IWS XLIII: A Stupid Tribute to Bob Dylan

[Solomwi]

Whether we realize it or not, we're all probably very familiar with at least one song that sprang from the feritle mind of Robert Zimmerman, aka Bob Dylan. What better way to celebrate his vast influence than having a bunch of polytubbies do their dead level best to give the silliest answers to questions based on his music? Therefore, without further ado...

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All answers are allowed. However, scoring is not based on what the "correct" answer is . It is based on how many other participants choose the same answer. So, for example, if I ask what fruit is the greatest, and 17 people say "banana," each person who answered "banana" will get 17 points for that question. If someone says "mango," and they're the only one, they will get 1 point for that question.

However, the answer doesn't have to even fit the criteria. If two people answer "My irrepressible genital herpes" when asked what fruit is the greatest, they will still get two points for that question.

Your individual score will be the total of your scores for all questions.

Remember to send the answers to me via PM, rather than posting them in the thread, and please bump the thread when you send.

1. How many roads must a man walk down?

2. If dogs run free, why am I stuck in Mobile?

3. Who is the "Neighborhood Bully"?

4. Who's dying in "Knockin' on Heaven's Door"?

5. Fill in the blank: Like a rolling _____

6. What killed Frankie Lee?

7. Fill in the blank: There's no success like _____

8. When did I marry Isis?

9. Where's the blind commissioner's other hand?

10. What lush resort nation has a sunny sky of aqua blue?

11. What's wrong with the hanging judge?

12. Who could have carved out the Jokerman's future?

13. What does the man in the coonskin cap with a pigpen want?

14. Something's happening here. What is it?

15. When you're hunted like a crocodile, where are you likely to be ravaged?

Bonus Obligatory Bill Hicks Question:

What comes next in this series?

Elite Republican Guard, Republican Guard, __________

[Skanky Burns]

I believe I will bomb in this one. But try I will, after work.

[J Bytheway]

I've just about finished something to automate collection and analysis of answers. Should I just post it here and hope someone finds it useful, or does someone have a better idea?

[Pave]

You send answers as PM to Solomwi.

Solomwi, your wrong, I'm not familiar with any of Bob Dylan's songs. At least lyricaly. But what the heck, lets answer and look, how low I go.

EDIT: Answers sent, and they... are... full... crap. Just made them out of my mind. Going really low in this game.

[Skanky Burns]

And sented now.

[Rasputin]

done like a dogs dinner

[Solomwi]

Expect results on Sunday (though I reserve the right to push that back a day or so ).

[Skanky Burns]

The IWS results may be published late? Unthinkable!

[Rasputin]

very usual

[Solomwi]

Inconceivable, ain't it?

[Rasputin]

i think this thread shows a real lack of interest in this type of game here....

[J Bytheway]

Originally posted by Pave
You send answers as PM to Solomwi.

Assuming this was directed at me: You misunderstand, I don't want to play in the game, I want to help Solomwi with his GMing.

[Solomwi]

J, I'll be happy to take a look at it, but I'm skeptical as to how automated the process could be, considering that the answers are in different screens and the same answer from two different people can be worded very differently. I've got a spreadsheet set up that handles the onerous part of it, getting all the answers in a handy format and in one place.

[J Bytheway]

OK, I'll clean out a few more glitches and post it here. Probably tomorrow evening (A very risky thing to say on an IWS thread, I know )...

[:) Smiley]

sentx0r

[J Bytheway]

OK, here you go. It uses the .NET libraries, so you'll need to get the .NET 1.1 runtime environment (the best way is Windows Update).

If you're not running Windows, then I can give you the source code and you might be able to compile it with Mono under Linux, if you're lucky.

I'll post some brief useage instructions soon.

Edit: Oops, found another bug. Will post a replacement version in a moment...

[J Bytheway]

OK - it's prettty simple.

First paste in the questions (You can pretty much copy/paste them from your post above, but you'll have to fiddle the last question a bit), and click Add.

Then paste in each players answers as they arrive, and click add.

