Thursday, May 19, 2011

Question 645: Racism and discrimination all rolled up into one


This is a real ass of a question. Connect the pictures to a common concept. The pictures individually aren't particularly relevant.

















Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Question 644: Memeonics

I meme therefore i am

Your simple memes for the week

Literary meme (not a contradiction in terms surprisingly)

Id whats being parodied here.


Whats Joseph Decreaux mentioning here?
(Its a somewhat famous song)




Question 643: Upload a pendrive into a motherboard?

___XXX___ is a dear dear lady who can certainly take nuts and bolts with aplomb. ___XXX___ is built by the New Jersey-based company TrueCompanion. Its engineer is Douglas Hines, founder and president of the company, who worked as an artificial intelligence engineer at the Bell Labs before he founded TrueCompanion.Development of ___XXX___ is said to have cost between $500,000 and $1 million.

Modelled after a Caucasian Fine Arts Student (must've been quite fine,lol), __XXX__ stands at 5 foot 7, weighs 120 pounds as is as flexible as Baba Ramdev or a Russian contortionist (hey, whatever floats your boat). ___XXX__ has the ability to carry on a conversation with you, ask you about your day, fulfill any and all needs and is the ultimate geek girl.

So ID __XXX__.


Oooh lala mademoiselle

Giving whole new meaning to 'sneak peek'


Other characteristics of ___XXX___ over women are:


1.  You can enjoy a ___XXX___ all month long.
2.  You don't have to wine and dine a ___XXX___.
3.  ___XXX___ stains wash out.
4.  ___XXX___ doesn't have to get a new dress for a party.
5.  ___XXX___ never has a headache.
6.  When a ___XXX___ goes flat, you just toss it out.
7.  ___XXX___ is never late.
8.  ___XXX___ doesn't have a birthday for you to forget.
9.  ___XXX___ doesn't get jealous when you grab another ___XXX___.
10. ___XXX___ doesn't argue with you about when to drink it.
13. ___XXX___ never threatens to go to a lawyer.
14. ___XXX___ labels come off without a fight.
15. A ___XXX___ always goes down easy.
16. You can have more than one ___XXX___ a night and not feel guilty.
17. No court has ever granted a ___XXX___ alimony payments.
18. You can share a ___XXX___ with your friends.
19. After you have had a ___XXX___, the bottle is still worth something.
20. Hangovers go away.
21. ___XXX___s never require expensive permanent and hair tints.
22. ___XXX___ is always wet.
23. If you change ___XXX___s, you don't have to pay alimony.
24. You don't have to wash a ___XXX___ before it tastes good.
25. If you pour your ___XXX___ right, you'll always get a good head.
26. ___XXX___ can be easily eliminated.
27. ___XXX___ is only stopping by, it doesn't stay around and nag.
28. ___XXX___ doesn't demand equality.
29. A frigid ___XXX___ is a good ___XXX___.
30. You don't have to take expensive flowers home to your ___XXX___.
31. ___XXX___ never complains about when you come for it.
32. You don't have to take your ___XXX___ to a psychiatrist to get it to bubble.
33. You can have a ___XXX___ in public.
34. You can see through a ___XXX___ and you know what you are getting.
35. When your ___XXX___ gets upset, it settles down.
36. ___XXX___ is subject to quality control and doesn't argue about it.
37. ___XXX___ doesn't talk back to you and ask a lot of silly questions.
38. ___XXX___ doesn't ask you to take a lie detector test about when you had the
39. ___XXX___ doesn't have a Mother that goes with it.
40. If you drop a ___XXX___, there is no doctor bill.
41. ___XXX___ doesn't have anniversaries for you to forget.
42. ___XXX___ doesn't demand that you take it dancing before you can have it.
43. ___XXX___ doesn't have relatives that stop by and stay for weeks.
44. When you buy a ___XXX___, you own it.
45. ___XXX___ never cries or gets jealous
l2. ___XXX___ doesn't get upset when you come home and decide to have another ___XXX___.
last one.
ll. You always know that you are the first one to pop a ___XXX___.

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Question 642: Bi- Winning and winning all

Connect the 3 pictures to a specific theme.
Also
Do ID




Question 641: *Cough* No Don't Stop Yes




Identify each person above for 2 points each - with 4 points for the binding context.

Hint - they were all involved in something that made them famous for posterity.

Monday, May 16, 2011

Question 640: Animal fetish?


A __X__ is someone who engages in the act of ________. A __X__ can use various methods to harass his targets. They can be characterised by different behaviour types, all which share the trait of obsessiveness. The sum total of the acts committed by a __X__ is considered to be a criminal offense in some jurisdictions. Certain __X__s may suffer from mental illness. The term is believed to have been coined by the tabloid press in the US. The increased use of the internet in the past few years has encouraged and simplified the process for __X__s(lol) and the widespread use of facebook and the like has taken it to a whole new level.


Id  X



Scream all you want, bub. No one's going to hear you!


Also, connect X and the picture, you fashionable people.
4 points for X and 10 if you get both.


Question 639: Go ogle yourself

A series of ads released by google image search to spread awareness of google's omniscience, and arrogance.
But still, they do have good ads

ID the person was searching for in each ad.




Question 638: Ooh, now that's personal



It has been a while since we had an xkcd question.







Just fill in the blanks.


Saturday, May 14, 2011

Question 637: Hit, Split or Surrender

The first written reference is found in a book by the Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes, who is most famous for writing Don Quixote. Cervantes was a gambler, and the main characters of his tale Rinconete y Cortadillo, from Novelas Ejemplares, are a couple of cheaters working in Seville. They are proficient at cheating at ventiuna (Spanish for __X__), and state that the object of the game is to reach __X__ without busting and other such modern rules. The game is played with the Spanish baraja deck, which lacks eights, nines and tens. This short story was written between 1601 and 1602, implying that ventiuna was played in Castilia since the beginning of the 17th Century or earlier. Later references to this game are found in France and Spain.

ID whats being described here

Clue:


Question 636: Problem? Solve it.

For TWENTY points.
But the question's big, but so are the points.

So give it a go!


Greek & Latin transliterated(X)

Yeah, nobody can quite understand the above process. Don't bother.
B had A to thank in a BIG way during a crucial time in the 20th century.
If you feel like, mention how A helped B.
And after cracking all of this, try and link the obscure diagram above to the chap A
Both A and B were very, very popular with the masses, for different reasons.

A


A


B
A was an industrialist, and pretty enterprising. He started this major event, and this gave many of his fellow specimens the opportunity to meet up and.. and have fun.
No, don't ID every single personality there.
Just what it is.

c

d


For all twenty, id A, B, X, and (C&D)
C&D are not two separate things.