No actually, I just have my goddamned period. However, it managed to hit me so hard that I was seriously in danger of fainting before I got from the subway to my job--staggering, spots in front of my eyes, the whole bit. I lay down in the lounge for a couple of hours, and feel better, but I'm still not up to the grueling demands of Botticelli. Why is my period so obnoxious? Why?
You're neither Klinghoffer nor the Knight of the Woeful Countenance (though you might think this one doesn't count). I will await defer to you as to whether the second counts, and wait for more answers before framing more questions.
I am pronouncing ac stumped on my disease question. You're not Korsakoff. Corporal Klinger dressed as a woman. And I don't think having avatars counts as a resurrection, and besides, there are only 9, I thinnk. But I realized "hundreds" might be an overstatement, so I want to amend that to "scores" and give you a chance to answer, lest a charge of inaccuracy be leveled at me later.
It's not how many I want, it's how many I've earned. Once "are you alive" is answered, I've got one for Korsakoff, one for Klinger, and maybe one for the resurrection question.
I'm not even sure which episode of Smallville I'm referring to--maybe the red kryptonite one. Or maybe the one where Clark gets reborn or something (or resurrected!--wait, can I use Kal-el for that answer too?) and wakes up naked in a field.
Was 74 -> 73? Because if so it was not whom I was thinking of. But now I'm thinking 73 was probably too vague and should not be allowed. What think you?
My dear Mr. Wolfson, kwashiorkor is actually caused not by a vitamin deficiency, but by a diet lacking in protein (though sufficient in overall calories).
Three first orders:
Were you the original force behind MAD Magazine?
Did you vanquish enemies by inhaling them into your gaping maw?
Are you a native to the Outworld and former bodyguard to Shao Kahn?
Did this entity in 102 consider thrown bricks—that is, any brick which had been thrown—or the act of throwing bricks a sign of affection? (I echo TMK's sentiments in 105.)
Do you give up on 106.2?
First orders:
1. Do you have a percussive guitar style honed in the NYC subway system?
2. Are you a violist who records for ECM?
3. Did your fretless bass style help create a distinct sound for a New Wave band?
4. Are you equally reknowned for your ethnomusicological pursuits as for your experimental recordings?
5. Have you recorded a version of a Bacharach tune for accordion and voice?
6. Are you a komungo virtuouso?
7. Were you one of Frank Zappa's trick guitarists?
8. Did you set Rumsfeld's "unknown unknowns" speech to music?
9. Did you do the soundtrack for Rosemary's Baby?
Hmm... I was actually thinking of Kirchner, the Argentinian president. I'll look into Jomo Kenyatta though, since I think that's who you're referring to.
138 - Doesn't look like Kenyatta ever had interactions with the IMF, especially as he died in '78 and the IMF didn't really start getting involved in developing country debt until the 80s.
1st order question: Did you famously bang your shoe on a UN table?
141: I know 2,5,6, and 9 offhand, might be able to come up with some others, and I'm not sure these pass the "reasonable people would have heard of them" standard. And you misspelled "renowned."
166: That's not the rule for first order questions. The answer must only be reasonably in the public domain. Your person can be as obscure as you like, as long as you could read about them in the library.
No you're not Katherine from Taming of the Shrew, whose sister Bianca's name anagrams to Binaca.
173: Yes, he's really goddamn rich. The copy of Martin Denny's Quiet Village that my old roommate had had liner notes about how "----- K----- is developing Hawaii" where ----- K----- was his father, of the same name. Or, looking at Wikipedia, possibly his grandfather.
1. Do you have a percussive guitar style honed in the NYC subway system: Kaki King
2. Are you a violist who records for ECM: Kim Kashkashian
3. Did your fretless bass style help create a distinct sound for a New Wave band: Mick Barr
4. Are you equally reknowned for your ethnomusicological pursuits as for your experimental recordings: Henry Kaiser
5. Have you recorded a version of a Bacharach tune for accordion and voice: Guy Klucvesek
6. Are you a komungo virtuouso: Jin Hi Kim
7. Were you one of Frank Zappa's trick guitarists: Mike Keneally
8. Did you set Rumsfeld's "unknown unknowns" speech to music: Phil Kline
9. Did you do the soundtrack for Rosemary's Baby: Krzysztof Komeda.
There was one (1) of Wolfson's I didn't get and thought I should have; Phil Kline seemed familiar but that was because of Kansas's asshat Attorney General, Phill Kline.
