth Vadar!
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[*] Which British Children's Show did I plagiarize the thread title from? I have no idea
[*] What's your favorite houseplant? Venus Flytrap: it's a plant! It's a carnivore!
[*] You open the front door and there's a wet, scrawny puppy whimpering on the mat. What do you name it? Depends on who he looks like
[*] You win a free books from the "Idiot's Guide To" series. Which one do you choose? Idiot's Guide to Social Skills
[*] Alaska or Florida 24/7/365? Florida
[*] What does your doormat look like? Brown hair and eyes, 40-something, oh...that's me
[*] If you were to attempt to break a Guinness World record to raise money for a charity you support, what record would it be? Hummus eating
[*] Scrabble or Monopoly? Monopoly
[*] Do you fold down the corner of the page to mark your place in the book you are reading? Yes
[*] How often do you wear a hat? Seldom
[*] What is your favorite candy or chocolate bar? Reeses or Clark Bar
[*] What is your most embarrassing "bodily (mal)function" moment? I fart at will. Will hates it, but you know...there's more room out than in
[*] What is the most you ever paid for a ticket to an event and what was the event? My mom paid a lot for our Lion King tickets, I rarely buy tickets, someone usually is treating ;)
[*] What is the first non-English swear word you learned? bastardo
[*] How many roads must a man walk down? Is he coming to my house? Tell him to go the other way, don't care how many roads it takes him
[*] How many open condiments do you have in your fridge? 2
[*] Darth Vader or The Terminator? Neither
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[*] Which British Children's Show did I plagiarize the thread title from? (:D) [COLOR="Blue"]Romper Room?[/COLOR]
[*] What's your favorite houseplant? [COLOR="Blue"]That's easy. The one in the corner that came from my kids preschool. It got infested with an ant colony, so we put it outside on the porch, but then left it out there for too long and the frost killed it, so I put the pot in the basement, and the following soring when I went down there, there was a beatiful fresh green shoot coming up from the root ball. The soil was as dry and hard as a brick, but the plant was regrowing. So I watered it and brought it back upstairs. That was 3 years ago and it's doing wonderfully now.[/COLOR]
[*] You open the front door and there's a wet, scrawny puppy whimpering on the mat. What do you name it? [COLOR="Blue"]Beat it. Scram.[/COLOR]
[*] You win a free books from the "Idiot's Guide To" series. Which one do you choose? [COLOR="Blue"]Gardening. I don't have any gardening books, and a nice how to would be good.[/COLOR]
[*] Alaska or Florida 24/7/365? [COLOR="Blue"]Florida. Alaska would be beautiful, but a difficult life. Florida would be ugly, but it has everything you need.[/COLOR]
[*] What does your doormat look like? [COLOR="Blue"]Some sort of natural fiber brown thing with deep bristles that point up. Looks smart.[/COLOR]
[*] If you were to attempt to break a Guinness World record to raise money for a charity you support, what record would it be? [COLOR="Blue"]String ball.[/COLOR]
[*] Scrabble or Monopoly? [COLOR="Blue"]Scrabble[/COLOR].
[*] Do you fold down the corner of the page to mark your place in the book you are reading? [COLOR="Blue"]Never. Bookmark.[/COLOR]
[*] How often do you wear a hat? [COLOR="Blue"]45 times a year.[/COLOR]
[*] What is your favorite candy or chocolate bar? [COLOR="Blue"]Regular milk chocolate M&Ms[/COLOR]
[*] What is your most embarrassing "bodily (mal)function" moment? [COLOR="Blue"]I guess when my fingers slipped while breaking the tail off a lobster, and it flew into my chest.[/COLOR]
[*] What is the most you ever paid for a ticket to an event and what was the event? [COLOR="Blue"]I can't remember. I've probably never gone over $100, because I'm too cheap. Probably something at the Kennedy Center. Peter Pan?[/COLOR]
[*] What is the first non-English swear word you learned? [COLOR="Blue"]sheisse[/COLOR]
[*] How many roads must a man walk down? [COLOR="Blue"]None. You can't force a person to walk. They can just go all limp noodle on you.[/COLOR]
[*] How many open condiments do you have in your fridge? [COLOR="Blue"]13, including syrups and spreads.[/COLOR]
[*] Darth Vader or The Terminator? [COLOR="Blue"]Vader
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I think this is the best one yet, I likey. I'll wait a little longer before I reveal the correct answers, though :lol:
Which British Children's Show did I plagiarize the thread title from? () No Clue. It's not from Doctor Who or Masterpiece Theater, so I don't know
What's your favorite houseplant? Peace Lily I gave momwolf for Valentines Day several years ago.
