In the Beginning

[vovat]

bethje jokingly had some material mailed to me by Family Radio, and now I'm apparently going to be on their mailing list for all eternity (or until the world is destroyed with fire and brimstone). Anyway, here's a gem from their latest newsletter:

"Our ambassadors for Christ have visited cities in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia (every continent except Antartica)."

Well, you'd better hurry up! Those penguins NEED spiritual enlightment!

Apparently the new Simpsons season is actually starting at a reasonable time of the year. The season premiere is this coming Sunday, rather than in November. I wonder why, but I guess I shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth.

My newsgroup reader sucks. It keeps saying that there are new messages that haven't been downloaded, and then it refuses to download them.

rockinlibrarian did something where she listed the first sentences from her ten favorite books, and then asked people to guess. I'm going to do the same thing, although these aren't necessarily my top ten favorite books ever or anything. I do like all of them a lot, though.


1. One thing was certain, that the white kitten had nothing to do with it--it was the black kitten's fault entirely.

2. A man of my acquaintance once wrote a poem called "The Road Less Traveled," describing a journey he took through the woods along a path most travelers never used.

3. Over the door appeared a weather-worn sign that read: "JULES GROGRANDE, BAKER."

4. Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways.

5. On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays it was Court Hand and Summulae Logicales, while the rest of the week it was the Orgamon, Repetition and Astrology.

6. This is a story about something that happened long ago when your grandfather was a child.

7. Just outside the western wall of the Emerald City facing the yellow brick highway, stands a small green cottage with blue shutters.

8. The Morris dance is common to all inhabited worlds in the multiverse.

9. Current theories on the creation of the Universe state that, if it was created at all and didn't just start, as it were, unofficially, it came into being between ten and twenty thousand million years ago.

10. There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

Some of these are probably going to be pretty easy, and others quite difficult. Only one author is represented twice.



And finally, there's this:

Smart Alec You scored 80% general knowledge, 60% trivia, and 80% utter geekery!

You seem to know some of everything. This may not make you particularly popular. But hey, knowledge is a good in of itself, right?

My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 99% on gen knowledge You scored higher than 99% on trivia You scored higher than 99% on geekery

Link: The Utterly Random Knowledge Test written by Cagliostro on Ok Cupid

Comments

[revme.livejournal.com]

I am so terrible at these sorts of quizzes. But I just have to say that #4 is so MINDBLOWINGLY difficult I know NO ONE will get that one..8)

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Hey, it could be one of six different books! {g}

I had thought of editing out character names, but I later decided against it. This way, at least there's one really easy one.

[loz]

1 is Through the Looking Glass.

4 is David Copperfield.

8 is definitely Terry Pratchett... but I'm not sure which one.

I was only kidding about 4.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

1. Correct.
4. Close. It's actually A Tale of Two Cities. Or is that A Sale of Two Titties?
8. Yes, that's the correct author. I'll leave it for someone else to get the book.

[bethje.livejournal.com]

bethje jokingly had some material mailed to me by Family Radio, and now I'm apparently going to be on their mailing list for all eternity

Mwahahahahahaha... {runs hands together}

I'm going to try to answer those, but I have NOT looked at other people's answers first.

1. Alice in Wonderland
4. Uhhh, Prisoner of Azkaban?
6. Um, some Narnia book?
7. Ojo in Oz
9. Some stank religious people book? Wheat and Tares? I dunno.
10. Some weird book I never read, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy?

[bethje.livejournal.com]

And hey jerks, I thought that if it were the first book, that would be too obvious! {growl}

[vovat.livejournal.com]

1. Close. It's Through the Looking-Glass.
4. Yes.
6. Again, yes. But which one?
7. Correct. I guess you must remember the opening from when you gave it to me for my birthday.
9. No.
10. Close, but no cigar.

[obsessical.livejournal.com]

for number 10, i'm going to guess resturant at the end of the universe, then? because i *know* i've read that line before.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's correct. It actually appears right before the first chapter.

[(Anonymous)]

Number 8 is Lords and Ladies by TP!

[vovat.livejournal.com]

It might make more sense for that line to appear in Lords and Ladies than the book in which it actually does, but that's the way it goes sometimes. You have the right author, though.

[rockinlibrarian.livejournal.com]

1. Through the Looking-Glass, which I THINK I still would have gotten if you hadn't just mentioned it in MY post!
2.?
3?
4. I believe Prisoner of Azkaban, but if not, Chamber of Secrets. But PoA seems slightly more right.
5.?
6. I don't know, but Little House in the Big Woods starts with something very similar. That's not it, though.
7. The something of Oz... :D
8. Lords and Ladies I'm fairly sure, but was there another one that prominently featured the Morris dancers? But nah, this one's definitely Lords and Ladies.
9. Good Omens-- making Terry Pratchett the twice-represented author as co-author?
10. 'Seither Restaurant at the End of the Universe or Life the Universe and Everything. The latter would make more sense I think. But it's hard to remember because the last I experienced both of them was on audio book on the same long car trip to Missouri, so they all run together.

[rockinlibrarian.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, 4 is definitely PoA, because this paragraph continues with something like "for another thing, he was doing his homework and hoping desperately not to get caught at it"... yeah!

[vovat.livejournal.com]

1. Correct, of course. Since it had already been answered correctly, I thought I'd be safe mentioning it in other people's posts, but I guess everyone gave their answers to mine without looking at what other people had written. Oh, well. I guess that's good, actually.

4. Yes, it's PoA.

6. No, and I've never read that.

7. Right as far as it goes, but it's actually "IN Oz." {g}

8. Right author, wrong book.

9. Yes. You're the first person to get that one.

10. It's Restaurant, although the same sentence might have been used in Life. I know Prak says basically the same thing in slightly different words, but it isn't the first sentence of the book. I actually have all of the Hitchhiker's Guide books in one volume, and I tend to read them all in a row, so I know what you mean about the books running together, though.

[rockinlibrarian.livejournal.com]

8. Right author, wrong book.

Dang, yeah, like I said, I KNOW there was another one with the Morris dancers in it but I can't think what it was! I think it's a Death book though... maybe Reaper Man?

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's Reaper Man. There isn't that much about Morris dancing in that book, but it DOES have the reference to how only one group of dancers in the Ramtops ever actually got the dance right.

[rockinlibrarian.livejournal.com]

9. Yes. You're the first person to get that one.

And coincidentally, I READ that book on the same trip to Missouri that I was listening to the Douglas Adams audio books... so they almost ran together too!