Oh wait, somebody or other linked Kaki King's website before, that looks familiar. And she indeed has a percussive guitar style. And a major label contract. Still.
I'm not even sure I recognize the difference between a first-order and second-order question, so I think I'm going to hang back and keep watching for now.
209 - First order questions are asked with a person in mind, and the answerer has to respond with a person satisfying that question. Second order questions are yes-no questions about the person the answerer is thinking of, and you only get to ask one if you stumped the answerer with a first-order question.
211: But your being a man doesn't prevent you from being Krupskaya in the closest possible world in which Krupskaya is male. I think the question is ill-formed, anyway.
w/d, it's last name unless the person doesn't have a widely known last name. And I don't really know the names of any Communists that start with K besides Kruschev.
234 - No. The new Seasonale pill gives you four per year but you don't have to take it that way. You can suppress it entirely if you want. If you can handle being on the pill, that is.
I have no idea if you "need" a period. I don't see why. But re. weird, it might help to realize that the "period" you get on b.c.p. isn't real, anyway, in the sense that it's not part of a proper menstrual "cycle," since the whole point of b.c.p. is to suppress the cycle. It's just that withdrawing the hormones that make your body think it's already pregnant suddenly causes bleeding. Really, it's more like having a monthly miscarriage, hormonally speaking.
Which is ironic, given that the only reason b.c.p. don't, as a default, suppress bleeding for months at a time is b/c the inventor was hoping to get the approval of the Catholic Church by making it seem more "natural."
Oh, I meant it as 1st order, but it could easily be taken as 2nd order, and I didn't mean it that way, so I'm ditching it. Here's another 1st-order question (or one I intend as 1st-order) with the same person in mind: were you married to Trotsky's sister?
243: I actually have a question about that, re. ring. It's supposed to be for monthly use, right? You have to replace the stupid thing every month? Will one last for all four weeks, or do you end up losing efficacy? B/c that would suck.
Really, I just want to go back to Norplant. Stupid insurance coverage.
Oh no! You caught whatever's going around, too!
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 11:23 AM
No actually, I just have my goddamned period. However, it managed to hit me so hard that I was seriously in danger of fainting before I got from the subway to my job--staggering, spots in front of my eyes, the whole bit. I lay down in the lounge for a couple of hours, and feel better, but I'm still not up to the grueling demands of Botticelli. Why is my period so obnoxious? Why?
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 11:26 AM
I came up with an excellent character for botticelli-ing, but I am not available.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 11:28 AM
I'd do it again, if I'm allowed to after the Chatterton episode.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 11:30 AM
I've consulted with the committee, and they've ruled that you can proceed.
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 11:31 AM
I need to confer with my own committe for a second.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 11:36 AM
2 - Oh, man. That sucks.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 11:38 AM
6: My committee is faster than your committee.
7: How are you feeling?
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 11:44 AM
Ok. Once again I'm not sure if this person is way too hard or way too easy. It begins with a K.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 11:45 AM
(Are you playing the My Alter Ego variation, or original style?)
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 11:45 AM
8- I had a little old person come in to see me, and got a call from my boss while conferring with my committee.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 11:46 AM
Original.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 11:46 AM
8 - Mostly better. I think some much-needed time out of the office should get me the rest of the way there.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 11:49 AM
Why is my period so obnoxious? Why?
I blame
EveThe Patriarchy.Or wolfson.
Posted by M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 11:49 AM
Do people often invoke your name when making their mark upon a spot?
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 11:49 AM
Also, sorry you're feeling lousy, and hope you feel better soon. You too, Becks.
Posted by M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 11:50 AM
15- Um, Krishna? I have no idea.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 11:50 AM
You're not Kilroy.
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 11:51 AM
Are you a man?