You open the front door and there's a wet, scrawny puppy whimpering on the mat. What do you name it?
My first answer is why should I name something I can't keep? That being said, I'm very softhearted about dogs, and would keep him and name him Cooper, after my favorite typeface.
You win a free books from the "Idiot's Guide To" series. Which one do you choose?
Idiots Guide To Finding a New Job
Alaska or Florida 24/7/365? Alaska. Florida has Summers all year round.
What does your doormat look like? I am not permitted to have a doormat.
If you were to attempt to break a Guinness World record to raise money for a charity you support, what record would it be?
Internet surfing and general lazing about.
Scrabble or Monopoly? Monopoly
Do you fold down the corner of the page to mark your place in the book you are reading?
Heavens no!!! Sacrilege!! No Hurt Book!!!
How often do you wear a hat? Daily
What is your favorite candy or chocolate bar? Lindt Dark Truffles
What is your most embarrassing "bodily (mal)function" moment? Explosive Diarrhea.
What is the most you ever paid for a ticket to an event and what was the event? Other than Disney? Probably some live theater ... Evita, I think.
What is the first non-English swear word you learned? Scheisse
How many roads must a man walk down? 42
How many open condiments do you have in your fridge? at least half a dozen. Depends on whether you consider butter a condiment.
Darth Vader or The Terminator? Vader.
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[*] Which British Children's Show did I plagiarize the thread title from? (:D) [COLOR="Blue"]various Sooty shows[/COLOR][*] What's your favorite houseplant? [COLOR="blue"]Peace lily[/COLOR][*] You open the front door and there's a wet, scrawny puppy whimpering on the mat. What do you name it? [COLOR="blue"]"What's the number for the RSPCA, Mum?"[/COLOR][*] You win a free books from the "Idiot's Guide To" series. Which one do you choose? [COLOR="blue"] Proofreading[/COLOR][*] Alaska or Florida 24/7/365? [COLOR="blue"]WHA?? Both sound hideous. Alaska I guess, because of the weather. But only if I can find some sort of leftie community.[/COLOR][*] What does your doormat look like? [COLOR="blue"]Brown, hairy. It works.[/COLOR][*] If you were to attempt to break a Guinness World record to raise money for a charity you support, what record would it be? [COLOR="blue"]How many mini-marshmallows I can fit up my snatch before I get Toxic Shock Syndrome[/COLOR][*] Scrabble or Monopoly? [COLOR="blue"]Monopoly. I hate anagrams.[/COLOR][*] Do you fold down the corner of the page to mark your place in the book you are reading? [COLOR="blue"]VERY rarely. Public transport give you lovely bookmarks as souvenirs of travel.[/COLOR][*] How often do you wear a hat? [COLOR="blue"]VERY rarely. I'm more likely to be seen in a wig than a hat.[/COLOR][*] What is your favorite candy or chocolate bar? [COLOR="blue"]Hmmm. Picnic?[/COLOR][*] What is your most embarrassing "bodily (mal)function" moment? [COLOR="blue"]Too numerous to mention. Often unnoticed by other people, but attended by deep shame on my part. Quite recently I had to nip into a nearby hostelry to remove bespattered knickers after following through. No-one knew apart from me. Until now.[/COLOR][*] What is the most you ever paid for a ticket to an event and what was the event? [COLOR="blue"]Can't remember the price, but I got good seats for the 'rents to see Turandot. It was the first big staging after the world cup that used it as a theme - it wasn't commonly staged. Cost nearly a month's wages at the time.[/COLOR][*] What is the first non-English swear word you learned? [COLOR="blue"] Merde[/COLOR][*] How many roads must a man walk down? [COLOR="blue"] At least one, in heels.[/COLOR][*] How many open condiments do you have in your fridge? [COLOR="blue"]LOTS. We are a condiment family. At least 10 off the top of my head.[/COLOR][*] Darth Vader or The Terminator? [COLOR="blue"]Darth Vader. With a wet tray.[/COLOR][/LIST]
Which British Children's Show did I plagiarize the thread title from?
