Well, That Was Interesting...

Every plus and minus from every LJDQ has been compiled. Give me a day to rest, and I will work my statistical magic on the findings. If you have anything you are curious about, ask--if it concerned +1s, -1s, or the subjects thereof, or the stats of the quizlings, I will try to answer them. If I can't, I will say so.

Remember, this is just about +1, -1, and stuff like that--if I had to find the total quotage of each and every quizling, my head would splodey.

Oh, btw, since you asked, lovellama, your first guest-modding was 1/16/07's quiz.

In other news, the Cubs are back to sucking, and I repaired a broken toilet seat, moved a couch, moved a recliner, carried three bookshelves, cleaned the living room, mailed a huge eBay package full of comics, and played Taxi Dad.

How did I find the time to make this list of LJDQ stats? Beat the hell out of me.

*looks at clock*

Holy shit--I gotta get some sleep!

*heads for bed*

What I am doing:

1) listing all of the +s and -s each LJDQ quizling has received
2) listing all the categories of the +1s, -1s, and other miscellaneous bonii (huh huh, he said 'bonii')
3) making a frequency table of all the +1 and -1 categories

What I am not doing:

1) counting all the quotages of each individdle quizling. Oh, hell, no.

I am through May, 2006, so far. Interesting tidbits:

--Biggest plus: +5, several reasons
--Biggest minus: -10,000, by Ang, for rooting for the Steelers
--Total Geek of the Week Awards so far: 49
--Recipient of the most GotWs: Probably atarlas. No one else is even close
--Despite the mods' alleged love for Sting, there have only been two +1s for mentioning him
--Highest + score, without acquiring a - of any kind: paradoxtaur, 10

Mods +/- scores so far:
chaosvizier: 0, (+3, -3)
angledge: -11, (+3, -11)
lovellama: -2, (+1, -3)

Leading +1 references, in order of frequency:
1) The Simpsons
2) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
3) The Princess Bride
tie 4) Monty Python's Flying Circus
4) Punning

Total quizlings who have received a + or -, so far, purged or otherwise: 386
Total +1 categories so far: 325
Total +1 bonuses given by the benevolent mods: 490
Total -1 categories so far: 110
Total -1 penalties given by the malevolent mods: 185

Two years of quizzes down, four to go.

Hawkeye: Bored.
BJ: So bored.
Hawkeye: So bored, it's boring.
BJ: Boring-ding-ding.
Hawkeye: Boronus, Boretis, Boremus--'I came, I saw, I bored'
BJ: He bored, she bored, they bored.
Hawkeye: All a-bored!
BJ: I was gonna say that!

I shut off the Cubs-Mariners game when the M's put up a four-spot in the 4th innings. I knew the Cubs wouldn't even ger close to sniffing the lead after that. Final score: 8-1, Mariners.

So, in my boredom, I went through the LJDQ archives, from the get-go, and played Stat Rat on myself, snd found out about the life of i_calql8, quizling:

First quiz played: March 7, 2006
First multi-quotage quiz: May, 9, 2006 (It took me that long?)
First +1: September 18, 2006
Reason: +1, Sting
First Geek of the Week: March 27, 2006
Reason: Knowing what a Snellen chart was
Best quiz score: 5 of 6, done twice

Quotages: 366
Quotages containing puns: 106
Total +1s: 48
Total +2s: 1
Total -1s: 4
Correct answers to Question #6: 2

Reasons for +s:

Blazing Saddles (four times)
Sting (twice)
Star Trek IV (twice)
Judge Dredd (twice)
The Simpsons (twice)
Mystery Men (twice)
Schoolhouse Rock (twice)
Kill Bill (twice)
Ghostbusters (twice)
Being old school
Office Space
Boot to the Head
Batman
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
For being old
RISK
Saturday Night Live
Conan the Barbarian
Thundarr the Barbarian
Wayne's World
Summoning the power of Clint Eastwood
The Untouchables
Lyricalicious
Moonlighting
Better Off Dead
Animaniacs
Wet Dream
Top Secret
The Blues Brothers
The Venture Brothers
South Park
James Taylor
Plants vs. Zombies
The Muppet Show
Ren & Stimpy
The Godfather
Ang isn't looking

Reasons for -s:

Geek of the Week (twice)
Gratuitous Dick jokes
Using "conceivably" in a sentence dealing with impregnation

Truly, I have no life.

But then, the LJDQ is fun, when my funneh is working right. And the LJDQ is love. And bliss. And humor. And bacon. And gin and pudding. And I am okay with that.

My pun(s) that didn't make it on this week's LJDQ"

5. Mizar and Alcor can be found in which constellation?

I was going to say Camelopardis, but that's in the Andromedary Galaxy. I guess I haven't the Vega-st idea. I Apollogize.