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 11:52 AM
Oh, of course. I thought it was some pirate lore thing.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 11:52 AM
Yes, I'm a man.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 11:52 AM
Are you opposed to "Esprit", "Coca-Cola", and "M & M"?
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 11:55 AM
Someone is opposed to Esprit?
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 11:58 AM
That's not quite what I said. Hey, I'm trying to think of a way to ask hard questions when I haven't really heard of anyone no one else has heard of.
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 11:59 AM
Did proceeds from your textbook series allow you to install a pipe organ in your home?
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:00 PM
Another first order: Do you play Tad on TV's All My Children?
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:03 PM
Another first-order:
Are you the subject of a minimalist opera?
If definite descriptions count:
Do people recognize you by your facial expression wherever you go?
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:07 PM
Do you write about urns?
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:09 PM
25- Proceeds from my textbook... hmm, Krugman?
26- I should know who plays Tad on All My Children, but I do not.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:11 PM
Still another first order:
Is a disease whose proximate cause is actually vitamin deficiency named for you?
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:12 PM
Are you real?
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:12 PM
(Michael E. Knight plays Tad. Also, did you ever answer the "Esprit" question? Are you stumped?)
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:13 PM
Third or fourth:
Do you believe that some are superior by nature, and that morality is mere convention whose shackles should be thrown off?
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:13 PM
You're not Don Knuth. I'll wait until you've answered the reality question to cash in my second-order question.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:14 PM
27- No freakin' clues.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:15 PM
You're neither Klinghoffer nor the Knight of the Woeful Countenance (though you might think this one doesn't count). I will await defer to you as to whether the second counts, and wait for more answers before framing more questions.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:16 PM
Yes, I'm real.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:16 PM
Two questions: Were you born after 1850?
Are you from Europe?
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:17 PM
32 -- ??? I thought Michael Knight was himself a fictional character, one played by David Hasselhoff.
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:18 PM
Stumped on Esprit. I would say that the fictional characters should have proper names, but for now will allow the Knight of Woeful Countenance.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:19 PM
Yes, I was born after 1850.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:20 PM
Did you often dress in women's clothes (though you were a man), but not because you particularly enjoyed it?
Have you been resurrected hundreds of times?
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:20 PM
I actually think K of the W.C. is no good. He's a Q. That's just a nickname.
No, you're not Naomi Klein.
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:22 PM
But are you from Europe?
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:22 PM
Are you alive?
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:23 PM
30- Thinking, "scurvy doesn't begin with a k...."
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:23 PM
Well I still have the Europe question because of Klinghoffer.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:23 PM
I totally know what Tia's talking about in 30. I never have an opportunity to display this knowledge, and now, of course, it would be unfair.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:24 PM
I'm sort of from Europe.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:25 PM
If ac says she's stumped, you can tell her, Wolfson. Because that's just how generous I am.
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:26 PM
Did you win the world chess championship by forfeit?
Posted by peep | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:26 PM
It's kwashiorkor.
33 and 42 still outstanding first-orders.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:27 PM
52: That actually wasn't the disease I was talking about. So many diseases caused by vitamin deficiency. Take your vitamins, boys and girls.
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:28 PM
Did your disagreement with Benjamin Constant lead many to think your moral system was far too stringent?
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:29 PM
I don't know who dressed as a woman. But if there are different avatars of Krishna, does that count as resurrection?
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:31 PM
33 and 42 still outstanding first-orders.
, not to mention 28.
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:33 PM
54- Er, Kant?
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:33 PM
28- I'm not Keats.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:33 PM
33- No, I'm not Kalel.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:37 PM
I am pronouncing ac stumped on my disease question. You're not Korsakoff. Corporal Klinger dressed as a woman. And I don't think having avatars counts as a resurrection, and besides, there are only 9, I thinnk. But I realized "hundreds" might be an overstatement, so I want to amend that to "scores" and give you a chance to answer, lest a charge of inaccuracy be leveled at me later.
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:38 PM
Kalel during his experimentation with the evil side of superpowers, of course.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:39 PM
Before I ask the second orders I've racked up, "Are you alive?" is still outstanding.
