IWS XXXIII: Stupid Is a State of Mind.

[Rasputin]

a stack of what ?

[Skanky Burns]

Damn, this compiling stuff does take ages. Especially if you happen to take a break by visiting your mates for a few hours. Not that I would do such a thing. Honest.

[alva]

....Or making idiotic avatars

[Skanky Burns]

1. Who is the person you'd most like to take revenge on?
George W. Bush (6)
Ming (3)
Osama (3)
My ex (2)
Zylka (2)
DaShi (1)
Donald Rumsfield (1)
Everyone who wronged me without my knowledge. The other bastards have already been taken care of (1)
Father (1)
Jeremy Clarkson (1)
Molly Bloom (1)
Monk, the original misspeller (1) (Note, this was Theben's answer)
My Spanish Professor (1)
Nobody (1)
Shanky (1)
Skanky Burns (1)


2. "You have great internal fortitude"
Sum up that sentence in one word.
You have got to love a question where refusing to answer gets you the most points.
No (3)
Bollocks (2)
Fortitude (2)
Guts (2)
Youhavegreatinternalfortitude (2)
Zylka (2)
B/S (1)
Banana (1)
Chutzpah (1)
Crap (1)
Intrafortitudinous (1)
Lie (1)
Pepto-Bismal (1)
Principled (1)
Sisu (1)
Strong! (1)
Stubborn (1)
Stupid (1)
Yerfullait (1)
You're about to be screwed over (1)
You've got gas (1)


3. What is the best thing you've ever tasted?

Bananas (4)
Beer (2)
Chocolate (2)
Girlfriend (2)
Zylka (2)
Alberta Beef (1)
Caviar (1)
Curry (1)
Guiness (1)
Ice Cream (1)
Lamb chops (1)
Lobster (1)
Pastrami dip with swiss cheese and pickles (1)
Pizza (1)
Revenge (it's a dish best served cold, by the way) (1)
Semen (1)
Sex (1)
Steak (1)
Turkish delight (1)
Victory! (1)
Zylka's banana (1)


4. "Our top scientists have been working around the clock"
What have they been working on?

The clock (7)
Nuclear Weapons/WMD (6)
Nothing. Move along now, nothing to see here (2)
A chart that calculates their overtime (1)
Civ 4 (1)
Harnessing the thermonuclear capabilities of the spam atom (1)
Hydrogen fueled cars (1)
Making coffee (1)
Sex (1)
Spamming (1)
Stealth Nation Technology (1)
Studying Mars (1)
Super weapon (1)
The Finn Ray (1)
Time travel (1)
Zylka (1)


5. Finish this sentence: "Unity of purpose is..."

Zylka (4)
Stupid (2)
Strength (2) (This was the "correct" answer)
all well and good until some backstabbing little social climber ****s you over (1)
Bad (1)
Banana (1)
Bollocks (1)
Commie rubbish (1)
every citizen doing his final duty and entering the tanks, to become one with all the people (1)
Futile (1)
Good (1)
Irrelevant (1)
not getting distracted and forgetting to finish your senten...... (1)
Majoratarian politics (1)
of paramount importance (1)
Panacea for Success (1)
pouting in that corner over there; perhaps you should just leave it alone. (1)
si esoprup fo ytinU". Oh sorry, I thought you said "finish this palindrome" (1)
Sought by all organisations? (1)
the purpose of unity (1)
to prevent the disunity of purpose (1)
Unity (1)
Unitary (1)

[Skanky Burns]

6. What was the most important event to occur in the last 25 years?

My birth (7)
Fall of Berlin wall (5)
Fall of the Soviet Union (5)
Sep/11 2001 (3)
Poly was created (2)
Al Gore invented the internet (1)
IWS XXXIII, of course (1)
Lunch (1)
My continued survival. It's important to me, anyway. (1)
My kids birth (1)
WWII (1)


7. You are at a bar. The bartender says "What'll it be?" What do you reply? Be specific.

Beer (8)
The usual (3)
Martini, shaken not stirred (2)
Water, please (2)
A long, hard ****, please (1)
All of your money in a brown paper bag (1)
Cherryade (1)
Dr Pepper (1)
E maekju juseyo (why I'm talking Korean to a barman who can plainly speak English is a mystery, however. Perhaps I just like showing off) (1)
Gin and tonic, no ice (1)
Jack and Coke (1) (You have good taste)
Jonny Walker Red, straight (1)
Milk (1)
Smirnoff Ice (1)
The good-looking waitress. (1) (You have good taste)
Vodka (1)
Whatever will get me laid (1)


8. Two trains whose lengths are 130 m and 110 m are moving in opposite directions on parallel lines, the velocity of the first being double that of the second. They are observed to pass each other completely in 4 seconds. What colour is the first train?

