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

[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.