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:39 PM
Did you grow up to be the man of steel?
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:40 PM
51- Kasparov?
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:40 PM
Oh wait nemmine, I missed 59.
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:42 PM
Haven't I answered 63 already?
How many second orders do you want, Tia?
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:42 PM
"Kal-El"
Posted by Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:42 PM
66, see 65.
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:44 PM
Is that hyphenated spelling still Kan-On?
Posted by I don't pay | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:44 PM
It's not how many I want, it's how many I've earned. Once "are you alive" is answered, I've got one for Korsakoff, one for Klinger, and maybe one for the resurrection question.
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:44 PM
Note that my answer to 33 may be based on one episode of Smallville. Which may be why I can't spell it.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:44 PM
No, I'm not alive.
I'd like a religion scholar consulted on the Krishna question. Or at least someone who pretends to know about religion. In the meantime, you have two.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:46 PM
Did you specialize in goofball characters on sitcoms of the mid-to-late 20th C.?
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:47 PM
No, I'm not Jack Klugman.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:48 PM
Are you a performer?
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:49 PM
64
51- Kasparov?
That's a good guess, but Kasparov actually beat Karpov to become world champion.
Karpov became champion after Fischer refused to play.
Posted by peep | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:50 PM
I'm not even sure which episode of Smallville I'm referring to--maybe the red kryptonite one. Or maybe the one where Clark gets reborn or something (or resurrected!--wait, can I use Kal-el for that answer too?) and wakes up naked in a field.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:51 PM
No, I'm not a performer.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:52 PM
76- You get a second order, then.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:52 PM
Was 74 -> 73? Because if so it was not whom I was thinking of. But now I'm thinking 73 was probably too vague and should not be allowed. What think you?
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:54 PM
Doesn't matter if it was who you were thinking of, only matter if it answers the question as phrased, no?
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:56 PM
Oh is that the rule? Ok then we're good.
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:57 PM
2nd "matter" s/b "matters"
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:58 PM
Tia & peep still have 2nd orders.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 12:58 PM
Should people not turn around when you're in town?
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:01 PM
2nd-order -- are you female?
Posted by peep | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:05 PM
You should take a different 2nd order. I have already said I'm a man. (2nd order answers are bolded, so you can keep track.)
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:07 PM
85- I want to say Billy the Kid, but don't know.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:08 PM
Disregard 85, it fails to meet your criterion in 40 now that I think about it.
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:09 PM
(I had in mind Der Kommissar.
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:10 PM
"No I am not Der Komissar." Sheesh.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:10 PM
87 -- oops! missed that one!
then.... are you are a writer?
Posted by peep | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:10 PM
pwned! I'm out.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:11 PM
No, I'm not a writer.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:11 PM
Has an answer to 33 been attempted?
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:12 PM
Are you any kind of an artist?
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:13 PM
95- See 59,61
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:13 PM
My dear Mr. Wolfson, kwashiorkor is actually caused not by a vitamin deficiency, but by a diet lacking in protein (though sufficient in overall calories).
Posted by M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:13 PM
No, I'm not an artist.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:14 PM
95- See also 67, 71.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:15 PM
Oh. I know nothing about Kal-El, so I'll trust that he actually thought that. (I was thinking of Kallikles.)
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:15 PM
1st order -- did you consider tossed bricks a sign of affection?
Posted by peep | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:15 PM
95- Also 77.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:16 PM
Were you a pirate-hunter-turned-pirate?
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:17 PM
(102 makes me smile.)
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:18 PM
Three first orders:
Were you the original force behind MAD Magazine?
Did you vanquish enemies by inhaling them into your gaping maw?
Are you a native to the Outworld and former bodyguard to Shao Kahn?
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:18 PM
No idea on 102.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:20 PM
104- Captain Kidd?
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:21 PM
108 -- yeah.
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:21 PM
Did this entity in 102 consider thrown bricks—that is, any brick which had been thrown—or the act of throwing bricks a sign of affection? (I echo TMK's sentiments in 105.)
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:21 PM
No idea on MAD magazine.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:22 PM
107 --- then I guess you're not Krazy Kat.