[FONT="Century Gothic"]Upstairs, Downstairs[/FONT]
What's your favorite houseplant?
[FONT="Century Gothic"]Datura[/FONT]
You open the front door and there's a wet, scrawny puppy whimpering on the mat. What do you name it?
[FONT="Century Gothic"]Cat Toy[/FONT]
You win a free books from the "Idiot's Guide To" series. Which one do you choose?
[FONT="Century Gothic"]The Idiot's Guide to being an annoying old fart[/FONT]
Alaska or Florida 24/7/365?
[FONT="Century Gothic"]death[/FONT]
What does your doormat look like?
[FONT="Century Gothic"]In need of replacement[/FONT]
If you were to attempt to break a Guinness World record to raise money for a charity you support, what record would it be?
[FONT="Century Gothic"]Surfing the Internet for days without sleep[/FONT]
Scrabble or Monopoly?
[FONT="Century Gothic"]Scrabble[/FONT]
Do you fold down the corner of the page to mark your place in the book you are reading?
[FONT="Century Gothic"]Yes, to my everlasting shame[/FONT]
How often do you wear a hat?
[FONT="Century Gothic"]Not as often as I'd like[/FONT]
What is your favorite candy or chocolate bar?
[FONT="Century Gothic"]Not much on candy bars. I do like chocolate chip cookies, though[/FONT]
What is your most embarrassing "bodily (mal)function" moment?
[FONT="Century Gothic"]The time I was at a dinner party and the hostess handed me a HUGE platter of sweet and sour chicken and I fainted dead away. I came to covered with chicken bits and a kitchen floor decorated with shards of the platter and sticky chicken everywhere.[/FONT]
What is the most you ever paid for a ticket to an event and what was the event?
[FONT="Century Gothic"]If I can't crash it, I don't go.[/FONT]
What is the first non-English swear word you learned?
[FONT="Century Gothic"]"Pendejo" or "puta" - can't remember which.[/FONT]
How many roads must a man walk down?
[FONT="Century Gothic"]Depends on how often he gets picked up hitch-hiking[/FONT]
How many open condiments do you have in your fridge?
[FONT="Century Gothic"]I'm scared to look in my fridge[/FONT]
Darth Vader or The Terminator?
[FONT="Century Gothic"]It used to be the Terminator until he got elected the Governer of California. Now, it's neither.[/FONT]
Ok all y'all Americans etc fail at cheating on quizzes...... :lol:
It's all part of being American. We are the "Fair Play" people rather than the "Stiff Upper Lip" people.
I couldn't cheat at games if I wanted to...then it isn't winning if you win, not a'tall. Where's the fun in that? I need to be #winning.
Hang on... when did "stiff upper lip" negate fair play?
It's just not cricket, I tell you!
It's not the winning, it's the taking part that counts.
Play up, play up, and play the game.
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[*] Which British Children's Show did I plagiarize the thread title from? SOOTY
[*] What's your favorite houseplant? ANY THAT THRIVES; VENUS FLY TRAP
[*] You open the front door and there's a w et, scrawny puppy whimpering on the mat. What do you name it? OH FUCK
[*] You win a free books from the "Idiot's Guide To" series. Which one do you choose? GETTING CHEAP AIR TICKETS
[*] Alaska or Florida 24/7/365? UGH. UM. FLORIDA, I GUESS. BUT I'D MISS THE SNOW.
