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[featherynscale]

Three things from around the flist this week:

1. Are you tone-deaf?. infintysquared passes along this opportunity to test out of future recruitment attempts for the church choir (or this opportunity to engage in, as he puts it, some musical dick-waving). I tested out at above 90%, which is not a surprise. triadruid tested out in the normal range (low 70s, I think), despite what he may tell you about his ears, brain, or singing ability.

2. The Best Thing Ever Project, noticed by digibri, asks users to choose between two options to determine the best thing ever. It's a fine way to waste a whole lot more time than one might think. There used to be a site called whatsbetter.com that did a very similar thing, and that Dan The Abbot Of Lesbians and I used to discuss endlessly over IM during interminable afternoons at work, but that site has passed. I'm all nostalgic all of a sudden, but this is a worthy substitute.

3. From rougewench,

Which Bond Girl Are You?

You are Miss Moneypenny -- efficient and indespensible. You're a true survivor. You've seen them come and go...bad guys, girlfriends, supervisors, assistants, but when it comes right down to it, you're the one woman Bond can't live without.
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The results here should be surprising to no one.

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[diermuid.livejournal.com]

I remeber Howard Stern playing a game like that years ago... which would you rather do if your life depended on it...

Barbra Bush or Janet Reno?

Marget Thatcher or Bea Arthur?

Rosanne or RuPaul?

On Johnny Dar's Morning show...

[niveus-tigris.livejournal.com]

They call that game FMK (Fuck, Marry or Kill) and they regularly have some real hum-dingers on the list. If the person calling in matches two out of three with the crew of the show, they win concert tickets or some such.

Very horribly funny to listen to that bit.

Re: On Johnny Dar's Morning show...

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I was going to mention the FMK game -- wildly funny and awful. It works well in internet forums as well as on the radio.

Shag, Marry, Push Off a Cliff

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

I'm so very fond of this game, for no socially acceptable reasons. It's even got its own Wikipedia page (duh)!

Re: Shag, Marry, Push Off a Cliff

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

You should start one in your LJ. It will be a fine waste of a pre-holiday workday. Same rules as on MafiaScum -- responder must post their own, so the next person has something to respond to.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Your first two are difficult, but the last one's practically a no-brainer. But then, I guess everybody doesn't get it up for drag queens.

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Also, I think the term we were looking for this morning was "Ddraig Cymreig".

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Right. I knew there was something I was going to look up. Can you give me 'oppressed'? :)

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Not at all sure I can work out the grammar on that one. Ask fionnabhar?

Also, and: I got a 72.something%.

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

I don't do Welsh. W's scare me.

Possibly

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

"ddraig Cymreig gorthrymedig", at least that's what http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/mtb23/NSP/Welsh%20Antisymmetry.pdf says.

Re: Possibly

[infintysquared.livejournal.com]

And if I remember correctly, the middle word is approximately pronounced, "Cumrag."

[kaikias.livejournal.com]

69.4%, border between "low-normal" and "normal". I expect this is at least partially to do with my absolutely shite short-term memory—the phrases were so long! (There have been comments from both of my voice teachers about how good I was from the beginning at matching pitch to what they played on the piano, but then I can't tune an instrument to save my life, so maybe my pitch perception is a bit crap. Not good for someone trying to get into this whole music thing, no.)

And then I got Kara Milovy for the Bond girl thing. I don't even know which movie she's from, so I have no idea how thing this is.

[kittenpants.livejournal.com]

Also, when I took the test last night (while you were messing with pie, perhaps?) I got a 78% ranking. I *think* that most of the ones I missed were because of differences at the *beginning* of a phrase. I can totally catch stuff in the middle or at the end, but if it's the first note? I have no idea. Also, I suspect some of my other botches were differences in complex chords. Melody I can track, but harmony is much harder for me to follow.

Quel suprise.

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

61.1%
ha.

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

78.8%. I suspect I was listening too closely, when the differences were more obvious than what I was listening for. Or thingy. I also think I did better on the ones that sounded more like organ, piano, horns, or orchestra. The purely electronic sounds don't register in my memory as "music" so much, even though I like techno stuff okay to listen to.

[infintysquared.livejournal.com]

That's actually addressed in the FAQ. The author of the test wanted to break the advantage that a student of some particular instrument might have due to being particularly attuned to that instrument by changing the instrument every few questions.

Hah!

[wildnsquirrelly.livejournal.com]

I scored as one of my favorite Bond Girls (except for Moneypenny). I still find it hard to believe that Moneypenny never went for Bond like everyone else (of the frmale persuasion [OK, except for M, of course])did. It might even suggest that Moneypenny's actually...a MAN. Sure, I'd rather not believe it, but her restraint *is* very odd among the women in Bond's life.

Which Bond Girl Are You?

You are Octopussy -- beautiful and successful. You've taken your sparkling personality, management skills, and eye for talent and built a thriving business. Sure, you cut a few bureaucratic corners here and there to increase profit margins, but you look out for your people and at the end of a long, hard day you're all woman and then some.
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Am I the only one that couldn't hear a lot of the music phrases on the other test? I still nabbed a 72.2%, but I suspect a lot of that was luck.

Re: Hah!

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I still find it hard to believe that Moneypenny never went for Bond like everyone else (of the frmale persuasion [OK, except for M, of course])did. It might even suggest that Moneypenny's actually...a MAN. Sure, I'd rather not believe it, but her restraint *is* very odd among the women in Bond's life.

Naw, it goes down like this:
Bond: FLIRT FLIRTY FLIRT
Moneypenny: Laugh. "Oh James, you're such an ass."
Bond: FLIRTY FLIRT FLIRT
Moneypenny: Laugh. Eye-batting. "Yes, of course I would go to bed with you, right after pigs fly. Now get out of my office, so I can stare at your backside as you walk away."

Moneypenny, like featherynscale, has a well-developed Fun/Trouble calculus.

Re: Hah!

[wildnsquirrelly.livejournal.com]

"Moneypenny, like featherynscale, has a well-developed Fun/Trouble calculus."

Aye, and these days it seems to be the bane of my existence. : P

Re: Hah!

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

::eyeroll::
Darling, I am well aware that nothing I have (short of perhaps a frickin' laser beam death ray) is capable of being the bane of your existence. Anyway, I hear you're full up on girl at the moment.

[ysabel.livejournal.com]

94.4%. And the two I missed were both ones where the harmony was subtly different and the melody was the same, and both of them I decided I was being too paranoid because the other ones were so obviously different.