2nd order --- were you a scientist?
Posted by peep | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:22 PM
And you know I'm so likely to get the Outworld reference. Still thinking about the maw...
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:23 PM
So, you aren't Harvey Kurtzmann. Are you saying you're stumped on the third question?
Second order: Are you an immigrant to a European country?
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:25 PM
Stumped on third, yes.
No, I'm not an immigrant to Europe.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:26 PM
No, I'm not a scientist.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:27 PM
did you have a dream?
Posted by peep | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:28 PM
So, you aren't Kintaro. Are you an emigrant from Europe?
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:29 PM
I'm not MLK.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:29 PM
Were you shot in the back seat of a convertible?
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:29 PM
No, I'm not JFK.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:30 PM
No, I'm not an emigrant from Europe.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:31 PM
Then what the swyve did you mean by "sort of from europe"?
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:33 PM
Are you a developing country politician who recently got a chance to thumb his nose at the IMF?
Posted by JAC | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:33 PM
123 -- I reckoned she probably meant she was from an island near Europe. Although this would make the usage "sort of from Europe" a bit strange.
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:35 PM
Well, I'm sort of from Europe, sort of not. I could explain that further, but seems to give a lot away.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:36 PM
Some people might consider me a European, some people not.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:37 PM
You mean you're "from sort-of-Europe".
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:38 PM
did you paint "simple pleasures"?
Posted by peep | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:38 PM
Does a song aver that you authored a publication about the temperature at which the typical man prefers to play a certain sport?
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:40 PM
128- Yes, a geographical question.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:40 PM
Or rather, that the report contained this information, among other things.
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:41 PM
129- Kandinsky?
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:41 PM
132- The only thing going through my head on reading that is Kelvin.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:42 PM
134: No you're not Kinsey.
(According to the Kinsey Report every average man you know/much prefers to play his favorite sport when the temperature is low)
Are you Russian?
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:46 PM
2nd first order question:
Were you the tall blond original host of a now-popular evening cable show?
Posted by JAC | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:46 PM
Yes, I'm Russian.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:47 PM
Sorry, JAC, was your 1st 1st order the leader Kenya, whatever his name is? I think that begins with a K.
No, I'm not Craig Kilbourn? (sp?)
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:49 PM
Do you have a daughter named Bianca Montgomery?
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:49 PM
Stalin!
Posted by Urple | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:49 PM
Do you give up on 106.2?
First orders:
1. Do you have a percussive guitar style honed in the NYC subway system?
2. Are you a violist who records for ECM?
3. Did your fretless bass style help create a distinct sound for a New Wave band?
4. Are you equally reknowned for your ethnomusicological pursuits as for your experimental recordings?
5. Have you recorded a version of a Bacharach tune for accordion and voice?
6. Are you a komungo virtuouso?
7. Were you one of Frank Zappa's trick guitarists?
8. Did you set Rumsfeld's "unknown unknowns" speech to music?
9. Did you do the soundtrack for Rosemary's Baby?
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:50 PM
Do you discourse on the ramifications of the drug war?
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:51 PM
No, I'm not Elizabeth Montgomery? No, I'm not General Montgomery? (No idea.)
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:51 PM
Hmm... I was actually thinking of Kirchner, the Argentinian president. I'll look into Jomo Kenyatta though, since I think that's who you're referring to.
Posted by JAC | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:51 PM
Kandinsky?
correct!
did you lead the provisional government?
Posted by peep | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:52 PM
143: No, you're not Erica Kane (more from All My Children).
Are you a political figure?
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:52 PM
Is 106.2 Krull?
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:52 PM
I was more of an As The World Turns fan.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:53 PM
I don't think I understand how to play this game.
Posted by Urple | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:54 PM
It would be great if 1-9 of 141 all referred to the same person. (A person or persons unknown to me.)
Yes, I'm a political figure.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:55 PM
Urple -- rules of the game.
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:56 PM
No, I'm not Kerensky.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:57 PM
Is your sister's name anagrammable to a breath freshener?
