Kizzle-kazzle-kore, the wolf is at the door

[vovat]

20 Questions to a Better Sense of Humor




Sunny/Dark: 9/10
drY/Gross: 4/10
Traditional/Offbeat: 5/10
Active/Passive: 6/10


You are a DYT--Dark Dry Traditional. This makes you a Cynic.

You're a realist. You'll take the piss out of anything, and do it with style and a skinny gray tie. You find humor in the mundane. When the mundane is thousands of working class families watching their retirement savings get snarfed by unpunished white collar bandits, that REALLY gets the larfs.

You bring humor with you, and can flip over any situation to find the tender funny underbelly.

Incidentally, you're better equipped than anyone else to shake off the bad things happen to you. Mysterious lump? You've seen scarier lumps in your garlic cheesey grits. It seems like nothing makes you truly happy, but nothing really upsets you, either.

Your comic sensibility was more in tune with the eighties. But cross your fingers -- another coupla years of Bush and maybe we'll work up a nice Reagan-era national bitterness again. A sardonic orange cat will once again rule the newsprint, and Springsteen'll write more righteous Jersey retro-cock-rock anthems for the progressive pols of 2024 to cold gank. What's past is prologue!

You might like David Letterman, or maybe stay up to see if Conan has another "Pierre Bernard's Recliner of Rage."

Of the 1165 people who have taken this quiz, 9 % are this type.

Your Active humor score of 6/10 means you are ju-u-ust right. You're probably pretty popular -- a walking social lubricant. You know how to take someone from on edge to relaxed, and from relaxed to larfing. You're kind of like an episode of Arrested Development. That show is good. Anyway. Rave on, funny one.

I'm not sure how accurate that is, but okay. Is it pathetic that I had to look up "riposte"? That quiz is from this page, and I heard about it from jenhime.


So, today is Martin Luther King Day. I think Dr. King is certainly someone worthy of celebrating, considering how much he accomplished without resorting to violence. While I'm not a total pacifist, I wish more people would follow his lead in trying non-violent solutions to their problems. World leaders, especially, seem to think the only way they can settle disputes is by killing as many people as possible, and that often DOESN'T solve anything, because violence begets violence. This is really all clichéd, though, isn't it?

bethje got a significant amount of hair cut off. I wasn't sure what I would think of that, but it's very pretty. It makes her look a little younger, I think.

Last night's Simpsons, while not one of the best episodes in recent memory, was still good. It didn't really go as deeply into the social commentary as you might expect with a theme like prescription drugs, but it was funny, and provided a decent reason for why Mr. Burns would rethink his decision. The episode made further comparison between Burns and Howard Hughes. Maybe his Hughes-like behavior when he ran the casino was a reversion to an earlier personality. I liked the scene with Ned Flanders and Apu arguing about religion in the car. Now that I think about it, though, isn't Ned self-employed? Why would employers cutting down on benefits affect him? Or did the prescription drug costs in Springfield just go up in general? I can't really remember.

Also last night, Beth and I watched Teen Wolf, the eighties movie where Michael J. Fox becomes a werewolf, and it makes him popular and good at basketball. Later, however, he learns he can have these traits to a certain extent WITHOUT turning into a wolf. Why a wolf would be good at basketball, I'm not sure. I do find it interesting that the library where I work not only had this movie, but had the special collector's edition. What makes it a special collector's edition, I'm not sure, since it didn't seem to have any extras or anything.

I also checked out the Marlon Brando version of A Streetcar Named Desire, so we should be watching that tonight.

Comments

[revme.livejournal.com]

Yeah -- the setup of the Simpsons episode was a little odd (for example, why did the employers cutting drug benefits for employees affect the old folks' home? They're not professional old people, are they?), but it was still a pretty good episode. And I did like the bit at the drug company; I thought that it was actually funnier that they _didn't_ do a parody of "I Want A New Drug" and that the video was basically the real video, just animated. (I also liked that they put an effect on the video to make it look like it'd been taped off MTV in the 1980s.) But yeah... I dunno, with the Professional Elderly, I guess Ned taking benefits away from himself is par for the course.

But yeah, the Ned/Apu argument was hilarious. And I really liked Johnny's wish about seeing a man with the intellect of a child being killed by the state. That was hilarious. And the payoff at the end of the episode, which I'm not gonna spoil in case people haven't seen it.

They should have put the old saturday morning version of Teen Wolf on as bonuses.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Yeah -- the setup of the Simpsons episode was a little odd (for example, why did the employers cutting drug benefits for employees affect the old folks' home? They're not professional old people, are they?), but it was still a pretty good episode.

Well, I'm not totally sure how the medication programs at nursing homes generally work. If Homer is paying for Abe's stay (as an earlier episode suggested), maybe his loss of drug benefits would also affect his dad? I don't know how likely that is, though.

[revme.livejournal.com]

Hm; that could be. I know Homer'd be billed for the drugs, just because, well, such is the way of medicine; i.e. Charge For Everything, but I'm not sure if the drugs themselves are just counted as a portion of the overall bill (like, under "Care") or as a fluctuating itemized segment of the bill. It's possible that they just treat it as a "perk" of the nursing home, and charge you a flat, presumably inflated rate on the bill. And it's also possible (i'd assume probable, actually) that they've got some sort of hookup with the drug companies, similar to what a pharmacy has. But.. yeah; I'm pretty sure that while Homer's paying for Abe's meds, they're not on his medical insurance plan. But I don't know for certain.

[slfcllednowhere.livejournal.com]

Teen Wolf was one of the 80 million movies Chris and I watched last summer--neither of us had seen it in probably 12 years. The concept of there being a "collector's edition" amuses me quite a bit.

I also checked out the Marlon Brando version of A Streetcar Named Desire

There's a non-Marlon-Brando version?

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the Teen Wolf video has a gold "Special Collectors' Series" bar at the top of the front cover. Since I see no evidence of the video being special in any way, maybe that was just the only way it was released.

There's a non-Marlon-Brando version?

According to the IMDB, there were a few made-for-TV versions. I also seem to recall hearing that they made an opera of it (and no, I'm not thinking of that Simpsons episode where Marge played Blanche {g}).