[*] What does your doormat look like? WE HAVE SEVERAL. WET AND MUDDY MOSTLY. ONE SAYS WELCOME, BUT WE INHERITED IT AND IT'S LYING
[*] If you were to attempt to break a Guinness World record to raise money for a charity you support, what record would it be? FASTEST TWO-FINGERED TYPIST
[*] Scrabble or Monopoly? SCRABBLE
[*] Do you fold down the corner of the page to mark your place in the book you are reading? NO. BUT AS AN ADULT I'VE LEARNED IT'S OK IF YOU OWN THE BOOK. THEY'RE NOT SACRED. I'VE LEARNED IT, BUT I CAN'T PRACTICE IT YET. THEY ARE SACRED TO ME. I CAN NOW DO IT WITH A CATALOG OR SIMILAR, THOUGH. BABY STEPS
[*] How often do you wear a hat? ALMOST NEVER. IF i'M WEARING A HAT, YOU KNOW IT'S A SHITLOAD OF DEGREES BELOW ZERO.
[*] What is your favorite candy or chocolate bar? CADBURY'S FLAKE
[*] What is your most embarrassing "bodily (mal)function" moment? I'VE LEARNED THE TRICK IS NOT TO BE EMBARASSED. BUT PUKING HORRIBLY IN THE BOG AT THE STUDENTS' UNION AND HAVING TO BE ESCORTED OUT BEFORE I WAS READY BECAUSE SOMEONE HAD SET THE FIRE ALARM OFF WOULD HAVE BEEN EMBARRASING IF I HAD BEEN SOBER.
[*] What is the most you ever paid for a ticket to an event and what was the event? MONSTERS OF ROCK 1989ISH, DON'T REMEMBER HOW MUCH
[*] What is the first non-English swear word you learned? MERDE
[*] How many roads must a man walk down? THERE IS ONLY ONE ROAD
[*] How many open condiments do you have in your fridge? A HALF DOZEN OR SO.
[*] Darth Vader or The Terminator? NO PREFERENCE.
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I think your answer to number 15 is wrong. Did you multiply then add the roads?
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[*] Which British Children's Show did I plagiarize the thread title from? (:D)
Keeping up Masterpiece Theater
[*] What's your favorite houseplant?
Spider plant
[*] You open the front door and there's a wet, scrawny puppy whimpering on the mat. What do you name it?
Yowl Ming
[*] You win a free books from the "Idiot's Guide To" series. Which one do you choose?
Taking Over The World
[*] Alaska or Florida 24/7/365?
Florida
[*] What does your doormat look like?
Wooden slats in a fan shape
[*] If you were to attempt to break a Guinness World record to raise money for a charity you support, what record would it be?
Squeezing women's nakid boobages
[*] Scrabble or Monopoly?
Monopoly
[*] Do you fold down the corner of the page to mark your place in the book you are reading?
no
[*] How often do you wear a hat?
often.
[*] What is your favorite candy or chocolate bar?
Kit cat
[*] What is your most embarrassing "bodily (mal)function" moment?
Throwing up out of my bedroom window, third fllor, above my parents bedroom. Nabbed!
[*] What is the most you ever paid for a ticket to an event and what was the event?
$75.00 Addmas family on Brodway
[*] What is the first non-English swear word you learned?
Merde
[*] How many roads must a man walk down?
Pi
[*] How many open condiments do you have in your fridge?
Way fucking too many. Like 25
[*] Darth Vader or The Terminator?