Blue (6)
Red (3)
All colors (2)
Black (2)
Pink (2)
The same as that of the second (2)
White (2)
20 m/s (1) (This would be correct, had I not changed the question. )
ColoUr? Bah. Stupid euros. THIS is the reason that America is so powerful and they old country is on the backslider. Why use 6 letters to convey a meaning that can be expressed with five? Efficiency!! phe4r 0wr eff1(13|/|7 j00z3 uf 3ng|1sh \/0(4bu|4ry!!!1!1!! 0MFG P\/\/n3d!!!1! (1) (I'm Aussie, btw)
Green (1)
Grey (1)
I don't know, I'd be flying (1)
Not sure, but it's 4 seconds darker than the other one (1)
Purple (1)
Yellow (1)
Zylka (1)


9. What is your favourite playground equipment?

Swings (15)
Monkey bars (4)
Slide (3)
Shovel (2)
Jungle Gym (1)
Tires swings, the kind that got taken down cuz too many kids get hurt on them. What's a little pain? Builds character! (1)
Used seringuas (1)
Zylka (1)


10. Pretend you have a dice. You roll this pretend dice. What number comes up?

6 (12)
3 (3)
42 (3)
1 (darn it, not another critical failure) (2)
4 (2)
7 (1)
13 (1)
18 (1)
69 (1)
Pi (1)
My favourite pretend number, jifty (1)

[Jamski]

4 people thought Zylka was unity of purpose ???

I smell stupidity

-Jam

[Skanky Burns]

Round			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total

[b]Skywalker		7	1	4	6	1	5	1	6	15	12	58[/b]
Big Crunch		3	2	2	8	1	7	1	6	15	12	57
Jamski			3	2	1	6	1	7	1	4	15	12	52
Boshko			7	1	1	2	1	7	8	6	15	2	50
Alva			1	2	1	1	1	6	8	2	15	12	49
Jaguar Warrior		7	2	1	6	4	3	2	6	4	12	47
Monk			3	1	4	6	4	6	3	2	15	3	47
SnowFire		1	3	2	8	1	7	3	1	15	3	44
[i]self biased[/i]		2	2	2	1	1	7	8	2	15	3	43
St Leo			2	1	1	1	2	5	3	1	15	12	43
mrmitchell		3	1	1	1	1	5	1	2	15	12	42
Rasputin		2	1	1	8	2	1	8	4	3	12	42
FrustratedPoet		1	1	1	8	1	7	1	2	15	3	40
Uncle Sparky		1	3	1	8	1	1	1	6	15	3	40
:[i][/i]) Smiley		1	3	1	1	2	2	8	6	3	12	39
Duke o' York		7	3	2	1	1	3	3	1	15	2	38
Oncle Boris		3	2	1	1	2	6	8	2	1	12	38
VJ			7	3	1	8	1	6	3	4	1	3	37
Guynemer		3	2	1	8	4	6	1	2	4	3	34
DinoDoc			1	1	2	6	1	2	1	2	15	1	32
Paul Hanson		1	3	1	6	1	1	1	1	15	1	31
Wernazuma III		7	1	1	1	1	5	8	2	2	3	31
Kassiopeia		2	1	2	1	4	3	3	1	1	12	30
Stuie			1	1	1	8	1	1	8	1	3	1	26
DataAeolus		1	1	1	1	1	5	1	1	1	12	25
MrFun			3	1	4	1	1	7	1	1	4	1	24
Vovan			7	2	4	2	1	1	2	2	2	1	24
Ben Kenobi		1	1	2	1	1	6	1	4	4	1	22
Theben			1	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	3	13

Congratulations to Skywalker.
Thanks to everyone who played.

[Jamski]

Hey! Third place! I rock!

This was my first try too

-Jam

[alva]

Youhavegreatinternalfortitude (2)

Ahh, I was not alone

Congrats Skywalker

[alva]

. What was the most important event to occur in the last 25 years?

My birth (7)

This would have been my answer too, had it been hmmm possible

that one and the Bush one would have put me into first place...

[Jamski]

It wasn't possible for me, but I assumed people would say it anyway

-Jam

[alva]

Hmm, true, but on realistic questions, I usually give realistic answers.

[Theben]

yessSS!!! LOWEST SCORE!!! AWESOME!!!!

One goal of these games is achieved. Now if only I can get minimum possible score, I will be complete.

[Theben]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns

(I'm Aussie, btw)

It's all the same to us USians.

[Guynemer]

I can't believe people prefer swings to monkey bars.