Questions must be in the format:

[Question number]. [Question]

Although the number needn't be an actual number (as evidenced by the example below). It must be only one line per question, though (blank lines are ignored).

So, for example, for the above questions you might use:

1. How many roads must a man walk down?

2. If dogs run free, why am I stuck in Mobile?

3. Who is the "Neighborhood Bully"?

4. Who's dying in "Knockin' on Heaven's Door"?

5. Fill in the blank: Like a rolling _____

6. What killed Frankie Lee?

7. Fill in the blank: There's no success like _____

8. When did I marry Isis?

9. Where's the blind commissioner's other hand?

10. What lush resort nation has a sunny sky of aqua blue?

11. What's wrong with the hanging judge?

12. Who could have carved out the Jokerman's future?

13. What does the man in the coonskin cap with a pigpen want?

14. Something's happening here. What is it?

15. When you're hunted like a crocodile, where are you likely to be ravaged?

Bonus Obligatory Bill Hicks Question. What comes next in this series? Elite Republican Guard, Republican Guard, __________

Player answers must be in the format:

[Player name]
[Question number]. [Answer]
.
.
.
[Question number]. [Answer]

for example:

J Bytheway
1. Blah
2. Blah
3. Blah

You can save and load your progress. The Group and Ungroup buttons will allow you to declare answers semantically equivalent at will. Hit File/Produce Output to get a summary for posting.

Now I'll just go try to fix that bug...

[J Bytheway]

Take 2.

Be gentle with it, it's only newborn, and doing things like providing answers to nonexistant questions is liable to give nasty error messages.

If you find any bugs or want any other features, shout and I'll either snort in disgust at the insolence of your demands or add it quickly (quite possibly both).

If you think it's no help, then tell me why!

[J Bytheway]

Sorry to hijack this thread quite so severely, but for those too lazy to actually un the thing, I feel I should provide a sample of the type of output it produces:

1. How many roads must a man walk down?
1 Ee
3 One/1

2. If dogs run free, why am I stuck in Mobile?
1 By
3 Two/2

3. Who is the "Neighborhood Bully"?
1 Gum
3 Three/3

4. Who's dying in "Knockin' on Heaven's Door"?

5. Fill in the blank: Like a rolling _____

[snip]

4 3 Player 4
1 9 Player 1
1 9 Player 2
1 9 Player 3

and a screenshot (demonstrating my feeble grasp of UI design):

[Solomwi]

Answers and their frequencies, with the correct answer, where applicable, at the top

1. How many roads must a man walk down?
No correct answer

42 - 4
Several - 1
568 - 1
2 (the high and the low) - 1
Infinte, since he won't ask directions - 1
None, hitchhike - 1
Left this answer blowin' in the wind - 1

2. If dogs run free, why am I stuck in Mobile?
Because of the Memphis blues

You're not a dog/you're a cat - 3
You're immobile - 2
How should I know? - 1
Jim Crow Laws - 1
Won't ask for directions - 1
America is evil - 1
Left this answer blowin' in the wind - 1

3. Who is the "Neighborhood Bully"?
Israel

USA - 2
Bush - 2
Bob Dylan - 2
Neighbor's boy Jimmie - 1
You - 1
MtG - 1
Left this answer blowin' in the wind - 1

4. Who's dying in "Knockin' on Heaven's Door"?
Sheriff Colin Baker/Slim Pickens

The singer - 1
Rolf Harris - 1
An old man - 1
Zylka - 1
You - 1
She is - 1
Mommie - 1
George Bush - 1
Some Iraqis - 1
Left this answer blowin' in the wind - 1

5. Fill in the blank: Like a rolling _____
Stone

Stone - 6
Pin - 1
Joint - 1
Apolytoner - 1
Left this answer blowin' in the wind - 1

6. What killed Frankie Lee?
Thirst

Cyanide - 1
I did - 1
AIDS - 1
You - 1
Success - 1
Bob Dylan - 1
The CIA - 1
Mrs. Lee and a big inheritance - 1
An unregistered gun - 1
Left this answer blowin' in the wind - 1