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:57 PM
152 to 145.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:57 PM
138 - Doesn't look like Kenyatta ever had interactions with the IMF, especially as he died in '78 and the IMF didn't really start getting involved in developing country debt until the 80s.
1st order question: Did you famously bang your shoe on a UN table?
Posted by JAC | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:57 PM
ac -- did you give up on 142?
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:58 PM
142- I'm going to say not Krugman again.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 1:59 PM
I meant the current leader of Kenya, but would have taken Kenyatta, if that went my way.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:00 PM
Did you spend a lot of time making blue paint?
Posted by silvana | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:01 PM
No, I'm not Kruschev.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:01 PM
Okay, now that I've read the rules I guess Nikita Khrushchev.
Posted by Urple | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:02 PM
159- No, I'm not Klee?
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:02 PM
are you (arguably) responsible for ending a genocide in africa?
Posted by peep | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:03 PM
Or Kandinsky, or Klimt, or... trying to come upp with other artists beginning with K. Most of whom probably spent time making blue paint! Right?
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:03 PM
And have no idea about 153. Breath freshener, what?
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:06 PM
141: I know 2,5,6, and 9 offhand, might be able to come up with some others, and I'm not sure these pass the "reasonable people would have heard of them" standard. And you misspelled "renowned."
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:07 PM
I suppose that's right, although I didn't think of that, though I guess most artist do make/mix their own paint. Poorly worded question on my part.
Posted by silvana | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:08 PM
Was your father of noble blood and your mother the daughter of a military man?
(First time I've played, so if I submit my questions wrong, please just slap me around until I'm in line.)
Posted by Robust McManlyPants | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:08 PM
106.2 was Kirby, but if your guy also did that, good on you.
Are you saying you're stumped w/r/t 141?
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:09 PM
161 -- I don't think you paid sufficiently close attention to the minutia.
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:09 PM
Oh wait, 141.4 is "did your family start a prominent healthcare company?"
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:09 PM
163- Er, can't think.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:11 PM
Really? His family?
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:11 PM
166: That's not the rule for first order questions. The answer must only be reasonably in the public domain. Your person can be as obscure as you like, as long as you could read about them in the library.
No you're not Katherine from Taming of the Shrew, whose sister Bianca's name anagrams to Binaca.
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:12 PM
168- Seems as though lots of noble Russians would fit that bill and yet I can think of none of them.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:12 PM
It's possible I skimmed a bit.
Posted by Urple | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:13 PM
Are you, in fact, Kruschev?
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:13 PM
Completely stumped on all of 141, 1-9.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:13 PM
153/174 is excellent.
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:14 PM
And I was probably lying about Krull.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:14 PM
Are you the mac, and you're bad, and you'll give me something that I never had?
Posted by silvana | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:14 PM
173: Yes, he's really goddamn rich. The copy of Martin Denny's Quiet Village that my old roommate had had liner notes about how "----- K----- is developing Hawaii" where ----- K----- was his father, of the same name. Or, looking at Wikipedia, possibly his grandfather.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:15 PM
"Possibly" because AOThatW I hadn't read the whole Wikipedia article about his grandfather.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:16 PM
181- Um... Kris Kross? (Is that the most ridiculous answer possible?)
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:17 PM
No, I'm not Kruschev.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:18 PM
(Whatever the correct answer, ac, please say yes.)
Posted by Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:18 PM
1. Do you have a percussive guitar style honed in the NYC subway system: Kaki King
2. Are you a violist who records for ECM: Kim Kashkashian
3. Did your fretless bass style help create a distinct sound for a New Wave band: Mick Barr
4. Are you equally reknowned for your ethnomusicological pursuits as for your experimental recordings: Henry Kaiser
5. Have you recorded a version of a Bacharach tune for accordion and voice: Guy Klucvesek
6. Are you a komungo virtuouso: Jin Hi Kim
7. Were you one of Frank Zappa's trick guitarists: Mike Keneally
8. Did you set Rumsfeld's "unknown unknowns" speech to music: Phil Kline
9. Did you do the soundtrack for Rosemary's Baby: Krzysztof Komeda.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:18 PM
175: Well, I just remembered my dude was born before 1850 and was both a writer and a scientist, anyway. Damn.
