LJ-Balderdash, round Three Results (batshit crazy!)

[featherynscale]

Hrm... a lot of good theories were shared here -- nobody advanced my thought, though, which was that the phrase might be descended from the saying that someone has 'bats in the belfry'. Ah well.

First up, special point to malvito, whose answer did not appear in the lists, but who thought that I made up the phrase, which I thought was very funny.

And now, on to the other bits: ottercat (who compared fungus in guano to mercury in hats in answer #4) and saffronhare (who posited "upside-down, shrieking, shitting groups" in #9) tied for the lead in this round with 6 points each. ottercat initially appeared to garner 7 votes, but in fact voted for his own answer, so he joins adammaker at the LJ-Balderdash whipping post.

In second place, jackbabalon, who told the story of the infamous Guano Mushroom in answer #3, got 3 votes.

In other vote-getting news, adammaker (who thought it might relate to the guano-gathering madness of Peruvian migrant workers), kittenpants (who posited that the phrase was a ruder corruption of an only moderately impolite Spanish phrase), triadruid (who tried to sell us a batshit aphrodisiac), and zerself (who gained a vote for use of the phrase 'moron repellant'), got a vote each.


saffronhare - 10
druidevo - 7
kittenpants - 6
ottercat - 6
zerself - 6
jackbabalon - 3
diermuid - 2
lexpendragon - 2
matchgirl42 - 2
8elements - 1
adammaker - 1
fionnabhar - 1
hekatatia - 1
infintysquared - 1
lordkalkin - 1
malvito - 1
rfunk - 1
sxypaganmom - 1
triadruid - 1

Comments

I've been bad.....

[ottercat.livejournal.com]

ottercat initially appeared to garner 7 votes, but in fact voted for his own answer, so he joins adammaker at the LJ-Balderdash whipping post.

So, when do I get my beating?


Actually, it was more being unfamiliar with the concept than anything else. So, I shan't vote for myself again ;-)

Re: I've been bad.....

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

"So, when do I get my beating?"

Sometime when we're in the same room, I think. I greatly prefer deferred real-world beatings to immediate cyber-beatings.

Also, must beat adammaker first.

Re: I've been bad.....

[adammaker.livejournal.com]

grin.

Woohoo!

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

I'm on top! I love being on top! You know, this game is fun even when I'm *not* on top...
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Wait. Was that my outside voice?
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::Ahem:: Never mind.

Re: Woohoo!

[adammaker.livejournal.com]

it was good, both in and out of context.

::in and out::

*ahem*

Re: Woohoo!

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

Hey now. Let's not fuel any rumors, man.

Re: Woohoo!

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Heavens forfend THAT ever happen...

Re: Woohoo!

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

okay, any MORE rumors.

Re: Woohoo!

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Homewrecker!

What? It's an existing rumor!

[adammaker.livejournal.com]

I snitched most of my answer from
http://www.american.edu/TED/guano.htm

The Guano Administration WAS created by Peru in 1908, and I still think that fact is very funny.

[zylch.livejournal.com]

Someday, I shall see one of these in time to play...

[capriciouslass.livejournal.com]

you and me both...

[jackbabalon23.livejournal.com]

Hey there, had a lot of fun w/your contest. Just wanted to let you know it's jackbabalon23 though :)

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

*sigh*
And I know that, too. Sorry 'bout that.
Ever have one of those weeks when you feel like what's left of your brains-- the really resilient neurons that you haven't yet managed to kill off through intoxication, sneezing, or holding your breath until you turn blue-- have just decided to decamp and are now leaving via your left ear? 'Cause I am.