Terminator
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Izzy Whizzy, let's get Quizzy
1. Which British Children's Show did I plagiarize the thread title from? [COLOR="DeepSkyBlue"]No fucking clue.[/COLOR]
2. What's your favorite houseplant? [COLOR="DeepSkyBlue"]Geranium, or marijuana.[/COLOR]
3. You open the front door and there's a wet, scrawny puppy whimpering on the mat. What do you name it? [COLOR="DeepSkyBlue"]I name him "Porch Shitter".[/COLOR]
4. You win a free books from the "Idiot's Guide To" series. Which one do you choose? [COLOR="DeepSkyBlue"]"The Idiots Guide To Dealing With Idiots".[/COLOR]
5. Alaska or Florida 24/7/365? [COLOR="DeepSkyBlue"]Southern Alaska.[/COLOR]
6. What does your doormat look like? [COLOR="DeepSkyBlue"]This; Goddamit, I can't insert a pic from Flickr no more, see the pic below.[/COLOR]
7. If you were to attempt to break a Guinness World record to raise money for a charity you support, what record would it be? [COLOR="DeepSkyBlue"]Anne Murray's Greatest Hits[/COLOR]
8. Scrabble or Monopoly? [COLOR="DeepSkyBlue"]Scrabble[/COLOR]
9. Do you fold down the corner of the page to mark your place in the book you are reading? [COLOR="DeepSkyBlue"]I use an ancient bookmark from Waldenbooks, gotta be over fifteen yrs old.[/COLOR]
10. How often do you wear a hat? [COLOR="DeepSkyBlue"]Whenever I leave the house.[/COLOR]
11. What is your favorite candy or chocolate bar? [COLOR="DeepSkyBlue"]Straight Hershey bar. Or Symphony.[/COLOR]
12. What is your most embarrassing "bodily (mal)function" moment? [COLOR="DeepSkyBlue"]Sharted in fifth grade.[/COLOR]
13. What is the most you ever paid for a ticket to an event and what was the event? [COLOR="DeepSkyBlue"]$17.50 for Queensrÿche tickets.[/COLOR]
14. What is the first non-English swear word you learned? [COLOR="DeepSkyBlue"]Scheiss.[/COLOR]
15. How many roads must a man walk down? [COLOR="DeepSkyBlue"]One, but, ya gotta pick the right one.[/COLOR]
16. How many open condiments do you have in your fridge? [COLOR="DeepSkyBlue"]Using a wide definition of 'condiment', 37. Good God.[/COLOR]
17. Darth Vader or The Terminator? [COLOR="DeepSkyBlue"]Betty White.[/COLOR]
1. Which British Children's Show did I plagiarize the thread title from? ()Romper Room I dunno
2. What's your favorite houseplant?cacti
3. You open the front door and there's a wet, scrawny puppy whimpering on the mat. What do you name it?I must have named over 80 dogs in my life, I'm out
4. You win a free books from the "Idiot's Guide To" series. Which one do you choose?Numbers
5. Alaska or Florida 24/7/365?Fl
6. What does your doormat look like?what door mat?
7. If you were to attempt to break a Guinness World record to raise money for a charity you support, what record would it be?cow milking
8. Scrabble or Monopoly? Scrabble
9. Do you fold down the corner of the page to mark your place in the book you are reading?No
10. How often do you wear a hat?everyday
11. What is your favorite candy or chocolate bar?Lindt 72% cacao
12. What is your most embarrassing "bodily (mal)function" moment? I am sure it had to do with menses but I don't remember specifics
13. What is the most you ever paid for a ticket to an event and what was the event? ZZ Top don't remember the amount
14. What is the first non-English swear word you learned? For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge oh non English, Scheiss my mother is German
15. How many roads must a man walk down? None
16. How many open condiments do you have in your fridge? Pickle Relish
17. Darth Vader or The Terminator? Darth Vader
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[size=4]The answer to #1 is Sooty[/size] :lol:
Sooty?
one of the first iotds
Sooty?
one of the first iotds
He certainly got busy!
Sooty
On second thoughts, I should look for a better pic. That one seems to be Sooty as Hitler...
On second thoughts, I should look for a better pic. That one seems to be Sooty as Hitler...
:lol:
Heil Hamster! (That IS a hamster, isn't it?)
Sooty was/is a bear wasn't he? And Sweep was a ?dog? and annoying Sue was a Panda
I don't know if Sooty was a bear, but Fuzzy Wuzzy was, wasn't he?
I just know you have to be careful or the fuzzy wuzzies will get you.
And I think they don't like it up 'em. But that could have been something else.
