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Quiz for the Day - What Kind of Food are You?

You Are Japanese Food

Strange yet delicious. Contrary to popular belief, you're not always eaten raw.

What Kind of Food Are You?

True Love!

I know you've all been asking yourselves, as I have, who is Lana's Harry Potter Love Match?  Since Veritas had the quiz on her livejournal I had to know, and now you can too.  I love:

Severus Snape. You clearly do not scare easily.  You want a man
who is sharp, intellectual, cultured, and not
too mushy.  Get underneath his cool, sarcastic
exterior and who knows what treasures you might
find.

Who is your Harry Potter love match? (for girls)
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Quiz for Pamela

This quiz result is just too bizarre not to post.  What kind of novel should I write:

HISTORICALS! - Adventurous and somewhat dark, but
that's true adventure. From the heart of Olde
England, or the Caribbean isles, adventures in
the past, are a fire that burn in your soul to
be written. History books, Kathleen E.
Woodiwiss and Alexander Dumas are your
inspirations!

What Kind of Novel Should I Write?
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Never in my life have I had any desire to write historical fiction, but the embers of that distant fire are obviously still smokin'.   Who on earth besides me could actually include Woodiwiss and Dumas in the same conversation?  (Truth or Dare:  Authors I read by the age of 25.)  The wonder is someone else created a quiz and put them both on a bookshelf together.  Granted, Woodiwiss was only on my bookshelf in high school, but Dumas remains to this day.   

I have no idea what this means.  If you know, please don't tell me if it's too icky.

Quiz for Pamela

Okay, this is me when not in lecture or rant mode:

Cocktail

?? Which Alcoholic Drink Are You ??
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Quiz for Pamela

From the dicepool, I am:

You are a four-sided die, a d4. Otherwise known as a tetrahedron, a "Caltrop", or (to a lesser degree) "Ol' Pointy". This crap bores you, so I'll get to the point. Others tend to see you as petty, conniving, manipulative, argumentative, defensive, greedy, and needlessly antagonistic. You see yourself as focused, effective, efficient, influencing, shrewd, tactical, and direct. Both points of view are in fact correct. You always know the best way to get things done, a fact that never wins sympathy with others. Whenever you manage to gain control of a situation, your solutions are swift and brutal. Unfortunately everyone else is convinced that granting you such power is, "a bad thing" and often conspire to keep it out of your hands. Such short-sighted fools!

Take the quiz at dicepool.com  (hat tip: Angry Republican Mom)

Hmmmm, Let Me Think About It

John, the Discoshaman, over at Le Sabot Post-Moderne, has created his own quiz called Are You a Red or Blue Stater? The questions alone are worth the price of admission. Talk about choosing bad or worse. It was hard to decide, but I ended up with this result:

You're a Red Stater! Your values and tastes are
those of America's Heartland. Which explains
the gunrack in your minivan.


Are You a Red or Blue Stater?
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What a shock and there's that damn minivan again. Can we at least shoot out the tires?

Geek Test

Okay, now even Gran is in the time wasting quizzes game. She sent this one along for Pamela to enjoy!

Just How Big of a Geek Are You?

I took the test and it turns out I'm merely 24.06312% - Geek. Still, I hung out with the Geek Gods in high school which added to my geekiness. If you don't want to attain tons of useless, geeky knowledge, never take office or library as an elective and don't join the band.

In addition to these tips, it certainly helps if your last name does not begin with the same two letters as the valedictorian and the salutatorian of your high school. As those pesky teachers always insisted on seating us in alphabetical order, I was surrounded by the geekiest of them all. This added tremendously to my level of geekdom.

Humorously, the only reason I had any desire at all to go to my high school reunion was to catch up with my geek buddies. So in the event Joe, Bryan, Mike, Robbie, or Malcolm stumbles across my site, I really miss you guys. Oh, and Mike? You'll be happy to know I finally read the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy. You were right.

Rule #1: Don't Talk About Fight Club

As Veritas so kindly reminded me, I've been neglecting Pamela in providing time-wasting quizzes. Veritas and I have often pondered which movie we should be in and have always wanted to join the cast of The Long Kiss Goodnight. Hell, we'd like to be in the reality version. My dreams always involve my secret government role as an undercover agent in which I'm forced to make a bomb out of a gas leak and my child's Betsy Wetsy doll.

Valentine gave me Long Kiss on DVD for Christmas this past year and it brought a tear to my eye. My children certainly have a finger on my pulse. Mom wants to blow up terrorists and she's not too trusting of the gubmint, pass it on.

Of course, Long Kiss was not a popular, acclaimed film, so it wouldn't be in a quiz. None the less, I was a bit surprised by this result. Okay, not surprised that Veritas and I, once again, in almost lock-step, score the same results no matter what the quiz. That's become a given.

The surprise came because Fight Club was one of Viagra's all time favorite movies, so of course we watched it. Viagra hides a will of iron behind that charming grin, so of course it was inevitable. He'd have worn down William the Conqueror, for pete's sake.

Oh wait. He's the other child in the family who most closely resembles me and gets the exact same results on every quiz. Like it or not, we three all belong in:

Fight Club!


What movie Do you Belong in?(many different outcomes!)
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More Quizzes for Pamela

Isn't this special? I am this writer:

You are David Brooks! You're exceedingly smart, but
your writing is as compelling as wallpaper. You
are a thoughtful though hard-line conservative,
but lack any of Safire's verbal pyrotechnics.
In addition, you dress like you're colorblind.
Fall down, juvenile.


Which New York Times Op-Ed Columnist Are You?
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Okay, since I rarely get comments at the guillotine I've already decided I might as well be posting about menstrual cramps for all the good it does me. Having my writing compared to wallpaper only ices the cake. (via a small victory)

Get Your Pencils Ready!

I was dying to find out if I was a geek or not so I took this handy quiz. Turns out I'm not. In fact, I got a great score and some killer hair to go with it. Wavy is back, baby.

You are 25% geek

OK, so maybe you ain't a geek. You do, at least, show a bit of interest in the world around you. Either that, or you have enough of a sense of humor to pick some of the sillier answers on the test. Regardless, you're probably a pretty nifty, well-rounded person who gets along fine with people and can chat with just about anyone without fear of looking stupid or foolish or overly concerned with minutiae. God, I hate you.

Take the Polygeek Quiz at Thudfactor.com