Sports trivia tonight was a wash--seems no one wants to spend Memorial Day in a bar. Go figure.

Cubs lost their 8th straight, 10-8. They finally find their bats, and the pitching asses it up. Against the frikkin' Pirates, fer crissakes.

And why is Neal Cotts still on the team? He beyond-sucks. I will be seriously worried if Marshall or Z can't get at least a win between them.

(...and it is sooo welcome)

On the school funding (or appalling lack thereof) front, it looks like the cuts will go at least halfway into the next school year. Good grief. And it's not like the school district appropriated the funds--the state government (or appalling lack thereof) just up and cut the budget balance to zeroes. Out of the freakin' blue. Yeah. Nice.

Today was quiz day at Underfunded University. All I did between last quiz and this was throw in equations--we did factoring already, and now it was time to use it to solve equations. In other words, I am teaching a skill, then adding to it--just like someone would do with the kids if they had an actual job. If they can't handle new tasks involving just numbers and variables, how can they do it when it involves machinery, techology, human resources, and the like?

On the plus side, half the 3rd period class got an 'A', so I know overall that 1) I did an effective job teaching, 2) the material was not beyond their grasp, and 3) if a student failed, it was their own damn fault. So there.

LJDQ is done for this week. I tell you, I look at the questions on Tuesday, and think "Omg, how the hell am I going to make anything marginally funny from this?" And by Friday, with a pun, a rant, an actual right answer, and a few pop culture references, I have the quiz done. I have no idea why I need to get the quotage every Monday, but, dammit, I need it bad.

In other news, I found two new trivia websites to stripmine for question fodder. Most trivia sites are mostly filled with too-easy questions, sometimes even inaccurate ones (no, Thomas Crapper did not invent the toilet, nor did Otto Titsling invent the brassiere, and a duck's quack does echo), or they're college bowl-level of toughness. These websites are juuuuuuust riiiiiight. I can cherry-pick some good stuff from the material there. Mmmmmmmmmm...trivialicious.

We have a RenFair here this weekend. I used to like them, until I realized they weren't so much RenFairs as BuyAllOurShitFairs. Pass.

Putting more comics on eBay this weekend. This Sunday--Conan, Daredevil, and some 70s Marvel horror, with some old Lev Gleason comics thrown in for good measure (drools). Box #3 of 12 is now emptied, meaning over 1,000 comics sold. W00t! And to think...it only took six months!

My just-played playlist on my smooth jazz station on Pandora:
Samba Del Luna, Craig Chaquico w/Russ Freeman
Feels So Good, Chuck Mangione
Kisses in the Rain, Rick Braun
Drive Time, David Benoit
Night Crawler, Bob James
Feel, Louis Landon
Ecstacy, Jeff Kashiwa

I so love pandora.com.

Tomorrow, I shovel out #1 son's room, take #2 son's bike to be fixed, do dishes, take pics of eBay comics and pre-write the listing copy, make Marshmallow Rice Krispies Treats, and write questions. Oh, and catch up on sleep. After this week, I think I earned a little. :-)

Missed puns that didn't make the LJDQ cut this week, because germankitty is some people are just curious, in the same way that they slow down to see a car wreck or fight...

Q: Who is the "detective" in the Agatha Christie novels "The Moving Finger" and "The Body in the Library"?

A: I was a big Agatha Christie fan, until a fire ruined my collection. The Poirot novels were saved, but I lost my Marples.

Best of the bunch, with a high spousal groan factor, but I have a feeling others thought of it, too.

Q: Fun with lyrics! Name the song and the band:
I've never been in love
I don't know what it is
Only knows if someone wants her
I want them if they want me
I only know they want me

A: "Want-anamera"

Weaker pun, but still, I thought it would get in. Oh, well. *shrugs*

Q: Martha Cannary was better known as whom?

A: Calamity Jane, aka Cannary Whoa

Prolly lots of Cannery Row puns were submitted, so I'm not surprised here. I is still happys with my double quotages. XD

One of (I think) my more clever puns inexplicably missed the cut. It even passed the Spousal Wince Test. You decide: groanworthy or not?


2. Fun with lyrics! Easy, even! Name the band and the song:
"We gotta install microwave ovens
Custom kitchen deliveries
We gotta move these refrigerators
We gotta move these colour tvs"

My answer: "She's Buying Me Appliance", Thomas Dolby


Polls remain open until the Cubs win the Series.

On the plus side, I did get three quotes, and a lesser pun made the grade, so I am appeased. The ways of the mods, though, remain a mystery, still just beyond my understanding.

Because germankitty just has to know...

2. Stacey Q's "one hit wonder" status came as a result of which song?
Two of Hearts, also known as the very first Q card.

Well, I thought it was clever...