No it was definitely the Fuzzy Wuzzies. They don't like it up 'em.
wasn't fuzzy wuzzy a racially abusive term in the 70s? Kind of like golliwog.
She can use racially abusive terms in her own Disney Land thread. :P
I am sure it wasn't done with any malicious forethought. It's a paradox, kinda like the
Ouroboros.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy_Wuzzy
Fuzzy-Wuzzy can refer to:
Hadendoa, an East African tribe
Fuzzy-Wuzzy, a poem by Rudyard Kipling
Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels, the name given by Australian troops to a group of Papua New Guinean people who, during World War II, assisted and escorted injured Australian troops down the Kokoda trail
Fuzzy Wuzzy (poem), a popular children's poem/tongue-twister in which a bear is thought to be fuzzy, but it turns out he's not
Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear
Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair
Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy, was he?
So I don't know about any derogatory term unless you don't like Hadendoa or Rudyard Kipling. :rolleyes:
It was used as a racist term I'm pretty sure.
The name was given to the Hadendoa because of their elaborate hairstyles (according to wiki), by the British. So it's a descriptive name used by the imperialist brits to describe a native people. Seems not too far from calling someone 'nappy head'.
Just went and looked at the Urban Dictionary:
A racist slur for blacks in England. Originated from a Kipling poem entitled "Fuzzy Wuzzy."
So 'ere's to you, Fuzzy Wuzzy, at your 'ome in the Soudan;
You're a pore benighted 'eathen but a first-class fightin' man;
An' 'ere's to you, Fuzzy Wuzzy, with your 'ayrick 'ead of 'air -
You big black boundin' beggar - for you broke a British square!
Ahhh, I see. In our country it just meant an imaginary fuzzy bear that wasn't fuzzy, was he?
Of course, I guess those undertones could still be there...but I was never aware of them.
It's a quote/catchphrase from "Dad's Army". My apologies to whose who were offended.
:confused:
I dunno. You people are talking a whole other language...English, isn't it?
Right. I assumed the Brits would get it and others might google. It never occured to me that people would just think I was being racially offensive. How stupid of me.
Oh, I thought I was supposed to be racially offensive, having brought up the hairless imaginary bear fuzzy wuzzy, who wasn't fuzzy, was he?
Let me ask some of my cow orkers what they think of the pome.
btw, anyone know why skywhatever is stalking me when she hates me so much?
skywalker wants you to look at his big green wand. LOOK AT IT. LOOK!
oh gawd don't let sheldon see that
New game!
Predict Sheldon's joke!
"I've seen Luke's wand but it didn't get that color from ME!"
Luke's wand saw mine and turned green with envy....
from the shittiest era of american popular music.
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Sooty?
one of the first iotds
Thanx for reminding me of my late, great, Grandmadigr. She taught me my first Mutilated Nursery Rhyme.
Mary had a little lamb
He had a sooty foot
And into Mary's bread & jam
His sooty foot he put
...kinda like the
Ouroboros.
...The name was given to the Hadendoa...
I wish you people would stop making me learn stuff.:facepalm:
Right. I assumed the Brits would get it and others might google. It never occured to me that people would just think I was being racially offensive. How stupid of me.
Whoah. No, I assumed it was the Dad's Army quote you were using. It's just when a conversation about its origins started, I was just contributing to that. I didn't for one milisecond think you were being racist Monster.
Thanks for the clarification, I thought you'd get it but was confused by the direction the discourse took. I figured it was fine to post seeing as it's still deemed OK by the BBC.
eta OK, with your clarification, I now see how/where the thread got diverted into my being racist. Is troll a racist term?
I don't think it's used as a racist term any more. I had togoogle it to make sure i was remembering correctly, 'cause I think it was a 70s thing. I have a vague recollection of it being used recently by the Gene Wolf character in Life on Mars, which was of course set in the 70s. That's the first time I've heard it used in years.
Right, I think it's archaic enough to be OK as a historical reference.
Shame Dad's Army didn't make it so big over here -another imminently quotable show -more so even than Are You Being Served.