Posted by Robust McManlyPants | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:19 PM
(My dude was Kropotkin.)
Posted by Robust McManlyPants | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:20 PM
187.3.- That doesn't begin with a K!
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:20 PM
Oh, do you want to decide if I have a 2nd order question for the Kirchner / Kibaki question?
Posted by JAC | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:21 PM
But wasn't Kropotkin a 1st order? I didn't guess, so you get a 2nd order. Wolfson has 8 outstanding 2nd orders. And Tia has one.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:21 PM
RMcMP, we're not playing by those rules. We're playing by the permissive anyone who begins with K rules.
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:22 PM
186 to 181?
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:22 PM
Wait? I have a first order? I mean, I think I should have one for the resurrection question but you think I should have one without it?
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:23 PM
191- You may as well, since there are 10 others going.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:23 PM
Oh right. Wrong Mick. It's actually something else, Mick Karn. Mick Barr is completely different.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:24 PM
No, Tia, never mind. I forget about Kruschev, since it had come up before (1st orderly). But you can ask your Krishna question.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:25 PM
Hott silvana-ac Boticelli action.
Posted by Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:25 PM
There was one (1) of Wolfson's I didn't get and thought I should have; Phil Kline seemed familiar but that was because of Kansas's asshat Attorney General, Phill Kline.
Oh wait, somebody or other linked Kaki King's website before, that looks familiar. And she indeed has a percussive guitar style. And a major label contract. Still.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:26 PM
Does a Redwood City bookstore bear your name?
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:26 PM
196 - Thanks, damned decent of you, ac.
Are you a Communist?
Posted by JAC | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:28 PM
Tia, period: do you use b.c.p? If so, why not ask your ob about just using the pills to suppress the evil period entirely?
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:28 PM
Oh, Mick Karn of Japan. Who told David Sylvian it was a good idea for him to sing, anyway?
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:29 PM
I actually have basically no idea what to do with my nine questions.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:29 PM
No idea on Redwood City. (Which is presumably 1st order?)
Yes, I'm a communist.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:30 PM
Are you Krupskaya in the closest possible world in which she's male?
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:32 PM
Well, I think I know who it is, but I couldn't spell his name properly or give any great identifying details about him, so I guess I'm out.
Posted by JAC | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:32 PM
I'm not even sure I recognize the difference between a first-order and second-order question, so I think I'm going to hang back and keep watching for now.
Posted by Robust McManlyPants | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:32 PM
Are you Kerensky?
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:33 PM
Why, no, I'm not Krupskaya, because I'm, like, a man.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:33 PM
209 - First order questions are asked with a person in mind, and the answerer has to respond with a person satisfying that question. Second order questions are yes-no questions about the person the answerer is thinking of, and you only get to ask one if you stumped the answerer with a first-order question.
Posted by JAC | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:34 PM
Hence "in the closest possible world", etc.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:35 PM
211: But your being a man doesn't prevent you from being Krupskaya in the closest possible world in which Krupskaya is male. I think the question is ill-formed, anyway.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:35 PM
No, I'm not Kerensky. And wasn't he a socialist or liberal or some such rather than a communist?
Is Tia going to kill me because no one can guess this? He's completely notorious, I tell you. Completely notorious!
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:35 PM
Sorry, I had to help my mom pack up her classroom this morning and I just got back. I'll e-mail you my two minute mystery for next week.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:36 PM
175-- then you are not Paul Kagame.
2nd order -- are you Kalinin?
Posted by peep | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:39 PM
Well, I'll take a stab with the one factoid I can remember:
Were you a member of the post-Krushchev Troika until Breshnev took over? (I can't spell Russian names to save my life)
Posted by JAC | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:39 PM
208- Oh go on, guess.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:39 PM
Oh! OK, now I get 1st/2nd order questions. Hrm. OK, here's my 2nd order: Were you a military officer?
Posted by Robust McManlyPants | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:40 PM
If so, why not ask your ob about just using the pills to suppress the evil period entirely?