7. Fill in the blank: There's no success like _____
Failure

Success - 2
Failure - 2
Show success - 1
Show business - 1
Becoming a Deity - 1
Mine - 1
No success - 1
Left this answer blowin' in the wind - 1

8. When did I marry Isis?
The fifth day of May

Too young - 1
Last year - 1
May 18, 2004 in Massachusetts - 1
1965 - 1
You didn't - 1
Last Friday - 1
When ancient Egypt was around - 1
When you became Osiris - 1
1842 - 1
Left this answer blowin' in the wind - 1

9. Where's the blind commissioner's other hand?
In his pants

In his pants/trousers/pocket - 4
Amputated - 1
The gangster's pocket - 1
You don't want to know - 1
In your Big Mac - 1
On my bum - 1
Left this answer blowin' in the wind - 1

10. What lush resort nation has a sunny sky of aqua blue?
Mozambique

Cuba - 4
Hawaii - 1
Mingapulco - 1
New Zealand - 1
Iraq - 1
Jamaica - 1
Left this answer blowin' in the wind - 1

11. What's wrong with the hanging judge?
He's drunk

Dead - 2
Nothing - 2
Not hung - 1
Not enough hangings - 1
Insane - 1
Hanged - 1
Never works, just hangs around - 1
Left this answer blowin' in the wind - 1

12. Who could have carved out the Jokerman's future?
Michelangelo

Batman - 2
Jokerman himself - 1
Carverman - 1
A carpenter - 1
I dunno - 1
Skanky Burns - 1
Mr. Tambourine Man - 1
Marx - 1
Left this answer blowin' in the wind - 1

13. What does the man in the coonskin cap with a pigpen want?
Eleven dollar bills (and you've only got ten)

Pigs - 3
A trendy flat downtown - 1
You - 1
Freedom - 1
Coon cheese - 1
Communism - 1
A coonskin cap without a pigpen - 1
Left this answer blowin' in the wind - 1

14. Something's happening here. What is it?
I don't know

Death/Someone gets killed - 2
Not making sense/not exactly clear - 2
Mass bannings - 1
War. Huh. - 1
The Event - 1
A game of IWS - 1
Freedom's been stolen - 1
Left this answer blowin' in the wind - 1

15. When you're hunted like a crocodile, where are you likely to be ravaged?
In the corn

Swamp/Florida - 3
The groin - 2
The legs - 1
In a bar - 1
Everywhere - 1
Your arse - 1
Left this answer blowin' in the wind - 1

Bonus Bill Hicks Tribute Question:

The Elite Republican Guard, the Republican Guard...

The Republicans made this **** up about there being guards there in the first place

Guard - 3
Iraqi regular - 1
Rookie Republican Guard - 1
A dog guard - 1
Republican - 1
Iraqi Republican Guard - 1
Left this answer blowin' in the wind - 1

Final tallies momentarily...

[Solomwi]

A special hats off to bipolarbear, for leaving all his answers blowin' in the wind, for a perfect score of 16...

10. bipolarbear - 16
9. Pave - 23
Last Conformist - 23

This is where the "correct" answers would have ranked, with 24 points.

7. Smiley - 25
6. Uncle Sparky - 26
5. Kassiopeia - 28
Skanky Burns - 28
3. Rasputin - 32
2. St. Leo - 33

And your I'm With Stupid XLIII winner, far outpacing the rest of the field with an impressive performance is...

1. Immortal Wombat - 39

[Rasputin]

damn clever programer got to love them ...


and im 3rd ... geez this is bad when my answers are gettin that many similar ones !!!!

[Skanky Burns]

Hooray!

[:) Smiley]

Only ten entries? Disappointing.

[Immortal Wombat]

whoot

[Snowflake]

Urgh so I finally missed it.

[bipolarbear]

Hah ha , my incredible wit has netted me last place, but still an honorable mention!! I finally feel loved