Did Dad's Army mention the yanks? Can't remember now..... might be why it never crossed the Atlantic....
Oh God yeah. Sorry lol. I seem to have imposed a massive downer onto a fun thread :p
Context is everything. Say something with racist intent and it's racist. Say it without racist intent and chances are it won't be racist.
Ladies, Fuzzy Wuzzy is a charming nursery rhyme based on wordplay.
There is no subtext. At least not in America.
Next you'll be telling us that there is something nasty in Mairzy Doats. Or the amount of wood chuckable by a woodchuck. Or Louie, Louie.
I'mm'a go watch some on youtube now :D
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skywalker wants you to look at his big green wand. LOOK AT IT. LOOK!
I laughed out loud. :)
skywalker wants you to look at his big green wand. LOOK AT IT. LOOK!
I laughed out loud. :)
Maybe it was cold? Maybe he had been in the pool...
What pool? The one in Fukushima?
No grav, that's not why I thought it was funny.
Symbolism, not the actual part of the anatomy south of the navel.
If I gots to explain...neber mind.
Ladies, Fuzzy Wuzzy is a charming nursery rhyme based on wordplay.
There is no subtext. At least not in America.
Next you'll be telling us that there is something nasty in Mairzy Doats. Or the amount of wood chuckable by a woodchuck. Or Louie, Louie.
Don't even mention sitting under the apple tree with anyone else but me!
Yeah. Fraid it has far less innocent connotations over here :p
Now: do any of your charming nursery rhymes have a character called Coolie?
yikes! NSFW link
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Weally weally waisis!
yikes! NSFW link
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Wow. Where d'ya start with that?
Awesome find man.
It is amazing what passed as good entertainment as recently as my childhood. Strange blindspots. My FiL is a huge jazz fan, great respect for black musicians but now and then he'll pull out a slab of vinyl like that and cause a giant quiet wtf? moment. I think we're getting better... sometimes.
OMG my grandma used to sing that, I had forgotten it completely. Another one about pulling a toe and a tiger..... clearly I've blanked them out....
Oh it was a "dipping rhyme" eenie meany miney mo catch a tiger by the toe.
It didn't used to be a tiger........
Yeah, I almost forgot to say tiger in my classroom one time.
Did it holler? Did you let it go?
I never heard the OTHER word in it until years after I'd heard "tiger."
I had totally forgotten about that. My laughter frightened my son, btw griff, thanks. Just spent five minutes explaining how recently in the scheme of things it was that stuff like this got cleaned up.
Didn't that song become 10 little Indians for a while? I wonder what it is now?
I remember it as ten little Indians.
I remember it as ten little Indians.
dot or feather?
what?
//yes, single seat please, one-way, non-smoking ....what do you mean all seats are smoking?
Do you recall a schoolyard rhyme, with actions that went something like this:
Chinese,
Japanese
Siamese
Dirty Knees
I also remember a jigsaw puzzle my gran gave me when I was very little which featured various nations of the Commonwealth in their national dress. I was always fascinated by the one with the neckrings. Burma? Something like that.
At least....I think it was commonwealth nations...might have just been a racist depiction of various non-euro peoples.
No, but I remember:
Me chinese
Me play joke
Me go pee-pee in your coke
Oh God! I remember that one too!
Do you recall a schoolyard rhyme, with actions that went something like this:
Chinese,
Japanese
Siamese
Dirty Knees
I also remember a jigsaw puzzle my gran gave me when I was very little which featured various nations of the Commonwealth in their national dress. I was always fascinated by the one with the neckrings. Burma? Something like that.
At least....I think it was commonwealth nations...might have just been a racist depiction of various non-euro peoples.
pulling the sides of the eyes? vaguely. God I'm old. Today in the school yards they just take words like rape and repurpose them.....
Do you recall a schoolyard rhyme, with actions that went something like this:
Chinese,
Japanese
Siamese
Dirty Knees
You missed out the last line, which was "and what are these?" where you cupped non-existant breasts. Racist
and sexist, ding ding!
lol so I did. I'd forgotten that.