I know people do that, but the idea weirds me out. Not that I can answer for Tia. Just throwing in an unsolicited, off-topic two cents.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:41 PM
I pre-date Krushchev's rise to power.
No, I am not Kalinin.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:42 PM
I'm pretty sure I was a military officer at some point, in the Red Army, but this is not what I'm known for.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:43 PM
222 - Wow, I'm completely beat then. Clearly I know too little about those crafty Commies
Posted by JAC | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:44 PM
Was the answer to 142 Mark Kleiman?
ac, are you famous for your performance as a contestant on a game show?
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:44 PM
Military officer during the civil war, that is. (I think.)
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:45 PM
Contestant on a game show? No idea.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:47 PM
203/221: I can't answer for Tia either, but.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:47 PM
Ken Jennings, since I don't have to fit the previous second orders, right?
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:47 PM
Right, w/d.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:48 PM
Retracted, apparently it's last names only, my baf.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:48 PM
baf s/b bad, but do I have to do last names? I scrolled back through and pretty much all of them were.
Posted by Anonymous | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:48 PM
Oh, I missed that. Was just responding to the order question.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:49 PM
Aren't you supposed to need a period four times a year? And Matt's link was on point.
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:49 PM
I'm never going to be allowed to do another one of these, am I? (Completely notorious, I tell you!)
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:49 PM
Did a retrospective of your films play at Lincoln center in the past year?
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:52 PM
w/d, it's last name unless the person doesn't have a widely known last name. And I don't really know the names of any Communists that start with K besides Kruschev.
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:52 PM
236- Not Kieslowski? (sp?)
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:53 PM
234 - No. The new Seasonale pill gives you four per year but you don't have to take it that way. You can suppress it entirely if you want. If you can handle being on the pill, that is.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:54 PM
Were you very briefly the (nominal) head of the Soviet state?
Posted by Robust McManlyPants | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:57 PM
228: Oh yeah, right.
I have no idea if you "need" a period. I don't see why. But re. weird, it might help to realize that the "period" you get on b.c.p. isn't real, anyway, in the sense that it's not part of a proper menstrual "cycle," since the whole point of b.c.p. is to suppress the cycle. It's just that withdrawing the hormones that make your body think it's already pregnant suddenly causes bleeding. Really, it's more like having a monthly miscarriage, hormonally speaking.
Which is ironic, given that the only reason b.c.p. don't, as a default, suppress bleeding for months at a time is b/c the inventor was hoping to get the approval of the Catholic Church by making it seem more "natural."
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:57 PM
240- Is that 1st order? I don't know. (I don't for 2nd order either, though I assume not.)
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 2:58 PM
241 - You can also suppress it using another form of hormonal contraception, like the patch or the ring, if you skip the placebo/time off week.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 3:02 PM
Oh, I meant it as 1st order, but it could easily be taken as 2nd order, and I didn't mean it that way, so I'm ditching it. Here's another 1st-order question (or one I intend as 1st-order) with the same person in mind: were you married to Trotsky's sister?
Posted by Robust McManlyPants | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 3:02 PM
Didn't know Trotsky had a sister, so I'm stumped.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 3:03 PM
Lev Kamenev, who was married to Trotsky's sister (Olga) and was briefly the nominal head of the Soviet government in 1917.
2nd order question: Are you notorious as a perpetrator of a crime?
Posted by Robust McManlyPants | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 3:07 PM
243: I actually have a question about that, re. ring. It's supposed to be for monthly use, right? You have to replace the stupid thing every month? Will one last for all four weeks, or do you end up losing efficacy? B/c that would suck.
Really, I just want to go back to Norplant. Stupid insurance coverage.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 3:07 PM
1st order -- were you bummed when your mentor's corpse stank?
Posted by peep | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 3:08 PM
No, I'm notorious as the victim of a crime.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 3:09 PM
I find I'd really like to know the answer to 248.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 3:10 PM
Okay, I think I know who it is. I'm not really playing, though.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 3:10 PM
Did someone travel down a river to find you?
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 3:10 PM
Good that someone knows.
252- Er, Omar Khayyam?
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